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Florence Achenbach:
Fri, 7:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Banquet/Dinner Theater "Over the Barrel" (1.5 hours; Banquet ticket-holders only)
Erin Ackerman:
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Fun with Play Doh
Fri, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Is "Supernatural" More Than the Monster of the Week?
Sat, Noon GC - Ballroom D6 That's the Way We've Always Done It! Is fandom trapped by tradition?
Sat, 6:00pm HI - Calhoun Growing UP Fannish
Matt Ackerman:
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom A Finding Serenity - "Firefly" goes full-length, but is hardly serene
Fri, 11:00am GC - Illini If I Lived by the Hellmouth - All things Josh Whedon
Fri, Noon GC - LaSalle These Are a Few of My Favorite Things - Zombies, pirates, robots, bug-eyed monsters, dinosaurs
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Illini Chills, Thrills, and Kills - A look at the horror genre
Fri, 6:00pm GC - Marquette A Fanzines in the 21st Century
Fri, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Is "Supernatural" More Than the Monster of the Week?
Sat, 6:00pm HI - Calhoun Growing UP Fannish
Ally:
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Anime/Cosplay Costuming
Gypsy Ames:
Thu, 7:00pm GC - LaSalle Opening Ceremonies
Fri, 11:00am GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Meet the Archon 30 Costuming Guest of Honor
Fri, Noon GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Blowing Up Scale Patterns
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Fabric Modification
Sat, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Color Theory
Sat, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Lines and Balance (2 hours)
Sun, Noon LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sun, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Closing Ceremonies
Amtgard:
Thu, 5:00pm HI - Lawn Amtgard Demonstrates BattleGames (2 hours)
Fri, 3:00pm HI - Lawn Amtgard Demonstrates BattleGames
Sat, 3:00pm HI - Lawn Amtgard Demonstrates BattleGames (2 hours)
Sun, 2:00pm HI - Lawn Amtgard Demonstates BattleGames (2 hours)
Cindy Appel:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - LaSalle Who Needs a Scarf - A discussion of the new seasons of Dr. Who
Thu, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 So, You've Written the Great American Novel - Now What? - A discussion of various ways to get published
Fri, 1:00pm HI - Ballroom D Paranormal Fiction - Cross Genre SF & Fantasy
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Mississippian Is Small Press Taken Seriously?
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom A The 6th Sense - Psychics and SF
Fri, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Meet Me in St. Louis - Setting your story in your home town
Fri, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Writing Sex Into Your Story - The "ins and outs" of eroticism
Sat, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Aurora:
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Anime/Cosplay Costuming
Margene Bahm:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 So You Want to be a Con-Chair? - How to get into con running from the experts
Fri, Noon GC - Illini A Room Party to Remember - It's more than beer in the bathtub
Fri, 3:00pm GC - LaSalle Celtic Dance with Stage Presentations
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Mississippian Fangirls Gone Wild! How and Why I Got Into Fandom
Sat, 10:00am GC - Marquette A Star Trek at 40!!? (1.5 hours)
Sat, Noon GC - Ballroom D6 That's the Way We've Always Done It! Is fandom trapped by tradition?
Diana Bailey:
Thu, 8:00pm GC - Marquette A Living in the Shadow (The Spouse's Panel)
Fri, 6:00pm GC - Marquette A Fanzines in the 21st Century
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Mississippian Fangirls Gone Wild! How and Why I Got Into Fandom
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 "The Eye of Argon" - Jim Theis' Masterpiece as a Round-Robin Reading
Sun, 2:00pm GC - Illini Fandom is a Way of Life?
Robin Wayne Bailey:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Illini Developing Memorable Characters
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom A Electronic Rights - Are they being too literal?
Thu, 7:00pm GC - LaSalle Opening Ceremonies
Fri, 11:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Shared Worlds - Writing in someone else's fantasy
Fri, 2:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 5:00pm GC - LaSalle Tales of the SFWA Musketeers
Fri, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Writing Sex Into Your Story - The "ins and outs" of eroticism
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Illini The Great American Short Story - Does It Exist Anymore?
Sat, 3:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1 hour)
Sat, 5:00pm HI - Hotel Bar Literary Beer - Spend a half hour one-on-one while enjoying fandom's favorite beverage (Pre-Registration Required)
Sun, 10:00am HI - Monroe Reading
Sun, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Closing Ceremonies
Donna Bakke:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Marquette A (Young Adult) Round Robin Reading, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Can Fandom Survive? - Every hobby and fraternal group is having trouble recruiting and keeping members - any suggestions?
Fri, 10:00am GC - Illini 30 Years of Archon Memories
Sat, 5:00pm HI - Hospitality The Aging of Fandom - Our Annual Panel on Menopause (WOMEN ONLY!)
Jim Bakke:
Fri, 10:00am GC - Illini 30 Years of Archon Memories
Fri, 7:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Building the Perfect Beast - Your Ultimate Computer
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Marquette A Relax, We're Only Here for the Bheer (2 hours)
Sat, Noon GC - Ballroom D6 That's the Way We've Always Done It! Is fandom trapped by tradition?
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 "The Eye of Argon" - Jim Theis' Masterpiece as a Round-Robin Reading
Sat, 10:00pm GC - Illini Arrrr - Pirates of the Internet
Sun, 2:00pm GC - Illini Fandom is a Way of Life?
Jon Bancroft:
Thu, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Would You Like to Play a Game? - A discussion of the different types of games that will be played this weekend
Sun, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Promoting Your Convention
Michael Baugh:
Fri, 1:00pm HI - Hospitality A Laying on of Hands - Massage and You (2 hours)
Sat, Noon HI - Hospitality A Laying on of Hands, part 2 - Massage Techniques for Couples (2 hours)
Sun, 1:00pm HI - Hospitality Hands, Feet, and Heads - Massaging the extremities
Susan Baugh:
Fri, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D6 SF on DVD - What's available and what would we like to see?
Sat, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Just the Facts, Ma'am - Writing believable crime and mystery stories
Sat, Noon GC - Ballroom D6 That's the Way We've Always Done It! Is fandom trapped by tradition?
Mitch Bentley:
Fri, 10:00am GC - Ballroom A Astronomical Art - An Historical Analysis
Fri, 11:00am GC - Mississippian Is Genre Art a Good Investment?
Fri, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle Using the Web to Promote Your Work
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 If It's Digital, Is It Still Art?
Sat, 11:00am GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) Building Your Art Portfolio
Sat, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom B Art Auction Begins
Sat, 10:00pm GC - Illini Arrrr - Pirates of the Internet
Keith Berdak:
Fri, Noon GC - LaSalle These Are a Few of My Favorite Things - Zombies, pirates, robots, bug-eyed monsters, dinosaurs
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Marquette A Funny Bones - Humor in SF & F
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Sketching with a Real Artist
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Illini Living Under the Gun - Will the human race last long enough to have a future?
Sat, 1:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Sketching with a Real Artist
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 "The Eye of Argon" - Jim Theis' Masterpiece as a Round-Robin Reading
Sat, 5:30pm HI - Hotel Bar Literary Beer - Spend a half hour one-on-one while enjoying =fandom's favorite beverage (Pre-Registration Required)
Sat, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Yard Dog Press Road Show (2 hours)
Sun, Noon LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Jeff Bohnhoff:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Illini Filking 101 - Folk music by fans
Thu, 7:00pm GC - LaSalle Opening Ceremonies
Thu, 8:00pm GC - Marquette A Living in the Shadow (The Spouse's Panel)
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 The Tolkien Primer - Written and visual masterpieces?
Fri, Noon GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Marquette A Funny Bones - Humor in SF & F
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 (Filk) Is This How Weird Al Got Started? - Writing parody
Sat, 1:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle (Filk) Concert
Sat, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 (Filk) Let's Write a Filk Song
Sun, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle The Filk Guests of Honor in Concert
Sun, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Closing Ceremonies
Maya Bohnhoff:
Thu, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Generating SF & Fantasy Ideas
Thu, 5:00pm GC - LaSalle Jump Start Your Mind - Avoiding writer's block
Thu, 7:00pm GC - LaSalle Opening Ceremonies
Fri, Noon GC - Ballroom D6 How do You Research What Isn't Real?
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Marquette A Making the Jump from Short Stories to Novels
Fri, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle Music and Magic
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 (Filk) Is This How Weird Al Got Started? - Writing parody
Sat, 1:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle (Filk) Concert
Sat, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 (Filk) Let's Write a Filk Song
Sun, 11:00am HI - Monroe Reading
Sun, Noon LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sun, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle The Filk Guests of Honor in Concert
Sun, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Closing Ceremonies
Steve Bolhafner:
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Edible Art - Make real art out of real food
Sat, Noon GC - Cahokian (Children's) Edible Art - Real art made with real food
Sun, 11:00am GC - Lawn (Children's) Rocket Science Can Be Fun and Easy
Susan Bolhafner:
Thu, 11:00pm GC - Marquette A Why DO You Hide the Nudes in the Back? Discussion on censorship of art at SF cons
James Bosomworth:
Sun, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom A Monster Theory - How monsters are used by society for good or evil in comics, TV, and movies
Daren Bost:
Fri, 7:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Sewing Fake Fur
Sat, 11:00am GC - Ballroom D5 Furry Fandom for Newbies
Sat, Noon GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Movement in Fur
Peter Bradley:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Mississippian Once Upon a Time - Fantasy and Fairy Tales - the Same Thing?
