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The concept of Fakefan originated when people who didn’t really like to read sf decided that they liked the people who like to read sf & wanted to hang out with them. This year the ICFA, which I have now attended for 35 years, was devoted to Epic Fantasy. I felt like a fakefan.
There were a few problems: I forgot to pack a couple of meds, but Kevin heroically arranged for them to be shipped. The day before I left, my hearing aid company thoughtfully broke the hearing aid for my less dysfunctional ear, and I had to use an old, less good one, so I heard very little. And the airline behaved the way airlines often do (6 hours late, one of our bags shipped to wherever the plane was going next. The airlines warn us to take everything essential because they do that frequently. It reminds me of something Dan Jenkins said about a football player with a bad rep: “Rooming with him ain’t so bad if you don’t mind taking a shower with all your money in your hand.” Then they wonder why we passengers crowd the plane with large carry-ons. Anyway, it worked for us.) And the conference dealt with Epic Fantasy. Nevertheless, I had a good time.
Good parts version: These were some of the good parts.
Bernadette appeared on the program three times: She read some of her poems, then reported on Margaret St. Clair and C.L. Moore as exemplars of women writing horror back in the day, then joined Kevin for a panel on epic fantasy in comics. All excellent, of course.
Edward James was the Scholar GoH and delivered a typically knowledgeable speech.
There was a serious paper on Chuck Tingle.
Andy Duncan, Max Gladstone, Ellen Klages, and Jeffrey Ford did a panel on Humor in the Fantastic. You could tell they knew how to do it even if you hadn’t read them.
Our invasion of the Library of America continues. There will be more volumes of Ursula K. Le Guin, Gary Wolfe is following up his delightful anthology of the best short sf novels of the 50s with a similar one for the 60s, and Lisa Yaszek is doing an anthology of women’s short sf 1870-1970.
Amanda Firestone did a nifty paper on Holly Black’s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown.
Like me, Isiah Lavender III thinks that Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist is what we read speculative fiction for, despite its literary respectability.
I’m not even going to try to list all the people I enjoyed hanging out with.
I know what I left out: DELTA Airlines. Always name the malefactors.
There were a few problems: I forgot to pack a couple of meds, but Kevin heroically arranged for them to be shipped. The day before I left, my hearing aid company thoughtfully broke the hearing aid for my less dysfunctional ear, and I had to use an old, less good one, so I heard very little. And the airline behaved the way airlines often do (6 hours late, one of our bags shipped to wherever the plane was going next. The airlines warn us to take everything essential because they do that frequently. It reminds me of something Dan Jenkins said about a football player with a bad rep: “Rooming with him ain’t so bad if you don’t mind taking a shower with all your money in your hand.” Then they wonder why we passengers crowd the plane with large carry-ons. Anyway, it worked for us.) And the conference dealt with Epic Fantasy. Nevertheless, I had a good time.
Good parts version: These were some of the good parts.
Bernadette appeared on the program three times: She read some of her poems, then reported on Margaret St. Clair and C.L. Moore as exemplars of women writing horror back in the day, then joined Kevin for a panel on epic fantasy in comics. All excellent, of course.
Edward James was the Scholar GoH and delivered a typically knowledgeable speech.
There was a serious paper on Chuck Tingle.
Andy Duncan, Max Gladstone, Ellen Klages, and Jeffrey Ford did a panel on Humor in the Fantastic. You could tell they knew how to do it even if you hadn’t read them.
Our invasion of the Library of America continues. There will be more volumes of Ursula K. Le Guin, Gary Wolfe is following up his delightful anthology of the best short sf novels of the 50s with a similar one for the 60s, and Lisa Yaszek is doing an anthology of women’s short sf 1870-1970.
Amanda Firestone did a nifty paper on Holly Black’s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown.
Like me, Isiah Lavender III thinks that Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist is what we read speculative fiction for, despite its literary respectability.
I’m not even going to try to list all the people I enjoyed hanging out with.
I know what I left out: DELTA Airlines. Always name the malefactors.
Top Ten Intellectual Epiphanies at ICFA
Mar. 23rd, 2015 09:52 amI enjoyed the ICFA, but will not do a con report. For one thing, I broke one of my hearing aids the day before and heard even less than usual. So here's a nifty report by Cecilia Tan.
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.
