PARSEC, Pittsburgh’s premier Science Fiction & Fantasy Organization meets on Saturday, March18th via ZOOM. (The Squirrel Hill Library will not be available to us in the First Quarter of 2023.)
Program begins 1:00 pm.
Zoom Meeting Registration: https://bit.ly/Parsec-Meeting
Our Program:
This month we’ll discuss and exchange ideas for programming for the 2023 Confluence Conference. The Conference takes place July 21, 22, and 23.
We’ll discuss, among other things, panel topics for the conference. Things like:
• A.I. in Art and Writing, the Controversy of These Emerging Technologies.
• The Drake Equation and the Fermi Paradox. If there are alien civilizations all around us, why are they invisible and silent?
• Speculative Fiction as a Literature of Hope or Despair? Should writers point out all the ways humanity is failing, or our opportunities to transcend?
These examples are just to generate ideas and discussion. We want to hear your ideas!
Learn more about the Confluence conference: www.confluence-sff.org
This year’s guest of honor is Ada Palmer. Ada’s Terra Ignota series (Tor Books) explores a future of borderless nations and globally commixing populations. The first volume Too Like the Lightning was a Best Novel Hugo finalist and won the Compton Crook Award. She composes close harmony folk music with mythological, science fiction and fantasy themes, and performs with the a cappella group Sassafrass.
Our featured music guest is Sassafrass. Sassafrass is a singing group performing original a cappella folk music, mostly with fantasy, mythology and science fiction themes.
Writing Workshops with Timons Esaias. Timons Esaias is a satirist, writer and poet living in Pittsburgh. His works, ranging from literary to genre, have been published in twenty-two languages. He taught writing in Seton Hill’s Writing Popular Fiction graduate program for twenty years.
Workshops open March 15th.
Featured Artist is Susan Dexter.
Featured Entertainers are The Confused Greenies.
Rhiannon’s Lark will lead the singing of “Three Days Away from the Ratrace” at the Opening Ceremonies.
Zoom Meeting Registration: https://bit.ly/Parsec-Meeting
Coming in April!
In April our guest speaker will be Robert E. Harpold.
Robert E. Harpold is an engineer working for ERC, Inc., a subcontractor for NASA, designing trajectories for the Artemis missions.
More information coming soon!