With Jane Yolen, Larry Niven, Brandon Sanderson, April 2­5, 2015 Tom Doherty, Michael Whelan and Adam Stemple pocket program

THURS­ Edina Veranda 1/2 Veranda 3/4 Veranda 5/6 Veranda 7/8 Grand Ballroom A Rumpus Room Elseplace THURS­ DAY Readings Krushenko's Bloomington DAY 3:30pm– What's New for Sugar Cube Castles (4:00) 3:30pm– 4:30 Middle Grade 4:30 Readers 5:00– Fool's Gold: When Rock Fantasy! Brandon Sanderson Stuffed Animal Zoo (5:30) 5:00– 6:00 Adaptations Go Bad Creative Writing 6:00 Lecture Live 6:30– Speculative Poetry The Lure of Ages Cats Laughing Panel Broadcast Taping 6:30– 7:30 Open Mike Past (6:00­7:20) 7:30 8:00– Opening 8:00– 9:00 Ceremonies 9:00 9:30– Pushing Society's Sex with Aliens Dave Romm Michael Whelan Literary 9:30– 10:30 Boundaries Without Shockwave Radio Beer (Bar) 10:30 Losing Your Own FRIDAY Edina Veranda 1/2 Veranda 3/4 Veranda 5/6 Veranda 7/8 Grand Ballroom A Rumpus Room Elseplace FRIDAY Readings Krushenko's Bloomington 10:00am– Shrinky­dinks (10:00am) 10:00am– 11:00 Cardboard Castles (10:30) 11:00 11:30 Making a Game Crafting in The Scribblies Drawing Aliens 11:30am– 12:30pm from Scratch Spaaaaaace Interview GoH Jane 12:30pm Yolen 1:00– Anime and Manga Techniques in Second Foundation Tsuro with Matt (1:00) 1:00– 2:00 for Speculative Science Fiction and Meeting: The Works Badge­Making Fun (1:30) 2:00 Fiction Fans Fantasy Art of Larry Niven 2:30– Tom Doherty GoH Lee Aarons (3:00­4:00 ) The Art & Business ...and Magrathea Cinematic Gold Sock Puppet Workshop Jane Yolen Literary Tea 2:30– 3:30 Interview of Gaming Ground to a Halt (2:30) (Bar) 3:30 Puppet Show (3:00) 4:00– Jane Yolen & Adam Drones Publishing after the Making your pitch Building Instruments (4:00) Larry Niven on the Small 4:00– 5:00 Stemple (4:00­5:30) Door Slams Kids' Concert (4:30) Screen (4:00–6:00, Cinema 5:00 Obscura) 5:30– Brandon Sanderson Elizabeth Bear & Scott Beginnings in SF Gaming While The Space Program Games with Thorin (5:30) Art Reception (6:00–7:00, 5:30– 6:30 GoH Interview Lynch (5:30­6:30) Parenting in the Obama Years, Braiding Workshop (6:00) Art Show) 6:30 Tyler Tork (6:30­7:00) Year Six 7:00– Laurel Winter (7:00­8:00) The Zombie The Business of Terry Pratchett 7:00– 8:00 Connection Brandon Memorial 8:00 8pm– Cats Laughing 8pm– 12mid Concert 12mid 8:30– Geeks Like Beer Why Are We Still Inappropriate Magic Draft with Brandon 8:30– 9:30 Having This Panel? (Mis)uses of Sanderson (9:00pm– 9:30 Astrophysical 3:00am, Garden Court) Matter SATUR– Edina Veranda 1/2 Veranda 3/4 Veranda 5/6 Veranda 7/8 Grand Ballroom A Rumpus Room Elseplace SATUR– DAY Readings Krushenko's Bloomington DAY 10:00am– Golden Age of SF All About Coffee Fun Noodle Light Sabers Carleton SFA Meet­up 10:00am– 11:00 (10:00am) (Garden Court) 11:00 Paper Airplanes (10:30) 11:30– Larry Niven GoH Jason Glaser (11:00­12:00) Hobbies As Designing a Cover Recreating the Fairy Monsters & S'more Spenn Live Sketch 11:30– 12:30pm Interview Lois McMaster Bujold Research from Concept (and Tale Monsters (11:30) (11:00am–1:00pm, Art 12:30pm Reading/Q&A (12:00­1:00) Contract) to Page Monster Inhalation Show) (12:00noon) Michael Whelan Kaffeeklatsch (11:30am– 12:30pm, Bar) 1:00– Mary Petrie (1:00­1:30) Is This the Golden Dude Where's my Adventures in Graham Leathers Games with Richard (1:00) David Lee Pancake Art 1:00– 2:00 Steven Brust & Skyler Age of Board Worldcon? Collaboration Concert (2:00) Rubber Band Loom Creation Demo (1:00–3:00, Art 2:00 White (1:30­2:30) Games? (1:30) Show) Hugo Announcements (2:00–3:00, Cinema Obscura) Larry Niven Kaffeeklatsch (2:00–3:00, Bar) 2:30– Brandon Sanderson (2:30­ Artistic Bravery Social Pressure in Will SF be destroyed Cheshire Moon Bears in Space (2:30) Michael Whelan 2:30– 3:30 3:30) Fandom by its own success? Concert (3:00) Microwave Magic (3:00) Kaffeeflatsch (Bar) 3:30 Marissa Lingen & Alec Christine Mitzuk Demo Austin (3:30­4:30) (3:30–5:30, Art Show) Mass Signing (3:30–5:30, Signing Area) 4:00– Pamela Dean (4:30­5:30) Almost There Writing the Gypsy Women in YA The Nate Bucklin Robo Rally with Matt (4:00) Bar: Tom Doherty 4:00– 5:00 Band Concert Balloon Animals (5:00) Kaffeeklatsch (Bar) 5:00 5:30– Naomi Kritzer (5:30­6:00) My First Time The Evolving The Merging of David Perry Concert Costume Workshop (5:30) Jeff Lee Johnson Demo 5:30– 6:30 Michael Merriam (6:00­7:00) Business of Books Media & Literature (6:30) Hair Braiding (6:00) (5:30–7:00, Art Show) 6:30 in Fandom 7:00– Costume Revel MinnSpec Rapid Fire Deviance in Fiction Battle Fields of The Year in SF Dave Clement Art Auction (8:00–9:00, Art 7:00– 8:00 Readings Tomorrow Concert (7:30) Show) 8:00 8:30– Costuming Skivvies I'm a Cover Shopper Minicon 1 Adam Stemple 8:30– 9:30 Concert 9:30 10:00– The Brandon Build a World! Teresa Chandler – 10:00– 11:00 Sanderson Social Concert (9:30) – extra em­dash storage 11:00 Hour Riverfolk Concert – (10:30) –

