#CallForPapers for #OnlineConference: Technologies of the Fantastic
The Centre for #Fantasy and the Fantastic is excited to announce the call for papers for Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations (GIFCon) 2026, to be held online on 13-15 May, with the theme of ‘The Technologies of the Fantastic’.
Many addendums have been made over the years the famous third law of #ArthurCClarke that ‘any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’ (‘Technology and the Future’), from Professor Barry Gehm’s corollary, ‘any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced’ (Analog) to the statement of #TerryPratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen in The Science of #Discworld that ‘#Technology works because whoever built it in the first place figured out enough of the rules of the universe to make the technology do what was required of it … With #magic, in contrast, things work because people want them to’. Such discourse leaves us asking what, if anything, fundamentally separates the technological from the magical? #SFF
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/12/16/gifcon-2026-the-technologies-of-the-fantastic