{"id":1794,"date":"2022-01-20T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2022-01-20T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T17:35:12","slug":"steve-millers-boskone-59-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/?p=1794","title":{"rendered":"Steve Miller&#8217;s Boskone 59 Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Miller will be a virtual panelist at <a href=\"https:\/\/boskone.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boskone 59<\/a>, February 18-20.\u00a0 Boskone 59 is a Hybrid Convention this year.<\/p>\n<p>Steve&#8217;s schedule is below.\u00a0 All times are Eastern Standard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIRTUAL: Unhappy Endings Format: Panel<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>18 Feb 2022, Friday 8pm &#8211; 8:50pm, Marina IV (Westin)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Jane Yolen, Steve Miller, Julie Czerneda, Paul Di Filippo (M), Ada Palmer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tragic plays from Shakespeare, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides are still with us &#8230; hundreds, even thousands of years later. Not all stories let the protagonist triumph \u2014 sometimes they lose; sometimes they even die losing. Some science fiction and fantasy writers&#8217; unhappily ending stories are quite popular. Why do they succeed? Why do other such stories fail \u2014 even fail so hard their authors never try to write unhappily ever after?<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIRTUAL: My Favorite Character<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>18 Feb 2022, Friday 9pm &#8211; 9:50pm, Marina IV (Westin)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Olav Rokne, Jen Gunnels, Steve Miller, David Marshall, James Moore (M)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google once estimated that humanity had published 129,864,880 books. If about half were SF\/F\/H trilogies \u2014 never mind, let\u2019s ask it this way: from all the speculative fiction stories ever published, who\u2019s your favorite character, and why? Heroine, villain, sidekick, romantic interest, alien bystander? Would you like to meet, have dinner with, or be that person? What does your choice say about your own character?<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIRTUAL: Solo Reading <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>19 Feb 2022, Saturday 12:30 &#8211; 12:55, Marina IV (Westin)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Steve Miller<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Miller will be a virtual panelist at Boskone 59, February 18-20.\u00a0 Boskone 59 is a Hybrid Convention this year. Steve&#8217;s schedule is below.\u00a0 All times are Eastern Standard. VIRTUAL: Unhappy Endings Format: Panel 18 Feb 2022, Friday 8pm &#8211; 8:50pm, Marina IV (Westin) Jane Yolen, Steve Miller, Julie Czerneda, Paul Di Filippo (M), Ada &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/?p=1794\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steve Miller&#8217;s Boskone 59 Schedule<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}