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jazzfishSo this past weekend, after having been meaning to get there for, oh, probably four years now, I finally made it out to WisCon. And it was kinda cool. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nixve and I got in to Madison on Thursday night and left Monday morning, and filled the time between with SF, feminism, geekiness, queerness, diversity, and general laughing and enjoying the company. I went to a whole bunch of panels, mostly, on subjects ranging from Dreamwidth to Left Of Center F/SF to Your Writing Process Is Ridiculous. I attended readings by Pat Murphy and Terry Bisson and truepenny and pameladean and other people I'd heard of and some people I hadn't.
One of the neater panels was on "Judging the Tiptree," in which the panelists were three of the five jurors for this year's Tiptree Award. Winners were Ooku, a manga about a plague in pre-Meiji Japan that kills off 75% of the men, and Cloud and Ashes by Greer Gilman (nineweaving). On Ooku, one juror compared it to Y: The Last Man, and mentioned that "Y never quite worked for me, I kept thinking, 'no, it wouldn't work like that.' Ooku worked. It kept having new and interesting things to say about gender, from an approach that I'd thought was all played out." I didn't pick it up myself but will probably borrow it from nixve at some point. As for Cloud and Ashes. . . they kept talking about how dense and multilayered it was, and the richness of the prose, and "By about page 45 I was saying 'this needs to be annotated.' I gave that up a few pages later on realising that the annotations would be longer than the book itself." It sounds like exactly my kind of thing, so I snagged a copy immediately afterwards from the dealer's room. (And was delighted to find later that said copy had been signed, in small neat script, with a tiny leaf drawn at the end of the signature.)
I made haiku earrings for (with?)elisem; that was about the only creative (or sociable) thing I did all weekend. I spent an enjoyable evening at the First WisCon Dinner, failed utterly to get anyone's name, and didn't run into many of them again over the course of the weekend. I saw a couple dozen people that I only know as LJ user= or Making Light commenters or just as names from elsewhere. Perhaps next time I'll get up the gumption to speak to some of them. Mostly I enjoyed just being there, being around geeks and feminists and lefties of various stripes. These, I think, are who I'd like to consider my people.
tl;dr: WOULD CON AGAIN.
nixve and I got in to Madison on Thursday night and left Monday morning, and filled the time between with SF, feminism, geekiness, queerness, diversity, and general laughing and enjoying the company. I went to a whole bunch of panels, mostly, on subjects ranging from Dreamwidth to Left Of Center F/SF to Your Writing Process Is Ridiculous. I attended readings by Pat Murphy and Terry Bisson and truepenny and pameladean and other people I'd heard of and some people I hadn't.One of the neater panels was on "Judging the Tiptree," in which the panelists were three of the five jurors for this year's Tiptree Award. Winners were Ooku, a manga about a plague in pre-Meiji Japan that kills off 75% of the men, and Cloud and Ashes by Greer Gilman (
nineweaving). On Ooku, one juror compared it to Y: The Last Man, and mentioned that "Y never quite worked for me, I kept thinking, 'no, it wouldn't work like that.' Ooku worked. It kept having new and interesting things to say about gender, from an approach that I'd thought was all played out." I didn't pick it up myself but will probably borrow it from nixve at some point. As for Cloud and Ashes. . . they kept talking about how dense and multilayered it was, and the richness of the prose, and "By about page 45 I was saying 'this needs to be annotated.' I gave that up a few pages later on realising that the annotations would be longer than the book itself." It sounds like exactly my kind of thing, so I snagged a copy immediately afterwards from the dealer's room. (And was delighted to find later that said copy had been signed, in small neat script, with a tiny leaf drawn at the end of the signature.)I made haiku earrings for (with?)
elisem; that was about the only creative (or sociable) thing I did all weekend. I spent an enjoyable evening at the First WisCon Dinner, failed utterly to get anyone's name, and didn't run into many of them again over the course of the weekend. I saw a couple dozen people that I only know as LJ user= or Making Light commenters or just as names from elsewhere. Perhaps next time I'll get up the gumption to speak to some of them. Mostly I enjoyed just being there, being around geeks and feminists and lefties of various stripes. These, I think, are who I'd like to consider my people.tl;dr: WOULD CON AGAIN.