NASFiC schedule

[feuervogel]

Thursday 8/5
12:00 pm LIT108: Harry Potter retrospective. Now that it’s over, was it as good as we thought?

Friday 8/6
10:00 am LIT009: Fifty years ago today. A retrospective of SF/F in 1960. I have no fucking clue how I ended up on this panel, I know exactly jack and shit about the subject.

4:00 pm LIT008: Rural settings in SF/F. Typically rural areas appear in Fantasy and cities in SF. What does this say about the two genres? Or is this generalization even true? See above re clue.

8:00 pm CON006: Broad Universe rapid fire reading (They gave us 2 hours?? No, wait, 3... yikes.)

And for some reason, I'm scheduled to have multiple autograph sessions and a kaffeeklatsch. Yeah, I don't know, either.

Comments

[warpig1979.livejournal.com]

1960 is an odd date to pick for sci-fi, because it's sort of a transitional period. Post the golden age of Heinlein and the like, pre the New Wave. 1960 did see one of my personal favorite SF novels, though, Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys. Which is a quick read and a good one.

Looking at the listing in David Pringle's 100 best novels book, at the time Vonnegut had just written The Sirens of Titan and Walter Miller had just dished up A Canticle for Leibowitz. Interesting mix of stuff. Philip Dick had gotten going, too, Time Out of Joint came out in 1958. As I understand it nobody actually heard of him until 1962, though, when he published The Man in the High Castle.

[feuervogel]

I may try to get out of that panel and onto a different one, when I go about canceling the wtfautograph sessions. I mean, I have NO IDEA about SF in 1960. (50 years ago is the idea, so...)