Archive for July, 2009
Readercon 20 Report, Pt II
There’s been some debate, online, about the format of both this and next years’ programming, and about the hierarchical nature of the con, and so on. (Here are two thoughtful posts at the opposite ends of that particular spectrum.) As a Readercon n00b, I don’t have much to add except to say that I’m a [...]
Readercon 20 Report, Pt I
Readercon 20 was my first, and my first con of any kind in about ten years. The list of this year’s guests of honor—Elizabeth Hand, Greer Gilman, and Hope Mirrlees—made my decision to go very easy. (It would be difficult to understate the influence of Elizabeth Hand’s work on my fiction, Hope Mirrlees’ novel Lud-in-the-Mist [...]
Excessive Candour, rescued
If, like me, you’ve been distressed at the disappearance of John Clute’s years of Excessive Candour columns from the web in the wake of SciFi.com’s idiotic, deck-chair rearranging rebranding to “Syfy”—or if you’ve simply never had the pleasure of reading through Clute’s extraordinarily literate and witty book reviews—I have some links for you, courtesy of [...]
Reviving a zombie blog
Turns out that if it’s been three years and two web host moves since you last logged into your Movable Type blog, things are likely to be a bit ahoo when you finally return. I got back from Readercon earlier this week and wanted to write a post or two about it, but that simple [...]
