Lauren McGuire lives in a small southern town where one cannot throw a rock without hitting a church. Ironically, the town is funded by zombies. When not wrangling children or running, she writes about space and monsters.
I am obsessed with disruptive technologies and their impact on culture and am following the impact of AI on writing and publishing with a zeal that borders on religious devotion. As a result, I was one of those Dragon Con attendees who stayed for the last day of the con so I could see the panel “AI & The Future… Read more →
You’d expect a retrospective at the panel for “Amazing Stories 100th Anniversary!” held in the Hyatt Embassy AB on Sunday at 1PM. What you might not expect was a pile of pithy one-liners. Give Larry Nivens access to a microphone, sit back, and enjoy. Nivens, a writer since 1964, said, “I’ve written a great many books and bookstores tend to… Read more →
Conventions are gathering spaces. Friend groups who might not normally get to see each other rent hotel rooms and Airbnb’s together. My husband and I joked that instead of getting a beach house for a week in the summer, we’d rent an apartment for Labor Day weekend and bring all our kids, and eventually their partners to Dragon Con. The… Read more →
Ryland Grace may have been alone, at least initially, when he woke on the Hail Mary, but Dragon Con attendees had an assist. To a packed room at the panel “Amaze Amaze Amaze: The Science of Project Hail Mary” in Hilton 209-211 on Saturday at 2:30PM, scientists, teachers, and communicators broke down complex science. Dr. Steffi Diem, a plasma physicist,… Read more →
Timothy Zahn is not slowing down. In “An Hour with Timothy Zahn” on Sunday at 4PM in Hyatt VI-VII, the Dragon Con Literary Guest of Honor talked with moderator Van Allen Plexico about canon, fandom, and what the future might hold. Zahn published his first book in 1983. Since then, he has published 16 Star Wars books which, he says,… Read more →
In “Transhumanism, Post-Humanism, and the Delusions of Billionaires” held in the Hilton 313-314 on Saturday at 10AM, Dr. Greg Hodgin and lawyer Sarah Malkin argued that if any of us were worth billions of dollars, we might think that we too could establish a libertarian utopia. And like other billionaires before us, we’d be suffering from delusions of grandeur. Citing… Read more →
Handheld fans abound in the “We’re 40! Welcome to Perimenopause! Exploring Characters with Experience” panel held in the Hyatt Embassy CD on Friday, 4PM. Moderator JM Paquette, author of “Cheesy vampire romances” attempted to keep it clean while talking about women’s bodies and other conundrums with panelists Theresa Glover (Caitlin Kelley: Monster Hunter), Candy Atkins (publishing pro), Stuart Grosse (indie… Read more →
How you do anything is how you do everything. In the “Bring your Homebrew World to Life” panel held in the Hyatt Centennial I on Friday at 2:30 PM, professional game developers and Game Masters Amanda Hamon (Wizards of the Coast), RezMonk Walker and Robert Madison II (Obsidian Brews), and Eloy Lasanta (Renegade) shared the secrets to creating a successful… Read more →
