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The alternate title to this post being: or, How I Learned That It Was Okay To Stand Up For the Fantasy.
You know, my co-workers spent all day asking me if I had a good time on my vacation, and I spent all day nodding emphatically and saying yes, but I was a little stuck when they asked me what I did that was so fun. How do I explain my love for academic panels without putting them to sleep? Blah blahvampire emergency existentialism and self-actualization in the Whedonverse blah. Seee, I don't. So now you guys have to deal with it. Joy!
On the Friday of Dragon*Con I attended the Steampunk vs. Victorian Science Fiction panel, which was something of a discussion/debate between G.D. Falksen and Austin Sirkin. It actually turned out to be my favorite panel of the con, because the two of them couldn't seem to agree on what the actual difference between steampunk and Victorian science fiction was. (It does get boring and tiresome sometimes, watching panelists agree for an hour.) They were civil to each other in their disagreement--something people from a few of the other panels I attended could learn from--and both of them brought up interesting points throughout the panel. The ones that stuck out to me went something like this: ( In which I ramble about science fiction, the steampunk project I'm once again working on with Em, and the merit of the fantastic in scifi. )
TL;DR. Uh, and if you made it through all that I'm buying you ice cream. Feel free to come in and discuss any of this, because I could seriously yammer on about it forever if anyone would sit still long enough.
And please join me tomorrow when I discuss the military and its use in science fiction, a science fiction project I'm working on, and why pacifism will only get you lost inside of the belly of a sarlacc.
You know, my co-workers spent all day asking me if I had a good time on my vacation, and I spent all day nodding emphatically and saying yes, but I was a little stuck when they asked me what I did that was so fun. How do I explain my love for academic panels without putting them to sleep? Blah blah
On the Friday of Dragon*Con I attended the Steampunk vs. Victorian Science Fiction panel, which was something of a discussion/debate between G.D. Falksen and Austin Sirkin. It actually turned out to be my favorite panel of the con, because the two of them couldn't seem to agree on what the actual difference between steampunk and Victorian science fiction was. (It does get boring and tiresome sometimes, watching panelists agree for an hour.) They were civil to each other in their disagreement--something people from a few of the other panels I attended could learn from--and both of them brought up interesting points throughout the panel. The ones that stuck out to me went something like this: ( In which I ramble about science fiction, the steampunk project I'm once again working on with Em, and the merit of the fantastic in scifi. )
TL;DR. Uh, and if you made it through all that I'm buying you ice cream. Feel free to come in and discuss any of this, because I could seriously yammer on about it forever if anyone would sit still long enough.
And please join me tomorrow when I discuss the military and its use in science fiction, a science fiction project I'm working on, and why pacifism will only get you lost inside of the belly of a sarlacc.
