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

[misunderstruck.livejournal.com]

I'll be at Denvention.

My schedule for the convention involves bartending at the BWB parties on Friday and Saturday.

[mindseas.livejournal.com]

I'll see you at Denvention!

[tcastleb.livejournal.com]

I'll be at Denvention. I'm on three panels. Woohoo!

Oh, for series? Hmmm. I have all Melanie Rawn's books. I have all Lynn Flewelling's books (which are great fun.) The Kushiel books. Robin Hobb (the apprentice books are better than the more recent series, though.) Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori series. Chelsea Quin Yarbro's St. Germain books. My favorite series is MZB's Darkover though.

[madkestrel.livejournal.com]

Worldcon, me!!! I don't know if I'll be on any panels yet (I registered a little late, so I'm waiting to hear if they can use me.)

[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]

Besides the usual suspects,
Classic series: Patricia McKillip's Riddlemaster of Hed trilogy, and Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan books, which span the classic to current time periods.

Current series where new books are "must immediately buy and read" include Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson books, mizkit's Walker Papers series and Rob Thurman's Cal Leandros stories.

mini-minion

[vcmorris.livejournal.com]

Hey, I put your books on my "virtual bookshelf" over on Facebook. Does that make me a mini-minion?

[davidkeck.livejournal.com]

I'm forced to miss both. But I'm intrigued by the juvenalia thing! (Have you got a real clinker in a trunk somewhere?)

~Dave

[nymeria87.livejournal.com]

I'd love to come to Denvention, but it looks like I won't have the necessary change for it :(

It sounds like a really fun convention though!

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

I'll be at the worldcon.

[steve-buchheit.livejournal.com]

See ya at Confluence. Have the membership, have the room, now I need to syphon gas from my neighbors to be there.