University of Delaware
Office of Public Relations
UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 16, Jan. 9, 1997
January campus events will explore 21st century

     Looking past the new year into the next century, a variety
of films and speakers, including an original member of the Star
Trek cast and an award-winning science fiction author, will
explore the possibilities of the 21st century in a series of
programs this month at the University.
     All events are free and open to the public and will be held
in the Trabant University Center.
     The lecture series will feature upcoming talks by George
Takei of Star Trek fame; science fiction author Orson Scott Card;
and Brian Horrigan, coauthor of Yesterday's Tomorrows.
     Takei, who played Sulu in the original Star Trek television
show and motion pictures, will speak at 8 p.m., Wednesday, Jan.
22, in the Multipurpose Room of the center.
     Takei has appeared in more than a dozen motion pictures and
more than 100 television shows. In addition to film and
television work, he has appeared on stage in the U.S. and Great
Britain, and he has published both his fiction and nonfiction
writing, including a science fiction novel, Mirror Friend, Mirror
Foe.
     His talk is cosponsored by the Office of International
Programs and Special Sessions and the Student Center Programs
Advisory Board.
     Science fiction author Orson Scott Card, who has won the
Hugo and Nebula awards twice for his books Ender's Game and its
sequel Speaking for the Dead, will speak at 8 p.m., Monday, Jan.
13, in the Multipurpose Room.
     Known for his innovative work in American fantasy, Card's
recent novel, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus,
puts a new twist on time travel. He also has written such
mainstream novels as Lost Boys and Treasure Box, an historical
novel, a dozen plays and two books on writing, Character and
Viewpoint and How To Write Science Fiction and Fantasy.
     He also has taught writing courses at several universities
and workshops.
     Brian Horrigan, coauthor of the book, Yesterday's
Tomorrow's: Past Visions of the American Future, will speak at 8
p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 15, in the center's Theatre. Recently
reprinted by Johns Hopkins University Press, the book was
produced in conjunction with an exhibit of the same name that
     opened at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American
History and then traveled to eight other museums.
     After five years with U.S. Information Agency, Horrigan
became exhibit curator at the Minnesota Historical Society, and
he is the author of a new book about the society's new, $74-
million home, the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul.
     Both Card and Horrigan will sign copies of their books after
the talks.
     In addition to the lectures, a series of films will be shown
in the Trabant University Center Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays
and Thursdays, through Jan. 23.
       Scheduled are
       BLADE RUNNER, the 1982 Ridley Scott film with Harrison
  Ford, in which a retired "replicant exterminator" searches a
  deteriorating Los Angeles for four renegade replicants
  (genetically engineered robots), Thursday, Jan. 9;
       THX 1138, George Lucas' 1971 feature film debut, in which
  people are computer-controlled and programmed into submission
  by the use of mind-calming drugs, Tuesday, Jan. 14;
       BRAZIL, Terry Gilliam's controversial 1985 look at a
  futuristic society where a man's life is changed by a
  computer's typographical error, Thursday, Jan. 16;
       Sleeper, the 1973 Woody Allen film in which Allen is
  transported 200 years into the future, Tuesday, Jan. 21; and
       2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, Stanley Kubrick's 1968 classic
  journey from prehistoric times to interplanetary travel of the
  future, Thursday, Jan. 23.
     Concluding the month's special programming will be a Lazer
Tag interactive game from 4-10 p.m., Friday, Jan. 24, in the
center's Multipurpose Room.
     These events are being presented by the Trabant University
Center, in conjunction with a Winter Session English course.