I’ll be in Dublin for WorldCon this year! Here’s my schedule:

Kaffeeklatsch: Yoon Ha Lee
Format: Kaffeeklatsch
17 Aug 2019, Saturday 11:00 – 11:50, Level 3 Foyer (KK/LB) (CCD)

Reading: Yoon Ha Lee
Format: Reading
17 Aug 2019, Saturday 15:30 – 15:50, ECOCEM Room (CCD)

I’ll be reading from Phoenix Extravagant, which is set in not!Korea during the not!Japanese occupation with bonus automata, a collaborationist painter having second thoughts, a rebel mecha dragon, and, of course, bonus genocide. As one does.

What I read when I was young
Format: Panel
18 Aug 2019, Sunday 10:00 – 10:50, Second Stage (Liffey-B) (CCD)

The books we read in childhood often have a lasting influence. In this panel, finalists for the Hugo Award for Best Novel discuss the books that had a profound effect on the people they became. How did these works change them? Was this influence a good or a bad one? Is there a book they think everyone should read at least once in their life?

Mur Lafferty (M), Mary Robinette Kowal, Catherynne Valente, Rebecca Roanhorse, Becky Chambers, Naomi Novik, Yoon Ha Lee

Things that SFF writers often get wrong: logistics
Format: Panel
18 Aug 2019, Sunday 14:00 – 14:50, Wicklow Room-4 (CCD)

That’s not how it really works! Organisational planning and logistics often get overlooked or written wrong – whether it’s the time needed to hunt and cook an animal in the forest, or to develop the cure for a disease. Timing, availability, and coordination of things often get pushed into a grey area where good logistical planning goes to die. What does it take to get these details right? When the details don’t work within the story, how does an author work around them? Our panellists share their own experiences, including what they have got right and wrong along the way.

D.A Lascelles (Zig Zag Education) (M), Ginjer Buchanan, Brian Smith, Yoon Ha Lee

I think I’m going to be the person on the panel who gets logistics wrong…