| THURSDAY | |||||||||||
| Time | Panels and Discussions, Etc. | Readings | Discussions, Talks, Etc. | ||||||||
| Salon E | Salon B | Vinyard | Salon A | ME / CT | 830 | ||||||
| 8:00 PM | Writers Who Review | ||||||||||
| Bishop, Di Filippo, Hand, Malzberg, Waldrop, Ge. Wolfe | |||||||||||
| 9:00 PM | The Origin of Character in Breakthrough of the Mind | You Don’t Know Dictionary! | |||||||||
| Gregory, Gunn, Hand, Kelly, Kushner, Straub | Garrott, Gilman, Kaftan, Micklem, Taaffe | ||||||||||
| FRIDAY | |||||||||||
| Time | Panels | Readings | Special Panels, Discussions, Talks, Etc. | Kaffeeklatsches | Autographs | ||||||
| Salon E | Salon B | Vinyard | Salon A | ME / CT | 830 | 456 (top nm) / 458 | |||||
| 11:00 AM | Egocentrism and Creativity | SF As The Literature Of Things | The Seeds of Poe: Two Anthologies | ||||||||
| 11:30 AM | Edelman, Gunn, Kelly, Shirley, Valente, Ge. Wolfe | Bobet, Clute, Di Filippo, Nakashima-Brown, Weinstein | Charnas, Datlow, Hand, Sherman, Straub, Ga. Wolfe | ||||||||
| 12:00 PM | The Catharsis of Myth, the Shock of Invention | The Nature of Evil in Horror Fiction | |||||||||
| 12:30 PM | Asher, Goss, Isaak, Miller, Valente | Barron, Clute, Schweitzer, Shirley, Weinstein | |||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Novels You Write vs. Novels You Talk About in Bars | The Career of Elizabeth Hand | |||||||||
| 1:30 PM | Malzberg, J. Morrow, Pollack, Steele, Wilber | Cox, Golaski, Sleight, Witcover, Ga. Wolfe | |||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
| 2:30 PM | Edelman, Hand, Reed, Shaw, Shirley | Brown, Lilley, Lipkin, Sleight, Witcover | |||||||||
| 3:00 PM | Just Who the Hell Am I, Anyway? | Apollo 11 and Science Fiction | |||||||||
| 3:30 PM | S. Berman, Charnas, Kushner, Lewitt, Reed, Straub | Daley, Di Filippo, Frederick, Malzberg, Steele, Strock | |||||||||
| 4:00 PM | Words as Magic | So, What’s New? | How To Review | ||||||||
| 4:30 PM | Crowley, Gilman, Klages, Sherman, Ge. Wolfe | Bacigalupi, Buckner, Collins, Lapine, Trudel | Brown, Dirda, Fox, Grossman, Ga. Wolfe | ||||||||
| 5:00 PM | Off Color | The Golden Age of SF Was 1968 | |||||||||
| 5:30 PM | Bradford, Durham, Gunn, Menon, Tan | Cox, Crowley, Keller, Reed, Zeddies | |||||||||
| 6:00 PM | Reality and Dream in Fiction | Reconsidering The Classics | |||||||||
| 6:30 PM | Berry, Cisco, Kiernan, Meynard, Ge. Wolfe | J. Berman, Brown, Dirda, Malzberg, Person | |||||||||
| 7:00 PM | The Emotional Roots of Fantasy, Part 2 | Edgar Allan Poe | |||||||||
| 7:30 PM | Abrahams, Gregory, Swanger, Tan, Van | Buckner, Cox, Ford, Golaski, Goss, Hunt | |||||||||
| 8:00 PM | How Do We Choose What We Read? | The Career of Hope Mirrlees | |||||||||
| 8:30 PM | Bishop, Dirda, Janssen, Kirstein, Rothman, Wilber | Gilman, Hand, Keller, Kissane, Swanwick | |||||||||
| 9:00 PM | (setup) | Exceptions to the Rule | |||||||||
| 9:30 PM | Crowley, Freund, Jones, Krasnoff, Redick | ||||||||||
| 10:00 PM | Readercon 20 Grand Ceremony | ||||||||||
| 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 | Vinyard | Salon F | ||||
| 10:00 AM | History and Fictional History | Upbeat and Downbeat in YA Fiction | Short Horror Fiction: The Art (and Market) | ||||||||
| 10:30 AM | Cevasco, Charnas, Durham, Finlay, Hobson, Waldrop | Bacigalupi, Bobet, Klages, Surrette, Sutherland | Barron, Cavelos, Datlow, Golaski, Tremblay | ||||||||
