Albacon Aftermath
Oct. 13th, 2008 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennythereaderI spent a large chunk of the weekend at Albacon. It's a nice enough con, but very small. I don't think I'm going to bother with it next year unless the guest of honor is a must see.
My favorite panel was on Saturday, discussing the question of whether real science is a requirement of science fiction. The consensus was that if the science is the focus it had better be right, but if it's more of a background element you can get away with fudging it. My least favorite was on Sunday. It was listed as Urban Fantasy 101, but it slid into a discussion of Paranormal Romance fairly quickly. There were interesting moments, but half the panelists didn't seem to have a good reason for being there and the other half were all Paranormal Romance authors who didn't want to talk about other types of Urban Fantasy.
My favorite panel was on Saturday, discussing the question of whether real science is a requirement of science fiction. The consensus was that if the science is the focus it had better be right, but if it's more of a background element you can get away with fudging it. My least favorite was on Sunday. It was listed as Urban Fantasy 101, but it slid into a discussion of Paranormal Romance fairly quickly. There were interesting moments, but half the panelists didn't seem to have a good reason for being there and the other half were all Paranormal Romance authors who didn't want to talk about other types of Urban Fantasy.
