[tt] Stross in Extropia

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Charles Stross Comes To Extropia!

Submitted by sophrosyne on June 9, 2008 - 9:11pm.

Award-winning novelist Charles Stross will be our guest at Sophrosyne's
Special Salon, Saturday, June 21, from 1-2:30 pm SLT, in the Salon Room,
Central Nexus at Extropia Core, Second Life
(http://slurl.com/secondlife/Extropia%20Core/128/124/22).

(New to Second Life?  With the Second Life client installed, and an account
set up, click on the link above to teleport to the lobby of our conference
facilities) 

Charlie will discuss the Singluarity in fiction, cutting-edge technologies,
his Hugo-Award finalist novel Halting State, about virtual worlds and
augmented reality, and his upcoming novel Saturn's Children.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Stross published some role-playing game articles for
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the White Dwarf magazine. Some of his
creatures, such as the death knight, githyanki (borrowed from George R. R.
Martin's book, Dying of the Light), githzerai, and slaad (a chaotic race
notable for their rigid caste system) were later published in the Fiend Folio
monster compendium.

His first published short story, "The Boys", appeared in Interzone in 1987.
His first novel, Singularity Sky was published by Ace Books in 2003 and was
nominated for the Hugo Award. A collection of his short stories, Toast: And
Other Rusted Futures appeared in 2002. Subsequent short stories have been
nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and other awards. His novella
"The Concrete Jungle" (available online) won the Hugo award for its category
in 2005. His novel Accelerando (also available online) won the 2006 Locus
Award for best science fiction novel, was a finalist for the John W. Campbell
Memorial Award for the year's best science fiction novel, and was on the
final ballot for the Hugo Award in the best novel category. Glasshouse won
the 2007 Prometheus Award and was on the final ballot for the Hugo Award in
the best novel category. His novella Missile Gap (likewise available online)
won the 2007 Locus Award for best novella and most recently he was awarded
the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award or Skylark at Boskone 2008.

In addition to working as a writer of fiction he has worked as a technical
author, freelance journalist, programmer, and pharmacist at different times.
He holds degrees in Pharmacy and Computer Science.

 

Charlie comes to us courtesy of Delos Books, an Italian publishing house
devoted mainly to Science Fiction.Since its creation, it has published many
Hugo and Nebula Award winning authors,including Greg Egan, HarryHarrison,
Frederik Pohl, Robert J. Sawyer and, recently, Charles Stross. In 2007, its
SF magazine "Robot" won the European ScienceFiction Society (ESFS) Award for
best magazine.

Delos Books is also very active on the Internet: it runs the leading Italian
SF website,Fantascienza.com, and its Delos Science Fiction Magazine (ESFS
Award in 1999, and one of the first web magazines ever, online since 1994)
isthe leading SF magazine in Italy.

Since May 2007, Eliver Delphin runs Delos BookClub in Second Life, a meeting
place for SF readers and authors, where to discuss culture, literature and
art.

Delos BookClub is in Amberaldus (218,242,80)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amberaldus/218/242/80