Capclave (our DC area SF/F con) is this weekend at the Hilton Washington
DC/Rockville, Executive Meeting Center,
1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD. Here's the list of my panels and
reading:
Friday, 7 PM: Alternate Dogcatchers
What makes a good alternate history work and
bad ones fail? What points of departure do you change? How do you build a good alternate history? What alt histories aren't
done that we would like to see?
Saturday 11 AM: Reading
Saturday 9 PM: WSFA Small Press Award Ceremony
Sunday 11 AM: What Is
Human?
Exobiology panel. How will cloning, genetic engineering, and cyborg technology affect what it
means to be human?
Sunday 12 PM: Why the Civil War?
Why are Americans still fascinated
with the civil war? In an America with a black president is the civil war still relevant? Is there room for new civil war
alternate histories or is it all tapped out? Do civil war books sell outside the U.S.?
