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See the whole program here<\/a>.\u00a0To stay updated on the program, please follow us on Facebook<\/strong><\/a> and Instagram<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Sunday at 15:00<\/em><\/p>\n Saturday at 11.00<\/em><\/p>\n AI, vampires, fae, aliens, eldritch horrors \u2013 strange creatures have always existed in our stories. From cautionary tales to world saving entities, from aspirations to our worst nightmares, as neurodivergent or queer coded. But why do we engage with fantastical entities, and which narrative purpose do they serve? Join us for an introductory talk on the all the ways strange creatures exist in speculative fiction.<\/p>\n Lauren Beukes<\/strong> is the international best-selling and award-winning author of “The Shining Girls\u201d, now an AppleTV+ show starring Elisabeth Moss, \u201cZoo City\u201d, \u201cBroken Monsters\u201d and \u201cAfterland\u201d among other books. She writes across genres, including science fiction, horror, crime, fantasy and realism.<\/p>\n \u00d8ystein Runde<\/strong> is primarily known as a comics creator, but he has also asserted himself within other media such as podcast, film, childrens fiction and science communication. In his comics he is often playing with Norwegian history and culture, mixing modernized fairy tales and viking action with superheroes, retrofuturism and steampunk.<\/p>\n Priya Sharma<\/strong> is a British fantasy and horror writer. Her fiction has appeared in venues such as Interzone, Black Static, Nightmare, The Dark and Tor and has won both the British Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. Her stories have been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Czech, and Polish. Photo: Mark Greenwood.<\/p>\n Majbrit H\u00f8yrup<\/strong> is a short story writer, a reader and a fanfiction afficionado. In the SFF worlds you can discuss the other and the otherness from new perspectives. Who is even the other? Why not let the “norms” explain their life? The monsters instantly turns the world upside down and let us have this other view of the normal world. These are themes in H\u00f8yrups writings.<\/p>\n Sanna Bo Claumarch<\/strong> is a cosplay, textile handicraft and LGBTQIA+ teacher by day, and a SFF fan and fandom enthusiast by night. They are also a debater of the merits of transformative fandom, who creates transformative audio works themself. Sanna is mostly active in Danish and Nordic fandom.<\/p>\n Sunday at 11.00<\/em><\/p>\n Body horror is a fundamental part of the horror genre. We all have a body, we all can relate. But except for the obviously fascinating idea of mutilation and disease, what does it have to offer? We will explore the medical side of body horror and draw from the experience of the panelists. What if body horror can\u2019t be seen with the naked eye? Maybe body horror can be sophisticated in a way we haven\u2019t seen yet?<\/p>\n Lauren Beukes<\/strong> is is a former feature journalist and now the international best-selling and award-winning author of “The Shining Girls\u201d, adapted for an AppleTV+ show starring Elisabeth Moss, \u201cZoo City\u201d, \u201cBroken Monsters\u201d and \u201cAfterland\u201d among other books. She writes across genres, including horror, science fiction, crime, fantasy and realism.<\/p>\n Priya Sharma<\/strong> is a British family doctor who writes fantasy and horror. Her fiction has appeared in venues such as Interzone and Tor.com and has won British Fantasy Awards and Shirley Jackson Awards. She is a Locus and Grand Prix de l\u2019Imaginaire finalist. Her collection \u201cAll the Fabulous Beasts\u201d explores identity and family through the lens of monstrous transformations. Photo: Mark Greenwood.<\/p>\n Penny Jones<\/strong> knew she was a writer when she started to talk about herself in the third person. Both her debut collection \u201cSuffer Little Children\u201d and her short story \u201cDendrochronology\u201d was shortlisted for the 2020 British Fantasy Award, for Best Newcomer and Best Short Story. As well as a writer Penny is also a registered mental health nurse, and her professional experiences are often thematic in her writings.