San Antonio Convention Center - 008B

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  • Hoaxes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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  • 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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    Fannish
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  • Brotherhood Without Banners Meet & Greet
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  • 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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    SIG
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  • What's Necessary to Run a Good Small Convention?
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  • 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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    ConrunningFannish
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  • C.J. Cherryh's Worldbuilding
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  • 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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    PopulatedC. J. CherryhWorldbuildingLiteratureAuthors

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  • What Happened to US-Based Spanish Language Publishing?
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  • 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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    SpanishSpanish
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  • The History of Science and the Experience of Science Fiction
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  • 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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    Culture
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  • The Future of the Border
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  • 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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    SpikeSpanishReal World
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  • Alternate Mexicos and Alternate Texases
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  • 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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    PopulatedSpanishSpanish
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  • The Fake Hugo Awards
    • San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
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  • 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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    PopulatedFannish
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  • Wrangling the Past
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  • 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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    Populated/spikeLibrariesAcademic
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  • Bujold's Vorkosigan Universe
    • San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
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    Lois McMaster BujoldLiteratureNEEDS PRECIS
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  • The New Era of Commercial Space
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  • 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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    Science
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  • Astrobiology and the Problem of the Fermi Paradox
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  • 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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    AstrobiologyScience
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  • Nanotechnology to Mine Asteroids
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  • 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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    ScienceNanotechnologyAsteroid Mining

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  • But is it Science Fiction?
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  • 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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    PopulatedLiterature
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  • Mad Science
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    Science
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  • Crowdfunding: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly
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  • 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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    CrowdfundingReal World
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  • Have We Lost the Future?
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  • 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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    LiteratureWillie trackMusic
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  • Biodiversity: Why We're Storing Billions of Seeds
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  • 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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    BiologyEcologyScience
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  • Remember when a "Marvel Zombie" was a Bad Thing?
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  • 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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    FinnComicsGraphic NovelsPopulatedLiterature
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  • The Green Chemistry Movement
    • San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
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  • 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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    Science

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  • Mental Illness in SF and Fantasy
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  • 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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    Literature
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  • Language Creation Society
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  • 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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    SIG
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  • Spotlight: Antarctic Press
    • San Antonio Convention Center - 008B
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  • Publisher Presentation
    Comics IndustryIndustry