Melissa Ferguson
Participates in 4 items
Writer, scientist, and defender of the reputation of Neandertals.
Debut dystopian, science fiction novel, The Shining Wall, available now.
Sessions in which Melissa Ferguson participates
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Party-pooping science: Why your favourite novel is probably impossible Prince Regent
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- As readers of science fiction we may love all of the tales of faster-than-light travel, hyperspace, anti-gravity, laser guns, time travel, and othe...
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- The best literary science fiction of 2018 Admiralty Gulf
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Soon it will be time for nominations to be submitted and votes decided for this year’s speculative fiction awards. What were the best novels and sh...
- Panel
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Who Wants to Live Forever: Implications of Immortality Admiralty Gulf
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Immortality is a common element in science fiction and fantasy, but what would it actually be like? What would you need to do and think abou...
- Panel
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Grading Blade Runner: The art of predicting the future Admiralty Gulf
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner was set in the year 2019. Now that the real world has caught up with the fictional, how accurate was t...
- Panel
Sessions in which Melissa Ferguson attends
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- Opening Ceremony Admiralty Gulf
- 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour
- Welcome to Swancon 44: The Future is Now, featuring guests of honour Charlie Jane Anders, Jonathan Strahan, and Travis Johnson! Come along to the o...
- Keynote
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Is climate fiction the new cyberpunk? Admiralty Gulf
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- Cyberpunk was a hugely popular sub-genre of science fiction, particularly in the 1980s when issues of technology, urbanisation, and changing cultur...
- Panel
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
- Party-pooping science: Why your favourite novel is probably impossible Prince Regent
- 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 hour
- As readers of science fiction we may love all of the tales of faster-than-light travel, hyperspace, anti-gravity, laser guns, time travel, and othe...
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Charlie Jane Anders Reading and Q&A Admiralty Gulf
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Keynote
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Problematic favourites: How to read from the past King Sound
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Times change, as do social attitudes and our common ground of morals and ethics. A science fiction novel that might seem perfectly acceptable upon ...
- Panel
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Finding the Difference: Australian SF vs the Rest of the World Admiralty Gulf
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Australia has a strong and vibrant speculative fiction industry and community - but how does it differ from the SF produced in the USA, the UK, or ...
- Panel
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
- Streaming the novel: Adapting literature to the small screen Admiralty Gulf
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour
- With the expansion of television drama onto streaming video providers, it has become easier to adapt literary texts in a bespoke manner for smaller...
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Jonathan Strahan in Interview Admiralty Gulf
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Since the development of the spec fic journal Eidolon through literally dozens of collections and anthologies and a string of Hugo Award nomination...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- The Authentic Climate Future Admiralty Gulf
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour
- Whatever humanity’s future actions, it now seems all-but-guaranteed that the Earth of 2100 is not going to resemble the Earth of 2019. Science fict...
- Panel
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- The best literary science fiction of 2018 Admiralty Gulf
- 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour
- Soon it will be time for nominations to be submitted and votes decided for this year’s speculative fiction awards. What were the best novels and sh...
- Panel
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Who Wants to Live Forever: Implications of Immortality Admiralty Gulf
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Immortality is a common element in science fiction and fantasy, but what would it actually be like? What would you need to do and think abou...
- Panel
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- A Survivor's Guide to the Apocalypse King Sound
- 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour
- Panel
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Grading Blade Runner: The art of predicting the future Admiralty Gulf
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour
- Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner was set in the year 2019. Now that the real world has caught up with the fictional, how accurate was t...
- Panel