I don't do a full run-down of everything said during the panels, just the highlights of what seemed most useful to me and thoughts they sparked. Panels in this post: Humor in Feminist Speculative Fiction; Acting for Authors; Writing Science Fiction While Living in an SF Disaster Novel; and Getting It Wrong Gracefully.

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Freakangels, Warren Ellis' webcomic (also in print form), is turning into a very enjoyable post-apocalyptic story, and the art is beautiful--sort of a "simplified steampunk" style.

"23 years ago, 12 strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. 6 years ago, the world ended. This is the story of what happens next." Read the story.


I confess that I have a huge weakness for post-apocalyptic survivalist fiction. Some of my favorite books are The Postman, Dies the Fire, The Stand (the first half), and The Day of the Triffids (or pretty much anything else by John Wyndham).