Thu|9:00AM|Hall A|Registration Opens||
Thu|10:00AM|Hall A|Music||
Thu|10:15AM|Rep.A|_ All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku TV_ #1-4 [Dubbed] [12 +]|
Thu|11:30AM|Conf|Filk Office Opens||
Thu|12:00M||Official Start of Noreascon 4 for WSFS Purposes||
Thu|12:00M||Childcare Opens [KiddieCorp]||
Thu|12:00M||Children's Activities Opens||
Thu|12:00M|H100|Munchkin|Learn to play Munchkin, SJ Games' award-winning dungeon-crawl card game. [6 players per game]||
Thu|12:00M|H203|Ex Homo Machina: "For a Breath I Tarry" and the Digital Faust||Jason M. Taylor
Thu|12:00M|H204|Guessing Games: Does the Acceleration of Change Invalidate Extrapolative Fiction?|Is it getting hard to write of future worlds and technologies when change has become so rapid that our children won't recognize the world we grew up in? Can writers keep ahead of the curve? Should they even try? And if they guess "wrong" does that mean they've failed?|Steve Carper, Laura Frankos (m), David Friedman, David Gerrold 
Thu|12:00M|H205|Looking Back at _The Matrix_|The film series is over, the dust has settled. Was it all worth it? What worked and what didn't? A look back and assessment of the series as a whole.|Chris Barkley, Colleen Doran, Daniel Kimmel (m), Joe Pearce 
Thu|12:00M|H206|Archetypes in SF: First Contact|In culture clashes between aliens and humans, the humans aren't always the good guys...discuss the archetype, the ways it's been used and how to turn it upside down.|Jim Frenkel (m), Walter H. Hunt, Justine Larbalestier, Edward M. Lerner, Karen Traviss 
Thu|12:00M|H208|_ _Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction_ _|Showing and discussion of the fan-created cable TV show about SF.|Kathi D. Overton, Tom Schaad 
Thu|12:00M|H209|_ Oh My Goddess #1 Moonlight and Cherry Blossoms_ [Subtitled] [N/R]|
Thu|12:00M|H210|Filk Concert||Mary Mulholland 
Thu|12:00M|H310|Grand Openings|Once upon a time (in a galaxy far far away)...So, how important is a good opening? What does it need to pull the reader into the story? How can it cast light upon mood, setting, character, tone, and still work as a hook for the reader? Discuss favorite openings, and tell why they work so well.What actually is the "right" beginning for the story? How does a writer figure out if the story on paper's starting too early, too late, or at the right time?|Phyllis Eisenstein (m), Carl Frederick, Karin Lowachee, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Karl Schroeder 
Thu|12:00M|ArtSh|Art Retro Exhibit Opens||
Thu|12:00M|Bcn A|Moving to Music [ages 1-7]|Clap and sing to the music of Jim Cosgrove, a Kansas City children's folk singer.|Jim Cosgrove
Thu|12:00M|Bcn D|Out of the Box Games [ages 7-12]||Sheila Oranch 
Thu|12:00M|Bcn F|Model Magic Sculpture [ages 3-12]|Model magic is an air-drying clay that can be colored using magic markers. We'll have a different theme for each day's creation.||
Thu|12:00M|Ccrse|Site Selection Opens||
Thu|12:00M|Ccrse|ConCourse Opens||
Thu|12:00M|Gard|The Real Lord of the Rings [ages 7-12]|After a seven-year journey to Saturn, the Cassini probe has finally arrived. We'll take the kids on a field trip and join Cassini for a look at Saturn and the weirdness in some of its 31 moons. We'll conclude with a video preview of the Christmas Day landing on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.|Steven Hammond 
Thu|12:00M|Gr.Ball|_ Finding Nemo_|2004 Long Form Dramatic Presentation Hugo Nominee|
Thu|12:00M|Hall A|Music||
Thu|12:00M|Hall D|Dealers Room Opens||
Thu|12:00M|C'Ste|Con Suite Open||
Thu|12:00M|Rep.A|_Louie, The Rune Soldier_ #13-#16 [Dubbed] [15 +]||
Thu|12:00M|Rep.B|_Discworld: Soul Music_||
Thu|12:30PM|H203|The Writer in the Walls: Forms of Satire in the SF of William Tenn||Jim Davis
Thu|12:30PM|H209|_Oh My Goddess #2 Midsummer Nights Dream_ [Subtitled] [N/R]||
Thu|12:30PM|H210|Filk Concert||Matt G. Leger 
Thu|12:30PM|H303|Male Bonding in _LOTR_ Seen Through 21st-Century Eyes|It has been noted that Sam and Frodo's relationship is reminiscent of that between a First World War army officer and his batman. But for contemporary readers, the interactions of Sam and Frodo and of other dyads in the novels, such as Gimli and Legoloas, might be seen as homoerotic.This discussion is intended to explore _LotR_ from that point of view. What elements, specifically, can be read as homoerotic? How do those elements conflict with the characters' futures as laid out by Tolkien in the appendices? And why did Frodo never marry?|Victoria McManus 
Thu|12:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Delia Sherman ||Delia Sherman 
Thu|1:00PM|H203|Examining Discworld from a Popular Culture Perspective||Brian Burns
Thu|1:00PM|H204|Did We Win? SF and its Takeover of Popular Culture|Works that at least have SF&F trappings have taken over a large portion of TV, the movies, and the best-seller lists. Are we happy with this embarrassment of riches?|Moshe Feder (m), Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Joe Siclari, Graham Sleight, Walter Jon Williams 
Thu|1:00PM|H205|Anime 101|Anime, in the last 20 years, has gotten more popular, and it's tough for non-/em> (i.e., _baka_) to keep track of everything. This panel will introduce you to this booming genre.|Christine Carpenito (m), Mari Kotani, Timothy Liebe, Neil Nadelman, Bill Todd 
Thu|1:00PM|H206|How Does the Magic Work?|Magic needs its own rules, or it becomes a game where the author can do anything at any time. Discuss how to build and maintain a consistent and believable system of magic.|Susan Casper, P. C. Hodgell, Katherine Kurtz, Laurie J. Marks, Katya Reimann (m), Brandon Sanderson 
Thu|1:00PM|H208|_ Firefly_ Marathon, Episode 1-2||
Thu|1:00PM|H209|_ Oh My Goddess #3 Burning Hearts On The Road_[Subtitled] [N/R]||
Thu|1:00PM|H210|Filk Concert||Roberta Rogow 
Thu|1:00PM|H303|All About Hall Costumes|Panel/show and tell about what hall costumes are and etiquette regarding wearing and watching them.|Richard Hill, Sandra G. Pettinger 
Thu|1:00PM|H307|Luddites of Fandom?|Why do some fans persist in doing things the old-fashioned way--not getting an email connection or publishing fanzines on paper instead of posting on the Web? Are the people who still use real _paper_ a handful of misfit cranks who won't get with the program? Wait--did we actually SAY that? The real question may be what medium will serve best in a particular case: a phone call or a letter or a flower. (And maybe, too, how to get along while trying to figure that out.)|Alexis Gilliland (m), John F. Hertz, Fred Lerner, Erwin S. Strauss 
Thu|1:00PM|H310|They Should Make a Movie of That...|What SF/F/H short stories, novelettes, novels, trilogies, or series would make great cinema?|Mike Conrad, Jim Mann, John Scalzi (m), Carrie Vaughn 
Thu|1:00PM|Aud|Opening Ceremonies|And so it begins, with not-so-solemn rites and rituals. Get a good look at the Guests of Honor, so you can spot them later amongst the adoring crowds. Also take your first opportunity (outside committee meetings) to see the ConChair brandishing a big hammer. Oh, and there may be a surprise.|Deb Geisler, William Tenn, Terry Pratchett, Jack Speer, Peter Weston 
Thu|1:00PM|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with.||
Thu|1:00PM|Bcn D|Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream [ages 7-12]|Ever wonder how fast you can freeze ice cream? Find out when we use a not so ordinary method to make a creamy treat. Taste the results!!|Kathi D. Overton, John Pomeranz 
Thu|1:00PM|Bcn F|Origami for the Young [ages 4-6]|Japanese paper folding with big sheets of fun paper and a few simple folds.|
Thu|1:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Karin Lowachee ||Karin Lowachee 
Thu|1:00PM|Gard|Paper Cutting and Folding [ages 7-12]|Ever wonder how a few snips and folds can turn a flat piece of paper into a 3-D pop-up? This panel will teach you how to make a lantern and a pop-up card.|Persis Thorndike 
Thu|1:00PM|Hamp|Reading - S. M. Stirling ||S. M. Stirling 
Thu|1:30PM|H203|Exploring Parental Death in Children's Fantasy Literature||Kelly Goodridge
Thu|1:30PM|H209|_ _Oh My Goddess #4 Evergreen Holy Night_ [Subtitled] [N/R] _||
Thu|1:30PM|H210|Concert||Terry Kitchen 
Thu|1:30PM|H301|Postcolonial SF/F|What is post-colonial SF/F? Who's writing it? Who's reading it? And just as importantly, why is it increasing in importance as the world gets "smaller" thanks to technology?|Tobias Buckell 
Thu|1:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Laura Anne Gilman ||Laura Anne Gilman 
Thu|1:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Debra Doyle, James Macdonald ||Debra Doyle, James Macdonald 
Thu|1:45PM|Rep.A|_Orphen: Spell Of The Dragon_ (#1-3) [Dubbed] [12 +]||
Thu|2:00PM|H100|_Sportsclix_|An excellent baseball simulation from Wizkids. Steal bases, make double or even triple plays, make great plays, and even errors. This collectible figure game uses stats based on the real MLB players from last season for accurate representations of players' abilities on the field. [2 players per game] |
Thu|2:00PM|H203|Sparking Creativity with SF||Donna Young, Jordan Raddick
Thu|2:00PM|H204|How To Read For Pleasure|This isn't about being a "better reader" but about how to really enjoy what you're reading more!|Paul DiFilippo, Leigh Grossman (m), Ernest Lilley, Val Ontell, Pat York 
Thu|2:00PM|H205|Fandom...A Way of Making Money?|Have many fans actually achieved the goal of getting fandom to financially support the things they love to do? Our panelists talk about their own attempts to launch self-sustaining projects, give pointers, and warn about pitfalls. Fannish projects and charities will also be examined.|James Bacon, Charles N. Brown, Norman Cates, Bill Roper (m) 
Thu|2:00PM|H206|Welcome to the SF Community: Enjoying the Worldcon|An orientation seminar on the background of the World Science Fiction Convention and tips on making the most of the con.|Janice Gelb (m), Rich Lynch, Patrick Molloy, Sharon Sbarsky, Kevin Standlee 
Thu|2:00PM|H209|_ Oh My Goddess #5 For The Love Of Goddess _ [Subtitled] [N/R]||
Thu|2:00PM|H210|Concert||Rosemary Kirstein 
Thu|2:00PM|H301|All is _Not_ Book covers!|A long time ago when the Moon was made of green cheese, you could define SF/F Art as art that appeared on SF/F book covers and illustrated SF/F stories in magazines. That's not true anymore--if it ever was. Now with some SF/F artists working in 3-D and other media, how do you define SF/F art? What are some of the alternate possibilities?|David A. Hardy, Karl Kofoed, Theresa Mather, Elise Matthesen (m), Martina Pilcerova 
Thu|2:00PM|H302|Where Do Elves Come From?|Elves have their roots deep in European folklore, and have also burrowed deeply into modern fantasy literature. Why is this? What makes elves so interesting? What about them appeals to our psyches? Are there different kinds of elves? Are Tolkien's elves, beings who are almost preternatural humans, different in kind for the cute Victorian elves or from the grimmer elven folk of Anderson's _Broken Sword_? And what about the modern elves that appear in the night in many urban fantasies—why are they there? What is the significance of a separate, magical or supernatural race of human-like beings?|Esther Friesner, Theodora Goss, Kathy Morrow (m), Vera Nazarian, Terry Pratchett 
Thu|2:00PM|H303|Building a Better Fanzine|What kinds of things do you look for in a fan publication? What's the best way to get these things done? How do you get people to write for a 'zine, and how do you get them to write interesting things? What's a good use of money for a 'zine, and what's tempting but a better idea to avoid?|Guy H. Lillian, Nicki Lynch, Joseph T. Major, Steven H Silver (m), Geri Sullivan 
Thu|2:00PM|H304|Living in an SF World|In an episode of _Firefly_, Wash declaims that psychic powers are the stuff of science fiction. His wife Zoe points out that he lives in a spaceship. We are already beginning to live in an SF world-how are writers reacting to that? What will SF writers actually write about when we live and work in space?|James Alan Gardner, Robert A. Metzger (m), John Moore, Robert J. Sawyer, David Stephenson 
Thu|2:00PM|H305|Great (New!) British SF and Fantasy|US readers on the whole are several years behind in discovering such major writers as Ken MacLeod and Alastair Reynolds, and even today the works of Iain Banks often come to the US a year after they are available in the U.K. The panel looks at a number of the U.K. writers who many of us may be missing (allowing us to rush to the Dealers Room or to amazon.uk to find their works.|Jay Caselberg (m), A. Michael Rennie, Graham Sleight, Charles Stross, Liz Williams 
Thu|2:00PM|H306|How Possible is Time Travel?|Physics suggests FTL travel may be possible under limited circumstances. Could this be a gateway to time travel? If we get time travel, will nature somehow contrive to preserve causality? Panelists will discuss these and other "timely" issues...|John G. Cramer, Mark L. Olson, Jack Speer (m), Allen Steele 
Thu|2:00PM|H307|(Really) Hard Science for Beginners|So much of the current SF literature talks about quantum physics and other recent hard-to-understand concepts in modern science. An overview, in layman's terms, to help the fan without a heavy science background get more out of the new hard SF. String theory? Quarks? And (best of all), no math! Our panelists will answer the hard questions for you!|Susan Born, Michael A. Burstein (m), Keith G. Kato 
Thu|2:00PM|H309|The Art of Margaret-Organ-Kean|This Seattle-based fantasy artist shows you gymnastic jesters, literary fairies and toy unicorns in clean, modern watercolors or pen-and-ink. Enjoy a classical style with a whimsical smile? Don't miss Margaret--or her chess- playing zebras.|Margaret Organ-Kean 
Thu|2:00PM|H310|Designing Real Spacecraft|A look at what's involved in really designing and building something that's going to go into space. Spacecraft engineers spend a lot of time worrying about things that never make it into the movies or even the novels. Come find out what some of them are.|Henry Spencer 
Thu|2:00PM|H311|Alternate Ecologies|Describe how they work. If possible, discuss any truly alien places on Earth (that you might have visited or heard about) that have a fairly "alien" ecology as well!|M. M. Buckner, Janet Catherine Johnston, Larry Niven, Priscilla Olson (m) 
Thu|2:00PM|H312|Mind the Plot Holes Dear, Dear|Give examples of various discrepancies/problems with details from any piece of SF/F and try to categorize them (examples: temporal, silly, boneheaded, etc.). How could the story be saved?|Grant Carrington, Sharon Lee (m), Louise Marley, Tamora Pierce, Connie Willis 
Thu|2:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||Roger MacBride Allen, Colleen Doran, Michael F. Flynn, Karin Lowachee, Lee Martindale, Pamela Scoville 
Thu|2:00PM|Bcn A|Movie [ages 1-8]|Movies will be announced on the Movie Board outside the room. |
Thu|2:00PM|Bcn D|The Care and Feeding of Mythical Creatures [ages 7-12]|Talk with a fannish vet about the various creatures in your care, or those you would like to have.|Karen Purcell 
Thu|2:00PM|Bcn F|Make your Own Journal [ages 4-7]|Want to remember the special things about Noreascon 4? This fun journal will give you place to write, draw, or put a picture to keep those memories forever.|
Thu|2:00PM|Dalton|The Invention of the Laser|Real invention doesn't fit the standard plot line where a lone genius conceives an idea and carries it to completion, winning fame, fortune, and so on. Bell Labs claims it did. Charles Townes got the Nobel Prize, and Gordon Gould got the multi-million dollar patent. But it was Ted Maiman who actually designed and built the first laser. Learn the story behind it all.|Jeff Hecht 
Thu|2:00PM|Exeter|Reading - K. A. Bedford ||K. A. Bedford 
Thu|2:00PM|Gard|Rounds Singing for Kids [ages 7-12]||Lois H. Mangan 
Thu|2:00PM|Gr.Ball|_Lord of the Rings: Return of the King_|2004 Long Form Dramatic Presentation Hugo Nominee|
Thu|2:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Walter H. Hunt ||Walter H. Hunt 
Thu|2:00PM|Lib A|Brotherhood Without Banners (_Al Mata_)||
Thu|2:30PM|H209|_ Ah, My Goddess: The Movie _ [Subtitled] [N/R]||
Thu|2:30PM|H210|Concert||W. Randy Hoffman 
Thu|2:30PM|Dalton|The Folklore of New Orleans||James Cambias 
Thu|2:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Mike Shepherd-Moscoe ||Mike Shepherd-Moscoe 
Thu|2:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Phyllis Eisenstein ||Phyllis Eisenstein 
Thu|3:00PM|H203|Good and Evil in Genre Literature|Do science fiction, fantasy and horror have underlying moral perspectives? What are they? Do they differ? If so, why?|Craig Gardner, Nancy Kress, Paul Levinson, James Macdonald (m) 
Thu|3:00PM|H204|The Seven Deadly Myths of Creativity||Stephen P. Kelner 
Thu|3:00PM|H205|Must-See TV and Movies|Are you cineliterate? Can you call yourself a fan if you can't recognize "Klaatu berada nicto?" Do you know who Tom Corbett is? Why you should stay away from pod people? We'll talk about the classics, and even the good stuff, from _Metropolis_ to _Rocketship XM_ to _Princess Monomoke_.|Chris Barkley, Daniel Kimmel, Craig Miller (m), John Scalzi 
Thu|3:00PM|H206|Name-Droppers|Our panelists tell their most colorful stories about their personal contacts with the field's departed giants. What were they really like?|Harry Harrison, William Tenn, Mike Resnick (m), Robert Silverberg 
Thu|3:00PM|H210|Concert||Bill Roper 
Thu|3:00PM|H302|The Art and Science of Glamour|Looking at layers of reality, at "Lords and Ladies"—elves (and humans) who bury their natures. How do they do it? Why do we love it?|Greer Gilman, Simon R. Green, Terry Pratchett, Madeleine E. Robins (m) 
Thu|3:00PM|H303|HAL is Not the Artist: Creating Good Computer Art|A pixel-by-pixel discussion about using the computer to create art. When is it just fluff?|Alan F. Beck, Joe Bergeron, Michael Whelan (m), Frank Wu 
Thu|3:00PM|H304|Best Buys...in Swords, Steeds, and Princes|What to look for? How to choose? What are the best buys?|Zara Baxter (m), Esther Friesner, Karen Haber, Peter J. Heck 
Thu|3:00PM|H305|All That Gothic Stuff...|Doom. Gloom. Death. Destruction. Darkness (and despair!). Enough already! What...why...and how long can it possibly last? (Alas! )|Paula Guran, Bey King, Shariann Lewitt, Cecilia Tan, Teresa Nielsen Hayden (m), Liz Williams 
Thu|3:00PM|H306|Robots' Rights|The real reason we want AI is that we want perfect slaves. Whether they be butlers, bodyguards, intelligent sex toys or whatever, we want Jeeves-like competence with hard-wired loyalty and obedience and without the moral issues involved in enslaving _people_. But is there a paradox in that? Is it possible for machines (i.e., any combination of hardware and software) to be smart enough to do what we really want them to do without also being self-aware enough to have "human" rights?|David Gerrold, Alexis Gilliland, James Patrick Kelly (m), John Pomeranz, Jack Speer 
Thu|3:00PM|H309|Slideshow||Teddy Harvia 
Thu|3:00PM|H310|Fantasy Forensics|Real and imagined fantasy stuff. Do vampires get rigor mortis? Does Cthulu have fingerprints? Analyzing a crossbow wound, etc.|Jim Butcher, Stephen Dedman, Tamara Jones, Lisa J. Steele (m) 
Thu|3:00PM|H311|Writers We Don't Understand|Charlie Stross loads his stories with so much IT jargon it makes the head spin. A PhD in Physics is necessary to get full enjoyment out of a Greg Egan novel. China Mieville is best read with an open dictionary handy. Are these writers doing this on purpose? Are they that much smarter than the rest of us, or are we getting a year of painstaking research downloaded into us in a compressed format? Is there a good stylistic reason to confuse your readers?|Paul DiFilippo, Carl Frederick, Eileen Gunn, Matthew Jarpe (m) 
Thu|3:00PM|H312|The Real Year|It has been said (Clute) that every SF text, regardless of the year it claims to be set in has an underlying "real year" which shines through, the secret point in time that gves the work its flavor. The real year of any Bradbury story, for example, is 1927, for any Spider Robinson story, 1970.|Clute has also noted that as the real year of the book approaches the present, the harder it is to read or writer or understand...agreed?|\Which SF texts have been this cutting edge, and what happens to those texts as time passes by? Is the real year of the fiction something the writer can control (or even want to control?)|John Clute, Graham Sleight, Eric M. Van (m), Andrew Wheeler 
Thu|3:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||Jack L. Chalker, Scott Edelman, Bob Eggleton, Edward M. Lerner, Shane Tourtellotte, Karen Traviss 
Thu|3:00PM|Bcn D|Video Games and Storytelling [ages 7-12]||Michael Gilmartin 
Thu|3:00PM|Bcn F|Magic Wands [ages 2-12]|Turn a chopstick into a magic wand to bring your imagination to life.|
Thu|3:00PM|Dalton|Science Writing|Good writing about science can nurture the science-fictional imagination, and in turn the imagery of SF often illuminates discourse about the frontiers of knowledge. How does the best science writing differ from the mediocre? How does it get past superficial and cliched ideas to convey a deeper insight into science and technology? Which nonfiction books have tickled our sense of wonder? How does SF influence good science writers?|Guy Consolmagno, David Friedman (m), Jeff Hecht, Samuel Scheiner, W. A. Thomasson 
Thu|3:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Mary H. Rosenblum ||Mary H. Rosenblum 
Thu|3:00PM|Gard|WETA for Kids [ages 7-12]|WETA did the special effects for the _Lord of the Rings_ movie trilogy|Norman Cates 
Thu|3:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Walter Jon Williams ||Walter Jon Williams 
Thu|3:00PM|Lib C|[SIG]Klatchian Foreign Legion (Ann M. Caggiano)|
Thu|3:00PM|Rep.A|_ Crusher Joe: The Movie_ [Subtitled]|, 
Thu|3:00PM|Doc.Tour|Village Tour (of the Worldcon)|A general orientation tour of the convention.|Priscilla Olson 
Thu|3:30PM|H210|Concert||Ellen James 
Thu|3:30PM|H307|The "Mature" SF Reader/Writer||Pat York 
Thu|3:30PM|Exeter|Reading - James Killus ||James Killus 
Thu|3:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Sean McMullen ||Sean McMullen 
Thu|4:00PM||Deadline for Submission of New Business to WSFS Business Meeting|
Thu|4:00PM|H107|_Mission of Gravity_|A round-table discussion of the 1953 Retro Hugo nominated novel.|Anthony R. Lewis 
Thu|4:00PM|H203|Teaching Horror Literature||Carl Sederholm, Dennis Perry, Sally Taylor
Thu|4:00PM|H204|Tolkien's Techniques|It has been said that if Tolkien had been a professional writer (in the usual sense of the word) he would not have dared to do some of the things he did (such as tell large chunks of the story in flashback.) His techniques worked very well...why? How hard is it to pull off, anyway? Discuss.|Daniel Grotta, Pete Grubbs, Elise Matthesen (m), Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Jo Walton 
Thu|4:00PM|H205|SF as an International Phenomenon|From Barcelona to Beijing, exciting SF is being written in tongues other than English. Our presenters will discuss recent efforts to break down the language barriers within the international SF community. This _is_ the World Science Fiction Convention, after all, so let's talk about what's happening in our field around the planet.|James Morrow, Kathy Morrow 
Thu|4:00PM|H206|Your Dream Convention|Your wealthy great-uncle Willard has died and left you $20 million on the condition you spend it enjoying yourself! So you decide to hold the greatest SF con _ever_.|Questions to answer:_What?_ A super-exclusive relaxacon? A convention that would dwarf the Worldcon? _Where?_ _When?_ _Who_ would you invite and who would you deliberately exclude? |C'mon, it's your dream convention!|James Bacon, Mike Glyer, David R. Howell (m), Andrew Porter, Roger Sims 
Thu|4:00PM|H208|Masquerade's Greatest (Literary) Hits|Video presentation of great costumes from the past few decades inspired by science fiction and fantasy literature.|Susan de Guardiola 
Thu|4:00PM|H209|_ Magical Knight Rayearth _ [Subtitled]||
Thu|4:00PM|H210|Concert||Blind Lemming Chiffon 
Thu|4:00PM|H301|How to Lie With Statistics|Surely advertisers, activists, industry and government would _never_ abuse your trust by playing fast and loose with numbers. Especially after this ever-popular program arms you with the straight dope on scads of crooked digit tricks!|Michael F. Flynn 
Thu|4:00PM|H302|Artificial Intelligence, and How the Brain Works|Artificial intelligence in SF borders on the magical. How close are we to true AI, and what will it actually look like? How will we define/test for/recognize it? Will it work like the human brain? (And how does that work, anyway - is the "mind as software" model obsolete?) Are we Turing Machines...or will AIs be us?|Tom Galloway (m), David Gerrold, David McMahon, David Mumford, G. David Nordley 
Thu|4:00PM|H303|Writers' Tricks and Tips|How do you borrow from another culture? Make up an alien language? Describe something you've never seen? Authors discuss some of the tricks of the trade.|Steve Antczak (m), K. A. Bedford, Nicholas A. DiChario, Gavin Grant, Yves Meynard 
Thu|4:00PM|H304|Fantasy Motifs in SF Literature|Fantasy is about elves, and SF is about spaceships, and ne'er the twain shall meet, right? Or is it? It has even been noted that an "enchanted forest" exists in "Against the Fall of Night" but...but that's SF...not fantasy! So what happens when SF uses fantasy motifs? Is it no longer SF, or at least not "real" SF? Is Yoda Merlin? AKKA the One Ring? How does a writer take a classic fantasy motif and make it SF-or it more than just dressing it in hardware? Are there any fantasy motifs which have not been used...or cannot be used? Why do hard sf writers bother to play with folkloric images: What do they get out of this miscegenation, (and why?)|Laura Frankos, Rosemary Kirstein, Josepha Sherman, Sarah Zettel (m) 
Thu|4:00PM|H305|As You Know, Bob: The Positives and Negatives of Infodumps in Writing|Exposition can be quick or subtle, or straight, or with a twist. It can stop the story cold, or provide plot (and stylistic) impact. It can be smooth or lumpy, necessary or gratuitous. The panel will discuss expository theory and practice, and answer the eternal question: "What does Bob really know?"|Debra Doyle, Terry McGarry (m), Teresa Nielsen Hayden 
Thu|4:00PM|H306|_Roger Rabbit_ and Beyond|A talk.|Gary K. Wolf 
Thu|4:00PM|H307|Woe is me! I am the first woman ever to set pen to paper..."|Margaret Cavendish wrote "The Blazing World" in the late 1600s, Mary Shelley produced "Frankenstein" over a hundred years later. Come to a round-table discussion of the early female fantasists, and find out whether they really had any influence--and what it was, if so. And, why (oh, why!) they keep getting forgotten!|Elaine Brennan 
Thu|4:00PM|H309|A Horse is Not a Motorcycle|Many writers treat horses like motorcycles. But actually they're more like aliens who we can mostly convince to take us where we want to go if we're nice to them. Horse people talk about what horses are really like and how to use them realistically in fiction.|Ellen Asher, Karen Purcell (m), Melinda Snodgrass 
Thu|4:00PM|H310|My Favorite Planet|What fictional (or, non-fictional) world would you most like to visit or inhabit? Why? Describe it. Past, future, or alternative Earths are also gratefully appreciated.|Edward M. Lerner, Larry Niven, Mary H. Rosenblum, Karl Schroeder (m) 
Thu|4:00PM|H311|The Singularity and the Eschaton: Compare and Contrast|Vernor Vinge has popularized the concept of the Singularity as a point in the (near?) future where advancing technology changes the human condition so radically that it becomes quite literally incomprehensible to anyone whose world-view was formed before that point.|This sounds a lot like the religious concept of the Eschaton, the End of Time, when divine intervention destroys the world as we know it and replaces it with "a new heaven and a new earth".|Without debating the validity of either concept (which would be futile and open-ended), let's discuss the points that these two ideas have in common and the points on which they differ. It might also be worthwhile to tie in some other arguably Eschaton-like ideas, such as "the withering away of the State" in classical Marxism or the "end of history" in some modern Neoconservative thinking.|Janice M. Eisen, Mark L. Olson (m), Timothy L. Smith, Charles Stross, Janine Ellen Young 
Thu|4:00PM|H312|Prejudices We Haven't Thought of...Yet|Will it matter how many eyes you have? What gender, if there are many? Whether you're black on the left of right side of the body? (OK, __did think of that!)|Jack Dann, Katherine Kurtz, Katya Reimann, Wen Spencer (m) 
Thu|4:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||John G. Cramer, Mike Shepherd-Moscoe, Tamora Pierce, Mark W. Tiedemann, Liz Williams 
Thu|4:00PM|Bcn A|Playground Games [ages 4-7]|Play basic rule games in a more organized manner than open playtime (Duck, Duck, Goose; Animal Tag; Simon Says, etc.) 
Thu|4:00PM|Bcn D|Funny Stories [ages 7-12]||Don Sakers 
Thu|4:00PM|Bcn F|Shrinky Dinks [ages 4-12]|Wonderful plastic you can color and then shrink into a permanent piece of jewelry.|
Thu|4:00PM|Clar|Filk Lyrics Workshop|Your song from the heart needs a little buffing. Come work with an experienced songwriter to remove the trite and introduce the small touches that make your lyrics unique.|David Weingart 
Thu|4:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Theodora Goss ||Theodora Goss 
Thu|4:00PM|Gard|Stump the Scientists! [ages 7-12]|We know you're smart. Here's a chance to test your skills against our panelists. Bring your questions and quiz these specialists.|Michael A. Burstein (m), Bridget Coila, Isaac Szpindel 
Thu|4:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Robert J. Sawyer ||Robert J. Sawyer 
Thu|4:00PM|C'Ste|Knitting (and other crafts) Circle|
Thu|4:00PM|Lib A|Online Writing Workshop||James Stevens-Arce
Thu|4:30PM|H210|Pegasus Nominees Concert||
Thu|4:30PM|Dalton|Game-related Fiction||Janna Silverstein 
Thu|4:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Justine Larbalestier ||Justine Larbalestier 
Thu|4:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Sharon Lee, Steve Miller ||Sharon Lee, Steve Miller 
Thu|5:00PM|H107|Ms. Manners for RPGs|Managing problem players, RMs, and other social issues in RPGs.|Lisa J. Steele 
Thu|5:00PM|H204|Vampire Mysteries: A Dialog||Charlaine Harris, Toni L. P. Kelner 
Thu|5:00PM|H205|How Bad Can a Bad Panel Get?|Whose program is it, anyway? We'll discuss, model, and generally dissect the questionable (and sometimes outrageous) behaviors exhibited by program participants (and the audience!) at diverse conventions. Come prepared to be bored by speakers, experience the effects of panel-hogging, see totally-random subject changes, attacks on the other panelists and the audience, and all those other behaviors that make for poor panel participation.|We'll share stories, advice, and solutions. (Note: while program participants certainly don't have to come to this, it wouldn't hurt to check it out, anyway!) Join us for the worst program item ever! (And--oh yes!--the audience gets to vote people off the panel every 10 minutes...)|Janice Gelb, John F. Hertz (m), Jim Mann, Craig Miller, Priscilla Olson, Edie Stern 
Thu|5:00PM|H206|Rocket Talk, with Fizz and Fuse, the Reactor Brothers|Got a problem with your starship? Attitude thrusters making funny noises? Can't agree with your spouse on which model light sail to buy? (And should you _really_ change your dilithium crystals every 3000 light years?) Come ask Fizz and Fuse, who, like their ancestors Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, will take questions from the audience and offer advice on repairs, purchases, and personal relationships, all unencumbered by the constraints of physics _or_ common sense.|Bill Higgins, Jordin T. Kare 
Thu|5:00PM|H208|Masquerade's Greatest (Media) Hits|Video presentation of great media (science fiction and fantasy film and television)-inspired costumes from the past few decades.|Susan de Guardiola 
Thu|5:00PM|H210|Chapter and Verse|Authors and filkers working together!|Bill Sutton 
Thu|5:00PM|H301|Deconstructing Mary Sue|Could _Mary Sue_ be the most useful literary concept of our Me Millennium? We'll discuss myriad examples, from fanfic, flicks, and major SF works that should be ashamed of themselves.|You see, in the classic Mary Sue story, a character happens to be amazingly like the author, except said MS is incredibly more attractive, accomplished, and most of all accepted—nay beloved—than anybody outside of a blatant wish fulfillment.|Teresa Nielsen Hayden 
Thu|5:00PM|H302|_Angel_, The Final Episode|Did _Angel_'s final episode answer the questions raised in the five-year arc? Was it a satisfactory conclusion?|Ginjer Buchanan, Susan Casper, Bey King (m), Martha Wells 
Thu|5:00PM|H303|Welcome to the SF Community: Making Connections|Now that you're here, here's how to meet people, get involved, and learn to understand our eccentric community!|James Bacon, Elaine Brennan (m), Grant Kruger, Joel Zakem 
Thu|5:00PM|H304|Predicting the Next Ten Years|Our brave (or foolhardy) panelists each make five predictions about science or society or the SF community that they believe might well materialize within the next decade. We'll publish at least one of these predictions a day in _The Triplanetary Gazette_, Noreascon's newsletter. Keep copies, everyone, and see you for the panel's second half in 2014!|Justin Ackroyd, David Gerrold (m), Joe Haldeman, Chris Moriarty 
Thu|5:00PM|H305|The Klingon Language|An introduction to Klingon grammar. You _will_ be able to speak thousands of Klingon sentences at the end of the hour.|Lawrence Schoen 
Thu|5:00PM|H306|It Came From The South—Bubba SF&F;|Southern Gothic is a recognized theme in literature. How does living in the South (US, that is) affect writers' views, styles, plots, and outlooks? Is it more than just funny dialects?|F. Brett Cox (m), Melanie Fletcher, Lee Martindale, Allen Steele 
Thu|5:00PM|H307|Fine Art and Filthy Pictures|Just where do we draw the line? Why, for instance, is full frontal female nudity usually OK, while male nudity is not? (And must all those bare bodies be "perfect" for it to be "art"?)|Laurie Toby Edison, Irene Gallo, Margaret Organ-Kean 
Thu|5:00PM|H309|Traditional Structures of Plays and Fiction|The traditional structure of a play is a build-up to a climax at the midpoint of the play (and how _do_ you achieve a perfect climax, anyway?) and then a slow draw down until the ending and denouement. Some works of SF and fantasy follow that model and others don't. What other models are there, and where would one of them best be used instead of the traditional isosceles triangle structure described here?|Suzy McKee Charnas, Jim Grimsley, Martha Soukup, James Stevens-Arce (m) 
Thu|5:00PM|H310|Moods and Medications: Psychopharmacology|Psychopharmacology claims to have made great strides in the past decade or so in developing various medications. But most of these drugs have side-effects and many are controversial. Problems have emerged when they are given to teenagers and children. Have we really found an effective way to medicate mood disorders? What are the consequences? The outlook for the future? And who defines what moods are medicable?|Charles Ardai (m), Matthew Jarpe, A. Michael Rennie, Eric M. Van 
Thu|5:00PM|H311|The Shadow of the Torturer: The Writer as God|Do you abuse your characters? Do you do this to further the story or because it's necessary to make the story more believable...or, to exorcise your own demons? Writing's potential for self-revelation may be its most powerful and terrifying aspect. How do you cope when your story is telling you something you don't want to know about the dark shadow of the self?|Lois McMaster Bujold, Barbara Chepaitis (m), James Alan Gardner, Tamara Jones, Elizabeth Moon, Uncle River 
Thu|5:00PM|H312|The Art of Screen Writing: Big and Small|How does writing for TV and the movies differ from writing for print media? In terms of subject matter, polish, and creative freedom, which is more rewarding? Panelists will discuss these questions and the differences between styles and intent when converting a short story or novel to a screenplay.|George R. R. Martin (m), Sandra McDonald, Melinda Snodgrass, Gary K. Wolf 
Thu|5:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||Norman Cates, Paul DiFilippo, Leigh Grossman, Eileen Gunn, Michelle Sagara West 
Thu|5:00PM|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with.|
Thu|5:00PM|Bcn D|Riddles in the Dark [ages 7-12]|Reading from _The Hobbit_.|jan howard finder 
Thu|5:00PM|Bcn F|Postcard to a Friend [ages 2-12]|Everyone loves getting a postcard from someone far away. Make one to send to your friend back home. 
