Upcoming Appearances
Catch me live in the flesh at one of these events!
Doxacon - October 31 to November 1, 2025
Faith in Forlorn Futures: An Incensepunk Comparison of Fallout and A Canticle for Leibowitz
Bethesda’s Fallout franchise of video games (and recent TV series on Amazon Prime) and Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz have a lot in common: a post-nuclear wasteland, violent mutants, scavenging survivors, and enclaves of the fallen society. However, only one of these worlds explores the idea of purification. While in Fallout, the evils that brought society to the very brink of total destruction seem even more pervasive in the post-apocalypse, Canticle’s dystopia is pierced with a beam of hope that ultimately helps restore peace and structure (even if that restoration isn’t guaranteed to last). In one world, nihilism ensures that nothing will get better; in the other, faith sows the seeds of redemption.
Festival of Faith & Writing - April 16-18, 2026
Faith of the Future: Exploring Religion in Science Fiction (Lunch Circle)
The existence of religion is a near-universal trait of human cultures on Earth, yet (with a few noteworthy exceptions) science fiction rarely explores it. Faith is a core component of how many humans relate to the universe. How can emerging technology and sci-fi tropes inform and be informed by the divine?