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March 15, 2009
Fantasy and Reaction panel
Flycon is still going on.
You can find me at the Fantasy and Reaction panel. description and times below.
Fantasy and Reaction
DESC: It’s often said that because fantasy so often relies on monarchy, the writers want to go back to the glory days of yore. Is that true? What fantasy is reactionary, and what fantasy is subversive of traditional cultural assumption?
PANEL: Marie Brennan, Monissa Whiteley, Kate Elliott
TIMES
NZ (Wellington) 3pm (Monday 16 March)
AUST (Sydney) 1pm (Monday)
UK (London) 2am (Mon
You can find me at the Fantasy and Reaction panel. description and times below.
Fantasy and Reaction
DESC: It’s often said that because fantasy so often relies on monarchy, the writers want to go back to the glory days of yore. Is that true? What fantasy is reactionary, and what fantasy is subversive of traditional cultural assumption?
PANEL: Marie Brennan, Monissa Whiteley, Kate Elliott
TIMES
NZ (Wellington) 3pm (Monday 16 March)
AUST (Sydney) 1pm (Monday)
UK (London) 2am (Mon
March 13, 2009
BookGeeks & Mohanraj
Three links.
I've taken part in an author panel on BookGeeks, a UK-based online book site.
The Third Bookgeeks SF and Fantasy Author Panel - ‘The Others’ is part of an ongoing series.
Welcome to the third Bookgeeks SF and Fantasy Author panel. Once again, we asked some of the leading lights of SF and Fantasy to give us their thoughts on a specific issue that affects them all as both writers and fans - and they said they would! Third time around, here’s what we asked our authors to ruminate on:
Both
I've taken part in an author panel on BookGeeks, a UK-based online book site.
The Third Bookgeeks SF and Fantasy Author Panel - ‘The Others’ is part of an ongoing series.
Welcome to the third Bookgeeks SF and Fantasy Author panel. Once again, we asked some of the leading lights of SF and Fantasy to give us their thoughts on a specific issue that affects them all as both writers and fans - and they said they would! Third time around, here’s what we asked our authors to ruminate on:
Both
March 12, 2009
Crowd goes WILD
I am getting a cold, which I almost certainly picked up on the Mainland. Bleh. but that's not my point; I'm just whining.
Some of you may recall this post in which I briefly discuss the progress of Bill 444 through the Hawaii Legislature. The bill, by the way, is stalled out in the Senate. I'm not sure if it will get out of there I guess because the Senators don't want to start a big fight when an even bigger fight is looming with the governor over the budget. Or perhaps the big "Red Shirt"
Some of you may recall this post in which I briefly discuss the progress of Bill 444 through the Hawaii Legislature. The bill, by the way, is stalled out in the Senate. I'm not sure if it will get out of there I guess because the Senators don't want to start a big fight when an even bigger fight is looming with the governor over the budget. Or perhaps the big "Red Shirt"
Flycon 2009
An online worldwide sff-horror-fan-whatever convention.
Schedule is here.
For info on where to find Flycon online, find more info here.
I will be holding an Author Chat at 9 pm Hawaiian Time on Friday 13th, although this turns out to be midnight Sat 14th Pacific Time, and 8 pm Sat 14th in New Zealand and 6 pm in Australia.
I will also be empaneled with Marie Brennan and Monissa Whiteley on "Fantasy and Reaction" (my short version of the topic is: are those idiots who write fantasy novels set in mon
Schedule is here.
For info on where to find Flycon online, find more info here.
I will be holding an Author Chat at 9 pm Hawaiian Time on Friday 13th, although this turns out to be midnight Sat 14th Pacific Time, and 8 pm Sat 14th in New Zealand and 6 pm in Australia.
I will also be empaneled with Marie Brennan and Monissa Whiteley on "Fantasy and Reaction" (my short version of the topic is: are those idiots who write fantasy novels set in mon
March 11, 2009
Fusion Categories
We tend to give more play to athletics, singing, and acting in our media culture, so I'm doing my part today to give a little more celebrity to the maths and sciences students who are achieving big things.
Of course, I have a personal connection, since my sister's husband's son just won (first place!) the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search. Click here for more the Intel press release and here's a link to the local newspaper article.
“I was just amazed. It was wonderful,” the 17-year-old said from W
Of course, I have a personal connection, since my sister's husband's son just won (first place!) the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search. Click here for more the Intel press release and here's a link to the local newspaper article.
“I was just amazed. It was wonderful,” the 17-year-old said from W
kateelliott @ 2009-03-10T14:34:00
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2008 Film Reviews: Not Such a Good Week, That Was
To clarify: these are films I watched in 2008, not necessarily films released in 2008. I'm just catching up.
Sunshine:
Could not finish. Just too tedious and, um, something, by which i mean I must have missed the deeper underlying philosophical meaning. Plus, the cool captain dude, not being a white guy, was clearly doomed from the start to an early death (he is the same actor who played the lead in the seriously excellent film Twilight Samurai, which I highly recommend). Spot the actor also
Sunshine:
Could not finish. Just too tedious and, um, something, by which i mean I must have missed the deeper underlying philosophical meaning. Plus, the cool captain dude, not being a white guy, was clearly doomed from the start to an early death (he is the same actor who played the lead in the seriously excellent film Twilight Samurai, which I highly recommend). Spot the actor also
March 10, 2009
kateelliott @ 2009-03-09T22:19:00
This is two posts, but they became the same post.
I had to make a trip to Portland this past weekend for that terrible event which is a memorial service for someone killed untimely and unexpectedly, leaving grieving relatives and bereft friends.
In this state of mind I thought a lot about Things. I took mass transit or walked, because Portland is a city set up for that (it was like being in Europe). It was cold, brisk, often sunny. The downtown has an ordinary grandeur, a place with an eye to
I had to make a trip to Portland this past weekend for that terrible event which is a memorial service for someone killed untimely and unexpectedly, leaving grieving relatives and bereft friends.
In this state of mind I thought a lot about Things. I took mass transit or walked, because Portland is a city set up for that (it was like being in Europe). It was cold, brisk, often sunny. The downtown has an ordinary grandeur, a place with an eye to
March 6, 2009
Pseudonymity
I don’t discuss my personal life online much. I might talk about paddling, for instance, and I hope to post a trip report from my January 09 trip to Cambodia and Thailand (with photos, if I can manage it), but mostly I consider my online persona to be -- well -- a persona. People who know me well can read between the lines; as for the rest, I would like to think of my blog as a friendly lanai where people can come hang out on the comfy sofas with maybe some drinks and pupus (appetizers and sn
March 4, 2009
Free Fiction
Recently it has been brought to my attention that a number of novels have been released for free viewing/download/reading on the internets, some of which I haven't yet read and want to read, and I figure you may, too.
C. C. Finlay's new American Revolution urban fantasy (my description, not his!), The Patriot Witch.
Sean Williams' The Crooked Letter: Books of the Cataclysm One, which I've been wanting to read for ages (in part because it is part of a series, and I love me those series).
The launch
C. C. Finlay's new American Revolution urban fantasy (my description, not his!), The Patriot Witch.
Sean Williams' The Crooked Letter: Books of the Cataclysm One, which I've been wanting to read for ages (in part because it is part of a series, and I love me those series).
The launch
