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asakiyume and selidor in August. The table of contents is amazing.
Arisia! I have my schedule. Warning: it is kind of amazingly awkward.
Ray Bradbury: A Retrospective
Saturday 10 AM
Sonya Taaffe (m), Susan Hanniford Crowley, Walter Hunt, Justine Graykin
Few golden-age authors were as beloved as Ray Bradbury, and his death last year was a loss keenly felt. Come discuss your favorite Bradbury works, the uniqueness of his authorial voice, and some of his lesser-known gems.
Reading: Janssen, Older, & Taaffe
Saturday 4 PM
Victoria Janssen, Daniel José Older, Sonya Taaffe
Authors Victoria Janssen, Daniel José Older, and Sonya Taaffe read selections from their works.
Speculative Poetry Reading
Saturday 8:30 PM
Shira Lipkin (m), C.S.E. Cooney, Grant Carrington, Merav Hoffman, David Sklar, Joy Marchand, Catt Kingsgrave-Ernstein, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Sonya Taaffe, Trisha Wooldridge, Julia Rios, Erik Amundsen
Join us for a speculative poetry reading! The poets don't bite, but some of the poems do.
Morally Ambiguous Characters
Saturday 10 PM
Erik Amundsen (m), Robert V.S. Redick, Meredith Schwartz, Ken Kingsgrave-Ernstein, Sonya Taaffe
What genre characters, either YA or adult, break out of being able to be labeled "good" and "evil"? What characters are labeled good or evil, but are actually more ambiguous in spite of their label? How do we respond to them as readers, and what challenges do they provide for writers?
Fairy Tales and Folklore in Modern Literature
Sunday 11:30 AM
Vikki Ciaffone (m), Lila Garrott, Greer Gilman, Sonya Taaffe, Daniel Rabuzzi
Fantasy and, to a lesser degree, SF are infused with the fairy tales and folklore we grew up with. A story need not be a straight-up retelling of a fairy tale in order to use the elements of one—everyone knows the red hood and the foam on the sea. How are these elements being used in today's fiction? Where else can we go from here?
Future Fantasy
Sunday 4 PM
Ken Kingsgrave-Ernstein (m), Robert V.S. Redick, Meredith Schwartz, Sonya Taaffe, Erik Amundsen
Epic fantasy is mostly set in the past. Urban fantasy is mostly set in the present. Why are there so few works that use magic and are set in the future? What might a futuristic fantasy world look like, and is it really indistinguishable from a sufficiently advanced technology?
Strong Stories with Strong Parents
Sunday 5:30 PM
Trisha Wooldridge (m), Sonya Taaffe, Mikki Kendall, Brandy Danner, Bart Leib
Absent or clueless parents are endemic in YA fiction. It's much easier to put your young protagonists in dramatic peril when Mom and/or Dad aren't there, aren't up to protecting or rescuing them, or not noticing they've gone AWOL. Let's talk about YA books that feature strong, capable parents who do the right things but whose kids still get in fantastic hot water. What are some of the ways of creating peril and predicament for teen characters even as their guardians parent them well?
Speculative Poetry Is Awesome
Sunday 8:30 PM
Erik Amundsen (m), David Sklar, Shira Lipkin, Sonya Taaffe, Julia Rios
Over the past decade, speculative poetry has increasingly turned toward the mythic, personal, and powerful in subject matter, with venues such as Strange Horizons, Goblin Fruit, Mythic Delirium, Stone Telling, Cabinet des Fées, and Jabberwocky showcasing a new generation of poets who’ve redefined what this type of writing can do. Come discuss what's new and wonderful in the world of speculative poetry!
Unreliable Narrators in Speculative Fiction
Sunday 10 PM
Christopher K. Davis (m), Robert V.S. Redick, Sarah Smith, Sonya Taaffe, Kate Nepveu
If someone reports they're hearing voices from another dimension, we readers of speculative fiction are likely to take them at their word. However, in a mainstream novel, that's a clue that we have a narrator who is not to be taken altogether seriously. Is the device of an unreliable narrator a marker that we're teetering on the border between mainstream and fantasy? Is sometimes crazy just crazy, and have there been good uses of unreliable narrators in genre fiction?
