<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Gloria</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:00006f794a8fbc6a-dmarc-request@jiscmail.ac.uk">00006f794a8fbc6a-dmarc-request@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 at 10:40<br>Subject: To SFRA Members: Notice of Hard-Science SF Zoom group<br>To: <<a href="mailto:SFRA@jiscmail.ac.uk">SFRA@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>><br></div><br><br>
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Dec. 27th 2021<br>
<br>
Dear SFRA Membership,<br>
<br>
Happier New Year!<br>
Hugh O'Connell, your SFRA Treasurer, kindly directed me to this
link. <br>
<br>
The Hard-Science Science Fiction Zoom Group (and YouTube Channel)<br>
<br>
We are pleased to announce a stellar list of guest presenters and a
new YouTube Channel<br>
for your New Year. Our group started in Tucson, AZ, linked loosely
with the University of<br>
Arizona's Book Festival. But we have blossomed out and spurred on
by the pandemic, we<br>
have gone LIVE STREAMING. You can attend our Zoom sessions live.<br>
<br>
Then we upload the speaker's talk to our YouTube channel (but live
is more fun).<br>
<br>
<font color="#0000ff"><b><font color="#000000">Just email me, Gloria
McMillan, at:</font> <br>
<a href="mailto:glomc@dakotacom.net" target="_blank">glomc@dakotacom.net</a> to join our group.<br>
<font color="#000000"><br>
Say that you are interested in joining the Hard-Science
Science Fiction Group.<br>
Latest news and speaker list below.</font> The login to this
meeting is enclosed as a guest<br>
visit.<br>
<br>
<font color="#000000">LINK to our new YouTube Channel:</font><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHUlsmR9M8Nqco76JyZnU4w" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHUlsmR9M8Nqco76JyZnU4w</a><br>
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<br>
Coming to us from a galaxy near you, Tucson Hard-Science SF
Group <br>
proudly presents</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:107%">SAT. Jan 8, 2022 <span style="color:red">9 AM</span>/ Arizona/ Mtn. St Time, -7 hrs
GMT</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:26.0pt;background:yellow">Sam J. Miller</span></b><b><span style="font-size:26.0pt">,</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><b><span>Winner
John W. Campbell and Andre Norton Awards</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"> <br>
<span> </span></span></b></p>
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">"</span></b><b><span>Science Fiction and Social
Commentary</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">”</span></b><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Sam poses
some starting points for
us before his talk:<br>
<br>
Sci-fi stories might be set in the far future, or a galaxy far
far away, but
they're always about the here and now. How does contemporary SF
engage with
geopolitical reality, climate angst, social movements, current
science, and
more? What classics of the genre have done this well? <br>
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>[GM NOTE:
The new SF satire film <i>Don't Look Up!</i> is a wonderful
example of what Sam will be talking about because the
astronomical basis is correct and advised by Amy Mainzer, one of
the top asteroid hunters.]<br>
</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">===</span></p>
<p>US author who began publishing work of genre interest with
"Haunting
Your House" in <i>The Red Volume: An Anthology of Stories by the
Awkward
Robots</i> (anth <b>2008</b> ebook) edited by The Awkward
Robots, most of his
early work being fantasy or horror, though his first novel, the <a href="http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/young_adult" target="_blank">Young
Adult</a> <i>The
Art of Starving</i> (<b>2017</b>), <a href="http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/equipoise" target="_blank">Equipoisally</a>
offers
hints as well of an sf explanation for the mysterious <a href="http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/superpowers" target="_blank">Superpowers</a>
acquired by the young protagonist, who has gone on a prolonged
fast. This novel
won the Andre Norton Award (see <a href="http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/nebula" target="_blank">Nebula</a>)
for young-adult
fiction.</p>
<p>Miller's second novel, <i>Blackfish City</i> (<b>2018</b>), is
set in
Quaanaaq, a highly urban <a href="http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/keep" target="_blank">Keep</a>
floating in a <a href="http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/near_future" target="_blank">Near
Future</a> Arctic Circle awash with free water due to <a href="http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/climate_change" target="_blank">Climate
Change</a>;
the tale takes place a little later than "Calved" (September 2015
<a href="http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/asimovs" target="_blank">Asimov's</a>),
where its
creation is depicted. The world now kept at bay by the inhabitants
of this <a href="http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cities" target="_blank">City</a>
is <a href="http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dystopias" target="_blank">Dystopian</a>
on familiar
though <a href="http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/infodump" target="_blank">Infodump</a>-heavy
lines; but not unexpectedly a visitor, in this case a woman
"nanobonded" to an orca and a polar bear, exposes flaws and
stresses
threatening the inherently precarious refuge from planetary
consequence. <i>Blackfish
City</i> won the <a href="http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/john_w_campbell_memorial_award" target="_blank">John
W Campbell Memorial Award</a>. [JC]</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;line-height:107%;color:#0070c0">ZOOM
ID number for <u>SAT
