ARCHON 27 Pocket Programming Schedule
Thursday,
Oct 2, 2003
5:00 PM
Art Show Opens (GC - Great Rivers BR A)
Ren Fair Costuming (GC - Marquette A) Tom Gambino, Karen McFerran, Nancy
Mildebrandt, Geoffrey Pruitt
Basic Stage Make-Up
Workshop (GC - Mississippian) Margaret Blakesley, Patrick
Johnson, Nancy Mildebrandt
Behind the Scenes: What makes Archon run – An interactive panel
(GC – Illini B) Beth Bancroft
Children's Programming
Opens (GC - Cahokian)
6:00PM
Theatrical Costuming (GC Marquette A) Sheila
Lenkman, Cathy Swope
Beauty and the Beast
Makeup Demo - Tanya and
Tricia use Mary Kay cosmetics to reveal your inner beauty...or your inner
beast. (GC - Marquette B)
Tricia
Overkamp, Tanya Soeder
What Can be Done to
Improve Sci-Fi Channel (GC - Illini A) Russ Bullman
7:00PM
Opening Ceremonies (GC - Mississippian)
Media Recreation Costuming
Resources (GC - Marquette A) Bruce Mai, Nancy Mildebrandt
Video I & II Open (HI - St. Clair A&B)
8:00PM
Artists Reception (GC - Great Rivers BR A)
What Is the Archon
Masquerade (GC - Marquette A) Sheila Lenkman, Scott Corwin, and
the Masquerade Crew
Introducing Majestic 12
Games - Majestic Twelve Games, a small press game company
based in Denver CO. (Formerly located in Bloomington IL) Founded by Dan Kast.
Majestic Twelve Games Publishes Starmada, ARES, and Pod Racing board game. (GC - Marquette B) Dan Kast & Majestic
Twelve Games Staff
History of Costume Fandom (GC - Mississippian) Carl
Mami, Elaine Mami, Pierre Pettinger, Sandy Pettinger
Making Cover for Table Top
Terrain (GC - Illini A) Russ Bullman
Forgotten & Neglected Authors – Lost Classics I
Would Recommend (GC – Illini B) Jim Murray, John Brooks, Peter Bradley
9:00PM
What’s New at AEG
(GC - Marquette B) Boyd Kleen, Patrick Kapera, Rich Wulf, Nancy Berman
Writing Dialog – The do’s and don’ts of putting words in your characters
mouths (GC – Mississippian) Mike “Missouri” Smith, Dev Hanke, Dana Eilers,
Marella Sands
Office of Knomeland
Security Special Training Session - These are Troubled times for the nation
and for the Gaming Industry. Therefore we’re holding this special meeting to
make sure that the Brotherhood of Knomes, the elite spiritual order and game
demo team, keeps in training to defend this great nation (and our booze). The
Knights of Hex, as well as the minister of Knomeland Security, will be on hand
to help Knomes better understand how to fulfill their Duties and serve the cult
with pride. All past, present, and future Knomes are invited, as those who are
simply curious. (GC - Illini A) Hex Games Staff
Reading: The Great
Broadway Corpse Drive (GC - Illini B)
Vic Milan
10:00PM
Registration
Closes
Warm Your Feet Filk (HI – Executive 1) Gary Hanak, others
9:00AM
Gaming Starts (GC -Great Rivers BR B)
10:00AM
Art Show Opens (GC - Great Rivers BR A)
Archon Pit Crews – Active
Recruitment – An interactive panel (GC –
Illina A) Beth Bancroft
Understanding Fabrics and
Threads (GC - Illini B)
Karen Heim, Genie Hillen, Karen McFerran, Spike Norton, Sue Parent
11:00AM
Meet the Archon Costuming
Goh: Kenneth J. Hall (GC - Mississippian)
Gaming for Grownups:
Dread! Shock! Terror! The Secrets of Horror Role - Playing - Player Characters rarely get scared-and why should they?
