#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 โThe Technologies of the Fantasticโ.
Many addendums have been made over the years the famous third law of #ArthurCClarke that โany sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magicโ (โTechnology and the Futureโ), from Professor Barry Gehmโs corollary, โany technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advancedโ (Analog) to the statement of #TerryPratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen in The Science of #Discworld that โ#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 โฆ With #magic, in contrast, things work because people want them toโ. 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