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POCKET PROGRAM LoneStarCon2 August 28th through September 1st 1997 • San Antonio, Texas

The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

POCKET PROGRAM and Fannisfi Guide to San Antonio, Texas OVERVIEW The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

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EDITOR’S COMMENTS...... 3 Art Director & Editor: Bill Child MAPS ...... 4 Fannish Guide Editors: Ursa Major MAIN EVENTS SCHEDULE...... 9 Editorial Assistants: Angela Bond, Randy Shepherd, David Thayer, Diana Thayer HOW TO USE THIS PROGRAM ...... 10 Cover Art: Brad Foster PROGRAMMING Interior Artists: Bill Child, Joe Mayhew, THURSDAY ...... 11 Ruth Shields FRIDAY ...... 22 Special Thanks to: BB&O Advertising

SATURDAY...... 41 This publication © 1997 by LoneStarCon2 a service mark of Austin Literary Arts SUNDAY ...... 60 Maintenance Organization, a not-for-profit MONDAY...... 77 organization. All rights reserved. Duplication and distribution of this publication without INDEXES ...... 84 prior written consent of the individual authors WORLDCON PROGRAM DETAILS ...... 105 and artists involved is prohibited.

FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO "World Science Fiction Society", "WSFS", "World ABOUT SAN ANTONIO ...... 112 Science Fiction Convention", "Worldcon”, "NASFiC", and "Hugo" are registered service RESTAURANT LISTINGS ...... 127 marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an MAP...... 134 unincorporated literary society. > > are convention, Since start what other and ensure compact Welcome Editor's or everyone, participants. quick Program" Program. interested items items locations Program. LoneStarCon2

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in OVERVIEW MAPS OVERVIEW TAe Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off MARRIOTT RIVERCENTER OVERVIEW OVERVIEW MAPS The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off MARRIOTT RIVERWALK MAPS OVERVIEW The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off DOWNTOWN SAN ANTONIO OVERVIEW OVERVIEW ______HOURS OF OPERATION Tfie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Cfiili Cook-Off MAIN EVENTS SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28 8:00 PM Hugo Award Ceremonies - Marriott Rivercenter, 12 Noon Convention declared open at Grand Ballroom A-K Dealers' Room Door 8:00 PM Dance - Marriott Riverwalk, 7:00 PM Opening Ceremonies - Alamo Ballroom Marriott Rivercenter, Grand Ballroom A, B & C 8:00 PM Chili Cook-Off (round 2) - Con Suite, Marriott Rivercenter 8:00 PM Meet the Program Participants - Marriott Rivercenter, SUNDAY, AUGUST 31 Grand Ballroom D. E & F 8:00 PM Masquerade - Marriott FRIDAY, AUGUST 29 Rivercenter, Grand Ballroom A-K 8:00 PM Regency Dance - 8:00 PM Dance - Marriott Riverwalk, Marriott Riverwalk, Alamo Ballroom Alamo Ballroom 8:00 PM Chili Cook-Off (round IJ- 8:00 PM Chili Cook-Off (round 3) - Con Suite, Marriott Rivercenter Con Suite, Marriott Rivercenter

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 12 Noon Babylon 5 Program - 2:00 PM Closing Ceremonies -

Marriott RiverCenter, Marriott Rivercenter. OVERVIEW Grand Ballroom A-K Grand Ballroom A-K READ THIS FIRST OVERVIEW The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

How to Use This Guide The times listed in the tabs are for the first programming item listed on that page, not for To assist you in locating a particular all the items that appear on that particular page. programming item in this guide, each one has been assigned a unique code. This useful code, Also included are an index of participants for which may seem rather cryptic at first glance, is cross referencing with the schedule, and maps actually the day, time and location of the for locating the function rooms. Readings and specific panel in a condensed format. The key Kaffee Klatsches and Literary Teas appear in to this code is as follows: the first two letters separate lists, as well as within the schedule. are an abbreviation of the day of the panel. These are followed by four numbers which are LONESTARCON2 BUILDING KEY actually the hour (in military time) that the CC - Convention Center panel starts. Next are two letters representing RC - Marriott Rivercenter the building and finally the actual name or number of the room in which the panel is RW - Marriott Riverwalk located. For example: Sal400cc-101 means this In addition to providing you with a convenient panel begins Saturday at 2 p.m. in the schedule of events at the Con, this guide also Convention Center room 101.

OVERVIEW contains the definitive list of what to do and For those of you who find all of this too where to go in San Antonio. And more confusing, or if you truly hate trying to decipher importantly where to eat. This fannish guide was military time, we have included the place and written, compiled and edited by the good time in a more traditional format directly people of Ursa Major, a local San Antonio fan below the name of the panel. group and all around great bunch of people to whom I am eternally in debt. THURSDAY Tfe Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

THURSDAY 11:00,

TH 1200CC-RIVER.B 11:00am Beyond Games: How We’ll REALLY Use TH I IOORC-11 Virtual Reality Friends of Bill CC River Sec. B • Noon-12:50PM RC Room 11 • 11:00AM-11:50AM VR has enormous potential for medical, military, and THURSDAY educational applications. NOON Arlan Andrews, Sr., Frank Boosman, lack L. Chalker, laque Davison, Amy Thomson. Sage Walker* THI200CC-204 Beauty and the Beast: Legends TH 1200RW-ALAMO.C through the ages Open Gaming CC Room 204 • Noon-12:50PM RW Alamo Ballroom Sec. C • Noon-11.50PM From ancient Roman stories to the 19th century Play any game you want to bring - cards, roleplaying books to Cocteau to the TV series and Disney. games, boardgames. And be sure to look in on Pat iacfcon continuous demonstrations of the new Portal introductory set for Magic: The Gathering (run by TH 1200CC-PLAZA.A Wizards of the Coast) and the Middle-Earth trading The Importance of Accurate Research card game (Iron Crown Enterprises). CC Plaza Sec. A • Noon-12:50PM E. Susan Baugh, Janice Eisen, Adrienne Gormley, TH1200RW-BONHAM Thomas W. Knowles*. Sasha Miller Kaffeeklatch with Stephen Baxter RW Bonham • Noon-12:50PM Advance sign-up required. Stephen Baxter* NOON THURSDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off 'HURSDAY TH1200RW-MILAM THI300CC-204 KaffeeWatch with George R. R. Martin For Kids: Storytime RW Milam • Noon-12:50PM CC Room 204 • 1:00PM-1:50PM Advance sign-up required. Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids

George R. R. Martin* attending the con. NOON Gerri Balter, Anne Phyllis Pinzow TH 1200RW-VALERO Kaffeeklatch with Walter Jon Williams TH 1300CC-206 RW Valero • Noon-12:50PM Showcase- John Norman Reading Advance sign-up required. CC Room 206 • 1:00PM-1 50PM Walter Ion Williams* John Norman*

1:00pm TH 1300CC-207 More Issues in Comics THI300CC-101 CC Room 207 • 1:00PM-1:50PM Welcome to the Science Fiction Industry insiders reveal the biggest concerns of the Community: Making Connections field today - and for tomorrow. CC Room 10I • 1:00PM-1:50PM Bob Wayne*, Len Wein Now that you're here, here’s how to meet people, get TH 1300CC-208 involved and learn to understand this eccentric Badger Books: The True Story community. There’s lots to do between conventions - CC Room 208 • 1:00PM-1:50PM find out what’s going on during this seminar. Lionel Fanthorpe* Richard Brandt, David Levine, Nicfei Lynch. Leah H. Zeldes TH 1300CC-CENTRO TH 13OOCC-2O2 A Day in the Life of a Novelist Showcase-K. B. Bogen Reading CC Centro • 1:00PM-1:50PM CC Room 202 • 1:00PM-1 ;50PM Lois McMaster Bujold, Carole Nelson Douglas, K. B. Bogen* Robert Silverberg*. S. M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove THURSDAY 1:00pm Tfie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

TH I300CC-FIESTA.A TH1300CC-RIVER.B Fragile Ideas, Beautiful Language: Music in SF/F: What’s it Good For? SF Poetry CC River Sec. B • 1:00PM-1:50PM CC Fiesta Sec. A • 1:00PM-1:50PM Kate Daniel. Louise Marley. Ian McDonald*. Richard Chwedyk*, Mark Fewell, Scott E. Green, Denise Lee, Elizabeth Moon, Mark Shepherd Terry McGarry 2:00pm TH 1300CC-FIESTA.B Materials of Tomorrow: Skyhooks are TH1400CC-I0I Zust the Beginning! Talking like a Trufan: SF Slang From the CC Fiesta Sec. B • 1:00PM-1:50PM Hectograph to the Web Catherine Asaro, Genny Dazzo, James C. Glass, CC Room 101 • 2:00PM-2:50PM Bart Kemper* Apas, annishes and Ackermanese. Berns, beanies and blog. Cons, corflu and crudzines. These are the ABCs TH 1300CC-PLAZA.A of fanspeak. The gostak distims the doshes, but why SF Fetishes: Cats, Bheer, Slash, Funny don't slans read sci-fi? Don't know? You're probably a Animals, and Strange Food neo. Come and croggle as our panel of WKFs and CC Plaza Sec. A • 1:00PM-1:50PM BNFs explains the arcana of the sf community argues Brian Burley*, Linda J. Dunn, )iw Groat. over etymology and generally displays the art of Julie Kosatka, Kellie Matthews-Simmons, Mel. White fansmanship. John Hertz, Dick Lynch. Joe Siclari, Leah H. Zeldes* TH 1300CC-RIVER.A Conrunning via the Internet THI400CC-202 CC River Sec. A • 1:00PM-1:50PM Showcase-John G. Cramer Reading |oe Agee, Alexander Bouchard, Chad Childers, CC Room 202 • 2:0OPM-2:50PM Craig Miller*. Michael). Walsh John G. Cramer* 2:00pm THURSDAY Tlie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Cfiili Cook-Off THURSDAY TH1400CC-204 John L. Flynn, Richard Gilliam*, Joe Grillol, For Kids: Fossils Theodore Krulik CC Room 204 • 2:00PM-2:50PM TH1400CC-EXHIBIT Hal Clement* Autographings

2:00, THI400CC-205 CC Exhibit Hall • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM Showcase-Sandy Stewart Demo on Joe Haldeman, Nina Kiriki Hoffman Artificial Organs TH1400CC-FIESTA.A CC Room 205 • 2:00PM-2:50PM Sandy Stewart* Selling Game Rights to Your Fiction CC Fiesta Sec. A • 2:00PM-2:50PM THI400CC-206 Writers tell how they sold their work to the gaming How to Enjoy Your First Convention field. Game publishers tell how they bought it. CC Room 206 • 2:00PM-2:50PM Everyone tells how they feel about it in retrospect. Suzanne Alles Blom, Bill Cavin, Gay Haldeman*, Priscilla Steve Jackson, M. C. Valada, Walter Jon Williams* Olson, Neil Rest, Roger Sims. Tom Whitmore, Lori Wolf TH1400CC-FIESTA.B TH1400CC-208 The Future of Medicine Self-Publishing on a Shoestring CC Fiesta Sec. B • 2:00PM-2-.50PM CC Room 208 • 2:00PM-2:50PM Genetic engineering, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, How to do it yourself if no one else will. hormone therapy, and other wonders of the next Brad W. Foster* few decades. William Michael Brown, Rick Crownover, Perrianne Lurie*. THI400CC-CENTRO G. K. Sprinkle, Pras Stillman. Diann Thornley SF Films CC Centro • 2:00PM-2:50PM TH 1400CC-RIVER.A The good, the bad, and the ugly - a discussion of the Fiction Shaping Reality: SF interactions past year's cinema. with the real world THURSDAY T/ie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

CC River Sec. A • 2:00PM-2:50PM and difficult to organize. What, if anything, should be How SF affects reality and vice versa & how to changed to make it more manageable? What must 2:00. encourage the former as the SF world's contribution stay and what can be cut? What worked and what to the future. didn't work at LoneStarCon2? Scott Edelman, lane Fancher, Bradford Lyau*, Pat MacEwen Covert Beach*, John Hertz. Laurie Mann, Spike Parsons. Dick Smith, Tom Veal TH I400CC-RIVER.B The History of the Soviet Space Program TH 1500CC-202 CC River Sec. B • 2:00PM-2:50PM Showcase-Storytelling by Josepha THURSDAY Hugh Gregory*, Robert Reeves, Bruce Sterling Sherman CC Room 202 • 3:00PM-3:50PM THI400RW-MILAM Josepha Sherman* Kaffeeklatch with Mike Resnick RW Milam • 2:00PM-2:50PM TH 15OOCC-2O3 Advance sign-up required. For Kids: Creative Writing Mike Resnick* CC Room 203 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Rent Brewster TH 1400RW-VALERO Kaffeeklatch with Terry Pratchett TH 15OOCC-2O4 RW Valero • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM For Kids: Storytime Advance sign-up required. CC Room 204 • 3:00PM-3.50PM Terry Pratchett* Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids. Brad Linaweaver, Jean Lorrah 3:00pm TH 1500CC-205 THI500CC-I0I Raising the Next Generation: Families Deconstructing the Worldcon in Fandom CC Room 101 • 3:00PM-3:50PM CC Room 205 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM The Worldcon becomes ever more complex, expensive Fred Duarte*. Patty Wells THURSDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

THI500CC-206 CC Exhibit Hall • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM High-Powered Art Collecting Seminar lohn G. Cramer, Sasha Miller CC Room 206 • 3:00PM-3:50PM THI500CC-F1ESTA.A Howard Frank, Jane Frank*, Clayburn Moore, Muff Musgrave, Real Musgrave, Ingrid Neilson Future of Africa CC Fiesta Sec. A • 3:00PM-3.50PM TH 1500CC-207 M. Shayne Bell*, Ian McDonald, Laura Resnick. Mike Artists’ Jam Resnick, Susan M. Shwartz CC Room 207 • 3:00PM-4:50PM TH1500CC-FIESTA.B Not just for cartoonists any more! Sherlock, ]oe Bergeron, Alexis A. Gilliland, Teddy Harvia*, The Infinite Loop: Teaching Teachers to Peggy Ranson, Marv Wolfman Teach SF CC Fiesta Sec. B • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM TH 1500CC-209 lohn L. Flynn, George Guthridge*. Elizabeth Anne Hull, Kids’ Art Class: Mixing colors Theodore Krulik, David Sandner CC Room 209 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Mitchell Davidson Bentley* TH I500CC-PATIO.A Showcase-C. J. Mills Reading TH 1500CC-CENTRO CC Patio Sec. A • 3:OOPM-3:25PM Space Opera is making a comeback C. I. Mills* (or did it ever leave?) TH 1500CC-PAT1O.B CC Centro • 3-.OOPM-3:5OPM Catherine Asaro, Wilhelmina Baird, Lois McMaster Bujold*, C. Showcase-Scott E. Green Poetry |. Cherryh, Debra Doyle, Reading Eckhard Schwettmann, lack Williamson CC Patio Sec. B • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Scott E. Green* TH1500CC-EXHIBIT Autographings THURSDAY |______3:00PM Tfte Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

TH 1500CC-RIVER.A THI600CC-204 Writing in Shared Universes For Kids: How Do We Think and See? CC River Sec. A • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM CC Room 204 • 4:00PM-4 50PM Lynn Abbey, Gail Gerslner-Miller, Georye R. R. Martin*, Elizabeth Moon* John |. Miller, Roberta Rogow, Will Shetterly THI600CC-206 TH 1500CC-RIVER.B Guest of Honor Interview: -Roy Tackett Abuse Issues in SF and Fantasy CC Room 206 • 4:00PM-5:50PM CC River Sec. B • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Richard Brandt, Roy Tackett* Emma Bull, David Gerrold, Steven Gould. Nina Kiriki TH1600CC-208 Hoffman. Kristine Kathryn Rusch* Censorship 4:00pm CC Room 208 • 4:00PM-4:5OPM Melanie Fletcher, Bart Kemper*, joe Mayhew, Mel. White, THI600CC-I0I Tony Zbaraschuk Mad Scientists, Techno-Wizards and Other Assorted Geeks THI600CC-209 CC Room 101 • 4:00PM-4:50PM Artist Demo: Acrylics with Audience Some people still take a Gernsbackian hands-on Participation! approach to scientifiction fandom: building ray-guns, CC Room 209 • 4:00PM-6:50PM robots and rockets. Members of General Technics talk Glowing techniques by an award-winning cover artist. about their club and what they do. Advance sign-up required. Bill Higgins. Tullio Proni. Eric Raymond, Guy Wicker Cat Conrad*

THI600CC-202 THI600CC-CENTRO Showcase-Bradley Denton Reading Artemis Project: Your Ticket to the Moon CC Room 202 • 4:00PM-4:25PM CC Centro • 4:00PM-5:50PM Bradley Denton* Private developers of space flight. Gregory Bennett*. Thomas K. Martin. Ian Randal Strock THURSDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off THURSDAY THI600CC-EXHIBIT TH 1600CC-RIVER.A Autographings Alternate Histories & Alternate Futures CC Exhibit Hall • 4:OOPM-4:50PM CC River Sec. A • 4:00PM-4:50PM Arlan Andrews. Sr., C. 1. Cfierryfi, Hal Clement. lames Brunet, Chris Bundi, Brian Burley. Timothy Lane, C. |. Mills Evelyn C. Leeper, William Sanders. Harry Turtledove*

4:00, THI600CC-FIESTA.A TH I600CC-RIVER.B Babylon 5: Frequently Asked Questions Cyberculture CC Fiesta Sec. A • 4:00PM-4:50PM CC River Sec. B • 4:00PM-4:50PM Bringing everyone up to date with the story so far. Ctein, Glen Engel-Cox, Craig E. Engler, lean Lorrah, Glen Oliver* Bradley H. Sinor, |. Steven York*

TH 1600CC-PATIO.A TH I600RC-OFFICE Showcase-Don Webb Reading WSFS Mark Protection Committee CC Patio Sec. A • 4:00PM-4:25PM Meeting 1 Don Webb* RC Convention Offices • 4:00PM-4:50PM

TH I600CC-PATIO.B TH 1600RW-BONHAM The Cult Connection to SF Kaffeeklatch with Steven Gould and CC Patio Sec. B • 4:00PM-4:50PM Laura Mixon I. R. Dunn, Bruce Hallock, Allison Hershey, Pat MacEwen, RW Bonham • 4:00PM-4:50PM Sandra C. Morrese. Anne Phyllis Pinzow* Advance sign-up required. Steven Gould*, Laura |. Mixon THI600CC-PLAZA.A Creating Wonderful Characters and TH 1600RW-MILAM Killing Them Ruthlessly Kaffeeklatch with Jack Chalker CC Plaza Sec. A • 4:00PM-4:50PM RW Milam • 4:00PM-4:50PM Susan R. Matthews, Mary Doria Russell, Connie Willis Advance sign-up required. lack L. Chalker* THURSDAY ।______4:00pm The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

TH 1600RW-TRAVIS CC Room 203 • 5:00PM-5:50PM Literary Tea: Dave Smeds* Lois McMaster Bujold’s Memory THI700CC-204 RW Travis • 4:00PM-5:50PM Filk: The Art of Intelligent Noisemaking Discussing the Hugo-nominated novel Memory. CC Room 204 • 5:00PM-5-.50PM Advance sign-up required. An introduction to filk. Lois McMaster Bujold. Elise Matthesen* Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Lionel Fanlhorpe. Randy Farran. 5:00pm Barry Gold*, Lee Gold. David M. Kushner. Nonie Rider

THI700CC-I0I TH1700CC-205 The Art of Fanzines Costuming Tips and Traps CC Room 101 • 5.OOPM-5:5OPM CC Room 205 • 5:00PM-5:5OPM Fanzine art has its own special character. Artists talk |oe Agee, Alexander Bouchard. Harold Feld. Roberta Rogow* about what makes fannish art different from other THI700CC-207 kinds of illustration, what similarities it has and why Recent Archeological Spectaculars they do it CC Room 207 • 5:O0PM-5:5OPM Sherlock, Kurt Erichsen, Brad W. Foster. Finding ourselves in the past Alexis A. Gilliland. Teddy Harvia*. Peggy Ranson K. B. Bogen*. Kate Daniel, lay Kay Klein, TH 1700CC-202 Mike Moscoe, S. M. Stirling Showcase-James Patrick Kelly THI700CC-208 Reading The Terrestrial Biology of our Favorite CC Room 202 • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM Movie Aliens lames Patrick Kelly* CC Room 208 • 5:00PM-5:50PM TH 1700CC-203 Melanie von Orlow* Showcase-Dave Smeds Karate Demo THURSDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

THI7OOCC-2IO CC Patio Sec. A • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM Interview: Steve Jackson Kent Brewster*, Denise Lee, Mike Resnick CC Room 210 • 5:00PM-5:50PM TH 1700CC-PATIO.B Steve Jadeson, Allen Varney* Art by the inch: Collectible Card Art and THI700CC-EXHIBIT Games Autographings CC Patio Sec. B • 5:00PM-5-.50PM CC Exhibit Hall • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM Keith Birdsong*, David A. Cherry, Sue Dawe, Ka/'a Foglio. April Theodore Krulik, Laura I. Mixon Lee, Don Maitz, Ron Walotsky

TH 1700CC-F1ESTA.A THI700CC-PLAZA.A Convention Art Shows: Making the Most Slide Show: Evolution of an Artist of Doing the Circuit. by Jael CC Fiesta Sec. A • 5:OOPM-5;5OPM CC Plaza Sec. A • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM What's hot and what's not. Jael* Lillian Butler*, loy Marie Ledet, Ellisa Mitchell. Ingrid Neilson. TH1700CC-RIVER.A Teresa Patterson, Denise Satter, Lee Seed Kicking Ass and Changing Names TH1700CC-FIESTA.B CC River Sec. A • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM Safety, Sanity, and Consensuality Love those Hong Kong action films! CC Fiesta Sec. B • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM Craig Miller*, Lawrence Person, Herbie |. Pilato, Walter |on Guidelines for taking care of yourself and others during Williams intimate moments at the con. And at home, too! TH 1700CC-RIVER.B Robin Wayne Bailey. Phil Foglio. David Gerrold, Elise Editing Anthologies Matlhesen. Vol Ranger. Tom Whitmore*, M. D. Williams CC River Sec. B • 5:00PM-5:50PM TH 1700CC-PATIO.A Ellen Datlow*, Richard Gilliam, Laura Anne Gilman, Speculations: An Essential Tool for Writers Sheila Williams THURSDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off oj

7:00pm 7:00, THI900RC-GB Opening Ceremony RC Grand Ballroom • 7:00PM-7:50PM Nenl Barrett, Jr., Algis Budrys, Fred Duarte, Don Maitz, Karen Mescftke*. Michael Moorcock, Randy Shepherd. Roy Tackett THURSDAY 8’.00pm

TH2000RC-GB Meet the VIPs Event RC Grand Ballroom • 8:O0PM-9:50PM 10:00ah| FRIDAY Tfie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off FRIDAY

FROOO1 RW-ALAMO.C FRI000CC-203 Open Gaming For Kids: Creative Writing RW Alamo Ballroom Sec. C • 12:01 AM-11:51PM CC Room 203 • 10:00AM-10:50AM Play any game you want to bring — cards, roleplaying Laura Frankos, Sheila Williams games, boardgames. And be sure to look in on continuous demonstrations of the new Portal introductory set for FR1000CC-204 Magic The Gathering (run by Wizards of the Coast) and the For Kids: Storytime Middle-Earth trading card game (Iron Crown Enterprises). CC Room 204 • 10:00AM-10:50AM Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids 10:00am attending the con. Harold Feld, Caroline Spector FR1000CC-10I Welcome to the Science Fiction FR1000CC-205 Community: Making Connections Terminator 2: the Machines Take Over CC Room 101 • 10:00AM-10:50AM This Weekend! I Now that you're here, here's how to meet people, get CC Room 205 • 10:00AM-10:50AM involved and learn to understand this eccentric Kurt Baty, Joe Grillot, Brad Linaweaver* community. There's lots to do between conventions — find out what's going on during this seminar. FRI000CC-206 Richard Brandt, David Bratman, David Levine, Peirianne Attacks on Science Lurie, Nicki Lynch CC Room 206 • 10:00AM-10:50AM FRI000CC-202 Should science defend itself against the anti­ Showcase-Terry Boren Reading technologists? And how? CC Room 202 • 10.00AM-10:25AM George Flenlke, Bruce Hallock, lack McDevitt*. Karen Mermel, Terry Boren* Susan Smith FRIDAY T/ie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

FR1000CC-207 FRIOOOCC-FIESTA.B Sense of Place: Locale as Character Virtual Reality Demo from Red Storm CC Room 207 • 10:00AM-10:50AM Entertainment Michael F. Flynn*. C. I. Mills. Robert Reed. S. M. Stirling. CC Fiesta Sec. B • 10:00AM-11:50AM Harry Turtledove Military, medical, and recreational uses for VR. Franfc Boosman, Jaque Davison* FR1000CC-208 fa Magical Realism: Fantasy from the FRI000CC-FIESTA.E CM Other Side of the Border WSFS Preliminary Business Meeting CC Room 208 • 10:00AM-10:50AM CC Fiesta Sec. E • 10:00AM-11:50AM Ellen Datlow*, Thomas K. Martin, Mary Rosenblum Open to all convention members. Don Eastlake 111*, Zanne Labonville, Kevin Standlee FR1000CC-210 Showcase-Nick DiChario Reading FR1000CC-PATIO.A Showcase-Howard Hendrix Reading CC Room 210 • 10:00AM-10:25AM CC Patio Sec. A • 10:00AM-10:25AM Nicfc DiChario* Howard V. Hendrix*

FR1000CC-CENTRO FRIDAY FR1000CC-PATIO.B Guest of Honor Slide Show: Showcase-Jennifer Roberson Reading Art of Don Maitz CC Patio Sec. B • 10:00AM-10:50AM CC Centro • 10:00AM-11:50AM Jennifer Roberson* Don Maitz* FRI000CC-PLAZA.A FR1000CC-EXH1BIT Mary Leakey, Olduvai, and the Rise Autographings of Sentience CC Exhibit Hall • 10:00AM-10:50AM CC Plaza Sec. A • 10:00AM-10:50AM Wilhelmina Baird, Elizabeth Danforth. Esther Friesner, A slide show and lecture. M. Shayne Bell reports on John ). Miller, Bradley H. Sinor Leakey’s last lecture. M. Shayne Bell* 10:00am| FRIDAY Tfte Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

FRI000CC-RIVER.A FR1000RW-VALERO Writing 101: Basics for Beginning Writers Kaffeeklatch with Don Webb and CC River Sec. A • 10:00AM-10:50AM Uncle River Loren Coleman, Kathleen Ann Goonan*, Scott E. Green, RW Valero • 10:00AM-10:50AM Edward E. Kramer, Sasha Miller, Charles C. Ryan, Rochelle Advance sign-up required. Marie Uhlenkott Uncle River, Don Webb*

FR1000CC-RIVER.B 10:30ah The Sexuality Issues of Radical Body Modifications FR1030CC-202 CC River Sec. B • 10:00AM-10:50AM Showcase-Lillian Stewart Carl Reading Mark Bourne*, Glen Engel-Cox, Tappan W. King, CC Room 202 • 10:30AM-10:55AM Bruce Sterling. Pras Stillman, Sage Walker Lillian Stewart Carl

FR1000RC-1I FRI030CC-210 Friends of Bill Showcase-Debra Doyle Reading RC Room 11 • 10:00AM-10:50AM CC Room 210 • 10:30AM-10:55AM Debra Doyle* FR1000RW-BONHAM Kaffeeklatch with Tim Powers 11:OOa» RW Bonham • 10:00AM-10:50AM FRI1OOCC-2O2 Advance sign-up required. Showcase-Patricia Anthony Reading Tim Powers* CC Room 202 • 11:00AM-11:50AM Patricia Anthony* FRI000RW-MILAM Kaffeeklatch with Connie Willis FRI I00CC-203 RW Milam • 10:00AM-10:50AM Showcase-Richard Chwedyk Reading Advance sign-up required. CC Room 203 • 11:00AM-11:50AM Connie Willis* Richard Chwedyk* FRIDAY 11:00am The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

FRl 100CC-204 CC Room 208 • 11:00AM-11:50AM For Kids: Storytime Joe Bergeron* CC Room 204 • 11:00AM-11:50AM FRl I00CC-209 Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids. Artist Workshop: Plaster Casting Above C. I. Mills. Ricfe Wilber the Neck FRl I00CC-205 CC Room 209 • 11:00AM-12:50PM Silicon Gulch: Advance sign-up required. Texas Computer Game Companies Leslie What * CC Room 205 • I 1:00AM-11:50AM FRl I00CC-210 Jim Cooper, Jason Henderson. Micah lackson*, Denis Loubet, Warren Spector, Russ Williams Artist Workshop on Paper Folding CC Room 210 • II :00AM-11:50AM 11:00, FRl I00CC-206 Elementary; we’ll recycle it! Try your hand at paper folding Publicity & Self-Promotion for Writers with a master of reduction. Advance sign-up required. and Artists Sherlock*

