Name: How History Informs Science Fiction and Fantasy
Start: 2025-06-20T18:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-20T19:00:00-0400

Friday June 20, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom C

Historian Daniel Butler hosts the discusssion "How History Informs Science Fiction and Fantasy."

Guests

Daniel Allen Butler

Daniel Allen Butler is a best-selling author, historian, and college-educated semi-professional beach bum. His previous works include "Unsinkable"--the Full Story of RMS Titanic; The Day the Lusitania Died; Warrior Queens - The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in World War II; The Age... Read More →

Steve Ruskin

Steve Ruskin writes thrillers with a hint of magic, and science fiction with a streak of rebellion. He is also an award-winning historian. He has been a university professor, a mountain bike guide, and a number of things in between. He can be found at www.steveruskin.com.

Blaine Pardoe

Blaine Pardoe is a New York Times Bestselling and award winning author of numerous books in the true crime, science fiction, military non-fiction, political thriller, paranormal, and business management genres. He has appeared on a number of national television and radio shows to... Read More →

Nick Nethery

Nick Nethery writes science fiction, fantasy, mystery, westerns and whatever else presents a challenge or will entertain his friends and family. He has been published by the United States Naval Institute, Foreign Policy, Dragon Soul Press, and Raconteur Press, among others. He works... Read More →

Daniel Kemp

A couple history degrees, the Army, and a turbulent personal life inspired the Athenaeum Inc military thriller trilogy at Cannon (Door Number Three, Doubling Down and Triple Play). He’s also done shorts on everything from the sinking of the Bismarck to feeding dragons.

G. Scott Huggins

Having been born in California and raised in Kansas, Scott Huggins grew up as confused as one might expect. He began writing whilst traveling in post-Soviet Russia and Germany, and was one of the 20th Century’s last Writers of the Future (1999). The future arrived immediately thereafter... Read More →

Friday June 20, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C

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