It’s always one of the highlights of the 42 Festival: the moment when the leading international names of the year’s edition (beyond the European authors featured in the previous night’s discussion) come together in a one-of-a-kind discussion traditionally moderated by Alexander Páez, a translator, former editor and expert in fantastic genres. The opportunity to see leading authors such as Ted Chiang, Catriona Ward and P. Djèlí Clark, joined by a young author of the highest level like T. Kingfisher, prestigious science fiction expert Lisa Yaszek and New York Times-bestselling author from Catalonia Edgar Cantero is a big deal to start with. And the chance to hear them talk, on this occasion, about the creatures and settings that populate their works, from Chiang’s robots and planets to Hardinge and Kingfisher’s witches and castles, and from Clark and Cantero’s Lovecraftian monsters to St. John Mandel’s time travellers, all of them compared with the genre pioneers studied by Yaszek... We’re already salivating just thinking about it. Year after year, the end result, photo for posterity included, far exceeds our expectations.

Guests:

Ted Chiang

Catriona Ward

T. Kingfisher

P. Djèlí Clark

Lisa Yaszek

Edgar Cantero

Moderator:

Alexander Páez

*Simultaneous interpreting into Spanish available