| Friday 12:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Salem | 1 |
| Reaching Teenagers Through Science Fiction |
| Our lives are now science fiction. We program infants with Baby Einstein, Mozart, and Galileo DVDs, and we teach one-year-olds to communicate by sign language with baby genius flash cards (Meet the Fockers). Most kids 8 to 18 have the following media devices in their bedrooms (Keyser Family Foundation Survey): CD/tape player, radio, TV, VCR/DVD. How can we use these mediums to interest more kids and teens in Science Fiction literature? |
| Patrick Swenson, Nina Kiriki, Sheila Simonson, Jeff Fennel, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 2 |
| Is Magic a Science? |
| There is a saying that "Any significantly advanced science or technology seems like magic to a primitive civilization". Is that really true? Is magic just another form of Physics that we don’t understand yet? |
| Judy Lazar, Ben Yalow, Andrew Nisbet, Sean Troupe, David Lohkamp, |
| Friday 1:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Portland | 3 |
| The Effects of Space Travel on Earth Religions |
| Will a Christian, Jew, Muslim or other Earth religious believer, have trouble tolerating the religions of Aliens? Will Earthlings need to reevaluate how they believe about "being created in God's image" if the other beings look differently than they do? What happens if Earth was seeded and we run into the society responsible? What about those aliens that display powers that some fundamentalists consider to be evil? |
| Mike Shepherd Moscoe, Edd Vick, Judy Lazar, Elton Elliott, Richard A. Lovett, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 4 |
| Use The Force Harry |
| Does Harry tap into an all encompassing energy field? How about Obi Wan as Defense against The Dark Arts teacher? |
| David Lohkamp, Jean Lamb, Elizabeth Fellows, Sean Troupe, |
| Friday 2:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Eugene | 5 |
| Filk 101 - Teach me a song |
| Filkers explain filk and teach a few songs - Filk 101 |
| Andrew Ross, Cecilia Eng, John C. Bunnell, Frank Hayes, Steven Dixon, |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 6 |
| Magic in Literature does it lighten the reality of Magic |
| Magic has been around since the dawn of time. People have worshiped different deities and unusual things of a magical nature have happened and do happen daily. Some of it is science we just have not learned yet but maybe some of it is real. How does magic in literature change the way magic is viewed and accepted? Is it good or should it come with some sort of warning on the label? |
| Alma Alexander, Rhiannon Louve, |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 7 |
| Collecting Science Fiction Art |
| How to collect SF/F art and what to look for in new artists. |
| Jeliza Patterson, John R. Gray III, Jeff Sturgeon, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 8 |
| Constructive Critiquing |
| How should a colleague/friend/editor go about critiquing a manuscript? Who is qualified to do a critique? How does a critique help a writer, and how should a writer use a good critique in their writing process? |
| Mary Robinette Kowal, Patrick Swenson, Mary Hobson, Dianna Rodgers, Louise Marley, Mary Rosenblum, |
| Friday 3:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Columbia | 9 |
| Harmony Workshop |
| Basic lessons and practice in learning to sing harmony, beginning with singing rounds. |
| Cecilia Eng, Rhiannon Louve, Don Parris, |
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| 1 hours | Eugene | 10 |
| Flirting 101 |
| Expert advice for those looking to improve their, um, interpersonal skills. |
| Sonia Lyris, |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 11 |
| Law and Social Order in World-Building |
| How can a writer design the basic legal structures of an alien, futuristic, or fantasy civilization? How do laws, courts, and government organizations arise from the basic legal structures and concepts, the constitution (formal or informal), common law, and other sources of justice? What are some of the options a writer has in making their civilization unique? |
| Rory Miller, Richard A. Lovett, Sara A. Mueller, phyllis irene radford, Andrew Nisbet, |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 12 |
| Characters are People Too |
| What small details, idiosyncrasies, weaknesses, or foibles have helped bring this or that r protagonists and antagonists to life in books you’ve written ... read? (And what writer isn’t glad that their characters can’t take them to court for intentional cruelty.). |
| Alma Alexander, Leslie What, William B McDermott, Sheila Simonson, |
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| 1 hours | Salem | 13 |
| Life Drawing |
| Our artists sketch the models and show you how. (Models: Jeff Sturgeon and Theresa Reed) |
| Jeff Fennel, Margaret Organ-Kean, Theresa Reed, Jeff Sturgeon, Av/Tech/Panel Needs, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 14 |
| Great Books We Read This Year |
| Bring your list. I’ll show you mine if you’ll show me yours. |
| Kate Schaefer, Edd Vick, John C. Bunnell, Ellen Datlow, Guy Letourneau, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 15 |
| Computing Science Fiction |
| How computers have been portrayed in science fiction and the way that this shows the power and limitations of science fiction as a forecasting medium. |
| Dave Slusher, L. Pierce Ludke, Frank Hayes, David W. Goldman, |
| Friday 4:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Columbia | 16 |
| The Music Behind the Words |
| Do you listen to music when you write? When you read? Has music inspired any stories you've written? Why are there so many stories/books about musicians? Do musicians ever write songs about writers? (Besides the Beatles?) |
| Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Tania Opland, Mike Freeman, |
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| 1 hours | Eugene | 17 |
| Cyberpaganism |
| 29,900,000 results on Google for Pagan and 6889 groups on Yahoogroups! Pagans can go online, meet and mingle, teach and learn, explore while remaining anonymous and lie, cheat, and spread misinformation, on an ever larger scale. Do the risks outweigh the benefits? |
| Louise Owen, Brenna Sharp, phyllis irene radford, |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 18 |
| SF/F Interactive Game Design |
| How do you get started in game design? What does it take to work in the Interactive gaming industry? What's out there for programmers, designers, writers, editors and artists? |
| Jeff Fennel, L. Pierce Ludke, |
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| 1 hours | Mt. Hood | 19 |
| Guest of Honor Interview - Cory Doctorow |
| John Blyer will interview our Guest of Honor Cory Doctorow |
| John Blyler, Cory Doctorow, |
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| 2 hours | Portland | 20 |
| Mask Making Workshop with Monica Roxburgh (2 hours) |
| Join in this hands-on paper mache mask-making workshop. Make your own original mask. Learn the secrets from a professional mask maker on how to make that special, one-of-kind sculpted art piece or fantasy props. When finished you may be wear this beautiful work of art for the masked ball and then display it on the wall of your home or business. |
| Monica Roxburgh, |
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| 1 hours | Salem | 21 |
| Other Worlds or the Same Ol`, Same Ol`? |
| Once upon a time, every SF story introduced us to new worlds. Now, SF can be alternate Earths or just around a too familiar corner. Why do writers use other planets? Why don’t they? |
| David W. Goldman, Jean Lamb, Mary Rosenblum, Richard A. Lovett, Mary Robinette Kowal, |
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| 2 hours | Salmon | 22 |
| Poetry Workshop |
| Blythe Ayne will provide a list of publications that publish genre poetry to all the folks who attend. Blythe will suggest writing exercises that generally trigger attendees to write fast & furious, and come up with spontaneous wonderfully publishable poetry! |
| Blythe Ayne, Ph.D., |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 23 |
| The Magical City of Unbelievable |
| What about those unbelievable magic cities that have some magical answer for every challenge a good city planner would run up against. What problems do real cities face and how do they handle them? |
| Sara A. Mueller, Bill Sattler, Madeleine E. Robins, Jay Lake, David D. Levine, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 24 |
| How to reproduce your artwork |
| "You have finished your masterpiece now how do you make the prints. What reproduction options are out there and what works the best? |
| Margaret Organ-Kean, Jeff Sturgeon, John R. Gray III, |
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| 1 hours | Salon G | 25 |
| Editing of the Short Story |
| What does the editor look for in a short story? What just won't make the cut and how to get the most out of your submission |
| Leslie What, Honna Swenson, Dianna Rodgers, Ellen Datlow, Eileen Gunn, |
| Friday 5:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Eugene | 26 |
| Overnight Costuming |
| For those of you with the terminal procrastination gene. Looks to put together |
| Andrea Letourneau, Julie Z. Sardo, Brenna Sharp, |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 27 |
| NO! That is NOT ME!! |
| What are the latest and greatest tips and tricks to prevent identity theft in this digital age? What can you do if you become a victim? |
