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Classic Nonfiction Essay Club: “Estrangement and Cognition” by Darko Suvin<\/strong>
Meg Elison (mod)<\/em>, Tom Greene, Alexander Jablokov, Marissa Lingen, Graham Sleight
Fri 1:00 PM, Salon B
Darko\n Suvin’s preferred edition of his essay “Estrangement and Cognition,” \ncoining the oft-repeated statement that SF is the literature of \ncognitive estrangement, first appeared in 1979. (Strange Horizons<\/em>\n later reprinted it online.) It was a decade in the making, and the \nworld and SF both changed quite a bit from 1969 to 1979. We’ll consider \n“Estrangement and Cognition” in the context of SF’s New Wave, the \npolitical upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s, and the subsequent shifts in \nspeculative genres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17776 and All That: The Crumbling of the Jock-Nerd Divide<\/strong>
Susan Bigelow, Keffy R.M. Kehrli, Robert Killheffer, Marissa Lingen (mod)<\/em>, Cecilia Tan
Fri 6:00 PM, Salon B
Jon\n Bois’s wild digital narrative “17776: What Football Will Look Like in \nthe Future” appeared on SB Nation, a sports news website, and aimed \nstraight at the commonalities of sports and SF fandoms: rules and ways \naround the rules, glorious absurdity, tragedy alongside heroism. The \njock-nerd divide has crumbled. What does that mean for nerd lit? Will \ncerebral SF embrace sweaty physicality? Will epic hockey games replace \nepic battlefields? This panel of sports-fan fans will discuss these \npossibilities and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading: Marissa Lingen<\/strong>
Sat 11:00 AM, Salon C
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You Know, It Kinda Grows on You<\/strong>
James Patrick Kelly (mod)<\/em>, Marissa Lingen, Arkady Martine, Eric Schaller, David G. Shaw
Sat 3:00 PM, Salon B
Spaceships\n that are giant plants, humans whose brains rival supercomputers, \nlizards bred to function as flying flamethrowers\u2014these are just a few \nscience-fictional examples of how humans might manipulate their bodies \nand environments to support the human race’s spread throughout the \nuniverse. This panel will examine imagined technology that lives and \nbreathes, and how human life might change and grow alongside it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lloyd Alexander, Existentialist<\/strong>
C.S.E. Cooney, Andrea Martinez Corbin, Chris Gerwel, Marissa Lingen (mod)<\/em>, Sonya Taaffe
Sun 11:00 AM, Salon 3
Lloyd Alexander, translator of Jean-Paul Sartre, wrote an existentialist epic fantasy series. As Jesse Schotter writes on Full Stop<\/em>, “The end of The High King<\/em>,\n and Taran\u2019s choice to remain in Prydain… salvage[s] the idea of free \nwill within the deterministic framework of the genre.” How did \nexistentialism influence Alexander’s other work (Time Cat<\/em>, the \nWestmark trilogy)? What are other examples of existentialist speculative\n fiction epics? With the present deconstruction of prophecy-driven \nepics, how can writers learn from Alexander’s work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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