They’re fearless warriors with hyper-intelligent bastard swords, or starship
commanders, or ancient vampires. Most PCs are, stable, healthy, and secure - but what fun is that? This panel explores
how GMs and players can work together to create the kind of genuinely spooky
game that people will talk about for years to come. (GC - Illini A) Hex Games Staff
Noon
Putting Your Hobby to Work - Ok, you have just completed hand painting your 6000th
figure depicting the Storming of the Bastille and you just been laid off from
your job, what do you do? (GC-
Marquette A) Shawn Carmen, Eddy Web, Cynthia Celeste-Miller
Video III Opens
(GC - Marquette B)
Reading (GC - Illini
A) Paula Murray
Sequined and Beaded
Costumes (GC - Illini B) Julia Hyll, Karen McFerran, Mary Morris,
Nancy Mildebrandt
What’s new this Season
(TV) (HI - Randolph)
Linda Wyatt, Susan Baugh
1:00PM
When Tomorrow becomes Today - Can SF stay one step ahead of the Technological/Social
curve or is the genre in danger of becoming a quaint literary relic? (GC- Marquette A) Henry Melton, Dawn O’Leary
SF&F Movies I Would Like
To See Made (GC - Mississippian) Tom Seymour, Jim Butcher
Gaming for Grownups: RPG
Super-Heroes VS. The Forces of Boredom
- Godlike human beings in colorful costumes battle the
forces of evil, while the whole world is hanging in the balance! When you get right down to it, the
super-hero genre is very straightforward in its approach, yet most of the time
super-hero games systems get bogged down in math and complex mechanics and lose
sight of the fun. Though you may not believe it, an RPG can recreate the thrill
of your favorite comic book. This panel will tell how and if, nothing else,
give you some tips for your own super-hero game. (GC - Illini A) Hex Games
Staff
Embroidery Effect for
Costumes (GC - Illini B) Susan Eisenhour, Karen Heim, Karen McFerran,
Ramona Taylor
Hugos, Nebulas, and
Cambells, oh My, Do the awards really mean anything? (HI - Calhoun ) Margene
Bahm, Bill Clemente, Les Haven, Lynda Wyatt
Its Ama-Zine! - Fanzines, E-Zines, and Semi-Pro Zines (HI - Randolph) Elizabeth
Barrette, Susan Baugh, Allison Stein, James Murray, Mike Marchi
2:00PM
Dealer's Room Opens (GC - Center Hall A)
Writing your First Novel (GC - Marquette A)
Michael Stackpole, Dana Eilers
Horror Writing –
When does the plot become horror or remain someone’s dark fantasy? (GC - Mississippian) Mike
Marchi, Allison Stein
Adhesives: Not Just for
Breakfast Anymore (GC - Illini A)
Kenneth J. Hall, Bruce Hinterleitner, Spike Norton, Chris Roth
Reading (GC - Illini B) Mark Tiedemann
Miniatures Painting (HI-Calhoun) Tai Mayford
Writing for a Licensed
Product (HI - Randolph) Cynthina Celeste-Miller, Shawn Carmen
Put Your Muscle Where Your Mouth Is… - An interactive panel
(HI – Madison A) Beth Bancroft
3:00PM
The Race for the Double
Helix 50 Years later (GC - Marquette A) Bill Clemente, Mark Tiedemann
Marketing Ones Self - Art (GC - Mississippian ) Butch Honeck, Bert
Chumley, David Deen
Children’s Programming:
Puppet Show - Part 1, Creating a Story (GC - Cahokian)
Reading: Valley of the
Pyramids - Sex in Ancient Egypt (GC
- Illini A) Dana Eilers
What is the Green Room? (GC - Illini B) Sheila Lenkman, Carl Mami, Elaine Mami, Ramona
Taylor
Mad Max’s Garage (HI – Madison A) John
Mitchell & Tony Parker describe their adventures in locating, obtaining,
and restoring the type of car used in the Mad Max movies, the Australian Ford
Interceptor.
