Back To ConFusion In Just Under A Month
Friday, 19 December 2014 00:08![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_phil_physicsThis evening I got an email from ConFusion's Literary track with the preliminary panel assignments. Also a reminder that if you want to get to ConFusion -- a wonderful and well-run con held in mid-January in the Detroit area -- the hotel is filling up fast. *** Some of the people running ConFusion are the same people who ran the amazing Detcon 1 NASFiC back in July.
Yes, it's time to start thinking of attending Back to the ConFusion -- Friday 16 January to Sunday 18 January 2015. The Doubletree Hotel Detroit/Dearborn‎, 5801 Southfield Road, Detroit, MI 48228, is hosting for the third year. I believe that the atrium courtyard bar has been expanded.
Pre-Registration through 31 December 2014 -- Adult: $37 -- KidFusion: $22 -- KidFusion w/ Pizza Party: $37. I don't have kids, but from everything I've seen and the amazing people who run it, KidFusion is a wonderful place for your kids to be in on the action. See details on the website.
Register Here.
Preliminary Schedule for Dr. Phil Kaldon
No room assignments yet -- hopefully it won't be a LONG walk/roll from adjacent events. Anyway, these are all fun panels to be on and I am very excited about my reading.
Hope to see you there at ConFusion.
Dr. Phil
*** They aren't kidding about the hotel space. There was a note on Facebook there's some kind of car show in the area and the $87 per night rate may jump up to over $200 after the room block is used up.
Yes, it's time to start thinking of attending Back to the ConFusion -- Friday 16 January to Sunday 18 January 2015. The Doubletree Hotel Detroit/Dearborn‎, 5801 Southfield Road, Detroit, MI 48228, is hosting for the third year. I believe that the atrium courtyard bar has been expanded.
Pre-Registration through 31 December 2014 -- Adult: $37 -- KidFusion: $22 -- KidFusion w/ Pizza Party: $37. I don't have kids, but from everything I've seen and the amazing people who run it, KidFusion is a wonderful place for your kids to be in on the action. See details on the website.
Register Here.
Back to the ConFusion, the 41st ConFusion by name and 42nd annual January gathering (starting with the AA Realx-I-Con in 1974), is a go! 2015 looks to be an exciting year--it will be the year that Marty McFly really traveled to in Back to the Future II, whatever that Facebook meme says, so look out for those hoverboards, they must be right around the corner. (No, seriously, look out!) We're anticipating another excellent con, with the first-time appearance of author Karen Lord, researcher Dr. Cynthia Chestek, and gaming gurus Monte Cook & Shanna Germain. We'll also welcome back Heather Dale, now performing as our Music Guest of Honor. And then there's Aaron Thul, longtime fan and conrunner, returning after two years away as our Fan Guest of Honor. Please do join us, and we hope to see you there in January!And I've got four panels and a reading, from Friday evening to Sunday noon. Including an important reveal -- see below...
Preliminary Schedule for Dr. Phil Kaldon
Friday 8pm: Ghosts of SyFy Past Come reminisce about the actual science fiction SyFy used to show, and talk about the network's plans to get back to its science fiction roots. Update 12-19-2014: I asked and no, this 8pm panel does NOT conflict with the Opening Ceremonies, which are scheduled for 7pm. So you have no excuse not to come to the so-called SyFy Channel fish fry... (grin) Saturday 10am: Building a Better Dragon No two writers imagine the same dragon. How would yours be different? Flying, fire, temperament, teeth: what makes a good dragon? Saturday 3pm: Mass Autograph Session Saturday 4pm: Time Travel (im)Possibilities Would 1.21 gigawatts get the job done, or would the flux capacitor even work? Time for our panelists and audience to debunk our favorite time travel devices in literature and popular media. Sunday 10am: Tomlinson/Kaldon reading This will be the first public reading from the opening chapters of The Lost Kingdom YA project I am working on. I had planned to read this at WindyCon, but alas the weather kept us away from Chicago in mid-November. Their loss is your gain. Sunday 11am: Science or Science Fiction? Science fiction novels continue to impress with amazing technological advances in so many areas. What's more impressive, though? That some of them are reality! Come talk about some of the things you see on the news today that you first read about years ago in a book.
No room assignments yet -- hopefully it won't be a LONG walk/roll from adjacent events. Anyway, these are all fun panels to be on and I am very excited about my reading.
Hope to see you there at ConFusion.
Dr. Phil
*** They aren't kidding about the hotel space. There was a note on Facebook there's some kind of car show in the area and the $87 per night rate may jump up to over $200 after the room block is used up.
