{"id":21187,"date":"2024-11-02T14:35:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T21:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=21187"},"modified":"2024-11-02T14:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T21:37:21","slug":"wiscon-chronicles-9-good-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2024\/11\/02\/wiscon-chronicles-9-good-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"WisCon Chronicles 9: Good stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Back in 2015, Mary Anne edited (and Aqueduct Press published) <cite>The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 9: Intersections and Alliances<\/cite>, focused loosely on WisCon 38 (in 2014).<\/p>\r\n<p>I just finally got around to reading it, and liked it quite a lot. It\u2019s fascinating to look back at the concerns and discussions of ten years ago, and to see some things that have changed and some that haven\u2019t.<\/p>\r\n<p>The book includes the following:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>The two Guest of Honor speeches, one by N. K. Jemisin and one by Hiromi Goto.<\/li>\r\n  <li>\u201cNavigating Masculinity: A Roundtable,\u201d moderated by Mary Anne, featuring Elliott Mason, Jim Hines, Na\u2019amen Gobert Tilahun, David Moles, Ben Rosenbaum, and me.<\/li>\r\n  <li>A roundtable about writing reviews (especially about \u201creviewing the Other\u201d), featuring Nisi Shawl, Chip Delany, Timmi Duchamp, F\u00e1bio Fernandes, Andrea Hairston, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Sofia Samatar, and Aishwarya Subramanian.<\/li>\r\n  <li>A roundtable about being on the WisCon convention committee, featuring people who were relatively new to that committee: Jackie Mierzwa, Elliott Mason, Lenore Jean Jones, Bronwyn M. Bjorkman, s.e. smith, Chris Wallish, and Alexandra Erin.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Essays on a wide variety of WisCon-related topics, by lots of people:\r\n    <ul>\r\n      <li>Alexandra Erin<\/li>\r\n      <li>Arrate Hidalgo<\/li>\r\n      <li>Carrie Sessarego<\/li>\r\n      <li>Debbie Notkin<\/li>\r\n      <li>Eileen Gunn<\/li>\r\n      <li>Elliott Mason<\/li>\r\n      <li>Haddayr Copley-Woods<\/li>\r\n      <li>Isabel Schechter<\/li>\r\n      <li>Janet Lafler<\/li>\r\n      <li>Jed Hartman<\/li>\r\n      <li>Kat Tanaka Okopnik<\/li>\r\n      <li>Keyan Bowes<\/li>\r\n      <li>Made of Moxie<\/li>\r\n      <li>Mary Anne Mohanraj<\/li>\r\n      <li>Mathew Murakami<\/li>\r\n      <li>Michi Trota<\/li>\r\n      <li>Nalo Hopkinson<\/li>\r\n      <li>Neile Graham<\/li>\r\n      <li>Nick Wood<\/li>\r\n      <li>Nisi Shawl<\/li>\r\n      <li>Rochita Loenen-Ruiz<\/li>\r\n      <li>Sheree Ren\u00e9e Thomas<\/li>\r\n      <li>Sigrid Ellis<\/li>\r\n      <li>Tobias S. Buckell<\/li>\r\n      <li>Vandana Singh<\/li>\r\n    <\/ul>\r\n  <\/li>\r\n  <li>Two fiction stories, one by Kelley Eskridge and one by Mimi Mondal.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p>I want to comment further on nearly everything in the book\u2014there\u2019s a lot of great material here, and a lot of lines that made me want to quote them\u2014but I\u2019m going to limit myself to brief notes about two of those pieces:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>The masculinity roundtable was created in a fascinating way (I think it was Mary Anne who came up with this approach): in a shared Google Doc, where we could comment on each other\u2019s contributions, and those comments could then be interjected into the final text. The result reads to me more like a conversation than any other written interview or roundtable that I\u2019ve encountered. (The other roundtables included in this book also include some parts where participants comment on and refer to each other\u2019s contributions, but I feel like not quite in the same way.) For all I know, this approach has become widespread in the years since then, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen other instances of it. I thought it worked really well.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Janet Lafler\u2019s essay \u201cSolutions to the Problem of Susan: Reading Susan Fic\u201d is a great overview of fanfic that responds to the Problem of Susan. I was thinking recently about putting together a page listing such responses, along the lines of my Omelas and Cold Equations response pages, but Janet\u2019s essay makes clear to me that there are way too many such responses for me to easily list.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>\u2026But those two notes are just what happened to be top of mind as I wrote this post; I don\u2019t mean to suggest that those two pieces are the best things in the book. I would be hard put to choose only a few of the pieces in this book as the \u201cbest.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p>A lot of the pieces in the book are available for free online; many of them started out as social-media posts (and in some cases were edited for book publication). But a lot of the other pieces aren\u2019t available online, and anyway I like having all of these pieces together in one place.<\/p>\r\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aqueductpress.com\/books\/978-1-61976-087-5.php\">buy the book directly from Aqueduct<\/a>: $15 for the paperback, or $7.50 for the ebook. The ebook includes 16 pieces that are mentioned in the paper book but not included in it; the paper book includes a code that you can send to Aqueduct to get a free copy of the ebook.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally read and quite liked <cite>WisCon Chronicles Vol. 9<\/cite>, edited by Mary Anne, published in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,39,11,43,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-conventions","category-improving-society","category-reviews","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21189,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21187\/revisions\/21189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}