The Mighty Mighty Boskone
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truepenny(I'm sure I'm not the first person to come up with that pun, but wotthehell.)
My Boskone schedule:
Saturday, February 18, 10:00 am Is Fantasy Necessary?
Bruce Coville
Debra Doyle
Ellen Kushner![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ellen_kushner
Sarah Monette
Mary A. Turzillo (M)
Edward Abbey said "I see more poetry in a chunk of quartzite than in a make-believe wood nymph, more beauty in the revelations of a verifiable intellectual construction than in whole misty empires of obsolete mythology." If this is so, why do so many of flock to read fantasy? Discuss (without bloodshed, if possible.)
Saturday, February 18, 11:00 am Space and Sensibility: Channeling Jane Austen?
James D. Macdonald (M)
Beth Meacham
Sarah Monette
Teresa Nielsen Haydentnh
Delia Sherman
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any beloved (and why?) classic will be made into a movie (on at least four separate occasions: discuss?), and then re-novelized....(how?) Additionally, it can little be wondered that the volumes of a certain Lady have engaged the general good opinion of a later and more celestially inclined generation. We may, indeed, readily list estimable Authors who have attempted to catch something of her style. Yet might not any attempt to draw a portrait of a mannered society impart a sympathetic coincidence of feeling? Is this preference but the fashion of a moment, or a phenomenon of more respectable permanence. La!
Saturday, February 18, 1:00 pm Genius Loci: How Setting Influences and Structures the Story
Elizabeth Bearmatociquala
Elaine Isaak (M)
Ellen Kushnerellen_kushner
Sarah Monette
Joshua B. Palmatierjpsorrow
How do the vast arc of the Ringworld, the snug hills of the Shire, the treeless plazas of Trantor shape their stories' characters and events? Does local color bewitch or bore the reader? (Does it even matter? -- and how?) Are real places easier to evoke than imaginary ones? What SF/F/H settings can't you forget?
Saturday, February 18, 3:00 pm Autographing
Sunday, February 19, 10:00 am What I Do When I Should Be Writing
Beth Bernobichbeth_bernobich
Darlene Marshall (M)
Sarah Monette
Steven Popkes
Wen Spencerwen_spencer
G.B. Shaw said of the English encyclopediast Samuel Johnson, "I have not wasted my time trifling with literary fools in tavens as Johnson did when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit." Done any tavern-trifling yourself lately? How abut TV watching? Web surfing? Cat vacuuming? How else do you distract yourself from getting any work done....and how do you get back to the writing?
Sunday, February 19, 1:00 pm 1/2 hr Reading
[probably the beginning of The Virtu, although I could possibly be persuaded otherwise if there are strong dissenting opinions.]
My Boskone schedule:
Saturday, February 18, 10:00 am Is Fantasy Necessary?
Bruce Coville
Debra Doyle
Ellen Kushner
ellen_kushnerSarah Monette
Mary A. Turzillo (M)
Edward Abbey said "I see more poetry in a chunk of quartzite than in a make-believe wood nymph, more beauty in the revelations of a verifiable intellectual construction than in whole misty empires of obsolete mythology." If this is so, why do so many of flock to read fantasy? Discuss (without bloodshed, if possible.)
Saturday, February 18, 11:00 am Space and Sensibility: Channeling Jane Austen?
James D. Macdonald (M)
Beth Meacham
Sarah Monette
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
tnhDelia Sherman
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any beloved (and why?) classic will be made into a movie (on at least four separate occasions: discuss?), and then re-novelized....(how?) Additionally, it can little be wondered that the volumes of a certain Lady have engaged the general good opinion of a later and more celestially inclined generation. We may, indeed, readily list estimable Authors who have attempted to catch something of her style. Yet might not any attempt to draw a portrait of a mannered society impart a sympathetic coincidence of feeling? Is this preference but the fashion of a moment, or a phenomenon of more respectable permanence. La!
Saturday, February 18, 1:00 pm Genius Loci: How Setting Influences and Structures the Story
Elizabeth Bear
matociqualaElaine Isaak (M)
Ellen Kushner
ellen_kushnerSarah Monette
Joshua B. Palmatier
jpsorrowHow do the vast arc of the Ringworld, the snug hills of the Shire, the treeless plazas of Trantor shape their stories' characters and events? Does local color bewitch or bore the reader? (Does it even matter? -- and how?) Are real places easier to evoke than imaginary ones? What SF/F/H settings can't you forget?
Saturday, February 18, 3:00 pm Autographing
Sunday, February 19, 10:00 am What I Do When I Should Be Writing
Beth Bernobich
beth_bernobichDarlene Marshall (M)
Sarah Monette
Steven Popkes
Wen Spencer
wen_spencerG.B. Shaw said of the English encyclopediast Samuel Johnson, "I have not wasted my time trifling with literary fools in tavens as Johnson did when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit." Done any tavern-trifling yourself lately? How abut TV watching? Web surfing? Cat vacuuming? How else do you distract yourself from getting any work done....and how do you get back to the writing?
Sunday, February 19, 1:00 pm 1/2 hr Reading
[probably the beginning of The Virtu, although I could possibly be persuaded otherwise if there are strong dissenting opinions.]
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Date: 2006-02-01 03:32 pm (UTC)