Space Opera Fans discussion

Hi Space Opera Fans!

I'm at the BOSKONE Boston science fiction conference, run by NEFSA, the New England Science Fiction Association. They are knocking themselves out this year, promoting all kinds of Young Adult oriented activities and panels. I think, as a major credible regional genre-association that is also its own non-profit scholarly publishing company and award-giving body, they are really making the effort to modernize the genre and make it accessible to a new generation.

http://www.nesfa.org/boskone/

And ... Leviathan's Wake is very much on everybody's mind!!! There is a buzz there this year, a kind of hopefulness that Space Opera is going to be the next big thing amongst the legacy traditionally published authors and agents. Yay! New stuff!

And ... tomorrow I bring my 13-year-old to her first science fiction conference. One of her favorite YA authors Carrie Vaughn (Kitty Norville urban fantasy series) just announced tonight she has a young adult space opera book coming out within this next year. Yay! Gotta indoctrinate those young people and get them away from the sparkly vampires!

Tomorrow ... Day 2 of BOSKONE! This is a major sci-fi association, not quite as big as SFWA, but pretty big. If they are putting so much energy into workshops to promote Young Adult space opera then maybe we'll start seeing lots more of it?

[*fingers crossed*]

I'll update everybody on how it goes tomorrow. And if anybody is in Boston ... I'll be there! As a fan...

That's fantastic! (completely unintentional Doctor Who quote)

I just got back from Day 2 with my 13-year-old and she had a good time.

[*Indoctrinate, assimilate her into my geeky ways :-) *]

I introduced my daughter to Heinlien and McCaffrey, along with Star Trek conventions at an early age so thanfulky she never developed an interest in sparkly vampires.

like me, she was a born reader, and i had a large sci fi collection. our interests arent completely the same, but she appreciates the classics and the new. she has a hsbit of appropriating bujold mcmaster, moon, mccaffrey from my shelves so the female authors definitely made an impression on her.

Anna wrote: "I just got back from Day 2 with my 13-year-old and she had a good time.

[*Indoctrinate, assimilate her into my geeky ways :-) *]"

conventions are good. interesting, exciting and in thd 90s (before computers in every home) had more young people making my daughter feel less alien about liking sci fi.