| Title: | POST-APOCALYPTIC SF |
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| Category: | lit |
| Timeslot: | Thu 02:30 pm (90 minutes) |
| Location: | ACC / 201-C |
| Description: | John Varley said "We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn't, why would there be so many of them?" Why do we all love them? During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation was very real; today, the world is a different place, but the threat of annihilation is once again very real. Has the sub-genre changed? How are 21st Century post-apocalyptic stories different from those written during the Cold War era? |
| Speaker(s): | Elizabeth Bear(M), Ed Green, Takayuki Tatsumi, John G. Hemry, Nick Sagan |