My 2017 Boskone Schedule

As usual, I will be attending Boskone, the Boston area science fiction convention, on Friday and Saturday this weekend, and then move over to the 24 hour SF film movie marathon at the Somerville Theater in Davis Square, for Sunday and Monday. My new book Time on My Hands: My Misadventures in Time Travel will be for sale at both the convention and the marathon in advance of its official publication date of Feb. 21 and, of course, I'll be happy to autograph the books on request.

Here is my schedule for Boskone:

How "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Changed Television
Friday 19:00 - 20:00, Harbor II

"Buffy" was just a teen TV drama about a bunch of vampire-hunting kids ... or was it? Let's consider the friendships, the dialogue, the rule-breaking, and the characters. How did these aspects of this 1997-2003 show, individually and combined, help to change viewer expectations — and the very ways we think about episodic storytelling today?

Tui Sutherland, Grady Hendrix (M), Ginjer Buchanan, Deirdre Crimmins, Daniel M. Kimmel

Autographing: Sarah Beth Durst, Daniel M. Kimmel, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Paul Tremblay

Saturday 11:00 - 12:00, Galleria

Reading by Daniel M. Kimmel

Saturday 13:00 - 13:30, Independence

"Arrival" and the Morality of Time

Saturday 14:00 - 15:00, Burroughs

Arriving in late 2016, "Arrival" was instantly acclaimed as that rare Hollywood phenomenon, a thinking fan’s movie. Let’s discuss the issues that it presents — concerning language, determinism, and the moral dimension of the fourth dimension of time — as well as their (deeper?) treatment in the film’s source, Ted Chiang’s prizewinning 1998 novella “Story of Your Life.”

Kenneth Schneyer (M), Daniel M. Kimmel, Dr. Stephen P. Kelner Jr., Rob Greene, Jeffrey A. Carver

Hugo Award Recommendations: Dramatic Presentations

Saturday 15:00 - 16:00, Marina 2

What's the greatest stuff you saw last year? Join us to discuss 2016's best movies, TV shows, theatrical productions, and more in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. If you're eligible to vote, by all means take notes — your Hugo Awards nominations ballot is due in Finland soon.

Bob Devney (M), Daniel M. Kimmel, Jim Mann, Garen Daly, Deirdre Crimmins

For more information on Boskone go to http://www.boskone.org/