CC Room 206 • II :00AM-11:50AM FRIDAY FRl I00CC-EXHIBIT Steven Gould, Muff Musgrave*. Denise Satter, Dean Wesley Smith. Elisabeth Waters, Jacob Weisman, Mel. While Autographings CC Exhibit Hall • 11:00AM-11:50AM FRl I00CC-207 Edward Bryant, Ellen Datlow. Debra Doyle. John Norman Long-Range Planning for Development of Mars and the Moon FRl I00CC-FIESTA.A CC Room 207 • 1 1:00AM-11:50AM Goodbye, Kris! Hello, Gordon! The John Gibbons*. Les Johnson. Larry Niven, G. Davit! Nordley. Changing of the Guard at F & SF Henry Spencer, Robert Zubrin CC Fiesta Sec. A • 11:00AM-11:50AM Gregory Benford, Gardner Dozois*, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, FRl I00CC-208 Gordon Van Gelder Slide Show: Art of Joe Bergeron 11:00am______| FRIDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

FRI IOOCC-PATIO.B NOON School’s Out CC Patio Sec. B • 11:00AM-11:50AM FRI200 What can you use from art school and what do you Showcase: The Future of Internet need an extra class in? What did art school never even Governance with Harold Feld think about telling you? Noon-12:50PM Lubov, Cat Conrad. Howard Frank, Tom Kidd, April Lee. Harold Feld* Kevin Murphy, Lisa Snellings* FR1200CC-10I FR1I00CC-PLAZA.A Welcome to the Science Fiction Slide Show of SF Memorabilia Community: Enjoying the WorldCon CC Plaza Sec. A • 11:00AM-11:50AM An orientation seminar on the background of the John L. Flynn World Science Fiction Convention and tips on making the most of the con. FRI I00CC-RIVER.A CC Room 101 • Noon-12:50PM Making Fantasy Real Dave Kyle. Mark Olson, Carol Resnick, Sharon Sbarsky, CC River Sec. A • 11:00AM-11:50AM Edie Stern Lynn Abbey, John DeChancie. David Feinluch*, Lynn Flewelling, Susan |. Kroupa, George R. R. Martin, FR1200CC-202 Sean Stewart Showcase-Austin Bay Reading CC Room 202 • Noon-12:50PM FRI I00CC-RIVER.B Austin Bay* Musical Heroes in Science Fiction and Fantasy FR12OOCC-2O3 CC River Sec. B • 11:00AM-11:50AM Showcase-Short Story Contest Winner Robin Wayne Bailey*. Pat Cadigan. Brenda W. Clough. Reading Bradley Denton, Mark W. Tiedemann CC Room 203 • Noon-I2:50PM Jay Lake FRIDAY ______NOON The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

FR1200CC-204 FRI200CC-CENTRO For Kids: Storytime Creating Media Tie-Ins CC Room 204 • Noon-12:50PM CC Centro • Noon-12:50PM Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids lens H. Altmann, C. Dean Andersson, Ginjer Buchanan,Jeanne attending the con. Cavelos, Jennifer Roberson*. Dean Wesley Smith. Timothy Zahn A. C. Crispin. Mark L Van Name FR1200CC-EXHIBIT FR1200CC-205 Autographings Showcase-Wil McCarthy Reading CC Exhibit Hall • Noon-12:50PM Kevin ). Anderson, Bradley Denton, Steven Gould, Kay CC Room 205 • Noon-12:50PM Kenyon. Thomas W. Knowles, S. M. Stirling Wil McCarthy*

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Myth, Religion, and Serious SF NOON Showcase-Talk by Lionel Fanthorpe CC Fiesta Sec. A • Noon-12:50PM CC Room 206 • Noon-12:50PM Sheila Finch*, Allison Hershey, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Louise Lionel Fanthorpe* Marley, lerry Oltion

FRI200CC-207 FRIDAY FRI200CC-FIESTA.B Terraforming Realities Vox Populi/Vox Ex Machina: What could we really do, using today's technology? The Politics in SF CC Room 207 • Noon-12:50PM CC Fiesta Sec. B • Noon-12:50PM Stephen Baxter. Hal Clement*. Bruce Hallock, lames Killus, lerry Arlan Andrews. Sr., Allan Cole, Michael E Flynn. John Pournelle, Stanley Schmidt, lack Williamson Gibbons*, Joe Haldeman. Elizabeth Anne Hull, Frederik Pohl

FRI200CC-208 FRI200CC-MISS10N Mannerist Fantasy Pocket Dragon Adventures Series Update CC Room 208 • Noon-12:50PM CC Mission • Noon-12:50PM Emma Bull. Teresa Nielsen Hayden*, Will Shetterly, Craig Miller*, Real Musgrave, Marv Wolfman Sherwood Smith NOON FRIDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

FR1200CC-PAT10.A FR1200CC-R1VER.B Help! My Art Collection is All Flat! What Soldier, Sailor, Spacer, Spy: Military SF Else Can I Collect? CC River Sec. B • Noon-12:50PM CC Patio Sec. A • Noon-12:50PM Bill Baldwin*, Brian Burley, Tom Cool, David Feintuch, Peter F. |oy Marie Ledet, Claybum Moore, Jennie A. Roller* Hamilton, Elizabeth Moon, Diann Thornley FR1200RW-BONHAM FRI200CC-PAT10.B Let’s Get Graphic! Kaffeeklatch with David Cherry RW Bonham • Noon-12:50PM CC Patio Sec. B • Noon-12:50PM Small press your way to success with graphic novels Advance sign-up required. David A. Cherry* and fanzines Tim Corbett, Kaja Foglio, Jim Groat, Teddy Harvia*, FR1200RW-MILAM Phil Morrissey, David Lee Pancake, Edd Vick Kaffeeklatch with William Barton FR1200CC-PLAZA.A RW Milam • Noon-12:50PM Slide Show: Lost Wax Casting by Advance sign-up required Butch Honeck William Barton* CC Plaza Sec. A • Noon-12:50PM FRI200RW-VALERO Butefi Honeck* Kaffeeklatch with Roy Tackett RW Valero • Noon-12:50PM FR1200CC-RIVER.A When is Violence Unavoidable? Advance sign-up required Roy Tackett* CC River Sec. A • Noon-12:50PM What responsibility does the writer have? Wilhelmina Baird. Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Susan R. Matthews, Jack McDevitt, Mike Moscoe, G. David Nordley*. Gene Wolfe FRIDAY 1 .'00pm The Second Occasional LoneSlarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

; 1:00pm FR13OOCC-2O5 Challenges of Adapting Prose into Comics FR1300CC-I0I CC Room 205 • I 00PM-1:50PM Welcome to the Science Fiction Nea! Barrett. Jr, Robert Feldhoff, Phil Foglio. Kij lohnson, Rick Community - Making Connections. Klaw, Michael Moorcock, Michael A. Stackpole*. Marv Wolfman CC Room I0I • 1:00PM-1:50PM FRI300CC-206 Now that you’re here, here’s how to meet Native American Themes and Issues in people, get involved and learn to understand Science Fiction & Fantasy this eccentric community. There’s lots to do CC Room 206 • 1:00PM-1:50PM between conventions — find out what’s going. Martha A. Barter, George Guthridge, Susan I. Kroupa, Nina Benoit Girard, ]ohn Hertz, Laurie Mann. Henry Welch. Romberg, William Sanders*, Glenn R. Sixbury, K. D. Tom Whitmore Wentworth FR1300CC-202 FR1300CC-207 Showcase-Waiter Jon Williams Reading Nanotechnology Update CC Room 202 • 1:00PM-1:50PM CC Room 207 • 1:00PM-1:50PM Walter ]on Williams* The promise, problems and perils of the impending FRI3OOCC-2O3 nanotech revolution. Release that Child Within! Illustrate for ]ohn G. Cramer. Kathleen Ann Goonan*, the Next Generation Paul J. McAuley. Wil McCarthy, Dave Smeds, Malcolm B. Wood CC Room 203 • 1:00PM-1:50PM The growing juvenile art market. FR 1300CC-208 Sue Dawe, Kaja Foglio. Rea! Musgrave, Margaret Organ-Kean*, Showcase-Lois McMaster Bujold Ron Walotsky Reading CC Room 208 • 1:00PM-1 50PM Lois McMasler Bujold* 1 :00pm______| FRIDAY Tfte Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention 8- Chili Cook-Off

FRI300CC-209 FRI 300CC-FIESTA.B Artist Demo on Sculpy by Guest of Honor Interview: Algis Budrys David Lee Pancake CC Fiesta Sec. B • 1:00PM-2:50PM CC Room 209 • 1:00PM-1:50PM Algis Budrys*. Elizabeth Anne Hull David Lee Pancake* FRI 300CC-MISSION FRI3OOCC-2IO Reboot Previews with Len Wein State of the Art of Art CC Mission • 1:00PM-1:50PM CC Room 210*1:00PM-1:50PM Len Wein* Show and tell on the software and hardware you need, FR1300CC-PATIO.A where you can take it. and what you can do with it! Joe Bergeron. Angela tones, Bart Kemper, April Lee, Peggy Stamp Collecting CC Patio Sec. A • 1:00PM-1:50PM Ranson*. Barclay Shaw Laura Frankos FRI300CC-EXHIBIT Autographings FRI 300CC-PATIO.B CC Exhibit Hall • 1:00PM-1:50PM Showcase-Esther Friesner Reading Allan Cole, Tom Cool, Sheila Finch, lohn Maddox Roberts. CC Patio Sec. B • 1:00PM-1:50PM Amy Thomson. Harry Turtledove Esther Friesner*

FRI 300CC-FIESTA.A FR 1300CC-PLAZA.A When SF looks at the Culinary Arts, Slide Show: Art of Stephen Youll What Do We See? CC Plaza Sec. A • 1:00PM-1:50PM Stephen Youll* CC Fiesta Sec. A • 1:00PM-1 50PM Adrienne Gormley. Larry Niven. Patricia Duffy Novak. FR I 300CC-RIVER.A Mike Resnick* Recent Classic SF/F Novels CC River Sec. A • 1:00PM-1 50PM David G. Hartwell*. Patrick Nielsen Hayden FRIDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

FR1300CC-RIVER.B FR1400CC-204 20 Years of Luke, Han, Leia, and Showcase-Emma Bull Readingcc Room the Force 204 • 2:00PM-2:25PM CC River Sec. B • 1:00PM-1:50PM Emma Bull* A. C. Crispin, Patrick LoBrutto, Susan R. Matthews, FR1400CC-205 Rebecca Moesta, Martha Wells, Timothy Zahn* Technothrillers: Subset of SF or a new 2:00pm literary tradition? CC Room 205 • 2:00PM-2:50PM FRI400CC-101 Susan Allison, Kevin I Anderson, Bill Baldwin, Austin Bay*, Roy Tackett Roast Terence M. Green, Lois H. Gresh, Peter F. Hamilton Fan GoH Roy Tackett is put to the torch. FRI400CC-206

CC Room 101 • 2:00PM-2:50PM 1:00. Writing 102: Starting and Cultivating a Richard Brandt. Al Jackson, Fred Lerner, Roy Tacket, Writers’ Group lack Williamson CC Room 206 • 2:00PM-2:50PM FR1400CC-202 leanne Cavelos, Kij Johnson, David Marusek, FRIDAY Showcase-J. V. Jones Reading Mark L. Van Name*. Janies Van Pelt CC Room 202 • 2:00PM-2-.25PM FR1400CC-207 I V Jones* State of the Genre: Australian and Far East Science Fiction & Fantasy FR1400CC-203 CC Room 207 • 2:00PM-2:50PM Showcase-Dawn Dunn Reading Stephen Boucher, Yoshio Kobatashi*, S.P. Somtow CC Room 203 • 2:OOPM-2:25PM Dawn Dunn* FRJ400CC-208 Slide Show-Comet Hale-Bopp CC Room 208 • 2:00PM-2:50PM High Weirdness from Outer Space. Mark Bourne* 2:00pm| FRIDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

FR1400CC-209 Science fiction fandom gives major awards that can Artist Workshop on Life Drawing influence publishers and book buyers. Fans decide who CC Room 209 • 2:00PM-4:50PM is invited to be a convention guest of honor. Often these Advance sign-up required. decisions have less to do with how well you write, draw Margaret Organ-Kean* or edit than with how fannish you are. Top pros explain how to be a fan as well as a pro and why you should. FRI400CC-2I0 Moshe Feder, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Priscilla Olson, Bruce K) Showcase-Amy Thomson Reading Pelz*, Mike Resnick, Joe Siclari CC Room 210 • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM Amy Thomson* FRI400CC-MISSION FRIDAY Star Wolf TV Series Update FRI400CC-EXHIBIT CC Mission • 2:00PM-2:50PM Autographings David Gerrold* CC Exhibit Hall • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM

2:00i Gregory Benford, Frank Kelly Freas, Laura Brodian Freas, Rick FR I400CC-PATIO.A Klaw, lennifer Roberson, Wendy Wheeler The Astronomical Art Continuum What we're doing and what we want to do. Can we get FRI400CC-FIESTA.A there from here? Science Fiction Debate Resolved CC Patio Sec. A • 2:00PM-2:50PM CC Fiesta Sec. A • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM Mitchell Davidson Bentley*, Cat Conrad, Patricia Davis, lohn W. Campbell's consensus reality harmed modern Vincent Di Fate, Bob Eggleton, Ron Miller SF more than it helped. Ron Collins, lames Fiscus*, Paul Preuss FR I400CC-PATIO.B Paper Gaming: Best, Worst, Guilty FRI400CC-FIESTA.E Pleasures What Every Pro Should Know About CC Patio Sec. B • 2:00PM-2:50PM Fandom Wolfgang Baur, Greg Coslikyan, Richard Dansky, Steve CC Fiesta Sec. E • 2:00PM-2:50PM lackson, Allen Varney* FRIDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

FR1400CC-PLAZA.A Advance sign-up required. UFO’s: Is the truth out there? Edward Bryant* CC Plaza Sec. A • 2:0OPM-2:5OPM FR1400RW-TRAVIS Patricia Anthony*. Lionel Fanthorpe Literary Tea: Robert Sawyer’s Starplex FR1400CC-RIVER.A RW Travis • 2:00PM-3:50PM The Logical Cartography of Magical Discussing the Hugo-nominated novel Starplex. Systems Advance sign-up required. CC River Sec. A • 2:OOPM-2-.5OPM Robert |. Sawyer* Claire Eddy, Jane Fancher, Jason Henderson, Theodore Krulik, FR1400RW-VALERO Elise Matthesen*. Terry Pratchett Kaffeeklatch with Jack McDevitt RW Valero • 2:00PM-2:50PM

FR1400CC-RIVER.B 2:00, An Agent is to a Publisher as a Knife is Advance sign-up required. to the Throat Jack McDevitt* CC River Sec. B • 2:00PM-2:50PM 2:30Pn Lou Aronica, Joshua Bilmes, Ashley Grayson, David G. Hartwell, FRIDAY Donald Maass, Shawna McCarthy*, Linn Prentis FR1430CC-202 Showcase-Nina Kiriki Hoffman Reading FR1400RW-BONHAM CC Room 202 • 2:30PM-2:55PM Kaffeeklatch with Joe Haldeman Nina Kiriki Hoffman* RW Bonham • 2:00PM-2:50PM Advance sign-up required. FR1430CC-203 Joe Haldeman* Showcase-Crispin Burnham Reading CC Room 203 • 2:3OPM-2:55PM FR1400RW-MILAM Crispin Burnham* Kaffeeklatch with Edward Bryant RW Milam • 2:00PM-2:50PM 2:30pm I FRIDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention 8- Chili Cook-Off

FRI430CC-204 CC Room 205 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Showcase-John Gibbons Reading Uncle River, David M. Kushner*, Karen E. B. McCue, CC Room 204 • 2:3OPM-2:55PM Linn Prenlis John Gibbons* FRI500CC-206 | 3:00pm How to Be a First Time Novelist and Pull Down a Major Book Deal FR1500CC-101 CC Room 206 • 3:00PM-3:50PM What Makes a Fanzine: Hugo Nominees Mun/ Doria Russell* CC Room 101 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM

FRIDAY The editors of some of this year’s Hugo-nominated FRI500CC-207 fanzines — File 770, Mimosa, Nova Express. Tangent — Has Technology Given Art a New discuss their different visions of fan publishing. Image? Mike Glyer. Guy H. Lillian III, Dick Lynch,

CC Room 207 • 3:00PM-3:50PM 2:30, Nidi Lynch, Lawrence Person, David Truesdale Bill Child, Jaque Davison, Teddy Harvia, Butch Honeck, Angela Jones, Bart Kemper, Stephen Youll FR1500CC-202 Showcase-Glen Cook Reading FR1500CC-208 CC Room 202 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Slide Show on 51 Pegasi and its Glen Cook* Planetary System by Hal Clement CC Room 208 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM FR1500CC-204 Hal Clement* For Kids: Science Demo CC Room 204 • 3:00PM-3:50PM FR1500CC-CENTRO Laura I. Mixon* Channel Surfer’s Guide to the Galaxy CC Centro • 3:00PM-3:50PM FRI5OOCC-2O5 Meditation, Introspection, and the SF of Leslie Rotfi* Inner Space FRIDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

FR1500CC-EXHIBIT FR1500CC-PATIO.B Autographings Computer Gaming: Best, Worst, Guilty CC Exhibit Hall • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Pleasures K. B. Bogen, I V lones, John |. Kessel, Stanley Schmidt. CC Patio Sec. B • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Robert Silverberg, Martha Wells Loren Coleman. Jim Cooper*, Denis Loubel, Russ Williams, |. Steven York FRI 500CC-FIESTA.A What’s Baseball got to do with Science FR1500C.C-PLAZA.A Fiction & Fantasy? Slide Show: Art and On-Line Gallery CC Fiesta Sec. A • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM by Ctein Richard Gilliam, Pamela Hodgson, Leslie What, Ricfe Wilber* CC Plaza Sec. A • 3;OOPM-3:5OPM Ctein* FRI 500CC-FIESTA. B 3:00,

How to Torture, Maim, and Wound Your FR1500CC-RIVER.A Characters ROC Upcoming Releases with Laura CC Fiesta Sec. B • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Anne Gilman

Real people might not survive such treatment! CC River Sec. A • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM FRIDAY Lois McMaster Bujold, Elizabeth Moon, Vol Ranger*, Laura Anne Gilman* G. K. Sprinkle, Sage Walker FR1500CC-RIVER.B FR1500CC-PATIO.A Fantasy Debate The Urban Jungle CC River Sec. B • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM CC Patio Sec. A • 3:00PM-3:50PM Resolved: That I. R. R. Tolkein inhibited the Crime, race relations, & the welfare state in the development of modern fantasy. 21st century Lynn Abbey*, David Feintuch, Tim Powers Tasha Kelly, Fred Lerner, Sandy Stewart* 4:00pm I FRIDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

FRI600CC-205 4:00pm Pseudofantasy Westerns FRI600CC-I0I CC Room 205 • 4:00PM-4-.50PM Alternate WorldCons Kung Fu, Legend, Brisco Co. Jr, Wild Wild West, etc. CC Room 101 • 4:00PM-4:50PM Ginjer Buchanan, Scott A. Cupp, Thomas W. Knowles, Patrick Alternate Worldcons, a 1994 short story anthology edited LoBrutto*. lerrie Marchand, Herbie I. Pilato by Mike Resnick, was an enormous success for a small 04 FR1600CC-206 press book; so much that it inspired a sequel, published The Discipline Required for a Life in in a combined edition with the first collection by WC Books in 1996. In this panel, authors of Alternate the Arts Worldcons stories, many of them Worldcon chairmen, CC Room 206 • 4:00PM-4:50PM Suzy McKee Charnas, A.M. Dellamonica, Dawn Dunn, Dan talk about Worldcons — past, future, and never-never. Gallagher, Vera Nazarian* Mike Glyer, Tony Lewis, Bruce Pelz, Mike Resnick*, Dick Spelman, Tom Veal, Leah H. Zeldes FR1600CC-207 FR1600CC-202 Game Novels: The New Midlist Showcase-P N. Elrod Reading CC Room 207 • 4:00PM-4:50PM Writers who used to survive writing middling-popular CC Room 202 • 4:00PM-4:50PM sf and fantasy novels are now turning to P. N. Elrod* sharecropped stories based on game worlds. Why? FR1600CC-203 Game designers, coming from the other direction, are Showcase-John J. Kessel Reading using these game novels as entries into sf and fantasy. What do they bring to the field? Are these CC Room 203 • 4:00PM-4:50PM trends good, bad, or both? John |. Kessel* Aaron Allston, Bill Fawcett, Michael A. Stackpole* FR1600CC-204 For Kids: Storytime FRI600CC-208 CC Room 204 • 4:00PM-4:50PM Slide Show: Art of Sue Dawe Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids. CC Room 208 • 4:00PM-4 50PM David Sandner, Martha Soukup Sue Dawe* FRIDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

FR1600CC-210 An Endangered Species? Pediatric AIDS Auction by Fractures in CC Patio Sec. A • 4:0OPM-4:50PM Rhyme Organization Chris Logan Edwards, Greg Ketter, Willie Siros, Michael R. CC Room 210 • 4:00PM-5:50PM Walsh, Jacob Weisman. Tom Whitmore* Pick up some really cool art treasures and benefit FR1600CC-PATIO.B central Texas AIDS victims at the same time! Guest of Honor Interview: Don Maitz Lee Seed, Victoria White CC Patio Sec. B • 4:00PM-4:50PM FRI600CC-EXHIBIT Karen Haber, Don Maitz* Autographings FRI600CC-PLAZA.A CC Exhibit Hall • 4.00PM-4:50PM The Alien Autopsy Delores Goodrich Beggs. Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, CC Plaza Sec. A • 4:00PM-4:50PM

lack L. Chalker, Paul |. McAuley, Rebecca Moesta, Peggy Ranson 4:00.

What a real autopy of a dead alien found in a wrecked spacecraft would be like. FR1600CC-FIESTA.A Pat MacEiven* What Era Have You Done for Me Lately?

Historical Mysteries FR1600CC-R1VER.A FRIDAY CC Fiesta Sec. A • 4:00PM-4:50PM Europa: Our Last, Best Hope for What’s new in olde mystery? Finding Other Life in Our Solar System Carole Nelson Douglas, Moshe Feder*, Peter J. Heck, CC River Sec. A • 4:00PM-4:50PM John Maddox Roberts Suzanne Alles Blom*, Bill Higgins, Christopher McKitlerick, Charles S. Tritt FR1600CC-FIESTA.B SF Trivia Contest FR1600CC-RIVER.B CC Fiesta Sec. B • 4:00PM-4:50PM Art for the Movies, Rollercoasters, & More Mark Olson CC River Sec. B • 4:00PM-4:50PM When art really moves you and takes on a new medium! FR1600CC-PATIO.A Bob Eggleton, Real Musgrave, Barclay Shaw, Ron Walotsky, Specialty Bookstores: Marv Wolfman* 4:OOph| FRIDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

FR1600RC-GB CC Room 101 • 5:00PM-5:50PM Movie Previews with Jeff Walker Representatives of Bucconeer (Baltimore, 1998), RC Grand Ballroom • 4:00PM-5:20PM Aussiecon Three (Melbourne, Australia. 1999), and leff Walker any and all Worldcon bids to come. Peggy Rue Pavla t FR1600RW-M1LAM Kaffeeklatch with Patrick and Teresa FR1700CC-202 04 03 Nielsen Hayden Showcase-Katharine Eliska Kimbriel RW Milam • 4:00PM-4:50PM Beading Advance sign-up required. CC Room 202 • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM FRIDAY Patrick Nielsen Hayden. Teresa Nielsen Hayden* Katharine Eliska Kimbriel

FR1600RW-TRAVIS FR1700CC-203 Showcase-David Gerrold Reading

Literary Tea: Bruce Sterling’s Holy Fire 4:00. RW Travis • 4:00PM-5:50PM CC Room 203 • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM Discussing the Hugo-nominated novel Holy Fire. David Gerrold* Advance sign-up required. FR1700CC-205 Bruce Sterling* Writing 103: The Editorial Process FR1600RW-VALERO CC Room 205 • 5:00PM-5:50PM Kaffeeklatch with Bradley Denton Rejection, revision, and building writer/editor RW Valero • 4:00PM-4:50PM relationships Ginjer Buchanan*, leanne Cavelos, Randy Dannenfelser, David Advance sign-up required. Feintuch, Irene W. Kraus, Terry McGarry, G. K. Sprinkle Bradley Denton* FR1700CC-206 5:00pm Vampire Movies: The Continuing Tradition FR1700CC-I0I CC Room 206 • 5:OOPM-5-.5OPM The Future of Worldcon John L. Flynn FRIDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Cfiili Cook-Off

FR1700CC-207 FR1700CC-FIESTA.A Government’s Role in Space There’s Science Fiction in Comics? CC Room 207 • 5-.OOPM-5:5OPM Fantasy, too? Wow! Does government funding accelerate or retard our CC Fiesta Sec. A • 5 00PM-5:50PM space occupation? Mark Fewell, Rich Klaiv, Phil Morrissey*, Gregory Bennett. Michael F. Flynn, Karen Mermel, lerry Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Madeleine E. Robins Pournelle, Allen Steele* FRI700CC-FIESTA.B FRI700CC-208 Feminism: Did You Think We Were Showcase: Phil and Kaja’s Fabulous Finished? Slide Show CC Fiesta Sec. B • 5:00PM-5:50PM CC Room 208 • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM Rob Chilson, Ron Miller. Mary Rosenblum*,

Kaja Foglio, Phil Foglio* 5:00,

Martha Soukup, Sean Slewart, K. D. Wentworth

FRI700CC-CENTRO FR1700CC-PATIO.A You Want to do WHAT with My Genes? Interview: Michael A. Stackpole

CC Centro • 5:00PM-5:50PM CC Patio Sec. A • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM FRIDAY What good and bad can come of genome editing. Michael A. Stackpole, Allen Varney* William Michael Brown, Anne Lesley Groell, lohn G. McDaid, Robert). Sawyer*, Susan Smith, Edwin FRI700CC-PATIO.B Strickland. Melanie von Orlow Testament of the Dickheads CC Patio Sec. B • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM FRI700CC-EXHIBIT Does winning the Philip K. Dick Award help your Autographings career? CC Exhibit Hall • 5:00PM-5:50PM Stephen Baxter, Paul J. McAuley, Ian McDonald*, Aaron Allston, Patricia Anthony, Bill Crider, Scott A. Cupp. Tim Powers Carole Nelson Douglas, Michael Moorcock 5:00pm______| FRIDAY Tfte Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

FR1700CC-PLAZA.A i 6:30pm Slide Show: Art of Vincent Di Fate CC Plaza Sec. A • 5:00PM-5:50PM FRI830CC-203 Vincent Di Fate* Showcase-Gene O’Neill Reading CC Room 203 6:30PM-6:55PM FR1700CC-RIVER.A Gene O'Neill* This Isn’t Your Species’ Intelligence CC River Sec. A • 5:00PM-5:50PM 7:00pm Would we recognize an artificial or alien intelligence? Wilhelmina Baird*, Lois H. Gresh, fames Patrick Kelly, Wil FRI900RC-II FRIDAY McCarthy, Amy Thomson, Sarah Zettel Jewish Services RC Room 11 • 7:00PM-8:50PM FR1700CC-RIVER.B The Future of Liberty 8:00pm

5:00. CC River Sec. B • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM FR2000CC-CENTRO Arlan Andrews, Sr.*. Howard V. Hendrix, Brad Linaweaver, lack McDevitt. Victor C. Milan, Susan M. Shwartz, Gene Wolfe Chesley Awards CC Centro • 8:00PM-8:50PM i 6:00pm David A. Cherry*, fanny Wurts

FRI800CC-203 [ 9:00pm Showcase-Jerry Oltion Reading FR2100ART SHOW CC Room 203 • 6:00PM-6:25PM Art Reception ferry Oltion* 9:0QPM-10:50PM FRI 800CC-PAT1O.B David A. Cherry, Teresa Patterson*, fanny Wurts Showcase-Hayford Peirce Reading CC Patio Sec. B • 6:00PM-6:50PM Hayford Peirce* SATURDAY 8:00am Tfie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Cftili Cook-Off SATURDAY

SAOOOIRW-ALAMO.C SA0900RC-11 Open Gaming Jewish Services RW Alamo Ballroom Sec. C • I2:OIAM-11:51PM RC Room 1 1 • 9:00AM-10:50AM Play any game you want to bring — cards, roleplaying games, boardgames. And be sure to look in on I 10:00am continuous demonstrations of the new Portal SA1000CC-202 introductory set for Magic: The Gathering (run by Showcase-Theodore Krulik Reading Wizards of the Coast) and the Middle-Earth trading CC Room 202 • 10:00AM-10:50AM card game (Iron Crown Enterprises). Theodore Krulik* 8:00am SA1000CC-203 SSA0800RC-12 For Kids: Care and Feeding of Continental Science Fiction Stuffed Animals Association Meeting CC Room 203 • 10:00AM-10:50AM RC Room 12 • 8:00AM-9:50AM Gerri Balter*, Craig Miller, Debbi Schouten Robert E. Sacks* SA1000CC-204 8:00. 9:00am For Kids: Storytime CC Room 204 • 10:00AM-10:50AM SA0900CC-RIVER.A Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids. Local Teachers lack McDevitt, Jody Lynn Nye CC River Sec. A • 9:00AM-10:50AM Gregory Benford, David Brin* SATURDAY 10:00am| SATURDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SAI00OCC-205 CC Room 210 • 10:00AM-11:50AM Showcase-C. Dean Andersson Teddy Harvia*

