| Day |
Start |
Room |
Title |
Description |
| Friday |
7:00 PM |
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Orientation: Philcon 101 |
Everything the first time attendee needs to know with Jeff Linder (Chair - Philcon 2002). |
| Friday |
7:00 PM |
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Bio-Terrorism |
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| Friday |
7:00 PM |
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Why are we drawn to the supernatural visions of M. Night Shyamalan director of The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs |
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| Friday |
7:00 PM |
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Security Leaks from the Future |
Examples of SF predictions so dazzingly on-target we wonder who's been time traveling. Think of Vernor Vinge's story about desk-top animation, Phil Dick's psychiatrist in a suitcase, and other examples. |
| Friday |
7:00 PM |
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Karl Kofoed Artist Slide Show |
Karl will present a digital slide show on the Galactic Geographic. |
| Friday |
7:00 PM |
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The Greatest Inventions of the 21st Century |
The scientific creations which will change our lives. |
| Friday |
7:00 PM |
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Patient Creatures: Storytelling |
Children’s program |
| Friday |
7:00 PM |
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Great Men, the Pivotal Event, and the Missing Nail |
How do you change history assuming you have the chance? Does the time traveler shoot Napoleon, give Leonardo Da Vinci a laptop or publish just the right ad in the New York Times? |
| Friday |
7:00 PM |
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Why Don't Science Fiction Characters Explore Strange New Worlds Any More? |
There was a time when much of the appeal of SF stemmed from the discovery of the strange and marvelous. The late Poul Anderson had a great sense of the vastness of space and the wonder of exploration - but all too often contemporary SF regards space-travel and other worlds as business as usual, no more exciting than a bus ride to a shopping mall. Is this where the sense of wonder went? What is to be done about it? |
| Friday |
8:00 PM |
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David Sherman Readings |
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| Friday |
8:00 PM |
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30 years later, What is the Appeal of Dark Shadows? |
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| Friday |
8:00 PM |
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Interstellar Travel and the Kepler Mission to find Earthlike Planets |
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| Friday |
8:00 PM |
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Costumer’s Art |
What makes a costume? Not only does it take skill in construction, but imagination as well. |
| Friday |
8:00 PM |
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Tribute to Poul Anderson |
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| Friday |
8:00 PM |
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Artist Demo: Donato Giancola |
Donato will demonstrate his approach to painting flesh tones in oil paint. A wonderful insight for constructing portraits and realistic people in illustrations. Donato is one of the most gracious pros in SF, and he always enjoys answering questions while he is painting, and welcomes people to get up close and see the magic unfold. |
| Friday |
8:00 PM |
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The Vanishing Mom in SF/Fantasy |
Mythic, epic and science-fictional heroes frequently lack parents. Mothers are particularly likely to be absent. Is this simply an easy plot device to get the young hero off on an adventure or does it have deeper meaning? |
| Friday |
8:00 PM |
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Special Guest Speech |
Featuring Nalo Hopkinson. |
| Friday |
8:00 PM |
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A Science Fiction Reader's Primer: Where to Start? |
Learn about great science fiction which will turn SF into a life-long hobby. Be ready to take notes! |
| Friday |
8:00 PM |
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Meet the Pros |
Meet Science Fiction and Fantasy professionals in an informal atmosphere. |
| Friday |
8:00 PM |
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Renaissance Dance |
By Burlap Lute. |
| Friday |
9:00 PM |
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Spider Robinson Readings |
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| Friday |
9:00 PM |
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Fantasy Foods and Drink |
Would you eat the Klingon delicacy 'gak'? |
| Friday |
9:00 PM |
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Space Tourism |
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| Friday |
9:00 PM |
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Gaming 1 |
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| Friday |
9:00 PM |
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What a Beginning Writer Needs To Know |
The basics: manuscript preparation, submission protocols, copyright, research, and where you get your ideas. Bring your questions;we will have answers. |
| Friday |
9:00 PM |
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Movie Monsters, Let's Discuss Your Favorite |
Remember 'Creature Double Feature' on channel 48? This panel is for you! |
| Friday |
9:00 PM |
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Mommy, Where Do New SF Writers Come From? |
Do they still emerge from the traditional venues of SF magazines and paperback novels? |
| Friday |
9:30 PM |