Theme Circle: Ballads of the Supernatural
Monday 1 PM
Greer Gilman (m), Sonya Taaffe, Elizabeth Birdsall, Daniel Marsh
Many traditional songs tell stories of the supernatural: ghosts, faeries, shape-changers, and so forth. Come listen or sing in this themed song circle.
Alan Turing's Legacy: 100 Years Later
Monday 2:30 PM
Bob Kuhn (m), Ian Schleifer, Sonya Taaffe
Alan Turing would have been 100 years old last June. The WWII code breaker and founder of computer science was lost to us by suicide in 1954 after being convicted for his homosexuality and chemically castrated as part of a deal to avoid prison. From his philosophical legacy of the Turing Test to the omnipresence of the modern computer in all aspects of our lives, what would he make of today's technological world and his role in it? What would he make of our attempts at artificial intelligence?
I will also be in attendance at the Post-Meridian Radio Players' The Day the Earth Stood Still on Friday night and otherwise I expect I will be searching wildly for ways not to burn out and die from this schedule, because this is after I was taken off my Friday programming. Wish me luck. And tell me who I'll see there!
Abbie the Cat has a boat.
asakiyume and selidor in August. The table of contents is amazing.Arisia! I have my schedule. Warning: it is kind of amazingly awkward.
Ray Bradbury: A Retrospective
Saturday 10 AM
Sonya Taaffe (m), Susan Hanniford Crowley, Walter Hunt, Justine Graykin
Few golden-age authors were as beloved as Ray Bradbury, and his death last year was a loss keenly felt. Come discuss your favorite Bradbury works, the uniqueness of his authorial voice, and some of his lesser-known gems.
Reading: Janssen, Older, & Taaffe
Saturday 4 PM
Victoria Janssen, Daniel José Older, Sonya Taaffe
Authors Victoria Janssen, Daniel José Older, and Sonya Taaffe read selections from their works.
Speculative Poetry Reading
Saturday 8:30 PM
Shira Lipkin (m), C.S.E. Cooney, Grant Carrington, Merav Hoffman, David Sklar, Joy Marchand, Catt Kingsgrave-Ernstein, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Sonya Taaffe, Trisha Wooldridge, Julia Rios, Erik Amundsen
Join us for a speculative poetry reading! The poets don't bite, but some of the poems do.
Morally Ambiguous Characters
Saturday 10 PM
Erik Amundsen (m), Robert V.S. Redick, Meredith Schwartz, Ken Kingsgrave-Ernstein, Sonya Taaffe
What genre characters, either YA or adult, break out of being able to be labeled "good" and "evil"? What characters are labeled good or evil, but are actually more ambiguous in spite of their label? How do we respond to them as readers, and what challenges do they provide for writers?
Fairy Tales and Folklore in Modern Literature
Sunday 11:30 AM
Vikki Ciaffone (m), Lila Garrott, Greer Gilman, Sonya Taaffe, Daniel Rabuzzi
Fantasy and, to a lesser degree, SF are infused with the fairy tales and folklore we grew up with. A story need not be a straight-up retelling of a fairy tale in order to use the elements of one—everyone knows the red hood and the foam on the sea. How are these elements being used in today's fiction? Where else can we go from here?
Future Fantasy
Sunday 4 PM
Ken Kingsgrave-Ernstein (m), Robert V.S. Redick, Meredith Schwartz, Sonya Taaffe, Erik Amundsen
Epic fantasy is mostly set in the past. Urban fantasy is mostly set in the present. Why are there so few works that use magic and are set in the future? What might a futuristic fantasy world look like, and is it really indistinguishable from a sufficiently advanced technology?
