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My schedule for Readercon! I said I'd post it.
Friday July 13
11:00 AM
Group Reading: Mythic Poetry
Mary Agner, Mike Allen, Erik Amundsen, Leah Bobet, C.S.E. Cooney, Gemma Files, Gwynne Garfinkle, April Grant, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Shira Lipkin, Adrienne J. Odasso, Julia Rios, Darrell Schweitzer, Sonya Taaffe
Over the past decade, speculative poetry has increasingly turned toward the mythic in subject matter, with venues such as Strange Horizons, Goblin Fruit, Mythic Delirium, Stone Telling, Cabinet des Fées, Jabberwocky, and the now-defunct Journal of the Mythic Arts showcasing a new generation of poets who've redefined what this type of writing can do. Come to the reading and hear new and classic works from speculative poetry's trend-setters.
1:00 PM
Theological Debate in Fantasy and SF
Ellen Asher, John Benson, James Morrow (leader), Sonya Taaffe, Harold Torger Vedeler
From Spenser and Bunyan to Michael Chabon and Stephenie Meyer, writers of speculative fiction have engaged in fine-grained, subtextual theological positioning and debate. Leaving aside instances of more obvious religious maneuvering, what happens when implicit or encoded theological dialogues become invisible to readers, either because the passage of time has stripped away their contexts (as with, say, High Church vs. Low Church Anglicanism in Victorian fiction), or because they are only available to the initiated (as with Meyer's LDS-inflected fantasy)? Are these vanishings a loss? Is there something insidious about books whose surface narratives conceal debates to which we lack access, or do these dimensions enrich the texts? Are we 'better' readers if we try to suss them out?
4:00 PM
Wet Dreams and Nightmares
Samuel R. Delany, Gemma Files, Paula Guran (leader), Caitlín R. Kiernan, Sonya Taaffe
Writers such as Caitlín R. Kiernan, M. Christian, Cecilia Tan, and Paula Guran are well known in both speculative fiction and erotic fiction circles for creating what Kiernan calls "weird and transgressive" erotica. How does this subgenre use the tools and tropes of horror and dark fantasy to explore taboo aspects of sexuality and gender? How has it changed over the decades as sexual culture has evolved? And as the romance genre becomes more welcoming of both the erotic and the undead, how will weird erotica maintain its identity as something separate from paranormal porn?
Saturday July 14
11:00 AM
Pointed Experiments in Indeterminacy
Michael Cisco (leader), Peter Dubé, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Peter Straub, Sonya Taaffe.
"Pointed experiments in the manipulation of point of view" is how Gary Wolfe and Amelia Beamer have described several works by Peter Straub; they are "metatextual and metafictional" experiments that lead to the conclusion that "the indeterminate nature of reality is a central inquiry in these books." We can't help but notice that this also closely describes several of Caitlín R. Kiernan's works, notably her novels The Red Tree and The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, and her short story "Tidal Forces." Our panelists discuss the ways writers use point of view to interrogate the nature of reality, and their reasons for doing so.
12:00 PM
The Works of Caitlín R. Kiernan
Elizabeth Bear (leader), Gemma Files, John Langan, Sonya Taaffe
Since blazing onto the speculative fiction scene with the story "Persephone" in 1995 and the novel Silk in 1998, Caitlín R. Kiernan has consistently pushed the boundaries of the fantastic, often refusing to be classified and always delighting in transgression. Her work encompasses elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and erotica, to name just a few; she writes short and long fiction, comics and graphic novels, poetry, and song lyrics with equal facility. This panel will attempt an overview of her spectacularly diverse career.
2:00 PM
Reading
Sonya Taaffe
Sonya Taaffe reads her short story "Another Coming," recently reprinted in Brit Mandelo's anthology Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Science Fiction.
