{"id":7555,"date":"2012-09-10T22:41:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T02:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=7555"},"modified":"2012-09-10T22:41:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T02:41:19","slug":"want-to-see-me-and-adam-troy-castro-read-at-chicon7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/10\/want-to-see-me-and-adam-troy-castro-read-at-chicon7\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to see me and Adam-Troy Castro read at Chicon7?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could have shared the following videos while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicon.org\/\">Chicon7<\/a>, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, was still ongoing, as that would have hewed to Edelman&#8217;s Schadenfreude Rule of Convention Reporting. But alas, I was far too busy. (Future posts will show you just how busy.)<\/p>\n<p>First up, on Thursday, August 30, Adam-Troy Castro read his short story &#8220;My Wife Hates Time Travel,&#8221; recently published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightspeedmagazine.com\/fiction\/my-wife-hates-time-travel\/\">Lightspeed<\/a>. Since you weren&#8217;t there, you don&#8217;t get any of the chocolate chip cookies he was handing out in support of his new novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gustav-Gloom-People-Taker-1\/dp\/0448458330\/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top\">Gustav Gloom and the People Taker<\/a>\u2014which should  teach you to show up in person next time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cRGFeikR-ts?rel=0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And then, on Monday, September 3, I read &#8220;A Most Extraordinary Man,&#8221; a sequel of sorts to Saki&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicshorts.com\/stories\/openwin.html\">The Open Window<\/a>,&#8221; which will be published in the anthology <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Monkeys-Other-Paw-Revived\/dp\/1933065338\">The Monkey&#8217;s Other Paw: Revived Classic Stories of Dread and the Dead<\/a> from NonStop Press.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/70fkjLcQujs?rel=0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I wish I&#8217;d known that I&#8217;d left my soda between me and the camera. I hadn&#8217;t intended to provide product placement for A&amp;W Diet Root Beer!<\/p>\n<p>There was other readings I&#8217;d hoped to attend and then share with you if the writers would permit&#8212;among them stories by Jo Walton, Paul Cornell, Geoff Ryman and Mary Turzillo\u2014but my time somehow got away from me, as time must when you&#8217;re surrounded by hundreds of people you know&#8212;so you&#8217;ll have to settle for just these two.<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;ll be only one more Chicon7 video forthcoming, and it will show Adam taking on the <a href=\"http:\/\/brickschicago.com\/\">Bricks<\/a> Painful Pizza challenge. That&#8217;ll have to wait, though, since some editing is involved. But check back if you want to see a man turn red and sweat hot sauce!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could have shared the following videos while Chicon7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, was still ongoing, as that would have hewed to Edelman&#8217;s Schadenfreude Rule of Convention Reporting. But alas, I was far too busy. (Future posts will show you just how busy.) 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