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<\/a>\n<\/div>\nProbably not – but who will have the guts to actually stand up and say so? Who dares canute the creeping sciencefictionalisation of everything?<\/p>\n
Will Adam Roberts, three-times Clarke Award nominee, finally bite the hand that never quite feeds him?<\/p>\n
Will Tom Hunter rub ash in his hair, drag his fingernails through his cheeks, and recant his works as Director (some would say, saviour) of the Arthur C Clarke Award?<\/p>\n
Will John Sutherland, Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature at UCL, treat this jargon-besotted genre with the derision and contempt it so richly deserves?<\/p>\n
Or will it be left to Muggins here to generate conflict and controversy in a room full of people who think science fiction is, well, quite good really…?<\/p>\n
Find out when I chair the snappily titled “Is Science Fiction the only truly relevant literary genre today?”<\/strong> at 7:00PM on Monday, 7 November 2011.<\/p>\n Come along to the Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, Darwin Building, Malet Place, WC1E 7JG.<\/p>\n The event is presented by New Scientist and Gower Street Waterstones, who are hoping this bun-fight will promote Roberts’s new novel By Light Alone<\/a>. Annoy them by bringing copies of Dead Water for me to sign.<\/p>\n Also, I will be making a Special Announcement that will change the face of British science fiction overnight.<\/p>\n No.<\/p>\n Really.<\/p>\n Tickets £8 \/ £6 New Scientist Subscribers\/ £5 students http:\/\/waterstoneslectureseries.eventbrite.com<\/a><\/p>\n All details here: Probably not – but who will have the guts to actually stand up and say so? Who dares canute the creeping sciencefictionalisation of everything? Will Adam Roberts, three-times Clarke Award nominee, finally bite the hand that never quite feeds him? … Continue reading
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