Boskone 49
Posted by Meg
Are you going to be in Northeast this February? If so, make sure you head over to Boston, Massachusetts for Boskone 49 where Peat will be participating in panels and signing books! On top of that, John Scalzi is going to be the guest of honor.
The dates are February 17-19, 2012, and you can go ahead and register right now. The hotel is the Westin Waterfront at 425 Summer Street Boston, Massachusetts 02210. Click here for transportation information and directions.
UPDATE: Here is Peat’s panel schedule for Boskone 49
Saturday 10:00 – 11:00, SF/F/H As a Mirror on Society , Harbor II (Westin)
It’s simplistic to say genre fiction maps to current politics. Vampires are bankers, zombies are the revengeful victimized classes, and werewolves are the media in feeding frenzy? C’mon. But did we write more optimistic SF when the space race was young? Or victorious spacewar stories when we were losing Vietnam? If fiction in any way reflect societal anxieties or moods, what do we make of steampunk, or sparkly vamps, or dystopian YA, or upticks in stories about ghosts or gaming?
Jeanne Cavelos (M), Dana Cameron, Steven Popkes, Peter V. Brett
Saturday 11:00 – 12:00, Kaffeeklatsche: Peter V. Brett, Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 ( Westin)
Advance sign-up at Information required; limited to 10 Peter V. Brett
Saturday 13:00 – 14:00, Character and Hard SF, Carlton (Westin)
A stereotype of hard SF is that it’s all about the hardware, and that the characters are one-dimensional. This hasn’t been true for a long time. The panel discusses who character works in hard SF.
Justine Graykin (M), Allen M. > Steele, Bud Sparhawk, Kathryn Cramer, Peter V. Brett
Saturday 16:00 – 17:00, Optimism vs. Darkness in SF, Griffin (Westin)
Some says it’s historical. So early SF stories were all, “We’re going to the stars and will live forever yay,” while more recent SF tends to moan, “If the ecocatastrophe doesn’t get us the zombie plagues will.” Or geographical: do Brits do it more in the dark? Or ageist: is YA usually light-hearted? Or stylistic: does realism bloom better in the shade?
Peter V. Brett (M), Leonid Korogodski, Jennifer Pelland, Phoebe Wray
Sunday 14:00 – 15:00, Autographing: Peter V. Brett. S. C. Butler, John Scalzi, Galleria-Autographing (Westin)
S. C. Butler, Peter V. Brett, John Scalzi