Saturday, November 19

12pm

Readings: Fran Wilde

Readings

Tracks: Readings
Types: Reading

Fran Wilde

Reading by Fran Wilde

1pm

State of the Short Fiction Market

Plaza 2

Tracks: Literary
Types: Panel

Jean Marie Ward (moderator), Stephanie Burke, Neil Clarke, Margaret Riley, Fran Wilde

Editors and Writers weigh in on trends in short fiction and magazine publishing, including the shifting balance between online and print magazines, pro vs. semi-pro, and more.

4pm

The New Space Opera

Crystal 3

Tracks: Literary
Types: Panel

Russ Colchamiro (moderator), vikki ciaffone, Peter Prellwitz, Fran Wilde, N.E. Lilly

The original definition of Space Opera was “a hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn” (WIlliam Tucker, 1941).  When did that change, and how does the new Space Opera differ?  Are Space Westerns inherently Space Opera, and does all Space Opera have a Western flavor?

6pm

The Great Big Library of Everything

Plaza 2

Tracks: Literary
Types: Panel

Sally Wiener Grotta (moderator), John Ashmead, Scheherazade Jackson, Kathryn Sullivan, Fran Wilde

Libraries as a nexus of all human knowledge have appeared in speculative fiction from Borges’s Library of Babel, to the L-space of Terry Pratchett’s DISCWORLD, and Genevieve Cogman’s THE INVISIBLE LIBRARY. This panel will explore the many facets of this powerful metaphor