<\/p>\n Mariane Mide<\/strong> has written a number of short stories for Danish Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction magazines over the last couple of years, and this autumn her debut novel “Novice” will come out from the publisher Krabat. Her passion is writing horror. It allows her to push the bounderies of others and question their morals through violence and morbid ideas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n S\u00f8ndag kl. 12.00<\/em><\/p>\n Klaus \u00c6. Mogensen<\/strong> og Flemming R.P. Rasch<\/strong> er to hvide, mandlige boomers og dermed repr\u00e6sentanter for virkelighedens v\u00e6rste gruppe af monstre \u2013 dem som bragte os klimaforandringer, krige, social ulighed og MeToo. Kom og h\u00f8r dem fort\u00e6lle om fandom, de fantastiske genrer og de monstre og andre s\u00e6re ting de har skrevet og l\u00e6st om. Der bliver m\u00e5ske ogs\u00e5 tid til at svare p\u00e5 sp\u00f8rgsm\u00e5l om livet, universet og hvem der sk\u00f8d f\u00f8rst.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Klaus og Flemming er begge fans af de fantastiske genrer og har derfor v\u00e6ret at finde p\u00e5 Fantasticon siden den startede som en \u00e5rlig begivenhed tilbage i 00erne. Som hhv. fremtidsforsker og tidligere l\u00e6rer er de ogs\u00e5 \u00f8vede i at bel\u00e6re andre om hvordan verden i virkeligheden h\u00e6nger sammen.<\/p>\n Ved siden af at l\u00e6se b\u00f8ger og tegneserier, se film og v\u00e6re med i Fantasticon og andre fan-projekter har de begge skrevet noveller i genrerne gennem flere \u00e5rtier. De kan l\u00e6ses i diverse antologier, samt i novellesamlingen \u201dMinerne p\u00e5 Orthomyx\u201d (Flemming) og \u201dUd af Normalrummet\u201d (Klaus). Klaus har desuden skrevet ungdomsromanen \u201dDimensionspiraterne).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Sunday at 16.00<\/em><\/p>\n We may or may not be able to create true artificial intelligence, but we can definitely speculate about it. In some science fiction the AI appear essentially human in their way of thinking, while other stories treat the artificial mind as fundamentally different from ours. This panel will discuss different approaches to writing about AI and the themes it enables you to tackle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ian Sales<\/strong> is the award-winning author of the Apollo Quartet, a series of literary hard sf novellas, as well as short stories published in a variety of magazines and anthologies, both genre fiction and literary fiction. He is also an editor and reviewer, and he was behind the SF Mistressworks project about female SF writers of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Karen Skovmand<\/strong> is an acknowledged Danish Fantasy and Science Fiction writer. In her latest book, Kimana Magars Sidste Sang, she explores the marvelous reactions of the human mind to various experiences of life, be it a deadly asteroid devastating the Earth or a gentle robot carrying a chubby boy on a grueling treadmill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Nils Hoffmann<\/strong> is a Danish engineer and science fiction writer. In 2018, he made his debut with “The Demon’s Backdoor”, a novel treating the impact of artificial intelligence and other technological advances that are likely to shape the next decades. When he is not writing, he works with machine learning, a subset of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n Stig W. J\u00f8rgensen<\/strong> is a book translator and consultant whose academic past includes a PhD in Computational Linguistics, and even once a publication in The Journal of Experimental & Theoretical AI. An avid science fiction reader since childhood, he has talked and written about the genre for decades.<\/p>\n Edmund Schluessel<\/strong> is an SFF author and mathematics teacher living in Helsinki. Their first book, \u201cInfinite Metropolis, was published in January 2020. Photo: Henry S\u00f6derlund<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Saturday at 17.00<\/em><\/p>\n From dragons and vampires to berserker robots and hostile alien beasts \u2013 monsters are monsters because they kill people or ravage their lands. Are they just driven by mindless bloodlust, programming or greed, or might they have a reason for their actions? What can the motives of the monsters say about ourselves as human beings? Hear what the writers who create the monsters have to say about that.