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Sarah/Katherine ([personal profile] truepenny) wrote2008-09-26 12:23 pm

Friday? Where?

I will be at Geek.Kon this weekend. I do not, however, know what my schedule is. Geek.Kon is a free con, and the program book is online, so check it out. I will totally pimp for my friend David Salo, who's giving a talk on Sindarin at eight on Saturday. (ETA: That's eight o'clock post meridian.) You should all go.



And now, a poll:

[Poll #1267482]

[identity profile] snowy-owlet.livejournal.com 2008-09-26 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it's wholly wretched of you to make us choose, because I want to read all three.

[identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com 2008-09-26 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's not like I'm not going to write all three of them eventually.

[identity profile] jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com 2008-09-26 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel like two sounds similar to the Labyrinths books, and three sounds awesome, but I've never read a steampunk novel before (at least I don't think so), and I know I like your writing, so... :-b

[identity profile] metafrantic.livejournal.com 2008-09-26 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I have to say that I really want to see Emperor of the Elflands... Just last week my wife was asking my what she should draw for a banner for our magazine website, and since it's SF/F-based I jokingly suggested a Steampunk/Elves theme, because it's a SF/F crossover that I've never seen or even heard of before. (She ended up doing this (http://www.crossedgenres.com/Pictures/header.jpg) instead.)
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[personal profile] larryhammer 2008-09-26 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
What I answered is not the question as asked, but "What novel would you prefer I write next?"

---L.

[identity profile] lyonesse.livejournal.com 2008-09-26 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
i take it back. madison wisconsin for the win. plus, pls tell david salo that vicka from the elflang list sez hi :)
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[personal profile] libskrat 2008-09-26 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Cripes, you scared me. For a minute there I thought it was 8 am and I'd have to roust him outta bed early.

Have a good time!

[identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com 2008-09-26 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

And I don't think anyone (except maybe fellow linguists) would be masochistic enough to show up at 8 a.m. Even for Sindarin.

(My beginning Greek class was at 8:50. The professor was a morning person and was just baffled about why it was a MWF re-enactment of Dawn of the Dead.)

[identity profile] 3pitaka.livejournal.com 2008-09-26 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
The program book is of course wrong about the subject matter, a result of its authors not listening to the scheduled speaker when he said he thought "Elvish for the Casual Traveler" was an abominably garish and frivolous package for whatever nonsense it was supposed to contain -- presumably something along the line of "my hovercraft is full of eels".

I have it on reasonably good authority that it's actually going to be about (elvish) writing and its applications -- a mixture of calligraphy and phonetics.

3p

[identity profile] joey112.livejournal.com 2008-09-26 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Baseball elves, be still my heart.

No, really.
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[personal profile] heresluck 2008-09-26 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
YOU CANNOT MAKE ME CHOOSE BETWEEN POLITICAL INTRIGUE, EPISTEMOLOGY OF IDENTITY, AND MADISON, WISCONSIN.

...which is another way of saying: I'll read it regardless! Go work on something! Hurry!

*g*

[identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com 2008-09-26 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee. You're right. Totally unfair question.

[identity profile] saltypepper.livejournal.com 2008-09-26 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been thinking that your baseball elf novel is going to knock Michael Chabon's Summerland right off the map simply by the glorious inclusion of Madison, WI.

Really, there is no bad choice here.
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[identity profile] gwendolynflight.livejournal.com 2008-09-26 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Amnesia should always win, damnit!

You are writing all three eventually, though, right? ::hopeful::

[identity profile] cheloya.livejournal.com 2008-09-26 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you know how long I stared at that trying to make a choice? XD Baseball elves won out in the end, mostly because I want to see how the hell you're going to manage it.

[identity profile] heartofdavid.livejournal.com 2008-09-26 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I also voted for the baseball, elves, Madison, WI combination...in hopes that slash and cheese would also play their parts in the story.

[identity profile] jrelkins.livejournal.com 2008-09-26 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I vote for anything set in Madison WI, honestly. :D

(Anonymous) 2008-09-26 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I vote for whichever has the most gay mansecks.

...

I didn't say that.
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[personal profile] aedifica 2008-09-27 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Steampunk elves in Madison, WI? she asked hopefully. *grin*

[identity profile] comrade-cat.livejournal.com 2008-09-27 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh good lord, how can I choose?

The Emperor of the Elflands &/or The Cormorant Child.

(Sorry, I'm down on baseball. Although I'm sure it'll be a good book, since I like your stuff.)

Political intrigue FTW! Go CJ Cherryh!!

:-)

[identity profile] pukiban.livejournal.com 2008-09-27 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
It really is very mean. You can't just clone yourself and do them all at the same time?

...Though. How baseballey is this baseball going to be? ^_^ (Are you a baseball fan of some sort, or is it just going to be kind of...more of a setting for other stuff?)

[identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com 2008-09-27 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I am a baseball fan. (I'm listening to Bob Uecker do the play-by-play of the Brewers vs. Cubs game right now.) And, yes, it will be a baseball novel--although there will be other stuff going on as well.

[identity profile] pukiban.livejournal.com 2008-09-27 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm. Baseball.

Mmmm. Other stuff.

(Mmmmm. Linguistics. *wishes she lived in a place they had cons like that* ...Even if 8 am is...an unplesant time if day.)

*makes her vote even though it's losing* ^^

[identity profile] ashnistrike.livejournal.com 2008-09-28 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
I thought he was dead! (Or is it a recorded thing - my dad has a bunch of those?)

-Nameseeker

[identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com 2008-09-30 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Bob Uecker isn't dead.

[identity profile] coffeeem.livejournal.com 2008-09-27 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Baseball! BaseballBaseballBaseball!

(I mean, the others would be great, too. But, Baseball!!!!)
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[identity profile] primroseburrows.livejournal.com 2008-09-27 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
I love baseball, but there is not enough steampunk in the world (steampunk baseball would be awesome. *g*)

[identity profile] girlpunksamurai.livejournal.com 2008-09-27 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
The Emperor Of The Elflands for me :D

My political hobby crosses over into my reading it seems :]

[identity profile] lenora-rose.livejournal.com 2008-09-29 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Steampunk always wins with me. And Baseball is not my thing.

However, that being said, I've had authors whose work I loved convince me to take the chance on something with WWF style "wrestling" as its central theme (To which i am vastly more allergic than I am to baseball), and enjoyed the heck out of it anyway. (Twice. with different people.) Ditto with a friend's recommendation of a movie about cricket, actually, and *that* was a four hour Bollywood epic. While I still skim LJ entries on geekitudes i don't share, I'm convinced that for fiction, topic is less essential than enthusiasm and talent.