I’ll be attending Lunacon next month (March 14-16), and just got my panel schedule. Here it is:

FRIDAY, MARCH 14TH
Track: Craft of Writing
Start Time: 03/14/2008 8:00:00 PM End Time: 03/14/2008 9:00:00 PM
Room: Poplar
Title: The Art of Criticism
Description: Experts review the state of the "art" of fantasy review and criticism. Is there too much out there? Too little? Are reviews helping or harming the field? Where can a reader go for reliable reviews? And, of course, what practical things can a writer do to insure a fair review? If you write
reviews, what is the best way to give an honest review without alienating either the readers or the author in question?

Participants: John Joseph Adams, Peter Heck, Kim Paffenroth, Steven Sawicki [M], Ian Randal Strock,

SATURDAY, MARCH 15TH
Track: Track 51
Start Time: 03/15/2008 3:00:00 PM End Time: 03/15/2008 4:00:00 PM
Room: Odelle
Title: How I Learned to Stop Worrying, and Love the Post-Apocalyptic Story
Description: John Varley said "We all love after-the-bomb stories. If we didn’t, why would there be so many of them? There’s something attractive about all those people being gone, about wandering in a depopulated world, scrounging cans of Campbell’s pork and beans, defending one’s family from
marauders." Why *do* we all love after the bomb stories? What is it that makes them so compelling? Subconscious cultural anxiety? Is it Thanatoses,
schadenfreude, or something else entirely? There is no track 51.  Move along.

Participants: John Joseph Adams, Terri Osborne, John J. Pierce [M]

SUNDAY, MARCH 16TH
Track: Media
Start Time: 03/16/2008 1:00:00 PM End Time: 03/16/2008 2:00:00 PM
Room: Maple
Title: The Golden Age of Piracy
Description: The 18th century–the so-called Golden Age of Piracy–saw many parts of the world (not just the Caribbean) subject to merciless raids, unthinkable violence, and paralyzing terror. Today, we are living in another kind of Golden Age of Piracy–a Golden Age of Pirate Entertainment. Movies, novels, TV, video games–pirates have infiltrated seemingly every medium. Why is it pirates have so captured the imagination of genre writers, and what are the best examples of such fiction and/or film?

Participants: John Joseph Adams, Ellen Asher, Andrea Kail, Alex Wittenberg [M]
 

Yay for pirates and post-apocalyptic panels!