The schedule of events for Alt.Fiction is now available online. It looks like they are working some of their authors very hard, and the panel topics don’t seem very inspired, but this is a rather different sort of event and I suspect that those putting it together feel that it is rather more important to allow people to see celebrities than worry about what is being discussed. They are not catering to people who attend Worldcon regularly.

Given that I’m only popping up for the day, over 6 hours of which will be spent on train travel, I’m not too fussed about the programme. I want to talk to people, not listen to them. But I will also be very interested to see how the event works. I’m impressed that they have a whole stream of panels scheduled to be recorded and podcast after the event.