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Cover Art - How to Make You NEED to Buy That Book
Thu, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Telling a Story with Pictures as Well as Words - Comics and Graphic Novels
Fri, Noon GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) Through an Alien's Eyes - How would humans look from out there?
Sat, 7:00pm GC - Marquette A Old Wives Tales & Urban Legends
Chris Brady:
Thu, 7:00pm GC - Illini Not Quite American Idol - Karaoke (4.5 hours)
Teresa Brady:
Thu, 7:00pm GC - Illini Not Quite American Idol - Karaoke (4.5 hours)
John Brooks:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Forgotten or Neglected SF and Fantasy Authors and Their Works
Fri, Noon HI - Ballroom D (Young Adult) Make & Take Wooden Models (Limited to 12 people)
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Cult Movies We Love to Hate
Sat, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 "The Man With the Screaming Brain" - My favorite movies
Barri L. Bumgarner:
Thu, 10:00pm GC - Mississippian Bedtime Stories - What's good in Young Adult fiction? (Recommended for parents & teachers)
Fri, Noon GC - Ballroom A Crossing the Line - Taking the fantasy of Harry Potter as real
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Mississippian Writing for Young Adults - How Hard can it Be?
Fri, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Meet Me in St. Louis - Setting your story in your home town
Sat, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Just the Facts, Ma'am - Writing believable crime and mystery stories
Sat, Noon HI - Monroe Reading
Sat, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Science Fiction Theme Songs - Not just a 3-hour tour
Sun, 12:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Cullen Bunn:
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Mississippian We Like Being Scared!
Sat, Noon GC - Mississippian You May Have Already Been Published - Some personal triumphs in writing
Sat, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Comic Books - The Original Shared Worlds
Sun, 10:00am GC - Illini Why Read Reviews?
Sun, 12:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Steven Burgauer:
Sat, 2:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 4:00pm HI - Calhoun Good and Bad Openings - Grabbing them in the first few sentences
Sat, 7:00pm GC - Illini Forgotten Writers - the Bottom Shelf
Lily Burns:
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Costuming for Larger People
Pam Burton:
Thu, 11:00pm GC - Marquette A Why DO You Hide the Nudes in the Back? Discussion on censorship of art at SF cons
Sat, 11:00am HI - Calhoun (Young Adult) Learn to Sketch
Sun, 10:00am GC - Marquette A Drawing Something You've Never Seen
Sun, 12:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Jason Carter:
Fri, Midnite HI - Calhoun (Gaming) Dead Gamers Society - Free form group discussion of the "philosophy of gaming" in everyday life
Brent Chumley:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Mississippian Once Upon a Time - Fantasy and Fairy Tales - the Same Thing?
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Marquette A Why I Draw
Thu, 11:00pm GC - Marquette A Why DO You Hide the Nudes in the Back? Discussion on censorship of art at SF cons
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 If It's Digital, Is It Still Art?
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) Through an Alien's Eyes - How would humans look from out there?
Sat, 11:00am HI - Calhoun (Young Adult) Learn to Sketch
Sat, Noon GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) Guided Tour of the Art Show (Limited to 10; Pre-Registration Required)
Sat, Noon GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Bill Clemente:
Fri, 2:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 2:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 4:00pm HI - Calhoun Good and Bad Openings - Grabbing them in the first few sentences
Sat, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 He's in the Bar - The importance of the tavern in science fiction and fantasy
Sun, 10:00am GC - Illini Why Read Reviews?
Sun, 1:00pm GC - Marquette A The Red Menace in Space - SF's predicting political change
Mike Cole:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - LaSalle Who Needs a Scarf - A discussion of the new seasons of Dr. Who
Sat, 11:00am GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) Building Your Art Portfolio
Sat, 1:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Sketching with a Real Artist
Sun, 12:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Carol Cook:
Glen Cook:
Fri, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Meet Me in St. Louis - Setting your story in your home town
Sat, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 7:00pm GC - Illini Forgotten Writers - the Bottom Shelf
Judi Cook:
Thu, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Vampires and Werewolves and Things that go Bump in the Night
Fri, 10:00am GC - Illini 30 Years of Archon Memories
Fri, 11:00am GC - Illini If I Lived by the Hellmouth - All things Josh Whedon
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Cult Movies We Love to Hate
Sat, 10:00am GC - Marquette A Star Trek at 40!!? (1.5 hours)
Sat, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Breathing New Life Into Vampires
Sun, 11:00am GC - Ballroom A Recreating Your Favorite Character from TV, Anime, or the Movies
Shannon Copeland:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom A Reliving the Renaissance - A look at the St. Louis Ren Faire
Gwen Cope:
Sat, 11:00pm GC - Marquette A Independent Film Making
Sun, Noon GC - Ballroom D6 "Gameheads", the Movie
Ryu Cope:
Thu, 7:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 You Puts Your Money Down, You Takes Your Chances - Collecting Game Cards
Thu, 8:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Meet the Pod People - Local pod-casters tell you about themselves
Sat, 1:00pm GC - Illini Marketing Your Podcast
Sat, 2:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 9:00pm GC - Illini It's Not Your Grandpa's Comic Book - Graphic novels
Sat, 11:00pm GC - Marquette A Independent Film Making
Sun, Noon GC - Ballroom D6 "Gameheads", the Movie
Scott Corwin:
Fri, 10:00am GC - Center Hall B (Costuming) What is the Archon Masquerade? - Introduction and backstage tour
Sat, 12:30pm GC - Center Hall B Mandatory Masquerade Meeting - All Masquerade Contestants (2.5 hours)
Paul Daly:
Sat, 11:00am GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) Building Your Art Portfolio
Sat, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Comic Books - The Original Shared Worlds
Karen DeGuire:
Elizabeth Donald:
Thu, 4:00pm GC - Marquette A Small Press - Starting Place or Pitfall
Thu, 6:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Thu, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Vampires and Werewolves and Things that go Bump in the Night
Fri, 1:00pm HI - Ballroom D Paranormal Fiction - Cross Genre SF & Fantasy
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Illini Chills, Thrills, and Kills - A look at the horror genre
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Mississippian We Like Being Scared!
Fri, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Writing Sex Into Your Story - The "ins and outs" of eroticism
Sat, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Just the Facts, Ma'am - Writing believable crime and mystery stories
Sat, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom A Ain't That a Bite... - Why vampires still fascinate us
Sun, 1:00pm HI - Monroe Reading, "Setting Suns" (Aliens, sea monsters, demons, teddy bears, and more! Free Chocolate!)
Dragon's Keep:
Sat, Noon GC - LaSalle (Play) Interactive Improv Roll-Playing Game/Play (2 hours)
Mike Dugan:
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Illini Who Are You? Dr. Who's triumphant return
Sun, 1:00pm GC - Illini CIA Open Meeting - Come discuss the new Dr. Who
Sun, 2:00pm GC - Mississippian The State of British SF Telly
Kevin Dulle:
Thu, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Alternative Materials
Elonka Dunin:
Thu, 6:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Thu, 10:00pm GC - Marquette A Wikipedia - Multiplayer Web Game? Thousands of volunteers, millions of articles; come find out why it's so much fun
Fri, 11:00am GC - Ballroom A "Lost" Roundtable
Fri, 6:00pm GC - Illini Fact and Fiction of the DaVinci Code
Fri, 7:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Building the Perfect Beast - Your Ultimate Computer
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Mississippian In the Beginning was the Word and it was "Machine Language" - History of the Internet
Sun, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Promoting Your Convention
Sun, 2:00pm GC - Marquette A Famous Unsolved Codes
Britt Eubanks:
Thu, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Would You Like to Play a Game? - A discussion of the different types of games that will be played this weekend
Fri, 7:00pm GC - Mississippian (Gaming) LARP Meeting - Mandatory for all participants
Jenny Evans:
Thu, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 So, You've Written the Great American Novel - Now What? - A discussion of various ways to get published
Thu, 10:00pm GC - Mississippian Bedtime Stories - What's good in Young Adult fiction? (Recommended for parents & teachers)
Fri, 1:00pm HI - Ballroom D Paranormal Fiction - Cross Genre SF & Fantasy
Sun, 10:00am GC - Mississippian Using SF & Fantasy to Teach
Mike Evans:
Thu, 8:00pm GC - LaSalle Hogwarts Open House (2 hours)
Fear the Boot:
Fri, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Introduction to Podcasting (part 1 of 3) - What makes it unique and how it's changing the SF, fantasy, and gaming worlds
Sat, Noon GC - Illini Podcasting - The Creative Process (part 2 of 3) - Finding your voice, keeping material compelling and original, getting up on the net, bringing in listeners
Sun, 1:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Podcasting - The Nuts and Bolts (part 3 of 3) - The technical aspects of producing a podcast
Doug Ferguson:
Thu, 7:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 You Puts Your Money Down, You Takes Your Chances - Collecting Game Cards
Fri, 11:00am GC - Mississippian Is Genre Art a Good Investment?
