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with the rise in popularity of Is hard sci-fi still the preserve of
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contemporary urban fantasy the male author? Do readers still
what is it that we are looking for expect male authors and male
that’s missing from our everyday protagonists? How do publishers
lives? Given the well-documented react to manuscripts from female
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dangers of modern life, why are our SF authors? This panel of female
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modern fantasies filled with ancient authors discusses their place in the
dangers? sf world.
Panel discussion with: Panel discussion with:
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ALEX BELL PAT CADIGAN
CHARLES STROSS KAREN TRAVISS
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sUn 3Rd MAY 5.00PM
JAINE FENN
LIZ WILLIAMS
LIteRAtURe LAb: Mon 4tH MAY 3.45PM
bUILdInG A scI-fI/fAntAsY woRLd
Science fiction writing can
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demand a lot from the reader,
fAntAsY fIctIon fRoM ALL sIdes
everything from floating cities to
sentient materials, but what are the Mark Charan-Newton works for
challenges of creating a convincing the publisher, Solaris in the book
SF / fantasy world, the language, the marketing dept. Hhe has also been
culture, the politics, the technology an editor and now he is a published
and the magic... always the magic. author at TOR (Pan MacMillan). In
this workshop session he discusses
Panel discussion with:
writing, marketing and publishing.
ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY
MARK CHARAN-NEWTON
FREE IN THE BAR
LIZ WILLIAMS
MON 4TH MAY 4.00PM (TBC)
Mon 4tH MAY 2.20PM
AssocIAted LIteRAtURe eVent: sHoRtLIst:
tHe ARtHUR c. cLARKe AwARd
Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
WED 29TH APRIL, 7.45PM
PS Publishing
(BY INVITATION ONLY)
The Quiet War by Paul McAuley
Gollancz
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is the
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
most prestigious award for science
Gollancz
Anathem by neal stephenson
fiction in the UK and recognised as
Atlantic
one of the most respected awards
The Margarets by sheri s. tepper
in the world. the winner will be Gollancz
announced at this year’s festival.
Martin Martin’s on the Other Side
by Mark Wernham, Jonathan Cape
44 THE 8
TH
LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASTIC FILM 29 APRIL – 4 MAY 2009
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