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BobDevneyAt Boskone today, satirist Jasper Fforde discusses his boyhood reading; although I have not the pleasure of understanding how he might arrive at this most distressing conclusion:"We were more a Bronte family than an Austen one ... I always thought the Austen girls were a bit drippy."/3 of 3/<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Boskone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boskone</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fantasy</a>

BobDevneyAt Boskone today, Jasper Fforde discusses how his first published novel, The Eyre Affair (2001)—a tricky, playful alternate-universe fantasy starring a detective who hunts a terrorist through the world of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre—accomplished the unlikely feat of rocketing a debut book by an unknown author straight onto the bestseller lists:"This was before social media … The people who really pushed it were librarians. And English teachers."/2 of 3/<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Boskone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boskone</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fantasy</a>

BobDevneyIn his interview at Boston's primo SF convention Boskone today, our Guest of Honor — fine British satirist/fantasist/metafictionist Jasper Fforde — discusses his lapidary writing method, which features wave after wave of rewriting:"It's like time travel ... you go back to the beginning and you change everything."/1 of 3/<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Boskone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boskone</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fantasy</a>

knizerFri-Sun - SF convention <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Boskone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boskone</a> is this weekend - free reading by <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoryDoctorow</a> tonight boskone.org/ <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boston</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/BostonWeekend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BostonWeekend</a> 3/x

Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️The <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Boskone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boskone</a> fan tables are open!

Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️The list of participants is up for <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Boskone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boskone</a>! It looks like it's going to be a great time! <a href="https://boskone.org/guests/program-participants/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://boskone.org/guests/program-participants/</a>

FeralRobotsSearch the page for "virtual" or "hybrid". <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Boskone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boskone</a> <a href="https://schedule.boskone.org/still/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://schedule.boskone.org/still/</a>

FeralRobots<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Boskone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Boskone</a> looks like it's got some fun stuff on the virtual docket, $24.60. I might do it myself if I didn't have a metric buttload of stuff to do this weekend.<a href="https://boskone.org/registration/buy-a-membership/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://boskone.org/registration/buy-a-membership/</a>

Annalee Newitz 🍜Are you at <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/boskone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boskone</a> this weekend? I've got two sweet little UK edition paperbacks to give away to the first two people who say hi to me at the con and tell me why they like public transit.

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