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desperanceSo the FogCon schedule is up on their website here, which means it's official: you can skip breakfast to catch me on a panel Saturday morning, and then skip dinner to catch the same me on a different panel Saturday evening. It's okay, I'm sharper when I'm hungry.
Like this:
Saturday, 9:00-10:15 A.M.
A Sense of Displacement
California Room
Write Where You Know: If you’ve never been to Mars, how can you write about it? How does where you’ve been affect your work? Do you have to travel in order to write about far-flung actual places, even if you then transmute them into fantasy?
M: Emily Jiang, Chaz Brenchley, Cassie Alexander, Lynn Alden Kendall
and
Saturday, 8:00-9:15 P.M.
Why London? Nod Nolyhw?
California Room
What is it about England’s capital that inspires so many stories positing the existence of a second, evil twin city? Maybe it’s that there’s enough history there for two separate cities. Or that there’s enough ghosts that a second, spectral city is the only answer to affordable housing. Whatever the reason, London keeps authors coming back to build: above, below, instead and sometimes in ways we really don’t have prepositions for. But why?
M: Amy Sundberg, Alan Beatts, Chaz Brenchley, Valerie Estelle Frankel
[I kind of want "Nod Nolyhw?" on a T-shirt now. Except that the question mark should be Spanish-style, back to front and at the other end. And it might lead people to suppose that I was a London writer, which I so very am not. I just don't think they have any other Brits attending, so they felt obliged. S'okay, I can find things to say about metrocentricity'n'stuff.]
Like this:
Saturday, 9:00-10:15 A.M.
A Sense of Displacement
California Room
Write Where You Know: If you’ve never been to Mars, how can you write about it? How does where you’ve been affect your work? Do you have to travel in order to write about far-flung actual places, even if you then transmute them into fantasy?
M: Emily Jiang, Chaz Brenchley, Cassie Alexander, Lynn Alden Kendall
and
Saturday, 8:00-9:15 P.M.
Why London? Nod Nolyhw?
California Room
What is it about England’s capital that inspires so many stories positing the existence of a second, evil twin city? Maybe it’s that there’s enough history there for two separate cities. Or that there’s enough ghosts that a second, spectral city is the only answer to affordable housing. Whatever the reason, London keeps authors coming back to build: above, below, instead and sometimes in ways we really don’t have prepositions for. But why?
M: Amy Sundberg, Alan Beatts, Chaz Brenchley, Valerie Estelle Frankel
[I kind of want "Nod Nolyhw?" on a T-shirt now. Except that the question mark should be Spanish-style, back to front and at the other end. And it might lead people to suppose that I was a London writer, which I so very am not. I just don't think they have any other Brits attending, so they felt obliged. S'okay, I can find things to say about metrocentricity'n'stuff.]