I was pretty busy Saturday. Three panels: on fantasy trends, in which we discussed the pros and the pitfalls of the increasing subgenre-ization of fantasy. On cross genre fiction, ably moderated by Kimm Antell. And post-apocalyptic fiction and dystopia with S.M. Stirling. The latter devolved into a how to survive any apocalypse and prepped culture but eventually we got it back on the topic of literature. In between my panels I went to a presentation Read more…
By the time I got to the con on Friday, things were already in full swing. I got through registration and scanned around for next steps. Bill Ledbetter was on a robotics panel so I went to that briefly, got bored (sorry panel!) and then ducked in to Steve Stirling’s meet and greet, and that was fun, but had to leave for Adrian Simmons’ reading, from his novel about a Stone Age era twelve-year-old going Read more…
I will be at FenCon in Dallas on 2015. I will be autographing at 5 pm on Friday, and reading at 6:30 pm that evening. I will happily bribe all listeners who come to my reading with chocolates and other goodies. And I’ll sign autographs at any time; just ask. On Saturday, I will be on the Fantasy Trends panel at 2 pm in Trinity V (ooh, Trinity), on the Crossing Genres panel at 5 Read more…