Sessions
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- Convention Program Gender Parity San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 13:00 EDT - 14:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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 ...
- Discussion Panels
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16:00
- Texas Roadhouse Blues: Speculative Fiction and Rock and Roll San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 16:00 EDT - 17:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
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- Self-Promotion: Everything You Know about it Is Probably Wrong San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 17:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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 ...
- Discussion Panels
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19:00
- Organizing Your Costuming San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 19:00 EDT - 20:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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- Mark Reads Stuff: Bad Fan-Fiction San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 22:00 EDT - 23:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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: ...
- Presentation
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- US Animation Influenced by Japanese Anime
- Signup required San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 11:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
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- The British Invasion: Mods, Gods, and Miracleman San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
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- From Whence They Came: The Cultural Origins of the Modern Super Hero Comics San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 13:00 EDT - 14:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
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14:00
- Texas Gothic: Staring into the Black Heart of Texas San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 14:00 EDT - 15:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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 ...
- Discussion Panels
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- Writers/Artists of the Future San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 15:00 EDT - 16:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
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- Colossus, Skynet, or the Culture? San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 16:00 EDT - 17:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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 ...
- Discussion Panels
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17:00
- 3D Gun Printing - When You can Print Your Own, How do You Regulate it? San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 17:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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 San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 18:00 EDT - 19:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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- My Dragon Torched the Prince and other Plot Problems San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 19:00 EDT - 20:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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21:00
- Strolling Along Alpha Ralpha Boulevard: The Works of Cordwainer Smith San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 21:00 EDT - 22:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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22:00
- DC's New 52: Brilliance or Disastrous? San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 22:00 EDT - 23:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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- Geeks in Popular Culture San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 11:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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- Steampunk: The Present and the Future
- Signup required San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
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- Horses Are Not Jeeps: Bringing Reality to Fictional Worlds San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 13:00 EDT - 14:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
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14:00
- Can Machines be Conscious? San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 14:00 EDT - 15:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Inventing a better Türing test: neuroscientists are coming up with new definitions of consciousness. They also seek to determine how to measure co...
- Discussion Panels
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- Use of Language in Fantasy San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 15:00 EDT - 16:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
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- Fan Fund Auction San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 16:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT | 2 hours
- Fan Funds aid fannish interaction between countries. These groups raise money from donations and auctions. Bid on odd cultural icons, books, rare e...
- Auctions
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- Golden Duck Awards San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 18:00 EDT - 19:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Award
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- Reading: Brandon Sanderson San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 19:00 EDT - 20:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Reading
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- Reading: David Brin San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 20:00 EDT - 21:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Reading
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- Disability in Science Fiction and Fantasy San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 11:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Disability is a theme treated fairly often in SF and fantasy, but not always with complete objectivity and accuracy. How are disabled characters po...
- Discussion Panels
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- Giving Science a Boost with YA SF San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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- The Rapture of the Geeks San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 13:00 EDT - 14:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Technological convergence of uploading our consciousness into a machine to cheat death... The Science and science fiction of understanding what con...
- Discussion Panels
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- Forgiving History San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 14:00 EDT - 15:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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?...
- Discussion Panels
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- Survival of the Biggest (Internet) Power San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 15:00 EDT - 16:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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, ...
- Discussion Panels
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- Care and Feeding of Your Aliens and Magical Beings San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 16:00 EDT - 17:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
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- Urban Fantasy: Fairies around Every Corner San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 17:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
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- How to Extend Your Book Beyond the Page into Social Media San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 18:00 EDT - 19:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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- Robert E. Howard at the Ice House San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 19:00 EDT - 20:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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 ...
- Discussion Panels
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- The Impact of the Sequester on NASA San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 11:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
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- How to Write a Novel San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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. ...
- Discussion Panels
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- Arouse is Not the Past Tense of Arise San Antonio Convention Center - 006A
- 13:00 EDT - 14:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels