I’ll be attending Worldcon this year, which will be in Denver, August 6-10. While there, I’ll be on the following panels:

• What makes a good SF film or TV show, and why are so many of them so bad? | Friday at 1 PM
• Battlestar Galactica:  An Improvement, But Was it Also a Success? | Saturday, 1 PM
• Mars through the SF ages:  ERB to KSR | Saturday, 5:30 PM

I haven’t seen program descriptions of these panels, but they sound pretty self-explanatory.

Also, on Worldcon Thursday, I won’t be at the convention itself, but will instead be going on a VIP tour of the NORAD facility at Cheyenne Mountain, which, as you may know, features prominently in many SFnal stories, such as Stargate and War Games, not to mention Jerry Oltion’s story in Wastelands, “Judgment Passed.”

UPDATE: I begged off the above-mentioned Mars panel due to it conflicting with the pre-Hugo reception for nominees (or in my case, nominees’ designated acceptors), and the fact that getting from the panel to the Hugo ceremony by the appointed time for nominees/acceptors would make things difficult.