BristolCon starts tomorrow evening. I’ll be moderating two panels on Saturday, as follows:

Music in my Writing: Music might be even harder to write about than Sex or Death, and yet it’s a really important part of the process for most writers. Many authors write to music or put together soundtracks of their own books. How does music seep into and influence our work? — with Gunnar Roxen, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Kim Lakin-Smith, Sarah Ash.

Steampunk and the Class System: Does steampunk ignore what goes on below stairs? Is it all top hats and parasols, or should we be looking more at the dark underbelly of industrialisation and Empire? — with Robert Harkess, Scott Lewis, Roz Clarke, Adrian Tchaikovsky.

If you have any burning questions you would like put to one or other of the panels, I’ll try to find time to raise them, but what I’d really like are as follows:

1. Recommendations of the best author playlists that you have found in books you have read.

2. Recommendations of the best anti-Imperialist steampunk story you have read.