Missoula's Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention

MisCon 38: the Dark Forest, May 24 - 27, 2024 Missoula, Montana

James Glass

MisCon 38 Attending Professional

Jim won the Golden pen award of wotf in 1991, has published ten novels and over sixty stories in magazines and anthologies. He is a retired physics professor and dean. His most recent novel, SYNTHS, came out in November of 2018.

James C. Glass is a retired physics and astronomy professor and dean who now spends his time writing, painting, traveling, and playing didgeridoo or native American flute. He made his first story sale in 1988 and was the Grand Prize Winner of Writers of the Future in 1991. Since then he has sold nine novels, four short story collections, and over fifty short stories to magazines such as Aboriginal S.F., Analog, and Talebones. A novel SEDONA CONSPIRACY and a new double anthology came out from Wildside Press in 2011. BRANEGATE came out in September of 2012 from Fairwood Press, and EAGLE SQUAD in May of 2013. For details, see his web site at www.sff.net/people/jglass/ . He now divides his time between Spokane, Washington and Desert Hot Springs, California with wife Gail, who is a costumer and healing dancer.

Web site: http://www.sff.net/people/jglass/

Scheduled Panels and Presentations:

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(Tentative)

  • panel Fri 3:00 - 3:50 PM, Spotlight: Glass, Spotlight
    Panelists: James Glass, Krista Wallace

    Meet a few of our authors, get signatures, and see what they're up to these days.

  • Break Fri 3:50 - Sun Noon
  • panel Sun Noon - 12:50 PM, Relating to Characters, Monster Tent (2)
    Moderator: Krista Wallace; Panelists: Brenda Carre, Katie Cross, James Glass, Krista Wallace

    "I don't relate to this character" is often given as an excuse to stop reading a story. But what does it mean? Does it mean we have to have had shared experiences? Honestly, do we need to "relate" to every character? What does it take to make a character "believable?" Is any of this the same as "writing what you know?"

  • Break Sun 12:50 - Sun 3:00
  • panel Sun 3:00 - 3:50 PM, Reading: Glass, Yellowstone
    Panelists: James Glass

    Jim will read from one of his recent works.

  • Break Sun 3:50 - Sun 5:00
  • moderator Sun 5:00 - 5:50 PM, What's New In Science, Yellowstone
    Moderator: James Glass; Panelists: James Glass

    Learn about what's new in science this year.