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  • Convention Program Gender Parity
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  • Why is it so important to consider gender balance on programming items? What should a program director do when parity is not achievable? Are there ...
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    ConrunningGenderFannish
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  • Texas Roadhouse Blues: Speculative Fiction and Rock and Roll
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  • Texas is a big music state. The music frequently drifts into the slipstream of Texas weird. How does this happen? What can we do to make it happen...
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    FinnMusic & FictionTexas WritersPopulatedMusicLiterature
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  • Self-Promotion: Everything You Know about it Is Probably Wrong
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  • Done properly, self-promotion is an important part of building a career. Poorly executed, self-promotion can do more harm than good. How is the ...
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    PromotionPopulatedIndustry
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  • Organizing Your Costuming
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    CostumingNEEDS PANELISTS?Costuming
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  • Mark Reads Stuff: Bad Fan-Fiction
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  • Mark promises that the fan-fic will be "utterly abysmal, terribly written, poorly plotted, and will destroy him with awful." He does this for fun: ...
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    Fannish

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  • US Animation Influenced by Japanese Anime
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  • The Last Airbender, a 2005 American TV animation series, has the look and style of Japanese anime. The Legend of Korra and others have followed. O...
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    AnimeAnime
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  • The British Invasion: Mods, Gods, and Miracleman
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  • Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Alan Davis, John Bolton, Peter Milligan, Alan Grant, and so many other luminaries of the industry cut their teeth and vent...
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    ComicsFinnComicsLiterature
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  • Texas Gothic: Staring into the Black Heart of Texas
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  • With over 250 years of bloody conflict under its ten gallon hat, Texas has a lot of skeletons in a lot of closets. Our panel discusses the meaning ...
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    LiteratureHorrorLiterature
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  • Writers/Artists of the Future
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  • The Writers and Illustrators of the Future contest is a great opportunity for early career authors and artists to make their start in science ficti...
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    Industry
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  • Colossus, Skynet, or the Culture?
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  • If and when our AI masters arrive, how will they come about? Will they spring spontaneously from the internet or be deliberately built by men? Our ...
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    Computer ScienceCulturePopulated
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  • The Future of Medicine
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    Science
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  • Steampunk: The Present and the Future
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  • Over the last decade the Steampunk genre has exploded. There is a growing presence of Steampunk in literature, the cinema and television. We will d...
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    Literature
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  • Horses Are Not Jeeps: Bringing Reality to Fictional Worlds
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  • Battle axes don't weigh 20 pounds. Rocket ships don't instantly crash when you turn off the engines. A writer can break the illusion by getting som...
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    LiteraturePopulated/iesPopulated
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  • Can Machines be Conscious?
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  • Inventing a better Türing test: neuroscientists are coming up with new definitions of consciousness. They also seek to determine how to measure co...
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    Computer ScienceScience
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  • Use of Language in Fantasy
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  • How do you determine the stye of language to use in fantasy? Do you use archaic language, modern language or poetic language - which works best and...
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    Literature
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  • Fan Fund Auction
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  • Fan Funds aid fannish interaction between countries. These groups raise money from donations and auctions. Bid on odd cultural icons, books, rare e...
  • Auctions
    FandomFan FundsFannish
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  • Golden Duck Awards
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  • Award
    Children's LiteratureYA
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  • Disability in Science Fiction and Fantasy
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  • Disability is a theme treated fairly often in SF and fantasy, but not always with complete objectivity and accuracy. How are disabled characters po...
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    Literature
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  • The Rapture of the Geeks
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  • Technological convergence of uploading our consciousness into a machine to cheat death... The Science and science fiction of understanding what con...
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    Computer ScienceVRScience
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  • Forgiving History
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  • When you are reading your favorite writers of old, how do you deal with outdated views on race, gender, and violence - and still enjoy the writing?...
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    ReadingClassic SFLiterature
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  • Survival of the Biggest (Internet) Power
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  • Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google. All are big and influential when it comes to matters connected to the internet. Is this a good thing for privacy, ...
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    ScienceInternet
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  • Care and Feeding of Your Aliens and Magical Beings
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  • With all of space, time, biology and imagination to work with, why is it so hard to create fictional aliens that aren't just humans in rubber suits...
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    ExobiologyBiologySpace TravelNEEDS PANELISTSScience
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  • Urban Fantasy: Fairies around Every Corner
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  • Imagine having to battle paranormal beings while managing work and family. Caught in the midst of everyday life the supernatural can be found in th...
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    PopulatedUrban FantasyLiterature
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  • Robert E. Howard at the Ice House
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  • Howard was an amateur boxer, and wrote mountains of boxing stories. No kidding! Here's a rare opportunity to hear about the boxing canon of Robert ...
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    FinnPopulatedRobert E. HowardLiterature

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  • The Impact of the Sequester on NASA
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  • The sequester has hit, and it has hit hard. What effects will this have on America's Space Agency? Will there be ripple effects in other scientific...
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    Science
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  • How to Write a Novel
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  • Five pros do a Q&A session where you can ask all your questions about how to write novels--including subplots, structure, and increasing tension. ...
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    Literature
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  • Arouse is Not the Past Tense of Arise
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  • Why do so many new writers have problems with grammar? How important is grammar? Has it lost relevancy in communicating with some portion of the r...
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    PopulatedLiterature