
Sue Burke
Sue Burke is a science fiction writer and translator. Her novel “Semiosis” was published by Tor in February 2018, with a sequel, “Interference”, coming in October 2019. She attended the Clarion Workshop and the Turkey City Workshop, and lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Austin, Texas; Madrid, Spain; and now Chicago, Illinois. She’s published more than thirty short stories in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, Supersonic, Interzone, StarShipSofa, and Years Best SF 14, among other magazines and anthologies. She’s also a member of SFWA, the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and the Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror.
Sessions in which Sue Burke attends
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How to Enjoy the First Virtual Worldcon
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)
Panel
13:00
13:00
Climate Change and Conventions
50 minutes
13:00 NZST
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13:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist
Tim Jones
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Moderator
Erin Underwood
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Panelist
Cameron Bolinger (Explorasaurus Studios)
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Panelist
Kyoko Ogushi (CoNZealand)
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Panel
Panelist
Karl Schroeder
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Panelist
Katherine Quevedo
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Panelist
Eli K. P. William
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Panelist
Jesper Stage
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Panel
14:00
14:00
Science Fantasy: A Core Piece of the SF/F World
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
Tommy Kucera (Dept of Mathematics)
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Moderator
David D. Levine
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Panelist
L.J. Kendall (L. J. Kendall Publishing)
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Panelist
Jacqui Greaves
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Panelist
Rivqa Rafael
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Panel
15:00
15:00
Epidemics and Plagues in the Real World and in Fiction
50 minutes
15:00 NZST
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15:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Panelist
Andy Dudak
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Moderator
Mason A. Porter (University of California)
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Panelist
Perrianne Lurie
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Panelist
Freya Marske
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Panelist
Prema Arasu (University of Western Australia)
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Panel
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
17:00
17:00
Writers on Writing: What’s in a Name? Characters in Fiction
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
Mimi Mondal (Self)
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Moderator
S. K. Dunstall
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Panelist
Zaza Koshkadze
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Panelist
Mandy Hager (NZ Society of Authors)
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Panel
19:00
19:00
Representing the Other
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)
Speaker
Brandon O'Brien (FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction)
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Panelist
Cliona Shakespeare (University of Jyväskylä)
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Panelist
Prema Arasu (University of Western Australia)
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Moderator
Bradford Lyau
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Panelist
Laura (El) Lam (Edinburgh Napier University)
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Panel
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23:00
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7:00
9:00
9:00
Climate Change: Adaptation vs Resilience
50 minutes
9:00 NZST
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9:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Moderator
Darcie Little Badger
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Panelist
Michael Sheffield (Northrop Grumman Space Systems)
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Panelist
Arkady Martine
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Panel
10:00
10:00
How Scary Can You Be?
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)
Moderator
Cory Doctorow
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Panelist
Sek Han Foo
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Panelist
Tonia Ransom (NIGHTLIGHT Podcast)
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Panelist
Rena Barron
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Panel
11:00
11:00
Staying Closer to Home: Science Fiction in the Solar System
50 minutes
11:00 NZST
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11:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Moderator
Daniel Abraham
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Panelist
Jeffrey A. Carver (SFWA, Starstream Publications)
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Panelist
James Cambias
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Panelist
G. David Nordley (Self Employed)
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Panelist
Ian McDonald
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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
13:00
13:00
Concellation 2020 Retrospective
50 minutes
13:00 NZST
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13:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 5 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist
Gadi Evron (Tel Aviv in 2027)
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Panelist
Christopher Ambler
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Panelist
Craig Glassner
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Moderator
Lynelle Howell (CoNZealand)
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Panel
Cory Doctorow and Ada Palmer discuss censorship and information control
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)
Dialogue
15:00
15:00
Can AI Write a Story? Cases for and Against Human + Machine
50 minutes
15:00 NZST
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15:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 7 (Zoom Meeting)
Presenter
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (LIRNEasia)
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Presentation
17:00
17:00
Translating Speculative Fiction: Challenges and Exaltations
50 minutes
17:00 NZST
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17:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Moderator
Kalin M. Nenov (Human Library Foundation)
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Panelist
Judith Huang
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Panelist
Mari Kotani (Meiji University)
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Panelist
Regina Kanyu Wang (Storycom)
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Panel
18:00
18:00
Terraforming and Alien Life: A Biochemist's Perspective
50 minutes
18:00 NZST
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18:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Presenter
Stephen Mulholland (Alpacas Rampant)
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Presentation
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
7:00
7:00
9:00
9:00
COVID-19: A Great Filter?
