Start date: 29 January 2008
End date: 29 January 2008
Time: 7.00pm
Summary: Alan Grant - Writing Tomorrow Yesterday: How Fiction Became Reality. In the 1980s Alan Grant co-wrote a series of stories featuring Judge Dredd set in the USA around the year 2100. Reality has swiftly overtaken fiction and many of his made-up problems have already become part of everyday life: the ever-increasing fascism of state police forces; society's inane fascination with celebrity; the empowerment of the rich and famous at the expense of ordinary people - in short, the crushing of the ordinary person as an agent in the world. Can things only get worse?
Venue: Quincentenary Hall, Surgeon's Hall, Nicholson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DW
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Suitable for children? Yes
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