And now for something completely frivolous
Monday, September 29th, 2008 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanni...I bring you the Sharon Lee and Steve Miller AlbaCon 2008 schedule!
Thursday, October 9
Big pre-convention reading and signing at Flights of Fantasy. Lee and Miller! Eric Flint! Be there or be somewhere else!
Friday
4:00 PM Schuyler
Audience vs. Writer
What we want to read as an audience isn't necessarily what writers want to write. This panel lets readers and writers talk about the conflicts between writerly inspiration and reader expectation.
Elaine Isaak (M), Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Ryk E. Spoor
8:00 PM Ballroom A Ice Cream Social
Saturday
10 AM Ballroom A
Dragons in SF – not Fantasy
What fantasy elements would make good science fiction?
Morgan Brilliant, Cameron Calkins, Sharon Lee, Anne McCaffrey, Melissa Mead, Mary Turzillo (M)
11 AM Beverwyck
Telapathy and Teleportation: Where are they now?
These are two key elements of the Dragonriders series. Are they still being used in SF today, or are they as dead as the seas of Venus? And what does the loss of these elements mean to the genre?
Bianca D’Arc, Sharon Lee (M), Jennifer Schwabach, Lawrence M. Schoen
12:00 PM Ballroom B
Covering it
Most books have non-realistic art on their covers; SF & Fantasy always shows a picture. Do SF readers have to have it spelled out? What makes a good cover these days.
Peter Brett, Steve Miller (M), Barclay Shaw
3:00 PM
Autographing
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
4:00 PM Beverwyck
Co-authoring/collaboration panel
Writing and playing well with others.
Jackie Kessler, Sharon Lee, Anne McCaffrey, Steve Miller(M)
Sunday
10 AM Ballroom A
Anne McCaffrey & Me
How Anne’s books affected me
Sharon Lee, Jennifer Schwabach (M), ? Shepley, Mary Turzillo
12:00 PM Ten Broeck A
Reading (1 hour)
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
1:00 PM Beverwyck
Saving science fiction from academia
Now days science fiction Is being taught as literature and prediction, surely destroying joy and misinforming readers. What can we to safe SF from being studied to boredom?
jan howard finder, Peter Halasz, ? Kannenberg, K.A. Laity (M), Steve Miller
Look for us in the dealer's room! Look for us in the art show! Look for us at parties! But mostly, look for us in the dealer's room, behind the SRM Publisher table.
Big pre-convention reading and signing at Flights of Fantasy. Lee and Miller! Eric Flint! Be there or be somewhere else!
4:00 PM Schuyler
Audience vs. Writer
What we want to read as an audience isn't necessarily what writers want to write. This panel lets readers and writers talk about the conflicts between writerly inspiration and reader expectation.
Elaine Isaak (M), Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, Ryk E. Spoor
8:00 PM Ballroom A Ice Cream Social
10 AM Ballroom A
Dragons in SF – not Fantasy
What fantasy elements would make good science fiction?
Morgan Brilliant, Cameron Calkins, Sharon Lee, Anne McCaffrey, Melissa Mead, Mary Turzillo (M)
11 AM Beverwyck
Telapathy and Teleportation: Where are they now?
These are two key elements of the Dragonriders series. Are they still being used in SF today, or are they as dead as the seas of Venus? And what does the loss of these elements mean to the genre?
Bianca D’Arc, Sharon Lee (M), Jennifer Schwabach, Lawrence M. Schoen
12:00 PM Ballroom B
Covering it
Most books have non-realistic art on their covers; SF & Fantasy always shows a picture. Do SF readers have to have it spelled out? What makes a good cover these days.
Peter Brett, Steve Miller (M), Barclay Shaw
3:00 PM
Autographing
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
4:00 PM Beverwyck
Co-authoring/collaboration panel
Writing and playing well with others.
Jackie Kessler, Sharon Lee, Anne McCaffrey, Steve Miller(M)
10 AM Ballroom A
Anne McCaffrey & Me
How Anne’s books affected me
Sharon Lee, Jennifer Schwabach (M), ? Shepley, Mary Turzillo
12:00 PM Ten Broeck A
Reading (1 hour)
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
1:00 PM Beverwyck
Saving science fiction from academia
Now days science fiction Is being taught as literature and prediction, surely destroying joy and misinforming readers. What can we to safe SF from being studied to boredom?
jan howard finder, Peter Halasz, ? Kannenberg, K.A. Laity (M), Steve Miller
Look for us in the dealer's room! Look for us in the art show! Look for us at parties! But mostly, look for us in the dealer's room, behind the SRM Publisher table.
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Date: 2008-09-30 01:36 am (UTC)I hope you have a good time!
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Date: 2008-09-30 08:27 pm (UTC)Oh, I think I will.
*gets down Hammer of Moderation and polishing rag*
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Date: 2008-09-30 09:00 pm (UTC)Look forward to meeting you.
Lorna
Hey, it's a panel meeting!
Date: 2008-10-01 12:08 am (UTC)We're on a panel together, I see. And your post reminded me to check with Maria at Flights of Fantasy -- her email hadn't reached me. So now I'll be showing up there too!