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Sessions

Thursday 29 August, 2013

Time Zone: (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Bilingual Writers/Monolingual Audience
1 hour, 3:00 PM ADT - 4:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Gay Haldeman (Moderator)

Rudy Ch. Garcia (Participant)

Walter Hunt (Participant)

5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Texas Cuisine: What to Eat While You're Here
1 hour, 5:00 PM ADT - 6:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Kurt Baty (Participant)

Peni Griffin (Participant)

Rodger Standridge, Grenadine Tech Inc. (Participant)

Diana Thayer (Participant)

Kolaches. What are they? Is Barbecue a verb or a noun? Does it count if the meat hasn't been in the smoker for less than 8 hours? We give you advic...
6:00 PM
6:00 PM

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Aurora Celeste (Moderator)

Rie Sheridan Rose (Participant)

Melinda M. Snodgrass (Participant)

Tanya Huff (Participant)

Many movies are based on novels, short stories, or comics. What are the different ways movies approach their source material. How does the approac...

Friday 30 August, 2013

Time Zone: (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Solaris Presents
1 hour, 12:00 PM ADT - 1:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Publisher Presentation

Jonathan Oliver (Moderator)

1:00 PM
1:00 PM
SIGMA: Who We are and What We Do
1 hour, 1:00 PM ADT - 2:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Arlan Andrews (Moderator)

Marianne Dyson (Participant)

Bud Sparhawk (Participant)

Kathleen Goonan (Potential)

Ben Bova (Potential)

2:00 PM
2:00 PM
The Romance of Train Travel
1 hour, 2:00 PM ADT - 3:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Jo Walton (Participant)

Elizabeth Moon (Participant)

Andrew I. Porter (Participant)

Evelyn Leeper (Participant)

Mike Ward (Potential)

3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Scientific Literacy vs Human Knowledge
1 hour, 3:00 PM ADT - 4:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Sam Scheiner (Moderator)

Tore Hoie (Participant)

Amy Palmisano, The Book Project (Participant)

Janet Freeman-Daily (Participant)

The entirety of human knowledge is growing constantly. How can we even decide what the baseline of scientific literacy should be? What's the proces...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
The Role of the Agent
1 hour, 4:00 PM ADT - 5:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Teresa Nielsen Hayden (Moderator)

John Berlyne (Participant)

Eleanor Wood (Participant)

Joshua Bilmes (Participant)

Ricia Mainhardt (Participant)

5:00 PM
5:00 PM
History of Atheism
1 hour, 5:00 PM ADT - 6:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Dialog

David Tucker (Moderator)

Amy Palmisano, The Book Project (Participant)

Mel White (Participant)

Atheism is a powerful presence in modern society and discourse, but its position has been radically different in past stages of history. This panel...
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
Yes, Virginia, Nanotech IS Real
1 hour, 6:00 PM ADT - 7:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

W. A. (Bill) Thomasson (Moderator)

Kathleen Goonan (Participant)

David Tucker (Participant)

William Ledbetter (Participant)

7:00 PM
7:00 PM
When is Hard SF Too Hard
1 hour, 7:00 PM ADT - 8:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Michael J. Martinez (Moderator)

Jack Skillingstead (Participant)

Nancy Kress (Participant)

Christopher McKitterick (Participant)

Gregory Benford (Potential)

Our panelists discuss the delicate balance between punching a button to go into hyperspace, and reaching for your calculator to figure out if you r...
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
A Look at the Paleolithic
1 hour, 8:00 PM ADT - 9:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Presentation

Kim Stanley Robinson (Participant)

Genetically we are the same as the people who lived fifty thousand years ago (except for lactose tolerance for those who have it). What was life l...
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
Truly Alien
1 hour, 9:00 PM ADT - 10:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Karen Burnham (Moderator)

David D. Levine (Participant)

Patricia MacEwen (Participant)

Jack McDevitt (Participant)

What kinds of life forms might exist in our own solar system that aren't based on carbon and liquid water? For starters, how about Chris McKay's c...
10:00 PM
10:00 PM
Nameless Cults: Robert E. Howard's Horror Stories
1 hour, 10:00 PM ADT - 11:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Rusty Burke (Moderator)

Harry Turtledove (Participant)

Dennis McHaney (Participant)

Howard was a major contributor to the Lovecraft Circle and one of the legendary "Three Musketeers" of Weird Tales magazine. Known for his sword and...

