I'm baaaack!
I'm back, staggeringly jetlagged and tired but very happy, from a fantastic visit to London and Loncon 3/Worldcon. I'll be catching up on emails shortly. Pictures and reports of my English adventures will follow. You have been warned.
For now, let me say that the third and final installment of my "Looking Back on Genre History" series entitled " ( Read more... )
For now, let me say that the third and final installment of my "Looking Back on Genre History" series entitled " ( Read more... )
I'm so sorry about the tech (and my frequent tripping over the wires, LOL).
Tech ops certainly seemed to cause the most problems at this con, along with just having too many people wanting to see various panels and the room allocation not always working out which ones would be the most popular.
It's a rule: something must go wrong, right? I'd rather have the tech issues than the overcrowding. At the start of my talk on Thursday ("Sherlock Holmes and Science Fiction"), the ExCeL security officers closed the doors - the room was packed! - and I later found out that dozens of people (including the StarShipSofa crew) were turned away. Augh!!! I felt terrible about that.
I liked the distinctions you were drawing between the way early juveniles used dystopias as the obstacles the protagonist has to overcome; versus the current stress on the dystopic state itself. I don't remember that from the earlier version of this talk, and that was quite illuminating.
Oh, thank you so much! That's great to hear. I'm still working through my analysis, but that trend really does seem to be gaining steam, and I'm fascinated by what that means about the agency and efficacy of the protagonists (and, of course, what readers take away from that).
I do hope our paths cross again soon, so we can chat in person! What cons are on the schedule for you? I'm not sure about Spokane, but I'll definitely be at Kansas City in 2016.
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