Strong Stories with Strong Parents
Sunday 5:30 PM
Trisha Wooldridge (m), Sonya Taaffe, Mikki Kendall, Brandy Danner, Bart Leib
Absent or clueless parents are endemic in YA fiction. It's much easier to put your young protagonists in dramatic peril when Mom and/or Dad aren't there, aren't up to protecting or rescuing them, or not noticing they've gone AWOL. Let's talk about YA books that feature strong, capable parents who do the right things but whose kids still get in fantastic hot water. What are some of the ways of creating peril and predicament for teen characters even as their guardians parent them well?
Speculative Poetry Is Awesome
Sunday 8:30 PM
Erik Amundsen (m), David Sklar, Shira Lipkin, Sonya Taaffe, Julia Rios
Over the past decade, speculative poetry has increasingly turned toward the mythic, personal, and powerful in subject matter, with venues such as Strange Horizons, Goblin Fruit, Mythic Delirium, Stone Telling, Cabinet des Fées, and Jabberwocky showcasing a new generation of poets who’ve redefined what this type of writing can do. Come discuss what's new and wonderful in the world of speculative poetry!
Unreliable Narrators in Speculative Fiction
Sunday 10 PM
Christopher K. Davis (m), Robert V.S. Redick, Sarah Smith, Sonya Taaffe, Kate Nepveu
If someone reports they're hearing voices from another dimension, we readers of speculative fiction are likely to take them at their word. However, in a mainstream novel, that's a clue that we have a narrator who is not to be taken altogether seriously. Is the device of an unreliable narrator a marker that we're teetering on the border between mainstream and fantasy? Is sometimes crazy just crazy, and have there been good uses of unreliable narrators in genre fiction?
Theme Circle: Ballads of the Supernatural
Monday 1 PM
Greer Gilman (m), Sonya Taaffe, Elizabeth Birdsall, Daniel Marsh
Many traditional songs tell stories of the supernatural: ghosts, faeries, shape-changers, and so forth. Come listen or sing in this themed song circle.
Alan Turing's Legacy: 100 Years Later
Monday 2:30 PM
Bob Kuhn (m), Ian Schleifer, Sonya Taaffe
Alan Turing would have been 100 years old last June. The WWII code breaker and founder of computer science was lost to us by suicide in 1954 after being convicted for his homosexuality and chemically castrated as part of a deal to avoid prison. From his philosophical legacy of the Turing Test to the omnipresence of the modern computer in all aspects of our lives, what would he make of today's technological world and his role in it? What would he make of our attempts at artificial intelligence?
I will also be in attendance at the Post-Meridian Radio Players' The Day the Earth Stood Still on Friday night and otherwise I expect I will be searching wildly for ways not to burn out and die from this schedule, because this is after I was taken off my Friday programming. Wish me luck. And tell me who I'll see there!
Abbie the Cat has a boat.
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No! You want to come out and see people, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are your friend!
(I mean, there's Monday, too. But it's like a half-day and most people work.)
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Make this year different!
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Are you sure you don't want about half of that taken off?
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Almost all my top choices are the late night/early morning extremes: Ray Bradbury, Morally Ambiguous Characters, Unreliable Narrators, Anything to Do with Speculative Poetry. (Alan Turing, thank God, is only midafternoon on the last day of the con when everyone is so tired we'll all fail the Turing test.) I couldn't get any of them shifted. I'd already lost "Displacement in Literature" on Friday night; I'd have been left with very little I really wanted to do.
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Also, I am too young to meet any of the fates usually assigned to parents in such stories.
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Hey, this is YA where the parents are awesome! The point is your not meeting any of the traditional fates!
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If you're going to hear, I think that's a rather wonderful way.
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I'll ask if anyone on the panel has the technology!
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Good luck! Enjoy!
Abbie the Cat has a boat.
Excellent. For some reason I really like the image of cats out travelling in boats, having adventures, and sailing together in cat-like fashion.
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Well, it's a good image.
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Thank you!
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I'm off to find a teleportation device. And money.
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Thank you! I'll take both.
I'm off to find a teleportation device. And money.
Everybody I know could use one or both of these concepts . . .
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Thank you. They reopen in February. Send them work!
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Likewise!