While I contemplate my summer travel plans, here's what I'll be doing at Capricon, occurring February 14-17 in lovely downtown Wheeling Ill.

Military Culture In Science Fiction & Fantasy Botanic B Literature Thu 6:30 PMMilitary characters loom large in genre fiction, starting with "military sci-fi" focused on battles, but also supplying ( Read more... )

Travel decisions need to be made, and thoughts from the wisdom of my readership are welcome. As of right now, I am sitting on an attending membership for this year's Worldcon to be held in Dublin Ireland in August. That's looking to be, well, costly ( Read more... )

It can be told - I will be at Windycon, to be held November 9-11 at the lovely Westin in Lombard, IL. Herewith is my schedule ( Read more... )

My Rotary club is making a field trip tomorrow, so I'll be mostly out of pocket. Here's a couple of quick takes ( Read more... )

For those of you who were watching science fiction closely, this year's World Science Fiction convention (Worldcon 76 in San Jose) had a programming meltdown. Hugo winners and nominees weren't on the program while relatively obscure folks were all over it. Now, speaking as a truly obscure person who got on programming at two Worldcons, I'm ( Read more... )

I'm here at Capricon watching the snow fly and hoping my plan to eat at the hotel's restaurant works out. I'm also recovering from a sinus infection, and I'm almost dried out, so that's a positive thing. It's wonderful what the right modern medicines can do to fix one up. It's also amazing what being sick can take out of you - I find that last ( Read more... )

Herewith is my schedule for Capricon, to be held in lovely downtown Wheeling IL February 15-18.

Thursday @ 3:30 - Ravinia Ballroom A

Missing the Boat

Description: The problem with writing the future is that eventually it is the future, and oops - you got it wrong! Our panelists discuss examples of now-anachronistic SF.

Thursday @ 5:00 - ( Read more... )

Herewith is my somewhat-abbreviated schedule for WindyconVillianCon Submissions - Saturday, 11-11-2017 - 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm - Lilac C ( Read more... )

Over the past few days I had to travel to San Juan, Puerto Rico for a science fiction convention. Tomorrow (or next blog post) I'll share my thoughts on my in-flight reading material. Today, some random thoughts about the trip, the con, and San Juan ( Read more... )

Herewith is my subject-to-change programming schedule for NorthAmeriCon '17 to be held in (hopefully) sunny San Juan Puerto Rico.

TH 18:00 - San Cristobal Military realities and Science Fiction

What series in the Spec Fic portray military life and decision making with the most accuracy.

Kevin McLaughlin, Jonathan Brazee (m), Chris Gerrib

TH 19:00 - ( Read more... )