Akua Lezli HOPE
Creator
Sessions in which Akua Lezli HOPE attends
10:00
10:00
Fantasy Today: The Best of Recent Fantasy
50 minutes
10:00 NZST
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10:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Panelist
Sarah Gailey
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Panelist
Graci Kim (Rick Riordan Presents)
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Panelist
Claire Rousseau
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Moderator
Emma Osborne
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Panel
Magic Realism in Genre
50 minutes
10:00 NZST
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10:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Panelist
Shaun Duke (Bemidji State University / The Skiffy and Fanty Show)
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Panelist
Libia Brenda (Independent)
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Panelist
Sam Blackley (freelance)
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Moderator
Eli K. P. William
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Panel
11:00
11:00
Science Fiction/Fantasy from the Chinese Diaspora
50 minutes
11:00 NZST
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11:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Panel
12:00
12:00
Moderator
Helen Marshall (University of Queensland)
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Participant
Peadar Ó Guilín
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Participant
Graci Kim (Rick Riordan Presents)
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Participant
Suyi Davies Okungbowa
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Panel
13:00
13:00
Panel
14:00
14:00
The Atlanta Radio Theatre Presents "Omnilingual" and other SF Radio Plays
50 minutes
14:00 NZST
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14:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Performer
Bill Ritch (The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company)
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Presentation
15:00
15:00
Yarnbombing & Crafting Time Wednesday
50 minutes
15:00 NZST
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15:50 NZST
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Programming
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Discussion Groups
Moderator
Jan Bass (Programme)
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Activity
Infinite Entangled Futures: Indigenous Voices in Conversation
50 minutes
15:00 NZST
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15:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Panelist
Toni Wi
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Moderator
Sloane Leong
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Panelist
Sascha Stronach
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Panelist
Darcie Little Badger
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Panelist
Rebecca Roanhorse
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Panel
16:30
16:30
17:00
17:00
Japanese Science Fiction
50 minutes
17:00 NZST
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17:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Panelist
Mari Kotani (Meiji University)
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Panelist
Dohjin Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba)
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Panelist
Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba)
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Panelist
Taiyo Fujii (SFWJ)
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Moderator
Takayuki Tatsumi (Keio University)
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Panel
Animals in Fantasy
50 minutes
17:00 NZST
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17:50 NZST
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Discord
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Discord Programming - Larry & Misty Panel Room
Panelist
Mercedes Lackey (High Flight Arts and Letters)
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Panelist
Kathryn Sullivan
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Panelist
Steph Matuku
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Panelist
H.G. Parry
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Moderator
Paula Boer (Self-employed)
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Panel
18:00
18:00
21:00
21:00
Imagining Fae in Aotearoa and elsewhere
50 minutes
21:00 NZST
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21:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Moderator
Hester J. Rook
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Panelist
Rem Wigmore
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Panelist
Jodi McAlister
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Panelist
Peter Hassall (Stunt Guild of New Zealand)
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Panelist
AJ Lancaster
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Panel
9:00
9:00
10:00
10:00
The Future Is Female: Women SF Writers from Mary Shelley to Ursula Le Guin and Octavia Butler
50 minutes
10:00 NZST
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10:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Panelist
Sarah Pinsker (SFWA)
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Moderator
Karen Purcell (Woodsdale Animal Hospital)
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Panelist
Arwen Curry (Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin)
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Panelist
Bradford Lyau
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Panelist
Alexandra Pierce
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Panel
Justice in SF and Fantasy
50 minutes
10:00 NZST
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10:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist
Adri Joy (Nerds of a Feather)
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Panelist
Fred Lerner
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Moderator
Jenn Lyons (Tor Books)
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Panelist
Brent Lambert (FIYAH Literary Magazine)
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Panelist
Melinda Snodgrass (Stealing Fire Productions Inc.)
