DISCLAVE'88 POCKET PROGRAM The Fen who bring you the 1988 DISCLAVE hope you enjoy it and will FRIDAY 6:00-6:55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [B) evsn become a part by pitching in and helping us make it a very special NESFA REPORTS When one of the better organized SF groups has hotel t rouble co i vent ion. Please note that no weapons are permitted in any of the con it may be a sign of what’s ahead for the rest of us. The 1987 ar;as and that the local police, Hotel and most of our other menders Boskone encountered hotel difficulties which spilled out ontc fe’l you are a more interesting person without weapons. Norescon III (MCF1 isn’t NSFA, but Hotels don’t want to care) After the fury and much-ado, the 1988 Boskone seems to have been a success. What happened, how will it affect future WSFA will be auctioning off a FACIT 8111 electronic typewriter and Boskones, and by extension other major regionals and — how a database softwear called DBXL III PLUS. These two items will be sold will this affect the WorldCon? Mark Olson, Priscilla Olson, Rick Katze, Leslie Turek, Dave at the beginning of the Sunday Art Auction. The proceeds will go to the Anderson. beiefit of the DISCON III WorldCon Bid. These items are WSFA property which is no longer needed or wanted. Both are beincj sold as is. FRIDAY 6:00 - 6:55 DISCUSSION FORUM [C] AN HOUR~WTTH L. SPRAGUE & CATHERINE CROOK DeCAMP ■RIDAY len^ral Schedule of Functions READING BY AUTHOR CHARLES SHEFFIELD IN 10TH FLOOR IRTSHOW = BALLROOM, RIGHT= 6 P>I - 9 PM (Artists registration PARLOUR [A] ROOM 1003 FROM 6 PM TO 8 PM ■ from noon. The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order to XRTISTS IN RESIDENCE: CON SUITE - George Kochell, Ray allow for discussion, etc. Iide Tour & and perhaps others, will offer participatory art projects, artooning and other neat stuff - Join in. AUTOGRAPING IN THE DEALERS ROOM FRIDAY 7 PM: AUTHORS AUTOGRAPHING SESSIONS = DEALERS ROOM JACK C. HALDEMAN II A- VOL HALDEMAN BABYSITTING = HOTEI. ROOMS 1011 & 1017 - 7 PM - 1 AM PRE REGISTERED ONLY. OFFICE = ROOM 1011. FRIDAY 7:00-7:55 LARGER PROGRAM ROOM [B] ION SUITE = DISCAVE (Behind Registration )= 5 PM - 3 AM LIFE ON JUPITER? A "NASA" report on the discoveries bj- )EALERS ROOM = DISCAVE, RIGHT’= I PM - 8 PM GALILEO H’s probe of Jupiter’s red spot, by Carl Beckwith, JPL. JAMltRS = DISCAVE: BACK ROOM5= P.M - 3 AM (NO GAMBLING) (creative work by Karl Kofoed) HLKING = DISCAVE: BACK ROOM = 10 PM - 3 AM (Bardic Circle) HLNS = BALLROOM,BACK: PROGRAM [A] = 7 PM - 8 PM; After FRIDAY 7:00 - 7:55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [R| Masquerade until 6 AM SF AS AN ART FORM 1ASQUERADE = PROGRAM [Al = 10 PM (Greenroom for entrants is What can make SF work as art? Art endures and grows in n program [Bl (Ballroom, back left) meaning through time, however, staying in print is not the onlj REGISTRATION = DISCAVE, LEFT = 3 PM - 12 MIDNIGHT. measure of literarature as art. Some writers try for art, do not 5TORYTELLLNG = DISCAVE BACK ROOM = 5 PM - 9 PM always succeed due to pressures or limitations. VOICES IN THE GLEN: Bill Mayhew Ralph Chatham,Kathy James Morrow, Takayushi Tatami, Steve Brown, Richard Grant, Meizner, Lawanda Randall, Anne Sheldon Michael Dirda MAIN PROGRAM FRIDAY 7:00 DISCUSSION FORUM OUR FILM PROGRAM EXPLAINED. RIDXY 4:00—1:55 PM LARGER PROGRAM ROOM [A] Kathi Overton 'HE NEWSAMURATT?AT BOOK (Slide show) lari Rogers READING BY AUTHOR