My Balticon 52 Schedule
If it’s Memorial Day weekend, it must be time for Balticon, the annual Maryland regional science fiction and fantasy convention. This will be my ninth time attending (every Balticon since 2009 except for the year my sister got married) and probably my fourth or fifth as a guest. It is unquestionably one of my favorite weekends of the year – part fandom, part family reunion, and usually educational. I wore out my iPad taking notes last year.
As of right now (the day before the con opens), this is my panel schedule for the weekend:
Friday, May 25:
Science Fiction and Sports, Room 8029, 4:00 pm (I will be the moderator)
Grammar For The Afflicted and Conflicted Writer, St. George Room, 5:00 pm
Mark Twain Versus James Fenimore Cooper – Literary Criticism At Its Finest, Room 9029, 9:00 pm
Saturday, May 26
Making the Most of the Topic, Pride of Baltimore II Room, 4:00 pm
Sunday, May 27
Reading in the St. George Room, 11:00 am
Which Way Do We Go, Pride of Baltimore II Room, 6:00 pm
Comic SFF: More Than Just Jokes, Room 8005, 7:00 pm
Monday, May 28
Non-Genre Fiction That Inspires Us, Pride of Baltimore II Room, 10:00 am (I will be the moderator)
The complete con schedule lists the dozens of panels I will want to attend. If you’re going to be at Balticon, please say hi if you see me. It will be a great weekend of discussions, art, music, and friends.
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Have a great time, Tim!
(Also, very interested to hear about that Twain versus Cooper session.)
Thanks, Julie! So the Twain-Cooper session ... Mark Twain wrote a brutal critique of Cooper's Deerslayer books. See http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/project.... The panelists all read parts of it aloud, then we discussed the fairness of Twain's complaints and the lessons writers can take from them. We had a couple of published literary critics on the panel who contributed quite a bit.
