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The Saturday 1100 panel:
[These are reconstructions by memory based on notes. I apologize in advance for any mistakes, and nothing here (even if in quotes) should be assumed to be an exact or even inexact version of what someone said without checking it with them. Comments of the form [ckd: bracketed text] are my own glosses, comments, or snarky bits.]
( my notes on the panel )
This was an interesting panel for me because Heinlein, particularly the juveniles, has always been a comfort read for me. (At one point during my college years, I was sick and very lethargic, and re-read Starman Jones because it was one of the few Heinlein juveniles I could get from the campus library, which was much easier to get to than the Boston Public Library.) I find Heinlein's technique so smooth as to be un-noticed, which seems like one of those things that's incredibly hard to make it look so easy. The panelists made understanding it look so easy....
"The Door Dilated," Needless Exposition Contracted: Heinlein as Narrative Innovator.Since this was on Saturday morning, it was exactly on RAH's 100th birthday. (That weekend being Readercon and CONvergence andthe Heinlein Centennial...making one wish for trilocation.) As one of the many folks who grew up reading Heinlein (library shelves, rocket ship stickers on the spines, the whole bit) I thought it'd be interesting to delve into the ways he made his writing so unobtrusive, almost a style of having no apparent style.
James L. Cambias, F. Brett Cox, Daniel P. Dern (L), Fred Lerner, Tom Purdom
Robert A. Heinlein was the first sf author to regularly write about the future as though the reader already lived there. From our current perspective it may be hard to imagine just how radical an innovation this was. We celebrate the centenary of his birth by examining the profound influence he's had on the art of sf storytelling.
[These are reconstructions by memory based on notes. I apologize in advance for any mistakes, and nothing here (even if in quotes) should be assumed to be an exact or even inexact version of what someone said without checking it with them. Comments of the form [ckd: bracketed text] are my own glosses, comments, or snarky bits.]
( my notes on the panel )
This was an interesting panel for me because Heinlein, particularly the juveniles, has always been a comfort read for me. (At one point during my college years, I was sick and very lethargic, and re-read Starman Jones because it was one of the few Heinlein juveniles I could get from the campus library, which was much easier to get to than the Boston Public Library.) I find Heinlein's technique so smooth as to be un-noticed, which seems like one of those things that's incredibly hard to make it look so easy. The panelists made understanding it look so easy....
