Preliminary Boskone Schedule
Boskone this weekend. In Boston, of course. I’m still trying to think of any bad books I love, since mostly I don’t ike good books either.
Friday 9pm More on the Business of Writing
S. C. Butler (M)
Elaine Isaak
Melinda Snodgrass
Ian Tregillis
Last year we did this program item, and people enjoyed it so much
that we’re doing it again! Find out what the writer needs to know
and do to become (financially) successful (or, at least
responsible). It’s not all creativity or perspiration, no matter
what you’ve heard before!
Friday 10pm Bad Books I Love
S. C. Butler
Kathryn Cramer
Theodora Goss
Paul Levinson (M)
Feorag NicBhride
Choose your favorite piece of mindless mush, and persuade us to look
at it a second time. Admit those guilty pleasures! (C’mon, you know
you want to!)
Saturday2pm The City and Science Fiction
S. C. Butler
Alexander Jablokov (M)
James Patrick Kelly
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Steven H. Silver
From the planet-spanning urbs of Trantor or Coruscant to the
steamfunkier precincts of New Crobuzon to the vastly vertical
Spearpoint of Alastair Reynolds forthcoming Terminal World what s
your favorite skiffy megalopolis? Would you move there tomorrow?
Would it actually work as a technological/societal/economic
artifact? In an advanced, post-scarcity society, would people even
want to pig-pile together? What will cities be like in the future?
(And what would you prefer them to be?)
Saturday5pm Autographing
Sunday 11am Reading (0.5 hrs)
