My FogCon Schedule

[hrj]

Next 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.

Comments

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

I would want to hear a single, longer piece.

Hope to be there

[scotica.livejournal.com]

I need to check with my chauffeur (not driving currently due to pulmonary emboli recovery), but I hope to be able to come both days you have events scheduled. I will make Friday the priority, though.

Re: Hope to be there

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Cool!

Re: Hope to be there

[scotica.livejournal.com]

Primary chauffeur (Rob) says Friday can be done, but he thinks Saturday he has an agricultural thing to go to (for his start up). So Friday I will be there and would be very happy to accompany you to meal(s) as well as -- what time are you arriving?

Saturday is less certain, but I will enquire of my backup chauffeurs!

Re: Hope to be there

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Obviously I hare Friday off, so I'll probably wander down there around noonish or so.

[scotica.livejournal.com]

Oh, and as a listener I would prefer to hear one longer piece, too, rather than bits of multiple works. That also gives me a clearer impression of whether I would like to hear more :-)

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

We'll be there. Also, the bar/restaurant is right inside the front door, and is a great place to just pull up a chair and hang out. Any time you see us there (which may be often), come hang out and be introduced (or introduce us) to whoever else is around.

It looks like you'll be on some good panels. Nancy Jane Moore is cool. I think you'll like her (assuming you haven't already met and already liked her). She's a senior black belt in aikido *and* she writes sff. She must be cool. :-)

[hrj.livejournal.com]

I'm counting on you folks! (This is just me choosing to wear my insecurity on the outside as a coping mechanism, as usual.)