| Art Show (Philadelphia Ballroom) | Freedom E/F (Fri only) | Freedom G | Freedom H | Parlor A | Parlor B | Parlor C | Parlor D | Salon 1 | Salon 10 | Salon 2 | Salon 7 | Salon 9 |
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| 4:00 PM | | | | | | | | Play: Star Munchkin | | | | | |
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| 5:00 PM | | | | | | | | Build: LEGO spaceships | | | | | |
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| 6:00 PM | | | Rival Theories to the Big Bang | | | | | Draw: Creatures, dragons and monsters | | | | | |
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| 7:00 PM | | | Military Fiction in a Time of War: Necessary, Popular or just plain risky? | The SciFi Channel: 15 years of Giant Snakes and Manimal reruns | Slashing Mary Sue: Fanfiction and The Law | Latest Trends in Art | Reading: Daniel Ackley-McPhail | Play: LEGO Games (Session 1) | Men who Wear Kilts and the Women Who Love Them. | | The Threat of Emerging Diseases, Pandemics and Drug Resistance | The Fiction of L. Sprague De Camp | |
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| 8:00 PM | | Opening Ceremonies | Evolution of Vampires in Literature | Fusion Power | Clarion Writer's Workshop panel | Art in the Techno Age | Reading: Michael F. Flynn | | Best... Comic-Book Movie... Ever!: The Comics on Film and TV | | From the Book to the Table-Top: Playing Games in and with Licensed Properties | Don't Dumb It Down - Writing For Young Adults | Anime And The Revolving Door Of Culture |
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| 9:00 PM | Meet the Pros | Luau | The Harry Potter Post Mortem | Stargate:SG-1 – So Long, and Thanks For All The Go’ald! | Not Just the Facts: How Money, Politics & Ideology Influence Science in America | | | | Buck Rogers as the Star Wars of the 1930s | The Pennsylvania Browncoat Shindig | Who am I? Who is He? Character Creation in Literature and Role-playing Games | Filk 101: Introduction to Filk | |
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| 10:00 PM | | | SF Quiz Show | The New Tolkien Book | Western Genre Themes in Science Fiction | The Obligatory Philip K. Dick panel. | | | Vampire Detectives, And The Fans Who Love Them | | | Friday Classic Filk | These Are A Few Of My Favorite Scenes |
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| 11:00 PM | | | SF Quiz Show (cont'd) | | Mating Habits Of Fans In Their Natural Habitat... A Con | | | | | | | Friday Open Filk | |
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| 11:59 PM | | | Eye of Argon Reading | | | | | | | | | | |
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| Art Show (Philadelphia Ballroom) | Dealers Room | Freedom E | Freedom F | Freedom G | Freedom H | Liberty D | Parlor A | Parlor B | Parlor C | Parlor D | Salon 1 | Salon 10 | Salon 2 | Salon 7 | Salon 9 |
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| 10:00 AM | Beadwork Workshop With Lisa Ashton | | Philcon 101 | The Graphic Novel | The Sci-Fi of Hanna-Barbera: Forty years of Cavemen and Flying Cars | Gearing Up For Galactica | | | | Reading: Tom Purdom | | | | Family Game Night: It's Not Just 'Snakes and Ladders' | | SF & Fantasy Cartoons And Why We Love Them |
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| 11:00 AM | Beadwork Workshop with Lisa Ashton Part 2 | Principal Speaker Eric Flint Autographing | Faster Than Light Travel | Ninja, Pirate, Mad Scientist, Robot! | Paranormal Investigators in Fiction | How Does Literary Criticism Affect the Genre? | | The Influence of Painting, Sculpture and the Visual Arts on Fantastic Literature | Images of Women in Art and Media | Reading: Catherine Asaro | Play: "Toon" (Session 1 of 2) | Putting it All Together | | O' What a Brave New World: World Building in Literature and Role-Playing Games | Critiquing Writing Workshops | |
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| 12:00 PM | Chainmail: Wearable Art | Autographing Saturday Noon | Programmable Matter | Holding out for HEROES | Can giving away free electronic fiction really be good for science fiction? | Futures of the Past | | Why are they always Galactic Empires? | Webcomics Have Nothing To Do With Spiderman! | Livin' The Fannish Life | | Fashions of the Future | | "So I Have This Game I Developed..." Game Publishing 101 | Creating Artificial Languages | Totally Subversive Toons |
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| 1:00 PM | Chainmail: Wearable Art Part 2 | Autographing Saturday 1pm | Human Spaceflight | Three Aliens Walk into a Bar -- Humor in SF from Jonathan Swift to Terry Bisson | Science Fiction as the Modern Myth | Klingon 101: Basic Klingon for non-Warriors | | Promoting Yourself | The Second Wave of Space Opera | Reading: Michael Swanwick | Draw: Robots | The Victorian Age As A Setting For (Non-Victorian) Science Fiction | LiveJournal Meetup | | Words and Music | |
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| 2:00 PM | | Autographing Saturday 2pm | Why Children's Fantasy is the Current Big thing | Versus! Sci-Fi Fight Club! | Really alien aliens | The Endurance of Ted Sturgeon | Costume Guest Presentation - Kevin Roche and Andrew Trembley | Online Markets for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror | Why We Love Cats | Reading: Saturday 2 pm | | "So, You Want To Make A Movie?" Shooting a short SF film | | Writers' Workshop | Finding Filk Online | |