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SF Quiz Show Hosted by Oz Fontecchio and Rebecca Marcus. |
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| Friday |
10:00 PM |
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Connie Willis Readings |
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| Friday |
10:00 PM |
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Nuclear Waste Storage on the Moon |
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| Friday |
10:00 PM |
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Filk Sampler |
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| Friday |
10:00 PM |
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American Folklore and Myth in Fantasy |
Most fantasy particularly of the epic-trilogy sort draws on European or other Old World material. What sources for stories can we find on this side of the Atlantic. Think of Manly Wade Wellman and Stephen Vincent Benet. Which more recent writers have worked in this area? |
| Friday |
10:00 PM |
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Writing Alternate Histories |
It's an increasingly popular form. What makes an alternate history valid as a story, with a thematic center rather than a rearranged wargame campaign with cardboard characters? |
| Friday |
10:00 PM |
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Mark Rogers Slide Show |
Fan favorite Mark Rogers returns for another slide show that is definitely not for the kiddies. Mark will present slides from his latest work, "Night of the Long Knives" promised to feature exotic landscapes, crazed villains, demons, flayings, and sapphic goings on. And between the slides you will be welcomed into Mark's world and his uniquely expressed views on the world around us. Not an event for the timid, but always thought provoking and mesmerizing. |
| Friday |
10:00 PM |
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So You Do Not Like the Bland Stuff They're Publishing These Days? |
What to do about it. Making yourself a publisher or editor with a revolutionary agenda. Do these upstarts really accomplish anything? |
| Friday |
11:00 PM |
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Open Filk |
Filk all night, in 402, starting at 11 to whenever, on Friday Saturday |
| Friday |
11:00 PM |
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Forever Knight Meet & Greet |
Come and meet fellow Vaqueras, Nick-and-Nat packers, and others. |
| Friday |
11:00 PM |
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Patient Creatures |
Story-telling by Patient Creatures. |
| Saturday |
9:00 AM |
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Orientation: Philcon 101 |
Everything the first time attendee needs to know with Jeff Linder (Chair - Philcon 2002). |
| Saturday |
10:00 AM |
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Women’s Writers Group |
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| Saturday |
10:00 AM |
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Remembering John Brunner |
He was our principal speaker in 1972 and a cutting-edge writer whose classic works such as Stand on Zanzibar, The Shockwave Rider, The Sheep Look Up, etc. still have the ability to amaze and challenge. His career was tragically cut short in 1995. Learn who he was and why what he wrote still matters. |
| Saturday |
10:00 AM |
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How do Artists Use Color to Evoke Emotions? |
Is color symbolism universal? |
| Saturday |
10:00 AM |
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Klingon Language for Beginners |
With Dr. Lawrence Schoen. |
| Saturday |
10:00 AM |
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How Do the Events of 9/11 Affect Our Perceptions of the Future? |
Are such cheerful views as are contained in Star Trek: TNG dated? |
| Saturday |
10:00 AM |
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Why the Explosion of Science Fiction Cartoons? |
(Futurama, Johnny Neutron, The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, etc. )? |
| Saturday |
10:00 AM |
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Science Fiction Promoting Alternate Sexual Lifestyles |
Stranger In A Strange Land turned out to be the bible of a whole new social movement. Heinlein may have been horrified, but it happened. Then what about Dhalgren? A discussion of the way science fiction can lead us to living and loving differently. |
| Saturday |
10:00 AM |
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Proto-Science Fiction |
Were The Odyssey, Beowulf, The Tempest early science fiction, or something we have annexed in an attempt to make our field seem respectable? Did these 'fantastic' texts actually influence the development of the form? |
| Saturday |
11:00 AM |
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Shane Tourtellotte Readings |
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| Saturday |
11:00 AM |
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So, You Want to Write This Stuff? |
How the SF wannabe becomes the SF professional. Writers and editors answer your questions and provide helpful hints. |
| Saturday |
11:00 AM |
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The Girl at the 7-11 is Now a Princess |
How the artist can turn everyday people and items into royalty and magical objects. Our panel of artists will take us through the process. |
| Saturday |
11:00 AM |
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SFWA Benefit Auction |
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| Saturday |
11:00 AM |
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Toon: An Introduction |
Children’s program Introduction to Roleplaying games with Owen Hutchins |
| Saturday |
11:00 AM |
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Pun Panel |
David, Esther and Spider compete to generate the worst puns from audience suggestions. Winner gets the booby prize. |