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Panel
11:00
11:00
How Podcasts Are Transforming the Speculative Fiction Landscape
50 minutes
11:00 NZST
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11:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist
Maquel A. Jacob (MAJart Works)
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Moderator
Alexandra Pierce
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Panelist
Peadar Ó Guilín
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Panelist
Ion Newcombe (AntipodeanSF)
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Panelist
Mur Lafferty
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Panel
12:00
12:00
The Real Dirt on Exoplanets
50 minutes
12:00 NZST
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12:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Panelist
Gerard van Belle (Lowell Observatory)
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Academic
Music in SF and Fantasy
50 minutes
12:00 NZST
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12:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist
Matthew Pavletich
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Panelist
Caren Gussoff Sumption
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Moderator
Karen Simpson Nikakis (SOV Media)
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Panelist
William C. Tracy (Space Wizard Science Fantasy)
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Panelist
Sarah Pinsker (SFWA)
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Panel
Money and Currency for Fantasy Authors
50 minutes
12:00 NZST
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12:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Panel
13:00
13:00
Modern Short SF and Fantasy
50 minutes
13:00 NZST
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13:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Panelist
Charles Payseur
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Panelist
Daryl Gregory
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Moderator
Scott Edelman
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Panelist
Sheila Williams (Asimov's Science Fiction)
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Panelist
Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld Magazine)
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Panel
15:00
15:00
Nevertheless, She Persisted: The Explosion of the Heroine in the 50 Years Since Mia Havero
50 minutes
15:00 NZST
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15:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist
Maiya Ibrahim
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Moderator
Catherine Lundoff (Queen of Swords Press)
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Panelist
Lee Murray
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Panelist
Glenda Larke
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Panel
Narrative Imagery
50 minutes
15:00 NZST
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15:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panel
15:30
15:30
16:00
16:00
Sandman at 30: The Enduring Influence of Neil Gaiman's Creation
50 minutes
16:00 NZST
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16:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Panelist
Matthew S. Rotundo
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Moderator
Jane Routley
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Panelist
Claire Bartlett
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Panelist
Jason Franks
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Panel
SETI and the Mind of the Alien
50 minutes
16:00 NZST
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16:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Moderator
Lars Backstrom (auticon)
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Panelist
David Carmel (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
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Academic
Panelist
Steph Matuku
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Moderator
Dan Rabarts (Writer)
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Panelist
Whiti Hereaka
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Panelist
Cassie Hart
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Panel
17:00
17:00
Panelist
Suyi Davies Okungbowa
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Panelist
Oghenechovwe Ekpeki
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Panelist
Brandon O'Brien (FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction)
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Panelist
Eugen Bacon
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Moderator
Maquel A. Jacob (MAJart Works)
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Panel
The Female in the Fantastic
50 minutes
17:00 NZST
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17:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Academic
18:00
18:00
19:00
19:00
Not Long Before the End? SF and the Economics of Resource Scarcity
50 minutes
19:00 NZST
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19:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Speaker
Jesper Stage
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Talk
Spirits Abroad and At Home
50 minutes
19:00 NZST
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19:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panel
20:00
20:00
GoH - Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon Reading
50 minutes
20:00 NZST
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20:50 NZST
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Discord
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Discord Programming - Larry & Misty Panel Room
Reading
Trends: How They Effect Tropes in F&SF
1 hour
20:00 NZST
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21:00 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Talk
9:00
9:00
Technology for Disability in the Real World and in Speculative Fiction
50 minutes
9:00 NZST
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9:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist
Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba)
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Panelist
Farah Mendlesohn (BSFA)
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Panelist
Elsa Sjunneson
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Moderator
Lars Backstrom (auticon)
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Panel
10:00
10:00
Exploring Speculative Fiction On the Screen
50 minutes
10:00 NZST
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10:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Academic
12:00
12:00
Panel
13:00
13:00
Panelist
Kenn Bates
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Moderator
Gadi Evron (Tel Aviv in 2027)
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Panelist
J.r.h. Lawless (J.R.H. Lawless)
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Panelist
G. David Nordley (Self Employed)
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Panel
13:30
13:30
14:00
14:00
Killing Your Own Grandparent: Time Travel in SF
50 minutes
14:00 NZST
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14:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Panelist
Andy Dudak
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Panelist
Amal El-Mohtar (University of Ottawa)
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Panelist
Elizabeth Knox
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Panelist
Gillian Polack
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Panel
Through the Magic Door: The Appeal of Portal Fantasies
50 minutes
14:00 NZST
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14:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panel
14:30
14:30
15:00
15:00
Panelist
Navah Wolfe
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Panelist
Claire Light
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Panelist
David Hair
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Panelist
Taru Kumara-Moisio
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Moderator
E. J. Beaton
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Panel
Panelist
Andi Dukleth (Accidental Aliens and KPBS News)
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Moderator
Brandon O'Brien (FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction)
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Panelist
Martin Wisse
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Panelist
Kaitlin R. Branch
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Panelist
Maquel A. Jacob (MAJart Works)
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Panel
17:00
17:00
Ethnicity and Perspectives on Speculative Fiction
50 minutes
17:00 NZST
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17:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Academic
Post The Three-Body Problem: What Is Happening in Mainland Chinese Science Fiction?
