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Convention Hours page 2

Event and Activity Locations page 3

Gaming page 4

Anime/Film Listing page 6

Friday Program Schedule page 8

Saturday Program Schedule page 19

Sunday Program Schedule page 38

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Registration 3pm – 8:30pm 9am – 6pm 9am – noon 2nd floor, Harbor Foyer

Anime & Film Screening 5pm – midnight 10am – midnight 10am – 3pm 2nd floor, Carlton

Art Show 6pm – midnight 10am – 9pm 10am – noon Galleria (closeout at noon)

Art Show Quick Sale - noon – 9pm 10am – noon

Art Show Sales - - 1pm – 3pm

Con Suite 4pm – 1am 10am – 1am 10am – 4pm Galleria

Dealers Room 5pm – 8pm 10am – 6pm 10am – 3pm Galleria

Filking 5pm – late 10am – late 10am – late Lobby Level, Marina 4 2nd floor, Lewis

Gaming 5pm – midnight 10am – midnight 10am – 3pm Lobby Level, Marina 1

Information/Volunteers 3pm – 9pm 10am – 9pm 10am – 3pm Galleria

Program 2pm – midnight 10am – midnight 10am – 3pm 2nd floor, Galleria Lobby Level

DragonsLair — 6pm – 9pm 9am – noon 9am – 2pm Kids Activities 1pm – 5pm Galleria 7pm – 9pm LOCATIONS 3 see maps on back cover

EVENT LOCATIONS Art Show Opening (Fri night) Galleria Boskone Reception & Meet the Guests (Fri night) Meet the Press: Book Launch Party (Sat night) Dead Dog (Sun) Awards Ceremonies (Sat night) 2nd floor Harbor II and III Featured Filker Concert (Sat night) Improv at Boskone (Sat night) Silly Poses (Sat night) Steven Brust Reading (Sat night) Sassafrass Concert (Sun afternoon) 2nd floor, Lewis

ACTIVITY LOCATIONS Main Programming Lobby Level, Marina Ballrooms Newsletter Distribution Point Gaming Lobby Level, Marina 1 Filking (evenings, Fri daytime) Lobby Level, Marina 4 Registration 2nd floor, Harbor Foyer Newsletter Distribution Point Main Programming 2nd floor function rooms Art Demos Readings Filking (Sat & Sun daytime) 2nd floor, Lewis Anime & Film Screenings 2nd floor, Carlton Fan Tables lower level and escalator lobby Art Show and Art Show Sales Galleria Autographing Con Suite Dealers Room Discussion Groups DragonsLair ABOUT KAFFEEKLATCHES Information Kaffeeklatches • Kaffeeklatch seating is limited. You must Newsletter Distribution Point — Information Desk sign up for Kaffeeklatches at the Program Office Party Board Desk in the Galleria. Print Shop • The sign-up sheets for Saturday will be set Program Operations Program Participant Check-in — Program Ops out on Friday, and the sign-up sheets for Volunteers Desk Sunday will be set out at noon on Saturday. • Since space is limited, please be sure to sign up early to secure a place at the table. 4 GAMING

GAME ROOM HOURS Featuring Friday 3pm — midnight Lauren Woolsey Saturday 10am — midnight Game: Stars, Inc. Sunday 10am — 3pm Fri 3 — 10pm Sat 10am — 3pm Sun 10am — 3pm

LOCATION Niles Burger Game: City Boss Marina 1 Fri 5 — 7pm Sat 11 — 3pm

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3pm Boss Monster (free to Stars, Inc. public) GAME DESCRIPTIONS 5pm Coup (free to City Boss public) Cosmic Encounter Boss Monster This time you get to be the boss, trying to 7pm Caverna stop the heroes from getting through your dungeon. 2–4 players. Novices welcome. SATURDAY

10pm Slash Caverna Stars, Inc. Moonquake Escape It’s very similar to Agricola, but rooms have replaced the cards, making this one a 11pm Cosmic Encounter much more level game to play. 2-7 players. City Boss Beginners welcome.

1pm Guru of the Game Room Tournament

7pm Rails of New England City Boss 2–4 players collectively build a city and 10pm St. Petersburg compete to take it over. Play roles such as Mayor, Slum Lord or Community Organizer. SUNDAY Place your managers wisely to decide your actions. Make deals, commit arson and avoid 10am Innovation criminal investigations. Only one player will Stars, Inc. emerge the true City Boss. Cosmic Encounter Moonquake Escape

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Cosmic Encounter Rails of New England Try out a new expansion for Cosmic Co-created by our own Walter H. Hunt, Encounter presented by co-creators Peter this is a railroad/business game. Build your Olotka and Bill Eberie themselves. 2-8 railroads to connect your businesses to players. Novices welcome. major cities to earn the money to go after the extra income. Take over mail routes, grab the subsidies, and build the specific Coup routes to make a ton of money and win the game. 2-5 players. Beginners welcome. A sly game of manipulation and detection. 2-4 players. Novices welcome. Slash Guru of the Game Room Similar to Apples to Apples but this time Tournament the players have to describe why the controller should pick their card. 2-10 Lords of Waterdeep, Puerto Rico, Stone players. Novices welcome. Age, St. Petersburg. 4 games in 5 hours. See tournament rules in gaming for more details. St. Petersburg Innovation Acquire the workers, build the buildings, hire the aristocrats, and grab all the Build your civilization up one card at a upgrades you can to build a city worthy of time, using various technologies to further the Czar. 2-5 players. Novices welcome. your cause. 2-4 players. Novices welcome.

Stars, Inc. Moonquake Escape Play as an alien race that has the You’re a criminal who recently escaped technology to create stars by collapsing from jail on the Moon. Unfortunately, all gas clouds. Harvest hydrogen, helium, the other players escaped as well, and you’re and carbon from these stars. Form massive all trying to reach the one escape rocket at stars and evolve them until they become the top of the crater. Race to the top of the supernovae to collect heavier elements. board, fighting your opponents, the guards, Create rocky and gaseous planets to gain and also the board itself, which changes resources or points. Let your sun-like stars constantly due to Moonquakes. evolve to become white dwarfs that you can rent out as “space heaters” to earn points each turn, or sell giant space diamonds Power Grid on the black market for quick one-time- only points. Once you have finished The classic game of resource management, travelling the galaxy by going through the buy your power plant, then buy the environment deck, the most successful resources to power your plant, then expand player wins! into cities to power them. 3-6 players. Novices welcome.

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FRIDAY Dirty Pair (Original OAV) In the 22nd century mankind may be Steamboy technologically advanced, but there are still some problems that can only be fixed by In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds a couple of women who don’t back down himself caught in the middle of a deadly from a fight! These are the adventures of Kei conflict over a revolutionary advance in and Yuri, two official Trouble Consultants steam power. for the World Welfare Works Association, 2pm who use their brains, brawn, and looks to solve any problem. They call themselves the Kiki’s Delivery Service “Lovely Angels,’’ but because their solutions A young witch, on her mandatory year of often result in chaos and mass destruction, independent life, finds fitting into a new the rest of the universe has dubbed them community difficult while she supports the “Dirty Pair’’! (4 episodes) herself by running an air courier service. 10pm 4pm Ice Pirates Summer Wars In the far future water is the most valuable A student tries to fix a problem he substance. Two space pirates are captured, accidentally caused in OZ, a digital world, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her while pretending to be the fiancé of his friend find her father who disappeared when he at her grandmother’s 90th birthday. found information dangerous to the rulers. 6pm A real Space Opera with sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, monsters, bar Bodacious Space Pirates fights and time warps. 12am Marika, a high school girl, has been living a normal life in a distant galaxy many years into the future. But this changes when she is told that her recently deceased father was SATURDAY captain of a pirate ship and only a direct descendant may inherit the title of captain SDF Macross of the pirate space ship. (4 episodes) In the next century, a reconfiguring ship 8pm (think “Transformer” with a pilot) called Macross carries fifty thousand refugees within its hold as it returns to Earth pursued by giant humanoid warriors. (4 episodes). 9am

Invasion of the Astro Monster Aliens from Planet X request the use of Godzilla and Rodan to fight off King Ghidorah, but have a better use for the three monsters. 11am ANIME/FILM LISTING 7

Princess Mononoke SUNDAY On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami’s curse, Ashitaka finds himself Classic Cartoons in the middle of a war between the forest 9am gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime. The Secret World of Arrietty 12:45pm The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family’s FLCL residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks A 12-year old boy named Naota one when their daughter, Arrietty, is discovered. day meets a strange woman, riding a 10am Vespa and wielding a big guitar. As soon as she appears, mysterious things start happening. (complete series) Serial Experiments Lain 3pm Strange events begin to occur as a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes Guardians of the Galaxy obsessed with interconnected virtual realm of “The Wired.” (4 episodes) A group of intergalactic criminals are 12pm forced to work together to stop a fanatical warrior from taking control of the universe. 6pm “I Remember the Future” Viewing and Discussion Martian Successor Nadesico During a visit from his estranged daughter, an elderly science-fiction writer struggles Some unknown presence is attacking Earth with his fading mind and the visions he with dangerous robots and the only thing thinks he is receiving from the future. The that can save the day is the crew of the film will be followed by a discussion with Nadesico: a powerful spaceship. (4 episodes) Michael A. Burstein, author of the Nebula- 8pm nominated short story that served as the basis for the award-winning film. 2014, Maleficent NR; starring Tiffany Lyndall-Knight (from A vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant Battlestar Galactica) and Reg Gorman. princess, only to discover that the child 30-minute viewing followed by a discussion may be the one person who can restore with the author, Michael Burstein. peace to their troubled land. 2pm 10pm

Plan 9 from Outer Space Aliens resurrect dead humans as zombies and vampires to stop humanity from creating the Solaranite (a sort of sun- driven bomb). 12am 8 FRIDAY PROGRAM

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PROGRAM START: FRI 2 PM The AniMangaVerse Ada Palmer (M), Veronica Koven-Matasy, The Pantheon Among Hogwarts Tim Szczesuil Professors Lewis • 50 min • Panel Valerie Estelle Frankel Anime and manga have become forces Burroughs • 50 min • Solo Talk unto themselves, spawning hordes of All pantheons in ancient mythologies excited new fans as well as adaptations, have similar archetypes, and so do the reinterpretations, and fantastic new original Hogwarts professors! Which archetypes are stories. Panelists discuss the shining included? Which are missing? Are they just examples that got them into anime and reenacting the Roman gods, or are there manga. What’s out there? What new trends other, closer correspondences? What roles are emerging? And how about the art! do Harry, Hermione, and Ron play within the Hogwarts Pantheon? FRI 3 PM The Cutting Edge Tom Easton (M), Guy Consolmagno, Food in Fiction Justine Graykin, Mark L. Olson, Karl Schroeder Carrie Cuinn (M), Steven Brust, James Harbor II • 50 min • Panel Cambias, Fran Wilde, Lawrence M. Schoen Burroughs • 50 min • Panel Panelists discuss scientific and engineering developments that are new or emerging, Stories that make you go, “Yum!” How do and then venture into the realm of you describe food to convey mood or set the those that may be just a short step from scene? Join our panelists as they dish on the development. What ideas are within our culinary delights that tantalize us in fiction, reach that recently seemed like pure science from regional teas to kingly feasts. What fiction? And what direction will technology works? What doesn’t? And what should you likely take in the future? know about a food-centric scene?

