Genre

My absolute favorite author, Lois McMaster Bujold, was the Guest of Honor at Denvention 3. Her speech is a fascinating look at genre, as defined by (and as it defines) writers, readers, and publishers, and the ways in which genre expectations color and shape both works and our response to them. (She particularly focuses on SF/F and romance genres, with a little dabble into mysteries.) You should go read the transcript.

And, oh, for those of you who are Miles-fans like I am, the next Vorkosiverse book should be out sometime early/mid 2009. Yay!