Reading SA1000CC-CENTRO CC Room 205 • 10:00AM-10:50AM Sometimes the Bear Eats You C. Dean Andersson* CC Centro • 10:00AM-10:50AM SA1000CC-206 Gonzo Texas mystery writers claimed by SF Ethics in SF: Activism—Every Action is Nea/ Barrett. Jr, Bill Crider*. Scott A. Cupp. a Political Action Joe Lansdale, Ben Ostrander CC Room 206 • 10:00AM-10:50AM SAI000CC-EXHIB1T Martha A. Barter, |. R. Dunn*, Beverly A. Hale, Autographings lay Kay Klein. Bradford Lyau. Victoria White CC Exhibit Hall • 10:00AM-10:50AM SA1000CC-207 John DeChancie, Lynn Flewelling, George Guthridge, Peter F. Perry Rhodan Returns Hamilton, Kim Stanley Robinson, Sharon Shinn. Allen Steele CC Room 207 • 10:00AM-10:50AM SA1000CC-FIESTA.A Robert Feldhoff, John Foyt*, Klaus N. Frick, The Call of the Great Unknown Eckhard Schwettmann CC Fiesta Sec. A • 10:00AM-10:50AM SA1000CC-208 Why we are compelled to explore space Writing 104: Do You Really Need an Stephen Baxter*, William Hartman, Alexis Glynn Latner, Karen Mermel. Larry Niven. Sarah Zettel Agent? How to Find a Good One. CC Room 208 • 10:00AM-10:50AM SAI000CC-FIESTA.B Lucienne Diver, Marianne |. Dyson. Ashley Grayson, Cloning: Hoary old SF Cliche, or Hot Irene W. Kraas*. Donald Maass Topic of the Year? CC Fiesta Sec. B • 10:00AM-10:50AM SAI000CC-2I0 Delores Goodrick Beggs. D. E. Dabbs. Terence M. Green. Artist Workshop on Cartooning G. David Nordley*. S. M. Stirling. Denise Vitola SATURDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SA1000CC-FIESTA.E SA1000CC-RIVER.B WSFS Main Business Meeting 1 30 Years of the Trek dynasty CC Fiesta Sec. E • IO:OOAM-11:50AM CC River Sec. B • 10:00AM-10:50AM Open to all convention members. Lillian Stewart Carl, David Gerrold, Barbara Hambly, Doh Eastlake III*, Zanne Labonville, Kevin Standlee Capucine R. Plourde. Josepha Sherman, Susan M. Shwartz, Dean Wesley Smith* SAIOOOCC-MISSION Virtual Reality Tour of the Solar System SA1000RC-13 CC Mission • 10:00AM-10:50AM Friends of Bill MuSe Technology and NASA co-produced this RCRoom 13 • 10:00AM-10:50AM spacecraft intercept with a comet. Arlan Andrews, Sr. SA1000RW-BONHAM Kaffeeklatch with Ian McDonald SA1000CC-PATIO.A RW Bonham • 10:00AM-10:50AM Showcase-Vera Nazarian Reading Advance sign-up required. CC Patio Sec. A • 10:00AM-10:25AM Ian McDonald* Vera Nazarian* SA 1000RW-CROCKETT SAIOOOCC-PATIO.B Timebinders Interviews Showcase-Anne Lesley Groell Reading RW Crockett • 10:00AM-11:50AM CC Patio Sec. B • 10:00AM-10:50AM Dave Kyle* Anne Lesley Groell* SA1000RW-MILAM SAI000CC-PLAZA.A Kaffeeklatch with Mary Rosenblum The Business of Art RW Milam • 10:00AM-10:50AM CC Plaza Sec. A • 10:00AM-10:50AM Advance sign-up required. Getting more mileage out of your art and your deductions Mary Rosenblum*

Wayne Barlowe. Rachel E. Ho/nten, loy Marie Ledet. Denise SATURDAY Salter, Lee Seed, Ron Walotsky*, fanny Warts 10:00am| SATURDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SA I000RW-VALERO SAI I00CC-205 Kaffeeklatch with Robert Reed Why research is as Essential to RW Valero • 10:00AM-10:50AM Fantasy as to Science Fiction Advance sign-up required. CC Room 205 • 11:00AM-11:50AM Robert Reed* Lynn Abbey. Adrienne Gormley, I V Jones. Patricia Duffy Novafc, Madeleine E. Robins, Susan M. Shwartz*

SAI 100CC-206 SAI030CC-PATIO.A Self-Promotion of Your Art Showcase-Richard Parks Reading CC Room 206 • 11:00AM-12:50PM CC Patio Sec. A • 10:30AM-10:55AM Muff Musgrave*, Real Musgrave Richard Parks* SAI 100CC-207 Defending our Planet—From What? SAI IOOCC-2O2 CC Room 207 • 11:00AM-11:50AM Showcase-James Allen Gardner Reading Tom Cool*, David Feintuch, lay Lake, lack McDevitt, Jerry Pournelle CC Room 202 • 11:00AM-11:25AM lames Alan Gardner* SAI I00CC-208 SAI IOOCC-2O3 Showcase-Connie Willis Reading Showcase-Caroline Spector Reading CC Room 208 • 11:00AM-11:50AM CC Room 203 • 1 1:00AM-11:25AM Connie Willis* Caroline Spector* SAH00CC-209 SAI I00CC-204 Artist Workshop: Plaster Casting Above For Kids: Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts the Neck and other great songs CC Room 209 • 11:00AM-I2:5OPM CC Room 204 • 11:00AM-11:50AM Advance sign-up required. Josepha Sherman, Toni Weisskopf* Leslie What* SATURDAY Tfie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention 8 Chili Cook-Off

SAI IOOCC-CENTRO SAI I00CC-PATIO.A Mars Direct: Mounting the Human Rising stars: Meet the Campbell Award Expedition Nominees CC Centro • 11:00AM-11:50AM CC Patio Sec. A • I 1:00AM-1 1:50AM Robert Zubrin* Richard Garfinkle, David G. Hartwell*. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Katya Reimann. Stanley Schmidt. Sharon Shinn SAI I00CC-EXHIBIT Autographings SAI I00CC-PATIO.B CC Exhibit Hall • 11:00AM-11:50AM Showcase-Kirn Stanley Robinson leanne Cavelos. I. R. Dunn, Terence M. Green. Reading Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith. Gene Wolfe CC Patio Sec. B • 11:00AM-11:25AM Kim Stanley Robinson* SAI I00CC-FIESTA.A SFWA Meeting SAI 100CC-PLAZA.A CC Fiesta Sec. A • 11:00AM-12:50PM Venus Re-Armed & Dangerous Members only. CC Plaza Sec. A • 11:00AM-11:50AM Robin Wayne Bailey. Michael Capobianco*. A. C. Crispin. Xena, Buffy, La Femme Nikita, Scully George R. R. Martin. John J. Milter, M. C. Valada Emma Bull, Ru Emerson, Jennifer Roberson. S. M. Stirling. K. D. Wentworth* SAI I00CC-FIESTA.B High Tech, Live Music, and Weird SAI 100CC-RIVER COURT

Modern fantasy 11:00, For Kids: Solar Telescope Austin is the nation's slipstream capitol CC River Court • 11 00AM-11:50AM CC Fiesta Sec. B • 11:00AM-11:50AM Joe Bergeron* Bradley Denton, William Browning Spencer. Bruce Sterling. Don Webb* SATURDAY SATURDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SAI 100CC-RIVER.A NOON I Fought the Art Director and the Art Director Won: Covers I’d Like to Redo. SAI200CC-I0I CC River Sec. A • 11:00AM-11:50AM Welcome to the Science Fiction Vincent Di Fate*, Bob Eggleton, Elizabeth Garrolt, Tom Kidd, Community: Enjoying the WorldCon Lucy A. Synk, Stephen Youll An orientation seminar on the background of the World Science Fiction Convention and tips on making SAI 100CC-RIVER.B the most of the con. Intellectual Property Rights: Print CC Room 101 • Noon-12:50PM Alyson Abramowitz, Moshe Feder, Perrianne Lurie. Lori Meltzer, CC River Sec. B • 11:00AM-11:50AM Pat Sims Ctein, Lou Aronica, David A. Cherry, Nick DiChario, Steven Gould, K. W. Jeter, lames Killus* SA1200CC-202 Showcase-Kate Daniel Reading 11:30»» CC Room 202 • Noon-12:25PM Kok’ Daniel* SA1130CC-202 Showcase-Brenda Clough Reading SAI200CC-203 CC Room 202 • 11:30AM-11:55AM

SATURDAY Showcase-Rick Wilber Reading Brenda W. Clough* CC Room 203 • Noon-12:25PM Rick Wilber* SAI 13OCC-2O3 Showcase-Diann Thornley Reading SAI2OOCC-2O5 CC Room 203 • 11:30AM-1 1:55AM Ursa Major Brown Bag Book Auction

11:00, Diann Thornley* CC Room 205 • Noon-1:50PM Judith Ward* SATURDAY ______NOON The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SAI200CC-207 SA1200CC-EXHIBIT How to Snare Mainstream Readers in Autographings the Age of Bookstore Chains CC Exhibit Hall • Noon-12:50PM CC Room 207 • Noon-I2:50PM Stephen Baxter, Bob Eggleton, Robert Feldhoff, Tim Powers, Patricia Anthony. Joshua Bilmes*. John R. Douglas Terry Pratchett, Ron Walotsky

SAI200CC-208 SAI200CC-PAT1O.A For Kids: Where in the Universe are we? Showcase-Linda Nagata Reading CC Room 208 • Noon-12:50PM Send a message to Mars and lupiter. Tour our part of the CC Patio Sec. A • Noon-12:25PM Orion Arm. Become a star in the Big Dipper and stretch a Linda Nagata* string to Andromeda. At least 10 young volunteers needed from the audience. SA1200CC-PATIO.B Marianne |. Dyson* Showcase-David Sandner Reading CC Patio Sec. B • Noon-12:25PM SAI200CC-210 Sandner* Artist Workshop on Pen and Ink Do vid CC Room 210 • Noon-1:50PM SA1200CC-PLAZA.A Pen and ink is not all black and white. Come learn from our award-winning cover artist. Advance sign-up Slide Show: Art of Janny Wurts required. CC Plaza Sec. A • Noon-12.50PM Brad W. Foster* Janny Wurls* NOON

SAI200CC-CENTRO SA1200CC-RIVER.A Is SF Relevant Any More? Was it Ever? Ethics in SF: Who Counts as Human? CC Centro • Noon-12:50PM CC River Sec. A • Noon-12:50PM Gregory Benford. Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Ginjer Uncle River*. William Barton, Pat Cadigan, D. E. Dabbs. Buchanan*, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Tasfia Kelly. Betsy Mitchell, Richard Parks, Walter Ion Williams Mi fee Moscoe SATURDAY SATURDAY T/ie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SA1200CC-RIVER.B SAI230CC-203 Art Rises to a Higher Dimension Showcase-Michael Swanwick Reading CC River Sec. B • Noon-12:50PM CC Room 203 • 12:30PM-12:55PM How the spirit moves us within our happy medium. Michael Swan wick* Mitchell Davidson Bentley*, Keith Birdsong, Erin McKee, Ellisa Mitchell, Jennie A. Roller, Lisa Snellings SA1230CC-PATIO.A Showcase-Bill Crider Reading SA1200RC-GB CC Patio Sec. A • 12:30PM-12.55PM Babylon 5 Previews Bill Crider* RC Grand Ballroom • Noon-1:50PM |. Michael Straczynski* 1:00pm

SA1200RW-BONHAM SAI300C^Bl Kaffeeklatch with Larry Niven Welcome to the Science Fiction Advance sign-up required. Community: Making Connections RW Bonham • Noon-12:50PM CC Room 10I • L00PM-1:50PM Larry Niven* Now that you’re here, here’s how to meet people, get SAI200RW-VALERO involved and learn to understand this eccentric community. There's lots to do between conventions SATURDAY Kaffeeklatch with Sean Stewart RW Valero • Noon-12:50PM — find out what’s going on during this seminar. Advance sign-up required. Tom Feller, Guy H. Lillian III, Dick Lynch. Andrew I. Porter, Sean Stewart* Edie Stern

12:30am SAI300CC-202

NOON Showcase-Carrie Richerson Reading SAI230CC-202 CC Room 202 • 1:00PM-1:50PM Showcase-Kij Johnson Reading Carrie Richerson* CC Room 202 • 12:30PM-12:55PM Ki/ Johnson* SATURDAY I 1 ‘00pm The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SA13OOCC-2O3 SA1300CC-209 Showcase-Victor C. Milan Reading Artist Workshop on Oil Painting CC Room 203 • 1:00PM-1:50PM CC Room 209 • 1:00PM-5:50PM Victor C. Milan* Glowing techniques by an award-winning cover artist. Advance sign-up required. SA1300CC-204 Kevin Murphy* For Kids: Creative Writing CC Room 204 • 1:00PM-1:50PM SA1300CC-CENTRO Christopher McKitterick, Vol Ranger Dracula: The 100th anniversary CC Centro • 1:00PM-1:50PM SAI300CC-206 Bram Stoker's novel has been in print continuously for Artists Caught in the Net! a century. CC Room 206 • 1:00PM-1:50PM K. B. Bogen, Crispin Burnham, Suzy McKee Charnas, Web crawling among the tricks, traps, and treasures Roxanne Conrad, P. N. Elrod, Kim Newman*, with Uncle Sam, God, and everyone. Caroline Spector Ctein, lael, April Lee, Laura Majerus, Margaret Organ-Kean, Peggy Ranson*. Stephen Youll SAI 300CC-EXHIBIT Autographings SA1300CC-207 CC Exhibit Hall • 1:00PM-1:50PM Friends Don’t Let Friends Start Linda Nagata, lody Lynn Nye, Katya Reimann, Magazines Mary Doria Russell. John Sleakley. Susan Wade CC Room 207 • 1:00PM-1:50PM Kent Brewster, Algis Budrys, Craig E. Engler*, Ken |en£s, SAI 300CC-FIESTA.A Charles C. Ryan, Ian Randal Strock. David Truesdale Upcoming Bantam Releases with Pat LoBrutto SA1300CC-208 CC Fiesta Sec. A • 1:00PM-1 50PM Showcase-Jack Williamson Reading Anne Lesley Groell, Patrick LoBrutto* CC Room 208 • 1:00PM-1:50PM lack Williamson* 1:00pm SATURDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SAI 300CC-FIESTA.B SAI300CC-RIVER.B How the Heck Did We Find Mare Rocks Restructuring the Family on Earth? Or Did We? CC River Sec. B • 1:00PM-1:50PM CC Fiesta Sec B • 1:00PM-1:50PM A M. Dellamonica, Steven Gould, lames Patrick Kelly. Sandra C. Morrese, Robert). Sawyer* Elizabeth Moon*, Robert Reed, Nina Romberg

SAI 300CC-PATIO.A 2:00pm Showcase-lan McDonald Reading CC Patio Sec. A • 1:00PM-1:50PM SAI400CC-I01 lan McDonald* How to Run Better Conventions CC Room 101 • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM SAI 300CC-PATIO. B As local conventions proliferate across the country, they Why We’re Addicted to Patrick O’Brien become increasingly insular, uneventful, unfocused and CC Patio Sec. B • 1:00PM-1:50PM dull. Frequent congoers and conrunners discuss how to Fred Duarte, Susan M. Shwartz*, S. M. Stirling put more zip into your local con, attract Traveling Hants and make your con stand out from the herd. SAI 300CC-PLAZA.A CD Judy Beniis, Sue Francis. Mark Olson. Spike Parsons*. Dick O After the Takeover: How will Hong Kong Spelman Fare Under Chinese Rule? CC Plaza Sec. A • 1:00PM-1:50PM SAI400CC-202 Brenda W. Clough*. Lawrence Person. Bruce’ Sterling Showcase-Arlan Andrews, Sr., Reading CC Room 202 • 2:00PM-2:50PM SAI 300CC-RIVER.A Arlan Andrews, Sr.’ National Space Society Forum CC River Sec. A • 1:00PM-1:50PM SAI400CC-203 NSS leaders discuss the next human mission after the Showcase-Catherine Asaro Reading space station: the Moon, Mars, or something else? CC Room 203 • 2:00PM-2:50PM Marianne I. Dyson*, Karon Mermel, lohn Strickland, Catherine Asaro* Robert Zubrin SATURDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SAI400CC-204 He’s Done for SF Already! For Kids: Storytime CC Room 208 • 2-.00PM-2:50PM CC Room 204 • 2:00PM-2:50PM Richard Chwedyk, Howard L. Davidson*, William Hartman. Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids Sonia Orin Lyris. Richard Parks. Carol Redfield attending the con. Terry Boren. Bill Crider SAI400CC-210 Artist Workshop: SAI400CC-205 Painting Critique and Analysis Angels and Avatars CC Room 210 • 2:O0PM-3:5OPM CC Room 205 • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM Can this painting be saved? Bring in your best or a Patricia Anthony, Pat Cadigan. Paul I. McAuley, work in progress for an honest academic critique from Robert Silverberg, Sean Stewart’" a master. Advance sign-up required. Vincent Di Fate* SAI400CC-206 State of the Genre: North American SA1400CC-CENTRO Science Fiction and Fantasy Environmental Imperialism: Terraforming CC Room 206 • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM other Planets lohn R. Douglas*. Terence M. Green. Robert I. Sawyer CC Centro • 2:00PM-2:50PM Wilhelmina Baird. George Gulhridge. Laura I. Mixon*, SAI400CC-207 Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl. Kim Stanley Robinson Must a Lead Character be Likable?

CC Room 207 • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM SA1400CC-EXHIBIT 2:00,

The dark hero in fantasy and science fiction Autographings Bradley Denton. David Feintuch*. lohn I. Kessel, |.E Lange. Jr., CC Exhibit Hall • 2:00PM-2:50PM Michael Swanwick. Walter Ion Williams terry Oltion. Paul Preuss, Mike Resnick, Dave Smeds. S P. Somtoiv, Mel. White SAI400CC-208

Hal is Seven Months Old. Look What SATURDAY SATURDAY W Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SAI400CC-FIESTA.A SA1400CC-PLAZA.A Regional Horror Texas Style Slide Show: Art of Real Musgrave CC Fiesta Sec. A • 2:00PM-2:50PM CC Plaza Sec. A • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM C. Dean Andersson, Roxanne Conrad, Scott A. Cupp*. Muff Musgrave, Real Musgrave* Carrie Richerson, Nina Romberg, William Browning Spencer, SA1400CC-RIVER.A Don Webb Tumbling Dice: State of the Gaming SAI400CC-FIESTA.B Industry Genre, Gender, Identity, and Sex CC River Sec. A • 2:OOPM-3:5OPM CC Fiesta Sec. B • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM Industry professionals discuss a tumultuous year in the How sf explores gender as a social construct, a computer and paper gaming hobbies. What happened, construct which is often functionally a fetish. Gender why. and what lies ahead? does not equal sex. Examples: Melissa Scott's Shadow Wolfgang Baur, Steve Jackson, Warren Spector. Man and LeGuin's Left Hand of Darkness Michael A. Slackpole. Allen Varney* Ctein, joe Agee, lames Alan Gardner, Elise Matlhesen*. Mary Rosenblum, Wendy Wheeler, M. D. Williams SAI400CC-RIVER.B

(ji Upcoming Avon Releases with Lou N) SAI400CC-FIESTA.E Aronica Access To Space: An Update CC River Sec. B • 2:00PM-2:50PM SATURDAY CC Fiesta Sec. E • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM Lou Aronica* Gregory Benford. Michael F. Flynn, Rick Kolker, Wil McCarthy*, jerry Pournelle SAI400RW-BONHAM Kaffeeklatch with Marv Wolfman SAI400CC-PATIO.A RW Bonham • 2:OOPM-2:50PM

TAFF/DUFF Auction 2:00, Advance sign-up required. CC Patio Sec. A • 2:00PM-3:50PM Marv Wolfman* I Murray, Pat Sims. Roger Sims. Dan Sleffan* SATURDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SAI400RW-MILAM numbers in the 1970s. Before that time the women Kaffeeklatch with Laura Frankos and active in their own right were rare. A few of those still Harry Turtledove active talk about how it was then. RW Milam • 2:00PM-2:50PM Martha Beck. Ginjer Buchanan*. loanneWood Advance sign-up required. SAI500CC-202 Laura Frankos. Harry Turtledove* Showcase-Glenn R. Sixbury Reading SAI400RW-TRAVIS CC Room 202 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Literary Tea: Elizabeth Moon’s Remnant Glenn R. Sixbury* Population SA1500CC-203 RW Travis • 2:00PM-3:50PM For Kids: Creative Writing Discussing the Hugo-nominated novel Remnant CC Room 203 • 3:00PM-3.-50PM Population. Advance sign-up required. Tippi Blevins. Toni Weisskopf A. T. Campbell III*. Elizabeth Moon SAI500CC-204 SAI400RW-VALERO For Kids: Storytime Kaffeeklatch with CC Room 204 • 3:00PM-3:50PM to James Patrick Kelly Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids. RW Valero • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM loe Bergeron. Kate Daniel Advance sign-up required. lames Patrick Kelly* SAI500CC-205 2:00, Alternate Space! 3:00pm CC Room 205 • 3:O0PM-3:5OPM SAI500CC-I0I The history of the space program in alternate universes Famous Femmefen of the 1960s Stephen Baxter. Michael F. Flynn. Richard Garfinkle. Evelyn C. Leeper. Stanley Schmidt. Allen Steele, lohn E. Stith* CC Room I01 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Women first began entering fandom in appreciable SATURDAY SATURDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SAI 500CC-206 Gardner Dozois, P. N. Elrod. George R. R. Martin. International Space Station K. D. Wentworth* CC Room 206 • 3:0OPM-3:50PM SAI500CC-FIESTA.B Gregory Bennett. Marianne I. Dysow*, Al lackson, Rid Kolker, Ian Randal Strock Spin-Offs From Classic SF & F Novels CC Fiesta Sec. B • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM SAI 500CC-207 Roger MacBride Allen. Kevin |. Anderson*, Robin Wayne Bailey, Showcase-Edward Bryant Reading Gregory Benford, K. W. \eter, John Maddox Roberts CC Room 207 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM SAI 500CC-FIESTA.E Edward Bryant* Russian History: A Story Idea Goldmine SAI500CC-208 CC Fiesta Sec. E • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Artists’ Seminar: Developing Your Image Lu&ov. C. I. Cherryh, Allan Cole*. Nicfe Perumov. and Negotiating Your Value losepha Sherman CC Room 208 • 3:00PM-3:50PM SAI 500CC-PATIO.B Howard Frank, lane Frank* Coffeepot Auction for Musgrave SAI 500CC-EXHIB1T Scholarship Autographings CC Patio Sec. B • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM SATURDAY CC Exhibit Hall • 3:OOPM-3-.5OPM Mitchell Davidson Bentley*. Cat Conrad. Brad W. Foster, Austin Bay, David Brin. Wil McCarthy, Frederik Pohl, Real Musgrave Martha Soukup, B. J. Thrower, Ricfe Wilber SAI500CC-PLAZA.A SAI 500CC-FIESTA. A Slide Show: Art of Frank Kelly Freas

Should I Sleep with The Editor? and Laura Brodian Freas 3:00, CC Fiesta Sec. A • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM CC Plaza Sec. A • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM See what advice these experienced writers have for Frank Kelly Freas*. Laura Brodian Freas newcomers to the field. You’ll be astonished! SATURDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SAI500CC-RIVER.B CC Room 206 • 4:00PM-4:50PM Selling SF and Fantasy to Hollywood Andy Duncan, Janice Eisen. Norm Hartman, David G. CC River Sec. B • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Hartwell, Peter 1. Hecfc, Farran Miller* Steve Antczak, Joe Lansdale, Mary Doria Russell, John Steakley* SA1600CC-207 4:00pm Showcase-William Browning Spencer Beading SAI600CC-I01 CC Room 207 • 4:00PM-4:25PM New Fandom William Browning Spencer* This derisive title was bestowed on some faneds for being unfannishly "nice". Are they? SA1600CC-208 CC Room 101 • 4:00PM-4:50PM Showcase-Robert J. Sawyer Reading Alexander Bouchard, Tom Feller, Benoit Girard, Mike Glyer*. CC Room 208 • 4:00PM-4.50PM Alex Slate. Henry Welch Robert J.- Sawyer*

SAI600CC-202 SAI600CC-2I0 State of the Genre: Latin American SF The Art of Editing Art: What Art in CC Room 202 • 4:00PM-4:50PM Directors Do Roger MacBride Allen*, Patricia Anthony. Charles N. Brown. CC Room 210 • 4:00PM-4:50PM Don Webb Wayne Barlowe. Algis Budrys*. Elizabeth Garrott. Rachel E. Holmen, Stephen Youll SA1600CC-205 3:00. How to Live with a Writer SAI600CC-CENTRO CC Room 205 • 4:00PM-4:50PM Pirates of Fenzance Edna Budrys, Roxanne Conrad. Denis Loubet, Linda Moorcock. CC Centro • 4:00PM-4:50PM Courtney Willis Bucconeer committee tribute (?) to Gilbert & Sullivan Peggy Rae Pavlat * SAI600CC-206 SATURDAY The Value of Literary Criticism 4:00pm| SATURDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SAI600CC-EXHIBIT SAI600CC-PLAZA.A Autographings Slide Show and Multi-Media Video of CC Exhibit Hall • 4:00PM-4:50PM the Art of Lisa Snellings Alexis A. Gilliland. Louise Marley, G. David Nordley, CC Plaza Sec. A • 4:00PM-4:50PM Mark W. Tiedemann, Sage Walker, lack Williamson Lisa Snellings* SAI600CC-RIVER.A SAI600CC-FIESTA.B Why We’re Addicted to MST3K Worldbuilding CC River Sec. A • 4-.00PM-4:50PM CC Fiesta Sec. B • 4:00PM-4:50PM Laura Anne Gilman*, Anne Lesley Groell, Robert Silverberg, Aaron Allston, Scott A. Cupp, Brad W. Foster. Warren Spector, Bradley H. Sinor, Walter Ion Williams, Sarah Zettel Martha Wells* SAI600CC-RIVER.B SAI600CC-PATIO.A Demo of Life Support Systems for Mars I Used to Write Games, but I Got Better or the Moon CC Patio Sec. A • 4:00PM-4:50PM CC River Sec. B • 4:00PM-4:50PM U1 Now they write novels, but they still remember their Karen Meyers* early days toiling in the game industry—or do they? SAI600RW-BONHAM SATURDAY Greg Costikyan*. Michael A. Stackpole Kaffeeklatch with Michael Swanwick SAI600CC-PATIO.B RW Bonham • 4:OOPM-4:50PM Breaking In: A Writing Seminar for Advance sign-up required. Beginners Michael Swanwick* CC Patio Sec. B • 4:00PM-4;50PM SAI600RW-CROCKETT 4:00, Donald Maass’ Timebinders Interviews RW Crockett • 4:00PM-5:50PM lay Kay Klein* SATURDAY ______4:00pm The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SAI600RW-MILAM 5:00pm Kaffeeklatch with Don Maitz and Janny Wurts SAI700CC-I0I RW Milam • 4:00PM-4:50PM Big European Cons Advance sign-up required. CC Room 101 • 5:00PM-5:50PM Don Maitz, fanny Wurts* Recent efforts to organize Worldcon committees in SA1600RW-TRAV1S Europe have led to discussion of holding other "Big Literary Tea: Kim Stanley Robinson’s European Cons" which might unify Eurofandom or Blue Mars provide an outlet for conrunning evergies. Can RW Travis • 4:00PM-5:50PM Eurofandom come together, or will it remain just talk? Discussing the Hugo-nominated novel Blue Mars. Stephen Boucher Advance sign-up required. lim Mann*, Kim Stanley Robinson* SAI700CC-203 Showcase-S. M. Stirling Reading SA1600RW-VALERO CC Room 203 • 5:00PM-5:50PM Kaffeeklatch with Emma Bull and S. M. Stirling* Will Shetterly in SA1700CC-204 RW Valero • 4:00PM-4:50PM For Kids: Storytime Advance sign-up required. CC Room 204 • 5:00PM-5:50PM Emma Bull, Will Shetterly*

Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids 4:00, attending the con. 4:30pm Tippi Blevins. Sue Dawe

SA1630CC-207 SAI700CC-205 Showcase-Susan Wade Reading X-Rated Comics: Where’s the Good Stuff? CC Room 207 • 4:30PM-4:55PM CC Room 205 • 5:00PM-5:50PM SATURDAY Susan Wade* Phil Foglio*. Brad W. Foster, lofin |. Miller, Edd Mick 5:00pm SATURDAY Tfie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SA1700CC-206 SAI700CC-CENTRO Everything Goes Alternative. Including Favorite Authors: Inspirations and Art and Art Markets Pleasure Reads CC Room 206 • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM CC Centro • 5:00PM-5:50PM Ctein*. Patricia Davis. Bob Eggleton. \oy Marie Ledet, E. Susan Baugh*, Andy Duncan. Eileen Gunn, Amy Thomson. Clayburn Moore, Muff Musgrave Andrew C. Wheeler

