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james_davis_nicollWhat panel topics would induce you to watch if I was one of the panelists?
I've suggested one on space colonization with me, Charles Stross and a couple of Space Colony True Believers, as well as something related to my f/m posts.
I've suggested one on space colonization with me, Charles Stross and a couple of Space Colony True Believers, as well as something related to my f/m posts.
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Date: 2012-06-27 05:36 am (UTC)Or maybe an Iron Blog competition with you & Stross and a few other likely suspects....
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Date: 2012-06-26 05:23 pm (UTC)Greg Bear -- threat, menace, or distraction?
Cats.
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Date: 2012-06-26 05:25 pm (UTC)"Doom, Doom, and Doomy Doom" would be fun.
Space Colonization you already have -- as long as there's plenty of discussion of our Helium-3 mining.
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Date: 2012-06-26 08:02 pm (UTC)well done!
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Date: 2012-06-26 05:33 pm (UTC)Topics:
Are we getting girl cooties on our science fiction? (For your fm stuff)
Doom: Threat or Menace?
Let's Bash the Popular: Why My Minority Viewpoint is Righter Than Yours
(Solicit a list of popular items and authors one day before the panel. Ready. Set. Go!)
Helium-3 Mining and Captain Scarlet: How we can combine almost every SF show into one baroque fandom
Yngvi Was A Louse: cross-book and cross-series games authors play
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Date: 2012-06-26 05:53 pm (UTC)Chicago?
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Date: 2012-06-26 08:09 pm (UTC)"Oxford Comma: threat, menace, or 'I saw what you did there'?"
'"logical quotation" vs. "typographical quotation" or "'WHAT!' said she"?'
The proper style and form for nesting of quotation, titles and parenthetical phrases.
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Date: 2012-06-30 05:40 pm (UTC)Also, I'd be interested in a list of the pop-science books that qualified.
So: "Popular Science Books that Damaged the SF Genre" has as many votes as I can stuff.
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Date: 2012-06-26 07:06 pm (UTC)The Grim Dead Hand of John W Campbell
James Howard Kunstler: Threat or Menace
On a more serious note, given your creative imagination, a look at SF Deep Futures of the non-Singularity variety might be fascinating.
Bruce
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Date: 2012-06-26 07:58 pm (UTC)"Bronies" or "How I stopped hating and learned to love the clomp."
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Date: 2012-06-26 08:06 pm (UTC)"How Saturn's Childre stole my Freedom Shock idea" :p
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Date: 2012-06-27 06:53 am (UTC)the panels you've already suggested are perhaps the best choices. I would certainly go to see either of them, and in point of fact would hope that videos or at least transcripts of any such events were made available online eventually.
I think there is a panel topic based on this comment:
In fact, that's one of the great tragedies of SF from my personal point of view: the process by which SF authors transform my relationship to their fiction from one of keen interest to total indifference. With people like Paolo Bacigalupi while I loathe every aspect of their fiction, at least I feel something more than complete and utter detachment.
something along the lines of when does the progression of brain eater's disease cause an author's oeuvre to become unpalatable? how and when does authorial inconsistency, implausibility, or just plain anti-ismness lead to either a reflexive book against the wall response, or the aforementioned slide into indifference? how vitriolic does an author's non-oeuvre spew have to be to irrevocably taint _all_ their writing forever? names would perhaps have to be elided to avoid needlessly insulting the dead, or a tort for defamation.
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