I actually began th talk by stating that I had written a fabulous essay and anyone who wanted it should e-mail me and I would send it to her, since what Ikept forgettign si that I am a really bad blind person with an extremely poor memory, so I could only hope that the talk would have something to do with the essay.
I then explained the format of the Readercon talk, which was that I would talk for the first forty minutes or so, and then open up the discussion to take questions.
However, lots of people came in late, so the questions began about fifteen or twenty minutes in, which was fine, because most of the questions were on things I had written about and I could mostly remember those bits.
One person asked me about Robert Sawyer's _Wake_, which I really disliked and had intentionally chosen not to talk about. The precise question was, "Have you read _Wake_ by Robert Sawyer?" and I just said "Yes." There was a long pause and then some people began to laugh as my silence spoke for me, but I did end up saying that it was really a story about how cool it would be if the Internet was my best friend. I will note that in the "The Year in Novels" panel the panelists were going throught he Hugo nnominations and no one had read _Wake_.
I actually spent the rest of the weekend having the occasional person come up to me and thank me for doing the talk or theyw ould say how much they enjoyed it, so that was pretty cool, especially when Liz Hand, whose prose I adore, told me the talk was "elegant." I'm not sure I could have imagined anything better than that.
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I then explained the format of the Readercon talk, which was that I would talk for the first forty minutes or so, and then open up the discussion to take questions.
However, lots of people came in late, so the questions began about fifteen or twenty minutes in, which was fine, because most of the questions were on things I had written about and I could mostly remember those bits.
One person asked me about Robert Sawyer's _Wake_, which I really disliked and had intentionally chosen not to talk about. The precise question was, "Have you read _Wake_ by Robert Sawyer?" and I just said "Yes." There was a long pause and then some people began to laugh as my silence spoke for me, but I did end up saying that it was really a story about how cool it would be if the Internet was my best friend. I will note that in the "The Year in Novels" panel the panelists were going throught he Hugo nnominations and no one had read _Wake_.
I actually spent the rest of the weekend having the occasional person come up to me and thank me for doing the talk or theyw ould say how much they enjoyed it, so that was pretty cool, especially when Liz Hand, whose prose I adore, told me the talk was "elegant." I'm not sure I could have imagined anything better than that.