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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 , Why So Many Adults Love YA 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 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 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, , 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: 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: 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. Rome has been the Camelot C/N: From Wells to Willis — SF setting for a number of popular . And a Variations on Time Travel in Science Many SF and fantasy readers also like mysteries. number of science fiction books have based their Likewise, a number of SF writers cross the lines and societies loosely (or not so loosely) on that of Rome. Fiction write mysteries. What are the similarities and differ- The panel looks at the continuing lure of the Roman Michael A. Burstein, Paul Levinson (m), Connie ences in writing one vs. the other? What mystery Republic and the Roman Empire. Willis writers are particularly popular with SF readers and Esther Friesner, Mark Keller, Darrell Schweitzer, Camelot South: The Science of the X- writers? Susan Shwartz (m) Barbara Chepaitis, Alexander Jablokov (m), Windsor Grille: Kaffeeklatch Files Sarah Smith, David A. Smith, Diana Thayer Jeanne M. Cavelos (m) Windsor Grille: Kaffeeklatch Laura Anne Gilman, Connie Willis Shannon: Autographing: Michael F. Grand: Advances in Improbable Research Thomas A. Easton, Madeleine E. Robins This slide show presents outstandingly improbable Shannon: Autographing: Josepha Flynn, David G. Hartwell research, a surprising amount of it genuine, from The Waterford: Reading from the Works of Annals of Improbable Research. The talk includes Sherman, Allen Steele highlights from the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremonies held Tipperary Pub (Dragonslair): Hats as Ken MacLeod annually at Harvard. Topics span the full range of the Costume Patrick Nielsen Hayden sciences and beyond, including the taxonomy of Wexford: The Science Fiction and Fantasy barney, a spectographic comparison of apples and Ann Broomhead oranges, tabletop fusion, and other diverse areas of Waterford: Reading: Connie Willis of Ursula Le Guin Ursula LeGuin has been one of the most significant research. Heckling is encouraged, as are lab coats and Wexford: Masters of SF Satire: The other appropriate and inappropriate regalia. writers of SF and fantasy of the last 35 years. She has Marc Abrahams Science Fiction of Tenn, Sheckley, and produced such landmark works as The Left Hand of Pohl Darkness, The Dispossessed, the Earthsea Series, and, Kildare: Resolved: Editors Should Not Be more recently, a number of powerful short stories and SF has always been a great field for satire and the novellas. Her writing is popular not only within the SF Involved in Art Direction 1950s and 1960s produced some of the best. There community but outside of it. The Dispossessed is often John R. Douglas, Bob Eggleton (m), Laura Anne were a number of SF satirists, but the leading figures used in college courses and is a good book to give to Gilman, Stephen Youll were Robert Sheckley, William Tenn, and Fred Pohl. that mainstream-reading friend who wants to try an SF The panel discusses the works of these three as well as Windsor Grille: Kaffeeklatch book. The panel looks at the works of Ursula K. other SF satirists. William Keith Jr., Allen Steele, Ian Randal LeGuin. John R. Douglas, David G. Hartwell (m), Mark Strock Kathryn Cramer, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Katya Keller, Daniel Kimmel Shannon: Autographing: Darrell Reimann, Jane Yolen, Sarah Zettel Schweitzer, Cecilia Tan 4 pm 5:30 pm Waterford: Reading: Sharon Lee, Steve Camelot C/N: The Legacy of Donald A. Waterford: Reading: Debra Doyle Miller Wollheim