| Laura Majerus, Cecilia Eng, Frank Hayes, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 28 |
| When The Heroine ISN`T 18, Blonde, and a Size 3 |
| Why do some authors and filmmakers think a lab coat and glasses on a young blonde heroine can convey the same level of expertise as a grey-haired male scientist? Is it credible for the young post-doctorate researcher to also be a martial arts black belt in her spare time? Writers will talk about the why and how of writing female protagonists who break the mold |
| Madeleine E. Robins, Alma Alexander, phyllis irene radford, Judith R. Conly, Dianna Rodgers, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 29 |
| The Worlds Other Rockets. |
| Brazil has blown up 3 rockets and are working on a fourth. But did you know that India, Israel, China, Sweden, and Canada also have rockets? |
| Dan Dubrick, Av/Tech/Panel Needs, |
| Friday 6:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Art Show | 30 |
| Kid`s Docent Tour |
| Sat 1pm |
| Margaret Organ-Kean, |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 31 |
| DIY Whose Line Is It Anyway |
| This is the DO IT YOURSELF version of the popular show Whose Line Is It Anyway. Here you the audience get a chance to participate in our live DYI version. Great fun and laughs to be had by all!! With our hosts: Sean, Zoe and Lillie. |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 32 |
| Fandom in Fifty Minutes |
| Amy Thomson, Ben Yalow, Jack William Bell, John R. Gray III, Jean Lamb, Elinor Busby, |
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| 1 hours | Salem | 33 |
| Unintended Consequences |
| Indoor plumbing led to polio epidemics. Lead in paint and gas poisoned people. To what extent is modern science and technology responsible for figuring out whether or not something that seems good is also going to cause serious problems. |
| Mary Rosenblum, Frank Hayes, Mike Shepherd Moscoe, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 34 |
| Palaces and Prisons? Urban Development in the 22nd Century |
| Is technology accelerating the divide between rich and poor? Will it make sense to live closer together in high-density zones optimized for transit and pedestrians, or will ever-longer commutes require even bigger and more comfortable cars? Will residential towers bring every indulgence to the wealthy, or simply warehouse the permanently unemployed? A discussion |
| Bill Sattler, Sheila Simonson, Jim Kling, Mary Hobson, Norman E. Hartman, Marilyn Holt, |
| Friday 7:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Medford | 35 |
| WRITERS OF THE FUTURE - WITH WINNERS FROM WRITERS OF THE FUTURE |
| Ken Scholes, David W. Goldman, |
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| 0.5 hours | Salon E | 36 |
| Endeavour Awards Ceremony |
| The winner of the eighth Endeavour Award will be announced. The award honors distingushed science fiction or fantasy written by a northwest writer. |
| James Fiscus, Jerry Oltion, Sara A. Mueller, Marilyn Holt, Sheila Simonson, |
| Friday 7:30 pm |
| 1.5 hours | Salon E | 37 |
| Opening Ceremonies |
| Join our guests of honor and our special cast of victims... er, ah, crew for this special opening program. |
| Cory Doctorow, Tania Opland, Mike Freeman, Ellen Datlow, Michael DeMeritt, Vincent DiFate, Mary Olsen, |
| Friday 8:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Medford | 38 |
| What We Don`t Know About Physics and the Sciences |
| Our panelists explore what we don't know about science and physics and how we're trying to find out. Also, what don't we know about biology- you might be surprised how much is mere guesswork |
| Howard Davidson, Jim Kling, John Blyler, |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 39 |
| What is Magic Realism? |
| What are the themes, symbols, and techniques of magic realism? How do writers, critics, and readers make (or tell) a difference between magic realism and urban (or other contemporary) fantasy? Panelists will read short examples of magic realism and have a panel discussion. |
| Bruce Taylor, Alan M. Clark, Leslie What, Blythe Ayne, Ph.D., |
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| 1 hours | Salem | 40 |
| Ethics of Divination |
| If you see the end coming should you tell anyone? |
| Andrew Nisbet, Bill Sattler, Jean Lamb, Sean Troupe, |
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| 4 hours | Salon G | 41 |
| Camarilla LARP |
| Live Action Role Play with the Camarilla |
| Friday 9:00 pm |
| 6 hours | Columbia | 42 |
| Bardic Circle |
| Open mic filking |
| Andrew Ross, |
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| 1.5 hours | Mt. Hood | 43 |
| Whose Line Is It, Anyway? |
| Brazenly stolen from British TV, our version of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" is the classic improv comedy showcase. Strange and wonderful people from the professional and fanish realms do odd and (hopefully) humorous things and we all get to watch. Remember, you saw it here first (we stole it long before Drew Carey did). |
| Anthony Pryor, David D. Levine, Edward Martin III, Ellen Klages, Madeleine E. Robins, Kara Dalkey, |
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| 1 hours | Salem | 44 |
| Odd Trips and Other Peoples Wars |
| Story Telling |
| Andrew Nisbet, |
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| 1 hours | Salon E | 45 |
| Buffy Karaoke |
| Tammy Lindsley, Av/Tech/Panel Needs, |
| Friday 10:00 pm |
| 2 hours | Eugene | 46 |
| Pagan Circle |
| Midnight Circle |
| David Lohkamp, Louise Owen, |
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| 6 hours | Salon E | 47 |
| Friday Night Dance |
| Dance |
| Friday 10:30 pm |
| 4 hours | Mt. Hood | 48 |
| Klingon Karaoke |
| You don't have to sing in Klingon but it will be fun! |
| Hans Johnson, Jim Colvill, Bobbie DuFault, |
| Friday 11:00 pm |
| 2 hours | Portland | 49 |
| Midnight Horror Readings |
| Short and scary! Fans read short stories or scenes guaranteed to provide a chill! - bring your favorite story. |
| Cheryl Scott, Devon Monk, Michael Ehart, Anthony Pryor, Dianna Rodgers, |
| Saturday 9:00 am |
| 1 hours | Salon E | 50 |
| Morning Martial Arts |
| Get your blood moving and your brain working as you work on your basic or combatitive skills. |
| Rory Miller, Sonia Lyris, |
| Saturday 10:00 am |
| 1 hours | Art Show | 51 |
| Kids` Choice awards at the Art Show |
| The children select their own awards for our Art Show |
| Shauna McKain-Storey, Av/Tech/Panel Needs, Tammy Lindsley, |
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| 1 hours | Columbia | 52 |
| The Habit of Engineered Habitats, in the Amazon and in Space |
| Thomas L. Billings, Av/Tech/Panel Needs, |
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| 1 hours | Eugene | 53 |
| Christian Fandom |
| Margaret Forsythe, Kathleen Coleman, |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 54 |
| Doing It in the Halls -- Secrets of Good Hall Costuming |
| What does it take to put together award winning hall costumes. What about the costumes for your favorite LARP character. Can you make that costume believable? |
| Andrea Letourneau, Julie Z. Sardo, Louise Owen, Brenna Sharp, |
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| 1 hours | Mt. Hood | 55 |
| We Don`t Need Another Hero |
| From Kimball Kinnison to Dylan Hunt, strong-thewed heroes have strode the spaceways, protecting the galaxy from evildoers. But the trend in contemporary literature is shifting from "heroes" to "protagonists" to "viewpoint characters". What are the ways that main characters can be used in science fiction? How can ensembles and event-based plots build great story lines and lovable groups? |
| Sheila Simonson, Mary Robinette Kowal, phyllis irene radford, Jean Lamb, Michael A. Martin, |
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| 2 hours | Portland | 56 |
| Mask Making for Masked Ball Fun! (2 hours) |
| Bring the family and have fun decorateing a mask from scraps of this and that, with Karyn Hoffert. Karyn will provide a mask, just about anything you can think of to put on it and the adhesives to make them stick. |
| Karyn Hoffert, |
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| 1 hours | Salem | 57 |
| Creating Your Art Portfolio |
| What should go into your portfolio? Is having a website with your current work enough? How is it best to present your work to the buyers? |
| Alan M. Clark, Margaret Organ-Kean, Jeliza Patterson, Vincent DiFate, |
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| 2 hours | Salmon | 58 |
| 99cent Costume Construction and Competition |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 59 |
| Growing Food in Space |
| Will we be able to get enough of the vitamins, minerals and trace elements in our food if it is grown on another planet? What has to be considered when we look at feeding the human body from things grown in space or alien environments? |
| Mary Rosenblum, Jim Kling, David W. Goldman, Amy Thomson, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 60 |
| RSS Feeds and the New News |
| Where do you get your news? In this digital age you can have your news fed right to your homepage. Maybe you want to produce your own news and feed it to other interested parties. Our panelists will explain all the possibilities |
| Dave Slusher, Cory Doctorow, David D. Levine, Joe Julian, |
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| 2 hours | Salon E Dance Floor | 61 |
| Hobbit Country Dance |
| Learn about one of the Social Customs of Middle Earth's Shire.
