A partial history of my convention attendance and and the panels I have appeared on. I will flesh it out further as evidence – eg, excavation of old convention schedules, retrieval of computer files of notes, meetings with people whose memories are better than mine – accumulates.
Farthing Party, Montréal, September 2013
- Mad Science
- The Ends of the World: Every age its own Apocalypse
- You Write Funny: The process panel
When Words Collide, Calgary, August 9-11, 2013 (attendee)
Farthing Party, Montréal, August 3-5, 2012
- Galactic Empires
- Why is Cherryh so underappreciated?
- How hard is fantasy?
- Romans in Spaaaaace!
- Space stations
Readercon 23, Boston, July 13-15, 2012
- Subversion through friendliness
- Kurzweil and Chopra, ghosts in the same shell
- Making science sound like science
- Paranormal plagues
- Mapping the parallels
Farthing Party, Montréal, September 2011
- How hard is SF?
- Maps and territories
- Generation starships: Are we there yet?
When Words Collide, Calgary, August 12-14, 2011
- The editor/author relationship
- Doctors and medicine in SF
- Technology, biology and liberty
Readercon 22, Boston, 14-17 July 2011.
- Great War Geeks (re)unite
Congres-Boréal, Montreal, May 13-15, 2011. (English language programming)
- Women on fiction, women in fiction
- Terra incognita
SFContario, Toronto, November 19-21, 2010
- Keeping the science in science fiction
- Biotechnology, friend or foe?
- Where is science now?
Farthing Party, Montreal, August 2010
- Who is qualified to write SF?
Readercon 21, Boston, 8-11 July 2010
- Great War Geeks unite
- How to write for a living when you can’t live off your fiction
- Through the portal to promise and peril
Keycon, Winnipeg, May 2010 (attendee)
ConBust, Northampton, MA, March 2010 (attendee)
Anticipation (Worldcon), Montreal, August 2009
- Bio-ethics
- Mad Social Scientists
- Science for SF Wrtiers
- Food for Writers
World Fantasy Convention, Calgary, October 2008 (attendee)
Con-Version 24, Calgary, August 2008 (panelist)
Con-Version 23, Calgary, August 2007 (panelist)
Westercon, Calgary, July 2005
- SF Mind Control
- Passionate Reads
- Part-time writer
- Earth as a model for other planets
V-Con 29, Vancouver, November 2004
Con-Version 20, Calgary, August 2003
Rustycon, Seattle, January 2003
V-con 27, Vancouver, November 2002
Con-Version 19, Calgary, August 2001
Rustycon, Seattle, January 2002
Can-Con, Ottawa, August 2001 (listed guest)
Ad Astra, Toronto, February 2001
Readercon XX, Boston July 2000
Conversion XXII, Calgary, July 1999
Lonestarcon 2/Worldcon 1997, San Antonio, August 1997 (panelist)
Non-Con, Lethbridge, October 1997
Conversion, Calgary, July 1998
Conversion, Calgary, May 1997
(other UK conventions 1989-1995)
Iconoclasm, Leeds, UK, June 1989 (attendee)
Mexicon, Nottingham, May 1989 (attendee)
Readercon 2, Boston (convention committee)
Readercon 1, Boston (attendee)