Fri, Noon GC - Marquette A It's Like Shakespeare, Only With Rayguns - Stealing from the best
Sat, 10:00am GC - Marquette A Star Trek at 40!!? (1.5 hours)
jan howard finder:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 So You Want to be a Con-Chair? - How to get into con running from the experts
Thu, 7:00pm GC - LaSalle Opening Ceremonies
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 The Tolkien Primer - Written and visual masterpieces?
Thu, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 The Theory and Art of Flirting
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Illini (Young Adult) My Precious - Tolkien for Teens
Fri, 6:00pm GC - Marquette A Fanzines in the 21st Century
Sat, 10:00am HI - Hospitality Roger Tener's 10am Panel - Coffee and Donuts in Hospitality with our Official Roger Tener Stand-In
Sat, 11:00am GC - Ballroom A What I did on my Summer Vacation in Middle-Earth (Slide Show, 2 hours)
Sat, 2:00pm HI - Monroe Reading, "Riddles in the Dark" (SCARY - 10 and older only)
Sat, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) How to Bid at an Art Show Auction
Sat, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom B Art Auction Begins
Sun, Noon GC - LaSalle Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" - The Best Buddy Story Ever Written?
Sun, 1:00pm HI - Hospitality Hands, Feet, and Heads - Massaging the extremities
Sun, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Sun, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Closing Ceremonies
Darrell Flynn:
Sat, 10:00am GC - Cahokian (CHildren's) Kids DDR (no one over 12; 2 hours)
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Mississippian In the Beginning was the Word and it was "Machine Language" - History of the Internet
Sat, 4:00pm GC - Marquette A (Young Adult) DDR Tournament (Ages 10-17 ONLY, 3 hours)
Mitch Foust:
Thu, 4:00pm GC - Mississippian Marketing Fantasy Art
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Cover Art - How to Make You NEED to Buy That Book
Thu, 8:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Thu, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Telling a Story with Pictures as Well as Words - Comics and Graphic Novels
Fri, 10:00am GC - Marquette A Getting Started in the Dealers Room
Fri, Noon GC - LaSalle These Are a Few of My Favorite Things - Zombies, pirates, robots, bug-eyed monsters, dinosaurs
Fri, 9:00pm GC - Mississippian The State of Comics Today
Sat, 9:00pm GC - Illini It's Not Your Grandpa's Comic Book - Graphic novels
Kim Fritts:
Thu, 11:00pm GC - Marquette A Why DO You Hide the Nudes in the Back? Discussion on censorship of art at SF cons
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 If It's Digital, Is It Still Art?
Sat, 10:00am GC - Illini (Young Adults) Fun With Play Doh
Sat, 3:00pm GC - Illini Art Doesn't Have to be Flat
Joey Froehlich:
Fri, Noon GC - LaSalle These Are a Few of My Favorite Things - Zombies, pirates, robots, bug-eyed monsters, dinosaurs
Fri, Noon GC - Mississippian Poetry vs. Lyrics - Similarities and Differences
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Mississippian Is Small Press Taken Seriously?
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Illini Chills, Thrills, and Kills - A look at the horror genre
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Mississippian We Like Being Scared!
Sat, 11:30am HI - Monroe Poetry Reading (1/2 hour)
Sat, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 "The Man With the Screaming Brain" - My favorite movies
Sat, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Breathing New Life Into Vampires
Sun, Noon GC - Ballroom A Theocratic Dictatorships - The new boogieman or rehash of "Dune"?
Sun, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Haley Elizabeth Garwood:
Thu, 4:00pm GC - Marquette A Small Press - Starting Place or Pitfall
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom A Electronic Rights - Are they being too literal?
Thu, 8:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Illini Strapping on the Chainmail Bikini
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Mississippian Is Small Press Taken Seriously?
Fri, 3:00pm HI - Monroe Reading (1/2 hour)
Sat, 2:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sun, 10:00am GC - Mississippian Using SF & Fantasy to Teach
Sun, Noon GC - Marquette A A Little Romance
Cindi Gille-Rowley:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Marquette A (Young Adult) Round Robin Reading, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
Thu, 8:00pm GC - LaSalle Hogwarts Open House (2 hours)
Fri, Noon GC - Ballroom A Crossing the Line - Taking the fantasy of Harry Potter as real
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom A The Darkness Before the Storm - Where is J.K. Rowling taking Harry Potter?
Sat, 5:00pm HI - Hospitality The Aging of Fandom - Our Annual Panel on Menopause (WOMEN ONLY!)
Sun, 11:00am GC - Illini Harry Potter's Fan Fiction
Carolyn Ives Gilman:
Sat, 1:30pm HI - Monroe Reading (1/2 hour)
Sun, 1:00pm GC - Marquette A The Red Menace in Space - SF's predicting political change
Sun, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Bennie Grezlik:
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Mississippian Writing for Young Adults - How Hard can it Be?
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Illini Is the Space Race Starting Another Lap? - Are Europe, India, China giving Russia and the U.S. a needed push?
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Marquette A Singularity - Is It Coming and Will We Know When It Arrives? - Discussion of the concept of the technological singularity as proposed by Vernor Vinge and Raymond Kurzweil
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Marquette A Space Race - Why is SF so White?
Fri, 11:00pm GC - Marquette A Miss Manners' Guide to Gadget Etiquette - Using your cell phone in the toilet is really tacky
Sat, Noon GC - Mississippian You May Have Already Been Published - Some personal triumphs in writing
Sat, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Yard Dog Press Road Show (2 hours)
Sat, 7:00pm GC - Marquette A Old Wives Tales & Urban Legends
Sun, 2:00pm HI - Monroe Reading (1/2 hour)
Alan Gutierrez:
Thu, 4:00pm GC - Mississippian Marketing Fantasy Art
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Cover Art - How to Make You NEED to Buy That Book
Thu, 7:00pm GC - LaSalle Opening Ceremonies
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Marquette A Why I Draw
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 If It's Digital, Is It Still Art?
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) The Artist Guest of Honor looks at the Archon 30 Art Show - Guided Tour (Limit 10, Pre-Registration Required)
Fri, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1 hour)
Sat, Noon GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom A Slide Show (2 hours)
Sun, 11:00am GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Sun, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Japanese Cultural Reference in Anime
Sun, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Closing Ceremonies
Laurell K. Hamilton:
Fri, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Meet Me in St. Louis - Setting your story in your home town
Sat, 1:00pm GC - Mississippian An Hour with
Sat, 3:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1 hour)
Sat, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom A Ain't That a Bite... - Why vampires still fascinate us
Sun, 10:00am GC - Ballroom A Writing the "Big Series"
Sun, 11:00am GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Gary Hanak:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Illini Filking 101 - Folk music by fans
Fri, Noon GC - Mississippian Poetry vs. Lyrics - Similarities and Differences
Sat, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 (Filk) Let's Write a Filk Song
Dev Hanke:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom A Reliving the Renaissance - A look at the St. Louis Ren Faire
Thu, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 So, You've Written the Great American Novel - Now What? - A discussion of various ways to get published
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 The Tolkien Primer - Written and visual masterpieces?
Thu, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Telling a Story with Pictures as Well as Words - Comics and Graphic Novels
Thu, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Late Night Lace - Costuming for late-night con wear?
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Illini (Young Adult) My Precious - Tolkien for Teens
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 If You Build It, They Will Come - Baseball in real life is almost stranger than science fiction
Fri, 9:00pm GC - Mississippian The State of Comics Today
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Arming Your Character - Writing realistic weaponry
Sun, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
T.J. Harmon:
Sat, 11:00am HI - Ballroom D Cut and Thrust Sword of Achilie Marozzo - A Hands-on Class (equipment provided)
Sat, 1:00pm HI - Ballroom D Single Rapier of Henry de Saint Didier - A Hands-on Class - Teaches a choreographed exersize from a manual written in 1573 (equipment provided)
Dan Harszy:
Sat, 11:00am HI - Ballroom D Cut and Thrust Sword of Achilie Marozzo - A Hands-on Class (equipment provided)
Sat, 1:00pm HI - Ballroom D Single Rapier of Henry de Saint Didier - A Hands-on Class - Teaches a choreographed exersize from a manual written in 1573 (equipment provided)
Nancy Hathaway:
Fri, 10:00am GC - Marquette A Getting Started in the Dealers Room
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Mississippian Fangirls Gone Wild! How and Why I Got Into Fandom
Sat, 3:00pm GC - Illini Art Doesn't Have to be Flat
Sun, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Promoting Your Convention
Ross Hathaway:
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Illini Is the Space Race Starting Another Lap? - Are Europe, India, China giving Russia and the U.S. a needed push?
