I attended a SF in SF event tonight, a reading / Q&A with Rudy Rucker, Cory Doctorow and Terry Bisson.
Cory read a chapter from a novel which will be out next May called Little Brother and Rudy read a story about Alan Turing called The Imitation Game, then they took some questions from the audience and from Terry.
They covered the future of distribution, the dis-aggregation of the functions of a traditional publisher into the sub-functions of investment, distribution, editing, marketing, public relations, and some of their various hot topics and interests. I had an amazing time, especially for something free, but I didn't have a whole lot to say and I was really trying hard to not spend money and succeeded in not buying any of the books I wanted. It would have been a different story if they'd had Rucker's The Hollow Earth on hand.
The title is a reference to an anecdote which Bisson attributed to another writer (possibly Kim Stanley Robinson), that in order to be a successful sf writer, one needs to have a three-legged stool, with one leg in a field of literature or interest, to attract readers in that space or to solidly craft stories set in that space.
I didn't take notes as I should have because I was so eager to rush home to my brand new laptop. Despite UPS dousing the box in water to the point that the original box was falling apart and needed to be encased in an outer box, it seems to be intact. It's running memtest overnight and then I'll perhaps have more to say about it.
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