Panel: Science Fiction as a Prediction
Location
Memorial Union Ballroom
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
23-3-1984 12:00 PM
End Date
23-3-1984 1:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Friday, March 23, 1984, as part of the 15th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Nineteen Eighty Four,” Joe Haldeman, Robert Silverberg, and Roger Zelazny participate in a panel called “Science Fiction as Prediction.” The panelists discuss the elements of satire in science fiction, the likelihood of science fiction writers to accurately predict future events, the predictive elements of George Orwell's 1984 and other popular works of science fiction, women protagonists in science fiction, the open imagination science fiction enables, popularity versus profundity, approaching storytelling, the literary credibility of science fiction as a genre, contemporary science fiction and mass-market entertainment, literary activism, and the Bible as creative inspiration.
Panel: Science Fiction as a Prediction
Memorial Union Ballroom
In this audiovisual recording from Friday, March 23, 1984, as part of the 15th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Nineteen Eighty Four,” Joe Haldeman, Robert Silverberg, and Roger Zelazny participate in a panel called “Science Fiction as Prediction.” The panelists discuss the elements of satire in science fiction, the likelihood of science fiction writers to accurately predict future events, the predictive elements of George Orwell's 1984 and other popular works of science fiction, women protagonists in science fiction, the open imagination science fiction enables, popularity versus profundity, approaching storytelling, the literary credibility of science fiction as a genre, contemporary science fiction and mass-market entertainment, literary activism, and the Bible as creative inspiration.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1984/day4/3
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.