{"id":667,"date":"2011-10-22T19:26:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T19:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawrencecconnolly.com\/archive\/?p=667"},"modified":"2011-10-22T20:35:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T20:35:34","slug":"airships-and-sherlock-holmes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawrencecconnolly.com\/archive\/2011\/10\/22\/airships-and-sherlock-holmes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Airships and Sherlock Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The master sleuth and Master of the World. What\u2019s not to love?<\/p>\n

The World Fantasy\u00a0Convention<\/a>\u00a0has just released its program schedule for 2011,\u00a0one that offers\u00a0an impressive blend of topics centering on this year\u2019s theme: Sailing the Seas of Imagination.<\/p>\n

At the con, I\u2019ll be joining a discussion about airships and reading from my latest Sherlock Holmes mystery \u201cThe Executioner.\u201d<\/p>\n

First up, I\u2019ll be joining \u00a0Jetse de Vries<\/a>, Eric Flint<\/a>, Charles Gannon<\/a>, and Cliff Winnig <\/a>for a panel titled \u201cTo Sail Above the Clouds: Airships.\u201d Here\u2019s the description:<\/p>\n

With Steampunk\u2019s popularity, airships are rising too. Sometimes they\u2019re treated just like sailing ships. (Airship pirates!). Sometimes more like trains or planes. What is unique about this form of transportation that\u2019s grabbed the attention of Steampunk? What has literature done with it and what does literature get wrong and right? (Friday 2:00 PM)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Lately, I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about airships. . . . [Read More at 21st Century Scop<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The master sleuth and Master of the World. What\u2019s not to love? The World Fantasy\u00a0Convention\u00a0has just released its program schedule for 2011,\u00a0one that offers\u00a0an impressive blend of topics centering on this year\u2019s theme: Sailing the Seas of Imagination. At the con, I\u2019ll be joining a discussion about airships and reading from my latest Sherlock Holmes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t