Welcome to Boskone #1 Books That Just Barely Failed Brenda Noiseux, Priscilla Olson Vincent Docherty (M), Fred Lerner, Independence • 50 min • Discussion Group Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Justine Graykin Harbor I • 50 min • Panel New to Boskone? Or returning after a long absence? Join us for a short discussion A discussion of various books that should about what Boskone has to offer, learn have done better, but had some fatal some of the convention lingo, and meet flaw. Maybe the protagonist’s character, new people. Then join our docents for a the society, or the worldbuilding was stroll around the con. inconsistent. Perhaps disbelief couldn’t be suspended quite so far. Did the author push a political or social agenda that was generally distasteful? Could the book have done better if released at a different time? PROGRAM FRIDAY 9

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Vintage HallowDay Art Beauty and the Beast Charles Lang, Wendy Snow-Lang Priscilla Olson (M), Chris Jackson, Harbor II • 50 min • Solo Talk Peadar Ó Guilín, Jane Yolen, Greer Gilman Collecting and collectibles have deep Lewis • 50 min • Panel connections with SF/F fans and fandom. Disney adapted “Beauty and the Beast” Official Artists Chuck Lang and Wendy into an animated film 25 years ago, but Snow-Lang share the world of collectible this romantic story has been around forever art and objects that feature their favorite and has taken many forms: “Cupid and holiday — Halloween! Psyche,” “East of the Sun, West of the Moon,” etc. Why is this such a popular Top Fantasy Vacation Locations motif? What other stories of mythic love Margaret Ronald (M), Max Gladstone, and romance have survived the ages? Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Allen M. Steele Harbor III • 50 min • Panel FRI 4 PM TripAdvisor’s got nothing on our panelists! Get a fun-filled glimpse of the pros and Reading: Charles Stross cons of taking the family on some truly “fantastic” vacations — to destinations Griffin • 25 min • Reading straight out of the pages of your favorite fiction. Find out where to go, whom to see, Kaffeeklatsch: Jordan Hamessley and what to do while you’re (not really) Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch there. Where would you most like to go, if you had the chance? Kaffeeklatsch: Lawrence Schoen Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch Welcome to Boskone #2 Erin Underwood, Bob Kuhn The Author on the Flying Trapeze Independence • 50 min • Discussion Group E. C. Ambrose (Elaine Isaak) (M), New to Boskone? Or returning after a Elizabeth Bear, Vincent O’Neil, Jill Shultz, long absence? Join us for a short discussion Allen M. Steele about what Boskone has to offer, learn Burroughs • 50 min • Panel some of the convention lingo, and meet new people. Then join our docents for a Research tips for fainthearted and fearless stroll around the con. writers from panelists who’ve tried falconry, caving, rock climbing, and flying trapeze, cooked space food, been tattooed, and gone behind-the-scenes at Cirque du Soleil for their novels. They’ll share stories and research strategies, including advice for introverts about interviewing experts. How do you handle the ethics and logistics of experiential research? 10 FRIDAY PROGRAM

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FRI 4PM continued Losing True Dark David L. Clements (M), James Cambias, The Dark Side of Doctor Who James Patrick Kelly, Donna L. Young, Jim Mann (M), Susan Jane Bigelow, Guy Consolmagno Ginjer Buchanan, LJ Cohen, Laurie Mann Harbor III • 50 min • Panel Harbor I • 50 min • Panel With the growth of modern cities, the We’ve all seen the bright and charming star-swept sky is vanishing, hidden behind Doctor saving the universe. But the ever-spreading glare of nighttime traveling through time and space in a light pollution. Has the absence of true blue police box isn’t all sunshine and dark skewed the impact of the nighttime puppies. Threaded through the rollicking skies? If so, how might this alter the adventures, the Doctor deals with some human imagination? What does it mean serious, dark topics that navigate the for our outlook on the supernatural, our border of horror. “The Empty Child,” observation of outer space, or even our basic “Blink,” and “Silence in the Library” are desire to discover what lies beyond our own just a few of the episodes that slide into planet? Has this changed our perception of dark fiction territory. What makes these humanity’s place within The Universe? episodes so special to the audience, to the series, and to the Doctor himself? What Spec Fic on the Stage would the Doctor be without this edge Jen Gunnels, Erin Underwood of darkness? What other episodes have Independence • 50 min • Discussion Group made us pause and cast a glance over our shoulder to peer through shaded eyes at An informal discussion with the editors what might be hiding in the shadows? of Geek Theater, Jen Gunnels and Erin Underwood, about science fiction theater. Pulp Art Overview — America Falls in Love with a Good Story History of the Book Vincent Di Fate Ada Palmer Harbor II • 50 min • Solo Talk Lewis • 50 min • Solo Talk Much of the visual history of science How have books changed since the 16th fiction and fantasy can been seen through century? With the aid of genuine antique the array of cover art that was created books and manuscripts from the 16th during the pulp era. Join Vincent Di Fate through 18th centuries, historian Ada as he walks us through the key artists who Palmer shows how books were made and illustrated for the pulps as well as the artists how they have evolved over time. who influenced the look of the pulps across a broader spectrum of genres. FRI 4:30PM

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FRI 5 PM Art Demo: Framing Your Art Wendy Snow-Lang Reading: Jane Yolen Harbor II • 50 min • Demonstration Griffin • 25 min • Reading Boskone Official Artist, Wendy Snow- Lang, shares her skills as a professional Reading: Kate Baker framer. What matting should you use? Independence • 25 min • Reading How should you choose a frame? Does the glass matter? Wendy shows how it’s done, A Conversation with Vincent Di Fate while highlighting things to consider when putting your art together. Joe Siclari (M), Vincent Di Fate Burroughs • 50 min • Dialog Sidekicks and Henchmen Enjoy an engaging conversation with Paul Di Filippo (M), Steven Brust, NESFA Guest and award-winning artist Jeffrey A. Carver, Scott Lynch, Leigh Perry Vincent Di Fate, one of science fiction’s Harbor III • 50 min • Panel top illustrators. “Helper” characters are often genre fiction’s Kaffeeklatsch: Jeff Bohnhoff unsung heroes and villains. Harry might lose a lot of his magic without his mates Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch Ron and Hermione. Sam helps Frodo stay grounded on two humble hairy feet. And Kaffeeklatsch: Vincent O’Neil how cool are those weird winged monkeys Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch of the Wicked Witch’s? Panelists discuss the value of sidekicks and henchmen in Growing Up in “Game of Thrones” speculative fiction. Darlene Marshall (M), D. Lynn Smith, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Laurie Mann, Bards, Ballads, and Storytellers Peadar Ó Guilín Ada Palmer (M), Greer Gilman, Ed Stauff, Harbor I • 50 min • Panel Mary Ellen Wessels The consequences of their parents’ plots Lewis • 50 min • Filk sit squarely upon the shoulders of the Bards and poets were once the social Stark, Lannister, and Targaryen children. historians, providing musical tales of great Their childhoods are gone, and they must and wicked deeds, as well as offering social come quickly into their own strengths if commentary on events of the day. Can we they hope to live through the great Game identify great bards of the past in different of Thrones. How have they survived — cultures? What examples of their work and changed? But have the adults remain today? Where have all of the bards underestimated the youngsters’ value — gone and will they return? Have bards and valor — as players? How will they found new life in fiction? evolve? Who will survive? Who will gain power? Who will surprise them all? 12 FRIDAY PROGRAM

FRI 2–6PM: FREE PROGRAMMING FRI 6 PM Reading: A.C.E. Bauer FRI 5PM continued Independence • 25 min • Reading Managing the Mean Critique Apocalypse How? F. Brett Cox (M), Tom Easton, Gregory Feeley, Jeffrey A. Carver (M), Scott Lynch, E. C. Ambrose Steven Popkes, Michael Swanwick Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel Burroughs • 50 min • Panel Being a writer means at some point you’ll A fair number of books and movies depict receive the dreaded “mean critique.” the end of the world. Now, it’s time Receiving unduly harsh feedback from (relax — from a purely theoretical point of someone in your workshop group, a well- view) to see if they got it right or wrong. known reviewer, or an internet blogger We’ll debunk some plausible but ultimately can happen to any writer at any level. unconvincing scenarios of doom and lay We’ll discuss how to handle these critiques out leading contenders for ways the world with grace and poise as well as what you might really wind it all up. can learn from them...even if they are totally wrong! Autographing: Steven Brust, Jeff Bohnhoff, Maya Bohnhoff, FRI 5:30 PM Skyler White Galleria • 50 min • Autographing Reading: Dana Cameron Griffin • 25 min • Reading Origami for Kids Mary Ellen Wessels, Persis Thorndike Reading: Ken Altabef Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens Independence • 25 min • Reading Kaffeeklatsch: Max Gladstone Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch END FREE PROGRAMMING Memberships can be purchased Kaffeeklatsch: Kate Baker and at Registration (second floor) Neil Clarke Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch PROGRAM FRIDAY 13

Wild Cards: Inside the Series The Continuing Adventures David Anthony Durham, Carrie Vaughn, of the QUILTBAG Walter Jon Williams John Chu (M), Susan Jane Bigelow, Griffin • 50 min • Reading Justine Graykin, Julia Rios, Jill Shultz Dating back to 1987, the Wild Cards Harbor II • 50 min • Panel series continues to be as popular as ever Our media may be starting to feature more with readers and writers alike. Wild characters and situations from the queer/ Cards writers Walter Jon Williams, Carrie questioning, undecided, intersex, lesbian, Vaughn, and David Anthony Durham take transgender/transsexual, bisexual, allied/ turns reading excerpts from their favorite asexual, gay/genderqueer (QUILTBAG) stories and discussing the ins and outs of perspective, but there’s still a long way to writing stories within this shared-world go. How do we move from tokenism to full series that brings metahumans into our inclusion? We’ll discuss favorite characters, world back in the 1940s, changing the new challenges, and available resources for course of history. Join the discussion and writers and readers. find out what might be in store for the Aces and Jokers in the future! 25 Things I Learned From SF Laurie Mann (M), Gillian Daniels, Tall Technical Tales Walter H. Hunt, Fred Lerner, Steve Davidson David L. Clements (M), Guy Consolmagno, Harbor III • 50 min • Panel Jordin T. Kare, Joan Slonczewski How much of what you know was learned Harbor I • 50 min • Panel from science fiction? Chromatophores and What stories do scientists tell when they’ve Kuiper belts, tesseracts and teratogens — inhaled too much ethanol? Could they what Newton dreamt and how anarchy involve exploding particle accelerators or might work — we’ve all received numberless “oops” moments with virulent viruses? info dumps. What are your favorites? Your Perhaps they’ll explain why you should most exotic? How has science fiction shaped never operate a centrifuge while under your life, your worldview, and the fancy the influence. Find out when our panel of factoids you spout at parties? How much loose-lipped lab rats tells true stories about was actually…wrong? their work. Oh, and bring your own nerdy narratives for our open mic. Poets and Poetry within Science Fiction and Fantasy Theodora Goss (M), Carrie Cuinn, Jo Walton, Jane Yolen, Darrell Schweitzer Lewis • 50 min • Panel There is a burgeoning market for science fiction and fantasy poetry. Panelists discuss speculative fiction poetry: where you can find it, whom you should be reading, and what markets you should be watching to get the best of what SF/F poetry has to offer. 14 FRIDAY PROGRAM

FRI 6PM continued Dead Penguins and Chocoholics: The Truth About Antarctica Energy Futures Joan Slonczewski Vincent Docherty, Mark L. Olson, Burroughs • 50 min • Solo Talk Karl Schroeder Pristine white snowdrifts marred only Marina 2 • 50 min • Dialog by meteorites: this storybook image is “We’ll freeze in the dark!” “Peak oil is yet to just part of what you find in Antarctica. come!” “Solar is the future!” “Coal means Penguins lose their way and become energy independence!” There has to be mummified in desolate desert wastes. more to the future of energy than mindless Exotic microbes fill ice lakes with super- slogans, doesn’t there? In this panel we rich oxygen — or deplete their oxygen discuss what we know, what we can expect, completely. And the mysterious McMurdo and think about what we don’t know community harbors dark secrets, such as regarding energy over the next few decades. rampant chocoholism .… This evening, an SF-writing microbiologist (and recent Antarctic explorer/escapee) tells all! Filk Circle: Tolkien Benjamin Newman (M) Open Activities for Kids Marina 4 • 50 min • Filk Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens Bring your songs about J. R. R. Tolkien’s works and Middle-Earth, sing his own Dialog with Special Guest songs, or just come to listen. Open circle Robert Wiener format; anyone can sing! Robert K. Wiener, Joe Siclari Harbor I • 50 min • Dialog FRI 6:30 PM Special Guest Robert Wiener is the president of Donald M. Grant Publisher, Reading: Jack M. Haringa Inc. and has a long history as both a professional and as a fan within the SF/F Independence • 25 min • Reading community. Robert is also a well-known collector of science fiction art and illustration and is exhibiting many of his FRI 7 PM favorite pieces at the Boskone Art Show. Join us for an engaging dialog, which is Reading: James Patrick Kelly sure to delve into all aspects of fandom Griffin • 25 min • Reading and publishing. PROGRAM FRIDAY 15

