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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Lila Garrott (Moderator)
Norman Spinrad (Participant)
Moshe Feder (Participant)
Karen Burnham (Participant)
David G. Hartwell (Participant)
Harlan Ellison's original Dangerous Visions anthology exploded onto the scene with a set of astonishing stories. How did it feel at the time? How d...
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Mitchell Bentley (Moderator)
Andrea Senchy (Participant)
Maurine Starkey (Participant)
Spring Schoenhuth (Potential)
Love science fiction and fantasy art? Want to find out more about your favorite artist? Need to know how to break into the sf/f art market? Come me...
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Science Fiction in Pop Music
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
H. G. Stratmann (Moderator)
Dene Foye (Participant)
Jesi Pershing (Participant)
Grant Carrington (Potential)
Pop singers, like Kayne West, Lady Gaga, Nicki Manaj, and even Taylor Swift, have all incorporated science fictional imagery and themes into their ...
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Populist Art
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Jon Schindehette (Moderator)
Howard Tayler (Participant)
Phil Foglio, CGI Group (Participant)
Crowdsourcing has become an increasingly prominent way to fund new art projects, re-issue out of print work, help out artists with medical issues a...
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Dressing like Darcy
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Joy Bragg-Staudt (Participant)
Susan de Guardiola (Participant)
Mary Robinette Kowal (Potential)
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War of the Worlds at 75: The Power of Mass Media
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
John Maizels (Participant)
Anthony Tollin (Participant)
Bradford Lyau (Participant)
David A. Kyle (Participant)
It's only one of the most famous broadcasts ever made, and it was the stuff of legends! Aliens in Grover's Mill! It was also a fantastic hoax perpe...
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Introduction to Texas Weird
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Peggy Hailey (Moderator)
Josh Rountree (Participant)
Don Webb (Participant)
William Browning Spencer (Participant)
Joe Lansdale (Participant)
Meet the modern practitioners of Texas Weird and find out what makes them tick. Why are Texas writers so weird, anyway? Is it something in the wate...
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My Favorite Dinosaur
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Bryan T. Schmidt (Moderator)
Elizabeth Bear (Participant)
Takayuki Tatsumi (Participant)
Spring Schoenhuth (Participant)
G. David Nordley (Participant)
Michael Swanwick (Potential)
Mel White (Potential)
Mark Finn (Potential)
Apatosaurus, Godzillasuarus, Stegasaurus, Sue, Albertasaurus, Triceratops, Gertie, Pteranodon, Velociraptor, or Barney: there are so many choices. ...
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The Year in Physics and Astronomy
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Ben Bova (Moderator)
Ian Tregillis (Participant)
Mark L. Olson (Participant)
Vernita Gordon (Participant)
David Smith, Director of Communications (Participant)
New planets, new particles: The past year has been a busy one in physics and astronomy. The panelists will talk about the most interesting new deve...
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Harry Potter and its Academic Merits
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Presentation
Valerie Estelle Frankel (Participant)
Rodger Standridge, Grenadine Tech Inc. (Participant)
Angela Standridge (Participant)
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Sanford Allen (Participant)
Jason Heller (Participant)
Mike Ward (Participant)
David G. Hartwell (Participant)
Howard Waldrop (Potential)
US rock journalism arguably came out of SF fandom, with Greg Shaw and Paul Williams inventing it at the same time on opposite coasts. Williams turn...
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LoneStarCon for Introverts
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Talk
Have you come to the Worldcon alone? Would you like to have people to talk with, go out to dinner with or just hang out? How to navigate, meet pe...
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Near-Future Energy
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Rich Lynch (Moderator)
Ramez Naam (Participant)
Tobias Buckell (Participant)
Vincent Docherty (Participant)
Paolo Bacigalupi (Participant)
Where are we heading over the next 50 years in energy technology? A debate between cheap energy sources and renewable or clean sources is currently...
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Alice Lawson (Moderator)
Jim Mowatt (Participant)
Linda Wenzelburger (Participant)
Jerry Kaufman (Participant)
Emma Newman (Participant)
Panelists share useful knowledge, including facts as well as fannish parables. Will we need to understand irony to have a good time at a UK convent...
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Willie Siros (Moderator)
Susan Krinard (Participant)
Stephen Leigh (Participant)
Sharon Shinn (Participant)
L. E. Modesitt (Participant)
Kay Kenyon (Potential)
Tanya Huff (Potential)
Doesn't it seem like writers are allowing perceived market opportunities guide their writing? Well crafted, not exactly ticky tacky*, but derivativ...
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Tom Galloway (Moderator)
Byron Reese (Participant)
Albert Jackson (Participant)
Derek Kunsken (Potential)
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Magic Realism:
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Darlene Marshall (Moderator)
Howard Waldrop (Participant)
Rudy Ch. Garcia (Participant)
Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Participant)
Stina Leicht (Participant)
Catherynne M. Valente (Potential)
Ian E. Stockdale (Potential)
Magic Realism, Science Fiction, Fantasy. How can you use these terms to describe the varied work of Angélica Gorodischer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a...
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Gender in SF
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Vylar Kaftan (Moderator)
Jonathan Oliver (Participant)
Keffy Kehrli (Participant)
Tili Sokolov (Participant)
How has SF influenced and reflected the changes in gender and gender roles over the past half century? As we look back to the work of writers such ...
