Mid-February brings blizzards, Valentines . . . and Boskone!
On February 14-16 I'll be at the fabulous Westin Boston Seaport District hotel for New England's oldest science fiction convention. This year they're keeping me busy, which is great because The Miranda Conspiracy should just be hitting the bookstore shelves. Here's my schedule, and when I'm not at these events I'll probably be attending other programming or hanging out in the delightful lobby bar.
Friday, February 14, 2:30 p.m.: Biology in SF/F — I'll be joining an erudite panel of experts to talk about how SF and fantasy fiction use (and misuse) biology.
Saturday, February 15, 10:00 a.m.: Reading — Come and hear an excerpt from The Miranda Conspiracy and pick up some bookmarks and special swag.
2:30 p.m.: Technology and the Crisis of Conscience — I'll be moderating a crack team of writers as we discuss some thorny questions of ethics in science and technology and how SF has tackled those issues over the years.
4:00 p.m.: Book Launch Party — Join me and all the other writers at Boskone with new books for a big combined book launch party!
Sunday, February 16, 11:30 a.m.: The Most Important Books I Never Read — I'll join an all-star panel discussing which famous works of SF and fantasy we've never gotten around to reading.
1:00 p.m.: Autographing — I'll be signing copies of Miranda Conspiracy or anything else you want me to scribble on.
Have you ever read Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker? It's tremendously fertile in ideas; it has vast numbers of distinctly nonhuman alien races, and there's a short passage that Freeman Dyson credited with giving him the idea of the Dyson sphere. Its speculative content might be somewhere in the DNA of your own ongoing series.
Posted by: William H. Stoddard | 02/08/2025 at 02:18 AM