On Monday we welcome Professor Mark Brake and Reverend Neil Hook to Second Nature.
Since its emergence in the seventeenth century, science fiction has been a sustained, coherent and subversive check on the promises and pitfalls of science. In their turn, invention and discovery have forced fiction writers to confront the nature and limits of reality.
Join us with Neil Hook and Mark Brake, authors of Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science to trace the way in which we’ve imagined the future.
Neil and Mark are both at the University of Glamorgan, teaching courses in Science Fiction and Science Communication respectively. All are welcome to join us for what promises to be a fascinating event.
Title: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science
Speakers: Prof Mark Brake and Rev. Neil Hook, Glamorgan University
Date: Mon 28th April
Time: 9am SLT, Midday NY time, 4pm GMT, 5pm London time
Location: Second Nature Island
Contact: Joanna WombatImmediately after the event, we will be hopping over to ACS Island, where there will be a second talk with Joan L. Slonczewski, Kenyon College, on science fiction from the point of view of the author. Joan is a Professor of Microbiology, specifically stress responses in E. coli and Bacillus subtilis, and also the author of several science fiction novels including Brain Plague and A Door Into Ocean.
All welcome to both talks: voice will be used.