Convention history

A partial history of my convention attendance and and the panels I have appeared on. I will flesh it out further as evidence – eg, excavation of old convention schedules, retrieval of computer files of notes, meetings with people whose memories are better than mine – accumulates.

Farthing Party, Montréal, September 2013

  • Mad Science
  • The Ends of the World: Every age its own Apocalypse
  • You Write Funny: The process panel

When Words Collide, Calgary, August 9-11, 2013 (attendee)

Farthing Party, Montréal, August 3-5, 2012

  • Galactic Empires
  • Why is Cherryh so underappreciated?
  • How hard is fantasy?
  • Romans in Spaaaaace!
  • Space stations

Readercon 23, Boston, July 13-15, 2012

  • Subversion through friendliness
  • Kurzweil and Chopra, ghosts in the same shell
  • Making science sound like science
  • Paranormal plagues
  • Mapping the parallels

Farthing Party, Montréal, September 2011

  • How hard is SF?
  • Maps and territories
  • Generation starships: Are we there yet?

When Words Collide, Calgary, August 12-14, 2011

  • The editor/author relationship
  • Doctors and medicine in SF
  • Technology, biology and liberty

Readercon 22, Boston, 14-17 July 2011.

  • Great War Geeks (re)unite

Congres-Boréal, Montreal, May 13-15, 2011. (English language programming)

  • Women on fiction, women in fiction
  • Terra incognita

SFContario, Toronto, November 19-21, 2010

  • Keeping the science in science fiction
  • Biotechnology, friend or foe?
  • Where is science now?

Farthing Party, Montreal, August 2010

  • Who is qualified to write SF?

Readercon 21, Boston, 8-11 July 2010

  • Great War Geeks unite
  • How to write for a living when you can’t live off your fiction
  • Through the portal to promise and peril

Keycon, Winnipeg, May 2010 (attendee)

ConBust, Northampton, MA, March 2010 (attendee)

Anticipation (Worldcon), Montreal, August 2009

  • Bio-ethics
  • Mad Social Scientists
  • Science for SF Wrtiers
  • Food for Writers

World Fantasy Convention, Calgary, October 2008 (attendee)

Con-Version 24, Calgary, August 2008 (panelist)
Con-Version 23, Calgary, August 2007 (panelist)

Westercon, Calgary, July 2005

  • SF Mind Control
  • Passionate Reads
  • Part-time writer
  • Earth as a model for other planets

V-Con 29, Vancouver, November 2004
Con-Version 20, Calgary, August 2003
Rustycon, Seattle, January 2003
V-con 27, Vancouver, November 2002
Con-Version 19, Calgary, August 2001
Rustycon, Seattle, January 2002
Can-Con, Ottawa, August 2001 (listed guest)
Ad Astra, Toronto, February 2001
Readercon XX, Boston July 2000
Conversion XXII, Calgary, July 1999
Lonestarcon 2/Worldcon 1997, San Antonio, August 1997 (panelist)
Non-Con, Lethbridge, October 1997
Conversion, Calgary, July 1998
Conversion, Calgary, May 1997
(other UK conventions 1989-1995)
Iconoclasm, Leeds, UK, June 1989 (attendee)
Mexicon, Nottingham, May 1989 (attendee)
Readercon 2, Boston (convention committee)
Readercon 1, Boston (attendee)