<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 24px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(75, 80, 86);" class="">World-Building: How Science Sculpts Science Fiction</h3><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 18px; padding: 10px 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(75, 80, 86);" class="">Thursday, November 12, 2020</h4><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 18px; padding: 10px 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(75, 80, 86);" class="">5:00 P.M. 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How are they impacted by the latest scientific discoveries about exoplanets (planets outside of our solar systems)?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Join us for a panel of pre-eminent science fiction authors famous for their vivid imaginings of fantastical, fictional worlds as they describe their favorite fictional world, and then discuss the process of inventing a new world. Where do they take ideas from reality? Where do they choose to deviate from reality, and why? When does story trump science? What are the hardest and easiest parts of a brand new world for them to imagine? And finally, what responsibility do writers have when it comes to the public's science literacy? </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Moderated by Moiya McTier, astronomer-folklorist and host of the Exolore podcast, the panel will feature Hugo award winners Becky Chambers, Mary Robinette Kowal, and John Scalzi, as well as Doctor Who writer Simon Guerrier. The panel will conclude with a moderated Q&A with the audience and the panel members.</p></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dr. Cathy Thomas<br class="">(she/her/hers)<br class="">UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow<br class="">UC Riverside, Creative Writing<br class=""><a href="mailto:cathy.thomas@ucr.edu" class="">cathy.thomas@ucr.edu</a> </div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://cathythomas.academia.edu" class="">cathythomas.academia.edu</a> </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://blackartistsforfreedom.com" class="">blackartistsforfreedom.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 10px;" class="">“If you are silent about your pain, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 10px;" class="">they’ll kill you </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 10px;" class="">and say you enjoyed </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 10px;" class="">it.” - Zora Neale Hurston</span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div>
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