Sessions
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Lakeside: A Year with Jay Lake San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 11:00 AM ADT - 1:00 PM ADT | 2 hours
- LAKESIDE: This film started as a story about how Jay Lake had beaten cancer. He had been in remission for several months and everyone was pleased...
- Screening
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Norman Spinrad Tribute San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 1:00 PM ADT - 2:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Turkey City Turns 40 San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 2:00 PM ADT - 3:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- AGOH: Darrell K Sweet Memorial Slide Show San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 3:00 PM ADT - 5:00 PM ADT | 2 hours
- Presentation
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Starship Century San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 5:00 PM ADT - 6:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Dreams of interstellar flight must start somewhere. The next century could see an enormous expansion of the human prospect by opening up the resour...
- Discussion Panels
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Good Things Do Come from Small Places San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 6:00 PM ADT - 7:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- It's a wonderful life, living in a small town or somewhere off the beaten track, especially for a storyteller. Small town kids who grew up to be su...
- Discussion Panels
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- If the Pen is Mightier than the Sword, What Have You Stabbed Lately? San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 7:00 PM ADT - 8:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- Can Science Fact Deliver on What Science Fiction Has Promised? San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 8:00 PM ADT - 9:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- "The backdrop to much science fiction assumes a continuing advance of human technology. From time travel to warp drive to replicators to transport...
- Presentation
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
- Landsat: Over 40 years of Studying the Earth San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 9:00 PM ADT - 10:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Talk
10:00 PM
10:00 PM
- Chesley Awards Set-up San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 10:00 PM ADT - 10:59 PM ADT | 59 minutes
- REHEARSAL
11:00 PM
11:00 PM
- Chesley Awards Ceremony San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 11:00 PM ADT - 1:00 AM ADT | 2 hours
- The Chesley Awards are the peer awards for excellence in science-fiction and fantasy art. With the exception of the Lifetime Achievement Award, the...
- Award
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Happy Birthday, Doc Savage! San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 12:00 PM ADT - 1:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- For a legendary super hero who just turned 80, he doesn't look a day over 33! Our panel will join Doc Savage historian Anthony Tollin in a discussi...
- Discussion Panels
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Wiring the Brain San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 1:00 PM ADT - 2:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- In the past few years we've learned to send sights, sounds, and sensations in and out of the human brain with neural implants. In animal brains, ot...
- Presentation
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- In Memoriam: Darrell K Sweet San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 2:00 PM ADT - 3:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- I Married a Werewolf: Paranormal Romance San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 3:00 PM ADT - 4:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Vampires and werewolves (and sometimes even zombies, as the recent Warm Bodies showed) are more complex creatures than they used to be. Moreover, o...
- Discussion Panels
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Surveillance Software - Spying on Citizens San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 4:00 PM ADT - 5:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Consensual Reality: Your Relationship to the World San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 5:00 PM ADT - 6:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Google Glasses, augmented reality, kinetic gaming, tactile transmission systems. These and other new technologies are on the horizon to transmogrif...
- Discussion Panels
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Space Opera: More than Mind Candy? San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 6:00 PM ADT - 7:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- After our panelists finish defining Space Opera, and their favorites, we get down to the brass tacks: is it just entertainment? Can it have predict...
- Discussion Panels
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- James Gunn Tribute San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 7:00 PM ADT - 8:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- Beyond Godzilla vs. King Kong: Monsters of Japan and the Americas San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 8:00 PM ADT - 9:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Both East and West love monsters. The ghostly Japanese creatures known as yokai are many and varied, and have a broad Western analogue in cryptids...
- Discussion Panels
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
- The Leisure Society: Phantom or Just Around the Corner? San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 9:00 PM ADT - 10:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- People are working harder and longer hours over the last couple of decades, despite increased productivity and automation. Was the leisure society ...
- Discussion Panels
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Mars and/or Bust! San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 12:00 PM ADT - 1:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- The colonization of space has long been a trope of SF stories. Enough already! When do we leave? How close are we really to living on other planets...
- Discussion Panels
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- The Legacy of Omni San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 1:00 PM ADT - 2:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- GOH Interview: James Gunn San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 2:00 PM ADT - 3:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Interview
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- The Alamo You Never Knew: Alternate History Stories of the Texas' Most Famous Battle San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 3:00 PM ADT - 4:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Our panelists aren't afraid to tip a few sacred cows in their exploration of speculative fiction. Hear from four authors who dared to rewrite hist...
- Discussion Panels
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Art Auction setup San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 4:00 PM ADT - 4:30 PM ADT | 30 minutes
- ROOM RESET
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- Art Show Auction San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 4:30 PM ADT - 6:00 PM ADT | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Auctions
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Computers in Fiction: Can We do the AI? San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 6:00 PM ADT - 7:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Computers have been in fictional stories for a long time and have appeared as intelligent agents or even characters in fiction since at least the m...
- Talk
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- Keeping It Real: The Science in Science Fiction San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 7:00 PM ADT - 8:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Using real science in your stories can be important. But also at times you can (and need to) bend the rules a bit. The panel looks at how to keep i...
- Discussion Panels
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- The Left Hand of Darkness San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 1:00 PM ADT - 2:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Le Guin's work about a stranger in a strange land (a male human on a world of aliens with shifting genders) is widely regarded of one of the best ...
- Discussion Panels
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Artistic Dreams San Antonio Convention Center - 103B
- 2:00 PM ADT - 3:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels