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Media Mentions at Narrativity 2025

Sorry for the delays. Between Narrativity hang-over and coming home to missed deadlines at work, live has been crazy. I still need to get up the media mentions from the Con Suite, and some of the other fun stuff from the boards during the Con. But I’m getting there. 🙂 -Erin

Friday’s Panels
Into the Weeds
Authors
Tanith Lee
Michael Moorcock
Ambrose Bierce

Books & Manga
Unicorn Variations – Roger Zelazny
Last Defender of Camelot – Roger Zelazny
Dragonflight – Anne McCaffrey
Expendable – James Allen Gardner
Ascending – James Allen Gardner
Splatter Film – Junji Ito
The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
Cowboy Feng’s Space Bar & Grille – Steven Brust (Narrativitist)
Fitzpatrick’s War – Theodore Judson

Book Series
Warhammer books – various authors

TV & Movies
Bridge to Terabithia
True Detective season 1
The Sixth Sense
Firefly

Magic Solves Everything
Books & Manga
Half Magic – Edward Eager
Fruit’s Basket – Natsuki Takaya
The Goodnight Agency – Tyler Tork (Narrativitist)
Uprooted – Naomi Novik
Elemental Masters – Mercedes Lackey
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking – T Kingfisher
Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix – JK Rowling (example of it done badly)

Book Series
The Obsidian Mountain series – Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory
Penric & Desdemona series – Lois McMaster Bujold
World of the Five Gods series – Lois McMaster Bujold
Wheel of Time series – Robert Jordan (and Brandon Sanderson)
Myth series – Robert Asprin
Changeling Saga series – Roger Zelazny
Xanth series – Piers Anthony

TV & Movies
Lucifer
Overlord (example of it done badly)

How to Use Tropes to Good Effect
Authors
Shakespeare
Chuck Tingle

Books & Manga
Goblin Hero – Jim C Hines
Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
Gospel of the Knife – Will Shetterly (inactive Narrativitist)
The Revisionaries – AR Moxon
The Sword & the Stone – TH White
Villains by Necessity – Eve Forward
Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula K LeGuin
Casting Fortune “Green is the Color” – John M Ford

TV & Movies
Terminator (movie series)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv series)
My Next Life as a Villainess
Scream
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Blake’s 7
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Avatar: The Legend of Korra
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (example of it done badly)

Online Resources
scribofile.com
kindlepreneur.com
tvtropes.org

MicroFiction & Very Short Stories
Books & Manga
Assignations – Joyce Carol Oates
Demolished Man – Alfred Bester
House of Leaves – Mark Z Danielewski
Micro Science Fiction – O Westin

Plays
A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
Dead Outlaw – music and lyrics by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna

Artists & Art
Salvador Dali
The Mona Lisa – Leonardo DaVinci
David – Michelangelo

Musicians & Music
Tom Cardy
Time – Jennifer Lucy Cook
Abbey Road B side – Beatles
Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen

Online Resources
#vss
nycmidnight.com
FlashFictionOnline.com
F(R)iction
Micro SF/F
Fiction in 50

Saturday’s Panels
BookTok, BookTube, and the Rise of Accessible Reviews (and Reviewers as Authors)
Authors
Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette (same author, different pen names)

Books
The Goodnight Agency – Tyler Tork
The Long Goodnight – Tyler Tork
Stacked: Your Super Serious Guide to Modern Money Management – Emily Guy Birken (Narrativitist) & Joe Saul-Sehy
Assistant to the Villain – Hannah Nicole Maehrer
This is How You Lose the Time War – Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

Online Reviewer
Lindsay Ellis

What Does an Author Owe Their Readers?
Authors
George RR Martin
Patrick Rothfuss
Brandon Sanderson
Douglas Adams
JRR Tolkien
Terry Brooks
Donald Maas (literary agent with books on writing)
Robert Forward
Lee Child

Books & Comics
The Sunbearer Trials – Aiden Thomas
Shadowmarch – Tad Williams
Cerebus the Aardvark – Dave Sim
The Dark Tower – Stephen King
Blue at the Mizzen – Patrick O’Brian
Stardust – Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
Spook Country – William Gibson (2nd book in a series that should NOT be the first Gibson books you read)

Book Series
Vorkosigan Saga – Lois McMaster Bujold
Dresden Files – Jim Butcher
Nero Wolfe series – Rex Stout
DiscWorld – Terry Pratchett
The Wheel of Time – Robert Jordan
Dragonsbane series – Barbara Hambly
Animorphs – KA Applegate
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark – Alvin Schwartz

TV & Movies
Pirates of the Carribean
The Mirror has Two Faces
Adventure Time
Zenshu

Online Resources
Does the Dog Die?

Biology Solves Everything
Authors
Arthur C Clarke
Isaac Asimov
Ray Bradbury
Ursula K LeGuin
Octavia Butler
Joel Rosenberg
AE van Vogt

Books
Glory Road – Robert Heinlein
The Mote in God’s Eye – Jerry Pournelle & Larry Niven
Titan – John Varley
War of the Worlds – HG Wells
Dune – Frank Herbert
Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky
Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton

Book & Comic Series
X-Men – various authors
Pit Dragon Chronicles – Jane Yolen
Books of the Raksura – Martha Wells

TV & Movies
SCAVENGERS REiGN
Alien
Avatar (James Cameron movie)
The Puppet Masters
Evolution (2001 movie)
The Owl House
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Eternals
Star Trek: TOS
“Genesis” Star Trek TNG (season 7)
Life (movie)
Life Force (bad movie)
FarScape
Six Million Dollar Man

Video Games
Mouthwashing
StarCraft

Politics/Government Systems as Worldbuilding
Authors
Karl Marx
Chine Mieville

Books
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
Friday – Robert Heinlein
Starship Troopers – Robert Heinlein
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert Heinlein
Take Back Your Government – Robert Heinlein
Dune – Frank Herbert
Fahrenheit – Ray Bradbury
Fellowship of the Ring – JRR Tolkien
The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K LeGuin
The Giver – Lois Lowry

Book Series
Song of Ice & Fire – George RR Martin
The Witcher – Andrzej Sapkowski
Honor Harrington series – David Weber

TV & Movies
Aliens
Star Wars
Yes, Minister
Yes, Prime Minister

Online Resources
Novel Updates

Leveling Up
Authors
Brandon Sanderson
Tim Powers

Books
On Becoming a Novelist – John Gardner
Lord of Light – Roger Zelazny
Meander, Spiral, Explode – Jane Alison
Steering the Craft – Ursula K LeGuin

TV & Movies
Doc Hollywood

Online Resources
DuoTrope
The Submission Grinder
Isolation is the Dream Killer, Not Your Attitude – Barbara Sher, TedX Prague 2015

Sunday’s Panels
When the Process Breaks
Books
The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron

Art
Don Quixote – Picasso

Online Resources
How to ADHD (youtube channel)

Writing with Fear
Authors
Ada Palmer
David Sedaris
HP Lovecraft

Books
How to Suppress Women’s Writing – Joanna Russ
The Setting Sun – Osamu Dazai (reader beware)
No Longer Human – Osamu Dazai
Still Procrastinating – Joseph R Ferrari
The Perfectionists Guide to Losing Control – Katherine Morgan Schafler
Affect Regulation Training – Matthias Berking & Brian Whitley
Freedom from Your Inner Critic – Bernie J Weiss & Jay Earley
The Thief of Time: Philosophical Essays on Procrastination – Chrisoula Andreou & Mark D White (editors)

Music
Die, Vampire, Die (from Die, Vampire, Die)

Quilting the Story
Authors
Tim Powers

Books
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
Pilgrim’s Progress – CS Lewis
Use of Weapons – Iain Banks
Hyperion – Dan Simmons
All You Zombies – Robert Heinlein

Book Series
Book of the New Sun – Gene Wolfe
Conan – Robert Howard
Conan – L Sprague deCamp
Incarnations of Immortality – Piers Anthony

TV & Movies
The Good Place
Predestination
Arrival
We Were Soldiers
Young Frankenstein

Music
Cows with Guns – Dena Lyons

Plays & Musicals
The Last 5 Years
Camelot

Online Resources
Cheng I Sao: Pirate Queen – Extra History

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