About this Event
Join us for an evening of fantasy, science fiction and catastrophe as we welcome Claire North, Solitaire Townsend and Emily H. Wilson to this panel. Jumping between fictional worlds and the world we live in, this evening will explore how ancient myths, civilizations and gods can influence the prophetic visions of sci-fi and fantasy fiction and how these genres continue to reflect the ever-changing nature of our world. In the face of an urgent environmental crisis, what lessons can we learn from the past and how can storytelling forge a path towards a brighter future? Come along as we explore these questions and more at what will be an unforgettable evening!
Claire North is a pseudonym for Catherine Webb, who wrote several novels in various genres before publishing their first major work as Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. It was a critically acclaimed success, receiving rave reviews and becoming a word-of-mouth bestseller. They have since published several hugely popular and critically acclaimed novels, won the World Fantasy Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. They live in London.Solitaire Townsend is a climate expert by day, and storyteller by night. After decades of teaching governments, global brands and even movie studios how to communicate sustainability, she now has stories of her own to tell. She regularly blogs for Forbes, has a popular TED talk, and wrote the critically acclaimed non-fiction book The Solutionists. While some of her characters might not know that they are 'LGBTQIA+' or 'neurodivergent', Solitaire does because she’s also both. She lives in London, and once visited an oil-rig in the Amazon, which caught on fire.Emily H. Wilson is a full-time writer, balancing book-writing with some journalism (including as the science fiction reviewer for New Scientist magazine). In 2019, she re-read the Epic of Gilgamesh, and was deeply struck by Inanna, the goddess who slides through it as a secondary character, which led to The Sumerians Trilogy. She lives in Dorset with her family and dog Argos, and in her free time she roams the fields around her home looking for prehistoric stone tools.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterstones, Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom
GBP 6.00
