
Bradford Lyau has been a life-long reader of science fiction, part of fandom for over forty years, and a panelist for over twenty-five years. He is a historian by training (BA, UC-Berkeley; MA, PhD, University of Chicago) and once taught at several universities in California and Europe. He presently works for a start-up company and is a political activist/consultant. He remains active in formal scholarship, publishing academic articles on American, British, French, and other European science fiction. He was an invited program participant in 1984 for the George Orwell Conference held in London, and in 1991 for the Utopian Conference held in Yverdon-les-Bain, Switzerland, as part of Switzerland’s 700th Anniversary celebration. One of his recent articles analyzed Cixin Liu’s recently translated novels, his first attempt to analyze science fiction from a non-Western culture. His book analyzing French science fiction, The Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French Science Fiction: Stepchildren of Voltaire, received very positive reviews from leading academic SF journals and is listed as a reference for further reading in the “France” entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
Sessions in which Bradford Lyau participates
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- The Seduction of Utopia. Convene 1
- 13:30 - 15:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
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- People of Color in Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Fandom - Is everyone invited? Connect 5
- 16:30 - 18:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
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- Building Utopia (A Canticle for Liebowitz) Inspire 1
- 10:00 - 11:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
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- A Human Mars beyond the Planetary Protection Wall Synergy 1
- 11:30 - 13:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
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- Learning from History Connect 1
- 16:00 - 17:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
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- Story to Screen Synergy 4
- 16:00 - 17:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
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- Appreciation vs. Appropriation Inspire 1
- 17:30 - 19:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
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- The Eternal Importance of Research Synergy 5
- 11:30 - 13:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes