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Joan Slonczewski
Joan Slonczewski, the Hal Clement Science Speaker for Boskone in 2011, researches bacteria in extreme environments and writes award-winning SF about future medicine, revolutions, and alien sexualities. In her latest book, The Highest Frontier (Tor, September 2011) a Kennedy daughter goes to college on an orbital space habitat protected from alien invasion by Homeworld Security. Slonczewski’s Campbell-award winning classic, A Door into Ocean (Tor Books) creates a world covered entirely by ocean, inhabited by an all-female race of humans who use genetic engineering to defend their unique ecosystem. Brain Plague (Tor, Arc Manor) shows intelligent alien microbes that enhance human brain power--at a price. The genesis of these unique addictive microbes is depicted in The Children Star (Tor, Arc Manor), a "creature feature" great for families. Slonczewski teaches biology, including the notorious Biology in Science Fiction course, at Kenyon College.
Programming for Joan Slonczewski
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| Thu | 16:00 | (D04) | 1 hr |
Understanding Casino Gambling
Thinking about trying out one of the casinos? This panel will talk about some of the basics of casino gambling. |
| Thu | 22:00 | (A04) | 1 hr |
Trans-Species Sex, in Avatar and in Real Biology (12 and up only)
The biology of reproduction on the moon of Pandora from James Cameron's Avatar. Attendees must be age 12 or older |
| Fri | 10:00 | (A09) | 1 hr |
The Hidden Monkey Wrench in Cloning
How can two cats have identical DNA and yet look and act differently? What's going on? Speculation on what we might not know and why cloning might be a whole lot more complicated than we think. |
| Fri | 14:00 | (Hall 2 Autographs) | 1 hr |
Autographing: Fri 14:00
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| Fri | 16:00 | (KK1) | 1 hr |
KaffeeKlatsch: Fri 16:00
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| Sat | 11:00 | (D04) | 1 hr |
A Quarter Century (and more) of Science Fiction and Gender
Literature and art reflect, anticipate, and perhaps influence the direction and scope of societial change. How has SF and fantasy influenced and reflected the changes in gender and gender roles over the past 25 years? As we look back to the work of writers such as Ursula LeGuin and Joanna Russ in the sixties and seventies, what can we say about their impact and that of their heirs today? |
| Sat | 13:00 | (Naples1) | 2 hrs |
Writers Workshop, Section S
All workshop sessions required advanced sign-up and are filled. |
| Sat | 16:00 | (A04) | 1 hr |
Microbial Madness: How I made Money off Biowarfare and other True Adventures
How Japanese gut microbes learned to eat sushi (even before the radiation!). How bacteria breathe arsenic, uranium, and plutonium. How toxoplasma may cause schizophrenia (real science, not just Brain Plague). |
Home Page: http://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/slonc.htm
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