The Century-Old Barbed Wire: The Great War & SF
Track:
Literary
What:
Discussion Panel
When:
Sunday May 28
08:00 PM
to 09:00 PM
(1 hour)
Where:
6th Floor -
St. George
Discussion:
0
We are in the midst of the centenary of World War I, a conflict that totally changed the direction of technology and culture. How did the war and its aftermath change society and our ideas of the future? What might Huxley, Welles and other writers of the era written without the war’s impact? How has its imagery remained with us to this day?