Systems and Knowledge #SFRA2016 Science Fiction Research Association, 2016 The University of Liverpool 28th – 30th June Love, 3039 A.D. – “Darling, whenever you’re near me, my sub-atomic dynamo revs faster and faster………….”* *From the cover of The Satellite, vol. 2 iss. 5, May 1939 2 Contents Contents ............................................................................................................................................................................ 2 Conference Schedule ........................................................................................................................................................ 7 Tuesday 28th June, 2016; 10:00 – 11:30 ...................................................................................................................... 10 Keynote: Sawyer, Andy (The University of Liverpool) – #wearealljonsnow or, The Mystery of the Face in the Mirror: Some Problems in Research ........................................................................................................................................ 10 Tuesday 28th June, 2016; 11:45 – 12:45 ...................................................................................................................... 10 Gaslighting (Lecture Theatre 2) Chair: Sarah Lohmann .............................................................................................. 10 Lear, Ashley (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) and Jeanette B. Barott (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)) – Applications for Gaslighting in Reality Altering Works of Science Fiction ............................... 10 Performance / Poetry (Lecture Theatre 6) Chair: Paul March-Russell ....................................................................... 11 Gray, Susan (Royal Holloway, University of London) - The Poetics of Science Fiction or the Science Fiction of Poetry? .................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Angus, Tiffani (Anglia Ruskin University) – Performance in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Workshop .. 12 Mapping SF on History (Lecture Theatre 3) Chair: Mariano Martín Rodríguez .......................................................... 12 Lemaire, Pascal - Empire Strikes Back: The Ancient Imperial Governances Models in SF from Asimov to Scott Card ......................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Rabitsch, Stefan (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt) – “Horatio Hornblower’s Log, Stardate: Star Trek’s maritime future”: How British naval knowledge and myths became a cornerstone for recording a future that hasn’t happened yet ............................................................................................................................................... 13 Linguistics (Lecture Theatre 4) Chair: Chris Pak .......................................................................................................... 14 Beinhoff, Bettina (Anglia Ruskin University) – Exploring the Design and the Perception of Constructed Languages ................................................................................................................................................................................. 14 Owen, Christopher (Anglia Ruskin University) – The Wonders of WondLa: Systemic Oppression in Tony DiTerlizzi's WondLa Trilogy ..................................................................................................................................... 15 Tuesday 28th June, 2016; 14:05 – 15:25 ...................................................................................................................... 15 Time Travel and Alternate History (Lecture Theatre 2) Chair: Glyn Morgan .............................................................. 15 Määttä, Jerry (Uppsala University) – Fabulas Out of Joint: Solving the Narratological Problems of Time-Travel Stories ..................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Suppia, Alfredo (State University of Campinas) – A case in lo-fi sci-fi: Adirley Queirós’s White Out, Black In (2014) ................................................................................................................................................................................. 16 Fritzsche, Sonja (Michigan State University) – The Socialists Laughed Too – Comedy in Science Fiction Films of the East Bloc ............................................................................................................................................................ 16 Control - Information - Novum - Game: Knowledge Systems in the Writing of Stephen Mooney (Lecture Theatre 6) Chair: Jo Lindsay Walton ............................................................................................................................................. 17 Gene-Rowe, Francis (Royal Holloway, University of London) – You are the hero: code, cheating and control systems in The Cursory Epic .................................................................................................................................... 17 McCardle, Aodán – Recognition as intervention: the language of power in Stephen Mooney’s poetry ............... 17 Mooney, Stephen (University of Surrey) – Ratzinger Solo: this Trump has largely ceased to exist ....................... 18 3 Religion (Lecture Theatre 3) Chair: Andrew M. Butler ............................................................................................... 19 Krawczyk, Stanisław (University of Warsaw) – Religion in Polish Science Fiction in the Early Years of the Transformation ....................................................................................................................................................... 19 Halpin, Jenni G. (Savannah State University) – Being Worse than God: From Science and Theology to Human Failure (or Not) in Contact and The Sparrow .......................................................................................................... 20 Banerjee, Suparno (Texas State University) – The Ramayana as science fiction: science, religion, myth, and syncretic epistemologies ......................................................................................................................................... 20 Tuesday 28th June, 2016; 15:40 – 17:00 ...................................................................................................................... 21 Asimov and Clarke (Lecture Theatre 2) Chair: Andy Sawyer ...................................................................................... 21 Connolly, Thomas (Maynooth University) – Unknown Unknowns: Rendezvous with the End of Knowledge in the Novels of Arthur C. Clarke ....................................................................................................................................... 21 Käkelä, Jari (University of Helsinki) – Systems of Guardianship in Asimov’s Multivac Stories and the Robot- Foundation Series.................................................................................................................................................... 21 Martín Rodríguez, Mariano (Centre for Literary and Encyclopedic Research) – Asimov has Written a Single Work of (Natural) Science Fiction, A Preposterous Contention?: Scientific Discourse and Rhetorical Method in True Science Fiction from Gustav Fechner to George Saunders ..................................................................................... 22 Writing Science Fiction Discussion Panel (Lecture Theatre 6) Chair: Susan Gray ....................................................... 23 Tiffany Angus, Terry Jackman, Helen Marshall and Stephen Mooney ................................................................... 23 Epic and Myth (Lecture Theatre 3) Chair: Leimar Garcia-Siino ................................................................................... 23 Butler, Andrew M. (Canterbury Christ Church University) – Ex_Elefantódonto: Modern Pygmalions in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina ............................................................................................................................................. 23 Jha, Varsha (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) – Myth = StoRetelling ......................................................... 23 Keen, Tony (University of Notre Dame, London Global Gateway) – Don’t shoot me, I’m only the Goddess of Wisdom: Minerva in The Wicked + The Divine ........................................................................................................ 24 Wednesday 29th June, 2016; 10:00 – 11:30 ................................................................................................................ 25 Keynote: Milner, Andrew (Monash University) – Science Fiction and Climate Change ............................................. 25 Wednesday 29th June, 2016; 11:45 – 12:45 ................................................................................................................ 25 Desire and Responsibility (Lecture Theatre 2) Chair: Craig Jacobsen ......................................................................... 25 Cokinos, Christopher (University of Arizona) – Space Suits: Corporations of Desire in Gattaca ...........................