4:00PM
Trans Iowa Canal Co.: The
League of Extraordinarily CrazyFhen (GC - LaSalle)
Marketing Ones Self -
Media (GC - Mississippian) Tom Seymour, Kenneth J. Hall
Children’s Programming:
Puppet Show - Part 2 Making Characters (GC - Cahokian)
Vehicle vs. Tenor
- Metaphor and simile allow us to say what we might otherwise be unable to say
because it would simply fall through the colander of customary language. A one
hour writing workshop exploring metaphor and simile through various writing
exercises and an explanation or two. (GC - Illini A) Laura LeHew
How to Influence Judges (GC - Illini B) Carl Mami,
Pierre Pettinger
What Makes a Good Fan (Hi - Clinton) Margene
Bahm, John Novak
What Cons Need on Web
Sites (HI - Randolph) Jim Murray
Autograph
Sessions: (GC - LaSalle Lobby) Dana Eilers
5:00PM
Filk Concert With Michael
“Moonwulf” Longcor (GC - LaSalle)
How to get Published (GC - Marquette A) Sandra Morrese, Michael Stackpole, Mark
Tiederman, Joey Froehlich, James Glass
Marketing Ones Self -
Writers (GC – Mississippian ) Dan Cope, Jim Butcher, Paula Helm
Murray
Living Rokugan Q & A
Session (CG - Illini A) Parvez
Yusufji
How do Fannish Traditions
get started? (GC- Illini B) Judi Cook, Tom Seymour
Computer Generated Art -
Equipment & Technique for Professional Results (HI – Madison A) David
Deen, John Kaufmann, Brent Chumley
Miniature Artist’s
Reception (Hi - Calhoun)
Behind the Blue Pencil: What Editors Really Do (HI - Madison A) Allison Stein, Dev Hanke, Elizabeth
Barrette
6:00PM
What’s New at AEG (GC - Marquette A) Boyd
Kleen, Patrick Kapera, Rich Wulf, Nancy Berman
LARP Panel (GC - Mississippian)
Interested in participating in Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) or just curious
about what LARP is? Then this panel is the place to start.
Building Olympus - How to
construct a Fictional Religion - It
can get touchy, writing about someone else's religion; and there isn't always
an existing one that fits a writer's needs. This panel will look at some well-made
examples of invented religions and discuss how a writer could go about
designing one. Examples would include Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of
Chalion and Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. (GC - Illini A) Elizabeth Barrette,
Dana Eilers, Dave Phelps
Tips for live performance (HI – Randolph) Michael
“Moonwulf” Longcor, Gary Hanak, Gail Glass, Sandra Morrese
Comics: Why Don't They Get
the Recognition they Deserve - In Europe and Asia, comics are considered
a respected art form, with broad audiences and diverse genres, so why do comics
have a hard time in the US gaining any sort of respect. (HI – Madison A) Russ
Bullman, Jim Bakke, Paul Daly
6:30PM
Do You Feel Taken
Advantage Of? – Are you the one who does everything?
Did you get that T-shirt? – An interactive panel (GC – Illini B) Beth Bancroft
7:00PM
Banquet/Theater - Mike “Missouri” Smith
presents Camelot 5 (GC – LaSalle Lobby) Banquet ticket holders only
Our Friends, the Cow &
Deer: Leather in Costuming (GC- Illini B) Patrick Johnson, Nora Mai, Nancy
Mildebrandt
Gaming Starts (HI
- Randolph)
8:00PM
Awards & GoH Speeches (GC – LaSalle Lobby) Open to all, immediately following the Banquet
Magic Spells and Ethics (GC - Illini A) M.R.
Sellars
Surviving In Costume (GC - Illini B) Chris
Roth, Spike Norton
"Mystery Host" PartyLite Party - Who's the host? It
could be YOU! Tricia Overkamp, Candle consultant will demonstrate PartyLite candles
and products. Door prizes and Host gifts awarded. Bring your credit card! (HI - Calhoun) Tricia Overkamp
9:00PM
Steganography,
Cryptography, and Al Qaeda - A prize-winning cryptographer gives a
beginner-oriented talk on cryptography, steganography, what kinds of codes Al
Qaeda has been using, and the media reports (true and false) about the same.