Thu|5:00PM|Clar|The Fiction of Connie Willis||Janice Eisen
Thu|5:00PM|Dalton|Art from the Someday File|If you could illustrate anything, what would you choose? Why? And what would you find most difficult? Muse aloud about the subjects you're itching to tackle, and the projects you're planning to get to real soon now.|Joseph DeVito, Ruth Sanderson, Michael Whelan, Janny Wurts (m) 
Thu|5:00PM|Exeter|Reading - John G. Hemry ||John G. Hemry 
Thu|5:00PM|Gard|HoverDisc Games [ages 7-12]|Don't know what a HoverDisc is? Come and find out; you'll be hooked.|Steven Chalker
Thu|5:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Paul Levinson ||Paul Levinson 
Thu|5:00PM|Rep.A|_ Memories_ [Subtitled] [PG-13]||
Thu|5:30PM|H203|On Clark Ashton Smith|A close look at the works and legacy of one of the neglected great writers of the genre.|Jack L. Chalker 
Thu|5:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Gavin Grant ||Gavin Grant 
Thu|5:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Connie Willis||Connie Willis
Thu|6:00PM|| KiddieCorp. Professional Childcare and Noreascon's Children's Activities Close||
Thu|6:00PM|H203|Science, SF, and Reading in the Upper Elementary Grades|A hands-on workshop of methods of incorporating SF into the classroom. The Challenger centers will also be introduced.|David Michelson
Thu|6:00PM|H204|The Science of Chocolate|Learn about chocolate chemistry, the history of chocolate from prehistory to today, different types of chocolate, and how chocolate is made. Feed your cravings!|Susan Born 
Thu|6:00PM|H205|Tall Tech Tales|Panelists, with considerable audience participation, tell real life amusing anecdotes about the sciences. Example: at one point the MIT AI Lab built a robot to play ping-pong. Marvin Minsky, one of the founders of AI, happened to walk by and the robot almost decapitated him, since it mistook his bald head for a ping-pong ball. Beat that!|Guy Consolmagno, Jeff Hecht (m), Robert A. Metzger 
Thu|6:00PM|H206|Fannish Eye for the Mundane Guy|Fans will give a total lifestyle remake to a mundane or two. ...|Esther Friesner, Lynn Gold, John F. Hertz (m), David R. Howell, Suford Lewis, Edie Stern 
Thu|6:00PM|H210|Concert||Kathleen Sloan 
Thu|6:00PM|H301|Where Have All the Autos Gone?|Why does SF rarely (if ever) include wheeled cars?|Chris French 
Thu|6:00PM|H302|Cardboard Characters|Are they always bad? Old-fashioned SF used to be known for "cardboard characters," and being plot- and action- driven. But, having the cardboard characters wasn't necessarily only from a perceived lack of characterization skills or interest on the part of writers and authors--spending the time and effort to attempt to have more fully-fleshed out, multidimensional characters, might have led to different stories, not necessarily appreciated by the audience, or longer, more complicated stories, again, not necessarily desired by the audience. Then again, a lot of it may have been because of shortcomings and short deadlines for writers and publishing. But with all that, are there times when cardboard characters _work_ and are the right way to go?|Sharon Lee, Chris Moriarty, Steve Saffel (m), Laura Underwood 
Thu|6:00PM|H303|"Finishing" the Costume|Discusses the pieces needed to make a costume really "finished". Finding, making, and decorating appropriate headpieces and footwear for costumes. Materials and methods to make stage props.|Janet Catherine Johnston, Pierre E. Pettinger (m)
Thu|6:00PM|H304|Riding the Slipstream|In between the genres is a new non-genre called slipstream. Can it really be defined? Should it be? How is it enlivening long-standing genres?|F. Brett Cox (m), Theodora Goss, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Delia Sherman, Andrew Wheeler 
Thu|6:00PM|H305|Compulsive Collecting|What behavioral traits are shared by compulsive collectors—and is there any good way of treating the disease (or even the symptoms)? Do you collect or just acquire? Panelists discuss the differences When does collecting become hoarding? Panelists share stories of collection mania, and explain some ways of controlling these compulsions (or, at least, storing the results).|Thomas Atkinson, Chris Barkley, Geary Gravel, Pamela Scoville (m) 
Thu|6:00PM|H306|Unlimited Access?|Issues involving unlicensed access to spectrum.|Cory Doctorow, Harold Feld (m) 
Thu|6:00PM|H307|Well-Played Fan|The basics of Gaming that _every_ fan should know!|Mary Crowell, W. Randy Hoffman, Tamara Jones, Wil McDermott, Bill Todd (m) 
Thu|6:00PM|H309|Language: Barrier or Bridge|Translations bring works to audiences who can't read them in the original, but how are the works affected when the words change?|Nomi Burstein (m), Anna Feruglio Dal Dan, Sheila Finch, Yves Meynard, Vera Nazarian 
Thu|6:00PM|H311|Take the Blue Pill... no, wait|Ooops...giving antipsychotics to kids was, well, crazy. Sorry, that new diet turns out to be fatheaded. OK, take those breast implants back out of the fridge, little lady... When medical science keeps changing its mind, how (and why?) do we keep up?|Bridget Coila, Perrianne Lurie, Ronald Taylor, W. A. Thomasson, Karen Traviss (m), Trish Wilson 
Thu|6:00PM|H312|The Quest|For what? Regardless...how are quests really about a search for identity and "adulthood"?|Mindy Klasky, James Macdonald, Madeleine E. Robins, Jeff VanderMeer (m) 
Thu|6:00PM|ArtSh|Art Show Opens||
Thu|6:00PM|Clar|Filking in Klingon||Mark Mandel, Lawrence Schoen 
Thu|6:00PM|Ccrse|Site Selection Closes for the Day||
Thu|6:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Grant Carrington ||Grant Carrington 
Thu|6:00PM|Fmz Lge|Fancyclopedia-Live!|Joe Siclari (m), Jack Speer, Milton F. Stevens 
Thu|6:00PM|Gr.Ball|_Pirates of the Caribbean_|2004 Long Form Dramatic Presentation Hugo Nominee |
Thu|6:00PM|Hall A|Music||
Thu|6:00PM|Hall D|Dealers Room Closes||
Thu|6:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Wen Spencer ||Wen Spencer 
Thu|6:00PM|Doc.Tour|Village Tour (of the Worldcon)|A general orientation tour of the convention.|Laurie Mann 
Thu|6:30PM|H100|_Mechwarrior_ Tournament|Bring your army and put it to the test in this Wizkids authorized tournament. [1200 pts. Mech only] ||
Thu|6:30PM|H210|Filk Singalong with Filthy Pierre||Erwin S. Strauss 
Thu|6:30PM|H301|Birds of Prey|Birds of prey have long fascinated writers and readers of speculative fiction. Learn more about them from someone who has studied them for more than thirty years and has used them extensively in his fiction. While geared toward writers who wish to become more familiar with raptors and owls, this talk will interest anyone curious about these marvelous creatures.|David B. Coe 
Thu|6:30PM|M.Drum|Fiddle Concert||Roland Liu
Thu|6:30PM|Dalton|WSFS Mark Protection Committee Meeting|This committee manages the WSFS service marks like "Worldcon" and "Hugo Award" and consists of members elected by the Business Meeting and appointed by Worldcon and NASFiC committees. This meeting is open to all Worldcon members. ||
Thu|6:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Matthew Jarpe ||Matthew Jarpe 
Thu|6:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Toni L. P. Kelner ||Toni L. P. Kelner 
Thu|7:00PM||First Night Begins|First Night kicks off with a fanfare by The Star Chamber.|
Thu|7:00PM|H200|The Ankh-Morpork Ball|Catch an early dinner and dance through the ages with us. The evening starts with Participatory Renaissance Dance: Easy dances from the 16th and 17th centuries. Everything will be taught, so come on in! Run by the Society for Creative Anachronism (Justin du Coeur, dancemaster). Follow this with Ballroom dancing of the ages; including Waltz, Polka, One Step, Tango, Swing, Rock. Finally, the wind up the evening with modern music. Bring your dance shoes! 7:00 p-8:00 p: Renaissance dancing 8:00 p-10:30 p: Vintage dancing 10:30 p-2:00 a: Modern dancing|Mark Waks (aka Justin du Couer), Sue & Larry Schroeder
Thu|7:00PM|H205|Future House: a Tribute to the PBS _House _Shows|We envision a mixed group of average folks from the USA of 2004 living for 3 months in a typical 2104 biopodplex. Imagine adjusting to IV plumbing and the 1000-hour workweek alone! How long till the sex, lies, and betrayals begin? OK...describe your experiences in the Future House.|Rusty Hevelin, James Patrick Kelly, Ellen Kushner, Connie Willis (m) 
Thu|7:00PM|H206|Punday|A host provides topics to a set of contestants who must in turn make a not-yet-said pun on that topic within 30 seconds. When someone misses or repeats, they're gonged out and the topic changes.|Jordin T. Kare, Josepha Sherman 
Thu|7:00PM|H208|Godzilla: My Favorite Monster|Born in Japan as a nuclear allegory, now an American favorite in innumerable remakes and variants.The original _Gojira_ was released in the US only this year. What _is_ the big guy's appeal? What will the next Zillagimmick be? Enjoy the discussion, and this collection of commercials, trailers, and other oddities. Happy Birthday!|Bob Eggleton 
Thu|7:00PM|H209|_ Ask Dr. Mike _|What can you get for the man who knows everything? Science fiction's wildly acclaimed answer to Drs. Hawking, Ruth, Phil, and Laura asks only for the gift of your most challenging questions about science, philosophy, history, the meaning and origin of life, and that awkward con restaurant invitation thing.|John M. Ford 
Thu|7:00PM|H210|Filk Concert||David Weingart 
Thu|7:00PM|H303|Making Book|How can you produce your own fine art books? Today's printing technology makes it possible for an individual artist to produce bound portfolios and monograph books for an investment of hundreds of dollars instead of tens of thousands. In the past year Ctein has begun issuing a series of large-format, high-quality, hand-printed-and-bound art books. In this hour he will discuss his experiences with this novel publishing experiment and explain how others can do this for themselves.|Ctein 
Thu|7:00PM|H306|The Seven Deadly Sins of SF and Fantasy|Admit it--some SF notions just don't make sense...and a lot of them become standard background elements in the genre. Discuss a bunch of them (well, at least 7-and invent some new ones of your own, if you want!), why they're so terrible, and how they get established. Is it just that People Don't Think, or are there other reasons for these lousy ideas?|Craig Gardner, Geary Gravel, Rosemary Kirstein, Justine Larbalestier (m), Scott Westerfield 
Thu|7:00PM|H309|Spintronics||Kevin P. Roche 
Thu|7:00PM|H310|Future of the Space Shuttle|Should we kill the shuttle (and space station) now? After all, they sounded good at the time, but these both seem to be turning into somewhat useless money pits. (True or false?) Then, what should follow them? NASA's current directive is to go to the moon and then to Mars using manned vehicles. Is that a good idea? What's going to work?|Jeff Hecht (m), Allen Steele, Ian Randal Strock 
Thu|7:00PM|H311|The Return of 20 Panels an Hour...|A preview of the program? Using patented ThoughtSquasher compression technology, Boskone's barely tolerated "Sunday, Funny Sunday" crew flees to Noreascon's First Night. Watch with whimpering amazement as they whip through at least twenty complete panel topics (not including this one) in fifty-five minutes or less. Warning: do not apply directly to brain.|Michael A. Burstein, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Bob Devney (m), Leigh Grossman 
Thu|7:00PM|Ccrse|Terry on Trial|...for such charges as "failing to stop at a trilogy", "writing with undue care and attention", "cruelty to animals", and "being a rich bastard!". Celebrity witness will include Death, Nanny Ogg, and others. Caselberg as prosecutor, Friesner as defender, Bacon as judge...|James Bacon, Esther Friesner, Jay Caselberg (m), Mary Kay Kare, Terry Pratchett 
Thu|7:00PM|Exeter|Reading - James Cambias ||James Cambias 
Thu|7:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Thomas Harlan ||Thomas Harlan 
Thu|7:00PM|Rep.A|_ Martian Successor Nadesico: Prince Of Darkness_ [Subtitled] [15 +]||
Thu|7:30PM||Filk Concert||H. Paul Shuch 
Thu|7:30PM|H303| Set Phasers to Stun|A look at less-than-lethal weapons in fiction and reality.|Lisa J. Steele 
Thu|8:00PM|H205|How to Start a Magazine...and Why You Shouldn't|So, you need a business plan and seed money, and (oh yeah) readers. Plus you need to create? exploit? a new niche in the market, so you seem fresh and relevant , Are you sure you've got what it takes?|George H. Scithers 
Thu|8:00PM|H209|Comedy Routine|Harry Harrison and Gary Davis ("World Citizen No. 1") do comedy!|Harry Harrison 
Thu|8:00PM|H210|Selections from _The Filkado_|
Thu|8:00PM|ArtSh|Ellen James, harpist||Ellen James
Thu|8:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||William Tenn, Peter Weston 
Thu|8:00PM|M.Drum|Tavern Songs||Sean McMullen, Faye Ringel 
Thu|8:00PM|Clar|Open Filk||
Thu|8:00PM|Midway|Blindfolded Sculpting|Sandra Lira, Heidi Hooper, Susan Finley, Mike Ventrella, and two guest sculptors lead this demonstration--with audience participation as well! |Sandra Lira, Heidi Hooper, Susan Finley, Mike Ventrella, etc.
Thu|8:00PM|Dalton|Open Filk-no taping||
Thu|8:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Cecilia Tan ||Cecilia Tan 
Thu|8:00PM|Fmz Lge|TAFF/DUFF Reception|| James Bacon, Norman Cates
Thu|8:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Katya Reimann ||Katya Reimann 
Thu|8:00PM|Indep|Deryni Guide|Join Ann Dupuis, publisher of the upcoming _Deryni Adventure Game_ for a role-playing adventuring involving Sendai the Magnificent and his troupe of traveling performers.|Ann Dupuis
Thu|8:00PM|Rep.B|_ X2: X-Men United_|2004 Long Form Dramatic Presentation Hugo Nominee ||
Thu|8:15PM|H210|Concert by The Fibs|Tom Fenton, Jim Iarocci, Carl William Thiel 
Thu|8:30PM|H205|Give Me Back the Rabbit, and Nobody Gets Hurt|Sharing the experiences and explaining ways of dealing with audience problems during magic shows.|Daniel P. Dern 
Thu|8:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Victoria McManus ||Victoria McManus 
Thu|8:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Jim Butcher ||Jim Butcher 
Thu|8:30PM|Rep.A|_ Samurai X: The Motion Picture_ [Dubbed] [17 +]||
Thu|9:00PM|H205|The Precarious State of SF in Sweden||John-Henri Holmberg 
Thu|9:00PM|H206|A Scene a Minute?/Whose Line Is It?|How well can our teams of participants act out well-known scenes in a minute or less...and have the audience guess what they're doing?|Michael A. Burstein (m), Nomi Burstein (m), Solomon Davidoff, Michael McAfee, A. Michael Rennie, Josepha Sherman 
Thu|9:00PM|H208|Coming Attractions—What Films to see at Worldcon (First Night)|
Thu|9:00PM|H209|_ Readings from the Published Works of Absent Writers _|"The doorknob opened a blue eye...". Open mike reading of your favorite excerpts. Bring your own favorite three-minute pieces (that are particularly meaningful to you) and read the, Join the read-in.|jan howard finder, Mary Kay Kare 
Thu|9:00PM|H210|_Thomas the Rhymer_|This performance interlaces portions of Ellen Kushner's award-winning novel _Thomas the Rhymer_ with the traditional ballads that inspired it, creating a living picture in words and song of the mortal minstrel taken by the Queen of Elfland to serve in her perilous kingdom.|Ellen Kushner 
Thu|9:00PM|Ccrse|Information Closes||
Thu|9:00PM|Exeter|Open Filk||
Thu|9:00PM|Gard|Filk Rendezvous||
Thu|9:00PM|Hall A|Registration Closes||
Thu|9:00PM|Hamp|Open Filk||
Thu|9:00PM|M.Drum|SFWA Musketeers||
Thu|9:00PM|Midway|Cartoon Jam||Joe Bergeron, Alexis Gilliland, Teddy Harvia, Bill Neville, John Zakour 
Thu|9:15PM|M.Drum|Fiddle Concert||April Grant 
Thu|9:30PM|H205|The Science Fictional Sherlock Holmes||Carl William Thiel 
Thu|10:00PM|H204|About _Silverlock_|Round-table "footnoting" of the book.|Fred Lerner 
Thu|10:00PM|H205|Win Tom Galloway's Money|If you liked "Win Ben Stein's Money," you'll love the (very, very freely adapted) SF version. After all, Ben's game just can't compete with trivia categories like "That's Why Delaney Is a Tramp," "Running with Edward Scissorhands," and "I'm a Gaiman Fan--Not That There's Anything Wrong With That."|Keith R. A. DeCandido, Tom Galloway 
Thu|10:00PM|H209|Hippocrene and Hyperspace: An Open Mike Poetry Reading|Named in honor of the poetry item at the 1963 Worldcon (Discon I), about which George Scithers later wrote, "We were afraid that a bald announcement that we were going to have a poetry-reading session would scare off the audience...". Let's jam. 
Thu|10:00PM|H210|_On Venus Have We Got a Rabbi _|...with the original intonations...|William Tenn 
Thu|10:00PM|ArtSh|Art Show Closes|
Thu|10:00PM|M.Drum|Discworld Songs|Songs inspired by Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Performance and singalong. |
Thu|10:00PM|Gr.Ball|_28 Days After _|2004 Long Form Dramatic Presentation Hugo Nominee 
Thu|10:00PM|Rep.A|_ Blue Seed 1-5_ [Subtitled]||
Thu|10:30PM|H208|_The Lord of the Piercing_ and _Gollum's Acceptance Speech at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards_|An Easter Egg and a Short Form Dramatic Presentation Hugo Nominee
Thu|10:45PM|M.Drum|Concert||Rosemary Kirstein 
Thu|11:00PM||First Night Ends||
Thu|11:00PM|H208|_ The Very Secret Diaries_: a Dramatic Reading||
Thu|11:00PM|H209|_ Gundam Movie 1_ [Subtitled]||
Thu|11:00PM|Conf|Filk Office On-call||
Thu|11:00PM|Exeter|Rendezvous||
Thu|11:00PM|Midway|Pictionary|Think of Charades, played by mute mental patients. It's somewhat (but not very) similar to water polo with scratchpads. It's the parlor game Satan makes Picasso play in Hell with Claude Degler. It's the shoulder-shaking epicenter of some of this con's largest laughquakes. Here --wait--let us _draw_ you a description of that last one...|James Bacon (m), Mike Dashow, Joseph DeVito, Bob Eggleton, Teddy Harvia 
Thu|11:15PM|M.Drum|Concert||Terry Kitchen 
Thu|24:00|M.Drum|Concert||Pete Grubbs 
Thu|24:00|Rep.A|_ The Earthian_ 1-4 [Subtitled] [13 +]||
Thu|24:00|Rep.B|_Cowboy Be-Bop_||
Fri|12:45AM|M.Drum|Encore Game|Join us in this challenge to remember as many distinct songs with lyrics matching a particular word or theme within the allotted time. Contestants or teams take turns until only one is left, then it's on to the next subject. 
Fri|1:00AM|M.Drum|Last Call at the Mended Drum||
Fri|1:00AM|Exeter|Open Filk||
Fri|2:00AM||Hynes Closes||
Fri|2:00AM||Pedestrian Overpass to Marriott Closed||
Fri|2:00AM|C'Ste|Con Suite Closes||
Fri|2:30AM|Rep.A|_Reign: the Conquerer_ 1-4 [Dubbed] [16 +]||
Fri|3:00AM|Conf|Filk Office Closes||
Fri|8:00AM||Hynes Open for Setup Only||
Fri|9:00AM||Hynes Opens||
Fri|9:00AM|Hall A|Registration Opens||
Fri|9:00AM|C'Ste|Con Suite Open||
Fri|9:00AM|Rep.A|_ Gatekeepers _#1--4 [Dubbed] [13 +]||
Fri|9:30AM||KiddieCorp Professional Childcare and Children's Program and Activities Open||
Fri|9:30AM|H102|Rise Up Singing||
Fri|9:30AM|H203|Anglo-Saxon Influences on Modern Fantasy|The Rohirrim have a lot to answer for...|Debra Doyle 
Fri|9:30AM|Bcn A|Moving to Music [ages 1-7]|Clap and sing to the music of Jim Cosgrove, a Kansas City children's folk singer.|Jim Cosgrove
Fri|9:30AM|Bcn F|Geometric Aliens [ages 2-6]|Fun foam, wiggle eyes, glue and you; what will be created? 
Fri|9:30AM|Conf|Filk Office Opens||
Fri|9:30AM|Exeter|Reading - Tamara Jones ||Tamara Jones 
Fri|9:30AM|Hall A|Shotokan Karate Workshop||Kenn Bates, Keith G. Kato 
Fri|10:00AM|Ccrse|Masquerade Registration Open|
Fri|10:00AM|H100|_X-Bugs _|Learn to play _X-Bugs_, SJ Games' combat tiddlywinks game. Your bugs are represented by plastic pieces that you flip across the table to capture enemy bugs. [2 players per game] ||
Fri|10:00AM|H203|Ogres and Klingons and Orcs, Oh My! The Changing Role of the Ogre in Popular Culture|Whoa there, big guy! Stop and let's have a look at you. Why did we loathe and fear you, but now think you're kind of cute? Are we unlearning racism? Are we softening our archetypes of aggression? What are you doing with that hamm--?|Josepha Sherman 
Fri|10:00AM|H204|New England in Science Fiction and Fantasy|The locale of SF stories is often an important element of plot and style. LA, New York, London, New Orleans--these and other cities have served as the distinct locations in many stories. What about Boston and other places around New England? A lot of writers live in this region, but how do they use it in their stories? Does locating a story in Boston, Providence, rural Maine and so on make a distinct contribution to the look and feel of SF & fantasy plots? Or would a story set in this region have the same grounding if it was located anywhere else?|Elizabeth Hand, Faye Ringel (m), Allen Steele 
Fri|10:00AM|H205|A Group Reading from _The Thackery T. Lambshead Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases_|Join Drs. Cory Doctorow, Jay Lake, Paul DiFilippo, Liz Williams, and presiding physician Jeff VanderMeer for a brief "medial conference" on outlandish and ridiculous diseases, including props and giant microbes.|Paul DiFilippo, Cory Doctorow, Jay Lake, Jeff VanderMeer, Liz Williams 
Fri|10:00AM|H206|Welcome to the SF Community|An orientation seminar on the background of the World Science Fiction Convention and tips on making the most of the con.|Gay Haldeman (m), Mary Kay Kare, Laurie Mann, Roger Sims 
Fri|10:00AM|H208|_ Firefly_ Marathon, Episodes 3-5|
Fri|10:00AM|H209|_ Molediver_ #1 [Subtitled]||
Fri|10:00AM|H210|WSFS Business Meeting, Preliminary Session|Open to all Worldcon members, the WSFS Business Meeting is where you can participate in the process of making and changing the official rules for the Hugo Awards and the selection of future Worldcons. Today's meeting is where we hear reports from committees, consider changes in the Standing Rules, and go through an initial round of setting debate times for amendments to the WSFS Constitution, and also where you can make nominations to the WSFS Mark Protection Committee. If there are items of business you want discussed at the main meetings later in the convention, make sure you attend today's meeting to prevent it from being dismissed from the agenda. 
Fri|10:00AM|H301|Self-promotion and Publicity for Artists|You can't sell anything if people don't know you have it. How can artists tell people "they got it"? How can they get into the cover business, or make a hit in the fan world? What are the secrets? The mistakes?|Irene Gallo, Karl Kofoed (m), Margaret Organ-Kean, Frank Wu 
Fri|10:00AM|H302|A Remedy for Future Shock|How can SF serve as a guide for us to help solve future dilemmas?|David Gerrold, Walter H. Hunt, Larry A. Lebofsky (m), Ernest Lilley, Jack Speer 
Fri|10:00AM|H303|You Can't Take the Sky From Me...?|...but can they take (your?) _Serenity_. Talk about the series and the movie.|Ginjer Buchanan, James S. Hinsey, MaryAnn Johanson, Priscilla Olson (m), Michelle Sagara 
Fri|10:00AM|H305|Dr. Seuss Appreciation|The late Springfield, Massachusetts writer/illustrator Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, created fantastic worlds where the Grinch stole Christmas, the Cat in the Hat could disrupt a household, Horton heard a Who, and Sneetches worried about whether they had stars on their bellies. How do his surreal and amusing stories prepare young readers for the world of SF?|Kathryn Cramer, Susan Fichtelberg, John F. Hertz, Beth Hilgartner, Kathleen Kudlinski (m) 
Fri|10:00AM|H306|Continuing the Series: A Dialogue||Suzy McKee Charnas, P. C. Hodgell 
Fri|10:00AM|H307|The Radio Play as an Ideal Form for SF (1.5 hours)|Two hours, allowing time for talk, listening, and discussion of same.|Paul Levinson 
Fri|10:00AM|H309|The Art of Alan Beck|Slideshow.|Alan F. Beck 
Fri|10:00AM|H310|Highlights from the Hubble Space Telescope|A user of Hubble will report on the telescope's current status and explain the science behind the famous images. They're more than just pretty pictures.|Mike Brotherton 
Fri|10:00AM|H311|The Enchanted Apple: New York in SF and Fantasy|The very first history of New York City, written by Washington Irving (under the name of Deitrich Knickerbocker) in 1809 was a work of fantasy. Since that time, NYC has appeared repeatedly in works of science fiction and fantasy. How has The City been portrayed? What makes it such a perfect locale for the fantabulist?|Michael A. Burstein, Esther Friesner, George R. R. Martin, Madeleine E. Robins, Susan Shwartz (m) 
Fri|10:00AM|H312|SF Without Smiles|Is it possible to write good or great SF/F/H that lacks an element of humor? What examples come to mind? Or is deadly serious genre writing doomed to be just deadly?|William C. Dietz, Scott Edelman (m), Barry N. Malzberg, Robert Sheckley, Gordon Van Gelder 
Fri|10:00AM|ArtSh|Art Show Opens||
Fri|10:00AM|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with. 
Fri|10:00AM|Bcn D|Magic Show [ages 7-12]||Daniel P. Dern 
Fri|10:00AM|Bcn F|Kitchen Science [ages 2-7]|Fun with things from the kitchen and some explanation on why they work. |
Fri|10:00AM|Clar|How to Train Tigers||Steven L. Lopata 
Fri|10:00AM|Ccrse|Site Selection Opens|
Fri|10:00AM|Dalton|Working with Unusual (Costuming) Materials|Not everything you work with comes from a fabric store. What other items might be really useful to help produce a first-rate costume?|Pierre E. Pettinger, Sandra G. Pettinger 
Fri|10:00AM|Exeter|Reading - Don Sakers ||Don Sakers 
Fri|10:00AM|Gard|Mars or Bust! [ages 7-12]|An elementary school-level look at Mars. What is Mars like and why would we go there? What are we looking for? How do we get there? These questions are discussed with pictures, video and a 3-D look at the Spirit and Opportunity missions.|Steven Hammond 
Fri|10:00AM|Hall D|Dealers Room Opens||
Fri|10:00AM|Hamp|Reading - Carol Berg ||Carol Berg 
Fri|10:00AM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Glen Cook, Beth Meacham, Steve Miller, Mary H. Rosenblum 
Fri|10:00AM|Lib A|Autism Spectrum Disorders Discussion Group||Eva Whitley
Fri|10:30AM|H203|Alienation: The Invisible Barrier in C.J. Cherryh's _Companions_||Stephanie Ryan Cate
Fri|10:30AM|H205|Selling Your Story to Hollywood|How do writers get Hollywood's attention? What is the process of trying to sell a story or novel to a film producer? And what happens when you do? Here's some insight into one of the more lucrative markets...and the most difficult one to crack.|Sally Wiener Grotta 
Fri|10:30AM|H209|_ Molediver_ #2 [Subtitled]||
Fri|10:30AM|H304|The Beginning of _Locus_||Charles N. Brown, Anthony R. Lewis 
Fri|10:30AM|ArtSh|April Grant, Fiddler||April Grant 
Fri|10:30AM|Clar|Only Two Sexes?||Melissa Scott 
Fri|10:30AM|Exeter|Reading - Rick Wilber ||Rick Wilber 
Fri|10:30AM|Hamp|Reading - James Morrow ||James Morrow 
Fri|10:45AM|Rep.A|_ Gunparade March_ #1--4 [Dubbed]||
Fri|11:00AM|H100|Kill Dr. Lucky|Welcome to Dr. Lucky's mansion. Your mission is to kill a feeble old man named Dr. Lucky. Alas, you have to catch him first, but then you have to make sure there aren't any other witnesses. What's a guy with a grudge to do? Learn to play this hilarious game of strategy, deceit, and murder from Cheapass games. [6 players] ||
Fri|11:00AM|H102|Filk Oldies Singalong|Sing songs from the _NESFA Hymnals_ and other well-known filk sources with an experienced song-leader. Possibly your only chance to hear "Banned from Argo" at the Worldcon.|Lois H. Mangan 
Fri|11:00AM|H107|_The Caves of Steel_|A round-table discussion of the 1953 Retro Hugo nominated novel.|John F. Hertz 
Fri|11:00AM|H203|Running a Writing Workshop for Teens|As a set, teen writers are different from new writers. By designing and refining the Alpha SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers, we've reinvented the Clarion Model in creative ways certain to be of interest to workshop coordinators, new writers, teens, parents and teachers.|Diane Turnshek 
Fri|11:00AM|H204|Building the Buzz|What makes one novel merely successful and another a blockbuster best seller? Is it the buzz the latter generates? What make one book have buzz and another not? Can you cite examples? What kinds of buzz are there--and what is most effective at promoting a book? What can a publisher do to generate or enhance the buzz for a particular book?|Jim Butcher, Craig Engler, Andrew Wheeler (m) 
Fri|11:00AM|H205|Thirty-Nine Plus Years of the X-Men|Once upon a time they were confused and frightened teenagers, some led along by their hormones (remember the Scott-Jean-Warren love triangle?). Although the cast has changed over the years, a couple of well-done movies have only added to the appeal of the mutant guardians of humankind. Why does the story of people who are different still resonate? And, since we know the subject's going to come up, which characters who have been sidelined would you like to see come back?|Keith R. A. DeCandido, Karen Haber, Steve Saffel, Barry Short (m) 
Fri|11:00AM|H206|Which Comes First: Character or Setting?|Where do you start when you create fiction?|Elizabeth Hand (m), Jean Lorrah, Louise Marley, Wen Spencer, Jeff VanderMeer 
Fri|11:00AM|H209|_ Molediver _#3 [Subtitled]||
Fri|11:00AM|H301|What is Genre?|Ellen Kushner has informed us about the recently-formed website of the Interstitial Arts Foundation. A browse shows lots of great reading and fiercely intelligent discussion on a range of topics that span literature, art, music and performance which cannot easily be classified by conventional genre boundaries or any boundaries at all. We will skip the paradox of such "interstitial arts" forming its own genre and cut to the chase. What does it mean to be part of a "genre"? If you don't fit comfortably in SF or fantasy or horror or mainstream or fiction/nonfiction, where do they file you in the bookstore? What is the larger cultural significance of crossover material? What does it imply for the future of SF literature? Who is writing stories that fall between the cracks?|Ellen Asher, Jay Caselberg (m), James Minz, Takayuki Tatsumi, Carrie Vaughn 
Fri|11:00AM|H302|The Future of Love|In homage to a panel of the same name from the 1953 Worldcon in Philadelphia. OK...so, what is it? And what about relationships...marriages? Same-sex marriage, polyamory, Heinlein line marriages, Gor-type relationships... Is there anything we haven't already tried? Are we a good enough sample to disprove the theory that these things will cause the collapse of civilization?|Stephen Dedman, Bey King, Sue Krinard (m), Mary Anne Mohanraj, Mark W. Tiedemann 
Fri|11:00AM|H303|Remembering Seacon '79|The real truths behind the Brighton 1979 Worldcon, chaired by one of our Fan Guests of Honor twenty-five years ago.|Peter Weston 
Fri|11:00AM|H304|Locus Awards|Charles N. Brown (m), Lois McMaster Bujold, Cory Doctorow, Gardner Dozois, Neil Gaiman, Michael Whelan, Connie Willis 
Fri|11:00AM|H305|How Workshopping Works/A Public Hanging|The Cambridge Science Fiction Writers Workshop, one of the oldest in the country, discusses how it works and does a live demo...watch them deconstruct a story in all their snarky splendor!|James Cambias, F. Brett Cox, Theodora Goss, James Patrick Kelly, Kelly Link, Vandana Singh 
Fri|11:00AM|H306|Social World Building|"World building" in SF usually connotes care paid to ecological, astronomical and biological factors influencing the nature of other worlds in which stories take place--in short, the physical backstory. But if other worlds are different from Earth, so likely will be the social systems of sentient species on them, including future humans. What should you think about when considering the sociological background of stories set in the future or on other planets? SF writers traditionally took for granted that mid-20th century American norms would prevail everywhere, but we know better--don't we? The panel will consider matters of kinship, marriage, family, religion and other modes of relationship patterns that vary more widely than many realize here and now, let along then and there.|Carol Berg, Judith Berman, Robert J. Sawyer, Karl Schroeder (m), Martha Wells 
Fri|11:00AM|H309|Space Weather Forecasting|Space weather is already a concern, as solar storms disrupt communications. Will travelers to Mars have to predict radiation blizzards months in advance? What is the state of the art?|Janet Catherine Johnston 
Fri|11:00AM|H310|They Gave It a Hugo: What on Earth Were They Thinking?|Sure, it's easy to slam _They'd Rather Be Right_, but name a few more that fit the bill...Why did they win?|Justin Ackroyd, Moshe Feder, Gregory Feeley, Andrew Porter (m), Robert Silverberg 
Fri|11:00AM|H311|What Should Good Fantasy Do?|Should it inspire, teach, intimidate, educate? How about divert, relax, amuse, or awaken? The panelists will choose their own verbs--and in the process, explain how good fantasy differs from not-so-good fantasy.|Daniel Abraham (m), John Clute, Justine Larbalestier, Farah Mendelsohn, Laura Underwood 
Fri|11:00AM|H312|You want to do _What_ with my genes?|What good and bad can come of genome editing and genetic engineering? Genome editing is the merging of natural and existing genomes with others along with artificial genetic material, to create new species. Genetic engineering is the addition and changing of specific traits in individual species. Imagine a tiny perfect Bengal tiger, or a miniature pet elephant. How about a dog as smart as a monkey. What types of genetic engineering may be applied to humans? What are the personal, social and ethical implications for people and animals?|Catherine Asaro, Zara Baxter (m), Nancy Kress, Mary H. Rosenblum, Janine Ellen Young 
Fri|11:00AM|ArtSh|Art Show Tour||Mark Ferrari
Fri|11:00AM|Autog.|Autographing||Elizabeth Caldwell, Suzy McKee Charnas, Laura Anne Gilman, Thomas Harlan, Laurie J. Marks, Deborah Ross, Darrell Schweitzer 
Fri|11:00AM|Bcn A|HoverDisc Games [ages 3-6]|Don't know what a HoverDisc is? Come and find out; you'll be hooked.|Steven Chalker
Fri|11:00AM|Bcn D|Alien World Building [ages 7-12]|A discussion of alien environments and bodies. Then make your own alien and its environment and describe them for the group.|Walter H. Hunt, Amy Thomson 
Fri|11:00AM|Bcn F|Pudding Finger Paint [ages 1-5]||
Fri|11:00AM|Clar|Cartoon Guilty Pleasures|Let's see some hands: Even though you talk knowledgeably about the latest episode of hip shows like _South Park_ or _Justice League_, do you furtively watch _Scooby Doo_? _The Wild Thornberrys_? _Recess_? Any show featuring Archie & his friends? What's appealing for adults in these shows aimed at kids? Is it a return to simpler times, positive actions, or something more?|Blind Lemming Chiffon, Pam Fremon (m), Kimberly Ann Kindya, Pamela Scoville, Gary K. Wolf 
Fri|11:00AM|Dalton|Developing the Deryni Game: a Writer's Perspective||Katherine Kurtz 
Fri|11:00AM|Exeter|Reading - Rebecca Moesta ||Rebecca Moesta 
Fri|11:00AM|Gard|So You Want to be a Rocket Scientist? [ages 7-12]|The universe is a big, exciting place (at least scientifically speaking). Come share the thrill of it with other science-types, as they demystify relativity and other sciences.|Carl Frederick, G. David Nordley 
Fri|11:00AM|Hamp|Reading - Simon R. Green ||Simon R. Green 
Fri|11:00AM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Joe Haldeman, Yves Meynard, James Stevens-Arce, Charles Stross 
Fri|11:00AM|Lib A|Ham Radio Discussion||
Fri|11:00AM|Lib C|Pagan Discussion Group||
Fri|11:00AM|Rep.B|_ Angel: 1945_||
Fri|11:00AM|Doc.Tour|Village Tour (of the Worldcon)|A general orientation tour of the convention.|Suford Lewis 
Fri|11:30AM|H209|_ Molediver _#4 [Subtitled]||
Fri|11:30AM|H307|Psychological Aspects of the _Babylon 5_ Universe||David McMahon 
Fri|11:30AM|CS Foyer|Mary Crowell, Pianist||Mary Crowell 
Fri|11:30AM|Dalton|Space Opera as Geopolitical Melodrama||Daniel Hatch 
Fri|11:30AM|Exeter|Reading - Janny Wurts ||Janny Wurts 
Fri|11:30AM|Hamp|Reading - P. C. Hodgell ||P. C. Hodgell 
Fri|12:00M|H100|_Dinohunt _|Learn to play _Dinohunt_, Steve Jackson Games' game of time-travel and dinosaur-hunting. [6 players] ||
Fri|12:00M|H102|Oldies Singalong||Lois H. Mangan
Fri|12:00M|H107|What's New From DAW|A presentation of the upcoming schedule and a Q&A with DAW editors and authors. Moderated by Debra Euler, Managing Editor.|Debra Euler
Fri|12:00M|H203|Novel Educational Approaches|In the past three academic years, a group of second-grade students have been taught a mixture of karate and science. What was tried and how well did this mixed instruction seem to work? Student notebooks and other items will be available for view.|Keith G. Kato 
Fri|12:00M|H204|Researching Your Story: When Do You Quit?|The family tree covers three sheets; the glossary needs extensive cross references; the map has 16 color codes. Have you overdone it, or is this all necessary to provide verisimilitude? And haven't we all read stories where the writer go so involved with building the world that the story got lost? Learn when to drop the books and pick up the pen.|Lisa Barnett, Suzanne Alles Blom, Elizabeth Caldwell, Jack L. Chalker, Sheila Finch (m), Steven L. Lopata 
Fri|12:00M|H205|The World Map of 2100--What Does it Look Like?|The map of Europe has been redrawn several times in recent decades; many people have the experience of being born in one country, growing up in another and dying in a third without ever having moved. There is no reason to think this process will stop. If you could see a a world map of 2100, what's familiar, what isn't? United Europe? Disunited US? Canada still there? Rearranged Africa? Internet/virtual communities more important than geographic ones? Regional ecotopias? Corporate empires?|David McMahon, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, S. M. Stirling, Scott Westerfeld, Jim Young (m) 
Fri|12:00M|H206|Welcome to the SF Community: Making Connections|Now that you're here, here's how to meet people, get involved, and learn to understand our eccentric community!|Norman Cates, Nicki Lynch, Bill Sutton (m), Toni Weisskopf 
Fri|12:00M|H209|_ Molediver _#5 [Subtitled]|
Fri|12:00M|H301|Character Development for Everyone|It isn't just writers who develop characters. Artists, costumers and gamers also need these skills. People who use characters in different media discuss how they go about it.|Susan de Guardiola, Sharon Lee (m), Bill Neville, Laura Resnick, Melissa Scott 
Fri|12:00M|H302|SF: Fun or Spinach?|Is it good for you? A discussion of escapism vs. relevance in fiction.|Ellen Asher, John R. Douglas (m), Esther Friesner, Fruma Klass 
Fri|12:00M|H303|Fandom in the Fifties|What was fandom like a half-century ago?|Juanita Coulson, David A. Kyle, Hank Reinhardt, Roger Sims (m) 
Fri|12:00M|H304|The Future of Forensic Evidence|DNA evidence proves the guy on Death Row didn't do it. On _CSI_, they finger a killer by the heat trace he left behind. But can this evidence be tampered with? How do real everyday science advances change the way the criminal justice system works, and what's the outlook for the future? How far can forensics go before we have the Precrime cops from_ Minority Report_ stopping homicides before they happen? What comes in between--and is it all good?|Genny Dazzo, Matthew Jarpe, Robert I. Katz (m), Paul Levinson 
Fri|12:00M|H305|How to Become Invisible|From fairy tales to H.G. Wells, we have always loved stories about people becoming invisible. Our panel discusses a variety of ways, scientific and silly, that humans might accomplish this wonder. Join this exercise in creative thinking.|Michael A. Burstein (m), Howard Davidson, Robert A. Metzger 
Fri|12:00M|H306|Archetypes in Fantasy: The Princess, Alone|Who is she, and why is she alone? How can she ever find her way out of the tower?|Diane Duane, Justine Larbalestier, Michelle Sagara (m), Jo Walton, Paul Witcover 
Fri|12:00M|H307|Restoration Ecology|Ecology and practical approaches to small-scale land and wildlife management...and why it matters.|Elizabeth Moon (m) 
Fri|12:00M|H309|The Art of Martina Pilcerova||Martina Pilcerova 
Fri|12:00M|H310|Asteroids: Friends or Foes?|Astronomers are now tracking hundreds of asteroids bigger than a kilometer which could potentially hit the Earth with minor changes in their orbits. They continue discovering new potentially hazardous objects, and sometimes their predictions warn of possible collisions within the next century. What does this mean, and how much should we worry about it?|What kind of objects should we be looking for, and what can we do if we see one on its way toward us? How should astronomers keep the public and governments informed?|Richard Binzel 
Fri|12:00M|H311|The Future of Short Fiction (and the Magazines)|Okay, it wouldn't be a Worldcon without this item, would it? The big pro magazines have been losing circulation steadily for many years. The original anthology market is a shadow of its former self. Yet new magazines keep popping up, and some publish a few impressive issues. Is short fiction becoming a hobby? And what does it mean when publishing short fiction is often considered a vital step on the way to publishing novels?|John Betancourt, Nicholas A. DiChario, Gardner Dozois, Stanley Schmidt (m), Gordon Van Gelder, Sheila Williams 
Fri|12:00M|H312|Modernism and SF|Modernism--Faulkner, Joyce, Eliot, Pound, Cabell--was the dominant literary mode when modern science fiction had its formative period during the 1930s and early 1940s. What unappreciated influences did it exert over the evolving pulp genre?|Gregory Feeley, Eileen Gunn (m), David G. Hartwell, James Morrow 
Fri|12:00M|Autog.|Autographing||Tobias Buckell, Barbara Chepaitis, Peter J. Heck, Rosemary Kirstein, Larry Niven 
Fri|12:00M|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with. 
