This year’s World Science Fiction Convention begins in 18 days, and you want to know how to find me there, don’t you?

Worldcon has taken me out of the U.S. to many wonderful destinations since I started going as a kid back in 1974—including London, Glasgow, Melbourne, and Yokohama—but this will be my first time in Helsinki. I’m looking forward to hanging out with old friends (and making new ones) there.

Here’s where you’ll be able to find me—when I’m not in the bar or wandering the exhibit hall and dealers room, that is!

Collecting (Worldcon) memorabilia and what to do with it
Friday, August 11, 13:00 – 14:00
with Kent Bloom, Tara Oakes, David Haddock, Ben Yalow
Many of us collect Stuff. The panelists discuss their joys in collecting as well as the potential pitfalls they have encountered.

Monsters and the Monstrous
Friday, August 11, 18:00 – 19:00
with Natania Barron, Julie McGalliard, Magdalena Hai
What makes a monster? Why do we preoccupy ourselves with the monstrous? What stories challenge us, and what stories frighten us? A look at what lurks in the dark.

Strolls with Stars
Saturday, August 12, 09:00 – 10:00
Join Scott Edelman on a Stroll to the near-by garden area! Max 60 minutes in duration.

Food Lies
Saturday, August 12, 16:00 – 17:00
with Fran Wilde, David G. Shaw, Aliette de Bodard, Nalo Hopkinson, Barry Goldblatt
Food described in speculative fiction is often speculative itself: things that aren’t possible, or haven’t been, or turn out to sound great but are illusions. Our panelists talk about food lies in everything from The Night Circus to Sendak’s In The Night Kitchen, Narnia (and, yes, that food) to all the various birds baked into pies dishes (Hardinge’s upcoming Face Like Glass has birds whose songs are baked right out of them).

Signing
Sunday, August 12, 11:00 – 12:00

I hope to see you there. If you see me first, be sure to come over and say hello!