SAI700CC-207 Working in the Game Industry SAI700CC-EXHIBIT CC Room 207 • 5-.OOPM-5:5OPM Autographings Your standard "how to break into gaming" panel. CC Exhibit Hall • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM Wolfgang Baur, Loren Coleman. Dave Howell. Steve lackson, Lynn Abbey, Suzy McKee Charnas, David Gerrold. Katharine Denis Loubet* Elisha Kimbriel, William Browning Spencer

SAI700CC-208 SA1700CC-FIESTA.A Slides and Update on the Galileo Writing 105: Dealing with Fans

SAI700CC-2I0 The Inner Children’s Hour: How Fairy Nova Express: 10 Years of the Texas Tales Shape Us Fanzine That Walks Like a Semi-Prozine CC Fiesta Sec. B • 5:00PM-5:50PM

5:00, CC Room 210 • 500PM-5:50PM Austin Bay, Ellen Dallow, Lynn Flewelling, Esther Friesner, Dwight Brown, Glen Engel-Cox, lill Engel-Cox, losepha Sherman. Susan Wade Lawrence Person * SATURDAY 5:00pm The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SAI700CC-PATIO.B Come hear how you can help the leaders, members, and Showcase-Pat Cadigan Reading local chapters of the NSS turn science fiction into fact. Vince Creisler. Marianne I. Dyson, Karen Mermel, Joe Redfield. CC Patio Sec. B • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM Pat Cadigan* Robert Zubrin*

SA1700CC-PLAZA.A 7:00pm Development of the Marexx CD-ROM by SAI900RC-II Barclay Shaw Jewish Services CC Plaza Sec. A • 5:00PM-5:50PM RC Room 11 • 7:00PM-8:50PM Barclay Shaw* 8:00pm SAI700CC-R1VER.A The SF/F Baseball Underground SA2000RC-GB CC River Sec. A • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM Hugo Awards Ceremony loshua Bilmes, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Barbara Hambly*, RC Grand Ballroom • 8:00PM-9:20PM Ron Miller Neal Barrett, |r*

SAI 700CC-RIVER.B Short and Sweet: Why Short Fiction is So Well Suited to SF CC River Sec. B • 5:00PM-5:50PM Ron Collins. John Gibbons. Norm Hartman, Hayford Peirce. Carrie Ricfierson, Martha Soukup. Ray Vukcevich*

SA1700RC-12 National Space Society Regional Meeting RC Room 12 • 5:00PM-5:50PM SUNDAY T/ie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off SUNDAY SUNDAY

SU000I RW-ALAMO.C SUI000CC-203 8:00) Open Gaming For Kids: Creative Writing RW Alamo Ballroom Sec. C • 12:01 AM-11:51PM CC Room 203 • 10:00AM-10:50AM Play any game you want to bring — cards, roleplaying Gerri Baller, Delores Goodrich Beggs games, boardgames. And be sure to look in on continuous demonstrations of the new Portal SU1000CC-204 introductory set for Magic The Gathering (run by For Kids: Storytime Wizards of the Coast) and the Middle-Earth trading CC Room 204 • 10:00AM-10:50AM card game (Iron Crown Enterprises). Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids. Madeleine E. Robins 8:00am SU1OOOCC-2O5 SU0800RC-12 Introduction to Odyssey: A New 6-week Continental Science Fiction Assn. SF Writer’s Workshop Meeting CC Room 205 • 10:00AM-10:50AM RC Room 12 • 8:00AM-9:50AM Jeanne Cavelos* Robert E. Sacks* SU1000CC-206 10:00™ The Importance of the Ace Specials to SF and the Authors They Published SU1OOOCC-2O2 CC Room 206 • 10:00AM-10:50AM Showcase-Susan M. Shwartz Reading Richard Chwedyk*, John R. Douglas. Moshe Feder, Patrick CC Room 202 • 10:00AM-10:50AM Nielsen Hayden Susan M. Shwartz* SUNDAY |10:00»m The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SUI000CC-207 Matthews, Muff Musgrave, John E. Stith, Elisabeth Waters Showcase-Q & A with C. Dean Andersson and Nina Romberg SUI000CC-FIESTA.A CC Room 207 • 10:00AM-10:50AM AGFA Meeting C. Dean Andersson*, Nina Romberg CC Fiesta Sec. A • 10:00AM-11:50AM Members only. SU1000CC-208 Mitchell Davidson Bentley, Joni Brill Dashoff, Todd Dashoff, Did the Dinosaurs Die With a Bang or Gary Feldbaum, John Gustafson. Stuart C. Hellinger, a Whimper? Margaret Organ-Kean, Teresa Patterson. Janny Wurts* CC Room 208 • 10:00AM-10:50AM We found the crater, but were they in decline before SUI000CC-F1ESTA.B the comet hit? The Most Important Events of the Randy Farran*. Stanley Schmidt. Walter Ion Williams Second Millenium CC Fiesta Sec. B • 10:00AM-10:50AM SU1000CC-2I0 Showcase-Kathleen Ann Goonan Arlan Andrews, Sr., J. R. Dunn*, Tim Powers, Andrew C. Wheeler CC Room 210 • 10:00AM-10:50AM Kathleen Ann Goonan* SU1000CC-FIESTA.E WSFS Main Business Meeting 2 SUI000CC-CENTRO CC Fiesta Sec. E • 10:00AM-11:50AM Ethics of Cloning Open to all convention members. CC Centro* 10:00AM-10:50AM Don Eastlake III*, Zanne Labonville, Kevin Standlee William Michael Brown, George Flentke*. Thomas W. Knowles, David Marusek, Larry Niven, Lisa Silverthorne. Charles S. Tritt SU1000CC-PATIO.A Showcase-David Feintuch Beading SUI000CC-EXHIBIT CC Patio Sec. A • 10:00AM-10:50AM Autographings David Feintuch* CC Exhibit Hall • 10:00AM-10:50AM Nic£ DiChario. Anne Lesley Groell. Norm Hartman, Susan R. SUNDAY Tfte Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SU1 OOOCC-PLAZA.A SU1000RW-MILAM Spoooon! The Saturday Morning Kaffeeklatch with Gene Wolfe TV Panel RW Milam • 10:00AM-10:50AM CC Plaza Sec. A • 10:00AM-10:50AM Advance sign-up required. Lillian Buller. Craig Miller, Len Wein. Lori Wolf*. Gene Wolfe* Marv Wolfman SU1000RW-VALERO SU1000CC-RIVER.A Kaffeeklatch with Jack Williamson Pulp Fiction: Thrilling Adventures! RW Valero • 10:00AM-10:50AM CC River Sec. A • 10:00AM-10:50AM Advance sign-up required. lack Williamson* Algis Budrys*. Caz Cazedessus. Scott Edelman, Frederik Pohl

SU1000RC-II 11:00™ Friends of Bill SUI100CC-202 RC Room 11 • 10:00AM-10:50AM Showcase-Barbara Hambly Reading SU1000RC-12 CC Room 202 • 11:00AM-11:50AM Christian Services Barbara Hambly* RC Room 12 • 10:00AM-1 1:50AM SUI IOOCC-2O3 SU1000RC-GB For Kids: Explore the Solar System Masquerade Rehearsal CC Room 203 • 11:00AM-11:50AM RC Grand Ballroom • IO:OOAM-6:IOPM G. David Nordley* Susan de Guardiola*, Tom Wfiitmore SUI I00CC-204 SU1000RW-BQNHAM For Kids: Storytime Kaffeeklatch with Real Musgrave CC Room 204 • I 1:00AM-11:50AM RW Bonham • 10:00AM-10:50AM Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids Advance sign-up required. attending the con. Real Musgrave* Rebecca Moesta. Patricia Duffy Novak SUNDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SUl 1OOCC-2O5 SUl 100CC-210 Parody SF Films Showcase-Carole Nelson Douglas Reading

CC Room 205 • 11:00AM-11:50AM CC Room 210* 11:00AM-11:50AM 11:00,

Bob Blackwood*. Alex Eisenstein, loe Grillot Carole Nelson Douglas*

SUl I00CC-206 SUl I00CC-CENTRO Fanzine Editors A Day in the Life of a Screenwriter

CC Room 206 • 11:00AM-11:50AM CC Centro • 11:00AM-11:50AM SUNDAY Elizabeth Garrotl, Joseph Major*, Roy Tackett Craig Miller*, Glenn R. Sixbury. S.P. Somlow, John Steakley. I. Michael Slraczynski SUl I00CC-207 Novelists & Game Designers SUl I00CC-EXHIBIT CC Room 207 • 11:00AM-11:50AM Autographings Greg Coslikyan. P. N. Elrod. Bill Fawcett. Eileen Gunn. CC Exhibit Hall • 11:00AM-11:50AM Beverly A. Hale, Edward E. Kramer. Michael Capobianco, Larry Niven, Lisa Silverthorne. Michael Caroline Spector* A. Stackpole, Sandy Stewart. Connie Willis

SUl I00CC-208 SUl I00CC-FIESTA.B The Science in SF Today The Editorial Slushpile CC Room 208 • 11:00AM-11:50AM CC Fiesta Sec. B • 11:00AM-1 1:50AM Gregory Benford*. John G. Cramer, lay Kay Klein. Michael Ellen Datlow, Gardner Dozois. Anne Lesley Groell*. Swanwick. Malcolm B. Wood Gordon Van Gelder

SUl IOOCC-209 SUl IOOCC-PATIO.A Artist Workshop: Small Press Publishing: Joy, Pride, and Plaster Casting Above the Neck Anxiety CC Room 209 • 11:00AM-12:50PM CC Patio Sec. A • 11:00AM-11:50AM Advance sign-up required. Crispin Burnham, Greg Ketter, Rich K/aw, Charles C. Ryan, Leslie What * Michael I. Walsh*, lacob Weisman. Mark Ziesing SUNDAY Tfie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention 8- Chili Cook-Off

SUNDAY SUI IOOCC-PATIO.B Community: Enjoying the WorldCon Showcase-Stephen Baxter Reading CC Room 101 • Noon-12:50PM CC Patio Sec. B • 11:00AM-11:50AM An orientation seminar on the background of the Stephen Baxter World Science Fiction Convention and tips on making

11:00; the most of the con. SUI I00CC-PLAZA.A Neil Kaden, Morris Keesan, Nancy Tucker Shaw, John Slopa, 2 Authors, 1 Story: How to Keep From Kale Yule Killing Each Other CC Plaza Sec. A • 11:00AM-11:50AM SUI200CC-202 Emma Bull*, Victor C. Milan, Terry Pratchett, Jennifer Roberson. Showcase-Mark Tiedemann Reading Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Mark Shepherd, Dean Wesley Smith CC Room 202 • Noon-12:50PM Mark W. Tiedemann* SUI I00CC-RIVER.A Environmental Issues in SF/F SUI200CC-204 CC River Sec. A • 11:00AM-11:50AM For Kids: Sing-along lames Killus, Jerry Emerson Loomis, Laura |. Mixon, CC Room 204 • Noon-12:50PM Madeleine E. Robins, Jennie A. Roller*. G. K. Sprinkle, David M. Kushner, Sandra C. Morrese Amy Thomson SUI200CC-205 SUI I00CC-RIVER.B Showcase-Joe Haldeman Reading AIDS Project Auction CC Room 205 • Noon-12.50PM CC River Sec. B • 11:00AM-12:50PM Joe Haldeman* David Gerrold* SUI200CC-206 NOON Religion in SF CC Room 206 • Noon-12:50PM SUI200CC-10I E. Susan Baugh. Janice Gelb. Pamela Hodgson. C. I. Mills*. Welcome to the Science Fiction Mary Doria Russell SUNDAY NOON The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SU1200CC-207 SU1200CC-EXHIBIT Explaining Everything with Science Autographings

Fiction and Fantasy CC Exhibit Hall • Noon-12:50PM NOON

CC Room 207 • Noon-12:50PM Robin Wayne Bailey. David Feintuch, Kathleen Ann Goonan. Bring your questions! Cecil Adams may have Howard V. Hendrix, James Patrick Kelly. Brad Linaweaver explained why the shower curtain blows in around SUI200CC-F1ESTA.A your ankles, but SF and Fantasy writers have much SUNDAY better ideas about reality! Why is It Always Erotic Horror? Bill Baldwin, lames Alan Gardner*, John Moore CC Fiesta Sec. A • Noon-12:50PM Why can’t we have erotic fiction in other genres? SU1200CC-208 Joe Agee*. C. Dean Andersson, Dawn Dunn, Sonia Orin Lyris. Upcoming Tor Releasee with B. |. Thrower*, M. D. Williams Patrick Nielsen Hayden SU1200CC-FIESTA.B CC Room 208 • Noon-12:50PM Send Me to Mars to Write on Location Patrick Nielsen Hayden CC Fiesta Sec. B • Noon-12:50PM SUI200CC-210 Kevin |. Anderson. William Barton. Marianne). Dyson*, Artist Workshop on Comic Page Layout Paul J. McAuley. Kim Stanley Robinson CC Room 210 • Noon-2:50PM SUI200CC-GALLERY Comics are no laughing matter. Learn the highs and Showcase: Sarah Zettel Teaches lows of layout and story-boarding. Advance sign-up required. Middle Eastern Dance Kaja Foglio, Phil Foglio* CC Gallery • Noon-1:50PM This is NOT a spectator event; if you show up, be SUI200CC-CENTRO prepared to dance! Art Auction Setup Sarah Zettel* CC Centro • Noon-12:50PM NOON SUNDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SU 1200CC-PATIO.A SU 1200RW-VALERO Interview: Aaron Allston Kaffeeklatch with Suzy McKee Charnas CC Patio Sec. A • Noon-12:50PM RW Valero • Noon-12:50PM Aaron Allston, Denis Loubet* Advance sign-up required. Suzy McKee Charnas* SU 1200CC-PLAZA.A Live From Mars! The Little Robot [ ' 1:00pm That Could CC Plaza Sec. A • Noon-12:50PM SU1300CC-101 Chad Childers. William Hartman, Steven D. How*. Bort Welcome to the Science Fiction Kemper, Henry Spencer, Edwin Strickland Community: Making Connections SUI200CC-RIVER.A CC Room I01 • 1:00PM-L50PM Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Women Now that you’re here, here’s how to meet people, get Writing Hard SF involved and learn to understand this eccentric CC River Sec. A • Noon-12:50PM community. There's lots to do between conventions Catherine Asaro, Wilhelmina Baird, ]ayge Carr. Debra Doyle. — find out what’s going on during this seminar. Lois H. Gresh, Linda Nagata*, Toni Weisskopf Tom Becker*, ]udy Bemis, Teddy Haivia, David Levine, Roger Sims SUI200RW-BONHAM Kaffeeklatch with Ellen Datlow SU 13OOCC-2O2 RW Bonham • Noon-12:50PM Showcase-S. P. Somtow Reading Advance sign-up required. CC Room 202 • 1:00PM-1:50PM Ellen Da t low* S.P. Somtow*

SU 1200RW-MILAM SU 13OOCC-2O3 Kaffeeklatch with John Kessel Showcase-Sean Stewart Reading RW Milam • Noon-12:50PM CC Room 203 • 1:00PM-1:50PM Advance sign-up required. Sean Stewart* lofin |. Kessel* SUNDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SUI300CC-204 SU 1300CC-209 For Kids: Storytime Artist Demo on Clay by Joy Marie Ledet

CC Room 204 • 1:00PM-1:50PM 1:00,

CC Room 209 • 1:00PM-1:50PM Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids loy Marie Ledet* attending the con. lanice Eisen, K. D. Wentworth SU 1300CC-CENTRO Art Auction SU13OOCC-2O5 CC Centro • 1:00PM-4:50PM SUNDAY Seducing Today’s Youth to SF: Mitchell Davidson Bentley, Lillian Buller. Cat Conrad*. Teresa A Call to Arms Patterson, lean Stuntz CC Room 205 • 1:00PM-1-.50PM Where are the Heinlein and Burroughs novels of SUI300CC-EXHIBIT today? Autographings David Brin*, Caz Cazedessus, Fred Lerner, CC Exhibit Hall • 1:00PM-1:50PM Christopher McKilterick, Betsy Mitchell, Glenn R. Sixbury, Lois McMaster Bujold, Richard Garfinkle, Gene O’Neill, Robert Tony Zbaraschuk Reed, Mary Rosenblum, Lynn Ward

SU 1300CC-206 SU1300CC-FIESTA.A Two Pro Households Showcase-Terry Pratchett Reading CC Room 206 • 1:00PM-1:50PM CC Fiesta Sec. A • 1:00PM-1:50PM Michael Capobianco. Susan Casper. A. C. Crispin. Laura Terry Pratchett* Frankos. Steven Gould. Laura I. Mixon*, Nina Romberg SUI300CC-FIESTA.B Mars Manned Exploration SU 1300CC-207 CC Fiesta Sec. B • 1:00PM-1:50PM Stories That Stay in the Slushpile— The strategy and tactics, reasons and goals for a What Not to Do manned Mars program. CC Room 207 • 1:00PM-1:50PM Stephen Baxter. Michael F. Flynn, William Hartman, Steven D. Randy Dannenfelser, Patrick LoBrulto, Charles C. Ryan* Howe*, Kim Stanley Robinson. Allen Steele. Robert Zubrin SUNDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SU1300CC-PATIO.A ! 2:00pm Interview: Greg Costikyan CC Patio Sec. A • 1:00PM-1:50PM SU1400CC-I0I Greg Costikyan, Allen Varney* Overcoming Nydahl’s Disease: Is Gafiation the Only Answer to Fannish SU1300CC-PAT1O.B Burnout? Does Anyone Read Critical Magazines? CC Room 101 • 2:00PM-2:50PM CC Patio Sec. B • 1:00PM-1:50PM Named after a fan who disappeared from fandom Charles N. Brown, Nicfc DiChario, David G. Hartwell, after publishing a 100-page issue of his fanzine, Lawrence Person, David Truesdale* Nydahl’s Disease is fannish burnout. Is there hope for recovery after burnout? Our group of burnouts try to SU1300CC-PLAZA.A Slide Show: Painting Techniques by figure out if there is an easier life beyond fandom.... Bill Cavin*, Cy Chauvin, Bruce Pelz, Dick Smith David Cherry CC Plaza Sec. A • 1:00PM-2:50PM SU1400CC-202 David A. Cherry* Showcase-Martha Soukup Reading CC Room 202 • 2:00PM-2:50PM SU1300CC-R1VER.A Martha Soukup* A Day In the Life of an Editor CC River Sec. A • 1:00PM-1:50PM SUI400CC-203 Gardner Dozois, Shawna McCarthy, Stanley Schmidt, Showcase-Lynn Abbey Reading Gordon Van Gelder*. Rick Wilber CC Room 203 • 2:00PM-2:50PM Lynn Abbey* SUI300CC-RIVER.B Dying is Easy. Comedy is Hard. SU1400CC-204 CC River Sec. B • 1:00PM-1:50PM For Kids: Storytime K. B. Boyen, Edward Bryant, lohn DeChancie, Esther Friesner. CC Room 204 • 2:00PM-2:50PM Timothy Lane. ]ody Lynn Nye*. Hayford Peirce Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids. Willie Siros SUNDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SUI400CC-205 SU I400CC-EXHIB1T Sex. Drugs. Rock and Roll, and SF Autographings

CC Room 205 • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM CC Exhibit Hall • 2:00PM-2:50PM 2:00,

Pat Cadigan, Michael Moorcock, William Sanders. Neal Barrett. Jr., Algis Budrys, Phyllis Eisenstein, Mark L Van Name*, MarkZiesing Laura Frankos, Bruce Sterling

SU1400CC-206 SU1400CC-FIESTA.A

Writing Horror for Kids: special SFWA Medical Fund Auction SUNDAY Considerations of The Market CC Fiesta Sec. A • 2:OOPM-3:5OPM Peter J. Hecfc* CC Room 206 • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM Bill Crider. Nina Kiriki Hoffman*. Rebecca Moesta SU1400CC-FIESTA.B SF Pun-Off: Fans vs Pros SU1400CC-207 CC Fiesta Sec. B • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM Resetting the Aging Clock Sherlock. K. B. Bogen, |oe Haldeman, Don Maitz, CC Room 207 • 2:00PM-2:50PM Larry Niven. Harry Turtledove, Lori Wolf* George Flentke. lames Patrick Kelly, lay Kay Klein, Dave Smeds. G. K. Sprinkle* SU 1400CC-PATIO.A Paper RPGs vs. Computer RPGs SU1400CC-208 CC Patio Sec. A • 2:00PM-2:50PM Slide Show of Upcoming Baen The computer game Diablo gets dam close to primeval, Releases with Toni Weisskopf hack-and-slash roleplaying experience. How well can CC Room 208 • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM computer RPGs mimic their tabletop precursors? What Toni Weisskopf* will happen to both fields over the next five years? Wolfgang Baur. Warren Spector*. Russ Williams SUI400CC-209 Kids’ Art Class: Drawing SU I400CC-PATIO.B CC Room 209 • 2:00PM-2:50PM Showcase-Patrick O’Leary Reading CC Patio Sec. B • 2 00PM-2:50PM Margaret Organ-Kean* Patrick O'Leary* SUNDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SUNDAY SUI400CC-RIVER.A 3:00pm What IS the Baseball Connection? CC River Sec. A • 2:00PM-2:50PM SUI500CC-I01 lames Brunet, Richard Gilliam, lohn I. Kessel*, lohn J. Miller Electronic Publishing and the

2:00, SU I400CC-RIVER.B Hugo Award Protecting Your Copyright in the CC Room 101 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Internet Age The advent of the World Wide Web has changed lots of views of nontraditional publishing. How has and CC River Sec. B • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM how should it affect fandom’s biggest award? Craig E. Engler, lames Fiscus, Ken lenks*. Laura Majerus, David Bratman. Algis Budrys, Scott Edelman, Mark Olson* lohn Maddox Roberts, Barclay Shaw, M. C. Valada, Mel. While SU 1500CC-202 SU I400RW-BONHAM Kaffeeklatch with Bob Eggleton Showcase-Rant by Tom Cool CC Room 202 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM RW Bonham • 2:00PM-2:50PM Tow Cool Advance sign-up required. Bob Eggleton* SUI5OOCC-2O3 SU I400RW-MILAM Showcase-Jane Fancher Reading Kaffeeklatch with Gregory Benford CC Room 203 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM lane Fancher* RW Milam • 2:OOPM-2:5OPM Advance sign-up required. SU 1500CC-204 Gregory Benford* For Kids: Storytime SU I400RW-VALERO Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids. Kaffeeklatch with Jennifer Roberson CC Room 204 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Mark Feirell RW Valero • 2:00PM-2:50PM Advance sign-up required. Jennifer Roberson* SUNDAY [______3:00pm The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SU15OOCC-2O5 CC Room 209 • 3:00PM-3:50PM Queer to Stay: THE Alt Sex Panel Jennie A. Roller* And remember that hetero does not necessarily SUI5OOCC-21O meant straight! CC Room 205 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Showcase-Q & A with Kevin J. Anderson Melanie Fletcher, lames Alan Gardner, Hayford Peirce, Carrie and Rebecca Moesta Richerson. Mark Shepherd*. B. ]. Thrower, Wendy Wheeler CC Room 210 • 3:00PM-3:50PM Kevin |. Anderson*. Rebecca Moesla SU 1500CC-206 Chili or Chowder? SUI500CC-EXHIBIT Regionalism in SF/F Autographings CC Exhibit Hall • 3:00PM-3:50PM CC Room 206 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Emma Bull, Pal Cadigan, A. C. Crispin. Patrick O'Leary. Will E. Susan Baugh, Terry Boren. Nina Romberg*. Martha Wells. Shetlerly, Leslie What. Walter Jon Williams Mel. White

SUI500CC-FIESTA.B SU 1500CC-207 Space: Solar Power Update Ethics in SF: CC Room 207 • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Moral Choices People Make Alexis Glynn Latner. jerry Emerson Loomis. G. David Nordley. CC Fiesta Sec. B • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM jerry Ollion*. John Strickland Bradley Denton*, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Jacqueline Lichtenberg. Sandra C. Morrese, Patricia Duffy Novak. SU1500CC-208 Gene Wolfe What Are the Best SF Comics? SU 1500CC-PATIO.A CC Room 208 • 3:00PM-3:50PM Robert Feldhoff, Rick Klaiv, lohn I. Miller*. Michael A. Stackpole Mythic Images in Art CC Patio Sec. A • 3-.OOPM-3:5OPM SU 1500CC-209 lael*. Lubov, Allison Hershey. |oy Marie Ledet. Clayburn Kids' Art Class: 3D Moore. Peggy Ranson SUNDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SU1500CC-PATIO.B been too tolerant, or are "those people" fans, too? Showcase-Jack McDevitt Meeting Covert Beach*, Seth Breidbart, lanice Gelb, Sharon Sbarsky CC Patio Sec. B • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM SU1600CC-202 lack McDevitt* Showcase-Q & A with Jean Lorrah SU1500CC-PLAZA.A CC Room 202 • 4:00PM-4:25PM Slide Show: Art of Ron Walotsky lean Lorrah* CC Plaza Sec. A • 3:00PM-3:50PM SUI600CC-203 Rom Walotsky* Publish and Perish: Copyright issues SUI500CC-RIVER.A in Filk Writing 106: -Breaking out of the Ghetto CC Room 203 • 4:00PM-4:50PM CC River Sec. A • 3:OOPM-3:5OPM Lionel Fanthorpe*. Barry Gold, Lee Gold*, Roberta Rogow Patricia Anthony, Terry Pratchett, Laura Resnick. Ricfe Wilber, J. Steven York* SU1600CC-204 Kids’ Art Class: Drawing Superheroes SU1500CC-R1VER.B CC Room 204 • 4:00PM-4:50PM Why Do People Believe What They Do? lad* CC River Sec. B • 3.00PM-3:50PM Steve Antczak, Rob Chilson, Hal Clement*. Paul Preuss, SU1600CC-205 Lynn Ward Breaking Out: A Writing Seminar For Writers Who Want to Get More Out of Their Careers 4:00pm CC Room 205 • 4:00PM-4:50PM Donald Maass* SU1600CC-I0I Parasites or Part of Us? SU1600CC-206 CC Room 101 • 4.00PM-4:50PM State of the Genre: British & European SF Some regional conventions have attracted audiences CC Room 206 • 4:00PM-4:50PM which seem less connected to SF fandom. Have we lens H. Altmann*, Paul I. McAu/ey, Eckhard Schwettmann SUNDAY 4:00pm The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SUI600CC-207 SU1600CC-FIESTA.B Showcase-Aaron AUston Reading Casting Couch: Cast Your Favorite CC Room 207 • 4:00PM-4:25PM Book With Actors Dead or Alive! Aarau Allston* CC Fiesta Sec. B • 4:00PM-4:50PM Edward Bryant*, Bill Crider, Ian McDonald. Caroline Spector, SUI600CC-208 Martha Wells* Showcase-Upcoming Releases from Random House & Del Rey Books SU1600CC-FIESTA.E CC Room 208 • 4:00PM-4:50PM The Reality of the Dark Ages Shelley Shapiro* CC Fiesta Sec. E • 4:00PM-4:50PM David Brin*. April Lee. loseph Major, Victor C. Milan, Sandra SU1600CC-209 C. Morrese Artist Workshop on Scratchboard CC Room 209 • 4:00PM-5:50PM SU 1600CC-PATIO.A Got an itch? Scratchboard it! Excerpts from Great SF Stories Advance sign-up required. CC Patio Sec. A • 4:00PM-4:50PM Erin McKee* Amy Bruce*

SUI600CC-EXHIBIT SUI600CC-PATIO.B Autographings Showcase-Adrienne Gormley Reading CC Exhibit Hall • 4:00PM-4:50PM CC Patio Sec. B • 4:00PM-4:25PM Kaja Foglio, Phil Foglio. Robert J. Sawyer, Denise Vitola. Adrienne Gormley* K. D. Wentworth, Marv Wolfman. Mark Ziesing SUI600CC-RIVER.A SU I600CC-FIESTA.A Guest of Honor Event with Debunking Pseudoscience Michael Moorcock CC Fiesta Sec. A • 4:00PM-4:50PM CC River Sec. A • 4:00PM-5:50PM Steve Anlczak. Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, lack McDevitt*, New Worlds, the New Wave, and Beyond Anne Phyllis Pinzow, Susan Smith, Andrew C. Wheeler Michael Moorcock. Ben Ostrander* 4:00p„ SUNDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off SUNDAY SUI600CC-RIVER.B 4:30pm Is Horror Dead? Who Killed it? CC River Sec. B • 4:00PM-4:50PM SUI630CC-202 leanne Cavelos*. lames C. Glass. K. W. Jeter, Joe Lansdale, Showcase-Will Shetterly Reading

4:00, Gene O'Neill, Andrew I. Porter. Gordon Van Gelder CC Room 202 • 4:30PM-4:55PM Will Sfietterly* SU1600RW-BONHAM Kaffeeklatch with Linda Nagata SUI630CC-207 RW Bonham • 4:00PM-4:50PM Showcase-Sonia Orin Lyris Reading Advance sign-up required. CC Room 207 • 4:30PM-4:55PM Linda Nagata* Sonia Orin Lyris*

SU1600RW-C ROCKETT SU I630CC-PATIO.B Timebinders Interviews Showcase-Susan J. Kroupa Reading RW Crockett • 4:00PM-5:50PM CC Patio Sec. B • 4:30PM-4:55PM Erie Melvin Korsliak* Susan |. Kroupa*

