Category: Events
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ConQuest Kansas City is Next Weekend!
As usual, I will be at ConQuest Kansas City on Memorial Weekend for the local science fiction and fantasy convention. I will be on a number of panels with other fantastic authors. Here is my schedule: Friday: 5:00 Jurassic Park and Dinosaurs 5.0 Description: “Twenty-five years ago, an island full of dinosaurs tore up the…
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Saving the World through Science Fiction
Recently, I attended the Campbell Conference at the University of Kansas. The Campbell Conference is an annual event named for science fiction legend John W. Campbell Jr. Despite the similarities in names and interests, we are not related–at least not that I am aware of. This year’s conference, hosted by the Gunn Center for the Study of…
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A Traditional Author Event According to Chuck Palahniuk
J. K. Rowling does it this way. Maya Angelou did it this way. John Steinbeck did it this way. I attended Chuck Palahniuk’s event at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City last weekend. Palahniuk is touring in support of his short story collection Make Something Up: Stories You Can’t Unread from Doubleday and his graphic novel Fight Club 2 from…