Boskone Panel Notes: The Changing Face of SF -- Editorial Viewpoints

[skogkatt]

This panel happened on Saturday at noon. My notes are pretty incomplete, but I tried to write down key points and book titles. Please feel free to offer additions or corrections in the comments.

Here's the official blurb:
If you want the widest possible view of the ever-evolving science fiction landscape, ask a bunch of editors to tell you what's

Comments

[spectralbovine]

Hey, congratulations on being on the Galactic Suburbia Award Shortlist!! It's been neat to see you be all important and fandom-y.

Also, Seanan's in that mad scientist anthology! I may pick it up. It does sound good, speaker not listed in notes.

[akiko]

One of these years, John Joseph Adams will win Best Editor, Short Form, dagnabbit. His anthologies are so well done!

[skogkatt]

We can hope!

[julieandrews]

Second the congrats!

And that antho just arrived here yesterday. Maybe I should've brought it to work, but I'm in the middle of reading a Vorkosigan on my ereader. :)

[sartorias]

I can't help but think panels with the biggie editors would be more interesting for what they're not saying.

[skogkatt]

Say more?

[sartorias]

The reccos as well as some of the statements seem like the same old same old. Maybe it's just my age. But it doesn't seem to me that the old hands among the editors were furnishing anything particularly insightful. (I realize that a lot of what writers want to hear actually can't be said in public.)

Anyway, thanks a lot for typing these up. It is so nice to get real reports, instead of lists of who was there. (And yeah, nobody is to blame for saying anything they want.)

[asakiyume]

What a lot of variety! I'm interested and encouraged.

[skogkatt]

:D

[julieandrews]

Thanks for the writeup. I had to leave that panel because I wasn't feeling well and felt bad to miss it!

[skogkatt]

I'm sorry you weren't feeling well! :(