Philcon 1999 Programming Grid

Day Start Ballroom A Ballroom B Ballroom C Ballroom D Ballroom E Ballroom F Delaware 2 Delaware 3 Executive Boardroom Franklin 1 Franklin 2
Friday 7:00 PM Reading: Michael F. Flynn Were We Born to be Fans? Is This Your First Convention? South Jersey Rebellion Productions Comics Time Travel Today Reading: David Sherman Stranger than (Science) Fiction Regency Dance Workshop
Friday 8:00 PM Whose 'Toon is it Anyway? Cliques in Fandom Y2K and Science Fiction PSFS Meeting: James Morrow Bookaholics Anonymous Reinventing Horror Fiction Biotechnology in the 21st Century Reading: Brenda W. Clough The Great Avram Davidson Revival
Friday 9:00 PM Will There Ever Be Another Golden Age of Science Fiction? Why is There So Much SF (or maybe Sci Fi) On Television? Y2K and the Real World Meet the Pros Party Real Men Do Wear Costumes Free Energy: Breakthrough or Bunkum? Reading: Keith R.A. DeCandido Guilty Pleasures Great Alternate Technologies That Didn't Happen
Friday 10:00 PM Buffy the Vampire Slayer vs. High School in Real Life Smut and Nothing But? SF Quiz Show Dance
(till late)
Reading: Marvin Kaye Space Exploration, Robotic vs. Human Reading: Paul Levinson Lucid Dreaming Intro to Anthropomorphics
Friday 11:00 PM Sex Toys of the Future Part II
Day Start Ballroom A Ballroom B Ballroom C Ballroom D Ballroom E Ballroom F Delaware 2 Delaware 3 Executive Boardroom Franklin 1 Franklin 2
Saturday 9:00 AM SFWA Meeting
(members only)
Belly Dancing
Workshops
and
Hafla
Saturday 10:00 AM The Third Dimension: Sculpture Death as a Career Move Classic Science Fiction and the Young Reader If Science Fiction is Now Mainstream, What's on the Edge? Reading for the Future Computers and Art Space Commercialism What Makes a Story Publishable?
Saturday 11:00 AM Art and Religion Military SF: We're Not All Warmongers, or, Die Stereotype, Die! It's All Bat Durston The Three Editors Theory of Science Fiction The Political Agendas of Children's Fantasy Sculpting Action Figure Prototypes Technology, Technique, and the Future Meet the Editors
Saturday 12:00 PM Health, Safety, and Preservation: Robert Heinlein Conquers the World Science Fiction as a Vehicle for Otherwise Unacceptable Ideas High Fantasy: The balance between originality and mythic echoes Babylon 5 is Over An Animé Primer Work or Passion? The Science of Flirtation Mensa IQ Testing
Saturday 1:00 PM Sex, Violence, and Elephant Dung Big Brother and the Convergence of Technology Some While After the Death of God Marion Zimmer Bradley Retrospective The Ultimate Taboos Fantasy Cliches vs. Archetypes Costumes: Concept to Creation Jet Propulsion Lab Missions Writers' Workshop
Saturday 2:00 PM Finding the Muse Bloat Books and Bug-Crushers The Influence of the Deryni Series on Modern Fantasy Science Fiction Writers Actually Attempt to Predict the Future Costume: Creation to Stage How Can We Keep Fiction Out Of Science? Writers' Workshop
Saturday 3:00 PM The Pulps and Their Lingering Influence (or is it Stench?) Zombies of Montrose Art Guest of Honor Speech
Jill Bauman
Romance and Hard SF The Media Tie-In Book Costume Photography Living on Mars Reading: Michael Swanwick
Saturday 4:00 PM The BIG ART Panel Cartoonists' Jam Writer Guest of Honor Interview
Katherine Kurtz
Media Novels as Cancer Unsuccessful Predictions Dinosaurs of the Delaware Valley No One Expects the Fannish Filk Recursion Reading: John Norman
Saturday 5:00 PM Reading: Esther M. Friesner
Day Start Ballroom A Ballroom B Ballroom C Ballroom D Ballroom E Ballroom F Delaware 2 Delaware 3 Executive Boardroom Franklin 1 Franklin 2
Saturday 9:00 PM Masquerade Poetry Slam
Saturday 10:00 PM
Saturday 11:00 PM Dance
(after Masquerade)
(till late)
Day Start Ballroom A Ballroom B Ballroom C Ballroom D Ballroom E Ballroom F Delaware 2 Delaware 3 Executive Boardroom Franklin 1 Franklin 2
Sunday 9:00 AM Tai Chi
Sunday 10:00 AM Art, Craft, or Both? A Survey of Recent Science Fiction About Dinosaurs Raymond Chandler's Influence on Science Fiction The Artemis Project The SF I Read as a Kid Origami Pulling the Anthropologist's Leg
Sunday 11:00 AM Lost Wax Casting Slide Show The Rosy Future and Hell in Space: Why Do We Like Them Both? Mystery and SF Would We Really Want to Live Forever? Moving Beyond Tolkien Hugos, Nebulas, Howards, the Daedalus, the Coveted Balrog, etc. Beyond the Conan Movies The Creator as Icon Reading: Catherine Asaro The Way We Weren't Spacemen in Wonderland
Sunday 12:00 PM Mark Rogers Slide Show The Utopian Tradition in SF: Is it still viable? Shakespeare in Fantasy H.P. Lovecraft and the Attack of the Purple Prose from Yuggoth Promoting Your Art: An Art Director Speaks Is There Life Out There? Reading: James Morrow Rhyming & Scansion Tools Who Determines Which Books Get Published and How?
Sunday 1:00 PM The Appeal of Flawed Characters The Alien Planet as Island The Science Fiction of 1998 Adapting Earth Religions to Life on Other Planets Art Auction Different Facets of Gaming Space Academy Reading: Gregory Frost The Role of SF in Preparing for Social Change Novels About Fandom
Sunday 2:00 PM Analog Mafia The Different Roles of Aliens in Science Fiction It Came from the Slushpile Racial Stereotyping in The Phantom Menace Masquerade Review Does Science Drive SF or Does SF Drive Science? Reading: Lois H. Gresh Scanning Furry Art 101
Sunday 3:00 PM "Reality" is The Only Word That Should Always Be Used in Quotes Filk One Shots How To Edit an Anthology 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea...and Then What? Reading: Katherine Kurtz Picture Manipulation Klingon Language 101
Sunday 4:00 PM Feedback Session

Last Updated on 11/10/99
By Timothy Binder