Name: How History Informs Science Fiction and Fantasy
Start: 2026-06-26T16:00:00-0400
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How History Informs Science Fiction and Fantasy

Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

M - Plaza Ballroom C

Historian Daniel Butler hosts the discusssion "How History Informs Science Fiction and Fantasy."

Moderators

Daniel Allen Butler

Author

Daniel Allen Butler is a best-selling author, historian, and college-educated semi-professional beach bum. His previous works include "Unsinkable"--the Full Story of RMS Titanic; The Day the Lusitania Died; Warrior Queens - The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in World War II; The Age... Read More →

Guests

Daniel Kemp

Author

A couple history degrees, the Army, and a turbulent personal life inspired the Athenaeum Inc military thriller trilogy at Cannon (Door Number Three, Doubling Down and Triple Play). He’s also done shorts on everything from the sinking of the Bismarck to feeding dragons.

S.M. Stirling

LibertyCon 38 Special Guest of Honor, Author

S.M. Stirling was born in France in 1953, to Canadian parents -- although his mother was born in England and grew up in Peru. After that he lived in Europe, Canada, Africa, and the US and visited several other continents. He graduated from law school in Canada but had his dorsal fin... Read More →

Nick Nethery

Author, Editor

Nick Nethery writes science fiction, fantasy, mystery, westerns and whatever else presents a challenge or will entertain his friends and family. He has been published by the United States Naval Institute, Foreign Policy, Dragon Soul Press, and Raconteur Press, among others. He works... Read More →

G. Scott Huggins

Author

Having been born in California and raised in Kansas, Scott Huggins grew up as confused as one might expect. He began writing whilst traveling in post-Soviet Russia and Germany, and was one of the 20th Century’s last Writers of the Future (1999). The future arrived immediately thereafter... Read More →

Friday June 26, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C

Literary/Publishing, Panel

LibertyCon 38

Daniel Allen Butler

Daniel Kemp

S.M. Stirling

Nick Nethery

G. Scott Huggins

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