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Keira Hambrick grew up reading her father’s old copies of Omni magazine, and voraciously read science fiction. In college, she double-majored in Biology and English with a concentration in Poetry, hoping to merge reality, science, imagination, and Her Master’s thesis (University of Nevada, Reno) investigates the use and effects of apocalyptic rhetoric in environmental literature. She hopes to continue writing science fiction and studying how the genre allows general readers to engage such complex real-world frontiers as climate change, overpopulation, and food production, among other issues.
Programming for Keira Hambrick
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| Thu | 14:00 | (A17) | 1 hr |
Destroying Imagination to Save Reality: The Apocalyptic Frontier in Science Fiction
Keira Hambrick explores how the apocalyptic frontier environments of Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl are constructed and engaged, and how the novel’s environmental and social frontiers reflect and engage with such contemporary real-world concerns as climate change, overpopulation, and food production. |