| Title: | POST-APOCALYPTIC SF |
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| Category: | lit |
| Timeslot: | Thu 02:30 pm (90 minutes) |
| Location: | ACC / 201-C |
| Description: | John Varley said "We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn't, why would there be so many of them?" Why <i>do</i> we all love them? During the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation was very real; today, the world is a different place, but the threat of annihilation is once again very real. Has the sub-genre changed? How are 21st Century post-apocalyptic stories different from those written during the Cold War era? |
| Speaker(s): | Elizabeth Bear(M), Ed Green, Takayuki Tatsumi, John G. Hemry, Nick Sagan |