Wexford: Writing Fast/Writing Slow John Campbell is often given credit for the course of 6 pm Jeffrey A. Carver, Alexander Jablokov, Sarah modern science fiction. However, Donald Wollheim Kildare: Concert Set 3 Smith, Joan D. Vinge was perhaps as important as Campbell. This panel discusses his impact on the field. Denise Gendron 1:30 pm Ellen Asher, John R. Douglas, David G. Hartwell 6:30 pm Waterford: Reading: Esther Friesner (m), Charles Ryan, Darrell Schweitzer Camelot South: Pictionary Kildare: Concert Set 4 Jonathan Turner 2 pm Craig Shaw Gardner, Teddy Harvia (m), Katya Camelot C/N: Classic Fantasy: Fantasy Reimann, Allen Steele, Diana Thayer, Amy 7 pm Before It Was a Genre Thomson, Stephen Youll Grand: Boskone Banquet Before fantasy was a genre (which many folks consider Grand: Filk Concert started with the paperback publication of The Lord of Edward L. Stauff, Mary Ellen Wessels 8 pm the Rings), there was a rich tradition of fantasy. Kildare: Long Live the Legion Kildare: Open Filk Dunsany, Eddison, and Peake were just three of the Michael A. Burstein, Brenda W. Clough, Priscilla important fantasy authors. The panel discusses the Olson (m) 9 pm important fantasy writers from before 1960 and the impact that fantasy becoming its own genre has had. Windsor Grille: Kaffeeklatch Grand: Boskone Banquet GoH Speech, Greer Gilman, Jennifer Jackson, Darrell Glen Cook, Paul Levinson Awards, and Choral Presentation Schweitzer (m), Lawrence Watt-Evans, Ann Shannon: Autographing: Jane Yolen, Sarah Tipperary Pub (Dragonslair): Scary Stories Tonsor Zeddies Zettel Camelot South: Writing Screenplays Tipperary Pub (Dragonslair): Effects for 10 pm Daniel Kimmel, Timothy E. Liebe, Steven Radio Drama Grand: Whose Line Is It Anyway? Michael A. Burstein, Nomi Burstein, Keith R. A. Sawicki (m) Timothy E. Liebe DeCandido, Esther Friesner, Josepha Sherman Grand: Bride of How to Lie With Statis- Waterford: Reading: Tamora Pierce tics Wexford: You Probably Haven’t Heard of 11 pm Michael F. Flynn ... But You Should Have and You Will Camelot C/N: Horror Today: The Cur- Kildare: The Past and Future of SF Short Who are the new writers who look to be some of the rent State of the Horror Field Stories: A Dialog significant writers in the field over the next decade? The best-seller lists are dominated by King and Koontz, One of SF’s best short story writers and one of our best Ginjer Buchanan, Janice M. Eisen, Laura Anne but there is much more to the horror field. The panel editors discuss the state of the SF short story. Gilman, Evelyn C. Leeper, Patrick Nielsen looks at the best of recent horror and speculates on James Patrick Kelly, Patrick Nielsen Hayden Hayden (m) future trends. Windsor Grille: Kaffeeklatch Craig Shaw Gardner, Darrell Schweitzer, Cecilia Nicholas Jainschigg, Sharon Lee, Steve Miller 4:30 pm Tan, Lawrence Watt-Evans Shannon: Autographing: Jeffrey A. Carver Waterford: Reading: Bruce Coville Waterford: Theme Concert: Great Escapes Tipperary Pub (Dragonslair): Filking 5 pm 12 midnight Mary Ellen Wessels Camelot C/N: Rampaging Dinosaurs, Jet Waterford: Reading: Hal Clement Waterford: Open Filk novels centered around him. The panel looks at Twain early humans weren’t really conscious but that Sunday and his works. consciousness evolved in relatively recent times. The Michael F. Flynn, Peter J. Heck (m), Tamora panel discusses Jaynes’s theories and science fiction 10 am Pierce, Connie Willis that has explored this topic. Art Show: The Best of the Art Show: A Camelot South: Where Are We Going? Mark Keller, Evelyn C. Leeper (m), Paul Guided Tour Changes in the Publishing Industry Levinson Stephen Youll (m) Ginjer Buchanan, John R. Douglas, Nancy C. 1:30 pm Camelot C/N: Not-So-Forgotten Authors: Hanger, Jane Jewell Waterford: Reading: Michael A. Burstein Bringing the Classics Back Into Print Grand: Why Is This Timeline