Angels, Demons, and Saints Off the Air Mur Lafferty (M), Maya Bohnhoff, Stephen P. Kelner (M), D. Lynn Smith, Christopher Golden, Hillary Monahan, Don Pizarro, Ken Altabef, Susan Jane Bigelow Charles Stross Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel Harbor II • 50 min • Panel Why does good television fail? Panelists Religion has always played a strong role in talk about SF/F/H TV shows that died fantasy, and we’ve seen an influx of fiction too soon, including Firefly, Alphas, The that specifically features characters that have Tomorrow People, Millennium, Jericho, been touched by higher powers — especially Almost Human, and more. Were they as in today’s urban fantasy. What role do these good as we think? What are we missing? characters play within the story? How do we see these roles changing or morphing into Chapter and Verse: something new? Why do we keep coming Songs About Books back to these types of characters? And what Edward L. Stauff, Mary Ellen Wessels are some examples of stories that use these characters especially well? Marina 4 • 50 min • Filk This round-robin-style concert will It’s Complicated: Kids and the present short passages from books and Culture They Consume stories that inspired songs, then feature the songs themselves. Veronica Koven-Matasy (M), A.C.E. Bauer, Bruce Coville, Lauren Roy Harbor III • 50 min • Panel FRI 7:30 PM As the lives of young adults in our ever- changing modern society become more Reading: Theodora Goss complicated and diverse, so do their Griffin • 25 min • Reading personal interests and experiences. Panelists discuss how the growing complexity of our world affects the content of young adult literature, comics, games, and film. How do FRI 8 PM the philosophical issues that impact today’s society affect how teens see themselves Opening Ceremony: within the fiction they consume? What are Meet the Guests some practical ideas for better connecting Adina Adler (M), Jeff Bohnhoff, Maya Bohnhoff, today’s children and teens with yesterday’s Steven Brust, David L. Clements, Vincent Di Fate, or tomorrow’s literature? Charles Lang, Wendy Snow-Lang, Robert K. Wiener, David G. Grubbs Caring for Aging Parents Discussion Galleria-Stage • 25 min Wendy Snow-Lang, Charles Lang Welcome to Boskone, New England’s Independence • 50 min • Discussion Group longest-running convention for science Official Artists Chuck Lang and Wendy fiction, fantasy, and horror! Whether Snow-Lang lead a discussion on the ups you are attending for the first time or the and downs of caring for aging parents fifty-second, we invite you to join us in the while trying to work and stay creative. Galleria to meet this year’s guests. 16 FRIDAY PROGRAM

FRI 8PM continued Father, You Made Me Don Pizarro (M), ML Brennan, Theodora Goss, Reading: John P. Murphy Max Gladstone, Alexander Jablokov Independence • 25 min • Reading Harbor III • 50 min • Panel From Dr. Frankenstein and his monster Gaming Review 2014–2015 to Darth Vader and his son, speculative Bill Todd (M), Michael Sharrow, Lauren Roy, fiction uses fantastical ways to explore the Brianna Spacekat Wu special relationship between fathers and Burroughs • 50 min • Panel sons. What about the relationships between What are the hot new board/card/RPG mothers and daughters? Panelists explore games for 2015? What’s trending? What notable parental relationships within new expansions to previously released fiction and how those relationships shape games are out now? Let’s discuss all things characters and the choices they make. related to new games. How to Get Your Story Rejected Open Activities for Kids Steven Sawicki (M), Neil Clarke, Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Walter Jon Williams Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel Broad Universe Group Reading Every writer has received the dreaded E. C. Ambrose (M), L.J. Cohen, Justine Graykin, rejection letter. Pros from both sides of Roberta Rogow, Jill Shultz the publishing fence share their anecdotes and tales of woe when it comes to tragic Griffin • 50 min • Reading turndowns. Through the laughter and tears, Members of Broad Universe spotlight a you may even pick up a few tips and tricks wide variety of (often overlooked) spec fic to increase your odds with an editor! works produced by women, including L.J. Cohen, Justine Graykin, Roberta Rogow, NESFA Hymnal Geek Sing-a-long Christie Meierz, Anna Erishkigal, Jill Edward L. Stauff (M) Shultz, Elaine Isaak, and others. Marina 4 • 50 min • Filk Friday the 13th: Group singing of geek songs from the When Sequels Run Amok NESFA Hymnals, vols. 1 and 2. Loaner hymnals will be provided. A good way to Jack M. Haringa (M), Christopher Golden, learn some of the old classics of filk and Paul G. Tremblay, Mallory O’Meara find your inner geek. Harbor II • 50 min • Panel On Friday, March 13, 2015, the 13th movie in the Friday the 13th franchise will be FRI 8:30 PM released. As a genre, horror movies seem prone to extended franchises. (Okay, so Reading: F. Brett Cox Friday the 13th falls far short of the 23 James Independence • 25 min • Reading Bond movies.) Still, on this ominous Friday the 13th, we pause to consider this likewise significant date and the release of the cursed- number movie and wonder when — and whether — enough is too much for this and other horror movie franchises? PROGRAM FRIDAY 17

Boskone 52 Reception Writing for Teens vs Adults Adina Adler, Jeff Bohnhoff, Maya Bohnhoff, Carrie Vaughn (M), Melissa Marr, Hillary David L. Clements, Vincent Di Fate, Monahan, Paul G. Tremblay, Jordan Charles Lang, Wendy Snow-Lang, Hamessley Robert K. Wiener, Steven Brust Harbor I • 50 min • Panel Galleria-Stage • 90 min With so much crossover, is there a Connoisseurs and philistines alike: difference anymore? And where does welcome to the Boskone Art Show! Join middle-grade fiction fit? Editors and us in the Galleria for an upscale social authors discuss. mixer. Meet our program participants while enjoying refreshments, stimulating Dated Science Fiction conversation, and exceptional art that is a David G. Hartwell (M), Elizabeth Bear, feast for the eyes. Experience the music and Felicitas Ivey, Alexander Jablokov, Steven the festivities as Boskone celebrates another Sawicki year of science fiction, fantasy, and horror Harbor II • 50 min • Panel in Boston. With the rapid advancement of science, the science within science fiction can get dated FRI 9 PM quickly. What SF works use science that has passed its expiration date, or at least Reading: Greer Gilman reads as irretrievably retro? What books have stood the test of time, science-wise? Griffin • 25 min • Reading How did they do that?

Reading: Don Pizarro The Best Bad Movies Independence • 25 min • Reading Erin Underwood (M), Dana Cameron, Jennifer Pelland, Julia Rios, Stacey Friedberg Name that “Skiffy” Tune! — Harbor III • 50 min • Panel The SF/F Version Watching bad movies on purpose has Tim Szczesuil (M), Vincent Docherty, become a phenomenon, and many of the Denise A. Gendron films in question are SF, horror, or fantasy Burroughs • 50 min • Game Show flicks. Why do people watch them? What Name that theme! If you’d know the makes one truly terrible and another melodies from Forbidden Planet, Blade “terribly” good? And what bad movies Runner, and Space: 1999, come test your should we all be watching? knowledge of other famous — and not- so-famous — movie and TV themes. The Open Filking (Late Night) crew for this game will be Vinc Docherty Marina 4 • Filk as MC, Denise A. Gendron on cello, and Keep on singing as long as you can stay Tim Szczesuil as score keeper and digital awake. Or longer. tune wrangler. 18 FRIDAY PROGRAM

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Star Trek: New Voyages: Phase II presents “The Holiest Thing” Rob Mauro (M) Marina 2 • 110 min • Video Star Trek: New Voyages/Phase II is an award-winning independent internet series of new episodes of classic Star Trek. In “The Holiest Thing,” a deadly disaster at a Federation terraforming project draws the Enterprise into a mystery involving an unknown alien race and Captain Kirk into a life-changing encounter with the project team’s only survivor: Doctor Carol Marcus. Episode screenings will be followed by a Q&A panel with the cast and crew.

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Reading: Kenneth Schneyer Griffin • 25 min • Reading

Reading: Daniel M. Kimmel Independence • 25 min • Reading

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Trivia for Chocolate Mark L. Olson, Priscilla Olson Burroughs • 50 min • Game Show How much chocolate can you collect in an hour? The MCs ask the questions, and the audience shouts out the answers. Get the correct answer first and win big kudos plus a small wrapped chocolate. A fun and tasty event! PROGRAM SATURDAY 19

SAT 8:30 AM Autographing: AJ Paquette, Lauren Roy, Jo Walton, Jane Yolen Non-denominational Christian Galleria • 50 min • Autographing Morning Service Marina 2 • 50 min Transformative Fan Fiction Julia Rios (M), Gillian Daniels Galleria • 50 min • Discussion Group SAT 9 AM Looking for fiction that breaks boundaries across gender, race, and religious roles? Costuming and Mad Hatter Hats What is fan fiction? Moreover, what is Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens transformative fan fiction? Why do people write it? Where did it come from? What needs does it fulfill? And where can you SAT 10 AM find it?

Reading: Leigh Perry Kids’ Tour of the Art Show (Toni L. P. Kelner) Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens Griffin • 25 min • Reading Kaffeeklatsch: Dana Cameron Reading: Lawrence M. Schoen Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch Independence • 25 min • Reading Kaffeeklatsch: Charles Lang & From the Earth to the Moon — Wendy Snow-Lang and Beyond! Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch Jordin T. Kare (M), Guy Consolmagno, Jeff Hecht, Walter H. Hunt, Ian Randal Strock Evolving as an Artist Burroughs • 50 min • Panel Vincent Di Fate (M), Bob Eggleton, Jon Hunt, Marianne Plumridge-Eggleton, Donna L. Young A hundred and fifty years ago, Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon surveyed the Harbor I • 50 min • Panel difficulties of building a giant space gun There is a constant need to adapt as an to propel three people to Luna. Fast- illustrator/artist, which must be balanced forward to today, when NASA is shooting with the desire to present a unique voice to land people on Mars by 2035. Panelists while also keeping the work personal and discuss the challenging realities of space authentic. Panelists discuss what motivates exploration — from getting off the ground and inspires them as artists. to getting there to getting home.

Art Exhibits Docent Tour Edie Stern, Joe Siclari Galleria-Art Show • 50 min • Docent Tour 20 SATURDAY PROGRAM

SAT 10AM continued The Future of Forensics John P. Murphy (M), James D. Macdonald, KidLit: Great Spec Fic for Young Alison Sinclair Readers Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel Bruce Coville (M), A.C.E. Bauer, Advances in science and technology are Jordan Hamessley, Veronica Koven-Matasy, driving the future of forensics. How will Hillary Monahan these changes affect the future of crime Harbor II • 50 min • Panel prevention and detection? What crimes There’s some pretty spectacular speculative committed today or yesterday might be fiction available for children these days. solved in the future, and how might it be What’s behind the ongoing boom? Panelists done? What relationship do these advances talk causes and trends, while plugging their have to the future of crime fiction? And favorite authors and stories — including how do we keep it feeling “real” without some that grownups could also learn to love. wandering into science fantasy?

Are We Living in the Superhero Magical Relics Renaissance? Michael Sharrow (M), ML Brennan, Carrie Vaughn (M), Jack M. Haringa, Felicitas Ivey, Jennifer Pelland, Steven Sawicki Daniel M. Kimmel, Marjorie Liu, Marina 3 • 50 min • Game Show Marshall Ryan Maresca Welcome to the land of magical relics. Harbor III • 50 min • Panel Marvel at treasures recovered from a Marvel and DC heroes and heroines keep dozen realms throughout the known ka-powing at us from every screen and worlds. Our puissant panel comprises page, reviving the comics industry along wizards, witches, artificers, and members the way. Why is the superhero biz suddenly of a certain University that remains so mega-ultra super? Why is this kind Unseen. These eldritch experts will divine of storytelling so compelling? Is it just the nature, origin, and use (odd, bizarre, the special effects — or do we yearn for extreme, even demonic in some cases) of superheroes to save us from ourselves? Or these cryptic curiosities to the amazement from something else? of our audience.

