MonSFFA meets on line and on zoom on the 13th of May. All are invited to attend.  The link to the zoom invitation will be in our first post of the meeting which appears on this website right at 13:00h. Or, you can request the link by contacting <president@monsffa.ca>

There will be two presentations. Kofi will be speaking on math and magic, and Danny Sichel will speak on everyone’s favourite detective, Sherlock Holmes.

 Mathematical Fiction: Is Magic just another source of Math?
Mathematical Fiction might not be popular but has been around since 1884. We will discuss how this can be relevant in many sci-fi/fantasy-based worlds and check some work on databases that keep track of it. How do we conceive such a world and what differences can we use to alter it from our world?

The Case of the Literary Archetype: It’s been almost 150 years since Arthur Conan Doyle created one of the most popular fictional characters in history. Sherlock Holmes and his associates have had an outsized impact on popular culture in many ways; how have they affected science fiction and fantasy?