Different Many people have expressed concern about keeping the from All Other Timelines? Jewish Alter- 2 pm SF classics in print. Yet over the last half dozen years a Camelot C/N: From Watchmen to Sand- number of sources have brought many classic SF books nate History into print. These sources have ranged from bigger There have been some works that have explored Jewish man: Graphic Novels, SF, and Fantasy publishing organizations like Tor and the Science alternate history, such as ’s “In the Many SF fans ignore graphic novels because they don’t Fiction Book Club to smaller presses like NESFA Press House of Sorrows” and ’s “To the like “comic books.” But there are some graphic novels and Old Earth Books. The panel examines what’s been Promised Land.” There have also been many potential that even those folks normally hostile to comics would done to date and what the prospects are for the future. turning points that could be explored — “What if the like — if they only tried them. The panel discusses Ellen Asher, Anthony R. Lewis (m), Priscilla Maccabees had permanently freed Israel from foreign graphic novels from the perspective of SF and fantasy domination?” or “What if the Roman Empire adopted readers. Olson, Ben Yalow Judaism as the official religion?” The panel looks at Camelot South: Taking Small Children to Brenda W. Clough, Keith R. A. DeCandido, the possibiliies. Madeleine E. Robins SF Conventions: Advice and Experiences Esther Friesner, Mark Keller, Evelyn C. Leeper, Camelot South: Collaboration: How Can Engaging in SF-related activity—ranging from going Susan Shwartz to conventions to writing—can be a challenge if you Kildare: The State of Fantasy Two People Write Together without Their have a family. This is especially true when you have Although it often seems that the fantasy shelves are Egos Interfering? young children. How do you manage? dominated by the massive volumes of Jordan, Debra Doyle (m), William Keith Jr., Sharon Lee, Kathryn Cramer (m), James D. MacDonald, Goodkind, and Eddings, there is much more to the field James D. MacDonald, Steve Miller Joan D. Vinge, Ann Tonsor Zeddies than that. Fantasy is both broader and deeper than the Kildare: Images from Fantasy Shannon: Autographing: Brenda W. best sellers. The panel looks at the best fantasy of the Fantasy and SF have often created images that stick in Clough, Susan Shwartz last decade. our mind: the sandworms of Dune, the Nazgul dying on Glen Cook, Craig Shaw Gardner, Josepha Waterford: Reading: Greer Gilman the Fields of Pelennor, the great castle of Gormen- Sherman, Cecilia Tan ghast. Why do SF and fantasy seem particularly good Wexford: Kaffeeklatch Shannon: Autographing: Bruce Coville, at this? David G. Hartwell, Katya Reimann Bob Eggleton Kathryn Cramer (m), Greer Gilman, Tamora Tipperary Pub (Dragonslair): Painting an Pierce, Susan Shwartz, Stephen Youll 10:30 am Waterford: Storytelling for Adults Waterford: Reading: Ginjer Buchanan Alien Note to the storytellers: This is nominally a one-hour Stephen Youll slot, in which each of you can tell a half hour story. 11 am Waterford: Reading: Darrell Schweitzer However, it is also the last slot of the day. You can tell Camelot C/N: Getting Older: How SF Wexford: Literary Food: Cooking for longer stories if you’d like. In fact, you’re welcome to and Fantasy Treat Aging go on for as long as the audience wants and your Readers voices can hold out. Most SF and fantasy novels are about heroes in their Cooking and books seem to go together. There are Barbara Chepaitis, Josepha Sherman (m) primes. Older characters are often just background cookbooks with recipes from authors. (The latest characters, and the issues of aging are rarely treated. NESFA book even features a recipe of Anthony Wexford: Cheeblemancy: The Hamster There are exceptions, including Heinlein’s “Requiem” Boucher’s.) There are