The program for this year’s Finncon has been online for a while now so I should get around to listing what I’ll be doing.

I’ll be spending most of Thursday at Finfar, the academic conference that always precedes Finncon.

On Friday at 13:00 I’ll be doing the now traditional panel discussing the current year’s Hugo Award nominees. The traditional Kisu, Jukka and Tommy will be on the panel with me.

On Saturday at 11:00 I’m doing a panel on ebooks (which I see I am also moderating). In the evening I’ll be helping judge the masquerade and present the prizes.

I don’t have any scheduled programming on Sunday, but if all goes well I will have the SF&F Translation Awards short lists to announce. Jukka and I have been discussing when would be a good time to do that.

In addition there will be all of the usual socializing, including a visit to Harald and sauna.

There are also lots of fascinating English language program items that I’m hoping to attend. In addition to the GoHs, Peter Watts and Aliette de Bodard, I’d like to catch up with Karin Tidbeck, Nene Ormes and Tom Crosshill. I’m looking forward to Merja Polvinen’s talk on The City and the City, and I’d love to be able to get to the panel on Russian SF (though there may be a schedule conflict there). I see that Dave McCarty will be at the con, talking about how to run a Worldcon. It is going to be a busy weekend.