Book It: Balticon edition
Before I get into the four-day party going down at Marriot's Hunt Valley Inn, I wanted to mention a few events for those who haven't yet discovered how much they love science fiction and fantasy books.
Award-winning poet Bryan Walpert will discuss and sign his first collection of poetry, Etymology, at The Ivy Saturday afternoon. Walpert, a New Zealand resident, won the 2007 New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition, is poetry editor of Bravado and winner of a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award for teaching creative writing in New Zealand.
At 7 p.m. Wednesday, the Atomic Books book club will discuss Our Band Could be Your Life, which I've glimpsed on a bookshelf at home, but have not yet read. Now that it has the Atomic seal of approval, it's getting bumped up on my list.
Neil Gaiman fans will find pleasant company at Constellation Books Thursday night, as the store's book club discusses Stardust. Terrible movie, good book. Just take my word for it.
I won't try to do this event justice with just a few paragraphs. It's basically every party I ever had in high school and college wrapped into one big celebration.
Books? Check.
Movie marathon? Check.
Costumes? Check.
Live music? Check.
Dance party? Check.
Discussions about alien sex?
Oh come on, like that's not normal.
There will be four books launched at Balticon 43; authors and artists will sign their books and discuss their influences, inspirations and issues; and the Compton Crook Award winner will be announced.
And who can resist an event with Edgar Allan Poe named as the Ghost of Honor?
Comments
Stardust is a very good book. Neil gaiman is going to be at the Worldcon in Montreal, CA this year. I will see you at Balticon this weekend.
Posted by: Tom S | May 21, 2009 7:38 PM
And don't forget the 30 hour science program covering A (archeology) to Z(Zoology) by experts in their fields.
Also, over 20 hours of hands on Children's programming, including arts, crafts, dance, to wear out and educate your little ones.
The program is posted on www.balticon.org
Posted by: Miriam Winder Kelly | May 22, 2009 8:00 AM
And for the third year in a row, the Baltimore Chapter of the Maryland Writers' Association (MWAB) will have a table at Balticon on Saturday featuring another edition of our popular "story in the round," where attendees are invited, encouraged, tempted, and otherwise conned into contributing a sentence (or two or ...) to a collaborative science fiction story!
Do you have what it takes to create the next "Eye of Argon?" We supply the opening sentence, you provide the rest!
Find out more about MWAB at www.mwabaltimore.org
Posted by: Paul Lagasse | May 22, 2009 8:38 AM
I wonder if any of your readers might be interested in my latest science fiction effort. The link to my author page on the publishers web site is:
www.StrategicBookPublishing.com/ScienceFictionandAlternateHistory.html
Posted by: David Scholes | May 23, 2009 3:22 AM