This is a fascinating talk that has been given to everyone from high school
students to CIA Headquarters, and is highly recommended! (GC - Marquette A) Elonka
Dunin
Anime: Its not all Giant
Robots and Magical Girls (GC - Mississippian) Russ Bullman, Peter Bradley
Gaming for Grownups: Game
Magic: Why it’s not, or, Why Alan Moore Should Smite Game Designers - In most games,
magic-using characters wander around hurling fireball and teleporting across
the globe. Really, though the
“flash-bang” style of magic found in most RPGs has ho preceden in real-world
magical tradition. Luckily, Hex staffers Leighton Connor and Steve Johnson are
Powerful Occultists, and are willing to share their keen insight with you, the
unenlightened. In this panel, you’ll find out how to make magic in your games
seem … well.. Magical (GC - Illini A) Hex Games Staff
Movement in Fur (GC - Illini B) Jack
Below, Susan Eisenhour, Nora Mai, Spike Norton, Chris Roth
Renaissance Cut and Thrust Sword – A demonstration and hands-on participation of an early 16th Century tTraining Exercise for the Single Sword. There is no contact in class, and practice eqipment will be provided. No swords, please. (HI - Madison A) Thomas Harmon
Open Filk with Michael “Moonwulf” Longcor and Gary Hanak (HI - Executive 1) Michael “Moonwulf” Longcor, Gary Hanak
10:00PM
Anime/Japanese Costuming (GC - Marquette A) Nancy
Mildebrandt, Jeff Morris, Mary Morris
East Meets West: How Are
St. Louis and KC Fandom Different? (GC - Mississippian) Donna Bakke, John Novak, Jim Murray, Paula Helm Murray, Judi Cook
7th Sea GM Question and
Answer Session (GC - IIlini A) Nancy Berman, Patrick Parrish
Reading (GC - Illini B) Joey Froehlich - The Mad Poet Reading
11:00PM
The Rocky Horror Picture Show Exposed!!!! Now it can be told (GC - Illini B) Russ Bullman
Midnight
Gaming
Closes (GC - Great Rivers BR B only, Gaming continues in Hotel
24 hrs)
9:00AM
Registration Opens
Gaming Starts (GC - Great Rivers B)
10:00AM
Video III Opens (GC - Marquette B)
Gofers, Grunts, or
Otherwise (GC - Mississippian) Beth Bancroft
Children's Programming
Opens (GC - Cahokian) Creative Silliness
Gaming for Grownups:
Q&A or Players' Choice: The Panel - Most RPG panels are about something
specific: how to create game worlds, how to run a certain genre, or how great
Company X’s new product is. If that’s what you want to learn more about, these
panels are great. But wouldn’t be great if someone would do the very exact
panel you want? Much like Hex’s Players’ Choice games, the Gaming for Grownups:
Q&A panel invites the audience to tell us what they want. If you’ve got a
nagging question about or recurring problems with any aspect of role-playing,
bring it to the Q&A Panel and we’ll try to Help. (GC - Illini A) Hex Games Staff
Boy, I'll Never do that
Again! Costuming Horror Stories with a Lesson (GC - Illini B) Joanie Knappenberger, Melissa Knappenberger, Carl Mami,
Eaine Mami, Pierre Pettinger
Dr. Who Panel
- Celebrate 40 years in the TARDIS with the St. Louis Celestial Intervention
Agency (CIA), who are celebrating 20 years in theirs. Sort out those film
rumors, find out what is up with cast, the books, the audio’s and more! (HI -
Calhoun) Rob Levy
Personal Computers - 2013 - 3D displays? Molecular hard drives, stable and secure MS Windows? Our panel tries to imagine the PC 10 years from now. (HI - Madison A) Henry Melton, Jim Bakke, John Kaufmann, Allison Stein
11:00AM
Meet the Goh (GC
- LaSalle) Michael Stackpole
Telling a Story with Pictures (GC - Mississippian) Allison Stein, Mike Cole, Jim Bakke,
John Kaufmann
Chainmail & Armor:
Making It, Faking It (GC - Illini B) Bruce Hinterleitner, Patrick Johnson,
Bruce Mai, Spike Norton
Gun Shot Special Effect
Demo- Ever wonder just how much work goes in to those
incredible gun battles you see in the movies? Professional special effects
artists show what it takes to setup and execute just one these special effects.
