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My schedule for Arisia this year is minute, but a fairly big deal for me since the state of my health last allowed me to participate in programming in 2021. I mean, at the moment the state of my health is failed, but I'm still looking forward.
Dramatic Readings from the Ig Nobel Prizes
Saturday 3 pm, Amesbury AB
Marc Abrahams et al.
Highlights from Ig Nobel prize-winning studies and patents, presented in dramatic mini-readings by luminaries and experts (in some field). The audience will have an opportunity to ask questions about the research presented—answers will be based on the expertise of the presenters, who may have a different expertise than the researchers.
Cursed Literature
Sunday 4:15 pm, Central Square
Mark Millman (m), Alastor, Kristina Spinney, Sonya Taaffe
Some literature describes haunted houses; other books seem like they are haunted, as though the act of reading the book is inviting something vaguely unclean into the reader's life. Whether considering the dire typographical labyrinths of The House of Leaves, or the slowly expanding void at the heart of Kathe Koja's Cypher, some works leave a mark. Panelists will explore books that by reputation or their own experience, produce a lingering unsettled feeling far beyond the events and characters of the story.
SFF on Stage
Sunday 5:30 pm, Porter Square B
Raven Stern (m), Andrea Hairston, Greer Gilman, Sonya Taaffe, Stephen R. Wilk
Science fiction and fantasy have long been mainstays of live theater; William Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1595. Peter Pan introduced one of the 20th century's best known characters in 1904. In 1920, R.U.R. gave us the word "robot." Universal Studios' famous version of Dracula was adapted not from the novel, but the wildly successful Broadway play. That's not even getting into modern musicals like Wicked or Little Shop of Horrors. What does it take for genre to work in a live setting, and where have we seen it succeed (or fail)?
Anyone else I can expect to see this weekend? The ziggurat awaits.
Dramatic Readings from the Ig Nobel Prizes
Saturday 3 pm, Amesbury AB
Marc Abrahams et al.
Highlights from Ig Nobel prize-winning studies and patents, presented in dramatic mini-readings by luminaries and experts (in some field). The audience will have an opportunity to ask questions about the research presented—answers will be based on the expertise of the presenters, who may have a different expertise than the researchers.
Cursed Literature
Sunday 4:15 pm, Central Square
Mark Millman (m), Alastor, Kristina Spinney, Sonya Taaffe
Some literature describes haunted houses; other books seem like they are haunted, as though the act of reading the book is inviting something vaguely unclean into the reader's life. Whether considering the dire typographical labyrinths of The House of Leaves, or the slowly expanding void at the heart of Kathe Koja's Cypher, some works leave a mark. Panelists will explore books that by reputation or their own experience, produce a lingering unsettled feeling far beyond the events and characters of the story.
SFF on Stage
Sunday 5:30 pm, Porter Square B
Raven Stern (m), Andrea Hairston, Greer Gilman, Sonya Taaffe, Stephen R. Wilk
Science fiction and fantasy have long been mainstays of live theater; William Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1595. Peter Pan introduced one of the 20th century's best known characters in 1904. In 1920, R.U.R. gave us the word "robot." Universal Studios' famous version of Dracula was adapted not from the novel, but the wildly successful Broadway play. That's not even getting into modern musicals like Wicked or Little Shop of Horrors. What does it take for genre to work in a live setting, and where have we seen it succeed (or fail)?
Anyone else I can expect to see this weekend? The ziggurat awaits.
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Thank you! Not counting that first year of virtual conventions, it will kind of be my first public appearance since the onset of pandemic!
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You being on three program items is more than I expected when I saw you describe it as "minute."
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It's the only reason I felt safe signing up. I'm still not sure how I'm going to keep myself hydrated without literally ducking out into the cold at intervals, but I wouldn't do the convention at all if it weren't masked. I've been medically high-risk from the start and now I'm immunosuppressed. It functionally cuts me out of society, but it's not like it's a shock that society regards me as a dead loss.
You being on three program items is more than I expected when I saw you describe it as "minute."
Past schedules of mine have looked more like this!
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I disapprove of their decisions but look forward to seeing you!
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w00t!
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https://news.uga.edu/why-do-wombats-have-square-poop/
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Thank you! I would love to see you at Readercon!
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Thank you! I wish I had a TARDIS to lend.
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I would really like that!
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I've got a couple of gaming panels on Saturday, and also 1989: The Year No One Left the Theater very late on Sunday evening, and on Monday a panel on AI called Hello Dave, finally I'm moderating Notions of Noninterference in Science Fiction.
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Thank you so much! I hope I will live up to expectations. I feel rather feral and out of the loop (and also trying to get over this lurgi).
I've got a couple of gaming panels on Saturday, and also 1989: The Year No One Left the Theater very late on Sunday evening, and on Monday a panel on AI called Hello Dave, finally I'm moderating Notions of Noninterference in Science Fiction.
That sounds terrific. I will probably have collapsed by the 1989 panel, but please let me know how it goes!
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I do like the idea of using "the year 1989" as a way to talk about films; it means I get to natter on about both Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and also Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness.