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For anyone interested:
Friday 3:00 PM, Vinyard: Kaffeeklatsch
Ellen Datlow; Sarah Monette
Saturday 10:00 AM, ME/ CT: Panel
The Rebirth Of The Non-Theme Original Anthology. Mike Allen, Ellen Datlow (L), David G. Hartwell, Kit Reed, Christopher Rowe
*Leader (Participant / Moderator) *
It started in the fall of 2006 with _Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy_, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. Last year saw the publication of no less than four anthologies with annual designs: _The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction_ edited by George Mann, _Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction From the Cutting Edge_ edited by Lou Anders, _Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction and Fantasy_ edited by Jonathan Strahan, and Mann's _The Solaris Book of New Fantasy_. This year has seen a second Solaris SF volume and Datlow's _The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy_--each including a handful of stories by Readercon 19 guests. What role has the non-theme anthology played in the history of the field? What's behind the recent resurgence?
Saturday 11:00 AM, Salon E: Autographing
Ellen Datlow; Sarah Beth Durst
Saturday 2:00 PM, VT: Group Reading (60 min.)
_The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy_ Group Reading Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Elizabeth Bear, Ellen Datlow, Jeffrey Ford, Barry N. Malzberg, Christopher Rowe
Readings from the anthology (subtitled _Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices_) edited by Datlow and published in April by (who else?) Del Rey books.
Sunday 10:00 AM, ME/ CT: Panel
The Aesthetics of Online Magazines. Leah Bobet, Ellen Datlow, Ernest Lilley, Nick Mamatas (L), Sean Wallace
Online magazines are a growing section of the speculative fiction marketplace. But is there more to an online magazine than simply publishing in pixels stories that would otherwise be printed on pulp? How have online magazines adapted to the new medium in terms of story subjects, story length, design, and the attraction and maintenance of audiences? How do these choices differ from those made by print magazine producers? If the medium is the message, then what is the message of Internet-based magazines?
Sunday 11:00 AM, Salon G: Event
The Shirley Jackson Awards. Jonathan Lethem (M.C.), Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Lucy Corin, Ellen Datlow, Christopher Golden, Elizabeth Hand, Carrie Laben, Sarah Monette, (nominees), F. Brett Cox, John Langan, Sarah Langan, Paul Tremblay (jurors), Andy Duncan (presenter)
Sunday 1:00 PM, Salon G: Panel
The Year in Short Fiction. Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant, David G. Hartwell, Tom Purdom, Hildy Silverman (M)
And here is an event that I suspect will be packed and very emotional:
Friday 9pm
Tom Disch's "Winter Journey"
(40 min.)
Almost exactly a year after the death of his longtime partner Charles Naylor in September 2004, Tom Disch began writing a sequence of poems, which he shared on his blog. Eventually there were 31 of them. He titled the sequence "Winter Journey" after Schubert's lieder cycle "Winterreise" (a work Naylor loved). Elizabeth Hand calls the sequence "an extraordinary efflorescence of grief ... tragic, bitter, bleakly funny, romantic, heart-rending—and also accessible. I can imagine, by some divine fluke, the book becoming a surprise, posthumous bestseller—an irony Disch would have appreciated." When the sequence was completed, Disch contacted friend and filmmaker Eric Solstein, and asked if a reading of the work might be videotaped to serve as a suicide note. At its conclusion, he said, he would kill himself, the attendant publicity hopefully contributing to the success of the recording. A deal was struck between Tom and Eric—the taping would proceed if the suicide were postponed for some indefinite period of time. This will be the first public showing of "Winter Journey." The poems are to be published later this year, by Payseur and Schmidt, with a DVD of the reading included.
OP books of mine for sale--if interested, let me know in the comments beforehand:
all hardcover
Lethal Kisses (UK --only publication)
YBFH #3
YBFH #10
Blood is not Enough
Snow White, Blood Red
if there are others you're interested in, (pb or hc) ask and I may have them around.
Friday 3:00 PM, Vinyard: Kaffeeklatsch
Ellen Datlow; Sarah Monette
Saturday 10:00 AM, ME/ CT: Panel
The Rebirth Of The Non-Theme Original Anthology. Mike Allen, Ellen Datlow (L), David G. Hartwell, Kit Reed, Christopher Rowe
*Leader (Participant / Moderator) *
It started in the fall of 2006 with _Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy_, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. Last year saw the publication of no less than four anthologies with annual designs: _The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction_ edited by George Mann, _Fast Forward 1: Future Fiction From the Cutting Edge_ edited by Lou Anders, _Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction and Fantasy_ edited by Jonathan Strahan, and Mann's _The Solaris Book of New Fantasy_. This year has seen a second Solaris SF volume and Datlow's _The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy_--each including a handful of stories by Readercon 19 guests. What role has the non-theme anthology played in the history of the field? What's behind the recent resurgence?
Saturday 11:00 AM, Salon E: Autographing
Ellen Datlow; Sarah Beth Durst
Saturday 2:00 PM, VT: Group Reading (60 min.)
_The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy_ Group Reading Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Elizabeth Bear, Ellen Datlow, Jeffrey Ford, Barry N. Malzberg, Christopher Rowe
Readings from the anthology (subtitled _Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction's Finest Voices_) edited by Datlow and published in April by (who else?) Del Rey books.
Sunday 10:00 AM, ME/ CT: Panel
The Aesthetics of Online Magazines. Leah Bobet, Ellen Datlow, Ernest Lilley, Nick Mamatas (L), Sean Wallace
Online magazines are a growing section of the speculative fiction marketplace. But is there more to an online magazine than simply publishing in pixels stories that would otherwise be printed on pulp? How have online magazines adapted to the new medium in terms of story subjects, story length, design, and the attraction and maintenance of audiences? How do these choices differ from those made by print magazine producers? If the medium is the message, then what is the message of Internet-based magazines?
Sunday 11:00 AM, Salon G: Event
The Shirley Jackson Awards. Jonathan Lethem (M.C.), Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Lucy Corin, Ellen Datlow, Christopher Golden, Elizabeth Hand, Carrie Laben, Sarah Monette, (nominees), F. Brett Cox, John Langan, Sarah Langan, Paul Tremblay (jurors), Andy Duncan (presenter)
Sunday 1:00 PM, Salon G: Panel
The Year in Short Fiction. Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant, David G. Hartwell, Tom Purdom, Hildy Silverman (M)
And here is an event that I suspect will be packed and very emotional:
Friday 9pm
Tom Disch's "Winter Journey"
(40 min.)
Almost exactly a year after the death of his longtime partner Charles Naylor in September 2004, Tom Disch began writing a sequence of poems, which he shared on his blog. Eventually there were 31 of them. He titled the sequence "Winter Journey" after Schubert's lieder cycle "Winterreise" (a work Naylor loved). Elizabeth Hand calls the sequence "an extraordinary efflorescence of grief ... tragic, bitter, bleakly funny, romantic, heart-rending—and also accessible. I can imagine, by some divine fluke, the book becoming a surprise, posthumous bestseller—an irony Disch would have appreciated." When the sequence was completed, Disch contacted friend and filmmaker Eric Solstein, and asked if a reading of the work might be videotaped to serve as a suicide note. At its conclusion, he said, he would kill himself, the attendant publicity hopefully contributing to the success of the recording. A deal was struck between Tom and Eric—the taping would proceed if the suicide were postponed for some indefinite period of time. This will be the first public showing of "Winter Journey." The poems are to be published later this year, by Payseur and Schmidt, with a DVD of the reading included.
OP books of mine for sale--if interested, let me know in the comments beforehand:
all hardcover
Lethal Kisses (UK --only publication)
YBFH #3
YBFH #10
Blood is not Enough
Snow White, Blood Red
if there are others you're interested in, (pb or hc) ask and I may have them around.
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Are you ready for the inevitable question: "So, is the short story dead?' on Sunday? :-)
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I just got offered a great rate from Spirit this morning, so I decided to take advantage of it to go to this. I'm actually flying into NY, and so I'd hoped to go to the KGB reading, but I'll miss it by one day. *sigh* Still . . . I'm pretty excited!
(Too bad all the cheap hotel rooms are gone . . . *grumble* )
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In any case, say hi at the convention.
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My one indulgence (aside from Readercon, of course) will be a Yankees game the 21st. The price I have to pay for that is to take my wife to the Mohegan Sun. >_< Hopefully there'll still be money once this trip is over . . .
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Hey, any possibility you'll be coming to Capclave again? That one I will actually get to!
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Oh, I see you're on a panel with Ernest Lilley. Yay! He's so nice.
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Um. If I didn't I feel dumb. Heh.
NADWCon 2009
I'm Vice-Chair and Webmaster for this thing. Current guests are Terry (health permitting), Diane Duane and Peter Morwood, and Esther Friesner. We are talking with a couple or so other people as well (we'll probably have at least 2-3 more guests, schedules and budget permitting). Right now we've got over 250 (or it might be 300 by now?) people registered. It's going to be great.
Also I'm interviewing Terry in August at the UK Discworld Con for Ernest Lilley's magazine, SFRevu.com, and our con website. :)
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Do you ever find yourself with everybody just sitting around awkwardly?
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I sometimes have to urge people to ask questions at first, but generally it goes well.
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