The schedule for this year's AnomalyCon -- Denver's big steampunk convention -- just went up. I'm on a whopping SEVEN panels, including a couple with Cory Doctorow and a few with my friends S. J. Chambers, Carrie Vaughn, and Molly Tanzer. My schedule is below (subject to eleventh-hour tweaks, of course). The con goes down March 27-19 at the Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center. See you there?
FRIDAY 3/27
7pm: Ancient
Civilizations
From
the very ancient to the near modern, history has a way of romanticizing
features of our past that make us want to rewrite the stories about them.
B.
Cherf, J. Heller, S. West, TL Morganfield
8pm: Why Are We Still Talking
About This?
No,
seriously. Why are we still
talking about feminism and equality? Isn't it here yet?
C.
Doctorow, S. Chambers, M. Fowler, J. Heller, C. Rose
SATURDAY 3/28
11am: Steampunk, Anarchy, and
Sociopolitical Activism
Steampunk
is on the rise and fans of the genre enjoy more than just the aesthetic. But
what about
using the core of a movement to bring about positive change in the political or
socioeconomic climate?
C.
Doctorow, S. Chambers, J. Heller, A. Rogers
12pm: The Science of
Steampunk
Steampunk
might be considered "fantasy" to some hardcore scientists today, but
the science of Steampunk looks a lot like hard science when examined through a
Victorian lens.
G. DeMarco, M. Tanzer, J. Heller, S. Chambers
2pm: A History of Steampunk
Music
What
is Steampunk music, really, and how has the genre evolved through the ages?
T.
Deeney, C. Vaughn, J. Heller
6pm: Steampunk Is Taking Over the World!
When
people think "Steampunk," Jules Verne and Wild Wild West often come to
mind. But the last 50 years of media have been full of hints of Steampunk. It's
everywhere, and there are things you need to see and read.
J.
Heller, S. Chambers, M. Acevedo
9pm: Why Steampunks Love
Squid
Why
Verne, why H.P. Lovecraft, why all the mysterious affiliations with squid?
Discuss the Steampunk attachment to certain kinds of fiction.
G. DeMarco,
J. Heller, T. Kroenung