ROGER MacBRIDE ALLEN IN 10TH FLOOR PARLOUR [A] ROOM 1025 FROM 7PM - 9 PM ■ RIDAY 1:00-1:55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [B| The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order to POLITICS-&~SF— allow- for discussion, etc. How SF is affected by politics; how are politics affected by SF? FRIDAY 8:00 DISCUSSION FORUM [Cl Roger Mar.Bride Allen, Jack Chalker, John Maddox Roberts SALUTE TO ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Dr. Yoji Kondo (Eric Kotani) & Charles Sheffield ■RIDAY 4:00 - 1:55 DISCUSSION FORUM [Cl QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT THIS YEAR’S DISCLAVE: READING BY AUTHOR TIMOTHY R. SULLIVAN IN 10TH FLOOR 988 Jisclave Chairman Tom Schaad, Program Chairman Joe Mayhew, PARLOUR [B] ROOM 1025 FROM 9PM - 11PM 989 Disclave Chairman Michael J'. Walsh The reading wall be shorter than the period allowed in order to allow for discussion, etc. READING BY AUTHOR DON SAKERS IN 10TH FLOOR PARLOUR [A] ROOM 1003 FROM 4 PM TO 6 PM FRIDAY 10:00PM UNTIL FINISHED, LARGER PROGRAM ROOM [A] The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order MASQUERADE. to allow for discussion, etc. MC. Marty Gear READING BY AUTHOR DOUGLAS WINTER IN 10TH FLOOR RIDXY 5:00-5:55 LARGER PROGRAM ROOM [Al PARLOUR [A] ROOM 1003 FROM 10 PM -MIDNIGHT 'HE CHAN'GING“FACE OF WITCHCRAFT IN FANTASY LITERATURE. The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order tn What, influences, working from outside the literature, have allow for discussion, etc. affected the concept of tne female mage, witch, etc., how has that affected popular culture (Wicca, etc.) Is this mostly a feminist phenomenon, the exploiting of a new reader market, a SATURDAY hackney ride aboard another simpering cliche, or real General Schedule of Functions exploration? ART SHOW = BALLROOM, RIGHT = 10 AM - 7 PM Tie? Xan Dommelen, Barbara Hambly, Darrell Schweitzer, Esther ART AUCTION = PROGRAM [A] - 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM ren ner, Paula \ olsky ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: CON SUITE - George Kochell, Ray Ridenour & and perhaps others, w'ill offer participatory art RIDXY 5:00-5:55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [B] projects.cartoomng and other neat stuff - Join in. .'HERE DO-CHARACTERS COME FROM? AUTHORS AUTOGRAPHING SESSIONS - DEALERS ROOM Other than getting even with obnoxious Uncle Charly, dealing BABYSITTING = HOTEL ROOMS 1011 & 1017 = 10 AM - NOON; with plot necessity or outright theft from other writers... 1 PM - 6 PM; 7 PM - 1 AM : PRE-REGISTERED ONLY. erilee Edwards-Hewitt, Deborah Marshall, Margaret Wander Bonanno OFFICE = ROOM 1011. CON SUITE = DISCAVE (Rehind Registration) = 10 AM - 3 AM RIDXY 5:00 - 5:55 DISCUSSION FORUM [Cl DEALERS ROOM = DISCAVE, RIGHT = 10 AM - 6 PM AN ANYBODVTJEHNE SF? GAMERS = DISCAVE: BACK ROOM; 10 AM - 3 AM (NO GAMBLING) Yes! ( You alone can define it.) Perhaps you can convince FILKING = DISCAVE: BACK ROOM = 10 PM - 3 AM (Bardic Circle) everyone else — come armed with references, or or merely FILMS = BALLROOM,BACK: PROGRAM [Al After Art Auction 10:00 with irrefragable truth. In the past, this has put religion and until 6 AM politics to shame. NASA MUSEUM FIELD TRIP: Get on bus in Hotel parking lot at lick Katze 12:30 PM go to NASA Headquarters in Greenbelt, back at Hotel at 3:15 : there must be 1 adult for everv 3 children under 14. EAEING BY AUTHOR JOHN BETANCOURT IN 10TH