2 hour workshop, wear comfy shoes, short dresses, and come prepared to sweat and have fun.
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| Betty Bigelow, |
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| 1 hours | Salon G | 62 |
| The Next Forever War |
| The war in Vietnam and the Cold War as a whole heavily influenced depictions of future wars, producing novels running the gamut from Starship Troopers to The Forever War. What sort of novels are the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan likely to produce? How will US government actions justified to deal with terrorist threats be reflected in SF and fantasy? |
| James Fiscus, Marilyn Holt, Richard A. Lovett, Andrew Nisbet, Kate Schaefer, |
| Saturday 11:00 am |
| 1 hours | Columbia | 63 |
| Guest of Honor Slide Presentation - Vincent diFate |
| Vincent DiFate, Av/Tech/Panel Needs, |
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| 1 hours | Eugene | 64 |
| Argo in the Original Klingon |
| Star Trek theme filk. |
| Cecilia Eng, Daniel Reitman, |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 65 |
| Pluto has Been Demoted - Long Live the Underdog |
| Pluto was demoted - what's next? Are their other planets that share the same conditions and should also be demoted? Are our views on planets skewed because we only have details on one solar system. |
| Melinda Hutson, |
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| 1 hours | Mt. Hood | 66 |
| One pill makes you smarter… |
| If you could take a pill to make yourself smarter, would you? How about to make yourself, or someone you know, less violent? Or more forgiving? What if you could turn off your fears with a switch, letting you do a dangerous job without distraction? As neuroscientists learn more about the brain and how to affect it, possibilities like these move closer to reality. Panelists discuss the possibilities |
| Tara K Harper, Steve Perry, Jack William Bell, Rory Miller, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 67 |
| How bad can it be? When the Pandemic Strikes Home |
| How bad can it be? If a pandemic strikes and 1 in 20 die what does that do to a society? If you loose half your population who will be left to do the work, to raise the kids, to take care of the sick and the elderly. What can we do to mitigate the problem? |
| Jim Kling, Mary Rosenblum, Mir Plemmons, Mary Hobson, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 68 |
| How Do Teachers Teach Using SF/F in the Classroom? |
| Writers, do you want your works used in the classroom? Teachers, do you want to know how other teachers successfully use SF/F in their classrooms? Parents, do you know what is being taught and why? Come find out!! |
| Patrick Swenson, Ann Ezell, Jeff Fennel, Kara Dalkey, Madeleine E. Robins, Kathy Hearl, |
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| 1 hours | Salon E Table 1 | 69 |
| Remember to Breathe- The Secrets Behind Great Public Readings |
| You may be a good writer, but reading aloud is a separate skill. In this workshop, learn to make your words sound as great out loud as they do on the page. Using both demonstration and audience participation, we will explore voicing, narration and pacing. Come with one paragraph of your own work; sample text will also be provided. |
| Mary Robinette Kowal, |
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| 1 hours | Salon E Table 2 | 70 |
| Magic Realism and Film |
| A discussion of popular films that express concepts and themes of magic realism. |
| Bruce Taylor, L. Pierce Ludke, |
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| 1 hours | Salon E Table 3 | 71 |
| Presenting and moderating -or- How to give good panel |
| Good panels, bad panels -- what makes them work or fail, and how best to give the audience what they came for. And get them coming back again when they see your name on the schedule. Whether it's your first convention as a panelist or your hundredth, there's always something new to learn about how to get -- and keep -- audience attention. In this intro to paneling workshop, I'll go over the basics of what I've learned over decades of presenting about how to get up on stage and be a compelling speaker, entertain and educate the audience, develop a fan following, and start a religion. (Or at least end the panel without too much embarrassment.) I'll also go over the basics of moderating and cover the biggest problems in keeping audience attention. Panelists, moderators, and hopefuls all welcome. |
| Sonia Lyris, |
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| 1 hours | Salon G | 72 |
| Orycon and the Future |
| The Death of OSFCI and what you can do to keep Orycon alive after Orycon 30 |
| Andrew Nisbet, Patty Wells, Linda Pilcher, |
| Saturday 12:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Art Show | 73 |
| Kid`s Docent Tour |
| Sat 1pm |
| Margaret Organ-Kean, |
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| 1 hours | Columbia | 74 |
| Friends of Filk GOH :Filk Concert - Mike Freeman and Tania Opland |
| Orycon is proud to host this Anglo-Alaskan duo who have been on the road together since May '95 in a unique collaboration which combines their distinctly separate musical backgrounds, bringing their exuberant music and wild tales to audiences around the world. |
| Tania Opland, Mike Freeman, |
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| 1 hours | Eugene | 75 |
| Passing on the Torch |
| As new con-runners take over and the media and interests of younger fans change how do we find and present the commonalities between the newer ideas and those well established fan traditions? Can the old work together side by side with the new? |
| Ben Yalow, Jack William Bell, Jerry Kaufman, Tammy Lindsley, Patty Wells, Suzle Tompkins, |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 76 |
| Role-playing Game Design and Publication 101 |
| How writing for the role-playing market differs from writing for the fiction market, what is involved in designing and publishing a role-playing game, and how much reward one is likely to get for all one's work. A beginning writer's guide to the RPG market. |
| Greg Gorden, Gwendolyn Kestrel, Joseph D. Carriker, Jr., William B McDermott, Rhiannon Louve, Anthony Pryor, |
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| 1 hours | Mt. Hood | 77 |
| America: Imperial, Evangelical, or Something Else? |
| In the 21st century, we've watched the last superpower bestride the world it did a lot to create. Do you feel safer today? Are you better off? What futures can we see? Let's discuss the possibilities with open minds (and as few flames as possible). |
| Clyde Lewis, Cory Doctorow, Howard Davidson, Marilyn Holt, James Fiscus, Andrew Nisbet, |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 78 |
| Anatomy of Fantastical Creatures |
| How do you draw those fantastical creatures, where do you get your ideas, how do you make it all fit together realistically? |
| John R. Gray III, L. Pierce Ludke, Alan M. Clark, Mir Plemmons, |
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| 1 hours | Salmon | 79 |
| Infinite Improbability Prose |
| Tell group stories together with other kids, challenged by elements of chance! Learn about ingredients of science fiction and fantasy and help write a probably very silly master work. Bring your brains. All other supplies provided. |
