Using Sci-Fi and Fantasy To Tell Our Stories: Author panel with London Science Fiction Research Community - livestream

Science fiction and fantasy is a genre that is known to test the limits of our imaginations. But how can it be employed to tell our stories that could authentically reflect our experiences, identities, and relationships? Join us on this panel with authors Alice Chao, Ann Sei Lin, and Dr Danbee "Tauntaun" Kim as they chat with London Science Fiction Research Community co-director Dr Yen Ooi. Please book a ticket for this event on this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagined-worlds-using-sci-fi-and-fantasy-to-tell-our-stories-tickets-1036625543907 Alice Chao is a Taiwanese Canadian fantasy writer resident in the UK who enjoys exploring the intersections of identity and belonging in her writing. A recovering lawyer and xiaolongbao enthusiast, Alice now lives in London with her family. Her debut Shanghai Immortal was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller, and its sequel, Paris Celestial will be out in July 2025. Find her online at aychao.com. Ann Sei Lin is a writer and librarian with a love for all things fantasy. Though London is now her home, she spent several years living and working in Chiba, Japan. When not writing, she is often studying, gaming, or trying to make that origami rabbit for the one hundredth time. https://annseilin.co.uk/ Dr. Danbee “Tauntaun” Kim (they/them) is a queer Korean-American field neuroscientist whose research focuses on rituals that enhance improvisation. Their curiosity for this topic has pulled them into adventures in free-choice learning, embodied education, cybernetics, circus, capoeira, improvisational music (“jamming”), wilderness medicine, speculative fiction, cooperative living, and platonic life partnership. They love to science in community. (Dear Neuroscience, Earth). Dr Yen Ooi is a Hugo Awards finalist writer-researcher whose works explore East and Southeast Asian culture, identity and values. Her projects aim to cultivate cultural engagement in our modern, technology-driven lives. Yen is narrative director and writer on Road to Guangdong, a narrative-style driving game. She is author of Rén: The Ancient Chinese Art of Finding Peace and Fulfilment (non-fiction), Sun: Queens of Earth (novel) and A Suspicious Collection of Short Stories and Poetry (collection). She is also co-editor of Ab Terra, Brain Mill Press's science fiction imprint. When she's not got her head in a book, she lectures, mentors and plays the viola. www.yenooi.com This event is part of the Imagined Worlds series, a month-long celebration of fantasy and sci-fi exploring world-building and utopian and dystopian futures. This is the livestream of an in-person event taking place at Deptford Lounge. Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1044926121157?aff=oddtdtcreator or visit https://www.youtube.com/@lewishamlibraries for the YouTube live.