A con-goer named Melissa in the dealers’ room ArmadilloCon 2006 Fan guest Grant Kruger in the dealer room, in an outfit whose colors match the…
Just like worldbuilding is a classic science fiction / fantasy convention panel topic, creating believable aliens (for your SF/F story) is another classic. Two main…
At ArmadilloCon 2006, I went to several panels that the special guest, science fiction author James P. Hogan, was on, and thought he was a…
Every ArmadilloCon has a world-building panel. It’s one of those panels that can be done a million times and still remain fresh. With different panelists…
Summary: The panelists are supposed to make up a science-fictional or a fantasy use for a random object. The objects are chosen by the audience.…
ArmadilloCon traditionally has a panel “What You Should Have Read This Year”. The panelists are usually people who are closely familiar with science fiction, fantasy,…
At the ArmadilloCon opening ceremony it was revealed that not just one, but two of the ArmadilloCon guests could not make it because of (separate)…
China Mieville held a kaffeeklatch at the Readercon 2006, at which he chatted with the audience about writing, politics, and other topics. On how wanting…
This was another panel where I heard some new-to-me ideas, and enjoyed it a lot. The most unusual one was that the very notion of…
On China Mieville’s influences and early writing China Mieville. In my mid-teens I came to a decision that I wanted to do this (i. e.…