literary cookbooks, such as Wheel Predicts the Future and Moon’s Remnant Population. The panel discusses books containing recipes from the works of Patrick The Queen of the Hamsters predicts the future based on how SF and fantasy treats aging, citing both good and O’Brian, Rex Stout, and James Joyce (The Joyce of the spinning hamster wheel. Have your fortune told for bad examples. Cooking). The panel discusses these two most a one dollar donation to the SFWA Emergency Fund. Geary Gravel, Jane Yolen, Ann Tonsor Zeddies, important of topics. Esther Friesner, Sarah Zettel Sarah Zettel (m) Barbara Chepaitis, Deb Geisler, Priscilla Olson, Camelot South: The World with Three Diana Thayer (m) 3 pm North Poles Camelot South: Alternative Natural 1 pm Hal Clement History: Other Earthly Biologies Grand: Is This the New Golden Age of SF? Grand: Art Show Auction Mark Keller To most people, the Golden Age of SF started when Anthony R. Lewis Camelot North: Gripe Session: How Can John Campbell became editor of Astounding. Yet a Camelot C/N: From Mowgli to Fuzzy We Do This Better Next Year? good case can be made that we’re now going through a Wuzzy: The Works of Rudyard Kipling new Golden Age, one even richer than the first. SF is Rudyard Kipling has had a marked influence on SF. Waterford: M.A.S.S. F.I.L.C. Meeting producing fiction Campbell would have loved as well There have even been several SF anthologies of works Wexford: SFWA Auction as fiction that can stand alongside the great fiction of dedicated to him. Moreover, his work is very popular Auction to benefit the SFWA Medical Fund the last fifty years. Any age that can boast of such with SF writers and SF fans. The panel looks at the Peter Heck, et al. writers as Wolfe, Robinson, Banks, Baxter, Butler, and lasting legacy of Rudyard Kipling. Willis—just to name a few—deserves the adjective Hal Clement, Debra Doyle, Frederick Andrew Grand: Regency Tea and Dance “golden.” The panel looks at the great SF of today. Lerner (m), Gary D. McGath James Patrick Kelly, Patrick Nielsen Hayden (m), Camelot South: Writing for the YA Audi- 5 pm Allen Steele, Connie Willis Kildare: Open Filk Kildare: This Book Sucks: How and How ence Not To Write Reviews Bruce Coville, Tamora Pierce, Jane Yolen (m) What makes a good book review or a good critical Kildare: Discovering—and Rediscover- piece? What kinds of things should book reviewers do? ing—the Classics What kinds of behaviors should the avoid? How do readers new to SF approach the classics of the Thomas A. Easton, Janice M. Eisen, Peter J. 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s for the first time? Is the fact Heck, Steven Sawicki that the universe presented in them is wrong a barrier Shannon: Autographing: Sharon Lee, to appreciating them? Does a new reader have problems with Heinlein’s Venusian swamps or his Steve Miller, Stephen Youll Martians? And how about readers re-reading the Tipperary Pub (Dragonslair): Radio play classics? How do they approach them ? Is it nostalgia “Live from Transylvania” or something more? Waterford: Reading Robert Devney, Jim Mann, Steve Miller, Mark L. Olson Brenda W. Clough Shannon: Autographing: Kathryn Cramer, Wexford: Kaffeeklatch Esther Friesner John R. Douglas, Nancy C. Hanger Tipperary Pub (Dragonslair): Cartooning 11:30 am How to draw endless expressions with simple lines and Waterford: Reading: James D. MacDonald dots. Teddy Harvia 12 noon Waterford: Reading: Michael F. Flynn Camelot C/N: Time Travel and Riverboat Wexford: The Origins of Consciousness: Rafts: The Many Worlds of Mark Twain Julian Jaynes’s Theories and Science Mark Twain’s appeal is widespread, both in the culture Fiction at large and in . There have been Julian Jaynes’s theories of the origins of consciousness SF and fantasy works inspired by him and mystery are intriguing and controversial. He speculates that