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…
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…
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…
Lituanicon is an annual science fiction convention in Vilnius, Lithuania. I went to Lituanicon on our trip to Lithuania in May of 2004. Lithuanian science…
On my trip to Lithuania in May of 2004 I met with some of my old friends at Vilnius science fiction club Dorado.
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…