Rick Taubold has provided a peek at Astronomicon's Panels. Any other
ideas?
Here's one that occurred to me:
Wrecking the Genre-- Do Zombies steal cred from serious spec fic? Does
a steely gaze into our future take so much fun out that it is not
worth reading?
Preliminary List of ASTRONOMICON PANELS & PRESENTATIONS
PRESENTATIONS
(1) Dr. Alex Pantaleev
(Computer Gaming)
(2) Malcolm Guy Spaull
(Short Films)
(3) Dr. David Stephenson
"Mr. Myazaki's Wonderful Flying Machines"
(4) Writing convincing fight and battle scenes (tentative)
PANELS
(5) Alternate History -- What if: how to do it right and how far
should you go?
(6) Getting Published -- traditional & alternate writing markets
(7) Writing for the young and YA audience
(8) Cross-gender writing
(9) Maim 'Em Right
(10) Sci-Fi Poetry
(11) "Twitter My Jetpack" -- Future Technologies, expectations,
disappointments, surprises
(12) Writing convincing fight and battle scenes
(13) Fantasy or Sci-fi? Where do we draw the line? What falls
between the cracks?
(14) "Does Dark Matter Matter?" -- using the concept in your writing
(15) Time Travel -- the hows and whys of doing it and getting it
right in writing
(16) What is time?
(17) Promotion--selling yourself and using the Internet to sell
your works
(18) The Anguish of Immortality
(19) "Full Steam Ahead" -- steampunk
(20) Writing for the steampunk audience
(21) Religion and religious issues in sci-fi and fantasy
(22) You Think That's Funny? -- adding humor to serious works
(23) R-Spec
(24) Self-publishing -- should you? The advantages and dangers.
(25) Projecting current science into the future -- Why can't we
get it right?
(26) How much romance can we put into sci-fi and fantasy and still
call it sci-fi and fantasy?
(27) "It's been done before" -- how to make old ideas new and are
there any new ideas to be had?
(28) Vampires vs. werewolves -- why do vamps seem to get the good
roles while werewolves get the bad rap?
(29) Shapeshifters -- Can we make them plausible? Do we need to?
(30) Writing about characters who are smarter than you are?
(31) Podcasting, the current state of affairs. Is it still a
viable medium or has it gone the way of the CB radio?
(32) Alien languages -- How much should we do? How can we make
aliens talk alien without the reader needing a dictionary?
(33) Series of novels. Can you write a fantasy epic without
needing a dozen books in the series? Should you? How do you know
when you should end a series?
(34) Short stories -- Are they still viable, or have novels taken
over? Markets for short story readers and writers.
(35) "I Have An Idea..." This is a discussion panel/informal
workshop consisting of the room audience with one moderator. Writers
can bring along their ideas for a story or a novel (either proposed or
in progress) and throw them out for discussion and critique.
(36) Is World War III still a viable concept?
(37) 1984 -- Are Big Brother and similar themes in sci-fi still
worth considering? If so, how has it changed and when might it happen?
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