Isaac Asimov Centennial Meetup at City Tech on Jan. 4, 2020

The Isaac Asimov Centennial Meetup was held on January 4, 2020 at the New York City College of Technology in downtown Brooklyn, New York. Our Guest of Honor was Sheila Williams, Hugo-award winning editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. Other panelists were: Noted filk musician Erwin S. (Filthy Pierre) Strauss, author of the SF Convention Calendar in Asimov's magazine, and E. Everett Evans “Big Heart” Award winner. Andrew Porter, Hugo-award winning editor of the fanzines and semi-prozines Algol, Starship, S.F. Weekly, and Science Fiction Chronicle, and Fan Guest of Honor at ConFiction, the 1990 World Science Fiction Convention. Olga Miroshnychenko, biochemist and adjunct professor at City Tech. The moderator was Flash Sheridan. The videos of the panel discussion and Q&A are available on YouTube, embedded below. Ms Williams and the organizers suggest the following hashtags: #Asimovs, #CityTechSF, and #Asimov100.

Photo by Ludmilla Genkin.

City Tech biochemistry adjunct instructor Olga Miroshnychenko and her husband, computer programmer Flash Sheridan organized an afternoon event at City Tech to celebrate the centennial of Isaac Asimov’s birthday. Event details, videos, and audio recordings are included below.

This meetup celebrated the hundredth birthday of the science and science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. It took place on Saturday January 4th at 2pm, at the New York City College of Technology (home of Science Fiction at City Tech), in room A105 in the Academic Building, 285 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Our thanks to City Tech for hosting us, and to Professor Jason Ellis and Dean Justin Vazquez-Poritz for their support.

Our Guest of Honor was Sheila Williams, Hugo-award winning editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. Other panelists were:

 

Click here for audio files from the event.

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