World Fantasy Con: Native American Spirits

[kate_nepveu]

Description:

Native American Spirits.
How are they different from transplanted European ghosts?
Linda Donohue, Lawrence Connolly (m), Laura Ann Hill, Adam Niswander

Joseph Bruchac (bio) was added when the moderator spotted him in the front row and asked him to join them, which is a damn good thing because otherwise the panel on Native American

Comments

[cofax7]

I have to say that at the World Fantasy Con, it floors me that it didn't occur to anyone to invite a Native American to sit on the panel until the last moment.

wtf?

[kate_nepveu]

I KNOW.

I went through the con in a state of bafflement at much of the programming.

[coffeeandink]

I am curious about this. I heard some pre-con rumbles about the programming.

[kate_nepveu]

Oh, well, besides what I said in the general report, and the venting to come about another panel, Chad had a couple of comments. The one I remember now is the Best Fantasy Worlds panel: the program lists Colin Harvey, Kathleen Woodbury (m), Delia Sherman, Joel Champetier, and Charlaine Harris. Harris, at least, doesn't write secondary world fantasy; and the panel was mostly about which worlds would be most comfortable, which, enh. Where was Scott Lynch or someone else who did worldbuilding for the sheer joy of it?

[delux_vivens]

I'm totally not surprised, but at this point, I'm just a Big Meanie (TM).