Mark Your Calendars, SF Fans! Appearing in Person this Saturday at MonSFFA’s  May 11, 2024 Meeting: SF Writer Rich Larson!

Rich will attend our May 11 meeting as guest speaker! His books include Annex, Ymir, and the short story collection Tomorrow Factory. He has been praised by Gardner Dozois as “One of the best new writers to enter science fiction in more than a decade.” Currently based in Montreal, Rich was born in Galmi, Niger, and has lived in Spain and the Czech Republic. His fiction has been translated into over a dozen languages, among them Polish, French, Romanian and Japanese.

Rich will speak on his personal creative process, the mechanics of writing short fiction, the business of selling same, and the transition to novel writing. A Q&A will follow, and Rich will cover, as well, his experience with the Emmy-winning television adaptation of one of his stories for LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS!

MonSFFA’s May 2024 Meeting is scheduled for this Saturday, May 11, from 1:00PM-5:00PM

Le Nouvel Hotel, 1740 Boul. René-Lévesque (corner St-Mathieu), “Salle Maisonneuve” (Conference Floor, South Tower)

See Rich Larson’s bibliography at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database: isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Rich%20Larson 

Read some of Rich Larson’s fiction online at: https://www.freesfonline.net/authors/Rich_Larson.html

Also on the Agenda:

THE “LOST WORLDS” OF SF&F

SF is about new worlds, of course. But what about “Lost Worlds”? What about places hidden just around or over the next mountain ridge, into the hidden valley, or on that mysterious island? During the Age of Exploration, satirists like Jonathan Swift and Cyrano de Bergerac wrote of strange and exotic lands as a means of satirizing life in European courts during the 17th and 18th centuries.

This afternoon, we will explore the great lost lands of modern science fiction and fantasy in literature and on the silver screen, beginning with the worlds of H. Rider Haggard, the writer who started the modern trend. We’ll also explore the original weird and mysterious jungle, the Lost World of Arthur Conan Doyle, along with an obligatory stop at a Jules Verne world, and a related link to Canadian history! And while many of these Lost Worlds were written as a vehicle to proclaim the triumph of western civilization over everyone else, there are still a few where the Europeans get their comeuppance.

Plus…

THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE

Discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of different mediums—books, film, television series, graphic novels—when telling the same story.

…and more!