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Convention Program Gender Parity
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Discussion Panels
Janice Gelb (Moderator)
Priscilla Olson (Participant)
Ian E. Stockdale (Participant)
Why is it so important to consider gender balance on programming items? What should a program director do when parity is not achievable? Are there ...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Sanford Allen (Moderator)
Bradley Denton (Participant)
Josh Rountree (Participant)
Peggy Hailey (Participant)
Texas is a big music state. The music frequently drifts into the slipstream of Texas weird. How does this happen? What can we do to make it happen...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Gini Koch (Participant)
Joshua Bilmes (Participant)
Genese Davis (Participant)
Teresa Nielsen Hayden (Participant)
Gabrielle de Cuir (Potential)
Done properly, self-promotion is an important part of building a career. Poorly executed, self-promotion can do more harm than good. How is the ...
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Organizing Your Costuming
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Susan de Guardiola (Moderator)
David Weingart (Participant)
Paige E. Ewing (Participant)
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Mark Reads Stuff: Bad Fan-Fiction
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Presentation
Mark Oshiro (Participant)
Mark promises that the fan-fic will be "utterly abysmal, terribly written, poorly plotted, and will destroy him with awful." He does this for fun: ...
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US Animation Influenced by Japanese Anime
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Madeline Ashby (Moderator)
Django Wexler (Participant)
Lila Garrott (Participant)
The Last Airbender, a 2005 American TV animation series, has the look and style of Japanese anime. The Legend of Korra and others have followed. O...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Tili Sokolov (Participant)
Rick Klaw (Participant)
Weldon Adams, Grenadine Tech Inc. (Participant)
Paul Cornell (Potential)
Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Alan Davis, John Bolton, Peter Milligan, Alan Grant, and so many other luminaries of the industry cut their teeth and vent...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Jess Nevins (Moderator)
Anthony Tollin (Participant)
Alan J. Porter, New York Times (Participant)
Weldon Adams, Grenadine Tech Inc. (Participant)
Christopher Couch (Potential)
Superman, Batman, and so many other iconic super heroes don't exist in a vacuum. In fact, they are a complicated tangle of cultural influences that...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Cathy Clamp (Moderator)
Kasey Lansdale (Participant)
Jeffrey Shanks (Participant)
Scott A. Cupp (Participant)
Peni Griffin (Participant)
Peggy Hailey (Potential)
With over 250 years of bloody conflict under its ten gallon hat, Texas has a lot of skeletons in a lot of closets. Our panel discusses the meaning ...
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Writers/Artists of the Future
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Corry L. Lee (Moderator)
Matthew Rotundo (Participant)
Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Participant)
Dave Wolverton (Participant)
The Writers and Illustrators of the Future contest is a great opportunity for early career authors and artists to make their start in science ficti...
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Colossus, Skynet, or the Culture?
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Claudia Carr (Moderator)
John Wardale (Participant)
Tobias Buckell (Participant)
Edward M. Lerner (Participant)
Jason M. Hough (Participant)
If and when our AI masters arrive, how will they come about? Will they
spring spontaneously from the internet or be deliberately built by men? Our
...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Jonny Conflict (Participant)
Clayton Mann (Participant)
Arlan Andrews (Moderator)
Lee Martindale (Participant)
Fred 5 Octobre Leroulley, Gren (Other Participant)
Richard Morgan (Participant)
Taylor Anderson (Participant)
A 3d printer has recently been demonstrated to create a workable, plastic gun. While primitive, the way has been shown forward. What are the implic...
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The Future of Medicine
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
H. G. Stratmann (Moderator)
Nick Kanas M.D. (Participant)
John M Cmar (Participant)
Janet Freeman-Daily (Participant)
Brad Aiken (Potential)
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Stina Leicht (Moderator)
Keffy Kehrli (Participant)
Mary Robinette Kowal (Participant)
Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Participant)
Moshe Feder (Participant)
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Anthony Lewis (Moderator)
Jacob Weisman (Participant)
Eleanor Wood (Participant)
Michael J. Walsh (Participant)
Scott A. Cupp (Participant)
Alastair Reynolds (Potential)
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Jess Nevins (Moderator)
Tom Galloway (Participant)
Weldon Adams, Grenadine Tech Inc. (Participant)
Paige E. Ewing (Participant)
Chris Powell (Potential)
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Geeks in Popular Culture
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Michael Underwood (Moderator)
Jason M. Hough (Participant)
Deborah Stanish (Participant)
Lynne M. Thomas (Participant)
Paul J. Salamoff (Participant)
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Steampunk: The Present and the Future
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Elektra Hammond (Moderator)
Phil Foglio, CGI Group (Participant)
Takayuki Tatsumi (Participant)
Over the last decade the Steampunk genre has exploded. There is a growing presence of Steampunk in literature, the cinema and television. We will d...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Patrice Sarath (Moderator)
Fred Lerner (Participant)
Amanda Downum (Participant)
Elizabeth Moon (Participant)
Taylor Anderson (Participant)
Battle axes don't weigh 20 pounds. Rocket ships don't instantly crash when
you turn off the engines. A writer can break the illusion by getting
som...
