THURSDAY
Time	Panels and Discussions, Etc.		Readings		Discussions, Talks, Etc.
	Salon E	Salon B	Vineyard	Salon A	ME / CT
8:00 PM	Writers Who Review	When The World Ends, And Nobody Notices	Tremblay	Isaak	70 Years of Van Vogt
	Bishop, Di Filippo, Hand, Malzberg, Waldrop, Ge. Wolfe	Dillon w/ Gilman, Ringel, Sutherland	Pelland	Nelson	Clute, Brown, Sleight, Ga. Wolfe
9:00 PM	The Origin of Character in Breakthrough of the Mind	You Don’t Know Dictionary!	Edelman	Krasnoff	What Did You Guys Think Of . . . ?
	Gregory, Gunn, Hand, Kelly, Kushner, Straub	Garrott, Gilman, Kaftan, Micklem, Taaffe	Barron	Cox	Person & Waldrop
FRIDAY
Time	Panels		Readings		Special Panels, Discussions, Talks, Etc.		Kaffeeklatsches	Autographs
	Salon E	Salon B	Vineyard	Salon A	ME / CT	830	456 (top nm) / 458
11:00 AM	Egocentrism and Creativity	SF As The Literature Of Things	Sawyer	Cambias	The Seeds of Poe: Two Anthologies	Turning Writer’s Block into Stories	Gilman &
11:30 AM	Edelman, Gunn, Kelly, Shirley, Valente, Ge. Wolfe	Clute, Bobet, Di Filippo, Nakashima-Brown, Weinstein		Micklem	Charnas, Datlow, Hand, Sherman, Straub, Ga. Wolfe	Longyear (2 hrs)	Hartwell
12:00 PM	The Catharsis of Myth, the Shock of Invention	The Nature of Evil in Horror Fiction	Betwixt the Between	Hill	Geek Card Workshop	Poetry and SF (Room 930)	Daley &
12:30 PM	Asher, Goss, Isaak, Miller, Valente	Barron, Clute, Schweitzer, Shirley, Weinstein		Cevasco	Frederick	Allen & Bishop	Making a Living1
1:00 PM	Novels You Write vs. Novels You Talk About in Bars	The Career of Elizabeth Hand	Reed	Taaffe	Narrative Psychology and SF	Acting Techniques and Writing	Grossman &
1:30 PM	Malzberg, J. Morrow, Pollack, Steele, Wilber	Cox, Golaski, Sleight, Witcover, Ga. Wolfe	Sherman	Drummond	Abrahams	Arthen ( 2 hrs)	Klages
	Salon E	Salon B	NH/MA	VT	ME / CT	RI	456 (top nm) / 458	Salon F
2:00 PM	Hacks Anonymous vs. The Art Police	The Year in Novels	Straub	Mythic Delirium / Goblin Fruit	Preons as the Most Fundamental Particle	Tarot, Myth, and Imagination	Clute &
2:30 PM	Edelman, Hand, Reed, Shaw, Shirley	Brown, Lilley, Lipkin, Sleight, Witcover	Goss		Van	Pollack	Ge. Wolfe
3:00 PM	Just Who the Hell Am I, Anyway?	Apollo 11 and Science Fiction	Shirley	Interfictions 2	How To Review	Vocabulary in Gilman (Garrott)	Bishop &
3:30 PM	S. Berman, Charnas, Kushner, Lewitt, Reed, Straub	Daley, Di Filippo, Frederick, Malzberg, Steele, Strock			Dirda, Brown, Fox, Grossman, Ga. Wolfe	Language as a Tool (Phillips-Sears)	Gunn
4:00 PM	Words as Magic	So, What’s New?	Cramer	Lovecraft Unbound	How I Wrote Wonderwall	The Savage Humanists (Kelleghan)	Gregory &
4:30 PM	Crowley, Gilman, Klages, Sherman, Ge. Wolfe	Bacigalupi, Buckner, Collins, Lapine, Trudel	Lewitt		Hand	Robert Hooke (Cambias)	Weisman
5:00 PM	Off Color	The Golden Age of SF Was 1968	Bishop	Bobet	Slipstream in the Postwar Short Story	How I Wrote A is for Alien (Kiernan)	Morrow &
5:30 PM	Bradford, Durham, Gunn, Menon, Tan	Crowley, Cox, Keller, Reed, Zeddies		Silverman	Beamer & Ga. Wolfe	How I Wrote The Orphan’s Tales (Valente)	Sawyer
6:00 PM	Reality and Dream in Fiction	Reconsidering The Classics	Kushner	Gravel	A Different Mind	Speculative Poetry Workshop	Redick &	Carver, Grossman, Hill
6:30 PM	Berry, Cisco, Kiernan, Meynard, O'Leary, Ge. Wolfe	J. Berman, Brown, Dirda, Malzberg, Person	Smith	Ronald	Micklem	Allen	Swanwick
