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Right. My schedule for Wiscon, in case anyone wishes to meet up around it:
Friday 4:00—5:15 PM
Greer Gilman's Cloudish Universe
Moderator: Faye Ringel, Rush-That-Speaks, Greer Gilman, Sonya Taaffe
One of this year's Tiptree Awards honors Greer Gilman's Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales. Along with her earlier novel Moonwise, this book is set in a universe that may remind us of Northern England in the seventeenth century, but with significant reversals. As the Tiptree jury writes, "Power shifts about, much of it gender-based; time eats itself like a mobius strip. These are stories about Story in a world in which power seems to belong to the male but reality to the female." Knowledgeable guides—and the author herself—will provide threads through the labyrinth of Gilman's difficult yet rewarding work.
Saturday 10:00—11:15 AM
Mothers and Daughters
Moderator: Shira Lipkin, Greer Gilman, Kimberly Gonzalez, Sonya Taaffe
In a follow-up to last year's Fathers and Daughters panel, we discuss the impact mothers, even those dead or absent, can have on their daughters, and how daughters can change mothers. There are many books where mothers are missing from the story, but that doesn't mean they are unimportant to the characters. Would Flora Segunda have been half as spunky without her unique background? How is Ista of Chalion changed and challenged by motherhood? How many of your favorite stories portray girls forced to become substitute mothers?
Saturday 4:00—5:15 PM
Five Tales for Cerberus
Greer Gilman, Hiromi Goto, Adrian Simmons, Sonya Taaffe, Cliff Winnig
A reading from novels and stories that explore the limits of the bearable . . . In the darkness, in the trembling, when there is no one to turn to and the morning light is a lifetime away . . . What will she do? What can she do? Out of the wretched, from nightmare paralysis, young men and women tap into previously undiscovered strength to overcome that which seeks to destroy them.
Sunday 10:00—11:15 AM
Must Pleasures Be Guilty?
Moderator: Vito Excalibur, Lesley Hall, Sumana Harihareswara, John O'Neill, Sonya Taaffe
Why are we ashamed of the books we love? Critical acclaim recognizes some SF/F as serious literature, works one might recommend to a non-genre reader who thought it was all talking squid and ray-guns in space, to demonstrate what the genre can do. But are these the books you love and reread over and over again, especially when feeling low? And if not, why not? What is the difference between love and admiration? And why is pleasure so often constructed as "guilty" or embarrassing to admit?
I am not a morning person, so we'll see how the two panels that require actual thought go—and I don't think I've written a single story that fits the description for "Five Tales from Cerberus," so I hope everyone's all right with ordinary underworld—but it should be fun. All I have to do is be awake enough to catch the plane at oh god o'clock on Thursday with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nineweaving and rushthatspeaks. Who may I expect to see when we arrive?
Friday 4:00—5:15 PM
Greer Gilman's Cloudish Universe
Moderator: Faye Ringel, Rush-That-Speaks, Greer Gilman, Sonya Taaffe
One of this year's Tiptree Awards honors Greer Gilman's Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales. Along with her earlier novel Moonwise, this book is set in a universe that may remind us of Northern England in the seventeenth century, but with significant reversals. As the Tiptree jury writes, "Power shifts about, much of it gender-based; time eats itself like a mobius strip. These are stories about Story in a world in which power seems to belong to the male but reality to the female." Knowledgeable guides—and the author herself—will provide threads through the labyrinth of Gilman's difficult yet rewarding work.
Saturday 10:00—11:15 AM
Mothers and Daughters
Moderator: Shira Lipkin, Greer Gilman, Kimberly Gonzalez, Sonya Taaffe
In a follow-up to last year's Fathers and Daughters panel, we discuss the impact mothers, even those dead or absent, can have on their daughters, and how daughters can change mothers. There are many books where mothers are missing from the story, but that doesn't mean they are unimportant to the characters. Would Flora Segunda have been half as spunky without her unique background? How is Ista of Chalion changed and challenged by motherhood? How many of your favorite stories portray girls forced to become substitute mothers?
Saturday 4:00—5:15 PM
Five Tales for Cerberus
Greer Gilman, Hiromi Goto, Adrian Simmons, Sonya Taaffe, Cliff Winnig
A reading from novels and stories that explore the limits of the bearable . . . In the darkness, in the trembling, when there is no one to turn to and the morning light is a lifetime away . . . What will she do? What can she do? Out of the wretched, from nightmare paralysis, young men and women tap into previously undiscovered strength to overcome that which seeks to destroy them.
Sunday 10:00—11:15 AM
Must Pleasures Be Guilty?
Moderator: Vito Excalibur, Lesley Hall, Sumana Harihareswara, John O'Neill, Sonya Taaffe
Why are we ashamed of the books we love? Critical acclaim recognizes some SF/F as serious literature, works one might recommend to a non-genre reader who thought it was all talking squid and ray-guns in space, to demonstrate what the genre can do. But are these the books you love and reread over and over again, especially when feeling low? And if not, why not? What is the difference between love and admiration? And why is pleasure so often constructed as "guilty" or embarrassing to admit?
I am not a morning person, so we'll see how the two panels that require actual thought go—and I don't think I've written a single story that fits the description for "Five Tales from Cerberus," so I hope everyone's all right with ordinary underworld—but it should be fun. All I have to do is be awake enough to catch the plane at oh god o'clock on Thursday with
nineweaving and rushthatspeaks. Who may I expect to see when we arrive?