My RadCon schedule

[scarlettina]

So I am apparently going to RadCon. It must be true because bravado111 will be my chauffeur, madrobins will be my roommate, and I have a schedule. Yup, that sounds like convention-going to me. Here's my schedule, if you'll be in eastern Washington and you're looking for me:

Friday, 3 PM, Executive Room
Writing for Games, Gamers
Janna Silverstein (and others)

Friday

Comments

[mabfan]

If you need to know more about Mundane SF, read their manifesto at http://mundanesf.com/default.asp?id=2&mnu=2

[scarlettina]

Well, that's certainly an interesting and very rationalist perspective, isn't it? Being a fan of stories featuring interstellar flight and so on, I rather object to it. This is fiction, for heavens' sake. The artificial strictures we place upon ourselves put something of a crimp in our style. With an attitude like that, we wouldn't have the works of perhaps all of the classic SF writers, the people who founded the freakin' genre.

Hm. I need to give this more thought. I may have way more to say about this subject than I realized before I saw that Web site. Thanks for the link! (Guess I'm not such a girl science geek after all!)

[oldmangrumpus]

Jeez, these guys seem stodgy even by my crabby standards. I mean, I can understand writers who feel the need to avoid the utterly impossible, but I don't think it needs an entire manifesto (manifesti tend to bleed the fun out of anything anyway). They seem just slightly less earnestly serious than those Dogme 95 bozos (hey, I know - let's make things as difficult as possible! Won't that be fun, boys and girls?!) and like a lot of them seem to have a thinly veiled political agenda.

[mimerki]

Agreed. While I understand the frustration with Yet Another Space Fantasy Novel That Is Largely Indistinguishable From Other Space Fantasy Novels, there is nothing wrong with lighter SF.

I think for me it's the objection to a whole list of tropes. I object to fantasy novels that have a cast of main characters who are: a Thief, a Ranger, a Fighter, a Cleric and a Magic-User (who meet in a tavern...) but I don't object to any one of those character types. (And before someone jumps on me: Yes, that cast can be done well, but if I can clearly label the cast do you really fault me for being nervous?)

[twilight2000]

David Levine was the first to talk about using foods in writing (in my presence anywho...) -- about using food as a mechanism for dialogue or creating the setting -- something I now find myself doing far more often than I might have thought. Don't know if that's what the focus is, but that's how it was presented to me ;>.

Have a GRAND time!!!

[scarlettina]

Oh, David's not the first, nor will he be the last, to discuss using food in fiction. I've used it this way myself. What baffles me is that anyone could think that this is a large enough subject to spend an hour discussing!

[mrdorbin]

When in doubt, turn to cannibalism.

...I mean for the DISCUSSION, of course.

[scarlettina]

Right. Of course.

[cardigirl]

Weird topics have a way of transmogrifying into some of the most fun yacks. Even if they occasionally go OT since you're done with the subject fifteen minutes into the hour.

Have fun!