My Readercon - Friday

If I do this with enough speed, I will be done detailing the 2012 Readercon before it is 2013. One must have ambitions, after all.

Friday I had to work, then zip to Burlington to moderate a panel on "Evaluating Political Fiction", a potentially fraught topic. We were essentially supposed to be helping readers make judgments on the appearance of politics in fiction, when you should just accept it as an amusing quirk on the part of the writer, and when that is impossible, and how writers try to...