Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Speculative fiction is often defined as works in conversation with each other. What works of recent SFF do we want to be part of the conversation in 2100? What stories, trends and movements from the last two decades do we hope will persist, and are there elements we want our successors to outgrow? What is our era of SFF going to look like to future generations? This panel takes a whirlwind tour through the genre fiction of the new now, stopping off on what we think are modern masterworks, overlooked gems and reflecting on the great stories the first two decades of this millennium gave us.
Panel: Sean Dowie (M), Stewart Hotston, Kris Vyas-Myall @ Galactic Journey and Cloaked Creators, C @ The Middle Shelf
Panelist twitters:
@DowieSean
@TheMiddleShelf1
@hammard_1987
@StewHotston
CoNZealand Fringe Schedule: conzealandfringe.com
About CoNZealand Fringe:
In the tradition of Edinburgh Fringe and other international collateral events, CoNZealand Fringe has been created as a complementary programming series to the annual science fiction convention Worldcon. All our livestreams take place outside core CoNZealand programming hours and are not official CoNZealand programming items. CoNZealand Fringe is not endorsed by CoNZealand.
For more information about CoNZealand itself, and how to get involved, please see conzealand.nz
Kitty G's links:
Intro & Outro acknowledgements:
Cookie by ✦ Shmidt Sergey ✦ from the Noun Project
Guitar by Vectors Market from the Noun Project
Animation by Brock from Let��s Read: youtube.com/user/brocksbookbag/videos
Music written & performed by K & M Gray
Channel Art:
@georgina_webb_design on Instagram
My Twitter: @kittygbooks
My Instagram: @kittygbooks
My Goodreads: bit.ly/1YjORGC
Speculative fiction is often defined as works in conversation with each other. What works of recent SFF do we want to be part of the conversation in 2100? What stories, trends and movements from the last two decades do we hope will persist, and are there elements we want our successors to outgrow? What is our era of SFF going to look like to future generations? This panel takes a whirlwind tour through the genre fiction of the new now, stopping off on what we think are modern masterworks, overlooked gems and reflecting on the great stories the first two decades of this millennium gave us.
Panel: Sean Dowie (M), Stewart Hotston, Kris Vyas-Myall @ Galactic Journey and Cloaked Creators, C @ The Middle Shelf
Panelist twitters:
@DowieSean
@TheMiddleShelf1
@hammard_1987
@StewHotston
CoNZealand Fringe Schedule: conzealandfringe.com
About CoNZealand Fringe:
In the tradition of Edinburgh Fringe and other international collateral events, CoNZealand Fringe has been created as a complementary programming series to the annual science fiction convention Worldcon. All our livestreams take place outside core CoNZealand programming hours and are not official CoNZealand programming items. CoNZealand Fringe is not endorsed by CoNZealand.
For more information about CoNZealand itself, and how to get involved, please see conzealand.nz
Kitty G's links:
Intro & Outro acknowledgements:
Cookie by ✦ Shmidt Sergey ✦ from the Noun Project
Guitar by Vectors Market from the Noun Project
Animation by Brock from Let��s Read: youtube.com/user/brocksbookbag/videos
Music written & performed by K & M Gray
Channel Art:
@georgina_webb_design on Instagram
My Twitter: @kittygbooks
My Instagram: @kittygbooks
My Goodreads: bit.ly/1YjORGC
