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My schedule for Arisia. Apparently it's kind of huge this year.
The Exiled Character
Friday 7 PM
Catt Kingsgrave-Ernstein (m), Greer Gilman, Barry B. Longyear, Sonya Taaffe, Bob Kuhn
From the Mabinogion and the Arthurian cycle, our literature has used the archetype of the hidden prince. Let's focus on the notion of his exile and foreign upbringing, and more generally discuss the perspective of the outsider's perspective in F&SF. Why is it so common? What is the allure? What does this allow the author that they couldn't do otherwise? Does any of this parallel the experience and influence of the cultural outsider in today's society?
Fantasy Before Fantasy, SF Before SF
Saturday 11:30 AM
Hildy Silverman (m), Esther Friesner, Tim Lieder, Sonya Taaffe, April Grant, Gareth Hinds
The Odyssey, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Frankenstein, Gulliver's Travels, and Journey to the West. A look at classic works of world literature that, while not written as science fiction and fantasy, have been co-opted in the 20th and 21st centuries by speculative fiction readers and used as inspiration by the writers.
Chantey Sing
Saturday 1 PM
David Kessler (m), Sonya Taaffe, Angela Kessler, Jeff Keller
Songs of sailing in all forms, with an emphasis on work songs from the age of sail. Open sing. Fun for all!
Fantasy and Horror in Shakespeare
Saturday 2:30 PM
JoSelle Vanderhooft (m), Greer Gilman, David Nurenberg, Sonya Taaffe, Bob Kuhn
Before Brooks, Anthony, and Tolkien, there was the Bard. William Shakespeare was not the first to build the genre, but he was the first to make it marketable. This panel takes an in-depth look at the works of Shakespeare, and we reflect on Will's way through the genres of Fantasy and Horror.
Reading: Nelson, Silva, & Taaffe
Saturday 5:30 PM
Resa Nelson, Richard A. Silva, Sonya Taaffe
Authors Resa Nelson, Richard Silva, and Sonya Taaffe will read selections from their works. I will almost certainly be reading from A Mayse-Bikhl, of which I will have copies.
Death Personified
Saturday 8:30 PM
JoSelle Vanderhooft (m), Esther Friesner, Sonya Taaffe, William Freedman, Gail Z. Martin
Terry Pratchett's Mort, Peter Beagle's Lady Death, and, of course, Neil Gaiman's goth girl Death. The anthropomorphizing of the cessation of life has been a staple of genre fiction and fiction in general for longer than anyone can remember. Panelists discuss memorable incarnations of Death, and their varied uses and roles in fiction.
Myth and Folklore in Fantasy
Sunday 11:30 AM
Merav Hoffman (m), Esther Friesner, Greer Gilman, Sonya Taaffe, Erik Amundsen
How do writers use myth in their stories? What are the most common myth cycles drawn from? Has traditional folklore been run out of town by urban legends? Why is the appeal of these stories so strong after millennia?
Speculative Poetry Slam
Sunday 2:30 PM
Elayna Jade Smolowitz (m), Shira Lipkin, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Sonya Taaffe, April Grant, Julia Rios, Erik Amundsen
Join us for a speculative poetry reading!
Diana Wynne Jones: In Memoriam
Sunday 4 PM
Bob Kuhn (m), Greer Gilman, Merav Hoffman, Frances K. Selkirk, Sonya Taaffe
With the passing of the enormously prolific Diane Wynne Jones, we reflect on the body of work she has left us, from the Chrestomanci series to Howl's Moving Castle. What is it about her work as a primarily YA fantasy author that draws even adult attention?
I am also planning to attend the Post-Meridian Radio Players' Red Shift on Friday night (because I am finally not scheduled across from them) and the Skin Horse filk session on Monday afternoon.
Will I see any of you there?
The Exiled Character
Friday 7 PM
Catt Kingsgrave-Ernstein (m), Greer Gilman, Barry B. Longyear, Sonya Taaffe, Bob Kuhn
From the Mabinogion and the Arthurian cycle, our literature has used the archetype of the hidden prince. Let's focus on the notion of his exile and foreign upbringing, and more generally discuss the perspective of the outsider's perspective in F&SF. Why is it so common? What is the allure? What does this allow the author that they couldn't do otherwise? Does any of this parallel the experience and influence of the cultural outsider in today's society?
Fantasy Before Fantasy, SF Before SF
Saturday 11:30 AM
Hildy Silverman (m), Esther Friesner, Tim Lieder, Sonya Taaffe, April Grant, Gareth Hinds
The Odyssey, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Frankenstein, Gulliver's Travels, and Journey to the West. A look at classic works of world literature that, while not written as science fiction and fantasy, have been co-opted in the 20th and 21st centuries by speculative fiction readers and used as inspiration by the writers.
Chantey Sing
Saturday 1 PM
David Kessler (m), Sonya Taaffe, Angela Kessler, Jeff Keller
Songs of sailing in all forms, with an emphasis on work songs from the age of sail. Open sing. Fun for all!
