Sessions
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- Bilingual Writers/Monolingual Audience San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 14:00 EDT - 15:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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16:00
- Texas Cuisine: What to Eat While You're Here San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 16:00 EDT - 17:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
17:00
17:00
- The Art of Adaptation: Different Media, Different Approaches San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 17:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Many movies are based on novels, short stories, or comics. What are the different ways movies approach their source material. How does the approac...
- Discussion Panels
11:00
11:00
- Solaris Presents San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 11:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Publisher Presentation
12:00
12:00
- SIGMA: Who We are and What We Do San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
13:00
13:00
- The Romance of Train Travel San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 13:00 EDT - 14:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
14:00
14:00
- Scientific Literacy vs Human Knowledge San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 14:00 EDT - 15:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
15:00
15:00
- The Role of the Agent San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 15:00 EDT - 16:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
16:00
16:00
- History of Atheism San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 16:00 EDT - 17:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Atheism is a powerful presence in modern society and discourse, but its position has been radically different in past stages of history. This panel...
- Dialog
17:00
17:00
- Yes, Virginia, Nanotech IS Real San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 17:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
18:00
18:00
- When is Hard SF Too Hard San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 18:00 EDT - 19:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
19:00
19:00
- A Look at the Paleolithic San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 19:00 EDT - 20:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Presentation
20:00
20:00
- Truly Alien San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 20:00 EDT - 21:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
21:00
21:00
- Nameless Cults: Robert E. Howard's Horror Stories San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 21:00 EDT - 22:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
11:00
11:00
- Adapting Folklore in Speculative Fiction: Brazil and Space Opera San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 11:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Paper session. Christopher Kastensmidt, Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis 2. "Feminist Rewritings of the Ramayana and the Matter of Britain: Di...
- Talk
12:00
12:00
- Finding Ourselves and Our Aliens in Graphic Media: Will Eisner and Jack Arnold San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Paper session. N. C. Christopher Couch of Trinity College presents "Will Eisner, Aliens, and the Military-Industrial Complex: Social and Scientific...
- Talk
13:00
13:00
- Digital Future, Martian Future: Digital Fandom and the Changing Narratives of Mars San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 13:00 EDT - 14:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Talk
14:30
14:30
- Academic items lunch break San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 14:30 EDT - 14:31 EDT | 1 minute
- ROOM RESET
16:00
16:00
- Being Human: Digital Fandom and Monstrous Utopias San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 16:00 EDT - 17:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 1. "The Crown of Being: Cyborg Theory in Fictional Practice" Sarah Wanenchak, University of Maryland-College Park 2. "Margaret Atwood and Paolo Bac...
- Talk
17:00
17:00
- Cartography of Genre: Roman Epic Space Opera and the Academic Legacy of Jim Gunn San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 17:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT | 1 hour
- "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...
- Talk
18:00
18:00
- Robert E. Howard: The Weird, West, and Worms San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 18:00 EDT - 19:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Paper session. Jeffrey Shanks and Mark Finn, Independent Scholars, present "Vaqueros and Vampires: Robert E. Howard and the Genesis of the Weird W...
- Talk
19:00
19:00
- Stop Calling It a Kerfuffle San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 19:00 EDT - 20:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
11:00
11:00
- Tic Toc: A Look at the History of Mechanical Computing San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 11:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Talk
12:00
12:00
- The Twain Shall Meet: Samuel Clemens and SF/F San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
13:00
13:00
- The Making of Lakeside San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 13:00 EDT - 14:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Presentation
14:00
14:00
- Dragon Sickness San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 14:00 EDT - 15:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
15:00
15:00
- Drawn Into the Community: Aztec Manuscripts and Comic Art San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 15:00 EDT - 16:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Presentation
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16:00
- The Future of SF/F Art in a New Publishing Landscape San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 16:00 EDT - 17:00 EDT | 1 hour
- 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...
- Discussion Panels
17:00
17:00
- E-Books Nuts and Bolts San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 17:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
18:00
18:00
- The Vatican Library San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 18:00 EDT - 19:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Talk
11:00
11:00
- Creating a Memorable Podcast San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 11:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
12:00
12:00
- Cambrian Explosion: A Developmental Toolkit for Complex Body Plans San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT | 1 hour
- For most of the nearly 4 billion years that life has existed on Earth, evolution produced little beyond bacteria, plankton, and multi-celled algae....
- Discussion Panels
15:00
15:00
- LoneStarCon 3 Feedback Session
- Signup required San Antonio Convention Center - 006B
- 15:00 EDT - 16:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels