Erich Alan Werner is the pen name of Ricky Werner, a SFF writer and writing teacher living in Nyack, New York. His stories have appeared in Dark Matter Magazine and The Writer’s Eye. He teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Westchester Community College. An alum of Futurescapes and Odyssey Online workshops, he is currently seeking representation for his novel manuscript *Freaks of Nature Vol. 1: The Phantom Cat,* a Middle Grade fantasy adventure.
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Are you feeling the call to write more optimistic science fiction? You’re not alone. Join this panel to discuss stories that envision a brighter world and how we can build it.
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Virtual reality is set to explode onto the gaming scene as is the conventional media industry in general. Writing science fiction often entails a vivid mental vision of characters engaged in a moving, very real, all-enveloping environment. So, how will this meeting of the imagination and high-tech living dreamscapes happen? Will novels step up from book, e-book, audiobook, to VR book? How can authors get their hands on (hands in!) VR products and the tech industry’s vision of the future might enlighten us all as to what to expect in our writing lifetime?
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