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Choose Your Happily Ever After: Writing the Interactive Novel

May 12, 2023 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm

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Panelists: Rebecca Slitt, Sydney Meeker, SL Huang and Ruth Vincent (moderator)
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What is an interactive novel? How does modern interactive fiction differ from the choose-your-own-adventure books of our childhood? How do we make readers/players feel like their choices matter in the story? Join us to explore how interactive fiction can be a bridge between gaming and reading, change the way we think about linear story structure, and give readers the satisfaction of having agency in creating their own story.

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Setting as Character: Making Livable, Memorable Worlds

June 7, 2024 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm

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Panelists: R.B. Lemberg, Talulah Sullivan, SL Huang and Rob Costello (moderator)
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This panel will deal with capturing ideas to build worlds that breathe as much life into your stories and the characters you place in them.
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The BIPOC POV in Hard SF

June 7, 2024 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

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Panelists: Sarah Guan, SL Huang, Arula Ratnakar, Glenn Parris and Wole Talabi (moderator)
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One of the joys of hard science fiction lies in its opportunity to communicate science through storytelling. To communicate not only the exciting research and concepts, but also the practice of science, the joys and frustrations that come with being a scientist (anyone from any background who engages rigorously with those evidence-based philosophies of understanding the world).

Historically, hard science fiction has been dominated by viewpoints originating from western European and American thought written largely by white/cis/het men. And also historically, an environment of exclusion and gatekeeping, rather than inclusion and communication. This turns countless people away from hard science fiction, because they are told that if they cannot make it through poorly explained, dense, intentionally exclusionary science in stories, they are not meant for the subgenre.

In this panel we will discuss the term hard SF, its use, current state, and the future from a BIPOC lens.

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