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Priya Sharma<\/strong> is a British fantasy and horror writer. Her fiction has appeared in venues such as Interzone, Black Static, Nightmare, The Dark and Tor and has won both the British Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. Her stories have been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Czech, and Polish. Photo: Mark Greenwood.<\/span><\/p>\n Teddy Vork<\/strong> has published horror short stories and novels since 2008. His latest works include the novel Mulm (2020), which won the award for best Danish work of horror that year. One of his short stories, The Wonders of the Invisible World, is included in this year\u2019s The Book of World Horror Stories vol. 2 by Valancourt Books. <\/span><\/p>\n Tue Om\u00f8<\/strong> is best known for his urban dark fantasy novel Eternal DarkRay, but his first publishing was a poetry collection called Nano poet. With his wife he has had a collaboration with AOF, where they invited writers to tell about their books and about writing. Currently Tue Om\u00f8 is writing a sequel with the name Evighedens passagerer.<\/span><\/p>\n Karsten Brandt-Knudsen<\/strong> made his debut at the end of 2019 with the science fiction horror short story Farmer. Since then, he has contributed short stories to a wide range of anthologies, magazines and websites. In 2021, his debut novel, Dan l\u00e6rer at leve, was published by Enter Darkness.<\/p>\n Klaus \u00c6. Mogensen<\/strong> is a long-time fanzine editor and fan writer. At times, he writes science fiction and fantasy stories. He is currently finishing his second novel. Professionally, Klaus has been a futurist for more than 20 years, co-writing two books and more than 300 articles for the award-winning Scenario Magazine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Saturday at 15.00<\/em><\/p>\n Sagas, fairy tales and folklore are full of strange creatures and have entertained people for centuries. They are still popular and have been incorporated into new ways of telling stories, now often with a modern twist. What is it that is so alluring with the old stories? Why do we reuse them, and why do we change them? This panel will discuss this and much more about (re-)inventing our old stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Lauren Beukes<\/strong> is the international best-selling and award-winning author of “The Shining Girls\u201d, now an AppleTV+ show starring Elisabeth Moss, \u201cZoo City\u201d, \u201cBroken Monsters\u201d and \u201cAfterland\u201d among other books. She writes across genres, including science fiction, horror, crime, fantasy and realism. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00d8ystein Runde<\/strong> is primarily known as a comics creator, but he has also asserted himself within other media such as podcast, film, childrens fiction and science communication. In his comics he is often playing with Norwegian history and culture, mixing modernized fairy tales and viking action with superheroes, retrofuturism and steampunk. <\/span><\/p>\n Billy O\u2019Shea<\/strong> is from Ireland, but has lived in Denmark for many years. He has written a number of science fiction novels and short stories set in a future Denmark, including the novel \u201cThe Other Mermaid\u201d featuring a very different version of a popular fairy tale figure. His work is not recommended for the sound of mind or adults above the age of 80.<\/span><\/p>\n Zara Lea Palmquist,<\/strong> author of the theatre-novel \u201c\u00c5kvinden,\u201d graduated from the Danish School of Performing Arts in 2016. Her drama and writing revolves around the individual versus the collective, and investigates how ideologies, culture\/mythologies and politics are integrated from society into the private sphere, into the individual’s thoughts and way of living.<\/span><\/p>\n Johan Anglemark<\/strong> has been a professional technical translator and writer for the last thirty years, and he has worked within games and publishing. Since 1985 he has been organising sf conventions and festivals, and he is currently involved in the Eurocon to be held next year in Uppsala. He edits SF Forum, the magazine of Skandinavisk F\u00f6rening f\u00f6r Science Fiction, SFSF.