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| 3:00 PM | | Autographing Saturday 3pm | The History of Space Opera | Why I Decided to Start a Blog | The Subject of Race in Heinlein's Fiction | Second Life: Growth Pains and Tribulations | Sue Dawe-Artist Guest of Honor Presentation - The Early Years | Science Fiction Past Its "Sell By" Date | Art and Compromise | Reading: Walter Hunt | Talk: What are you reading? | | | Writers' Workshop | Filk Concert Slots 1 and 2 | |
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| 4:00 PM | | | Xtreme Physics | When Hollywood Gets it Wrong -or Different | Gilbert and Sullivan as Fantasy and Science Fiction | The Lady In The Fridge: Do Female Comic Characters Get Screwed Over? | Eric Flint- Principal Speech | Mark Rogers Slide Show | USA at 400 | Reading: Bud Sparhawk | | The Paranormal Romance | | Rich Fantasy Lives: Saved by Sci-Fi! | | |
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| 5:00 PM | | | Where are the Time Travelers of Today? | Whatever Happened to the Great Science Fiction Monsters? | Kevin Smith: King Of All Media! | How to Sell your First Novel | | Professional Writer's Organizations | Judging Books By Their Covers: | Reading: Judith Berman | Write: Round Robin | | | | Filk Concert Slots 3 and 4 | In Their Own Words - The Business of Voice Acting |
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| 6:00 PM | | | | | | | | | | | Music: Theme song sing-a-long | | | | | |
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| 7:00 PM | | | Talking to Aliens | | | | | The Geeks Get The Girls: Dating Tips For Nerds | | | Play: LEGO Games (Session 2) | | | | Salute to Sputnik Filk Circle | |
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| 8:00 PM | | | Fun with Senseless Violence | The Big BBC SF Smackdown Panel | | | | The Heirs of H.P. Lovecraft | Understanding Ownership of Intellectual Property | | | Philip K. Dick as a Mainstream Writer | | | Filk Concert Slots 5 and 6 | |
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| 9:00 PM | | | Great Writers are the Ones that Critics Can't Stop | Return of the Living Dead | | | Masquerade | Dystopias as Cautionary Tales | The Author as Legend | | | | | | | Bad Anime, Bad!! |
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| 10:00 PM | | | Torchwood | | | | Masquerade - Hour Two | | | | | | | | Saturday Open Filk | |
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| 11:00 PM | | | | | | | Voltaire Concert (Starts After Masquerade) | Alternative Sexuality | | | | | | | | |
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| Dealers Room | Freedom E | Freedom F | Freedom G | Freedom H | Parlor A | Parlor B | Parlor C | Parlor D | Salon 1 | Salon 2 | Salon 7 | Salon 9 |
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| 10:00 AM | | The Death of the Dream? | SFWA Meeting | Dear Diary... Still Not King!: Blogging, SF, and Fandom. | When An Alternate History Means Something | The "Balonium" Factor | Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading | Reading: Gregory Frost | | Plotting Your Career Arc | Gaming Podcasts | How the Russians Celebrated Sputnik: A first hand report | |
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| 11:00 AM | Autographing Sunday 11 am | Magazine/Book Editors Panel | The Meaning of "The Cold Equations" | Sue Dawe Slide Presentation - The Later Years | Nanotechnology | Minority Perspectives in Science Fiction | The Future of Government | Reading: Lawrence M. Schoen | Play: "Toon" (Session 2 of 2) | Insert Appropriate Deity Here: Religion in SF and Fandom | So You Want To Start A Con...? | Duct Tape: Fashion Statement or a Cry for Help | |
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| 12:00 PM | Autographing Sunday noon | Do you Have to Hide Your Fantasy Art | Nurturing New Talent | Building a Web Presence for Free | Graphic Tales Of Science Fiction: Comics, Graphic Novels, and SF | Giving Your Characters Plausible Motivation | Future Consensus Realities | Reading: Camille Bacon-Smith | | Has LOST Lost it? | Gamers are Everywhere - You Just Have to Know Where to Look | Filk versus Folk | Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Anime (...but were afraid to ask) |
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| 1:00 PM | Autographing Sunday 1 pm | What do we actually mean by "literary"? | Heinlein at 100 | Art Auction | Dick in the Movies | Hyper-Trails To You: The Space Western in Film and Television | Virtual Worlds: Real Law | Reading: L.A. Banks | Craft: Origami | The New Wave, Cyberpunk, Transrealism | | Filk Conventions | |
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| 2:00 PM | | Philly Geek: Fandom in the Philadelphia area | Science Fiction for Everyone | The Impact of Media Fiction | To Boldly Go Where We've Gone Before: The New (Old) Star Trek | Alternate Histories Not about War | Alien Children: Raising your kids in fandom | Reading: James Patrick Kelly | | Re-exploring Jules Verne | A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words | | |
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| 3:00 PM | | Taking the Hugo Back From Harry Potter | Kick-@$$ Women! | Those Thrilling Days Of Yesteryear...And Today! SF and the Audio Drama | So you Want to be a Scientist? | | You Made a Ball Gown out of Hefty Bag? | Reading: John G. Hemry | | | | | Anime Apocrypha |
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| 4:00 PM | | Gripe Session | | | | | | | | | | | |
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