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World Building for Space Opera and Military Science Fiction
Friday June 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Kacey Ezell moderates this panel on the essential elements for good world building in Space Opera and Military Science Fiction
Moderators
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Kacey Ezell

Kacey Ezell is a helicopter pilot with 3000+ hours in the UH-1N Huey, Mi-171, and EC130 helicopters. When not beating the air into submission, she writes sci-fi/fantasy/horror/noir/ alternate history fiction. She is a two-time Dragon Award Finalist for Best Alternate History and won... Read More →
Guests
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Terry Maggert

Terry has authored 79 books, including the Backyard Starship, Peacemaker Wars, and Messenger series. He lives on a compound near Nashville, and is actively seeking to purchase a giraffe. He's a car enthusiast, a runner, and a collector of vintage science fiction in all forms. He is... Read More →
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Monalisa Foster

Monalisa is an award-winning science fiction author whose writing career really began when she taught herself English by translating Heinlein juveniles at the public library. She would copy sentences in English, translate them into Romanian, and then write out new words ten times... Read More →
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Sarah A. Hoyt

Sarah A. Hoyt writes... Almost everything. And has. But this last year she's been wrestling with a monstrous-size space opera. She lives with her husband and a plethora of cats. Sons and daughters-in-law sometimes visit. Sarah has published, she thinks, about fifty novels. She doesn't... Read More →
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Amy DuBoff

A.K. (Amy) DuBoff is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling indie author and screenwriter. She is a lifelong sci-fi and fantasy fan—and if it involves outer space, even better! Amy is most known for creating the acclaimed Cadicle Universe, which includes interconnected space... Read More →
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Nick Steverson

Nick Steverson is a 2023 Imadjinn Award winner for Best Science Fiction Novel. Multiple works with Chris Kennedy Publishing in the Salvage Title Universe, Four Horsemen Universe, Ashes of Entecea, and Fallen World. Other works include co-editing 13 Stories Of Horror and a short in... Read More →
Friday June 20, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
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