The programme will be:

1.30 Introduction Professor Tim Connell, Fellow of Gresham College

1.40 ‘The Fork: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture’ Neal Stephenson

2.20 ‘The overlap between Science Fiction and other genres’ Andy Sawyer, Librarian of the Science Fiction Foundation Collection, The University of Liverpool

3.00 ‘Horror motifs’ John Clute, Editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

3.40 Break

3.50 ‘Science Fiction in the Nineteenth Century’ Dr Martin Willis, University of Glamorgan

4.30 ‘Modern British Science Fiction’ Dr Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck, University of London

5.10 Summary Professor Tim Connell, Fellow of Gresham College

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Free:

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