50 minutes
17:00 NZST
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17:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist
Andy Dudak
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Panelist
Yen Ooi
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Panelist
Taiyo Fujii (SFWJ)
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Moderator
Regina Kanyu Wang (Storycom)
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Panel
18:00
18:00
Fairy Tale Contract Law
50 minutes
18:00 NZST
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18:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Panel
9:00
9:00
Before and After Tolkien: Epic Fantasy
50 minutes
9:00 NZST
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9:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Panel
10:00
10:00
The Ascent of Wonder: What Makes Hard SF
50 minutes
10:00 NZST
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10:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Panelist
Kenn Bates
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Moderator
James Cambias
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Panelist
Mark English (Clarinspect)
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Panelist
Harun Siljak (CONNECT Centre For Future Networks and Communications)
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Panelist
Deborah Munro (University of Canterbury)
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Panel
Writing Fantasy and SF from the Margins
50 minutes
10:00 NZST
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10:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Panelist
Maiya Ibrahim
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Panelist
Michi Trota (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America)
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Panelist
Eugen Bacon
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Panelist
Kieron Gillen
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Moderator
E. J. Beaton
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Panel
Horror from Elsewhere
50 minutes
10:00 NZST
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10:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panel
11:00
11:00
Presenter
Mercedes Lackey (High Flight Arts and Letters)
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Presenter
Rose Mitchell
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Presenter
Robert Silverberg
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Presenter
Alison Scott (Punctuation)
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Presenter
Erin Underwood
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Presenter
Larry Dixon
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Presenter
Greg Broadmore (Weta Workshop)
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Moderator
George R. R. Martin
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Event
12:00
12:00
Perspectives on World Building
50 minutes
12:00 NZST
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12:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Academic
13:00
13:00
Walking the Journey: The Role of Nature and Place in Speculative Fiction
50 minutes
13:00 NZST
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13:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist
Juliet Marillier
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Panelist
Dan Rabarts (Writer)
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Panelist
Gillian Polack
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Moderator
Lee Murray
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Panel
13:30
13:30
14:00
14:00
Panelist
Martin Wisse
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Moderator
Petrea Mitchell
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Panelist
Takeshi Ikeda (Science Fiction Fangroups’ Association of Nippon)
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Panelist
Amanda Arthur-Struss (Rainbow Lizard Design / Des Moines Science Fiction & Fantasy Society)
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Panel
15:00
15:00
Narrative and the Craft of Speculative Fiction
50 minutes
15:00 NZST
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15:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Academic
From Kuttner to Pratchett: Humour in Science Fiction and Fantasy
50 minutes
15:00 NZST
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15:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist
Edward Fortune (Starburst Magazine)
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Panelist
Chuck Serface (Suicide and Crisis Services of Santa Clara County)
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Moderator
Alexandra Rowland
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Panelist
E. Lily Yu
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Panelist
J.r.h. Lawless (J.R.H. Lawless)
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Panel
16:00
16:00
16:30
16:30
17:00
17:00
Becoming a Grown-up: the Bildungsroman in Stories for Young People
50 minutes
17:00 NZST
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17:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Panelist
Alison Evans
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Panelist
Kalin M. Nenov (Human Library Foundation)
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Panelist
Christine Taylor-Butler
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Moderator
Farah Mendlesohn (BSFA)
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Panel
18:00
18:00
Intersection of Science Fiction and Technology in Japan
50 minutes
18:00 NZST
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18:50 NZST
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Programming
,
Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Moderator
Terrie Hashimoto
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Panelist
Dohjin Miyamoto (University of Tsukuba)
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Panelist
Yugen Yashima
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Panelist
Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba)
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Panel
Towards a Pedagogy of Speculative Fiction
50 minutes
18:00 NZST
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18:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Academic
Panelist
Amelia Lee (Chengdu Eight Light Minutes Culture)
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Moderator
Yilun Fan (Chengdu Eight Light Minutes Culture)
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Panelist
Joyce Chng
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Panelist
Taiyo Fujii (SFWJ)
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Panelist
Yen Ooi
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Panel
19:00
19:00
Speculative Poetry Deathmatch Thunderdome
50 minutes
19:00 NZST
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19:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Contestant
Kyla Lee Ward (Prea Press)
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Contestant
Sultana Raza
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Contestant
Zaza Koshkadze
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Master of ceremonies
Karen Bovenmyer (PseudoPod Horror Podcast Magazine)
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Activity
20:00
20:00
Book Launch: Shadow in the Empire of Light
50 minutes
20:00 NZST
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20:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 7 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist
Jane Routley
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Book Launch
Bedtime stories with Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon
50 minutes
20:00 NZST
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20:50 NZST
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Discord
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Discord Programming - Larry & Misty Panel Room
Reading
Yarnbombing & Crafting Time Saturday
50 minutes
20:00 NZST
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20:50 NZST
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Programming
,
Discussion Groups
Moderator
Jan Bass (Programme)
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Activity
22:00
22:00
Nordic Fantastic Literature
50 minutes
22:00 NZST
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22:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Panelist
Carolina Gomez Lagerlöf
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Panelist
Ville Vuorela (Reforged Studios)
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Moderator
Lars Backstrom (auticon)
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Panel
9:00
9:00
Recent Scientific Breakthroughs - What's Hot?
