Sessions
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Dangerous Visions -- Are They Still Dangerous? San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 4:00 PM ADT - 5:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Harlan Ellison's original Dangerous Visions anthology exploded onto the scene with a set of astonishing stories. How did it feel at the time? How d...
- Discussion Panels
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Introduction to the Chesley Awards and ASFA San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 5:00 PM ADT - 6:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Love science fiction and fantasy art? Want to find out more about your favorite artist? Need to know how to break into the sf/f art market? Come me...
- Discussion Panels
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Science Fiction in Pop Music San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 6:00 PM ADT - 7:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Pop singers, like Kayne West, Lady Gaga, Nicki Manaj, and even Taylor Swift, have all incorporated science fictional imagery and themes into their ...
- Discussion Panels
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- Populist Art San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 7:00 PM ADT - 8:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Crowdsourcing has become an increasingly prominent way to fund new art projects, re-issue out of print work, help out artists with medical issues a...
- Discussion Panels
10:00 PM
10:00 PM
- Dressing like Darcy San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 10:00 PM ADT - 11:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- War of the Worlds at 75: The Power of Mass Media
- Signup required San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 12:00 PM ADT - 1:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- It's only one of the most famous broadcasts ever made, and it was the stuff of legends! Aliens in Grover's Mill! It was also a fantastic hoax perpe...
- Discussion Panels
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Introduction to Texas Weird San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 1:00 PM ADT - 2:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Meet the modern practitioners of Texas Weird and find out what makes them tick. Why are Texas writers so weird, anyway? Is it something in the wate...
- Discussion Panels
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- My Favorite Dinosaur San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 2:00 PM ADT - 3:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Apatosaurus, Godzillasuarus, Stegasaurus, Sue, Albertasaurus, Triceratops, Gertie, Pteranodon, Velociraptor, or Barney: there are so many choices. ...
- Discussion Panels
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- The Year in Physics and Astronomy San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 3:00 PM ADT - 4:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- New planets, new particles: The past year has been a busy one in physics and astronomy. The panelists will talk about the most interesting new deve...
- Discussion Panels
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Harry Potter and its Academic Merits San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 4:00 PM ADT - 5:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Presentation
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- How SF Fandom Made the Sixties Happen: Origin of Rock Journalism San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 7:00 PM ADT - 8:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- US rock journalism arguably came out of SF fandom, with Greg Shaw and Paul Williams inventing it at the same time on opposite coasts. Williams turn...
- Discussion Panels
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- LoneStarCon for Introverts San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 8:00 PM ADT - 9:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Have you come to the Worldcon alone? Would you like to have people to talk with, go out to dinner with or just hang out? How to navigate, meet pe...
- Talk
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
- Near-Future Energy San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 9:00 PM ADT - 10:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Where are we heading over the next 50 years in energy technology? A debate between cheap energy sources and renewable or clean sources is currently...
- Discussion Panels
10:00 PM
10:00 PM
- British Conventions: What You Might Expect San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 10:00 PM ADT - 11:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Panelists share useful knowledge, including facts as well as fannish parables. Will we need to understand irony to have a good time at a UK convent...
- Discussion Panels
11:00 PM
11:00 PM
- Consensus Reality and the Geography of Fantasy San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 11:00 PM ADT - 12:00 AM ADT | 1 hour
- Doesn't it seem like writers are allowing perceived market opportunities guide their writing? Well crafted, not exactly ticky tacky*, but derivativ...
- Discussion Panels
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Robot Apocalypse: War Machines and Unmanned Drones San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 12:00 PM ADT - 1:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Magic Realism: San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 1:00 PM ADT - 2:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Magic Realism, Science Fiction, Fantasy. How can you use these terms to describe the varied work of Angélica Gorodischer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a...
- Discussion Panels
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Gender in SF San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 2:00 PM ADT - 3:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- How has SF influenced and reflected the changes in gender and gender roles over the past half century? As we look back to the work of writers such ...
- Discussion Panels
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- The Role of the Companion San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 3:00 PM ADT - 4:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- The Doctor's companions are more than just your run-of-the-mill sidekicks. The companions change the Doctor and influence our view of him. This pan...
- Discussion Panels
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- 30 Great SF & Fantasy Films You Almost Certainly Haven't Seen San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 4:00 PM ADT - 5:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- The many new options for home viewing have greatly increased the availability of any number of obscure, independent, and foreign films available to...
- Discussion Panels
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- First Contact in 3..2..1... San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 5:00 PM ADT - 6:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- If First Contact were to happen today, and was an open event, how would the human race react? Would we feel inferior, or just try to steal their te...
- Discussion Panels
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Alice Sheldon and Susan Wood: Can They Still Inspire Us? San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 6:00 PM ADT - 7:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- The Relationship Between Reader and Writer San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 7:00 PM ADT - 8:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- When you write, do you start with an audience in mind? Do you interact with your readers as you write or after you write or never? Has social media...
- Discussion Panels
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
- Satire is What Closes on Saturday Night San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 8:00 PM ADT - 9:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Broad Universe Rapid-Fire Reading San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 12:00 PM ADT - 1:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Broad Universe is a United States-based, all volunteer organization with the primary goal of promoting science fiction, fantasy, and horror written...
- Discussion Panels
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- The Reality at the Foundation of Fantasy: Does Fantasy Fiction need to Acknowledge Physics? San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 1:00 PM ADT - 2:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Fantasy needs rules to make it real. To what degree do these rules have to reflect the rules of the real world? Where and to what degree can fanta...
- Discussion Panels
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Reading: Saladin Ahmed San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 2:00 PM ADT - 3:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Reading
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Riding on Oil San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 3:00 PM ADT - 4:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Our civilization rolls around on a sea of oil. What are the alternatives? Can we wean ourselves off black gold, or mitigate its effects? Are the al...
- Discussion Panels
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Real Animals in a Fantasy World San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 4:00 PM ADT - 5:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
- Playing in Other People's Sandboxes: Writing Comics that aren't Your Own San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 5:00 PM ADT - 6:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Whether you're writing Spider-Man, Jonah Hex, the Incredibles, or Fruit Ninja, you never get to really own these characters. But they sure are fun ...
- Discussion Panels
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- Philosophy and Science Fiction San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 6:00 PM ADT - 7:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Science, from warp drives to lasers, is an important element in the genre but science fiction has also been a place to examine philosophical viewpo...
- Discussion Panels
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
- First Contact Without a Universal Translator San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 7:00 PM ADT - 8:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- How do we establish a common conceptual base to communicate with another species? Sure, we have numbers and the hydrogen atom in common, but how fa...
- Discussion Panels
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
- Looking After the Writer's Legacy San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 12:00 PM ADT - 1:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- What are you going to do with your papers? There are libraries in Canada and the US and the UK that specialize in taking care of the papers of SF w...
- Discussion Panels
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Conventions Across Texas San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 1:00 PM ADT - 2:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- Writers, Their Fans and Flame Wars, Oh My! San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 2:00 PM ADT - 3:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- With the increasing prominence of social networks and online communities, writers are much more available to their fans, which can create new benef...
- Discussion Panels
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Can Traditional SF Communities Survive Multimedia Conventions San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 3:00 PM ADT - 4:00 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Anime Boston: 25k. Dragoncon: 75k. Burning Man: 100k+. San Diego Comiccon: 125k+. Can the SF Community survive the onslaught of such large gatherin...
- Discussion Panels
6:05 PM
6:05 PM
- Program DB Debrief
- Signup required San Antonio Convention Center - 007B
- 6:05 PM ADT - 7:05 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Presentation