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Location
Albuquerque, NM
Document Type
Paper
Event Website
https://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-52.htm
Start Date
31-7-2022 11:00 AM
End Date
31-7-2022 11:50 AM
Description
As a living tradition, the Matter of Britain displays a voracious appetite as it grows over the centuries, absorbing characters, legends, motifs, stories, and even genres to create new Arthurian narratives. Science fiction is one genre that has recently found a place within the Arthurian tradition. Inspired by Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, tales abound of time travelers journeying to Arthur’s realm, but a smaller, less well-known subset of Arthurianthemed science fiction brings various extraterrestrial creatures to Camelot. Sometimes, these beings are hostile, but, more often, they try to make the realm a better place. Most of these stories connect to and transform the figure of Merlin and those he interacts with, like the Lady of the Lake and Morgan le Fay, by recasting them as aliens. This presentation will highlight some of these developments as depicted on television and in fiction from the 1970s with Space: 1999 up through the early 2000s with the Stargate franchise.
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ET Phone Camelot: Alien Life Forms in Arthurian Fiction
Albuquerque, NM
As a living tradition, the Matter of Britain displays a voracious appetite as it grows over the centuries, absorbing characters, legends, motifs, stories, and even genres to create new Arthurian narratives. Science fiction is one genre that has recently found a place within the Arthurian tradition. Inspired by Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, tales abound of time travelers journeying to Arthur’s realm, but a smaller, less well-known subset of Arthurianthemed science fiction brings various extraterrestrial creatures to Camelot. Sometimes, these beings are hostile, but, more often, they try to make the realm a better place. Most of these stories connect to and transform the figure of Merlin and those he interacts with, like the Lady of the Lake and Morgan le Fay, by recasting them as aliens. This presentation will highlight some of these developments as depicted on television and in fiction from the 1970s with Space: 1999 up through the early 2000s with the Stargate franchise.
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythcon/mc52/schedule/18
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Paper: Michael Torregrossa
ET Phone Camelot: Alien Life Forms in Arthurian Fiction
Tech Mod: Ben Dressler