The Antihero Translation in SF and Fantasy Bob Kuhn (M), Laird Barron, Paul Di Filippo, Neil Clarke (M), John Chu, Fred Lerner, Scott Lynch, Darlene Marshall Ken Liu Lewis • 50 min • Panel Marina 4 • 50 min • Panel Science fiction and fantasy with an Translated books can expand our antiheroic protagonist goes back at least to imaginations with ideas from different Lucifer/Satan in Milton’s Paradise Lost. In perspectives and cultures. We’ll discuss these dark days, have we been seeing a rise why it’s important to share books via in the number of antiheros in fiction? Is it translation as well as the challenges specific harder or easier to write an antihero? Is it to translating science fiction, fantasy, and more or less satisfying to the reader? Why some of our other favorite genres. Panelists are antiheroes so popular? also share some of their favorite “must read” translations. PROGRAM SATURDAY 21

SAT 10:30 AM Designing Aliens Donna L. Young Reading: Michael Swanwick Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens Griffin • 25 min • Reading Kaffeeklatsch: Steven Brust Reading: Rosemary Kirstein Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch Independence • 25 min • Reading Kaffeeklatsch: Steven P. Kelner & Leigh Perry (Toni L. P. Kelner) SAT 11AM Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch

Reading: David L. Clements Women in Science & Technology Griffin • 25 min • Reading Janice Gelb (M), Janet Catherine Johnston, Jill Shultz, Alison Sinclair, Edie Stern Great Horror for Teens and Tweens Harbor I • 50 min • Panel John Langan (M), Christopher Golden, Science and science fiction have long gone Jordan Hamessley, Jack M. Haringa, hand in hand, inspiring young minds to Sarah Langan, Paul G. Tremblay dream bigger. With the influx of women Burroughs • 50 min • Panel and young girls into scientific fields, what Teen fiction is more than BFFs, family part can science fiction play? What role issues, and dystopias. A whole lot more. models are out there for young women There is a world of dark and dangerous and girls who are curious about science, beings who walk the night and infest the technology, engineering, and math? What pages of teen and tween horror. Panelists resources — or resistance — will they find? share the books that inspired them to love What fiction would it benefit them to read? reading and writing horror. Does adult and teen horror differ? Is there a line that should Who Painted That? or shouldn’t be crossed? What new stories Mark L. Olson (M), Vincent Di Fate, are coming out that you should be reading? Bob Eggleton, Joe Siclari, Robert K. Wiener Autographing: Elizabeth Bear, Harbor II • 50 min • Panel Susan Jane Bigelow, James One of the joys of SF art is seeing the wide range of styles and techniques used by Cambias, Andrea Hairston various artists. When an expert looks at a Galleria • 50 min • Autographing piece, he or she can usually tell who painted it without checking the signature. Today Welcome to Boskone #3 we repeat a popular game from last year’s Tim Szczesuil, Laurie Mann Boskone: shown pictures of genre art from decades past and present, the panelists will Galleria • 50 min • Discussion Group identify them — and explain how they did New to Boskone? Or returning after long that. Then we’ll find out if they’re correct. absence? Join us for a short discussion about what Boskone has to offer, learn some of the convention lingo, and meet new people. Then join our docents for a stroll around the con. 22 SATURDAY PROGRAM

SAT 11AM continued New Stars: Fresh Authors You Should be Reading Mythic Love and Epic Romance David G. Hartwell (M), Vincent Docherty, Darlene Marshall (M), Debra Doyle, Stacey Friedberg, Beth Meacham, Max Gladstone, Chris Jackson, Ada Palmer Patrick Nielsen Hayden Harbor III • 50 min • Panel Marina 3 • 50 min • Panel Some of the greatest love stories come Let’s survey some relatively recent additions from ancient mythology, such as Psyche to the SF/F/H firmament. Who’s white- and Cupid or Odysseus and Penelope. hot? (We’re looking at you, Ann Leckie.) However, great love stories that span the Who’s world-class but not yet world- fantastic and (in some cases) the centuries famous? We’ll discuss their must-read also come in more modern tales, featuring stories and books, and what makes them so couples such as Sarah Connor and Kyle special already. Reese, Bella and Edward, Wesley and Buttercup, Dr. Frankenstein and Elizabeth, The Literary Bestiary and Count Dracula and Mina. What do Dana Cameron (M), Ellen Asher, Myke Cole, these tales of love and romance tell us Melissa Marr, Fran Wilde about love? What do these epic love stories tell us about ourselves? And why are we Marina 4 • 50 min • Panel drawn to them? There is a long (in fact, ancient) history — it includes Homer, Herodotus, Dante, Singing in Harmony (Workshop) and Shakespeare — of authors’ employing Beth Runnerwolf, Emily Lewis, Paul Estin fantastical creatures in their stories. What is it about these creatures that enriches Lewis • 50 min • Filk literature? Who or what are some of the There’s joy in singing along with other most notable literary beasts? Do they people. Sometimes singing along with represent the moral character or concerns the melody is all you need, but there’s of their time? What role do these creatures something magic about harmony. Learn play in today’s literature? how it’s done. The Founding of Fandom: Writers on Writing: Talking Plot with A Discussion with David Kyle Stonecoast MFA Faculty David A. Kyle, Leslie J. Turek James Patrick Kelly (M), David Anthony Durham, Independence • 50 min • Discussion Group Theodora Goss David Kyle is a founding member of First Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel Fandom, a self-identified group of SF fans Popular-fiction faculty from the University of from the late 1930s and early 1940s. Join Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA program David and discussion leader Leslie Turek discuss the ups, downs, and twisted turns (a founding member of NESFA) for an of creating a believable plot. Moderated by engaging and insightful chat about the alumna Allison Hartman Adams. history of fandom from a man who was there. And, be sure to wish him a happy birthday because today is the day! PROGRAM SATURDAY 23

SAT 11:30 AM What’s Up with Welcome to Night Vale? Reading: Maya Bohnhoff LJ Cohen, John P. Murphy Griffin • 25 min • Reading Galleria • 50 min • Discussion Group Welcome to Night Vale is supposedly a “radio show” bringing news and advertisements SAT 12 NOON from a small town in the desert Southwest where some very strange things happen. Reading: Carrie Cuinn What is it about this cult-hit podcast that Griffin • 25 min • Reading has captured fans’ attention? Panelists dish on the origins of the show, some of the Reading: Steven Popkes juicier episodes, and the fan community that has sprung up around this popular series. Independence • 25 min • Reading DragonsLair Is Closed for Lunch Films That Changed Everything Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens Bob Devney (M), Daniel M. Kimmel, Marshall Ryan Maresca, Steven Sawicki Kaffeeklatsch: Joan Slonczewski Burroughs • 50 min • Panel Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch Until recently, science fiction and fantasy films were few and far between. Now, SF/F movies have taken over the theater box Kaffeeklatsch: Andrea Hairston offices. What changed? More importantly, Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch which films changed everything? Why were these films so important to SF/F, to Guest of Honor Interview Featuring mainstream cinema, and to the audience? Steven Brust Jo Walton (M), Steven Brust Special Art Show Tour: Harbor I • 50 min • Interview The Official Artists Tour Boskone GOH Steven Brust is a Charles Lang, Wendy Snow-Lang wisecracking, sometimes swashbuckling Galleria-Art Show • 50 min • Docent Tour storyteller who has been shortlisted for a Nebula Award and nominated in at least five Autographing: Valerie Frankel, differentLocus polls for Best Fantasy Novel. Chris Jackson, James Patrick Kelly, Today’s chat with fellow fantasist Jo Walton Carrie Vaughn may deal with: playing poker; performing music; or writing his Vlad Taltos series Galleria • 50 min • Autographing about assassination and racism, his Khaavren series about outdoing Alexandre Dumas, or his numerous cool stand-alone stories. Brust says, “The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.” Sounds like a plan for this interview as well. 24 SATURDAY PROGRAM

SAT 12 NOON continued Finding Diverse Fiction Charles Stross (M), Susan Jane Bigelow, Cooking with Chemistry Don Pizarro, Lauren Roy Fran Wilde (M), B. Diane Martin, Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel David G. Shaw There is a clear desire for increased diversity Harbor II • 50 min • Panel within SF/F fiction and fandom. There Foodies love to experiment with are also a lot of emerging writers who are new equipment and techniques that bringing diversity to the genre, but many reformulate their favorite ingredients of them are still flying below the publicity into exciting new dishes. On the menu: radar. Authors and publishers come unexpected contrasts of taste and texture, together to share their “must read” lists and changes in serving temperature, and tips on where to find some of the new up- exploiting naturally occurring components and-coming authors. in new ways. Let’s chew over some cool food science developments. If You Liked That, You’ll Love This Tony Lewis (M), Gregory Feeley, The Wonderful Worlds within Middle Felicia Herman, Darrell Schweitzer Grade Fiction Marina 3 • 50 min • Panel Ken Altabef (M), A.C.E. Bauer, Stacey Friedberg, A perennial favorite for Boskone’s Jane Yolen, Matthew London booklovers. We’ll talk again about how Harbor III • 50 min • Panel cherished stories or authors lead us to Worldbuilding comes with its own rules others that are similar in interesting or and expectations — but what if your unexpected ways. Share your likes (and reader is a preteen? How much of a given dislikes) — our experts will give you world must be explained to readers aged recommendations on what to read next! 8 to 12? How much can be left to their imaginations? Panelists discuss some of the What’s Past Is Prologue great middle grade fictional worlds. What Jeffrey A. Carver (M), D. Lynn Smith, worked, what could have/should have been John R. Douglas, Walter Jon Williams, different, and what is left to explore? Maya Bohnhoff Marina 4 • 50 min • Panel The Art of Songwriting Every character came from somewhere, Mary Crowell (M), Gary Ehrlich, Paul Estin, whether their story involves jumping Benjamin Newman buildings in a single bound or being tied Lewis • 50 min • Filk to a train track. Where did our favorite A good song needs a combination of good protagonists and antagonists come from? ideas and solid technique. But where do How does that inform where their stories you start, and what really goes into writing may go? When does an origin story work a filk song? How can you fix a song that and when does it flop? At what point isn’t finding its groove? should an author reveal the backstory for the central characters? PROGRAM SATURDAY 25

SAT 12:30 PM Odyssey Writing Workshop Presentation Reading: A.J. Paquette Jeanne Cavelos (M) Independence • 25 min • Reading Galleria • 50 min • Discussion Group Director Jeanne Cavelos describes the Reading: Guy Consolmagno Odyssey Writing Workshop, an intensive Griffin • 25 min • Reading six-week program for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror held each summer in Manchester, NH. Guest SAT 1 PM lecturers have included George R. R. Martin, Elizabeth Hand, Holly Black, Reading: Jo Walton Jane Yolen, Robert J. Sawyer, Nancy Kress, and Dan Simmons, and 59% of Griffin • 25 min • Reading graduates have gone on to be published. Jeanne explains the structure of the Reading: Margaret Ronald program, the work required, and the pros Independence • 25 min • Reading and cons of workshops. She also describes Odyssey’s online classes, critiques, and Spaceships, Battles, the many free resources offered, including and Zero Gravity podcasts, interviews, essays, writing tips, and exercises. Allen M. Steele (M), David L. Clements, Janet Catherine Johnston, Frank Wu Creating Paper Bag Puppets Burroughs • 50 min • Panel Sarah Langan Don’t you love those incredible space war Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens battles? All of those big explosions, etc.? But how realistic are they? For instance, In this cool, crafty workshop, author Sarah how come the participants all seem to Langan shows kids how to turn a paper bag share the same sense of up and down in into their very own hand puppet! Young space? Scientists and authors team up to artists can have fun re-creating favorite critique some blockbuster scenes from page characters, superheroes, or monsters. and screen. Let’s determine the physical requirements, risks, and realities of what Kaffeeklatsch: Charles Stross would happen when two spaceships duel Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch between planets or raging armadas battle it out beyond the stars. Kaffeeklatsch: Bob Eggleton Autographing: Jeffrey Carver, Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch John Langan, Marjorie Liu, Michael Swanwick Galleria • 50 min • Autographing 26 SATURDAY PROGRAM

