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Pourquoi ne s’amuse-t-on jamais en lisant de la SF en français? (French panel)

Posted by Josée Lebel  Published in Anticipation SF 2009

Why we never have fun when we read  French SF? with Alain Ducharme, Christian Sauvé, Alamo St-Jean, Benoît Girard On this panel, the discussion was about how difficult is it to find humor in French SF novels and how difficult is it to write such novels. First, humor is culturally different if you live in [...]

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Tags: Anticipation, Christian Sauvé, discussion, English, Jean Bonnefoy, panel, translation

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Aug

Canadian space agency tour

Posted by Jean-Pierre  Published in Anticipation SF 2009

On Tuesday, the day after the closing ceremonies, we had the luck to go on the CSA tour with some peoples of the convention.  It was a very interesting tour and we took many pictures for the one who where not here.  I was surprised by the scope and uses of the technologies developed by [...]

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Tags: agency, CSA, Earth, scientist, space, tour

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Aug

No user serviceable part inside

Posted by Jean-Pierre  Published in Anticipation SF 2009

Cory Doctorow was the moderator on this panel with, as participants,  C Meeks, Howard Davidson and Jack William Bell.  The discussion was about how people relate to technology and is it possible to take control of it.  For most people technology is like a black box, a very complex black box with no possibility to [...]

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Tags: Arduino, C Meeks, Doctorow, Electronic, experiment, Howard Davidson, Jack William Bell, technology

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15

Aug

Day 5 – aftermath

Posted by Jean-Pierre  Published in Anticipation SF 2009

Sorry for the delay.  We are back at Chicoutimi and needed some time to recover after the convention.  The fifth day was the last day of Anticipation.  It was mostly a social day where we took some time to talk and share with friends.  We won the two artworks we wanted and they will on [...]

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Tags: aftermath, convention, Day, Inoue, Naotoshi, Worldcon

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