Confluence and Worldcon (Denvention)

[jpskewedthrone]

I'm attending both Confluence at the end of this month, followed by Worldcon in Denver at the beginning of August. It's a little early, but others seem to be posting their panel schedules and seeing who else is going, and since I am a giant lemming ("I'll go get my ball" for those who've seen the trailer for Bolt), here we go!

Confluence Panel Schedule:

Friday 7:00pm Rhyme, Meter, and Language in Fantasy (Herb Kauderer, Joshua B. Palmatier (M, GAH!), Tamora Pierce, Michelle (Sagara) West)

In her essay "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie," Ursula Le Guin discusses the importance of style in fantasy. She contents that fantasy requires a style that, if not followed, can hurl the reader out of Elfland and send him or her to Poughkeepsie. (She cites the way characters in fantasies by Zelazny and Leiber break into contemporary slang as examples.) The panel discusses the importance of style in fantasy.

Saturday 11:00am Making It Real: Bringing a Fantasy or SF Setting to Life (Kenneth B. Chiacchia, Joshua B. Palmatier, Tamora Pierce (M), Michelle (Sagara) West)

Saturday 2:00pm Comedy in High Fantasy (S. C. Butler (M), Susan Dexter, Joshua B. Palmatier, Tamora Pierce, Karina Sumner-Smith)

Saturday 5:00pm Reading (0.5 hrs) (Joshua B. Palmatier)

Sunday 2:00pm My Favorite Series: The Best Current Fantasy and SF Series (S. C. Butler (M), Susan Dexter, Timothy Liebe, Joshua B. Palmatier, Karina Sumner-Smith)

What are you're favorite series -- both recent and classic. George Martin's Song of Ice and Fire. Lois Bujold's Miles stories? Repairman Jack? What about series you really like that you feel are very underrated?

Denvention Panel Schedule:

Writers reading from their juvenalia Thur. 10am

Using Myths to Kick Off a Fantasy World Fri. 4pm



So who else is going to either of these?

Comments

[madkestrel.livejournal.com]

And as for series, I love-and-adore Roger Zelazny's Amber books (named my son for one of the princes!) and F Paul Wilson's Adversary Cycle - the end of the last book, Nightworld, left me shredded! There's nothing like a book that can cause such an emotional reaction from me. I just finished Kushiel's Mercy this weekend, so I love those books, too.

That's just a few, but I didn't want to overload your comment page. :D

[pbray.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking of the Amber books the other day. It was one of my favorites when I was in my twenties, but I haven't read it for a while.

[madkestrel.livejournal.com]

My son just started reading them. Which means I'm constantly wandering past his room while he's reading, peeking in to see how far he's gotten, and annoying the tar out of him. *grin*

[davidkeck.livejournal.com]

Do you remember MacAvoy's Damiano's Lute (and its two sequals). Lovely stuff. There was a dog. I cried.

[madkestrel.livejournal.com]

Yes!! I loved those as well! I still have my beaten-up paperbacks of Damiano and Damiano's Lute and I've been watching the used bookstores for a replacement of Raphael.

Speaking of the 80's, how about Megan Lindholm's Ki & Vandien Quartet? I was brokenhearted to realize there really were only four.

[davidkeck.livejournal.com]

Good luck with Raphael. My kind of fantasy. (She did such a good job convincing you of that setting).

But I missed the quartet. (Shouldn't the "quartet" thing should have tipped you off to the eventual total...?)

;)

~Dave

[madkestrel.livejournal.com]

*laughs* It wasn't referred to as "quartet" until many years later.

[davidkeck.livejournal.com]

Ah. That explains it. (You can never tell how bright a mad kestrel is likely to be).

I wonder what MacAvoy's doing these days. We need more people writing fantasy with an historian's edge and literary pretensions -- I think my subgenre is flagging a bit.

~D

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Great suggestions! Thanks!