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My Readercon schedule, I show you it:

Friday 2:00 PM, Salon G: Panel

What Has It Got in Its Apocalypses? John Joseph Adams, Jedediah Berry, Leah Bobet, Elizabeth Hand, Faye Ringel (L)

Cormac McCarthy's _The Road_ never identifies the cataclysm that has destroyed society. So the novel is clearly not at all about any specific Bad Thing that might happen to us; rather, it uses the post-apocalyptic setting as an amplifier of human nature. To what degree has this always been true (if not quite so overtly) of the post-apocalyptic novel, whose history goes back to well before the Bomb? Why have authors sometimes explained the Bad Thing in detail anyway?

Friday 3:00 PM, VT: Group Reading (60 min.)

_Clockwork Phoenix_ Group Reading Mike Allen (host) with Laird Barron, Leah Bobet, Michael DeLuca, Cat Rambo, Ekaterina Sedia.

Readings from the first volume of a new annual non-theme anthology (subtitled _Tales of Beauty and Strangeness_) edited by Allen and just published by Norilana Books.

Saturday 3:00 PM, Salon G: Event

The Rhysling Award Poetry Slan. Mike Allen (MC) with Leah Bobet, Richard Chwedyk, Andrea Hairston, James Patrick Kelly, Joy Marchand, Hildy Silverman, and Sonya Taaffe

(A "poetry slan," to be confused with "poetry slam," is a poetry reading by sf folks, of course.) Climaxed by the presentation of this year's Rhysling Awards.

Sunday 10:00 AM, ME/ CT: Panel

The Aesthetics of Online Magazines. Leah Bobet, Ellen Datlow, Ernest Lilley, Nick Mamatas (L), Sean Wallace

Online magazines are a growing section of the speculative fiction marketplace. But is there more to an online magazine than simply publishing in pixels stories that would otherwise be printed on pulp? How have online magazines adapted to the new medium in terms of story subjects, story length, design, and the attraction and maintenance of audiences? How do these choices differ from those made by print magazine producers? If the medium is the message, then what is the message of Internet-based magazines?

Normally I'd say that otherwise, I'll be in the bar? But upon looking over the panel lists for this con when I was selecting my top choices for panels I wanted to do, I won't. I'll be in panels. :)

(Except when I am out at the Summer Shack eating lobster.)

Hope to see you there!