SAT 1PM continued An Interview with Boskone’s Official Artists Dune — 50 Years later David G. Grubbs (M), Charles Lang, Kenneth Schneyer (M), Scott Lynch, Wendy Snow-Lang Beth Meacham, Joan Slonczewski, Harbor III • 50 min • Interview Walter Jon Williams, Karl Schroeder Join Boskone’s Official Artists, Charles Harbor I • 50 min • Panel Lang and Wendy Snow-Lang, for an Frank Herbert’s Dune, published in 1955, engaging discussion about their work, was an epic science fiction saga that won their influences, and various oddities that the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award in go bump in the night — something these 1966. Now, 50 years after its publication, Salem residents know about, considering we look back at the legacy left by Frank the dead outnumber the living in Herbert and his unique vision of a feudal their neighborhood. Their art gleefully interstellar society that was rocked by embraces vintage-style Halloween images, political machinations, contentious Lovecraft-inspired themes, and holiday religious orders, and a very lucrative spice collectibles. They are co-founders of the trade — and giant worms! How has this Terror Fantasies Art Show in Salem, MA, seminal work held up over time? What which draws people from around the world. place might it take in the science fiction hall of fame? Panelists also discuss the Fantasy and the Sea Chantey impact that Dune has had on their own Edie Stern (M), Gary Ehrlich, Jordin T. Kare work as well as on the development of science and science fiction. Lewis • 50 min • Filk Songs of the sea have long included the The Dos and Don’ts of Do-Overs: stuff of fantasy: ghosts, mermaids, and The Art of Fairytale Retellings other creatures of the “vastly deep.” Share discussions and performances of some of Elizabeth Bear (M), Theodora Goss, these nearly forgotten gems of the ocean. Peadar Ó Guilín, Jane Yolen, Valerie Estelle Frankel What’s Hot in Comics? Harbor II • 50 min • Panel Brenda Noiseux (M), Craig Shaw Gardner, The mainstream and science fiction Christopher Golden, Don Pizarro, communities seem to think they invented Thomas Sweterlitsch retellings and have christened them Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel “reboots,” but the retelling of fairytales is a time-honored tradition. Think about the Now that the zombie craze has peaked, and rainbow of Fairy Books to start with, and every major comics publisher has delved into Robin McKinley has rebooted Beauty and horror-related titles, how has this impacted the Beast, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and the mainstream’s monthly superhero titles? her namesake, Robin Hood. Or consider Does rampant fan interest in The Walking radical retellings like Gregory Maguire’s Dead eclipse the latest issue of Superman, Wicked. What can you change for an Batman, X-Men, or Avengers? We’ll take a acceptable retelling? What must you change? look at current comics trends, to see what What makes a good retelling of a fairytale? types of comic books are winning the battle for readers. PROGRAM SATURDAY 27

Digging the Past Reading: Julia Rios Erin Underwood (M), Ginjer Buchanan, Independence • 25 min • Reading Dana Cameron, David Anthony Durham, Ada Palmer SF Theater Renaissance Marina 3 • 50 min • Panel Marshall Ryan Maresca (M), Andrea Hairston, Historical speculation and curiosity can James Patrick Kelly, A. Vincent Ularich, lead to some of the richest fodder for Jen Gunnels authors, whether they’re researching life in Burroughs • 50 min • Panel ancient Rome, digging up Tutankhamen’s Science fiction theater has been around tomb, or tracking down Amelia Earhart’s for a while, but it’s just now starting to hit lost plane. The devil is in the detail, as they a wider audience. SF theater companies say, when telling a story that is gripping have appeared, SF theater festivals have and realistic. What role does research play? been produced, and SF plays have been How might future generations speculate anthologized. Are we in an SF theater about life today? At what point does renaissance? Panelists discuss some of their historical fiction just become fiction? favorite plays, what they would still like to see, and what might be next for SF theater. Building Fandom and Community Janice Gelb (M), Steve Davidson, Jim Mann, Special Art Show Tour: Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Jen Gunnels The Wiener Exhibit Marina 4 • 50 min • Panel Vincent Di Fate, Robert K. Wiener Fandom is a many-legged thing that spans Galleria-Art Show • 50 min • Docent Tour generations and genres. It’s become more than a little fragmented over the years, but View the art collection of Special Guest we are all still part of a larger whole. What Robert Wiener with the collector himself, have we lost with the fragmenting of fandom? as well as artist Vincent Di Fate. How can its niche groups engage with the wider fan community while still honoring Autographing: ML Brennan, and protecting what makes them unique? Bob Eggleton, Daniel Kimmel, Lawrence Schoen Galleria • 50 min • Autographing SAT 1:30 PM Game of Thrones: Reading: Laird Barron What’s Gonna Happen? Griffin • 25 min • Reading Priscilla Olson Galleria • 50 min • Discussion Group Reading: Tom Easton Who can resist speculating on the future of Independence • 25 min • Reading everyone’s favorite spec fic TV show? Join us for another lively discussion of what appealing pageantry and perversity or delectable SAT 2 PM butchery and betrayal await us. Speaking of which, how will the showrunners change Reading: Peadar Ó Guilín (and/or outrun) the story from the books? Griffin • 25 min • Reading Warning — spoilers ahead! 28 SATURDAY PROGRAM

SAT 2PM continued Non-Western Folklore and Fairytales Model Magic Carrie Cuinn (M), Ken Liu, Max Gladstone Lisa Hertel Harbor III • 50 min • Panel Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens Folklore and fairytales offer powerful short Artist and Art Show Director Lisa Hertel stories beloved by young and old. The leads kids in a hands-on clay demo that is mainstream princess movies tend to focus kid-friendly and kid-safe. on Western stories, but what about the rest of the world? Let’s discuss the globe’s lesser- Kaffeeklatsch: Guy Consolmagno known folklore and fairytales and what Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch they tell us about their cultures, plus their similarities and differences. Kaffeeklatsch: Michael Swanwick Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch Reading Your Own Work Out Loud Bob Kuhn (M), Kate Baker, Justine Graykin, 25 More Years of Good Omens Bruce Coville Vincent O’Neil (M), Ellen Asher, Mur Lafferty, Lewis • 50 min • Workshop Darrell Schweitzer Take part in a workshop/discussion led Harbor I • 50 min • Panel by professional voice actors, podcasters, and authors who share tips and tricks on Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s novel how to read out loud (and in front of an Good Omens has had 25 years of success. audience!). Get advice on overcoming Now there is talk again that a six-part TV stage fright. Some attendees will also have series is in development. What will it take a chance to read out loud for 1-2 minutes to bring the book to the small screen? Are and receive live feedback. we missing out on a big-screen experience? And how did the BBC do with the recent The Walking Dead: The Good, radio play? How might the adaptation of the novel deviate, or what areas might it the Bad, and the Ugly more fully develop? Are there good omens Erin Underwood (M), James D. Macdonald, for this project happening in other media? Jennifer Pelland, Thomas Sweterlitsch, Steve Davidson Paranormal Romance Before It Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel Was Cool The Walking Dead opened its fifth season Leigh Perry (M), Melissa Marr, with a literal bang and seems to be going Darlene Marshall, Carrie Vaughn, Skyler White strong despite the occasional halting plot, Harbor II • 50 min • Panel erratic pace, and poor choices made by several characters in past seasons. Still, Paranormal romance is one of today’s it remains the most popular show on hottest genres, but it wasn’t always that cable television. What is it about TWD way. Panelists discuss the origins and early that compels 17 million viewers to keep works that built the foundation for today’s watching a show that is possibly one of the paranormal romance genre. What are some most violent on television? of the foundational works? What and who should you be reading from the early days of paranormal romance? Why did it take off like it did? PROGRAM SATURDAY 29

PG-13: Violence, Sex, Constructive Criticism for Revising and Teen Readers Novel-Length Work Veronica Koven-Matasy (M), Felicitas Ivey, Kenneth Schneyer (M), Gregory Feeley, Stacey Friedberg, Hillary Monahan, Ken Liu, John P. Murphy, Margaret Ronald A.J. Paquette Burroughs • 50 min • Panel Marina 3 • 50 min • Panel Both getting and giving constructive When writing for teens or choosing books criticism can be a challenge when going for young adults to read, is there a PG-13 through the revision process, particularly line that needs to be drawn? Is there more for longer works. As a writer: how do you violence and sex in YA books today? Or know what to ask of a potential critic, have we just become more aware of it? How and how do you provide feedback on the does a writer address difficult or sensitive success of the critique? As a critic: how topics without going too far? Panelists do you identify and communicate issues discuss danger zones within YA fiction. or problems to the author? How do you keep track of plot threads, identify themes, Mining Fiction and Music and figure out what questions need to be for Creative Inspiration asked? Also, how should writer and critic approach a series? F. Brett Cox (M), Maya Bohnhoff, Rosemary Kirstein, Beth Runnerwolf, Mary Ellen Wessels Autographing: L.J. Cohen, Marina 4 • 50 min • Filk Vincent Di Fate, Christopher Golden, Vincent O’Neil While fiction inspires music, music also inspires fiction. How do these two forms of Galleria • 50 min • Autographing expression interact? Panelists discuss examples of music or fiction that were inspired by The Hollywood Historical Past the other genre. Who are the great literary Debra Doyle musicians? Discussion may also include some Galleria • 50 min • Discussion Group live demonstrations as examples. Sleepy Hollow is not the first TV show with a historical backstory that diverges from real-world history. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, SAT 2:30 PM Angel, and Highlander also presented us with some highly dubious flashbacks. Is Reading: Walter Jon Williams this a recent development, or only the Griffin • 25 min • Reading latest product of the ahistorical approach to the past-as-story that gave us Shakespeare’s Reading: Ada Palmer Italy and medieval writers’ fanciful versions Independence • 25 min • Reading of ancient Greece and Rome? Kid’s Concert with Guest of Honor SAT 3 PM Steven Brust Steven Brust Reading: Fran Wilde Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens Griffin • 25 min • Reading 30 SATURDAY PROGRAM

SAT 3PM continued Pitch Perfect Joshua Bilmes (M), Jeanne Cavelos, Kaffeeklatsch: Elizabeth Bear and John R. Douglas, E. C. Ambrose (Elaine Isaak), Scott Lynch Matthew London Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch Harbor III • 50 min • Panel Pitching a project is an art. What does it take Kaffeeklatsch: Jo Walton to put together a good pitch? When should Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch you give a pitch; when should you hold off? Pros share advice and tips on pitching, Writing About Groups to Which You including success stories and failures. Do Not Belong Workshop: The Teen Perspective David Anthony Durham, Brianna Spacekat Wu, John Chu on Writing Harbor I • 50 min • Panel Stacey Friedberg (M) Independence • 50 min • Workshop Writing diverse characters necessarily requires writing people who are not Teens and preteens join YA editor Stacey like you. When these characters come Friedberg for an interactive roundtable from groups that have been traditionally discussion about writing and publishing. underrepresented or targets of Attendees also get to participate in a short discrimination, it is necessary to approach creative writing activity and share their this task with care — but the need to own story ideas. be careful sometimes scares off well- intentioned authors. What techniques can Performance Skills be used to understand and communicate Mary Ellen Wessels (M), Jeff Bohnhoff, their perspectives? Where is the line Gary Ehrlich, Benjamin Newman between writing inclusively and co-opting a Lewis • 50 min • Filk story that is not yours to tell? Performing, whether onstage or in a The Life and Art of Jeffrey Jones circle, is more than just singing. What about that nagging feeling of stage fright? Robert K. Wiener Learn some tips and techniques from Harbor II • 50 min • Solo Talk experienced filk performers. Jeffrey Jones is one of the great artists of fantasy and SF than no one knows by Writing Great Openings name, but whose art everyone recognizes. Paul Di Filippo (M), ML Brennan, Jones was a stylist and an amazing painter Alexander Jablokov, Michael Swanwick, whose images define worlds like those A.C.E. Bauer of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. Special Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel Guest Robert Wiener — the major collector of Jones’ work — talks about What elements are necessary for a great the life of Jeffrey Jones and shows some opening, and is a great opening necessity extraordinary art. for a great novel? Is it even more important to have a great opening in short fiction? PROGRAM SATURDAY 31