FLOOR REGISTRATION = DISCAVE, LEFT = 9:AM - '5 PM ARLOUR [Bl ROOM 1025 FROM 5 PM TO 7 PM SENIOR PROM = PROGRAM B & C (Formals & tux?) = 10 PM The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order to allow for discussion, etc. MAIN PROGRAM UTOGRAPING IN THE DEALERS ROOM FRIDAY 6 PM: SATURDAY, 10:00 ERIC KOTANJ [DR. YOJI KONDO) & JOHN MADDOX ROBERTS AUTOGRAPING IN THE DEALERS ROOM SATURDAY 10 AM DARRELL SCHWEITZER •'RIHA-Y 6:00-6:55 LARGER PROGRAM ROOM [ X] SATURDAY 10:00-10:55 LARGER PROGRAM ROOM (A) SEX, DEATHTVTLLAINY AND STYLE. WHY MUST PAPERBACK COVERS BE THAT WAY? Elegance, playfulness and a bit of madness can give both the When a writer complains that the cover on his latest Paperback writer ana the reader more than joy and pleasure: it can make has nothing to do with its plot, literary character, etc: the it possible to write about things, whicn, if handled with a artist complains that the publisher's reps didn’t give him much heavy hand, would be pretentious and dull. It seems that there information, the art director says they need so and so in the are subjects so serious that one can only joke about, them. cover art to sell the book ....is there any way out? fess Kissinger, Gregory Frost, Timothy R. Sullivan, Chris Miller, Bob Marty Gear, Brenda Clough, John Betancourt, Ginger Buchanan, Walters Mary Allen, DISCLAVE'88 FILM SCHEDULE DISCLAVE'88 POCKET PROGRAM frtdav may 27 1988 (SHOWING TIMES APPROXIMATE) DISCLnVE 88 MAIN PROGRAM BY HOUR 11:30 PM FRIDA1 May 27th THE GOLEM 1925 (85 min) Dir. Paul Wegener. Jewish Classic about HOUR J JIGNING(H) (A)LARGER (B)SMALLER (C)FORUM (R)READING artificial man set in medieval times. Silent film with musical score. 4:00 I THE NEW POLITICS & QUESTIONS ON SAKERS SAMURAI CAT SF DISCLAVE 1:00 PM THE POINT 1971 (75 min) Dir. Fred 5:00 IM CHANGING FACE OF WHERE DO CHAR CAN ANYBODY BETANCOURT woltt. Animated feature with score by WITCHCRAFT ACTERS COME FROM? DEFINE SF? Harry Nilsson. An alegorical tale about a boy named Oblio and his dog 6:00 1 SEX,DEATH,VILLAINY NESFA REPORI’S AN HOUR WITH SHEFFIELD Arrow. Oblio is born with a round- Kotan: /Roberts AND STYLE THE DeCAMPS head in a land of pointy people.
7:00 1 W . LIFE ON JUPITER? SF AS /AN ART FORM FILMS EXPLAINED R. ALLEN 2:30 AM J & V Haldeman ALPHAVILLE 1965 (100 min) Dir. Jean-Luc Goddard. Stars: Eddie 8:00 1 HEINLEIN SALUTE Considine, Howard Vernon, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff : Computer 9:00 ] SULLIVAN Alpha-60 runs distopia.
10:00 PM MASQUERADE WINTER 4:15 AM ROCKETSHIP X-M 1950 (77 min) Dir. SATUR |)AY, MAY 28TH Kurt Neumann. Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, Hugh O’Brien, John HOUR : SIGNING (A)LARGER (B) SMALLER (C) FORUM (R) READING Emory. Lunar expedition awry to Mars, site of devestated culture, 10:00 AM WHY MUST PAPERBACK IS THIS THE AGE WHEN A CON HAS where survival means fighting. Schwe tzer COVERS BE THAT WAY SLOP. SENTIMENT TO CUI' BACK AND VIOLENCE? SATURDAY, MAY 29
