Name: Help I've predicted the future!
Start: 2025-05-24T15:00:00-0500
End: 2025-05-24T15:45:00-0500

WisCon 2025

Saturday May 24, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm CDT

In her essay "A Few Rules for Predicting the Future", Octavia Butler talks about a few ways to do just that, and she has done it quite well in her Parable books. The Simpsons has also done it. Have you yourself done it, in writing, in art, in a social media post, or talking to friends and family? You've predicted the future, now what? We've predicted the future, now what do we do?

Guests of Honor

Naomi Kritzer

Naomi Kritzer is a science fiction and fantasy writer from St. Paul, Minnesota. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, she is probably best known for her political blog, which provides deep-dive information on candidates in local political races. Outside of the Twin Cities, she is best known... Read More →

Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston is a novelist, playwright, poet, and L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor Emerita of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. She ran away from the physics lab to the theatre when she was a young thing and has been a scientist, artiste, and hoodoo conjurer ever since... Read More →

Panelists

Joyce Frohn

Joyce is trying to be a writer. From the USA.

Marie Vibbert

Author

https://marievibbert.com

Saturday May 24, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm CDT
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Panel

WisCon 2025

Naomi Kritzer

Andrea Hairston

Joyce Frohn

Marie Vibbert

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