Locus in Conversation: The Creative Reality of AR/VR and the Metaverse

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Explore the impact of AR/VR and the metaverse within fiction and real life with award-winning authors Daniel Abraham and Aliette de Bodard.

Are you interested in augmented reality, in real life and in fiction? Daniel Abraham (The Expanse, with Ty Franck as James SA Corey) and Aliette de Bodard (The Tea Master and the Detective) will discuss books , films, games, and useful tech, looking at the current and future impact of AR/VR and the metaverse.This exciting edition of Locus in Conversation focuses on the influence and impact that augmented reality, virtual reality, and the metaverse* have on the stories we tell in science fiction, and the inspiration that this fiction has on unlocking new advances in technology. We explore the idea of enhanced realities as we dig into how we consume it, how we create it, and how we imagine our lives will be with it in place. *﻿The original Stephensonian definition of the word and/or the Zuckerbergian one...

NYT-bestselling author and screenwriter Daniel Abraham has published 30 books, including the Long Price Quartet, the Dagger and the Coin, the Black Sun’s Daughter (as MLN Hanover) and the Expanse (with Ty Franck as James SA Corey). He has also worked as an executive producer and screenwriter on The Expanse series streaming on Amazon. His fiction has won the Hugo, Locus, International Horror Guild, and Dragon Awards, been nominated for the Nebula and World Fantasy awards, and sold over eight million copies worldwide.He lives in the southwest United States.

Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris. She has won three Nebula Awards, an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award, a British Fantasy Award and six British Science Fiction Association Awards.She is the author of A Fire Born of Exile, a sapphic Count of Monte Cristo in space (Gollancz/JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc., 2023), and of Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances(JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc, 2022 BSFA Award winner), a fantasy of manners and murders set in an alternate 19th Century Vietnamese court. She also wrote Fireheart Tiger (Tor.com, 2021 BSFA Award winner), a sapphic romantic fantasy inspired by pre colonial Vietnam, where a diplomat princess must decide the fate of her country, and her own.Her space opera books include The Tea Master and the Detective (2018 Nebula Award winner, 2018 British Fantasy Award winner, 2019 Hugo Award finalist). Visit https://www.aliettedebodard.com for more information.

Locus in Conversation SeriesThere is a natural symbiotic relationship between science and science fiction. Locus in Conversation explores the creative spirit of both as we bring together the science and the fiction to explore the interplay between the two and how they each build upon the other.Learn more about Locus Magazine and get regular access to our exciting reviews, interviews, and news via a monthly digital-only subscription, a 12-issue print subscription, or our digital + print subscription. Subscribe today at https://subscribers.locusmag.com/subscribe/.

Liza Groen Trombi is the four-time Hugo Award winning Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Locus Magazine. A life-long reader of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, she studied literature, history, and translation at university, and worked in several fields before joining the magazine in early 2003. She has been Editor-in-Chief and Publisher since 2009. Trombi also produces the Locus Awards Weekend, the Locus YouTube Channel, and writing workshops and serves as board president of the Locus Science Fiction Foundation.She lives in the Bay Area of California with her two daughters and a little dog, too.

<h3>A﻿ LOCUS PUBLICATIONS PRODUCTION</h3>LOCUS MAGAZINE: The guide to the world’s imagination. About UsThe Locus Science Fiction Foundation (LSFF) is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to the promotion and preservation of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Its central activity is the publication of Locus, the Magazine of the Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Field, established in 1968, and its website Locus Online, started in 1997. These publications discuss, explore, and celebrate the genres of SF, fantasy, and horror literature, as well as young adult, non-fiction, and related art, embracing the breadth and the diversity of the field with critical reviews, commentary, essays, interviews with established and new authors, news about the industry, international coverage, bibliographic listings, and more.The LSFF is also responsible for the annual Locus Awards, first presented in 1971, to recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy literature.

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