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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2021-08-11 04:16 pm

I always thought they were seashells, I'm sure

Under normal circumstances I would have posted my schedule for Readercon at the beginning of the week, but everything medically is really just the pits and so I am getting around to it now. The convention this year is virtual and stripped-down and I expect it to be wonderful. So is my schedule.

Children of the Daughter of the Night: Descendants of Tanith Lee
Friday 7 pm, Main Track 3
KT Bryski, Gemma Files (m), Nicole Kornher-Stace, Yves Meynard, Sonya Taaffe

The fiction of Tanith Lee slyly and subtly glides along and over the margins, enchanting rather than enlisting its fans. Tracing her influence can be a challenge; her fiction is liminal, syncretic, frequently funny, and occasionally preposterous, and a great many authors have been inspired by one or more of those aspects. This panel of Lee devotees will trace the literary taproots and tendrils that drink from her work.

Improbable Research Dramatic Readings
Saturday 8 pm, Main Track 1
Marc Abrahams (m), Robin Abrahams, C.S.E. Cooney, Sara Dion, Rose Fox, David Kessler, Sonya Taaffe

Highlights from Ig Nobel Prize-winning studies and patents are presented in dramatic mini-readings by luminaries and experts (in some field).

Grappling with Imperialism's Traumas
Sunday 4 pm, Main Track 1
Aliette de Bodard, Anil Menon, Sherwood Smith, Sonya Taaffe, teri.zin (m)

In a 2019 interview for the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, Zen Cho suggested that white Westerners who write SF/F tales of rebellion against empire are trying to shake off guilt about benefiting from real-world empires. Many white Western readers seek out those stories for the same reason. But underdog daydreams do little to confront or process the traumas wrought by imperialism. What are better options, for writers and readers?

Who may I expect to see digitally there?
jesse_the_k: iPod nestles in hollowed-out print book (Alt format reader)

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[personal profile] jesse_the_k 2021-08-11 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)

I'm excited to be able to observe. For anyone pondering whether to go, I was particularly tickled they offer a year-round Discord server, which means that if I do manage to thwack my way through Discord's interface, there's a chance of maintaining relationships as well as time to practice using it.

On that server I read an announcement that the taped panels will be available for several months following the con's end. This time shifting makes the $25 membership a wide investment.

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[personal profile] yhlee 2021-08-12 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
I won't be there but I hope y'all have a great time!
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[personal profile] batdina 2021-08-12 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
not sure I'll make it, but greatly I'm interested in the Imperialism panel. Looking forward to hearing about how it goes, and what suggestions get made.
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2021-08-12 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
I'll be there!
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[personal profile] selkie 2021-08-12 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
You're doing Imperialism and I have to lock myself in the basement this weekend?! Gaaah.
Please, for me, inject a li'l "FUCK CLIVE OF INDIA. FUCK CLIVE OF INDIA IN SPACE, EITHER!"
...this is why I don't do panels. I'd say words. But I am envious and I hope you have a fuckton of fun.

[I will tell the child we can catch up with you next Tuesday or something!]

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[personal profile] minoanmiss 2021-08-12 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Have a wonderful time. I send you energy and strength.
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[personal profile] dramaticirony 2021-08-12 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
I'll be there, pitching in as a Discord monitor, and attending some sessions when I'm not volunteering. I had helped out preparing some of the prerecorded stuff, which is really cool, and I'm looking forward to the live panels and discussions!
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[personal profile] dramaticirony 2021-08-13 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Sadly, real life intruded, and I missed that practice session. But very much looking forward to the live and recorded stuff at the con!
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2021-08-12 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'll be there! Definitely looking forward to this panel.

ETA: And you're wondering why I'm saying "this panel"--it's because I was referring to the imperialism panel, and I forgot that mind-reading is not yet a thing. I also think you'll be fabulous in improbably research dramatic readings! And no doubt for the Tanith Lee one too, but I have never actually read any Tanith Lee (beyond a short story that was in one of the Clockwork Phoenix anthologies--I had the honor of proofreading that one), so I am just nodding respectfully to it from across space and time.
Edited 2021-08-13 01:54 (UTC)
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[personal profile] handful_ofdust 2021-08-12 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
So...was that just a rehearsal or did we actually record it? I'm so confused.;)
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[personal profile] handful_ofdust 2021-08-12 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, cool. :)
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[personal profile] nineweaving 2021-08-12 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
I'll be there!

Nine
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[personal profile] sara 2021-08-13 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
In re. that last panel: I think it's less guilt, in my case, and more that I'm proud to be descended from revolutionaries? Stories of overthrowing the empire are familial origin stories, for me.
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[personal profile] sara 2021-08-13 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
I can see why someone coming out of a majority non-white former British colony that kicked them out later than we did would have that take. But it's more anglocentric than I'd find interesting or accurate.
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[personal profile] rosefox 2021-08-14 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
If everyone on a panel agreed, it would be a very boring panel, and we try not to have those. :)
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[personal profile] oracne 2021-08-13 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I will be there! Going to try and watch at least some panels. I think we can watch them at different times?
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[personal profile] choco_frosh 2021-08-13 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Mercifully, yes!* since I'm going to be trying to fit the con in around work, household tasks, bellringing practice, and a hike that I hadn't realized I'd double-booked.
* See Jesse the K's comment at the top.
Edited 2021-08-13 20:11 (UTC)
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[personal profile] choco_frosh 2021-08-13 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I will definitely be there for the Improbable Research! Possibly also for imperialism. Nope, gonna be up a mountain, or maybe on my way back.
Edited 2021-08-13 20:06 (UTC)
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[personal profile] choco_frosh 2021-08-14 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
[personal profile] teenybuffalo and I are climbing Wachusett.
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[personal profile] boxofdelights 2021-08-15 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
It was delightful to listen to you reading about structured procrastination!