My Worldcon Schedule--GlasgowIn2024

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I'm heading out to Glasgow, Scotland for the World Science Fiction Convention--GlasgowIn2024. I'll be moderating two panels, plus doing my usual Worldcon activities: attending other panels to boost my own writing skills, volunteering, hanging out with friends, tea at the Willow Tearoom (a must do anytime I'm in Glasgow), and just having a good time. 

Here's my schedule, and I hope to see you there:


Saturday, August 10, 2024
Rogues, Pirates and Bandits with Hearts of Gold
Alsh 2,
Duration: 60 mins

13:00 BST
08:00 EDT

Darlene Marshall (moderator)
Edgar Governo
H.G. Parry
N.L. Bates
Chris Wooding,

Fantasy, Science Fiction, Literature,


From Robin Hood to that charming rogue in everyone's D&D campaign, readers and writers love the idea of a kind-hearted criminal. Social inequality and those standing apart from ordered society are at the heart of those stories, but how important is striking the balance between giving outcasts a home and adhering to the social contract? And is there such a thing as victimless crime?


Why Only Romantasy?
Argyll 1,
Duration: 60 mins

17:30 BST
12:30 EDT

Aliette de Bodard
Catriona Silvey
Constance Fay
Darlene Marshall (moderator)
N.E. Davenport

Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Literature,

With the huge rise of fantasy fiction focused on romance in recent years, why are we not seeing an equivalent rise in romance-focused science fiction? Are fantasy and romance just more compatible as genres? Do SF and fantasy readers have different levels of interest in romance? Is it just that SF romance doesn't have a catchy portmanteau term that makes marketing easy? Or are we just overlooking the work of Ann Leckie, Lois McMaster Bujold, Catherine Asaro and many others, all of whom have written Romance in Space! This panel will discuss the relationship between SF and romance past, present, and future, including recommendations of existing work that may have been overlooked, and brainstorming of that portmanteau (sci-mance? rom-ience? we'll keep working on it...)

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