Sat, 6:00pm GC - Mississippian Robotics and Unmanned Vehicles
Sara M. Harvey:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Thu, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 So, You've Written the Great American Novel - Now What? - A discussion of various ways to get published
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom A Finding Serenity - "Firefly" goes full-length, but is hardly serene
Fri, 11:00am GC - Illini If I Lived by the Hellmouth - All things Josh Whedon
Fri, 4:30pm HI - Monroe Reading
Sun, 10:00am GC - Mississippian Using SF & Fantasy to Teach
Sun, Noon GC - Marquette A A Little Romance
Les Haven:
Fri, 10:00am GC - Mississippian SF TV of the Last 20 Years - "Tripping the Rift", "Star Trek", "Futurama", "Quantum Leap", "Firefly", "Stargate"
Fri, Noon GC - Illini A Room Party to Remember - It's more than beer in the bathtub
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Marquette A The Shape of Things to Come - Archon 31, the 9th Occasional NASFIC
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Illini At Least Starbuck Still Smokes Cigars
Sat, Noon GC - Ballroom D6 That's the Way We've Always Done It! Is fandom trapped by tradition?
Sat, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 He's in the Bar - The importance of the tavern in science fiction and fantasy
Heather:
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Anime/Cosplay Costuming
David Heck:
Fri, 11:00pm GC - Marquette A Miss Manners' Guide to Gadget Etiquette - Using your cell phone in the toilet is really tacky
Sat, 11:00am GC - Illini Design Considerations for Lunar Manufacturing
Sat, 4:00pm GC - Illini Zero G Manufacturing Trials
Karen Heim:
Fri, Noon GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Fiber Arts
Hex Games:
Thu, 5:00pm GC, HI The Qerth Treasure Hunt (Part 1) - Hex Games' new fantasy parody (Various Locations, see Gaming Registration for details)
Thu, 7:00pm GC - LaSalle Opening Ceremonies
Thu, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom A (Gaming) Adult Gaming - Bringing R and XXX to Life, Without Plot Loss
Fri, 9:00am GC, HI The Qerth Treasure Hunt (Part 2) - Hex Games' new fantasy parody (Various Locations, see Gaming Registration for details)
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Center Hall A (Gaming) International Game Debut - Vampire or Pirate?, at the Hex Games Dealers Table
Fri, 3:00pm HI - Ballroom D (Gaming) World Building 101
Fri, 11:00pm HI - Pool (Gaming) Knome Baptism
Sat, 9:00am GC, HI The Qerth Treasure Hunt (Part 3, Ultimate Showdown) - Hex Games' new fantasy parody (Various Locations, see Gaming Registration for details; till 7pm)
Sat, 2:00pm HI - Ballroom D (Gaming) Girl Gamers and Newbies - How do gaming groups attract good newbies and female role-players? Learn how to attract fresh blood and maybe convert your co-workers
Sun, 11:00am GC - Marquette A (Gaming) So You Want to Publish Your RPG? - The pitfalls, perils, and Heartbreak of game publishing - Give up now before it's too late
Sun, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Closing Ceremonies
Bruce Hinterleitner:
Thu, 7:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Creating Your On-Stage Character
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Stage Movement
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Masks
Barbara M. Hodges:
Thu, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 SF& F on TV - Will it ever work or is SF doomed to be cult TV forever?
Thu, 5:00pm HI - Monroe Reading
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom A Electronic Rights - Are they being too literal?
Thu, 8:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D6 SF on DVD - What's available and what would we like to see?
Fri, 11:00am GC - Marquette A Fantasy Takes a Special Voice
Fri, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle Using the Web to Promote Your Work
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Mississippian Is Small Press Taken Seriously?
Sat, Noon GC - Mississippian You May Have Already Been Published - Some personal triumphs in writing
Sat, 4:30pm HI - Monroe Reading (1/2 hour)
William J. Hodgson:
Thu, 4:00pm GC - Mississippian Marketing Fantasy Art
Fri, 11:00am GC - Mississippian Is Genre Art a Good Investment?
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) Through an Alien's Eyes - How would humans look from out there?
Sat, 11:00am GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) Building Your Art Portfolio
Sun, Noon LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Butch Honeck:
Fri, 10:00am GC - Marquette A Getting Started in the Dealers Room
Fri, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Fun with Play Doh
Sat, 3:00pm GC - Illini Art Doesn't Have to be Flat
Sat, 5:00pm GC - Illini Lost Wax Casting
Rich Horton:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Forgotten or Neglected SF and Fantasy Authors and Their Works
Thu, 8:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Thu, 10:00pm GC - Mississippian Bedtime Stories - What's good in Young Adult fiction? (Recommended for parents & teachers)
Fri, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle Music and Magic
Fri, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom A Saving the Universe One Girl at a Time - The space opera reigns supreme
Sat, 7:00pm GC - Illini Forgotten Writers - the Bottom Shelf
Sun, 10:00am GC - Illini Why Read Reviews?
Sun, Noon GC - Ballroom A Theocratic Dictatorships - The new boogieman or rehash of "Dune"?
Steve Johnson:
Thu, 7:00pm GC - LaSalle Opening Ceremonies
Fri, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sun, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Closing Ceremonies
Howard Andrew Jones:
Fri, 11:00am GC - Marquette A Fantasy Takes a Special Voice
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Wielding the Blue/Red Pencil - A look at editing by editors
Fri, 6:00pm GC - Marquette A Fanzines in the 21st Century
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Illini Living Under the Gun - Will the human race last long enough to have a future?
Sat, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 He's in the Bar - The importance of the tavern in science fiction and fantasy
Sat, 7:00pm GC - Illini Forgotten Writers - the Bottom Shelf
Michales Joy:
Fri, Noon GC - Marquette A It's Like Shakespeare, Only With Rayguns - Stealing from the best
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Illini Strapping on the Chainmail Bikini
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Mississippian Is Small Press Taken Seriously?
Sat, 11:30am GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Sat, 4:00pm HI - Calhoun Good and Bad Openings - Grabbing them in the first few sentences
Sun, Noon LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Dave Kanoy:
Fri, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Living History
John Kaufmann:
Thu, 11:00pm GC - Marquette A Why DO You Hide the Nudes in the Back? Discussion on censorship of art at SF cons
Fri, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 If It's Digital, Is It Still Art?
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Sketching with a Real Artist
Sat, 1:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Sketching with a Real Artist
Byron Kerman:
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Marquette A Byron Kerman's World-Famous Trivia Contest
Jon Klement:
Fri, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle Using the Web to Promote Your Work
Fri, 6:30pm HI - Monroe Reading (1/2 hour)
Sat, 11:00am GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Sat, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Comic Books - The Original Shared Worlds
Sun, 10:00am GC - Mississippian Using SF & Fantasy to Teach
Jim Knappenberger:
Sat, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Fannish Wills & Estate Planning
E.E. Knight:
Fri, 2:00pm HI - Monroe Reading - "Dragon's Avenger"
Sat, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 He's in the Bar - The importance of the tavern in science fiction and fantasy
Sat, 7:00pm GC - Marquette A Old Wives Tales & Urban Legends
Sun, Noon GC - Marquette A A Little Romance
Ted Kocot:
Sat, Noon HI - Ballroom D German Longsword - A Hands-On Class
Lloyd Kropp:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Forgotten or Neglected SF and Fantasy Authors and Their Works
Fri, 1:00pm HI - Monroe Reading
Fri, 5:30pm HI - Hotel Bar Literary Beer - Spend a half hour one-on-one while enjoying fandom's favorite beverage (Pre-Registration Required)
Sat, 10:00am GC - LaSalle Myth & Religion in Ancient Egypt
Sat, 11:30am GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Sat, Noon GC - Mississippian You May Have Already Been Published - Some personal triumphs in writing
Brian Lan:
Sun, 11:00am HI - Ballroom D Anime Series You Should Know - "Aeon Flux", "Last Exile", "Cowboy Bebop", "Tenchi", "Trigun"
Sun, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Japanese Cultural Reference in Anime
Laura LeHew:
Thu, 8:00pm HI - Monroe Poetry Reading
Fri, Noon GC - Mississippian Poetry vs. Lyrics - Similarities and Differences
Fri, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sun, Noon GC - Marquette A A Little Romance
Sheila Lenkman:
Fri, 10:00am GC - Center Hall B (Costuming) What is the Archon Masquerade? - Introduction and backstage tour
Sat, 12:30pm GC - Center Hall B Mandatory Masquerade Meeting - All Masquerade Contestants (2.5 hours)
Sun, Noon GC - Ballroom D5 Archon 30 Masquerade Show and Tell/Wrap-up (2 hours)
Rob Levy:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - LaSalle Who Needs a Scarf - A discussion of the new seasons of Dr. Who
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Illini Who Are You? Dr. Who's triumphant return
Sun, 1:00pm GC - Illini CIA Open Meeting - Come discuss the new Dr. Who
Sun, 2:00pm GC - Mississippian The State of British SF Telly
Zo Ann Levy:
Fri, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Writing Sex Into Your Story - The "ins and outs" of eroticism
Ron Lizorty:
Thu, 4:00pm GC - Mississippian Marketing Fantasy Art
Fri, 1:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Fun with Play Doh
Sat, 10:00am GC - Illini (Young Adults) Fun With Play Doh
Sat, 11:00pm GC - Marquette A Independent Film Making
Sun, 10:00am GC - Marquette A Drawing Something You've Never Seen
Steve Lopata:
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Illini Living Under the Gun - Will the human race last long enough to have a future?
