2013 Readercon Schedule

[oracne]

Saturday July 13, 9:00 AM, RHODE ISLAND
"The Works of Patricia A. McKillip."
Brian Attebery, Shira Daemon (moderator), Victoria Janssen, Faye Ringel.

In a long and lauded career Patricia A. McKillip has questioned the shapes of genre stories, taking an egalitarian and polyphonic approach to point of view. In harmony with this questioning has been her

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Readercon

[auroramama]

Awesome panels! I miss Readercon. I hope you'll give us the highlights -- I originally wrote, "Especially the McKillip discussion," but they're all fantastic jumping-off points for discussion.

McKillip's is a body of work I'd love to talk about because the similarities and differences between her universes strike me as complex. Or maybe I mean that they're not as problematical for me as the humiliation and judgement tropes in Hobb, and therefore I can see more subtleties in them? Her handling of consent is almost deferential, post The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, though issues about free will and intention are still prominent. Speech is thought of as basically free and intentional ("speech acts"); magical speech has more blatant consequences, but perhaps they both require great care

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[oracne]

Thank you! I have to start doing some McKillip re-reading. I am also hoping I can find my notes from when I was on her WisCon G0H panel, for which I did a lot of prep.

I have to organize my thoughts on the romance and the privilege panels.