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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Steven Silver (Moderator)
Jeff Orth (Participant)
Anthony Lewis (Participant)
Bobbie DuFault (Participant)
Fred Nadis (Participant)
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...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Special Interest Group
Brotherhood Without Banners Meet & Greet. Stop by to learn about -- and meet -- the Brotherhood Without Banners, a George RR Martin fan group. We'l...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Ruth Lichtwardt (Moderator)
Warren Buff, 3D Systems Inc. (Participant)
Steven R. Staton (Participant)
Meredith Branstad (Participant)
Sara Felix (Participant)
Karen Anderson (Potential)
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...
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C.J. Cherryh's Worldbuilding
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Susan Krinard (Moderator)
Selina Rosen (Participant)
Jo Walton (Participant)
Diana Thayer (Potential)
Mallory, Nuin, Sten Duncan, Pyanfar Chanur, Emory. Cherryh's wonderful characters are drawn against civilizations and worlds rich in detail and so ...
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1 minuto,
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Miguel Angel Fernandez (Moderator)
Norman Spinrad (Participant)
Ben Olguin (Participant)
Rudy Ch. Garcia (Participant)
Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Potential)
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...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Fred Lerner (Moderator)
Val Ontell (Participant)
John Klima (Participant)
In the US a large percentage of the population is bilingual, speaking both English and Spanish. How well do the public institutions, libraries and...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Kim Stanley Robinson (Participant)
Kathleen Goonan (Participant)
David Lee Summers (Participant)
Donald M. Hassler (Participant)
Mike Substelny (Potential)
Science fiction, janus-like, gives us a perspective on the future by examining how science and technology have developed. Speculating on the futur...
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The Future of the Border
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Madeline Ashby (Moderator)
Walter Hunt (Participant)
Peni Griffin (Participant)
Dave Hardy (Participant)
Chris N. Brown (Participant)
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...
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Science Fiction in South America
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Eileen Gunn (Moderator)
Christopher Kastensmidt (Participant)
Derek Kunsken (Participant)
Ian E. Stockdale (Potential)
Rudy Ch. Garcia (Potential)
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Dave Hardy (Moderator)
Harry Turtledove (Participant)
Peni Griffin (Participant)
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...
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Spanish Language Anthologies
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Eileen Gunn (Moderator)
Miguel Angel Fernandez (Participant)
Chris N. Brown (Participant)
Don Webb (Participant)
Gay Haldeman (Potential)
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The Fake Hugo Awards
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Dave McCarty (Moderator)
Darlene Marshall (Participant)
Nicki Lynch (Participant)
Guy H. Lillian III (Participant)
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...
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Wrangling the Past
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Fred Lerner (Moderator)
Jeremy Brett (Participant)
Todd Samuelson (Participant)
Melissa Conway (Participant)
Lynne M. Thomas (Potential)
Mari Kotani (Potential)
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...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Gabrielle de Cuir (Moderator)
Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Participant)
Lou Antonelli (Participant)
Gail Carriger (Participant)
Gini Koch (Participant)
John Klima (Potential)
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Bujold's Vorkosigan Universe
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Steve Jackson (Moderator)
Lillian Stewart Carl (Participant)
John O'Halloran (Participant)
Trina Marie Phillips (Participant)
Laura Frankos (Potential)
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What Will Replace Urban Fantasy?
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Cat Rambo (Moderator)
Leigh Perry (Participant)
Susan Krinard (Participant)
Steven Diamond (Participant)
Gini Koch (Participant)
Carrie Vaughn (Potential)
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Elizabeth Bear (Moderator)
Jess Nevins (Participant)
Willie Siros (Participant)
Lawrence Person (Potential)
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Heather Urbanski (Participant)
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Guadalupe Garcia McCall (Participant)
Gabriela Damian Miravete (Participant)
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Moshe Feder (Moderator)
J. Kathleen Cheney (Participant)
Stina Leicht (Participant)
John Maddox Roberts (Participant)
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The New Era of Commercial Space
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Laura Burns (Moderator)
John K Strickland Jr. (Participant)
Larry Friesen (Participant)
Commercial space transportation is a vital component to the future of human space exploration. The private sector is developing reliable and affor...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
W. A. (Bill) Thomasson (Moderator)
H. G. Stratmann (Participant)
Howard Davidson (Participant)
Stanley Schmidt (Participant)
The emerging field of astrobiology has brought an interdisciplinary approach to the Fermi paradox and the question of whether there is extraterrest...
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Nanotechnology to Mine Asteroids
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Howard Davidson (Moderator)
William Ledbetter (Participant)
Ben Bova (Participant)
Jordin Kare (Participant)
Clifford (Kip) McMurray (Participant)
New private mining companies are proposing various methods to mine materials in the asteroid belt. What methods, both theoretical and off the shelf...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
William Wright (Moderator)
Guy H. Lillian III (Participant)
Andrew I. Porter (Participant)
Jeanne Mealy (Participant)
Jerry Kaufman (Participant)
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...
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But is it Science Fiction?
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Daryl Gregory (Moderator)
Adam Levine Castro, ACME Industries (Participant)
Nancy Hightower (Participant)
Michelle Sagara (Participant)
Gary K. Wolfe (Participant)
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...
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Mad Science
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
David D. Levine (Moderator)
Mary Robinette Kowal (Participant)
John Joseph Adams (Participant)
Seanan McGuire (Participant)
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Howard Tayler (Moderator)
Tobias Buckell (Participant)
Catherynne M. Valente (Participant)
Jay Lake (Potential)
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...
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Have We Lost the Future?
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Karen Burnham (Moderator)
Claudia Carr (Participant)
Karl Schroeder (Participant)
Willie Siros (Participant)
Derek Kunsken (Participant)
John Kessel (Potential)
Gregory Benford (Potential)
Where science fiction once looked to the future as
the setting for speculation, nowadays the focus seems to be on
alternate pasts, fantasy worlds, ...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
H. G. Stratmann (Moderator)
Sam Scheiner (Participant)
Liz Argall (Participant)
Amy Thomson (Participant)
Millennium Seed Bank, which has stored over 3 billion seeds to date from dwindling yet essential plant species.
The reasons for storing seeds may...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Weldon Adams, Grenadine Tech Inc. (Moderator)
Jess Nevins (Participant)
Tom Whitmore (Participant)
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...
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The Green Chemistry Movement
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
D. Douglas Fratz (Moderator)
David Tucker (Participant)
W. A. (Bill) Thomasson (Participant)
Educating current and future chemists in green chemistry is a necessary first step toward preventing pollution through safer, greener chemical prod...
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Mental Illness in SF and Fantasy
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Daryl Gregory (Moderator)
Jack Skillingstead (Participant)
Elizabeth Moon (Participant)
Michelle Sagara (Potential)
Rachel Swirsky (Potential)
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...
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Discussion Panels
Mike Shepherd Moscoe (Moderator)
Toni Weisskopf (Participant)
John Berlyne (Participant)
John Picacio (Participant)
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Language Creation Society
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Special Interest Group
The Language Creation Society is a non-profit organization formed to promote constructed languages, support makers of constructed languages, and in...
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Spotlight: Antarctic Press
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San Antonio Convention Center
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Publisher Presentation