Wiscon: Are you your own biggest roadblock?

Are You Your Own Biggest Roadblock?

With Jack McDevitt, Lori Devoti, Liz L. Gorinsky, Ann Leckie, Jordan Castillo Price.

Is it possible you are doing something to keep yourself from selling? Come discuss what we do that keeps us from writing, submitting, and ultimately selling -- or selling again.

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Wiscon: The mismeasure of a man

The miscmeasure of a man, and the rest of us, too: science, colonialism, genocide, and science fiction

A number of recent works have examined the relationships between science, colonialism, historiography, and science fiction, from Rosemary Kirstein's stealth SF Steerswoman series to Octavian Nothing to SF tv such as Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. How are SF and related genres envisioning and revising the ethical and social dimensions of science? What role does the idea of Science play in maintaining or subverting power inequities of empire, nation, race, and gender?

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