Geoff Ryman, Patricia Duncker, Liz Williams, Dr Tim O'Brien & Prof Steve Furber

When it Changed is a collaboration between leading scientists and literary authors, coordinated by Comma Press, to create a brand new strain of the SF bug; one that extends the scientific repertoire of the genre beyond the commonplaces of space-travel, time-travel or AI, and brings it back into contact with diverse, credible, and contemporary research areas. Geoff Ryman has published ten books, most recently Air, and is the founder of the Mundane SF. Liz Williams’s first two novels The Ghost Sister and Empire of Bones were both nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. Patricia Duncker's first novel Hallucinating Foucault won the Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize. Dr Tim O'Brien is a Senior Lecturer at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. Professor Steve Furber is best known for his work at Acorn and as a designer of the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor.

This event is taking place at Friends Meeting House.