| Saturday |
11:00 AM |
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Anime 1: The Influence of Japanese Culture on American Science Fiction |
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| Saturday |
11:00 AM |
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Changing Prejudices in SF |
With the demonization of Arabs and Muslims in current American culture, would Dune be publishable today? Or would we see Paul Atriedes as the bad guy? Today, it would be possible to write sympathetic Communist characters, but just imagine doing that in 1952. Does SF reflect or transcend the prejudices of its time? |
| Saturday |
11:00 AM |
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The Physics of Time Travel - a presentation by John Ashmead |
Physics doesn't rule out time travel, but if you used a wormhole to do it, you'd have to be Plasticman to avoid being crushed by tidal forces. How could you travel in time? What is this time thing anyway? And what would really happen if you went back & tried to kill your grandfather? Make some time to catch up with the state of the art in time travel, as the physicists see it! |
| Saturday |
12:00 PM |
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John Norman Readings |
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| Saturday |
12:00 PM |
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Meet the Editors |
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| Saturday |
12:00 PM |
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JPL Presentation |
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| Saturday |
12:00 PM |
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Now That We Have the Magic of CGI |
What Books Have You Been Waiting to See? |
| Saturday |
12:00 PM |
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Children’s Program 1 |
Children’s program |
| Saturday |
12:00 PM |
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The Callahan Stories: Cheers in space |
What is the appeal of science fiction club or bar stories with continuing characters and the setting which becomes another character? |
| Saturday |
12:00 PM |
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An Hour with Patrick Kilpatrick |
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| Saturday |
12:00 PM |
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Baseball in Science Fiction and Fantasy |
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| Saturday |
12:00 PM |
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Aesthetics of the Future |
Changing Standards in What is Beautiful and Ugly. How will technology and advances in cosmetic surgery affect this? |
| Saturday |
1:00 PM |
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Esther Friesner Readings |
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| Saturday |
1:00 PM |
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Writer’s Workshop |
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| Saturday |
1:00 PM |
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Is Technology Changing Art? |
How is the traditional role of the artist changing? Are artists being driven out of business by quickie computer art, or is it another new tool for the artist to express himself? |
| Saturday |
1:00 PM |
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...it’s how you LOOK! |
Making sure you’re dressed right is so important, and our panel knows it. Avoid the fashion faux pas and you won’t see a knight in shining Kevlar. |
| Saturday |
1:00 PM |
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Children’s Program 2 |
Children’s program |
| Saturday |
1:00 PM |
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An Hour with Robert Picardo |
Guest provided courtesy of Slanted Fedora Entertainment, Inc. |
| Saturday |
1:00 PM |
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Science Fiction Without a Future? |
Judith Berman's hard-hitting essay of this title served as a wake up call to the field. If contemporary SF appeals only to a decreasing audience of aging babyboomers, without Golden Age SF's ability to transcend generations, what has been lost? What is to be done about it? |
| Saturday |
1:00 PM |
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The Changing Face of Horror |
How the things we are afraid of has changed over the past decade. |
| Saturday |
1:00 PM |
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Was Tolkien a Racist? |
How is it that whole classes or species in The Lord of the Rings seem to be evil beyond redemption? Does Tolkien reflect the common attitudes of his time or can he see beyond them? What would the Orc Anti-Defamation League say? |
| Saturday |
2:00 PM |
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Severna Park Readings |
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| Saturday |
2:00 PM |
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Dinosaur Panel |
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| Saturday |
2:00 PM |
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From the Archives |
Being the archivist for the International Costumers Guild Carl has access to the history of the guild which he will be sharing in this presentation. |
| Saturday |
2:00 PM |
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Origami with Mark Kennedy |
Children’s program |
| Saturday |
2:00 PM |
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Guest of Honor Artist Speech |
Featuring Donato Giancola. |
| Saturday |
2:00 PM |
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Anime 2: Remembering a Few of Your Favorite Scenes |
Presenting their picks of the best of the best of Japanese Animation. |
| Saturday |
2:00 PM |
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The Decline of Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