11:00 AM ALTERNATE WHAT WRITERS READ COMPANY POLICY A.J. MAYHEW 7:00 PM Morro' 7 HISTORIES AND WHY CORPORATE THUMB 1988 SUMMER FILM RELEASES (COMMING ATTRACTIONS) 12:00 NOON JUDGE BOOKS BY PLAN/DOC ADVICE FOR THE CRISPIN PUBLISHER? TOR CONS FOOD-LORN 10:00 PM 1984 1984 version (110 min) Dir. 1:00 PM RON MILLER HOW FAR SHOULD WHO ARE THE CHALKER Michael Redford. Stars: John Hurt, HAMBL r IN MOSKOW EDITORS GO? GOOD CRITICS? Suzana Hamilton, Richard Burton, Freis ier Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher, James Walker, Phyllis Lo’gan, Bob Flagg. 2:00 ART GOH LITERARY BAEN BOOKS SHWARTZ A very bleak piece of film, very well Cloug 1 JIM BURNS INFLUENCES PRESENT made. Lee/S •Miller SLIDE SHOW 12:00 MIDNIGHT 3:00 an (BURNS CONT’D) EDGAR RICE vs COPYRIGHT Q & A FROST THEATRE OF BLOOD 1973 (104 min) Lew it b WILLIAM BURROUGHS Dir: Douglas Hickox. Stars: Vincent Watt- (vans Price, Diana Rigg, Jack Hawkins, Diana Dors, Robert Morley, Harry 4:00 GOH SPEECH ARTIFICIAL TOR BOOKS CLOUGH Andrews, Ian Hendry, Corlal Brown. Grant BARBARA HAMBLY INTELLIGENCE PRESENT Shakespearian looney commits stylish Be tan ?ourt murders with tongue in cheek.
5:00 SPACE TELESCOPES WHO WRITERS THINK AVON- BOOKS PREISNER 2:00 AM Swanw ick BY NASA THEIR READERS ARE" PRESENT SECONDS 1966 (106 min) Dir. John Sheff ield Frankenheimer. Stars: Rock Hudson. Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will 6:00 ?M DINNER BREAK Geer, Jeff Corey, Murray Hamilton, Richard Anderson. Faust by Plastic 7:00 PM FILMS SWANWICK Surgery. 8:00 PM HAMBLY 4:00 AM BEDAZZLED 1967 (107 min) Dir. 8:30 PM - 9:30 ART AUCTION Stanley Donen. Stars: Peter Cook. Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron. Raquel 9:00 PM MORROW Welch. Faust in the Cook/Moore tradition. 10:00 PM FILMS UNTIL 6:AM SENIOR FROM IN B 8 C UNTIL 2 AM SUNDAY, MAY 29 L MAY 29TH SUNDA 4:00 PM THE INNOCENTS 1961 (100 min) SIGNI 4G (A)LARGER (B) SMALLER (C) FORUM (R) READING Dir. Jack Clayton. Stars: Deborah Kerr, Martin Stevens, Pamela 10:00 AM DOES SF HAVE TO DO ALIEN INFLUENCES WHO SHOULD GET Franklin, Megs Jenkins, Peter Bonan no WITH THE FUTURE? THE HUGOS? Wvngarde, Michael Redgrave. Henry James’s TURN OF THE SCREW as 11:00 AM WHO’S WRITING THE SF AND PUBLIC BERKLEY BOOKS GRANT viewed by Truman Capote. Ghosts Winter GREAT RE-READS LIBRARIES PRESENT obsess governess or possess her wards. 12:00 NOON USEFUL FRONTIERS MEDIA SPIN OFFS CONVINCE ME DeCam P AMONG GENRES ASTROLOGY’S REAL 6:00 PM BEDAZZLED 1:00 PM RUNNING A SF CON CRITIQUE GILLILAND BOOKSTORE 8:00 PM ALPHAVILLE 2:00 PM .ARI AUCTION WHAT’S IT LIKE IN SERIALS; THE J.HALDEMAN Frost (Until Done) OTHER GENERES BREAKFAST OF Sulli /an CHAMPIONS ALSO SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS GERTIE THE DINOSAUR- 3:00 PM BIDTIME TOR BONZO THE MASCOT SF BOOK CLUB ROBERTS AUTOMANIA 2000 WORLDCON BIDS PRESENT'S SKYRIDER PHASES 4:00 PM FILMS WHEN THE C0MIV1TR ARBOR \ MORROW SCHWEITZER AUCTION IS DONE ANIMATION MAGIC BOOKS PRESENT NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN UNTIL APPX 10 IM VIDEO DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24TH 1/2 EVOLUTION 5:00 PM LANGLEY PUNKS SEA DREAM VIDEOS ICARUS LAST CHANCE GAS EXCEP r FOR FILMS, PROGRAM IS OVER UNTIL 10:00 PM SOCK HOP FREE FALL y»'*x«x'^x!x»x»x«x«x'x!xtx«xix<’r^^^ VARIOUS JITLOV FILMS. PARLOUR IB) FHO™0 Pm"C3KPML- CHALKER IN 10TH FL0° The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order t allow for discussion, etc. AUTOGRAPING IN THE DEALERS ROOM SATURDAY 2 PM SATURDAY 10:00-10:55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [Bl BRENDA CLOUGH / SHARON LEE & STEVE MILLER IS THIS THE AGE OF SLOP, SENTIMENT & VIOLENCE? Is there a tendency toward even more in SF books? Some feel ARTGOHAsnS^sroJ-ARGER PR0GRAM R00>' IA1 smarmy pulp has always sold very well indeed, but, the JIM BURNS question is : are the marketers aiming things that way more and