Capricon The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 09 Feb 2010 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5544 Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. ============================================================================== Nigel Price — 09 Feb 2010, 16:29 Is anyone on the list going to Capricon later this week? I've just looked at all the panels and events in which Gene Wolfe is due to take part. The list is as follows: . Destiny vs. Free Will . Hidden Religion in SF/F . Write SF, but I'm a Techno-Idiot . Is SF/Fantasy a Dying Genre or Just Evolving? . Reading: Gene Wolfe . Religion and Science: At Odds? . The Way the Future Was (with Boskone) I'd love to hear what he has to say on all those topics! If anyone is going, is there any chance of their making an audio recording of any of these panels? Nigel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Matthew Knight — 09 Feb 2010, 18:19 in reply to Nigel Price Please, please...I too would love to hear what Gene Wolfe has to say about all of these, particularly the religion-related panels.\ Matt > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Nigel Price wrote: > Is anyone on the list going to Capricon later this week? > > I've just looked at all the panels and events in which Gene Wolfe is due to > take part. The list is as follows: > > . Destiny vs. Free Will > . Hidden Religion in SF/F > . Write SF, but I'm a Techno-Idiot > . Is SF/Fantasy a Dying Genre or Just Evolving? > . Reading: Gene Wolfe > . Religion and Science: At Odds? > . The Way the Future Was (with Boskone) > > I'd love to hear what he has to say on all those topics! If anyone is > going, > is there any chance of their making an audio recording of any of these > panels? > > Nigel > > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ James Wynn — 09 Feb 2010, 21:02 in reply to Matthew Knight I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. A few Wolfe panels are every bit as useful as (or more than) a semester long Creative Writing course. Wolfe's advice about being a *productive* writer are always more practical and objective based than those of any other writer I've heard. Perhaps it is because creative writers do not tend to be analytical. Every other successful writer seems to only vaguely understand exactly how he got there (at least anything beyond "Go to lots of cons and share your writings!"). Wolfe knows exactly step-by-step how he got to where he is and can describe and discuss each leg of the trip. If you know someone who would like to write fiction and get paid for it, you should encourage them to go to invest in the price of a con where Wolfe is attending. J > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Matthew Knight wrote: > Please, please...I too would love to hear what Gene Wolfe has to say about > all of these, particularly the religion-related panels.\ > > Matt > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Nigel Price > wrote: > > Is anyone on the list going to Capricon later this week? > > > > I've just looked at all the panels and events in which Gene Wolfe is due > > to > > take part. The list is as follows: > > > > . ? ? ? Destiny vs. Free Will > > . ? ? ? Hidden Religion in SF/F > > . ? ? ? Write SF, but I'm a Techno-Idiot > > . ? ? ? Is SF/Fantasy a Dying Genre or Just Evolving? > > . ? ? ? Reading: Gene Wolfe > > . ? ? ? Religion and Science: At Odds? > > . ? ? ? The Way the Future Was (with Boskone) > > > > I'd love to hear what he has to say on all those topics! If anyone is > > going, > > is there any chance of their making an audio recording of any of these > > panels? > > > > Nigel > > > > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------