Daring Outer Space Rescues The Alien Jeff Hecht (M), David L. Clements, Walter H. Hunt (M), Andrea Hairston, Allen M. Steele, Donna L. Young Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Marina 3 • 50 min • Panel Patrick Nielsen Hayden Spaceflight has long been one of humanity’s Burroughs • 50 min • Panel dreams. We have sent people into space Let’s probe an alien for a change. What is it for decades to build space stations and about aliens that captures our imagination? to conduct research. Now with Space X Does a good alien have to be different? and possible plans for a moon base, what Should it necessarily be fascinating … and happens when a spacecraft breaks down maybe a bit frightening? Why? Which in outer space, or some system has a aliens have awakened our sense of wonder? catastrophic failure? Real-world solutions They have been portrayed as benefactors, are possible, but what would it take to pull conquerors, victims, and even objects of off a rescue mission? What happens if we desire: why? What parallels can we draw can’t pull it off? with human-to-human relationships? Perhaps we should be asking “what is it Tolkien through the about humans?” Peter Jackson Lens Tom Shippey (M), Ken Altabef, Autographing: Ken Altabef, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Annalisa Schaefer, Max Gladstone, Melissa Marr, Ken Mondschein Hillary Monahan Marina 4 • 50 min • Panel Galleria • 50 min • Autographing With his cinematic versions of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, director Peter Xenolinguistics Discussion Group Jackson has certainly left his mark on Galleria • 50 min • Discussion Group LOTR Middle Earth. How have Jackson’s What makes a language alien? Conversely, Hobbit and changed our interpretation or what makes one human or familiar? Join us feelings about the books? What have we for an informal discussion about “speech” lost or gained by putting these films on the and other communication modes, rare types big screen? More generally, what impact of grammar, and fictional alien languages. have these movies had on subsequent epic fantasies in film and in fiction? Storytelling with Persis Thorndike Persis Thorndike SAT 3:30 PM Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens

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SAT 4PM continued Demystifying the Agent Process Joshua Bilmes, A.J. Paquette Entering the SF/F Art World Independence • 50 min • Discussion Group Annalisa Schaefer (M), Jon Hunt, The business of finding an agent can be a Ingrid Kallick, Marianne Plumridge-Eggleton bit of a mystery. Who should you contact? Harbor I • 50 min • Panel What should you say? How much of your New to the SF/F art world? Looking to manuscript should be finished? These are work as an illustrator for books, magazines, only a few of the questions new authors comics, or the web? Our artistic panelists have, but what about authors who have share their experiences as well as their to change agents? There is a set of other advice on breaking into the genre — from issues they need to manage. Professional building a portfolio to making sales, and agents take the time to share their everything in between. experience and advice on the steps in the “agent finding” process. Terror Fantasies Art Show Charles Lang, Wendy Snow-Lang Filk Circle: Folklore and Fairytales Harbor II • 50 min • Dialog Mary Crowell, Emily Lewis Join our Official Artists — Chuck Lang and Lewis • 50 min • Filk Wendy Snow-Lang — as they introduce Bring your songs about ancient tales, the us to the wicked world of Terror Fantasies. faire folk and the legends of yore. Play They present this extraordinary, spooky art along or just come to listen. Open circle show every year in Salem, Massachusetts. format; anyone can sing! This year,Terror comes to Boskone! Boskone Book Club: The Social Implications of New Incrementalists by Steven Brust Technologies and Skyler White Edie Stern (M), Jeffrey A. Carver, Bob Kuhn (M), Steven Brust, Skyler White Janet Catherine Johnston, John P. Murphy, Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel Mark L. Olson The Boskone Book Club continues! Join Harbor III • 50 min • Panel us for a conversation that brings con-goers What unexpected places may today’s tech together to consider one noteworthy work take us tomorrow? How will we live with at length. This time it’sThe Incrementalists 3-D printing? Driverless cars? Robots that by Steven Brust (Boskone’s Guest of quit the factory’s floor and start sweeping Honor) and Skyler White. Boskone’s ours? Handheld everythings? What gadgets own Bob Kuhn will lead the discussion; will change our lives for good (or ill), and Steven Brust and Skyler White will join how? And what if those robots get minds the group halfway through for a Q&A. To of their own? participate, please read the book and come ready with your observations. PROGRAM SATURDAY 33

Writing Fight and Combat Scenes Reading: Andrea Hairston Myke Cole (M), Chris Jackson, Griffin • 25 min • Reading James D. Macdonald, Ken Mondschein, Jen Gunnels Reading: Susan Jane Bigelow Marina 3 • 50 min • Panel Independence • 25 min • Reading You can learn fencing, stage combat, or martial arts, but these skills are Rejectomancy neither necessary nor sufficient to write Stephen P. Kelner (M), Craig Shaw Gardner, compelling, realistic fight scenes. What James Patrick Kelly, Margaret Ronald, does it take to write a fight scene that Lawrence M. Schoen creates tension and drama without turning Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel it into a play-by-play? Panelists will explore how to bring their readers into the fight Is there really a blue sheet of death? Does and leave them gasping for air. an encouraging form letter mean less or more than a generic personalized response? The Children of Metamorphosis These are just a few of the questions that new writers ponder as they try to James Patrick Kelly (M), F. Brett Cox, read between the lines of the rejection Sarah Langan, John Langan, Darrell Schweitzer letters they receive. Every new writer Marina 4 • 50 min • Panel goes through this dreaded stage (better A hundred years ago, Gregor Samsa known as “rejectomancy”) as they try to awoke from uneasy dreams to find himself glean some hidden meaning within the transformed into a gigantic dung beetle. text. Writers who have been there share Franz Kafka was a fairly obscure writer at their own rejectomancy stories and give the time, but his fiction has since helped some helpful advice on ways to avoid the to transform literature as it challenged “rejectomancy” trap. preconceptions about what could be done and how it might be done. What other Autographing: David L. Clements, stories of personal “metamorphosis” have Debra Doyle, James Macdonald, since been published that echo or reflect Allen Steele Kafka’s masterpieces? Panelists discuss “Metamorphosis” (1915), Franz Kafka as Galleria • 50 min • Autographing an author, and his literary legacy. DragonsLair is Closed for Dinner Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens SAT 4:30 PM Kaffeeklatsch: Walter H. Hunt Reading: Scott Lynch Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch Griffin • 25 min • Reading Kaffeeklatsch: Myke Cole Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch SAT 5PM

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SAT 5PM continued Are Geeks Fans? Are Fans Geeks? Priscilla Olson (M), John R. Douglas, Music Theory Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Peadar Ó Guilín, Edward L. Stauff (M), Denise A. Gendron, Laurie Mann Ada Palmer Marina 4 • 50 min • Panel Lewis • 50 min • Filk Sometimes the two terms seem to be Filk is a tradition born into SF/F fandom used interchangeably. And, it’s true that in the hallways and stairwells of the places traditionally skiffy images and interests our community gathers. What place does have come to dominate popular culture. music theory have in the creation and But - is it right to think of “fan” and “geek” performance of filk? How might music as synonymous? Why, or why not? theory affect the creation of new songs within fandom? Hugo Awards: Dramatic & Written Works Artistic Interpretations Bob Devney (M), Vincent Docherty, of Classic Stories Daniel M. Kimmel, Jim Mann, Steve Davidson Joe Siclari (M), Vincent Di Fate, Harbor I • 90 min • Panel David G. Hartwell What’s the greatest stuff you saw or read Burroughs • 50 min • Panel last year? Join us to spend 90 minutes Most classic science fiction stories have discussing 2014’s best speculative fiction been visualized by several generations of books, stories, movies, TV shows, theatrical artists. Join us for a discussion comparing productions, and more! Bring your own the various interpretations and how those suggestions, and help us build a world- interpretations may continue to change class reading/viewing list in preparation for over time. the Hugo Awards at this year’s Worldcon in Spokane, WA. Also, find out how to Authorship, RPGs, and the Legacy become eligible to nominate your favorite of D&D 2014 items for the 2015 Hugos — the ballot is due soon! Chris Jackson (M), James Cambias, Mur Lafferty, Lauren Roy Marina 3 • 50 min • Panel SAT 5:30PM Dungeons & Dragons, the first commercially available role-playing game, Reading: Bruce Coville was published 40 years ago. D&D ushered Griffin • 25 min • Reading in a new era of cooperative storytelling that has inspired Game Masters, players, and authors to dream big and create their own Reading: Marjorie Liu fictional universes. Panelists explore the Independence • 25 min • Reading many facets of RPGs — from developing challenging and believable frameworks for cooperative story construction to taking the story beyond the game. PROGRAM SATURDAY 35

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Space Weather Story Games Janet Catherine Johnston Annalisa Schaefer Burroughs • 50 min • Solo Talk Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens Join Janet Johnston to find about outer space Artists and writer Annalisa Schaefer leads meteorology, and learn about solar storms kids in a fun activity in which they each take and forecasting space weather. How might the turns in writing part of a story together. weather in space affect conditions on Earth? What about other planets in our solar system? Featured Filkers: A Concert with Jeff & Maya Bohnhoff DragonsLair is Closed for Dinner Jeff Bohnhoff, Maya Bohnhoff, Mary Crowell Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens Harbor II+III • 50 min • Filk Cambridge SF Workshop Group Reading Jeff and Maya Jeff Bohnhoff are musicians of many talents who have been making music Steven Popkes, James Patrick Kelly for over 25 years. Their wry wit, wicked Griffin • 50 min • Reading talent for parody, and ear for a well-sung A rapid-fire reading by the members of the tale are a rare combination. Come find out Cambridge Science Fiction Writers Workshop, why as our Featured Filker performs. Mary featuring James Cambias, Brett Cox, Alex Crowell will also join them for a few songs. Jablokov, Steven Popkes (M), Kenneth Schneyer, and Sarah Smith. Open Filk Marina 4 • 50 min • Filk Come sing with your friends or make new ones. SAT 6:30 PM Star Trek: New Voyages Phase II Boskone’s Multi-Author Book Party presents “Mind-Sifter” Galleria-Stage • 90 min Rob Mauro (M) Fans and readers: come meet the presses Marina 2 • 110 min • Video who have come to the convention! Join us for Boskone’s Multi-Author Book Party, Star Trek: New Voyages/Phase II is an award- and see what’s new from authors you winning independent internet series of new already love, as well as those you have yet to episodes of classic Star Trek. “Mind-Sifter” discover. Authors and publishers with a new is a fan favorite story, originally written by book and a current Boskone membership Grandma Trek herself, Shirley Maiewski. are welcome to take part, but need to When the crew of the Enterprise is forced contact [email protected] for details. to accept Captain Kirk’s death, Spock and McCoy must come to terms with their own grief. When Spock discovers a plot by the Klingons to send Kirk back in time to destroy the Federation, it will take all the courage and abilities of the crew of the Enterprise to rescue their beloved Captain before he succumbs to the horrific torture of the Mind- Sifter. Episode screenings will be followed by a Q&A panel with the cast and crew. 36 SATURDAY PROGRAM

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NESFA Awards Ceremony Reading: Marshall Ryan Maresca David G. Grubbs (M), Gay Ellen Dennett, Griffin • 25 min • Reading Tony Lewis, Michael Sharrow, Jane Yolen, Bruce Coville Improv at Boskone Harbor II+III • 15 min Rosena Cornet (M), Gregory Scott, The New England Science Fiction A. Vincent Ularich, Shiyan Bee, Erik Volkert Association (NESFA) presents its annual Harbor II+III • 45 min Skylark and Gaughan Awards. The Skylark Welcome to an exciting hour of Award honors the work and personal improvisation with a special SF/F twist. A qualities of an exceptional contributor to troupe of professional improvisers performs science fiction. The Gaughan Award is short-form games inspired by speculative presented to a talented emerging artist. fiction topics that are truly out of this world. You can influence the action by Reading: LJ Cohen offering inventive suggestions from the Griffin • 25 min • Reading audience. Join us for some truly fantastic fun and games! Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem Leigh Perry (M), Dana Cameron, John Langan, Paul G. Tremblay SAT 9 PM Burroughs • 50 min • Panel Reading: John Langan Dark fiction and suspense are natural bedfellows. What is it about their synergy Griffin • 25 min • Reading that works so well? How do you walk the line between mystery and suspense Open Filking (Late Night) when there are monsters tearing their way Marina 4 • Filk through the plot? And how do dark fiction Keep on singing as long as you can stay and horror help generate or amplify those awake. Or longer. nail-biting moments that make readers blaze through a story to see how it ends? Small Press Marketing Roundtable Kid Crafts Neil Clarke, Steve Davidson, Ian Randal Strock Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens Burroughs • 50 min • Panel Free crafting time for children in Publishers, editors, and marketing Dragonslair. specialists from some of today’s hottest small presses share stories, tips, and advice Open Filk on marketing small press works in an ever- changing landscape. Marina 4 • 50 min • Filk Come sing with your friends or make new ones. PROGRAM SATURDAY 37

Star Trek: New Voyages Phase II: The Jodorowsky Effect Various Episode Screenings Paul Di Filippo (M), Carrie Cuinn, Rob Mauro (M) Daniel M. Kimmel, Don Pizarro, Marina 2 • 110 min • Video Steven Sawicki Burroughs • 50 min • Panel Star Trek: New Voyages/Phase II is an award-winning independent internet Alejandro Jodorowsky, a Chilean series of new episodes of classic Star Trek. filmmaker, author, and surrealist, Continuing the 4th and 5th seasons of influenced some of the greatest cult SF/F the original series with new actors, Phase works of the last 60 years. He directed II films the untold stories of the U.S.S. the first midnight cult filmEl ( Topo), his Enterprise, Captain Kirk, and his crew, comic series The Incal inspired The Fifth with the help of Trek alumni and industry Element, and he spearheaded a failed pros. Founded in 2003, with 9 episodes and effort to filmDune — “the greatest 3 vignettes released, Phase II’s numerous SF movie never made.” Jodorowsky’s awards include the 2007 On-Line TV production art for Dune inspired Star Guide Award for Best SciFi Webisodes, Wars, Alien, Heavy Metal, Raiders of the Golden Icon Awards for both Best Lost Ark, and others. His other work is also Webseries and Best Actor (Cawley), and critically acclaimed and hugely influential. both a Hugo and a Nebula nomination. Panelists discuss Jodorowsky’s legacy, his Episode screenings will be followed by a “Psychomagical Realism,” and his influence Q&A panel with the cast and crew. on contemporary work.