(GC - Lawn) J.D. Streett, Tom Seymour
Red Dwarf Panel Find out what's new with the Red Dwarf crew. What’s up with
the DVDs & the Red Dwarf movie? (HI - Calhoun) Rob Levy
Flotilla
13 Writers and Artist Group Open Reading Session (HI - Randolph)
Archon 2007 NASFiC Bid Progress Report (HI - Madison A) Rich Zellich, Michelle Zellich, Jim Murray, Margene Bahm
Noon
Mandatory Masquerade
Meeting (GC - Center Hall B) Sheila Lenkman, Scott Corwin, and the Masquerade Crew
What Makes A Good Computer
Game (GC – Marquette A) Russ Bullman, Elonka
Dunin, Nancy Berman
British TV Fest - A sampling of what is
on the UK telly (GC - Marquette B)
Gaming and Satanism: The
Attempt by the Right to Censor Games (GC - Mississippian) Michael Stackpole
Gaming for Grownups: RPG
Super-Heroes vs. the Forces of Boredom (GC - Illini A) Hex Games
Staff
Researching Out a Viking
Costume (GC - Illini B)
Gail Glass
Good SF for Young Children (HI - Calhoun) Bill
Clemente, Sandra Morrese
Reading - Death Masks (new Dresden
Files novel) (HI - Randolph) Jim Butcher
Legend of the Five Rings: Storyline Q&A Session (HI - Madison A) Rich
Wulf, Shawn Carmen, Seth Mason
Autograph Sessions (GC - LaSalle Lobby) Sharon Shinn, Mark Tiedemann, Vic Milan
1:00pm
Meet Andreas Katsulas -
Q&A (GC - LaSalle) Andreas Katsulas
Name That Movie! (GC - Marquette A) Les Haven
Charity
Auction (GC - Mississippian)
The Digital Artist at Work (GC - Illini A) Artist John Kaufmann
demonstrates the techniques and equipment he uses to create art on the
computer.
Recycling Costume &
Adapting them for Re-Use (GC -Illini B) Susan Eisenhour, Kenneth J. Hall, Nacy
Mildebrandt
Legend of the Five Rings:
GM Q&A Session (HI - Madison
A) Rich Wulf, Shawn Carmen, Seth Mason, Parvez Yusufji
Autograph Sessions (GC - LaSalle Lobby) Michael Stackpole
2:00PM
Meet Julie Caitlin Brown -
Q&A (GC - LaSalle)
From Yellow Legal Pad to Published
Book (GC - Marquette A)
Steven
Burgauer
Children’s Programming
(GC - Cahokian) Drawing With Keith Berdak
What’s New at Steve Jackson Games (GC - Illini A) Mark Schmidt
Translating Art into Costume (GC- Illini B) Spike Norton, Pierre
Pettinger, Sandy Pettinger, Chris Roth
Hacking: Fact &
Fiction - From Wargames
to Operation Swordfish to Matrix 2, hackers and their techniques
are a big part of popular culture. How much is true, and how much is Hollywood
hype? Come to this panel to learn how much is accurate, or to share your own
stories or observations about the hacking scene. (HI - Calhoun)
Elonka Dunin
Reading (HI - Randolph) Michael Stackpole
Conversations with Pagans
(HI - Madison A) Dana Eilers
Autograph Sessions (GC - LaSalle Lobby) M.R. Sellars
2:30 PM
Team Phantasm Pro-Robo Demo (GC - Lawn) Team Phantasm
demonstrates their latest creation “Phantasm II”, come find out what it takes
to keep up with the big boys in the Robo Wars arena.
3:00PM
Julie Caitlin Brown in Concert (GC - LaSalle) Julie Caitlin Brown
Oxonmoot Adventure Slide Show - Oxonmoot is the third and largest annual gathering of the
Tolkien Society. Held in the college and town of Oxford, England in late
September, it brings together all fans of J.R.R Tolkien and Middle Earth. Local
author Marella Sands attended this year’s convention and brings us her unique
report on all things Tolkien. (GC -
Marquette A) Marella Sands
Headpieces, Wigs &
Hats (GC - Illini A) Margaret Blakesley, Joanie Knappenberger
Melissa Knappenberger, Nora Mai, Nancy Mildebrandt, Cathy Swope
Fan Photography &
Video (GC - Illini B)
Kerry Gilley, Carl Mami, Pierre Pettinger
Survival Guide for Miniature Painting Contests (HI – Calhoun) Tai
Mayford
Is it all just starships
and powered armor - Is there anything new in military SF? From “Burning Dem Bugs” to
launching photon torpedo salvos, have we used just about up all the original
ideas? (HI - Randoplh) Les Haven, Mark Tiedemann, James Glass, Michael
Stackpole
Autograph Sessions (GC - LaSalle Lobby) Steven Burgauer, Jim Butcher
4:00PM
Guardians of the Realm (GC - Marquette A)
J.D.Streett & Tom Seymour discuss their latest work on this independent
film.
