{"id":1083,"date":"2014-08-30T17:17:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T16:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2014-08-30T17:17:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T16:17:18","slug":"blog-septemberoctober-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"Blog – September\/October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past month has been a busy month with some great SF Conventions having come and gone, viz. Nine Worlds<\/em><\/a> and the WorldCon in London, LonCon3<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0So, without further ado, a brief report back. I was called on at the last minute to join the African SF<\/em> panel at Nine Worlds as a panelist Tade Thompson<\/strong> had been injured in a car accident en route (he is thankfully well now). It was an interesting panel discussion to be had, and I think we made a decent fist of it, although I named the elephant in the room at the start – i.e. all the panelists were white, with varying degrees of African ties. (My own is born, raised, worked and lived for the first 35 years of my life there – and it’s where I aim to end up.) We did come up with a list of recommended reading for African SF<\/em>, which I will post\u00a0in SF in SA (23)<\/em>, although I believe 9Worlds<\/em> may also host this eventually.<\/p>\n

Even before the SF Cons, there was the ‘Africa Writes<\/a>‘ literary festival, which included a panel on ‘Imaging Future Africa’<\/a>. I have put a link to the podcast here for what was an extremely interesting discussion, with panel participants Tade Thompson<\/strong>, Geoff Ryman<\/strong> and Ivor Hartmann<\/strong>, well marshalled by Chair\u00a0Emma Dabiri<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/royafrisoc\/africa-writes-2014-imagining-future-africa-sci-fi-innovation-technology\/<\/a><\/p>\n

LonCon3 showcased an increasingly diverse and ‘relevant’ range of panels and activities, sometimes overwhelming in choice options. I moderated a panel on ‘Reading the Other<\/strong>‘ with vibrant panelists Tori Truslow<\/strong>, Wesley Chu<\/strong>, Ben Peek<\/strong> and Leslie Ann Moore<\/strong>. Two recommendations (apart from their own work) from the panel were: Ken Liu’s<\/strong> ‘The Grace of Kings<\/a>‘ and\u00a0Benjanun Sriduangkaew’s<\/strong> ‘Scale Bright<\/a>‘.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I also participated in a panel excellently moderated by Amal El-Mohtar<\/strong> and summarised by Kate Nepveu<\/a>\u00a0– fantastic fellow panelists Rochita Loenen-Ruiz<\/strong>, Aliette de Bodard<\/strong> and JY Yang<\/strong> kept the discussion flowing and interesting, investigating alternatives in form with non-Western modes of SF.<\/p>\n

Finally, I have written about Disability and encouraging support of the ‘Accessing the Future’ anthology in\u00a0(Not) SF in SA 22: \u2018It\u2019s All About Pianos\u2019: Writing through Pain\/Disability (Sep 2014)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Onwards and upwards!<\/p>\n

Nick Wood <\/strong>(Sep\/Oct 2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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