Papers for Session 1
My Session Status
What:
Event
When:
10:00, Sunday 1 Sep 2013 EDT
(3 hours)
Breaks:
Lunch Break 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM (1 hour)
Where:
San Antonio Mariott Rivercenter2
- HRC Ballroom
Sub Sessions
10:00 EDT -
11:00 EDT |
1 hour
Finding examples of current SF dystopias is easy. But where are all of the utopias in our SF imagination? It seems that since the 1970s, it is more and more difficult for audiences to find examples of the perfect, harmonized future. Is anybody writing about utopia anymore? Does the lack of utopian fiction and film mean that we, as a society, have lost hope?
10:20 EDT -
10:50 EDT |
30 minutes
The Solarcon 1 committee was Willie Siros. Is this where it all began?