{"id":37199,"date":"2025-05-11T20:32:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T00:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=37199"},"modified":"2025-05-22T22:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:41:15","slug":"balticon-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/11\/balticon-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to find me during Balticon 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Balticon 59<\/a> begins in a dozen days, and my weekend will be a busy one. In addition to participating in five programming items, I’m also scheduled to record three episodes of my Eating the Fantastic podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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If you’ll be in Baltimore as well, here’s where to find me — <\/p>\n

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All About That Tense<\/strong>
\nFriday, May 23, 5:30 p.m. (Mount Washington)<\/em>
\nDon\u2019t be tense about tense! There may be twelve different verb tenses, but our experts can help you sort them out.
\nwith Virginia DeMarce (M), Sarah Avery, Mark L. Van Name, and Mark Painter<\/em><\/p>\n

Howard the Duck Retrospective<\/strong>
\nFriday, May 23, 8:30 p.m. (Gibson)<\/em>
\nHoward the Duck first appeared in Adventure into Fear<\/em> #19 in 1973 and eventually got his own series in 1976. This irreverent character became so popular he received write-in votes for the presidential election of 1976. More recently the pants-less Anatidae made small appearances in several MCU films. Our panelists will discuss the evolution of the character over the years and his impact.
\nwith Neil Ottenstein<\/em> <\/p>\n

Critique: Do’s and Don\u2019ts<\/strong>
\nSaturday, May 24, 5:30 p.m. (Gibson)<\/em>
\nIt\u2019s easy to have an opinion, but it’s hard to swallow other people’s. Conversely, it’s very easy to hear critique and internalize it as an attack. What techniques can we learn to give and receive constructive feedback?
\nwith Rosemary Claire Smith, Sarah Pinsker, Micaiah Johnson, and Larry Hodges<\/em><\/p>\n

In Defense of Short Fiction<\/strong>
\nSunday, May 25, 10:00 a.m. (Mount Washington)<\/em>
\nIn the Golden Age short stories were the cutting edge of SFFH. Today, the short story in SFFH is still well represented in both print and online magazines, but often is considered the poor cousin to novels. What do short stories convey to the reader that is distinct from novels? What can you do with a short story that you can’t in longer fiction? And why do people want to read short stories? Our panelists will discuss the importance of short form fiction.
\nwith Andy Love, Carolyn Ives Gilman, L.H. Moore, and Samantha Mills <\/em><\/p>\n

Monday, May 26, Short Fire Readings<\/strong>
\n11:30 a.m. (St. George)<\/em>
\nwith Miguel O. Mitchell, Andrija “Andy” Popovic, Mark Painter, and Ian Randal Strock<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you’ll be there as well, please say hi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Balticon 59 begins in a dozen days, and my weekend will be a busy one. In addition to participating in five programming items, I’m also scheduled to record three episodes of my Eating the Fantastic podcast. If you’ll be in Baltimore as well, here’s where to find me — All About That Tense Friday, May […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-37199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-balticon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37222,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37199\/revisions\/37222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}