| Shauna McKain-Storey, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 80 |
| Ask the Editor with Ellen Datlow |
| For writers or readers who want to know what a short story editor/anthologist does and how she does it. Ask general or specific questions about editing and the short fiction business. |
| Ellen Datlow, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 81 |
| Geek into Warrior, Wallflower into Queen |
| The secrets to WEARING a costume or outfit. A panel/presentation giving a rundown of the non-costume things that make or break an outfit - poise, posture training, body language, methods and tricks to change yours to match your intentions, how different people stand and move and why. An introduction to make you aware of, and in control of how you present yourself. |
| Julie Z. Sardo, Don Parris, Judith R. Conly, Louise Owen, Brenna Sharp, Andrea Letourneau, |
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| 1 hours | Salon E Table 1 | 82 |
| Sewing Costumes for the Average Fan |
| You don't have to be a Master class costumer to make yourself some very nice costumes. This panel will have an emphasis on historical (not necessarily historically accurate) and fantasy - for fun (not necessarily hyper accurate). |
| Ann Ezell, Barbara Hoffert, |
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| 1 hours | Salon E Table 2 | 83 |
| Furries vs SciFi Fandom |
| Furries vs SciFi Fandom |
| Gene Armstrong, |
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| 1 hours | Salon E Table 3 | 84 |
| Flint Knapping |
| Practical science for the primitive tech - a how to for authors of alternate history. |
| Bill Sattler, |
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| 1 hours | Salon G | 85 |
| Moving Up the Beach: Saving Cities from Global Warming |
| From Boston to Bombay, coastal cities face the threat of rising ocean levels as global warming melts the ice caps. How can cities cope with expanding waterfronts and moving neighborhoods? What rights should property owners on either side of the new waterfronts have? How will cities evolve when they have to keep moving inland? |
| Mary Rosenblum, Bruce Taylor, Richard A. Lovett, |
| Saturday 1:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Art Show | 86 |
| Mixed Media: Pen and ink, Prismacolor pencil, water color and Qouache, acrylic |
| Whatever it takes to get the image you want. This is a discussion of materials, and some pushing of paint around. |
| Betty Bigelow, |
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| 1 hours | Eugene | 87 |
| Photoshop and You! |
| Whether you are a beginner and want to know what a pixel is or are an advanced users and want to plumb the depths of layers and clipping masks, this is the place to be to find out all about working with Photoshop. |
| Margaret Organ-Kean, Cheryl Scott, Jeff Fennel, Guy Letourneau, |
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| 1 hours | Fanzine lounge | 88 |
| The Battle for Fanzinia: Paper vs. Electronic |
| With the rise of eFanzines.com and other virtual spaces coupled with increased costs of copying and paper, paper fanzines have an uphill battle against the faster and cheaper ezines begin produced. Will paper fanzines survive? Are ezines just a fad? |
| Jerry Kaufman, Jean Lamb, Ben Yalow, Suzle Tompkins, |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 89 |
| Turkey Readings |
| "Dramatic readings from some of the biggest SF and Fantasy gobblers we can find, and perhaps some Deep Thoughts about what makes a turkey a turkey."
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| Mary Robinette Kowal, David D. Levine, Anthony Pryor, |
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| 1 hours | Mt. Hood | 90 |
| STAR TREK ENTERPRISE: BEHIND A CAMERA FROM BEHIND A CAMERA |
| Michael DeMeritt, an Assistant Director on all 11 seasons on Voyager and Enterprise, presents over 200 crew snapped photos detailing life behind the scenes on Star Trek Enterprise. These rare shots allow you to meet the behind the scenes people of Star Trek, and see what the sets look like on the other side! |
| Michael DeMeritt, Av/Tech/Panel Needs, |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 91 |
| Painting your Mask with Monica Roxburgh (1 hour) |
| Paint the paper mache mask you made in the Mask making workshop with Monica Roxburgh. |
| Monica Roxburgh, |
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| 1 hours | Salmon | 92 |
| Kids Filk - Teach me a song |
| Filkers teach our next generation of fans how to sing some of the old favorites |
| Frank Hayes, Andrew Ross, Steven Dixon, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 93 |
| The Past Year in the Rest of the World in Space. |
| A run down as to what other nations have done in space in the last year. |
| Dan Dubrick, Av/Tech/Panel Needs, |
|
| 1 hours | Salon E Table 1 | 94 |
| Stitch and Bitch! |
| Come and bring your cross stitch, crochet, embroidery, hand stitch and knitting projects and have an interesting discussion about any topic that comes to mind. |
| Kathy Oltion, |
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| 1 hours | Salon E Table 2 | 95 |
| Welcome to the World of Tomorrow! |
"What SF Writers and the Technology Industry Say About the Future
Technology and the science fiction community share a symbiotic relationship. Today's technologists often look to SF writers for inspiration in developing tomorrow's electronic wonders. Similarly, SF creators often seek out the latest trends in science and engineering for story ideas. This presentation will use science fiction stories-art-cinema as a guide to predict achievable technology of the future. But wait, there's more! Viewpoints from the leaders of today's electronic, cryptographic and semiconductor (think ""nanotech"" and beyond) industries will be also be presented. These trends will serve as a rich source of stories ideas for today's SF writers and artists." |
| John Blyler, |
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| 1 hours | Salon E Table 3 | 96 |
| Unconventional Sacraments |
| Getting married . . . three at a time. Marrying your High Priestess. “Wiccaning” a baby. Death and dying when you hope for reincarnation, not Paradise. How do you find a differently-abled minister? |
| Louise Owen, David Lohkamp, |
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| 1 hours | Salon G | 97 |
| Polygamy VS. Polyamory is there a difference? |
| With all the legal cases pending in Arizona and Utah against the FLDS we ask ourselves what is the difference between a Polygamist and someone in a Polyamourus relationship? If one is illegal is the other? |
| Theresa Reed, Jeliza Patterson, Mary Olsen, phyllis irene radford, Norman E. Hartman, |
| Saturday 2:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Art Show | 98 |
| Kid`s Docent Tour |
| Sat. 2 |
| Tammy Lindsley, |
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| 1 hours | Columbia | 99 |
| Jam in the Key of C |
| A music jam for instrumentalists and vocalists lead by the panelists. Audience participation encouraged. |
| Cecilia Eng, Kara Dalkey, Mike Freeman, Rhiannon Louve, Tania Opland, Don Parris, |
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| 1 hours | Eugene | 100 |
| Elven Calligraphy |
| Learn to read and write the Elven alphabetical form used by J.R.R. Tolkien in his works about Middle Earth.