A lot of regular viewers think that Buffy has hit the skids. Is this true and if so, why? |
| Saturday |
2:00 PM |
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Cyberpunk in a Post-Cyber World |
The Future is Here |
| Saturday |
3:00 PM |
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A Christmas Carol Sequel Reading by Marvin Kaye |
A two hour reading. |
| Saturday |
3:00 PM |
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I Hate Your Utopia |
Are all attempts at creating an ideal society doomed to failure, simply because most people don't want to live by someone else's standards. Can you think of a fictional utopia you'd actually want to live in? |
| Saturday |
3:00 PM |
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Tarot Cards |
How does the artist get a fresh look when there are so many tarot card decks available? Our artists will discuss the pros and cons of creating one, and how they would approach the project. |
| Saturday |
3:00 PM |
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Origami |
With international Origami Master Mark Kennedy. |
| Saturday |
3:00 PM |
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Anime with Brian Price |
Two Hour Children’s program |
| Saturday |
3:00 PM |
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Special Guest Speech |
David Gerrold. |
| Saturday |
3:00 PM |
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Guest Concert |
Spider Robinson & Jean Robinson |
| Saturday |
3:00 PM |
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Does Future History Repeat Itself? |
Galactic empires seem to be a staple despite their inherent implausibility. The Star Wars universe, despite such oddities as elected queens, seems to replay the corruption and fall of the Roman Republic. Is it possible to create a science fiction future which is not based on the past? |
| Saturday |
3:00 PM |
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Dragon’s Lair Presents The Ponn-Farr Game |
A parody of The Dating Game performed by Dragon’s Lair Studios in which Dr. McCoy tried to get a date for Mr. Spock. Wait until you see the bachlorettes gathered. |
| Saturday |
4:00 PM |
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Gender Biases Among the Editors of SF Magazines |
A recent article in the SFWA Bulletin asks the question: Since the US population is 50. 9% women according to the 2000 Census, why are the percentage of short stories by women in the Big Three (Asimov's, F&SF and Analog) no more than 29% in 2001? How do we account for the underrepresentation of women in our genre? |
| Saturday |
4:00 PM |
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SETI Panel (Search for Extra-Terrestial Intelligence) |
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| Saturday |
4:00 PM |
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Gaming 2 |
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| Saturday |
4:00 PM |
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Principal Speaker |
Connie Willis. |
| Saturday |
4:00 PM |
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Farscape |
A retrospective. |
| Saturday |
5:00 PM |
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Michael Swanwick Readings |
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| Saturday |
5:00 PM |
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Anime 3: Your Dubbing Stinks Old Man |
Poorly conceived, poorly executed and badly dubbed which just adds to the hilarity - think MST3K. |
| Saturday |
5:00 PM |
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Does Being an Artist Pay the Bills? |
Is commercial art the kiss of death for creativity? Is it better to have a patron, (or in modern terms-exclusively doing what you know will sell) as in the "good old days," or is artistic freedom preferable to eating? |
| Saturday |
5:00 PM |
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Retelling of the Tale |
SF stories brought to other media (filk) |
| Saturday |
5:00 PM |
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The Uses of Mythology in Science Fiction and Fantasy |
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| Saturday |
6:00 PM |
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Terraforming Mars |
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| Saturday |
7:00 PM |
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The Titanic |
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| Saturday |
7:00 PM |
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Monsters, Aliens, & Spirit Gum |
Learn a variety of simple-but-effective horror makeup techniques using readily available materials--many from your own kitchen! Scars, fangs, bullet holes, beards and more will be demonstrated, along with custom headpieces for Frankenstein, Klingons, and Buffy-style vamps. Plus clips from the Uh-Oh 7 movies premiered at Philcon will unlock secrets for cheap-but-good movie stunts, special effects, and costumes. Make up special effects with Richard Stout. |
| Saturday |
9:00 PM |
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Archetype, Stereotype and Myth Patterns |
Why do such familiar figures as the old wizard, naive apprentice, dark lords and pointy-eared elves continue to appeal? Do they have to be that way? What is the balance between the eternally valid and the merely hackneyed? |
| Saturday |
9:00 PM |
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The Chronology Protection Case |
Radio Play by Paul Levinson. |
| Sunday |
10:00 AM |
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So You Want to Write Media Fiction |
What special skills are required to write fiction set in TV and movie universes. How do you get the job from a professional publisher. |
| Sunday |
10:00 AM |
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3-D Art |
Is there are market for SF art in mediums other than canvas? |
