About the Speakers

Geoff Ryman: Canadian author Geoff Ryman has won 14 awards for his stories and ten books, many of which are science fiction. 

His novel Air (2005), won a John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the James W .Tiptree Memorial Award, the Sunburst Award and the British Science Fiction Association Award.  Most recently his novelette Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)(2006) has been nominated for the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award. His interactive web novel 253: a novel for the Internet in Seven Cars and a Crash, in which 253 people sit on a London tube and are each described in 253 words, won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award for best novel not published in hardback.   

Roz Kaveney: Roz Kaveney is a poet, novelist, critic and activist who works in publishing in London. She helped found Feminists Against Censorship and was Deputy Chair of LIBERTY. Among her books are READING THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, TEEN DREAMS, the award-nominated fantasy novel RHAPSODY OF BLOOD - RITUALS and the Lambda finalist poetry collection, DIALECTIC OF THE FLESH.

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