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| Betty Bigelow, |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 101 |
| Rule-playing, Roll-playing, Improv Theatre, or Just Hangin` Out |
| What's your favorite style of gaming? What styles work best with different gaming systems, or with different settings? Can different play styles work in the same group? When should the players put the story ahead of their characters? How can a gamemaster get players to value glory more than experience, treasure, or power? |
| Greg Gorden, Gwendolyn Kestrel, Hans Johnson, Joseph D. Carriker, Jr., David Lohkamp, |
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| 1 hours | Mt. Hood | 102 |
| Guest of Honor Interview - Ellen Datlow |
| Ellen Datlow will be interviewed by Eileen Gunn. |
| Eileen Gunn, Ellen Datlow, |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 103 |
| Food in F&SF |
| Sheila Simonson, Sara A. Mueller, phyllis irene radford, Richard A. Lovett, Mary Hobson, |
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| 2 hours | Salmon | 104 |
| Sci-Fi Sculpture |
| Sci-Fi Sculpture: Junk Spaceships and Foil Robots - Build your own model spaceship, ray gun or other techno-gadget with various interesting junk (provided.) Younger participants may prefer sculpting with aluminum foil (also provided, in great quantities!) |
| Shauna McKain-Storey, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 105 |
| Building Your World from the Microbiological Level on Up |
| What components are necessary for life on a planet? What about all the little unseen critters that are so important. Worlding building from the planet up. |
| Judy Lazar, Howard Davidson, Mary Rosenblum, Jim Kling, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 106 |
| Fantasy Photography |
| Fantasy Photography from 1850 to the present Fairies, Aliens, and Saints, oh my! Explore the Who and the How of Fantasy Photography from its earliest practitioners to now, including a slideshow and how-tos for any tech level. |
| Jeliza Patterson, Av/Tech/Panel Needs, |
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| 1 hours | Salon E Table 1 | 107 |
| MCSI - Magical Crime Scene Investigation |
| In a world where magic exist, how would it be applied to solving crimes? Does dragon breath leave unique chemical (or alchemical) signatures? Do vampires leave corpses, and would an autopsy leave you facing charges of mutilating a corpse, or murder? What laws might effect the use of Forensic Magic in an urban-fantasy? |
| Rick Lindsley, |
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| 1 hours | Salon E Table 2 | 108 |
| The Ethics of Terraforming |
| 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, if it's lifeless, does a rocky Moon-like Mars have a claim that we can't brush aside?) |
| Joe Julian, Melinda Hutson, |
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| 3 hours | Salon E Table 3 | 109 |
| Improv Writing |
| Writers welcome, this is a great way to flex the idea-generating muscles and subdue the Quality Control freak that induces writer's block and other forms of performance anxiety, you get to write purely for the fun of it.
But it is just as much fun for anybody who wants to do it, there won't be any real difference between people who "write" and people who don't (I say this from years of experience). So come try it!
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| Amber Cook, |
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| 1 hours | Salon G | 110 |
| After the Nuclear War |
| Iran versus Israel? North Korea versus Japan? Will some central Asian dictator decide to go out with a bang in the face of democratic street protests? Small nuclear war seems a lot more likely in coming decades. How will the world cope: with pre-emptive strikes (conventional or otherwise)? Anti-missile defenses? Or will we be buying personal decontamination units of some kind |
| Bill Sattler, Mike Shepherd Moscoe, James Fiscus, Marilyn Holt, |
| Saturday 3:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Columbia | 111 |
| Music in SF/F Literature |
| What are the songs that go with the books? How do they come about? Many authors have had songs written about their music and some authors have the words for the music the bards in the story are singing - What comes first the song or the book? Who really writes the music? Do the authors collaborate with the musicians? |
| Mike Freeman, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Tania Opland, Cecilia Eng, Louise Marley, |
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| 1 hours | Eugene | 112 |
| How to Make a Living as an Artist |
| How do artists make a living? Can you break the starving artist tradition and really make some money? |
| Margaret Organ-Kean, John R. Gray III, Jeff Fennel, Jeff Sturgeon, Alan M. Clark, Vincent DiFate, |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 113 |
| Coven Or Cult |
| Can you tell which is which? We'll give you some pointers. |
| Sean Troupe, Clyde Lewis, David Lohkamp, Tara K Harper, Brenna Sharp, |
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| 1 hours | Mt. Hood | 114 |
| STAR TREK PRODUCTION BREAKING DOWN A SCRIPT |
| If you love numbers and details and making puzzles not just solving them you might want to try wrapping your head around the Assistant Director’s task of breaking down a script. Michael DeMeritt leads you through this strange new world, taking a complete script and tearing it into consumable bits. It’s how they get it done. Not for the feint hearted. Has been known to make writers cry. |
| Michael DeMeritt, Av/Tech/Panel Needs, |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 115 |
| Liars Panel |
| Panelists can get tired of answering the same questions over and over again: Do you need an agent, where do you get your ideas, how did you sell your first work, how about collaborating with me to write this great idea I have? Are those dragons aerodynamic? |
| Jay Lake, Amy Thomson, Ellen Klages, Ken Scholes, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 116 |
| Morality in Youth-Oriented Fantasy |
| Narnia, Harry Potter, Middle Earth; what are the moral lessons in fantasy? What are the roots of the moral themes in popular fantasy? |
| Kara Dalkey, Patty Wells, Tammy Lindsley, Elizabeth Fellows, Sheila Simonson, Elinor Busby, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 117 |
| Children of Bladerunner--Tech- and Future Noir |
| Panel discussion on the background and influence of Noir film and fiction on Science Fiction and the development of the sub-genres of Tech Noir and Future Noir, represented by films such as Bladerunner, The Matrix, Minority Report and stories such as Altered Carbon, The Whole Wide World, Kiln People, and the works of Philip K Dick (how can you forget him?!) |
| Jerry Kaufman, Jack William Bell, L. Pierce Ludke, Cheryl Scott, Michael A. Martin, |
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| 1 hours | Salon E Table 1 | 118 |
| How to do a Fantastic Reading |
| Craig English, |
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| 1 hours | Salon E Table 2 | 119 |
| Word Wizarding |
| We write and read English words, but what makes some words sparkle and others just lie there on the page. In SF we wizard new words into being. What give some words life while others to just crawl back into the cauldron from which they were summoned (hint: vowels, remember vowels. Vowels are good.) |
| William B McDermott, |
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| 1 hours | Salon G | 120 |
| Literary Time Travel |
| Travel through literature from early SF onward! Gate technology, one way trips, magic hourglasses where the sand moves up, messages sent through time, being sent forcibly to another time, oh let's not forget quantum anomalies… there is so much to explore. |
| Anne Trembley, John Blyler, John C. Bunnell, Rhiannon Louve, Norman E. Hartman, |
| Saturday 4:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Columbia | 121 |
| Cyoakha Grace/LAND OF THE BLIND in Concert |
| Cyoakha Grace/Land of the Blind is a Portland-San Fran duo, mixing avant-world-folk & trance. Award winning singer-composer she scored the animated version of H.P. Lovecraft's "Search for the Unknown Kadath", just played the Adelaide Fringe Fest, Australia, & was chosen world-wide for experimental composers, for the compliation,"WOMEN, BRING BACK THE NOISE". BLIND plays exotic world instruments w/electronica & live looping to bring together future w/ancient, build simple yet complex layers into one of a kind estastic dreamtime dance with clever poetic magical lyrics & a voice critics call; "simply sublime"/"soaring & suborbital"/"world music, sure, pick any world" Add master Didjeridu player Krystov Battista, who also plays America's orginal instrument, Appalachan dulcimer, and you have something completely haunting, world music from another world. |
