Pat MacEwen

She/Her

anthropologist/author

Participates in 8 items

Pat MacEwen is a physical anthropologist. She works on bones from archaeological sites and does independent research on genocide. She worked on war crimes investigations for the International Criminal Tribunal, after doing CSI work for a decade, and was once a marine biologist at the Institute of Marine & Coastal Studies at USC. Rough Magic, first in a forensic/urban fantasy trilogy, The Fallen, is out from Sky Warrior Publishing. Dragon’s Kiss, a YA fantasy about a crippled boy who can talk to dragons, is also out from Sky Warrior. She writes mystery, horror, science fiction, and fantasy. Her work has appeared in a Year’s Best SF anthology. It has also been a finalist for the Sturgeon Award, and made the Tiptree Honors List. Her hobbies include exploring cathedrals, alien-building via nonhuman biology, and trawling through history books for the juicy bits.

Sessions in which Pat MacEwen participates

Friday 27 May, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

13:00

Applying "Kentucky windage" to technology development.

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:00 - 14:30

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4

Howard Davidson, Facebook (Participant)

Pat MacEwen (Participant)

G. David Nordley, ERPS (Moderator)

Science fiction writers, space mission planners, and civic planers alike can focus too sharply on just one thread of technology development and mak...

16:00

Not Your Typical Superkid

1 hour 30 minutes, 16:00 - 17:30

San Mateo Marriott - Collaborate 3

Pat MacEwen (Participant)

ElizaBeth Gilligan, SFWA, DAW Books (Moderator)

Beth Barany, YA Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction Mystery (Participant)

Saturday 28 May, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

14:00

Autograph Session: Csernica, MacEwen and Wade

1 hour, 14:00 - 15:00

San Mateo Marriott - Convene Lobby

Pat MacEwen (Participant)

Juliette Wade (Participant)

Lillian Csernica, Sense of Wonder Press (Participant)

17:30

Dwarf Planets

1 hour 30 minutes, 17:30 - 19:00

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Pat MacEwen (Moderator)

G. David Nordley, ERPS (Participant)

Dr Orkan Umurhan (Participant)

Mr. Chris Butler (Participant)

We made to Pluto AND to Ceres - what did our probes find, and what about all of the other dwarf planets? Does Triton count? What about Planet X? Wh...

Sunday 29 May, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

14:30

Space for Everyone

1 hour 30 minutes, 14:30 - 16:00

San Mateo Marriott - Collaborate 3

Anne Killpack (Participant)

Pat MacEwen (Moderator)

Kathleen, Self-employed (Participant)

Is space for the able-bodied and neurotypical only? Or will some physical and mental challenges turn out to be adaptive? Perhaps better-suited to s...

16:00

Women In Space

1 hour 30 minutes, 16:00 - 17:30

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Pat MacEwen (Participant)

Spacemonster Meyn, TRMN and SFI (Moderator)

CDRE CDRE Tracy Newby, D5SL Newby, TRMN (Participant)

Megan O'Keefe (Participant)

Ms Kay Pannell, PIERS Environmental Services (Participant)

Vanessa MacLaren-Wray, RPG Power Systems (Participant)

Monday 30 May, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

13:00

Disability representations (or lack thereof) in comics, genre literature, film and television.

1 hour 30 minutes, 13:00 - 14:30

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 6

Jennifer Nestojko, San Jose City College (Participant)

Pat MacEwen (Moderator)

Sumiko Saulson, Iconoclast Productions (Participant)

14:30

Monday Reading

1 hour 30 minutes, 14:30 - 16:00

San Mateo Marriott - Strategy

Pat MacEwen (Participant)

Bret Sweet (Participant)

Sarah Stegall (Participant)