Saturday 31 August, 2013

Time Zone: (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)
12:00 PM
12:00 PM

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Talk

David Farnell (Moderator)

Christopher Kastensmidt (Participant)

Mary Anne Mohanraj (Participant)

Paper session. Christopher Kastensmidt, Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis 2. "Feminist Rewritings of the Ramayana and the Matter of Britain: Di...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Talk

Michael Page (Moderator)

James Davis (Participant)

Christopher Couch (Participant)

Paper session. N. C. Christopher Couch of Trinity College presents "Will Eisner, Aliens, and the Military-Industrial Complex: Social and Scientific...
2:00 PM
2:00 PM

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Talk

Christopher Couch (Moderator)

Michelle Yost (Participant)

Heather Urbanski (Participant)

3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Academic items lunch break
1 minute, 3:30 PM ADT - 3:31 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

ROOM RESET

5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Being Human: Digital Fandom and Monstrous Utopias
1 hour, 5:00 PM ADT - 6:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Talk

Karen Burnham (Moderator)

Sara Wanenchak (Participant)

David Farnell (Participant)

1. "The Crown of Being: Cyborg Theory in Fictional Practice" Sarah Wanenchak, University of Maryland-College Park 2. "Margaret Atwood and Paolo Bac...
6:00 PM
6:00 PM

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Talk

Christopher McKitterick (Moderator)

Bob Cape (Participant)

Donald M. Hassler (Participant)

"Space Opera and the Greco-Roman Epic" Bob Cape, Austin College "A Key Cartographer of the Genre: Jim Gunn" Donald M. Hassler, Kent State Univ...
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Robert E. Howard: The Weird, West, and Worms
1 hour, 7:00 PM ADT - 8:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Talk

Donald M. Hassler (Moderator)

Mark Finn (Participant)

Jeffrey Shanks (Participant)

Paper session. Jeffrey Shanks and Mark Finn, Independent Scholars, present "Vaqueros and Vampires: Robert E. Howard and the Genesis of the Weird W...
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
Stop Calling It a Kerfuffle
1 hour, 8:00 PM ADT - 9:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Caroline Spector (Moderator)

Eileen Gunn (Participant)

Steven Gould (Participant)

Pat Murphy (Participant)

Jessica Reisman (Participant)

Melinda M. Snodgrass (Potential)

Sunday 1 September, 2013

Time Zone: (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Tic Toc: A Look at the History of Mechanical Computing
1 hour, 12:00 PM ADT - 1:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Talk

Drew Heyen (Moderator)

Gear. The technology that never was, but perhaps could have been. Let us explore the world of clockwork in the context of its reality as the precur...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
The Twain Shall Meet: Samuel Clemens and SF/F
1 hour, 1:00 PM ADT - 2:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Eileen Gunn (Moderator)

Michael Swanwick (Participant)

Walter Jon Williams (Participant)

Takayuki Tatsumi (Participant)

Gardner Dozois (Participant)

John Purcell (Participant)

Walter Hunt (Potential)

2:00 PM
2:00 PM
The Making of Lakeside
1 hour, 2:00 PM ADT - 3:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Presentation

Donnie Reynolds (Participant)

3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Dragon Sickness
1 hour, 3:00 PM ADT - 4:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Anthony Lewis (Participant)

Naomi C Fisher (Participant)

Robert K. Wiener (Participant)

Colin Harris (Participant)

Vincent Docherty (Potential)

4:00 PM
4:00 PM

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Presentation

Christopher Couch (Moderator)

5:00 PM
5:00 PM
The Future of SF/F Art in a New Publishing Landscape
1 hour, 5:00 PM ADT - 6:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

John Picacio (Moderator)

Maurine Starkey (Participant)

Chris McGrath (Participant)

Mitchell Bentley (Participant)

Irene Gallo (Potential)

What is the future of the artist in science fiction and fantasy? The present and future of traditional and digital publishing is constantly and rap...
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
E-Books Nuts and Bolts
1 hour, 6:00 PM ADT - 7:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

John Klima (Moderator)

Betsy Mitchell, ACME Inc. (Participant)

Neil Clarke (Participant)

Steven Gould (Participant)

Mike Ward (Participant)

7:00 PM
7:00 PM
The Vatican Library
1 hour, 7:00 PM ADT - 8:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Talk

Amy Palmisano, The Book Project (Participant)

Lauren Schiller (Participant)

Monday 2 September, 2013

Time Zone: (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Creating a Memorable Podcast
1 hour, 12:00 PM ADT - 1:00 PM ADT

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Patrick Hester (Moderator)

David Farnell (Participant)

Julia Rios (Participant)

Stefan Rudnicki (Participant)

1:00 PM
1:00 PM

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Sam Scheiner (Participant)

Mel White (Participant)

For most of the nearly 4 billion years that life has existed on Earth, evolution produced little beyond bacteria, plankton, and multi-celled algae....
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
LoneStarCon 3 Feedback Session
1 hour, 4:00 PM ADT - 5:00 PM ADT
Signup required

San Antonio Convention Center - 006B

Discussion Panels

Randall Shepherd (Participant)