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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 05:36 pm (UTC)Eon is nonsense but at least it was pretty nonsense. Bear's more recent books are just a bit dull, retreats of stuff other people did better first.
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Date: 2012-06-26 05:49 pm (UTC)At one time, I thought of Bear as a logical heir to Clarke; he had a similar way with evocative imagery, and his novels tended to have similar themes.
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Date: 2012-06-26 08:02 pm (UTC)well done!
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DAMN. I'd actually go to that one!
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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?
Date: 2012-06-26 11:32 pm (UTC)Re: Chicago?
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Date: 2012-06-26 07:41 pm (UTC)Perfect.
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Date: 2012-06-26 08:56 pm (UTC)Mapping Heinlein, Clarke, and Asimov onto the Christian trinity, and other ideas guaranteed to offend (now with more cats)
Not Only Belisarius Counts: other historical models for SF
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Date: 2012-06-26 11:15 pm (UTC)Why, there's the Battle of Roark's Drift, and also the 1905 Russo-Japanese War.
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Date: 2012-06-28 12:53 am (UTC)Huff's setting was on a planet of aliens with a high birth rate. Their dumb and aggressive spawn were released into wilderness areas to fight and cull each other as they developed towards adulthood. A diplomatic delegation from other planets (including Earth) was sent; it had a multispecies armed forces unit attached to it for security. The security force's transport crash-landed in the middle of a wilderness area full of aggressive, hostile juvenile aliens. They took shelter in some abandoned buildings, and had to defend themselves until help arrived.
Read Stirling for the setting, Huff for the characters.
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Date: 2012-06-27 04:01 pm (UTC)"Don't Interfere with Charlie's Living: A discussion of Fan Fiction"
"How can such an unpopular genre have so many books? A reviewer wonders" (with pictures of cats)
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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: 2012-06-27 05:26 pm (UTC)redblue, and he had people hand out colored filters you could look through in case you found them so terrifying that you preferred a ghost-free viewing experience.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Ghosts
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Date: 2012-06-27 06:20 pm (UTC)Assuming I can get the list without actual work on my part. :)
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Date: 2012-06-27 11:52 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Castle#Castle.27s_gimmicks
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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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