Sessions
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- Hoaxes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 15:00 EDT - 16:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Bids, fanzines, Worldcon program tracks. We enjoy a good hoax in fandom. What are the good ones? What are the ones that went horribly wrong? Can we...
- Discussion Panels
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17:00
- Brotherhood Without Banners Meet & Greet San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 17:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Brotherhood Without Banners Meet & Greet. Stop by to learn about -- and meet -- the Brotherhood Without Banners, a George RR Martin fan group. We'l...
- Special Interest Group
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18:00
- What's Necessary to Run a Good Small Convention? San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 18:00 EDT - 19:00 EDT | 1 hour
- What do you need to do to run a good, small con? How small can your committee be? What are some of the differences between running a large con and...
- Discussion Panels
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21:00
- C.J. Cherryh's Worldbuilding San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 21:00 EDT - 22:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Mallory, Nuin, Sten Duncan, Pyanfar Chanur, Emory. Cherryh's wonderful characters are drawn against civilizations and worlds rich in detail and so ...
- Discussion Panels
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- [Spanish track placeholder] San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 10:00 EDT - 10:01 EDT | 1 minute
- Discussion Panels
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11:00
- What Happened to US-Based Spanish Language Publishing? San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 11:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Less than a decade ago Spanish-language readers in the US were looked upon as next big untapped market, a rare bright spot of growth in the otherwi...
- Discussion Panels
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- Public Libraries/Public Schools: Meeting the Needs of the Bilingual Citizen? San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT | 1 hour
- In the US a large percentage of the population is bilingual, speaking both English and Spanish. How well do the public institutions, libraries and...
- Discussion Panels
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- The History of Science and the Experience of Science Fiction San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 14:00 EDT - 15:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Science fiction, janus-like, gives us a perspective on the future by examining how science and technology have developed. Speculating on the futur...
- Discussion Panels
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- The Future of the Border San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 15:00 EDT - 16:00 EDT | 1 hour
- What is the future of the (US-Mexico) border as fortification? as a passage? as imaginative interzone? Our panelists discuss the future of the Mexi...
- Discussion Panels
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- Science Fiction in South America San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 16:00 EDT - 17:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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- Alternate Mexicos and Alternate Texases San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 17:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT | 1 hour
- With so much shared history and folklore between them, Texas and Mexico are rich for "What if?" scenarios. Our panelists explore some of the publis...
- Discussion Panels
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18:00
- Spanish Language Anthologies San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 18:00 EDT - 19:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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19:00
- The Fake Hugo Awards San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 19:00 EDT - 20:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Sure, the Hugo Awards have a prize for everything from Best Novel to Best Semiprozine to Best Fan Artist. But what about an award for the Best SF N...
- Discussion Panels
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20:00
- Wrangling the Past San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 20:00 EDT - 21:00 EDT | 1 hour
- They aren't the ascetics of A Canticle for Leibowitz, or the fighting librarians of Greatwinter, but our panel of archivists are charged with carin...
- Discussion Panels
21:00
21:00
- How to Build a Successful Book Launch Campaign San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 21:00 EDT - 22:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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12:00
- Bujold's Vorkosigan Universe San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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13:00
- What Will Replace Urban Fantasy? San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 13:00 EDT - 14:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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- Novels You Should Have Read Since Chicon 7 San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 14:00 EDT - 15:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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- From Child of Fortune to The Hunger Games San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 15:00 EDT - 16:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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- Mexican Female Writers of the Fantastic San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 16:00 EDT - 17:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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- The Influence of History and Mythology on Aspects of SF/F San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 17:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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18:00
- The New Era of Commercial Space San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 18:00 EDT - 19:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Commercial space transportation is a vital component to the future of human space exploration. The private sector is developing reliable and affor...
- Discussion Panels
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19:00
- Astrobiology and the Problem of the Fermi Paradox San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 19:00 EDT - 20:00 EDT | 1 hour
- The emerging field of astrobiology has brought an interdisciplinary approach to the Fermi paradox and the question of whether there is extraterrest...
- Discussion Panels
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- Nanotechnology to Mine Asteroids San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 20:00 EDT - 21:00 EDT | 1 hour
- New private mining companies are proposing various methods to mine materials in the asteroid belt. What methods, both theoretical and off the shelf...
- Discussion Panels
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11:00
- Fandom in Its Jammies: What the Internet has Done to Fandom & Fanzines San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 11:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Are Internet-savvy media-fed fans becoming totally estranged from the generations of fans who say what fans do isn't fan activity until it's writte...
- Discussion Panels
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- But is it Science Fiction? San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Why do some reviewers, authors, and academics seem to confuse the sub-genre of space opera with the entire field of science fiction? What do mainst...
- Discussion Panels
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13:00
- Mad Science San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 13:00 EDT - 14:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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- Crowdfunding: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 14:00 EDT - 15:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Crowdfunding is an easy way to raise money -- or is it? You still have to solicit and work at it. What works, and what is going to fail? What shoul...
- Discussion Panels
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- Have We Lost the Future? San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 15:00 EDT - 16:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Where science fiction once looked to the future as the setting for speculation, nowadays the focus seems to be on alternate pasts, fantasy worlds, ...
- Discussion Panels
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- Biodiversity: Why We're Storing Billions of Seeds San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 16:00 EDT - 17:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Millennium Seed Bank, which has stored over 3 billion seeds to date from dwindling yet essential plant species. The reasons for storing seeds may...
- Discussion Panels
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17:00
- Remember when a "Marvel Zombie" was a Bad Thing? San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 17:00 EDT - 18:00 EDT | 1 hour
- The 1980s was an amazing time for comics. The black and white explosion! The birth of the cross-over! The indy comics expansion! The start of the d...
- Discussion Panels
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- The Green Chemistry Movement San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 18:00 EDT - 19:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Educating current and future chemists in green chemistry is a necessary first step toward preventing pollution through safer, greener chemical prod...
- Discussion Panels
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- Mental Illness in SF and Fantasy San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 11:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT | 1 hour
- From the evil genius to the researcher driven insane by what man was not meant to know -- SF/F have traditionally had some awful portrayals of ment...
- Discussion Panels
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- The Frontier of Imagination: The Future of SF/F San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 12:00 EDT - 13:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Discussion Panels
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- Language Creation Society San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 13:00 EDT - 14:00 EDT | 1 hour
- The Language Creation Society is a non-profit organization formed to promote constructed languages, support makers of constructed languages, and in...
- Special Interest Group
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- Spotlight: Antarctic Press San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
- 14:00 EDT - 15:00 EDT | 1 hour
- Publisher Presentation