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Fun with Silly Poses Erin Underwood (M), John Chu, Bruce Coville, David Anthony Durham, Max Gladstone, Mur Lafferty Harbor II+III • 30 min Expect to emit great giggles at our group reenactments of scenes from SF/fantasy/ horror cover art. Warning: high probability of awkward audience participation and pretty pathetic props.

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SUN 8:30 AM Vincent Di Fate Tour Vincent Di Fate Non-denominational Christian Galleria-Art Show • 50 min • Docent Tour Morning Service Stroll through Boskone’s Art Show with the Marina 2 • 50 min NESFA Press Guest, Vincent Di Fate, as he shares his thoughts on his own work and some of the other pieces on display. SUN 9 AM Autographing: A.C.E. Bauer, MarbleWays and Legos Darlene Marshall, Leigh Perry Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens (Toni L. P. Kelner), Karl Schroeder Galleria • 50 min • Autographing

SUN 9:30 AM Long Live the Legion? Priscilla Olson Flash Fiction Slam Galleria • 50 min • Discussion Group Carrie Cuinn (M), James Patrick Kelly, It’s still dead. Anyone have any ideas if/how/ Kenneth Schneyer, Fran Wilde, F. Brett Cox when our favorite group of superheroes Marina 4 • 90 min • Reading might don their rings and fly again? Join Boskone’s second Flash Fiction Slam. Be one of eleven (11) writers to compete Fun and Games with Walter Hunt for the title of The Flash, reading your Walter H. Hunt own original fiction — which must tell a complete tale within a 3-minute period. Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens Our expert panel of judges will score your work, and you automatically lose 10 percent Kaffeeklatsch: David L. Clements for going over your 3-minute time. You Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch may only read your own work. The reader with the top score wins! Sign up before the Kaffeeklatsch: Bruce Coville con for one of eight (8) reading slots on a Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch first-come, first-served basis by e-mailing [email protected]. Or sign up onsite at Program Ops in the Galleria for SF/F Art for Children one of three (3) at-con openings. A waiting Gay Ellen Dennett (M), Michael A. Burstein, list will also be available. Ingrid Kallick, Marianne Plumridge-Eggleton, Annalisa Schaefer Harbor I • 50 min • Panel SUN 10 AM Science fiction and fantasy art isn’t just for adults. With the cool creatures and Reading: Wendy Snow-Lang fantastic landscapes, it’s also a perfect Griffin • 25 min • Reading genre for children. However, SF/F art for children has largely gone unnoticed. Who Reading: James Cambias are some of the artists working in this area? Is there a line between art created for adults Independence • 25 min • Reading and children? Our panelists will dish on some of their favorite artwork for kids. PROGRAM SUNDAY 39

Chandra X-Ray Mission Overlooked Anthologies Donna L. Young David G. Hartwell (M), Melissa Marr, Jane Yolen Harbor II • 50 min • Solo Talk Marina 3 • 50 min • Panel Quasars, pulsars, the center of the galaxy! Everybody says that some of the most The Chandra satellite and x-ray telescope interesting work in science fiction, fantasy, has already allowed us to see wonders and horror bypasses the novel and shows with amazing precision. A look at this up in short stories. But anthologies tend to technology — what it has already done, how have shorter shelf lives than novels, and not that has impacted our vision of the universe everybody gets to read these stories before and what it promises to show us in the future. they are gone. From short stories, novelettes, and novellas, panelists share some of their The New Doctor Who Crew favorite places for finding shorter fiction that Jim Mann (M), Kate Baker, Dana Cameron, should not be overlooked. Tim Szczesuil, John Chu Harbor III • 50 min • Panel SUN 10:30 AM Doctor Who has a new Doctor as well as new recurring characters. What do we Reading: Elizabeth Bear think? How well are they representing the series? What should they do next? What Griffin • 25 min • Reading wouldn’t be tolerated? Reading: Mur Lafferty Filk: Fandom Within Fandom Independence • 25 min • Reading Roberta Rogow (M), Denise A. Gendron, Ellen Kranzer Lewis • 50 min • Filk SUN 11 AM Filk is a fandom within fandom, and a microcosm of fandom at large. What is Reading: Allen M. Steele filk’s place in the larger fannish community? Griffin • 25 min • Reading How does filk relate to fandom-at-large, and fandom-at-large to filk? Death Rays: A Dialog Jordin T. Kare, Jeff Hecht Designing and Marketing Games Burroughs • 50 min • Dialog Emily Lewis, Matthew London, Fifty-six years ago, the director of the Brianna Spacekat Wu, Steve Davidson then-new DARPA said the agency might Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel try to develop a death ray as the “ultimate” Do you have a good idea for a game that weapon to obsolete the hydrogen bomb. A you’ve been playing with, but you’re not few months later, Gordon Gould walked sure how to build a great game around into DARPA and said he could make a your idea? Or do you want to convert your laser, so the agency gave him a million gaming code into cash? Our panelists share dollars. At the end of last summer, the their experiences with the video game design Navy deployed its first laser weapon on process as well as the marketing needed the USS Ponce in the Persian Gulf. We’ll to achieve success. However, are there any talk about the half-century of “death ray” similarities or crossover experiences that development and the state of the art, and compare to RPG game design? show some pictures. 40 SUNDAY PROGRAM

SUN 11AM continued The Fairytale Princess, Circa 2100 Sarah Langan (M), Hillary Monahan, Autographing: Bruce Coville, Carrie Vaughn, Tom Shippey Walter Hunt, Thomas Sweterlitsch, Harbor III • 50 min • Panel Walter Jon Williams Before Disney appropriated Snow White, Galleria • 50 min • Autographing Jasmine, Aurora, and the rest of the “princess clique,” these were characters Kids’ Concert with Featured Filkers who presumably served a deeper purpose Maya and Jeff Bohnhoff in structuring the fables of bygone years. What parts do they play for today’s Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens children? What meaning might these Maya and Jeff Bohnhoff entertain Boskone’s reminders of a fairytale feudal past still children with a fun-filled set of music. hold a hundred years from now?

Kaffeeklatsch: Ginjer Buchanan Contracts: Talking Terms Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch Joshua Bilmes Independence • 50 min • Discussion Group Kaffeeklatsch: Mur Lafferty Literary contracts can be tricky to navigate. Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch Find out about the mysterious clauses and terms that are hidden in plain sight. When Nifty Narrative Tricks is a deal too good to pass up or too good to Jo Walton (M), Steven Brust, Charles Stross, be true? Ask questions about what’s okay Michael Swanwick, Darrell Schweitzer to publish, find out about legal landmines, Harbor I • 50 min • Panel and ask the questions that you most want to know. Some SF/F/H writers like to dazzle us with their out-of-the-ordinary storytelling. Let’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the discuss such twisty techniques as insidious in-clues, unreliable narrators, unstated Marvel Cinematic Universe genders, shifty time-shifts, uncanny Jack M. Haringa (M), LJ Cohen, Jim Mann, cameos, and more. What other clever Marshall Ryan Maresca, John Langan things can be done with narrative to make Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel the story more powerful and interesting? From comics to movies, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has succeeded in keeping Imagining the Unimaginable in Art comic book fans interested and engaging Joe Siclari (M), Vincent Di Fate, Bob Eggleton, new ones. With the weekly television show, Charles Lang, Wendy Snow-Lang Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the reach extends. Harbor II • 50 min • Panel How does the show expand the storytelling Our artists shine light on the dark fantastic toolkit of comics and/or the movies? Which worlds they and their peers create. Learn elements have been successful and which about their artistic influences, imagery, could use some improvement? and styles. PROGRAM SUNDAY 41

Writing Workshops: What’s Right for Reading: Jeff Hecht You as a New Writer? Independence • 25 min • Reading Kenneth Schneyer (M), Debra Doyle, Theodora Goss, Jill Shultz The Herschel Project Marina 3 • 50 min • Panel David L. Clements Thinking about attending a writing Burroughs • 50 min • Solo Talk workshop or an MFA program? Wondering The Herschel Space Observatory (launched how to pick which one is right for you? 2009) was one of the European Space Once you do, then what? There is no magic Agency’s flagship missions. The spacecraft, formula to elicit an acceptance letter, but which featured a 3.5m diameter far- a solid application is a good place to start. infrared telescope, was sent to the second Join representatives from various writing Lagrange point. Over its almost 4-year programs and learn how to present the best lifespan, it observed both objects in our of what you have to offer as a student. solar system and targets in the most distant galaxies known. David L Clements began YADN: Yet Another Dystopic Novel working on Herschel in 2001, and has Brenda Noiseux (M), Ken Altabef, been a leading member of some of the Peadar Ó Guilín, Alison Sinclair largest projects using this spacecraft. He Marina 4 • 50 min • Panel will discuss the science and technology of the mission, and present results on topics Why are dystopias so popular in fiction? ranging from star formation to the origin With the ever-increasing number of of galaxies. dystopic novels, the circumstances of the characters’ lives, the world they inhabit, Autographing: Michael A. Burstein, and the struggles they face often have a repetitive quality. Yet readers consume Dana Cameron, David G. Hartwell them like comfort food. What’s comforting Galleria • 50 min • Autographing about coming catastrophes? How do authors keep their stories feeling fresh and Group: Knit-A-Long new when their worlds are so grim and Priscilla Olson, Edie Stern austere? How long can this futuristic feel- Galleria • 50 min • Discussion Group bad boom last? The Knit-A-Long is our annual exploration of string theory ... and a chance to show off SUN 11:30 AM your prowess with the needles. Come and join the fun, and get to finger fine fibers Reading: Vincent O’Neil with other obsessive knitters. Griffin • 25 min • Reading Kaffeeklatsch: John Langan Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch SUN 12 NOON Kaffeeklatsch: Jack M. Haringa Reading: John Chu Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch Griffin • 25 min • Reading 42 SUNDAY PROGRAM

SUN 12 NOON continued Writers on Writing: Worldbuilding from the Ground Up Swashbuckling E. C. Ambrose (M), Myke Cole, Peadar Ó Guilín, James Cambias (M), Steven Brust, Lauren Roy, Rosemary Kirstein Chris Jackson, Darlene Marshall Harbor III • 50 min • Panel Harbor I • 50 min • Panel Some spectacular stories take place in Swashbuckling adventure models itself worlds very different from our own: on tales of privateers like Sir Francis from life on (or in) a gas giant to a Drake (latter half of the 16th century), civilization that lives on a world-tree as buccaneers like Henry Morgan (mid-17th big as the Himalayas. But there are perils century), and pirates like Blackbeard (turn associated with venturing far beyond of the 18th century). We even see suitably human experience. An inconsistent or swashbuckling pirates in the Caribbean poorly described worldscape can furnish into the early 19th century. Who today is a confusing story, or challenge a reader’s writing adventure stories that tap this rich ability to suspend disbelief. Hear from vein? How are they adapted for fantasy and writers who have created fully realized science fiction? What is the appeal for a worlds that their readers can almost see, speculative fiction-loving audience? What touch, and smell. happens when these stories go arrr-wry? Sassafrass Concert What to Wear When Saving Ada Palmer, Emily Lewis the World Lewis • 50 min • Filk Fran Wilde (M), Valerie Estelle Frankel, Join Sassafrass for some short sets of Felicia Herman, Teresa Nielsen Hayden fantastic folk with Emily Lewis, Ada Harbor II • 50 min • Panel Palmer, and others! Saving the world is one thing; doing so in style is another. How much practicality are Women in Comics authors, artists, and filmmakers willing to Carrie Cuinn (M), D. Lynn Smith, Marjorie Liu, sacrifice so their characters look good going Jane Yolen, Brenda Noiseux into battle? Are heroes’ and heroines’ outfits Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel getting any more realistic? What tools and gear should they be sure to bring — and Do women get the same opportunities as where can they store them without those men in comics? Do female superheroes pesky pockets that so spoil the line of a receive fair representation? Are female good getup? How do writers keep things superheroes “over-sexualized?” Let’s real without forsaking fashion? examine trends in the comic book industry over the last decade regarding the “fairer sex” in comics. PROGRAM SUNDAY 43

