Session Seven:Ten Thousand Light Years From Home: Reflecting on the work and impact of James Tiptree Jr
Moderated by Lucy Sussex with Karen Joy Fowler and Jonathan Lethem
City Lights in conjunction with PM Press presented on February 26 and 27, 2022 a weekend-long symposium on zoom exploring the radical currents of Science Fiction. Celebrating the US launch of the book "Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985" Edited by Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre, published by PM Press.
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"Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985" details, celebrates, and evaluates how science fiction novels and authors depicted, interacted with, and were inspired by these cultural and political movements in America and Great Britain. It contains over twenty chapters written by contemporary authors and critics, and hundreds of full-color cover images, including thirteen thematically organised cover selections. New perspectives on key novels and authors, such as Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, John Wyndham, Samuel Delany, J.G. Ballard, John Brunner, Judith Merril, Barry Malzberg, Joanna Russ, and many others are presented alongside excavations of topics, works, and writers who have been largely forgotten or undeservedly ignored.
Lucy Sussex is an award winning author working in fantasy and science fiction, children’s and teenage writing, non-fiction and true crime. She is also an editor, reviewer, academic and an educator. She has published six novels and over 30 short stories, which have been collected across three anthologies. Her novels include The Revognase, Black Ice, The Penguin Friend, among others. She is the winner of the Ditmar Award, Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story, Victorian Community History Award, and a Sir Julius Vogel Award.
Karen Joy Fowler is an award winning author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Togehter with Pat Murphy she founded the James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1991, a literary prize for science fiction or fantasy that “expands or explores our understanding of gender.” She has received numerous honors for her work including a Nebula Award, a Shirley Jackson Award, a World Fantasy Award, amonst others.
Jonathan Lethem is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mixed elements of science fiction and detective fiction, was published in 1994. In 1999, Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning novel that achieved mainstream success. In 2003, he published The Fortress of Solitude, which became a New York Times Best Seller. In 2005, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. Since 2011, he has taught creative writing at Pomona College.
Sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
