Philcon, or: one day I should probably be on panels, too

[thanate]

Philcon was fun, except for the being sick parts and all the panels I went to. fwilde did an excellent job of introducing everyone to everyone else, and so there was much sitting around and conversing with people I'd previously heard of or seen places but not actually met. There would have been more of that, but I wasn't up to late nights with more than a couple people at a time. (I can blame young Miss Radiator for this, but it's entirely possible the same thing would have happened with just me, if not quite so early.)

So, good socializing, some new connections at least partly made for when I get back to going to cons, as I strongly suspect that the next year or so will not be a terribly good time for that. There were also a couple of quite nice readings, some fun costuming both on my part and from others, and some cool stuff to look at in the art show.

Less good was a moment of what other people seem to think sounds like food poisoning on Friday night. (Er, I've never had food poisoning, but my impression was that it generally takes more than five minutes from feeling a bit swimmy to being entirely done except for the need to wash up.) And then every panel I went to turned out to be disappointing. Reportedly there were other panels that were actually pretty good, as well as some that were eye-gougingly horrible, both of which I missed, but the overall impression from the ones I went to was of topics I thought might be interesting that were being discussed by people who either hadn't read the same panel description I had, or who didn't have anything interesting-to-me to say. Which just goes to show that I should sign up for some things so that I can blather on about my interests and disappoint other people, instead of sitting in the audience knitting fiercely so as not to be that person who interrupts constantly with semi-related things. (Unfortunately, that role was already taken in more than one of the things I went to as well.)

Scott Andrews (of BCS) gave me a bit of a hard time at Capclave for not signing up at least to do a reading, and I said (as I said to a couple people this weekend) that I'll get on that when I come back from the baby-sabbatical. In the mean time, I shall gaze wistfully at cons like Fourth Street, where reputedly the discussions are better, and possibly I will start my own darn conversation about creating religions in spec-fic worlds, because I've now been to two different panels at two different cons which completely failed to have the discussion I wanted. Would anyone else be interested in discussing invented religions (examples and logistics thereof) if I made a separate post about it?

Comments

[thanate]

My problem thus far has been that I'm much more interested in world building thoughts including Fantasy worlds, rather than the line between having religion and ignoring/going beyond it entirely in Science Fiction.

[lavenderbard]

I'm very willing to discuss the actual creation of imaginary religions, instead of why one would or would not want want to include religions in one's sf. :)