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M. J. Locke
By day, Locke is a nerd, an engineer who provides environmental and sustainability services, with an information management spin. By night, Locke is a spinner of far-flung techie dreams—stories filled with planetary disaster, spaceships, rogue AI’s, planet-eating machines, sentient tumors, and the people who struggle to survive on the fringes of the world. Check out Up Against It, the first in a new science fiction series, WAVE. A disaster wipes out most of the asteroid colonists’ air, energy, and water supplies. The colonists must save their world and turn the tables on those who mean to destroy them. Locke's story “True North” appeared in Gordon van Gelder’s Welcome to the Greenhouse in January 2011 from O/R Press. A giant old man scrapes out an existence amid the ruins of civilization. He’s ready to follow his wife (and the other 99.9% of humanity) into oblivion. But his life is changed forever when a young woman he meets just won’t take extinction for an answer.
Also look for works published under her former byline Laura J. Mixon, including Glass Houses, Proxies and Burning the Ice, out from Tor Books.
Programming for M. J. Locke
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| Thu | 13:00 | (Hall 2 Autographs) | 1 hr |
Autographing: Thu 13:00
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| Thu | 18:00 | (A03) | 1 hr |
Disasters, Crises, and Resultant Industrial Progress
The perceived need for photographs of the melting icecaps boosted the space industry. Nuclear accidents pushed robotic development. How do crisis and disasters drive new industries and technologies? What can we expect to see developed given our current problems? |
| Fri | 11:00 | (A10) | 1 hr |
What is Consciousness?
Modern neuroscience and psychology have radically changed the way we view consciousness. The panel discusses modern ideas of what consciousness is as well as how this has been explored in science fiction. |
| Sat | 15:00 | (KK1) | 1 hr |
KaffeeKlatsch: Sat 15:00
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| Sun | 11:00 | (A04) | 1 hr |
The Diverse World of Mysteries
Not all that long ago, most people viewed mysteries as falling into two categories, broadly defined on one side by Christie and Sayers and on the other by Hammett and Chandler. The field is now much more diverse featuring historical mysteries, police procedurals, humorous mysteries, and many, many more types. The panel looks at the broad scope of mysteries and why so many SF fans also love them. |
| Sun | 13:30 | (A15) | 30 min |
Reading: M. J. Locke
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