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Liz Gorinsky
Liz Gorinsky is an Editor at Tor Books, where she edits a list that includes acclaimed speculative fiction authors Dave Duncan, A.J. Hartley, Mary Robinette Kowal, George Mann, Cherie Priest, Pamela Sargent, Brian Slattery and Cat Valente. She also assists editors Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden and acquires and edits comics and short stories for Tor.com. She was a nominee for the 2010 Hugo Award in the Best Editor, Long Form category--the youngest person ever nominated in the editor categories--and is currently nominated in the same category for 2011.
Liz came to Tor after studying English, psychology, and computer science at Columbia College in New York City, but draws just as frequently on the skills she learned during a three year stint as president of the Columbia University Science Fiction Society. In her free time, she volunteers with the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art and watches a ton of theatre. She lives in Alphabet City in Manhattan.
Programming for Liz Gorinsky
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| Wed | 20:00 | (A04) | 1 hr |
SF and Musical Performance
It is a commonplace that we are are living in a science fiction future. Written, video and movie SF is ubiquitous. What about the genre in music? Opera has dipped its toe into the waters over the past several decades, but performances of SF opera remain rare. It is even harder to think of examples in musical theater. What are the possibilities in less formally theatrical forms of music, both popular and classical? |
| Thu | 13:00 | (D04) | 1 hr |
The Moral Aesthetics of Steampunk
Steampunk is frequently realized as an idealized, shiny version of the Victorian era, with quite a few of the nasty bits missing or obscured. The real Victorian age was a mix of great wealth and progress with poverty, workhouses, and more. What does it say about us when the latter are left out? |
| Thu | 17:00 | (KK1) | 1 hr |
KaffeeKlatsch: Thu 17:00
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| Sat | 11:00 | (A09) | 1 hr |
Generation Gap? Is the Conversation in Written SF Fractured by Cohort?
Elizabeth Bear noted there are different conversations amonst the Greatest Generation, the Baby Boomers, and Generation X. How differentiated (or segregated) are the different generations editors and writers conversations? Is the on-going conversation between SF writers, the playing with each other’s ideas restricted to writers of a roughly similar age? |
| Sat | 13:00 | (A11) | 1 hr |
Tor Books
Information on what's coming up over the next few months from Tor Books |
| Sun | 11:00 | (A17) | 1 hr |
Nooks and Crannies of the Business of Writing
Writers and business professionals discuss some of the odd nooks and crannies of the writing biz, including intellectual property, translation and taxation issues. |
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