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…
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…
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)…
ArmadilloCon is a science fiction convention that takes place every year in Austin, Texas. In 2006 the Guest of Honor was writer Julie Czerneda and…
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.…
Readercon is a literary science fiction convention that takes place in Burlington, Massachusetts. The guests of honor in 2006 were authors China Mieville and James…