more? L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Toni Weisskopf, Jack C. Haldeman II, Stephen SATURDAY 2:00-2:55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [B] Sterns, Paula Volsky LITERARY INFLUENCES SATURDAY 10:00 DISCUSSION FORUM Who influences the panelists, other writers for the good, fo WHEN A CON HAS TO CUT BACK, WHAT SHOULD IT CUT? the bad, inside SF, outside... Given the apparent decline in the number of fen willing to Tim Sullivan, James Morrow, Richard Grant, Charles Sheffield work on cons, the larger number of attendees and the limits Michael Swanwick wit and sweat, something has to give. Every fringe fandom sees itself as the real core of fandom itself and so, will lobby for SATURDAY 2:00 DISCUSSION FORUM [Cl their own favorite activities. So, Solomon, what can we do BAEN PRESENTS. without? Your chance to hear what’s new from Baen Rooks and to givi Priscilla Olson your feedback on what they’ve been publishing. Toni Weisskopf AUTOGRAPING IN THE DEALERS ROOM SATURDAY 11 AM JAMES MORROW READING BY AUTHOR SUSAN SHWARTZ IN 10TH FLOOR PARLOU1 [A] ROOM 1003 FROM 2 PM - 4-PM SATURDAY 11:00-1 1:55 LARGER PROGRAM ROOM (A) The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order t> ALTERNATE“HTSTORTES allow for discussion, etc. Comparing historical fiction with fictional history and "history' with the reality it alleges to portray. Is SF alternate history AUTOGRAPING IN THE DEALERS ROOM SATURDAY 3 PM merely a devise to provide the author with a familiar cast of LAWRENCE WATT-EVANS / SHAR1ANN LEWITT characters in a familiar setting? If not, how does it differ from an historical romance? SATURDAY 3:00-3:55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [Bl Alexis Gilliland, Barbara Hambly, Charles Sheffield, L. Sprague de EDGAR-RTCE"'VS ' W1LLIAM BURROUGHS. Camp, Esther Freisner. It seems SF has become something more like the latter and lesi like the former. What has happend? SATURDAY 11:00-11:55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [Bl Walter Miles, John Maddox Roberts, Ted White, Timothy R. Sullivan WHAT BOOKS~T)CFTHE' WRITERS READ, AND WHY DO THEY READ Bob Walters. THEM? Gregory Frost, Don Sakers, Doug Winter, Richard Grant, Susan SATURDAY 3:00-3:55 DISCUSSION FORUM [C| Shwartz COPYRIGHT QUESTIONS — AND ANSWERS FROM > REPRESENTATIVE OF THE US COPYRIGHT OFFICE." SATURDAY 11:00 DISCUSSION FORUM [C] Vicky George COMPANY POLICY; THE COMMERCIAL THUMB ON THE READING BY AUTHOR GREGORY FROST IN 10TH FLOOR PARLOUI PUBLISHING INDUSTRY. [B] ROOM 1025 FROM 3 PM - 5-PM The megacorporations who own the publishers seem more and The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order ti more willing to make the rules which the publishers have to allow for discussion, etc. operate under. Myth has it that things were not always so. When Ad men and oil barons micromanage publishers, does it AUTOGRAPING IN THE DEALERS ROOM SATURDAY 4 PM really improve the product? JOHN BETANCOURT / RICHARD GRANT Sharon- Lee &■ Steve Miller SATURDAY 4:00-5:00 LARGER PROGRAM ROOM [A] READING BY AUTHOR A.J. MAYHEW IN 10TH FLOOR PARLOUR [B] GUEST OF HONOR-SPEECH ROOOM 1025 FROM 11 AM - 1 PM BARBARA HAMBLY The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order to allow for discussion, etc. AUTOGRAPING IN THE DEALERS ROOM SATURDAY 12 NOON SATURDAY 4:00-4:55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [B] ROGER MacBRIDE ALLEN/ L.E. MODISETT, JR / SUSAN ARTIFICIAL 1NTELLEGENCE TECHNOLOGY IN