Fri|12:00M|Bcn D|Geometric Origami [ages 7-12]|Learn origami with a master origamist. Jenny specializes in geometric shapes rather than animals, and has been a GOH at a Japanese origami convention.|Jenny Mosely, Elsa Chen
Fri|12:00M|Bcn F|Stamping [ages 1-12]|Stamping is so much fun. Paper and creativity will help you make a great card, stationary, or bookmark to take home with you. ||
Fri|12:00M|Dalton|The Artemis Project|Commercial space travel?|Ian Randal Strock 
Fri|12:00M|Exeter|Reading - Mindy Klasky ||Mindy Klasky 
Fri|12:00M|Gard|Making a Poly-Shrink Pin (Kids Only! [ages 7-12]|Design and make a pin with the instruction of an expert.|Elizabeth Janes 
Fri|12:00M|Hamp|Reading - Jon Courtenay Grimwood ||Jon Courtenay Grimwood 
Fri|12:00M|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Thomas Harlan, Tamora Pierce, George H. Scithers, Allen Steele 
Fri|12:00M|Lib A|Mensa Discussion Group||Muriel Hykes
Fri|12:00M|Rep.B|_ Buffy: _ Chosen|Short Form Dramatic Presentation Hugo Nominee ||
Fri|12:30PM|H209|_ Molediver _#6 [Subtitled]||
Fri|12:30PM|Dalton|Working on Graphic Novels||Colleen Doran 
Fri|12:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Daniel Abraham ||Daniel Abraham 
Fri|12:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Kevin J. Anderson ||Kevin J. Anderson 
Fri|12:30PM|Rep.A|_ The Special Duty Combat Unit: Shinesman_ [Dubbed]||
Fri|1:00PM|H203|The Two Cultures in F&SF: Science Confronts the Humanities|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?|Ctein (m), Matthew Jarpe, Nancy Kress, Justine Larbalestier 
Fri|1:00PM|H204|Interactive Fiction: The Nexus of Storytelling, Simulation and AI in Video Games|Video games have traditionally been abstract or linear. Games that use traditional storytelling media increase the immersion by providing the player with some kind of ownership or emotional attachment. However, the players themselves have had little choice in their storylines and a limited palette of emotional experience. That's changing. More recently, games have allowed users to create their own stories, or have been more open-ended with limited plots giving the player the ability to create his or her own narrative. Explore these ideas!|K. A. Bedford, Mike Dashow, Clarinda Merripen (m), Joe Pearce 
Fri|1:00PM|H205|The Two Sides of Gollum|Gollum is unique; there's nobody quite like him in fantasy. Or, is there? In many ways, he's the true tragic figure of _The Lord of the Rings_, evoking at times anger, contempt, and pity from the readers. The panel looks at the character of Gollum (whether Stinker or Slinker) and how he fits into Tolkien's world and Tolkien's story.|Greer Gilman, Daniel Grotta, Darrell Schweitzer, Brenda Sutton, Ann Tonsor Zeddies (m) 
Fri|1:00PM|H206|A Worldcon Orientation for SF Professionals|Time was, most pros came out of fandom and therefore had long-standing links of friendship to a variety of fans along with an understanding of fannish perspective. Increasingly, not only don't SF writers come out of fandom, but they're not very interested in it except as it affects their bottom line. This ignorance can hurt both the pro and the fan community.|So what should every pro know about fandom? Get the lowdown on how to get the most out of the convention circuit--without harming your reputation. Learn how to find your way through the maze of publisher parties, conventions, fannish traditions, and more (even if you're painfully shy). Highly recommended for the "neo-pro," or for anyone wanting to reduce the widening gulf between pros and fans.|Janice Gelb, Gay Haldeman, David Levine, Priscilla Olson (m), Toni Weisskopf 
Fri|1:00PM|H208|_ Metal Tears_: Film and Discussion|Watch this short film, based on the Hugo-nominated short story "Robots Don't Cry" and discuss how it came about.|Mike Resnick 
Fri|1:00PM|H209|_ GunBuster _ Vol. 1 [Subtitled]||
Fri|1:00PM|H210|The Fannish Inquisition|Meet the bidders for the 2007 and other future Worldcons.|Patrick Molloy (m) 
Fri|1:00PM|H301|Fifteen Years of _The Simpsons_|It's now one of the longest-running TV shows and shows no sign of slowing down. (Maybe that's because someone always seems to be chasing them, for something they shouldn't have done. There are _still_ a few states that haven't yet run the family out.) How does the show manage to stay fresh? Is it the large number of characters? The loose sense of location? The fact that their family looks like ours? (Don't we _all_ have a Homer and a Lisa?) What subjects would we still like them to cover? Should Skinner and Edna tie the knot? And do we think Bart _will_ someday become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?|Michael A. Burstein (m), Pam Fremon, Daniel Kimmel 
Fri|1:00PM|H302|The Business of Screenwriting Big and Small|Is it true a writer can make more money and have more fun behind the screen? And would that be the big or little screen? If not, why are so many people drawn to screenwriting? Does writing for TV differ from writing for movies? In terms of money, time, censorship, and subject matter, which is more rewarding? Easier to break into? Easier to actually make a living out of?|David Gerrold, Craig Miller (m), Nick Sagan, Steven Sawicki, Isaac Szpindel 
Fri|1:00PM|H303|Is your "First Novel" a First Novel?|So, you think the first novel you finish is your first novel, but is it? It _could _be a third or fourth novel as far as an editor is concerned. Come learn how to write a first novel from folks who've written several among their many novels.|Phyllis Eisenstein, Terry McGarry, Mike Shepherd-Moscoe (m), Scott Westerfeld 
Fri|1:00PM|H304|Looking Backward: the 20th Century|It was a time of terrible wars and great evils and unparalleled progress, ending with democracy triumphant, right? Well...It was also the time of Milton Berle and Cheese Whiz(TM), love beads and Elvis, and...|Will the writers and fans of the late 21st century look back on the 20th century with nostalgia, with surprise, or with horror? How will people in far future times look at us? Imagine what things about the 20th century that those in the future will look back on in the same way as we view the Roman gladiators.|Esther Friesner (m), Craig Gardner, Terry Pratchett, John Scalzi 
Fri|1:00PM|H305|Adapting Traditional Japanese Garments to SF/F Costumes||Kimberly Ann Kindya 
Fri|1:00PM|H306|People for the Ethical Treatment of Mars|The Ethics of Terraforming...Do rocks have rights? Should we terraform Mars? Give it an atmosphere, give it life, make it a home for people? Is this something we ought to do? What would the impact of terraforming be on Martian extremophiles, if they exist? Should we change it to the detriment of the native life? (And, i|If it's lifeless, does a rocky Moon-like Mars have a claim that we can't brush aside? What would a terraformed Mars provide to the human race, in general? Should the demands of a few determine the destiny of many?|Guy Consolmagno, D. Douglas Fratz, James Killus, Mark L. Olson (m) 
Fri|1:00PM|H307|Recovering from _Oops!_|The FedEx man will be here in a hour but you just put a blotch in the middle of the painting. What do you do?|Like cats, artists are experts in making it look like that's what they meant to do all along. Find out how artists fix what seems unfixable.|N. Taylor Blanchard (m), Mike Conrad, Ed Cox, Margaret Organ-Kean, Martina Pilcerova 
Fri|1:00PM|H309|Affectionate Technology: The Art and Science of David Durlach|Can technology development and emotions like grace and kindness be allies? That's the belief of David Durlach, who runs a high-tech design studio that combines his fascination with artistic expression, human emotion and human relations with technology. Durlach will explain his philosophy of "arffectionate technology" and how it is implemented in computer-controlled kinetic artworks, education exhibits, and commercial attractions that have been displayed around the country.|David Durlach, Dennis Livingston (m) 
Fri|1:00PM|H310|The Cassini Mission|NASA's Cassini spacecraft went into orbit around Saturn on June 30th and will continue exploring the Saturn system during Noreascon. This is the first spacecraft to visit the ringed planet since Voyager 2 passed through in 1981. What has Cassini already learned? What more will it learn during its four-year mission to Saturn and Titan? What more do we want to know? What's next?|It's another neat space stuff panel!|Jeff Hecht, Bill Higgins, Geoffrey A. Landis, Larry A. Lebofsky, Carolyn Collins Petersen 
Fri|1:00PM|H311|One Day in the Life of an Editor|An hour by hour account of what an editor actually does. It's 11:00 am.--do you know where your manuscript is?|Tina Beychok, Ellen Datlow, Scott Edelman, Jim Grimsley, Sheila Williams (m) 
Fri|1:00PM|H312|My Worst Story--and Why I Wrote It|Stinkers can be therapeutic. Share!|William Tenn, Frederik Pohl (m), Robert J. Sawyer 
Fri|1:00PM|ArtSh|Ellen James, Harpist|Ellen James
Fri|1:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Jay Caselberg, Vera Nazarian, Susan Shwartz, James Stevens-Arce, S. M. Stirling, Cecilia Tan 
Fri|1:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||Jeffrey A. Carver, Joe Haldeman, Lee Martindale 
Fri|1:00PM|Bcn A|Playground Games [ages 4-7]|Play basic rule games in a more organized manner than open playtime (Duck, Duck, Goose; Animal Tag; Simon Says, etc.). 
Fri|1:00PM|Bcn D|Drawing and Painting [ages 7-12]|Try your hand at creating an original cover for your favorite book.|Don Maitz 
Fri|1:00PM|Bcn F|Make Your Own Journal [ages 4-7]|Want to remember the special things about Noreascon Four? This fun journal will give you place to write, draw, or put a picture to keep those memories forever. |
Fri|1:00PM|Clar|Juried One-Shots|Sign up in the Filk Office. Four persons or groups will have 13 minutes each to perform and get feedback from a panel of judges with various areas of expertise. Performances should be 5 minutes or less. Criticism will be constructive. |
Fri|1:00PM|Ccrse|Fan History Tour||Laurie Mann 
Fri|1:00PM|Dalton|The Interstitial Arts Movement||Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman 
Fri|1:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Keith R. A. DeCandido ||Keith R. A. DeCandido 
Fri|1:00PM|Gard|Make Your Own Rapiers [ages 7-12]|Make and decorate the sword you'll use in the swordplay hour coming up next.|Persis Thorndike 
Fri|1:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Charles Stross ||Charles Stross 
Fri|1:00PM|Indep|Deryni Adventure|Join Ann Dupuis, publisher of the upcoming _Deryni Adventure Game_, for a roleplaying adventure involving Sendai the Magnificent and his troupe of travelling performers. |
Fri|1:00PM|Indep|_Shadowrun RPG: First Shot at the Big Time_|Your chance at the big time: A friend has tipped you off about a job opportunity to do some bodyguard work for a group of exclusive clientele. You have been trying to break into the Seattle shadow scene, and these are just the kind of people that can help. All you have to do is make sure that their meeting doesn't get interrupted. It's a simple walk in the park, natch! [Make your own character up to 10 Karma, or use a pre-generated character. 6 players] ||
Fri|1:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||John Clute, Kathleen Kudlinski, Louise Marley, Walter Jon Williams 
Fri|1:00PM|Lib C|Alternative Housing Discussion Group||Dave Van Deusen 
Fri|1:00PM|Rep.B|_ Gollum's Acceptance Speech at the 2003 MTV Music Awards_|Short Form Dramatic Presentation Hugo Nominee |
Fri|1:04PM|Rep.B|_ Firefly_: Heart of Gold|Short Form Dramatic Presentation Hugo Nominee |
Fri|1:30PM|H100|Cheapass Games Tournament|This tournament will feature the following games: _Brawl_, _Gimme the Brain_, _Girl Genius: The Works_, and _Kill Dr. Lucky_. Players will rotate between games. You must sign up by Friday, 1 pm . Sign up at either game room. Each player plays each game once. 
Fri|1:30PM|H305|How History is Filtered||Herb Kauderer 
Fri|1:30PM|Dalton|Airships: A Dialog||James Cambias, Thomas Kidd 
Fri|1:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Jim Frenkel ||Jim Frenkel 
Fri|1:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Elizabeth Moon ||Elizabeth Moon 
Fri|1:30PM|Rep.A|_ Slayers: The Movie_ [Dubbed] [12 +]||
Fri|2:00PM|H100|Blood and Cardstock Players Choice|Open demo session. Learn to play exciting games like _Showbiz_ and _Counting ZZZs_.|Leigh Grossman 
Fri|2:00PM|H107|SETI Update|In the decade since Congress abruptly terminated the NASA SETI Program, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence has proved itself the science that refuses to die. This update on SETI privatization describes what thousands of ordinary SETIzens all over our planet are doing to hasten humanity's entry into the Galactic Community|H. Paul Shuch 
Fri|2:00PM|H203|Imagine That! Science Fiction as a Learning Motivation|Slideshow.|Val Ontell 
Fri|2:00PM|H204|The Rediscovery of Cordwainer Smith|A few years ago, Gardner Dozois observed that many of the hot new writers of the 1990s had never read the works of Cordwainer Smith. How is that possible? Why do Smith's stories need to be rediscovered--and what makes them worthy of rediscovery? Cone by and discover (or rediscover) why "Smith's" unique voice sounds stronger, stranger, and more contemporary than most SF published today--or tomorrow,|Ellen Asher, Geary Gravel, Anthony R. Lewis (m), Jacob Weisman, Jim Young 
Fri|2:00PM|H205|Girl Power--Anime Style||Christine Carpenito, Kimberly Ann Kindya (m), Mari Kotani, Timothy Liebe 
Fri|2:00PM|H206|Storytelling Workshop|Storytelling plays a significant role in SF/fantasy literature, in the form of characters who gather you around the campfire, and at cons, where authors' readings could be considered a form of telling stories. Ah, but there's an art to it and here's the place to find out more-- especially for fans who would like to specialize in telling or performing SF/fantasy influenced tales, original or not. Discussion, demonstration, and workshop.|Barbara Chepaitis 
Fri|2:00PM|H208|Reading - Resa Nelson||Resa Nelson 
Fri|2:00PM|H209|_ GunBuster _Vol. 2 [Subtitled]||
Fri|2:00PM|H210|Filk Request Concert||
Fri|2:00PM|H301|The New Recycling Universe|An alternative to Big Bang cosmology.|John G. Cramer 
Fri|2:00PM|H302|Plot and Pace|A story needs to balance both the plot of the story and the pace of the revelation to keep the reader interested. Come learn how to do this critical balancing act in your own work.|Alison Baird, Stephen Dedman, James Alan Gardner (m), Jay Lake, Sean M. Mead, Uncle River 
Fri|2:00PM|H303|The Well-Read Fanzine Fan|Both paper and online, what should the well-read fanzine fan know about (both past and present)? Why'd you pick that one?|Juanita Coulson, John-Henri Holmberg, Guy H. Lillian (m), Joe Siclari, Steven H Silver 
Fri|2:00PM|H304|Kennedy Survives Dallas--Then what?|It's Boston, it's forty-plus years since Dallas, politics abounds--how can we not do this?|This panel takes for granted an alternative past to explore an alternative present. What if JFK was not killed at Dallas? What does the present look like? For example: the base on Mars is now ten years old. Bobby Kennedy was impeached for violating civil liberties. What Vietnam war? Who would the parties be nominating this year?|Once you change one fundamental aspect of the past, how do you spell out the ripples through the near future? Or is history so chaotic that thirty years later much of the detail of life would be unpredictably different? Or not much changed at all?|Mitchell Freedman, Joseph T. Major, Mike Resnick, Shane Tourtellotte (m) 
Fri|2:00PM|H305|Mental Floss--Emotional Hygiene to Help Writers & Artists Stay Sane|Creativity takes a huge toll of the psyche, never mind the ego reeling from critiques and rejections. You'll last a lot longer if you learn to put it all in perspective and tune out your critics when necessary.|Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Rebecca Moesta, Deborah Ross (m), Josepha Sherman, Martha Wells 
Fri|2:00PM|H306|Nukes on the Moon?!|What if Cold War US military plans (circa 1960) to place nuclear armed missiles on the Moon had been carried out? How would this have changed the course of space exploration in the twentieth century? Would there have been a Lunar Missile Crisis as well as a Cuban one?|Robert Buettner, John G. Hemry, David McMahon, Mike Shepherd-Moscoe (m), Karen Traviss 
Fri|2:00PM|H307|Game Crack|Addicted to games to the exclusion of life...friends...bathing? How do you get your life back?|Chris French, W. Randy Hoffman (m), David R. Howell, Joe Pearce, Lisa J. Steele 
Fri|2:00PM|H309|The Art of Karl Kofoed||Karl Kofoed 
Fri|2:00PM|H310|The MIT Media Lab: A Visit From the Future|What's cookin' at the Media Lab? MIT's well known research organization has garnered a reputation as a leading-edge center for developments in machine understanding, affective computing, advanced interface design, nanomedia, silicon biology and digital expression, among other fields, that may influence how we use technology in the years ahead--not to mention provide fertile ideas for science fiction stories. This panel features presentations from Lab researchers on a sample of current activities.|Bill Higgins, Marvin Minsky, Sandy Pentland 
Fri|2:00PM|H311|Cyber-Crime: Present and Future|A broad panel about the future of cyber-crime and the abuse of the Internet, along with the steps that might be taken to control this? Will we one day have that massive cyber attack that literally brings the world to its knees?|Charles Ardai, Michael Benveniste (m), Harold Feld, Charlie Petit 
Fri|2:00PM|H312|The Long and Short of It: Short Stories vs. Novels|According to the bestseller lists, the most popular works among American readers seem to be long novels. And yet, short stories often seem to linger in people's memories much more intensely. What's the "ideal" length for a work of science fiction or fantasy? How is this determined? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the two forms?|Nicholas A. DiChario, Jay Caselberg (m), William Tenn, David Marusek, Robert Reed, Sarah Zettel 
Fri|2:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||M. M. Buckner, William C. Dietz, Joe Haldeman, Katherine Kurtz, Don Sakers, Steven Sawicki, Gary K. Wolf 
Fri|2:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||Mary Anne Mohanraj, Rick Wilber 
Fri|2:00PM|Bcn A|Movie [ages 1-8]|Movies will be announced on the Movie Board outside the room. ||
Fri|2:00PM|Bcn D|Mask-Making [ages 7-12]|Make a mask. Then tell us the story behind it.|Ming Diaz 
Fri|2:00PM|Bcn F|Drawing and Painting with Don Maitz [ages 3-6]|Talk about making a cover picture for your favorite story, then color it to take home.|Don Maitz
Fri|2:00PM|Clar|Harp Workshop|Sound and look like an angel. Hang with the harpist and find out if the harp is for you or share techniques to play your harp better.|Ellen James 
Fri|2:00PM|Dalton|Secret Societies?|We could describe this panel but then we'd have to kill you.|Walter H. Hunt 
Fri|2:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Eileen Gunn ||Eileen Gunn 
Fri|2:00PM|Gard|Fencing and Sword-Fighting [ages 7-12]|Learn some of the moves that make swashbuckling movies so great with a SWFA musketeer.|Melanie Fletcher 
Fri|2:00PM|Gr.Ball|Regency Dance|No experience necessary! Relive the English Regency as it appeared in the novels of Georgette Heyer. Dance, play cards, gossip, discuss Jane Austen. Dancing will be taught and called by our Dancemaster, John Hertz--you do _not_ need to know how to dance. There will be rules and strategy sheets for several card games, a _Whist _Master and several _Vingt- et-Un _Masters. Costumes appreciated but _not_ required. 
Fri|2:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Lois Mcmaster Bujold(1 hour)||Lois McMaster Bujold 
Fri|2:00PM|Indep|Wildside Gaming System: Fantasy Roleplaying SysteM|Learn to play this exciting new RPG system. A flexible, innovative, ultra-realistic role-playing system designed for adult and experienced gamers, the Wildside Fantasy Roleplaying System combines realistic and logical character development and combat with accurate historical elements.|
Fri|2:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Sheila Finch, Paul Levinson, Michelle Sagara, Amy Thomson 
Fri|2:00PM|Rep.B|_ Firefly_: The Message|Short Form Dramatic Presentation Hugo Nominee |
Fri|2:00PM|Doc.Tour|Village Tour (of the Worldcon)|A general orientation tour of the convention.|Jim Hudson 
Fri|2:30PM|H210|Filk One-Shots Concert||
Fri|2:30PM|H301|Physics vs. Fiction|Discussion of the differences between looking at science as a working scientist and looking at it as a science fiction writer.|David Stephenson 
Fri|2:30PM|Dalton|Parrot Intelligence||Shariann Lewitt, Irene Pepperberg 
Fri|2:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Janine Ellen Young ||Janine Ellen Young 
Fri|3:00PM|H100|_HeroClix_ Tournament|Bring your favorite superheroes and battle others in this Wizkids sanctioned tournament. |
Fri|3:00PM|H107|The Work of Edgar Pangborn|Was it the philosophy and optimism of _A Mirror for Observers_? Or his sexy paean to a simpler post-holocaust medieval world in _Davy_? Let's consider how Pangborn (1909-1976) became among the most beloved yet barely-read SF/fantasy writers of the twentieth century. Where should you start?|Gregory Feeley 
Fri|3:00PM|H203|Teaching Science With Science Fiction|Many of today's scientists were inspired to start their careers by science fiction, but how effective is SF in introducing science to a non-science oriented student? How effective are SF conventions as venues for presenting science to the public? Which books work best in conveying not only the facts of science, but how science is actually done? What strategies work best in a typical college classroom? Which authors are most popular with the students? Which books just "don't work"?|Guy Consolmagno, Bill Higgins, Larry A. Lebofsky 
Fri|3:00PM|H204|The Effects of Pervasive Technology|What effects (real of imagined) have various electronic technologies had on social/political structures/interactions, and on economics/markets? (Whew!)|Marc Gordon, Eric Landau (m), W. A. Thomasson, James M. Turner 
Fri|3:00PM|H205|A Fragmentation of Fans|An examination of the background (and continued growth) of the separation of the fannish community into separate fandoms. From the SCA to Costume-Cons, and early comics fandom to filk conventions—what's going on, why, and what will be the outcome?|Mary Kay Kare, Priscilla Olson (m), Don Sakers 
Fri|3:00PM|H206|The _King Kong_ Thing|_Lord of the Rings_' director Peter Jackson's schedule for 2005 includes release of his new film about the world's most lovable big ape. Will his take automatically become the alpha version? What's the charm in this story anyway?|Joseph DeVito, Bob Eggleton, Daniel Kimmel, Mark R. Leeper 
Fri|3:00PM|H209|_ GunBuster _Vol. 3 [Subtitled]||
Fri|3:00PM|H210|Concert||Lynn Gold 
Fri|3:00PM|H301|Anatomy of the Unicorn|How do you persuade someone that a unicorn or dragon is real--and you've had one posing in your studio? Basing imaginary animals on realistic animal anatomy is a common method, but if you follow it too closely, all you get is an extra large chameleon or a horse with a horn. Just how and where do you introduce the necessary element of the unusual and the fantastic?|Joe Bergeron, Karl Kofoed, Karen Purcell (m), Omar Rayyan, Frank Wu 
Fri|3:00PM|H302|The Character of Death|Death personified appears in a number of works. Just who is this character, and why do writers use him/her/it? Can Death be sympathetic? (_Yes!_)|P. C. Hodgell, Tanya Huff, Beth Meacham (m), James Morrow, Terry Pratchett 
Fri|3:00PM|H303|All About Agents|Are they necessary? How do you find the right one? What do you have to know to keep from getting scammed, and how can they actually protect you (if you're lucky)?|Joshua Bilmes (m), Charlie Petit, George H. Scithers, Eleanor Wood 
Fri|3:00PM|H304|Mars is for Robots|Since the Viking landers more than a quarter-century ago, robots have been our surrogate explorers on other worlds. They're cost-effective, don't need air, water, or food, and can send back lots of data. Many scientists argue we should be sending robots rather than people to explore Mars. (We should have one on this panel!). Others worry that manned spaceflight will drain money NASA needs for unmanned science missions. With current technology, maybe sending people to Mars is just a budget-busting extravaganza with little possible scientific return.|Richard Binzel, N. Taylor Blanchard, Geoffrey A. Landis, Jonathan McDowell, Henry Spencer (m) 
Fri|3:00PM|H305|Online Journaling|Why do we live our private lives in public places? Are we merely emotional exhibitionists or are we continuing (in a different form) the venerable art of journaling? Sure, it's also a great way to network but what can journaling do for you? Or, _to_ you? As more and more people do it everyday, is it turning into a problem?|Vera Nazarian 
Fri|3:00PM|H306|The Future of the Future|The future looks different to many of us now than it did just a few years ago To what degree is the concept of an open, freely-imagined future under attack in our own culture, from either the right or the left? To what degree have larger cultural currents affected the SF portrayal of the future? And how does SF imagine its own future? (Or is it, too, stuck in a cycle of recurrence, of hankering for a restoration of its own Golden Age? What is the outlook for the future?|Elizabeth Bear, Judith Berman (m), Daniel Hatch, Dennis Livingston, Walter Jon Williams 
Fri|3:00PM|H307|Edged Weapons--and How Writers Get Them Wrong|They're heavier to hold than to read about. They cause more accidental damage than you'd think. They go dull if you so much as look at them. What else haven't we been told about Excalibur and its edgy ilk?|Hank Reinhardt 
Fri|3:00PM|H309|Rhythm, Meter, and the Use of Language|Unresolved anapests? Short. Choppy. Sentence. Fragments? Changing viewpoints mid-paragraph? What are some of the ways to vary the "beat" of prose, and how (why?) are these methods used? How can they be used well? Badly? How can particular writing styles attract or repel readers?|Greer Gilman (m), Lee Martindale, David Marusek, Martha Soukup, Jo Walton 
Fri|3:00PM|H310|The Real Middle Ages (2 hours)|A brutal, barbaric era or a time of civilized life and artistic achievement? Learn the truth!|Michael F. Flynn 
Fri|3:00PM|H311|I Can Explain That!--The SF/Fantasy Challenge|Test the wits of our panel, as they offer the silliest scientific (?) explanations for SF and fantasy cliches suggested by the audience. Deconstruct the standard tropes (e.g., faster than light travel, trolls, genetic engineering, enchanted objects and so forth). Could that magic sword be created by straight physics, or might there be a reason for a clan of elves to build a starship?|Catherine Asaro, Chris French, Jordin T. Kare (m), Robert A. Metzger, Isaac Szpindel, Lawrence Watt-Evans 
Fri|3:00PM|H312|The Use and Misuse of Violence in SF and Fantasy|Lawrence Block once noted that sex and violence in fiction are the best ways to get people's attention. But on the flip side, there's a point at which such things become gratuitous. When is violence absolutely necessary in a story? When does it become gratuitous, or simply in the story for its own sake? And how much is too much?|Joe Haldeman, Bey King, Mindy Klasky, Katya Reimann (m) 
Fri|3:00PM|ArtSh|Art Show Tour||Larry Niven 
Fri|3:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||Debra Doyle, David Gerrold, Simon R. Green, Louise Marley, Elizabeth Moon, Mary H. Rosenblum, Delia Sherman 
Fri|3:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||James Macdonald, Robert J. Sawyer, Sheila Williams 
Fri|3:00PM|Bcn A|Kinderfilk with Kate Gladstone [ages 2-6]|Songs for the young to tickle their silly bone.|
Fri|3:00PM|Bcn D|Musical Instruments--from the Things You Find at Home [ages 7-12]|Let's make an orchestra! Coffee cans, oatmeal boxes, toilet paper tubes, combs... take some paper and markers to decorate, then we'll play.|Persis Thorndike 
Fri|3:00PM|Bcn F|Magnetic Bookmark [ages 5-8]|Stopping in the middle of a page can be so confusing when you get back to reading! Create a fun paper bookmark that will mark the line to start reading again. 
Fri|3:00PM|Clar|More About Tavern Songs|A teaching/discussion/sing-a-long, primarily for a filk audience.|Sean McMullen, Faye Ringel 
Fri|3:00PM|Dalton|Creating Alien Languages (3 hours)||Stanley Schmidt, Lawrence Schoen 
Fri|3:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Paul DiFilippo ||Paul DiFilippo 
Fri|3:00PM|Gard|Discussing the _LOTR _Fellowship [ages 7-12]|Participate in a lively discussion about the _LOTR_ books. Dave will be introducing the characters as they are in the book, perhaps discussing the difference between having a position by Merit versus by Blood, and what would it be like to live in Middle-Earth. Come bring your own ideas.|David Weingart 
Fri|3:00PM|Hall A|Music||
Fri|3:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Ellen Kushner ||Ellen Kushner 
Fri|3:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Ellen Datlow, James Patrick Kelly, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Jean Lorrah, Frederik Pohl 
Fri|3:00PM|Lib A|Heinlein Society||David Silver 
Fri|3:00PM|Lib C|Viable Paradise||Mary Henghan and James D. Macdonald
Fri|3:00PM|Rep.A|_ Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise_ [Subtitled] [N/R]||
Fri|3:00PM|Rep.B|_ Smallville_: Rosetta|Short Form Dramatic Presentation Hugo Nominee ||
Fri|3:30PM|H210|Concert||Mary C. Miller 
Fri|3:30PM|H305|Story-Crafting From Your Subconscious|Do your characters surprise you? Is your outline giving you fits? Do strange things keep happening in your narrative? Find out why that's a good thing, in this light-hearted program item.|Tamara Jones 
Fri|3:30PM|H307|On Books on Demand||Roger MacBride Allen 
Fri|3:30PM|Exeter|Reading - David Levine ||David Levine 
Fri|3:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Jeff VanderMeer ||Jeff VanderMeer 
Fri|4:00PM|H100|Pair-Of-Dice Games Players Choice|Learn to play any of Pair-Of-Dice's exciting, award-winning games. ||
Fri|4:00PM|H107|What's New From Pyr/Prometheus||Lou Anders, Gardner Dozois, Mike Resnick 
Fri|4:00PM|H203|Educating for Science Literacy|Harry Potter showed us that the kids can read. Now, what do we do to get them scientifically literate?|Bridget Coila, Leslie Howle, Isaac Szpindel (m), Pat York 
Fri|4:00PM|H204|Crossing Over|Is cross-genre writing becoming more popular? Why or why not? What are the special challenges of it? The rewards?|Lisa Barnett, Joshua Bilmes, Laura Anne Gilman (m), Charlaine Harris, Sue Krinard, Madeleine E. Robins 
Fri|4:00PM|H205|Beyond the Con: Connecting to Worldwide FandoM|Science-fiction conventions have proliferated so that there's at least one on every weekend of the year and five or six on many. Is there any reason to engage in fan activity beyond con-going?|What else is there to do? Why should you seek a connection to world-wide fandom and how can you do it?|This is a great place to learn more about TAFF and DUFF from this year's winners, too!|James Bacon, Norman Cates, Anna Feruglio Dal Dan, John-Henri Holmberg, Jim Young (m) 
Fri|4:00PM|H206|Shared-World Fiction|I created this world--How dare you blow it up!|John Betancourt, Peter J. Heck, George R. R. Martin, Wil McDermott, Rebecca Moesta, Deborah Ross (m) 
Fri|4:00PM|H208|_ A Can of Paint_|
Fri|4:00PM|H209|_ Gundam Movie II _[Subtitled]||
Fri|4:00PM|H210|Science and Song|Songs based on science, presented and discussed by workers in the field. What are they really about, and how silly or possible are they?|Jordin T. Kare (m), H. Paul Shuch, Kathleen Sloan 
Fri|4:00PM|H301|The Prometheus Awards||
Fri|4:00PM|H302|The Transcendental Man|Transcendental or transhuman? Explore this theme in SF and fantasy--and reality?|Jeffrey A. Carver, Robert I. Katz (m), James Macdonald, Nick Sagan 
Fri|4:00PM|H303|Do Women Write Differently?|Well, do they?|Suzy McKee Charnas, Theodora Goss, Eileen Gunn, Elizabeth Anne Hull (m), Justine Larbalestier 
Fri|4:00PM|H304|When is a Cyborg?|We think of the first cyborg as a severely injured test pilot rebuilt "better, faster, stronger."|But wouldn't it have been a Neolithic hunter who strapped on a wooden leg? Or maybe a mouse with an insulin pump? What about Galileo, peering through a telescope that tremendously extended the range of his naked-eye vision? And if I had had a telescope implanted in my left eye last summer, would that have made me a cyborg? Does being a cyborg have to do with what is new technology at the time?|Does the idea of a cyborg probe a native Luddist fear of the new and poorly-understood? How does it reflect on the degree of integration of the new technology with the person? A crutch is less integrated than a wooden leg, just as a hand-held camera is less integrated than an implanted one. If an infrared camera provided a "third eye" in a different part of the spectrum, would it make a person into a cyborg more than night-vision binoculars? Does it matter if we're providing new capabilities or replacing/improving upon old ones? And what about improving on defective vision?|What is a human?|Janice M. Eisen (m), John M. Ford, Nancy Kress, W. A. Thomasson, Connie Willis 
Fri|4:00PM|H305|Rumors at the Speed of Light|The downside of rapid internet communication.|Charles Ardai, Sharon Sbarsky, John Scalzi (m) 
Fri|4:00PM|H306|The Civil War and SF|The US Civil War is a popular theme, revisited by writers time and time again. How has it been represented both in and out of the subgenre of alternate history? And can we think of something more creative to do than ask the perennial question, "What if the South had won?"|Duncan W. Allen, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Harry Turtledove, Toni Weisskopf (m), Peter Weston 
Fri|4:00PM|H307|Color Mechanics and Theory|How can you choose and work with color to create art and evoke emotion? Does the use you put the painting to make a difference?|Ed Cox, Margaret Organ-Kean (m), Martina Pilcerova, Omar Rayyan 
Fri|4:00PM|H309|Art in Space: A History of Space Art|A video presentation given by Britain’s leading space and SF artist.|David A. Hardy 
Fri|4:00PM|H311|The Future of the News Media|Things have changed in many ways over the last year. How is the current political situation affecting the news media, and where will this take us in the future?|Sally Wiener Grotta, Daniel Hatch (m), Allen Steele, Rick Wilber 
Fri|4:00PM|H312|Everything You Know Is Wrong: SF That Questions Reality|Over the years, a number of SF works have played with reality. Phil Dick wrote many novels asking what is real. The trend has accelerated recently, to the point where even wildly popular movies like _The Truman Show_, _Pleasantville_, and _The Matrix_ are looking at similar issues.|This panel discusses SF that plays with reality. What are the seminal works in this subgenre? Is it really getting more popular now? If so, why?|Jack Dann, John R. Douglas, Evelyn C. Leeper (m), Barry N. Malzberg, Eric M. Van, Robert Charles Wilson 
Fri|4:00PM|ArtSh|Tour of the Retro Art Exhibit||Jerry Weist 
Fri|4:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||Keith R. A. DeCandido, Stephen Dedman, Craig Gardner, Elizabeth Hand, David A. Kyle, Amy Thomson, Janine Ellen Young 
Fri|4:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||Patricia Bray, William Tenn, Steven Sawicki 
Fri|4:00PM|M.Drum|Knitting (etc.) Circle|
Fri|4:00PM|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with. ||
Fri|4:00PM|Bcn D|How to Look at the Night Sky [ages 7-12]|Astronomy tips from one of the writers for _Sky & Telescope_.|Carolyn Collins Petersen 
Fri|4:00PM|Bcn F|Draw a Story [ages 4-12]|Tell a story, simple or complex, using only pictures that you have created. ||
Fri|4:00PM|Clar|Guitar Workshop||Bill Sutton 
Fri|4:00PM|Exeter|Reading - G. David Nordley ||G. David Nordley 
Fri|4:00PM|Gard|Polymer Dragons [ages 7-12]|Learn how to make your own dragon from polymer clay in this hands-on session. We will bake your critter after the session, and you can pick it up on Saturday. Limit 25.|Robin Trei 
Fri|4:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Alex Irvine ||Alex Irvine 
Fri|4:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Jim Butcher, Beth Hilgartner, Josepha Sherman, S. M. Stirling 
Fri|4:00PM|Lib A|Thunderbirds||
Fri|4:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Thomas A. Easton ||Thomas A. Easton 
Fri|4:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Karl Schroeder ||Karl Schroeder 
Fri|5:00PM|H100|Giant _Ice Towers _|_ Ice Towers_ is a high-speed game of pyramid-stacking, played without turns on any flat surface. Everyone plays at once, by 'capping' other pieces with those of their own color. If yours is the top piece on a tower at the end of the game, you get points for the whole tower. As towers grow smaller, you'll be able to 'mine' pieces out and replay them, or even 'split' some towers in two. The game ends when no more moves are possible. 
Fri|5:00PM|H203|Turning Science into SF||Michael A. Burstein, Thomas A. Easton 
Fri|5:00PM|H204|The Salvation of the Modern Novel|At the 1965 Loncon, Harry Harrison gave a speech that set forth the notion that science fiction was now the only route open for writing abut the modern world, as science was the main feature of the modern world that distinguished it from previous eras. True then? Now? Has anything changed? And if so, what?|Jim Grimsley (m), Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Harry Harrison, Andrew Wheeler, Paul Witcover 
Fri|5:00PM|H205|The Miyazaki Fen Don't See|Is Hayao Miyazaki a more important filmmaker of the fantastic than Stephen Spielberg or Peter Jackson? The evidence mounts. With release of his "Howl's Moving Castle" upcoming, we'll discuss the man, his movies, and the mystery of why too many of us still haven't seen his stuff.|Bob Devney (m), Timothy Liebe, Neil Nadelman, Tom Schaad, Wen Spencer 
Fri|5:00PM|H206|Life Drawing|Bring your sketchbooks and draw from a model during this two-hour session.|Elizabeth Janes 
Fri|5:00PM|H210|Concert||Juanita Coulson 
Fri|5:00PM|H301|Fantasy and SF on Stage|Fandom tends to ignore the theatrical world, but playwrights are increasingly turning to the theatrical world. There have even been some well received science fiction musicals that have worked, though most have been less than successful. Why?|.Why is literary SF virtually untouched as a source of plays and musicals? Discuss, criticize, review and recommend the SF/F/H live theatre events you've seen in recent years.|Laura Frankos, Keith G. Kato (m), Dennis Livingston 
Fri|5:00PM|H302|The Alien As...|...benefactor, conqueror, lust object? Discuss the ways aliens have been regarded in the past and present, and why some stories are more convincing than others in their depictions.|Jeffrey A. Carver (m), Rosemary Kirstein, Sue Krinard, Katherine Kurtz, Steven Popkes, Robert Reed 
Fri|5:00PM|H303|When Fandom Hurts|Fandom is a truly wonderful thing--except when it's not. How can fandom hurt? Can it be physically damaging? Financially? Psychologically? Socially? What can one learn from being hurt (or being the hurter) to avoid the same results in the future?|Elaine Brennan, Mike Glyer, Geri Sullivan (m) 
Fri|5:00PM|H304|Where Did That Story Come From?|What history is hidden in well-known SF, for the historical illiterati.|David B. Coe, Alex Irvine, Mark L. Olson, Harry Turtledove (m), Sarah Zettel 
Fri|5:00PM|H305|Book Covers|Book covers are a very special species of illustration. Are they all about bimbos in bikinis? How does a cover sell a book? Is it about color, subject matter, style? If the book market fails completely (when it's all digital, that is!), what will artists have to illustrate next?|Alan F. Beck, Irene Gallo (m), Don Maitz, David B. Mattingly, Michael Whelan 
Fri|5:00PM|H306|Writing for Comics|Somewhere between novels and screenplays can be found the comic book. How does one write for the comics? What's the difference between script-first and plot-first? Can you write for comics if you have no artistic talent whatsoever? How do you break into the field in the first place?|Daniel Abraham, Kevin J. Anderson, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Scott Edelman (m) 
Fri|5:00PM|H307|Making Necklaces with Stories in Them||Elise Matthesen 
Fri|5:00PM|H309|The Art of Tom Kidd|Slideshow.|Thomas Kidd 
Fri|5:00PM|H310|Drunk on Technology?|We're living in a science fiction world and its technological magic is getting wilder and more wonderful by the minute. Are these marvels going to our heads? If they are, is it in a "good" way or a "bad" way? How do we deal with the intoxication of "present shock"?|Cory Doctorow (m), Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Charles Stross 
Fri|5:00PM|H311|The Emotional Palette of Horror|What are some sources of fear in horror? Why aren't some things scary anymore? After all, the classic horror film ideas are no longer frightening to today's audiences. Is it still entertaining to be scared?|Simon R. Green, Steven Sawicki, Darrell Schweitzer, Rick Wilber (m), Trish Wilson 
Fri|5:00PM|H312|How _Not_ to Write Science Fiction|An idea from the 1966 Tricon: "Very Bad Worldbuilding 101". Predatory herbivores, economics that don't work, violations of the laws of physics. Give ,more examples (heck, make some up!) and discuss.|Roger MacBride Allen, Jack L. Chalker, Daniel P. Dern (m), Chris French, Liz Gorinsky 
Fri|5:00PM|ArtSh|April Grant, Fiddler||April Grant
Fri|5:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||Robert Buettner, Glen Cook, Melanie Fletcher, Neil Gaiman, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Walter Jon Williams, Janny Wurts 
Fri|5:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||David Gerrold, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Delia Sherman 
Fri|5:00PM|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with. ||
Fri|5:00PM|Bcn D|Storyboarding [ages 7-12]|Ever wondered how to write and illustrate your own story? Learn how--now!|Ruth Sanderson 
Fri|5:00PM|Bcn F|Model Magic Sculpture [ages 3-12]|Model magic is an air-drying clay that can be colored using magic markers. We'll have a different theme for each day's creation. 
