#flights of foundry

[shurlock]

i am so bad at asking questions but weekes did you consider multiculturalism at all. have you considered this beyond you and your dad liking different things. not in a queer lens but in a multicultural lens.

[miatsai]

Come see me and so many other people at Flights of Foundry this weekend! This is the best virtual con around and it's got programming at every single hour from the start of the con to the end. You never know who'll be there - check it out!

[danbensen]

Speculative Biology

Not all monsters are created equal. The best ones don't look like they were created at all, but evolved like real animals. We'll talk about the ecology, bio-...

This is the video of the specbio panel I moderated last year at Flights of Foundry. I’m a little slow getting started, but my guests had some excellent things to say, so  please skip ahead a few minutes and hear such things as:

“The stranger it is, the more likely it is to be real” – Adrian Tchaikovsky

“Did you give it a butt-hole?” – Casey Lucas

“pythons use constipation as a predator strategy” – Peter Watts, helpfully

“What kind of flesh instantiates that idea?” – Peter Watts

“the worms come out of the toad…this is why I thought of you, Peter” – Julie Czerneda

“We break the laws because…we don’t know everything.” – Peter Watts

“Of course the birds know what they’re doing” – Julie Czerneda

book reccs

Science as a Process

The Kindly Inquisitors

Winter World

Parasite Rex

Evolving the Alien

“I go to the bibliography and tear it up” – Casey Lucas

[ravencromwell]

Signal Boost: Free Scifi Con This weekend!!!!

I'd been hearing some delightful whispers of a virtual scifi con this weekend, and then the inimitable Marie Brennan made this excellent overview of both the con and her workshop: mythology and folklore in science fiction and fantasy.

I'm not certain of precisely how the Flights and Foundry planning came together, but this team is pretty damn incredible--turning on a dime from an in-person to virtual con so swiftly. If any of you register and can, I'd highly encourage a donation at the door.

Anyway: I've adored Brennan since her Lady Trent books--about which I've squeed verbosely to lots of you!--(if I haven't, lady dragon naturalist! in a country very much like Britain, save that our lady naturalist develops a social conscience, and finds herself peripherally involved in some excellent decolonizing work they're really fucking awesome if you're a science geek ok). So, I'm always eager to see Brennan in any context, and have rarely had the opportunity, since she's on the opposite side of the U.S. to me.

Which meant I was crossing my fingers her panels would be open to the financially woebegone incapable of donating. It was! and more to my shock and delight when perusing scheduling, a tremendous amount of free content was available at Flights and Foundry.

Furthermore, this is a convention trying its best to extend the net beyond your western scifi, brimful of panels about translation and bringing nonwestern lit into the mainstream. The schedule, with events nigh on around-the-clock to fit non-U.S./UK timezones set my geek heart aflutter.

Also really have to praise the accessibility so far--have had one friend using slightly different adaptive tech have a bit of trouble--but my own experience was intuitive and hitch-free enough to make me astonished in the most delightful way. "Is this what it's like for sighted folk to sign up for things?" I rather bemusedly wondered when it only took me about half an hour to set up my schedule/get registered with a suite of programs I'd never used. (most any blind person will tell you that when looking a new program over, they pretty much expect to lose days to figuring out how the maze works.)

As you can see from my personalized schedule I intend to play gloriously irresponsible geek this weekend who pulls an all-nighter!

(no, not my fur-babyin the personalized schedule photo; it's my I want a kitty in my avatar for various places internet please provide me a nicely cropped picture I won't need much sighted help to upload standard-issue for joining new places. It is, I've been informed, quite pretty and I wish it were my furbaby and understand why it's master is so proud and puts up lots of pictures for free use.)

Hoping some of you can catch panels--if there's anything on my personalized one you'd like to see but can't, will be taking copious notes for absent friends and am happy to share. Just hit me up with a message.

[shurlock]

oh my god weekes was supposed to write bellara

[shurlock]

also everyone was incorrect about best romances. it is clearly anders

[adamantine]

Death and Dream

Subs are open for my issue of Deadlands! Plus I’m GoH at Flights of Foundry 2025.

I'm editing an issue of The Deadlands and subs are now open! Please do send me things.

Plus! I will be one of the Guests of Honour at Ignyte Award-winning virtual convention Flights of Foundry this September, along with Sheree Renée Thomas and Anna Martino.

[xiane]

Flights of Foundry 2023 Schedule Announced!

Earlier this year, I blogged a list of things I’d like to achieve in my writing career [which is a little different than goals as a writer, though there’s some overlap] – from small to outrageous. One of those was to start being a panelist at prominent SFF conventions. And here’s the first on the list! I’ll be taking part of Flights of Foundry, which is a virtual-only con happening on April…

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