First panel was 9:00 AM. So, that meant getting up early enough to get the brain in gear by 9. Sun, 9:00 AM, Salon B, Writers We Don’t Understand Moderator: Gayle Surrette. Panelists: J-F Bibeau, Michael Swanwick Charlie Stross loads his stories with so much IT jargon it makes the head spin. A PhD in […]
I wish we could have slept in today. Yesterday was really busy though, looking at what I wrote, it doesn’t really appear to be that much. Didn’t matter. I was tired when I got up. First order of business was to talk to programming about getting off one of the panels that I was on […]
We had a few stops to make on our way to Balticon but we actually managed to get here at a reasonable time. We’d passed a long line of police cars along the major highway all lined up — some with their hoods up. We realized it was for the funeral procession of a state […]
Here’s my schedule for Balticon 45 starting Friday, May 26 to May 30 in Marriott’s Hunt Valley Inn, Baltimore, MD. Fri. 6:00 PM: Salon B, Luddites of Fandom Fri. 9:00 PM: Belmont, Fantasy Motifs in SF Literature Sat. 1:00 PM: Belmont: Favorite Shared Worlds. Sat. 4:00 PM: Salon C: How Plausible is Today’s Hard SF? […]
SFWA, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of American, announced the winners of the this year’s Nebula Awards at their annual Nebula Awards Weekend held in Washington, DC. You can read the full list of nominees and winners on the SFWA website. Best Novel: Blackout/All Clear, Connie Willis (Spectra) Best Novella: “The Lady Who Plucked Red […]
This weekend I’ll be at the Nebula Awards Weekend. I’m doing a workshop with Paul Haggerty on Improving Your Website. I’ll also be volunteering here and there during the convention — starting with bag stuffing on Thursday. I’m starting to get anxious about the workshop. We’ve been working on putting the material together for weeks. […]
Today we went to Maryland Sheep and Wool. We had a great time considering we walked constantly from arrival to leaving — about 7.5 hours. Driving time 1.5 hours each way. We’re home now. My knee feels like it is the size of a basketball and my back is reporting that it’s filing for a […]
Gumshoe May 2011 now Online at www.gumshoereview.com Senior Editor: Gayle Surrette Editor Emeritus: Ernest Lilley Editorial License: Just the Facts – May 2011 by Gayle Surrette Features: Interview: Brian Freeman by Gayle Surrette & Joseph B. Hoyos / The Bone House by Brian Freeman Interview: Parnell Hall by Gayle Surrette & Joseph B. Hoyos / […]