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Saturday, October 17 • 4:00am - 4:50am
The Many Flavors of Worldbuilding: Food in SFF

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Food can tell you a lot about the culture behind it: how when it was made, how it's ritualized, how ingredients can dictate one's place in society. It can tell you a lot about the foreign culture imbibing it, too—specifically, their attitudes toward anything foreign. Join our panel of authors as they discuss how they build worlds (or imply them) using food in their fiction.
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Toni Wi

Toni Wi is a Māori (Ngāti Maniapoto) writer and editor from Aotearoa, New Zealand. She writes flash fiction and is working on a novel about indigenous futurism.Her work has appeared in Takahē, Mayhem, Flash Frontier, and the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy... Read More →

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Emad El-Din Aysha

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I'm an academic researcher, freelance journalist, translator and author of science fiction currently residing in Cairo, Egypt. I was born to Arabic parents in the United Kingdom and hold a British as well as an Egyptian passport and completed my post-graduate education also in the... Read More →
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Dean Alfar

Dean Francis Alfar (Philippines) is a Filipino author and advocate of speculative fiction. His books include the novel Salamanca (Anvil); short fiction collections The Kite of Stars and Other Stories (Anvil), How to Traverse Terra Incognita (Visprint), East of the Sun and Other... Read More →
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Nikki Alfar

Nikki Alfar is a wife, mother, fictionist, dancer, kickboxer, knitter, and origami folder. While she has yet to receive acclaim for folding, knitting, boxing, dancing, mothering, or wifing – go figure – she has managed to cadge repeated recognition out of the Palanca, Nick Joaquin... Read More →
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Rafeeat Aliyu

Rafeeat Aliyu is a writer and documentary filmmaker. Her short stories have been published in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Expound and Omenana. She is a Clarion West Graduate (2018).Pronouns are she/her.

Saturday October 17, 2020 4:00am - 4:50am EDT
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