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Mississippian In the Beginning was the Word and it was "Machine Language" - History of the Internet
Hank Luttrell:
Fri, 10:00am GC - Marquette A Getting Started in the Dealers Room
Sun, 10:00am GC - Illini Why Read Reviews?
Sun, 2:00pm GC - Illini Fandom is a Way of Life?
Rebecca McDannold:
Fri, 11:00am GC - Mississippian Is Genre Art a Good Investment?
Sat, 3:00pm GC - Illini Art Doesn't Have to be Flat
Bruce Mai:
Thu, 7:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Creating Your On-Stage Character
Fri, Noon GC - Illini A Room Party to Remember - It's more than beer in the bathtub
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Stage Movement
Sun, 11:00am GC - Ballroom A Recreating Your Favorite Character from TV, Anime, or the Movies
Nora Mai:
Thu, 7:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Creating Your On-Stage Character
Thu, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Late Night Lace - Costuming for late-night con wear?
Fri, Noon GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Fiber Arts
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Stage Movement
Lee Martindale:
Thu, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 SF& F on TV - Will it ever work or is SF doomed to be cult TV forever?
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Mississippian Once Upon a Time - Fantasy and Fairy Tales - the Same Thing?
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom A Electronic Rights - Are they being too literal?
Thu, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Vampires and Werewolves and Things that go Bump in the Night
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Wielding the Blue/Red Pencil - A look at editing by editors
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Marquette A Funny Bones - Humor in SF & F
Fri, 5:00pm GC - LaSalle Tales of the SFWA Musketeers
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Arming Your Character - Writing realistic weaponry
Sat, 11:00am HI - Monroe Reading (1/2 hour)
Sat, 12:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Yard Dog Press Road Show (2 hours)
Sat, 8:00pm GC - Illini "Hitler in Oz" and Other Really Bad Ideas
Sat, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Science Fiction Theme Songs - Not just a 3-hour tour
George R.R. Martin:
Thu, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 SF& F on TV - Will it ever work or is SF doomed to be cult TV forever?
Fri, 11:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Shared Worlds - Writing in someone else's fantasy
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Mississippian Writing for Young Adults - How Hard can it Be?
Fri, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1 hour)
Sat, 10:00am GC - Mississippian Reading, "A Song of Ice and Fire" (2 hours; Q&A follows)
Sat, 3:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1 hour)
Sun, 10:00am GC - Ballroom A Writing the "Big Series"
Sun, 11:00am GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Masquerade Contestants:
Sat, 12:30pm GC - Center Hall B Mandatory Masquerade Meeting - All Masquerade Contestants (2.5 hours)
Sun, Noon GC - Ballroom D5 Archon 30 Masquerade Show and Tell/Wrap-up (2 hours)
Masquerade Crew:
Fri, 10:00am GC - Center Hall B (Costuming) What is the Archon Masquerade? - Introduction and backstage tour
Sat, 12:30pm GC - Center Hall B Mandatory Masquerade Meeting - All Masquerade Contestants (2.5 hours)
Sun, Noon GC - Ballroom D5 Archon 30 Masquerade Show and Tell/Wrap-up (2 hours)
Tony Mast:
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom A Finding Serenity - "Firefly" goes full-length, but is hardly serene
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Meet the Pod People - Local pod-casters tell you about themselves
Fri, 9:00pm GC - Illini What Happens When Your Collection Takes Over
Sat, 1:00pm GC - Illini Marketing Your Podcast
Sun, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 The Obligatory "Star Wars" Panel
Rachael Mayo:
Fri, Noon GC - Ballroom A Crossing the Line - Taking the fantasy of Harry Potter as real
Fri, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle Using the Web to Promote Your Work
Fri, 1:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Sketching with a Real Artist
Sun, 10:00am GC - Marquette A Drawing Something You've Never Seen
Mike McFadden:
Fri, 10:00am GC - Illini 30 Years of Archon Memories
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Illini At Least Starbuck Still Smokes Cigars
Fri, 6:00pm GC - Marquette A Fanzines in the 21st Century
Fri, 9:00pm GC - Mississippian The State of Comics Today
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 "The Eye of Argon" - Jim Theis' Masterpiece as a Round-Robin Reading
Sat, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Comic Books - The Original Shared Worlds
Patricia McFadden:
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Illini At Least Starbuck Still Smokes Cigars
Fri, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Is "Supernatural" More Than the Monster of the Week?
Sat, 11:00am HI - Calhoun (Young Adult) Learn to Sketch
Sat, 6:00pm HI - Calhoun Growing UP Fannish
Karen McFerran:
Fri, Noon GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Fiber Arts
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Costuming for Larger People
Sat, 11:00am GC - Ballroom D6 The Changing Face of Fiber Art - It's Not Your Grandmother's Quilt Anymore
Donald Mead:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Thu, 8:00pm GC - Mississippian Forming and Running a Writers Critique Group - Get help forming your own group
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Illini The Great American Short Story - Does It Exist Anymore?
Cheryl Medley:
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Can Fandom Survive? - Every hobby and fraternal group is having trouble recruiting and keeping members - any suggestions?
Thu, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Vampires and Werewolves and Things that go Bump in the Night
Fri, 1:00pm HI - Ballroom D Paranormal Fiction - Cross Genre SF & Fantasy
Sat, 3:00pm HI - Hospitality Ladies of the Red Dragon Red Hat Society - Open Meeting in Hospitality
Sat, 5:00pm HI - Hospitality The Aging of Fandom - Our Annual Panel on Menopause (WOMEN ONLY!)
Henry Melton:
Thu, 4:00pm HI - Monroe Reading
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Marquette A (Young Adult) Round Robin Reading, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
Thu, 8:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Mississippian Writing for Young Adults - How Hard can it Be?
Fri, 1:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Illini (Young Adult) My Precious - Tolkien for Teens
Fri, 7:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Building the Perfect Beast - Your Ultimate Computer
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Illini The Great American Short Story - Does It Exist Anymore?
Sun, Noon GC - Ballroom A Theocratic Dictatorships - The new boogieman or rehash of "Dune"?
Mary Ann Melton:
Thu, 8:00pm GC - Marquette A Living in the Shadow (The Spouse's Panel)
Tom Meserole:
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Marquette A Singularity - Is It Coming and Will We Know When It Arrives? - Discussion of the concept of the technological singularity as proposed by Vernor Vinge and Raymond Kurzweil
Sat, 10:00am GC - Marquette A Star Trek at 40!!? (1.5 hours)
Sat, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) How to Bid at an Art Show Auction
Sat, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom B Art Auction Begins
Deech Mestel:
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Masks
Vic Milán:
Thu, 7:00pm GC - LaSalle Opening Ceremonies
Thu, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 So, You've Written the Great American Novel - Now What? - A discussion of various ways to get published
Fri, 11:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Shared Worlds - Writing in someone else's fantasy
Fri, Noon GC - Monroe Reading
Fri, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Writing Sex Into Your Story - The "ins and outs" of eroticism
Sat, 11:30am GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Sun, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Closing Ceremonies
Nancy Mildebrandt:
Fri, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Making Lace
Fri, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Making Felt
Deborah Millitello:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom A Finding Serenity - "Firefly" goes full-length, but is hardly serene
Thu, 10:00pm GC - Mississippian Bedtime Stories - What's good in Young Adult fiction? (Recommended for parents & teachers)
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Mississippian Writing for Young Adults - How Hard can it Be?
Sat, 1:00pm HI - Monroe Reading (1/2 hour)
Sun, Noon GC - Marquette A A Little Romance
Elizabeth Moon:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Mississippian Once Upon a Time - Fantasy and Fairy Tales - the Same Thing?
Thu, 7:00pm GC - LaSalle Opening Ceremonies
Fri, Noon GC - Ballroom D6 How do You Research What Isn't Real?
Fri, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1 hour)
Fri, 5:00pm GC - LaSalle Tales of the SFWA Musketeers
Sat, Noon GC - Mississippian You May Have Already Been Published - Some personal triumphs in writing
Sat, 1:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Reading/Q&A
Sat, 3:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1 hour)
Sun, 10:00am GC - Ballroom A Writing the "Big Series"
Sun, 11:00am GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Sun, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Closing Ceremonies
Shane Moore:
Thu, 7:00pm HI - Monroe Reading. "A Prisoner's Welcome"
Fri, Noon GC - LaSalle These Are a Few of My Favorite Things - Zombies, pirates, robots, bug-eyed monsters, dinosaurs
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Arming Your Character - Writing realistic weaponry
Sat, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Just the Facts, Ma'am - Writing believable crime and mystery stories
Sat, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sun, Noon GC - Ballroom A Theocratic Dictatorships - The new boogieman or rehash of "Dune"?
