This year's Arisia convention will be back at the Boston Westin Waterfront, January 17-20. I'll be there Friday the 17th through Sunday the 19th, and it's going to be a busy weekend.
Friday 5:30 p.m.: "Stories From the Cities" — A joint reading with myself, Andrea Hairston and W.B.J. Williams. All three stories are connected with cities; my own will be an excerpt from my upcoming book The Initiate.
Friday 7:00 p.m.: "Not With My Intellectual Property, You Don't" — A panel discussion about the legality, morality, and practicality of writing continuations of other people's fiction. (I'll be moderating.)
Friday 8:30 p.m.: "Cope vs. Marsh — The Bone Wars" — Pretty much what it says on the tin: a panel discussion about how the personal rivalry between two 19th-century scientists transformed paleontology. (I'll be moderating and plugging the hell out of my card game.)
Saturday, 10:00 p.m.: "Late Night Writers Cafe" — A meetup for writers and those learning the craft. I'll be one of the two co-hosts.
Sunday, 10:00 a.m.: "Fifty Years After Ringworld" — Larry Niven's novel Ringworld is one of the field's enduring classics. What makes it so great? (I'll be moderating this one as well.)
Sunday, 5:30 p.m.: "Writers React to Bad Writing" — A panel of writers will bring in examples of bad writing in published work, and explain what makes them so bad.
Sunday, 8:30 p.m.: "The Hacker's Guide to D&D" — Ways to tinker with the mechanics of everyone's favorite roleplaying game in order to make it easier or more fun. (I will, inevitably, be moderating.)
The tyranny of the sorcerers must end! The Initiate arrives in bookstores February 4, from Baen Books.
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