SFRA 2009
Dates:
06/11/2009 - 06/14/2009
SFRA 2009 will be held June 11–14, Atlanta, Georgia (Hotel Midtown). The conference Web site is up at http://www.sfra2009.com/. The conference themes are "Engineering the Future" and "Southern-Fried Science Fiction and Fantasy," or the work of one or more of the conference's guest authors. Deadline for proposals is April 1, 2009, and should be e-mailed to sfra2009 AT gmail DOT com.
Engineering the Future and Southern-Fried Science Fiction and Fantasy
June 11–14, Atlanta, Georgia (Hotel Midtown)
Guest of Honor: Michael Bishop
Special Guest Authors: F. Brett Cox, Paul di Filippo, Andy Duncan, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Jack McDevitt, and Warren Rochelle
Hosted by Lisa Yaszek and Doug Davis
The 2009 conference's two themes, "Engineering the Future" and "Southern-Fried Science Fiction and Fantasy," and its selection of guest authors are inspired by the conference's location in Atlanta and its cosponsorship by Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. Atlanta, a storied locale in American history, is also in many ways an international city of the future, home to 21st-century information, entertainment, technological, and military industries, peopled with 21st-century demographics, and prone to 21st-century situations.
How is the future engineered in science fiction and how has science fiction already engineered our present? The American South has long been well known for its gothic fiction, but it has increasingly figured in works of science fiction and fantasy too. So it is equally fitting to ask, how has the South been an inspiration of science fiction and fantasy, and what will its global future in speculative arts and letters be?
Deadline for proposals is April 1, 2009, and should be e-mailed to sfra2009 AT gmail DOT com. Paper proposals should be approximately 250 words long; panel proposals should be approximately 500 words long. Include all text of the proposal in the body of the e-mail (not as an attachment). Please be sure to include full contact information for all panel members and to make all AV requests within each proposal.
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