SUN– Edina Veranda 1/2 Veranda 3/4 Veranda 5/6 Veranda 7/8 Grand Ballroom A Rumpus Room Elseplace SUN– DAY Readings Krushenko's Bloomington DAY 10:00am– Linked Short Stories Rivendell Discussion Deconstructing T­Shirts 10:00am– 11:00 and Modular Novels Group (10:00am) 11:00 Catapults (10:30) 11:30– Donna Munro (11:00­11:30) Collaborative Who'da Thunk? When is a cyborg Bubbles (11:30) 11:30– 12:30pm Lee Hillman (11:30­12:00) Creative Projects Paper Sculptures (12:00) 12:30pm Aimee Kuzenski (12:00­ 12:30) 1:00– Dawn of the Christa Yelich­Koth (12:30­ MPLS in 2073 Open Lady Poetesses from IAIN (m) BANKS Bottle­Cap Robots (1:00) 1:00– 2:00 Asteroid Belt: 1:00) Concom Meeting Hell Tool Time for Kids (1:30) 2:00 Exploring Vesta Ozgur K Sahin (1:00­2:00) and Q&A session! and Ceres Joy Dawn Johnson (2:00­ 2:30) 2:30– Naomi Stone (Laramie Ask a Scientist Trivia for Chocolate Middle Grade Make a Balloon Dog (2:30) 2:30– 3:30 Sasseville) (2:30­3:00) Optimism vs YA Light Stick Sabers (3:00) 3:30 John Rezmerski (3:00­3:30) Dystopia 4:00– Closing Ceremonies 4:00– 5:00 5:00

Cinema Obscura Atrium 8 Friday Saturday 4:00–5:00 Fan Film Block Sunday 12:00noon– The Search for Simon (2013) 12:00noon– It Came from Another World! 5:00–7:00 Shorts Block 12:00noon– Sense of Scale (2011) Thursday 2:00 2:00 (2007) 7:00–8:20 Cave Women on Mars (2008) 2:00 9:00pm– The Monster of Phantom Lake 2:00–4:00 Sense of Scale (2011) Local filmmaker Christopher Local filmmaker Christopher 2:00–4:00 The Search for Simon (2013) 10:40 (2006) 4:00–6:00 Larry Niven on the Small R. Mihm will be present for R. Mihm will be present for Local filmmaker Christopher Screen comments and questions. comments and questions Gaming Garden Court R. Mihm will be present for 2:00–2:30 Announcement for the 8:20–9:00 Living with Frankenstein (2012) comments and questions. See schedule on reverse side. Also, open nominees for the 2015 Hugo 9:00–10:20 The Mechanical Bride (2012) gaming throughout the con. Awards 10:40– Audience Choice 10:20– Audience Choice 12:00mid 2:30–4:00 Bill the Galactic Hero (2014) 12:00mid s

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l Red Dragon Inn (8) 6:00–10:00: MtG:Chaos Draft (16) & d Battlestar Galactica (6) n 10:00–12:00mid: MtG: Quantum Leap (6) a & Quarriors!!! (4)

s Friday e 10:00am–2:00pm: MtG: Modern (16) m 10:00am–11:00: Tsuro (8) i t 11:00–2:00pm: Lords of Waterdeep (5)

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5 2:00–5:00: Resident Evil Deck Building Game (4) n 5:00–8:00: Munchkin (6) o 6:00–8:00: MtG: Quantum Leap (6) c i 8:00–12:00mid: MtG: Legacy (16) & n Legendary (8) i

M Saturday 10:00am–2:00pm: MtG: Commander (8, 2 pods of 4) 10:00am–1:00pm: Betrayal at House on the Hill (6) 2:00pm–6:00: MtG: Standard (16) 1:00–3:00: 7 Wonders (7) 3:00–6:00: Elder Sign (6) 6:00–7:00: MtG: Archenemy (4) 6:00–9:00: Pandemic (4) 7:00–12:00mid: Special Magic the Gathering Event w/ Brandon Sanderson 9:00pm–12:00mid: Vegas Showdown (5)

Sunday 10:00am–2:00pm: MtG:Chaos Draft (16) 10:00am–12:00noon: 7 Wonders (7) 12:00noon–1:00: Whack a Cat Girl (4) 1:00–2:00: Tsuro (8)

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