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)
Moderator
Valentin Ivanov (European Southern Observatory)
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Panelist
Vylar Kaftan
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Panelist
Ion Newcombe (AntipodeanSF)
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Panelist
James Cambias
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Panel
10:00
10:00
2022 Worldcon Site Announcement
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)
Participant
Helen Montgomery (Chicon 8: The 80th World Science Fiction Convention)
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Participant
Colette Fozard
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Participant
Dave McCarty
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Participant
Yasser Bahjatt (Jeddi High Council)
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Moderator
Alan Stewart
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Presentation
11:00
11:00
Moderator
Joe Monti (Saga Press)
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Panelist
Joshua Bilmes
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Panelist
Lynne Thomas (Uncanny Magazine)
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Panelist
Valerie Estelle Frankel (Silicon Valley Authors in the vendors room)
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Panel
12:00
12:00
Panel
Translation: the Key to Open Doors to the Cultural Diversity in SFF
50 minutes
12:00 NZST
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12:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Panelist
Libia Brenda (Independent)
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Moderator
Cora Buhlert
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Panelist
Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld Magazine)
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Panelist
Wataru Ishigame (Tokyo Sogensha (Publisher))
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Panelist
Luis F. Silva
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Panel
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
Panelist
James Davis Nicoll (James Nicoll Reviews / University of Waterloo Theatre Centre)
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Moderator
Fred Lerner
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Panelist
Amy (A.K.) DuBoff
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Panelist
Walter Jon Williams
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Panelist
Sheila Williams (Asimov's Science Fiction)
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Panel
14:00
14:00
Climate Fiction/Climate Fact
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)
Moderator
Octavia Cade
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Panelist
Katrina Archer (Little Blue Marble)
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Panelist
Arkady Martine
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Panelist
Tim Jones
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Panelist
Alex Acks
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Panel
Writers on Writing: The Plot's the Thing
50 minutes
14:00 NZST
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14:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 4 (Webinar)
Panelist
Jeffrey A. Carver (SFWA, Starstream Publications)
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Moderator
Carrie Patel (Obsidian Entertainment)
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Panelist
Suyi Davies Okungbowa
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Panelist
David D. Levine
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Panel
Engineering and the Human Conquest of Hostile Environments
50 minutes
14:00 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 6 (Zoom Meetings)
Academic
15:00
15:00
Pandemic Myths and Facts
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)
Panelist
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne (LIRNEasia)
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Moderator
Naomi Kritzer
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Panelist
Andi C. Buchanan (Writer)
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Panelist
Mason A. Porter (University of California)
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Panelist
Perrianne Lurie
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Panel
16:00
16:00
Universal Rights in the Age of AI
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
Hirotaka Osawa (University of Tsukuba)
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Panelist
L.J. Kendall (L. J. Kendall Publishing)
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Panelist
Barbara Howe
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Panelist
Benjamin C. Kinney (Escape Pod)
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Moderator
Mikko Rauhala
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Panel
7:00
7:00
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
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10:30
Reading
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
15:00
15:00
Our New Robot Overlords: Why and How They Will Take Over
50 minutes
15:00 NZST
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15:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 1 (Webinar)
Speaker
Mikko Rauhala
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Presentation
Novel, Novella or Short Story? Choosing the Right Length for Fiction
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)
Moderator
Paula Boer (Self-employed)
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Panelist
Diane Walton (On Spec Magazine)
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Panelist
Vylar Kaftan
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Panelist
Jane Rawson
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Panel
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
Sassafrass presents Viking Mythology Music
50 minutes
15:00 NZST
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15:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 9 (Zoom Meeting)
Performer
Ada Palmer
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Concert
Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading
50 minutes
15:00 NZST
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15:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 7 (Zoom Meeting)
Panelist
Valerie Estelle Frankel (Silicon Valley Authors in the vendors room)
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Panelist
K.G. Anderson (Writer Way / UnCommon Sense)
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Panelist
Marta Murvosh (Broad Universe)
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Panelist
Deirdre M Murphy
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Panelist
Debora Godfrey
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Panelist
D. H. Timpko
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Panelist
Kathryn Sullivan
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Moderator
Jude-Marie Green (Broad Universe)
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Reading
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16:00
Good Work, Questionable Creator
50 minutes
16:00 NZST
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16:50 NZST
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Programming
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Programme Room 2 (Webinar)
Panelist
James Davis Nicoll (James Nicoll Reviews / University of Waterloo Theatre Centre)
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Panelist
Richard Gilliam (Self)
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Moderator
Julie Hofmann or ADMedievalist
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Panel
7:00
7:00
9:00
9:00
11:00
11:00
Master of ceremonies
Norman Cates (CoNZealand)
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Master of ceremonies
Kelly Buehler (CoNZealand)
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Participant
Bill Lawhorn
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Participant
Colette Fozard
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Event
Dialogue
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
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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
11:30
11:30
12:30
12:30
13:00
13:00
Virtual Conventions and Conferences
50 minutes
13:00 NZST
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13:50 NZST
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Programming
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Discussion Groups
Panelist
Erin Underwood
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Panelist
Laurie Mann
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Panelist
Randall Shepherd (CoNZealand/Alamo)
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Moderator
Steven Silver (SFWA)
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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