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Monday 12:35 am Film - Animation/Shorts Galore II - Regency Ballroom C/D 2:00 am Film - Repeats of most requested films - Regency Ballroom A 6:30 am Film - Phantom Empire 10-12 (1935) - Regency Ballroom C/D 7:45 am Film - TBA - Regency Ballroom C/D 9:30 am Film - Phantom Empire 10-12 (1935) - Regency Ballroom C/D 10:00 AM Literary - Post-Glasnost SF - Columbus Hall A/B Moderator: L. Carpenter R. Glaub, F. Saberhagen, H. Wood Literary - Computer BBS and the Law - Grand Ballroom A Moderator: G. Costikyan R. Chilson, S. Jackson, C. Von Rospach, M. Ward Science - Skeptics and Pseudoscience: Tilting at Windmills? - Columbus Hall C/D Moderator: M. Flynn B. Delaplace, J. Lazar, R. Mac Bride Allen, T. O'Brien, H. Scrimgeour Standing opposed to the armies of astrologers, crystal healers, psychics, and other purveyors of pseudoscience are but a few "skeptics." What do they stand for? Can they bring about enlightenment in a world filled with nonsense? Or are they just knee-jerk debunkers with closed minds? Science - Bring Your Own Doomsday: Speculating on Environmental Catastrophe - Grand Ballroom B Moderator: H. Hendrix J. Killus, L. Mixon, H. Parker, M. Sestak There are a lot of ways to end the world, end humanity, or end civilization. Bring your favorite to this panel. A multidisciplinary team will tackle a grim, but enjoyable, subject. Science - Solar Power Satellites and the Environment - Columbus Hall K/L J. Strickland Collecting solar energy in space, and beaming it to Earth for conversion to electricity, may pay off. Worries about global warming, pollution, and nuclear waste have triggered a new look at the solar power satellite. Academic - Feminism in Science Fiction - Grand Ballroom D - North Moderator: B. Friend M. Bartter, J. Bogstad, P. Eisenstein, E. Hull Art - Computer Aided Art - Gold Coast Moderator: T. Canty A. Cabrera, T. Harvia, M. Miller Art - The Pulps: Covers and Interiors - Water Tower Moderator: R. Eggleton T. Hamilton, N. Jainschigg, R. Walters Art - Collaborations - Buckingham Moderator: A. Austin P.J. Beese, L. Kelly-Freas, D. Maitz, M. White Media - Love Those Aliens - Grand Ballroom E - WSFS Business Meeting - Grand Ballroom F Autograph - Grand Ballroom C - South P. McKillip, K. Parkinson, C. Stoll, C. Willis Reading - Haymarket D. Kyle Reading - Picasso K. Cramer Reading - Geneve/Bern T. Pratchett Reading - Basel/Lausanne E. Kushner 10:35 am Film - Plan 9 From Outer Space (1956) - Regency Ballroom C/D 11:00 am Literary - Modern Concepts of Aliens vs. Aliens of the Past - Columbus Hall I/J Moderator: K. Nerat P. Anthony, M. Gear, Jack Haldeman, J. Jewell, R. Killheffer Literary - Perceptions of Authority in High Fantasy - Grand Ballroom A Moderator: D. Millitello L. Hamilton, R. Knaak, D. McKiernan, S. Meier, J. Tarr, H. Wood Science - Economic Skulduggery and Terrorism in the Information Age - Grand Ballroom B Moderator: N. Rest W. Humphries, F. Pohl, M. Rosenblum, L.Z. Smith, D. Taylor The complexity of the (almost) 21st-century world allows for a myriad of wonderful products and services. But it is vulnerable. Crime. "Soft" warfare. Outlaw political activism. "Low-intensity conflict." Ecosabotage. What new shape will these take in a heavily networked world? Science - Stuck in a Technorut: How Contemporary Technology Influences SF - Columbus Hall C/D Moderator: A. Andrews D. Elms, W. Mullen, J. Roberts Existing technology and its effect on the imagination of the SF writer. Writers of the 20's were excited by trains, planes, and automobiles; the influence lingers on today's writers. Perhaps the original fire from these machines set the course of our current fictional technologies. Are we stuck in technoruts that began as train-grooves, car-grooves, plane-grooves? (Mainframe-grooves? Rocket-grooves?) Science - Genetic Engineering: Where We're Going - Columbus Hall K/L Moderator: P. McAuley T. Harvia, J. Lazar, J. Thompson, E. Van Dommelen Tinkering with genes is beginning to be a routine matter. These techniques open up exciting, and perhaps frightening, new vistas for the modification of living creatures. How does genetic engineering work? What's possible? What's impossible? And how will we deal with the legal, ethical, and economic problems that arise? Art - Portfolio Review - Buckingham D. Cherry, C. Lundgren Art - Bitch Session - Gold Coast Open Discussion Media - Seven Across the Ocean - Blake's Seven - Grand Ballroom E Autograph - Guest of Honor Signing - Wrigley H. Clement Autograph - Grand Ballroom C - South W. Barlowe, T. Gunnarsson, M. Reichert, H. Turtledove Reading - Picasso J. Wurts Reading - Geneve/Bern J. Coulson Reading - Basel/Lausanne P. Cirone 12:00 pm Literary - SF and Fantasy on the Live Theatre Stage - Grand Ballroom A Moderator: A.L. Chancellor G. Carrington, C. Severance, R. Shea, G. Van Dorn Science - World-Building Panel? Hell, Why notBuild A Whole Solar System? - Columbus Hall K/L Moderator: R. Sawyer R. Cage, D. Hatch, R. Mac Bride Allen, J. Martino, M. Sumner You can't have a Worldcon without having a world-building panel. Designing planets is part of the work that earns an SF writer's bread and butter. How is it done? From the parent star down, or from the alien critters up? What about a family of planets in a solar system? World-builders share their secrets. Science - The Two Cultures in F&SF: Science Confronts the Humanities - Grand Ballroom B Moderator: Ctein H. Hendrix, M. Rich Decades ago, C.P. Snow defined the "Two Cultures" of technical intellectuals and literary intellectuals. The split is still with us. How does it influence our fantasy and science fiction? What works, what authors manage to bridge the gap? What works or authors make it deeper? Science - Crossing Disciplines: Can I Get A Job As a 'Synthesist?' - Columbus Hall C/D Moderator: A. O'Connell A. Andrews, H. Davidson, A. Dormire, M. Ward Most jobs are specialized, but a few people must bring together knowledge across a wide range of disciplines. Where is this kind of work required? What talents does it take? What kind of training? Cities - Colonial Cities After the Initial Settlement - Grand Ballroom D - North Moderator: A. Gilliland H. Vanderbilt Fan - Trans-Atlantic View of Fandom - Columbus Hall E/F Moderator: J. Gomoll L. Huntzinger, P. Wells Media - Wizards and Warriors - Grand Ballroom E Literary - Gay Speculative Fiction - Columbus Hall A/B Moderator: R. Gonder C. Cipra, R. Himmelsbach, T. McDaniel, L. Selkee, M. Soukup Autograph - Grand Ballroom C - South D. Hartwell, F. Saberhagen Reading - Haymarket R. Knaak Reading - Geneve/Bern F. Pohl Reading - Basel/Lausanne M.S. Bell Film - Star Wars (1977) - Regency Ballroom C/D 1:00 PM Science - Lots of Little Brothers Are Watching: Privacy in Computerland - Grand Ballroom B Moderator: L.Z. Smith A. Anda, D. Ihnat, C. Springs, C. Stoll Our privacy may be at risk from monolithic government surveillance, but it's under far more frequent assault from a multitude of private and commercial snoopers-- credit bureaus, insurance companies, junkmailers, employers, and others. How has this come about? Does the Information Age provide us new weapons for fighting back? Science - Can We Reach Vinge's Singularity? The Meaning of Exponential Progress - Columbus Hall K/L Moderator: D. Skran J. Baen, W. Higgins, C. Morningstar, S. Schmidt, T. Van Horne Vernor Vinge suggested that the increase of knowledge and innovation will go ever faster until civilization suddenly breaks through into an unguessable new state. Is this inevitable? Are there forces that will slow progress down? Or will new pressures always arise to increase the pace of change? Science - Herbs, Animal Lore, Weather, & Land: Natural Science in Fantasy Novels - Columbus Hall C/D Moderator: E. Berman L. Barwood, J. Coulson, M. Kenin, C. Mills What role does scientific knowledge play in telling a good fantasy story? How do fantasy writers use science? (Our Science Guy wanted desperately to have a science panel dealing with straight fantasy...) Academic - Discussion Panel: Philip K. Dick - Grand Ballroom D - North Moderator: E. Van P. Kaveny Fan - Neo-Fandom Through the Ages - Columbus Hall E/F Moderator: T. Weisskopf L. Eisenberg, K. Moore, L. Penney, W. Tucker Literary - How I Made My First Sale - Columbus Hall I/J Autograph - Grand Ballroom C - South J. Clayton, P. Foglio, M. Kube-McDowell, R. Meluch Reading - Haymarket F. Ackerman Reading - Picasso B. Rogers Reading - Geneve/Bern K. Rusch Reading - Basel/Lausanne J. Roberts 2:00 pm Literary - Poet as Hero - Columbus Hall A/B Moderator: C. Sheffield L. Barwood, L. Gold, H. Lisle, M. Rich, K. Stein, J. Stevenson Science - So What If The Science Is Wrong? Putting The S In Your SF - Grand Ballroom B Fan - The Second Chicon (1952) - Columbus Hall E/F Moderator: D. Kyle C. Korshak, E. Korshak, Ed Wood Literary - Classic Worldbuilding Techniques - Grand Ballroom A Moderator: D.A. Smith H. Clement, L. Niven, F. Pohl, J. Pournelle Autograph - Grand Ballroom C - South E.b. Shahar, D.W. Smith, R. Wilber Reading - Haymarket K. Jensen Reading - Picasso H. Hendrix Reading - Geneve/Bern N. Kress 2:10 pm Film - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) - Regency Ballroom C/D 3:00 pm - Closing Ceremonies - Grand Ballroom F Autograph - Grand Ballroom C - South D. Brin, P. Hodgell, R. Knaak, W. Tucker Reading - Haymarket D. Millitello Reading - Picasso M. Hanson-Roberts Reading - Geneve/Bern R. Shea 4:00 PM Autograph - Grand Ballroom C - South K. Jensen, D. Kyle, R. Weinberg Reading - Picasso M. Rich Reading - Geneve/Bern A.J. Budrys Film - Hugo Award Winner - Regency Ballroom C/D 5:00 pm Reading - Haymarket C. Johnson Reading - Picasso M. Zambreno Reading - Geneve/Bern L.S. De Camp