| cyoakha grace, |
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| 1 hours | Eugene | 122 |
| New and Improved Literary Scams |
| How does the new writer tell the difference between a legitimate small press and a literary scam? Who is the one actually making money from "self-publishing" or "subsidy publishing"? How does the aspiring writer make sure the company they are dealing with wants to make money with them from their writing, instead of making money from them for their hard work? |
| James Fiscus, Mary Rosenblum, Louise Marley, |
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| 1 hours | Fanzine lounge | 123 |
| The Care and Repair of Old Books |
| How do you properly care for and repair those beloved old books? |
| Anne Trembley, Jean Lamb, |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 124 |
| What is a Furry |
| What is a Furry |
| Gene Armstrong, |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 125 |
| Basic Astronomy for Writers |
| How to make sure your facts work with the real universe. |
| Jerry Oltion, Cheryl Scott, |
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| 2 hours | Salmon | 126 |
| Poetry Workshop |
| Blythe Ayne will provide a list of publications that publish genre poetry to all the folks who attend. Blythe will suggest writing exercises that generally trigger attendees to write fast & furious, and come up with spontaneous wonderfully publishable poetry! |
| Blythe Ayne, Ph.D., |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 127 |
| The Joy of the Short Story |
| The art and craft of short fiction, and the techniques of marketing it. |
| Eileen Gunn, Honna Swenson, Nina Kiriki, Edd Vick, Jay Lake, Ellen Klages, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 128 |
| Juggling Jobs: Survival Tips for the Beginning Writer |
| The delicate balance of job, family, and being a writer or artist. Assuming one has to have some income, is there a right kind of day job for writers? |
| Bruce Taylor, Rob Vagle, Ken Scholes, Leslie What, Mary Robinette Kowal, |
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| 1 hours | Salon E Table 1 | 129 |
| Dressing Your Inner Pirate |
| Pirates are HOT HOT HOT right now even if you are not sea fare. Budget pirate and more for those of you with sewing skills. |
| Andrea Letourneau, Brenna Sharp, Louise Owen, |
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| 1 hours | Salon E Table 2 | 130 |
| Should We Clone Jesus? What About Lincoln? |
| What would the social and political implications be of bringing great historical figures back to life? |
| Elton Elliott, |
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| 1 hours | Salon G | 131 |
| Millions for Special Effects - Not one cent for writers |
| Why do so many SF and Fantasy productions squander huge sums on eye candy while failing to put together a halfway decent story? Why is it apparently easier to create images of exploding galaxies than it is to write a good script about why it's happening? Why are good stories (like Earthsea) mangled when they're turned into movies? |
| Clyde Lewis, Michael DeMeritt, John C. Bunnell, phyllis irene radford, Aaron Duran, Scott Dally, |
| Saturday 4:30 pm |
| 2.5 hours | Mt. Hood | 132 |
| Susan Petrey Auction |
| The Susan C. Petrey Auction is a fund-raiser and the money is used to continue the 2 annual scholarships to Clarion Writers' Workshop and Clarion West. The scholarship is named after Susan C. Petrey, the Portland Hugo and Campbell-nominated writer, fan and friend. Susan herself was accepted to Clarion in 1978, but could not attend when her car died. When she died suddenly in 1980, Portland fans collected money to start the scholarship. The major source of income for the Scholarship Fund is the benefit auctions held at Portland conventions. |
| Debbie Cross, |
| Saturday 5:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Eugene | 133 |
| Homo Sapiens 5.06b |
| Where are we going with the genome and stem cell research? The news talks about what kind of good stuff could come of this ... genetic diseases cured, depression gone, fat? But what comes with it. Can you design a human who will love flipping burgers all their life for pennies? |
| Tara K Harper, Jim Kling, David W. Goldman, Mike Shepherd Moscoe, |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 134 |
| Computer Viruses Then and Now |
| What has changed from the day of Melissa, Chernobyl and Michelangelo to the present and how do you keep your computers virus free. |
| Michael Pearce, Ben Yalow, Frank Hayes, Michael Ehart, Dave Slusher, |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 135 |
| Will Aliens Follow First Contact Rules? |
| What are the rules of first contact? Do aliens know about them? Have we already committed etiquette mistakes? How might we respond if they try to "help" us by removing our polluting industries, or if they want to reduce our population to a sustainable level? How might the rest of humanity respond if aliens choose a single nation, say the United States, or France, China or even Iran to share their advanced technology with? |
| Clyde Lewis, Jerry Oltion, Elton Elliott, Laura Majerus, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 136 |
| Today`s Social Issues in Far Future Societies |
| Why do so many SF and fantasy stories feature people who think and act just like people in the society the writer is currently living in? Why do far future societies end up grappling with the same social issues as current society while ancient societies feature modern social elements? Is it all due to lack of imagination, or what??? |
| L. Pierce Ludke, Marilyn Holt, Richard A. Lovett, Michael A. Martin, Don Parris, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 137 |
| MMORPG D&D on Steroids? |
| MMORPG D&D on steroids or something better |
| Gene Armstrong, Bobbie DuFault, |
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| 1 hours | Salon G | 138 |
| Liftport |
| Space Elevator |
| Joe Julian, |
| Saturday 6:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Eugene | 139 |
| The Myth of the Intelligent Machine |
| Our sci-fi writers and scientists team up to discuss the real and imagined future of robots and androids and the limits of machine intelligence with regard to concepts of free will, consciousness, etc. |
| David W. Goldman, Rick Lindsley, Dave Slusher, Michael A. Martin, Don Parris, |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 140 |
| Magick Or Technology |
| Do we have to choose one or the other?
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| Judith R. Conly, Jean Lamb, William B McDermott, Andrew Nisbet, |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 141 |
| The Return of the Hero |
| An end of the flawed hero and the rebirth of Myth in film, television, and graphic literature.
All our heroes have grown dark. As global events grew more and more catastrophic, the need for a hero to fix things, regardless of the cost, rose up to keep us safe. Yet, we did nothing but create a spandex-clad Frankenstein’s Monster… Caring little for the innocent and ignoring the hope, hope that we bestowed upon them. Yet, the trend on the horizon of all popular media, from film to comics, is revealing that the public is again crying out for the ideal hero. While there will always be a place for Batman, the world needs Superman. We no longer wish to observe the sad fall of Anakin Skywalker; instead, we demand the redemptive powers of his son, Luke. We are tired of watching and reading the tarnished exploits of our heroes when we, ourselves, live in a world of grays.
Our panel will bring to light to returning trend of the pure hero… From all angles of popular media, but with a strong focus on Film and Television .
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| Clyde Lewis, Aaron Duran, |
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| 1 hours | Salem | 142 |
| Reading by Mary Rosenblum |
| A reading by Mary Rosenblum |
| Mary Rosenblum, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 143 |
| SETI and Quantum Computers |
| Dareth Murray and Bob McGowan present a fun technical discussion, that will stretch your imagination.
