Albacon Aftermath

[jennythereader]

I 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.

Comments

[ktpinto.livejournal.com]

Whew! It's a good thing I didn't go then!

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Overall, it was just sort of... blah. There weren't really any moments that made me go "and that is why I go to cons!" Next year I'll probably go for one day, if the guest of honor is interesting enough, but it's not really worth the whole weekend.

[ktpinto.livejournal.com]

Hopefully I'll be the GoH next year! :)

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

That would be fairly cool.