{"id":176,"date":"2008-09-12T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-09-12T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T21:34:00","slug":"a-duality-of-dysfunction-at-dragoncon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"A Duality of Dysfunction at DragonCon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was not at DragonCon this year. Actually, I have never been to DragonCon. But Aaron Douglas (aka deck chief Galen Tyrol*) was. And I’ll have you know that he actually requested, nay, even demanded <\/span>the books you see in his hands, thanks to some subtle psychological manipulation by one adrienne everitt<\/a> the week before when he was up here in TO. So she brought him the books, and I believe they may have had some beers.<\/p>\n

I do not know if ol’ Aaron will ever get around to reading either novel, but perhaps that’s just as well; evidently he’s hoping that his next acting gig will be a little “less dark” than Galactica, in which case Starfish<\/span> and Blindsight<\/span> would not be a step in the desired direction anyway. But at least my own dysfunctional characters now share a documented point of intersection with the most gloriously dyfunctional cast o’ characters in televised sf, and that is cool.<\/p>\n

BTW, just to head off any misunderstandings, I did not put adi up to this. In fact, I kinda cringed to learn that she was doing it on my behalf; we’re all familiar with those tub-thumping authors who shout ME ME ME at every opportunity, and, well, ewwww. But while I would never pimp my stuff so brazenly to anyone \u2014 much less to a prominent community figure who probably gets accosted with this kind of shit all the time \u2014 I gotta say, I’m squeeed into the stratosphere that adi did.<\/p>\n

*And if any of you have to be told who <\/span>that<\/span> is, you have no business on this crawl.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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