WorldCON schedule and Wednesday Reading

[lydamorehouse]

 First of all, WorldCON sent out their final schedule today, so now I can officially announce where you can find me (virtually) in Glasgow next weekend (August 8-12).  My panels are online, unless otherwise noted:

 

• Let Them Cook - Food in Anime (THURSDAY: 1 pm GMT/8:00 am CT) - hybrid
• The Immersive Possibilities of Horror Audio (SATURDAY: 7pm GMT/2:00 pm CT) 
• Everything We Love (a Little or a Lot) About Fanfiction (SATURDAY: 10pm GMT/5:00 pm CT)
• Help, I Got Reincarnated Into a Worldcon Panel! (SUNDAY: 10pm GMT/5:00 pm CT)
• If I'm Not Kira and You're Not Kira, Who is Writing in the Death Note? (MONDAY: 1pm GMT/8:00 am CT) --hybrid

Three out of the five panels are, as you can see, anime and manga panels, so I guess I have made myself a kind of reputation? To be fair, on the questionnaire when they ask about your specialties, I always point people to my manga review site, so... I reap what I sow, I suppose. And, I'm not really complaining! In fact, I'm thrilled! I am particularly excited to talk about Food in Anime, though, as I told the moderator, I really hope that we can mention manga, too, since that's where most of my favorites exist. 

But, so I have a couple of early mornings, both for hybrid panels. We'll see how this goes. I've had some bad luck with hybrid in the past--not being able to hear the other panelist and basically being Max Headroom in a corner and so not getting called on to participate a lot. But, I am hopeful!

As for reading, expect a lot of manga over the next week and a half!!

This week, of course, it's still been all cyberpunk, all the time. I finished a re-read of Gibson's Nueromancer, as that's the subject of our most recent podcast (which should be dropping later today or early tomorrow), and I started listening to the audiobook for Klara and The Sun by Ishiguro Kazou. I just finished watching Star Trek: Prodigy's second (current) season, and really loved it.  Every time my family looked over my shoulder while I was watching this they had some disparaging comment about the animation, but I thought it was fine. Not my favorite style, but the story made up for it, IMHO. 

In my TBR pile, I have a supposedly cyberpunk graphic novel called Twelve Percent Dread by Emily McGovern, a bunch of random manga that I will now probably dump to read later, since I need to focus on food and isekai (another world) manga. 

What about you?

Comments

[profiterole_reads]

I'm slowly making my way through the March releases and I have not forgotten that your book is an April release.

[sabotabby]

Have all the fun at WorldCon!