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Pocket Program Boskone 36 Program Friday 9:30 pm Sixties and the Renaissance of the Eighties. Yet even a quick Kildare: Rehearsal for Choral Perfor- glance at the award winners shows that the Seventies deserve 6 pm mance attention. They featured such novels as The Dispossessed, Camelot C/N: I’ll Never Grow Up: Ringworld, The Mote in God’s Eye, To Your Scattered Bodies Edward L. Stauff Go, and The Forever War. Writers such as Gene Wolfe, Why So Many Adults Love YA Fantasy Michael Bishop, George R.R. Martin, Ursula LeGuin, John Bruce Coville, Priscilla Olson, Tamora Pierce, 10 pm Varley, and James Tiptree produced major short works. The Jane Yolen Camelot C/N: Trivia Bowl panel looks at the SF of the Seventies. Camelot South: Special GoH Slide Mark L. Olson, Priscilla Olson, Mike Scott, Ellen Asher, David G. Hartwell, Patrick Nielsen Show: Fictional Science Joe Siclari, Bob Devney Hayden, Allen Steele (m) Teddy Harvia Kildare: Open Filk Kildare: The Regency and the Emperor: Popu- King Henry: Deck Building 101: Magic larity of the Late 18th/Early 19th Centuries The late 18th and early 19th centuries are popular both with Deck Building Session Saturday readers in general and with science fiction readers in Leslie J. Turek (m) particular. On one side you have the popularity of books set in 9 am the Napoleonic Wars, such the Hornblower novels and the 7 pm Room 242: Odyssey Writers’ Workshop Sharpe novels. You also have many fans of Jane Austen and Camelot C/N: Beyond Star Trek and Jeanne M. Cavelos Georgette Heyer. And of course you have many fans of Patrick O’Brian, whose works reflect both of these sides of the time Babylon 5: The Rest of SF TV Kildare: SFWA Meeting So much of the discussion of SF and fantasy TV period. Why is this period and these works so popular with SF SFWA members only, please! centers on Babylon 5 and Star Trek. Yet there are a fans? Leigh Grossman (m), Sharon Lee, Madeleine E. host of other shows: The X-Files, Hercules, Xena, 10 am Third Rock from the Sun, Millenium, and Buffy the Robins, Susan Shwartz Vampire Slayer as well as such shows as the Camelot C/N: SF Blockbusters: Are Big Windsor Grille: Kaffeeklatch animated Superman, Batman, and Men in Black. Budgets and Special Effects Hurting SF Tamora Pierce, Josepha Sherman, Ann Tonsor Zeddies This panel discusses these shows (though we’ll skip Moviemaking? quickly over Buffy, since she has her own panel Shannon: Autographing: Keith R. A. Are special effects and big budgets ruining movies? later in the evening). DeCandido, Laura Anne Gilman Are they pushing producers to spend more and Ginjer Buchanan, Michael A. Burstein, Teddy more time on spectacle and less time on plot and Waterford: Reading: Sarah Zettel Harvia, Daniel Kimmel (m), Josepha characterization? Is there an upside to the push for Wexford: The Relationship between Fanzines Sherman big budgets? and Professional SF Camelot South: What’s the Big Deal: Daniel Kimmel (m), Mark R. Leeper, Jim The panel discusses the relationship between fanzines and the Why Your Friends, Housemates, and Mann professional SF field. Have fanzines ever had any real Spouses Play Magic Camelot South: Your Ticket to the influence on the literary or economic development of SF? Do fanzines provide a channel of communication between reader Leslie J. Turek (m) Moon: The Artemis Project (Slide and writer, or are they seen by SF professionals as the hobby show) 8 pm of a few insignificant fans? Ian Randal Strock Frederick Andrew Lerner (m), Edmund R. Meskys, Joe Grand: Alien Casino Windsor Grille: Kaffeeklatch Siclari Come to the Rialto, our Alien Casino/Speakeasy, to Brenda W. Clough, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, mingle with the program participants. We provide a 11:30 am stake of Casino credits, the rules to a variety of Jane Yolen exotic games, and an assortment of—peculiar— Shannon: Autographing: Connie Willis Tipperary Pub: Reading in Dragonslair: Jane prizes; there will also be refreshments and enter- Tipperary Pub (Dragonslair): Mythol- Yolen tainment. Due to the popularity of this event last Waterford: Reading: Paul Levinson year, the Rialto will be open until 11pm. ogy and Folklore for Kids Camelot C/N: Will the Web Be the Josepha Sherman (m) 12 noon Waterford: Reading: Katya Reimann Future of Fanzines? Room 242: Web Pages for Writers: Does and Wexford: The Death of the Cover Art Are web pages replacing fanzines? How do they Don’ts differ from fanzines? Market More and more writers are creating their own Web pages. Daniel P. Dern, Teddy Harvia, Frederick The cover market is changing. Some companies are Some do it well, but far too many don’t. Timothy Liebe, an Andrew Lerner (m), Laurie Mann, Edmund using computer-generated art. Some are not using experienced Web designer, provides advice. R. Meskys