| 11:00 AM | The Killers Inside Us | Is Hard SF Just a Narrative Voice? | |||||||||
| 11:30 AM | Allen, Antosca, Cavelos, Hand, Tremblay | Asaro, Carver, Easton, Hartwell, Jablokov, Zeddies | |||||||||
| 12:00 PM | Boom & Bust in Genre Publishing and the Economy | Call and Response | |||||||||
| 12:30 PM | Arthen, Guran, Person, Van Gelder, Weisman | Cramer, Garrott, Gilman, Grossman, Kirstein | |||||||||
| 1:00 PM | Novels of Advocacy vs. Novels of Recognition | The Invention of Fantasy in the Antiquarian Revival | The Radical Rewrite | ||||||||
| 1:30 PM | Bacigalupi, Clute, Houghton, Malzberg, Sawyer, Sleight | Doyle, Gilman, Kissane, K. Morrow, Ringel, Taaffe | Asaro, Bernobich, Blake, Longyear, Mirabelli, Smith | ||||||||
| 2:00 PM | Is Fiction Inherently Evil ? | The Fiction of Greer Gilman | Espionage Fiction and the Fantastic | ||||||||
| 2:30 PM | Bishop, Delany, Kiernan, J. Morrow, Straub, Ge. Wolfe | Dillon, Garrott, Keller, Ringel, Swanwick, Taaffe | D'Ammassa, Finlay, Macdonald, Nakashima-Brown, Shirley | ||||||||
| 3:00 PM | Is Darwinism Too Good For SF? | The Rhysling Award Poetry Slan | Academic Attention: Good, Bad, Or Ugly? | ||||||||
| 3:30 PM | Hecht, Kiernan, Menon, J. Morrow, Popkes, Sawyer | Allen, MC et al | Cheney, Danvers, Delany, Hartwell, Lerner, Schanoes | ||||||||
| 4:00 PM | Salon E, 4 PM: Elizabeth Hand Interviewed by David Streitfeld. 5 PM: Greer Gilman Interviewed by Robert Killheffer | ||||||||||
| 6:00 PM | (dinner break) | ||||||||||
| 8:00 PM | The
1st Kirk Poland Memorial Bad Prose Competition Tournament of Champions Gardner, Grant, Gravel, Kirstein, Lewitt, Meynard, Van (c. 100 min.) |
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| 10:00 PM | Howard Waldrop Reads | Diamond Star: The Concert Asaro, Wolcott |
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| SUNDAY | |||||||||||
| Time | Panels | Readings | Special Panels, Discussions, Talks, Etc. | Kaffeeklatsches | Autographs | ||||||
| Salon E | Salon A | NH / MA | VT | ME / CT | RI | Vinyard | Salon F | ||||
| 10:00 AM | Classics for Pleasure | After the Cover’s Closed | The Future of Magazines, Part 1 (Print) | ||||||||
| 10:30 AM | Dirda with Clute, Crowley, Delany, Hand | Edelman, Grossman, Heuler, Hunt, Reid, Roessner | Benson, Burstein, Lapine, Purdom, Silverman, Van Gelder | ||||||||
| 11:00 AM | Divinatory Systems In Imaginative Literature | The Shirley Jackson Awards | The Future of Magazines, Part 2 (Online) | ||||||||
| 11:30 AM | Crowley, Gilman, Gunn, Micklem, Pollack, Van | Hand, MC et al | Bradford, Clarke, Killheffer, Kowal, Kressel, Wallace | ||||||||
| 12:00 PM | Outsider Artists and Speculative Fiction | Strong Stories With Strong Parents | The Fiction of Stanley Weinbaum | ||||||||
| 12:30 PM | Gilman, Gorinsky, Hand, J. Morrow, Shirley, Swanwick | J. Berman, Daemon, Hill, Johnson, Prineas | Gravel, Lake, Schweitzer, Waldrop, Weisman | ||||||||
| 1:00 PM | The Notion of Lives on Paper | The Year in Short Fiction | The Book Club: Mieville | ||||||||
| 1:30 PM | Delany, Hartwell, Johnson, Malzberg, K. Morrow | Clarke, Cohen, Cramer, Datlow, Goss | Berry, Clute, Freund, Grant, Sleight | ||||||||
| 2:00 PM | We Won, We Lost | Altered Minds, Damaged Voices | |||||||||
| 2:30 PM | Adams, Burstein, Cox, Di Filippo, Killheffer, Roessner | Clute, Collins, Hand, Longyear, Shaw, Waldrop | |||||||||
| 3:00 PM | Readercon 20 Debriefing | ||||||||||