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Writing on the Edges of Scientific Discovery
Friday August 16, 2024 3:00pm - 3:50pm MDT
Fairview
The session will focus on recent scientific discoveries regarding spacetime and the amplituhedron, an object that exists outside of spacetime. This supports the Jungian idea that we walk in two worlds simultaneously. We hope this session will encourage writers to create new worlds beyond spacetime that inspire scientists the way that Star Trek did.
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Renée Bennett

Renée Bennett is an author, an editor, and a word nerd. Her degree is in Linguistics and she’s had six Aurora nominations, but no wins (yet.) She writes anything she darn well pleases: light stuff and dark stuff and mash-up stuff and stuff people say cannot or should not be written... Read More →
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Mark Campbell

Born in Kingston Jamaica, Mark Campbell immigrated to Canada with his family when he was 10 years old. He spent over twenty years in the Canadian military which included 9 years as a technical training instructor where he also authored numerous training documents. Since then he has... Read More →
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Charles James

Author of the action-packed Cassi Requin science fiction novels, Charles James lives in Lethbridge with his amazing wife, two awesome kids, and a couple of Guinea pigs. By day, Charles is a radiation oncology physicist and professor.
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Celeste A. Peters

Depending on the local likelihood of snowfall, Celeste A. Peters can be found scribbling speculative fiction in either Calgary, Alberta, or Tucson, Arizona. Her fiction, to date, has appeared in Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, the Urban Greenman Anthology (Edge Science Fiction... Read More →
Friday August 16, 2024 3:00pm - 3:50pm MDT
Fairview
  Panel Discussion, Science Fiction, Fantasy

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