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Where there's a Will there's a Way: Reproductive Technology, Medical Ethics and the Law
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Tore Hoie (Moderator)

W. A. (Bill) Thomasson (Participant)

Sam Scheiner (Participant)

Lois McMaster Bujold (Participant)

Lisa C. Freitag (Participant)

Nancy Kress (Potential)

How can you arrange for your un-conceived child to inherit your possessions? What are the medical, ethical and legal implications of modern reprod...
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Meet the New Doctor: Helen Mirren
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Julia Rios (Moderator)

Lynne M. Thomas (Participant)

Matthew Johnson, Test (Participant)

Juliet Bruce (Participant)

Emily Jiang (Potential)

Sheila Williams (Potential)

How much longer do we have to wait for gender parity in the Whoverse? What will happen if the regenerated Doctor is female, and who should play the...
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The Future of the Future
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Gregory Benford (Moderator)

Steven Diamond (Participant)

Joe Haldeman (Participant)

Norman Spinrad (Participant)

Jack McDevitt (Potential)

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Creating Anthologies
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Ellen Datlow (Moderator)

Ann VanderMeer (Participant)

John Joseph Adams (Participant)

David G. Hartwell (Participant)

James Gunn (Participant)

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An Interview with Norman Spinrad
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Interview

Dona Sadock (Moderator)

Norman Spinrad (Participant)

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Reading: George R. R. Martin
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Reading

George R. R. Martin (Participant)

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Latino Characters by Mainstream Authors: Diversity or Cultural Appropriation?
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Derek Kunsken (Moderator)

Norman Spinrad (Participant)

Rudy Ch. Garcia (Participant)

Non-Latino authors have been more successful publishing "Latino SF" than Latino writers. What role have agents and publishers played in this and wh...
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How to Sell to Ellen Datlow
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Eileen Gunn (Moderator)

Michael Swanwick (Participant)

Gardner Dozois (Participant)

Caroline Spector (Participant)

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What Can We Expect from a Disney/J. J. Abrams Star Wars?
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Shanna Swendson (Moderator)

David Brin (Participant)

Regina Franchi (Participant)

Dave Wolverton (Participant)

J.J. Abrams has been a comet across the media for 10 years with projects like Lost and the reboot of the Star Trek movie series. What do you think...
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How to Write a Short Story
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Vylar Kaftan (Moderator)

Michael Swanwick (Participant)

Cat Rambo (Participant)

James Patrick Kelly, IBM Corp (Participant)

A Q&A session. You can ask pros all your questions about how to write short stories--including plot, characters, themes. Learn techniques to impr...
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Planning a Starship
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Laura Burns (Moderator)

Gregory Benford (Participant)

David Brin (Participant)

Joe Haldeman (Participant)

Albert Jackson (Participant)

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Rocket Scientists, Geeks and Mystics
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

John K Strickland Jr. (Moderator)

Tanya Huff (Participant)

Joe Haldeman (Participant)

Jordin Kare (Participant)

Many NASA scientists were turned on to science by reading Heinlein. Technologists have been fascinated with Gibson and Stephenson. Half the populat...
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Wildcards Reunion
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Melinda M. Snodgrass (Moderator)

Walter Jon Williams (Participant)

Howard Waldrop (Participant)

Stephen Leigh (Participant)

Caroline Spector (Participant)

Carrie Vaughn (Potential)

George RR Martin's original shared alternate history universe, originally published in the 1980s introduced many great writers to the large public....
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GOH Interview: Ellen Datlow
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Interview

Ellen Datlow (Participant)

Gary K. Wolfe (Participant)

Interview with GOH Ellen Datlow, who has been editing science fiction, fantasy and horror for thirty years. She is also the editor for more than f...
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The Howard and George Show
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Dialog

George R. R. Martin (Participant)

Howard Waldrop (Participant)

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Writing Combat
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Elizabeth Moon (Moderator)

Elizabeth Bear (Participant)

Martha Wells (Participant)

Jean Johnson (Participant)

Lois McMaster Bujold (Participant)

How do you integrate combat into your writing? How do you make it believable? At what point do you reach a state of Too Much Information? How do di...
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Gorillas in Science Fiction: The Encore Performance!
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Mark Finn (Moderator)

Scott A. Cupp (Participant)

Rick Klaw (Participant)

Joe Lansdale (Participant)

Howard Waldrop (Potential)

You've heard about it for years! Now it's back for one final presentation you do not want to miss! There is no movie that cannot be made better by ...

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Big Data. Check. Next Stop: Big Brother?
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Will Frank (Moderator)

Paige E. Ewing (Participant)

Jason M. Hough (Participant)

Claudia Carr (Participant)

David Brin (Participant)

Chris N. Brown (Participant)

Mark L. Van Name (Potential)

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Is Zelazny Still Relevant?
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Julia Rios (Moderator)

Willie Siros (Participant)

David G. Hartwell (Participant)

Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Participant)

Jay Lake (Potential)

Jo Walton (Potential)

Delany, Le Guin and Zelazny opened up what writers could do with science fiction, changed it for all time, and then moved off. Or did SF leave them...
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Reading: Charlaine Harris
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Reading

Charlaine Harris (Participant)

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Consider Iain M Banks
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Vincent Docherty (Moderator)

Kim Stanley Robinson (Participant)

Alastair Reynolds (Participant)

Michael Underwood (Participant)

Ben Jeapes (Participant)

Iain M Banks, writer of science fiction and especially space opera. Did he build a utopia you'd want to live in? He set out to "reclaim space opera...
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Plucking Flowers in the Stranger Realms
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Nancy Kress (Moderator)

Michael Swanwick (Participant)

Jacob Weisman (Participant)

Joe Lansdale (Participant)

Pat Cadigan (Potential)

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GOH Speech: Norman Spinrad
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Talk

Norman Spinrad (Participant)

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Game of Thrones: The Fourth Season
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Priscilla Olson (Moderator)

Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Participant)

Perrianne Lurie (Participant)

Tod McCoy (Participant)

Teresa Nielsen Hayden (Potential)

John Picacio (Potential)

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Writing Outside Genre
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Ellen Datlow (Moderator)

Lezli Robyn (Participant)

John Maddox Roberts (Participant)

Robert Silverberg (Potential)

Many genre writers also write things on and over the edges of genre. Why do they do this? How is the experience of writing in different genres diff...
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Doctor Who: Celebrating 50 Years
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San Antonio Convention Center - 001ABC

Discussion Panels

Lynne M. Thomas (Moderator)

Nicki Lynch (Participant)

Shanna Swendson (Participant)

Alastair Reynolds (Participant)

David Lee Summers (Participant)

Doctor Who turns 50, and we've had a year of not only new episodes but specials, novels about all the Doctors, audio production, comics, and more. ...