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Sundag at 16.00<\/em><\/p>\n The 2020 short story collection \u201cMade to Order: Robots and Revolution\u201d was published on the 100th anniversary of the first use of the word \u201cRobot.\u201d This panel of science fiction aficionados will discuss the book and its themes, such as privilege and disadvantage, robots or AIs as stand ins for humans \u2013 or, on the contrary, as fundamentally incomprehensible creatures.<\/p>\n Niels Dalgaard<\/strong> have been a part of Danish science fiction fandom for four decades. He have written numerous articles, reviews and books about science fiction, have translated more than 40 books and edits the science fiction magazine Proxima. Niels holds a Ph.D. in Nordic Litterature, and have done extensive research on science fiction litterature in Denmark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Carolina Gomez Lagerl\u00f6f<\/strong> is a Swedish SF fan who lives in Stockholm. She is the chair of the European Science Fiction Society and Skandinavisk F\u00f6rening f\u00f6r Science Fiction in Stockholm. She is a conrunner of science fiction conventions and likes to travel to conventions in other countries. She works as patent examiner at the Swedish Patent Office in Stockholm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n S\u00f8ndag kl 11.00<\/em><\/p>\n Rumv\u00e6sner er reelt fri fantasi. Vi har aldrig m\u00f8dt dem og har derfor intet videnskabeligt grundlag for at skrive om dem. S\u00e5 hvordan g\u00f8r man det alligevel, p\u00e5 en interessant og nuanceret m\u00e5de? Det vil fire forfattere tale om i dette panel, p\u00e5 baggrund af b\u00e5de deres egne og andre forfatteres tekster.<\/p>\n Marie Howalt<\/strong><\/span><\/a> er forfatter til den postapokalyptiske Moonless-trilogi og rumopera-krimi-komedien The Stellar Snow Job, som udkommer i august. I det nyeste skud p\u00e5 bogstammen giver Marie et bud p\u00e5, hvordan m\u00f8det mellem mennesker og andre former for intelligent liv i et allerede etableret galaktisk f\u00e6llesskab kunne udspille sig.<\/p>\n Seb Doubinsky<\/span><\/a><\/strong> er en fransk f\u00f8dt forfatter, som bor i Danmark og skriver p\u00e5 engelsk. Hans b\u00f8ger er udgivet i mange lande, herunder England, USA, Frankrig, Spanien og Danmark. I hans dystopiske City States-serie er der blandt meget andet rumv\u00e6sner p\u00e5 spil.<\/p>\n Lars Ahn<\/strong><\/a> er forfatter til novellesamlingen \u201dM\u00e5nebase R\u00f8dh\u00e6tte\u201d, der bl.a. indeholder kortromanen \u201dAlien Ghost Ballet\u201d om en balletmester, som skal l\u00e6re rumv\u00e6sener med tre ben at danse \u201dSvanes\u00f8en\u201d. Han har ogs\u00e5 skrevet den omvendte invasionshistorie \u201dEn invasiv art\u201d, hvor det er os, der er aggressorerne.<\/p>\n Marie Ladefoged<\/span><\/a><\/strong> er en sk\u00f8nlitter\u00e6r forfatter. Hun har skrevet romanerne \u201dRejsen til Skyway\u201d, \u201dModerskibet\u201d og \u201dVejen til Kembri\u201d, som alle tre er science fiction. Hvor den f\u00f8rste handler om tidsrejser, har de seneste to flere beskrivelser af rumv\u00e6sener, navnlig \u201dVejen til Kembri\u201d, som er en b\u00f8rnebog for de 8-12 \u00e5rige.<\/p>\n Panelet modereres af Sidsel Pedersen<\/strong>, science fiction og fantasy fan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Saturday at 12.00<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n When writers and artists make up fictional beings, how do they go about it? In this panel four very different story creators will discuss this aspect of their craft. Where do they look for inspiration, how do they transform it into something that works for their story, and why do they need the creatures in the first place?<\/p>\n Crawford Award winner and World Fantasy Award finalist Karin Tidbeck<\/span><\/a><\/strong> writes speculative fiction in Swedish and English. They debuted in 2012 with the collection Jagannath, followed by the novels Amatka and The Memory Theater. Their short fiction has appeared at Tor.com<\/a>, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed and more. Photo: Patrik \u00c5kervinda.