LonCon panel notes: the World@WorldCon German SFF

[kaberett]

THIS IS SO ADORABLY BILINGUAL. And lots and lots of giggles.

- okay, look up Stefanie Zurek's books (small press, ), also Ju Honisch (http://store.kobobooks.com/en-gb/Search?Query=ju+honisch) (everyone else on panel is duuuuuuudes)

Pretty much everything German-language is small-press since Random House bought out the local publisher; everything published is attempted to be catalogued at sfdb.de but can be difficult to get hold of, for the obvious reasons. Actually getting the word out = very difficult.

This is lots of dudes talking. LOTS of dudes talking. Which is causing me to zone out for a while and start looking forward to lunch, but hey.

Fantasy
... dudes? :-( Dudes from the 80s.

"Science Thriller" rather than "Science Fiction"
"earnest" vs "entertainment" (because 1920s)
ew, blaming the readers for ~not valuing the work~ - if it's IMPOSSIBLE TO BUY...
urgh cultural stereotypes about Germans having a hard time being entertained

nova.de -- most important for short spec fic in German... EngLang only published online, German possibly only published on paper AHHHH. >:[

This was pretty much the panel of "grumping about the state of publishing and also blaming readers and being a bit vicious about people who are experiencing international success for not being ~part of the community~", with a brief reeling off of lists of possible things to read, which... seem to be mostly dudes? Urgh.

Question about regional differences in German specfic -- gets answered by TALKING ABOUT THE BERLIN WALL YEP THERE ARE DEFINITELY NO OTHER GERMAN-SPEAKING PLACES YOU MIGHT WANT TO TALK ABOUT. "In Eastern Germany they couldn't write what they wanted, so they had to find a way to get across the censorship" REALLY REALLY IS THAT ALL REALLY. (I am at least enjoying the preposterously heavy rain!)

aHA NOW WE GET BAVARIA AND AUSTRIA (Ju Honisch)

Des dunkler Seite des Weiss?

The women are actually literally marginalised - they've been sat at opposite ends of the table, with three men in between, and the location of my seating is such that I can almost never see their faces.

Recs:
(Martin Stricker) Michael R Beier (space opera starting in Guatamela... NOPE.)
second author is a dude writing milSF. "Kaiserkrieger"?? cannot see myself going for this.
alternate history - Oliver Henkel (REALLY ALL DUDES. ALL DUDES. REALLY.)

(Volker Tanger) movies. urgh. and MORE DUDES. ("Michael Endel"?) And zombies in 60s Bavaria with Lederhosen. Why. ... and a D-movie about "Planet of Women" oh dear gods why why why why why.

NOW AUSTRALIA IS SAYING "US TOOOOOO" >:[

... AND ANOTHER LONG LIST OF NAMES ALL OF WHOM ARE DUDES

WALL

OF

DUDES

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks for taking notes, and I can see the benefit because otherwise you might have been screaming and perhaps projectile vomiting on the dude-pod in the middle.