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| Bob McGown, |
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| 1 hours | Salon G | 144 |
| Night Of The Living Dead Fan-After Hours At The Con |
| What goes on at a convention after the sane folk hit the sack. Representatives from Security, Hospitality and Night Operations reveal secrets and tell tall tales of room parties gone wrong, "snipe" hunts and maybe the occasional drunken streaker. |
| Bobbie DuFault, Guy Letourneau, Dan Dubrick, David Lohkamp, Gene Armstrong, |
| Saturday 7:00 pm |
| 2 hours | Mt. Hood | 145 |
| Movie Updates - What`s NEW!! |
| In depth look at the films of the next 3-5 years including Star Trek 11, Indiana Jones 4, AVP 2, the new Star Wars and Super hero Projects and much more. Question and answer will also be a part of the show, |
| Gareth Von Kallenbach, |
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| 2 hours | Salon E | 146 |
| Masquerade |
| The Masquerade |
| Saturday 8:00 pm |
| 2 hours | Portland | 147 |
| Doctor Frankenstein`s Character Laboratory |
| Are your villains one-dimensional? Are your heroes too good to be true? Do your men reason like women or vice versa? Do all your characters think and react the way you do? Most of us are guilty of one or more of the above, even though we know agents and editors choose stories populated by three-dimensional, flawed, true-to-life characters. What to do? Join James Rapson and Craig English in an exploration of the roots of the human psyche—the volatile fuel of motivation that sends a character careening through a story or novel. Pour it in, type as fast as you can, and hang on for the ride! |
| Craig English, Jim Rapson, |
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| 4 hours | Salon G | 148 |
| Camarilla LARP |
| Live Action Role Play with the Camarilla |
| Saturday 9:00 pm |
| 2 hours | Mt. Hood | 149 |
| Chocolate Auction |
| What the heck is a Chocolate Auction? Orycon will host a Volunteer Auction and the bidding will all be done in Special Chocolate! 'Okay', you say 'where do I get all this chocolate? Can I just bring my own?' Well of course not how would our Charities benefit from that? We will have a special chocolate available for sale at Orycon. The pieces will sell for 1.00 each piece. If you eat it you can’t bid with it so be sure to buy extra for yourself. Now the way this works is like any other servitude auction. You bid against each other using the chocolate instead of funny money. What you are bidding for is to spend an hour in public space with a volunteer. You can talk, dance, or anything else that is not considered illegal. The whole point of this auction is to raise some funds for our Charities and to offer you the convention member an opportunity to meet new people and perhaps to see the con with a new perspective. This is a fun activity that allows participants to potentially see a different side of fandom. This year one half the money collected will go to the Endeavour Awards and the other half will go into an account to be used to bid to bring the 2011 Worldcon to the Pacific Northwest. Both our charities are non-profits and a letter for tax purposes can be made available. |
| Hans Johnson, Bobbie DuFault, |
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| 2 hours | Salon E | 150 |
| Heather Alexander in Concert |
| Our own Heather Alexander in a fabulous NOT TO BE MISSED concert that will both surprise and baffle you! |
| Heather Alexander, |
| Saturday 10:00 pm |
| 2 hours | Eugene | 151 |
| Pagan Circle |
| Circle |
| David Lohkamp, Louise Owen, |
| Saturday 11:00 pm |
| 5 hours | Columbia | 152 |
| Moderated Chaos |
| Open mic filking |
| Andrew Ross, Steven Dixon, |
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| 6 hours | Salon E | 153 |
| Saturday Night Dance |
| Saturday dance Time approximate, Dance will follow the Heather Alexander Concert |
| Saturday 11:30 pm |
| 1 hours | Portland | 154 |
| Midnight Erotica Readings |
| Adult materials - moderator will make sure all participants are over 18 - Bring a piece to share from one of your favorite stories. |
| Theresa Reed, Rhiannon Louve, Dianna Rodgers, |
| Sunday 9:00 am |
| 1 hours | Salon E | 155 |
| Morning Martial Arts |
| Get your blood moving and your brain working as you work on your basic or combatitive skills. |
| Rory Miller, Sonia Lyris, |
| Sunday 10:00 am |
| 2 hours | Eugene | 156 |
| Anxious to Please: 7 Revolutionary Practices for the Chronically Nice |
| Imagine a condition that affects a huge portion of the population, a condition that causes severe anxiety and depression, cripples self-esteem, and undermines and destroys relationships. The condition described here is not drug addiction, schizophrenia, or a career in politics. It is chronic Niceness. This workshop examines the underlying psychological and cultural dynamics that have created an epidemic of Nice People, women and men who have great difficulty pursuing what they want, who are struggling to find an assertive strength that they can integrate with compassion. This workshop offers seven revolutionary practices for transforming the anxiety that permeates the emotions and relationships of the Nice Person. These practices are practical and designed for use in a person’s daily life. They promote a happy and calm emotional life, a greater sense of self-esteem, and healthy, soulful relationships. |
| Craig English, Jim Rapson, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 157 |
| Archery for Authors |
| Come learn from a 30 year veteran of traditional archery what's possible, what cool gadgets and tricks really do work, how archery looks and sounds both individually and battlefield, look at bows and arrows and how they're made, learn common errors and how to portray archery and archers believably. Lots of time for questions and demonstrations! |
| Mir Plemmons, |
| Sunday 11:00 am |
| 1 hours | Medford | 158 |
| Military SF and the Future |
| Military SF is a mainstay of the genre, but how does it keep up when the basics of warfare are being transformed between our eyes. What will change? What will stay the same? Which of the high tech weapons will find a permanent place in the soldier’s pack ... and which will be as short lived as the steam-powered submarine or the fighter-carrying dirigible? How does the writer decide? |
| Mike Shepherd Moscoe, Steve Perry, David Lohkamp, Norman E. Hartman, Andrew Nisbet, |
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| 1 hours | Mt. Hood | 159 |
| STAR TREK: FROM IDEA TO EDITOR IN 14 DAYS |
| How do they do it? Seven days of preparation, seven days of shooting, and never a day of rest (except the so called weekend). Explore the production process with Star Trek Assistant Director Michael DeMeritt and discover what happens to your script once it enters the grinder of scheduling. Though the seminar focuses on Star Trek, this is the reality for almost every one-hour dramatic TV show out there, 14 days. That’s all you get. |
| Michael DeMeritt, Av/Tech/Panel Needs, |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 160 |
| When the Sky Falls |
| Melinda Hutson, Jerry Oltion, Clyde Lewis, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 161 |
| Digging into Doctorow – |
| A survey and discussion of the science fiction and fantasy of Orycon`s Author Guest of Honor, Cory Doctorow, with digressions into his work for Boing-Boing, Wired Magazine, Locus, etc. |
| Jerry Kaufman, Eileen Gunn, Jack William Bell, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 162 |
| Dr. Seuss: Gateway to SF? |
| The late 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? |
| Mir Plemmons, L. Pierce Ludke, Shauna McKain-Storey, |
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| 2 hours | Salon G | 163 |
| The Wounded Beast: Muscles, Ligaments, |
| Kathy Hearl, Av/Tech/Panel Needs, Tara K Harper, |
| Sunday 12:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Eugene | 164 |
| Classic Filk |
| Small group concert of old favorites |
| Frank Hayes, Cecilia Eng, |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 165 |
| Pagan 101 |
| Who are those people in the funny clothes and what do they do all night? |
| Joseph D. Carriker, Jr., Sean Troupe, |
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| 1 hours | Mt. Hood | 166 |
| Believable and Lovable Evil |
| How do you write believable villains without your villains taking over your story? Can you make them evil and still lovable? |
| Mary Rosenblum, Steve Perry, David D. Levine, phyllis irene radford, Alma Alexander, |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 167 |
| Girls in Space |
| What special or even day-to-day items are unique to women and how will they deal with them in space? How will women and men go on extended journeys together? What rules might be necessary (not just in terms of social interaction and sexual practices, but just in terms of basic practical living)? Is an all-male, all-female, or co-ed team the best choice for an extended jaunt into space. |
| Amy Thomson, Jean Lamb, Rhiannon Louve, Judith R. Conly, Joe Julian, |
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| 1 hours | Salem | 168 |
| Make Your Own Constitution |