Fri|5:00PM|Clar|Technology and Music Recording|Decent multitrack recording is now available, relatively cheaply, to anyone with a PC or a Mac. How will this affect filk? There are now so many new methods of song distribution--will traditional filk recording die away?|David R. Howell (m), J. Spencer Love, Bill Roper 
Fri|5:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Chris Moriarty ||Chris Moriarty 
Fri|5:00PM|Gard|Best Filk Songs for Kids [ages 7-12]|Hear them from some of the best filkers at Worldcon; learn the choruses, and sing along!|Mark Mandel, Bill Sutton, David Weingart 
Fri|5:00PM|Hall A|Music||April Grant 
Fri|5:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Tamora Pierce ||Tamora Pierce 
Fri|5:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||F. Brett Cox, Laura Resnick, Ian Randal Strock, Cecilia Tan 
Fri|5:00PM|Lib C|Sports Discussion Group||James Wolf
Fri|5:15PM|Rep.A|_ Yukikaze _#1 [Subtitled] [13 +]||
Fri|5:30PM|H210|Concert||Blind Lemming Chiffon 
Fri|5:30PM|H210|Pegasus Nominees Concert||
Fri|5:30PM|M.Drum|Live Action Roleplaying Gaming: _Death by Deatheast: Apocalypse Tonight? _|The portents are clear...as mud. Anybody with a modicum of astrological skill can tell you what it means when Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are in alignment. That same person can tell you the meaning of a full lunar eclipse, and of the spring equinox. These are all very well known phenomena. That all of these portents are happening tonight, all at once, is unlikely to the point of breaking rationality, and nearly unfathomable. What _is_ truly strange, an odd to the extreme, are the sightings of extra suns. Some say there was a blue second sun at zenith at dawn and that it remained in the sky until noon. Others disagree, saying a red sun rose at noon and still point to it. Such sightings could mean the end of the world as we know it, but perhaps it is just a universal bad hair day. Enjoy yourself silly as your pre-generated character confronts the likely end of the world. [12-20 players] ||
Fri|5:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Greer Gilman ||Greer Gilman 
Fri|5:30PM|Gr.Ball|Swing Dance Practice Lessons|Warm up for tonight's Sock Hop, as Larry Schroeder gives some instructtions about the basics of jitterbugging. Dance shoes recommended.|Larry Schroeder 
Fri|5:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Charlaine Harris ||Charlaine Harris 
Fri|6:00PM||Children's Programming and Acitivities Closes||
Fri|6:00PM|Ccrse|Masquerade Registration Closes||
Fri|6:00PM|H203|The Archaeology of the Future|Reading Science Fictional Futures/Learning About the Past|Eric Sonstroem
Fri|6:00PM|H204|Dialogue||Michael Swanwick, Jo Walton 
Fri|6:00PM|H205|Lights for Gadgets and Costumes|A discussion/workshop about safety, power demands for different effects, the use of batteries, and a variety of related issues of interest to the costumer who want to make a more _electrifying_ presentation.|Ming Diaz 
Fri|6:00PM|H206|Constructing Technobabble|How do people come up with all these new words (and brand names, drug names, etc.) that permeate the linguistic landscape? Are there tricks to this kind of word coinage, certain language always used (or, overused), certain sound combinations that convey special meanings? How does globalization affect this process: incorporating word roots from more exotic cultures? Why do some coinages fail to catch on?|Mark Mandel (m), John McDaid, Scott Westerfeld 
Fri|6:00PM|H208|_ Boston Fan Films_||
Fri|6:00PM|H307|Workshop: Dramatic Posing and Costume Presentation||Pierre E. Pettinger 
Fri|6:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||M. M. Buckner, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Herb Kauderer 
Fri|6:00PM|Clar|And the Band Played During Our Filksing|...and other horrible things that have gone wrong with filk at conventions.|Gary Ehrlich, Lynn Gold, W. Randy Hoffman, J. Spencer Love, Bill Roper, Bill Sutton (m) 
Fri|6:00PM|Ccrse|Site Selection Closes for Day|
Fri|6:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Shane Tourtellotte ||Shane Tourtellotte 
Fri|6:00PM|Hall D|Dealers' Room Closes|
Fri|6:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Deborah Ross ||Deborah Ross 
Fri|6:00PM|Indep|Call of Cthulhu RPG: Treatment and Cure|There's a gap in your past. At some point, you went mad...but cannot remember why. Now you're here at the Enfield Clinic, with other patient who, like yourself, have recently come to their senses after struggles with crippling insanity. Tonight we're just having a support meeting, to talk over what it feels like to face life with these breaks in our memory. Don't mind the snowstorm; by tomorrow noon the roads will be plowed and the lights should be fine once the backup generator kicks in. If you'll just get a cup of coffee, we'll get started in a minute. I'll go find Ted, he should have been here by now. Ted? Has anyone seen him?|Note: At the beginning of this game, each player will choose the nature of another character's madness. Players will not know their own character's madness until something reminds them. [5 players, pre-generated characters will be made available] ||
Fri|6:30PM|H100|_Mechwarrior_ Tournament|Bring your army and test it in this Wizkids sanctioned tournament. [450 pts] ||
Fri|6:30PM|H203|The Interpenetration of Past and Present in Octavia Butler's _Kindred_||Veronica Browning
Fri|6:30PM|H206|Technobabble Quiz|We're going to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow of our panelists as they compete to (a) explain in their best technobabble just how to accomplish some SF cliche, (b) catch science errors in published SF technobabble, and (c) determine whether a particular selection of technobabble is real science, published SF, or something made up just for this quiz!|Howard Davidson, Bill Higgins (m), Jordin T. Kare 
Fri|6:30PM|H209|_ Hakkenden _[Subtitled]||
Fri|6:30PM|ArtSh|Art Show Tour||Donato Giancola
Fri|6:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Ben Jeapes ||Ben Jeapes 
Fri|6:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Lisa Barnett, Melissa Scott ||Lisa Barnett, Melissa Scott 
Fri|6:30PM|Rep.A|_ Dai-Guard _#1 [Dubbed]||
Fri|7:00PM|H100|Illuminati: _Crime Lords_|The Mafia is alive and well in this card game based on the Illuminati card system from SJ Games. You have fought hard and well to rise in the ranks of the Mafia. You now control a family viewing for control of the town. Choose your Boss and Lieutenants, hire thugs, brains, and then set out to take over the town. Choose your source of income from places like: crooked precincts, street gangs, pushers, and other illicit businesses. Play your cards wisely, however, or you may end up in the middle of an all out gang war, which could decimate your forces faster than any assassination attempt. This game is featured in the SJ Games tournament. [6 players] ||
Fri|7:00PM|H205|Fannish Foxfire|Okay, the apocalypse has happened. What do we need to know to carry on being a fan afterwards? Would such a fandom be similar to eo-fandom? Would you need to know the Hectograph, slip-sheeting, the fine lost art of letter writing...or would the only fans left be on the net?|Guy H. Lillian, Joe Siclari (m), Joel Zakem 
Fri|7:00PM|Conf|Filk Office On-call||
Fri|7:00PM|CS Foyer|Music||
Fri|7:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Christopher Cevasco ||Christopher Cevasco 
Fri|7:00PM|Hall A|Music||
Fri|7:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Don D'Ammassa ||Don D'Ammassa 
Fri|7:00PM|Lib C|Small Press Roundtable||
Fri|7:00PM|Rep.A|_ Dai-Guard _#2 [Dubbed]||
Fri|7:30PM|ArtSh|Denise Gendron, Flutist||Denise Gendron
Fri|7:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Darrell Schweitzer ||Darrell Schweitzer 
Fri|7:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Michael Dobson ||Michael Dobson 
Fri|7:30PM|Rep.A|_ Blue Seed_ #6--12 [Subtitled]||
Fri|8:00PM|H204|Jewish Services||
Fri|8:00PM|H208|_ Ryan K. Johnson Fan Films_||
Fri|8:00PM|H210|The Chesley Awards|The Chesleys are the annual peer awards whereby the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA) recognizes individual works and achievements. ||
Fri|8:00PM|Aud|The Time Machine: Guest of Honor Interviews and The 1953 Retro Awards|Take a short trip with our Guests of Honor, experiencing the world past, present, and future through their eyes. Then help celebrate the best in science fiction and fantasy from 1953 with some special commentators as we present the 1953 Retro Hugo Awards.|Bob Eggleton, William Tenn, Terry Pratchett, Jack Speer, Peter Weston 
Fri|8:00PM|Clar|Open Filk||
Fri|8:00PM|Ccrse|Blindfolded Sculpting, with audience participation.|Come with suggestions for bizarre creatures to be sculpted or join in! With Sandra Lira, Heidi Hooper, Susan Finley, Mike Ventrella, and two guest sculptors. 
Fri|8:00PM|Dalton|Open Filk--no taping||
Fri|8:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Melanie Fletcher ||Melanie Fletcher 
Fri|8:00PM|Hall A|Registration Closes||
Fri|8:00PM|Hamp|Broad Universe Readings||
Fri|8:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Elizabeth Caldwell ||Elizabeth Caldwell 
Fri|8:30PM|Hamp|Reading - John Betancourt ||John Betancourt 
Fri|9:00PM|H100|Blood and Cardstock Games Players Choice|Open demo session. Learn exciting games like _Showbiz_ and _Counting ZZZs_. ||
Fri|9:00PM|H205|The Well-Read Fan|What literature, fiction and non-fiction, should every fan have read. Fans are slans, so you'd better know what slans are! And Doc Smith might not be the smoothest read, but he personifies sensawunda!|Fred Lerner, Edie Stern (m), Ben Yalow 
Fri|9:00PM|Conf|Filk Office Re-Opens||
Fri|9:00PM|CS Foyer|Ellen James, Harpist||Ellen James
Fri|9:00PM|Exeter|Open Filk||
Fri|9:00PM|Gard|Filk Rendezvous||
Fri|9:00PM|Hamp|Open Filk||
Fri|10:00PM|H204|Slash Fiction|How about Snape and the Nazgul? The history and/or modern trends of slash fan fiction, with a special look at its role in anime/manga fandom (_Shonen ai_ and _yaoi_ material). Are there socially redeeming aspects to all this?|Christine Carpenito, Kimberly Ann Kindya, Victoria McManus 
Fri|10:00PM|H206|Trivia for Chocolate|Answer the questions right and get a piece of chocolate (but don't eat it before it's counted up!)|Mark L. Olson, Priscilla Olson, Joe Siclari, Steven H Silver 
Fri|10:00PM|ArtSh|Art Show Closes||
Fri|10:00PM|ArtSh|Art Show Reception|Featuring _The Sonic Explorers_ |
Fri|10:00PM|M.Drum|Concert||Grant Carrington 
Fri|10:00PM|Gr.Ball|Swing Dance / Sock Hop|Featuring the Indian Hill Big Band playing mostly tunes current in 1954. 
Fri|10:00PM|Rep.A|_ Filler _(BS-Omake Theaters)||
Fri|10:30PM|Rep.A|_ 3 x 3 Eyes: Immortals _[Subtitled] [16 +]||
Fri|11:00PM|H100|_Chez Geek _|An Origins award-winning game from SJ Games. You thought college life was going to be great. No parents, no siblings, nobody looking over your shoulder every five minutes.|How were you to know the horrors of living in a college dorm? Pesky neighbors that harass you to no end, the backbreaking job you thought was a piece of cake, the tuition bills that keep piling up, and even the idiot with a chainsaw that keeps you awake all night.|This game is featured in the SJ Games tournament. Note: this game is intended for older teens and adults. 
Fri|11:00PM|M.Drum|Concert||Bill Roper 
Fri|11:00PM|Conf|Filk Office On-Call|
Fri|11:00PM|Exeter|Filk Rendezvous||
Fri|11:00PM|Gard|Open Filk||
Fri|11:30PM|M.Drum|Concert (Irish Music)||Bed & Breakfast
Fri|24:00||KiddieCorp. Professional Childcare Closes||
Fri|24:00|M.Drum|Singalong with Filthy Pierre||
Sat|12:30AM|Rep.A|_ Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust _ [Dubbed] [R]||
Sat|1:00AM|M.Drum|Beatles Singalong|Old Favorites. Bring your voice, even your guitar. We'll provide a few Beatles songbooks. 
Sat|1:00AM|M.Drum|Last Call||
Sat|1:00AM|Exeter|Open Filk||
Sat|2:00AM||Hynes Closes||
Sat|2:00AM||Pedestrian Overpass to Marriott Closed||
Sat|2:00AM|C'Ste|Con Suite Closes||
Sat|2:15AM|Rep.A|_ Reign: The Conqueror _#5--7 [Dubbed] [16 +]||
Sat|3:00AM|Clar|Filk Office Closes||
Sat|8:00AM||Hynes Open for Setup Only||
Sat|9:00AM||Hynes Opens||
Sat|9:00AM|Hall A|Registration Opens||
Sat|9:00AM|C'Ste|Con Suite Open||
Sat|9:00AM|H102|Drum Circle||
Sat|9:00AM|Gr.Ball|_ Discworld: Soul Music_||
Sat|9:00AM|Lib A|Jewish Services||
Sat|9:00AM|Rep.A|_ Risky/Safety_ [Dubbed]||
Sat|9:30AM||KiddieCorp Professional Childcare and Children's Programming and Activities Open||
Sat|9:30AM|H203|Christian Apocalyptic Fiction and SF||Tom Doyle
Sat|9:30AM|Bcn A|Moving to Music [ages 1-7]|Clap and sing to the music of Jim Cosgrove, a Kansas City children's folk singer. |Jim Cosgrove
Sat|9:30AM|Bcn F|Edible Necklace [ages 1-5]|Need a snack between activities? Make one using low-sugar snacks and plastic lacing. ||
Sat|9:30AM|Conf|Filk Office Opens||
Sat|9:30AM|Exeter|Reading - Marc Giller ||Marc Giller 
Sat|10:00AM||Masquerade Registration Open||
Sat|10:00AM|H100|_Mechwarrior_|Learn how to play the hit mechanized battle simulation from Wizkids. 
Sat|10:00AM|H102|Rounds Singing|What is a round, you ask? Come learn how to sing rounds and canons. Some are filk, some are not.|Lois H. Mangan 
Sat|10:00AM|H107|What's New from Ace/Roc.||Ginjer Buchanan 
Sat|10:00AM|H204|SFWA Meeting||
Sat|10:00AM|H205|How Does Language Influence Thought?|The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (no, not the Klingon) states that language completely determines thought, i.e., if your language doesn't have a word for the concept, then you can't even conceive of the concept. Many linguists consider this nonsense, but all agree there is some truth to it. How does the language we use shape the thoughts we have? Why is it impossible to completely understand the concepts of another language without learning it? What gets lost in translation?|Geary Gravel, John-Henri Holmberg, Elizabeth Anne Hull (m), Kathy Morrow 
Sat|10:00AM|H208|_ Firefly_ Marathon, Episodes 6-8||
Sat|10:00AM|H209|_ Galaxy Express 999_ [Dubbed]||
Sat|10:00AM|H210|WSFS Business Meeting, First Main Session|The WSFS Business Meeting is open to all Worldcon members. Today's meeting will debate and vote on amendments to the WSFS Constitution. The elections for the WSFS Mark Protection Committee are scheduled for this meeting as well. 
Sat|10:00AM|H301|The Space Elevator|The space elevator is moving from the pages of science fiction to science fact. This presentation will cover the state of the art of space elevator technology, discussing the components of a space elevator and how it can be built. There will be lots of time for Q&A!|Tom Nugent Jr. 
Sat|10:00AM|H302|Doorstops: Truly Enormous Books and Series|Huge books, a never-ending series—why are these herniators so popular? Why does it take so many words to tell a good story? Does anyone edit anymore?|Daniel Abraham, Kevin J. Anderson, William C. Dietz, Beth Meacham (m), Martha Wells 
Sat|10:00AM|H303|Imaginative Fiction: A Third World Perspective|Why are science fiction and fantasy important to the Third World? And in what way could the Third World be important to science fiction and fantasy? Fans, readers and writers around the world are embracing imaginative fiction and adapting and transforming it to reflect upon their societies and their possible futures. Much Anglo-American SF glorifies humans colonizing other worlds, but writers from post-colonial cultures are more likely to identify with the conquered aliens. As imaginative fiction crosses national and cultural borders, how can we--Anglo-Americans and others--sample, learn from, and enjoy the resulting rich brew?|A personal take on the subject from a writer born and raised in India, with discussion to follow.|Vandana Singh 
Sat|10:00AM|H304|Reading (1-hour)||Neil Gaiman 
Sat|10:00AM|H305|The Perils of Pitching||Marc Giller 
Sat|10:00AM|H306|Great Moments from SF Films|Since "movies are moments," let's recall a few dozen of the really great ones.|Bob Devney (m), MaryAnn Johanson, Daniel Kimmel, Mark R. Leeper, Kathi D. Overton 
Sat|10:00AM|H309|Where Art Meets Science: The Genomic Sculptures of Mara Haseltine|New York artist Mara Haseltine has devoted her career to probing the arena where art and genetics intersect. She focuses in particular on large scale sculptures that reflect current scientific knowledge of cell structures and processes. For example _The Waltz of the Polypeptides_ is a sculptural landscape based on electronic microscope and MNR imaging of ribosomes and proteins, computer processed and fabricated into three dimensions using milling and rapid prototyping technologies. Mara will discuss this, the Inflatable and Molecular Subworlds Project, and other works in a slide talk.|Mara Haseltine, Dennis Livingston (m) 
Sat|10:00AM|H310|Groundpounding 101|Just how fast could a nuclear steam locomotive pull a transatlantic train? Would hexapedal draft animals really be more efficient than quadrupeds? A short course in the physics of ground transportation, with some fascinating examples of technologies ranging from historic fact to prototypes that led nowhere to the world's first commercially operated high-speed magnetic levitation system.|Duncan W. Allen 
Sat|10:00AM|H312|What SF Writers Are/Aren't Doing Today|Based on two talks at the 1968 Worldcon (Baycon): "What SF Writers Are Doing Today and Why" (Brunner) and "What SF Writers Aren't Doing Today That They Should" (Garrett). Expound!|John R. Douglas, Jim Grimsley, David McMahon, Graham Sleight (m) 
Sat|10:00AM|ArtSh|Art Show Opens||
Sat|10:00AM|ArtSh|Denise Gendron, Flutist|Denise Gendron
Sat|10:00AM|Aud|Presenting Your Costume: What Tech Can Do For You|Tips for making a presentation that will show off your costume to its best advantage-- how good tech can enhance your work. We'll also show you some bad tech, so that you can learn some of the differences. Learn some new tricks to use during the Masquerade! Veteran Masqueraders, along with technical and Masquerade staff will be on hand to give advice.|Richard Hill, Kevin P. Roche, Larry Schroeder 
Sat|10:00AM|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with.|
Sat|10:00AM|Bcn D|Bug-Eyed Monsters from Outer Space [ages 7-12]|Make your own little fuzzy Bug-Eyed Monster to take home! Pick your colors, add your eyes, and give it a name with Noreascon's own Fuzzy BEM specialist.|Susan de Guardiola 
Sat|10:00AM|Bcn F|Model Magic Sculpture [ages 3-12]|Model magic is an air-drying clay that can be colored using magic markers. We'll have a different theme for each day's creation. 
Sat|10:00AM|Ccrse|Site Selection Opens||
Sat|10:00AM|Exeter|Reading - Tobias Buckell ||Tobias Buckell 
Sat|10:00AM|Gard|Discworld: a Kid's View [ages 7-12]|Examine childhood life in Ankh-Mohrpork or another fantasy world...how would it differ from what you know now? What do you think would be the same? Adults _must_ have a child with them to be admitted to this program item.|Terry Pratchett 
Sat|10:00AM|Hall A|Medieval Dagger|Fighting in the Middle Ages could be brutal, and never more so than when combatants faced each other armed only with daggers. See the skills needed to survive a medieval knife fight, as taught in contemporary combat manuals.|Higgins Armory Sword Guild
Sat|10:00AM|Hall D|Dealers Room Opens||
Sat|10:00AM|Hamp|Reading - Isaac Szpindel ||Isaac Szpindel 
Sat|10:00AM|Indep|_Toon RPG: Codename Kids_ Part 1|The Kids Next Door Headquarters has lost contact with the orbital station and potty stop. Your team's job is to determine the cause and correct the problem. [6 players] ||
Sat|10:00AM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Alex Irvine, Thomas Kidd, Karen Traviss 
Sat|10:30AM||Meeting Fans in Marriott|Tamora Pierce 
Sat|10:30AM|H203|From the Fringes of the Six O'Clock News: SF, Public Discourse, and the Mainstream||Heather Urbanski 
Sat|10:30AM|H206|The Ethics of Cloning|Join one of our Fan Guests of Honor, and learn his take on this hot (and somewhat frightening) advance in modern biomedical science.|Jack Speer 
Sat|10:30AM|H303|Fixing SF?|Does it need to be fixed? If so, why? And how would you do it?)|Matthew Jarpe 
Sat|10:30AM|H305|The Speculative Literature Foundation|Does science fiction need an arts foundation? What kind of grants should it give? Who should get them? What is "speculative literature" anyhow?|Learn about the Foundation's awards for short fiction, grants for travel research and older writers, small press co-operative program, and forthcoming technology exchange and online classified programs. The SLF is intended to serve you, the readers, writers, editors and publishers of the spec lit community. Give your input—what can it do for you?|Mary Anne Mohanraj 
Sat|10:30AM|H307|SF/F/H in Board and Card Games|Hear about the past, present, and future of these games by a compulsive collector of the same.|W. Randy Hoffman 
Sat|10:30AM|Clar|Beyond the Human Genome Project|...lies what? And where will this (slightly-scary?) science be taking us?|Ronald Taylor 
Sat|10:30AM|Dalton|A Visit to Outer Mongolia||Amy Thomson 
Sat|10:30AM|Exeter|Reading - Louise Marley ||Louise Marley 
Sat|10:30AM|Hall A|Renaissance Rapier and Dagger|Watch the most romantic of swords in action! The rapier is the best-known of swords, making it appearance in everything from Shakespeare to swashbuckler movies. In this presentation, the Higgins Armory Sword Guild revives the lost art of its use as described in one of the earliest systematic manuals of the rapier.|Higgins Armory Sword Guild
Sat|10:30AM|Hamp|Reading - Liz Williams ||Liz Williams 
Sat|11:00AM|Aud|Masquerade Tech Rehearsal--Section One|Masquerade and Technical Staffs
Sat|11:00AM|H100|Steve Jackson Games Tournament|Games include: _NinjaBurger Card Game_, _Car Wars Card Game_, _Munchkin_ (all decks), _Chez Geek_, and Illuminati: _Crime Wars_. Players will rotate between games. You must sign up for this event. You must be in the room by 11 am to play. [Experience required] ||
Sat|11:00AM|H203|The Golden Duck Awards and Literacy||
Sat|11:00AM|H205|Bad Anime|Tales from the slush pile.|Christine Carpenito, Teddy Harvia (m), Neil Nadelman, William "Crash" Yerazunis 
Sat|11:00AM|H206|Women Warriors|Which ones we admire (Buffy, Xena, Jirel, Paksanarrion) and why. Now butt-kicking women practically have a genre of their own, but it's usually "pulp-fiction" territory. Why is it still easier to imagine these heroines in non-realistic fiction--and what does that say about the shortcomings of both real-world fiction and the society we live in?|Terry McGarry (m), Elizabeth Moon, Katya Reimann, Cecilia Tan 
Sat|11:00AM|H301|Is Wernher von Braun Haunting NASA?|Wernher von Braun, often considered the father of the space program, proposed building a space station more than fifty years ago. Now we finally have one, and NASA is planning to abandon it before it's properly up and running. What's going wrong? Is NASA stuck in the past, haunted by the ghosts of obsolete proposals which it can't abandon? Was the problem that Apollo didn't follow von Braun's plan, skipping the re-usable space ferries, space stations, and orbital tugs in favor of the Apollo lunge for the Moon? Was the mistake throwing away perfectly good Apollo technology that could have taken us back to the Moon and beyond years ago? Jonathan McDowell|Jeff Hecht (m), Les Johnson, Henry Spencer, Allen Steele 
Sat|11:00AM|H302|Reality Ain't What It Used To Be: Secret Histories and Urban Fantasies|Science fiction has always challenged conventional notions of reality, but recent years have seen a growing interest in speculative stories that dwell on ancient conspiracies and secret histories, parallel dimensions which interact in strange ways with our own and hidden corners of great cities in which lurk creatures of myth and legend come to life. Panelists can explore these cracks in consensual reality and their implications for the future of SF itself as a genre based largely on developments in science and technology. There are more and more books where the author, such as Tim Powers, re-examines the past and reveals the "real" secrets hidden there. Supernatural conspiracies may explain what we might have always thought of as dull historical trivia, and underlying connections between the most disparate events are elucidated with great verve. What the hell is going on here? Are secret histories gaining on alternate ones? Why are they so addictively enjoyable? How might the fantastic reinterpretation of history practiced by such authors relate to current events? And, in a world where Mae West slept with Ho Chi Minh, what even stranger connections might make intriguing reading?|Paul DiFilippo, Daniel Hatch (m), Alex Irvine, Steven Sawicki 
Sat|11:00AM|H303|Really Alien Languages|Klingon looks pretty strange to an English speaker, but it's still (just barely) within the boundaries of possible human languages (after all, we know that humans can learn it). What about _really_ alien languages? What are some possible features that would make a language so different from any human language that no human could ever become fluent in it? How would you transliterate it so that people could make some reasonable attempt at pronouncing it? (Assuming that humans are physically capable of pronouncing it, that is.)|Suzanne Alles Blom, Nomi Burstein, Mark Mandel (m), Lawrence Schoen, Timothy L. Smith 
Sat|11:00AM|H304|What's Entertainment?--A Look at the Future|Entertainment probably started with oral storytelling, followed by plays and written stories. The twentieth century saw the rise of movies, radio, television, and video games. What's next? The "feelies" from _Brave New World_? Aroma symphonies? Digitally created actors (oh, we already have them...)? Some perversion of virtual reality? Our panelists have come back from the future to let us know.|Simon R. Green, Henry Jenkins, James Stevens-Arce (m), Rick Wilber, Connie Willis 
Sat|11:00AM|H305|Sweat and Blisters: How Much Reality Can We Stand in Fantasy Quests?|Why do people on quests in fantasy literature never sweat? How do you handle all the inconveniences like potty breaks, rain, bugs, rocks under your blanket, carrying enough food and water, etc.? Does it matter?|Kage Baker, Glen Cook, Sean McMullen, Peter Morwood, Josepha Sherman (m), Andrew Wheeler 
Sat|11:00AM|H306|Fantasy of Manners|How do we define it? How do we draw the line, and what is its appeal? Is it a truth (universally-acknowledged...) that only women can write it?|Lois McMaster Bujold, Ellen Kushner, Madeleine E. Robins (m), Jo Walton 
Sat|11:00AM|H307|Collecting SF Art for Fun and Profit|The value of SF and Fantasy artwork has appreciated greatly over the years. Twenty years ago, $100 was expensive-- now it's dirt cheap. Collectors give you the ins and outs of collecting and protecting.|Pamela Scoville, Jerry Weist (m), Robert K. Wiener 
Sat|11:00AM|H309|The Art of Ruth Sanderson|From her home amidst the fields of western Massachusetts, Ruth illustrates classical and original fantasies for children of all ages. She's the queen of the young adult picture book. Let her beautiful oils introduce you to courtier cats, flame-feathered firebirds, pensive princesses, and a ruby-red forest half as old as time.|Ruth Sanderson 
Sat|11:00AM|H310|Space Opera Noire|Space opera used to be all about optimism, excitement, and fun. Now it's about darkness, danger, and fun. How and why have modern masters such as Banks, Vinge, MacLeod, Reynolds, and Hamilton driven so far into the dark? And why are they mostly British?|Jim Frenkel, David G. Hartwell, James Killus (m), Toni Weisskopf, Scott Westerfeld 
Sat|11:00AM|H311|Backups: Eternal Life or Eternal Death?|Let's say we could record a person's mind and play it back into a new body, so that the new person couldn't be told from the old. Would that lead to immortality? Or would it lead to an endless series of deaths followed by the creation of a new person who just thinks he's the old one? Essentially, what does it mean to be oneself?|M. M. Buckner, Bridget Coila, Terry Franklin, Matthew Jarpe (m), John Moore 
Sat|11:00AM|H312|The Future of Food|Science fiction is full of people eating full meals as pills or squeezing fully-nutritious goop into their mouths. What will we eat? What should we eat? What's on the table? Will the foods be GM, artificial, natural, or highly organic?|Zara Baxter, Barbara Chepaitis (m), Herb Kauderer, Samuel Scheiner, W. A. Thomasson, Karen Traviss 
Sat|11:00AM|ArtSh|An Eclectic Art Show Tour||Ctein, Teresa Nielsen Hayden 
Sat|11:00AM|ArtSh|Retro Art Exhibit Tour||Bob Eggleton
Sat|11:00AM|Autog.|Autographing||Joseph DeVito, Toni L. P. Kelner, Stanley Schmidt, Isaac Szpindel, Michael Whelan, Robert Charles Wilson 
Sat|11:00AM|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with. 
Sat|11:00AM|Bcn D|Drawing and Cartooning. [ages 7-12]|Learn about drawing and cartooning from one of the best.|Joe Bergeron 
Sat|11:00AM|Bcn F|Capes [ages 3-6]|Fabric and imagination help you create your own cape with no sewing required.|
Sat|11:00AM|Clar|Working with Fiber|Mary C. Miller 
Sat|11:00AM|Dalton|About the Sci-Fi Channel|How does it make decisions to cancel or run things?|Craig Engler, Shara R. Zoll 
Sat|11:00AM|Exeter|Reading - Robert Buettner ||Robert Buettner 
Sat|11:00AM|Fmz Lge|Talking Like a Trufan: SF Slang from the Hectograph to the Web|Apas, annishes and Ackermanese. BEMs, beanies and blogs. Cons, corflu and crudzines. These are the ABCs of fanspeak. The gostak distims the doshes, but why don't slans read sci-fi? Don't know? You're probably a neo. Come and croggle as our panel of WKFs and BNFs explains the arcana of the SF community, argues over etymology and generally displays the art of fansmanship.|Andrew Porter, Joe Siclari, Jack Speer (m), Milton F. Stevens, Erwin S. Strauss, Joel Zakem 
Sat|11:00AM|Gard|Belly Dancing 101 [ages 7-12]|Dr. Karen teaches an introduction to belly dancing.|Karen Purcell 
Sat|11:00AM|Gr.Ball|Terry Pratchett GoH Speech|Our Guest of Honor became Britain's best-selling author by writing funny fantasies. He once said, "We are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe by a language devised for telling another where the best fruit is." Come by and he'll probably say more things like that.|Terry Pratchett 
Sat|11:00AM|Hall A|Medieval Combat|Have at you! Witness the subtle skills of attack, parry, and grapple, as the knightly arts of the falchion, halberd, dagger, and sword and buckler are brought to life from forgotten medieval manuscripts.|Higgins Armory Sword Guild
Sat|11:00AM|Hamp|Reading - Katherine Kurtz ||Katherine Kurtz 
Sat|11:00AM|Indep|_Toon RPG: Codename Kids_ Part Two|This mission is so secret that it cannot be revealed here. Part Two of a two-part adventure. You do not have to play the first part to play this one. [6 players] ||
Sat|11:00AM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Elizabeth Bear, John Betancourt, Jack Dann, Liz Gorinsky 
Sat|11:00AM|C'Ste|Knitting (and all that)||
Sat|11:00AM|Lib A|Odyssey Workshop Discussion||
Sat|11:00AM|Lib C|_Firefly_ Discussion Group|Lee Ann Kaluat 
Sat|11:00AM|Rep.A|_Slayers Return_ [Dubbed]||
Sat|11:00AM|Doc.Tour|Village Tour (of the Worldcon)|A general orientation tour of the convention.|John F. Hertz
Sat|11:30AM|Dalton|How Much of Our Behavior is Gene-Guided?--One Writer's Approach||Charles Oberndorf 
Sat|11:30AM|Exeter|Reading - David B. Coe ||David B. Coe 
Sat|11:30AM|Hall A|Swordplay through the Ages|The sword was the weapon _par excellence_ for hundreds of years and the symbol of nobility and might. During that time its techniques changed dramatically. From the subtleties of the knightly long sword to the simplicity of the military saber, watch this demonstration of authentic swordplay styles, as taken from surviving manuals.|Higgins Armory Sword Guild
Sat|11:30AM|Hamp|Reading - Nancy Kress ||Nancy Kress 
Sat|12:00M|H100|_HeroClix Booster Draft_|Play your favorite superheroes against others in this Wizkids sanctioned event.|
Sat|12:00M|H102|Bard of the Rings: A Tolkien Filk Singalong|Erwin S. Strauss 
Sat|12:00M|H107|What's Up at Del Rey Books|Come meet the editors from Del Rey Books, and hear what's up with some of your favorite authors, including Stephen Baxter, John Birmingham, Arthur C. Clarke, Eric Flint, Peter Hamilton, Robert E. Howard, Anne McCaffrey, China Mieville, Richard Morgan, Harry Turtledove, and many others.|Steve Saffel 
Sat|12:00M|H203|The One-Foot SF and Horror Film Reference Bookshelf|There are many film reference books, some general, some aimed specifically at genre films. This panel examines film reference books and tries to decide the truly essential ones for a fan of SF and horror films. After all, you can't get _all_ your info off the Internet or in the gutter...|Bob Devney, MaryAnn Johanson (m), Daniel Kimmel, Mark R. Leeper 
Sat|12:00M|H204|Is All This Labeling Necessary?|Authors, editors, artists and fans look at what labels like "science fiction," "fantasy," "genre," etc. do for us and to us. How _do_ you actually define this literature of the fantastic?|Brian W. Aldiss, Ellen Asher, John Clute, Fred Lerner (m), James Morrow 
Sat|12:00M|H205|Is It Fair?|Do magazines accept only on the basis of the perceived quality of the submissions, or are there other criteria in play? If there are, what are they and how important are they? Because no writer can support himself by writing short stories, are short stories therefore "amateur" products? Are short story writers less good than novelists? Does the quality of current short stories say anything about this?|Scott Edelman, Carl Frederick (m), Shawna McCarthy, Resa Nelson, Sheila Williams 
Sat|12:00M|H206|Futurists and Science Fiction Writers: Tools of the Trade|Science fiction writers often use intuitive methods of trend extrapolation and media surveys to work out the background to stories set in the future. So do "professional futurists," the cadre of individuals from many disciplines who have been advising government agencies and corporations about the shape of possible futures over the past thirty years.|What other methods are the futurists using? Are futurists really writing non-fiction science fiction? Do SF writers have anything to learn from futurists--and vice versa?|Brenda Jean Cooper, Christian Crews, Marc Giller, Dennis Livingston (m), Amy Oberg 
Sat|12:00M|H209|_ My Youth In Arcadia _ [Subtitled]||
Sat|12:00M|H301|What is the Rock's Motivation in This Scene?|How do you keep control of your cast of characters and explain them to the reader without stopping the story?|Theodora Goss, Stephen P. Kelner (m), Chris Moriarty, Martha Soukup, Jo Walton 
Sat|12:00M|H302|Why Write?|Do you write for simple pleasure? For an audience? For posterity? All or none of the above? Discuss--it's all valid!|Joe Haldeman (m), James Patrick Kelly, William Tenn, Martha Wells, Gary K. Wolf 
Sat|12:00M|H303|What New Writers Need to Know|Having sold a few short stories or a first novel, a writer often enters that awkward age between being and nothingness. What are the best ways to approach a nascent career, and learn the ropes about promotion, copyrights, the IRS, etc. How do you move onward into the realm of name recognition? And how do you capitalize on that shiny-new SFWA membership anyhow?|Kevin J. Anderson, Sally Wiener Grotta, Jane Jewell (m), Vera Nazarian, James Stevens-Arce, Eleanor Wood 
Sat|12:00M|H304|Hear the Symbols Clash!|Are we literate enough to use symbolism deliberately? When is it dangerous?|Jon Courtenay Grimwood, John Jarrold, Kathy Morrow (m), Vandana Singh, Takayuki Tatsumi, Mary Turzillo 
Sat|12:00M|H305|The Ethics of War Machines|The military is investing serious resources into developing military robots. Some are perfectly benign, like robot logistical transport vehicles. However others, like pilotless fighter aircraft, go well beyond benign, and give robots the decision-making authority of when and whom to kill. Ought we not be uncomfortable about turning over such decisions to machines that lack the ethical understanding of such actions?|Robert Buettner, Chris French, John G. Hemry, Steven L. Lopata, Mike Shepherd-Moscoe, Ann Tonsor Zeddies (m) 
Sat|12:00M|H306|Learning to Love Fantasy|Elves, hobbits, trolls, magic gods...For some of us, the appeal of fantasy literature is like the need for air-- it's so obvious to us why we love it. But a huge number of people out there can't get beyond what they consider a lack of realism to appreciate it. What can we do to introduce these people to fantasy in painless ways? What arguments are there to explain our love of the genre? Bonus: How do we convince strictly hard SF readers that there's something there for them too (and yes, there is!)?|Patricia Bray, Paul Levinson, Yves Meynard, Melissa Scott, Michael Swanwick, Andrew Wheeler (m) 
Sat|12:00M|H307|Children's Play in the Future|What will children be playing at in fifty years? What will be the new toys: artificial pets, weightless sports, alien games? Will anyone go outside anymore to play with other kids? Will the whole concept of childhood itself change? Maybe children will be "playing" at being CEOs or space warriors...for real!|Jeffrey A. Carver, Kathryn Cramer, Janice M. Eisen, Bonnie Kunzel, Isaac Szpindel (m) 
Sat|12:00M|H309|Comics: A Slideshow||Barry Short 
Sat|12:00M|H310|The End of Copyright: Can the Arts Survive the Digital Age?|Can we continue to protect intellectual property? Should we? If we don't, how will human creativity change?|Cory Doctorow, Daniel Grotta (m), Sean M. Mead, Steve Miller, Charlie Petit, James M. Turner 
Sat|12:00M|H311|Terraforming Venus?|We've already "terraformed" the Earth with global changes and the blueprints for Mars are already on paper. What about Venus? The size is just right, and the orbit isn't bad, but what sorts of problems will we face from a sulfuric-acid greenhouse climate? How can we go about making a heaven out of hell?|Terry Franklin, James Killus, Geoffrey A. Landis (m), Carolyn Collins Petersen 
Sat|12:00M|H312|The Rise of the Paranormal Romance|It's now one of the fastest-growing segments of the fiction market. Why? And why is it more than just horny vampires and angsty werewolves?|Catherine Asaro, Charlaine Harris, Sue Krinard, Sandra McDonald (m), Diane Turnshek 
Sat|12:00M|ArtSh|Tour of the Retro Art Exhibit|Robert K. Wiener 
Sat|12:00M|Autog.|Autographing||Lisa Barnett, Mike Brotherton, Esther Friesner, Larry Ganem, Karen Haber, Jonathan Strahan, Laura Underwood, John Zakour 
Sat|12:00M|Bcn A|Belly Dancing [ages 3-6]|Learn the fun basics of belly dancing.|Karen Purcell 
Sat|12:00M|Bcn D|Visual Storytelling [ages 7-12]|A hands-on introduction to creating your own comics.|Colleen Doran 
Sat|12:00M|Bcn F|Yarn Bugs [ages 4-8]|Yarn, wiggle eyes and a lot of wrapping will help build up these funny creatures. 
Sat|12:00M|Clar|Out of Africa|Africa is stereotyped by images of low technology and despair. However the continent is filled with innovation. Poverty and a lack of societal infrastructure have resulted in some quirky little inventions--both from within and from without--like wind-up portable radios, hand-twisted pressure clothes washers, solar powered stoves, solar-powered water purifiers, and more. Uncluttered emerging societies have skipped whole generations of technology coming up with a whole new way of doing things; for example you can find widespread use of cell phones and even the Internet in countries where there is little or no landine infrastructure. What other innovations and interesting social developments have come out of Africa that we rarely hear about? Can we dare hope that better things will come out of Africa one day?|Grant Kruger, Laura Resnick, Mike Resnick, Don Sakers (m) 
Sat|12:00M|Dalton|Getting Started in Media Costuming|So you want to be a character from _Star Wars_, _Lord of the Rings_, a comic book, or your favorite anime...How do you get started in researching, designing, and (re-)creating your costume?|Kimberly Ann Kindya, Carol Salemi, Shara R. Zoll 
Sat|12:00M|Exeter|Reading - Jim Young ||Jim Young 
Sat|12:00M|Gard|How To Draw Beasties [ages 7-12]|Omar Rayyan 
Sat|12:00M|Gr.Ball|_ Troll Bridge_||
Sat|12:00M|Hall A|Armored Combat|See the clash of fully-armored knights as they would have fought in the Middle Ages! Hollywood's images of armored combat rely on made-up moves and special effects. Watch actual techniques, as described in medieval manuals, that knights used in battle.|Higgins Armory Sword Guild 
Sat|12:00M|Hamp|Reading - George R. R. Martin(1 hour)||George R. R. Martin 
Sat|12:00M|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Tobias Buckell, Wen Spencer, Jeff VanderMeer, Robert Charles Wilson 
Sat|12:00M|Lib A|RFF/DYR/SFC|David Glenn Anderson
Sat|12:00M|Rep.A|_ Iria: Zeiram_ [Dubbed] [13 +]||
Sat|12:30PM|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with. 