SCIENCE FICTION. SHWARTZ Pat Jones, Michael Swanwick, Shariann Lewitt, Jay Haldemaii SATURDAY 12:00-12:55 LARGER PROGRAM ROOM IA1 CAN ONE “JUDGE A BOOK'D Y' ITS" PUBI7TS TIER? ~ SATURDAY 4:00- 4:55 DISCUSSION FORUM [C] Does DAW, AVON, Tor, etc have a dependable quality profile? TOR PRESENTS, tour chance to hear what’s new from TOR and t< Does any given publisher shoot for a certain audience more your feedback about what they’ve been publishing. than another so that the reader should take the LOGO into Claire Eddy account. Does any publisher have any goal beyond gross quick READING BY AUTHOR BRENDA CLOUGH IN 10TH FLOOR PARLOUI sales? [A] ROOM 1003 FROM 4 PM - 6 PM Michael Dirda, Lawrence Watt-Evans, John Maddox Roberts, Gin.jer The reading will be shortei* than the period allowed in orde Fuchanan to allow for discussion, etc. SATURDAY 12:00-12:55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [RI AUTOGRAPING IN THE DEALERS ROOM SATURDAY 5 PM PLANNING & DOCUMENTING AN S.F.CONVENTION CHARLES SHEFFIELD / MICHAEL SWANWICK Doing things so you won’t, have to go crazy. Leslie Turek, Peggy Rae Pavlat, Kathleen Meyer, Todd Dashoff SATURDAY 5:05-6:00 LARGER PROGRAM ROOM [A] NASA’S SPA'CETEEESCOPES: PRESENT AND FUTURE SATURDAY 12:00 DISCUSSION FORUM [C] Dr.Yoji Kondo of NASA DINNER WITH ANNE -ADVICE FOR THE FOOD-LORN FROM THE LOCAL HEALTH INSPECTOR SATURDAY 5:00-5:55 SMALLER PROGRAM'ROOM [Bl Anne Williams (The local Prince George’s County Sanitarian WHO READS SF? WHO DO THE WRITERS THINK THEIR READER! [Restaurant Inspector}) ARE? Moshe Feder, Steve Miller, Lawrence Watt-Evans, L.E. Modesitt READING BY AUTHOR ANN CRISPIN IN 10TH FLOOR PARLOUR [A] Deborah Marshall ROOM 1003 FROM 12 NOON - 2 PM The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order to SATURDAY 5:00 DISCUSSION FORUM allow for discussion, etc. AVON PRESENTS. Your chance to hear what’s new from Avon Rooks and to giv, AUTOGRAPING IN THE DEALERS ROOM SATURDAY 1 PM your feedback on what they’ve been publishing. BARBARA HAMBLY / ESTHER FREISNER Chris Miller SATURDAY 1:00-1:55 LARGER PROGRAM ROOM [A} READING BY AUTHOR ESTHER FREISNER IN 10TH FLOO1 MILLER IN MOSCOW (slides) Glorious People’s Report on international SF Art exhibit PARLOUR [B] ROOM 1025 FROM 5 PM - 7 PM Ron Miller The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order t SATURDAY 1:00-1-55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [Bl allow for discussion, etc. HOW FAR SHOULD AN EDITOKGO? Editors touch up manuscripts - what reasonable limits might 6 PM DINNER BREAK exist? Chris Miller,Ted White, Darrell Schweitzer, John Betancourt, Steven SATURDAY 7:00-8:00 LARGER PROGRAM ROOM [A] Sterns FILM SHORTS------SATURDAY 1:00 DISCUSSION FORUM [Cl READING BY AUTHOR MICHAEL SWANWICK IN 10TH FLOO WHO ARE THE GOOD CRITICS? PARLOUR [B] ROOM 1025 FROM 7 PM TO 9 PM We’re NOT talking about, the book-report, people. The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order t Robert Colby allow for discussion, etc. READING BY GUEST OF HONOR BARBARA HAMBLY IN 10TH FLOOR PARLOUR [A] ROOM 1003 FROM 8 PM TO 10 PM The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order to SUNDAY 12:00-12:55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [B] allow for discussion, etc. MEDIA SPTN'-OTFS : TWADDE, ART OR RELIGION...OR JUST ENTERTAINMENT? Saturday 8:30 -9:30 larger program room Some writers do them when they’re hard-up, others because FIRST ART AUCTION they love them - why