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FENCON is this weekend!!! http://www.fencon.org/ I’ll be sharing (and moderating a few) panels with some of the best creatives, writers, philosophers, and just plain awesome folks you can find in one weekend. So excited to take the stage and explore so many awesome topics. To help me put out guests through their paces, feel free to DM me with any questions you’d like us to explore. Here’s my schedule for the weekend! I hope to see a lot of familiar faces and meet a lot of new ones.

* = Moderator

*** Friday 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Grand 4A The CyberFuture Now (M) Description: The future is now. Discussion on things that are not so distant in the future but may be here now and we just didn’t know it.

Panelists: Paul Black Mel. White Stephen Patrick *

*** Friday 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM Grand 4C The First-Ever Liar’s Panel (M) Description: We lied. Or did we? There will also be cake and gold for 2019 or maybe 2020.

Panelists: R. Cat Conrad Mark Finn Alan J. Porter Stephen Patrick *

*** Saturday 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Grand 4A Marvel, Marvel, Marvel Description: What has Marvel done right that DC hasn’t?

Panelists: Mark Finn Julie Frost Stephen Patrick R. Cat Conrad *

*** Saturday 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Grand 4B What Scares You? (M) Description: What used to be scary seems laughable now, but what has replaced it? Special effects can now make the most horrific scenes feel real, but do filmmakers remember how to build suspense without such realism?

Panelists: Peri Charlifu Rie Sheridan Rose Brad Sinor Stephen Patrick *

*** Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Grand 4B Science Fiction That Changed the Game (M) Description: From Star Trek to 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Matrix to Arrival, we’ll talk about the way science fiction is portrayed in TV and film has evolved.

Panelists: C. Stuart Hardwick D.L. Young Stephen Patrick *

*** Saturday 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Grand 4B Truth IS Stranger than Fiction (M) Description: Using real life experience in writing, art, and music

Panelists: R. Cat Conrad Dominick D’Aunno Carolyn Kay Stephen Patrick *

*** Sunday 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Grand 4B Inclusion in Fandom (M) Description: The changing faces of and issues of Fandom such as Other Voices, Accessibility, Codes of Conduct, and much more

Panelists: Kimm Antell Chaz Kemp Stephen Patrick *

The world moves so fast these days. In two weeks, we will celebrate the 1 year anniversary of Book 1 of the Holocaust Engine. We’re so excited to share this moment with you and look forward to what comes next (Book 2 and Book 3 are amazing).

A little Wordsworth for the weekend.

From “Ode to Duty”

“Serene will be our days and bright,
And happy will our nature be,
When love is an unerring light,
And joy its own security.” -1804

For those (like me), who need a bit more of the sights and sounds of Key West, we’ve collected some of the best live views that help us get into that Key West frame of mind. Enjoy!

key-west-webcams

It’s the first day of October. As we turn closer to Halloween, its time for a horror thought experiment.

What is the scariest book you’ve ever read?

After you read ours, drop yours in the comments. Hopefully, we’ll all find some new recommendations to help guide our Halloween reading!

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DAVID RIKE— it’s hard to feel true, visceral fear while reading. About as close as I’ve ever come as an adult was reading Dan Simmon’s “Carrion Comfort”.

STEPHEN PATRICK – I’ve loved horror for a long time, but for scary, the one that gets me, hit all the right notes and had a creepy silver cover. Kubrick’s movie aside, “The Shining” is atmospheric, isolating and squeezes so much terror from the nature of men. Also one of my prettiest books, the printing on top of the silver seemed to wear off at regular intervals, slowly replacing the tiny picture of Danny with another image (the reflection of the reader on the cover)