Friday 30 August, 2013

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

10:00

Lakeside: A Year with Jay Lake

2 hours, 10:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Screening

Donnie Reynolds (Participant)

Jay Lake (Participant)

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...

12:00

Norman Spinrad Tribute

1 hour, 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

David G. Hartwell (Moderator)

Ben Bova (Participant)

Sheila Williams (Participant)

13:00

Turkey City Turns 40

1 hour, 13:00 EDT - 14:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Chris N. Brown (Moderator)

Eileen Gunn (Participant)

Don Webb (Participant)

Jessica Reisman (Participant)

Howard Waldrop (Participant)

Lawrence Person (Participant)

14:00

AGOH: Darrell K Sweet Memorial Slide Show

2 hours, 14:00 EDT - 16:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Presentation

Darrell R. Sweet (Moderator)

16:00

Starship Century

1 hour, 16:00 EDT - 17:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Gregory Benford (Moderator)

Karen Burnham (Participant)

Joe Haldeman (Participant)

Nancy Kress (Participant)

Dreams of interstellar flight must start somewhere. The next century could see an enormous expansion of the human prospect by opening up the resour...

17:00

Good Things Do Come from Small Places

1 hour, 17:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Connie Willis (Moderator)

Steven Gould (Participant)

Robin Hobb (Participant)

Joe Lansdale (Participant)

Howard Waldrop (Participant)

Catherynne M. Valente (Potential)

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...

18:00

If the Pen is Mightier than the Sword, What Have You Stabbed Lately?

1 hour, 18:00 EDT - 19:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Rachel Swirsky (Moderator)

Michael Damian Thomas (Participant)

Howard Tayler (Participant)

Norman Spinrad (Potential)

Phil Foglio, CGI Group (Potential)

19:00

Can Science Fact Deliver on What Science Fiction Has Promised?

1 hour, 19:00 EDT - 20:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Presentation

Byron Reese (Participant)

"The backdrop to much science fiction assumes a continuing advance of human technology. From time travel to warp drive to replicators to transport...

20:00

Landsat: Over 40 years of Studying the Earth

1 hour, 20:00 EDT - 21:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Talk

Laura Burns (Moderator)

21:00

Chesley Awards Set-up

59 minutes, 21:00 EDT - 21:59 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

REHEARSAL

Andrea Senchy (Participant)

Todd Dashoff (Participant)

Bradley Denton (Participant)

22:00

Chesley Awards Ceremony

2 hours, 22:00 EDT - 0:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Award

Bradley Denton (Moderator)

Todd Dashoff (Participant)

Andrea Senchy (Participant)

The Chesley Awards are the peer awards for excellence in science-fiction and fantasy art. With the exception of the Lifetime Achievement Award, the...

Saturday 31 August, 2013

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:00

Happy Birthday, Doc Savage!

1 hour, 11:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Anthony Tollin (Moderator)

Mike Ward (Participant)

David Liss (Participant)

Jess Nevins (Participant)

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...

12:00

Wiring the Brain

1 hour, 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Presentation

Ramez Naam (Participant)

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...

13:00

In Memoriam: Darrell K Sweet

1 hour, 13:00 EDT - 14:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Toni Weisskopf (Moderator)

Jane Frank (Participant)

Irene Gallo (Participant)

14:00

I Married a Werewolf: Paranormal Romance

1 hour, 14:00 EDT - 15:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Darlene Marshall (Moderator)

Carrie Vaughn (Participant)

Jean Johnson (Participant)

Gail Carriger (Participant)

Charlaine Harris (Participant)

Vampires and werewolves (and sometimes even zombies, as the recent Warm Bodies showed) are more complex creatures than they used to be. Moreover, o...

15:00

Surveillance Software - Spying on Citizens

1 hour, 15:00 EDT - 16:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Helen Umberger (Moderator)

Will Frank (Participant)

Howard Davidson (Participant)

Andy Andretti (Participant)

16:00

Consensual Reality: Your Relationship to the World

1 hour, 16:00 EDT - 17:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Edie Stern (Moderator)

Yasser Bahjatt (Participant)

Walter Jon Williams (Participant)

Ben Bova (Participant)

Karl Schroeder (Participant)

Google Glasses, augmented reality, kinetic gaming, tactile transmission systems. These and other new technologies are on the horizon to transmogrif...

17:00

Space Opera: More than Mind Candy?

1 hour, 17:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Howard Tayler (Moderator)

Jay Lake (Participant)

Melinda M. Snodgrass (Participant)

Gini Koch (Participant)

Jack McDevitt (Participant)

Carolina Gómez Lagerlöf (Potential)

Karl Schroeder (Potential)

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...

18:00

James Gunn Tribute

1 hour, 18:00 EDT - 19:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Gary K. Wolfe (Moderator)

John Kessel (Participant)

Michael Page (Participant)

Kij Johnson (Participant)

Christopher McKitterick (Participant)

19:00

Beyond Godzilla vs. King Kong: Monsters of Japan and the Americas

1 hour, 19:00 EDT - 20:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Seia Tanabe (Moderator)

Masao Higashi (Participant)

Toh EnJoe (Participant)

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...

20:00

The Leisure Society: Phantom or Just Around the Corner?

1 hour, 20:00 EDT - 21:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Fred Lerner (Moderator)

Shanna Swendson (Participant)

Mark Oshiro (Participant)

Michael Swanwick (Participant)

Jo Walton (Potential)

People are working harder and longer hours over the last couple of decades, despite increased productivity and automation. Was the leisure society ...

Sunday 1 September, 2013

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

11:00

Mars and/or Bust!

1 hour, 11:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Michael J. Martinez (Moderator)

Karen Burnham (Participant)

David D. Levine (Participant)

John K Strickland Jr. (Participant)

Gregory Benford (Potential)

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...

12:00

The Legacy of Omni

1 hour, 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Ellen Datlow (Moderator)

Howard Waldrop (Participant)

Ben Bova (Participant)

Robert Silverberg (Participant)

Pat Cadigan (Participant)

13:00

GOH Interview: James Gunn

1 hour, 13:00 EDT - 14:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Interview

Kij Johnson (Moderator)

James Gunn (Participant)

14:00

The Alamo You Never Knew: Alternate History Stories of the Texas' Most Famous Battle

1 hour, 14:00 EDT - 15:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Jim Mowatt (Moderator)

TR Fehrenbach (Participant)

Harry Turtledove (Participant)

Scott A. Cupp (Participant)

Josh Rountree (Participant)

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...

15:00

Art Auction setup

30 minutes, 15:00 EDT - 15:30 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

ROOM RESET

15:30

Art Show Auction

1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 EDT - 17:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Auctions

17:00

Computers in Fiction: Can We do the AI?

1 hour, 17:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Talk

Carol Luckhardt Redfield PhD (Participant)

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...

18:00

Keeping It Real: The Science in Science Fiction

1 hour, 18:00 EDT - 19:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Ian Tregillis (Participant)

Jean Johnson (Participant)

Nancy Kress (Potential)

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...

Monday 2 September, 2013

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

12:00

The Left Hand of Darkness

1 hour, 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

Jo Walton (Moderator)

Laurie Mann (Participant)

Liz Argall (Participant)

Lee Martindale (Participant)

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 ...

13:00

Artistic Dreams

1 hour, 13:00 EDT - 14:00 EDT

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

Discussion Panels

San Antonio Convention Center - 103B

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