{"id":14421,"date":"2014-04-18T11:57:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=14421"},"modified":"2014-04-18T11:57:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:57:18","slug":"going-to-awesome-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/18\/going-to-awesome-con\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to Awesome Con?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will you be at <a href=\"http:\/\/awesomecondc.com\">Awesome Con<\/a> in D.C. this weekend? If so, come listen to me pontificate on the panel, &#8220;Rise and Prevalence of Dystopian Science Fiction in Pop Culture,&#8221; which is set to take place tomorrow, Saturday, April 19th, at 11:15 a.m. in Room 206.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll hear Clyde Wilcox, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Robert Chase, and me chewing over should you drop by:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is the behind the rise of dystopian science fiction and fantasy in pop culture today, and the corresponding decrease of optimistic science fiction? Shows like <em>The Walking Dead<\/em> and <em>Continuum<\/em> show different spectrums of a dystopian fate for humanity\u2014one is so-called \u201capocalyptic,\u201d while the other portrays a future devoid of democracy and ruled by corporations. Most sci-fi movies also have some kind of anti-future bent, and few and far between are movies and television programming showing a positive example of the future. Mixing discussion and clips from example shows and films, panelists\u2014 some of whom will include sci-fi and comic authors\u2014will discuss the merits of using dystopian vs. optimistic sci-fi for storytelling, and also try to explain the rise of dystopian sci-fi over the past two decades and the effect these two models of science fiction have on society. Is there a corresponding trend in literature, as well?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;ll be at the con but can&#8217;t make the panel, let me know anyway. I&#8217;d love to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will you be at Awesome Con in D.C. this weekend? If so, come listen to me pontificate on the panel, &#8220;Rise and Prevalence of Dystopian Science Fiction in Pop Culture,&#8221; which is set to take place tomorrow, Saturday, April 19th, at 11:15 a.m. in Room 206. Here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll hear Clyde Wilcox, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,58],"class_list":["post-14421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-conventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14421"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14429,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14421\/revisions\/14429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}