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For lovers of Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and fantasy.

 

What is with our obsession with war in the fantasy genre? Is it simply the nostalgia of couch-based would-be conquerors? The reflection of our embattled times? Or is there something deeper behind the waves of grimdark and revolution? This talk will endeavour to pull back some of the layers and look curiously at this deep-seated human impulse turned fantasy.

 

C.L. Clark is a BFA award-winning editor and Ignyte award-winning author of several books, including The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost trilogy), Fate’s Bane (a novella), and Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf (an Arcane novel). She's a University of Kansas alumnus and graduated from Indiana University’s creative writing MFA and was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow. Her work has appeared in various SFF venues, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Tor.com, Uncanny, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

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