SU I600RW-MILAM 5:00pm Kaffeeklatch with Allen Steele RW Milam • 4:00PM-4:50PM SUI700CC-I0I Advance sign-up required. Remembering SaM Allen Steele* CC Room 101 • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM Sam Moskowitz — SaM — was one of the world's SU 1600RW-VALERO foremost experts on sf. He was instrumental in Kaffeeklatch with Neal Barrett, Jr. building and chronicling early fandom, an avid RW Valero • 4:00PM-4:50PM collector and a prolific anthologist. Some of those Advance sign-up required. who knew him share their recollections. Neal Barrett. |r.* Forry Ackerman. Algis Budrys, Mosfie Feder*. Andrew I. Porte SUNDAY Tfte Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SUI700CC-202 SU1700CC-207 Showcase-Saeha Miller Reading How to Lie with Statistics

CC Room 207 • 5:00PM-5:50PM 5:00,

CC Room 202 • 5:OOPM-5:25PM Sasha Miller* Michael F. Flynn*

SU1700CC-203 SUI700CC-208 Showcase-Kristine Kathryn Rusch Showcase-Mike Resnick Reading Reading CC Room 208 • 5.00PM-5:50PM SUNDAY Mike Resnick* CC Room 203 • 5:00PM-5:25PM Kristine Kathryn Rusch* SU1700CC-EXH1BIT Autographings SU 1700CC-204 CC Exhibit Hall • 5.00PM-5:50PM For Kids: Creative Writing C. Dean Andersson, Vincent Di Fate, Lionel Fanlhorpe, CC Room 204 • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM Jacqueline Lichtenberg*, lean Lorrah, Vidor C. Milan Melanie Fletcher. Louise Marley SU I700CC-FIESTA.A SU 1700CC-205 Alien Ethical Systems Oops! This is the Way the World Ends! CC Fiesta Sec. A • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM (At Least in the Movies!) What sort of ethical and moral systems would aliens CC Room 205 • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM develop with their very different history and biology? Terry England* Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Sheila Finch*, Karen E. B. McCue, Elizabeth Moon, Sandra C. Morrese, Robert Reed. Stanley Schmidt SU 1700CC-206 The Creative Process: SUI700CC-FIESTA.B Merging Passion and Intellect Broadening the Event Horizon: Science CC Room 206 • 5:00PM-5:50PM Fiction mysteries CC Fiesta Sec. B • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM Suzy McKee Charnas*. Kathleen Ann Goonan, Ki/ lohnson, Patricia Anthony, lack L. Chalker, Glen Cook. Scott E. Green, Frederik Pohl, Katya Reimann, Ray Vukcevich. lack Williamson Peter F. Hamilton, S. M. Stirling*, lohn E. Stith SUNDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off SUNDAY SU 1700CC-FIESTA.E 5:30™ Discovering New Solar Systems CC Fiesta Sec. E • 5-.00PM-5:50PM SU 1730CC-203 Joe Bergeron, Ha/ Clement, Marianne I. Dyson, Hugh Gregory, Showcase-Mike Moscoe Reading

5:00, Joe Haldeman*, Bruce Hallock, Henry Spencer CC Room 203 • 5:30PM-5:55PM Mike Moscoe* SU I700CC-PATIO.A Showcase-Mary Doria Russell SU 1730CC-PATIO.B CC Patio Sec. A • 5:00PM-5:50PM Showcase-Paul McAuley Reading Mary Doria Russell* CC Patio Sec. B • 5:30PM-5:55PM Paul |. McAuley* SU I700CC-PATIO.B Showcase-Terry McGarry Reading I 8:00pm CC Patio Sec. B • 5:00PM-5:25PM Terry McGarry* SU2000RC-GB Masquerade SU 1700CC-PLAZA.A RC Grand Ballroom 8:00PM-1:50AM Showcase-A. C. Crispin Reading Susan de Guardiola*. Tom Whitmore CC Plaza Sec. A • 5:00PM-5:50PM A. C. Crispin* The cannon x, prliic] SUI700CC-RIVER.B o£ SF,X Are There Any Taboos Left? CC River Sec. B • 5:OOPM-5:5OPM lane Fancher, Sonia Orin Lyris*, lohn Norman MONDAY ______8:00am The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off MONDAY

MOOOOI RW-ALAMO.C M01000CC-203 Open Gaming Kids’ Art Class: Make Ojo-de-Dios RW Alamo Ballroom Sec. C • I2:OIAM-2:5IPM CC Room 203 • 10:00AM-10:50AM Play any game you want to bring — cards, roll playing Sherlock* games, boardgames. And be sure to look in on MOIOOOCC-204 continuous demonstrations of the new Portal For Kids: Creative Writing introductory set for Magic The Gathering (run by CC Room 204 • 10:00AM-10:50AM Wizards of the Coast) and the Middle-Earth trading

Rob Chilson. Vera Nazarian 8:00) card game (Iron Crown Enterprises). MOI000CC-205 8:00am The New Shows: Will we Love Them or M00800RC-12 Hate Them? Continental Science Fiction CC Room 205 • 10:00AM-10:50AM MONDAY lerrie Marchand. Glen Oliver. Herbie |. Pilalo*, Tony Steele Association Meeting RC Room 12 • 8:00AM-9:50AM MOI000CC-206 Robert E. Sacks* Showcase-Mary Rosenblum Reading CC Room 206 • 10:00AM-10-.25AM 10:00am Mary Rosenblum* MOI000CC-202 MOIOOOCC-207 Showcase-Michael Flynn Reading Masquerade Debriefing CC Room 202 • 10:00AM-10:25AM CC Room 207 • 10:00AM-11:50AM Michael F. Flynn* Peggy Kennedy* 10:00am I MONDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

MOI000CC-208 MOI000CC-FIESTA.B Slide Show: The Development of SF Finding Time to Write CC Room 208 • 10:00AM-10:50AM CC Fiesta Sec. B • 10:00AM-10:50AM Dave Kyle uses slides of original publications and other Michael Capobianco. Phyllis Eisenstein, Thomas K. Martin. material to tell about what attracted the first fans. Frederik Pohl* Dave Kyle MOI000CC-FIESTA.E M01000CC-209 WSFS Main Business Meeting 3 Artist Workshop on Anodizing CC Fiesta Sec. E • 10:00AM-11:50AM CC Room 209 • 10:00AM-11:50AM Open to all convention members. Jewelry guaranteed to get a reaction! Anodizing the Don Eastlake III*, Zanne Labonville, Kevin Standlee reactive metals. Advance sign-up required. MOIOOOCC-PATIO.A Angela Jones* Showcase-Allan Cole Reading MOIOOOCC-CENTRO CC Patio Sec. A • 10:00AM-10:25AM What it Means to be Civilized Allan Cole* CC Centro* 10:00AM-10:50AM MOIOOOCC-PATIO.B lames Brunet. Linda |. Dunn, Eileen Gunn, lack McDevitt* Showcase-Suzy McKee Charnas MOI000CC-EXHIBIT Reading Autographings CC Patio Sec. B • 10:00AM-10:50AM CC Exhibit Hall • 10:00AM-10:50AM Suzy McKee Charnas* Scott Edelman. Richard Gilliam, lames C. Glass, M01000CC-PLAZA.A David G. Hartwell, Ian McDonald. Mike Moscoe Upcoming Warner Releases with MOI000CC-FIESTA.A Betsy Mitchell Jacking In: Direct Neural Interfaces CC Plaza Sec. A • 10:00AM-10:50AM CC Fiesta Sec. A • 10:00AM-10:50AM Betsy Mitchell* Pat Cadigan, Susan Smith* MONDAY Tfie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

MOIOOOCC-RIVERA 10:30am Will Reading and Writing Survive I another 100 Years? M01030CC-202 CC River Sec. A • 10:00AM-10:50AM Showcase-Peter Heck Reading Arlan Andrews, Sr.*, Kathy Ice, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Glenn CC Room 202 • 10:30AM-10:55AM R. Sixbury, Lynn Ward Peter ]. Hec£*

MOIOOORC-ll M01030CC-206 Friends of Bill Showcase-Wilhelmina Baird Reading RC Room 11 • 10:00AM-10:50AM CC Room 206 • 10:30AM-10:55AM Wilhelmina Baird* MOIOOORW-BONHAM

Kaffeeklatch with Hal Clement MO1030CC-PATIO.A 10:00;

RW Bonham • 10:00AM-10:50AM Showcase-Thomas W. Knowles Reading Advance sign-up required. CC Patio Sec. A • 10:30AM-IO:55AM Hal Clement* Tfiomas W. Knowles*

MOI000RW-MILAM MONDAY | 11:00am Kaffeeklatch with Jacqueline Lichtenberg MOHOOCC-202 RW Milam • 10:00AM-10:50AM Showcase-James C. Glass Reading Advance sign-up required. CC Room 202 • 11:00AM-11-,50AM lacqueline Lichtenberg lames C. Glass*

MOIOOORW-VALERO MOI I00CC-205 Kaffeeklatch with Esther Freisner Showcase-Steven Gould Reading RW Valero • 10:00AM- 10:50AM CC Room 205 • 11:00AM-1 1:50AM Advance sign-up required. Steven Gould* Esther Friesner* 11:00am______| MONDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

MOI I00CC-206 Susan M. Shwartz* Ethics in SF: Repressive Societies MOI 100CC-FIESTA. B and Resistance Guest of Honor Event: CC Room 206 • 11:00AM-11:50AM David Brin, |ohn Gibbons*. Pamela Hodgson, Evelyn C. Leeper, Neal Barrett, Jr. CC Fiesta Sec. B • 11:00AM-12:50PM Bradford Lyau, Louise Marley, C. I. Mills, Mike Resnick Neal Barrett, |r* 00 o MOI I00CC-208 For Kids: Gems and Minerals MOI 100CC-PATIO.A Live from Turkey City

MONDAY CC Room 208 • II :00AM-11:50AM CC Patio Sec. A • 11:00AM-1 1:50AM Geri leter* A quarter century of Austin's homegrown writers’ MOI I00CC-CENTRO workshop Weird Culture and Weird Fiction Lawrence Person *. Bruce Sterling

11:00; CC Centro • 11:00AM-11:50AM MOI I00CC-PLAZA.A Uncle River, Scott Edelman. Mark L. Van Name. The Horror You Have Always with You Don Webb* CC Plaza Sec. A • 11:00AM-11:50AM MOI I00CC-EXHIBIT Why SF and Fantasy can't always be positive Autographings Bradley Denton, Esther Friesner*. Tim Powers, Kristine Kathryn CC Exhibit Hall • 11:00AM-11:50AM Rusch. Rochelle Marie Uhlenkott, Connie Willis P. N. Elrod, Peler |. Hech. George R R. Marlin, lack MOI I00CC-RIVER.A McDevitt, Betsy Mitchell History of Texas Fandom MOI I00CC-FIESTA.A CC River Sec. A • 11:00AM-11:50AM Work for Hire Gregory Benford. Terry Floyd. Al lackson. Willie Siros. Robert Taylor*. Bob Wayne CC Fiesta Sec A • 11:00AM-11:50AM Roger MacBride Allen. Barbara Hambly. lason Henderson. MONDAY The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

MOI I00CC-RIVER.B MOI200CC-203 Out on the Fringes: Outlaw Sex and Showcase-George R. R. Martin Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading CC River Sec. B • 11:00AM-11:50AM CC Room 203 • Noon-12:50PM Ellen Datlow, Kij Johnson, Dave Smeds, Wendy Wheeler* George R. R. Martin*

MOI 100RC-OFFICE MOI200CC-204 WSFS Mark Protection Committee For Kids: Storytime OO Meeting 2 CC Room 204 • Noon-12:50PM RC Convention Offices • 11:00AM-11:50AM Grownups tell stories or read books to the kids. Kij Johnson, Tasha Kelly NOON

MOI200CC-205 11:00,

M01200CC-10I Conservation: Fandom Online It’s Not Another Dirty Word CC Room 101 • Noon-12:50PM CC Room 205 • Noon-12:50PM

Discussion of fanac you can do on the net - Care and feeding of your new art acquisition. MONDAY newsgroups, Webzines, mailing lists and more-and Mitchell Davidson Bentley, Tim Corbett*, Jane Frank, Butch how not to lose your job or your friends while you do. Honeck, Erie Melvin Korshak, Ellisa Mitchell, Ingrid Neilson Earl Cooley 111, Craig E. Engler, Janice Gelb*. MOI200CC-206 Sharon Sbarsky, loe Siclari The Ink is Black, The Paper’s White CC Room 206 • Noon-12:50PM MOI200CC-202 Elizabeth Danforth. Brad W. Foster, Joe Mayhew*. Erin McKee. Showcase-Jock L. Chalker Reading Ron Miller CC Room 202 • Noon-12:50PM lack L. Chalker* NOON______| MONDAY T/ie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

MOI200CC-207 MOI200CC-PATIO.A Quantum Physics Weirdness: The Best Electronic Frontier Foundation Forum Game in Town CC Patio Sec. A • Noon-12:50PM CC Room 207 • Noon-12:50PM Steve Jackson * Ron Collins, John G. Cramer, Rick Crownover*. Jerry Emerson Loomis MO1200CC-PLAZA.A 00 My Favorite Monster N) MOI200CC-208 Where is the Dark Matter? CC Plaza Sec. A • Noon-12:50PM Bob Eggleton, Brad Linaweaver, Warren Spector* MONDAY CC Room 208 • Noon-12:50PM Catherine Asaro*, Vince Creisler, Patrick O'Leary, MOI 200CC-RIVER.A Robert I. Sawyer Forensic Alien Anthropology MOI200CC-210 CC River Sec. A • Noon-12:50PM

NOON For Kids: Worldbuilding K. B. Bogen, Gail Gerstner-Miller. Pat MacEwen*. CC Room 210 • Noon-12:50PM John |. Miller. Charles S. Tritt, Lori Wolf Christopher McKitterick* MOI 200CC-RIVER.B MOI200CC-EXHIBIT Going for the Roots of the World Tree Autographings CC River Sec. B • Noon-12:50PM Mining mythologies for material. CC Exhibit Hall • Noon-12:50PM M. Shayne Bell, D. E. Dabbs. Julia S. Mandala. Sasha Miller, David A. Cherry, Don Muifz, Elizabeth Moon, Roy Tackett. Nina Romberg. Josepha Sherman*. K. D. Wentworth* Janny Wurts MOI200RW-VALERO M01200CC-FIESTA.A Kaffeeklatch with Algis Budrys Gripe Session RW Valero • Noon-12:50PM CC Fiesta Sec. A • Noon-1:50PM Advance sign-up required. Algis Budrys* MONDAY The Second'Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Cftili Cook-Off j 1:00pm Robin Wayne Bailey. Kent Brewster, Lois McMaster Bujold*. Linda J. Dunn, Howard V. Hendrix, Alexis Glynn Latner, MOI300CC-205 Diann Thornley, Mark W. Tiedemann Showcase-Laura J. Mixon Reading MOI 300CC-PLAZA.A CC Room 205 • 1:00PM-1:50PM Calamities and Bright Futures Laura ). Mixon * CC Plaza Sec. A • 1:00PM-1:50PM MOI300CC-206 Susan Casper. Michael F. Flynn*. Christopher McKitterick, Showcase-G. David Nordley Reading John Moore CC Room 206 • 1:00PM-1:50PM MOI 300CC-R1VER.A G. David Nordley* Showcase-Elizabeth Moon Reading CC River Sec. A • 1:00PM-1:50PM M01300CC-210 1:00,

Alexandria Digital Literature Elizabeth Moon* Presentation MOI 300CC-R1VER.B CC Room 210 • 1:00PM-1:50PM SF Musicals: All Singing! All Dancing! Dave Howell*. Kathy Ice CC River Sec. B • 1:00PM-1:50PM MONDAY The big effects and cinema techniques that help make MO1300CC-CENTRO today's sci-fi extravaganzas. Skit by the Amalgamation of Janice Gelb. Walter Jon Williams, Connie Willis. Lori Wolf* Non-Aligned Lifeforms CC Centro • 1:00PM-1:50PM 2:00pm George Spicuzza * MOI400CC-CENTRO MOI 300CC-FIESTA.B Closing Ceremonies Ethics in SF: Empowering Marginalized CC Centro • 2-.00PM-2:50PM Characters Neal Barrett. |r., Algis Budrys. Fred Duarte. Don Mailz, Karen Meschke*. Michael Moorcock, Peggy Rae Pavlat, CC Fiesta Sec. B • 1:00PM-1:50PM Randy Shepherd, Roy Tackett READINGS INDEXES Tfe Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & CFiili Cook-Off READINGS

THURSDAY FRI300CC-208 Lois McMaster Bujold FRI300CC-PATIO.B Esther Friesner TH 13OOCC-2O2 K. B. Bogen FRI400CC-202 J. V. Jones THI300CC-206 John Norman FRI400CC-203 Dawn Dunn TH1400CC-202 John G. Cramer FRI400CC-204 Emma Bull TH 1500CC-PATIO.A C. J. Mills FRI400CC-2I0 Amy Thomson TH 1500CC-PATIO.B Scott E. Green FRI430CC-202 Nina Kiriki Hoffman TH1600CC-202 Bradley Denton FR1430CC-203 Crispin Burnham TH I600CC-PATIO.A Don Webb R. FRI430CC-204 John Gibbons TH 1700CC-202 James Patrick Kelly FRI500CC-202 Glen Cook FRI600CC-202 P. N. Elrod FRIDAY FR1600CC-203 John J. Kessel FR1700CC-202 Katharine Eliska Kimbriel 00 FRIOOOCC-2O2 Terry Boren FRI700CC-203 David Gerrold FRIOOOCC-2IO Nick DiChario FRI800CC-203 Jerry Oltion FR 1 OOOCC-PATIO.A Howard Hendrix FR I800CC-PATIO.B Hayford Peirce Jennifer Roberson FRIOOOCC-PATIO.B FRI830CC-203 Gene O'Neill

INDEXES FRI030CC-202 Lillian Stewart Carl FRIO3OCC-2IO Debra Doyle j SATURDAY FRI IOOCC-2O2 Patricia Anthony FRIIOOCC-2O3 Richard Chwedyk SAI000CC-202 Theodore Krulik FR 1200CC-202 Austin Bay SAI000CC-205 C. Dean Andersson FR 12OOCC-2O3 Short Story Winner SAIOOOCC-PATIO.A Vera Nazarian FRI200CC-205 Wil McCarthy SAIOOOCC-PATIO.B Anne Lesley Groell FR 13OOCC-2O2 Walter |on Williams SAI030CC-PATIO.A Richard Parks INDEXES READINGS TAe Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SAI 100CC-202 lames Alien Gardner j SUNDAY SAI I00CC-203 Caroline Spector SAI I00CC-208 Connie Willis SUI000CC-202 Susan M. Shwartz SAI IOOCC-PATIO.B Kim Stanley Robinson SUIOOOCC-PATIO.A David Feintuch SAI I30CC-202 Brenda Clough SUII00CC-202 Barbara Hambly SAI 13OCC-2O3 Diann Thornley SUII00CC-210 Carole Nelson Douglas SAI200CC-202 Kate Daniel SUI IOOCC-PATIO.B Stephen Baxter SAI200CC-203 Rick Wilber SU1200CC-202 Mark Tiedemann SAI 200CC-PATIO.A Linda Nagata SU 12OOCC-2O5 Joe Haldeman SAI 200CC-PATIO. B David Sandner SU 1300CC-202 S. P. Somtow SAI230CC-202 Kij Johnson SU 13OOCC-2O3 Sean Stewart SAI230CC-203 Michael Swanwick SUI300CC-FIESTA.A Terry Pratchett SAI 230CC-PATIO.A Bill Crider SUI400CC-202 Martha Soukup SA1300CC-202 Carrie Richerson SUI400CC-203 Lynn Abbey SAI300CC-203 Victor C. Milan SU I400CC-PATIO.B Patrick O’Leary SA1300CC-208 Jack Williamson SU 15OOCC-2O3 Jane Fancher SAI 300CC-PATIO.A Ian McDonald SUI600CC-207 Aaron Allston IT cc SAI400CC-202 Arlan Andrews, Sr. SU I600CC-PATIO.B Adrienne Gormley SAI400CC-203 Catherine Asaro SUI630CC-202 Will Shetterly SAI500CC-202 Glenn R. Sixbury SUI630CC-207 Sonia Orin Lyris SAI500CC-207 Edward Bryant SU I630CC-PATIO.B Susan |. Kroupa A SAI600CC-207 William Browning Spencer SU 1700CC-202 Sasha Miller YF SAI600CC-208 Robert J. Sawyer SU 1700CC-203 Kristine Kathryn Rusch SAI630CC-207 Susan Wade Mike Resnick

SU 1700CC-208 PM?

KI SAI700CC-203 S. M. Stirling SU 1700CC-PATIO.B Terry McGarry I SAI 700CC-PATIO.B Pat Cadigan SU I700CC-PLAZA.A A. C. Crispin SUI730CC-203 Mike Moscoe READINGS______| INDEXES The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

; MONDAY MOI030CC-PATIO.A Thomas W. Knowles MOI I00CC-202 lames C. Glass M01000CC-202 Michael Flynn MOI I00CC-205 Steven Gould MOI000CC-206 Mary Rosenblum M01200CC-202 Jack L. Chalker MOIOOOCC-PATIO.A Allan Cole MOI200CC-203 George R. R. Martin MOIOOOCC-PATIO.B Suzy McKee Charnas M01300CC-205 Laura J. Mixon M01030CC-202 Peter Heck MOI300CC-206 G. David Nordley M01030CC-206 Wilhelmina Baird MOI 300CC-RIVER.A Elizabeth Moon KAFFEEKLATCHS & LITERARY TEAS

| THURSDAY FR1000RW-VALERO Don Webb and Uncle River FR1200RW-BONHAM David Cherry TH I200RW-BONHAM Stephen Baxter FRI200RW-MILAM William Barton TH I200RW-MILAM George R. R. Martin FR1200RW-VALERO Roy Tackett THI200RW-VALERO Walter Jon Williams FRI400RW-BONHAM Joe Haldeman TH I400RW-MILAM Mike Resnick FRI400RW-MILAM Edward Bryant TH1400RW-VALERO Terry Pratchett FR1400RW-TRAVIS Robert Sawyer FR1400RW-VALERO Jack McDevitt INDEXES TH 1600RW-BONHAM Steven Gould & Laura TH I600RW-MILAM Jack Chalker FR1600RW-MILAM Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden TH I600RW-TRAVIS Lois McMaster Bujold FRI600RW-TRAVIS Bruce Sterling FR1600RW-VALERO Bradley Denton I FRIDAY SATURDAY FRIOOORW-BONHAM Tim Powers FR1000RW-MILAM Connie Willis SAIOOORW-BONHAM Ian McDonald INDEXES |KAFFEE KLATSCHES & LITERARY TEAS The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SAIOOORW-MILAM Mary Rosenblum MONDAY SAIOOORW-VALERO Robert Reed SAI200RW-BONHAM Larry Niven MOIOOORW-BONHAM Hal Clement SAI200RW-VALERO Sean Stewart MOIOOORW-MILAM Jacqueline Lichtenberg SAI400RW-BONHAM Marv Wolfman MOIOOORW-VALERO Esther Freisner SAI400RW-MILAM Laura Frankos MOI200RW-VALERO Algis Budrys and Harry Turtledove SA 1400RW-TRAVIS Elizabeth Moon SA1400RW-VALERO James Patrick Kelly SAI600RW-BONHAM Michael Swanwick SAI600RW-MILAM Don Maitz and |anny Wurts SAI600RW-TRAVIS Kim Stanley Robinson SAI600RW-VALERO Emma Bull and Will Shetterly ! SUNDAY

SUIOOORW-BONHAM Real Musgrave SUIOOORW-MILAM Gene Wolfe SU1000RW-VALERO lack Williamson SUI200RW-BONHAM Ellen Datlow SU1200RW-MILAM John Kessel SU 1200RW-VALERO Suzy McKee Charnas SU1400RW-BONHAM Bob Eggleton SU 1400RW-MILAM Gregory Benford SU1400RW-VALERO Jennifer Roberson SUI600RW-BONHAM Linda Nagata SU I600RW-MILAM Allen Steele SUI600RW-VALERO Neal Barrett, Jr. AUTOGRAPHS INDEXES The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off AUTOGRAPHS

THI400CC-EXHIBIT Ellen Datlow FRI500CC-EXHIBIT SA IOOOCC-EXHIBIT SAI300CC-EXHIBIT Joe Haldeman Debra Doyle K. B. Bogen John DeChancie Linda Nagata Nina Kiriki Hoffman John Norman J V Jones Lynn Flewelling Jody Lynn Nye John J. Kessel George Guthridge Katya Reimann TH1500CC-EXHIBIT FRI200CC-EXHIBIT Stanley Schmidt Peter F. Hamilton Mary Doria Russell John G. Cramer Kevin J. Anderson Robert Silverberg Kim Stanley John Steakley Sasha Miller Bradley Denton Martha Wells Robinson Susan Wade Steven Gould Sharon Shinn TH I600CC-EXHIBIT Kay Kenyon FRI600CC-EXHIBIT Allen Steele SA1400CC-EXHIBIT Arlan Andrews Sr. Thomas W. Knowles Delores Goodrick Jerry Oltion C. J. Cherryh S. M. Stirling Beggs SAI 100CC-EXHIBIT Paul Preuss Hal Clement Maya Kaathryn Jeanne Cavelos Mike Resnick C. J. Mills FR1300CC-EXHIBIT Bohnhoff J. R. Dunn Dave Smeds Allan Cole Jack L. Chalker Terence M. Green S.P. Somtow oo TH I700CC-EXHIBIT oo Tom Cool Kristine Kathryn Mel. White Theodore Krulik Paul J. McAuley Sheila Finch Rebecca Moesta Rusch Laura J. Mixon John Maddox Peggy Ranson Dean Wesley Smith SA1500CC-EXHIBIT Roberts Austin Bay FR1000CCEXHIBIT Gene Wolfe

INDEXES Amy Thomson David Brin Wilhelmina Baird FR1700CC-EXHIBIT Harry Turtledove Aaron Allston SA1200CC-EXHIBIT Wil McCarthy Elizabeth Danforth Patricia Anthony Stephen Baxter Frederik Pohl Esther Friesner FRI400CC-EXHIBIT Bill Crider Bob Eggleton Martha Soukup John J. Miller Gregory Benford Scott A. Cupp Robert Feldhoff B. J. Thrower Bradley H. Sinor Rick Klaw Carole Nelson Douglas Tim Powers Rick Wilber Jennifer Roberson FRIIOOCC-EXHIBIT Michael Moorcock Terry Pratchett Wendy Wheeler Edward Bryant Ron Walotsky INDEXES AUTOGRAPHS The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SAI600CC-EXHIBIT Susan R. Matthews SU1300CC-EXHIBIT SU 1600CC-EXHIBIT David G. Hartwell Alexis A. Gilliland Muff Musgrave McMaster Bujold Kaja Foglio Ian McDonald Louise Marley John E. Stith Richard Garfinkle Phil Foglio Mike Moscoe G. David Nordley Elisabeth Waters Gene O'Neill Robert J. Sawyer Mark W. Tiedemann Robert Reed Denise Vitola MOI 100CC-EXH1BIT Sage Walker SU1100CC-EXH1BIT Mary Rosenblum K. D. Wentworth P. N. Elrod Jack Williamson Michael Capobianco Lynn Ward Marv Wolfman Peter J. Heck Larry Niven Mark Ziesing George R. R. Martin SA1700CC-EXHIBIT Lisa Silverthorne SUI400CC-EXHIBIT Jack McDevitt Lynn Abbey Michael A. Neal Barrett, Jr. SU1700CC-EXHIBIT Betsy Mitchell Suzy McKee Stackpole Algis Budrys C. Dean Andersson Charnas Sandy Stewart Phyllis Eisenstein Vincent Di Fate MOI200CC-EXHIBIT David Gerrold Connie Willis Laura Frankos Lionel Fanthorpe David A. Cherry Katharine Eliska Bruce Sterling Jacqueline Don Maitz Kimbriel SUI200CC-EXHIBIT Lichtenberg Elizabeth Moon William Browning Robin Wayne Bailey SUI500CC-EXHIBIT Roy Tackett l_.llFmma 111id DullRtill Jean Lorrah Spencer David Feintuch Janny Wurts Pat Cadigan Victor C. Milan Kathleen Ann o A. C. Crispin co SUI000CC-EXHIBIT Goonan MOIOOOCC-EXHIBIT Patrick O’Leary Nick DiChario Howard V. Hendrix Scott Edelman Will Shetterly Anne Lesley Groell James Patrick Kelly Richard Gilliam Leslie What Norm Hartman James C. Glass Brad Linaweaver Walter Jon Williams INDEXES PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS INDEXES The Second Occasional LofieStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