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Can Machines be Conscious?
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Tom Galloway (Moderator)
Madeline Ashby (Participant)
Mike Substelny (Participant)
Howard Davidson (Participant)
Janet Freeman-Daily (Participant)
Inventing a better Türing test: neuroscientists are coming up with new definitions of consciousness. They also seek to determine how to measure co...
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Use of Language in Fantasy
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Mary Robinette Kowal (Moderator)
Jaime Moyer (Participant)
Susan Krinard (Participant)
Matthew Johnson, Test (Participant)
Carol Berg (Participant)
How do you determine the stye of language to use in fantasy? Do you use archaic language, modern language or poetic language - which works best and...
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Fan Fund Auction
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Auctions
William Wright (Participant)
Jim Mowatt (Participant)
Naomi C Fisher (Participant)
John Hertz (Participant)
Fan Funds aid fannish interaction between countries. These groups raise money from donations and auctions. Bid on odd cultural icons, books, rare e...
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Golden Duck Awards
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Award
Helen E. Gbala (Participant)
Douglas Drummond (Participant)
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Reading: Brandon Sanderson
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Reading
Brandon Sanderson (Participant)
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Reading: David Brin
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Reading
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Teresa Nielsen Hayden (Moderator)
Brad Aiken (Participant)
Mari Ness (Participant)
Jo Walton (Participant)
Angela Standridge (Potential)
Disability is a theme treated fairly often in SF and fantasy, but not always with complete objectivity and accuracy. How are disabled characters po...
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Giving Science a Boost with YA SF
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Marianne Dyson (Moderator)
Emily Wagner (Participant)
Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Participant)
David Brin (Participant)
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The Rapture of the Geeks
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Ramez Naam (Moderator)
Claudia Carr (Participant)
Edward M. Lerner (Participant)
Mark L. Van Name (Participant)
Yasser Bahjatt (Participant)
Arlan Andrews (Potential)
Technological convergence of uploading our consciousness into a machine to cheat death...
The Science and science fiction of understanding what con...
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Forgiving History
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Bradford Lyau (Moderator)
Kent Bloom (Participant)
Lezli Robyn (Participant)
Mary Morman (Participant)
David A. Kyle (Participant)
When you are reading your favorite writers of old, how do you deal with outdated
views on race, gender, and violence - and still enjoy the writing?...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Will Frank (Moderator)
Terry Floyd (Participant)
Karen Anderson (Participant)
Wesley Chu (Participant)
Byron Reese (Participant)
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google. All are big and influential when it comes to matters connected to the internet. Is this a good thing for privacy, ...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Claudia Carr (Moderator)
Edward M. Lerner (Participant)
Trina Marie Phillips (Participant)
Tili Sokolov (Potential)
With all of space, time, biology and imagination to work with, why is it so hard to create fictional aliens that aren't just humans in rubber suits...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Seanan McGuire (Moderator)
Leigh Perry (Participant)
Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Participant)
Melinda M. Snodgrass (Participant)
Patrick Hester (Participant)
Imagine having to battle paranormal beings while managing work and family. Caught in the midst of everyday life the supernatural can be found in th...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Karen Anderson (Moderator)
Jaime Moyer (Participant)
Gabrielle de Cuir (Participant)
Lee Harris (Participant)
Ricia Mainhardt (Participant)
Fran Wilde (Potential)
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Robert E. Howard at the Ice House
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Jeffrey Shanks (Moderator)
Mark Finn (Participant)
Patrice Louinet (Participant)
Howard was an amateur boxer, and wrote mountains of boxing stories. No kidding! Here's a rare opportunity to hear about the boxing canon of Robert ...
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The Impact of the Sequester on NASA
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Helen Umberger (Moderator)
Larry Friesen (Participant)
Fran Van Cleave (Participant)
Albert Jackson (Participant)
Marianne Dyson (Potential)
The sequester has hit, and it has hit hard. What effects will this have on America's Space Agency? Will there be ripple effects in other scientific...
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How to Write a Novel
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Walter Jon Williams (Moderator)
Paolo Bacigalupi (Participant)
Nancy Kress (Participant)
Kim Stanley Robinson (Potential)
Five pros do a Q&A session where you can ask all your questions about how to write novels--including subplots, structure, and increasing tension. ...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Scott Edelman (Participant)
Teresa Nielsen Hayden (Participant)
Why do so many new writers have problems with grammar? How important is grammar? Has it lost relevancy in communicating with some portion of the r...