Matthew Morrese:
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Marquette A Why I Draw
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Sketching with a Real Artist
Sandra C. Morrese:
Thu, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 SF& F on TV - Will it ever work or is SF doomed to be cult TV forever?
Thu, 6:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Cult Movies We Love to Hate
Sat, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Illini The Great American Short Story - Does It Exist Anymore?
Sun, Noon GC - Ballroom A Theocratic Dictatorships - The new boogieman or rehash of "Dune"?
Mickie Mueller:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Mississippian Once Upon a Time - Fantasy and Fairy Tales - the Same Thing?
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Marquette A Why I Draw
Fri, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle Music and Magic
Jim Murray:
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Can Fandom Survive? - Every hobby and fraternal group is having trouble recruiting and keeping members - any suggestions?
Fri, Noon GC - Illini A Room Party to Remember - It's more than beer in the bathtub
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) Through an Alien's Eyes - How would humans look from out there?
Fri, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom A Saving the Universe One Girl at a Time - The space opera reigns supreme
Sat, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) How to Bid at an Art Show Auction
Sat, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom B Art Auction Begins
Sun, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Promoting Your Convention
Joel T. Nader:
Sat, 10:00am HI - Ballroom D Science Fiction Research Study, Session 1, Section 1 - Be a part of a serious scientific study and earn $5 to boot
Sat, 10:00am HI - Calhoun Science Fiction Research Study, Session 1, Section 2 - Be a part of a serious scientific study and earn $5 to boot
Sun, Noon GC - Mississippian Science Fiction Research Study, Session 2 - Be a part of a serious scientific study and earn $5 to boot
Jeanne Norris:
Sun, 3:00pm GC - Marquette A These Panels Suck - Archon's annual gripe session
Steve Norris:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 So You Want to be a Con-Chair? - How to get into con running from the experts
Thu, 7:00pm GC - LaSalle Opening Ceremonies
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Can Fandom Survive? - Every hobby and fraternal group is having trouble recruiting and keeping members - any suggestions?
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Marquette A The Shape of Things to Come - Archon 31, the 9th Occasional NASFIC
Sun, 3:00pm GC - Marquette A These Panels Suck - Archon's annual gripe session
Sun, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Closing Ceremonies
Spike Norton:
Fri, 7:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Sewing Fake Fur
Sat, 11:00am GC - Ballroom D5 Furry Fandom for Newbies
Sat, Noon GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Movement in Fur
John Novak:
Fri, 10:00am GC - Illini 30 Years of Archon Memories
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 If You Build It, They Will Come - Baseball in real life is almost stranger than science fiction
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Marquette A Relax, We're Only Here for the Bheer (2 hours)
Sat, 10:00am GC - Marquette A Star Trek at 40!!? (1.5 hours)
Sat, 8:00pm GC - Marquette A Oooh, You Hit my Dogma with Your Karma
Sat, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 "The Man With the Screaming Brain" - My favorite movies
Nancy Nutt:
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom A The 6th Sense - Psychics and SF
Fri, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom A Saving the Universe One Girl at a Time - The space opera reigns supreme
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Mississippian Fangirls Gone Wild! How and Why I Got Into Fandom
Sun, 1:00pm GC - Marquette A The Red Menace in Space - SF's predicting political change
Sun, 2:00pm GC - Illini Fandom is a Way of Life?
Carrie Odum:
Thu, 8:00pm HI - Ballroom A Retro Film Show - Not Your Average Disney (16mm Movies, 2 hours)
Thu, 11:00pm HI - Ballroom A Retro Film Show - Potpourri - Rarities and Oddities (16mm Movies, 2+ hours)
Fri, 4:00pm HI - Ballroom D Retro Film Show - Claymation & Stop-Motion Animation (16mm Movies, 2+ hours)
Sat, 4:00pm HI - Ballroom D Retro Film Show - Special Effects (16mm Movies, 2.5 hours)
Sun, Noon HI - Ballroom D Retro Film Show - Special Effects (16mm Movies; 2.5 hours)
Mike Oliveri:
Fri, 3:30pm HI - Monroe Reading (1/2 hour)
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Mississippian We Like Being Scared!
Fri, 9:00pm GC - Mississippian The State of Comics Today
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Arming Your Character - Writing realistic weaponry
Fri, 11:00pm GC - Marquette A Miss Manners' Guide to Gadget Etiquette - Using your cell phone in the toilet is really tacky
Sat, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Comic Books - The Original Shared Worlds
Sat, 10:00pm GC - Illini Arrrr - Pirates of the Internet
Henry Osier:
Fri, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Living History
Parris:
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Illini Living Under the Gun - Will the human race last long enough to have a future?
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Mississippian Fangirls Gone Wild! How and Why I Got Into Fandom
Sat, Noon GC - Ballroom D6 That's the Way We've Always Done It! Is fandom trapped by tradition?
Sun, 2:00pm GC - Illini Fandom is a Way of Life?
John Perkins:
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Illini Strapping on the Chainmail Bikini
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Illini Chills, Thrills, and Kills - A look at the horror genre
Fri, 7:00pm GC - Illini Bringing Nightmares to Life - The Art of Horror
Sat, 1:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom A Ain't That a Bite... - Why vampires still fascinate us
Sat, 8:00pm GC - Marquette A Oooh, You Hit my Dogma with Your Karma
Sat, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 "The Man With the Screaming Brain" - My favorite movies
Sun, 10:00am GC - Marquette A Drawing Something You've Never Seen
Bob Perry:
Fri, 7:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Building the Perfect Beast - Your Ultimate Computer
Sat, 1:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Ice for the Colony - A look at how a permanent colony on the moon would get water
Sun, 11:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Building Cloud City
Pierre Pettinger:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 So You Want to be a Con-Chair? - How to get into con running from the experts
Thu, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Alternative Materials
Thu, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Late Night Lace - Costuming for late-night con wear?
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Fabric Modification
Sun, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Promoting Your Convention
Sun, 11:00am GC - Ballroom A Recreating Your Favorite Character from TV, Anime, or the Movies
Sandy Pettinger:
Thu, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Alternative Materials
Thu, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Late Night Lace - Costuming for late-night con wear?
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Fabric Modification
Sun, 11:00am GC - Ballroom A Recreating Your Favorite Character from TV, Anime, or the Movies
Team Phantasm:
Sat, 11:00am HI - Lawn Team Phantasm Combat Robot Demo
Sat, Noon HI - Calhoun Team Phantasm's Next Grand Challenge
Marty Pierce:
Thu, 7:00pm GC - Illini Not Quite American Idol - Karaoke (4.5 hours)
Van Plexico:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Marquette A SF/Fantasy Jeopardy
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 The Tolkien Primer - Written and visual masterpieces?
Thu, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Telling a Story with Pictures as Well as Words - Comics and Graphic Novels
Fri, 1:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Illini At Least Starbuck Still Smokes Cigars
Fri, 6:00pm GC - Mississippian SF & Fantasy Literature Jeopardy
Fri, 9:00pm GC - Mississippian The State of Comics Today
Sat, 1:00pm GC - Ballroom A Comicbook Jeopardy - Marvel vs DC
Sat, 8:00pm GC - Marquette A Oooh, You Hit my Dogma with Your Karma
Sun, Noon GC - LaSalle Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" - The Best Buddy Story Ever Written?
Potterheads Anonymous:
Sat, Noon HI - Lawn Quidditch Demonstration
Sat, 1:00pm HI - Lawn Quidditch Match (2 hours)
Dan Repperger:
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Meet the Pod People - Local pod-casters tell you about themselves
John Rosenauer:
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Illini Who Are You? Dr. Who's triumphant return
Sun, 1:00pm GC - Illini CIA Open Meeting - Come discuss the new Dr. Who
Sun, 2:00pm GC - Mississippian The State of British SF Telly
Selina Rosen:
Fri, 11:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Shared Worlds - Writing in someone else's fantasy
Fri, Noon GC - Ballroom D6 How do You Research What Isn't Real?
Fri, 4:30pm HI - Hotel Bar Literary Beer - Spend a half hour one-on-one while enjoying fandom's favorite beverage (Pre-Registration Required)
Fri, 5:00pm GC - LaSalle Tales of the SFWA Musketeers
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Marquette A Space Race - Why is SF so White?