| Guy Letourneau, Av/Tech/Panel Needs, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 169 |
| The Great Writers Blog |
| Blogging -- everyone's doing it! And blogs are a great way for writers to chronicle their creative process and track their progress, interact with fans and other writers, and get free publicity. So, what are the keys to a great writer's blog? Come to this panel and listen to some veteran "bloggers" talk about what they've learned. |
| Dave Slusher, Cory Doctorow, Jay Lake, Mary Robinette Kowal, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 170 |
| Japanese Space Program, History, Current, and Future an Overview. |
| Japan has an extensive program. Come hear how they started, where they are now and what they have planned. |
| Dan Dubrick, |
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| 3 hours | Salon E | 171 |
| Art Auction |
| Betty Bigelow, Michael DeMeritt, |
| Sunday 1:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Eugene | 172 |
| The Good, the Bad, and the Putrid: Getting Beyond Llewellyn |
| New Age and Wiccan books, Spiritual Self-Help, and the horrors of Llewellyn Press. When it comes to spirituality, how much of an optimist was Ted Sturgeon? How do you sort out the good stuff from all the rest of it? When you write about it how do you prevent yourself from creating a cult? |
| Louise Owen, Joseph D. Carriker, Jr., David Lohkamp, Blythe Ayne, Ph.D., |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 173 |
| Rainfurrest Q and A |
| Q and A on Rainfurrest |
| Gene Armstrong, |
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| 1 hours | Mt. Hood | 174 |
| Are Klingons More Fun? |
| In any series, when the 'bad guys' are a lot more interesting than the 'good guys,' isn't that a big glaring sign for all the actors, writers and directors that they're doing something wrong? |
| Jim Colvill, Rick Lindsley, Steve Perry, Tara K Harper, Don Parris, Guy Letourneau, |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 175 |
| The Making of A Fan Film |
| How to make your own films and what to do with them when you are done. In this digital age the web might be a great way to get your work seen! |
| Edward Martin III, Clyde Lewis, Aaron Duran, Vincent DiFate, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 176 |
| 21st Century Snake Oil -- Junk Science and Infomercials |
| It must be true, I saw it on the Internet. How has pseudo-science infected popular culture lately? How does this kind of charlatanism interfere with progress and rational discourse? Are there things we can do to counter the untruths that are spread around? |
| Jack William Bell, Judy Lazar, Jim Kling, Bill Sattler, Michael Pearce, Marilyn Holt, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 177 |
| Song-Writing Workshop |
| From the basic filk song to original tunes, writing music to match the mood of the words, writing words to match the music. |
| Tania Opland, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Mike Freeman, Steven Dixon, |
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| 1 hours | Salon G | 178 |
| In the Beginning was the Story; How to Begin Your Story |
| Do you have to "start with the action." What if action ain’t the center piece of your book, what do you start with then? What else can you do to give your story legs and get people hooked on your tale and flipping pages right through to the end? Learn some more tricks of the trade from this contentious but well-meaning panel. |
| Ellen Klages, Honna Swenson, William B McDermott, Theresa Reed, Richard A. Lovett, |
| Sunday 2:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Eugene | 179 |
| Another Worldcon in the West 2008 |
| All you want to know about Denver in 2008 |
| Ruth Sachter, Patty Wells, |
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| 2 hours | hospitality | 180 |
| PorSFiS Chocolate tasting and Raffel |
| Chocolate tasting and Raffel |
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| 1 hours | Medford | 181 |
| No, Really, That Makes Sense |
"Our distinguished panel of experts explains why certain widely-seen SF and fantasy elements that seem absurd actually have legitimate explanations.
Come hear why it makes sense for barbarian sword babes to wear chain-mail bikinis, why computers on starships never crash or lock up with indecipherable error messages, and why male scientists in SF are always really good looking guys who are irresistable to brilliant, beautiful women." |
| Michael Ehart, Rhiannon Louve, Sonia Lyris, Richard A. Lovett, |
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| 1 hours | Mt. Hood | 182 |
| Are You Really a Writer? |
| When does a "writer" become a professional? What is the threshold by which one distinguishes a "pro" from a wannabe? |
| David D. Levine, Steve Perry, Greg Gorden, Jerry Oltion, |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 183 |
| Social Interaction on the Internet |
| Everybody seems to be doing it; blogging, My Space, instant messaging - is this the best way to keep track of family, friends and the daily going on's in your community in our digital age? |
| Cory Doctorow, Dave Slusher, Rick Lindsley, William B McDermott, |
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| 1 hours | Salem | 184 |
| Technology Gone Bad |
| This panel will brainstorm ideas of technology that can go bad enough to be the basis for your next horror story. From The Terminator to Demon Seed to the collected works of David Cronenberg, from Faust to Frankenstein, we have so many examples of how knowledge without wisdom, intelligence without empathy, can lead to… great stories. |
| Howard Davidson, Tara K Harper, David W. Goldman, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 185 |
| Onions and Orchids |
| Come let us know what you think of what we have done for this Orycon. |
| Bobbie DuFault, Mary Olsen, Gene Armstrong, John Williamson, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 186 |
| The Economics of Immortality |
| When the nanotech breakthrough cures aging and raises life expectancy to 150 years (or more), where will the money for Social Security come from? What new industries will arise to meet the needs of post-seniors? What will cities look like when we become a society of shoppers and tourists? How will we afford iPods for all the great-great-great-grandchildren? |
| Laura Majerus, Mary Hobson, Cheryl Scott, Elton Elliott, Jim Kling, |
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| 1 hours | Salon G | 187 |
| Love, Romance, Dark Passion and Crossing the Genre Lines |
| Enjoy a little romance in your SF and fantasy reading? Where does one genre end and the other begin? The blurring between romance and SF/fantasy continues apace, as romance publishers launch new "paranormal" and "supernatural" imprints and SF/fantasy editors seek the same type of story. |
| Theresa Reed, Mary Rosenblum, phyllis irene radford, Mary Robinette Kowal, Kara Dalkey, |
| Sunday 3:00 pm |
| 1 hours | Eugene | 188 |
| End the Con Filk Circle |
| End teh Con, Filk circle |
| Steven Dixon, |
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| 1 hours | Mt. Hood | 189 |
| Libraries of the Future: From Science Fiction to Reality |
| Libraries must constantly adapt to new technologies. How close are we likely to get to the science fictional concepts of future libraries? |
| Cory Doctorow, Michael Ehart, Laura Majerus, Bill Sattler, David W. Goldman, |
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| 1 hours | Portland | 190 |
| For Beginning Writers: How to Get Started as a Writer |
| Writers of all ages just starting: a how-to presentation for aspiring young writers, covering the basics - submission, marketing, what not to do, and what the business is really about. |
| Edd Vick, Bruce Taylor, Jay Lake, Mike Shepherd Moscoe, Kate Schaefer, |
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| 1 hours | Salon A | 191 |
| How to Write About Something You Know Nothing About |
| The joys of research. How much detail is enough to sound credible without bogging down the story. How to avoid "facts" that are irrelevant or inaccurate. How to become an instant expert in time to meet an editorial deadline. |
| Greg Gorden, Theresa Reed, Mary Robinette Kowal, Sara A. Mueller, |
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| 1 hours | Salon B | 192 |
| Before you Mail That Story Off; What you Need to Know |
| Are one-inch margins and Courier font required? Do you need to include return postage? What does the editor need from the writer? What will make the editor more likely to discard a manuscript before they get to the first word? When you get the story back (and you will), what do you do next? |
| John C. Bunnell, Mary Hobson, phyllis irene radford, Mary Rosenblum, |
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| 1 hours | Salon G | 193 |
| Remakes, Reimaginings, & Resurgences |
| Panelists discuss the recent crop of new TV and Movies based on previous versions. We look at what has been done right and wrong on TV series such as Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who to movies like Batman Begins, War of the Worlds, and the Amityville Horror. Can narrow discussion to only TV or movies. |
| David D. Levine, James Fiscus, Elizabeth Fellows, Scott Dally, |