and the next thing is Readercon
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rushthatspeaksI am back from Australia. It was lovely. Details forthcoming.
I am not remotely caught up on the internet and not likely to be; if something major happened last week that I ought to know about, please do let me know.
For the moment, however, here is my annotated Readercon schedule, which is large and exciting and a little bit scary, and I hope I will see many of you there!
Thursday 9:00 PM, Salon B: Panel
You Don't Know Dictionary! Lila Garrott, Greer Gilman, Vylar Kaftan (L),
Sarah Micklem, Sonya Taaffe
There's no need to make up new words when there's so many great unknown
old ones. Tolkien introduced many readers to the likes of "wain" and
"fell" (in the sense of fierce and cruel), while later writers such as
Greer Gilman and Gene Wolfe have gone much further in plumbing the depths
of unabridged dictionaries. Our panelists share their adventures with
prodigious vocabularies and blank pages. And for the reader, what are the
pros and cons of relying on context versus consulting the Book?
(This should be a great panel. Even the Complete Oxford will not help much with Wolfe; when I tried reading the Severian books and looking up every word I didn't know I accumulated a stack of reference books about as tall as I am.)
Friday 3:00 PM, RI: Talk (30 min.)
Contextual Definitions of Vocabulary in the Work of Greer Gilman. Lila
Garrott
Garrott gives a close-reading of the word "hallows" throughout Gilman's
oeuvre, examining how her usage of many different contexts and meanings
for what is nominally the same word gives rise to concepts which are
different from, though related to, the pre-existing dictionary
definitions.
(If you heard this at ICFA, well, now it is updated to include the new book! If you didn't, come hear my talk. I may bring chocolate.)
Saturday 12:00 Noon, Salon A: Panel
Call and Response. Kathryn Cramer, Lila Garrott, Greer Gilman, Lev
Grossman (L), Laura Miller
Some fiction is in conscious dialogue with the philosophical content of a
prior work. For instance, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials is a
response to C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, Samuel R. Delany's
Trouble on Triton addresses Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed, James
Patrick Kelly's Burn is a response to Thoreau, and Elizabeth Hand's "The
Last Trumps" is a reaction to John Crowley's "The Girlhood of
Shakespeare's Heroines." We will discuss these and other examples, and
how they use different approaches and varying degrees of explicitness.
How do such works read independently, out of context as responses?
(The fact that I have been unable to get hold of the Kelly is worrisome. On the other hand, I can talk about John Crowley and the rest of this list till hell thaws.)
Saturday 2:00 PM, Salon A: Panel
The Fiction of Greer Gilman. Rachel Elizabeth Dillon, Lila Garrott,
Donald G. Keller, Faye Ringel (L), Michael Swanwick, Sonya Taaffe
(Am really looking forward to meeting Michael Swanwick.)
Saturday 3:00 PM, Salon A: Event
The Rhysling Award Poetry Slan. Mike Allen (MC) with Michael Bishop, Leah
Bobet, Lila Garrott, Greer Gilman, Ernest Lilley, Darrell Schweitzer,
Sonya Taaffe, Catherynne M. Valente
(A "poetry slan," to be confused with "poetry slam," is a poetry reading
by sf folks, of course.) Climaxed by the presentation of this year's
Rhysling Awards.
(I am reading 'Telling Deaths', which I have never read in public before.)
Saturday 4:00 PM, Salon E: Event
Greer Gilman Interviewed by Lila Garrott
(With possible guest questions from some really cool people.)
And then Sunday I intend tostalk Michael Dirda probably be in the lobby, putting up my feet, as this will be the first four-day con I will ever have gotten to all of, but lo my present health seems to support it. Yay Readercon.
I am not remotely caught up on the internet and not likely to be; if something major happened last week that I ought to know about, please do let me know.
For the moment, however, here is my annotated Readercon schedule, which is large and exciting and a little bit scary, and I hope I will see many of you there!
Thursday 9:00 PM, Salon B: Panel
You Don't Know Dictionary! Lila Garrott, Greer Gilman, Vylar Kaftan (L),
Sarah Micklem, Sonya Taaffe
There's no need to make up new words when there's so many great unknown
old ones. Tolkien introduced many readers to the likes of "wain" and
"fell" (in the sense of fierce and cruel), while later writers such as
Greer Gilman and Gene Wolfe have gone much further in plumbing the depths
of unabridged dictionaries. Our panelists share their adventures with
prodigious vocabularies and blank pages. And for the reader, what are the
pros and cons of relying on context versus consulting the Book?
(This should be a great panel. Even the Complete Oxford will not help much with Wolfe; when I tried reading the Severian books and looking up every word I didn't know I accumulated a stack of reference books about as tall as I am.)
Friday 3:00 PM, RI: Talk (30 min.)
Contextual Definitions of Vocabulary in the Work of Greer Gilman. Lila
Garrott
Garrott gives a close-reading of the word "hallows" throughout Gilman's
oeuvre, examining how her usage of many different contexts and meanings
for what is nominally the same word gives rise to concepts which are
different from, though related to, the pre-existing dictionary
definitions.
(If you heard this at ICFA, well, now it is updated to include the new book! If you didn't, come hear my talk. I may bring chocolate.)
Saturday 12:00 Noon, Salon A: Panel
Call and Response. Kathryn Cramer, Lila Garrott, Greer Gilman, Lev
Grossman (L), Laura Miller
Some fiction is in conscious dialogue with the philosophical content of a
prior work. For instance, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials is a
response to C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, Samuel R. Delany's
Trouble on Triton addresses Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed, James
Patrick Kelly's Burn is a response to Thoreau, and Elizabeth Hand's "The
Last Trumps" is a reaction to John Crowley's "The Girlhood of
Shakespeare's Heroines." We will discuss these and other examples, and
how they use different approaches and varying degrees of explicitness.
How do such works read independently, out of context as responses?
(The fact that I have been unable to get hold of the Kelly is worrisome. On the other hand, I can talk about John Crowley and the rest of this list till hell thaws.)
Saturday 2:00 PM, Salon A: Panel
The Fiction of Greer Gilman. Rachel Elizabeth Dillon, Lila Garrott,
Donald G. Keller, Faye Ringel (L), Michael Swanwick, Sonya Taaffe
(Am really looking forward to meeting Michael Swanwick.)
Saturday 3:00 PM, Salon A: Event
The Rhysling Award Poetry Slan. Mike Allen (MC) with Michael Bishop, Leah
Bobet, Lila Garrott, Greer Gilman, Ernest Lilley, Darrell Schweitzer,
Sonya Taaffe, Catherynne M. Valente
(A "poetry slan," to be confused with "poetry slam," is a poetry reading
by sf folks, of course.) Climaxed by the presentation of this year's
Rhysling Awards.
(I am reading 'Telling Deaths', which I have never read in public before.)
Saturday 4:00 PM, Salon E: Event
Greer Gilman Interviewed by Lila Garrott
(With possible guest questions from some really cool people.)
And then Sunday I intend to