Sat, 12:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 "The Eye of Argon" - Jim Theis' Masterpiece as a Round-Robin Reading
Sat, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 He's in the Bar - The importance of the tavern in science fiction and fantasy
Sat, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Yard Dog Press Road Show (2 hours)
Sat, 8:00pm GC - Illini "Hitler in Oz" and Other Really Bad Ideas
Chris "Tyger" Roth:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 So You Want to be a Con-Chair? - How to get into con running from the experts
Fri, 7:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Sewing Fake Fur
Sat, 11:00am GC - Ballroom D5 Furry Fandom for Newbies
Sat, Noon GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Movement in Fur
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Instant Costuming
Mark Rowley:
Thu, 8:00pm GC - LaSalle Hogwarts Open House (2 hours)
Saeru:
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Anime/Cosplay Costuming
Marella Sands:
Fri, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle Using the Web to Promote Your Work
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Illini (Young Adult) My Precious - Tolkien for Teens
Fri, 5:00pm HI - Monroe Reading (1/2 hour)
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Marquette A Relax, We're Only Here for the Bheer (2 hours)
Sat, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 7:00pm GC - Marquette A Old Wives Tales & Urban Legends
Sun, Noon GC - LaSalle Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" - The Best Buddy Story Ever Written?
Sandra Santara:
Fri, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 11:00am GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) Building Your Art Portfolio
Sat, 3:00pm GC - Illini Art Doesn't Have to be Flat
SCA:
Sun, Noon HI - Lawn SCA Armored and Rapier Combat Practice (2 hours)
Mark Schmidt:
Sat, 3:00pm HI - Ballroom D (Gaming) What's New at Steve Jackson Games - Learn all the top-secret stuff at this press conference
Jen Schumacker:
Fri, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Writing Sex Into Your Story - The "ins and outs" of eroticism
Sun, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Japanese Cultural Reference in Anime
M.R. Sellars:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Illini Developing Memorable Characters
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Forgotten or Neglected SF and Fantasy Authors and Their Works
Thu, 8:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom A The 6th Sense - Psychics and SF
Fri, 4:00pm HI - Monroe Reading (1/2 hour)
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Marquette A Relax, We're Only Here for the Bheer (2 hours)
Fri, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Meet Me in St. Louis - Setting your story in your home town
Sat, 12:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 4:00pm HI - Hotel Bar Literary Beer - Spend a half hour one-on-one while enjoying fandom's favorite beverage (Pre-Registration Required)
Sat, 8:00pm GC - Marquette A Oooh, You Hit my Dogma with Your Karma
Tom Seymour:
Fri, 7:00pm GC - Ballroom A Burning Man - Tom Seymour's World-Famous Slide Show (2 hours)
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Marquette A Space Race - Why is SF so White?
Sat, 11:00am GC - LaSalle Is Genre TV Getting Better?
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Instant Costuming
Sat, 4:30pm HI - Hotel Bar Literary Beer - Spend an hour one-on-one while enjoying fandom's favorite beverage (Pre-Registration Required)
Sat, 6:00pm HI - Calhoun Growing UP Fannish
Sat, 11:00pm GC - Marquette A Independent Film Making
Sun, 11:00am GC - Lawn (Children's) Rocket Science Can Be Fun and Easy
Sun, 1:00pm GC - Ballroom A "Pirates of the Caribbean II", or How I Kept Johnny Depp Wet & Other Stories (Slide Show; 2 hours)
Sun, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom A Monster Theory - How monsters are used by society for good or evil in comics, TV, and movies
Tom Shippey:
Fri, Noon GC - Ballroom A Crossing the Line - Taking the fantasy of Harry Potter as real
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Illini (Young Adult) My Precious - Tolkien for Teens
Sat, 11:30am GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Sat, 3:30pm HI - Hotel Bar Literary Beer - Spend a half hour one-on-one while enjoying fandom's favorite beverage (Pre-Registration Required)
Sun, 10:00am GC - Mississippian Using SF & Fantasy to Teach
Sun, Noon GC - LaSalle Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" - The Best Buddy Story Ever Written?
John Sies:
Thu, 6:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Marquette A Why I Draw
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) Through an Alien's Eyes - How would humans look from out there?
Sat, 11:00am GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Sun, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Promoting Your Convention
Mary Sies:
Thu, 8:00pm GC - Marquette A Living in the Shadow (The Spouse's Panel)
Luke Ski:
Thu, 10:00pm GC - LaSalle (Filk) The Great Luke Ski in Concert (2 hours)
Fri, 10:00am GC - Mississippian SF TV of the Last 20 Years - "Tripping the Rift", "Star Trek", "Futurama", "Quantum Leap", "Firefly", "Stargate"
Fri, Noon GC - LaSalle These Are a Few of My Favorite Things - Zombies, pirates, robots, bug-eyed monsters, dinosaurs
Fri, Noon GC - Mississippian Poetry vs. Lyrics - Similarities and Differences
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Ballroom A Funny Voices To Go With Funny Faces - Could You Be A Voice Actor? An American Idol-type contest (2 hours)
Fri, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, Noon GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 (Filk) Let's Write a Filk Song
Sat, 11:00pm HI - Ballrooms C,D The Great Luke Ski's Special Concert (during the dance)
Sun, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle One-More-Time! - The Great Luke Ski in Concert
Fanboy Smackdown:
Sat, 1:00pm GC - Illini Marketing Your Podcast
Frank A. Smith:
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Illini Is the Space Race Starting Another Lap? - Are Europe, India, China giving Russia and the U.S. a needed push?
Fri, 11:00pm GC - Marquette A Miss Manners' Guide to Gadget Etiquette - Using your cell phone in the toilet is really tacky
Sat, 10:00am GC - Ballroom A Space Elevator 101
Sat, 6:00pm GC - Mississippian Robotics and Unmanned Vehicles
Mike "Missouri" Smith:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Marquette A (Young Adult) Round Robin Reading, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
Fri, 10:00am GC - Mississippian SF TV of the Last 20 Years - "Tripping the Rift", "Star Trek", "Futurama", "Quantum Leap", "Firefly", "Stargate"
Fri, Noon GC - Marquette A It's Like Shakespeare, Only With Rayguns - Stealing from the best
Fri, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 7:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Banquet/Dinner Theater "Over the Barrel" (1.5 hours; Banquet ticket-holders only)
Jack Snyder:
Fri, 2:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 11:00am GC - LaSalle Is Genre TV Getting Better?
Sat, 1:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 11:00pm GC - Marquette A Independent Film Making
Terry Sofian:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom A Reliving the Renaissance - A look at the St. Louis Ren Faire
Fri, Noon GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Illini Chills, Thrills, and Kills - A look at the horror genre
Fri, 6:00pm HI - Monroe Reading, "Blackwater Ghosts" (1/2 hour)
Ruth Souther:
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Wielding the Blue/Red Pencil - A look at editing by editors
Sat, 8:00pm GC - Illini "Hitler in Oz" and Other Really Bad Ideas
Sun, 1:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
St. Louis Costumers Guild:
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Costumers' Roundtable
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 (Costuming) What is CostumeCon 25 in 2007?
Sun, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D5 SLCG/CC25 Open Meeting and Elections - St. Louis Costumers Guild (2 hours)
Jon "Mr. Wonderful" Stadter:
Fri, 10:00am GC - Marquette A Getting Started in the Dealers Room
Fri, 2:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Edible Art - Make real art out of real food
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Fun with Play Doh
Sat, Noon GC - Cahokian (Children's) Edible Art - Real art made with real food
Sun, 11:00am GC - Lawn (Children's) Rocket Science Can Be Fun and Easy
Sun, 1:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Allison Stein:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Cover Art - How to Make You NEED to Buy That Book
Fri, 11:00am GC - Mississippian Is Genre Art a Good Investment?
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Marquette A Singularity - Is It Coming and Will We Know When It Arrives? - Discussion of the concept of the technological singularity as proposed by Vernor Vinge and Raymond Kurzweil
Sat, Noon GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Yard Dog Press Road Show (2 hours)
Keith Stokes:
Fri, 1:00pm GC - LaSalle Using the Web to Promote Your Work
Sun, 10:00am GC - Illini Why Read Reviews?
Sun, 2:00pm GC - Illini Fandom is a Way of Life?
Lynn Stranathan:
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Wielding the Blue/Red Pencil - A look at editing by editors
Fri, 3:30pm HI - Hotel Bar Literary Beer - Spend a half hour one-on-one while enjoying fandom's favorite beverage (Pre-Registration Required)
Sat, 11:00am GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Sun, 10:00am GC - Mississippian Using SF & Fantasy to Teach
Daniel Stratmann:
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Illini Living Under the Gun - Will the human race last long enough to have a future?
Sun, 10:00am GC - LaSalle Non-Denominational Services (2 hours)
Thomas M.K. Stratman:
Thu, 6:00pm HI - Monroe Reading
Thu, 6:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Illini Chills, Thrills, and Kills - A look at the horror genre
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Mississippian We Like Being Scared!
Sat, 2:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 4:00pm HI - Monroe Reading (1/2 hour)
Sat, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom B Art Auction Begins
Sat, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Breathing New Life Into Vampires
J.D. Streett IV:
Fri, 10:00am GC - Mississippian SF TV of the Last 20 Years - "Tripping the Rift", "Star Trek", "Futurama", "Quantum Leap", "Firefly", "Stargate"
Fri, 5:00pm HI - Hotel Bar Literary Beer - Spend a half hour one-on-one while enjoying fandom's favorite beverage (Pre-Registration Required)
Fri, 11:00pm GC - Marquette A Miss Manners' Guide to Gadget Etiquette - Using your cell phone in the toilet is really tacky
Sat, 11:00am GC - LaSalle Is Genre TV Getting Better?
