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Sickday, and Readercon
Jul. 2nd, 2010 01:19 pmI am sickdaying today, after some hardcore food poisoning Wednesday night and a really sad aborted attempt to stick it out at work this morning (yeah. I lasted an hour). I am going to bunker a bit with some nice, bland noodle soup, get myself horizontal, and try to get over this dizziness thing before my movie plans tonight. I really want to go to that movie.
In other news, I have a Readercon schedule:
Thursday 8:00PM, Salon F
I Read This Book, So I Started a Band -- Leah Bobet, F. Brett Cox, Paul Di Fillipo, Glenn Grant, David G. Shaw (m)
… painted this picture, directed this film, made this work of art. The Normal's "Warm Leatherette" is a condensed song version of J.G. Ballard's Crash, as is Jawbox's (more oblique) "Motorist" and Gary Numan's (more genteel and derivative) "Cars." Many of the ‘80s synth-pop pioneers (The Normal's Daniel Miller, The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, John Foxx) cite Ballard as a seminal influence, but you can find other artists influenced by Dick, Gibson, and Burroughs. How prevalent is the channeling of influence from speculative fiction into another art form? Why is it that the dystopian end of the sf spectrum seems to be more influential, and can we think of optimistic or technophilic counter-examples?
Thursday 9:00 PM, ME/CT
Speculative Poetry Workshop. Mike Allen with participation by, Leah Bobet, Gemma Files, Shira Lipkin, Ken Schneyer.
What is speculative poetry? How do you write it, why would you want to, and which editors will buy it? Come prepared to write on the fly.
Friday 4:00 PM, ME/CT
How Electrons have Changed Writing and Reading -- Cecilia Tan with discussion by Inanna Arthen, Leah Bobet, K. Tempest Bradford, Barbara Krasnoff, K. A. Laity.
Ebooks, the Internet, social media networks, Paypal -- have these really changed the writer/reader relationship forever? Not surprisingly, sf readers are early adopters of new tech and sf publishers are leading the way in new content delivery. Is it really possible with new tech for a writer to cut out the publisher and still make a living? Is the writer who wants to "just write" doomed to obscurity now? Writers, what forays into the new frontier of electronic publishing have you made and what did you find out there in the wild lands? Readers, what have you enjoyed and sought out, what would you welcome?
Saturday 11:00AM, ME/CT
The New and Improved Future of Magazines, Cont. -- John Joseph Adams, John Benson, Leah Bobet, Robert Killheffer (m), Sean Wallace
After last year's "The Future of Magazines" panels, participant K. Tempest Bradford wrote: "The magazines and anthologies that I love tend to have editors who have taken the time to examine themselves or their culture, to expend their knowledge of other people and ways of being, to open their minds. These magazines and anthologies contain far more stories I want to read by authors of many varied backgrounds. As I said, it's not fully about print vs. online, it's about better magazines and books." This time, creators and proponents of both print and online magazines collaborate on determining ways that any genre magazine can create a brighter and better-read future for itself, using Bradford's comment as a launching point.
Saturday 2:00 PM, ME/CT
Great War Geeks Unite -- Victoria Janssen with discussion by Leah Bobet, James L. Cambias, Don D'Ammassa, Debra Doyle, Walter H. Hunt, Barbara Krasnoff, Barry B. Longyear, Alison Sinclair, Howard Waldrop, Paul Witcover.
Have you written a story or novel set during World War One? Read fiction of the period, or set in the period? Do you have a love for trench warfare, poison gas, and puttees that passeth all understanding? Then this is the discussion group for you to geek out with. What is the imaginary speculative WWI novel you'd most love to read?
Saturday 3:00PM, Salon G
The Rhysling Award Poetry Slan -- Mike Allen (MC), Erik Amundsen, Kate Baker, Leah Bobet, C.S.E. Cooney, Amal El-Mohtar, Gemma Files, Francesca Forest, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Shira Lipkin, Caitlyn Paxson, Darrell Schweitzer, Sonya Taaffe, Cecilia Tan, Catherynne M. Valente
The Rhyslings are the annual awards of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and Readercon is proud to be their ongoing annual host. (A poetry "slan" — to be confused with "slam" — is a poetry reading by sf folks. If you don't get the in-joke, ask an sf fan above a certain age).
Sunday 12:00PM, VT
Reading
I'm not sure what I'm going to read: could be something new, could be something forthcoming. Most likely I'll just take requests.
Sunday 1:00PM, ME/CT
The Pun We Had -- Leah Bobet, Daniel P. Dern (m), Lila Garrott, Greer Gilman, Graham Sleight
John Cleese's three rules of comedy are, famously, "No puns, no puns, no puns." But some of our favorite works of speculative fiction are built around puns — think of Severian being the New Sun/New Son, or Greer Gilman taking the meanings of "clod" as both "cloud" and "hill." And if, in Kelly Link's "Flying Lessons," hell lies somewhere past the southernmost stop on London Underground's Northern Line, does that make it a post-Mordern fantasy? When does a pun stop being a bad joke and start revealing something deep and interesting about language?
