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Readercon: fanfic vs. original fiction
Warning: Unedited liveblog in progress. Borders (If Any) Between Fan Fiction and “Original Fiction”. Panelists: Gwynne Garfinkle (GG), Eileen Gunn (EG), Kate Nepveu (KN), Madeleine Robins (MR), Kenneth Schneyer (KS, leader). Panel description: Maguire’s Wicked books. Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Chabon’s The Final Solution. Kessel’s “Pride and Prometheus.” Resnick’s “The Bride of Frankenstein.” [...]
Readercon: Teleological SF panel
Unedited liveblog in progress. Illiteracies and other mistakes are mine, not the panelists’. Well, We Know Where We’re Going: The Pseudo-Religiosity of Teleological SF Panelists: John Crowley (JC), Barry N. Malzberg (BM), James Morrow (JM), Kathryn Morrow (KM), Graham Sleight (GS) (leader). Panel description: The late Charles N. Brown was a great advocate of the [...]
Readercon: Eucatastrophe panel
Rough liveblog in progress. Panelists: Chesya Burke (CB), John Kessel (JK), John Crowley (JC), Graham Sleight (GS), James Morrow (JM). Tolkien defined the term. Quotation from “On Fairy Stories.” Discussion of examples Lord of the Rings, of course. Endings of O Brother Where Art Thou and Magnolia. (JC: On the table in OBWAT: Charles Fort’s Lo!) [...]
Fanfic as Literary Criticism
This weekend, I’ll be on a panel about fanfiction at Readercon. Here’s the official panel description: Fanfic as Criticism (Only More Fun). Fanfiction is being produced online at a rate of millions of words per month. Fanfiction can expand on a shorter work, change a work’s themes, or even attempt to “fix” things the author [...]
Strange Horizons Ahoy
To my great delight, the lovely folks at Strange Horizons have brought me on as a first reader for their very fine magazine. I’ve been reading the magazine on and off for years, and I’m really looking forward to the first batch of story submissions, which drops January 1. Slush reading is one of those [...]
Well, That Was Interesting
In the last few months, I’ve: clawed my way onto the Island Itself, moved house, finished two gigantic book-editing projects and a handful of other gigs, comprehensively overhauled my academic plans, similarly reshuffled my professional life, been quite ill, gotten much better, married off two dear friends, started the most intense and expansive project I’ve [...]
The Amanda Project Wants You
In April of 2008, Happy Cog Studios got an intriguing e-mail from Lisa Holton of Fourth Story Media. That e-mail led us to one of the most content-focused projects I’ve ever had the pleasure of working on, and today, our 15 months of collaboration has turned into a real live site: the Amanda Project. Officially, [...]