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Instant Costuming
Sun, 11:00am GC - Lawn (Children's) Rocket Science Can Be Fun and Easy
Sun, 1:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Cathy Swope:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - LaSalle Who Needs a Scarf - A discussion of the new seasons of Dr. Who
Thu, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Late Night Lace - Costuming for late-night con wear?
Sun, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 The Obligatory "Star Wars" Panel
Steve Swope:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - LaSalle Who Needs a Scarf - A discussion of the new seasons of Dr. Who
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Illini Who Are You? Dr. Who's triumphant return
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Masks
Sun, 11:00am GC - Ballroom A Recreating Your Favorite Character from TV, Anime, or the Movies
Sun, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 The Obligatory "Star Wars" Panel
Mel Tatum:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Mississippian Once Upon a Time - Fantasy and Fairy Tales - the Same Thing?
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Marquette A (Young Adult) Round Robin Reading, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
Thu, 10:00pm GC - Mississippian Bedtime Stories - What's good in Young Adult fiction? (Recommended for parents & teachers)
Fri, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D6 SF on DVD - What's available and what would we like to see?
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Mississippian Writing for Young Adults - How Hard can it Be?
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom A The Darkness Before the Storm - Where is J.K. Rowling taking Harry Potter?
Fri, 5:30pm HI - Monroe Reading (1/2 hour)
Sat, 11:00am GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Sat, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Yard Dog Press Road Show (2 hours)
Sat, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Science Fiction Theme Songs - Not just a 3-hour tour
Sat, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Breathing New Life Into Vampires
Sun, 10:00am GC - Mississippian Using SF & Fantasy to Teach
TBD:
Fri, 10:00am GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs
Chris Tenney:
Thu, 7:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 You Puts Your Money Down, You Takes Your Chances - Collecting Game Cards
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 If You Build It, They Will Come - Baseball in real life is almost stranger than science fiction
Sat, 6:00pm HI - Calhoun Growing UP Fannish
Mark Tiedemann:
Thu, 4:00pm GC - Marquette A Small Press - Starting Place or Pitfall
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Illini Developing Memorable Characters
Thu, 8:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 11:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Shared Worlds - Writing in someone else's fantasy
Fri, Noon GC - Ballroom D6 How do You Research What Isn't Real?
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Marquette A Making the Jump from Short Stories to Novels
Fri, 4:00pm HI - Hotel Bar Literary Beer - Spend a half hour one-on-one while enjoying fandom's favorite beverage (Pre-Registration Required)
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Marquette A Space Race - Why is SF so White?
Sat, 12:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Illini The Great American Short Story - Does It Exist Anymore?
Sat, 3:00pm HI - Monroe Reading
Sat, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Yard Dog Press Road Show (2 hours)
Sat, 8:00pm GC - Marquette A Oooh, You Hit my Dogma with Your Karma
Sat, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Science Fiction Theme Songs - Not just a 3-hour tour
Doc Trammel:
Thu, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 (Costuming) Alternative Materials
Sun, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 You're Going to Cover my Face in What? - Introduction to life-casting (2 hours)
Trans Iowa Canal Company:
Fri, 11:00am GC - LaSalle (Play) Rehearsal
Fri, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle (Play) "Pirates of the Caribbean - You Don't Know Jack"; Captain Jack Sparrow and a handful of others have been abandoned on a deserted island by their crew. In an attempt to escape, they place a message in an empty bottle of Beam's Choice. The bottle returns with an offer of help. But to the castaway's surprise, it's signed "Captain Jack"
Volunteers:
Sun, Noon HI - Hospitality Volunteer's Pizza Party with the Pro's
Joy Ward:
Thu, 4:00pm GC - Marquette A Small Press - Starting Place or Pitfall
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Illini Developing Memorable Characters
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Mississippian Science Fiction and Fantasy Dogs - We know every spaceship and station has at least one cat, but what about man's best friend?
Thu, 8:00pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, Noon GC - Ballroom D6 How do You Research What Isn't Real?
Fri, 7:00pm HI - Monroe Reading (1/2 hour)
Sat, 7:00pm GC - Illini Forgotten Writers - the Bottom Shelf
Billy West:
Thu, 7:00pm GC - LaSalle Opening Ceremonies
Thu, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom A Meet the Media Guest of Honor
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Ballroom A Funny Voices To Go With Funny Faces - Could You Be A Voice Actor? An American Idol-type contest (2 hours)
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom A Meet the Media Guest of Honor/Q&A
Sat, 11:00am GC - LaSalle Is Genre TV Getting Better?
Sat, 3:00pm GC - LaSalle Meet the Media Guest of Honor/Q&A
Sun, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Closing Ceremonies
Richard C. White:
Thu, 5:00pm GC - Illini Developing Memorable Characters
Thu, 6:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Thu, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Vampires and Werewolves and Things that go Bump in the Night
Fri, 9:00pm GC - Mississippian The State of Comics Today
Fri, 10:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Arming Your Character - Writing realistic weaponry
Sat, 10:00am GC - Marquette A Star Trek at 40!!? (1.5 hours)
Sat, Noon GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Sat, 5:00pm GC - Mississippian Collecting Anime Cels
Sat, 7:00pm GC - Marquette A Old Wives Tales & Urban Legends
Sat, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Breathing New Life Into Vampires
Sun, 2:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Japanese Cultural Reference in Anime
Rick Wilber:
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 If You Build It, They Will Come - Baseball in real life is almost stranger than science fiction
Sat, 10:00am GC - Ballroom D6 Just the Facts, Ma'am - Writing believable crime and mystery stories
Sat, 5:00pm HI - Monroe Reading
Sun, 1:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Marie Willbrand:
Sat, 3:00pm HI - Hospitality Ladies of the Red Dragon Red Hat Society - Open Meeting in Hospitality
Warren Williams:
Sat, 11:00am HI - Lawn Team Phantasm Combat Robot Demo
Sat, Noon HI - Calhoun Team Phantasm's Next Grand Challenge
Sat, 6:00pm GC - Mississippian Robotics and Unmanned Vehicles
Winner of Archon's Amateur Science Fiction & Fantasy Writing Contests:
Thu, 8:00pm HI - Calhoun Reading - Winner of Archon's Amateur Science Fiction & Fantasy Writing Contests
Linda Wyatt:
Fri, 11:00am GC - Illini If I Lived by the Hellmouth - All things Josh Whedon
Fri, 1:00pm GC - Illini Strapping on the Chainmail Bikini
Fri, 2:30pm GC - LaSalle Lobby Autographs (1/2 hour)
Fri, 4:00pm GC - Ballroom A The Darkness Before the Storm - Where is J.K. Rowling taking Harry Potter?
Fri, 8:00pm GC - Ballroom D6 Cult Movies We Love to Hate
Fri, 11:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Is "Supernatural" More Than the Monster of the Week?
Sat, 11:00am GC - LaSalle Is Genre TV Getting Better?
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Cahokian (Children's) Instant Costuming
Linda Zang:
Fri, 9:00pm GC - Illini What Happens When Your Collection Takes Over
Michelle Zellich:
Thu, 7:00pm GC - LaSalle Opening Ceremonies
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Marquette A The Shape of Things to Come - Archon 31, the 9th Occasional NASFIC
Sat, 5:00pm HI - Hospitality The Aging of Fandom - Our Annual Panel on Menopause (WOMEN ONLY!)
Sun, Noon GC - Illini St. Louis Science Fiction Society Open Meeting
Sun, 3:00pm GC - Marquette A These Panels Suck - Archon's annual gripe session
Sun, 4:00pm GC - LaSalle Closing Ceremonies
Rich Zellich:
Thu, 6:00pm GC - Ballroom A Electronic Rights - Are they being too literal?
Thu, 9:00pm GC - Ballroom D5 Can Fandom Survive? - Every hobby and fraternal group is having trouble recruiting and keeping members - any suggestions?
Fri, Noon GC - Illini A Room Party to Remember - It's more than beer in the bathtub
Fri, 3:00pm GC - Marquette A The Shape of Things to Come - Archon 31, the 9th Occasional NASFIC
Fri, 5:00pm GC - Marquette A Singularity - Is It Coming and Will We Know When It Arrives? - Discussion of the concept of the technological singularity as proposed by Vernor Vinge and Raymond Kurzweil
Sat, 2:00pm GC - Mississippian In the Beginning was the Word and it was "Machine Language" - History of the Internet
Sat, 3:00pm GC - Ballroom B (Art Show) How to Bid at an Art Show Auction
Sun, 3:00pm GC - Marquette A These Panels Suck - Archon's annual gripe session
Last update: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 by Rich Zellich