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Worldcon 2019: Day 2
Aug. 21st, 2019 07:04 amThis is my second post recapping my experiences of attending my first ever Worldcon. As before, I will post panel descriptions in plain text, and a few sentences summarising my own impressions in italics afterwards.
( Panels on space opera, grappling with the post-colonial in SFF, and Tolkien, plus a reading by Kate Elliott and a fountain pen meet-up hosted by Aliette de Bodard )
I promised to mention the thing with Kate Elliott. She and I have known each other for a long time online, chatting occasionally on Twitter, where we are mutual followers, but I never take that as a guarantee that authors know who I am or think of me as a friend. However, when I was queuing to go into her reading, she saw my name badge, and immediately told me how much a book review I had written more than ten years ago meant to her. She told me it was one of the few reviews she'd read that got what she was trying to do with the book/series in question, and one of the few that ever applied a higher level of depth and complexity to its analysis of her work. She still remembered it, and that I was the one who wrote it, years later. I have to admit that this made me quite emotional and overwhelmed! I wrote a Twitter thread about the whole thing here.
( Panels on space opera, grappling with the post-colonial in SFF, and Tolkien, plus a reading by Kate Elliott and a fountain pen meet-up hosted by Aliette de Bodard )
I promised to mention the thing with Kate Elliott. She and I have known each other for a long time online, chatting occasionally on Twitter, where we are mutual followers, but I never take that as a guarantee that authors know who I am or think of me as a friend. However, when I was queuing to go into her reading, she saw my name badge, and immediately told me how much a book review I had written more than ten years ago meant to her. She told me it was one of the few reviews she'd read that got what she was trying to do with the book/series in question, and one of the few that ever applied a higher level of depth and complexity to its analysis of her work. She still remembered it, and that I was the one who wrote it, years later. I have to admit that this made me quite emotional and overwhelmed! I wrote a Twitter thread about the whole thing here.