Troll by Jenny Wiik, from Not Before Sundown by Johanna Sinisalo
So the programme is almost finished but as we haven’t quite yet got our magical technical wizardy in place to deliver it to you in glorious guide form, we will instead present you yet another fine selection from the general programme!
Story-telling – The different ways we tell and take part in stories
– David Gullen, Karin Tidbeck, Mika Loponen & Sari Polvinen
Good story-telling is an immersive experience for the audience, but this happens in different ways depending on how the story is told. Reading a book is a passive and solitary experience, in contrast LARP is highly interactive and can be physically as well as emotionally involving. Books, cinema, theatre, computer games and role-play are only some of the different ways we create, tell, and participate in stories. What are best aspects of storytelling by each method? What can we learn from the different ways – about ourselves, story, and life? Is anything fundamentally changing in our love of story?
In conversation: Gary K. Wolfe and Niall Harrison
– Gary K. Wolfe & Niall Harrison
Scholar, critic and presenter of Coode Street Podcast Gary K. Wolfe, and critic and Editor-in-Chief of Strange Horizons Niall Harrison talk. We don’t know what they’ll say. They themselves are not sure what they’ll say. There’s the magic.
Adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars
– Pete Sutton
On writing Dark Fiction from the Gothic to New Weird and beyond.
Pete Sutton is a UK writer who’s been told he writes Dark Fiction. In this brief talk he ponders the history, role and methods of the darker side of literature as well as asking why artists, writers and readers are drawn to the macabre and uncanny.
Pete Sutton is a reviewer (Bristol Book Blog – http://brsbkblog.blogspot.co.uk/ , Urban Fantasy Magazine, Geek Planet), editor (Far Horizons magazine), Festival Organiser (Bristol Festival of Literature) and writer (http://petewsutton.com/) .
Latin American SF
– Tanya Tynjälä
An introduction to Latin American Science fiction from its origins to the actuality.
Writers from Different Countries
– Emil Hjörvar Petersen (Iceland), Kristina Hård (Sweden), Ieva Melgalve (Latvia), Anne Leinonen, (Finland), Gaie Sebold, (UK) & Alexandra Davydova (Russia)
How do authors write in different science fiction and fantasy scenes? In what language? What are the possibilities? How do they approach their readers? Listen to several writers discuss their experiences and gain insight into different SFF writing in different SFF scenes in different countries.
Sequential Speculation
– Pete Sutton, Katja Kontturi, Essi Varis & Ninni Aalto
Comic critics, scholars and creators in discussion on speculative fiction comics. How the medium of comics suits SpecFic and how comics influence and are influenced by other media. Concentrating on comic book worlds that do not include men in tights and capes what do comic books offer genre readers in addition to superheroes?
Sexy times in SFF
– Marianna Leikomaa, Nastia T & Gaie Sebold
Even though science fiction, fantasy and horror deal with the unexpected and unknown, the descriptions of intimate relationships between characters sometimes seem stale. Where’s the imagination, where’s the weird?? Or is that what we want at all? Do we prefer the traditional and well-known, and even the gratuitous sex scenes in our novels? Our panel of writers and readers of all things NSFW discusses their favorite and least-favorite examples of using sex in speculative fiction
Zombies, necrophiles and spiraling penises – things you were never taught in biology class
– Torill Kornfeldt
Why should physics and astronomy have all the fun of science fiction? Come and hear of the bodysnatching, mind-altering fungi, the free-swinging penis of the argonaut, the somersaulting death-wishing spider and many more. I will fuel your stories and nightmares with true tales stranger than fiction.
Yksi ulkosuomalainen, s’il vous plaît.
– Annmari Dannebey & Maria Carole
Spefikirjailijoilla on taipumuksena levittäytyä myös vieraille planeetoille, esimerkiksi Ranskaan. Ranskansuomalaiset esikoiskirjailijat kertovat, kuinka selviytyä, kun suomen kieli uhkaa rapistua, ympärillä on muukalaisia ja turvallinen suomalainen fandom on kaukana. Kyljessä katsaus myös siihen, kuinka ulkosuomalaisuus vaikuttaa kirjailijaidentiteettiin ja mitä Ranskassa oikein tapahtuu scifi- ja fantasiakirjallisuuden puitteissa.
Elokuvien sarjisversiot – turhaa oheisroskaa vai oma taideteoksensa?
– Petri Hiltunen
Vuosikymmeniä jokainen uusi hittielokuva sai oman sarjisversionsa kioskeihin. Erilaisia adaptaatioita on nähty lukuisia suomessakin, lehdistä albumeihin. Näitä oheistuotteita pidetään yleisesti sarjakuvan alinpana kastina, silkkana kyynisenä rahastuksena vailla kunnianhimoa tai taiteellista meriittiä. Mukana onkin niin järkyttävää roskaa kuin suurten mestareiden väkeviä tulkintoja.
Petri Hiltunen pureutuu nyt tämän aliarvostettuun ilmiöön, sen historiaan ja tekijöihin. Esittelyssä niin parhaat kuin pahimmat vuosikymmenten varrelta. Miten elokuva taipuu toiseen formaattiin? Ja voiko sarjakuva joskus jopa päihittää esikuvansa?
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