7:00 PM	The Emotional Roots of Fantasy, Part 2	Edgar Allan Poe	Pollack	Daley	The Use of History in the Fantastic	Reading Dr. Seuss as Weird Fiction	Isaak &	Adamas, Barron, Longyear
7:30 PM	Abrahams, Gregory, Swanger, Tan, Van	Buckner, Cox, Ford, Golaski, Goss, Hunt	Kowal	Nakashima-Brown	Sleight	Kiernan	Purdom
8:00 PM	How Do We Choose What We Read?	The Career of Hope Mirrlees	Delany	New Genre	Annual Interstitial Arts Town Meeting	Rewriting Lewis And Rowling	Carver &	Gregory, Klages, Waldrop
8:30 PM	Bishop, Dirda, Janssen, Kirstein, Rothman, Wilber	Gilman, Hand, Keller, Kissane, Swanwick			Kushner	Grossman	Kowal
9:00 PM	(setup)		Gilman	Schweitzer	Exceptions to the Rule	Bookaholics Anonymous	Sherman &
9:30 PM				Heuler	Crowley, Freund, Jones, Krasnoff, Redick	Hanger et al	Smith
10:00 PM	Readercon 20 Grand Ceremony						1Krasnoff
10:30 PM	Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award
10:45 PM	Meet the Pros(e) Party (120+ min.)
SATURDAY
Time	Panels		Readings		Special Panels, Discussions, Talks, Etc.		Kaffeeklatsches	Autographs
	Salon E	Salon A	NH / MA	VT	ME / CT	RI	Vineyard	Salon F
10:00 AM	History and Fictional History	Upbeat and Downbeat in YA Fiction	Wolfe	Redick	Notes on the Superhero (Clute)	Short Horror Fiction: The Art (and Market)	Hand &	Gilman, Kirstein, Sawyer
10:30 AM	Cevasco, Charnas, Durham, Finlay, Hobson, Waldrop	Bacigalupi, Bobet, Klages, Surrette, Sutherland		Kaftan	How I Wrote Enclave (Reed)	Barron, Cavelos, Datlow, Golaski, Tremblay	Sybil's Garage
11:00 AM	Is Hard SF Just a Narrative Voice?	The Killers Inside Us	Swanwick & Gunn	Doyle & Macdonald	My Life in the Theater, 1910--1960	Odyssey Workshop Presentation	Delany &	Datlow, Prineas, Sherman
11:30 AM	Asaro, Carver, Easton, Hartwell, Jablokov, Zeddies	Allen, Antosca, Hand, Longyear, Tremblay		Janssen	Crowley	Cavelos	Space and Time
12:00 PM	Boom & Bust in Genre Publishing and the Economy	Call and Response		Federations	The Genre Roots of Mainstream American Fiction	Coping with Diversity	Dern &	Danvers, Ford, Kiernan
12:30 PM	Arthen, Guran, Person, Van Gelder, Weisman	Cramer, Garrott, Gilman, Grossman, Miller	Mirrlees by Brody		Finlay	Abrahams	Hunt
1:00 PM	Novels of Advocacy vs. Novels of Recognition	The Invention of Fantasy in the Antiquarian Revival	Ford	Rothman	The Radical Rewrite	Puppetry and SF (Kowal)	Writers in Public1 &	Hunt, Reed, Steele
1:30 PM	Bacigalupi, Clute, Houghton, Malzberg, Sawyer, Sleight	Doyle, Gilman, Kissane, K. Morrow, Ringel, Taaffe	Danvers	Prineas	Asaro, Bernobich, Blake, Longyear, Mirabelli, Smith	Learning to Fight like a Knight (Nelson)	Lapine
2:00 PM	Is Fiction Inherently Evil ?	The Fiction of Greer Gilman	Roessner	Clockwork Phoenix	Espionage Fiction and the Fantastic	Where Do You Get Your Ideas?:	Asaro / Wolcott &	Crowley, Delany, Hand
2:30 PM	Bishop, Kiernan, J. Morrow, Straub, Ge. Wolfe	Dillon, Garrott, Keller, Ringel, Swanwick, Taaffe	Grossman		D'Ammassa, Finlay, Macdonald, Nakashima-Brown, Shirley	Improv for Writers	Durham
3:00 PM	Is Darwinism Too Good For SF?	The Rhysling Award Poetry Slan	Hand	Longyear (part 1)	Academic Attention: Good, Bad, Or Ugly?	Klages	Crowley &	Charnas, Gunn, Straub
3:30 PM	Hecht, Kiernan, Menon, J. Morrow, Popkes, Sawyer	Allen, MC et al			Cheney, Danvers, Delany, Hartwell, Lerner, Schanoes	(2 hrs.)	Datlow
4:00 PM	Salon E, 4 PM: Greer Gilman Interviewed by Lila Garrott. 5 PM: Elizabeth Hand Interviewed by David Streitfeld.						1Freund
6:00 PM	(dinner break)			Longyear fin.