Sat|12:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Juanita Coulson ||Juanita Coulson 
Sat|1:00PM|H204|The Asimov Award|Talk and presentation of this award for undergraduate writers.|Rick Wilber, Sheila Williams 
Sat|1:00PM|H205|What If Super Science Were True?|...like FTL drives, time-travel, immortality...all that really good stuff!|Susan Born, Walter H. Hunt, Eric Landau, Tom Schaad 
Sat|1:00PM|H206|The SFWA Auction|The Emergency Medical Fund of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America helps pay medical expenses for writers in our genre. You can help by bidding for and buying from a healthy assortment of donated books (signed and un-), galleys, and other interesting stuff.|Keith R. A. DeCandido, Laura Anne Gilman, Peter J. Heck, Jane Jewell 
Sat|1:00PM|H208|On Making a Movie|Mike Donahue 
Sat|1:00PM|H210|Filk Request Concert||
Sat|1:00PM|H301|Technological Cusp Points and Alternate Histories|Many alternate histories focus on political and/or war aspects, or some form of "what if this great man/woman's life were different?" But much of the great sweep of history has been due to technological events. What are they? Consider what would have happened if they had been delayed, discovered elsewhere, or usurped by other methods. Movable type...the assembly line...the telephone...MS- DOS? All fair game...|Duncan W. Allen, Michael Dobson, Sean McMullen, Robert A. Metzger, Isaac Szpindel (m) 
Sat|1:00PM|H302|The Greatest Living Science Fiction Writer?|Who is it? What about fantasy? Why?|John Clute (m), Gardner Dozois, Shawna McCarthy, George H. Scithers 
Sat|1:00PM|H303|Maintaining a Long-Running Series|You're writing book XVII of your trilogy entitled _Granny and Miles Party on Pern with Severian, Hermione, and Hammer's Slammers_. How do you fit fresh inspirations into established frameworks? Fill in new readers without zonking old ones? And the fun part: how do you decide which characters you can kill next?|William C. Dietz 
Sat|1:00PM|H304|The Next Fifty Years: Where Will the Next Big Things Come From?|In December 2003, the Sunday _New York Times_ identified "some developments today that could have profound effects tomorrow—the causes of the next big things." These included a growing elderly population in developed nations; unanticipated epidemics; pressures on democracy from religious fundamentalism and the campaign against terrorism; the Internet and the rise of movement politics; high tech warfare; and the spread of global capitalism. What wild cards and longer-term trends should be added to this list? With what consequences? Leading SF authors are invited to explore key factors expected to shape society over the next fifty years.|Gregory Benford, John G. Cramer, Thomas A. Easton (m), Larry Niven 
Sat|1:00PM|H305|Fannish Rivalry?|Why do some people insist on a rivalry between literary and media SF, when so many of us like both? Ah, rivalries. There are several others besides media vs. lit, comics vs. lit., convention vs. fanzine fans, etc. Besides the usual compare and contrast, the question is: Why can't we just all get along? Why do we have these rivalries anyway?|Chris Barkley, Tom Galloway (m), Daniel Kimmel, Bey King 
Sat|1:00PM|H306|What the Writer Needs to Know|... that doesn't get into the published story. A published story has a beginning, middle and end. But there are events that occur before the story starts, the characters have lives before [well, not always before, if the story starts with the birth of the character or before then] and after the story, and the writer needs to know more information about people, events, geography, and history of the characters and settings than the reader is ever going to see.|Just how much does the writer need to know and what happens when the writer doesn't know? Can it be faked? What can be left out? And when is it time to trim out events and plots and themes that are interesting to the writer and that were part of the impetus to write a story, but which turn out to be extraneous to what the publishable story is about?|Robert Reed, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Martha Wells, Scott Westerfeld (m) 
Sat|1:00PM|H307|Game Designers' Tips and Tricks|"I've got this great idea for a game..." Are you sure? How can you turn your idea into the next _Monopoly_ or _Fluxx_? What goes into a good RPG or LARP? Learn from the experts.|James Cambias (m), Leigh Grossman, Thomas Harlan, Michael McAfee 
Sat|1:00PM|H309|Biological Nanotechnology|It's getting so you can't swing a cat without hitting a science fiction story that has some element of nanotechnology in it and the media is all over nanotech like stink on a skunk. How will nanotechnology impact our lives and our health? Is nanotech the next big thin (no pun intended) or is it just a load of hype and hooey? What's "condensed matter"? Should you be worried about gray goo? Get the straight skinny (or at least all the skinny that's fit to present) from an expert in the field, with a multimedia slide presentation too.|Stephen C. Lee 
Sat|1:00PM|H310|Order in the (Alien?) Court!|What happens when you're accused of a crime on another planet? How have writers handled this in the past--from Heinlein's _Have Spacesuit, will Travel_ to the Klingon court in _The Undiscovered Country_? Is it possible to write about methods of dispensing justice without depending on Terran history? Is the idea of justice itself an Earth concept?|While we're on the topic of justice and crime, will _The Demolished Man_'s psychic cops actually prevent crime? What are the implications of the increasing dependence on technology in police and forensics work? How will we catch Gully Foyle?|Christopher Cevasco (m), Harold Feld, John G. Hemry, Jack Speer, Lisa J. Steele 
Sat|1:00PM|H311|Reinventing Genre Fantasy|With so much genre fantasy being published, what can be done to refresh our jaded palates?|Hilari L. Bell, Debra Doyle (m), Elizabeth Hand, Alex Irvine, Katherine Kurtz 
Sat|1:00PM|H312|Tradeoffs between Freedom, Security and Privacy|Is she free? Is he secure? Should we know? It seems that to get more of one thing, you have to give up something else. Since different people want different levels of freedom, security and privacy, how can we reach a societal consensus on the tradeoffs? What happens when smart dust watches everything we do, scanning technologies monitor what we think and microbots will take action?|Where is all this going? Where should it go? What can we do? Is Big Brother coming at last, just a bit behind schedule?|Cory Doctorow, Joseph Lazzaro, James Macdonald, Don Sakers (m), Teresa Nielsen Hayden 
Sat|1:00PM|ArtSh|Ellen James, Harpist||Ellen James
Sat|1:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||Kage Baker, Jim Butcher, Tanya Huff, Don Maitz, Terry McGarry, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Nick Sagan 
Sat|1:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||Eileen Gunn, Paul Levinson, Michael Whelan 
Sat|1:00PM|Bcn D|Puppet-Making Workshop [ages 7-12]|With a master puppeteer, we'll explore the world of make believe and make hand or finger puppets.|Michael Sharrow
Sat|1:00PM|Bcn E|D&D Character Roll [ages 7+]|Beginning D&D (_Dungeons and Dragons_) session; come learn how to play.|Arthur Shattan 
Sat|1:00PM|Bcn F|Magnetic Bookmark [ages 5-8]|Stopping in the middle of a page can be _so_ confusing when you get back to reading! Create a fun paper bookmark that will mark the line to start reading again. 
Sat|1:00PM|Clar|Spicing Up Your Filk Performance|Look at voices, accents, face and body expression, pacing, and...?|Bill Sutton, Brenda Sutton 
Sat|1:00PM|Dalton|Drawing the Human Figure in the Action Pose|Are your drawings and paintings looking a bit staid and stale? Take a second look at your figures—can they be better? This lecture-demo addresses stiff or tired figures and attempts to evoke an emotion from a sense of action in the drawing stage (even in a sitting or lying character). In the collectible card games business, the art gets reduced down so small that an action has to be instantly recognizable. Therefore, emphasis will be placed on drawing the figure in _contrapasto_ (counter pose), exaggerating the look of movement, balance and perspective to convey an action scene in an instant. Examples of masters and comic artists will reinforce the theme.|Ed Cox 
Sat|1:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Mitchell Freedman ||Mitchell Freedman 
Sat|1:00PM|Gard|Daggers and Shields and Swords, Oh My! [ages 7-12]|Have at you! Witness the subtle skills of attack, parry, and grapple, as the combat arts of the sword and buckler, dagger, long sword, and small sword are brought to life in this presentation.|Higgins Armory Sword Guild. 
Sat|1:00PM|Gr.Ball|Trailer Park||
Sat|1:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Frederik Pohl ||Frederik Pohl 
Sat|1:00PM|Indep|_Shadowrun RPG: What Lies in the Dark_ Part One: Snatch and Grab|Some idiot has hired you to go down to the Cape [Cape Cod, that is] and make some easy money. Some dotty old recluse has a very rare antique that your handler has hired you to retrieve. The whole job looks easy. The island has little in the way of security and just happens to be far enough from shore that the UCAS Coast Guard won't even know you're there. If all goes well you might even stop in Hyannis and grab some rays before heading up to Beantown. This should be money in the bank...Click…Whirr…sputter…Uhhh, _what_ was that? [6 players. May bring your own character up to 30 Karma, or use a pre-generated character.] ||
Sat|1:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Colleen Doran, Elizabeth Moon, Charles Oberndorf, Melinda Snodgrass 
Sat|1:00PM|Rep.B|_ The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms_|Retro Hugo Nominee for Best Dramatic Presentation 
Sat|1:30PM|H203|Teaching With vs. Teaching About SF||Priscilla Olson 
Sat|1:30PM|H204|Breaking In|Author, agent, and editor talk about how to get that first novel sold.|Joshua Bilmes, Moshe Feder, Brandon Sanderson 
Sat|1:30PM|H210|Filk One-Shots Concert||
Sat|1:30PM|H303|Fifty Ways to Leave the Planet|Non-obvious ways to get into space--each in 30 seconds or less!|Jordin T. Kare 
Sat|1:30PM|Bcn A|Magic Show [ages 3-6]|Daniel Dern works some of his magic and storytelling for you.|Daniel Dern 
Sat|1:30PM|Dalton|How to Write a Fight Scene||James Alan Gardner 
Sat|1:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Roger MacBride Allen ||Roger MacBride Allen 
Sat|1:30PM|Gard|Roman Legionary and Gothic Knight [ages 7-12]|The Roman Legionary helped conquered the known world two thousand years ago. The Knight was the most powerful force on the battlefield five hundred years ago. Each wore plate armor and carried a sword, a spear, and a dagger, but they were very different. Come hear a Legionary and a Knight explain their equipment and how they fought, and try to guess what would happen if they were to face each other in battle.|
Sat|1:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Allen Steele ||Allen Steele 
Sat|1:45PM|H203|Using SF to Teach About...(1.5 hours)|An academic roundtable.|Michael A. Burstein (m), Barbara Chepaitis, Theodora Goss, Leslie Howle, Larry A. Lebofsky, Dennis Livingston 
Sat|2:00PM|H100|Blood and Cardstock Players' Choice|Open demo session. Learn how to play exciting games like _Showbiz_ and _Counting ZZZs_.|
Sat|2:00PM|H107|What's New from Warner Aspect|Come listen to Jaime Levine, Editorial Director, and Devi Pillar, Assistant Editor, tell you about the next year's worth of titles from Warner. We'll have book giveaways and contests. Authors Greg Benford, Karin Lowachee, Alison Baird and Kevin J. Anderson will be giving readings or short talks. 
Sat|2:00PM|H205|The Future of Energy|Our economy is currently dependent on sources of energy that are depletable and/or located in politically unstable regions. How long can we really count on oil? What are the realistic prospects for moving to a more sustainable energy system? Is there any role for fusion, solar power satellites and other fossil-fuel replacements? What is the role of better energy storage systems? Are there any real prospects for compact "off-the-grid" power?|Since technical fixes can only take us so far towards a sustainable energy ecology, what about more fundamental changes in life styles, consumption values and conservation?|Catherine Asaro, David Friedman, David Nichols, Samuel Scheiner (m), David Stephenson 
Sat|2:00PM|H206|Remembering Hal Clement|For decades, the Boston area's beloved Hal Clement (Harry Stubbs [1922-2003]) was best-known for a novel issued in 1953. But _Mission of Gravity_ was succeeded by at least 10 more--the last, _Noise_ published the month before his death. Let's recall our friend's lifelong scientific rigor, human vigor, optimism, and faith in the transformative power of curiosity. He was a writer and a gentleman and was taken from us far too soon. Remember him.|Matthew Jarpe, Anthony R. Lewis, Shane Tourtellotte 
Sat|2:00PM|H208|Reading/Film||Resa Nelson 
Sat|2:00PM|H210|Concert||Mary Crowell 
Sat|2:00PM|H301|What Do You Passionately Read?|...Besides fantasy and SF? Of course you want to finish that new trilogy (which has suddenly expanded to five books), but even the most devoted fans have other interests.|Bibliophiles get together to discuss the non-SF/F books they love, from historical fiction to murder mysteries to biographies, with other stops in between.|Chris Barkley (m), Laura Anne Gilman, Mary Kay Kare, Toni L. P. Kelner, Lawrence Watt-Evans 
Sat|2:00PM|H302|Whatever Became of the Space Merchants?|...and where did the broad heavy-handed satire go? And why?|Steve Carper (m), Mitchell Freedman, Harry Harrison, Barry N. Malzberg, Frederik Pohl 
Sat|2:00PM|H303|The Perils of Promotion|How do you promote your work? What are some of the backlashes you might encounter? How can conventions hurt or help?|Steve Antczak, Paula Guran, Jay Caselberg, Ben Jeapes (m), Jean Lorrah, Theresa Mather 
Sat|2:00PM|H304|Great Cliches in SF and Fantasy|Hidden powers, quirky sidekicks, true names...bookish teens, rebel cops, sexy robots, haircut aliens...devils' bargains (quashed by lemon laws), and dark lords without impulse control...splitting up to look for the monster!...dueling till the death (or the sequel?).|Take a look at the really good (well, maybe in the eye of the beholder?) cliches of the field, and tell us what makes them so popular.|Don D'Ammassa, Craig Gardner, David Levine (m), Josepha Sherman, S. M. Stirling 
Sat|2:00PM|H305|Lies I Learned at the Movies|Let's discuss at least a few of the thousands of scientific facts that movies teach us--that turn out not to be true. Our favorite: the title of the 1969 "historical" epic about a volcano disaster, _Krakatoa, East of Java_. For the geographically-challenged among us, Krakatoa's _west_... of Java.|Bob Devney (m), Tamara Jones, Peter Morwood, John Pomeranz, John Scalzi 
Sat|2:00PM|H306|Alternate Prehistory|Do new discoveries in paleontology offer ideas for alternate history? Is this prehistory an untapped resource for alternate history?|Robert Buettner, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Robert J. Sawyer (m), Michael Swanwick 
Sat|2:00PM|H307|Living With a Martian||Mary Turzillo 
Sat|2:00PM|H309|Pictures from Mars|A show of the latest and greatest from the red planet. The Spirit and Opportunity rovers and the Mars Express orbiter have shown that Mars was once a wet world. How wet and for how long? What else have we learned about Mars from the mountains of data they have returned? How good is the evidence for life on Mars? What should the next rovers do? What can a sample return mission tell us? What can astronauts add?|Geoffrey A. Landis 
Sat|2:00PM|H310|Writing the Young Female Protagonist|From Podkayne of Mars to Alanna of Tortall, young girls have often been vivid and well-loved characters in science fiction and fantasy. How does one write such a character? If you yourself are not a young girl, how can you get into the mindset to make your character believable?|Anne Harris, Mindy Klasky, Louise Marley, Tamora Pierce, Mary H. Rosenblum (m), E. Rose Sabin 
Sat|2:00PM|H311|If Rome Never Fell...|Imagine...two millennia of Roman rule. Rome continues to fascinate writers. There have been a number of novels set in Ancient Rome, including several popular mystery series. Rome has also been the setting for a number of popular fantasies. And a number of science fiction books have based their societies loosely (or not so loosely) on that of Rome.|This panel looks at the continuing lure of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.|Esther Friesner, Thomas Harlan, Mark L. Olson (m), Susan Shwartz, Robert Silverberg, Harry Turtledove 
Sat|2:00PM|H312|How to Use Science and Technology in SF--Or Should We?|Loosely patterned after the 1951 Worldcon (Nolacon) topic, "More--Science in Science Fiction--Less". Verne's _Nautilus_, the fully automated culture in _The Machine Stops_, the two-way video in _1984_, the computerized political data base in _Double Star_, Asimov's robotics, organlegging in Larry Niven's stories--when does something resonate and when doesn't it? Are there any general principles? Most importantly...Is having real science in these books actually necessary?|What are the merits of science fantasy vs. science fiction?|John G. Cramer, Terry Franklin, Rosemary Kirstein, Larry Niven, G. David Nordley (m) 
Sat|2:00PM|ArtSh|Art Show Tour||Suford Lewis 
Sat|2:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||Lois McMaster Bujold, David B. Coe, Kathryn Cramer, Diane Duane, Phyllis Eisenstein, George R. R. Martin, Jeff VanderMeer 
Sat|2:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||Daniel Hatch, Melissa Scott, Liz Williams 
Sat|2:00PM|Bcn A|Movie [ages 1-8]|Movies will be announced on the Movie Board outside the room. 
Sat|2:00PM|Bcn D|_LOTR_: The Movie or the Book? [ages 7-12]|Each of these art forms has some advantages. What are they? Tolkien fan and movie buff jan howard finder went to New Zealand to see the movie set and has much to say about it. Compare your ideas abot the merits of the movie and the book with those of other _LotR_ fans.|jan howard finder 
Sat|2:00PM|Bcn F|Storytime [ages 1-6]|Listen to some fun tales. 
Sat|2:00PM|Clar|Harmony Workshop|Basics of adding harmonies to melody: where, when and how. Emphasis on vocal harmonies, both planned and ad hoc.|Lynn Gold 
Sat|2:00PM|Dalton|Self-Publishing/Selling Quality Commercial Art Books|Designing a book of photographs as art, the brave new world of digital printing and why it is so cool, designing a book of photographs technically so that it goes to press without problems. How to find and work with a press. Marketing, distribution, etc. When is it all worth it?|Laurie Toby Edison, Geri Sullivan 
Sat|2:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Kelly Link ||Kelly Link 
Sat|2:00PM|Gard|Have Wand, Will Travel [ages 7-12]|A magic show especially for kids.|Bill Brang 
Sat|2:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Brian W. Aldiss ||Brian W. Aldiss 
Sat|2:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Katya Reimann, Mike Resnick, Jonathan Strahan, Connie Willis 
Sat|2:00PM|Lib C|Stratificational Linguistics Discussion Group|...or Why I Sometimes Scream While Watching _Stargate SG-1_.|Christopher Hatton 
Sat|2:15PM|H209|_ Maetel Legend _[Subtitled]||
Sat|2:30PM|H206|Strange Adventures: The Eccentric World of Julius Schwartz|Giant hands! Superhero abuse! Spacemen in peril! Dust monsters! And did I mention giant purple gorillas?|When Julius Schwartz edited a comic, you knew what you would get: taut storytelling, excellent art, a minor science lesson and a dose of weirdness treated as if it were just another everyday occurrence. A light-hearted salute to the member of First Fandom who became perhaps comics' greatest editor, with a slideshow retrospective presented by comics historian Barry Short.|Bob Greenberger (m), Barry Short, Jerry Weist 
Sat|2:30PM|H210|Concert||Bill Sutton, Brenda Sutton 
Sat|2:30PM|H307|Surgery in Space||Robert I. Katz 
Sat|2:30PM|Dalton|Interfacing Art: Illustration and Written SF||Janny Wurts 
Sat|2:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Elizabeth Hand ||Elizabeth Hand 
Sat|2:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Gary K. Wolf ||Gary K. Wolf 
Sat|2:30PM|Rep.B|_Invaders from Mars_|Retro Hugo Nominee for Best Dramatic Presentation|
Sat|3:00PM|H203|Computer Game Technologies and Education||Henry Jenkins 
Sat|3:00PM|H204|Toward a Posthuman Future?|Is it even possible for humans, including science fiction writers, to imagine a future without humans?|Frank White 
Sat|3:00PM|H205|_Smallville_|The hip and edgy story of Clark Kent's teenage years in a Kansas farm town caught fire when it appeared on TV in 2001. Why does this series work so well? Is it the weird effects of Kryptonite? Clark's slow development of his super-powers? Guest stars such as his real father, Jor-El? What other people from the greater Superman stories would you like to see--or is there a limit on how many future hints we can take?|Michael A. Burstein, Pam Fremon, Tom Galloway (m), Kimberly Ann Kindya, Nicki Lynch 
Sat|3:00PM|H206|Tough Love for New Writers|Give it up: there are already too many writers. Let's face it, even with a lot of help, the best to be expected from most new writers is that they will produce a lot of mediocre sludge. In fact, most people who attend "how to" panels at conventions won't even do that well. Moreover, there are is already so much good to read that the field doesn't need such sludge. The panel's advice to wannabe writers: give it up now and get a real job. (An honest appraisal of the new writer's chances.)|Gavin Grant, David G. Hartwell, Steve Miller, Priscilla Olson (m), Teresa Nielsen Hayden 
Sat|3:00PM|H208|A Chuck Jones Tribute|The great animator gave us the Retro Hugo nominee _Duck Dodgers_. What are the essential Chuck Jones works and why is he still so influential today?|Paul Barnett, Pamela Scoville 
Sat|3:00PM|H209|_ Final Yamato _[Subtitled]||
Sat|3:00PM|H210|SF Cabaret|Welcome, welkommen, bienvenue to the SF Cabaret, a presentation of works touching on SF and fantasy themes. Not filk, not folk, not quite jazz, but an art form with similarities to those genres devoted mostly to presenting classic American songs and show tunes or recent material written in that style in intimate club settings. Why shouldn't modern cabaret songs reflect SF and Fantasy concerns anyway? Here are some that do.|Dennis Livingston 
Sat|3:00PM|H301|Creativity on Demand|Your first novel took five years to craft. Now you've got a deadline and an editor breathing down your neck. How do published authors cope with the pressure of deadlines and editor/reader expectations? What tips can they share for coping with the times when your muse won't cooperate and you still need to produce ten thousand words by Friday?|Patricia Bray, Keith R. A. DeCandido, William C. Dietz (m), Stephen P. Kelner, Rebecca Moesta, Deborah Ross 
Sat|3:00PM|H302|Novels You Write/Novels You Talk about in Bars|Well, first of all, are they your own or someone else's? And if they're your own, are you just talking instead of actually writing them? Will the story you end up writing be as good as the one you talked about?|Ellen Kushner (m), James Macdonald, James Morrow, Charles Oberndorf, Charles Stross, Robert Charles Wilson 
Sat|3:00PM|H303|Stem Cell Research|How can we/should we encourage re-thinking the opposition to it? What are the promises of this research?|Jed Shumsky 
Sat|3:00PM|H304|Who Thought of _That_, Why, and How Come It's So Popular?|A look at some of the seminal ideas of modern SF.|Don D'Ammassa, Anthony R. Lewis, James Minz (m), Darrell Schweitzer 
Sat|3:00PM|H305|Alternate History Challenge Match|Panelists get a weird alternate present, and have to reverse-engineer how it came about.|Michael Dobson, Mitchell Freedman, Peter J. Heck, Evelyn C. Leeper, S. M. Stirling, Toni Weisskopf (m) 
Sat|3:00PM|H306|Vamps|In the Middle Ages they tore your throat out; in the Victorian Age, death was sex, so ambiguity allowed some extra thrills. Now, in our...differently...repressed age, vampires are both openly sexy and sympathetic. Is our culture growing up, or just getting very very kinky? What are the challenges and advantages to breathing new life into the un-dead? And when (why) did the vampire go from serious to silly? When did decadence become decadent?|Ellen Datlow, Charlaine Harris, Tanya Huff (m), Cecilia Tan 
Sat|3:00PM|H307|The Stfnal Clubman|How's your SF club doing? Ideas for starting, reviving or killing off a local science-fiction club. What can people do in their own community to gather together fans? How do you build up membership? What pitfalls should you be aware of? And why you should join NESFA even if you don't live here...|Genny Dazzo, David R. Howell, John Pomeranz, Hank Reinhardt, Sharon Sbarsky (m), Diane Turnshek 
Sat|3:00PM|H309|Authors or Editors: Who is Closer to the Readers?|Magazine submissions are judged by editors whereas contests are usually judged by writers. Do they select different types of stories? If they do select different types of stories, then which of them (editors or authors) are more representative of the tastes of the readers?|Paul DiFilippo (m), Carl Frederick, Beth Meacham, Patrick Nielsen Hayden 
Sat|3:00PM|H310|If There Were No _Star Wars_...|...there might not have been an SF media boon in the '80s (and Spielberg's career would end after the disastrous _1941_ and Harrison Ford would have been working as a carpenter and would never have met Calista Flockhart...). And there would be no _ST:TNG_, since the marketplace could not yet support a fourth network (i.e., Paramount). Keep on working through the ripples. Where would we be?|Chris Barkley, Steven Sawicki, Lawrence Schoen, Ben Yalow 
Sat|3:00PM|H311|The SF/F Detective|Why are so many SF/F detectives cast in the somewhat pulpy hard-boiled Private Eye mode? (And is there anything wrong with that?) Discuss what makes a good genre mystery guy.|Charles Ardai (m), Barbara Chepaitis, Simon R. Green, Paul Levinson, John Zakour 
Sat|3:00PM|H312|Can SF Change the World?|Utopias and dystopias and everything in between. How has SF influenced the people actually inventing the future? Was any of today's world inspired by the SF of the past? What of today's SF will inspire the future? And, can SF warn us about futures we don't want?|Daniel Hatch (m), Elizabeth Anne Hull, Stephen C. Lee, Ernest Lilley, Mark W. Tiedemann 
Sat|3:00PM|ArtSh|Tour of the Retro Art Exhibit||Joe Siclari 
Sat|3:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||Catherine Asaro, Carol Berg, John Betancourt, Jeffrey A. Carver, Robert A. Metzger, Chris Moriarty, Melissa Scott 
Sat|3:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||Geary Gravel, Rosemary Kirstein, Don Maitz, Charlie Petit, Ann Tonsor Zeddies 
Sat|3:00PM|Bcn A|Movie [ages 1-8]|Movies will be announced on the Movie Board outside the room. 
Sat|3:00PM|Bcn D|Tamora Pierce Get-Together [ages 7-12]|Come talk with the popular YA author about her books, her ideas, recording with Full Cast Audio... (Kids only, please!)|Tamora Pierce 
Sat|3:00PM|Bcn E|D&D Game [ages 7+] (Arthur Shattan)|Beginning D&D (_Dungeons and Dragons_) session; come learn how to play. 
Sat|3:00PM|Bcn F|Magic Wands [ages 2-12]|Turn a chopstick into a magic wand to bring your imagination to life. 
Sat|3:00PM|Clar|Parody Workshop|There's parody, and then there's parody which is cleverly constructed, involves wordplay and draws on the original material for both style and meaning. Some basics from an acknowledged master.|Bob Kanefsky 
Sat|3:00PM|Dalton|Turn Left at Orion: Using a Small Telescope|You keep hearing about all this neat stuff in the sky, but you never manage to go out and see any of it. What do you need to go look for these fascinating objects? How much can you see with binoculars, a small telescope, or just the unaided eye and a dark sky? Experts talk about the possibilities.|Guy Consolmagno 
Sat|3:00PM|Exeter|Reading - P. J. Plauger ||P. J. Plauger 
Sat|3:00PM|Gard|Instant Costuming Challenge [ages 7-12]|Create your own costume with the help of expert costumers! Then wear it to the Time Travel Dance right after this panel.|Thomas Atkinson, Ming Diaz 
Sat|3:00PM|Gr.Ball|Special Studio Sneak Preview||
Sat|3:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Jack Dann ||Jack Dann 
Sat|3:00PM|Indep|_Deryni Adventure_|Join Ann Dupuis, publisher of the upcoming _Deryni Adventure Game_, for a roleplaying adventure involving Sendai the Magnificent and his troupe of travelling performers. Katherine Kurtz is co-GM for this adventure.|Ann Dupuis, Katherine Kurtz
Sat|3:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Brian W. Aldiss, Jack L. Chalker, Stanley Schmidt, Sarah Zettel 
Sat|3:00PM|Lib A|Bujold Fandom Discussion Group|Jerrie Adkins
Sat|3:00PM|Rep.A|_ Ruin Explorers _[Subtitled] [Not Rated]||
Sat|3:00PM|Doc.Tour|Village Tour (of the Worldcon)|A general orientation tour of the convention.|Tom Veal
Sat|3:30PM|H303|The Author as a Brand|What shapes an author's brand image, and who does a great job of branding? Why is it great? How does the co-branding of their books impact authors? What can authors do to improve their brand images?|Sean M. Mead 
Sat|3:30PM|Exeter|Reading - James Alan Gardner ||James Alan Gardner 
Sat|3:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Jo Walton ||Jo Walton 
Sat|4:00PM|H100|Camelot Legends|Quest with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Players assemble companies of knights and compete with their opponents to complete quests. Once the final adventure is complete, the players with the most glory shall be victorious! [2-4 players] ||
Sat|4:00PM|H107|Eos Presents Upcoming SF/F Titles|Eos Senior Editor Diana Gill and Jack Womack present the upcoming titles of interest from Eos and HarperCollins, including books by Neal Stephenson, Terry Pratchett, Dave Duncan, Sean Russell and more. Join us for handouts, contests and candy, plus the best new science fiction and fantasy for Fall 2004. 
Sat|4:00PM|H203|How to Design Your Academic Career for a Job in Space|An imaginative (not prescriptive) approach to making college really work.|jan howard finder 
Sat|4:00PM|H204|Lyrical Language|Is it a good idea to bounce the reader out of the story by making her aware of how beautifully you write? Define "beautifully." And, under any circumstances, is "style" really so necessary?|Fruma Klass, Justine Larbalestier (m), Kelly Link, Terry McGarry, Delia Sherman 
Sat|4:00PM|H205|_Bad_ Con Advice for Newbies|Please--bring a sense of irony! Fannish etiquette, with a twist.|David Levine, Laurie Mann, Sandra McDonald, Priscilla Olson 
Sat|4:00PM|H206|Speculative Physics and Space Travel|Wormholes, quantum teleportation, and other ideas on the edge of modern physics are all fair game!|John G. Cramer, Les Johnson (m), Henry Spencer 
Sat|4:00PM|H301|Why is Everyone So Scared of Genre Poetry?|Or is it just that people are scared of poetry?|John M. Ford, Joe Haldeman, David C. Kopaska-Merkel (m), Janna Silverstein 
Sat|4:00PM|H302|The Numinous in Science Fiction and Fantasy|Okay, we know that "numinous" isn't a noun, but there is something, well, _noun-like_ in the way some authors can invoke a feeling about stuff beyond our everyday experience. But the numinous does seem to show up more in our genre than in most others. Why? Why can some authors give us this sense so effortlessly, while others try to get us there and don't quite make it? (And it is so often missed!) And why would a bunch of rational science-oriented people care about that kind of thing in the first place? Is this because SF is at its roots interested in the same things as fantasy and fantasy has a particularly close relationship with the numinous, or is it just that the numinous is a great way to get a Sensawonder fix?|Lois McMaster Bujold, James Macdonald (m), Farah Mendelsohn, James Morrow, Deborah Ross 
Sat|4:00PM|H303|The Writer and Role-Playing Games|How can playing role-playing games help/hurt your writing?|Michael Dobson, Michael Gilmartin, Thomas Harlan, Walter H. Hunt (m), Wil McDermott 
Sat|4:00PM|H304|Postcapitalist Social Mechanisms|A look at the reality and potential of such things as reputation/abundance/gift economies and the like--as found in Doctorow's _Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom_, Stross's _Macx_ stories, and a wealth of others...including fandom itself.|M. M. Buckner, Cory Doctorow, David Friedman (m), Benjamin Rosenbaum, Charles Stross 
Sat|4:00PM|H305|The Business of Art: What New Artists Need to Know|For conventions alone, there's framing to hanging to personal presentation to closing a sale--not to mention the ins and out of prints and record keeping. And overall, there's promotion, copyrights, artists' organizations, sales tax, contacts...Knowledgeable people share their expertise.|Paul Barnett (m), Ctein, Thomas Kidd, Don Maitz, Theresa Mather, Margaret Organ-Kean 
Sat|4:00PM|H306|Seduction of the Innocent?|Hey little girl...wanna read some Heinlein? How can you keep your children from growing up mundane?|Janice M. Eisen, Laura Frankos (m), Beth Hilgartner, Louise Marley, Persis Thorndike 
Sat|4:00PM|H307|The Fruit Fly Genome in C Major|Discussion and demonstration of a program to translate the fruit fly genome into "music."|Carl Frederick 
Sat|4:00PM|H309|Art for Video Games|For those of you who enjoy video games, here's a chance to see a little bit of how they are made. From concept artwork to modeling and texturing, there's a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes before characters make it into the game.|Mike Dashow 
Sat|4:00PM|H310|Snowball Earth: When the Planet Froze|At least twice between about 750 and 600 million years ago, the Earth froze over--literally. Glaciers rolled over the equatorial regions and ice covered most of the planet. The last ice age was a mere light frost in comparison. Some scientists now hypothesize that Earth lurched from icehouse to greenhouse and back again four or more times between 760 million and 550 million years ago. A talk by the proposer of this theory, with a look at past and future climatological conditions on the Earth (are we heading for global warming or another big freeze?).|Paul Hoffman 
Sat|4:00PM|H311|Alien Genres|What will non-human romance novels be like? Alien mysteries? Westerns? Science fiction?|Elizabeth Caldwell, Tanya Huff, Sue Krinard, Michelle Sagara (m), Teresa Nielsen Hayden 
Sat|4:00PM|H312|Is SF "Respectable"?|How do others see us? Discuss the joys and sorrows of telling others you're a SF writer/artist/fan. What are your interlocutors' first reactions? Are we getting any more respect lately? Why do film-makers and novelists insist their stories of technological and social change in the future are "not really science fiction?" Is SF the Rodney Dangerfield genre? Will mundanes ever stop the Trekkie trash talk?|Bob Eggleton, Fred Lerner, Robert J. Sawyer, Karen Traviss, Pat York (m) 
Sat|4:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||David G. Hartwell, Alex Irvine, Katya Reimann, Robert Silverberg, Jack Speer, Scott Westerfeld 
Sat|4:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||George R. R. Martin, Michael Swanwick, Mary Turzillo 
Sat|4:00PM|Bcn A|Playground Games [ages 4-7]|Play basic rule games in a more organized manner than open playtime (Duck, Duck, Goose; Animal Tag; Simon Says, etc.] ||
Sat|4:00PM|Bcn D|Movie Critic for a Day [ages 7-12]|Have an opinion on the movies geared towards kids these days? Have a big favorite? Voice your opinions with a professional movie critic, and hear what he has to say.|Daniel Kimmel 
Sat|4:00PM|Bcn F|Origami for the Young [ages 4-6]|Japanese paper folding with big sheets of fun paper and a few simple folds. 
Sat|4:00PM|Clar|Culture-Building Workshop (2 hours)|(Limited to 30)|Hilari L. Bell 
Sat|4:00PM|Dalton|Adaptive Technology for Disabilities: Artificial Vision||Joseph Lazzaro 
Sat|4:00PM|Exeter|Reading - James Stevens-Arce ||James Stevens-Arce 
Sat|4:00PM|Fmz Lge|DUFF/TAFF Reception||
Sat|4:00PM|Gard|Time Travel Dance [ages 7-12]|Bring your time machine and dancing feet! Costumes encouraged. Wear your favorite costume, or one you've just made, and dance from the Renaissance to the present.|Susan de Guardiola 
Sat|4:00PM|Hall A|SFWA Musketeers|Melanie Fletcher, Esther Friesner, Laura Anne Gilman, Jay Caselberg, John G. Hemry, Lee Martindale, Elizabeth Moon, Vera Nazarian, Madeleine E. Robins, Selina Rosen, Susan Shwartz, Steven H Silver, Laura Underwood, Liz Williams 
Sat|4:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Sheila Finch ||Sheila Finch 
Sat|4:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Lisa Barnett, James Alan Gardner, Bob Greenberger, Mark W. Tiedemann 
Sat|4:00PM|Lib A|Writing and Publishing Erotica Discussion Group|
Sat|4:00PM|Lib C|_Buffy/Angel_ Discussion Group||Anne Davenport
Sat|4:00PM|Rep.B|_Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century_|Retro Hugo Nominee for Dramatic Presentation 
Sat|4:04PM|Rep.B|_The War of the Worlds_|Retro Hugo Nominee for Dramatic Presentation 
Sat|4:30PM|H203|The Seminal Role of Mary Shelley|Frankenstein has been called the first SF novel. It introduced such themes as the ethics of science, the nature of life, and the way humans may react to the alien (and vice versa). What was Shelley's actual influence on subsequent SF?|Brian W. Aldiss 
Sat|4:30PM|H307|Elizabethan English as a Second Language|Can thee speak Elizabethan English...or dost thou know that should be "canst thou"? Verily, Elizabethan English is oft misused in historical and fantasy writing. Advice on how to write it correctly or at least mangle it knowingly.|Kage Baker 
Sat|4:30PM|Dalton|Clothing & Costume in Literary SF/Fantasy|What you wear determines how you move, what you can and cannot do, and where you can go. What other issues can be affected by your dress? An examination of the field.|Thomas Atkinson 
Sat|4:30PM|Exeter|Reading - John Scalzi ||John Scalzi 
Sat|5:00PM|H102|Concert by New England Guitar Circle|
Sat|5:00PM|H203|SLOFs: Who and Why?|The Secret Librarians of Fandom are lurking everywhere, waiting to pounce on you with recommended reading or a good place to research X. Who are they? Why are they in fandom? Why are they librarians? How you can avoid them or find them when you need them?|Mary Kay Kare, Fred Lerner (m), Steve Miller, Val Ontell, Don Sakers 
Sat|5:00PM|H204|The Brain, the Universe, Consciousness, and Free Will|Why do we feel like we have free will even though all the neuroscientific evidence says it's an illusion? Is it possible to fit true free will into the universe as modern physics understands it? Where does consciousness come from? Would a sufficiently complex computer have it (and an illusion of free will to boot)? Van presents a complete theory of the nature of consciousness and free will that answers these and other questions;no prior background in physics, neuroscience, or philosophy of mind is needed.|Eric M. Van 
Sat|5:00PM|H205|How Does SF Portray Islam?|What portrayal of Islam? The religion and culture of the Muslim world are infrequently the subjects of SF stories, which says something about the parochial nature of much of the genre. When the Muslim culture and religion do come up, it is in stereotypical ways. Yet Islam has evolved and diversified in as many ways as Christianity; there is no reason to think it won't continue to do so, on this world or others.|Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Shariann Lewitt, Harry Turtledove (m), Sarah Zettel 
Sat|5:00PM|H206|Pulp Eye for the Art Guy|Wherein the Rubber Science Guy, the Stereotype Guy, the Bad Prose Style Guy, the Twisty Plot Guy, and the Fan Guy all offer advice to the hopeless artiste!|Keith R. A. DeCandido, Alex Irvine, Matthew Jarpe, Kelly Link, Allen Steele (m) 
Sat|5:00PM|H210|_The Filkado_|A fannish operetta by Gary McGath and Terry Wells. See how many puns you can catch as the Punsman--who uses his brain as a weapon to create a pun barrage against evildoers--defends the planet Nesfa from the depredations of the music pirates led by the lovely Captain D.J. Thoris. The Punsman is aided by the Nesfanese Lord High Evil Genius, Dr. McKoko, and the great military leader Commander Tomakatisha.|Harold Feld, Suford Lewis, Mark Mandel, Michael McAfee, Gary D. McGath, Timothy L. Smith 
Sat|5:00PM|H301|The Sidewise Award|On this timeline, at least, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History was established in 1995 to recognize the best stories and novels of the year in that subgenre. See you there, when and if.|Evelyn C. Leeper, Steven H Silver 
Sat|5:00PM|H302|The Monster in the Maze|There is a monster. It's lurking in the shadows, waiting. There is always a monster. It might be the Minotaur in the Labyrinth of Crete or an alien aboard a deserted spaceship, but it is always there. Why? What is the monster, if it's more than the dark shadow of the self. Explore the monsters that haunt our sleeping and waking hours, and how we may (with luck and wisdom) find and defeat them. Discuss some works that did this (and examine if they did it successfully)|Stephen Dedman, Neil Gaiman, Simon R. Green, Yves Meynard, Robert Sheckley 
Sat|5:00PM|H303|How to Make a Hugo Rocket|Peter Weston 
Sat|5:00PM|H304|Technology Today!|Is the personal computer "moribund" (Charlie Stross) and have no technological toys taken its place? Show and tell about the newest (and weirdest)!--and what's in store in the near future.|Mark L. Olson, P. J. Plauger, Edie Stern (m) 
Sat|5:00PM|H305|Genetic Engineering|...and frankenfoods, and post-human existence (fact and fiction). A discussion of the real and imagined dangers and possibilities of genetic engineering. They are not what you think.|Samuel Scheiner 
Sat|5:00PM|H306|Meta-Gay: Has G/L/B/T Been Mainstreamed?|Used to be you had to look long and hard to find g/l/b/t characters in science fiction and fantasy; now they're everywhere! And the list of our g/l/b/t genre authors could keep you reading for years. Is there anything unique that the g/l/b/t community still has to offer to science fiction and fantasy? To fandom?|The 2004 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards will be presented during this panel.|Billie Aul (m), Melissa Scott, Jed Shumsky 
Sat|5:00PM|H307|Geek Girls Unite!|What are the perils and benefits of lacking a Y-chromosome in the traditionally male-dominated worlds of science, technology, and science fiction? Examine gender dynamics, deconstruct cultural assumptions, and flaunt your geek pride in a roundtable discussion of how we girls really _can_ do anything.|Liz Gorinsky 
Sat|5:00PM|H309|Can SF Be Outdated?|Is there a future for science fiction? Is it possible that SF as a literary genre has actually run its course? This seems like a strange question when SF has penetrated every corner of pop culture, from movies to video games, and most bookstores carry shelves devoted to a thriving output of new novels. But look more closely and what appears may be endless variations on clinched SF themes that arguably ran their course decades ago. Meanwhile, mundane reality seems to have caught up with SF in the daily newspaper, and a "sense of wonder" is available in any science magazine. Or is SF as we know it undergoing its own evolution in style and subject matter? Now that we're "in" the future, what is there to write about?|John Clute, Gregory Feeley, Jay Lake, Dennis Livingston (m) 
Sat|5:00PM|H310|Saluting Jack Williamson: Eight Decades and Counting (1.5 hours)|Jack Williamson was born in 1908 in the Arizona Territory -- before it was a state. His family moved on to New Mexico in a covered wagon. Williamson published his first story in 1928, coined the word "terraforming," and has lived to see spaceships and the Internet. At 94 years old, he is the oldest writer to win the Hugo and the Nebula. Come celebrate his work and the man himself, as we contemplate what Jack Williamson has in store for us in his next eight decades of writing...|Jack L. Chalker, Scott Edelman, Jim Frenkel, David G. Hartwell, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Mike Resnick, Stanley Schmidt, Joe Siclari (m), Melinda Snodgrass, Jack Speer, Michael Swanwick, Eleanor Wood 
Sat|5:00PM|H311|Pson of Psychohistory|Could Hari Seldon have been onto something? What are the really emergent social sciences, and what do they bode for the future?|Steve Carper, Michael F. Flynn, Daniel Hatch (m), David McMahon, Charles Oberndorf 
Sat|5:00PM|H312|SF Love Scenes|The group looks at great SF erotic love scenes. They discuss who does it well, and give examples. Panelists-- for amusement or instruction--may also want to read examples of particularly bad ones.|Catherine Asaro (m), Jim Butcher, Wen Spencer, Karen Traviss, Paul Witcover 
Sat|5:00PM|ArtSh|Art Show Tour||Jane Frank 
Sat|5:00PM|ArtSh|April Grant, Fiddler||April Grant
Sat|5:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||Gregory Benford, Kathleen Kudlinski, Stephen Leigh, Terry Pratchett, Robert Reed, Karl Schroeder, Jim Young 
Sat|5:00PM|Ccrse|Fan History Tour||Mike Resnick 
Sat|5:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||John G. Cramer, Ellen Kushner, Lawrence Schoen 
Sat|5:00PM|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with.|
Sat|5:00PM|Bcn D|Astronomy for Kids [ages 7-12]|Practice seeing the night sky, and learn about the wonders of the stars.|Larry A. Lebofsky 
Sat|5:00PM|Bcn F|Rocks for Kids [ages 3-10]|Learn about and handle some of the precious stones that go into making beautiful jewelry from some one who knows. 
