Anyone going to WorldCon? I am.

I will be doing the following:

• “Making up the Facts as We Go Along” –  “How do we write hard SF in fields where there’s still uncertainty about interpreting the data? Can we claim as rigorous a trope like the many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory, which is just that: one of many interpretations among many?
  • Friday, 5.00 p.m., Room P-518A, with Daniel P. Dern, John Helfers, Paddy Forde, Jordan Jackson
  • [Why am I on this panel when I don’t know anything about science and don’t write hard SF or anything remotely close to it? I don’t know. A computer assigned me to it, or possibly some sort of Sorting Hat. I suspect everyone else is some sort of physicist or something; I will be there as a representative of the Pig-Ignorant Community.]
• Signing.
  • Saturday, 10.00 a.m, Room P-Autographs.
• “Weird Tales” — As in the magazine.
  • Saturday, 11.00 a.m., Room P-524C, with Ann VanderMeer, Stephen Segal, others.
• “Stroll with the Stars”
  • Sunday, 9.00 a.m., meet at Riopelle Fountain outside the Palais (corner of Ave Viger & Rue de
    Bleury).  With Farah Mendlesohn, Lou Anders, Mary Robinette Kowal, Paul Cornell, Stu Segal, John Picacio.
  • The idea here is that we all go for a briefish walk. Adventure and excitement ensue.
• “The Anti-Workshop Panel; You don’t have to Go to Clarion/Odyssey to have a Career in Genre” — “Does going to one or more of the writing workshops help your career? Some writers have a very successful career without
  attending one.”
  • Sunday, 10.00 a.m, Room P-522B, with Camille Alexa, Jay Lake, Lawrence M. Schoen.
  • [I have never attended a workshop of any kind. On the other hand maybe I probably should have. Who knows?]
• “How much History does a Fantasy Writer Need to Know?” — “Should a fantasy writer have a degree in medieval studies? Fantasy writers discuss how much historical knowledge is required for their work.”
  • Sunday at 5.00 p.m.,  Room P-512BF, with Ellen Kushner, Faye Ringel, P. C. Hodgell.
  • [Exactly the amount of historical knowledge I happen to have, and no more]. 

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