3:00 PM
Group Reading: Ideomancer Speculative Fiction
Mike Allen, Leah Bobet, C.S.E. Cooney, Amanda Downum, George Galuschak, Claire Humphrey, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Kenneth Schneyer, Sonya Taaffe
Authors and poets read work from Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, one of the longest-running speculative fiction webzines still publishing.
I am resisting even typing any of the Tiny Wittgenstein-like remarks that leapt to mind when I saw this schedule. The last couple of days have been much better: exploring bike paths with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ratatosk, film noir with lesser_celery, a Chaplin comedy and a ridiculously storylike experience with a book-buyer with derspatchel. Today rushthatspeaks and I are going to Providence. I woke up with a different bit of a poem in my head.
Friday July 13
11:00 AM
Group Reading: Mythic Poetry
Mary Agner, Mike Allen, Erik Amundsen, Leah Bobet, C.S.E. Cooney, Gemma Files, Gwynne Garfinkle, April Grant, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Shira Lipkin, Adrienne J. Odasso, Julia Rios, Darrell Schweitzer, Sonya Taaffe
Over the past decade, speculative poetry has increasingly turned toward the mythic in subject matter, with venues such as Strange Horizons, Goblin Fruit, Mythic Delirium, Stone Telling, Cabinet des Fées, Jabberwocky, and the now-defunct Journal of the Mythic Arts showcasing a new generation of poets who've redefined what this type of writing can do. Come to the reading and hear new and classic works from speculative poetry's trend-setters.
1:00 PM
Theological Debate in Fantasy and SF
Ellen Asher, John Benson, James Morrow (leader), Sonya Taaffe, Harold Torger Vedeler
From Spenser and Bunyan to Michael Chabon and Stephenie Meyer, writers of speculative fiction have engaged in fine-grained, subtextual theological positioning and debate. Leaving aside instances of more obvious religious maneuvering, what happens when implicit or encoded theological dialogues become invisible to readers, either because the passage of time has stripped away their contexts (as with, say, High Church vs. Low Church Anglicanism in Victorian fiction), or because they are only available to the initiated (as with Meyer's LDS-inflected fantasy)? Are these vanishings a loss? Is there something insidious about books whose surface narratives conceal debates to which we lack access, or do these dimensions enrich the texts? Are we 'better' readers if we try to suss them out?
4:00 PM
Wet Dreams and Nightmares
Samuel R. Delany, Gemma Files, Paula Guran (leader), Caitlín R. Kiernan, Sonya Taaffe
Writers such as Caitlín R. Kiernan, M. Christian, Cecilia Tan, and Paula Guran are well known in both speculative fiction and erotic fiction circles for creating what Kiernan calls "weird and transgressive" erotica. How does this subgenre use the tools and tropes of horror and dark fantasy to explore taboo aspects of sexuality and gender? How has it changed over the decades as sexual culture has evolved? And as the romance genre becomes more welcoming of both the erotic and the undead, how will weird erotica maintain its identity as something separate from paranormal porn?
Saturday July 14
11:00 AM
Pointed Experiments in Indeterminacy
Michael Cisco (leader), Peter Dubé, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Peter Straub, Sonya Taaffe.
"Pointed experiments in the manipulation of point of view" is how Gary Wolfe and Amelia Beamer have described several works by Peter Straub; they are "metatextual and metafictional" experiments that lead to the conclusion that "the indeterminate nature of reality is a central inquiry in these books." We can't help but notice that this also closely describes several of Caitlín R. Kiernan's works, notably her novels The Red Tree and The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, and her short story "Tidal Forces." Our panelists discuss the ways writers use point of view to interrogate the nature of reality, and their reasons for doing so.
12:00 PM
The Works of Caitlín R. Kiernan
Elizabeth Bear (leader), Gemma Files, John Langan, Sonya Taaffe
Since blazing onto the speculative fiction scene with the story "Persephone" in 1995 and the novel Silk in 1998, Caitlín R. Kiernan has consistently pushed the boundaries of the fantastic, often refusing to be classified and always delighting in transgression. Her work encompasses elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and erotica, to name just a few; she writes short and long fiction, comics and graphic novels, poetry, and song lyrics with equal facility. This panel will attempt an overview of her spectacularly diverse career.
