Name: Weird Science: Unexpected Ways to Put Science in Science Fiction
Start: 2025-07-12T18:00:00-0400
End: 2025-07-12T19:00:00-0400

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Saturday July 12, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT

Salem (Marriott)

In science fiction, we like to see FTL spaceships, strange alien species, resurrected extinct species, instantaneous communication, and similar things. But a lot of everyday items are afterthoughts in sci-fi. How will technology affect clothes? Food? Ordinary medical care? And what about the "soft" sciences, like industrial safety, environmental science, anthropology, or political science? How will those change the landscape of the future?

requests: Angela Giddings, Jim Beall, Jenn Whitworth, Dennis Myers, Rob Hampson

Speakers

Jo Boone

Literary Guest

Jo Boone is the author of the Combined Service series: The Magnetar, Elaninae, and The Celestial Sea, published by Chris Kennedy Publishing/Theogony Press. Jo’s science fiction and fantasy stories have appeared in Remnants of Empire and (under the byline Jennifer Busick) in the... Read More →

Saturday July 12, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
Salem (Marriott)

Science

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Jo Boone

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