50 minutes
9:00 NZST
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9:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Panelist
G. David Nordley (Self Employed)
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Panelist
Bill Higgins (Fermilab)
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Moderator
L. Suzanne Casement (Northrop Grumman Space Systems)
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Panelist
Taiyo Fujii (SFWJ)
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Panelist
Valentin Ivanov (European Southern Observatory)
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Panel
Apocalypse as Insight
50 minutes
9:00 NZST
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9:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Academic
9:30
9:30
10:00
10:00
Fairy Tales and Fantasy
50 minutes
10:00 NZST
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10:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Panelist
Vida Cruz
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Moderator
Leife Shallcross (Australia 2025 bid committee)
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Panelist
Ellen Datlow
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Panelist
Eileen Mueller
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Panelist
Jean Bürlesk (Science Fiction and Fantasy Society Luxembourg)
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Panel
"Sarabande" / "Resurrection Eve"
1 hour
10:00 NZST
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11:00 NZST
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Programming
,
Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Performer
Bill Ritch (The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company)
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Presentation
10:30
10:30
Reading
11:00
11:00
Speculative Poetry 2020 The Rhyme of the SF Mariner
50 minutes
11:00 NZST
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11:50 NZST
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Programming
,
Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Panelist
Ryn Yee
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Moderator
Brandon O'Brien (FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction)
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Panelist
Joyce Chng
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Panelist
Katherine Quevedo
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Panelist
Hester J. Rook
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Panel
The Day After Tomorrow: Near Future SF
50 minutes
11:00 NZST
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11:50 NZST
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Programming
,
Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist
Shiv Ramdas
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Panelist
Karl Schroeder
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Moderator
Glen Engel-Cox (Blue Agama Associates)
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Panelist
Caren Gussoff Sumption
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Panelist
SB Divya
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Panel
12:00
12:00
Ghosts in the Ships: Sentient Ships in SF and Fantasy
50 minutes
12:00 NZST
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12:50 NZST
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Programming
,
Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist
Jeffrey A. Carver (SFWA, Starstream Publications)
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Panelist
Sascha Stronach
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Moderator
Z Aung
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Panelist
Mark Van Name
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Panel
13:00
13:00
The Best of the Rest: 2019 Novels that Weren't Nominated for a Hugo
50 minutes
13:00 NZST
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13:50 NZST
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Programming
,
Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Moderator
Jo Van
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Panel
Thalience and Sentience
50 minutes
13:00 NZST
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13:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Panelist
Benjamin C. Kinney (Escape Pod)
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Panelist
Eli K. P. William
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Panelist
SB Divya
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Moderator
Karl Schroeder
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Panel
14:00
14:00
Worlds of Ursula K Le Guin
2 hours
14:00 NZST
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16:00 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
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Signup required
Registered
On Wait List
Session is full
Media Screening
15:00
15:00
17:00
17:00
Feedback Session 5 - Into the Future!
50 minutes
17:00 NZST
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17:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist
Kelly Buehler (CoNZealand)
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Panelist
Bill Lawhorn
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Moderator
Colette Fozard
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Panelist
Lynelle Howell (CoNZealand)
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Panelist
David Gallaher (CoNZealand)
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Moderator
Norman Cates (CoNZealand)
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Panel