Sat|5:00PM|Dalton|Using Feathers in Costuming||Carol Salemi 
Sat|5:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Larry Ganem, John Zakour ||Larry Ganem, John Zakour 
Sat|5:00PM|Hamp|Student SF & F Contest Awards|John Pomeranz 
Sat|5:00PM|Lib A|Kingdom of Gondor and Arnor|Holding "American Idol"-style auditions for the position of King!
Sat|5:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Kevin J. Anderson, Debra Doyle, Rebecca Moesta, Andrew Porter, Toni Weisskopf 
Sat|5:00PM|Rep.A|_ Armitage III _[Subtitled]|
Sat|5:00PM|Doc.Tour|Village Tour (of the Worldcon)|A general orientation tour of the convention.|Laurie Mann 
Sat|5:15PM|H209|_ Queen Emeraldas_ [Subtitled]||
Sat|5:30PM|H305|Beyond Hubble and Keck--Really Big Telescopes|Between really BIG telescopes and other clever technologies, what can we find out about extrasolar planets -- and when (if ever) will it be worth going to visit them?|Jordin T. Kare 
Sat|5:30PM|Dalton|Workshop: Dramatic Posing and Costume Presentation||Ming Diaz, Carol Salemi 
Sat|5:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Elizabeth Bear ||Elizabeth Bear 
Sat|5:30PM|Rep.B|_It Came from Outer Space_|Retro Hugo Nominee for Best Dramatic Presentation|
Sat|6:00PM||Masquerade Registration Closes for the Day||
Sat|6:00PM|H107|_Fahrenheit 451_|A round-table discussion of the 1953 Retro Hugo nominated novel.|Kenn Bates 
Sat|6:00PM|H203|Alien Takeovers, Conspiracy and Paranoia Before and After _The Puppet Masters_||Oscar De Los Santos 
Sat|6:00PM|H208|_ Klingon Documentary_||
Sat|6:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||Nicholas A. DiChario, Leigh Grossman, Thomas Harlan 
Sat|6:00PM|Ccrse|Information Closes||
Sat|6:00PM|Ccrse|Site Selection Voting Ends||
Sat|6:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Carrie Vaughn ||Carrie Vaughn 
Sat|6:00PM|Gr.Ball|_ Robot Stories_||
Sat|6:00PM|Hall D|Dealers Room Closes||
Sat|6:30PM|H100|_Mechwarrior_ Tournament|Bring your mechanized army and test it in this Wizkids sanctioned tournament.
Sat|6:30PM|H203|Horror in the College Classroom: Teaching English Through a Gothic Lens||Mary Findley 
Sat|6:30PM|H210|Concert by New England Guitar Circle|Students of Robert Fripp play complex polyrhythmic music. 
Sat|6:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Lawrence Schoen ||Lawrence Schoen 
Sat|7:00PM|H209|_ Gundam Movie III_ [Subtitled]|
Sat|7:00PM|Conf|Filk Office On-call||
Sat|7:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Pat York ||Pat York 
Sat|7:00PM|Indep|Shadowrun RPG: What Lies in the Dark Part Two: Eeny, Meany, Mo: Catch a Wizard by His Toe|Hey Chummer you know the score. Wizards, people, and pets they all go missing. It happens. Money is money, and you're itching for cash. When a corporate benefactor pays for your schooling they expect you to work off the debt. (Indentured servitude is a reality in 2064 if you can't afford school.) If you decide to run off short of graduation they will find you. That's your job, find some snot-nosed MIT&T punk, drug him and return him to whoever wants him. At least that's what you thought. Things made sense before this run, now all hell is breaking loose. Some knowledge of the system background is useful but not necessary. This is a direct tie-in with "What Lies in the Dark part One: Snatch and Grab". [6 players. May bring your own character up to 30 Karma or use a pre-generated character.] ||
Sat|7:00PM|Rep.A|_ Blue Seed _ 13--18 [Subtitled]||
Sat|7:00PM|Rep.B|_Marvin the Martian_ Cartoons||
Sat|7:30PM|ArtSh|Music||
Sat|7:30PM|Bcn D|Games and Crafts during the Hugos [ages 7+]||Randy Hoffman, Persis Thorndike
Sat|7:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Robert I. Katz ||Robert I. Katz 
Sat|8:00PM|H208|_ Free Enterprise_|
Sat|8:00PM|Aud|The Hugo Awards|Bestowing the most famous honor in science fiction, the Hugo ceremony is indeed The Big One. Come watch some of our most towering talents endure hours of squirm in hopes of one magnificent minute of squeal.|Neil Gaiman, William Tenn, Terry Pratchett, Jack Speer, Peter Weston 
Sat|8:00PM|Bcn E|Gummi Wars [ages 7-12]|It's a battle to the scrumptious death for these candy armies! The gummi candy has slowly been taking over shelf space at the candy shop. The traditional candy is angry they are losing favor. Tempers have built up and now it's an all out war to see who will win the shelf space! This is a 3-D tabletop war simulator that uses candy instead of miniatures. On one side you have the gummi candies. On the other you have the more traditional candies such as Peppermint Patties, Butterfinger bars, and even packs of chewing gum. Teams will be made at the start of the game.|
Sat|8:00PM|Clar|Open Filk||
Sat|8:00PM|Dalton|Open Filk--no taping||
Sat|8:00PM|Gard|Drum Circle||
Sat|8:00PM|Hall A|Registration Closes||
Sat|9:00PM|H100|Blood and Cardstock Games Players Choice|Open demo session. Learn exciting games like Showbiz and Counting ZZZs. 
Sat|9:00PM|Conf|Filk Office Re-Opens||
Sat|9:00PM|Exeter|Filk Rendezvous||
Sat|9:00PM|Gard|Open Filk||
Sat|9:00PM|Hamp|Open Filk||
Sat|9:30PM|Rep.A|_ Filler _ (BS-Omake Theaters)||
Sat|10:00PM|H205|Tolkien Fan Get-Together|Tolkien fans can meet to try to reconcile Tom Bombadil's statement that he is "Eldest" with Gandalf's statement that Fangorn is "the oldest of all living things." Or, to discuss the Glorifindel problem? Additionally, how would the history of Middle-Earth have differed if Sauron had returned to Aman and received the judgement of Manwe at the end of the First Age, rather than remaining in Middle-Earth? Describe resultant cultural differences which would have taken place in the Second, Third, and Fourth Ages. Special emphasis should be given to the cultures of the Grey Havens, Numenor (including the Dunedain and the black Numenorans), the Rohirrim, the Dunlendings and others descending from the peoples of the White Mountains, the Ents, the peoples of Khand, the Orcs (particularly those tribes living in the Grey, Misty, and Ash Mountains, and the Mountains of Shadow), the Elevn peoples of Gil-Galad (including Elrond and the likelihood of Rivendell's being constructed), the Hobbits (beginning from when they were living in the Vales of Anduin), and the Haradrim (both Near and Far Harad must be covered for full credit). 
Sat|10:00PM|H206|Genre Erotica|Why would you write SF/F/H erotica when you can just write SF/F/H? When you could just write erotica? What things can you do in this cross-genre that you really can't do anywhere else? Doesn't all this genre stuff just get in the way of the main point of the erotica? Give examples. Explore the edges of sexuality...the displacement of desire and repression, sex and power relationships, trans- sexual or transpecies (or simply transcendent?) sex...or just talk about sex, death, and rock and roll...|Billie Aul (m), Stephen Dedman, Melanie Fletcher, Victoria McManus, Cecilia Tan 
Sat|10:00PM|H208|_ Fall of a Saga_||
Sat|10:00PM|H209|_ Pet Shop of Horror_ [13 +]||
Sat|10:00PM|ArtSh|Art Show Closes||
Sat|10:00PM|M.Drum|Concert by Bill & Brenda Sutton||
Sat|10:00PM|Rep.A|_ 3 x 3 Eyes: Legend Of the Divine Demon_ [Subtitled] [16 +]||
Sat|10:30PM|H209|_ Pet Shop of Horror _[13 +]||
Sat|10:30PM|CS Foyer|Music||
Sat|11:00PM|H209|_ Pet Shop of Horror _[13 +]||
Sat|11:00PM|M.Drum|Concert||Rosemary Kirstein 
Sat|11:00PM|M.Drum|Concert||Rosemary Kirstein 
Sat|11:00PM|Conf|Filk Office On-Call|
Sat|11:00PM|Exeter|Open Filk||
Sat|11:00PM|Gard|Filk Rendezvous||
Sat|11:30PM|H209|_ Pet Shop of Horror_ [13 +]||
Sat|11:30PM|M.Drum|Concert||Mary Crowell 
Sat|24:00||Childcare Closes|
Sat|24:00|H209|_ Perfect Blue _||
Sat|24:00|Gr.Ball|_ Rocky Horror Picture Show_|Live stage performance presented by the Teseracte Players 
Sun|0:30AM|H209|_ MS 080 Team _[Subtitled]||
Sun|0:30AM|Rep.A|_ Reign: The Conqueror _#8--13 [Dubbed] [16 +]||
Sun|1:00AM|H209|_ MS 080 Team _[Subtitled]||
Sun|1:00AM|M.Drum|Karaoke||
Sun|1:00AM|M.Drum|Last Call at the Mended Drum||
Sun|1:00AM|Gard|Open Filk||
Sun|1:30AM|H209|_ MS 080 Team _[Subtitled]||
Sun|2:00AM||Hynes Closes||
Sun|2:00AM||Pedestrian Overpass to Marriott Closed||
Sun|2:00AM|Gr.Ball|_ Shock Treatment_|Live stage performance presented by the Teseracte Players of Boston 
Sun|2:00AM|C'Ste|Con Suite Closes||
Sun|8:00AM||Hynes Open for Setup Only||
Sun|9:00AM||Hynes Opens||
Sun|9:00AM|Hall A|Registration Opens||
Sun|9:00AM|Hamp|Christian/Catholic Worship Service||Father John Baker
Sun|9:00AM|C'Ste|Con Suite Open||
Sun|9:00AM|Rep.A|_ Jungle Emperor Leo _[Dubbed] [7 +]||
Sun|9:30AM||Childcare Opens||
Sun|9:30AM|H102|Ecumenifilk|Brenda Sutton 
Sun|9:30AM|H203|Medieval Fantasy Literature||Sean McMullen 
Sun|9:30AM|H205|Con Stress Relief|Stretching exercises to help us make it through another day.|Elizabeth Caldwell 
Sun|9:30AM|H301|ASFA Meeting|
Sun|9:30AM|Bcn A|Moving to Music [ages 1-7]|Clap and sing to the music of Jim Cosgrove, a Kansas City children's folk singer. 
Sun|9:30AM|Bcn F|Leaf Creatures [ages 3-6]|Leaf rubbings and some creativity will turn some ordinary silk leaves into works of art. 
Sun|9:30AM|Conf|Filk Office Opens||
Sun|9:30AM|Exeter|Reading - Laura Resnick ||Laura Resnick 
Sun|9:30AM|Hall A|Shotokan Karate Workshop||Kenn Bates, Keith G. Kato 
Sun|10:00AM||Masquerade Registration Open|
Sun|10:00AM|H100|HeroClix|Learn how to use your favorite superheroes to beat any enemy in this hit game from Wizkids. 
Sun|10:00AM|H107|_More Than Human_|A round-table discussion of the 1953 Retro Hugo nominated novel.|Don D'Ammassa 
Sun|10:00AM|H203|The Use of Women of Power by DeLint (NW Coastal) and Crowley (Aegypt) Fiction||Janice Bogstad 
Sun|10:00AM|H204|Futurism and Writing SF: a Positive Feedback System|How does writing science fiction and being a futurist blend? Some of our famous authors actively proclaim themselves futurists; others do not. How can futurism help the SF author?|Brenda Jean Cooper 
Sun|10:00AM|H205|How to Proof Your Own Writing: A Mini-Workshop|Terry McGarry 
Sun|10:00AM|H206|My Love Affair With JRR Tolkien|When (and how) did it start? Was it a passing fling or eternal love? Who or what is sitting at home waiting for you to come to your senses?|Daniel Grotta, Karen Haber (m), Kathy Morrow, Michael Swanwick, Connie Willis 
Sun|10:00AM|H208|_ Firefly_ Marathon, Episode 9-11||
Sun|10:00AM|H209|_ Magic User's Club #1 _[Subtitled] [13 +]||
Sun|10:00AM|H210|WSFS Business Meeting|The WSFS Business Meeting is open to all Worldcon members. The first item of business for today's meeting is to receive the official results of the Worldcon Site Selection. Also at today's meeting is Question Time, where you get a chance to put questions to future seated Worldcon committees. If time permits, the WSFS Mark Protection Committee may meet immediately after the Business Meeting. 
Sun|10:00AM|H302|Memorable Scenes|Some stories have scenes which are so right they just stick in your mind. (E.g., The paleontologist being handed a cooler containing a freshly frozen dinosaur head in Swanwick's _Bones of the Earth_, or Hari Seldon appearing in the _Time Vault_, "I am Hari Seldon.") What scenes stick in your minds? What makes them so memorable?|Grant Carrington, Sharon Lee, Farah Mendelsohn, Darrell Schweitzer 
Sun|10:00AM|H303|When Did the Future Get So Far Away?|Remember the 1959s and 1960s, when we thought that by the year 2000 we'd have giant orbiting space stations, routine space travel, and human colonies all over the solar system? Stories written today don't talk of such wonders happening within a few decades--instead, they're a century or more in the imagined future. What happened? Did we get more cynical and lose our near-term dreams, or more practical and assume the future would be harder to get to that earlier dreamers imagined?|Judith Berman, Steve Carper, D. Douglas Fratz, John G. Hemry, Mike Shepherd-Moscoe (m) 
Sun|10:00AM|H304|Hiking the Enchanted Forest: Setting in Fantasy|Enchanted forests...lonely isles...magic mountains...What is the importance of setting and landscape in fantasy?|David B. Coe, Greer Gilman, Beth Hilgartner, Mindy Klasky, Rebecca Moesta (m), Jeff VanderMeer 
Sun|10:00AM|H305|Archaeology of the Present|When the dig it all up in the future, what will future generations believe about us based on our tools and possessions?|Susan Born, Victoria McManus, Karl Schroeder (m), S. M. Stirling 
Sun|10:00AM|H306|Grow Old Along With Me: Aging Your Characters|Why get stuck in adolescence? Middle age is another quest/rite of passage, and so is old age/death. How do you help your characters grow old (gracefully, or not)? How do you work with those parts of the voyage through life in your work? Or, are we being merely mercenary--to sell to an aging market segment?(Or, because we grow old, we grow old...?)|Lois McMaster Bujold, Nancy Kress (m), Jean Lorrah, Steve Miller, John Scalzi, Susan Shwartz 
Sun|10:00AM|H307|Visual Research|Once you've gotten your 45 years of _National Geographic_, what next? Create a good reference library and file, and avoid copyright infringement when using it.|Alan F. Beck, Joe Bergeron, Colleen Doran, Thomas Kidd (m) 
Sun|10:00AM|H309|The Art of Titles|Where do titles come from? Are they about art, or more about marketing? Who selects the title--the author or editor/publisher? Can you tell a book's content by its title--and should you? Are there great books with bad titles, and vice versa? Give examples. What are the ten best titles in SF? Why?|Kathryn Cramer (m), Thomas Harlan, Fruma Klass, Terry Pratchett, Gordon Van Gelder 
Sun|10:00AM|H310|Too Many Ideas?|How much stuff can you stuff in one book? Can there be too many goshwowwhatakeenthing ideas, under any circumstances? How can the trade-offs between difficult material and transparency be balanced? Can readers be given more than they can handle? How can the reluctant reader be coaxed along?|James Cambias (m), Carl Frederick, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Sean McMullen 
Sun|10:00AM|H311|_Star Trek_: A Reflection of Cultures?|How has each series reflected its time?|Bob Greenberger, Les Johnson, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Jim Mann (m) 
Sun|10:00AM|H312|The Best Books of 2004 (so far)|You know those hateful people who somehow keep up with their reading? They're all on this panel. They'll share which current works of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and slipstream it's a shame you're missing.|Charles N. Brown, John Clute, Jonathan Strahan (m) 
Sun|10:00AM|ArtSh|Art Show Opens||
Sun|10:00AM|Bcn A|Children's Dance [ages 1-8]|Bring your Teddy Bear. Bring your favorite stuffed animal. Wiggle, jiggle, giggle; hop, bounce, and shake. Dance for kids.|Sue Schroeder 
Sun|10:00AM|Bcn D|Sign Language from the Planet ZOOG [ages 7-12]|Aliens might not look like us or sound like us. How would we communicate face to face? Learn some ASL signs that might help you out. _Note_: kids should know the English alphabet to participate in this one!|Geary Gravel 
Sun|10:00AM|Bcn F|Pencil Holder [ages 5-10]|Take a paper tubes and cardboard and personalize it for this fun craft.|
Sun|10:00AM|Dalton|Weird Tales of Early Aviation|Meet those magnificent men and their flying machines in a selection of wonderfully strange and little-know tales from the early days of flight. Meet the World's Worst Pilot (first survivor of a mid-air collision and four emergency parachute bailouts!), the Pilot Who Flew With A Lion, and more. You'll learn why it once took three months to fly coast-to-coast, and why the 1903 Wright Flyer doesn't really exist, even if you think you've actually seen it. Enjoy these wonderfully strange and little-known tales from the early days of flight!|Michael Dobson 
Sun|10:00AM|Exeter|Reading - Laura Underwood ||Laura Underwood 
Sun|10:00AM|Gard|Stories in the Stars [ages 7-12]|Every culture has put its stories into the stars. Come explore the night sky through stories from different cultures, the constellations and the wonders within them.|Steven Hammond 
Sun|10:00AM|Hall D|Dealers Room Opens|
Sun|10:00AM|Hamp|Reading - Martha Wells ||Martha Wells 
Sun|10:00AM|Indep|Deryni Adventure|Join Ann Dupuis, publisher of the upcoming Deryni Adventure Game, for a roleplaying adventure involving Sendai the Magnificent and his troupe of travelling performers. Katherine Kurtz is co-GM for this adventure.|
Sun|10:00AM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Kage Baker, Barbara Chepaitis, Jo Walton, Michael Whelan 
Sun|10:00AM|Lib C|Transit Fans Discussion Group||
Sun|10:30AM|H203|Hackers in Action: Oppositional Agencies, Performance Tropes||Monica Hulsbus
Sun|10:30AM|H204|E-Books: Neither "E" Nor Books?||Cory Doctorow 
Sun|10:30AM|H209|_ Magic User's Club #2 _[Subtitled] [13 +]|
Sun|10:30AM|Clar|About Audio Books|Tamora Pierce 
Sun|10:30AM|Dalton|How to Get a Job in Games||Clarinda Merripen 
Sun|10:30AM|Exeter|Reading - Steve Antczak ||Steve Antczak 
Sun|10:30AM|Hamp|Reading - Rosemary Kirstein ||Rosemary Kirstein 
Sun|10:45AM|Rep.A|_ Saint Tail _ #1--3 [Dubbed]||
Sun|11:00AM|Aud|Masquerade Tech Rehearsal--Section Two||
Sun|11:00AM|H107|Sword and Sorcery: Heroic Fantasy's Punk Kid Brother|Warrior heroes and mighty magicians strutting their stuff across a world of the author's imagination. That can describe both Heroic Fantasy and Sword-and-Sorcery. But why does one sound more up-market than the other? Does it depend on the style of writing--or just the thickness of the book?|Peter Morwood 
Sun|11:00AM|H203|Criticism or Review?|Is there really a difference? Discuss.|F. Brett Cox, Gregory Feeley (m), Daniel Grotta, Graham Sleight, Takayuki Tatsumi 
Sun|11:00AM|H204|Writers' Tools and Desk Fetishes!|What do writers keep on their desks? How do these objects help their writing? Professionals show-and-tell what their compositional touchstones are all about, and five hints on how to find your own particular desk fetishes|Michael A. Burstein, Daniel P. Dern, Vera Nazarian, Amy Thomson (m), Shane Tourtellotte 
Sun|11:00AM|H205|Low-Budget Independent SF Films|Not every SF or fantasy film has to be an effects-laden, multiple hour epic. Three SF movies that go the other way, helped in part by animation software, were featured at the 04 Sundance Film Festival and one of them--Primer-- received the Grand Jury Award for best dramatic feature. As one of the filmmakers, Marteinn Thorsson, says, "A science- fiction film doesn't need to be $80 million and use CGI (computer-generated imagery). Science fiction is about human beings interacting with each other and with technology, and technology has become part of who we are today." Is this one shape of things to come in the SF film world?|Steve Antczak, Resa Nelson, Don Sakers (m), Charles Stross 
Sun|11:00AM|H206|Achilles Needs a Heel!--The Problem With Power|Would Achilles have been interesting if he'd been truly invulnerable, or, instead or dying a tragic here would he still have been acting like a psychopathic adolescent thirty years after the Trojan War ended? Can power without vulnerabilities make an interesting story? (Has anyone succeeded?) What sorts of vulnerabilities are needed? How do you avoid the search for the armor's chink turning a story into a puzzle?|Alison Baird (m), Carol Berg, Diane Duane, Sheila Finch 
Sun|11:00AM|H209|_ Magic User's Club _#3 [Subtitled] [13 +]|
Sun|11:00AM|H301|Mixed Marriages|One's a fan, one isn't. How do couples handle the demands of fandom when one of the pair isn't really interested? Panel members have received permission from their spouses to be at this Worldcon.|Michael Benveniste (m), Bob Devney, Daniel Kimmel, Steven H Silver 
Sun|11:00AM|H302|Personnel Problems of Extraterrestrials in Earth Industry|From Clevention (1955) Proper hygiene for food workers with tentacles? ("Must wash hands, tentacles, pseudopods...")? Safety glasses for the many-eyed? Salary compensation for hive beings? And then there's romance in the workplace...oh, my! And how will the Americans with Disabilities laws apply??|Tobias Buckell, Craig Gardner, Laura Anne Gilman, Steven Popkes, Karen Traviss (m) 
Sun|11:00AM|H303|Alien Ethical Systems|What sort of ethical and moral systems would aliens develop, with their very different histories and biologies?|Jeffrey A. Carver, Paul Levinson, Elizabeth Moon, Stanley Schmidt (m), Wen Spencer 
Sun|11:00AM|H304|Nanotech and Murphy's Law|Imagine nanomachines busily clearing your arteries of plaque. Now, imagine them running on Windows ME, or mutating, or being hacked. So, "nothing can go wrong"? Hah! (And are these some of the reasons it's taking so long to develop the actual science?)|M. M. Buckner, Eileen Gunn (m), Stephen C. Lee, Karl Schroeder, W. A. Thomasson, Ann Tonsor Zeddies 
Sun|11:00AM|H305|Getting Around Without a Car|Advantages and disadvantages of different modes of transportation--from hiking to SCUBA, horses to Mars rovers. Everything is fair game.|Lisa Barnett, Bob Kanefsky, Lee Martindale (m) 
Sun|11:00AM|H306|DOA: Books that Died Despite Everything|Well-known author, well-developed plot, thorough marketing plan, yet the book fails to thrive. Why? Did it show too much ambition or too little? Was it old-fashioned, or ahead of its time? Were the stars wrong, or the season, or were we simply coming down with the flu? Let us count all the sad ways good books go bad...Our panel will discuss the phenomenon from multiple viewpoints.|John Jarrold, Jane Jewell (m), Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Janna Silverstein, Jonathan Strahan, Jacob Weisman 
Sun|11:00AM|H307|Drawing to Order|Professional artists tell tales of the perils of work when the call they're responding to is from an art director and not a muse.|Ed Cox, Joseph DeVito (m), Karen Haber, Don Maitz, Omar Rayyan 
Sun|11:00AM|H309|The Art of Janny Wurts|Slide show|Janny Wurts 
Sun|11:00AM|H310|The Age of Fighting Sail Isn't Over: It's Moved to SF|Shiver me titanium timber if this wet navy/space navy transposition hasn't gotten even more popular than ever! Who are its leading practitioners--have we got another Patrick O'Brian yet? Can this metaphor survive real space travel? And talking about "sailing through space," take a quick look at how nautical fiction is related to space opera and hard SF...look at characters and commanders, story lines, missions, venues, dangers, and bureaucracy! Shivermetimbers, if "Sou' by West by Port o' West and Weather the Lizard" doesn't sound nearly as romantic in GPS-ese...|John G. Hemry, Jim Mann (m), Susan Shwartz, Walter Jon Williams 
Sun|11:00AM|H311|Exotic Mythologies|Tired of fantasy larded with cardboard cut-outs from Celtic mythology? Explore some of the world's great mythologies that fantasy has yet to fully explore. A survey of great ideas from countries and peoples around the world.|Suzanne Alles Blom, Anne Harris, Josepha Sherman (m), Vandana Singh 
Sun|11:00AM|H312|The Secularization of the West|Religion as a force shaping Western civilization appears to be declining. Is this a long-term trend or just a temporary blip? If religion really is on the way out, what will replace it as a source of shared values for our culture? How will this affect the rest of the world? Will religious fundamentalism drive the next global conflict? (Is this happening already?)|Elizabeth Hand, Daniel Hatch, James Macdonald (m), James Morrow 
Sun|11:00AM|ArtSh|Tour of the Retro Art Exhibit||Bob Eggleton 
Sun|11:00AM|Autog.|Autographing||Brian W. Aldiss, Kevin J. Anderson, Walter H. Hunt, Robert I. Katz, William Tenn, Rebecca Moesta, Uncle River, Robert J. Sawyer 
Sun|11:00AM|Bcn A|Kinderfilk [ages 1-6]|Mark Mandel 
Sun|11:00AM|Bcn D|Science and Technology for the Kids of the Future [ages 7-12]|Did you know that many adults remember the first color TV's and microwaves" That we lived in a world where our parents and friends could never be reached by cell-phone or email when we were kids? In this program, we'll explore what technologies you might see in the future!|Brenda Jean Cooper 
Sun|11:00AM|Bcn F|Wizard/Princess Hat [ages 2-6]|Cut out and decorate a cone shaped hat to pretend with or to start your design of a new costume idea.|
Sun|11:00AM|Clar|Exomusicology|Would we truly be able to recognize "alien" music as such...and how (when?) has the question of alien/non-music actually come up on Earth itself?|W. Randy Hoffman, David R. Howell, Louise Marley (m), Yves Meynard 
Sun|11:00AM|Dalton|Saving Clarion East|A brainstorming session open to alumni and potential attendees. It will lay out the problems and try to redesign the workshop for long-term survival.|James Patrick Kelly 
Sun|11:00AM|Exeter|Reading - Nick Sagan (1 hour)||Nick Sagan 
Sun|11:00AM|Gard|Staying Safe on the Net [ages 7-12]|Let's go surfing now, everybody's learning how, follow all the links with me! The Net can be a wild ride. Let's learn how to enjoy it while keeping private things private.|James M. Turner 
Sun|11:00AM|Hall A|Music||
Sun|11:00AM|Hamp|Reading - Michael F. Flynn ||Michael F. Flynn 
Sun|11:00AM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Roger MacBride Allen, Phyllis Eisenstein, Esther Friesner, George R. R. Martin 
Sun|11:00AM|Lib A|Everquest Addicts|Muriel Hykes 
Sun|11:30AM|H100|HeroClix Tournament|Bring your favorite superhero characters and test them in this Wizkids sanctioned event. [500 pts. Female characters only] ||
Sun|11:30AM|H209|_ Magic User's Club _#4 [Subtitled] [13 +]||
Sun|11:30AM|Dalton|Intimate Adventure: Exploring a New Genre?||Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Jean Lorrah 
Sun|11:30AM|Hamp|Reading - Jack L. Chalker ||Jack L. Chalker 
Sun|12:00M||Masquerade Registration Closes|
Sun|12:00M|H100|Toon RPG: King of the Con Tournament|Games featured are: Fluxx, The Haunting House, Nuclear War, NinjaBurger Card Game, and Gimme the Brain. You must sign up for this event. You must be in the room by _noon_ to play. {Experienced players] ||
Sun|12:00M|H100|Monkeys on the Moon|Six monkey tribes vie for supremacy while you decide which ones to launch back home to Earth. These tribes do not get along, and you must decide which ones to befriend while enduring the scorn of the others. Will you be anointed the Supreme Leader of these primates in this game from Eight Foot Llama? (2-4 players per game.) 
Sun|12:00M|H102|The Well-Sung Fan|Filking was invented (or was that discovered?) over 50 years ago, with song cycles that go back to the 1940s. In fact, our FGOH Jack Speer wrote the first song sheet. What are the songs of the last 50 years that all fans should know? (Some musical accompaniment should be attempted here!)|Juanita Coulson, Bill Roper (m) 
Sun|12:00M|H107|Forthcoming from Baen|The Infamous Travelling Slide Show (with Door Prizes!)|Toni Weisskopf 
Sun|12:00M|H203|Science in SF|Video.|Catherine Asaro 
Sun|12:00M|H204|Promoting a First Novel|OK, you may not get the biggest push from your publisher's marketing myrmidon. Nevertheless, are there practical steps you can take? Suggesting possible blurbers? Getting local reviewers? Bribing your way onto Worldcon program?|Keith R. A. DeCandido, Laura Anne Gilman 
Sun|12:00M|H205|Dialogue||Barry N. Malzberg, Mike Resnick 
Sun|12:00M|H206|Psychiatric Disorders of the Future|Psychologists seem to be inventing new disorders all the time to justify behavior considered in some way "aberrant" --and defense lawyers hasten to jump on the bandwagon to get their clients off the hook. (Remember the "Twinkie Defense" in which a client was supposedly incapable of rational action after devouring too much junk food?) On the flip side, some old conditions (e.g., homosexuality) are no longer considered psychiatric disorders. Are psychologists gaining better insights into the human psyche, or just getting better insight into the potential market for their services? What has SF contributed to psychological insight? What sort of disorders will be discovered or emerge over the next 50 years?|A. Michael Rennie, Uncle River, Isaac Szpindel (m), Shane Tourtellotte, Trish Wilson 
Sun|12:00M|H209|_ Magic User's Club _ #5 [Subtitled] [13 +]|
Sun|12:00M|H301|America's Best Comics|The line that Alan Moore begat has spun a number of imaginative and wildly different SF and fantasy titles, including _Tom Strong_, _Promethea_ and _Top Ten_. What makes these books work so well? Is it true that _Promethea_'s readers are 98% male? And why aren't there more stories featuring that scary kid genius, Jack B. Quick?|James Bacon, Terence Chua (m), Daniel P. Dern, Pam Fremon, Barry Short 
Sun|12:00M|H302|The New Weird: What, Who, and Why?|Now that SF has become more mainstream, what has become the new fringe? Who defines what is "weird," and who and what have been declared "weird,"--and why?|Paul DiFilippo, Beth Meacham, Delia Sherman, Graham Sleight (m), Jonathan Strahan, Jeff VanderMeer 
Sun|12:00M|H303|The Legacy of Cherry Wilder|Jim Frenkel, Katya Reimann 
Sun|12:00M|H304|Hell is Gray: The Banality of Evil|Back, deep in the mists of history, there has always been a sneaking suspicion that evil is more exciting, more fun than good: many writers (from Milton on down!) make evil seem interesting. (Why?)But is it fun? The (fortunately) few times most of us get near a truly bad person, they don't seem to be very joyful or happy--they seen terribly unhappy and frequently pretty dull. C. S. Lewis called this the banality of evil: uncreative, repetitious, and boring. Hell is not fiery-red, it is gray. Who has done a good job, in fantasy or SF, showing realistic heroes combating realistic evil?|Barbara Chepaitis, Stephen Dedman, Paula Guran, Elizabeth Hand (m), Tanya Huff, Mary Turzillo 
Sun|12:00M|H305|There's No Tech Like Lo-Tech|Resist the peer pressure from PDA-wielding, cell-phone- carrying, GPS-enabled friends and family. Pick up a hammer, and not a power tool! Rhapsodize about the wonders of steam engines, and things with gears. What's the attraction of the low-tech lifestyle?|Sean McMullen, S. M. Stirling, Robert Charles Wilson, William "Crash" Yerazunis (m) 
Sun|12:00M|H306|Better than Light Sabers: Really Good Merchandising Tie-ins|Hey--wouldn't you pay good money for a real Vinge bubble? And what else are we ignoring...?|Mike Conrad, Leigh Grossman, David R. Howell, Karen Traviss (m), Liz Williams 
Sun|12:00M|H307|Angels and Aliens, Magic and Marvels?|Is there an inherent disconnect between believing in a Divine presence and being able to really enjoy science fiction and fantasy? Or, can they complement each other, leading to a greater appreciation of both?|Anne Harris, Beth Hilgartner, Ben Jeapes, James Morrow (m), Brandon Sanderson 
Sun|12:00M|H309|The Digital Art of Joe Bergeron|Slide show and demo|Joe Bergeron 
Sun|12:00M|H310|Present at the Creation|A First Fandom panel, looking at our origins.|David A. Kyle, Frederik Pohl, Jack Speer (m) 
Sun|12:00M|H311|Silver and Gold: The Ages of SF|What defines the "Golden" age of SF? The "Silver"? When did they come about? How did they evolve? What are their differences? What influences of these "ages" have been carried into present day SF?|Brian W. Aldiss, Grant Carrington, Don D'Ammassa, David G. Hartwell, Allen Steele (m) 
Sun|12:00M|H312|Reading - Terry Pratchett(1 hour)||Terry Pratchett 
Sun|12:00M|ArtSh|Art Show Tour||Margaret Organ-Kean 
Sun|12:00M|ArtSh|Music|Ellen James, harpist |Ellen James
Sun|12:00M|Autog.|Autographing||Jack Dann, P. C. Hodgell, Mindy Klasky, Sharon Lee, David B. Mattingly, Steve Miller, Robert Sheckley, Charles Stross 
Sun|12:00M|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with.|
Sun|12:00M|Bcn D|Joke Workshop [ages 7-12]|John Zakour 
Sun|12:00M|Bcn F|CD Ring Planet [ages 4-8]|Create a planet to hang at home out of styrofoam balls, a CD and your creative imagination.|
Sun|12:00M|CS Foyer|Music||April Grant, fiddler 
Sun|12:00M|Dalton|Tarot Spreads: Mapping Destiny|Are you familiar with the meanings of individual tarot cards, but can't seem to read them in a spread? Is the Celtic Cross driving you nuts? Hey, there are a lot of ways to map destiny. Come join us--we'll discuss different spreads, how to read them, even how to create them. Bring notebooks and a pen.|Janine Ellen Young 
Sun|12:00M|Exeter|Reading - Jay Caselberg ||Jay Caselberg 
Sun|12:00M|Gard|The Kids Next Door...in Space!|Building a Space Station!|Jordin T. Kare 
Sun|12:00M|Hamp|Reading - Paul Witcover ||Paul Witcover 
Sun|12:00M|Indep|What The World Needs Now|Cupid takes a holiday! And you're filling in for him! You and your fellow Toons have to bring love into the hearts of a few people this Valentine's Day; thankfully, you're not expected to cover the world. Just the Anytown Mall. Here's your wings, bow, and arrows--now get out there and spread some romance! [6 players, Characters created at game]|
Sun|12:00M|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Simon R. Green, Charlaine Harris, David Levine, Tamora Pierce 
Sun|12:00M|Lib C|FLY Ladies Discussion Group|Eva Whitley 
Sun|12:00M|Rep.A|_ Last Exile _ #1--4 [Dubbed] [13 +]||
Sun|12:30PM|H204|_Big Planet_ as Bosnia|A reinterpretation of the Vance novel.|Peter Weston 
Sun|12:30PM|H209|_ Magic User's Club _ #6 [Subtitled] [13 +]|
Sun|12:30PM|H210|The Microphone Is Your Friend||
Sun|12:30PM|H303|Have Spacesuit...|Get up close and personal with an authentic Apollo 7 prototype spacesuit and meet the real-life "Kip Russell" who owns it. (No, he didn't win it in a soap jingle contest). Learn the secrets of spacesuit construction and even get your picture taken with it. You can even touch it, if you're nice and your hands are clean!|Michael Dobson 
Sun|12:30PM|Exeter|Reading - M. M. Buckner ||M. M. Buckner 
Sun|12:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Esther Friesner ||Esther Friesner 
Sun|1:00PM|H100|Who Stole Ed's Pants|Frame your opponents for pants-theft in this light-hearted yet strategic card game. Rally your supporters as case facts change, evidence is planted and witnesses alter. It's a mind-bending travesty of justice. [3-4 players per game]|
Sun|1:00PM|H203|Can SF Teach the Scientific Method?|Can you actually teach logic and methodology in the classroom? Should you? Can SF help? Is Spock a good role model?|Mike Brotherton, Carl Frederick (m), David Friedman, Charles Oberndorf, Isaac Szpindel, Mary Turzillo 
Sun|1:00PM|H204|Turning Children's Books Into FilM|Putting the Harry Potter books on film is turning out pretty well. Besides _Holes_, the latest _Peter Pan_, the recent TV _Wrinkle in Time_ (plus Peter Jackson's promised _The Hobbit _) what other kids' stuff would look great on the silver screen? Why? And perhaps most importantly, how?|Kathryn Cramer, Susan Fichtelberg, Diana Tixier Herald, James S. Hinsey (m), Kathleen Kudlinski, Bonnie Kunzel 
Sun|1:00PM|H205|Risky Business|Risk acceptance vs. risk aversion in humans, and how it might affect things like evolution, scientific investigation, and (especially) exploration/manned space flight.|Marc Giller, Bill Higgins, Geoffrey A. Landis, Mark L. Olson (m), H. Paul Shuch 
Sun|1:00PM|H206|The Human Cloning Wars|Success with cloning mammals makes it look as if human cloning may be possible. The first steps toward human cloning have been reported. The battle lines are already drawn on how far to go. Opinions range from the Raelians who say everybody must get cloned, to religious conservatives who want cloning banned. But the real debate is about the perils and promises of reproductive and therapeutic cloning. What's the difference? How does it matter to us? What's likely to change? Will cloning lead to human organ farms for spare parts? What are some of the emerging ethical concerns about this biotechnology? How can they be addressed?|Daniel Abraham (m), Bridget Coila, Herb Kauderer, Mary H. Rosenblum, Samuel Scheiner 
Sun|1:00PM|H209|_ Record Of Lodoss War_ #1 [Subtitled] [13 +]|
Sun|1:00PM|H210|Filk Pickup Concert||
Sun|1:00PM|H301|More About Merlin|Merlin had his own existence in legend before his association with Arthur; he was a wilder pagan figure. Look at the independent treatments of Merlin, and those who followed after in his image.|Christopher Cevasco (m), Stephen Leigh, Josepha Sherman, Sarah Zettel 
Sun|1:00PM|H302|Stories I'm Too Scared to Write|What makes some topics too frightening to write about? Is one person's bane another's delight?|Ginjer Buchanan (m), Joe Haldeman, Louise Marley, Robert Charles Wilson 
Sun|1:00PM|H303|Just Because We Speak the Same Language Doesn't Mean We Think Alike|Are we divided by a common tongue? Which cultural factors unite the English-speaking world--and which divide it? How can we overcome those differences? (Should we try?) How does this appear in the real world and in the fannish word (especially!)? Who's "right"--who's "wrong"--and how can we cope with these differences?|jan howard finder, Jay Caselberg, Grant Kruger (m), Michael Rennie, Karen Traviss 
Sun|1:00PM|H304|Starship Firefighters: Emergency Response in SF|When your dad was in the fire department, he hooked up to a hydrant, dragged the hose into the building, pointed it at the fire and squirted. Nowadays,(a very few, very well- funded) Fire Departments are using GPS, integrated helmet arrays that combine air supply monitoring and communications, Incident Command Systems, Personal Alert Safety Systems, thermal imaging, robots for bomb work, hazmat recon, realtime wireless video, etc., etc., etc. Emergency response folk battle hurricanes, forest fires with technology and science driven systems. And now your friendly neighborhood firefighter, paramedic and beat cop are likely to be the first to deal with such things as Bio, Chem, Rad or Nuke attacks and they'll have to deal with them for quite some time before the Feds gear up their 'fast' response. This is a definite culture change driven by technology--Is there anyone out there in SF doing something with this? If so, who? If not, why? If it can be done, how should it be done? And what happens when things go wrong in space?|Robert Buettner, Chris French, John G. Hemry, Steven L. Lopata, James Macdonald (m), Henry Spencer 
Sun|1:00PM|H305|Writers' Blocks|All about Writer's Block: writer's block is a simple concept, that the writer is stuck. Getting past it, though, can be less simple--there are lots of different possible causes--stress at work or at home, a story that the plot is getting stuck on, characters that the writer is getting bored with, etc. The ways to address writers' block differ, too. Some people take a long walk, some garden, some go shopping, some go on-line, some work on a different story, some read a favorite book. There's no one cure--but different writers have different strategies, or sets of strategies, and those can work for other people, too. Working through Blockages: What techniques can writers use when they hit problems with the plot, the setting, and the characters? How can a writer persuade a character to "tell" them what's bothering the character, or why the character won't cross that river the writer thinks the character needs to cross? What does a writer do after having gathered the armies to have a war, and the characters are so unobliging as to refuse to fight? How do writers write themselves out of boxes? And what other things can a writer do when stuck, besides cat vacuuming?|K. A. Bedford, Patricia Bray (m), Tobias Buckell, Stephen P. Kelner 
Sun|1:00PM|H306|Confronting Your Characters|A participant will take on the role of an author's main character, and complain to the writer how badly the writer has treated him/her. The writer gets to respond...|Hilari L. Bell (m), Carol Berg, Lois McMaster Bujold, Steve Miller, Elizabeth Moon 
Sun|1:00PM|H307|Character Portraits: Painting Someone You've Never Seen|No author ever describes a character so specifically as an artist does in a portrait--so how does an artist construct such a portrait with only the author's words to go on? How do you fill in the gaps?|Rick Berry, David B. Mattingly, Margaret Organ-Kean (m), Ruth Sanderson 
Sun|1:00PM|H309|KONG and the Art of Joe DeVito|Slide show|Joseph DeVito 
Sun|1:00PM|H310|Experience Science Fiction: The MuseuM|The new Science Fiction Museum and hall of Fame (SFM) opened its doors in June. This world-class interactive museum features creators of both science fiction literature and media, providing an overview of the history of science fiction and its impact on society, culture, and imagination. Is this the new Alexandria for the science fiction community? Find out how you can get more involve with the museum, and learn more about its plans for the near future.|Gregory Benford, Gay Haldeman, Leslie Howle (m), Michael Whelan 
Sun|1:00PM|H311|Fun and Games with Time Travel|OK, assume time travel is possible...now, what do you do with it? What are some of the tricks you can play, and what are some of the issues (plot problems, paradoxes, etc.) that you might meet? Play!|Kage Baker, Ben Jeapes, S. M. Stirling, Michael Swanwick, Connie Willis (m) 
Sun|1:00PM|H312|Beyond Sex|Writing sex scenes is easy, but conveying the ebbs and flows of a meaningful romantic relationship is harder to do. How do authors do this successfully?|David B. Coe (m), George R. R. Martin, Victoria McManus, Laura Resnick, Melinda Snodgrass 
Sun|1:00PM|ArtSh|Art Show Tour||John F. Hertz 
Sun|1:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||John Clute, Neil Gaiman, David A. Hardy, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Jean Lorrah, Harry Turtledove, Rick Wilber 
Sun|1:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||Michael F. Flynn, Justine Larbalestier, G. David Nordley, Scott Westerfeld 
Sun|1:00PM|Bcn A|Playground Games [ages 4-7]|Play basic rule games in a more organized manner than open playtime (Duck, Duck, Goose; Animal Tag; Simon Says, etc.)|
Sun|1:00PM|Bcn D|Origami for Kids [ages 7-12]|Create shapes and animals using Japanese folded paper techniques. Learn the basic folds and see what you can create.|Mark R. Leeper 
Sun|1:00PM|Bcn F|Alien Catcher [ages 3-8]|Using a toilet paper tube, fun foam and your imagination make a fun game to capture a created alien.|
Sun|1:00PM|Clar|Voice Workshop|Learn how to sing with good intonation and projection. Perfect your breathing. Avoid straining your voice. Review of introduction, everyone can improve their technique.|Mary C. Miller 
Sun|1:00PM|Dalton|_The Wizard of Oz_: a Dialog||W. Randy Hoffman, Toni L. P. Kelner 
Sun|1:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Shariann Lewitt ||Shariann Lewitt 
Sun|1:00PM|Gard|Improvisational Acting [ages 7-12]|Acting out, with other future actors.|Michael McAfee 
Sun|1:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Mike Resnick(1 hour)||Mike Resnick 
Sun|1:00PM|Lib A| Writers of the Future||
Sun|1:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Mitchell Freedman, Nancy Kress, Sharon Lee, Lawrence Watt-Evans 
Sun|1:30PM|H100|Icehouse Demo|Try many unique games like Martian Chess!|
Sun|1:30PM|H209|_ Record Of Lodoss War _ #2 [Subtitled] [13 +]||
Sun|1:30PM|H210|Filk Request/One-Shots Concert||
Sun|1:30PM|Dalton|About Collaborations||Steven Sawicki 
Sun|1:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Ann Tonsor Zeddies ||Ann Tonsor Zeddies 
Sun|1:30PM|C'Ste|Long Live the Legion!|The Worldcon tribute to...the Legion of Superheroes...?|Joe Bergeron, Priscilla Olson (m), Don Sakers, Jed Shumsky 
Sun|1:45PM|Rep.A|_ Escaflowne, The Movie _[Subtitled]|
Sun|2:00PM|H100|Icehouse Tournament||
Sun|2:00PM|H100|Monkeys on the Moon|Six monkey tribes vie for supremacy while you decide which ones to launch back home to Earth. These tribes do not get along, and you must decide which ones to befriend while enduring the scorn of the others. Will you be anointed the Supreme Leader of these primates in this game from Eight Foot Llama? (2--4 players per game.) 