Noir & Moral Ambiguity in SF SUN 1 PM James Patrick Kelly (M), Laird Barron, Leigh Perry, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Reading: Michael A. Burstein Thomas Sweterlitsch Griffin • 25 min • Reading Marina 3 • 50 min • Panel Noir is a shadowy staple of the futuristic Real Magic crime tale, emphasizing moral conflict, Craig Shaw Gardner (M), Myke Cole, dark themes, and sexual tension. Films E. C. Ambrose, Beth Meacham, Carrie Vaughn like Blade Runner and Dark City, as well Burroughs • 50 min • Panel as books like Gibson’s Neuromancer and Making magic feel real — and fresh — Lethem’s Gun, with Occasional Music can be challenging. How does an author are gloomy, gritty dramas that demand invest “she cast a spell” with as much attention despite our instinct to turn verisimilitude as “he baked a pie” or “it away. Why do they work so well? Panelists licked its chops”? Rules and boundaries can discuss some of their favorite future-noir help, but how do you make supernatural stories, novels, and films. rules seem natural? Panelists discuss the perils and potential associated with using Editors — After the Draft magic in fiction. Tom Easton (M), Neil Clarke, Jordan Hamessley, Beth Meacham Autographing: Mur Lafferty, Marina 4 • 50 min • Panel Kenneth Schneyer, Alison Sinclair, An editor can make a good manuscript Charles Stross great. No matter how perfect you think Mur Lafferty, Kenneth Schneyer, your manuscript is, there is always room Charles Stross, Alison Sinclair for improvement, tightening, trimming ... and editing. Once your manuscript Galleria • 50 min • Autographing is done, submitted, and accepted, what happens next? What can you expect? What Voiceovers do you do if you don’t agree with changes? Bob Kuhn, David G. Grubbs How many people are involved in the Galleria • 50 min • Discussion Group work? Professional editors share tips and Anyone interested in the art of voiceovers techniques for those struggling with the such as audiobooks, eLearning or editing process. documentary narration, commercial voiceovers, ... is welcome to join a discussion to share ideas and suggestions. SUN 12:30 PM Creating Amazing Animals with Reading: James D. Macdonald and Pipe Cleaners Debra Doyle Benjamin Newman Griffin • 25 min • Reading Galleria-DragonsLair • 50 min • Childrens Reading: Darrell Schweitzer Independence • 25 min • Reading 44 SUNDAY PROGRAM

SUN 1PM continued The Evolution of Urban Fantasy Darlene Marshall (M), ML Brennan, Kaffeeklatsch: Patrick Nielsen Ginjer Buchanan, Leigh Perry, Max Gladstone Hayden and Teresa Nielsen Hayden Harbor III • 50 min • Panel Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch Now wildly popular, urban fantasy first appeared on our literary radar in the The Romantics and the 1980s — showcasing works by Charles de Development of Speculative Fiction Lint, Neil Gaiman, and Terri Windling. Theodora Goss (M), Gregory Feeley, Greer Today, the genre embraces elements of Gilman, Walter Jon Williams paranormal romance, horror, and noir in books such as The Mortal Instruments, The Harbor I • 50 min • Panel Sookie Stackhouse Series, and The Dresden Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Byron, Polidori, Files. Why is urban fantasy so successful? Blake, Hugo, Grimm, Wilde, Dickinson, Are there further opportunities for writers and Poe are just a few of the iconic authors in this genre, or is fantasy with a modern from the Romantic period (approx. setting morphing into science-fantasy? 1780–1850) who had a significant impact What are our favorite urban fantasy books? upon the development of the speculative Whom should we be reading? fiction genre. Panelists discuss the art and literature of the Romantics that has had the Managing Your Motivation most influence upon their own work. What Stephen P. Kelner (M) should you read? What should you avoid? And what is a Romantic anyway? Independence • 50 min • Discussion Group Professional consultant Stephen Kelner Finding Yourself in Story leads an interactive discussion with Steven Popkes (M), Elizabeth Bear, attendees on how to stay motivated to write David Anthony Durham, Jo Walton, during good and bad times alike. Hear all Paul Di Filippo of the tips, tricks, and dirty little secrets of getting words on the page. Harbor II • 50 min • Panel We’ve all encountered fiction that’s hard to Recording and Music Technology forget, but has any piece of literature ever Mary Crowell (M), Jeff Bohnhoff, Ada Palmer, had an actually profound effect on you? Edward L. Stauff Let’s try to go beyond the usual discussion of “most unforgettable moment.” What Lewis • 50 min • Filk fictional scene or work has guided you to Music technology is ever-changing and a decision, sparked a self-realization, led advancing. What gear is best for live to an epiphany, or provoked a change in performances, and what should you use for the course of your life? We’ll talk about the recordings? What’s out there that you wish stories that truly moved us. you had in your own studio? What price points should you keep in mind? PROGRAM SUNDAY 45

Magnificent B-Movie Monsters SUN 1:30 PM Bob Devney (M), Vincent Di Fate, Bob Eggleton, Mallory O’Meara, Frank Wu Reading: Hillary Monahan Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel Griffin • 25 min • Reading From Pumpkin Head to The Blob, these B-movie monsters continue to capture our attention. But why? B-movies aren’t SUN 2 PM generally known for their scripts or their acting, and some are even best Reading: Carrie Vaughn known for “jumping the shark”nado. So, Griffin • 25 min • Reading what keeps us coming back for more? Panelists discuss the good, the bad, and Reading: Lauren Roy the awesomeness of a truly magnificent B-movie monster. They’ll even name a Independence • 25 min • Reading few of their favorite beasts. “I Remember the Future” Viewing YA Then and Now and Discussion Ken Altabef (M), A.C.E. Bauer, Bruce Coville, Michael Burstein Stacey Friedberg, Veronica Koven-Matasy Carlton • 50 min • Panel Marina 3 • 50 min • Panel During a visit from his estranged daughter, In the 1960s, when Norton, Clement, an elderly science-fiction writer struggles Heinlein, and Asimov were contemporary with his fading mind and the visions he authors, there was no real perception thinks he is receiving from the future. of young adult fiction. Today, there is a The film will be followed by a discussion thriving industry built around teenaged with Michael A. Burstein, author of the protagonists and authors who exclusively Nebula-nominated short story that served write YA fiction. Who are some of the as the basis for the award-winning film. current or emerging authors? What else has 2014, NR; starring Tiffany Lyndall-Knight changed in the field between then and now? (from Battlestar Galactica) and Reg Are the books by those bygone authors still Gorman. 30-minute viewing followed by a relevant for young adults today? discussion with the author,

The Year in Physics and Astronomy Filking Parody Jeff Hecht (M), Guy Consolmagno, Jeff Bohnhoff (M), Maya Bohnhoff, Mark L. Olson, David L. Clements Jordin T. Kare, Roberta Rogow Marina 4 • 50 min • Panel Burroughs • 50 min • Filk An annual roundup of the latest research Parody is a long-held practice and and discoveries in physics and astronomy. tradition among musicians. But writing Our experts will talk about what’s one is an art. Join our panel of filkers for new and interesting, cutting-edge and a lively, lighthearted discussion of how speculative: the Higgs boson, solar and to pen proper (or improper) parodies. extrasolar planets, dark energy, and much Spontaneous demonstrations and laughter more besides. may well ensue … 46 SUNDAY PROGRAM

SUN 2PM continued NESFA Book Club: Neptune’s Brood Gay Ellen Dennett, Michael Sharrow, Autographing: Steven Brust, Charles Stross Rosemary Kirstein, Darrell Harbor II • 50 min • Discussion Group Schweitzer, Jill Shultz The NESFA Book Club hosts its Steven Brust, Darrell Schweitzer, Jill Shultz, monthly meeting at Boskone. Join us as Rosemary Kirstein we discuss Neptune’s Brood by Charles Galleria • 50 min • Autographing Stross, who will join the group halfway through for a Q&A. All are welcome and Kaffeeklatsch: Karl Schroeder newcomers are encouraged to attend. Galleria • 50 min • Kaffeeklatsch WorldCons: What You Need to Know SF Screen Comedy: Galaxy Quest to Erin Underwood, Laurie Mann Guardians of the Galaxy Lewis • 50 min • Discussion Group Julia Rios (M), Gillian Daniels, Craig Shaw Join this open discussion about Gardner, Annalisa Schaefer, Stephen P. Kelner WorldCons. Find out how the selection and bidding process works. How do you Harbor I • 50 min • Panel volunteer to help? How do you get picked Anybody order a side of Meatballs? Let’s talk for programming? And, most important of about the most successful SF films with a all, how do you wrangle the logistics to run lighter touch. We’ve seen many SF feature- a world class WorldCon? length cartoons in the last few years aimed primarily at children: Cloudy with a Chance of Promoting Your Project Meatballs, Planet 51, Mr Peabody & Sherman. Steve Davidson (M), Valerie Estelle Frankel, Which of those are worth seeing? What about Ian Randal Strock, Brianna Spacekat Wu, live-action comedies aimed at adults? Are LJ Cohen there examples the other way around? Which are the “best” big-screen SF comedies, and Marina 2 • 50 min • Panel what sets them apart from the crowd? Learn the ins and outs of promotions that get your projects seen by as many The Great Game in Space: people as possible. Find out about hidden SF Retellings of Kim opportunities, pitfalls to avoid, and best practices for networking your way to James Cambias (M), Gregory Feeley, Fred Lerner publication success. Harbor III • 50 min • Dialog Rudyard Kipling’s novel, Kim, was set in 1800s India when Britain and Russia played the Great Game or espionage and occasional war for dominance of the subcontinent. Always hungry for inspiration from history, SF has dabbled in the Great Game as well. Join us and hear about Poul Anderson’s homage to Kim featuring Dominic Flandry, S. M. Stirling’s Great Game in a devastated world, and other stories which play in a fascinating milieu. PROGRAM SUNDAY 47

Casting Your Lot with Feedback Session Shirley Jackson Adina Adler (M), Tim Szczesuil, F. Brett Cox (M), Laird Barron, Paul G. Erin Underwood Tremblay, Jack M. Haringa Burroughs • 50 min • Panel Marina 4 • 50 min • Panel Folks, the con is over. (Except for Dead From “The Lottery” to “The Haunting of Dog Filking — and of course teardown, Hill House,” Shirley Jackson’s work has where we’d love to have your help!) But not only helped to shape the horror genre, we’re already working on Boskone 53 but to inspire writers both inside and (February 19–21, 2016)! So, let’s talk about outside of the genre. Moreover, the New what went right or wrong this year and York Times describes Shirley Jackson as how we do even better next year. having two styles: “She could describe the delights and turmoils of ordinary domestic life with detached hilarity; and she could, SUN 3:30 PM with cryptic symbolism, write a tenebrous horror story in the Gothic mold in which Dead Dog Filk abnormal behavior seemed perilously Lewis • Filk ordinary.” Is this an accurate summation of Jackson? What more is there to her Still more time to sing with your friends work and her legacy? Does she continue to and chosen family until we run out of voice. inspire and shape horror today?

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Reading: Max Gladstone Griffin • 25 min • Reading

Reading: Alison Sinclair Independence • 25 min • Reading

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MASSFILC Meeting Ellen Kranzer (M) Lewis • 30 • Filk Business meeting for MASSFILC, the Boston-area filk association. Dead Dog Filking starts right after the meeting finishes.