Description of what to expect at World Fantasy Con, 2006
I'm headed off to World Fantasy Con tomorrow with my sweetie. We'll be rousing at 4:00 am, yikes, and arriving in the late afternoon. I'm really looking forward to seeing some Clarion West friends and Codex writers, along with a slew of old acquaintances and new friends yet to be made.
I regret not having been able to go early for the Robert E. Howard daytrip. I started reading Howard's work in high school when I ran across the Conan the Barbarian books, and I've always loved the majesty and mystery of those stories, which seem like the quintessential sword and sorcery novels.
I'll be reading on Saturday morning as part of the Broad Universe Rapidfire Reading - a dozen people each reading for three minutes. The last one I was at was at Wiscon and that was a ton of fun, so I fully expect this one to be the same. There's something about that approach that I particularly like - a smorgasbord of prose ranging from spicy to sweet, metaphors and similes like canapes scattered across the table.
