Via Cheryl Morgan:
Anticipation has published a draft program schedule (two whole weeks before the convention is due to start - good going!). The draft convention guide is available online here (it is a 7.2Mb PDF so I've linked to the main programming page, not the document). This is somewhat provisional as last minute changes are still seeping through (I'm still listed on an item I asked to be taken off because of my Masquerade duties), but it should give you a good idea of what will be on offer and who will be on panel.
I´m still listed as well, but I already told the scheduling team I won´t be going. Now the penny is starting to drop, I´m afraid, because I´m kind of sad. I mean, just take a look at the following panels I would be in:
When: Thu 14:00
Location: P-511A
Title: Translation Challenges
Session ID: 345
All Participants: Jetse de Vries, Kari Sperring, Rani Graff, Tom
Clegg, Fernandes, Eileen Gunn
Moderator: Kari Sperring
Description: What are the artistic and professional challenges faced
by translators? How do they tackle translating between languages whose
grammars are incompatible?
Duration: 1:30 hrs:min
Language: English
Track: Literature in English
and:
When: Sun 10:00
Location: P-518A
Title: Realism in Science Fiction
Session ID: 547
All Participants: Chris Howard, kyle cassidy, Pascale Raud,
Fernandes, Joel Polowin, Tobias Buckell
Moderator: Pascale Raud
Description: A lot of near-future SF novels duck the problems we read
about in the news - climate change or energy shortage - in favour of
problems which look more solveable. We all know that SF shouldn't be
pure prediction, but how much of a duty does it have to be based on
realistic assumptions?
Duration: 1:00 hrs:min
Language: English
Track: Literature in English
Damn, it would be really good to be in a panel with Jetse and Tobias.
Too bad you can't make it: I would have loved to meet you, too.
Hopefully another time!