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Local Authors => Brandon Sanderson => Topic started by: Peter Ahlstrom on November 08, 2006, 09:49:14 PM
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How did you get involved in this, Brandon? Did you enter something to the contest?
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Nope. They just wanted someone to give their speech, and I somehow made the list and was the one they eventually decided to invite. Cool, eh?
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Hrm. This isn't UPC as in the little scannable codes on boxes is it? Is it some sort of  Unidentified Planetary Conference?
/me checks bs.com for explanation.
Meh, that's not much help. Hey, you get to go to SPAIN! Just to give a speech?!
/me googles it.
Results: www.upc.edu/english/sciencefiction/Rules.html(I still don't know what it stands for. Pearson's firewall must be blocking me out for some reason. bah)
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Is this an English-speaking conference or will you have a translator?
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EUOL's hometeacher has been teaching him Spanish so he'll probably just give the speech in their language.
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ah ha! I knew home teachers were good for something--if they actually come around, that is. ;)
Oh, and the link finally worked....
UPC: Universitat Poletencia de Cataluyna (Technical University of Catalonia)
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Ooh, Cat Poly!
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Catopoly? Who in their right mind would want to play a cat-themed Monopoly? Sounds lame-o to me.
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Is that worse than a calorie-themed Monopoly?
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What are you talking about? A calorie themed monopoly would be *awsome*.
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The winner is the person who dies first of a heart attack.
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Or, you can win by convincing everyone else to eat healthy.
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I looked at their contest rules. Sounds interesting. The sponsors aren't publishing any of the Spanish versions of Brandon's books, are they?
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No, but my Spanish editor IS on the board that chooses the speakers at the ceremony. :)
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Aaaahhhh, so the evil plan was in place before hand?? How genius of you.
Seriously, I hope you have a good time, and congratulations on being chosen ;D
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Hello guys,
You can read Brandon's conference at the prize-giving ceremony of the UPC award here:http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/cienciaficcio/premi_upc/angles/2006/dades_edicio.asp.
It's necessary to go to the bottom of the page ;) Spain is different.
See you.
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Thanks for the link.
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Thought provoking and instructive. - I this would qualify as literature if it were fiction. :)
But now I have a dilemma. I've been telling myself "I am a writer!" for several years now -- the old self-affirmation theory. Should I be saying "I'm a story teller" instead?