As promised, my schedule for Readercon. The translation is as follows.
Thursday 9:00 PM. Panel
You Don't Know Dictionary!
Lila Garrott, Greer Gilman, Vylar Kaftan (L), Sarah Micklem, Sonya Taaffe
There's no need to make up new words when there's so many great unknown old ones. Tolkien introduced many readers to the likes of "wain" and "fell" (in the sense of fierce and cruel), while later writers such as Greer Gilman and Gene Wolfe have gone much further in plumbing the depths of unabridged dictionaries. Our panelists share their adventures with prodigious vocabularies and blank pages. And for the reader, what are the pros and cons of relying on context versus consulting the Book?
Friday 1:00 PM. Reading (30 min.)
Sonya Taaffe reads her short story "Odd Sympathy."
Friday 2:00 PM. Group Reading (60 min.)
Mythic Delirium / Goblin Fruit Group Reading
Mike Allen, Amal-El Mohtar, and Jessica Paige Wick (co-hosts) with Leah Bobet, M. M. Buckner, Greer Gilman, Sonya Taaffe, Catherynne M. Valente, Joselle Vanderhooft et al.
Joint reading from Mythic Delirium, the biannual magazine of speculative poetry edited by Allen (which just published its tenth anniversary issue), and Goblin Fruit, the quarterly online zine of fantastical poetry edited by El-Mohtar and Wick (whose Summer 2009 issue is due out now).
Saturday 1:00 PM. Panel
The Old Plot of Summer and Winter: The Invention of Fantasy in the Antiquarian Revival
Debra Doyle, Greer Gilman, Erin Kissane, Kathryn Morrow (M), Faye Ringel, Sonya Taaffe
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of scholarship on myth, ritual, and cultural traditions from ancient Greece to contemporary Sussex, a mix which had a profound effect on fields as disparate as classical music, analytical psychology, and literature of the fantastic. Whether the names Jane Ellen Harrison, James George Frazer, or Cecil Sharp mean anything or nothing to the average reader of fantasy, their legacy includes the mythic vocabulary that underpins much of our field—an older world beneath this one which still seeps through, to be identified in fragments and perilously traced to its source. Join us in exploring the present-day inheritors of these motifs and their framework, starting with our own Guests of Honor (Greer Gilman's Cloud derives its physics from The Golden Bough and The White Goddess, its history from Child ballads; Elizabeth Hand's Mortal Love not only draws on the Victorian folk revival for inspiration, but sets its plot going among the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Folk-Lore Society; Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist is perhaps the archetypal novel of slippage between worlds. Green Men in varying guises haunt the fiction of all three). Is this a peculiarly English take on fantasy? If so, what are two Americans doing writing it? Or have we all internalized katabasis, solstices, Indo-European trinities? Bring folksongs to answer the questions if you must, but Morris dancing will be politely discouraged.
Saturday 2:00 PM. Panel
The Fiction of Greer Gilman
Rachel Elizabeth Dillon, Lila Garrott, Donald G. Keller, Faye Ringel (L), Michael Swanwick, Sonya Taaffe
Saturday 3:00 PM. Event
The Rhysling Award Poetry Slan
Mike Allen (MC) with Michael Bishop, Leah Bobet, Lila Garrott, Greer Gilman, Ernest Lilley, Darrell Schweitzer, Sonya Taaffe, Catherynne M. Valente
(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.
Yeah, that'll keep me busy.
Hope to see many of you there!
Thursday 9:00 PM. Panel
You Don't Know Dictionary!
Lila Garrott, Greer Gilman, Vylar Kaftan (L), Sarah Micklem, Sonya Taaffe
There's no need to make up new words when there's so many great unknown old ones. Tolkien introduced many readers to the likes of "wain" and "fell" (in the sense of fierce and cruel), while later writers such as Greer Gilman and Gene Wolfe have gone much further in plumbing the depths of unabridged dictionaries. Our panelists share their adventures with prodigious vocabularies and blank pages. And for the reader, what are the pros and cons of relying on context versus consulting the Book?
Friday 1:00 PM. Reading (30 min.)
Sonya Taaffe reads her short story "Odd Sympathy."
Friday 2:00 PM. Group Reading (60 min.)
Mythic Delirium / Goblin Fruit Group Reading
Mike Allen, Amal-El Mohtar, and Jessica Paige Wick (co-hosts) with Leah Bobet, M. M. Buckner, Greer Gilman, Sonya Taaffe, Catherynne M. Valente, Joselle Vanderhooft et al.
Joint reading from Mythic Delirium, the biannual magazine of speculative poetry edited by Allen (which just published its tenth anniversary issue), and Goblin Fruit, the quarterly online zine of fantastical poetry edited by El-Mohtar and Wick (whose Summer 2009 issue is due out now).
Saturday 1:00 PM. Panel
The Old Plot of Summer and Winter: The Invention of Fantasy in the Antiquarian Revival
Debra Doyle, Greer Gilman, Erin Kissane, Kathryn Morrow (M), Faye Ringel, Sonya Taaffe
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of scholarship on myth, ritual, and cultural traditions from ancient Greece to contemporary Sussex, a mix which had a profound effect on fields as disparate as classical music, analytical psychology, and literature of the fantastic. Whether the names Jane Ellen Harrison, James George Frazer, or Cecil Sharp mean anything or nothing to the average reader of fantasy, their legacy includes the mythic vocabulary that underpins much of our field—an older world beneath this one which still seeps through, to be identified in fragments and perilously traced to its source. Join us in exploring the present-day inheritors of these motifs and their framework, starting with our own Guests of Honor (Greer Gilman's Cloud derives its physics from The Golden Bough and The White Goddess, its history from Child ballads; Elizabeth Hand's Mortal Love not only draws on the Victorian folk revival for inspiration, but sets its plot going among the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Folk-Lore Society; Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist is perhaps the archetypal novel of slippage between worlds. Green Men in varying guises haunt the fiction of all three). Is this a peculiarly English take on fantasy? If so, what are two Americans doing writing it? Or have we all internalized katabasis, solstices, Indo-European trinities? Bring folksongs to answer the questions if you must, but Morris dancing will be politely discouraged.
Saturday 2:00 PM. Panel
The Fiction of Greer Gilman
Rachel Elizabeth Dillon, Lila Garrott, Donald G. Keller, Faye Ringel (L), Michael Swanwick, Sonya Taaffe
Saturday 3:00 PM. Event
The Rhysling Award Poetry Slan
Mike Allen (MC) with Michael Bishop, Leah Bobet, Lila Garrott, Greer Gilman, Ernest Lilley, Darrell Schweitzer, Sonya Taaffe, Catherynne M. Valente
(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.
Yeah, that'll keep me busy.
Hope to see many of you there!
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