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My FogCon Schedule
Feb. 28th, 2015 08:51 amNext weekend is the most local SF con to me that I know of: FOG Con in Walnut Creek. I'm delighted to have been scheduled to be on the following programming items:
Tenses for Time Travelers and Other Abominations of Language (Fri 3:00 - 4:15PM, Salon C) Moderator: Juliette Wade. Juliette Wade, Sarah Huffman, Heather Rose Jones, Zed Lopez, Marie Brennan
Travel to a strange place -- learn new words for animals, foods, and activities at your destination and along the way. Travel in a strange conveyance -- learn new words for fuels, travelers' pastimes, and social structures. How do invented words affect the reader's experience of an invented world? What strange manglings of language feel natural and atmospheric, and what just doesn't work?
Reading: Jones, Koizumi, Moore (Fri 4:30 - 5:45PM, Santa Rosa)
A combined reading in company with Nancy Jane Moore and Inejiro Koizumi.
Hardcore Historical Journeys (Sat 4:30 - 5:45PM, Sacramento) Moderator: Daniel Starr. Daniel Starr, Heather Rose Jones, Lynn Alden Kendall, Megan E. O'Keefe
Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo, Zheng He, Leif Erikson, and a great many other women and men crossed thousands of miles through strange seas and countries, with neither Google Maps nor an REI tent. What are the best stories from the days when a journey of a thousand miles began with drawing up your last will and testament?
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I need to spend some time this weekend drawing up working notes for the panels and choosing a reading. What do you think I should read? It looks like each person will probably have 20 minutes plus some Q&A. As a listener, do you prefer short excerpts from multiple works or a single longer piece?
And, as always, I'll be looking for people to hang out and share meals with to save me from standing mournfully in corners assuming no one would want to talk to me. (Look: I know it's not true, but I have to talk about it to fight my demons.) I'm going to be particularly anxious about whether anyone will show up to the reading on Friday because, well, Friday afternoon.
Tenses for Time Travelers and Other Abominations of Language (Fri 3:00 - 4:15PM, Salon C) Moderator: Juliette Wade. Juliette Wade, Sarah Huffman, Heather Rose Jones, Zed Lopez, Marie Brennan
Travel to a strange place -- learn new words for animals, foods, and activities at your destination and along the way. Travel in a strange conveyance -- learn new words for fuels, travelers' pastimes, and social structures. How do invented words affect the reader's experience of an invented world? What strange manglings of language feel natural and atmospheric, and what just doesn't work?
Reading: Jones, Koizumi, Moore (Fri 4:30 - 5:45PM, Santa Rosa)
A combined reading in company with Nancy Jane Moore and Inejiro Koizumi.
Hardcore Historical Journeys (Sat 4:30 - 5:45PM, Sacramento) Moderator: Daniel Starr. Daniel Starr, Heather Rose Jones, Lynn Alden Kendall, Megan E. O'Keefe
Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo, Zheng He, Leif Erikson, and a great many other women and men crossed thousands of miles through strange seas and countries, with neither Google Maps nor an REI tent. What are the best stories from the days when a journey of a thousand miles began with drawing up your last will and testament?
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I need to spend some time this weekend drawing up working notes for the panels and choosing a reading. What do you think I should read? It looks like each person will probably have 20 minutes plus some Q&A. As a listener, do you prefer short excerpts from multiple works or a single longer piece?
And, as always, I'll be looking for people to hang out and share meals with to save me from standing mournfully in corners assuming no one would want to talk to me. (Look: I know it's not true, but I have to talk about it to fight my demons.) I'm going to be particularly anxious about whether anyone will show up to the reading on Friday because, well, Friday afternoon.
