K.S. Villoso, author of the Dageian Puppetmaster trilogy, will be a panelist at the Filipino Canadian Book Festival in Vancouver, B.C. This is a free event, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. Panel information:

The Future Has Ancestors, a conversation on speculative storytelling, cultural memory, and building worlds with inherited stories.⁠
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How do we build new worlds from inherited stories?⁠
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This panel brings together fantasy, science fiction, horror, and genre writers to explore the imaginative power of worldbuilding through cultural myth and memory. From haunted houses to distant planets, mythic kingdoms to dystopian futures, speculative storytelling allows writers to ask what else is possible — and what older stories continue to follow us into the worlds we create.⁠
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At its heart, this conversation is about making worlds with roots. Together, our panelists will explore how folklore, family histories, spiritual traditions, monsters, myths, and ancestral memory shape stories that are strange, wondrous, terrifying, and alive.⁠
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Featuring authors Tessa Barbosa, Michelle Tang, and Nathalie De Los Santos, facilitated by K.S. Villoso.⁠