Lost Wax Casting (GC - Mississippian) Butch
Honeck
Sculpted Costumes (GC - Illini A) Kenneth J. Hall
Things That Make You Go
"Oomph!"": Macrostructured Costumes (GC - Illini B) Susan
Eisenhour, Dana Hinterleitner, Joanie Knappenberger, Melissa Knappenberger,
Bruce Mai, Mark Rowley, Jeannie Sauer, Michelle Sauer
Forming and Utilizing
Critique Groups (HI -Calhoun) Rett MacPherson, Marella Sands, Debbie
Millitello
Hatching the Cuckoo's Egg:
Changelings and Lost Children in Speculative Fiction - If you think it's hard trying to raise an infant of your own
species, try raising someone else's! This motif abounds in both science fiction
and fantasy, providing everything from a casual plot twist to the main event.
Examples would include Harry Turtledove's Colonization series and Andre
Norton's Elvenbane. (HI
- Randoplh) Elizabeth Barrette, Elonka
Dunin
SF Trivia Contest - So you think you know
everything about SF? (HI- Madison A) Byron Kerman
Cyd Donaldson & Ron
Spruell 11th Anniversary Recommitment (HI - Courtyard) (Theme is “Men in Black” -
Anyone who shows up in MIB uniform can stand in line)
Autograph Sessions (GC - LaSalle Lobby) James Glass, Joey Froelich
5:00PM
Masquerade Green Room
opens: (GC – LaSalle & LaSalle Lobby) Closed to Public
Art
Auction Starts (GC – Great Rivers BR A)
Independent Film Making (GC - Marquette A) Kenneth
J. Hall
Special Effects Show Reel Archon alumni and professional special effects professionals show
how they create the magic in the movies. (GC - Mississippian) J.D. Streett, Tom
Seymour
Small Press Publishing -
The Micro-Breweries of the Written Word
(GC - Illini A) Les Haven, Joey Froehlich, Mark
Tiedemann
Stargate SG-1 GM Q&A (GC - Illini B) Oliver
Clayton
British Media - What’s Happening now? - Everything else we didn't cover, an amalgam of other
Brit. media favorites, including Blake’s 7, Hitchhiker’s, The Prisoner, British
comics, films and more. (HI - Calhoun) Rob Levy
Miniatures
Judging (HI – Monroe) Judges only
Small Talk (HI
- Randolph) Michelle Zellich
SF&F Movies I Am
Afraid To Admit I Really Like
(HI – Madison A) Sandra Morrese, Gail Glass, John Novak, Bill Clemente
6:00PM
Dealers Room Closes
Team Phantasm: DARPA Grand Challenge
and Beyond - Warren Williams and Team Phantasm discusses their year
on the Pro-Robo Wars circuit and their entry in to one the most challenging autonomous ground vehicle races yet. (GC- Marquette A)
Warren Williams, Team Phantasm
Action
Figure Roundtable (GC – Illini A) Byron Kerman
Kryptos and the Cyrillic Projector - In the early 1990s, two encrypted sculptures were created
by Washington DC artist Jim Sanborn. One, called Kryptos, was created for the
CIA, and parts of it continue to stump code-breakers to this day. Another,
called the Cyrillic Projector, had encrypted messages about KGB operations. The
decade-old Cyrillic Projector Code was recently cracked, by a team that was led
by Elonka Dunin. Come hear her describe how the code was cracked, what it said,
and how it might help with solving the remaining part of the CIA's Kryptos
Code! (GC - Mississippian) Elonka Dunin
The Deeper We Look, the Stranger it Gets - Recent Discoveries in Astronomy (GC - Illini B) Tom Seymour, Steve Burgauer, James Glass, Gary Hanak
Reading – Bissell Point (HI – Randolph) Mike “Missouri” Smith
Forgotten & Neglected Authors: Lost, Strayed, Misplaced (HI – Randolph) M.R. Sellars, Sandra Morrese, Glen Cook, Jim Bakke
SF & F in Academia (HI – Madison A) Tom Shippey, Peter Bradley
7:00PM
Gaming Starts (HI
- Randolph)
8:00PM
Grand Masquerade Starts (GC - Center Hall B)
9:00PM
10:00PM
Sex Toys of the Future - Join our
distinguished panel for a review of sex toys of the past, present and, how do
you say…ah, yes – Future. (GC - Mississippian) Elizabeth Barrette, Bennie
Grezlik, M.R. Sellars
Open Filk (as soon as
the Grand Masquerade ends) (HI - Executive 1) Michael “Moonwulf” Longcor, Gary Hanak, The Great
Luke Ski
11:00PM
Knome Services - As usual, Hex Games
will be holding Knome Services - including a Knome Baptism and the Knome High
Mass - at Archon this year. The Knome Baptism unites all of Knowmish kind.