else? Auctioneers: Jack Chalker, Mike Zipser Steven Fethernff , Ann Crispin, Tim Sullivan, Margaret Wander Bonnano READING BY AUTHOR JAMES MORROW IN 10TH FLOOR PARLOUR [E] ROOM 1025 FROM 9 PM TO 11 PM SUNDAY 12:00 DISCUSSION FORUM [C] The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order to CONVINCE ME THAT ASTROLOGY IS REAL. allow for discussion, etc. I his item was planned before the Reaganostic revelations. Some people believe that Virgos are like that." Roger MacBride Saturday io:oo pm through Sunday b:oo am larger Allen dqesn t. This is .your chance to "reach" him. PROGRAM-ROOM [A] ------Roger MacBride Allen FILMS [SEE SEPARATE SCHEDULE] SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [B] Saturday io:oo pm -2:oo am r?j rooms b-c OPERATING ATTER BOOKSTORE. senior prom What makes them possible. What publishers trash their own Chaperone: Terry Shehan, MC: Dave Axler books? Etc. Steve Brown, Kathy Sands, Bill Thompson, Mike Nalley SUNDAY Getneral Schedule of Functions SUNDAY 1:00 DISCUSSION FORUM A#>T SHOW = BALLROOM; RIGHT 10 AM - 1 PM CON CRITIQUE. AR'T AUCTION = PROGRAM [A] 1 PM UNTIL DONE How’d we do? What do you want more of, less of..etc. AU THORS AUTOGRAPHING SESSIONS = DEALERS ROOM Con Chair Tom Schaad, Program Manager Chris Callahan,Program ba:BYSITTING = HOTEL ROOMS 1011 & 1017 10 AM - NOON; 1 PM Chair Joe Mayhew. 1989 Chair Michael J. Walsh. - 6 PM; 7 PM - 1 AM : PRE-REGISTERED ONLY. OFFICE = ROOM 1011. AUTOGRAPING IN THE DEALERS ROOM SUNDAY 2 PM CCN SUITE = DISCAVE (Behind Registration) 10 AM - 3 AM GREGORY FROST / TIMOTHY R. SULLIVAN DEALERS ROOM = DISCAVE, RIGHT 10 AM - 6 PM GAMERS = DISCAVE: BACK ROOMIO AM - 3 AM (NO GAMBLING) FINKING = DISCAVE: BACK ROOM 10 PM - 3 AM (Bardic Circle) OILUUINIJqtenMn AKIraff- AUC11ON?PiL7,,}^TIL FINISHED LARGER PROGRAM ROOM |.\] FI JMS = BALL ROOM, BACK: P ROG RAM [A] After Art Auction AUCTIONEERS; Mike X Beth Zipser around 4 PM? until 6 AM NA SA MUSEUM FIELD TRIP: Get on bus in Hotel parking lot at SUNDAY SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [B] 12:30 PM go to NASA Headquarters in Greenbelt, back at Hotel WHAT’S IT LIKE IN THE OTHER GENRES? at 3:15 : there must be 1 adult for every 3 children under 14. RE GISTRATION FOR 1989 = DISCAVE, LEFT 11 PM - 2 PM Mystery writers, Horror, Oaters, Rodice-busters, and soon have SOCK HOP = PROGRAM B & C = 10 PM -2 AM? their own fandom, traditions and expectations: how do they differ from SF? MAIN PROGRAM Doug Winter, Charles Sheffield, Vol Haldeman, John Maddox Roberts, Margaret Wander Bonnano, Greg Cox. SI NDAY, 10 AM Al TOGRAPING IN THE DEALERS ROOM SUNDAY 10 AM SUNDAY 2:00 DISCUSSION FORUM MARGARET WANDER BONANNO SERIALS, BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS. Obviously, Jack L. Chalker believes in them. So do a whole SI NDAY 10:00-10:55 LARGER PROGRAM ROOM [A] bunch of other writers — and readers. Trilogies, novels in W1AT, IF ANYTHING, DOES SF HAVE TO DO WITH THE FUTURE? parts, shared universes, and such seem to be forming a larger Should SF be about Prediction? Warning? Gadgeterasty? Ought and larger part of SF. Is this a good thing? it be more than just exotic fantasy? Jack Chalker 3cb Walters, Jay Haldeman, Karl Kofoed, Shelley Frier READING BY AUTHOR JACK C. HALDEMAN, II IN 10TH FLOOR PARLOUR [A] ROOM 103 FROM 2 PM TO 4 PM The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order to ol NDAY 10:00-10:55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [B] allow