Jan 8,</u><span> </span>2022 @ </span></b><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;line-height:107%;color:red">9 AM</span></b><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;line-height:107%;color:#0070c0">
(Arizona)</span></b></p>
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ID: </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;line-height:107%;color:#0070c0">466
593 1019<br>
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Click and give ID on drop down:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;line-height:107%;color:#0070c0"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82315365013" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82315365013</a><br>
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</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;line-height:107%;color:#0070c0;background:yellow">No password</span></b><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;line-height:107%;color:#0070c0"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Dear Fan
Friends! </span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>All
meetings are on Zoom and
schedule (unless noted otherwise) at 9 AM Arizona time...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font color="#ff0000"><span>EMAIL
Gloria at <a href="mailto:glomc@dakotacom.net" target="_blank">glomc@dakotacom.net</a> to be added to
our group's e-list.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>This is a
group for writers and
readers of science fiction to share research, writing help, and
other kinds of
inspiring stuff.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Here are
the speakers we have lined
up:</span></p>
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Feb. 5 <br>
<b>Grace Dillon</b>--"Writing Science Fiction while Indigenous"</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Grace is
Prof. of Indigenous Studies
at Portland State Univ. is the editor of the first Indigenous
people's SF short
story collection (<i>Walking the Clouds</i>, Univ. of Arizona
Press) on writing
while Indigenous.</span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Mar. 5</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><br>
</span><b><span>Wolf
Forrest</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">—“’Are We not WEIRD?’ Weird
Science in Films”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. . . famed local SF film
expert will give us a
hair-raising tour of the weird science on display in classic SF
films.<span> </span>The THRILL of the
mad scientist brewing
self-replicating robots? New species of men—“Are we not men?” –
not to mention
other wonderfully deranged plots for global
power—Whahhhhahhhhahha!<b><br>
<br>
</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Apr. 2 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><br>
<b>Adnadin Jasarevic</b>--"What’s so Bosnian about Science
Fiction? Wait
and see!" “Adi” is the curator of the Zenica, Bosnia, city
museum. <br>
He is an award-winning writer, artist, and graphic science
fiction/horror
illustrator.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>He
regularly writes poems, creates
comic art, and translates (currently Edgar Alan Poe.)</span></p>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>May 7</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span>Hua Li</span></b><span>--"Chinese Science Fiction"<br>
<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Hua Li
teaches at the Univ. of
Wyoming. Her text on Chinese science fiction C</span><i>hinese
Science Fiction
during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw</i><span> is
forthcoming.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">June 4</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Paul Mocombe</span></b><span>—“Haiti
between Two Worlds of Tradition and (Sci)Tech: Where Science
Fiction may Lead Us”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Paul Mocombe is an Ass’t.
Prof. of Philosophy and
Sociology, West Virginia State University.<span>
</span>He work is in the contact zone between western science
and the local
knowledge of his people in Haiti.<br>
<br>
July 2</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span>Tosi
Abegbija</span></b><span>--"Internet of Things and Beyond"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span>Tosi is an
amazing Prof. of electrical
engineering at the U. of Arizona. He is back by popular demand.
Plot material
for SF is found repeatedly in what Tosi brings to our meetings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span><br>
</span></b><span>Aug.6</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Ben
Kuipers--<br>
<br>
</span></b><span>Ben is a
Prof. of Electrical
Engineering at Univ. of Michigan. A longtime reader of SF. He
investigates
robotic knowledge, including knowledge of space, dynamical
change, objects, and
actions. He is currently investigating ethics as a foundational
domain of
knowledge for robots and other AIs that may act as members of
human society. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span>Sep. 3</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span>Sandy
Petroshius—“Walk through the
new Ray Bradbury Museum in ‘Green Town’”</span></b><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span>Sandi is
the director of the Ray
Bradbury Experience Museum in Waukegan, IL.<span>
</span>Far from being the usual “great man” celebration, this
museum seeks to
light that spark that Ray felt throughout his life and help us
to use all our
own untapped potential. He was a child of the Depression and
used libraries!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span>Oct. 1<br>
<b>David Gunkel and Ben Kuipers—“Can and Should ‘Bots have
person-hood, rights,
and responsibilities?”<br>
</b>Dr. Gunkel is an Asst. Prof. Media Studies, M. Illinois
Univ., so he comes
to this through the lens of legal personhood, philosophical
issues, and the now
vexing questions that autonomous Internet of Things poses.</span></p>
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