Some good things about this year's ICFA
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* The opening panel, particularly DeWitt Kilgore and Owl Goingback. The latter reported that publishers asked him to change his name because it sounded too foreign.
*nellorat's paper on Peter Straub, specifically Mister X
*nellorat's session, where as she said, the audience was small but choice: Kit and Joe Reed, Jennifer Stevenson, Rhonda Brock-Servais, and of course Peter Straub.
* Kit and Joe Reed, whom we got to spend a lot of time with;
* Bill Senior talking about The Hobbit
* David Farnell's paper on how intermarriage with the Other is seen as frightening/tempting in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow over Innsmouth" and Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood.
* Farah Mendlesohn, who has stepped down after years of great service as the parent organization's president and has declared that her new title is Dowager President.
nisi_la* The opening panel, particularly DeWitt Kilgore and Owl Goingback. The latter reported that publishers asked him to change his name because it sounded too foreign.
*
nellorat's paper on Peter Straub, specifically Mister X*
nellorat's session, where as she said, the audience was small but choice: Kit and Joe Reed, Jennifer Stevenson, Rhonda Brock-Servais, and of course Peter Straub. * Kit and Joe Reed, whom we got to spend a lot of time with;
* Bill Senior talking about The Hobbit
* David Farnell's paper on how intermarriage with the Other is seen as frightening/tempting in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow over Innsmouth" and Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood.
* Farah Mendlesohn, who has stepped down after years of great service as the parent organization's president and has declared that her new title is Dowager President.
