Following the ArmadilloCon tradition, toastmaster K. D. Wentworth gave a humorous speech. She addressed the audience as a fourth grade schoolteacher, which she actually was…
Synopsis from ArmadilloCon program book. A plethora of new markets for what we used to call slipstream has blossomed over the past two years, with…
Panelists: C. J. Mills (moderator), Alexis Glynn Latner, Louise Marley, Wendy Wheeler, Elizabeth Moon, Uncle River Synopsis, according to the ArmadilloCon program: You need a…
Two of Sharon’s closest friends, authors Kay Kenyon and Louise Marley, ask her about her life and her work. How does she manage to find…
Synopsis, according to the ArmadilloCon program: Myths as springboard for worlds and plot ideas in fantasy and science fiction. Mythic elements in science fiction. The…
The official summary “Our panelists pull out all their knowledge and create a world before your very eyes, with assistance from R. Cat Conrad on…
Synopsis from ArmadilloCon program book: Why have the cyberpunks abandoned the future? Do William Gibson’s “Pattern Recognition” and Bruce Sterling’s “The Zenith Angle” evidence a…
October 1, 2003 Neal Stephenson was at Book People in Austin, TX, where he signed copies of his latest book “Quicksilver”, the first book in…
Some memorable or amusing moments from panels where I didn’t take enough notes to yield an article of its own: Ideas Somebody Should Write a…
Participants: Vernor Vinge, John Gibbons (interviewer) Vernor Vinge talked about how he got started writing science fiction, about numerical parametrization of group minds, about some…