Sun|2:00PM|H107|Bantam/Spectra||
Sun|2:00PM|H203|The Idea of Colony in Science Fiction||Stephen Dedman 
Sun|2:00PM|H204|The _Gaijin_ Menace--the Foreigner in Anime/Manga|How are American, Chinese, or Europeans seen in Japanese media? How are different ethnicities portrayed in anime and manga?|James S. Hinsey (m), Mari Kotani, Neil Nadelman, Wen Spencer, Bill Todd 
Sun|2:00PM|H205|TAFF/DUFF Auction|Valuable and/or fascinating books, fanzines, toys, artwork, and "tuckerizations" (wherein your favorite writers vow to include your name in their next works) are sold to the highest bidder! Buy early and often to benefit the _Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund_ and the _Down Under Fan Fund_. Auctioneers: Guy and Rosie Lillian (past DUFF delegates) and Peter Weston (Fan Guest of Honor).|
Sun|2:00PM|H206|To Mars?|In January President Bush announced plans to send astronauts back to the moon and on to Mars. NASA is figuring out how to do it. Is it really the space advocate's dream come true? Will the program sink under projected cost, or would we better off just sending robots?|Gregory Benford, Jeff Hecht (m), Les Johnson, Geoffrey A. Landis, Ian Randal Strock 
Sun|2:00PM|H208|_ Finding the Future: A Science Fiction Conversation_ Introduced by Casey Moore|
Sun|2:00PM|H209|_ Record Of Lodoss War _#3 [Subtitled] [13 +]||
Sun|2:00PM|H210|Space Opera by the North Cambridge Family Opera Company||
Sun|2:00PM|H301|A David Hardy Interview|Learn more about this popular British artist, as he talks about his career and experiences in fandom.|Paul Barnett, David A. Hardy, Pamela Scoville 
Sun|2:00PM|H302|The Writer and Moral Responsibility|So you write a book about a serial-killer-vampire, and find out that a disturbed 14-year-old kid has decided to play out that fantasy...Arrgh!!!? Talk about this, and related issues. Where does the buck stop?|Carol Berg, Chris Moriarty, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Deborah Ross, Brandon Sanderson (m) 
Sun|2:00PM|H303|Losing the History of SF|Most contemporary readers lack a consciousness of the history of the field. How is this abetted by mainstream publishers?|John R. Douglas 
Sun|2:00PM|H304|The Tropes of H.P. Lovecraft|H.P. Lovecraft pioneered a number of now-common themes and settings for horror. Elder gods; mad old magic books; decayed house, towns, cities, civilizations, or characters; and of course slimy, shadowed, unspeakably betentacled forms of an eldritch horror beyond the most lurid imaginings of man...What other concepts just scream Lovecraft, and why are they all such fun? How has Lovecraft continued to influence the genre?|Christopher Cevasco, Jack L. Chalker, Terence Chua, Darrell Schweitzer (m), Jim Young 
Sun|2:00PM|H305|The Risks of Recruitment|"Everyone says" we have to bring in new blood to fandom. What are the dangers? How do we tie these newbies into the existing fannish community and still keep its identify and stability--and is that something that should make us think again about the new blood?|Priscilla Olson (m), Andrew Porter, Tom Schaad, Kevin Standlee 
Sun|2:00PM|H306|Art Auction|You've already bid. Now see if you've won. (Of course, after the winning comes the paying...)|
Sun|2:00PM|H307|All Things to All Fen?|From the 1963 Worldcon... What does it mean to be a fan? In 1963, the conclusion was that fanzines were the single most important feature of fandom. That's changed. But--how do the different groups making up the community feel they fit? Is there any sense of unity? What does fandom offer you?|Denise Gendron, Bey King, Gary D. McGath, Kevin P. Roche, Edie Stern (m) 
Sun|2:00PM|H309|The Art of Don Maitz|Slide show|Don Maitz 
Sun|2:00PM|H310|Heinlein's Juveniles|Heinlein's juveniles are still being read and reread by SF fans nearly a half-century after they were first published. They have rarely (if ever) gone out of print. Why are these "kiddie books" so popular? Join in, and discuss your favorite Heinlein juveniles, why you love them, and why they've stood the test of time far better than a lot of the other SF from their era|Solomon Davidoff, Joseph T. Major, John McDaid, Tamora Pierce 
Sun|2:00PM|H311|Mercenaries in SF--The Eclipse of the Citizen Soldier|From the Dendari, onward, how have they been handled in the genre? Additionally, *why* is the idea of a vigilante superhero so prevalent in American culture, anyway?|John G. Hemry, Sean M. Mead, Elizabeth Moon (m), Mike Shepherd-Moscoe 
Sun|2:00PM|H312|Fantasy Noire|Fantasy doesn't have to be sweetness and light, it can be dark without turning into gore-ridden horror. Who is writing dark fantasy today? Are there several traditions, or does it all derive from Lovecraft? Are there motifs in dark fantasy as pervasive as the Quest is in high fantasy? Has dark fantasy gotten cliched?|Jim Butcher, Glen Cook, Faye Ringel (m), Delia Sherman 
Sun|2:00PM|ArtSh|Close of Written Bidding in Art Show|
Sun|2:00PM|ArtSh|Art Show Closing|Featuring a fanfare and exit music by _The Star Chamber_ 
Sun|2:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||Hilari L. Bell, Sheila Finch, John M. Ford, Mitchell Freedman, Harry Harrison, Ellen Kushner, Connie Willis 
Sun|2:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||Jim Frenkel, Elizabeth Hand, Gary K. Wolf 
Sun|2:00PM|Bcn A|Movie [ages 1-8]|Movies will be announced on the Movie Board outside the room.|
Sun|2:00PM|Bcn D|What's in a Name?--Writing and Art for Kids [ages 7-12]|How do names relate to the stories being told about them? Or do the names tell the story?|Ruth Sanderson 
Sun|2:00PM|Bcn F|Origami with Mark Leeper [ages 3-8]|Join Mark to create animals from folded paper.|Mark Leeper 
Sun|2:00PM|Clar|Ukulele Workshop|Blind Lemming Chiffon 
Sun|2:00PM|Dalton|What Fans Demand of the Writer|We're not really just talking autographs and panel patter here. Do we press authors for authentic characterization, unsettled originality, and true mind expansion? Or just insist on nicely riveted research and more of the same old same old?|Charlaine Harris 
Sun|2:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Kage Baker ||Kage Baker 
Sun|2:00PM|Gard|Blowing Bubbles [ages 7-12]|Bob Kanefsky 
Sun|2:00PM|Gr.Ball|_ PRIMER_|Winner, Sundance Film Festival 
Sun|2:00PM|Hall A|Junkyard Wars||William "Crash" Yerazunis 
Sun|2:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Michael Swanwick ||Michael Swanwick 
Sun|2:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Charles N. Brown, Katherine Kurtz, Vera Nazarian, Janny Wurts 
Sun|2:00PM|Lib A|Girl Scouts||Suli Isaacs 
Sun|2:30PM|H203|SF in the Tabloids|Circulations for the SF magazines have been dropping for years. But the tabloids sell hundreds of thousands of copies per week--and they carry a lot of material that can only be described as SF! Are we doing something wrong?|Thomas A. Easton 
Sun|2:30PM|H209|_ Record Of Lodoss War, #4 [Subtitled] [13 +] _|
Sun|2:30PM|H303|Effects of Different Gravity|...on atmospheres, structures, and people... G. David Nordley 
Sun|2:30PM|Dalton|Great Illustrators of the Past, and How to Collect TheM||Jerry Weist 
Sun|2:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Beth Hilgartner ||Beth Hilgartner 
Sun|2:30PM|Hamp|Reading - James Patrick Kelly ||James Patrick Kelly 
Sun|3:00PM|H100|Who Stole Ed's Pants|Frame your opponents for pants theft in this light-hearted yet strategic card game. Rally your supporters as case facts change, evidence is planted and witnesses alter. It's a mind-bending travesty of justice. (3-4 players per game)|
Sun|3:00PM|H203|Twentieth-Century Utopian SF: Huxley and Orwell and Wells and...||Charlie Petit 
Sun|3:00PM|H204|_LOTR_: Looking Back at the Films|The film series is over, the dust has settled, was it all worth it? A look back, and assessment of the series as a whole.|MaryAnn Johanson, Laurie Mann (m), Kathy Morrow 
Sun|3:00PM|H205|The Senile Pen?|Is it true that older authors lose focus (or, merely that they lose their editors)? Great ideas--but cardboard characters? Might this be a function of age? Or fame? Or what?|John R. Douglas (m), Laura Anne Gilman, Jim Grimsley, Shawna McCarthy 
Sun|3:00PM|H206|Fandom's Bad Ideas: Remembering the Best of the Worst|The Cosmic Circle? Coventry? Slan shacks? What are some of the worst ideas (besides Worldcon, Inc.) with which fandom has dabbled? Should the Tucker Hotel actually include a beer can tower to the moon? Panelists reveal the secrets behind the best of the worst (after all, we're all fen here)...|Jack L. Chalker, Joe Siclari (m), Jack Speer 
Sun|3:00PM|H209|_ Record Of Lodoss War_ #5 [Subtitled] [13 +]|
Sun|3:00PM|H210|Filk Concert 20||
Sun|3:00PM|H301|The Fermi Paradox: Where is Everyone?|Enrico Fermi asked the question "Where are they?" Everything we know about astronomy, physics, chemistry and biology seems to say that planets with life ought to be common in the universe. If so, where are the aliens? Something is wrong--but what?|John G. Cramer, G. David Nordley, Mark L. Olson (m), Stanley Schmidt 
Sun|3:00PM|H302|Creating Gods|Gods are important characters in fantasy works from mythology to the Silmarillion to Saberhagen's "Swords" novels to Discworld. How does one introduce superbeings into a work without pushing the human characters into insignificance? Gods are often gigantic projections of human characteristics. Can they serve other functions as well? Additionally, why are polytheistic settings so common in fantasy? What are the sources that authors are using, and why? And why do readers find them so compelling?|Lois McMaster Bujold (m), David B. Coe, Glen Cook, George R. R. Martin, Tamora Pierce, Jo Walton 
Sun|3:00PM|H303|The Feng-shui of PrograM|Experts tell all. How do you properly balance a convention program? Is it all about ideas...program participants...or do you really have to move all that furniture around? And, are there really any completely BAD program ideas (and why?)--and should you try risky things on Somebody Else's Program before messing up your own convention? How can one overthrow the bourgeois hegemony of panel discussions--and is it really worth it to try?|Jim Mann, Priscilla Olson (m), John Pomeranz 
Sun|3:00PM|H304|The Catharsis of Myth, The Shock of Invention|(Readercon) In writing or reading fiction, we place a high value on the degree to which the plot unfolds in unexpected ways. But much of the power of myth and fairy tales derives from the way they fulfill our expectations. How do the best works of fantasy reconcile these seeming opposites?|Ellen Datlow, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Daniel Hatch, Elizabeth Anne Hull (m) 
Sun|3:00PM|H305|Growing Artistically Through Crisis|Your spouse left you, your dog died, and the bank repossessed your pickup. If you're not a country western singer, what do you do?|James S. Hinsey (m), Laurie J. Marks, Deborah Ross, Amy Thomson 
Sun|3:00PM|H307|Gaming to Book Crossover--and Back Again|Getting information from the game or book...or giving it to the game or book: is this a chicken-egg issue? Find out where the game stops/starts and the book begins. (ends?)...|Thomas Harlan 
Sun|3:00PM|H309|Lonely Planet: The Extinction of Everybody But Us|It's estimated that the familiar banana (a monoclonal variety known as the cavendish) will disappear from global shelves within a decade. One SF writer/marine biologist (Peter Watts) says he hopes his successors like squids and jellyfish, because in 50 years they'll be the only marine life left. Are we about to experience big bad changes in our biosphere, or are we alarmed over nothing? An exploration of many questions exploring the deficits or dividends of genetic diversity (past, present, and future!)|M. M. Buckner, D. Douglas Fratz (m), Samuel Scheiner, Pat York 
Sun|3:00PM|H310|Defending the Writing Life|or…"You're not busy, are you?" What to say when your parent, neighbor, or the mom besides you at playgroup asks, "So, are you still doing that writing stuff?" Why do writers have to defend their occupation to others? Why do our relatives and neighbors all think that because we're home we aren't really working? What great responses can you give them?|Jack Dann, Melanie Fletcher (m), Gavin Grant, Gay Haldeman, David Marusek 
Sun|3:00PM|H311|My Favorite Novels|Panelists will supply a list of their favorite novels, and the audience will try to match the authors to their lists. Then, they'll discuss their choices.|Rosemary Kirstein, Paul Levinson (m), Robert Reed, Robert Charles Wilson 
Sun|3:00PM|H312|The Far Future: Where Fantasy Meets SF?|As Clarke's Law says, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. When writing about the far future, where do we draw this distinction? Can we? And, perhaps more importantly, should we?|Jeffrey A. Carver, Brenda Jean Cooper (m), Karl Schroeder, Robert Silverberg 
Sun|3:00PM|ArtSh|Tour of the Retro Art Exhibit||Robert K. Wiener 
Sun|3:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||Juanita Coulson, Nancy Kress, Barry N. Malzberg, James Morrow, Terry Pratchett, Mike Resnick, Lawrence Schoen 
Sun|3:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||Kelly Link, S. M. Stirling, Charles Stross 
Sun|3:00PM|M.Drum|Concert||Blind Lemming Chiffon 
Sun|3:00PM|Bcn A|Movie [ages 1-8]|Movies will be announced on the Movie Board outside the room.|
Sun|3:00PM|Bcn D|Pictionary [ages 7-12]|Teddy Harvia 
Sun|3:00PM|Bcn F|Write a Story [ages 4-7]|Everyone has a story running around inside them. Here's the time to bring it out.|
Sun|3:00PM|Clar|Bodhran Workshop|The elegant underlay of a skilled percussionist is a welcome decoration to music. An introduction to the bodhran (Irish frame drum) with a master percussionist.|Brenda Sutton 
Sun|3:00PM|CS Foyer|Music||Ellen James, harpist 
Sun|3:00PM|Dalton|Making a Poly-shrink Pin|Instant jewelry making--for adults!|Elizabeth Janes 
Sun|3:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Michelle Sagara West ||Michelle Sagara West 
Sun|3:00PM|Gard|Live Action Roleplaying Game: Harry Potter and the Lost Labyrinth [ages 7-12]|Albertus Dumbledore is ready to welcome the new first year students into the Hogwarts School of Magic! But he seems to be acting strangely lately. He forgets a lot of things, today he even forgot where the great hall was! Has something happened to his memory? In the meantime, the new students are starting their classes: _Potions_ with Snape, _Care of Magical Creatures_ with Hagrid, and there is a new _Dark Arts_ professor: a mysterious woman who always wears a veil that covers her face...It is said that a student caught a glimpse of her face and was sent to the infirmary soon after! Finally, there is a door in Hogwarts with warning signs on it, and the teachers aren't allowing anyone through! Students who have sneaked a peek say that there is a labyrinth beyond the door! A magical hedge maze with shifting passages. What could be at its center? [20 players, 7--12 years old] ||
Sun|3:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Barbara Chepaitis, Steven Sawicki ||Barbara Chepaitis, Steven Sawicki 
Sun|3:00PM|Indep|Deryni Guide|An old friend sent a cryptic message. Might he have found a fabled treatise on Deryni magic? Where is he? And who else might be looking for the book, and the power it represents? A Deryni adventure featuring Sendai the Magnificent and his troupe of travelling performers. 
Sun|3:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Paula Guran, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Michael Swanwick, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Harry Turtledove 
Sun|3:00PM|Lib C|Boy Scouts||Fred Isaacs 
Sun|3:10PM|Rep.A|_ Mad Ox 1 _[Subtitled] [13 +]||
Sun|3:30PM|H203|Horror and the American Literary Mainstream|Poe wrote it; Hawthorne wrote it; Henry James wrote it...why do our literary heavy-hitters keep coming back to things that go bump in the night?|Debra Doyle 
Sun|3:30PM|H209|_ Record Of Lodoss War_ #6 [Subtitled] [13 +]||
Sun|3:30PM|H210|"Electro" Concert||Gary Ehrlich 
Sun|3:30PM|H307|Adapting Media Tie-ins to Computer Games||Kimberly Ann Kindya 
Sun|3:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Michael A. Burstein ||Michael A. Burstein 
Sun|3:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Catherine Asaro ||Catherine Asaro 
Sun|4:00PM|H100|Monkeys on the Moon|Six monkey tribes vie for supremacy while you decide which ones to launch back home to Earth. These tribes do not get along, and you must decide which ones to befriend while enduring the scorn of the others. Will you be anointed the Supreme Leader of these primates in this game from Eight Foot Llama? (2--4 players per game.) 
Sun|4:00PM|H101|Jewish Time-Based Mitzvoth in a Lunar Colony|Jews have found ways to adapt ancient laws to modern and future ideas. from time travel; (across the International Dateline, at least) to vampirism (yes, you are permitted to swallow some blood). So, nu? How does someone observe a time-based commandment when "day" and "night" are artificial concepts. Where will a naturally-flowing spring come from for a mikvah on Mars? Our panel of mavens will engage in pilpul on halachic and non-halachic issues.|Nomi Burstein (m), Solomon Davidoff, Janice Gelb, Daniel Kimmel 
Sun|4:00PM|H107|What's New from Tor|A presentation of recent and forthcoming works published by Tor Books, along with a brief Q&A about the books. Come see the pretty pictures (i.e., cover art). Listen to the editors wax rhapsodic. There will be door prizes!|David G. Hartwell, Beth Meacham, James Minz, Patrick Nielsen Hayden 
Sun|4:00PM|H203|How to Run a Film Festival||Garen Daley, James S. Hinsey 
Sun|4:00PM|H204|This Book Sucks: How and How Not To Write Reviews|What makes a good book review or a good critical piece? What kinds of things should book reviewers do? What kinds of behaviors should they avoid?|Tobias Buckell, Thomas A. Easton, Scott Edelman, Janice M. Eisen (m), Steven Sawicki 
Sun|4:00PM|H205|Dead Fans Don't Pub Their Ish|Who's the Walt Willis of today? What will we do without Harry Warner Jr.? A fond remembrance of the finest fanzine writers and publishers of the past and an examination of The State of Fanzine Publishing in the 21st Century? What's being published? What's good? What's bad?|James Bacon, John-Henri Holmberg, Joe Siclari, Geri Sullivan (m) 
Sun|4:00PM|H206|Fandom Online|TMI!!! Personalzines were intimate forms of communications among a small group of acquaintances and friends. Compare and contrast to web pages on line, open to umpty-billion people. Is there too much information out there? Do we really need to know? Or are live journals the next best thing to being there? Noreascon has nearly 100 mailing lists all by itself. Are we drowning in data and lacking in knowledge? Or are we moving from 6 degrees of separation to 2? How do you cope with your electronic in-basket?|Elisabeth Carey (m), Anna Feruglio Dal Dan, Craig Engler, Sharon Sbarsky, James M. Turner 
Sun|4:00PM|H208|_ Raiders of the Lost Ark: A Fan Film_|
Sun|4:00PM|H209|_ Record Of Lodoss War_ #7 [Subtitled] [13 +]||
Sun|4:00PM|H210|Filk and Fable|Stories and the songs about them or which inspired them. Panel, performance, and reading, with footnotes.|Tanya Huff 
Sun|4:00PM|H301|Philosophy and SF|Why, when SF ventures into philosophy, is it typically Plato and early philosophers (with the probably exception of Nietzsche)? Can this be refuted? What's wrong with, say, Hume and Locke?|Peter J. Heck, John F. Hertz, Paul Levinson, Jim Mann (m) 
Sun|4:00PM|H302|SF: A Modern Mythology?|Why not? It's similar to ancient epic poetry and storytelling as both celebratory and hortatory, about good and evil and what virtue consists of. Among other things...|Suzy McKee Charnas, Greer Gilman, Anne Harris, Suford Lewis (m), Uncle River 
Sun|4:00PM|H303|Writing for Massively Multiplayer Online Worlds|Good SF/F writing makes or breaks a persistent massively multiplayer online world. Without them, a MMORPG becomes a slayfest, or a simple "go here and do that" list of quests. Experts from the industry talk about how to get more involved in persistent worlds as creative forces from the start of a project to its launch, and what good writing means to a creation of a great game.|Jessica Mulligan, John Scalzi 
Sun|4:00PM|H304|Alternate Law|Laws that passed/failed to pass. Laws that were interpreted _differently_...What kinds of stories have been (should be? ) written using these "what if" ideas?|Michael Benveniste (m), Mitchell Freedman, David Friedman, Charlie Petit 
Sun|4:00PM|H305|Going to School in a SF/F Environment|A discussion about what schools might be like in SF settings, like a different world, starship, etc. Also, talk about schools you've read about in other works, --from Hogwarts to Sunnydale/Smallville High to Enders' Battle School...What classes would you be taking? Come up with your ideal class schedule from your favorite story!|Lee Martindale, Val Ontell (m), E. Rose Sabin, Mary Turzillo 
Sun|4:00PM|H307|Financial Planning for the Freelancer|How big a cushion should you have before quitting that day job? Are there tricks and techniques for dealing with cash flow problems? And what about retirement?|Susan Shwartz 
Sun|4:00PM|H309|Slide Show||N. Taylor Blanchard 
Sun|4:00PM|H310|Romancing the Philosopher's Stone: Looking for the Science in Magic|Like all long-lived legends and myths, that of the philosopher's stone that would alloy with a base metal to yield gold, is based on a then dimly-understood reality. Journey back in time to the mystic East to discover the real philosopher's stone, and wonder at the science that still today conjures plenty from the base elements!|David Stephenson 
Sun|4:00PM|H311|1984+20: Dystopia Past/Present/Future|Where do we stand compared to the totalitarian state portrayed in Orwell's _1984_? Look at where we are now, and _1984_'s ancestors and descendants--in SF and the real world!|William Tenn, Karin Lowachee, David McMahon, Nick Sagan, James Stevens-Arce (m) 
Sun|4:00PM|H312|The Next Plague|Science fiction writers looking for ways to end the world have often turned to plagues. They have a long and fearful history, and new ones are emerging to join the old standbys. AIDS remains devastating in the less-developed world. West Nile, Ebola, Aids, SARS, Bird Flu and other diseases are becoming familiar to us all. The easy international travel that makes possible events like a Worldcon also breaks down barriers to the spread of disease. Some experts say that it is just a matter of time before the world is hit by another major flu epidemic, one that will sweep across the globe and kill tens of millions, or even more. Others talk about the dreaded super-virus, something like an airborne Ebola that could extinguish human civilization in a matter of weeks. Antibiotic- resistant tuberculosis is spreading. Even bacterial infections are becoming immune to antibiotics and may pose a real threat to humanity as well. Is this a time bomb akin to an Armageddon asteroid? What are the odds looking like? Should I buy that isolated log cabin in the mountains?|Zara Baxter, Herb Kauderer, Perrianne Lurie (m), Jed Shumsky, Ronald Taylor 
Sun|4:00PM|ArtSh|Art Show Pick-Up and Pay|
Sun|4:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||Patricia Bray, Mike Conrad, Ellen Datlow, Gardner Dozois, Frederik Pohl, Madeleine E. Robins, Martha Wells 
Sun|4:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||Kevin J. Anderson, Jack Dann, Diane Duane 
Sun|4:00PM|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with.|
Sun|4:00PM|Bcn D|First Contact [ages 7-12]|Talk and role-play about what you would do if you met aliens for the first time!|Matthew Jarpe 
Sun|4:00PM|Bcn F|Yarn Bug [ages 4-8]|Yarn, wiggle eyes and a lot of wrapping will help build up these funny creatures.|
Sun|4:00PM|Clar|How To Pub a Songbook||Gary D. McGath 
Sun|4:00PM|Dalton|Using Occult Science as SF Background|Does there have to be any significant difference between SF and Fantasy?|Jacqueline Lichtenberg 
Sun|4:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Hilari L. Bell ||Hilari L. Bell 
Sun|4:00PM|Gr.Ball|_ Surge of Power_|Presented by the Director, Michael Donahue|Mike Donahue 
Sun|4:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Cory Doctorow(1 hour)||Cory Doctorow 
Sun|4:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||David B. Coe, Harry Harrison, Mike Shepherd-Moscoe, Larry Niven 
Sun|4:00PM|Lib A|Hypoglycemia Discussion Group||Benita Gagne 
Sun|4:00PM|Rep.A|_ Bubblegum Crisis_ [Subtitled] [13 +]||
Sun|4:00PM|Doc.Tour|Village Tour (of the Worldcon)|A general orientation tour of the convention.|Tom Veal
Sun|4:30PM|H203|Dark Laugher: The Satire of William Tenn||Robert James
Sun|4:30PM|H209|_ Record Of Lodoss War_ #8 [Subtitled] [13 +]||
Sun|4:30PM|H307|The Hospital of the Future||Robert I. Katz 
Sun|4:30PM|Dalton|Tricking Yourself Into Actually Writing||Kathleen Kudlinski 
Sun|4:30PM|Exeter|Reading - David C. Kopaska-Merkel ||David C. Kopaska-Merkel 
Sun|4:45PM|Rep.A|_ Bubblegum Crisis _ #2 [Subtitled] [13 +]|
Sun|5:00PM|H100|Who Stole Ed's Pants|Frame your opponents for pants-theft in this light-hearted yet strategic card game. Rally your supporters as case facts change, evidence is planted and witnesses alter. It's a mind-bending travesty of justice. (3-4 players per game) 
Sun|5:00PM|H101|Us and Them: Are Categories Necessary?|Humans are very good at dividing people up into groups, but not so good at breaking down those divisions, as demonstrated by the contested space currently surrounding gender and race issues. How is Western society dealing with these issues? Are alternative systems of creating non-judgmental categories, such as Myers-Briggs, useful in this endeavor? Are things like diversity training and workplace tolerance standards helpful in overcoming differences?|Tobias Buckell, Nancy Kress, Suford Lewis (m), Don Sakers 
Sun|5:00PM|H203|_Moby Dick_|Why is it the favorite mainstream novel of a lot of SF types?|Debra Doyle 
Sun|5:00PM|H204|Alternate Publication Strategies||Paula Guran 
Sun|5:00PM|H205|The Pains (and Promises) of Rejection Slips|How can they actually be constructive? (And why are so many of them anything *but*?)|Janna Silverstein, Charles Stross, Teresa Nielsen Hayden (m), Jo Walton 
Sun|5:00PM|H206|The Ambassador from Rigel Has Arrived...|...and made us an offer we can't refuse...Or can we? The panelists from Earth debate the merits of the plan with the ambassador...Is Earth a Third World country is this scenario?|Billie Aul (m), Jeffrey A. Carver, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Jim Young 
Sun|5:00PM|H208|_ Kaze Ghost Warrior _|
Sun|5:00PM|H209|_ Record Of Lodoss War_ #9 [Subtitled] [13 +]||
Sun|5:00PM|H210|Concert||Jordin T. Kare 
Sun|5:00PM|H301|The Fantasy Amateur Press Association|The past and present glories, scandals, inventions and secret hidden details of FAPA. FAPA is the longest running discussion group in fandom. Since 1937, they've had discussions ranging from race relations in fandom, nuclear politics during WWII, to fannish silliness, and even science fiction, fantasy and horror. Our Guest of Honor Jack Speer has been part of this from the beginning. He and others will tell you of the glories and follies of FAPA, and teach you what blitzkrieg really meant.|John F. Hertz (m), Fred Lerner, Jack Speer, Milton F. Stevens 
Sun|5:00PM|H302|_Stargate_: New SF Franchise?|Does _Stargate_ have the followers and scope of vision to perpetuate itself in endless sequel shows, a la _Star Trek_?|MaryAnn Johanson, Anthony R. Lewis (m), Sandra McDonald, Ann Tonsor Zeddies 
Sun|5:00PM|H303|Steven H Silver's Trivia Game|Steven H Silver 
Sun|5:00PM|H304|The Most Alien Alien?|What makes an alien particularly alien? How can writers evoke a genuine sense of "otherness" in their non-human creations?|Rosemary Kirstein, Steven Popkes, Wen Spencer, Karen Traviss (m), Walter Jon Williams 
Sun|5:00PM|H305|Tolkien vs. Peake|Is it only a twist of fate that Tolkien is popular and Peake is only beloved of a few? What would a fantasy genre based on Peake be like? Would a Peake clone be any less bad than a Tolkien clone? Why would they be in opposition? Would they be?|jan howard finder (m), Greer Gilman, Darrell Schweitzer 
Sun|5:00PM|H307|The Fan World of the Future|In 1939, Sam Moskowitz gave on talk on this very same topic...and it's interesting to note that fandom didn't fundamentally change for decades! What aspects of fandom are very "now" and what are still very "then"? Will the fan world of the future be like today's, or will fandom evaporate into a world where science fiction is a way of life?|Moshe Feder, Mike Glyer, Edie Stern (m), Geri Sullivan, Peter Weston 
Sun|5:00PM|H309|The Art of Mike Conrad||Mike Conrad 
Sun|5:00PM|H310|Discoveries That Weren't: Near Misses in Science|Cold fusion wasn't the first. Scientists talk about promising results that turned out to be dead ends. At the other extreme, what experiments might have led to earlier advances of scientific theory if only scientists had known what they were seeing? And then there were the great scientific mistakes...that actually worked! Teflon, Penicillin, post-its...and where would we be without Silly-Putty? A semi-serious look at what science is really all about!|John G. Cramer, Ctein, Howard Davidson (m), Robert A. Metzger, W. A. Thomasson 
Sun|5:00PM|H311|The Effects of Litigation on the Future|Do the courts threaten our ability to make scientific and technical advances? (And--is this a good or bad thing?) What is the place of litigation in today's society--and what are the trends that might brighten or darken our future?)|Christopher Cevasco (m), Harold Feld, Melinda Snodgrass 
Sun|5:00PM|H312|The Great Character Swap|"...They're Detectives!" Huh? Well, it's the punch line of any number of jokes: "He's a Priest, She's a Lawyer. Together They're Detectives!" (or, "They Fight Crime!") But what would happen if various SF characters were dropped into other universe's stories? Would R. Daneel Olivaw and Bruce Wayne get together? Would Dr. Susan Calvin make it in the Discworld? Sherlock Holmes in Oz (Hmmm...well, that one has probably been done...) Enjoy!|Daniel P. Dern, Tom Galloway (m), Larry Ganem, Leigh Grossman, David Levine 
Sun|5:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||Michael Dobson, Beth Hilgartner, Laura Resnick 
Sun|5:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||Geoffrey A. Landis, Chris Moriarty, Janine Ellen Young 
Sun|5:00PM|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with.|
Sun|5:00PM|Bcn D|Storytelling [ages 7-12]|David C. Kopaska-Merkel 
Sun|5:00PM|Bcn F|Shrinky Dinks [ages 4-12]|Wonderful plastic you can color and then shrink in to a permanent piece of jewelry.|
Sun|5:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Scott Westerfeld ||Scott Westerfeld 
Sun|5:00PM|Fan Lge|Knitting|
Sun|5:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Joe Haldeman ||Joe Haldeman 
Sun|5:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Stephen Leigh, Deborah Ross, Steve Saffel, Shane Tourtellotte 
Sun|5:00PM|Doc.Tour|Village Tour (of the Worldcon)|A general orientation tour of the convention.|Priscilla Olson 
Sun|5:30PM|H203|Teaching SF and Fantasy in the Public Schools|As we all know, genre literature is trivial, worthless, and depraved--and yet, for some reason, it isn't routinely taught in the secondary school English classroom. There are signs that this prejudice is eroding. Our two presenters will talk about a set of online Tolkien lesson plans they designed for Houghton Mifflin, and about the increasing legitimization of SF and fantasy in our public schools.|James Morrow, Kathy Morrow 
Sun|5:30PM|H204|Australian Fiction||Zara Baxter, Jack Dann 
Sun|5:30PM|H209|_ Record Of Lodoss War_ #10 [Subtitled] [13 +]|
Sun|5:30PM|H210|Concert||Terence Chua 
Sun|5:30PM|Dalton|New Categories for the Hugos?|Are there really elements of science fiction and/or fandom that are not being recognized by our awards system? Should there be new categories added to the already extensive list of awards that we, as a community, give? Are there existing categories that should be split/changed/removed?|Chris Barkley, Craig Miller, Kevin Standlee (m), Ben Yalow 
Sun|5:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Mike Brotherton ||Mike Brotherton 
Sun|5:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Jacqueline Lichtenberg ||Jacqueline Lichtenberg 
Sun|5:45PM|Rep.A|_ Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade_ [Subtitled] [16 +]||
Sun|6:00PM||Masquerade Green Room Open for Entrants||
Sun|6:00PM|H100|Monkeys on the Moon|Six monkey tribes vie for supremacy while you decide which ones to launch back home to Earth. These tribes do not get along, and you must decide which ones to befriend while enduring the scorn of the others. Will you be anointed the Supreme Leader of these primates in this game from Eight Foot Llama? (2--4 players per game.) 
Sun|6:00PM|H107|"Revisions"||Isaac Szpindel 
Sun|6:00PM|H203|Building a Wider Audience for Genre Criticism Through Community Video/Cable||Philip Kaveny 
Sun|6:00PM|H204|Lifestyles of the Niche and Fannish|Alternative lifestyles are much more common in fandom than in the general populace. Why? Is it just that people who would be delighted to have dinner with aliens are more accepting, or is there more to it? We've had naked ladies and skinny dipping, line marriages and less easy-to-explain liaisons. Do fans have the same mores as the general population. Now? In the past? How about the future???|Bey King 
Sun|6:00PM|H206|Worldcon--the Movie?|If the Worldcon were a movie, whom would we cast in all the roles? Note: we do insist (sez the female fan typing this) that Neil Gaiman be played by Himself...|Bob Devney 
Sun|6:00PM|H208|_ Robots Don't Cry/Rogue Farm_|
Sun|6:00PM|H209|_ Record Of Lodoss War _ #11 [Subtitled] [13 +]||
Sun|6:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||Robert Buettner, Juanita Coulson, Karl Schroeder 
Sun|6:00PM|Clar|Running a Worldcon Filk PrograM|What's worked, and what's been less than successful. You share your stories and we'll share ours.|J. Spencer Love, Priscilla Olson 
Sun|6:00PM|Ccrse|Information Closes|
Sun|6:00PM|CS Foyer|Music||
Sun|6:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Terry McGarry ||Terry McGarry 
Sun|6:00PM|Hall D|Dealers Room Closes|
Sun|6:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Jean Lorrah ||Jean Lorrah 
Sun|6:30PM|H100|Mechwarrior Single Faction Tournament|Bring your mechanized army and test it in this Wizkids sanctioned event [450 pts. Single Faction]|
Sun|6:30PM|H203|Heinlein and the Question of Incest||Robert James, Bill Patterson 
Sun|6:30PM|H209|_ Record Of Lodoss War _ #12 [Subtitled] [13 +]||
Sun|6:30PM|H210|Concert by The Lothars||The Lothars
Sun|6:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Uncle River ||Uncle River 
Sun|6:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Mark W. Tiedemann ||Mark W. Tiedemann 
Sun|7:00PM|H100|Who Stole Ed's Pants|Frame your opponents for pants theft in this light-hearted yet strategic card game. Rally your supporters as case facts change, evidence is planted and witnesses alter. It's a mind-bending travesty of justice. (3-4 players per game)|
Sun|7:00PM|H209|_ Record Of Lodoss War _ #13 [Subtitled] [13 +]||
Sun|7:00PM|Conf|Filk Office On-call||
Sun|7:00PM|Exeter|Reading - F. Brett Cox ||F. Brett Cox 
Sun|7:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Charles Oberndorf ||Charles Oberndorf 
Sun|7:30PM|H209|_ MS 080 Team _[Subtitled]|
Sun|7:30PM|Bcn D|Games and Crafts during the Masquerade [ages 7+]||Randy Hoffman, Ailsa Ek, Steven Chalker
Sun|7:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Diane Turnshek ||Diane Turnshek 
Sun|7:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Tanya Huff ||Tanya Huff 
Sun|7:30PM|Rep.A|_ Blue Seed _19-26 [Subtitled]|
Sun|8:00PM|H100|Monkeys on the Moon|Six monkey tribes vie for supremacy while you decide which ones to launch back home to Earth. These tribes do not get along, and you must decide which ones to befriend while enduring the scorn of the others. Will you be anointed the Supreme Leader of these primates in this game from Eight Foot Llama? (2--4 players per game.) 
