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Cat Sparks

Author
Participates in 5 items

Cat Sparks is a multi-award-winning Australian author, editor and artist. Career highlights include attaining a PhD in science fiction and climate fiction, five years as Fiction Editor of Cosmos Magazine, running Agog! Press, working as an archaeological dig photographer in Jordan, studying with Margaret Atwood, 75 published short stories, a collection and a far future novel, Lotus Blue. She’s a regular panellist & speaker at speculative fiction events.

Sessions in which Cat Sparks participates

Friday 30 March, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
4:30 PM
4:30 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Talk

Cat Sparks (Participant)

Anthropocene fiction/Cli Fi is being touted as the contemporary literature of our Earth in transformation, exploring impacts and effects of climate...
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
Horror Movie: It's the 6.30 News
1 hour, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Cat Sparks (Participant)

Stephen Dedman (Participant)

Robert Hood (Participant)

Sunday 1 April, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
With a whimper, not a bang
1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Pan Pacific Perth - West Grand River

Panel

Rachel Watts (Participant)

Elaine Walker (Ariaflame) (Participant)

Cat Sparks (Participant)

Rather than ending in a loud, messy apocalyptic bang, what if climate change turns out to be a slow, terrible descent into poor drinking water, mos...
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
Science fiction's boneyard
1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - Meeting Room 7

Panel

PRK (Moderator)

Cat Sparks (Participant)

Nuke, AntipodeanSF (Participant)

Carol Ryles (Participant)

Foz Meadows (Participant)

Does science fiction even exist anymore? The panellists examine how reality has caught up with and overtaken anything storytelling has to offer. Ho...
5:00 PM
5:00 PM

Pan Pacific Perth - East Grand River

Robert Hood (Participant)

Stephen Dedman (Participant)

Cat Sparks (Participant)

Mary Shelley is the grandmother of science fiction, founding en entire genre 200 years ago with her novel, Frankenstein. Does the novel's cu...