| Sunday |
10:00 AM |
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Computer Law and Security |
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| Sunday |
10:00 AM |
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How to Pass When You're Over 150 |
Vampires and other immortals need to conceal their nature. What are the legal, practical and emotional issues involved in outliving everyone you know and passing yourself off as your own heir? |
| Sunday |
10:00 AM |
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Really Grim Fairy Tales |
The often bloody and gruesome original stories behind the pretty fatade of modern retellings. |
| Sunday |
10:00 AM |
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Why Do We have A Need to Believe in the Loch Ness Monster and the Abominable Snowman? |
Or do we? |
| Sunday |
10:00 AM |
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The Use of Fantasy Tropes in Opera |
There is a large body of choral works based on myths, legends, folktales and the like. What influence have the works had on our genre? Why does everyone die in the end? |
| Sunday |
10:00 AM |
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When Science Fiction Started |
With Lucian of Samosata? With Jules Verne? With the first issue of Amazing Stories? |
| Sunday |
11:00 AM |
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Anime 4: Exploring history, myth and culture through the lens of Japanese animation |
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| Sunday |
11:00 AM |
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The Influence of Classical Art on the Science Fiction Community |
Our panel will discuss their personal influences and also the modern trends that have its roots in the classical world. Is everything old new again if we look far enough back for it? |
| Sunday |
11:00 AM |
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Internet Education/Virtual Schools |
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| Sunday |
11:00 AM |
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Toon: Further Adventures with Owen Hutchins |
Children’s program |
| Sunday |
11:00 AM |
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Harry Potter |
Do the movies do the books justice? |
| Sunday |
11:00 AM |
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Special Guest Speech |
Spider & Jeanne Robinson. |
| Sunday |
11:00 AM |
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The Use of Autobiography in the SF genre |
Writers exploring their own personal demons (death, war, divorce, abuse, etc. ) through their writing. |
| Sunday |
11:00 AM |
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The Old Fashioned New Wave: When the Revolution Becomes the Establishment |
John Campbell and the Cyberpunks were all revolutionary in their time, but is there a cycle, by which the cutting edge is inevitably blunted? |
| Sunday |
11:00 AM |
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Tribute to Vincent Price |
A survey of the Late, Great Horror Icon. |
| Sunday |
12:00 PM |
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Ann Zeddies Readings |
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| Sunday |
12:00 PM |
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Magical Objects |
A ring is as commonplace as a toothbrush but a story about a quest for an enchanted toothbrush would make us snicker. What sort of objects work in this context and why? |
| Sunday |
12:00 PM |
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Creating Aliens |
Tips for designing ET's which are both scientifically plausible and appealing (or scary), and are more than a human being with a funny skin problem. |
| Sunday |
12:00 PM |
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Are the Oceans Still Our Future? |
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| Sunday |
12:00 PM |
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Astronomy with Inga Heyer |
Children’s program |
| Sunday |
12:00 PM |
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Detective Stories that SF fans and writers read |
There is a lot of cross-readership and cross-pollination between the SF and mystery genres. Which mystery stories do SF folks like and why? Is this a different list from the ones mystery fans like? |
| Sunday |
12:00 PM |
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Sexy Science Fiction Heroes |
Spiderman is hunky and you could take him home to your mother. What is that certain thing that we love about our heroes? |
| Sunday |
12:00 PM |
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Art Auction Setup |
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| Sunday |
12:00 PM |
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Irwin Allen: Love him or hate him? |
Not as charming as Roger Corman or as extreme as Ed Wood. What is his place in the genre? |
| Sunday |
12:00 PM |
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The Best and Worst of 2002: Books, movies and TV |
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| Sunday |
1:00 PM |
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David Gerrold Readings |
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| Sunday |
1:00 PM |
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Masquerade Review |
Talk to the judges and find out what worked, what didn’t work, and what you can do to improve it for next time. |
| Sunday |
1:00 PM |
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John Berkey: Grand Master of SF Art |
This slide show features 35 years worth of work from one of the Grand Masters of Science Fiction Art. John Berkey is a legendary painter of space scenes, spaceships in particular; though he has also worked outside the science fiction field. Hugo-nominated art collector and dealer, Jane Frank, will show slides of his work and talk about his influence. This was a very big event at Worldcon in San Jose, and for those who couldn't get out to the West coast, this encore performance will be a rare treat. |
