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ACCSFF
Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy
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The Academic Conference on Canadian
Science Fiction and Fantasy is a quasi-annual conference featuring
academic papers, guest speakers, and panel discussions on all aspects
of the field. The conference has been in existence in one
form or another since 1995, and has hosted speakers ranging from Guy
Gavriel Kay to Margaret Atwood.
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Keynote Address Speakers
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Larissa Lai
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Nicholas Ruddick
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Larissa Lai is the author of nine books including The Tiger Flu, Salt Fish Girl, and most recently The Lost Century. Recipient of the Jim Duggins Novelist's Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the Astraea Award, and the Otherwise Honor Book and twice finalist for the City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Award, she has also been a finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Sunburst Award, the bpNichol Chapbook Award, and the Dorothy Livesay Prize. She is currently the Richard Charles Lee Chair of Chinese Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto. |
Nicholas Ruddick is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Regina. He has published on writers from Atwood to Zola, but is particularly known for his work on science fiction. Among his books are Science Fiction Adapted to Film (2016), The Fire in the Stone: Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel (2009), and Ultimate Island: On the Nature of British Science Fiction (1993). He’s the editor of the critical anthology State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film (1992) and of the standard Canadian university edition of H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine (2001). He lives in Dundas, Ontario. |