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Cat Sparks

Author
Participates in 3 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 19 April, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Is climate fiction the new cyberpunk?
1 hour, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf

Panel

Cat Sparks (Participant)

TJ Nichols (Participant)

Charlie Jane Anders (Participant)

Cyberpunk was a hugely popular sub-genre of science fiction, particularly in the 1980s when issues of technology, urbanisation, and changing cultur...

Saturday 20 April, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT+08:00) Perth
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
Jonathan Strahan in Interview
1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf

Cat Sparks (Moderator)

Jonathan Strahan (Participant)

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
1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - Admiralty Gulf

Panel

Cat Sparks (Participant)

Charlie Jane Anders (Participant)

Mark Loney Mark Loney (Participant)

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...