Lynn Abbey Jens H. Altmann FR1400CC-PLAZA.A Bill Baldwin SU 1200CC-206 TH1500CC-RIVER.A FRI200CC-CENTRO FRI700CC-EXHIBIT FR1200CC-RIVER.B SUI500CC-206 FRI 100CC-RIVER.A SU1600CC-206 SAI2OOCC-2O7 FRI400CC-205 Wolfgang Baur SAI4OOCC-2O5 FRI500CC-RIVER.B Kevin J. Anderson SU 12OOCC-2O7 FRI400CC-PATIO.B SA1IOOCC-2O5 SA1600CC-202 FRI200CC-EXHIBIT Gerri Balter SA1400CC-RIVER.A SA1700CC-EXHIBIT SUI500CC-RIVER.A FR1400CC-205 TH 1300CC-204 SA1700CC-207 SU1400CC-203 SUI700CC-FIESTA.B SAI 500CC-FIESTA.B SAI000CC-203 SU1400CC-PATIO.A Alyson Abramowitz SU 1200CC-FIESTA B Lou Aronica SU1OOOCC-2O3 Stephen Baxter FR1400CC-RIVER.B SAI200CC-I01 SUI5OOCC-2IO THI200RW-BONHAM SAI I00CC-R1VER.B Neal Barrett Jr. FR12OOCC-2O7 Forry Ackerman C. Dean Andersson SAI400CC-R1VER.B THI900RC-GB SUI700CC-10I FR1200CC-CENTRO FRI3OOCC-2O5 FR 1700CC-PATIO.B Catherine Asaro SA1000CC-FIESTA.A Joe Agee SAIOOOCC-2O5 SAIOOOCC-CENTRO SA1400CC-FIESTA.A TH I300CC-FIESTA.B SA2000RC-GB SAI 200CC-EXHIBIT TH 1300CC-RIVER.A SUI000CC-207 TH1500CC-CENTRO SUI400CC-EXHIBIT SAI5OOCC-2O5 TH 1700CC-205 SUI200CC-FIESTA.A SAI400CC-203 SU1600RW- VALERO SUI100CC-PATIO B SA1400CC-FIESTA.B SUI700CC-EXHIBIT SU 1200CC-RIVER.A MOI I00CC-FIESTA.B SU 13OOCC-FIESTA.B SUI200CC-FIESTA.A M01200CC-208 MO1400CC-CENTRO Austin Bay Roger MacBride Arlan Andrews, Sr. TH1200CC-RIVER.B Robin Wayne Bailey William Barton FR1200CC-202 Alien THI600CC-EXHIBIT THI700CC-FIESTA.B FR1200RW-MILAM FR1400CC-205 SA1500CC-FIESTA.B FRI 200CC-FI ESTAB FRI 100CC-RIVER.B SA1200CC-RIVER.A SAI500CC-EXHIBIT SA1600CC-202 FRI 700CC-RIVER.B SAI I00CC-FIESTA.A SA1700CC-208 SA1700CC-FIESTA.B MOI I00CC-FIESTA.A SAIOOOCC-MISSION SAI500CC-FIESTA.B SU12OOCC-FI ESTAB

INDEXES Covert Beach SUI200CC-EXHIBIT Susan Allison SA14OOCC-2O2 Martha A. Bartter THI500CC-I01 SUIOOOCC-FIESTA.B MOI300CC-F1ESTA.B FRI400CC-205 FR1300CC-206 SUI600CC-I0I MOIOOOCC-RIVER A Aaron Allston Wilhelmina Baird SAI000CC-206 Martha Beck TH I500CC-CENTRO FR1600CC-207 Steve Antczak Kurt Baty SAI500CC-10I SAI500CC-RIVER.B FR I000CC-EXHIBIT FRI700CC-EXHIBIT FR1OOOCC-2O5 SAI600CC-FIESTA B SUI500CC-RIVER.B FRI2OOCC-RIVER A Tom Becker SU1200CC-PATIO.A SU1600CC-FIESTA. A FR1700CC-RIVER.A E. Susan Baugh SUI300CC-10I SUI600CC-207 Patricia Anthony SAI400CC-CENTRO TH 1200CC-PLAZA A SUI200CC-RIVER.A SAI700CC-CENTRO FRI I00CC-202 M01030CC-206 INDEXES ______PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

Delores Goodrick Joe Bergeron SA1200CC-CENTRO SA1300CC-207 SA1200CC-CENTRO Beggs THI500CC-207 SA1700CC-RIVER.A MOI300CC-FIESTA.B SAI500CC-10I FRI600CC-EXHIBIT FRI 100CC-208 SUI600CC-FIESTA.A David Brin Algis Budrys SU 1700CC-FIESTA.A SAI000CC-F1ESTA.B FRI3OOCC-21O SA0900CC-RIVER.A THI900RC-GB SUIOOOCC-2O3 SAI I00CC-RIVER Frank Boosman SA1500CC-EXHIBIT FR1300CC-FIESTA.B COURT M. Shayne Bell TH 1200CC-RIVER.B SU 13OOCC-2O5 SA13OOCC-2O7 SAI500CC-204 FRIOOOCC-FIESTA.B SU1600CC-FIESTA.E SA1600CC-2I0 TH1500CC-FIESTA.A SU1700CC-F1ESTA.E FRIOOOCC-PLAZA.A MOI 100CC-206 SU 1000CC-RIVER.A Terry Boren SUI400CC-EXHIBIT MOI200CC-RIVER.B Joshua Bilmes FR 1OOOCC-2O2 Charles N. Brown SU 1500CC-101 FR1400CC-RIVER.B SA1400CC-204 SA1600CC-202 Judy Bemis SU1700CC-101 SAI2OOCC-2O7 SUI500CC-206 SU1300CC-PATIO. B SA1400CC-I0I SA1700CC-RIVER.A MO 1200RW-VALERO SUI300CC-101 Alexander Bouchard Dwight Brown MO1400CC-CENTRO Keith Birdsong Gregory Benford TH 1300CC-RIVER.A SA1700CC-2I0 Edna Budrys TH 1700CC-PATIO.B TH 17OOCC-2O5 FRI I00CC-FIESTA.A SAI200CC-RIVER.B William Michael SA1600CC-205 FRI400CC-EXHIBIT SAI600CC-10I Bob Blackwood Brown Lois McMaster SA0900CC-RIVER.A Stephen Boucher TH I400CC-FIESTA.B SU 11OOCC-2O5 Bujold SAI200CC-CENTRO FR1400CC-207 FR1700CC-CENTRO TH1300CC-CENTRO SA1400CC-FIESTA.E Tippi Blevins SA1700CC-I01 SUIOOOCC-CENTRO A TH1500CC-CENTRO SAI500CC-FIESTA.B SA15OOCC-2O3 Mark Bourne Amy Bruce THI600RW-TRAVIS SU1I00CC-208 SAI700CC-204 A SU 1400RW-MILAM FRIOOOCC-RIVER.B SU 1600CC-PATIO.A FR13OOCC-2O8 MOI I00CC-RIVER.A Suzanne Alles Blom FR1400CC-208 James Brunet FR1500CC-F1ESTA.B TH1400CC-206 SU1300CC-EXHIBIT Richard Brandt TH 1600CC-RIVER.A A Gregory Bennett FRI600CC-RIVER.A MOI300CC-FIESTA.B TH1600CC-CENTRO THI300CC-10I SU I400CC-RIVER.A FR1700CC-207 K. B. Boeen TH1600CC-206 MOIOOOCC-CENTRO Emma Bull SAI 500CC-206 TH 13OOCC-2O2 FR1000CC-I01 Edward Bryant TH1500CC-RIVER.B TH 1700CC-207 FR1400CC-10I FRI200CC-208 FRI I00CC-EXHIBIT Mitchell Davidson FR1500CC-EXHIBIT FR1400CC-204 David Bratman FRI400RW-MILAM Bentley SA1300CC-CENTRO FR1000CC-10I SA1500CC-207 SAI I00CC-PLAZA.A TH 1500CC-209 SUI 300CC-RIVER.B SU1500CC-10I SUI300CC-RIVER.B SA I600RW-VALERO FR 1400CC-PATIO.A SUI400CC-FIESTA.B SUI 100CC-PLAZA.A S U1600CC - Fl ESTA. B SAI200CC-RIVER.B MOI200CC-RIVER.A Seth Breidbart SU1500CC-EXHIBIT SU1600CC-10I INDEXES SAI500CC-PATIO B Maya Kaathryn Ginjer Buchanan SU 1000CC-FIESTA.A FRI 200CC-CENTRO Chris Bunch Bohnhoff Kent Brewster THI600CC-RIVER A SU 1300CC-CENTRO TH 15OOCC-2O3 FR1600CC-205 M01200CC-205 THI700CC-204 FRI7OOCC-2O5 FR1600CC-EXHIBIT TH1700CC-PATIO.A PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS INDEXES T/ic Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

Brian Burley MOI300CC-PLAZA.A SU 1300CC-PLAZA.A Allan Cole Jim Cooper TH 1300CC-PLAZA.A Jeanne Cavelos MOI 200CC-EXHIBIT FR12OOCC-FIESTA.B FRII00CC-205 TH1600CC-RIVER.A FRI200CC-CENTRO C. J. Cherryh FR13OOCC-EXHIBIT FRI500CC-PATIO.B FRI200CC-RIVER.B FRI400CC-206 THI500CC-CENTRO SA15OOCC-FIESTA.E Tim Corbett MOIOOOCC-PATIO.A Crispin Burnham FR17OOCC-2O5 TH1600CC-EXHIBIT FRI200CC-PATIO.B FRI430CC-203 SAI 1OOCC-EXHIBIT SAI 5OOCC-FIESTA. E Loren Coleman M01200CC-205 SU1OOOCC-2O5 SAI300CC-CENTRO Bill Child FR IOOOCC-RIVER.A Greg Costikyan SU1 IOOCC-PATIO.A SU1600CC-RIVER.B FRI500CC-PATIO.B FRI500CC-207 FR1400CC-PATIO B SA1700CC-207 Lillian Butler Bill Cavin Chad Childers SAI600CC-PATIO.A TH1400CC-206 TH 1700CC-FIESTA A TH 13OOCC-RIVER.A Ron Collins SUI1OOCC-2O7 SU 1000CC-PLAZA A SUI400CC-I01 SU1200CC-PLAZA.A FR1400CC-FIESTA.A SU I 300CC-PATIO.A SUI300CC-CENTRO SA1700CC-RIVER B Caz Cazedessus Rob Chilson John G. Cramer SU IOOOCC-RIVER.A M01200CC-207 Pat Cadigan FR17OOCC-FIESTA.B THI400CC-202 SUI300CC-205 FR1 IOOCC-RIVER.B SUI 5OOCC-RIVER.B Cat Conrad THI500CC-EXHIBIT SA12OOCC-RIVER.A Jack L. Chalker M01000CC-204 TH1600CC-209 FR1300CC-207 SAI400CC-205 FR1100CC-PATIO.B SUI I00CC-208 TH 12OOCC-R1VER.B Richard Chwedyk SAI 700CC-PATIO.B THI600RW-MILAM FR1400CC-PATIO.A M01200CC-207 THI300CC-FIESTA.A SUI400CC-205 FR1600CC-EXHIBIT SAI 500CC-PATIO.B FRH00CC-203 Vince Creisler SUI5OOCC-EXHIBIT SUI700CC-FIESTA.B SUI300CC-CENTRO SAI400CC-208 SAI700RC-12 MOIOOOCC-FIESTA.A MOI200CC-202 SUI000CC-206 Roxanne Conrad M01200CC-208 A. T. Campbell ill SAI300CC-CENTRO Suzy McKee Chamas Hal Clement Bill Crider SA 1400RW-TRAVIS FRI600CC-206 SA 1400CC-FIESTA A TH1400CC-204 FRI700CC-EXHIBIT SAI300CC-CENTRO SAI600CC-205 Michael Capobianco TH 1600CC-EXHIBIT SAIOOOCC-CENTRO SA1700CC-EXHIBIT SAI I00CC-FIESTA.A FRI2OOCC-2O7 Glen Cook SAI 230CC-PATIO.A SU 1200RW-VALERO SU 11OOCC-EXHIBIT FR1500CC-208 FR1500CC-202 SAI400CC-204 SU1300CC-206 SU 1700CC-206 SUI700CC-FIESTA B INDEXES SU 15OOCC-RIVER.B SU 1400CC-206 MOIOOOCC-PATIO.B MOIOOOCC-FIESTA.B SU I700CC-FIESTA.E Tom Cool SU 1600CC-FIESTA. B Lillian Stewart Carl Cy Chauvin MOIOOORW-BONHAM FRI200CC-RIVER.B A. C. Crispin FR1030CC-202 SUI400CC-I01 Brenda W. Clough FRI3OOCC-EXH1BIT FRI200CC-204 SAIOOOCC-RIVER.B David A. Cherry FRI IOOCC-RIVER.B SAI IOOCC-2O7 FR1300CC-RIVER.B Jayge Carr TH1700CC-PATIO.B SAI 13OCC-2O2 SU 15OOCC-2O2 SAI I00CC-FIESTA.A SU 1300CC-206 SU 1200CC-RIVER.A FR1200RW-BONHAM SA1300CC-PLAZA.A Earl Cooley III SU 1500CC-EXHIBIT FR2GOOCC-CENTRO MOI200CC-10I Susan Casper FR2IOOARTSHOW SU 1700CC-PLAZA.A SU 1300CC-206 SAI IOOCC-RIVER.B INDEXES ______PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

Rick Crownover Joni Brill Dashoff SU13OOCC-RIVER.B SUI000CC-206 Marianne J. Dyson TH I400CC-FIESTA.B SU1000CC-FIESTA.A A.M. Dellamonica Debra Doyle SA1000CC-208 MOI200CC-207 Todd Dashoff FR1600CC-206 TH 1500CC-CENTRO SAI200CC-208 SAI 300CC-RIVER.A Ctein SU1000CC-FIESTA.A SAI 300CC-RIVER.B FRIO3OCC-2IO SAI500CC-206 TH I600CC-RIVER B FRI I00CC-EXHIBIT Ellen Datlow Bradley Denton SA1700RC-12 FRI500CC-PLAZA A SU1200CC-RIVER.A THI700CC-RIVER.B THI600CC-202 SUI200CC-FIESTA.B SAI I00CC-RIVER.B FRI000CC-208 FRI I00CC-RIVER.B Gardner Dozois SU1700CC-FIESTA.E SAI300CC-206 FRI 100CC-EXHIBIT FR1200CC-EXHIBIT FRI I00CC-FIESTA.A SA1400CC-FIESTA.B Don Eastlake III SAI700CC-FIESTA.B FR1600RW- VALERO SAI500CC-FIESTA A SAI700CC-206 FRIOOOCC-FIESTA.E SU1 I00CC-FIESTA B SAI IOOCC-FIESTA.B SU1 IOOCC-FIESTA.B SA1000CC-FIESTA.E Scott A. Cupp SUI200RW-BONHAM SAI400CC-207 SU 1300CC-RIVER.A SUIOOOCC-FIESTA.E FR1600CC-205 MOI I00CC-RIVER.B SU 1500CC-FIESTA.B Fred Duarte MOI I00CC-PLAZA.A MOIOOOCC-FIESTA.E FRI700CC-EXHIBIT Howard L. Davidson TH 1500CC-205 SAIOOOCC-CENTRO Claire Eddy SAI400CC-208 Vincent Di Fate THI900RC-GB SAI400CC-FIESTA.A FR1400CC-PATIO.A SAI 300CC-PATIO. B FR1400CC-RIVER.A SA 1600CC-FIESTA. B Patricia Davis FR 1700CC-PLAZA.A MOI200CC-FIESTA.A FR1400CC-PATIO.A Scott Edelman SAI IOOCC-RIVER.A MOI400CC-CENTRO TH I400CC-RIVER.A D. E. Dabbs SA1700CC-206 SAIOOOCC-FIESTA.B SAI400CC-210 Andy Duncan SU I000CC-RIVER.A SU 1700CC-EXHIBIT SAI 2OOCC-RIVER.A Jaque Davison SAI600CC-206 SUI500CC-101 MOI200CC-RIVER.B THI200CC-RIVER.B Nick DiChario SAI700CC-CENTRO MOIOOOCC-EXHIBIT FRIOOOCC-FIESTA B MOI 100CC-CENTRO Elizabeth Danforth FR1OOOCC-2IO Dawn Dunn FR15OOCC-2O7 SAI IOOCC-RIVER.B FRI000CC-EXHIBIT FRI400CC-203 Chris Logan Edwards SUIOOOCC-EXHIBIT MOI200CC-206 Sue Dawe FR1600CC-206 FR1600CC-PATIO.A SUI300CC-PATIO B TH 1700CC-PATIO.B SUI200CC-FIESTA.A Kate Daniel FRI300CC-203 Bob Eggleton THI300CC-RIVER.B Lucienne Diver FRI600CC-208 J. R. Dunn FR I400CC-PATIO.A TH1700CC-207 SAI000CC-208 FRI600CC-RIVER.B SA1700CC-204 TH I600CC-PATIO.B SAI2OOCC-2O2 Carole Nelson SA1000CC-206 SAI IOOCC-RIVER.A Genny Dazzo SA1500CC-204 Douglas SAI I00CC-EXHIBIT SA1200CC-EXHIBIT TH1300CC-FIESTA.B SA1700CC-206 Randy Dannenfelser TH 1300CC-CENTRO SU lOOOCC-FIESTA.B SU1400RW-BONHAM FR1700CC-205 Susan de Guardiola FR1600CC-FIESTA.A Linda J. Dunn M01200CC-PLAZA.A SU1300CC-207 SUI000RC-GB FRI700CC-EXHIBIT TH 1300CC-PLAZA.A Richard Dansky SU2000RC-GB SUH00CC-210 MOIOOOCC-CENTRO Janice Eisen TH 1200CC-PLAZA.A THI600CC-2I0 John DeChancie John R. Douglas M01300CC-FIESTA B SA1600CC-206 FR1200CC-2I0 FRI IOOCC-RIVER.A SA1200CC-207 SU 1300CC-204 FR1400CC-PATIO.B SA1000CC-EXHIBIT SAI400CC-206 PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS______| INDEXES The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

Alex Eisenstein Lionel Fanthorpe Robert Feldhoff John L. Flynn MOI200CC-206 SUIIOOCC-2O5 TH 1300CC-208 FRI3OOCC-2O5 THI400CC-CENTRO John Foyt TH 17OOCC-2O4 Phyllis Eisenstein SAIOOOCC-2O7 TH 1500CC-FIESTA.B SA1OOOCC-2O7 FR 1200CC-206 SA1200CC-EXHIBIT SU1400CC-EXHIBIT FRI 100CC-PLAZA.A FR 1400CC-PLAZA.A SUI500CC-208 Sue Francis MOIOOOCC-FIESTA.B FRI700CC-206 SU1600CC-203 Tom Feller Michael F. Flynn SAI400CC-101 P. N. Elrod SUI700CC-EXHIBIT SA1300CC-I01 FR1000CC-207 Howard Frank FRI600CC-202 Randy Farran SA1600CC-I01 FR1200CC-FIESTA.B TH 1500CC-206 SAI 300CC-CENTRO TH 1700CC-204 FRI700CC-207 FRI 100CC-PATIO.B SAI500CC-FIESTA.A Mark Fewell SU1000CC-208 SAI400CC-FIESTA.E SAI500CC-208 SU1I00CC-207 THI300CC-FIESTA.A SAI5OOCC-2O5 MOI I00CC-EXHIBIT Bill Fawcett FR1700CC-FIESTA.A Jane Frank SU 1300CC-FIESTA.B FRI600CC-207 SU1500CC-204 TH 1500CC-206 Ru Emerson SU1700CC-207 SU1 I00CC-207 SAI5OOCC-2O8 SAI I00CC-PLAZA.A Sheila Finch MOIOOOCC-202 MOI200CC-205 Glen Engel-Cox Moshe Feder FRI200CC-FIESTA.A MOI 300CC-PLAZA.A FR1400CC-F1ESTA.E FRI300CC-EXHIBIT Laura Frankos TH 1600CC-RIVER.B Kaja Foglio FR1600CC-FIESTA.A SU I700CC-FIESTA.A FR1OOOCC-2O3 FR 1000CC-RIVER.B TH 1700CC-PATIO.B SAI200CC-I0I FR 1300CC-PATIO.A SAI700CC-210 lames Fiscus FR 1200CC-PATIO.B SUI000CC-206 SAI400RW-MILAM FR1400CC-FIESTA. A FR 13OOCC-2O3 fill Engel-Cox SUI700CC-I0I SUI300CC-206 SU1400CC-RIVER B SA1700CC-2I0 FR 1700CC-208 SU 1400CC-EXHIBIT David Feintuch George Flentke SU1200CC-2I0 Terry England FRI I00CC-RIVER.A SU I600CC-EXHIBIT Klaus N. Frick FR1000CC-206 SU1700CC-205 FRI 200CC-RIVER.B SA1000CC-207 SUIOOOCC-CENTRO FRI 500CC-RIVER.B Phil Foglio Craig E. Engler SU1400CC-207 TH I700CC-FIESTA B Esther Friesner FRI7OOCC-2O5 TH 1600CC-RIVER.B FRIOOOCC-EXHIBIT SAI I00CC-207 Melanie Fletcher FRI3OOCC-2O5 SA13OOCC-2O7 FR1700CC-208 FRI 300CC-PATIO.B SA1400CC-207 TH1600CC-208 SU1400CC-RIVER B SAI700CC-205 SA 1700CC-FI ESTAB INDEXES SUIOOOCC-PATIO.A SU15OOCC-2O5 MO1200CC-I0I SUI300CC-RIVER.B SUI200CC-EXHIBIT SU1700CC-204 SUI2OOCC-2IO Kurt Erichsen SU 1600CC-EXHI Bn- MOIOOORW-VALERO Harold Feld Lynn Flewelling MOI 100CC-PLAZA.A THI7OOCC-IO1 Brad W. Foster TH 17OOCC-2O5 FRI I00CC-RIVER.A THI400CC-208 Dan Gallagher Jane Fancher FR1000CC-204 SAIOOOCC-EXHIBIT THI700CC-I0I FRI600CC-206 TH 1400CC-RIVER.A FR1200 SAI 700CC-FIESTA. B SA12OOCC-2IO FR1400CC-RIVER.A Gary Feldbaum Terry Floyd SUI500CC-203 SAI 500CC-PATIO B SU I000CC-FIESTA.A MOI I00CC-RIVER.A SU1700CC-RIVER B SAI600CC-FIESTAB SAI700CC-205 INDEXES PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

James Alan Gardner Richard Gilliam FRI3OOCC-2O7 Lois H. Gresh Joe Haldeman SAI IOOCC-2O2 THI400CC-CENTRO SAI200CC-CENTRO FR 1400CC-205 THI400CC-EXHIBIT SAI400CC-FIESTA.B TH1700CC-RIVER.B SU1000CC-210 FRI700CC-RIVER.A FRI200CC-FIESTA.B SU12OOCC-2O7 FRI500CC-FIESTA.A SUI2OOCC-EXHIBIT SUI200CC-RIVER.A FRI400RW-BONHAM SU 1700CC-206 SU15OOCC-2O5 SUI400CC-RIVER.A Joe Grillot SU 12OOCC-2O5 MOIOOOCC-EXH1BIT SU1400CC-FIESTA.B Richard Garfinkle Adrienne Gormley TH 1400CC-CENTRO SAI 100CC-PATIO.A Alexis A. Gilliland TH 1200CC-PLAZA.A FRIOOOCC-2O5 SUI700CC-FIESTA.E SA1500CC-205 TH1500CC-207 FRI300CC-FIESTA.A SUI 1OOCC-2O5 Beverly A. Hale SAI 1OOCC-2O5 SUI300CC-EXHIBIT THI700CC-101 Jim Groat SA1000CC-206 SAI600CC-EXHIBIT SU I600CC-PATIO.B SU1100CC-207 Elizabeth Garrott TH 1300CC-PLAZA.A SAI 100CC-RIVER.A Laura Anne Gilman Steven Gould FRI200CC-PATIO.B Bruce Hallock TH 1500CC-RIVER.B SA1600CC-210 THI700CC-RIVER.B Anne Lesley Groell TH I600CC-PATIO.B SU 1100CC-206 FRI 500CC-RIVER.A THI600RW-BONHAM FR1000CC-206 FRI700CC-CENTRO SA1600CC-RIVER.A FRI 100CC-206 Janice Gelb SAIOOOCC-PATIO.B FRI200CC-207 FRI 2OOCC-EXHIBIT SU 1700CC-FIESTA E SU 1200CC-206 Benoit Girard SAI IOOCC-RIVER.B SA1300CC-FIESTA.A SUI600CC-I01 FRI 300CC-I0I SAI300CC-RIVER.B SAI600CC-RIVER.A Barbara Hambly MOI200CC-101 SAI600CC-I01 SU 1300CC-206 SU 1000CC-EXHIBIT SAIOOOCC-RIVER.B MOI 3OOCC-RIVER B James C. Glass MO1I00CC-205 SUI 100CC-FIESTA.B SAI700CC-RIVER.A SUI1OOCC-2O2 David Gerrold TH 1300CC-FIESTA.B Ashley Grayson Eileen Gunn TH1500CC-RIVER.B MOI 100CC-FIESTA. A SUI600CC-RIVER.B FRI400CC-RIVER.B SAI700CC-CENTRO TH I700CC-FIESTA.B MOIOOOCC-EXHIBIT SA1000CC-208 SUI I00CC-207 Peter F. Hamilton FR1400CC-MISSION MOI 1OOCC-2O2 MOIOOOCC-CENTRO FRI200CC-RIVER.B Scott E. Green FR17OOCC-2O3 Mike Glyer FR14OOCC-2O5 SAIOOOCC-RIVER.B THI300CC-FIESTA.A John Gustafson FR1500CC-I0I SAIOOOCC-EXHIBIT SA1700CC-EXHIBIT TH 1500CC-PATIO.B SU 1000CC-FIESTA.A FRI6OOCC-IO1 SU1700CC-FIESTA B SUI IOOCC-RIVER.B FRIOOOCC-RIVER.A SAI600CC-I01 George Guthridge SUI700CC-FIESTA.B THI500CC-FIESTA B Norm Hartman Gail Gerstner-Miller Barry Gold SA1600CC-206 TH 1500CC-RIVER.A Terence M. Green FR 1300CC-206 TH 17OOCC-2O4 SA1700CC-RIVER.B MOI200CC-RIVER.A FRI400CC-205 SAIOOOCC-EXHIBIT SUI600CC-203 SU I000CC-EXHIBIT IOHN GIBBONS SAIOOOCC-FIESTA B SA1400CC-CENTRO FRIIOOCC-2O7 Lee Gold SAI 100CC-EXHIBIT Karen Haber William Hartman

FR1200CC-FIESTA.B TH 1700CC-204 SA1400CC-206 FR1600CC-PATIO.B SAIOOOCC-FIESTA A NDEXES SA1400CC-208 FR143OCC-2O4 SU1600CC-203 Hugh Gregory Gay Haldeman SA1700CC-RIVER.B SUI200CC-PLAZA.A Kathleen Ann Goonan THI400CC-RIVER.B THI400CC-206 SUI300CC-FIESTAB MOI100CC-206 FR I000CC-RIVER.A SUI700CC-FIESTA.E PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS| INDEXES The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

David G. Hartwell John Hertz FRI200CC-Fl ESTAB SA1500CC-FIESTA.B Bart Kemper FRI300CC-RIVER.A THI400CC-I01 FR1300CC-FIESTA.B SU I600CC-RIVER.B TH1300CC-FIESTA.B FR1400CC-RIVER.B TH 1500CC-101 Kathy Ice Kij Johnson TH1600CC-208 SAI IOOCC-PATIO.A FR13OOCC-1OI MOIOOOCC-RIVER.A FR 1300CC-205 FRI3OOCC-21O SA1600CC-206 Bill Higgins MO1300CC-2I0 FRI400CC-206 FR1500CC-207 SUI300CC-PATIO.B SU 1200CC-PLAZA.A THI600CC-101 Al Jackson SAI23OCC-2O2 MOIOOOCC-EXHIBIT SU 1700CC-206 FR1600CC-RIVER.A FR1400CC-10I Peggy Kennedy MOIIOOCC-RIVER.B Teddy Harvia SAI700CC-208 SA1500CC-206 M01000CC-207 M01200CC-204 TH1500CC-207 P. C. Hodgell MOI I00CC-RIVER.A Kay Kenyon THI700CC-I01 SAI700CC-FIESTA.A Micah Jackson Les Johnson FRI200CC-EXHIBIT FRI200CC-PATIO.B FRH00CC-207 • FR15OOCC-2O7 Pamela Hodgson FRI IOOCC-2O5 John J. Kessel SAI000CC-210 FR1500CC-FIESTA. A Pat Jackson Angela Jones FRI500CC-EXHIBIT FR13OOCC-21O SU13OOCC-IO1 SU1200CC-206 TH1200CC-204 FRI600CC-203 MOI I00CC-206 FRI500CC-207 SA1400CC-207 Peter J. Heck Steve Jackson M01000CC-209 SU 1200RW-MILAM FR1600CC-FIESTA.A Nina Kiriki Hoffman TH1400CC-FIESTA.A SUI400CC-RIVER.A SA1600CC-206 THI400CC-EXHIBIT TH1700CC-2I0 J.V. Jones FR1400CC-202 SU1400CC-FIESTA. A TH1500CC-RIVER.B FRI400CC-PATIO.B Greg Ketter FR1500CC-EXHIBIT MOI030CC-202 FR143OCC-2O2 SAI400CC-RIVER A FR1600CC-PATIO.A SAI IOOCC-2O5 MOI I00CC-EXHIBIT SUI400CC-206 SAI700CC-207 SU1IOOCC-PATIOA Stuart C. Hellinger Rachel E. Holmen MOI 200CC-PATIO.A Neil Kaden Tom Kidd SUIOOOCC-FIESTA.A SAIOOOCC-PLAZA.A Jael SU1200CC-10I FR IIOOCC-PATIO B Jason Henderson SA1600CC-210 TH 1700CC-PLAZA.A Morris Keesan SAI I00CC-RIVERA FRII00CC-205 Butch Honeck SAI300CC-206 SU1200CC-I0I James Killus FR1400CC-RIVER.A FR1200CC-PLAZA.A SU 1500CC-PATIO.A FR 12OOCC-2O7 SU1600CC-204 James Patrick Kelly MOI IOOCC-FIESTA.A FRI5OOCC-2O7 THI700CC-202 SAI I00CC-RIVER.B INDEXES MOI200CC-205 SU1I00CC-RIVER.A Howard V. Hendrix Ken lenks FR1700CC-RIVER.A FRIOOOCC-PATIO.A Steven D. Howe THI200RW-INTERNET SA1300CC-RIVER.B Katharine Eliska FRI700CC-RIVER.B SU 1200CC-PLAZA.A SA13OOCC-2O7 SA I400RW-VALERO Kimbriel SU1200CC-EXHIBIT SUI3OOCC-FIESTA B SA1600RC-14 SUI200CC-EXHIBIT FRI200CC-FIESTA.A MOI 3OOCC-FIESTA. B Dave Howell SU1400CC-RIVER.B SU I400CC-207 FR 17OOCC-2O2 Allison Hershey SA1700CC-207 Geri Jeter SAI700CC-EXHIBIT Tasha Kelly SU1500CC-FIESTA.B TH 1600CC-PATIO. B MOI300CC-2I0 MOI I0QCC-208 FRI500CC-PATIO.A FR1200CC-FIESTA A Elizabeth Anne Hull K. W. Jeter SAI200CC-CENTRO Tappan W. King SU1500CC-PATIO A TH I500CC-FIESTA B SAI 100CC-RIVER.B MO 1200CC-204 FRIOOOCC-RIVER.B INDEXES ______PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

