Readercon 21

[dxmachina]

Spent a long weekend in Burlington, MA, riding my bike, eating terrific barbeque, and attending Readercon 21. The weather was really muggy, but otherwise I had a pretty good time. I drove up Friday morning, so I missed Thursday night's session, which looked like it had some interesting stuff. Anyway....

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Comments

[debetesse]

::is jealous of readercon panels::

You know, there are movies that seem worthy of inclusion in that kind of a con, but Avatar is not one of them. District 9 started out as one, at least, even if it got quite conventional by the end.

[dxmachina]

The thing about Readercon, though, is that it bills itself as a con about SF/Fantasy that is read, rather than watched or gamed, so it kind of grates. OTOH, the science and engineering talks that I enjoy might grate on those who are there for the fiction.

[oracne]

I'm glad you enjoyed the WWI discussion! I'm going to pitch some more focused ideas for next year, for discussion groups or panels.

[dxmachina]

It was a great discussion. Thanks for proposing it. As for ideas for future discussions, I was struck by something Walter Hunt said about how the people who lived before WWI could not have imagined what life would be like after WWI. That's one description of a singularity, and I'm wondering how far one could take that. Certainly aircraft went from being a curiosity to a reliable technology to something so feared that the D-VII was specifically mentioned in the Treaty of Versailles.

[oracne]

Ooh, that would be a good one.