When you put together an event like a symposium or conference, you need a keynote speaker who can anchor it, pull together its various threads, and share their reputation to elevate the event for the benefit of the audience and participants. Mike Flynn, the author of Eifelheim and “The Forest of Time,” graciously agreed to be all that by closing out the Fourth Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium in 2019 that celebrated Astounding/Analog‘s 90th anniversary. He passed away at the end of September. Locus remembers him here, and his family started this thread of memories on Facebook. You can watch his touching keynote address below.
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