for discussion, etc. ALIEN INTTUENCES” What is coming into SF from abroad? SU~NDAY~~3~6o-3~5T~SMATTER~FR~QGRA>7~R6bST~[~Br~' Sharian Lewitt Eric Kotani, Charles Sheffield, John Maddox Roberts, Ron Miller BIDTIME FOR BONZO. Who is bidding for the world con, what are they offering, can SI NDAY 10:00 DISCUSSION FORUM [C] they deliver ...or, if they win the bid, will they lose the con? W1O SHOULD GET THE HUGOS? MODERATOR AND WORLD CON BID REPRESENTATIVES Do ug Fratz SUNDAY 3:00 DISCUSSION FORUM SF BOOK CLUB. AUTOGRAPING IN THE DEALERS ROOM SUNDAY 11 AM How are selections made, what does the S.F. Book Chib have DOUGLAS WINTER planned. What do you think of what, they’ve been doing? SUNDAY 11:00-11:55 LARGER PROGRAM ROOM [A] Mosne Feder W[rO“ARKWRTTING~THE GREAT RE-READS? Passtime books are meant to be read once and then to be READING BY AUTHOR JOHN MADDOX ROBERTS IN 10TH FLOOR discarded in favor of their sequels, but what better book PARLOUR [B] ROOM 1025 FROM 3 PM TO 5 PM bargain is there than the one worthy of a re-read, and who s The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order to writing them? . , allow for discussion, etc. Robert Colby, Michael Dirda, James Morrow, Alexis Gilliland, Moshe AUTOGRAPING IN THE DEALERS ROOM SUNDAY 4 PM Feder WILLIAM MORROW SUNDAY 1 1:00-11:55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [B] PUBLIC LTBRA~RTES” & SF SUNDAY 1:00 PM UNTIL 10:00 PM LARGER PROGRAM ROOM [A] Attitude of comunity services. Many public libraries seem to FILMS [ SEE'TTEP’ARATE ’ SC H E DTTL E1 encourage children to read SF and to regard adult reading of same as embarrassing. SUNDAY 4:00-4:55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [B] Bill Mayhew, Don Sakers, John Betancourt, Ann Crispin COMPUTER ANIMATION MAGIC, [video] (Geoffrey de Valois, Associates.) SUNDAY 1:00 DISCUSSION FORUM [C] BERKLEY PRESENTS SUNDAY 4:00 DISCUSSION FORUM Your chance to hear what’s new from Berkley Books and to ARBOUR HOUSE/WM.MORROW PRESENTS. give your feedback on what they’ve been publishing, Your chance to hear what's new from Arbour/Morrow and to G njer Buchanan give your feedback about what they’ve been publishing. Shelley Frier READING BY AUTHOR RICHARD GRANT IN 10TH FLOOR PARLOUR [B] ROOM 1025 FROM 11 AM TO 1 PM SUNDAY 5:00-5:55 SMALLER PROGRAM ROOM [B] The reading will be shorter than the period allowed in order to LANGLEY PUNKS VIDEOS allow for discussion, etc. DINNER BREAK ; NO PROGRAMMING UNTIL 10:00 PM SOCK-HOP AUTOGRAPING IN THE DEALERS ROOM SUNDAY 12 NOON IN PROGRAM ROOMS B AND C. JACK L. CHALKER / L. SPRAGUE DeCAMP & CATHERINE CROOK DeCAMP SUNDAY 12:00-12:55 LARGER PROGRAM ROOM [Al MONDAY: MEMORIAL DAY WHERE ARE-THE-'USEFUL FRONTIERS BETWEEN SF, FANTASY, MONDAY AT DISCLAVE IS A DEAD DOG PARTY. THE CON SUITE MYSTERIES, GOTHICS, ETC. WILL BE OPEN FROM 10 AM UNTIL 5 PM, SOME DEALERS WILL Other than distribution and marketing tools, are these real BE SELLING STUFF AND THERE WILL BE A FEW PARTIES. CHECK literary places, art forms to structure creativity, each with its OUT TIME FOR THE ROOMS IS 4 PM EACH DAY OF THE CON, different canons. When it is time to break the rules, what INCLUDING MONDAY . happens. What are the good mixes? Magic, for example in SF, ======++++++++++++======Mysteries or Westerns. Barbary Hambly, Gregory Frost, A.J. Mayhew, Charles Sheffield CANE MORTO TIBI CELEBRANDUM EST POSTQUAMQUE DOMUM OMNES GRATIAS AGENDI PROFICISCIANTQUE SECUTORES.