The wonderful Rick Kleffel, whose Agony Column podcast is required listening on this editor’s iPod, has interviewed me today. We take about Denvention, the Hugos, and what’s forthcoming from Pyr. Here’s the direct link to the mp3.
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Here’s my “final” schedule for the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, Denver, Colorado, August 6th to 10th:
Wednesday 2:30 PM
33 Cover Art in the Internet Age
CCC – Korbel 4CD
“Don’t judge a book by its cover.” How does this maxim work in the internet age when books are sold online (with small images of the cover) or even more so in e-books.
John Picacio, (m)Laura Givens, Lou Anders
Wednesday 4pm
57 Signing (75 minutes)
CCC – Hall D
Cynthia Felice, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Lou Anders, Mike Resnick, Warren Hammond
Friday 9AM
Stroll With the Stars
A gentle, friendly 1 mile stroll with some of your favorite Authors, Artists & Editors. Leaving daily. 9AM, from the Big Blue Bear in front of the Colorado Convention Center,
returning before other Programming begins, definitely before 10.
Lou Anders, Paul Cornell, John Picacio, Stephen H. Segal
Friday 11:30 AM
304 Kaffeeklatsch
CCC – Korbel 4E
Elizabeth Moon, James Patrick Kelly, Joe Haldeman, Lou Anders
Friday 5:30 PM
416 Pyr Books Presentation
CCC – Korbel 4CD
Lou Anders & authors and artists
Friday 8Pm – 11PM
Sheraton Party Floor
Pyr Party in Honor of Ian McDonald
Saturday 10AM
455 The Comeback of Original Anthology Collections
CCC – Korbel 1C
New collections of original stories are appearing more frequently now than over the recent past. Original Anthology Collections may be substituting for or supplementing magazines as a market for short fiction. Why are we seeing this and what can we expect in the near future?
Ellen Datlow, Jonathan Strahan, (m)Lee Martindale, Lou Anders
Sunday 1pm
655 The Coming Thing – what’s next and newest in SF
CCC – Room 502
Panelists discuss what is next up in the SF pipeline.
What new crazy ideas and approaches should we be looking for? What’s going to be popular next year, and after that?
Charles Stross, (m)Daniel Abraham, Lou Anders
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The guys at SFSignal are back with another Mind Meld question, this one asking, “Which sf/f story is your favorite example of worldbuilding? Why?”
Answers from such notables as Joe Abercrombie, Karl Schroeder, Nancy Kress, Orson Scott Card, Mike Brotherton, Jeffrey Ford, Jeff Vandermeer, Mike Resnick, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Jeff Somers, Paul Levinson, and Yours Truly.
This bit from Orson Scott Card caught my eye: “Science fiction is, in many ways, DEFINED by world creation. Anybody who’s any good in this field knows how to create worlds, at least well enough to get by. So what we tend to value are the worlds that surprise us. The master of the surprising yet apt detail is Bruce Sterling; I point to his “Green Days in Brunei” as an exemplar.”
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Tor podcasts just uploaded a panel discussion from last years Boskone (I think) on “What Makes a Cover Work” (Parts One and Two) with Yours Truly, Tor art director Irene Gallo, artists John Picacio & Tom Kidd, and Tachyon publisher Jacob Weisman. This was actually a pivotal moment in my own thinking about cover art, and Jacob’s comments about “judging a portfolio by its worst work, not its best” has stayed with me ever since.
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I’m interviewed again on the always-wonderful Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing podcast at the site’s new location here. I’m talking about the purpose of cover art, after an interview with the wonderful Kelly Link.
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Hey, I’ve just been informed that Matrix Online has uploaded the full 7,000 word text of the interview that Lon Cohen conducted with me to their website, here as a PDF. (The edited version appeared in Matrix # 186.)
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I was on Fox 6’s “Good Day, Alabama” at 7:45 am this morning, along with fellow Alabamian and new SF author William H. Drinkard, in support of OmegaCon. We talked with host Rick Journey about Bill’s book, OmegaCon, and Pyr. The clip is already online here.