Sun|8:00PM|H209|_ MS 080 Team _[Subtitled]||
Sun|8:00PM|Clar|Open Filk||
Sun|8:00PM|Dalton|Open Filk--no taping||
Sun|8:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Herb Kauderer ||Herb Kauderer 
Sun|8:00PM|Gard|Drum Circle||
Sun|8:00PM|Hall A|Registration Closes||
Sun|8:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Jay Lake ||Jay Lake 
Sun|8:30PM|H209|_ MS 080 Team _ [Subtitled]|
Sun|8:30PM|Aud|The Masquerade||Susan de Guardiola, MC 
Sun|9:00PM|H100|Blood and Cardstock Players Choice|Open demo sessions. Learn how to play exciting games like Showbiz and Counting ZZZs|
Sun|9:00PM|H209|_ MS 080 Team _[Subtitled]||
Sun|9:00PM|Conf|Filk Office Re-Opens||
Sun|9:00PM|Exeter|Filk Rendezvous||
Sun|9:00PM|Gard|Open Filk||
Sun|9:00PM|Hamp|Open Filk||
Sun|9:30PM|H209|_ MS 080 Team _[Subtitled]||
Sun|10:00PM|H205|Zen Scavenger Hunt||Chris Barkley 
Sun|10:00PM|H209|_ MS 080 Team _ [Subtitled]||
Sun|10:00PM|Gr.Ball|_ Bubba Ho-Tep_||
Sun|10:30PM|H209|_ MS 080 Team _[Subtitled]||
Sun|11:00PM|H206|Lame Excuses I Have Given to Keep on Reading|A confessional... Have you ever feigned a headache when your beloved feels romantic to turn one more page? Have you ever avoided chores by claimed your hemorrhoids are flaring up so you can finish a book? If this sounds familiar, this panel is for you. Help your fellow book addict by building up their repertoire of excuses.|John Pomeranz 
Sun|11:00PM|H209|_ MS 080 Team_ [Subtitled]||
Sun|11:00PM|M.Drum|Concert by Pete Grubbs||Pete Grubbs
Sun|11:00PM|Conf|Filk Office On-call||
Sun|11:00PM|Exeter|Open Filk||
Sun|11:00PM|Gard|Filk Rendezvous||
Sun|11:00PM|Rep.A|_ Miyuki-chan In Wonderland _[Subtitled] [15 +]||
Sun|11:30PM|H209|_ MS 080 Team _[Subtitled]||
Sun|11:30PM|Rep.A|_ Cowboy Bebop: The Movie _[Dubbed] [R]||
Sun|24:00||Childcare Closes||
Sun|24:00|H209|_ MS 080 Team _[Subtitled]||
Mon|0:00AM|M.Drum|Show Tunes Singalong||
Mon|1:00AM|M.Drum|Last Call at the Mended Drum||
Mon|1:00AM|Gard|Open Filk||
Mon|1:00AM|Rep.A|_ Dragon Half _[Subtitled] [15 +]||
Mon|1:30AM|Rep.A|_ Sorcerer On The Rocks _[Subtitled] [17 +]||
Mon|2:00AM||Hynes Closes||
Mon|2:00AM||Pedestrian Overpass to Marriott Closed||
Mon|2:00AM|C'Ste|Con Suite Closes||
Mon|2:30AM|Rep.A|_ Vampire Princess Miyu OVA _[Subtitled]||
Mon|3:00AM|Conf|Filk Office Closes||
Mon|3:00AM|C'Ste|Con Suite Closes||
Mon|7:00AM|Rep.A|_ Wedding Peach _[13 +]||
Mon|8:00AM||Hynes Open for Setup Only||
Mon|9:00AM||Hynes Open||
Mon|9:00AM|Gr.Ball|_ Lord of The Rings: Fellowship of the Ring_||
Mon|9:00AM|Hall A|Registration Open||
Mon|9:00AM|C'Ste|Con Suite Opens||
Mon|9:30AM||Childcare Opens||
Mon|9:30AM|H203|The Virtual Manifest: _Solaris_ and the Persistence of Memory||Gerald Lucas 
Mon|9:30AM|Bcn A|Moving to Music [ages 1-7]|Clap and sing to the music of Jim Cosgrove, a Kansas City children's folk singer. 
Mon|9:30AM|Bcn F|Masks [ages 2-8]|What costume would be completed or improved with a colorful mask? Come glue, stick and create a fun mask to wear. 
Mon|9:30AM|Conf|Filk Office Opens||
Mon|9:30AM|Exeter|Reading - E. Rose Sabin ||E. Rose Sabin 
Mon|9:30AM|Hall A|Shotokan Karate Workshop||Kenn Bates, Keith G. Kato 
Mon|9:30AM|Hamp|Reading - Susan Shwartz ||Susan Shwartz 
Mon|9:30AM|Rep.A|_ Riding Bean _[Subtitled] [N/R]|
Mon|10:00AM||Masquerade Registration Desk Opens for Pickup of Tapes/Documentation||
Mon|10:00AM|H100|Thud: The Discworld Boardgame|Learn to play this exciting new board game based on the dwarvish game of Hnaflbaflsnifkwhifltafl from Terry Pratchett's _Discworld_ universe. (2 players per game) 
Mon|10:00AM|H102|Sing Around the Virtual Campfire||
Mon|10:00AM|H203|The He(Art) of Communication in James E. Gunn's _The Listeners_||Barbara Bengals
Mon|10:00AM|H206|Writerly Friendship|What's it like to start and maintain a friendship with another writer? How about rivalry? Collaboration? What part is played by professional admiration? How about by alcohol? Can only another ink-stained wretch really understand?|James Patrick Kelly (m), George R. R. Martin, Ann Tonsor Zeddies 
Mon|10:00AM|H208|_ Firefly_ Marathon, Episodes 12-End|||
Mon|10:00AM|H209|_ The Castle Of Cagliostro_ [Subtitled] [N/R]||
Mon|10:00AM|H210|WSFS Business Meeting, Third Main Session (if required)|If the meetings earlier in the convention were unable to process all official business, we will consider what is left today. If the WSFS Mark Protection Committee was unable to meet on Sunday, it will meet here instead. Check the _Triplanetary Gazette_ to find out if there will be a Monday Business Meeting or Mark Protection Committee Meeting. 
Mon|10:00AM|H301|Print on Demand--for Artists|Jael 
Mon|10:00AM|H303|Burnout|Burnout: What is it? Causes and methods of dealing with this too-common problem...(But wait! Is that smoke I smell?)|Priscilla Olson 
Mon|10:00AM|H305|Art Auction Overflow|If needed. |
Mon|10:00AM|H306|The Next Killer App|Software companies are in a holding pattern, kludging up their programs with unwanted features while searching for the next Killer Application. Can science fiction fans think up the Killer App? And could it be implemented if we did?|Daniel P. Dern, Henry Jenkins, John Moore, P. J. Plauger, Edie Stern (m) 
Mon|10:00AM|H307|Island Ecologies||Amy Thomson 
Mon|10:00AM|H309|McMullen's Trek|Slideshow and discussion.|Sean McMullen 
Mon|10:00AM|H310|SF Museum Slideshow|Okay, they've got Kirk's command chair--but also first editions of Bradbury and Asimov. See mouth-watering highlights here.|Leslie Howle 
Mon|10:00AM|H311|Curses!|Profanity for fantasy and SF--what makes made-up profanity either work or fail? Panelists can bring in examples of both and share their own techniques for creating profanity that has the same emotional weight that real profanity does.|Hilari L. Bell (m), Susan Casper, Larry Ganem, Mark Mandel, Vera Nazarian, Shara R. Zoll 
Mon|10:00AM|H312|The SF of William Tenn|In about 60 stories published from the 1940s through the 1960s, our Guest of Honor Phil Klass made his pseudonym William Tenn a guarantee of sharp, often satirical, first- rate SF. But they say satire closes on Saturday night. Do these barbs still open wounds today?|Jim Mann (m), Kathy Morrow, Charles Oberndorf, Graham Sleight, Jo Walton 
Mon|10:00AM|ArtSh|Art Show Open for Pick-up and Pay and Artist Check-out||
Mon|10:00AM|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with. 
Mon|10:00AM|Bcn D|Children's/YA (1 hour) Reading [ages 7-12]|Kathleen Kudlinski 
Mon|10:00AM|Bcn F|Kitchen Science [ages 2-7]|Fun with things from the kitchen and some explanation on why they work.|
Mon|10:00AM|Exeter|Reading - Daniel Hatch ||Daniel Hatch 
Mon|10:00AM|Gard|Writing Workshop [ages 7-12]|How do you write a story?|Elizabeth Bear 
Mon|10:00AM|Hall D|Dealers Room Open||
Mon|10:00AM|Hamp|Reading - Mary Turzillo ||Mary Turzillo 
Mon|10:00AM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Carol Berg, Michael A. Burstein, Toni L. P. Kelner, Madeleine E. Robins 
Mon|10:00AM|Doc.Tour|Village Tour of the Worldcon|A general orientation tour of the convention.|John F. Hertz 
Mon|10:15AM|Rep.A|_ Happy Lesson_ #1--5|
Mon|10:30AM|H204|About Author Scams||Charlie Petit 
Mon|10:30AM|H205|One Language To Rule Them All?|Inventing a language with the intent to persuade other people to actually learn and speak it, whether it's intended as a global lingua franca (e.g., Esperanto) or as a "lingua superior" (a language designed to be more logical or more efficient than any natural language, e.g., Loglan/Lojban, Babel-17)--as opposed to inventing a language for purely literary or esthetic purposes (e.g., Quenya, Klingon)--is fraught with problems. Discuss some of these problems with a "conlanger" (inventor of constructed languages).|Timothy L. Smith 
Mon|10:30AM|H301|The Afshar Experiment: A Farewell to Copenhagen?|Update on Afshar's new quantum 2-slit experiment: does it falsify the Copenhagen and Many-Worlds interpretations of quantum mechanics?|John G. Cramer 
Mon|10:30AM|H303|Commemorative Stamps for SF Superstars?||Chris Barkley 
Mon|10:30AM|H307|Surviving a College Creative Writing Class||Steve Miller (m) 
Mon|10:30AM|Exeter|Reading - Benjamin Rosenbaum ||Benjamin Rosenbaum 
Mon|10:30AM|Hamp|Reading - Scott Edelman ||Scott Edelman 
Mon|11:00AM||Photo Proofs and Ordering of Photos at Masquerade Registration||
Mon|11:00AM|H203|Raising Gifted Children|Are your parenting models Leto and Jessica, Baslim the Cripple, or the Dursleys? Can you keep up intellectually? Should you push or be pulled? Should he play outside, and not just with the symphony? Which explosives can your future rocket scientist keep in her room?|Janice M. Eisen 
Mon|11:00AM|H204|Why I Write YA Books|Harder, easier, sells better...or just more FUN! (And writing what you wanted to read when you were a kid isn't bad either, huh?) Agree or disagree--and discuss!|Beth Hilgartner, Rebecca Moesta, Tamora Pierce (m), E. Rose Sabin 
Mon|11:00AM|H205|Tuckerizations|From Flying Sorcerers to Fallen Angels. "Tuckerization", the use of real-life fans and pros in fictional situations, has a long and honorable history. Proponents of the art discuss the fun they had and the responses they received.|Michael F. Flynn (m), David Gerrold, Larry Niven 
Mon|11:00AM|H206|Warping the Classics|Perverse interpretations of classical SF and Fantasy. _LOTR_ as a musical comedy or a Klingon parable? _A Christmas Carol_ featuring Scrooge as a time-traveling mutant? Arrgh!|Mike Conrad, John M. Ford, Mark Mandel, John Pomeranz (m), Darrell Schweitzer 
Mon|11:00AM|H301|Ethical Issues in Neuroscience|Over-prescribing for the under-symptomed. Animal testing. Predictive jail sentencing for the "criminal brain protein" gene Employment screening for potential Alzheimer's. Souped- up serotonin. Let's think about these and other moral quandaries before they come to a head.|Elizabeth Moon (m), Shane Tourtellotte, Karen Traviss, Eric M. Van 
Mon|11:00AM|H302|Best Short Stories of 2004 (So Far...)|Short stories are the lifeblood of the field, where new writers build their reputations and established writers do their best to yank the field in new directions. But how do you keep up, or just find the best? A panel of editors of "best of the year" anthologies give an overview of what's happening in short fiction right now, the best stories of the year (so far!), and what just might be on next year's award ballots.|Kathryn Cramer, Jack Dann, Ellen Datlow, Gardner Dozois, Gavin Grant, Jonathan Strahan (m) 
Mon|11:00AM|H303|The Science Fiction Village|It's our culture, and we'll stick with it!|Jack L. Chalker, John F. Hertz (m), Rusty Hevelin, Rich Lynch, Hank Reinhardt, Walter Jon Williams 
Mon|11:00AM|H304|Images of Loss in _LOTR_|Much of the power of _LOTR_ comes from the deep sense of loss that fills it: the elves' loss of Middle Earth, Men's loss of life, Frodo's loss of the Shire, Arwen's loss of immortality--and there are many others, even Gollum's loss of the Ring. Bittersweet images all. Is this sense of loss essential to the enduring strength of Tolkien's universe? Would we love it as much without the final image of the magic leaving Middle Earth, as the elves (and ring bearers) take the straight path across the sea to the West...?|Debra Doyle, Mary Kay Kare (m), Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Jo Walton 
Mon|11:00AM|H305|Obsolete High Technology|What was the highest of tech in 1910? Radio and the Titanic. 1940s' Enigma, bombsights and fission. 1960s' IBMs S360 and the pill(?) and a man on the moon. What's your candidate for the past technology that's passe today? What do you think will most quickly become quaint tomorrow? Cutting edge SF ideas quickly become relegated to background items in the next generation of SF (such as nanotechnology). So, what are those new _big science_ ideas? Are there really any new science ideas, or just a merging and blending of existing ones?|Bill Higgins, Jordin T. Kare (m), Robert A. Metzger, Charles Stross 
Mon|11:00AM|H306|Why We Hate Our Heroes|Skywalker? Sheridan? Is this a media phenomenon or does it happen with books too? If so, why? If not, why not? What keeps you liking a narrative whose protagonist you hate? Do we get some satisfaction out of disliking them or is it a detriment to our enjoyment? Do we root for them to lose? Is it specific to particular characters or something intrinsic to the hero's role? What other types of characters do we like and/or identify with, instead? Why is it so hard to be a hero?|Carol Berg, Liz Gorinsky, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, S. M. Stirling 
Mon|11:00AM|H307|The Creation of the U.S. Tradition of Pulp SF|How A. Merritt and Edgar Rice Burroughs changed the direction of the pulp industry and led to the development of the modern SF style and traditions.|Jim Young 
Mon|11:00AM|H309|In-Space Propulsion Systems||Les Johnson 
Mon|11:00AM|H310|What's New in Astronomy?|Mars has been hogging the headlines, but astronomers have learned a lot of neat stuff about the rest of the cosmos in the past year. Our intrepid panelists will tell the audience what they found neat and wonderful.|Mike Brotherton, Guy Consolmagno, Ctein (m), G. David Nordley, Mark L. Olson 
Mon|11:00AM|H311|It's a Mystery...|Why do so many SF fans enjoy mysteries? In fact, why does anyone enjoy a mystery? And what's the appeal of occasionally crossing genres to dabble in both? Discuss what makes a good mystery and why this sometimes works so well with science fiction.|Joshua Bilmes (m), Charlaine Harris, Jay Caselberg, Toni L. P. Kelner, Wen Spencer 
Mon|11:00AM|H312|The Serious Side of Terry Pratchett|Other writers examine the message behind the merriment in the works of one of our Guests of Honor. What themes occur throughout? How does he combine wisdom with humor?|Esther Friesner, Tanya Huff, Farah Mendelsohn, Peter Morwood, Graham Sleight (m) 
Mon|11:00AM|ArtSh|Tour of the Retro Art Exhibit||Robert K. Wiener 
Mon|11:00AM|Autog.|Autographing||Kevin J. Anderson, Steve Antczak, F. Brett Cox, James Alan Gardner, Jay Lake, Louise Marley, Allen Steele 
Mon|11:00AM|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with.|
Mon|11:00AM|Bcn D|Junkyard Aliens [ages 7-12]|Take the craft materials left from five days of activities, and see what you come up with. 
Mon|11:00AM|Bcn F|Bingo Make and Play [ages 3-6]|Everyone gets a blank bingo card and 25 stickers to put on their grid. We'll play as many games of Bingo as interest holds and then have fun with the leftover stickers. 
Mon|11:00AM|Clar|How to Create Fictionalized Characters from Historical Figures|Walter Scott said real figures should be background characters only. Genre writers ignore that rule. How did our writers do with Clemens, Hitler, Philby and Shakespeare? What lessons emerge from these and other examples? How can the aspiring author work within historical realities?|Elizabeth Caldwell 
Mon|11:00AM|Dalton|The Medieval Technology and Science that Fantasy Ignores||Sean McMullen 
Mon|11:00AM|Exeter|Reading - Peter J. Heck ||Peter J. Heck 
Mon|11:00AM|Gard|How to Defend Yourself Against Alien Invaders [ages 7-12]|Self-defense techniques. Wear comfortable clothing.|Kenn Bates, Keith G. Kato 
Mon|11:00AM|Hamp|Reading - Amy Thomson ||Amy Thomson 
Mon|11:00AM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Lois McMaster Bujold, Cory Doctorow, Laura Anne Gilman, Mindy Klasky 
Mon|11:00AM|C'Ste|The Last Dangerous Knit-Together||
Mon|11:30AM|H203|19th Century Influence on 21st Century Writing|How much of a debt does modern SF/F/H owe to 19th-century writers such as H.G. Wells, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Lewis Carroll? Come and explore the origins of the genre in the "penny dreadfuls," children's literature and popular novels of the Georgian and Victorian periods.|Melanie Fletcher 
Mon|11:30AM|H307|About Judith Merril||Elisabeth Carey 
Mon|11:30AM|Clar|My Tour of Middle-Earth|What I did on my summer vacation to Middle-Earth during January of 2004! (I did get the T-shirt.)|jan howard finder 
Mon|11:30AM|Dalton|Enjoying J.D. Robb||Priscilla Olson 
Mon|11:30AM|Exeter|Reading - Geoffrey A. Landis ||Geoffrey A. Landis 
Mon|11:30AM|Hamp|Reading - Suzy McKee Charnas ||Suzy McKee Charnas 
Mon|12:00M|H100|Grave Robbers From Outer Space|Players compete to make a really bad SF/Horror B-movie while unleashing B-movie monsters on other players' movies. Whoever has the best movie when the credits roll is the winner. [2--6 players] ||
Mon|12:00M|H107|"First Heroes" anthology||
Mon|12:00M|H203|Teaching Tolkien||Faye Ringel 
Mon|12:00M|H204|After the Masquerade|A post-mortem on the Noreascon 4 Masquerade and the costumes therein.|Richard Hill, Kevin P. Roche 
Mon|12:00M|H205|After the Worldcon--What?|You've just attended your first convention. Now where do you go? A look at the scene beyond Worldcons, and suggestions on how to find other conventions, how to tell them apart, and how to get more out of them.|Jack L. Chalker, Mary Kay Kare, Grant Kruger, John Pomeranz (m) 
Mon|12:00M|H206|Cute Aliens: Kill Them Now|Adorable fluffy-bunny aliens are the bane of science fiction fans everywhere. Why do they exist? How do we stamp them out of our stories? Do they ever serve a good purpose? And on the other hand, do they really keep people from taking science fiction seriously? (Or is it the other way around?)|Roger MacBride Allen, Steven Popkes 
Mon|12:00M|H209|_ Here is Greenwood_ [English]||
Mon|12:00M|H210|Filk Pickup Concert||
Mon|12:00M|H301|Mundane Media and SF|Why is there so often a disconnect between the way fandom works and the way it's portrayed in the media? Do they not get it or can they simply not get beyond their preconceptions? What can be done to get more objective reporting of conventions, SF books, media, etc.?|Lynn Gold, Sally Wiener Grotta, Daniel Hatch, Daniel Kimmel (m) 
Mon|12:00M|H302|SF: Transcendent Adventure|What is it? How does this term capture the essence of stuff that couldn't possibly be written in any other genre?|Jim Frenkel, David G. Hartwell (m), Charles Oberndorf, Patrick Nielsen Hayden 
Mon|12:00M|H303|Space Habitats and Biospheres|Geodesic domes! O'Neill colonies! Rotating space stations! Can we really design an artificial environment in which human beings can thrive? How might we go about doing so?|Terry Franklin (m), James Killus, Joseph Lazzaro, Mary H. Rosenblum 
Mon|12:00M|H304|What's in a Name?|How do you name your characters? This is a sweeping generalization, but naming conventions in SF tend to be conservative, at least for human characters. How many stories do we read set in distant futures or other worlds in which people have names that sound like my neighbors' (two names to a customer, family name last)? This is not realistic because it assumes the continued cultural dominance of a US or Western-centered world indefinitely.The way an author handles handles says something about the assumptions underlying a story (including the root assumption that sentient creatures are individuals), while the very sound of a character's name may add to the sense of the milieu, as fantasy writers well know. How could names also include such alien possibilities as clan, hive, guild, chemicals, colors...and other distinguishers?|James Alan Gardner, Katherine Kurtz, Sharon Lee, Laurie J. Marks, John McDaid (m) 
Mon|12:00M|H305|About _Dune_||Kevin J. Anderson 
Mon|12:00M|H306|Chickpunk?|Devoted to the wave of women writing cyberpunk-influenced hard SF. Why now?|Elizabeth Bear, M. M. Buckner, Karin Lowachee, Chris Moriarty (m), Janine Ellen Young 
Mon|12:00M|H307|Comics: Conventional Wisdom Was...|Superman could never be in a team book because he was _way_ too powerful to be a team player. Fans held this notion for years (somewhat encouraged by DC editors). Yet Superman joined the Justice League and sales are through the roof. And take the Bizarro world: the conventional wisdom is that new stories can't be retold because they can't be funny and still politically correct. Is this true? What are other bits of comics' conventional wisdom that may not be as true as we once thought?|Bob Greenberger, Steve Saffel, Barry Short (m) 
Mon|12:00M|H309|Working at the WETA Workshop (2 hours)|Wherein the DUFF winner shows-and-tells about his experiences working on _LotR_ in WETA Workshop and WETA Digital. Where else can you learn about novel uses for gelatin and one-and-a-half tons of _KY Jelly_(TM)...?|Norman Cates 
Mon|12:00M|H310|The Art of David Mattingly|Slideshow|David B. Mattingly 
Mon|12:00M|H311|Alternate Holocausts|Why is this timeline different from all other timelines? There have been some works that have explored Jewish alternate history, such as Poul Anderson's _In the House of Sorrows_ and Robert Silverberg's _To the Promised Land_. There have also been many potential turning points that could be explored--"What if the Maccabees succeeded in their revolt?" or "What if the Roman Empire adopted Judaism as the official religion?" The panel looks at Jewish alternate history, with special attention to the holocaust.|Michael A. Burstein (m), Evelyn C. Leeper, Susan Shwartz 
Mon|12:00M|H312|William Tenn Interview||Harry Harrison, William Tenn 
Mon|12:00M|Autog.|Autographing||Paul Barnett, Charlaine Harris, Paul Levinson, Wil McDermott, Terry Pratchett, Mary Turzillo 
Mon|12:00M|Bcn A|Open Playtime [ages 1-6]|We'll have tunnels, balls, blocks, and other kids to play with.|
Mon|12:00M|Bcn D|Beady Familiars [ages 7-12]|Owls, cats, rats, toads; come bead a familiar key chain for your backpack.|Persis Thorndike 
Mon|12:00M|Bcn F|Magic Wands [ages 2-12]|Turn a dowel into a magic wand to bring your imagination to life. |
Mon|12:00M|Clar|Math and Physics/Myth and Dreams|How are these different symbolic languages used for addressing remarkably similar questions?|Uncle River, Dennis Schmidt 
Mon|12:00M|Ccrse|Fan History Tour||Joe Siclari 
Mon|12:00M|Dalton|Eyetoy to the Holodecks: The Near and Far Future of Video Games|Three professionals from the industry discuss the possibilities for video games in the near and far future. What will be the next innovation in the next five years? Ten years? And most importantly, when can you expect your holodeck?|Michael Gilmartin, Clarinda Merripen (m), Jessica Mulligan 
Mon|12:00M|Exeter|Reading - Stephen Dedman ||Stephen Dedman 
Mon|12:00M|Gr.Ball|_ Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers_|
Mon|12:00M|Hamp|Reading - Jim Grimsley ||Jim Grimsley 
Mon|12:00M|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Scott Edelman, John G. Hemry, P. C. Hodgell, James Morrow 
Mon|12:15PM|Rep.A|_ Golddigger_ #1-2 [English] [N/R]|
Mon|12:30PM|H210|Filk Request/One-Shots Concert||
Mon|12:30PM|Clar|International Copyright Issues||Cory Doctorow 
Mon|12:30PM|Exeter|Reading - David Gerrold ||David Gerrold 
Mon|12:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Martha Soukup ||Martha Soukup 
Mon|1:00PM|H107|_Childhood's End_|A round-table discussion of the 1953 Retro Hugo nominated novel.|Rusty Hevelin 
Mon|1:00PM|H203|Teaching/Advising SF/F/H at Religious Institutions||Dennis Perry, Sally Taylor, Brandon Sanderson 
Mon|1:00PM|H204|The Bodice Fights Back! Worst Costuming Disasters|Well...now we can all look back and laugh, right? (And maybe our panelists will demonstrate what a real wardrobe malfunction is!)|Richard Hill, Janet Catherine Johnston (m), Kimberly Ann Kindya, Sandra G. Pettinger 
Mon|1:00PM|H205|A Farewell to _Mimosa_|30 ishes were pubbed from 1982 through 2003, and the editors were six-time winners of the Best Fanzine Hugo for this revered zine, which they declared "very much devoted to the preservation of the history of science fiction fandom." Let's reminisce.|John F. Hertz, Rich Lynch, Nicki Lynch 
Mon|1:00PM|H206|After the Con Is Over...|Once the con is over, the committee is usually ready to go to sleep for a while. After all, it's over, isn't it? What is involved in closing out a con? To start with, how does one debrief a con to learn from its mistakes without re- fighting all the wars? Are there debriefing techniques which can help to retain the lessons learned? Are debriefings useful? Are they necessary? Is a blame-free discussion even possible? What sorts of things are needed to keep the group together? If the con went badly, how can the wounds be healed enough that the group can do the next con better? (This is the old lessons-learned issue again.) The problems after a poor con are quite different than after a good one, but are they completely different? Can you describe the differences and similarities? Be sure to talk about both regionals and Worldcons. What is the role of failure?|Elaine Brennan, David R. Howell, Anthony R. Lewis, Kevin Standlee, Bill Sutton (m) 
Mon|1:00PM|H208|_ The Trouble with Trailers _|How are the expectations set up by movie trailers actually met by the movie itself? What do (those) trailers get right --and what do they get wrong (especially, relative to the movie)? Besides building buzz for the flick, what do the Hollywood types expect to accomplish with trailers? If possible, we will be able to show suggested trailers. Suggestions?|Mike Donahue, Craig Miller 
Mon|1:00PM|H209|_ Here is Greenwood_[English]|
Mon|1:00PM|H210|Concert||Robin F. Holly, Jonathan Turner 
Mon|1:00PM|H301|The Flash|There have been enough Flashes (and family members) that they'd practically be their own team book, if they appeared together enough and weren't separated by a thousand years or so. Now that Bart Allen has taken on the handle of Kid Flash, let's look back at the Flashes, from Jay to Barry to Wally to Bart, and all those peripheral characters. What would have happened if: Barry had not died to prevent the Crisis; if Wally hadn't matured from his young adult smart alec/lecher status; if the Tornado Twins hadn't died? (And why has there been so little about the Tornado Twins, anyway?) Just what _is_ our fascination with people who can run really fast? And--is the Flash really better than Green Lantern(s)?|Steve Antczak, Tom Galloway (m), Bob Greenberger 
Mon|1:00PM|H302|The Future of Peace|Does peace have a future, and what is it? When we have it, will it be like _Star Trek_'s philosophy and call it the Untamed Country? Or will it be a Shangri-la and be governed as a Republic? What will the national defense folk do, instead?|Elizabeth Caldwell (m), Ctein, Joe Haldeman, Ben Jeapes, Steven Popkes 
Mon|1:00PM|H303|Are Fans Still Slans?|"Fans are slans" is an old fannish truism. But is it still true? In fact, was it ever true? Whatever--are present day fans different from the jiants (or even the non-jiants) of the past? If so, how--and what might this indicate for the future? (While you're at, feel free to explode the other lies fandom told you.)|David A. Kyle, Jack Speer, Edie Stern (m), Erwin S. Strauss 
Mon|1:00PM|H304|Hard Fantasy|Even in genre circles, fantasy is often dismissed by saying that we can just make it all up. But many fantasy writers go to a good deal of trouble to research and extrapolate their worlds--everything from finding period maps of London to checking the etymology of period words or delving into other belief systems to give their magic a sense of reality. It is the factual underpinnings which give a good fantasy the solidity it needs. How is this best done?|Duncan W. Allen, Stephen Leigh, Susan Shwartz (m), Liz Williams 
Mon|1:00PM|H305|Finding a Home in FandoM|Fandom is home to many marginalized folk: smart people, sexual minorities, folks who aren't physically average, a surprising number with Asperger's syndrome or other psychological issues. How come we can all pretty much get along here when we have trouble in the mundane world? What is it about fandom that makes it feel like home? Does fandom help us do better when we get back outside?|Billie Aul (m), Elisabeth Carey, Laurie J. Marks, Michael McAfee, Andrew Porter 
Mon|1:00PM|H306|The Abuse of Biology in SF|How does SF stack up when it deals with the biological sciences? Grievous errors and how writers might avoid them. Bad examples and good examples.|Zara Baxter, Perrianne Lurie, Samuel Scheiner (m), Ronald Taylor, W. A. Thomasson 
Mon|1:00PM|H307|The Mythology of Las Vegas||Elizabeth Bear 
Mon|1:00PM|H309|Hitting "the Wall"|The inverse of "the singularity" is "the Wall," a technological barrier that can't be surmounted and imposes fundamental limits on progress. The Wall for interplanetary travel is the speed of light; SF writers either accept it or tunnel through it by waving their hands about hyperspace or the Infinite Improbability Drive. The Wall for commercial aviation is the sound barrier; with the demise of the Concorde, airline passengers can fly no faster than they could in a 707 40 years ago. Physicists and engineers talk about ultimate limits to things like information density and the smallest possible transistor. What Walls are coming up? Can we dodge them and what can we do if we can't?|Thomas A. Easton (m), P. J. Plauger, Charles Stross 
Mon|1:00PM|H310|Do It Again!|The pains and pleasures, whys, wherefores, and (occasional) rewards of re-writes.|James Cambias, Daniel Hatch (m), Kathleen Kudlinski 
Mon|1:00PM|H311|Dealing with Job/Family/Life!|Many artists and writers hold a full time job of one sort or another; learn about methods for squeezing time out for SF work. And how do you pursue "the loneliest profession" and have time for your family too?|F. Brett Cox, Melanie Fletcher, Paul Levinson (m), Benjamin Rosenbaum 
Mon|1:00PM|H312|How Stories End|Happily ever after? Well, perhaps not always. But--what makes a satisfying ending? And, in fact, does a story really need to have an ending anyway? And does it need to have a "happy" ending to leave the reader feeling good? Discuss favorite endings and why they work so well.|Suzanne Alles Blom, Suzy McKee Charnas, James Patrick Kelly (m), William Tenn, Charles Oberndorf 
Mon|1:00PM|Autog.|Autographing||K. A. Bedford, John G. Hemry, James Macdonald, Sean McMullen, Josepha Sherman, Wen Spencer 
Mon|1:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||Peter J. Heck, Matthew Jarpe, Jim Young 
Mon|1:00PM|Bcn A|Movie [ages 1-8]|Movies will be announced on the Movie Board outside the room. 
Mon|1:00PM|Bcn D|If You Liked _Harry Potter_...Kids Reading for Pleasure! [ages 7-12]|Discuss your favorite books with our panelists. What's your favorite book this year? Come share your thoughts about your favorite books. Create a Top 20 Kids Favorite Books list.|Susan de Guardiola 
Mon|1:00PM|Bcn F|Kinderfilk with Mary Miller [ages 1-6]|Songs for the young to tickle their silly bone.|Mary C. Miller 
Mon|1:00PM|Clar|Releasing Your Inner Music|Denise Gendron 
Mon|1:00PM|Clar|Effective Self-Promotion|You've sold your book; now you want someone to buy it. Postcards or press releases, web sites or signings, radio waves or review copies--what's the best way to bring fans to your book...and your book across the cash registers?|Joshua Bilmes 
Mon|1:00PM|Dalton|The Fiction of Diana Gabaldon|Why is her _Outlander_ series so popular? Fans discuss this SF/Romance crossover.|Sandra McDonald 
Mon|1:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Vera Nazarian ||Vera Nazarian 
Mon|1:00PM|Gard|Challenges! [ages 7-12]|Sheila Oranch 
Mon|1:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Mary Anne Mohanraj ||Mary Anne Mohanraj 
Mon|1:00PM|C'Ste|Kaffeeklatsch||Jay Caselberg, Walter H. Hunt, Les Johnson, Terry McGarry 
Mon|1:30PM|H209|_ Here is Greenwood _[English]|
Mon|1:30PM|H210|The Gripe Session|So, how were things?|Deb Geisler 
Mon|1:30PM|H307|Psychology of SF Fans||A. Michael Rennie 
Mon|1:30PM|Dalton|Start Your Own MuseuM||Thomas Atkinson, Don Sakers 
Mon|1:30PM|Exeter|Reading - David Marusek ||David Marusek 
Mon|1:30PM|Hamp|Reading - Madeleine E. Robins ||Madeleine E. Robins 
Mon|2:00PM|H203|Teaching Science Fiction Online: Experiences with a Web-Only Class||Bill Dynes 
Mon|2:00PM|H204|_For Us, the Living_ and the Re-evaluation of Heinlein's Career||Bill Patterson, Robert James 
Mon|2:00PM|H205|Future Health Problems|Well, sure, we're all getting old (and tired), but what kinds of health issues will our aging bring to us and society? Beyond that--what new illnesses/syndromes might we see in a future where zero-G, annotated RNA, and alien contact (sexual and otherwise!) might be in store for us? Use your imagination to explore what the HMOs of the future might have to deal with.|Robert I. Katz (m), Shariann Lewitt, Karen Purcell, Samuel Scheiner 
Mon|2:00PM|H206|What's Your Agenda?|How do you get your agendas in, and keep the story going strong? Do you really have to be a Mason to understand which character in the _Magic Flute_ is the Catholic Church? How obvious should it be (or, does it matter?) before the story's believability is shot? How can writers (or readers?) avoid taking their preconceptions with them? Their backgrounds (life, beliefs, prejudices, obsessions) shape the tale, after all, don't they?|Benjamin Rosenbaum, Don Sakers (m), Martha Soukup, Carrie Vaughn 
Mon|2:00PM|H209|_ Here is Greenwood_ [English]||
Mon|2:00PM|H301|Deep Time|The far far (and we mean really far) future. What will the universe be like? Have any sf writers really tried to tackle this terrific time period?|John G. Cramer, Mark L. Olson 
Mon|2:00PM|H303|Recent SF and Fantasy for Kids|Susan Fichtelberg, Diana Tixier Herald, Bonnie Kunzel 
Mon|2:00PM|H304|TV Storytelling: From Arcs to Episodes|Different TV series use different storytelling techniques. There's the series arc (_Babylon 5_), the episodic approach with occasional recurring themes (most of the _Star Trek_s), the seasonal arc (_Buffy_ and _Angel_), and the series arc which has no real conclusion in mind (_The X- Files_). The panel compares and discusses the various techniques used in telling stories on TV.|Michael A. Burstein, Craig Engler, Daniel Kimmel (m), Bey King, Melinda Snodgrass 
Mon|2:00PM|H305|Force Fields: what can electromagnetism do for us?|What can electromagnetism do for us? Are there any other forces that might be used? How do new materials, potential superconductors, or ultra- fast computer reactions create new possibilities?|Howard Davidson (m), Jordin T. Kare, G. David Nordley 
Mon|2:00PM|H306|2024: Technology that We Can't Imagine Being Without|Twenty years ago it was hard to imagine what it was like before copy machines. They had changed the work environment a lot and had gone quickly from being a novelty to such an essential part of business that nobody could imagine what it would be like if we didn't have them. The pace of such "essential" inventions has quickened. How did we ever get by without computers? The Web? VCRs? (Kids today--and adults, since we've changed as we've gotten used to things--can't imagine the days when you had to eagerly scan the TV listing for late-night movies, hoping that somebody would soon re-run the movie you hadn't seen in years or had always wanted to see.) And we're beginning to feel that way about our DVD players. What things that we don't have now will be considered so much a part of life that they'll fall into the "can't imagine life without them" category?|Kenn Bates, Marc Gordon (m), P. J. Plauger, Shara R. Zoll 
Mon|2:00PM|H307|When Fans Die...|...what happens to their stuff? It's depressing, but true. All of us have heard stories about a fan whose family executor, not knowing the value of his collection, threw it out upon his death. How do we prepare for the dispensation of our collections when we head for the Great Convention in the Sky? Sell it even though it would break our hearts? Do we leave it to a library or university--however, won't they need an endowment to take care of it? It might end up sitting and rotting in the basement, until the books are sold for peanuts! Do we donate it to a fannish organization, to use as _they_ wish to advance SF? What are other alternatives? What are the advantages/disadvantages/practicality of each?|Andrew Porter, Mike Resnick, Joe Siclari (m) 
Mon|2:00PM|H309|SF Chick Flicks|So many SF films are about boys and their toys. What are the SF films with heart and soul? Are there any great SF "romances" that would really work on screen?|Bob Devney, MaryAnn Johanson (m), John Pomeranz, John Scalzi 
Mon|2:00PM|H310|All I Learned about Science I Learned from SF|Like what? Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Can we trust the science in SF...do we want to?|Jane Jewell, Steve Miller (m), Rebecca Moesta, Jo Walton 
Mon|2:00PM|H311|After the Fall|It's the end of the world...and civilization as we know it has collapsed. We all have different scenarios for what happens after--what's looking interesting these days? Explore this archetype of SF.|Elizabeth Bear, James Morrow, Nick Sagan, Mary Turzillo (m) 
Mon|2:00PM|H312|How Do You Know When You're Dead?|The movie _The Sixth Sense_ was not the first fiction to feature a character who is dead. Niven's _Inferno_, Connie Willis' _Passages_, and Philip Jose Farmer's _Riverworld_ series all have protagonists who are dead or die and continue to be featured players. What other fiction features dead people? (And we don't mean vampires--but why not?) Are there any restrictions on the actions of dead people? What are some of the reactions of the characters who find themselves dead? Are there advantages to having a dead protagonist? Should we always fear the walking dead? What do they have to tell us? (Must we listen? Do they lie?) Do they return to harm or advise us? Do they come to warn or blame, comfort or prophesize? Do they offer us forgiveness or courage, or perhaps death itself? Discuss the use of the returning dead, and explain why they are such fascinating subjects.|Scott Edelman (m), Neil Gaiman, Larry Niven, Terry Pratchett, Uncle River, Connie Willis 
Mon|2:00PM|ArtSh|Art Show Closes||
Mon|2:00PM|M.Drum|Literary Beer||Josepha Sherman, Susan Shwartz 
Mon|2:00PM|Bcn A|Movie [ages 1-8]|Movies will be announced on the Movie Board outside the room.|
Mon|2:00PM|Bcn F|Bead a Necklace [ages 3-6]|We'll use elastic string and large beads to string a fun necklace. 
Mon|2:00PM|Clar|Emergent Cartoon Voices with Dave Grubbs||Dave Grubbs
Mon|2:00PM|Exeter|Reading - Daniel P. Dern ||Daniel P. Dern 
Mon|2:00PM|Gard|Scavenger Hunt Judging and Hogwarts' Graduation Party [ages 7-12]|Feedback time: How'd we do? Any suggestions for next time?|Persis Thorndike 
Mon|2:00PM|Hall A|Registration Closes||
Mon|2:00PM|Hamp|Reading - Karen Traviss ||Karen Traviss 
Mon|2:30PM|H204|Vanished Past and Vanishing Point|Proto-postmodernism, black holes, and the collective unconscious, and the science fictions of time, space, and Western history.|Zoe Trodd 
Mon|2:30PM|H209|_ Catnapped _[Subtitled] [3 +]||
Mon|2:30PM|H210|Filk Concert||Paul Estin 
Mon|2:30PM|Exeter|Reading - Stephen Leigh ||Stephen Leigh 
Mon|3:00PM|Aud|Closing Ceremonies|Our indomitable Guests of Honor and those N4 committee-folk not attacking the Art Show with vise grips stagger onstage to thank you all for coming. Then we hand over the gavel to the brave-hearted optimists of next year's Worldcon, _Interaction_, in Glasgow, Scotland. If you're not too tired to stand, come on by and say bye-bye with us... Featuring the fife and drum band: _Bostonia Allarum Companie_|Deb Geisler, William Tenn, Terry Pratchett, Jack Speer, Peter Weston 
Mon|3:00PM|Ccrse|Information Closes||
Mon|3:00PM|Hall D|Dealers Room Closes||
Mon|4:00PM||Childcare Closes||
Mon|4:00PM|Glasgow,Scotland|_The Year of Interthingy_ begins||
Mon|5:00PM|Conf|Filk Office On-call||
Mon|7:00PM|C'Ste|Dead Dog Party by Minneapolis in '73||
Mon|8:00PM|Clar|Open Filk||
Mon|8:00PM|Conf|Filk Office Re-Opens||
Mon|8:00PM|Dalton|Open Filk--no taping||
Mon|8:00PM|Exeter|Open Filk||
Mon|8:00PM|Gard|Open Filk||
Mon|8:00PM|Gr.Ball|_ Lord of the Rings: Return of the King_||
Mon|8:00PM|Hamp|Open Filk||
Mon|11:00PM|Conf|Filk Office Closes||