WorldCon Schedule
Friday 12:00 noon Autographing
Crayons or felt tip pens, d'ya think?
Saturday 1:00pm Kaffeeklatsch
Me
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Geoffrey Landis
Jessica Rydill
Why I signed up for a kaffeeklatsch I'm not exactly sure. I mean, given that my first novel is only released on the Friday, it's not like there's gonna be hordes of fans queuing up to meet me. I just ticked all the boxes, basically, in the participant questionnaire. Readings, panels, kaffeeklatsches, why sure, I'll do 'em. Hal Duncan, media slut.
Saturday 2:00pm The Greatest Queer SF (1.5 hrs)
Paul Cockburn
Me
Jim Grimsley
Jed Hartman
Tanya Huff
Description: "What are the best queer works of science fiction? A celebration of queer themes, queer characters and queer authors in the sf genre."
I suspect my contribution to this might amount to "Samuel R. Delany is a goddamn motherfuckin genius. Oh, and so was William Burroughs." At great length and with great enthusiasm.
Saturday 6:00pm It's Sort of Fantastic, and I Like It But (the Growth of the Slipstream).
Me
Colin Greenland
Elizabeth Hand
Kelly Link
Mark Rich
Delia Sherman
Description: "Our panelists look at the fiction that slips between traditional genre boundaries, and ask why this kind of fiction appeals to sf readers despite the frequent absence of anything "obviously" fantastical."
Ah, yes. They put me on a "slipstream" panel. Lock and load, daddio. We got us some infernokrushing to be done.
Monday 10:00am Scottish Imaginative Writing
Me
William Meikle
David Pringle
Neil Williamson
Andrew Wilson
AKA: The "Why You Should Buy The Nova Scotia Anthology" Panel.
Although, can I just say… ten o'clock? Ten o'fucking clock?! Are they fucking crazy?! Me on a panel at fucking ten o'fucking clock in the fucking morning?! They're gonna have to have a fucking Irn Bru intra-venous drip set up for me, cause at that time in the morning it's gonna look like a goddamn 1970's Hammer House of Horror movie -- Duncan Has Risen From The Grave. I can see things going a little like this:
Andrew: … to what extent the Celtic Twilight influences modern Scottish fantasy? Hal?
Me: IT'S FUCKING TEN O'FUCKING CLOCK!
Monday 12:00 noon Reading (0.5 hrs)
Hmm. After five days of hard drinking and chain smoking, expect a remarkably accurate imitation of Tom Waits.
Crayons or felt tip pens, d'ya think?
Saturday 1:00pm Kaffeeklatsch
Me
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Geoffrey Landis
Jessica Rydill
Why I signed up for a kaffeeklatsch I'm not exactly sure. I mean, given that my first novel is only released on the Friday, it's not like there's gonna be hordes of fans queuing up to meet me. I just ticked all the boxes, basically, in the participant questionnaire. Readings, panels, kaffeeklatsches, why sure, I'll do 'em. Hal Duncan, media slut.
Saturday 2:00pm The Greatest Queer SF (1.5 hrs)
Paul Cockburn
Me
Jim Grimsley
Jed Hartman
Tanya Huff
Description: "What are the best queer works of science fiction? A celebration of queer themes, queer characters and queer authors in the sf genre."
I suspect my contribution to this might amount to "Samuel R. Delany is a goddamn motherfuckin genius. Oh, and so was William Burroughs." At great length and with great enthusiasm.
Saturday 6:00pm It's Sort of Fantastic, and I Like It But (the Growth of the Slipstream).
Me
Colin Greenland
Elizabeth Hand
Kelly Link
Mark Rich
Delia Sherman
Description: "Our panelists look at the fiction that slips between traditional genre boundaries, and ask why this kind of fiction appeals to sf readers despite the frequent absence of anything "obviously" fantastical."
Ah, yes. They put me on a "slipstream" panel. Lock and load, daddio. We got us some infernokrushing to be done.
Monday 10:00am Scottish Imaginative Writing
Me
William Meikle
David Pringle
Neil Williamson
Andrew Wilson
AKA: The "Why You Should Buy The Nova Scotia Anthology" Panel.
Although, can I just say… ten o'clock? Ten o'fucking clock?! Are they fucking crazy?! Me on a panel at fucking ten o'fucking clock in the fucking morning?! They're gonna have to have a fucking Irn Bru intra-venous drip set up for me, cause at that time in the morning it's gonna look like a goddamn 1970's Hammer House of Horror movie -- Duncan Has Risen From The Grave. I can see things going a little like this:
Andrew: … to what extent the Celtic Twilight influences modern Scottish fantasy? Hal?
Me: IT'S FUCKING TEN O'FUCKING CLOCK!
Monday 12:00 noon Reading (0.5 hrs)
Hmm. After five days of hard drinking and chain smoking, expect a remarkably accurate imitation of Tom Waits.
posted by Hal Duncan | 12:36 pm
7 Comments:
You gotta get me into the Slipstream panel. (I'm not buying a membership to the convention)
JK
"So you drove a monster truck through the wall of the Convention Centre, Mr Duncan?"
"Well, I was doing a favour for a mate, officer."
"By driving a monster truck through the wall of the Convention Centre?"
"I was trying to get him into the panel I was on."
"Ah, yes. The 'Slipstream' panel."
"Infernokrusher."
"Inferno... crusher?"
"Infernokrusher. With a 'k'. One word."
"So you were trying to get this person into this 'Infernokrusher' panel?"
"That's right."
"And you couldn't have used, say, the door?"
"He wasn't a member of the con. So we had to sneak him in."
"And driving a monster truck through the wall of the Convention Centre constitutes, in your opinion, "sneaking"?"
[pause]
"Well, it was going to be a tank."
Al - Monday, 10am - think of it as a challenge to display exactly the qualities that make Scots SF writers unqiue!
I'll bring a pointy stick shall I?
neilw
Man, if I wasn't going to be on a train down to London by then, I'd totally offer to do backing vocals for your reading. For that real Waits effect, though, you should see if you can rent a calliope.
Neil: Yes, but... IT'S FUCKING TEN O'FUCKING CLOCK!
David: Calliope... definitely! And some dustbin lids to use as symbols for the mad percussive effects.
Um... cymbals,I mean.
I didn't like to say. Thought you might be being meta-fictional.
neilw
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