Open to suggestion

[james_davis_nicoll]

What 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.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

"Bronies" or "How I stopped hating and learned to love the clomp."

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

James Nicoll and Leslie Fish on cat colony stories?

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Population predictions and SF

"How Saturn's Childre stole my Freedom Shock idea" :p

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

"Fishes, Bicycles, and Co-dependance in Science Fiction"

"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.

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

"Spent Memetic Prophylaxis and the disposal there of"

well done!

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

....

DAMN. I'd actually go to that one!

[timgueguen.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't a confrontation with Card be more appropriate via dueling with flintlock pistols, or paintball guns, or something?

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

Is an idea dead when it shows up in an SF RPG?

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

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Good luck getting this to come out right in the program book and pocket program.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Whatever it is, it should be called The Nicoll Event.

[gareth-wilson.livejournal.com]

Advocacy in SF: Are SF stories effective ways of promoting political or ideological messages? If they do, can they still be good stories? Do you have to agree with a story's message to enjoy it?

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

Plus one.

[jeffr23.livejournal.com]

The Aliens Next Door: A Guide to Understanding Canada for Yanks.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Of course there's history other than Belisarus.

Why, there's the Battle of Roark's Drift, and also the 1905 Russo-Japanese War.

Chicago?

[drpaisley.livejournal.com]

That ain't Chicago.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

The Battle of Roark's Drift was covered by both S&M Stirling and Tanya Huff in books published within a month of each other. At a book signing, she explained that they had apparently watched the same movie on TV, and had been simultaneously inspired.

[jsburbidge.livejournal.com]

Held in a large room with all other attendees a long way away from James.

[nelc.livejournal.com]

I think you ought to add steampunk into the mix, to ensure 100% response from Charlie.

[nelc.livejournal.com]

And Charlie Stross representing the truly alien, from Scotland?

[thebitterguy]

I'd like to watch that.

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Makes my suggestion of "Memetic Prophylaxis Recommendation: Threat or Menace" even more obsolete.

Re: Chicago?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I was testing to see if people were paying attention!

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

Should Women's Opinions Regarding the People Escaping the Grim Meathook Future of DOOM that is Earth to the Lunar He3 Mining Colonies be Considered?

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

"Steampunk: Science Fiction's idiot child"

[zxhrue.livejournal.com]

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.