Boskone Schedule

[jpskewedthrone]

Here's my schedule for the upcoming Boskone con. Who else is going? And help me out with the Character Assassination panel: let me know what books you've read where the author killed off a major character memorably.

Saturday 11am Character Assassination for Fun and Profit
James D. Macdonald
Joshua B. Palmatier
Allen Steele (M)
Charles Stross

The death of a major character often proves upsetting for involved
readers. How does it feel to the writer? What genre works have
killed off their own most memorably? Does it always help the story?
Which writers have a special gift for this dark art?

Saturday 12noon Mining Your Obsessions
Beth Bernobich
Patricia Bray
Gregory Frost
Joshua B. Palmatier
Tamora Pierce (M)

"Write what you know," they say. If you're writing about a poet who
lives on a space station, how does it help that you're nuts about
cycling, cryptology, forensics, mathematics, or blade weapons? Our
panelists will explore this and other questions related to finding
unlikely connections between what you're writing and what you care
about.

Saturday 5pm Kaffeeklatsch

Sunday 10am Reading (0.5 hrs)

Comments

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

One that made me cry recently I can't tell you about, because the book was in beta when I read it and isn't out yet :P

I also cried buckets over Yuri in Kate Elliot's Jaran, and how about Aslan in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? (I know he comes back to life, like, two chapters later, but we don't know that the first time we read his death. At least, we don't if we're little Jewish kids who don't recognize the analogy...)