Fantasy and Horror in Shakespeare
Saturday 2:30 PM
JoSelle Vanderhooft (m), Greer Gilman, David Nurenberg, Sonya Taaffe, Bob Kuhn
Before Brooks, Anthony, and Tolkien, there was the Bard. William Shakespeare was not the first to build the genre, but he was the first to make it marketable. This panel takes an in-depth look at the works of Shakespeare, and we reflect on Will's way through the genres of Fantasy and Horror.
Reading: Nelson, Silva, & Taaffe
Saturday 5:30 PM
Resa Nelson, Richard A. Silva, Sonya Taaffe
Authors Resa Nelson, Richard Silva, and Sonya Taaffe will read selections from their works. I will almost certainly be reading from A Mayse-Bikhl, of which I will have copies.
Death Personified
Saturday 8:30 PM
JoSelle Vanderhooft (m), Esther Friesner, Sonya Taaffe, William Freedman, Gail Z. Martin
Terry Pratchett's Mort, Peter Beagle's Lady Death, and, of course, Neil Gaiman's goth girl Death. The anthropomorphizing of the cessation of life has been a staple of genre fiction and fiction in general for longer than anyone can remember. Panelists discuss memorable incarnations of Death, and their varied uses and roles in fiction.
Myth and Folklore in Fantasy
Sunday 11:30 AM
Merav Hoffman (m), Esther Friesner, Greer Gilman, Sonya Taaffe, Erik Amundsen
How do writers use myth in their stories? What are the most common myth cycles drawn from? Has traditional folklore been run out of town by urban legends? Why is the appeal of these stories so strong after millennia?
Speculative Poetry Slam
Sunday 2:30 PM
Elayna Jade Smolowitz (m), Shira Lipkin, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Sonya Taaffe, April Grant, Julia Rios, Erik Amundsen
Join us for a speculative poetry reading!
Diana Wynne Jones: In Memoriam
Sunday 4 PM
Bob Kuhn (m), Greer Gilman, Merav Hoffman, Frances K. Selkirk, Sonya Taaffe
With the passing of the enormously prolific Diane Wynne Jones, we reflect on the body of work she has left us, from the Chrestomanci series to Howl's Moving Castle. What is it about her work as a primarily YA fantasy author that draws even adult attention?
I am also planning to attend the Post-Meridian Radio Players' Red Shift on Friday night (because I am finally not scheduled across from them) and the Skin Horse filk session on Monday afternoon.
Will I see any of you there?
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And I love the sound of the fantasy-and-horror in Shakespeare panel, along with the one on F and SF before F and SF.
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Arisia's programming has improved noticeably in the last couple of years. Partly this is because they're cribbing like crazy from Readercon (and probably Boskone as well), but since it results in panels I'd actually like to participate in, I don't want to complain too much.
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I think I'm scheduled across from your reading, so at least we'll go to the same hell.
My favorite Spanish Proverb:
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The lament of everyone I know!
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Have an amazing time.
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Request taken under advisement.
(Also, I wanna go to the con that has a chantey sing! Alas for parenting obligations and penury!)
Cheap teleportation.
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Teleportation! Teleportation!
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I hope it won't set you back that I added you this morning!
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Well, it's a convention, not a conference, but thank you!
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Nine
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It's a ghosts-and-Shakespeare panel. You're probably contractually obligated to appear on it.
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Maybe next year I'll try for it. Hopefully in 2013 nobody in my family will be getting surgery in the second week of January and I'll be able to think about more pleasant things in the last quarter of 2012.
Any road, I hope you have a wonderful time at the con!
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Honestly, surgery even in the first week of July isn't generally a good thing.
I hope it goes well.
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This is true.
I hope it goes well.
Thank you. He (this is my father in question) had the same surgery in a different part of his back maybe five years ago; it went well, and it's the same neurosurgeon this time again.
PS
Seems like it went okay, although he'll be in hospital until Saturday at least.
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It's not as much of a match for me as Readercon (or Boskone, the few years they invited me), but it's fun.
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The other's for your essay on "The 5000 Fingers". Brava. And. What the hell? This movie is beyond batshit. I'm going to check it out on Amazon.
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Thank you! I think there's a good chance.
And. What the hell? This movie is beyond batshit.
Pretty much. It's almost the only movie I can say that about. I was shown Eraserhead (1977) a few years ago and it was not even slightly as strange as everyone had been telling me.
I'm going to check it out on Amazon.
Enjoy! Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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I know. Stupid geography.
See you there!
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I plan to come to your Myth and Folklore panel, for sure. Not sure what else, except at 6 pm there's a Sassafrass and Stranger Ways joint best-of show -- their main one is on Saturday, but I gather they're doing this one too? -- which I'll be going to for reasons of both interest and friendship, since I have a housemate in both groups. Beyond that, I haven't taken a good look at the schedule yet.
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If you come across one and I know the tune, though, I'll happily trot it out at a con sometime. :) Or if I come across one, whichever.
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Fantastic!