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The Role of the Companion
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
David D. Levine (Moderator)
Jessica Reisman (Participant)
Selina Rosen (Participant)
Michael Damian Thomas (Participant)
The Doctor's companions are more than just your run-of-the-mill sidekicks. The companions change the Doctor and influence our view of him. This pan...
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Adam Levine Castro, ACME Industries (Moderator)
Elektra Hammond (Participant)
Perrianne Lurie (Participant)
Terry Floyd (Participant)
The many new options for home viewing have greatly increased the availability of any number of obscure, independent, and foreign films available to...
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First Contact in 3..2..1...
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Lawrence M. Schoen (Moderator)
Jeffrey Shanks (Participant)
Liz Argall (Participant)
Cenk Gokce (Participant)
If First Contact were to happen today, and was an open event, how would the human race react? Would we feel inferior, or just try to steal their te...
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Liz Gorinsky (Moderator)
Mari Kotani (Participant)
Ann VanderMeer (Participant)
Pat Murphy (Participant)
Catherynne M. Valente (Participant)
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Sharon Shinn (Moderator)
Kay Kenyon (Participant)
Tobias Buckell (Participant)
Matthew Rotundo (Participant)
Michael Underwood (Participant)
When you write, do you start with an audience in mind? Do you interact with your readers as you write or after you write or never? Has social media...
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
John Kessel (Moderator)
Connie Willis (Participant)
Shanna Swendson (Participant)
William Browning Spencer (Potential)
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Broad Universe Rapid-Fire Reading
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Valerie Estelle Frankel (Moderator)
Katherine Villyard (Participant)
Roberta Rogow (Participant)
Amy Paul (Participant)
Alexis Latner (Participant)
Rachael Acks, Grenadine Tech Inc. (Participant)
Folly Blaine (Participant)
Barbara Ann Wright (Participant)
Tracy S. Morris (Participant)
Broad Universe is a United States-based, all volunteer organization with the primary goal of promoting science fiction, fantasy, and horror written...
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Barbara Galler-Smith (Moderator)
Carol Berg (Participant)
Tanya Huff (Participant)
Martha Wells (Participant)
Robin Hobb (Participant)
Fantasy needs rules to make it real. To what degree do these rules have to reflect the rules of the real world? Where and to what degree can fanta...
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Reading: Saladin Ahmed
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Reading
Saladin Ahmed, AARE (Participant)
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Riding on Oil
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
David Smith, Director of Communications (Moderator)
Howard Davidson (Participant)
Paolo Bacigalupi (Participant)
Our civilization rolls around on a sea of oil. What are the alternatives? Can we wean ourselves off black gold, or mitigate its effects? Are the al...
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Real Animals in a Fantasy World
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Shanna Swendson (Moderator)
Barbara Galler-Smith (Participant)
Elizabeth Moon (Participant)
Catherynne M. Valente (Participant)
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Alan J. Porter, New York Times (Moderator)
Paul Benjamin (Participant)
Howard Tayler (Participant)
Scott Edelman (Participant)
Mark Finn (Potential)
Whether you're writing Spider-Man, Jonah Hex, the Incredibles, or Fruit Ninja, you never get to really own these characters. But they sure are fun ...
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Philosophy and Science Fiction
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
C. J. Mills (Moderator)
Mark L. Van Name (Participant)
Madeline Ashby (Participant)
Lou Antonelli (Participant)
Steven Diamond (Participant)
Science, from warp drives to lasers, is an important element in the genre but science fiction has also been a place to examine philosophical viewpo...
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Lawrence M. Schoen (Moderator)
Paige E. Ewing (Participant)
Karl Schroeder (Participant)
How do we establish a common conceptual base to communicate with another species? Sure, we have numbers and the hydrogen atom in common, but how fa...
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Looking After the Writer's Legacy
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Tom Whitmore (Moderator)
Lynne M. Thomas (Participant)
Todd Samuelson (Participant)
Paul Herman (Participant)
Gregory Benford (Potential)
Howard M. Rosenblatt (Potential)
What are you going to do with your papers? There are libraries in Canada and the US and the UK that specialize in taking care of the papers of SF w...
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Conventions Across Texas
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Tim Miller (Participant)
Tim Morgan (Participant)
Sara Felix (Participant)
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Cat Rambo (Moderator)
Patrick Hester (Participant)
Hugh Howey (Participant)
Alan J. Porter, New York Times (Participant)
With the increasing prominence of social networks and online communities, writers are much more available to their fans, which can create new benef...
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Discussion Panels
Peggy Rae Sapienza (Moderator)
Adam Bergeron Sr, The Book Project (Participant)
Kevin Roche (Participant)
Tom Galloway (Participant)
Anime Boston: 25k. Dragoncon: 75k. Burning Man: 100k+. San Diego Comiccon: 125k+. Can the SF Community survive the onslaught of such large gatherin...
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Program DB Debrief
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San Antonio Convention Center
- 007B
Presentation
Terry Fong (Moderator)
Janice Gelb (Participant)
Diane Lacey (Participant)
Peggy Rae Sapienza (Participant)
Jannie Shea (Participant)
Ian E. Stockdale (Participant)
Brenda Sinclair Sutton (Participant)
Bill Sutton (Participant)
Tim Szczesuil (Participant)
Helen Umberger (Participant)
Henry Marchenko, Grenadine Tech Inc. (Participant)