Worldcon Schedule (Patreon)

Because of the wonderful luck of being invited to be guest of honor at a convention in Europe the weekend before Worldcon, I am able to attend this year in Ireland (note: the winningest country in Eurovision history) and lose the Best Novel Hugo in person! 

This is my schedule, for those of you based overseas or attending Worldcon yourself. I've had a number of you lovely, darling folk request that I start posting my convention schedules here so that you get notifications and are sure to get the information sent straight to your inbox. This is me doing what you say! I like making you happy.

Autographs: Catherynne Valente

Format: Autographing

16 Aug 2019, Friday 10:30 - 11:20, Mezzanine - Signing space (Point Square Dublin)

Reading: Catherynne Valente

Format: Reading

16 Aug 2019, Friday 16:30 - 16:50, Liffey Room-3 (Readings) (CCD)

Revolutions in an era of advanced technology

Format: Panel

17 Aug 2019, Saturday 10:00 - 10:50, Wicklow Room-3 (CCD)

How do revolutions (e.g. overthrowing government) occur in an era of advanced technologies? Are orderly regime changes jeopardised with growing asymmetries in weaponry, surveillance, and political power? Are current political processes up to the challenge?

Kaffeeklatsch: Catherynne Valente

Format: Kaffeeklatsch

17 Aug 2019, Saturday 13:00 - 13:50, Level 3 Foyer (KK/LB) (CCD)

Young adults versus… the world!

Format: Panel

17 Aug 2019, Saturday 14:00 - 14:50, Wicklow Hall-1 (CCD)

YA characters face so many challenges. They not only have to deal with all the drama that life, society, and their traitorous ‘developing’ bodies can throw at them, they also have to save the world and be home for dinner. What does it take for a teen to survive the dangers of a YA novel – including the whims of a capricious author who keeps placing them in the path of real danger?

Panel show: ‘That was unexpected!’

Format: Quiz/Gameshow

17 Aug 2019, Saturday 21:00 - 21:50, Wicklow Hall 2B (CCD)

Ever wanted to know what your favourite fantasy novelist would do if they were suddenly turned into a witch’s familiar? Or how a popular sci-fi writer would communicate with an alien race that only speaks in bad puns? Watch a team of esteemed writers talk their way out of the kinds of problems they’re accustomed to writing their characters out of, and some that they would never have imagined.

What I read when I was young

Format: Panel

18 Aug 2019, Sunday 10:00 - 10:50, Second Stage (Liffey-B) (CCD)

The books we read in childhood often have a lasting influence. In this panel, finalists for the Hugo Award for Best Novel discuss the books that had a profound effect on the people they became. How did these works change them? Was this influence a good or a bad one? Is there a book they think everyone should read at least once in their life?