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Monday
12:35 am
Film - Animation/Shorts Galore II - Regency Ballroom C/D
2:00 am
Film - Repeats of most requested films - Regency Ballroom A
6:30 am
Film - Phantom Empire 10-12 (1935) - Regency Ballroom C/D
7:45 am
Film - TBA - Regency Ballroom C/D
9:30 am
Film - Phantom Empire 10-12 (1935) - Regency Ballroom C/D
10:00 am
Literary - Post-Glasnost SF - Columbus Hall A/B
Moderator: L. Carpenter
R. Glaub, F. Saberhagen, H. Wood
Literary - Computer BBS and the Law - Grand Ballroom A
Moderator: G. Costikyan
R. Chilson, S. Jackson, C. Von Rospach, M. Ward
Science - Skeptics and Pseudoscience: Tilting at Windmills? - Columbus Hall
C/D
Moderator: M. Flynn
B. Delaplace, J. Lazar, R. Mac Bride Allen, T. O'Brien, H.
Scrimgeour
Standing opposed to the armies of astrologers, crystal healers,
psychics, and other purveyors of pseudoscience are but a few
"skeptics." What do they stand for? Can they bring about
enlightenment in a world filled with nonsense? Or are they just
knee-jerk debunkers with closed minds?
Science - Bring Your Own Doomsday: Speculating on Environmental Catastrophe -
Grand Ballroom B
Moderator: H. Hendrix
J. Killus, L. Mixon, H. Parker, M. Sestak
There are a lot of ways to end the world, end humanity, or end
civilization. Bring your favorite to this panel. A multidisciplinary
team will tackle a grim, but enjoyable, subject.
Science - Solar Power Satellites and the Environment - Columbus Hall K/L
J. Strickland
Collecting solar energy in space, and beaming it to Earth for
conversion to electricity, may pay off. Worries about global warming,
pollution, and nuclear waste have triggered a new look at the solar
power satellite.
Academic - Feminism in Science Fiction - Grand Ballroom D - North
Moderator: B. Friend
M. Bartter, J. Bogstad, P. Eisenstein, E. Hull
Art - Computer Aided Art - Gold Coast
Moderator: T. Canty
A. Cabrera, T. Harvia, M. Miller
Art - The Pulps: Covers and Interiors - Water Tower
Moderator: R. Eggleton
T. Hamilton, N. Jainschigg, R. Walters
Art - Collaborations - Buckingham
Moderator: A. Austin
P.J. Beese, L. Kelly-Freas, D. Maitz, M. White
Media - Love Those Aliens - Grand Ballroom E
- WSFS Business Meeting - Grand Ballroom F
Autograph - Grand Ballroom C - South
P. McKillip, K. Parkinson, C. Stoll, C. Willis
Reading - Haymarket
D. Kyle
Reading - Picasso
K. Cramer
Reading - Geneve/Bern
T. Pratchett
Reading - Basel/Lausanne
E. Kushner
10:35 am
Film - Plan 9 From Outer Space (1956) - Regency Ballroom C/D
11:00 am
Literary - Modern Concepts of Aliens vs. Aliens of the Past - Columbus Hall
I/J
Moderator: K. Nerat
P. Anthony, M. Gear, Jack Haldeman, J. Jewell, R. Killheffer
Literary - Perceptions of Authority in High Fantasy - Grand Ballroom A
Moderator: D. Millitello
L. Hamilton, R. Knaak, D. McKiernan, S. Meier, J. Tarr, H. Wood
Science - Economic Skulduggery and Terrorism in the Information Age - Grand
Ballroom B
Moderator: N. Rest
W. Humphries, F. Pohl, M. Rosenblum, L.Z. Smith, D. Taylor
The complexity of the (almost) 21st-century world allows for a myriad
of wonderful products and services. But it is vulnerable. Crime.
"Soft" warfare. Outlaw political activism. "Low-intensity conflict."
Ecosabotage. What new shape will these take in a heavily networked
world?
Science - Stuck in a Technorut: How Contemporary Technology Influences SF -
Columbus Hall C/D
Moderator: A. Andrews
D. Elms, W. Mullen, J. Roberts
Existing technology and its effect on the imagination of the SF
writer. Writers of the 20's were excited by trains, planes, and
automobiles; the influence lingers on today's writers. Perhaps the
original fire from these machines set the course of our current
fictional technologies. Are we stuck in technoruts that began as
train-grooves, car-grooves, plane-grooves? (Mainframe-grooves?
Rocket-grooves?)
Science - Genetic Engineering: Where We're Going - Columbus Hall K/L
Moderator: P. McAuley
T. Harvia, J. Lazar, J. Thompson, E. Van Dommelen
Tinkering with genes is beginning to be a routine matter. These
techniques open up exciting, and perhaps frightening, new vistas for
the modification of living creatures. How does genetic engineering
work? What's possible? What's impossible? And how will we deal
with the legal, ethical, and economic problems that arise?
Art - Portfolio Review - Buckingham
D. Cherry, C. Lundgren
Art - Bitch Session - Gold Coast
Open Discussion
Media - Seven Across the Ocean - Blake's Seven - Grand Ballroom E
Autograph - Guest of Honor Signing - Wrigley
H. Clement
Autograph - Grand Ballroom C - South
W. Barlowe, T. Gunnarsson, M. Reichert, H. Turtledove
Reading - Picasso
J. Wurts
Reading - Geneve/Bern
J. Coulson
Reading - Basel/Lausanne
P. Cirone
12:00 pm
Literary - SF and Fantasy on the Live Theatre Stage - Grand Ballroom A
Moderator: A.L. Chancellor
G. Carrington, C. Severance, R. Shea, G. Van Dorn
Science - World-Building Panel? Hell, Why notBuild A Whole Solar System? -
Columbus Hall K/L
Moderator: R. Sawyer
R. Cage, D. Hatch, R. Mac Bride Allen, J. Martino, M. Sumner
You can't have a Worldcon without having a world-building panel.