Aside from that, I will also be found at an assortment of interesting panels, knitting in my friends' readings, and possibly crashing the kaffeklatches of my nearest and dearest. And as always, in the bar.
In other news, I have a Readercon schedule:
Thursday 8:00PM, Salon F
I Read This Book, So I Started a Band -- Leah Bobet, F. Brett Cox, Paul Di Fillipo, Glenn Grant, David G. Shaw (m)
… painted this picture, directed this film, made this work of art. The Normal's "Warm Leatherette" is a condensed song version of J.G. Ballard's Crash, as is Jawbox's (more oblique) "Motorist" and Gary Numan's (more genteel and derivative) "Cars." Many of the ‘80s synth-pop pioneers (The Normal's Daniel Miller, The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, John Foxx) cite Ballard as a seminal influence, but you can find other artists influenced by Dick, Gibson, and Burroughs. How prevalent is the channeling of influence from speculative fiction into another art form? Why is it that the dystopian end of the sf spectrum seems to be more influential, and can we think of optimistic or technophilic counter-examples?
Thursday 9:00 PM, ME/CT
Speculative Poetry Workshop. Mike Allen with participation by, Leah Bobet, Gemma Files, Shira Lipkin, Ken Schneyer.
What is speculative poetry? How do you write it, why would you want to, and which editors will buy it? Come prepared to write on the fly.
Friday 4:00 PM, ME/CT
How Electrons have Changed Writing and Reading -- Cecilia Tan with discussion by Inanna Arthen, Leah Bobet, K. Tempest Bradford, Barbara Krasnoff, K. A. Laity.
Ebooks, the Internet, social media networks, Paypal -- have these really changed the writer/reader relationship forever? Not surprisingly, sf readers are early adopters of new tech and sf publishers are leading the way in new content delivery. Is it really possible with new tech for a writer to cut out the publisher and still make a living? Is the writer who wants to "just write" doomed to obscurity now? Writers, what forays into the new frontier of electronic publishing have you made and what did you find out there in the wild lands? Readers, what have you enjoyed and sought out, what would you welcome?
Saturday 11:00AM, ME/CT
The New and Improved Future of Magazines, Cont. -- John Joseph Adams, John Benson, Leah Bobet, Robert Killheffer (m), Sean Wallace
After last year's "The Future of Magazines" panels, participant K. Tempest Bradford wrote: "The magazines and anthologies that I love tend to have editors who have taken the time to examine themselves or their culture, to expend their knowledge of other people and ways of being, to open their minds. These magazines and anthologies contain far more stories I want to read by authors of many varied backgrounds. As I said, it's not fully about print vs. online, it's about better magazines and books." This time, creators and proponents of both print and online magazines collaborate on determining ways that any genre magazine can create a brighter and better-read future for itself, using Bradford's comment as a launching point.
Saturday 2:00 PM, ME/CT
Great War Geeks Unite -- Victoria Janssen with discussion by Leah Bobet, James L. Cambias, Don D'Ammassa, Debra Doyle, Walter H. Hunt, Barbara Krasnoff, Barry B. Longyear, Alison Sinclair, Howard Waldrop, Paul Witcover.
Have you written a story or novel set during World War One? Read fiction of the period, or set in the period? Do you have a love for trench warfare, poison gas, and puttees that passeth all understanding? Then this is the discussion group for you to geek out with. What is the imaginary speculative WWI novel you'd most love to read?
Saturday 3:00PM, Salon G
The Rhysling Award Poetry Slan -- Mike Allen (MC), Erik Amundsen, Kate Baker, Leah Bobet, C.S.E. Cooney, Amal El-Mohtar, Gemma Files, Francesca Forest, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Shira Lipkin, Caitlyn Paxson, Darrell Schweitzer, Sonya Taaffe, Cecilia Tan, Catherynne M. Valente
The Rhyslings are the annual awards of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and Readercon is proud to be their ongoing annual host. (A poetry "slan" — to be confused with "slam" — is a poetry reading by sf folks. If you don't get the in-joke, ask an sf fan above a certain age).
Sunday 12:00PM, VT
Reading
I'm not sure what I'm going to read: could be something new, could be something forthcoming. Most likely I'll just take requests.
Sunday 1:00PM, ME/CT
The Pun We Had -- Leah Bobet, Daniel P. Dern (m), Lila Garrott, Greer Gilman, Graham Sleight
John Cleese's three rules of comedy are, famously, "No puns, no puns, no puns." But some of our favorite works of speculative fiction are built around puns — think of Severian being the New Sun/New Son, or Greer Gilman taking the meanings of "clod" as both "cloud" and "hill." And if, in Kelly Link's "Flying Lessons," hell lies somewhere past the southernmost stop on London Underground's Northern Line, does that make it a post-Mordern fantasy? When does a pun stop being a bad joke and start revealing something deep and interesting about language?
Aside from that, I will also be found at an assortment of interesting panels, knitting in my friends' readings, and possibly crashing the kaffeklatches of my nearest and dearest. And as always, in the bar.
