Friday? Where?

[truepenny]

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.

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And now, a poll:

[Poll #1267482]

Comments

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

I think it's wholly wretched of you to make us choose, because I want to read all three.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

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

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not like I'm not going to write all three of them eventually.

[metafrantic.livejournal.com]

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.)

[larryhammer]

What I answered is not the question as asked, but "What novel would you prefer I write next?"

---L.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

i take it back. madison wisconsin for the win. plus, pls tell david salo that vicka from the elflang list sez hi :)

[libskrat]

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!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

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.)

[joey112.livejournal.com]

Baseball elves, be still my heart.

No, really.

[heresluck]

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*

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Hee. You're right. Totally unfair question.

[saltypepper.livejournal.com]

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.

[gwendolynflight.livejournal.com]

Amnesia should always win, damnit!

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

[cheloya.livejournal.com]

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.

[heartofdavid.livejournal.com]

I also voted for the baseball, elves, Madison, WI combination...in hopes that slash and cheese would also play their parts in the story.

[jrelkins.livejournal.com]

I vote for anything set in Madison WI, honestly. :D

[(Anonymous)]

I vote for whichever has the most gay mansecks.

...

I didn't say that.

[3pitaka.livejournal.com]

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

[aedifica]

Steampunk elves in Madison, WI? she asked hopefully. *grin*

[comrade-cat.livejournal.com]

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!!

:-)

[pukiban.livejournal.com]

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?)

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

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.

[pukiban.livejournal.com]

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* ^^

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

Baseball! BaseballBaseballBaseball!

(I mean, the others would be great, too. But, Baseball!!!!)

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I love baseball, but there is not enough steampunk in the world (steampunk baseball would be awesome. *g*)

[girlpunksamurai.livejournal.com]

The Emperor Of The Elflands for me :D

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

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

I thought he was dead! (Or is it a recorded thing - my dad has a bunch of those?)

-Nameseeker

[lenora-rose.livejournal.com]

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.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Bob Uecker isn't dead.