<\/p>\n Andreas Boeskov<\/span><\/a><\/strong> recently published his first book at Gyldendal, the critically acclaimed \u2019De glemte vogtere\u2019, the first book in a planned fantasy series for children and young people. In the series a group of especially imaginative children defend the world against a stream of dangerous and original creatures, always threatening to attack.<\/p>\n Mikkel Wendelboe (alias Skriverkarl)<\/span><\/a><\/strong> has written a dozen fantasy and scifi books, and with a background in biology, geography and paleontology, the proces of creating fantastic beasts and creatures, has always been a key feature. Every creature needs a habitat and natural behavioral patterns, to be understood and defined, thus making them able to be described properly and with ease in a story.<\/p>\n Tatiana Goldberg<\/strong><\/a> is a Danish comic artist and psychologist most known for her award winning crime\/sci-fi series \u201cKijara\u201d as well as her award nominated psychological horror story \u2013 the graphic novel \u201cAnima\u201d. Tatiana teaches character design and creature design as well as comics and she uses her expertise in psychological effects in visual design in her work.<\/p>\n The panel will be moderated by Jesper Rug\u00e5rd Jensen, writer, science fiction-, fantasy- and horror-fan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Saturday at 13.00<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cDark magical realism\u201d is a good way of describing Priya Sharma\u2019s writing. This interview will cover her style, recurring themes, writing methods and sources of inspiration, both in her published fiction and her works in progress.<\/p>\n Priya Sharma<\/a><\/strong> is a British fantasy and horror writer. Her fiction has appeared in venues such as Interzone, Black Static, Nightmare, The Dark and Tor. Her short story collection “All The Fabulous Beasts” was a British Fantasy Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner and a Locus Award finalist, and the title story, “Fabulous Beasts,\u201d won a British Fantasy Award and was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist. \u201cOrmeshadow\u201d, her first novella (available from Tor), won a Shirley Jackson Award and a British Fantasy Award. Her stories have been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Czech, and Polish.\u00a0Photo: Mark Greenwood<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Priya Sharma will be interviewed by Seb Doubinsky<\/strong><\/a>, a french born writer currently living in Denmark. His novels, all set in a dystopian universe revolving around competing city states, have been published in several countries, including the UK and USA, France, Spain and Denmark.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n S\u00f8ndag kl 12.00<\/em><\/p>\n Lesbiske vampyrer, aseksuelle robotter og gay varulve. Man har op gennem tiden brugt queer coding af v\u00e6sener i alt fra eventyr til sff til Disney film.\u00a0I dette panel vi bl.a. tale om hvorn\u00e5r monstre bruges som metaforer for queerness, hvorn\u00e5r monstre f\u00e5r lov at v\u00e6re deres egne v\u00e6sner og queers f\u00e5r lov til at v\u00e6re queer.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>\u201cSTRANGE CREATURES\u201d INTRO PANEL<\/h4>\n
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\nJane Mondrup<\/strong> has been an avid reader of all kinds of speculative fiction since her early childhood, and she has recently found her way into the Danish fandom scene. For the last couple of years she has begun to realize her ambition of becoming a writer herself, starting with the novel Zeitgeist from 2019 and some short stories.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nFlemming R.P. Rasch<\/strong> is a science fiction fan and occasional writer of short stories. He has been involved in organizing Fantasticon in most years since 2006. Other fan-activity includes publishing a few anthologies, editing books and magazines and translating short stories. He has a broad interest in the genres, from cosmic horror to hard sf, and from new wave to new weird.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/a>GUEST OF HONOR INTERVIEW \u2013 PRIYA SHARMA<\/h4>\n
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