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Freedom of expression and Science Fiction
Authors will discuss their favourite SF moments from their own works and others followed by an audience Q and A. A dram of whisky will be offered to everyone attending over 18 years old to toast the late Iain Banks.
Authors: Nnedi Okorafor and Ken Macleod.
Chair: Stuart Kelly
Nnedi Okorafor was born in the United States to two Igbo (Nigerian) immigrant parents is a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and speculative fiction. She holds a PhD in English and is a tenured professor at Chicago State University. Nnedi's muse is Nigeria.
Okorafor has published three acclaimed books for young adults, Akata Witch, the Shadow Speaker and Zahrah the Windseeker. Zahrah takes place in a highly technological world based on Nigerian myths and culture and won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Okorafor's children's book Long Juju Man, a story about a girl's encounters with an irritating crafty ghost, was the 200708 winner of the Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa.
Okorafor's first adult novel, Who Fears Death, won the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and was nominated for the 2010 Nebula Award. Her second adult novel, Lagoon, a first contact narrative set in the city of Lagos, Nigeria was released in April. Nnedi cites Octavia Butler, Stephen King, Philip Pullman, Tove Jansson, Hayao Miyazaki, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o as her greatest influences.
Ken Macleod: Born in Stornoway, Macleod graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology, has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics. A Trotskyist activist in the 1970s and early 1980s and Ken is married with two children and lives in South Queensferry.
Macleod specialises in hard science fiction and space opera. Ken Macleod's science fiction novels often explore socialist, communist, and anarchist political ideas, most particularly the variants of Trotskyism and anarcho-capitalism or extreme economic libertarianism. Technical themes encompass singularities, divergent human cultural evolution, and post-human cyborg-resurrection.
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LocationSummerhall Demonstration Room (View)
Summerhall Place
Edinburgh EH9 1QH
United Kingdom
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| Minimum Age: 0 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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