Wiscon schedule
Apr. 28th, 2007 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
My schedule for WisCon is now confirmed. So:
Revisiting the Wow: Books That Changed Everything (Reading, Viewing, and Critiquing SF&F)
Saturday, 8:30-9:45 a.m.
Remember that early work you experienced, the one that twisted off the top of your head and let new ideas in? Rereading breakthrough works can be a mixed blessing: insight into their power, disappointment with the writing or the concepts, embarrassment or bewilderment at what was so intriguing the first time around. Revisit one of your sparkplug works and come to share the experience.
James P. Roberts, M: Jesse Kaysen, Chris Hill, Carrie L Ferguson, Lenny Bailes
The Ten-Foot Shelf Of Perdition: Books to Avoid (Reading, Viewing, and Critiquing SF&F)
Saturday, 2:30-3:45 p.m.
Every year WisCon provides us with copious new reading material, more excellent books than we could possibly read before the next WisCon. We also need the warnings--"Beware, for the pretty cover and feminist-sounding back cover blurb on that book is utterly deceiving," or "I found that best-seller as comprehensible as reading refrigerator Poetry in the dark." What could be more entertaining and useful than turning our panelists (and audience members) loose on the bad fiction that is out there, providing warnings to be taken with a grain of salt and a smile?
Betsy Urbik, Chris Hill, M: Lesley Hall
The Many Answers to Fermi's Paradox (Science and Technology)
Sunday, 1:00-2:15 p.m.
Famed physicist Enrico Fermi originally posed the question around 1950. The Universe has been around for 15 billion years, he noted, more than enuf time for intelligent, space-faring civilizations to have spread to every star system in the galaxy. So where are they all? Indeed, where are ANY of them? Needless to say, SF authors picked up this ball and ran with it -- in 30 different directions. We'll try to go over as many as possible, and maybe even come up with some new ones.
M: Richard S. Russell, Jordin T. Kare, Chris Hill, Suzanne Alles Blom
Revisiting the Wow: Books That Changed Everything (Reading, Viewing, and Critiquing SF&F)
Saturday, 8:30-9:45 a.m.
Remember that early work you experienced, the one that twisted off the top of your head and let new ideas in? Rereading breakthrough works can be a mixed blessing: insight into their power, disappointment with the writing or the concepts, embarrassment or bewilderment at what was so intriguing the first time around. Revisit one of your sparkplug works and come to share the experience.
James P. Roberts, M: Jesse Kaysen, Chris Hill, Carrie L Ferguson, Lenny Bailes
The Ten-Foot Shelf Of Perdition: Books to Avoid (Reading, Viewing, and Critiquing SF&F)
Saturday, 2:30-3:45 p.m.
Every year WisCon provides us with copious new reading material, more excellent books than we could possibly read before the next WisCon. We also need the warnings--"Beware, for the pretty cover and feminist-sounding back cover blurb on that book is utterly deceiving," or "I found that best-seller as comprehensible as reading refrigerator Poetry in the dark." What could be more entertaining and useful than turning our panelists (and audience members) loose on the bad fiction that is out there, providing warnings to be taken with a grain of salt and a smile?
Betsy Urbik, Chris Hill, M: Lesley Hall
The Many Answers to Fermi's Paradox (Science and Technology)
Sunday, 1:00-2:15 p.m.
Famed physicist Enrico Fermi originally posed the question around 1950. The Universe has been around for 15 billion years, he noted, more than enuf time for intelligent, space-faring civilizations to have spread to every star system in the galaxy. So where are they all? Indeed, where are ANY of them? Needless to say, SF authors picked up this ball and ran with it -- in 30 different directions. We'll try to go over as many as possible, and maybe even come up with some new ones.
M: Richard S. Russell, Jordin T. Kare, Chris Hill, Suzanne Alles Blom
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Date: 2007-04-28 10:52 am (UTC)I've wanted to go to a con for a few years now, but it's never been possible to plan far enough ahead.
Probably if J was in better health, or if there was a chance in hell that he'd want to come too, I would. But neither of these applies. Sigh.
WisCon always sounds great. Tell us how it goes...
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Date: 2007-04-28 11:15 am (UTC)Oh, just give everyone copies of the Manifold books and be done with it. :p