Designing planets is part of the work that earns an SF writer's bread
and butter. How is it done? From the parent star down, or from the
alien critters up? What about a family of planets in a solar system?
World-builders share their secrets.
Science - The Two Cultures in F&SF: Science Confronts the Humanities - Grand
Ballroom B
Moderator: Ctein
H. Hendrix, M. Rich
Decades ago, C.P. Snow defined the "Two Cultures" of technical
intellectuals and literary intellectuals. The split is still with us.
How does it influence our fantasy and science fiction? What works,
what authors manage to bridge the gap? What works or authors make it
deeper?
Science - Crossing Disciplines: Can I Get A Job As a 'Synthesist?' - Columbus
Hall C/D
Moderator: A. O'Connell
A. Andrews, H. Davidson, A. Dormire, M. Ward
Most jobs are specialized, but a few people must bring together
knowledge across a wide range of disciplines. Where is this kind of
work required? What talents does it take? What kind of training?
Cities - Colonial Cities After the Initial Settlement - Grand Ballroom D -
North
Moderator: A. Gilliland
H. Vanderbilt
Fan - Trans-Atlantic View of Fandom - Columbus Hall E/F
Moderator: J. Gomoll
L. Huntzinger, P. Wells
Media - Wizards and Warriors - Grand Ballroom E
Literary - Gay Speculative Fiction - Columbus Hall A/B
Moderator: R. Gonder
C. Cipra, R. Himmelsbach, T. McDaniel, L. Selkee, M. Soukup
Autograph - Grand Ballroom C - South
D. Hartwell, F. Saberhagen
Reading - Haymarket
R. Knaak
Reading - Geneve/Bern
F. Pohl
Reading - Basel/Lausanne
M.S. Bell
Film - Star Wars (1977) - Regency Ballroom C/D
1:00 pm
Science - Lots of Little Brothers Are Watching: Privacy in Computerland -
Grand Ballroom B
Moderator: L.Z. Smith
A. Anda, D. Ihnat, C. Springs, C. Stoll
Our privacy may be at risk from monolithic government surveillance,
but it's under far more frequent assault from a multitude of private
and commercial snoopers-- credit bureaus, insurance companies,
junkmailers, employers, and others. How has this come about? Does
the Information Age provide us new weapons for fighting back?
Science - Can We Reach Vinge's Singularity? The Meaning of Exponential
Progress - Columbus Hall K/L
Moderator: D. Skran
J. Baen, W. Higgins, C. Morningstar, S. Schmidt, T. Van Horne
Vernor Vinge suggested that the increase of knowledge and innovation
will go ever faster until civilization suddenly breaks through into an
unguessable new state. Is this inevitable? Are there forces that
will slow progress down? Or will new pressures always arise to
increase the pace of change?
Science - Herbs, Animal Lore, Weather, & Land: Natural Science in Fantasy
Novels - Columbus Hall C/D
Moderator: E. Berman
L. Barwood, J. Coulson, M. Kenin, C. Mills
What role does scientific knowledge play in telling a good fantasy
story? How do fantasy writers use science? (Our Science Guy wanted
desperately to have a science panel dealing with straight fantasy...)
Academic - Discussion Panel: Philip K. Dick - Grand Ballroom D - North
Moderator: E. Van
P. Kaveny
Fan - Neo-Fandom Through the Ages - Columbus Hall E/F
Moderator: T. Weisskopf
L. Eisenberg, K. Moore, L. Penney, W. Tucker
Literary - How I Made My First Sale - Columbus Hall I/J
Autograph - Grand Ballroom C - South
J. Clayton, P. Foglio, M. Kube-McDowell, R. Meluch
Reading - Haymarket
F. Ackerman
Reading - Picasso
B. Rogers
Reading - Geneve/Bern
K. Rusch
Reading - Basel/Lausanne
J. Roberts
2:00 pm
Literary - Poet as Hero - Columbus Hall A/B
Moderator: C. Sheffield
L. Barwood, L. Gold, H. Lisle, M. Rich, K. Stein, J. Stevenson
Science - So What If The Science Is Wrong? Putting The S In Your SF - Grand
Ballroom B
Fan - The Second Chicon (1952) - Columbus Hall E/F
Moderator: D. Kyle
C. Korshak, E. Korshak, Ed Wood
Literary - Classic Worldbuilding Techniques - Grand Ballroom A
Moderator: D.A. Smith
H. Clement, L. Niven, F. Pohl, J. Pournelle
Autograph - Grand Ballroom C - South
E.b. Shahar, D.W. Smith, R. Wilber
Reading - Haymarket
K. Jensen
Reading - Picasso
H. Hendrix
Reading - Geneve/Bern
N. Kress
2:10 pm
Film - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) - Regency Ballroom C/D
3:00 pm - Closing Ceremonies - Grand Ballroom F
Autograph - Grand Ballroom C - South
D. Brin, P. Hodgell, R. Knaak, W. Tucker
Reading - Haymarket
D. Millitello
Reading - Picasso
M. Hanson-Roberts
Reading - Geneve/Bern
R. Shea
4:00 pm
Autograph - Grand Ballroom C - South
K. Jensen, D. Kyle, R. Weinberg
Reading - Picasso
M. Rich
Reading - Geneve/Bern
A.J. Budrys
Film - Hugo Award Winner - Regency Ballroom C/D
5:00 pm
Reading - Haymarket
C. Johnson
Reading - Picasso
M. Zambreno
Reading - Geneve/Bern
L.S. De Camp