| Sunday |
1:00 PM |
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The Future of Medicine |
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| Sunday |
1:00 PM |
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Children’s Program 3 |
Children’s program |
| Sunday |
1:00 PM |
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Myths About H. P. Lovecraft |
Did he base the Necronomicon on a real book? Who was Abdul Alhazred? Did Lovecraft believe what he wrote? Was he a wretched failure who starved to death, or in his own way, a successful artist? |
| Sunday |
1:00 PM |
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Tolkien, Author of the Century or the First McTrilogy? |
The impact of The Lord of the Rings on literature, publishing, film and popular culture. Or, how did Frodo get onto a Burger King glass? |
| Sunday |
1:00 PM |
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Art & ASFA Charity Auctions |
Starting with the general Art Auction, with the ASFA Charity Auction immediately following. |
| Sunday |
1:00 PM |
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Resolved: the Golden Age of SF was 1950-1953 |
In the space of just a few years, an incredible number of classic novels appeared: More than Human, The Dying Earth, Fahrenheit 451, The Demolished Man, Caves of Steel, Bring the Jubilee, The Martian Chronicles, The Space Merchants, etc. Was it something in the air? Or are we overlooking all the junk that was published at the same time? |
| Sunday |
1:00 PM |
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Erotic Science Fiction |
From Philip Jose Farmer and Theodore Sturgeon to Charles Platt and Barry N. Malzberg, SF has had a long standing history of works that would be called pornographic by some. What happens when SF takes us to truly forbidden places? |
| Sunday |
2:00 PM |
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Nalo Hopkinson Readings |
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| Sunday |
2:00 PM |
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Hong Kong Fantasy and Science Fiction Films of Recent Years |
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| Sunday |
2:00 PM |
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Book-cover Trends: What is Selling These Days? |
One year it's dragons, and the next it's battle scenes. Our panel will discuss their predictions for the future, and trace the past trends. Are "hot" trends cyclical, or are the desirable elements always new? |
| Sunday |
2:00 PM |
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Filk that Tune |
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| Sunday |
2:00 PM |
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Patient Creatures: Storytelling |
Children’s program |
| Sunday |
2:00 PM |
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Fantastic Romance |
Exploring the cross-genre connections between fantasy, time-travel, etc. |
| Sunday |
2:00 PM |
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The Power of Movies & Television to Preserve and Translate Science Fiction and Fantasy Genre Stories |
Why do we all think Dorothy had ruby slippers? Did The Omega Man or Total Recall bear any resemblance to the stories they were based on? |
| Sunday |
2:00 PM |
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The Superhero Comic Book Ensemble Series |
From the Legion of Superheroes to the Avengers to the Fantastic Four to the XMen, comics have a long history of groups of superpowered heroes and heroines being the subjectmatter. What, if any, are the traditional SF themes that have been explored in these comicbooks? |
| Sunday |
2:00 PM |
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Why You Hated the First Star Wars Movie and Why You Hated the Second One Slightly Less and Why You'll Still Pay Good Money to See the Third One |
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| Sunday |
3:00 PM |
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Catherine Asaro Readings |
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| Sunday |
3:00 PM |
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Science Fiction Cartoons and Why We Love Them |
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| Sunday |
3:00 PM |
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Hey! I'm Not Dead Any More! |
The implications of suspended animation: moral, religious, legal, social and biological. Will the revived dead be second class citizens or (in an unhappier future) a source of cheap protein. |
| Sunday |
3:00 PM |
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Children’s Program 4 |
Children’s program |
| Sunday |
3:00 PM |
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George Orwell After All these Years |
The date may be long past, but the novel 1984 is as relevant as ever. What makes Orwell a great writer, whose ideas and phrases have become part of our common language? |
| Sunday |
3:00 PM |
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Guilty (Literary) Pleasures |
We all have our favorite so-bad-they're funny movies, but which books and writers give us the same guilty thrills? What is the point of reading something we know is 'trashy'? |
| Sunday |
3:00 PM |
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It Came From the Slush Pile |
The Amazing and Funny Things that Editors Get in the Mail. |
| Sunday |
4:00 PM |
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Gaming 3 |
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| Sunday |
4:00 PM |
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Gripe Session |
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