Let’s Build A Space Habitat!

Living in space isn’t easy: it takes a lot of know-how to keep the vacuum at bay, and there are plenty of ways to build an unsuccessful habitat. What are important things to think about when you’re building a city on the other side of the sky? What factors has science fiction tended to gloss over or overlook entirely, and what sort of tools – social, technological, or otherwise – will be needed? How do you keep people not just alive, but healthy and psychologically well, in the most extreme environment there is?

This event will take place on  March 27, 2021 at 3:00pm EST

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Moderator

Phoebe Barton is a queer trans science fiction writer. Her short fiction has appeared in venues such as Analog, Lightspeed, and Kaleidotrope, anthologies from Neon Hemlock and World Weaver Press, and she wrote the interactive fiction game The Luminous Underground for Choice of Games. She serves as an Associate Editor at Escape Pod, is a 2019 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, and lives with a robot in the sky above Toronto. Visit her on Twitter at @aphoebebarton or www.phoebebartonsf.com.
 

 

 

Panelists

Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy novels of all time. Darcie’s short fiction, nonfiction and comics have appeared in multiple places, including Marvel’s Voices: Indigenous Voices #1, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, and The Dark. She currently lives on both coasts of the United States and is engaged to a veterinarian.

 

 

 

Eric Choi is a Hong Kong born aerospace engineer, writer, and editor based in Toronto. His fiction has appeared in almost thirty publications, most recently the 90th anniversary issue of Analog and the anthology 20,000 Leagues Remembered. In 2009, he was one of the Top 40 finalists (out of 5,351 applicants) in the Canadian Space Agency’s astronaut recruitment campaign. Please visit his website www.aerospacewriter.ca or follow him on Twitter @AerospaceWriter.

 

 

 

Premee Mohamed is an Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. Her short fiction has appeared in a variety of venues, including Analog, Escape Pod, Augur, and Nightmare Magazine. Her debut novel, ‘Beneath the Rising‘, is out now from Solaris Books, with the sequel ‘A Broken Darkness‘ due out in 2021. She can be found on Twitter at @premeesaurus and on her website at www.premeemohamed.com.

 

 

 

Arula Ratnakar is a scientist, artist and science fiction writer who is currently studying biology with a concentration in neuroscience and a minor in architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Her writing can be found in Clarkesworld Magazine and her artwork can be found in the first issue of Dark Matter Magazine. She is interested in brain simulation science and she hopes to become an astronaut in the future. Arula is autistic and bisexual. Her Twitter handle is @ArulaRatnakar.