2:00 PM
Reading
Sonya Taaffe
Sonya Taaffe reads her short story "Another Coming," recently reprinted in Brit Mandelo's anthology Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Science Fiction.
3:00 PM
Group Reading: Ideomancer Speculative Fiction
Mike Allen, Leah Bobet, C.S.E. Cooney, Amanda Downum, George Galuschak, Claire Humphrey, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Kenneth Schneyer, Sonya Taaffe
Authors and poets read work from Ideomancer Speculative Fiction, one of the longest-running speculative fiction webzines still publishing.
I am resisting even typing any of the Tiny Wittgenstein-like remarks that leapt to mind when I saw this schedule. The last couple of days have been much better: exploring bike paths with
ratatosk, film noir with lesser_celery, a Chaplin comedy and a ridiculously storylike experience with a book-buyer with derspatchel. Today rushthatspeaks and I are going to Providence. I woke up with a different bit of a poem in my head.
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I didn't notice you were on this panel when I saw the semi-final list a few days ago. Been a long time since you and I have been on a panel together.
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I was added to it at the last moment. I'm looking forward!
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I'm glad you're feeling better. Hope you and Rush have a great day.
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One of these years!
Good luck; I'm sure you'll be superb.
Thank you. I have felt more confident going into other Readercons, but I will sleep a lot between now and then and it will be all right.
Hope you and Rush have a great day.
Oh, yeah.
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I hope you have a good day. I had a funny vision while I got halfway to sleep with a thumping heart about the connotations of a gender-flipped Olympus.
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Seriously? All right: I will endeavor not to disappoint!
I had a funny vision while I got halfway to sleep with a thumping heart about the connotations of a gender-flipped Olympus.
Poem, story, something, thank you.
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Hah. Thank you.
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I will come to as many as my schedule allows--you're always brilliant (take that, Tiny!) and you're in some dazzling constellations.
Hope you and Rush are enjoying yourselves.
Nine
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I just don't want to burn out in the middle of any of them . . .
(And the stellar metaphor, stretched past bearing, blew its quanta and collapsed into a white dwarf.)
Hope you and Rush are enjoying yourselves.
I believe we did.
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Thank you.
It will be nice to see you!
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I'm glad the last couple of days have been an improvement.
I hope you and
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I like it better than the alternative . . .
I hope you and rushthatspeaks are having and will have a wonderful time in Providence.
It was great.
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Right! And I have to not be stupid about the subject!
What would Wittgenstein have to say about that schedule? It looks kind of great.
He'd probably excuse himself quickly and flee to the movies with a meat pie. He hated lecturing. (He was brilliant at it, of course.)
. . . Man, I should sneak a meat pie into the theater one of these days. I bet it can be done. I've made very good meat pies.
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Hah. You make a cogent point.
Thank you.
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I've been more off LJ and FB than on in recent months, but whenever I do see your posts I am often amazed at your productivity and all the wonderful things you are creating and sending out into the world. May all your blessings given and received be magnified.
My own Readercon schedule is rather modest, if somewhat daunting (to me):
With much trepidation, I'm reading my short play about the boy Shakespeare, "A Gross of Nails", on Friday at 8:30 p.m., and if there's time, perhaps the fictive ending of my long essay "The First Woman on Mars" as well.
On Saturday at 11 a.m., I'm moderating the "Delany Golden Jubilee" panel; my fabulous panelmates are Liz Hand, Jo Walton, L. Timmel Duchamp, Matt Cheney, and Don Keller; Chip says he'll be sitting in the front row. Oh gosh, am I nervous and a little stressed? God yes!
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I look forward to seeing you! I hope I'll be worth hearing!
Oh gosh, am I nervous and a little stressed? God yes!
You'll be fine!