cover art at all (though this is still less common in Timothy E. Liebe (m) SF than in the mainstream or some other genres). Camelot South: The Boston Museum Will this trend continue? Does it affect sales? Camelot C/N: Horror Beyond New Jersey: The of Natural History Nicholas Jainschigg, Charles Ryan, Jamie Boundaries Between Horror and Fantasy Taking its place beside such celebrated myths- Warren-Youll, Stephen Youll (m) At times, there seems to be a rigid line between the the turned-fact as Schliemann’s Troy and the Danvers settings of “horror” and “fantasy.” A story about a man who Harpy, the Boston Museum of Natural History is 11 am comes back from the dead, and with awful and heart-rending glimpsed through recently-discovered documents Hucksters Room: Hal Clement auto- desperation tries to regain his widow’s affection, is horror if and images that hint at a rich and offtimes fantastic it’s set in New Jersey. But, if it’s set in Atlantis or Hellenistic saga of secret expeditions and astonishing collec- graphs his new book at the NESFA Peru, by marketing standard, it’s fantasy. Do we need to tions. Sales table redefine what we mean by “horror”? Cortney Skinner Art Show: Cortney Cuts Up in the Art Kathryn Cramer, Don D’Ammassa, Madeleine E. Kildare: NESFA Hymnal Singing Show Robins, Darrell Schweitzer (m) Lois H. Mangan Cortney Skinner provides a demonstration of direct Camelot South: Slide Show: Nick Jainschigg 9 pm cutting of silhouette portraits with a display of Grand: Hollywood Musicals authentic tools of the trade and a little historic Where else can you break out in spontaneous song and Camelot C/N: To Say Nothing of context. always be on key? Where else can you be swell, be great, and Doomsday: The Works of Connie Cortney Skinner have the whole world on a plate? Things may not quite be Willis Camelot C/N: Fifteen Microns and coming up roses (even the day before Valentine’s Day), but by the time this panel is over, we promise you’ll leave with a list James Patrick Kelly, Charles Ryan (m), Sarah Closing: Bad Science in Science Fiction of our favorite sings. Smith Science fiction often can get the science right, but it Brenda W. Clough (m), Bruce Coville, Esther Friesner, also can get it badly wrong. A panel of noted hard Camelot South: What Is It About Buffy? Connie Willis, Sarah Zettel SF writers and scientists (including an expert in Why is Buffy the Vampire Slayer so popular? Kildare: Concert Set 1 Keith R. A. DeCandido, Janice M. Eisen, bad science) discuss how and why SF can go wrong. Gary Ehrlich Laura Anne Gilman, Nancy C. Hanger, Marc Abrahams, Jeffrey A. Carver, Hal Jennifer Jackson Windsor Grille: Kaffeeklatch Clement (m), Thomas A. Easton, Jeff Hecht Kildare: Group Singing: NESFA Hym- Michael A. Burstein, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Michael Camelot South: Slide Show: Bob F. Flynn nal Singing, continued Eggleton Shannon: Autographing: Paul Levinson, Lois H. Mangan Grand: The Seventies: SF’s Forgotten Tamora Pierce Tipperary Pub (Dragonslair): Scary Silver Age Tipperary Pub (Dragonslair): Fossil Show Stories At times, the Seventies seem like a forgotten time for Hal Clement Barbara Chepaitis SF, stuck between the New Wave excitement of the Waterford: Reading: Jane Yolen Wexford: The Year in Physics and As- Wexford: The NESFA Index: Where It Is Propelled Turtles, & Giant Spiders: BIG tronomy: Not with a Bang or a Whimper: and Where It’s Going Monster Movies The End of Everything Anthony R. Lewis, Mark L. Olson From King Kong to Godzilla, from Them to Gammera, We’ll review a really exciting year in the hardest giant monsters have attracted movie goers. The panel sciences, with particular attention to the very, very 2:30 pm discusses the popularity of movies about big monsters long term future of the Universe. Waterford: Reading: Allen Steele — and why some work (despite plot absurdities) and Mark L. Olson others don’t. 3 pm Bob Eggleton, Daniel Kimmel (m), Mark R. 12:30 pm Art Show: ASFA Meeting Leeper, Jim Mann Camelot South: From MUD to Mush: Kildare: Concert Set 2 Room 242: Releasing Your Inner Music Ed Hutnik, Jane Sibley, Jeanne Wardwell Denise Gendron Gaming on the Net Waterford: Reading: Susan Shwartz A look at text-based online games of the past and the Camelot C/N: Green Blood and Exoskel- graphical games of the future. Are the new games 1 pm etons: Alien Biology better or just a waste of bandwidth? Art Show: Origami Demo Hal Clement (m), Jeff Hecht, William Keith Jr., Eric Paul Amy Thomson Mark R. Leeper Kildare: Rome Never Fell Room 242: Voice Workshop Camelot South: Slide Show: Stephen Youll Rome continues to fascinate writers. There have been a Kildare: Crossing the Lines: Mysteries and number of novels set in Ancient Rome, including Mary Ellen Wessels several popular mystery series.
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