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  • Dangerous Visions -- Are They Still Dangerous?
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  • 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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    LiteratureLiterature
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  • Introduction to the Chesley Awards and ASFA
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  • 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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    ArtIndustry
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  • Science Fiction in Pop Music
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  • 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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    PopulatedMusic
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  • Populist Art
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  • 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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    ArtNEEDS PANELISTS?
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  • Dressing like Darcy
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    CostumingCostuming

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  • War of the Worlds at 75: The Power of Mass Media
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  • 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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    Media
    Historic RadioMediaH.G. WellsWar of the WorldsPopulated/spike
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  • Introduction to Texas Weird
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  • 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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    FinnPopulatedTexas WritersTexas
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  • My Favorite Dinosaur
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  • Apatosaurus, Godzillasuarus, Stegasaurus, Sue, Albertasaurus, Triceratops, Gertie, Pteranodon, Velociraptor, or Barney: there are so many choices. ...
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    BiologyScience
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  • The Year in Physics and Astronomy
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  • 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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    PopulatedSciencePhysicsAstronomy
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  • How SF Fandom Made the Sixties Happen: Origin of Rock Journalism
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  • 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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    FandomMusicFanzinesPopulatedFannish
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  • LoneStarCon for Introverts
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  • 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...
  • Talk
    PopulatedFannish
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  • Near-Future Energy
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  • 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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    PopulatedScience
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  • British Conventions: What You Might Expect
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  • 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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    UK ConventionsFannish
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  • Consensus Reality and the Geography of Fantasy
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  • 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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    Willie trackPopulatedLiterature

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  • Magic Realism:
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  • 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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    SpanishPopulatedSpanish
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  • Gender in SF
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  • 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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    PopulatedLiterature
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  • The Role of the Companion
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  • 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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    Media
    Populated/iesMedia
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  • 30 Great SF & Fantasy Films You Almost Certainly Haven't Seen
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  • 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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    Media
    PopulatedMedia
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  • First Contact in 3..2..1...
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  • 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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    Culture
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  • The Relationship Between Reader and Writer
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  • 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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    WritingMarketingIndustry
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  • Broad Universe Rapid-Fire Reading
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  • 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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    Group Reading
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  • Riding on Oil
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  • 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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    EnergyTransportationScience
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  • Philosophy and Science Fiction
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  • 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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    Literature
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  • First Contact Without a Universal Translator
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  • 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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    PopulatedScience

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  • Looking After the Writer's Legacy
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  • 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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    ArchivesPopulated/spikeIndustry
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  • Writers, Their Fans and Flame Wars, Oh My!
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  • 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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    NEEDS PANELISTSLiterature
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  • Can Traditional SF Communities Survive Multimedia Conventions
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  • 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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    ConventionsFannish
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  • Program DB Debrief
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    SIGtest