{"id":608,"date":"2011-07-22T16:35:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T16:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2012-06-22T01:08:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T01:08:05","slug":"panels-and-reading-at-osfest-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/22\/panels-and-reading-at-osfest-4-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Panels and Reading at OSFEST 4.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, July 22-24, is the 4th Annual installment of the Omaha Science Fiction Education Society&#8217;s convention, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osfes.org\/index.html\">OSFEST<\/a>, and I&#8217;ll be hanging out down there all weekend.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll also find me in the Dealer Room at the Author Table at various times, where I&#8217;ll have books to sell.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what on my agenda.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has Urban Fantasy become a serious sub-genre? &#8211; Panel, 6 p.m. Friday<\/li>\n<li>Reading &#8211; 12 noon, Saturday<\/li>\n<li>Harlan Ellison: The bad boy of SF literature? &#8211; Panel, 3 p.m. Friday<\/li>\n<li>Redshirts: How to kill your characters &#8211; Panel, 6 p.m. Saturday<\/li>\n<li>Ultimate Starship Challenge &#8211; 11 p.m., Saturday<\/li>\n<li>Writer&#8217;s Tech &#8211; 11 a.m., Sunday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So come down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osfes.org\/index.html\">OSFEST<\/a> and enjoy a weekend of genre literature and discussion, not to mention the occasional &#8220;character.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osfes.org\/index.html\"><\/a>If you see me, say hi!<\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Ftravisheermann.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F07%2F22%2Fpanels-and-reading-at-osfest-4-0%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, July 22-24, is the 4th Annual installment of the Omaha Science Fiction Education Society&#8217;s convention, OSFEST, and I&#8217;ll be hanging out down there all weekend.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll also find me in the Dealer Room at the Author Table at various times, where I&#8217;ll have books to sell. Here&#8217;s what on my agenda. Has Urban Fantasy become a serious sub-genre? &#8211; Panel, 6 p.m. Friday Reading &#8211; 12 noon, Saturday Harlan Ellison: The bad boy of SF literature? &#8211; Panel, 3 p.m. Friday Redshirts: How to kill your characters &#8211; Panel, 6 p.m. Saturday Ultimate Starship Challenge &#8211; 11 p.m.,<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/22\/panels-and-reading-at-osfest-4-0\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Panels and Reading at OSFEST 4.0<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","category-general"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 22:42:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}