Baptism is the gateway through which eager beginners must pass so that they
might emerge as true, full-bodied Knomes. The Knome High Mass allows Knomes to
reaffirm their Knomehood and renew their pledge of loyalty. Only baptized
Knomes may take communion. The general public is invited. Knomes are required
to attend. (HI - Pool)
Midnight
Gaming
Closes (GC - Great Rivers BR B only, Gaming continues in Hotel
24 hrs)
10:00AM
Dealers Room Opens (GC
- Center Hall A)
Art Show Opens (GC
- Great Rivers BR A)
Video III Opens (GC
- Marquette B)
Children's Programming
Opens (GC - Cahokian)
How to Find Out of Print
Books (GC - Illini A) Les Haven, Joey Froehlich
FanFic - Wild, Wonderful
and just Plain Weird! - From Anime to
TV shows, some fans get can’t get enough of the original work. Whether they are
creating the ideal sequel or travelling down some forbidden path this panel
looks the semi-legitimate world known as FAN FICTION! (GC - Illini B) Donna Bakke, Peter Bradley, Cindi Gille-Rowley
11:00AM
God, the Universe and You (GC
- LaSalle) Dan Stratmann
Limos and Super Models or a Pickup and Beanie-Weenies with
the Cat, The Not So Glamorous Lives of Pro Authors and Artists (GC - Mississippian) Michael
Stackpole, Butch Honeck
Meet the Alternate Historians (GC - Illini A) Marella Sands, Rett MacPherson, Debora
Millitello
King Tut Sept Here or.. Or did He? How important is Research
and Historical Accuracy when you're writing Fiction? (GC- Illini B) Keith
Berdak, Steve Lopata, Mark Tiedemann, Rett MacPherson
2004 - Is Big Brother Arriving 20 Years Late - 24 X 7 surveillance, secret trails, random searches, war
without end. George Orwells bleak future? No…The United States 2004. (HI -
Calhoun) Keith Berdak, Allison Stein, Tom Meserole, Henry Melton
Noon
St. Louis Costumers Guild Open Meeting/Annual Election (GC - Marquette A) Open to all
USA2013 – Our panel tries to predict life in the US ten years from
now; will we be a tech utopia or the incompetent empire? (GC – Mississippian)
Carolyn Ives Gilman, John Brooks, Jim Butcher, Bill Clemente
Magical Detectives
(GC - Illini B) Jim Butcher, Glen Cook, Marella Sands , Rett MacPherson, M.R.
Sellars
SCA Fighter Demo Practice (GC
- Lawn) Barony of Shattered Crystal
1:00PM
Would You Like that Hard or Soft? How much science should be in Science Fiction? (GC - Marquette A) Henry Melton, Bill Clemente, Mike Cole, Dave Phelps
The Milkman Who Saved The World, Making Heroic Characters out of Ordinary People (GC - Illini B) Carolyn Ives Gilman, Paula Helm Murray, Steve Lopata
Volunteers (Pizza?) Party with the Pro’s (HI – Madison A) Volunteers, Pro’s
2:00PM
How necessary is
Religion in Fantasy? (CG – Illini
B) Sandra Morrese, Gail Glass
3:00PM
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Hours of Operation
Registration
(GC) Thursday 5pm-10pm, Friday 9am-Midnight, Saturday 9am-Midnight, Sunday
10am-2pm
Con Suite (HI)
Thursday 5pm-Sunday 4pm
Art Show (GC)
Thursday 5pm-9pm, Friday 10am-8pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 10am-Noon (Check
schedule outside art room for special events throughout the con)
Dealers Room (GC)
Closed Thursday, Friday 2pm-8pm, Saturday 10am-6pm, Sunday 10am-2pm
Gaming (HI) Friday
6pm-Sunday 4pm
Gaming (GC) Friday
2pm-8pm, Saturday 10am-8pm, Sunday 10am-4pm
Video I &2 (HI)
Thursday 7pm-Sunday 4pm
Video III (GC) Friday
Noon-Midnight, Saturday 10am-Midnight, Sunday 10am-4pm
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