Name: Why are Dystopias so compelling?
Start: 2025-06-21T17:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-21T18:00:00-0400

Saturday June 21, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

Sarah Hoyt will moderate "Why are Dystopias so compelling?", an in-depth look at the potential horrors that lurk when the thin veneer that is civilization is ripped away.

Moderators

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 →

Guests

Marina Fontaine

Marina Fontaine is a Russian by birth, an American by choice, and a writer of optimistic fiction. She uses her experience of living in a totalitarian society to demonstrate how human yearning for freedom and love endures in the darkest of circumstances. Her dystopian works include... Read More →

Rachel Aukes

Rachel Aukes is the bestselling novelist of over forty books, including the Bounty Hunter series with Podium Entertainment. Her post-apocalyptic novel, 100 Days in Deadland, made Suspense Magazine’s Best of the Year list. She writes in a number of genres, including science fiction... Read More →

Benjamin Wallace

Benjamin Wallace is the bestselling author of Post-Apocalyptic Nomadic Warriors, Junkers, the Dad vs. series and other nonsense. He lives in Dallas, Texas where he complains about the heat. A lot.

M.D. Boncher

As an author, artist and musician, M. D. Boncher has lead a “Writer’s Life”. With several careers in many varied industries from security to hospitality to trucking logistics providing him a wide breadth of experience with the human condition from which to draw on for his work... Read More →

Brisco Woods

Brisco retired from the USAF and TNANG in 2015 and became a REALTOR working in east Tennessee. Seeing the success two of his siblings were having as authors, he decided to give it a try. Now, five short stories, one novella, and two novels later, he’s an official multi-national... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C

Literary/Publishing, Panel

LibertyCon 37