Minicon panels
So I'll be at Minicon 50 this year, and should you want to see me on panels (or at my reading with 
mrissa) here are the times and places and topics involved.
Friday, April 5, 1:00 PM - Anime and Manga for Speculative Fiction Fans: From the days of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy and its intelligent robots, manga and anime with science fiction and fantasy themes have been popular. Let's discuss some of the most interesting ones for speculative fiction fans, both current and vintage.
John Stanfield, Alec Austin, Ozgur K. Sahin, Scott K. Jamison
Saturday, April 6, 3:30 PM - Marissa Lingen & Alec Austin Reading: Mris and I will read things. Aloud, even.
Sunday, April 7, 2:30 PM - Middle Grade Optimism vs YA Dystopia: Magical wonder abounds in middle grade lit but seems to disappear once stories make the jump to the next age bracket. Does pessimism go hand in hand with the advent of hormones? Is middle grade more than it appears?(from both reader and writer perspective)
Donna Munro, Adam Stemple, Alec Austin, Brandon Sanderson, Jane Yolen, Marissa Lingen
...I know it's not nice to argue with panel descriptions before the actual panel, but srsly, lolwut? at the unexamined claims in the YA/MG panel description. We should be able to have an interesting conversation, at any rate.
mrissa) here are the times and places and topics involved.Friday, April 5, 1:00 PM - Anime and Manga for Speculative Fiction Fans: From the days of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy and its intelligent robots, manga and anime with science fiction and fantasy themes have been popular. Let's discuss some of the most interesting ones for speculative fiction fans, both current and vintage.
John Stanfield, Alec Austin, Ozgur K. Sahin, Scott K. Jamison
Saturday, April 6, 3:30 PM - Marissa Lingen & Alec Austin Reading: Mris and I will read things. Aloud, even.
Sunday, April 7, 2:30 PM - Middle Grade Optimism vs YA Dystopia: Magical wonder abounds in middle grade lit but seems to disappear once stories make the jump to the next age bracket. Does pessimism go hand in hand with the advent of hormones? Is middle grade more than it appears?(from both reader and writer perspective)
Donna Munro, Adam Stemple, Alec Austin, Brandon Sanderson, Jane Yolen, Marissa Lingen
...I know it's not nice to argue with panel descriptions before the actual panel, but srsly, lolwut? at the unexamined claims in the YA/MG panel description. We should be able to have an interesting conversation, at any rate.