Rick Klaw Susan J. Kroupa SA1000CC-FIESTA.A Lichtenberg SU 1200CC-PATIO.A FR13OOCC-2O5 FRI 100CC-RIVER.A SU 1500CC-207 FR12OOCC-RIVER.A Lubov M01300CC-F1ESTA.B FRI400CC-EXHIBIT FR1300CC-206 SU1500CC-FIESTA.B FRI IOOCC-PATIO.B FR17OOCC-FIESTA. A SU1630CC-PATIO.B Joy Marie Ledet SU1700CC-EXHIBIT SAI 500CC-FIESTA.E SUI IOOCC-PATIO.A Theodore Kruiik THI700CC-F1ESTA.A MOIOOORW-MILAM SUI 500CC-PATIO.A SU1500CC-208 TH 1400CC-CENTRO FR1200CC-PATIO.A Guy H. Lillian III Perrianne Lurie SAIOOOCC-PLAZA.A Jay Kay Klein TH 1500CC-FIESTA.B FR1500CC-101 THI400CC-FIESTA.B SA1700CC-206 TH 1700CC-207 TH1700CC-EXHIBIT SA1300CC-101 FRIOOOCC-IOI SU 1300CC-209 SAI000CC-206 FRI400CC-R1VER.A SAI200CC-I01 SA1600RW-CROCKETT SAIOOOCC-2O2 SU 1500CC-PATIO.A Brad Linaweaver SU1I00CC-208 April Lee TH 1500CC-204 Bradford Lyau David M. Kushner FRI000CC-205 THI400CC-RIVER.A SU1400CC-207 TH1700CC-PATIO.B TH 17OOCC-2O4 FR1700CC-RIVER.B SAI000CC-206 FRI IOOCC-PATIO.B Thomas W. Knowles FR15OOCC-2O5 SUI200CC-EXHIBIT MOI IO0CC-2O6 TH 1200CC-PLAZA.A SUI200CC-204 FRI300CC-210 M01200CC-PLAZA.A Dick Lynch FRI2OOCC-EXHIBIT Dave Kyle SA1300CC-206 FRI600CC-205 SUI600CC-FIESTA.E Patrick LoBrutto TH1400CC-I0I FRI200CC-101 SUIOOOCC-CENTRO FR1300CC-RIVER.B FRI500CC-101 SAIOOORW-CROCKETT Denise Lee FRI600CC-205 SA1300CC-101 MO 1030CC-PATIO.A TH 1300CC-FIESTA.A M01000CC-208 SA1300CC-FIESTA.A TH 1700CC-PATIO.A Nicki Lynch Yoshio Kobatashi Zanne Labonville SU 1300CC-207 FR1400CC-207 TH1300CC-I01 FR1000CC-FIESTA.E Evelyn C. Leeper Jerry Emerson FR1000CC-101 TH 1600CC-RIVER.A Rick Kolker SA1000CC-FIESTA.E Loomis FRI 500CC-101 SA1400CC-FIESTA.E SU I000CC-F1ESTA.E SA15OOCC-2O5 SUI 100CC-RIVER.A SA1500CC-206 MOIOOOCC-F1ESTA.E M01100CC-206 Sonia Orin Lyris SU 1500CC-207 SAI400CC-208 Erie Melvin Korshak Jay Lake Fred Lerner MOI200CC-207 SU1200CC-F1ESTA.A SU 1600RW-C ROCKETT FR12OOCC-2O3 FR1400CC-I01 Jean Lorrah SUI630CC-207 MOI200CC-205 SAI I00CC-207 FR 1500CC-PATIO.A SUI700CC-RIVER.B SU 1300CC-205 TH 1500CC-204 Julie Kosatka Timothy Lane TH1600CC-RIVER.B David Levine Donald Maass TH 1300CC-PLAZA.A THI600CC-RIVER.A SUI600CC-202 FRI400CC-RIVER.B TH1300CC-101 Irene W. Kraas SUI300CC-RIVER.B SUI700CC-EXHIBIT SA1000CC-208 FR1OOOCC-IOI SA1600CC-PATIO B FRI700CC-205 Joe Lansdale SUI300CC-101 Denis Loubet SAI000CC-208 SAIOOOCC-CENTRO SUI600CC-205 Tony Lewis FRI 100CC-205 Edward E. Kramer SAI500CC-RIVER.B FRI 500CC-PATIO.B SUI600CC-RIVER.B FRI600CC-10I FR IOOOCC-RIVER.A SAI600CC-205 SUI100CC-207 Alexis Glynn Latner Jacqueline SAI700CC-207 PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS INDEXES Tfe Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

Pat MacEwen SU1700CC-204 Paul |. McAuley TH1500CC-FIESTA.A Victor C. Milan THI400CC-RIVER.A MOI I00CC-206 FR 13OOCC-2O7 FR1700CC-PATIO.B FRI700CC-RIVER.B THI600CC-PATIO.B George R. R. Martin FR1600CC-EXHIBIT SA 1000RW-BON HAM SA13OOCC-2O3 FR1600CC-PLAZA.A TH1200RW-MILAM FR1700CC-PATIO B SAI 3UOCC-PATIO.A SUI 100CC-PLAZA.A MOI200CC-RIVER.A SA1400CC-205 SU 1600CC-F1ESTA.B SU1600CC-FIESTA.E THI500CC-RIVER.A Terry McGarry Don Maitz FRI I00CC-RIVER.A SU1200CC-FIESTA.B SU1700CC-EXHIBIT TH1300CC-FIESTA.A TH 1700CC-PATIO.B SAI I00CC-FIESTA.A SU1600CC-206 FR1700CC-205 Craig Miller THI900RC-GB SA1500CC-FIESTA.A SUI 730CC-PATIO.B SUI700CC-PATIO.B THI300CC-RIVERA FRIOOOCC-CENTRO MOI 100CC-EXHIBIT Shawna McCarthy THI700CC-RIVER.A FR1600CC-PAT10.B MOI200CC-203 FRI400CC-RIVER.B Erin McKee FRI 200CC-MISSION SA1600RW-MILAM Thomas K. Martin SUI300CC-RIVER.A SAI 200CC-RIVER.B SA1OOOCC-2O3 SU1400CC-FIESTA.B TH1600CC-CENTRO SU1600CC-209 SUIOOOCC-PLAZA.A MOI 200CC-EXHIBIT Wil McCarthy M01200CC-206 FRI000CC-208 FRI2OOCC-2O5 SUI IOOCC-CENTRO MO1400CC-CENTRO MOIOOOCC-FIESTA.B FRI3OOCC-2O7 Christopher John J. Miller Laura Majerus David Marusek FR17OOCC-RIVER.A McKitterick TH1500CC-RIVER.A SA1300CC-206 FR1400CC-206 SAI400CC-FIESTA.E FRI600CC-RIVER.A FR I000CC-EXHIBIT SUI400CC-RIVER.B SUIOOOCC-CENTRO SA15OOCC-EXHIBIT SA1300CC-204 SAI 1OOCC-FIESTA A Joseph Major Karen E. B. McCue SU 1300CC-205 SAI7OOCC-2O5 Elise Matthesen MO1200CC-2I0 SUI400CC-RIVER.A SU1I00CC-206 TH 1600RW-TRAVIS FR15OOCC-2O5 SU1600CC-FIESTA.E SU 1700CC-FIESTA.A MOI 300CC-PLAZA.A SU 1500CC-208 TH1700CC-FIESTA.B MOI 200CC-RIVER.A Julia S. Mandala FR1400CC-RIVER.A John G. McDaid Lori Meltzer MOI 200CC-RIVER.B SA1400CC-FIESTA.B FR1700CC-CENTRO SAI200CC-10I Farran Miller SA1600CC-206 a Jim Mann Susan R. Matthews Jack McDevitt Karen Mermel SA1600RW-TRAVIS TH1600CC-PLAZA.A FR1000CC-206 FRI0OOCC-2O6 Ron Miller FR1700CC-207 FR1200CC-RIVER.A FR1200CC-RIVER.A FRI400CC-PATIO.A Laurie Mann FRI 300CC-RIVER.B SAI000CC-FIESTA.A FR1700CC-FIESTA.B TH1500CC-I01 FR1400RW- VALERO SU I000CC-EXHIBIT FR17OOCC-RIVER.B SA1300CC-R1VER.A SA1700CC-RIVER.A FR1300CC-10I SA1700RC-I2 MOI200CC-206 Kellie Matthews- SA1000CC-204 Jerrie Marchand Simmons SAI100CC-207 Karen Meschke Sasha Miller FRI600CC-205 SU1500CC-PATIO.B TH1300CC-PLAZA.A TH1900RC-GB TH 1200CC-PLAZA.A M01000CC-205 SUI600CC-FIESTA.A MOI400CC-CENTRO THI500CC-EXH1B1T Joe Mayhew Louise Marley MOIOOOCC-CENTRO Karen Meyers FR1000CC-RIVER.A TH1300CC-RIVER.B THI600CC-208 MOI I00CC-EXHIBIT SU 17OOCC-2O2 M01200CC-206 SAI600CC-RIVER B FRI200CC-FIESTA. A Ian McDonald MOI2OOCC-RIVER B SA 1600CC-EXHIBIT TH I 3OOCC-RIVER.B INDEXES |PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

C. J. Mills SAI 400RW-TR AVIS SUI730CC-203 Kim Newman Patricia Duffy Novak TH 1500CC-PATIO.A SUI 700CC-FIESTA.A M01000CC-EXHIBIT SAI300CC-CENTRO FRI 300CC-FIESTA. A THI600CC-EXHIBIT MOI 200CC-EXHIBIT Kevin Murphy Patrick Nielsen SAI IOOCC-2O5 FRI0O0CC-207 MOI 300CC-RIVER.A SUI I00CC-204 FRI 100CC-PATIO.B Hayden FR1100CC-204 SUI5OOCC-FIESTA.B Linda Moorcock SA1300CC-209 FRI300CC-RIVER.A SU1200CC-206 SAI600CC-205 J Murray FR1400CC-FIESTA.E Jody Lynn Nye MOI I00CC-206 Michael Moorcock SAI400CC-PATIO.A FR1600RW-MILAM SAIOOOCC-204 Betsy Mitchell SAI300CC-EXHIBIT TH1900RC-GB Muff Musgrave SAI IOOCC-PATIO.A SAI200CC-CENTRO SUI300CC-RIVER.B FR13OOCC-2O5 TH 1500CC-206 SUIOOOCC-206 SU 13OOCC-2O5 FRI 700CC-EXHIBIT FRI I00CC-206 MOIOOOCC-RIVER.A Patrick O’Leary MOIOOOCC-PLAZA.A SUI400CC-205 SAI 100CC-206 Teresa Nielsen Hayden SU1400CC-PATIO.B MOI I00CC-EXHIBIT SU1600CC-RIVER.A SAI400CC-PLAZA.A FRI200CC-208 SUI500CC-EXHIBIT Ellisa Mitchell MOI400CC-CENTRO SAI700CC-206 FRI600RW-MILAM M01200CC-208 SUI000CC-EXHIB1T TH 1700CC-FIESTA.A Clayburn Moore FR1700CC-FIESTA.A Gene O'Neill SAI2OOCC-RIVER.B TH 1500CC-206 Real Musgrave FR183OCC-2O3 M01200CC-205 Larry Niven FR 1200CC-PATIO.A TH 1500CC-206 FRI 100CC-207 SU I300CC-EXHIBIT Laura J. Mixon SAI700CC-206 FR 1200CC-MISSION FRI300CC-FIESTA A SUI600CC-RIVER.B SU 1500CC-PATIO.A FR13OOCC-2O3 TH1600RW-BONHAM SAIOOOCC-FIESTA.A Glen Oliver THI7OOCC-EXHIBIT FRI600CC-RIVER.B SAI200RW-BONHAM John Moore SAI I00CC-206 THI600CC-FIESTA.A FRI500CC-204 SAI400CC-CENTRO SU 12OOCC-2O7 SAI400CC-PLAZA.A M01000CC-205 SAI400CC-CENTRO SUIOOOCC-CENTRO M01300CC-PLAZA.A SAI 500CC-PATIO.B SU I IOOCC-RIVER.A SUI IOOCC-EXHIBIT Mark Olson SU IOOORW-BONHAM SU 1300CC-206 Sandra C. Morrese SU 1400CC-FIESTA.B FR1200CC-101 MOI300CC-205 THI600CC-PATIO.B Linda Nagata FR1600CC-FIESTA.B SAI300CC-FIESTA.B SAI 200CC-PATIO.A G. David Nordley SA1400CC-101 Rebecca Moesta SU 1200CC-204 SA1300CC-EXHIBIT FRI 100CC-207 SUI500CC-101 FRI3OOCC-RIVER.B SU1500CC-FIESTA.B FR1200CC-RIVER.A SU 1200CC-RIVER.A Priscilla Olson FRI600CC-EXHIBIT SU1600CC-FIESTA.E SUI600RW-BONHAM SA1000CC-FIESTA.B SUII00CC-204 SU1700CC-FIESTA.A SAI600CC-EXHIBIT THI400CC-206 SU1400CC-206 Vera Nazarian SUI 1OOCC-2O3 FR1400CC-FIESTA.E Phil Morrissey FRI600CC-206 SUI5OOCC-2IO SU 15OOCC-2O7 Jerry Oltion FRI 200CC-PATIO.B SAIOOOCC-PATIO.A MOI300CC-206 FRI200CC-FIESTA.A Elizabeth Moon FRI 700CC-FIESTA.A MOIOOOCC-204 THI300CC-RIVER.B John Norman FR1800CC-203 INDEXES Ingrid Neilson THI600CC-204 Mike Moscoe TH 1300CC-206 SAI400CC-EXHIBIT TH 1500CC-206 FRI2OOCC-RIVER.B TH 1700CC-207 FRI 100CC-EXHIBIT SU 1500CC-207 THI700CC-FIESTA.A FRI5OOCC-FIESTA.B FR1200CC-RIVER A SAI400CC-207 MOI200CC-205 SAI 300CC-RIVER.B SA1200CC-RIVER.A SU I700CC-RIVER B PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS______| INDEXES The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

Margaret Bruce Pelz Jerry Pournelle THI700CC-10I FRI400CC-FIESTA.E Organ-Kean FR1400CC-FIESTA.E FR12OOCC-2O7 FR1300CC-210 FRI600CC-10I FRI300CC-203 FRI600CC-10I FR1700CC-207 FRI600CC-EXHIBIT SA1400CC-EXHIBIT FRI400CC-209 SUI400CC-10I SAI 1OOCC-2O7 SA1300CC-206 SUI700CC-208 SAI300CC-206 Lawrence Person SAI400CC-FIESTA.E SU1500CC-PATIO.A MOIIOOCC-206 SUIOOOCC-FIESTA.A TH1700CC-RIVER.A Tim Powers Eric Raymond Neil Rest SUI400CC-209 FR1500CC-101 FRIOOORW-BONHAM THI600CC-I01 THI400CC-206 Ben Ostrander SA 1300CC-PLAZA. A FR1500CC-RIVER.B Carol Redfield Carrie Richerson SAIOOOCC-CENTRO SA1700CC-210 FRI700CC-PATIO.B SAI400CC-208 SA13OOCC-2O2 SUI600CC-RIVER.A SU 1300CC-PATIO.B SAI 2OOCC-EXHIBIT SA1700CC-208 SA1400CC-FIESTA.A MOI IOOCC-PATIO A SUIOOOCC-FIESTA.B David Lee Pancake Joe Redfield SAI700CC-RIVER B MOI I00CC-PLAZA.A SUI5OOCC-2O5 FR1200CC-PATIO.B Nick Perumov SA1700RC-12 FR1300CC-209 SAI500CC-FIESTA.E Terry Pratchett Robert Reed Nonie Rider Herbie J. Pilato THI400RW-VALERO TH 1700CC-204 Richard Parks FR1400CC-RIVER A FR1000CC-207 TH 1700CC-RIVER.A SA1030CC-PATIOA SA1200CC-EXHIBIT SA 1000RW-VALERO Uncle River FRI600CC-205 SA1200CC-CENTRO SA1700CC-FIESTA.A SA1300CC-RIVERB FRIOOORW-VALERO MOIOOOCC-205 SA1400CC-208 SU I I00CC-PLAZA.A SUI300CC-EXHIBIT FRI5OOCC-2O5 Spike Parsons Anne Phyllis Pinzow SUI300CC-FIESTA.A SU I700CC-FIESTA.A SA1200CC-RIVER.A THI500CC-101 TH 13OOCC-2O4 SUI500CC-RIVER.A Robert Reeves MOIIOOCC-CENTRO SA1400CC-I01 TH 1600CC-PATIO.B THI400CC-RIVER.B Jennifer Roberson SU I600CC-F1ESTA.A Linn Prentis Teresa Patterson FRI400CC-RIVER B Katya Reimann FRIOOOCC-PATIO.B FR1200CC-CENTRO THI700CC-FIESTA.A Capucine R. Plourde FR1500CC-205 SAI 100CC-PATIO.A FR1400CC-EXHIB1T FR2100ARTSHOW SA1000CC-RIVER.B SA1300CC-EXHIBIT Paul Preuss SAI I00CC-PLAZA.A SU 1000CC-FIESTA.A Frederik Pohl SU1700CC-206 FR1400CC-FIESTA.A SUI I00CC-PLAZA.A SU1300CC-CENTRO FR1200CC-FI ESTAB SAI400CC-EXHIBIT Carol Resnick SU 1400RW-VALERO INDEXES Peggy Rae Paviat SAI400CC-CENTRO SU I500CC-RIVER.B FRI2OOCC-IO! FR17OOCC-IOI SAI500CC-EXHIBIT John Maddox SU 1000CC-RIVER.A Tullio Proni Laura Resnick SA1600CC-CENTRO TH1600CC-I0I Roberts MOI400CC-CENTRO SU1700CC-206 TH1500CC-FIESTAA FRI300CC-EXHIBIT MOIOOOCC-FIESTA.B Vol Ranger SU 1500CC-RIVER.A Hayford Peirce FR1600CC-FIESTA. A Andrew I. Porter TH 17OOCC-FIESTA B Mike Resnick SAI 500CC-FIESTA. B FRI800CC-PATIO.B FRI5OOCC-FIESTA.B SA1300CC-10I TH I400RW-MILAM SUI400CC-RIVER.B SAI700CC-RIVER.B SAI300CC-204 SUI 300CC-RIVER.B SU I600CC-RIVER.B TH 1500CC-FIESTA A SU 1500CC-205 SUI700CC-10I Peggy Ranson TH 1700CC-PATIO.A THI500CC-207 FR1300CC-FIESTA. A INDEXES PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

Madeleine E. SAI400CC-FIESTA.B FR1600CC-204 FR1600CC-210 SAI600RW-VALERO Robins SUI 300CC-EXHIBIT SA1200CC-PATIO.B SA1000CC-PLAZA.A SU1500CC-EXHIBIT FR1700CC-FIESTA.A M01000CC-206 Denise Satter Shelley Shapiro SUI630CC-202 SA11OOCC-2O5 Leslie Roth TH1700CC-FIESTA.A SUI600CC-208 Sharon Shinn SUI000CC-204 FRI 500CC-CENTRO FR1100CC-206 Barclay Shaw SAI000CC-EXHIBIT SUI 100CC-RIVER.A SA1000CC-PLAZA.A SAI IOOCC-PATIO.A Kristine Kathryn FRI3OOCC-2IO Kim Stanley Rusch Robert J. Sawyer FRI600CC-RIVER.B Susan M. Shwartz Robinson TH1500CC-RIVER.B FR 1400RW- TRAVIS SAI700CC-PLAZA.A THI500CC-FIESTA.A SA1000CC-EXHIBIT FRI IOOCC-FIESTA.A FRI700CC-CENTRO SU1400CC-RIVER.B FRI7OOCC-RIVER.B SAI IOOCC-PATIO.B SAI I00CC-EXHIBIT SAI300CC-FIESTA.B Nancy Tucker Shaw SAIOOOCC-RIVER.B SA1400CC-CENTRO SA11OOCC-2O5 SUI I00CC-PLAZA.A SA1400CC-206 SU1200CC-I01 SA1600RW-TRAVIS SUI7OOCC-2O3 SA1600CC-208 SAI 300CC-PATIO. B SU 12OOCC-F1ESTA.B MOI I00CC-PLAZA.A SU1600CC-EXHIBIT Mark Shepherd SU1000CC-202 SU 1300CC-FIESTA. B MOI200CC-208 THI300CC-RIVER.B MOHOOCC-FIESTAA Mary Doria Russell SUI I00CC-PLAZA.A Roberta Rogow TH1600CC-PLAZA.A Sharon Sbarsky SU1500CC-205 Joe Siclari THI5OOCC-RIVER.A FR1500CC-206 FRI200CC-I0I TH1400CC-I0I TH1700CC-205 SA1300CC-EXHIBIT SUI600CC-I0I Randy Shepherd FR1400CC-F1ESTA.E SUI600CC-203 SAI500CC-RIVER.B MOI200CC-10I THI900RC-GB MOI200CC-I0I Jennie A. Roller SU 1200CC-206 Stanley Schmidt MO1400CC-CENTRO Robert Silverberg FR1200CC-PATIO.A SU 1700CC-PATIO.A FRI200CC-207 Sherlock TH 1300CC-CENTRO SAI 200CC-RIVER.B Charles C. Ryan FR1500CC-EXHIBIT TH 1500CC-207 FR1500CC-EXHIBIT SUI IOOCC-RIVER.A FR1000CC-RIVER.A SAI IOOCC-PATIO A THI700CC-101 SA1400CC-205 SU 1500CC-209 SA13OOCC-2O7 SAI500CC-205 FRI I00CC-210 SAI600CC-RIVER.A Nina Romberg SUI 100CC-PATIO.A SUI000CC-208 SU 1400CC-FIESTA.B Lisa Silverthorne SU1300CC-RIVER.A MOI000CC-203 FRI300CC-206 SU 13OOCC-2O7 SUIOOOCC-CENTRO SU1700CC-FIESTA.A SA1300CC-RIVER.B Robert E. Sacks Josepha Sherman SUI IOOCC-EXHIBIT SA1400CC-FIESTA.A SA0800RC-12 Debbi Schouten TH 15OOCC-2O2 Pat Sims SUI000CC-207 SA1000CC-203 SAIOOOCC-RIVER.B SU0800RC-12 SAI200CC-I0I SUI300CC-206 M00800RC-12 SAI I00CC-204 SU 1500CC-206 Eckhard SA1500CC-FIESTA.E SA1400CC-PATIO.A M01200CC-RIVER.B William Sanders Schwettmann SA1700CC-FIESTA.B Roger Sims THI600CC-RIVER.A TH1500CC-CENTRO MOI 200CC-RIVER.B THI400CC-206 Mary Rosenblum FRI300CC-206 SAI000CC-207 FR1000CC-208 Will Shetterly SAI400CC-PATIO A SU14OOCC-2O5 SUI600CC-206 SU1300CC-I0I FRI700CC-FIESTA.B TH 1500CC-RIVER.A SA1000RW-MILAM David Sandner Lee Seed FR1200CC-208 TH 1500CC-FIESTA.B THI700CC-FIESTA A PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS INDEXES T/ie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

Bradley H. Sinor Susan Smith Henry Spencer John Steakley SU 13OOCC-2O3 TH1600CC-RIVER.B FR1000CC-206 FRI 100CC-207 SA1300CC-EXHIBIT Pras Stillman FR1000CC-EXHIBIT FR1700CC-CENTRO SAI700CC-208 SA1500CC-R1VER.B TH 1400CC-FI ESTAB SA1600CC-RIVER.A SU1600CC-FIESTA. A SU1200CC-PLAZA.A SUI IOOCC-CENTRO FRIOOOCC-RIVER.B MOIOOOCC-FIESTA.A Willie Siros SUI700CC-FIESTA.E Allen Steele S. M. Stirling FR1600CC-PAT10.A Lisa Snellings William Browning FR 1700CC-207 TH 1300CC-CENTRO SU1400CC-204 FRI IOOCC-PATIO.B Spencer SA1000CC-EXHIBIT TH1700CC-207 MOI I00CC-RIVER.A SA1200CC-RIVER.B SA1500CC-205 FR1000CC-207 SAI600CC-PLAZA.A SAI IOOCC-FIESTA B Glenn R. Sixbury SA1400CC-FIESTA.A SU 1300CC-FIESTA.B FRI 200CC-EXHIBIT FR1300CC-206 S.P. Somtow SA1600CC-207 SUI600RW-MILAM SAIOOOCC-FIESTAB SA1500CC-202 FR14OOCC-2O7 SA1700CC-EXHIBIT Tony Steele SAI I00CC-PLAZAA SA1300CC-PATIO B SUI IOOCC-CENTRO SA1400CC-EXHIBIT George Spicuzza MO1000CC-205 SU1300CC-205 SU1 IOOCC-CENTRO SAI700CC-203 M00900CC-CENTRQ MOIOOOCC-RIVER.A SU13OOCC-2O2 Dan Steffan SU17OOCC-FIESTA.B MO1200CC-CENTRO MARTHA SOUKUP SAI400CC-PATIO.A John E. Stith Alex Slate FR1600CC-204 MOI300CC-CENTRO SA1600CC-I01 Bruce Sterling SA15OOCC-2O5 FR17OOCC-FIESTA.B G. K. Sprinkle TH1400CC-RIVER.B SU1000CC-EXHIBIT Dave Smeds SA1500CC-EXHIBIT TH I400CC-FIESTA.B FRIOOOCC-RIVER B SUI700CC-FIESTA.B TH 17OOCC-2O3 SAI700CC-RIVER.B FR15OOCC-FIESTA.B FRI600RW-TRAVIS John Stopa FR13OOCC-2O7 SUI400CC-202 FR1700CC-205 SAI 100CC-FIESTA.B SUI200CC-101 SA1400CC-EXHIBIT Caroline Spector SUI I00CC-RIVER.A SAI300CC-PLAZA.A SUI400CC-207 SU1400CC-207 FRI000CC-204 SUI400CC-EXHIBIT ). Michael MOI 1OOCC-R1VER.B SAI 100CC-203 Michael A. MOI IOOCC-PATIO A Straczynski Dean Wesley Smith SA1300CC-CENTRO Stackpole Edie Stern SAI2OORC-GB FR1100CC-206 SUII00CC-207 FRI3OOCC-2O5 FRI200CC-10I SUI IOOCC-CENTRO FRI200CC-CENTRO SU1600CC-FIESTA B FRI600CC-207 SA1300CC-I01 Edwin Strickland SAIOOOCC-RIVER.B INDEXES Warren Spector FR1700CC-PATIO.A Sandy Stewart FRI700CC-CENTRO SAI IOOCC-EXHIBIT FRI 1OOCC-2O5 SA1400CC-RIVER.A SU12OOCC-PLAZA.A SU11OOCC-PLAZA.A TH1400CC-205 SAI400CC-RIVER.A SA1600CC-PATIO.A SUI IOOCC-EXHIBIT FRI500CC-PATIO A John Strickland Dick Smith SAI600CC-FIESTA.B SUI IOOCC-EXHIBIT SUI500CC-208 SA13OOCC-RIVER A TH1500CC-I01 SU1400CC-PATIO.A SU 1500CC-207 SU1400CC-10I MOI200CC-PLAZA.A Kevin Standlee Sean Stewart FR1000CC-FIESTA E FRI IOOCC-RIVER.A Ian Randal Strock Sherwood Smith Dick Spelman FR1700CC-FIESTA.B THI600CC-CENTRO FR1200CC-208 FR1600CC-IO! SA1000CC-FIESTA.E SA1200RW-VALERO SAI3OOCC-2O7 SA1400CC-I01 SU1000CC-FIESTA.E SAI4OOCC-2O5 SAI500CC-206 MOIOOOCC-FIESTA.E INDEXES ______PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