8:00 PM	The 1st Kirk Poland Memorial Bad Prose Competition Tournament of Champions Gardner, Grant, Gravel, Kirstein, Lewitt, Meynard, Van (c. 100 min.)
10:00 PM	Howard Waldrop Reads				Diamond Star: The Concert Asaro, Wolcott
SUNDAY
Time	Panels		Readings		Special Panels, Discussions, Talks, Etc.		Kaffeeklatsches	Autographs
	Salon E	Salon A	NH / MA	VT	ME / CT	RI	Vineyard	Salon F
10:00 AM	Classics for Pleasure	After the Cover’s Closed	O'Leary	Bernobich	The Future of Magazines, Part 1 (Print)	The Weird and Unsettling Underland Press	Finlay &	Hartwell & Cramer, Swanwick
10:30 AM	Dirda with Clute, Crowley, Delany, Hand, Waldrop	Edelman, Grossman, Heuler, Hunt, Reid, Roessner	Durham	Butler	Benson, Burstein, Lapine, Purdom, Silverman, Van Gelder	Golaski & Blake	Gravel, Kirstein & Zeddies
11:00 AM	Divinatory Systems In Imaginative Literature	The Shirley Jackson Awards	Bacigalupi	Dern	The Future of Magazines, Part 2 (Online)	Dubai, City Of The Future? (J. Berman)	Hecht &	Durham, Miller, Morrow
11:30 AM	Crowley, Gilman, Gunn, Micklem, Pollack, Van	Hand, MC et al	Valente	Wilson	Bradford, Clarke, Killheffer, Kowal, Kressel, Wallace	How Body Shapes Intelligence (Collins)	Janssen
12:00 PM	Outsider Artists and Speculative Fiction	Strong Stories With Strong Parents	Asaro	Broad Universe	Mainstream and Genre	The Fiction of Stanley Weinbaum	Journeyman Writers2 &	Burstein, Doyle & Macdonald
12:30 PM	Gilman, Gorinsky, Hand, J. Morrow, Shirley, Swanwick	J. Berman, Daemon, Hill, Johnson, Prineas			Beamer, Finlay, and Ga. Wolfe	Gravel, Lake, Schweitzer, Waldrop, Weisman	Longyear
1:00 PM	The Notion of Lives on Paper	We Won, We Lost	Crowley	Beneath Ceaseless Skies	The Book Club: Mieville	How to Give an Effective Reading	Bacigalupi &	Bishop, Kushner, Valente
1:30 PM	Delany, Hartwell, Johnson, Malzberg, K. Morrow	Adams, Burstein, Cox, Di Filippo, Killheffer, Roessner			Berry, Clute, Freund, Grant, Sleight	Kowal	Doyle / McDonald
2:00 PM	Altered Minds, Damaged Voices	The Year in Short Fiction	Kiernan	Hunt	Memorial Guest Of Honor Interview	Lasers, Death Rays, Ultimate Weapons	Children's F&SF3
2:30 PM	Clute, Collins, Hand, Longyear, Shaw, Waldrop	Clarke, Cohen, Cramer, Datlow, Goss	Finlay	Carver	Swanwick	Hecht	Valente
3:00 PM	Readercon 20 Debriefing						2Kaftan	3K. & T. Sutherland