Educated as a physicist, Trish Matson is an award-winning journalist whose ever-expanding list of interests includes a lifelong love of SF/F, plus wordplay, libraries, games, music, dancing, audio drama, and podcasting. Frequent co-host on Hugo Finalist The Skiffy and Fanty Show, regular co-host on the Supergirl podcast on The Incomparable, writer/player on Storium. She’s listed as TrishEM on various fora, but you can find her most easily on Twitter.
Sessions in which Trish Matson participates
13:00
13:00
Panelist
James Davis Nicoll (James Nicoll Reviews / University of Waterloo Theatre Centre)
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Moderator
Trish Matson
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Panelist
Claire Rousseau
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Panelist
Anne-Louise Fortune (Independent Scholar)
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Panelist
Kyla Lee Ward (Prea Press)
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Panel
15:00
15:00
The Death of Genre?
55 minutes
15:00 NZST
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15:55 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist
Trish Matson
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Panelist
Caren Gussoff Sumption
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Panelist
Joshua Bilmes
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Moderator
Soon Lee
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Panel
12:00
12:00
In Space No One Can See You Hide the Evidence: Crimes in Space
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)
Moderator
Trish Matson
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Panelist
Valerie Valdes
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Panelist
Carl Fink (Learning Guild)
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Panelist
Kat Clay
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Panel
Sessions in which Trish Matson attends
9:00
9:00
Discussion Group
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
16:00
16:00
The Evolution of Fanzines
50 minutes
16:00 NZST
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16:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist
Chris Garcia (Team Journey Planet)
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Panelist
Wendy Browne (Women Write About Comics)
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Panelist
Greg Hills (.)
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Moderator
Cora Buhlert
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Panelist
Jeanne Mealy
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Panel
9:00
9:00
Come Time Travel with Me - 1965
50 minutes
9:00 NZST
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9:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Panelist
Lorelei Marcus (Galactic Journey)
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Master of ceremonies
Gideon Marcus (Galactic Journey (and Journey Press) )
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Panelist
Cora Buhlert
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Panelist
Erica Frank (Galactic Journey)
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Panelist
Janice Marcus (Galactic Journey, Journey Press)
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Panel
10:00
10:00
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
12:00
12:00
Moderator
Gary K Wolfe (Locus Magazine)
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Panelist
Takayuki Tatsumi (Keio University)
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Panelist
Karen Haber
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Panelist
Cat Sparks
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Panelist
Liza Trombi (Locus Magazine)
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Panel
14:00
14:00
My Favourite Board Game
50 minutes
14:00 NZST
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14:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist
Erica Holcomb (Explorasaurus Studios)
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Moderator
Alex Acks
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Panelist
Alan Stewart
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Panelist
David Peterson
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Panelist
Frances Hardinge
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Panel
9:00
9:00
Meet and Greet the Programme Participants
50 minutes
9:00 NZST
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9:50 NZST
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Programming
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Meet and Greets
Reception
10:00
10:00
13:00
13:00
Panelist
Arkady Martine
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Panelist
Farah Mendlesohn (BSFA)
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Panelist
Claire Bartlett
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Moderator
Shaun Duke (Bemidji State University / The Skiffy and Fanty Show)
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Panelist
Ada Palmer
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Panel
14:00
14:00
Engineering and the Human Conquest of Hostile Environments
50 minutes
14:00 NZST
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14:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Academic
15:00
15:00
The Regency Today: On the Continuing Popularity of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer
50 minutes
15:00 NZST
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15:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 8 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist
Mary Robinette Kowal
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Moderator
Kathleen Jennings
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Panelist
Carrie Vaughn
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Panelist
Jane Routley
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Panel
16:00
16:00
SF and Fantasy Comics and Graphic Novels
50 minutes
16:00 NZST
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16:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 3 (Webinar)
Panelist
Catherine S. McMullen
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Panelist
Christopher Ruz (Al Taqwa College)
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Moderator
Phoebe Wagner (University of Nevada at Reno)
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Panelist
James Bacon (Smofcon Europe)
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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
15:00
15:00
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
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
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
11:00
11:00
These Old Shades: If Georgette Heyer Wrote a Ghost Story
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
Maree Pavletich (CoNZealand)
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Moderator
Freya Marske
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Panelist
Kat Clay
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Panelist
Leife Shallcross (Australia 2025 bid committee)
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Panelist
Z Aung
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Panel
14:00
14:00
The Appeal of Spider-Man
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)
Panelist
Gideon Marcus (Galactic Journey (and Journey Press) )
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Moderator
Daniel Abraham
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Panelist
Stina Leicht
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