My Arisia 2016 Schedule

[ken_schneyer]

Here's my schedule for Arisia 2016, January 15-18, Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel:

The Future of Mars - Literature, Panel - 1hr 15min - Faneuil (3W) - Friday 8:30 p.m.
We grew up reading about Barsoom and the Mars of Wells and Bradbury. Today, we’re finally exploring the reality of the red planet. Where does our fictional treatment of Mars go

Comments

[madderbrad]

Wow, busy!

Just finished watching 'The Martian' today. Not a bad flick, although I think they took some liberties with the orbital mechanics stuff. Not that I would really know.

You should put Rowling up as someone who abused the 'unreliable narrator' thing. In the last few chapters of DH she had Harry ignoring things that he supposedly knew all along five minutes later in the melodramatic farce of a climax between him and Voldemort. Just so she could keep things as a 'surprise' until then. It's poor writing when the writer has to lie to the reader just to keep the plot afloat.

[ken_schneyer]

Hi Brad,

Thanks for commenting! How've you been?

[madderbrad]

Oh, okay. Neither highs nor lows. Live Journal seems to be dead these days, but that's because I only ever used it for HP. I haven't gone to Twitter or Tumblr, both seem pretty stupid/useless to me (in the short glimpses I've had of them). Really, how can I wax forth with a ten-page rebuttal of HP canon 'ships, expounding all of the problems with Harry/Ginny and Ron/Hermione, when I am limited to 140 character 'tweets' or just a 'LIKE' button on Tumblr

[ken_schneyer]

Facebook is better for lengthy rants than Twitter, for sure.

Interestingly, although I've never read Jumper, I happen to have a copy of it, strongly recommended by another friend. Also, I've met Steve; he was President of SFWA the year I was nominated for the Nebula, and so was at the awards weekend. Maybe I should open it and read it. :)

Not writing nearly as much as I'd like to; it's much easier in the summer.