Jean Stuntz Mark W. Tiedemann Mark L. Van Name Sage Walker SAI600CC-202 SUI300CC-CENTRO FRI 100CC-RIVER.B FRI2OOCC-2O4 TH1200CC-RIVER.B MOHOOCC-CENTRO SA1600CC-EXHIBIT FRI400CC-206 FRIOOOCC-RIVER.B Len Wein Michael Swanwick SU12OOCC-2O2 SUI400CC-205 FR15OOCC-FIESTA.B SA1230CC-203 TH 1300CC-207 M01300CC-FIESTA.B MOI 100CC-CENTRO SA1600CC-EXH1BIT SA1400CC-207 FR1300CC-MISSION SA1600RW-BONHAM Charles S. Tritt James Van Pelt Ron Walotsky SU 1OOOCC-PLAZA.A SUI100CC-208 FR1600CC-RIVER.A FR1400CC-206 THI700CC-PAT10.B Jacob Weisman SUIOOOCC-CENTRO Allen Varney FR1300CC-203 FRII00CC-206 Lucy A. Synk MOI 200CC-RIVER.A FR1600CC-RIVER.B SAI I00CC-RIVER A THI700CC-210 FR I600CC-PATIO.A SA1000CC-PLAZA A David Truesdale FRI400CC-PATIO.B SU 11 OOCC-PATIO.A Roy Tackett SA1200CC-EXH1BIT FRI5OOCC-1O1 FR1700CC-PATIO.A TH1600CC-206 SU1500CC-PLAZA.A Toni Weisskopf SAI3OOCC-2O7 SAI400CC-R1VER.A TH1900RC-GB SAI 100CC-204 SU 1300CC-PATIO.B SU 1300CC-PATIO.A FR1200RW-VALERO Michael J. Walsh SAI5OOCC-2O3 TH 1300CC-RIVER.A SU1100CC-206 SU12OOCC-RIVER.A Harry Turtledove Tom Veal SUI IOOCC-PATIOA MOI200CC-EXHIBIT TH 1300CC-CENTRO THI500CC-101 SU1400CC-208 MOI400CC-CENTRO TH1600CC-RIVER.A FR1600CC-I01 Michael R. Walsh Henry Welch FR1000CC-207 Edd Vick FR1600CC-PATIO.A FRI3OOCC-1OI Robert Taylor FR1300CC-EXHIBIT MOI 100CC-RIVER.A FRI 200CC-PAT10.B Judith Ward SAI600CC-I0I SAI400RW-MILAM SAI700CC-205 SA1200CC-205 Amy Thomson SU1400CC-FIESTA.B Martha Wells THI200CC-R1VER.B Denise Vitola Lynn Ward FR13OOCC-RIVER.B FR1300CC-EXHIB1T Rochelle Marie SA1000CC-FIESTA.B SU1300CC-EXHIBIT FRI5OOCC-EXHIBIT FRI400CC-210 Uhlenkott SU1600CC-EXHIBIT SU 1500CC-RIVER.B SAI600CC-FIESTA.B FR1000CC-RIVER.A FRI700CC-RIVER A Melanie von Orlow MOIOOOCC-RIVER A SU 1500CC-206 SA1700CC-CENTRO MOI 100CC-PLAZA.A SU1600CC-FIESTA.B TH1700CC-208 Elisabeth Waters SUI I00CC-RIVER.A M. C. Valada FRI700CC-CENTRO FRI 100CC-206 Patty Wells THI400CC-FIESTA.A Diann Thornley Ray Vukcevich SU1000CC-EXHIBIT THI5OOCC-2O5 THI400CC-FIESTA.B SAI I00CC-FIESTAA SA1700CC-RIVER.B FRI200CC-RIVER B Bob Wayne SU1400CC-RIVER.B SU1700CC-206 TH 1300CC-207 SA! 13OCC-2O3 MOI 100CC-RIVER.A MOI300CC-FIESTA.B Cordon Van Gelder Susan Wade FRI 100CC-FIESTA.A SAI 300CC-EXHIBIT Don Webb B. J. Thrower SUI 100CC-FIESTA.B SAI630CC-207 TH I600CC-PATIO.A SAI 500CC-EXHIBIT SU1300CC-RIVER.A SA1700CC-FIESTA.B FRIOOORW-VALERO SU1200CC-FIESTA.A SAI 100CC-FIESTA.B SU1500CC-205 SU1600CC-RIVER.B Jeff Walker FRI600RC-GB SAI 400CC-FIESTA A PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS INDEXES T/ie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

K. D. Wentworth TH1700CC-FIESTA.B MOI300CC-RIVER.B SAI400RW-BONHAM Leah H. Zeldes FRI300CC-206 FR1300CC-10I Jack Williamson SUIOOOCC-PLAZA.A TH1300CC-I01 FR1600CC-PATIO.A SU1600CC-EXHIBIT FR1700CC-FIESTA.B TH 1500CC-CENTRO TH1400CC-101 SUI000RC-GB SAI 100CC-PLAZA.A FR 1200CC-207 Joanne Wood FRI600CC-I0I SU2OOORC-GB SAI 5OOCC-FIESTA. A FR1400CC-101 SAI500CC-I0I Sarah Zettel SU13OOCC-2O4 Guy Wicker SAI300CC-208 Malcolm B. Wood FRI700CC-RIVER.A SUI600CC-EXHIBIT THI600CC-101 SAI600CC-EXHIBIT FRI3OOCC-2O7 SA1000CC-FIESTA.A M01200CC-RIVER.B SUI000RW-VALERO Rick Wilber SUI IOOCC-2O8 SAI600CC-RIVER.A Leslie What SU 1700CC-206 SUI2OOCC-GALLERY FR1100CC-204 janny Wurts FRI100CC-209 FRI500CC-FIESTA.A Connie Willis FR2000CC-CENTRO Mark Ziesing FR1500CC-FIESTA.A SA12OOCC-2O3 TH 1600CC-PLAZA.A FR2IOOART SHOW SUI 100CC-PATIO.A SAII00CC-209 SAI 5OOCC-EXHIBIT FR1000RW-MILAM SA1000CC-PLAZA A SU 14OOCC-2O5 SUI100CC-209 SU1300CC-R1VER.A SAII00CC-208 SAI 200CC-PLAZA.A SU I600CC-EXHIBIT SU1500CC-EXHIBIT SUI500CC-RIVER.A SUI I00CC-EXHIB1T SAI600RW-MILAM MOI I00CC-PLAZA.A Robert Zubrin Andrew C. Wheeler M. D. Williams SU 1OOOCC-FI ESTA.A FR 1100CC-207 SAI700CC-CENTRO MOI300CC-RIVER.B THI700CC-FIESTA.B J. Steven York SAI IOOCC-CENTRO SU 1000CC-FIESTA B SAI400CC-FIESTA.B Courtney Willis TH 1600CC-RIVER B SAI3OOCC-RIVER.A SU 1600CC-FIESTA.A SU12OOCC-Fl ESTA.A SAI600CC-205 FRI 500CC-PATIO.B SAI700RC-I2 Wendy Wheeler Russ Williams Lori Wolf SU1500CC-RIVER.A SU 1 3OOCC-FIESTA B FRI400CC-EXHIBIT FR11OOCC-2O5 THI400CC-206 Stephen Youll SAI400CC-FIESTA.B FR15OOCC-PATIO. B SUIOOOCC-PLAZA.A FR 13OOCC-PLAZA.A SUI500CC-205 SU 1400CC-PATIO.A SU 1400CC-FIESTA.B FR15OOCC-2O7 MOI 1OOCC-RIVER.B Sheila Williams MOI 2OOCC-RIVER.A SAI 1OOCC-RIVER A MOI 3OOCC-RIVER.B SAI3OOCC-2O6 Mel. White TH1700CC-RIVER B SA1600CC-210 TH 13OOCC-PLAZA A FRIOOOCC-2O3 Gene Wolfe TH1600CC-208 FRI2OOCC-RIVER.A Kate Yule INDEXES Walter Jon Williams FRI100CC-206 FRI700CC-RIVER.B SU1200CC-I01 TH 1 200RW- VALERO SA1400CC-EXHIBIT SAI I00CC-EXHIBIT TH I400CC-FI ESTA.A Timothy Zahn SU I400CC-RIVER.B SUIOOORW-MILAM THI700CC-RIVER.A FR1200CC-CENTRO SU 1500CC-206 SUI500CC-FIESTA.B FR13OOCC-2O2 FR1300CC-RIVER B Victoria White SAI200CC-CENTRO Marv Wolfman Tony Zbaraschuk FRI600CC-210 SAI400CC-207 TH 15OOCC-2O7 TH 1600CC-208 SAI000CC-206 FR1200CC-MISSION SA1600CC-RIVER.A SU 13OOCC-2O5 Tom Whitmore SUI000CC-208 FRI300CC-205 TH1400CC-206 SU1500CC-EXHIBIT FR1600CC-RIVER.B PROGRAM in o T/ie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

PROGRAMMING INFO

OPENING CEREMONIES 10:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. Near the Information Desk will be the professional Tourist Info Kiosk for any questions HOWDY Y'ALL AND WELCOME! If you enjoy a good about San Antonio. show, then stroll on down to the Opening Ceremonies

LoneStarCon2 continues of the tradition of the Voodoo PROGRAM and eyeball some trick roping, gun twirling, and fast Board for friends and fans to contact and communicate draw. Hear Texas fibs and whoppers and some old- with each other at the convention. The board, a series fashioned cowboy music. On Thursday night, August 28, of panels posted with the names of all the members of 1997, at 7PM LoneStarCon2 Opening Ceremonies will the convention, will located near the Information Desk. take place in the Marriott Rivercenter Grand Ballroom. Come by early and check off your name to indicate that Let this year's WorldCon welcome you to the Lone Star you have arrived. To leave a message for someone, State in friendly Texas fashion. Don't y'all miss some of place a colored (or coloured) pin beside their name, the best entertainment that Texas has to offer. Those write the message on one of the cards provided, and attending this year's Opening Ceremonies will definitely file it in the appropriate alphabetically arranged box. leave with a fond and amusing memory of the Lone Star State and LoneStarCon2 that will last a lifetime. This The Information Desk will be information central for event will whet your appetite for everything else we parties. If you are throwing an open invitation party, have in store for you during the rest of the weekend. drop off the specifics here. We will create a listing for quick reference by those who want to party. The INFORMATION DESK Information Desk will also be a distribution point for the Daily Newszine and collection point forthose If you have any questions about the convention like wishing to contribute to it. who, what, when, or where, you can ask at the Information Desk. The desk will be located in the VOLUNTEERS Convention Center Arcade beside the escalator. Volunteers will staff it daily during the convention from WorldCons would not function without volunteers, PROGRAM o O' The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off PROGRAM escorting program participants to their panels, surprises. Copies will be available free to members in staffing the Information Desk, distributing the Daily the Con Suite, located in the Marriot Rivercenter, and Newszine, checking badges at the doors. If you wish the Information Desk, located in the Convention to volunteer to help, whether for an hour or more, ask Center (and other locations depending on distribution at Registration or the Information Desk. Sign-up is at demands). Different editions will be clearly identified

INFO the Gofer Hole. We plan to give out special volunteer with different colored paper and edition numbers. t-shirts to those who contribute a certain number of Individuals wishing to contribute news, features, hours. cartoons, photographs, or comments can drop off their PRESS INFORMATION contributions at the The LoneStarCon 2 Press Office will open in Room Information 108 of the Convention Center at 9 AM on Thursday Desk or the morning. Members of the fan press are welcome to Newsroom use this facility. Well offer press releases, we’ll help itself, located you get interviews and do whatever you need to help in the Marriot you cover the convention’s activities. If you have any Rivercenter. questions, stop up in the Press Office, or call the Get your Press Relations cell phone at 210-601-5343. copy of the DAILY NEWSZINE latest edition The Daily Newszine, with regular morning and evening today! editions, will provide you with all the latest late- breaking information and entertainment on the convention. The newszine will include news on the Hugo Awards (immediately after the Ceremonies) and Masquerade, party reports, programming changes, editorial cartoons, celebrity photographs, and a few PROGRAM T/ie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

VOTING HUGO AWARDS CEREMONY INFO

Site Selection for the 58th World Science Fiction Officially a WorldCon is required to host on only two Convention, which will be held in 2000 C.E , and for events: the Hugo Awards Ceremony and the Business the 1999 NASFiC will be open from 2 PM. until 6 PM Meeting. We won’t talk about the Business Meeting . on Thursday, August 28th, from 10 AM to 6 PM on But the Hugo Awards are something special. If you Friday, August 29th, and from 10 AM to 6 PM on have ever seen “Hugo Award Winner!" on the cover of

Saturday. August 30th at the southeast comer of the a book and wondered where it came from, here is the PROGRAM Exhibit Hall. Only members of LoneStarCon2 are source. The awards have been presented at every eligible to vote. WorldCon since 1953, except one, to the best in the field. They are like no other awards in the world. Every A voting fee of $40 is required to participate in the member of a WorldCon (fans and pros from around selection of the 58th Worldcon. A voting fee of $20 is the world) is eligible to nominate and vote in every required to participate in the selection of the 1999 category. Only the Voting Administrator knows the NASFiC. Voters are guaranteed a supporting names of the winners before they are announced at membership in the convention(s) they vote on. the Hugo Ceremonies. Many of the nominees, top­ CHILI COOK-OFF name authors, artists, editors, and fans, dress to the nines for the ceremonies. Come Saturday evening to The tradition we started in 1986 at the first applaud the nominees and cheer as the winners LoneStarCon continues. The Chili Cook-Off will be accept their gleaming silver rockets. The WorldCon is held in the Con Suite in the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel not the WorldCon without the Hugos. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights. Enthusiasm for the cook-off from fans around the country and world MASQUERADE has been overwhelming. Y'all come sample their Where else can you see live Tharks from Barsoom entries and vote for your favorites. A 25c voting fee will armed to the teeth, animated protons smashing into be collected to be donated to the San Antonio Public each other, well-dressed spacemen, regal maidens Library. Plenty of drinks will be available to quench and rogues? The most talented amateur costumers your thirst if the contest gets too hot for you. in the world come to WorldCon to show off. And the PROGRAM o 00 The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off PROGRAM Masquerade is their showcase. With music and artist photo gallery. All autograph sessions will be lights, they each get their moment on stage in front held in the Exhibit Hall (look for your favorite authors of the audience and the judges. Come Sunday and artists in the schedule). On stage in the hall, live evening and be dazzled and amazed by their performances will be presented throughout the day. A craftsmanship and showmanship. Awards are given concession stand will be open to provide

INFO for Best of Show and best in individual categories. refreshments. The winners come back on stage for a bow. and of course more audience applause. FAN LOUNGES CHESLEY AWARDS LoneStarCon2, the Worldcon so big it brings you *two* Fan Lounges! During the day we’ll be in Room The Association of Science Fiction & Fantasy Artists 101 at the Convention Center. We’ll have fanzines for (ASFA) annually awards the Chesley Awards for sale and display, an adjacent function space for Fan excellence in science fiction and fantasy art. (The and Special Interest programming, coffee in the awards are named for Chesley Bonestell, famed mornings, and a Cash Bar from 130 PM to 530 PM astronomical illustrator.) The presentation ceremony The day lounge will close around 6:00 PM. and the will be held Friday evening, followed by an artists’ evening fan lounge will open around 7:00 PM in Room reception. Both the ceremony and reception are open CR 7 at the Marriott Rivercenter. Fan groups which to all convention members. Come help ASFA honor would like to host events in the evening are invited to the Chesley Award nominees and winner. Afterwards contact us. partake of food and drink as you mingle with the artists amid their work in the LoneStarCon2 Art Show. SO WHAT IS A FAN LOUNGE. ANYWAY? EXHIBIT HALL This room is many things to many people - a watering hole, a gathering place for fannish chitchat and general On your way to the Dealers' Room, look around the socializing, a sales area, a reading room. Drop on in to Exhibit Hall. There you’ll find tables, booths, and grab a cup of joe, to browse the current crop of displays featuring the future WorldCons, NASFiCs. fan fanzines as well as preserves put up by our fancestors, history, publishers, media companies, and author and and to hang with the cream of fanzine fandom. Ideally PROGRAM o o The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

we’d like to have displays of fanzines old and new, Charlie Krank (publisher of the ELRIC! roleplaying game) freebies from those wishing to rid themselves of their and another on "H. P Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos: The INFO

fannish excess (so to speak), and fanzines for sale. Games." Plus panels about novels set in game-worlds, games licensed from novels, and some of your favorite sf We'd like to hear from any fans who are willing to host writers in "I Used to Write Games, But I Got Better." We special events in the lounge throughout the weekend also have interviews with such gaming luminaries as - or just to hold down the fort for a while. (We Steve lackson, Michael A. Stackpole and Greg Costikyan. promise no hostile legions will amass outside the mission gates on your watch.). There is a large 24-hour Open Gaming area in the PROGRAM Marriott Riverwalk (Alamo C). Bring your favorite card FAN PROGRAMMING games, work up a roleplaying adventure, or set up a division-level simulation of World War H's European THE FANNISH SIDE OF LIFE. Fan Programming will Theatre. concentrate on several areas, beginning with introductions for the newer members of our Look in Open Gaming for free demonstrations by community and refreshers for the old, designed to representatives from Wizards of the Coast and Iron explain who we are, what we're doing here, and what Crown Enterprises. Wizards will be showing off Portal, we're all about. We'll also discuss the history of the introductory Magic: The Gathering trading card fandom: the legends, crazy stories and serious game specially designed to teach the rules to analysis of our unusual subculture's past. Finally, we'll absolute newcomers. Even if you've never seen a card discuss and debate the current issues, social game before, try it out! Then go over to the Iron questions and latest trends of fandom. Crown tables, where you can learn the Middle-Earth: The Wizards trading card game based on Tolkien's GAMING Lord of the Rings, or play the deep-space miniatures Gaming at LoneStarCon2 includes a full program of game Silent Death. It's all free to LoneStarCon2 panels of interest to gamers and non-gamers alike, with members, so come on by! special emphasis on the ways gaming has influenced science fiction and vice versa. Look for a panel on "Elric: The Games" with Michael Moorcock and Chaosium's PROGRAM The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off PROGRAM CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING babysitting around their program item (except between 5 PM and 7 PM). Any additional hours for LoneStarCon2 has a special Children's Programming these children, and any hours for "Kids-in-tow" (kids track for our younger fans. The programming items without their own memberships) will be $5.00 an include readings, interactive presentations, and hour.

INFO activities and are clearly marked in the schedule. We are eager to encourage the imagination of children, Late Fees: We hate to do this, but we know how late who are the future of science fiction and fantasy. fans can be. If you don't pick up your kids before 5:10 Parents, of course, are welcome. (for dinner) or before 11:10 (at close of Babysitting), you will be charged an extra $5.00 for every 10 BABYSITTING minutes you're late. Please be considerate of our sitters and of your children and try to be on time. If Babysitting will run in a suite on the fifth floor of the you're late at any other time, you'll be charged $5.00 Marriott Rivercenter Hotel (the main hotel), and will for each hour you're late. be open the following hours: If you plan to use Babysitting, please stop up Day/Date Day Hours Dinner Break Night Hours Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning, fill out a Wed. Aug 27 9am-5pm child information form (Name, Age, Parents, Medical Thur. Aug 28 9am-5pm 5pm-7pm 7pm-1 Ipm Conditions, the usual) and estimate which hours Fri, Aug 29 9am-5pm 5pm-7pm 7pm-11pm you'll need babysitting for. That will help ensure that Sat. Aug 30 9am-5pm 5pm-7pm 7pm-11pm we've hired enough sitters for the Worldcon. Sun. Aug 31 9am-5pm 5pm-7pm 7pm-l 1pm Babysitting is being managed by the Northside Sitters Mon. Sep I 9am-5pm Club, a group licensed by the state of Texas. A child with a child's membership is entitled to 6 hours of babysitting during the convention at no AUCTIONS additional cost. Staff members with children will get Science fiction fans and WorldCons have a long up to 4 hours a day of babysitting. Program tradition of contributing to worthy causes, either participants with children will get 2 hours of directly, through convention profits, or through PROGRAM The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

auctions. LoneStarCon2 is sponsoring five auctions: "kiddie cartoons", but rather, dramatic, comedic, Real Musgrave Scholarship Fund. SFWA Medical action-packed, sometimes thought-provoking viewing, INFO Emergency Fund, Pediatric AIDS in Central Texas. that happens to be animated. Much of it has a TAFF and DUFF, and Ursa Major Brown Bag Book science-fiction flavor, as an added bonus! Give it a try! Auction. Generous fans have contributed a wealth of Titles shown will be subtitled or dubbed in English. neat art and stuff. Check the schedule for exact times Look for a full schedule posted on the door of the and places. Then show up with your bids and money room, and handouts will be available to give you

to support your favorite causes. basic plotlines for the shows. Also, prizes will be PROGRAM distributed at various times throughout the weekend, TOURS donated by the video companies who have supplied Don't forget to join our late-night, one-hour barge the viewing materials! cruise, departing at 10 pm on Thursday. Friday, VIRTUAL EXHIBITS Saturday and Sunday nights and returning by 11 PM. These charters leave from the Marriott Riverwalk Numerous exhibits ought to exist but do not. Don’t Hotel. Sign-up for the each charter takes place at the look for them at LoneStarCon2 but we invite you to Information booth in the Convention Center. The cost imagine them. They include the Ben Yalow bowtie is just $2.00 per person (the standard barge trip is collection featuring identical clip-on black bowties $4.00). Sign up early in the con - each barge can take from the years 1976 through 1996 in a glass jeweler's only 40 people. If there's enough interest, we might case with appropriate lighting, the Bruce Pelz official be able to add additional barges at the con. convention ribbon collection with stickers and pins, which if laid end to end would stretch from L.A. to the ANIME ROOM Dead Dog Star, the WorldCon mascot costume Hosted by Phoenix Entertainment (the Project: A-Kon collection, and the complete science fiction fan t-shirt people), we plan to bring you the best and the newest collection. If you have trouble imagining any of these, available in the country. Anime is Japanese don't hesitate to ask at the Information Desk for Animation, striking in it's appearance and adult assistance. Suggestions for future virtual exhibits are (mostly) in it's theme and content, these are not encouraged. FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997| GUIDEBOOK The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

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URSA MAIOR invites you to join them at weekly meetings in San Antonio, Texas. They sponsor Writers’ & Artists' Workshops, Harper's Night, Video production, and Brown Bag Book Auctions. Member activities include lively talk about SF/F Books, Bad Movies and Snide Remarks, Holiday Parties, & Community Service. For more information, contact:

...... ; lacquelyn Sykes : P.O. Box 691448 • San Antonio, TX 78269-1448 • (210)697-0597

Ursa Major Members include: Ed Bernstein, Joe Ebbecke, Lynn (Mouse) Garcia, Mary Helm, Lindsey Hertel, Lucy Hitzfelder, Alice Knapp, Tom Morin, lacquelyn Sykes, Bruce Tomlin, Judith Ward, Lynn Ward, Sherry (Sherlock) Watson, and Steve Tates.

George Alec Effinger is our guest restaurant reviewer. We appreciate all the hard work he has done for this guide. GUIDEBOOK ______FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997 The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off ABOUT SAN ANTONIO

CLIMATE, ETC. cattle trails to the river. Also, the San Antonio Expect warm to hot weather in August. Temps River wanders around, it all adds to the charm. in the 80s and 90s during the day, occasionally still hotter. The nice thing is that most days are DOWNTOWN bright and sunny, with little rain. Lows at night You can walk to most sites downtown; many are average from the low 70s to the mid 80s. To located near or on Commerce Street. Don't cool off. head for the River Walk. It's below want to walk? Take the VIA streetcar or the Lone street level and is always a few degrees cooler. Star Trolley that make the rounds of downtown.

DRESS BEYOND DOWNTOWN Casual. Practical and comfortable is the way to Downtown is enclosed by several freeways go. Even the best restaurants seldom require a which radiate outward like spokes, intersecting coat and tie. Loop 410, which forms a circle within the city and its suburbs. If you get lost, you can always I’M LOST! spot downtown by the Tower of the Americas. Don't expect the streets in San Antonio to be laid out in a grid-like pattern. Some change PARKING names, or turn abruptly, particularly in the Free out in the suburbs. However, downtown is older areas. Remember the streets were once another matter. There are on-street meters plus many parking lots and garages, both city and FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997______| GUIDEBOOK The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

hotel. If you park on the street, park less than DRUG STORES 18 inches from the curb. Beware the zealous MENGER DRUG STORE "Meter Maids." 204 Alamo Plaza, in the Menger Hotel. 223-4361

AIRPORT REVCO DRUG STORE 343 W. Houston. 225-4148 The city airport is only about 20 minutes from downtown. There's a regular van service to and ECKERD DRUG STORE from downtown hotels. Many hotels also have 6900 San Pedro. Open 24 hours. 824-3237.

GUIDEBOOK their own vans. HEB PHARMACY 9900 Wurzbach. Open 24 hours. 696-1073. RAILROAD STATION Renovated in 1993. Within four blocks of SERVICE STATIONS Rivercenter Mall. HEMISFAIR EXXON 700 S. St.Mary’s St. 223-5454

VIA TROLLEYS LEE'S GULF The downtown trolley system now travels all 701 S. St. Mary's St. 223-7219 through the central business district. In MIKE'S EXXON AUTO SERVICE CENTER operation from 7:30 a.m to 8:00 p.m. 526 W. Cevallos. 226-0548 DOWNTOWN ATMs (or as close as you can get) BANKS (in front of Foley’s) Rivercenter Mall FROST BANK Frost Bank - Main at Houston Main at Houston Marriott Hotels in the Lobby GUIDEBOOK FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997 The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

PHOTOFINISHING GROCERY STORES FOX I HOUR HANDY ANDY #11 River Center Mall. 271 -3444 3401 San Pedro. 736-1501 HEB#8 BARBER SHOP 3910 McCullough. 824-3205 GUNTER HOTEL 205 E. Houston. 226-1723 LAUNDRY KWIK WASH BEAUTY SHOPS 520 East Houston St. Neighborhood should LEONARD'S BEAUTY ROOM be traveled in bunches. Alamo Plaza, in the Menger Hotel. 227-7605 REGIS HAIRSTYLISTS MEDICAL River Center Mali. 226-1000 MEDICAL CLINIC

408 Navarro. Twenty-lour hour full service. GUIDEBOOK CONVENIENCE STORE PIK NIK FOODS SANTA ROSA HOSPITAL 300 E. Commerce. 226-6055 519 West Houston. Full service hospital. THE BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER COPY SERVICE 111 Dallas. Full service hospital. KINKO'S 1906 San Pedro. 732-1177 PARKING GARAGES QUIK PRINT RIVER BEND 602 N. Alamo. 225-4081 At the corner of S. Presa and Commerce. FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997______| GUIDEBOOK The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

HEMISFAIR LUTHERAN At the east end of the Convention Center. Grace Lutheran Church - 504 Ave. E. RIVERCENTER St. John's Lutheran Church - 502 E Nueva. Rivercenter Mall. SOCIETY OF FRIENDS HOTEL (Quaker) - 102 Belknap. Traditional workshop Most of the hotels have parking; however, it at 10:00 A M. Discussion at 11.00 A.M. will be expensive.

GUIDEBOOK SYNAGOGUES PLACES OF WORSHIP Rodfei Sholom (orthodox) - 3003 Sholom Blvd. BAPTIST Agudas Achim (conservative) - 16550 First Baptist Church -515 McCullough. Huebner Road Trinity Baptist Church - 319 East Mulberry. Temple Beth El (reform) - 211 Belknap.

CATHOLIC LOCAL ATTRACTIONS St. Joseph's - tucked between the River THE ALAMO Center Mall and Dillard's at 623 East Established in 1718, the Mission of San Commerce is affectionately known to locals Antonio de Valero, more widely known as the as "St. loske's". Alamo, was the first of the city's missions. San Fernando Cathedral - 115 Main Plaza From February 23 to March 6, 1836, 189 men St. Mary’s - 202 North St. Mary's. fought and died in the name of Texas independence. Texas' most important icon and EPISCOPAL the center of Texas' fight for freedom. The old St. Mark’s Episcopal Church - 315 E Pecan mission has become the rallying place for free GUIDEBOOK FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997 Tftf Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

men everywhere in the world. The phrase railroad. Easy access from hotels via city "Remember the Alamo" has been popularized buses. 3500 North St. Mary’s Street. 299-8480. in print and film. This is a must see for all CARVER CULTURAL CENTER visitors to San Antonio. Open daily year round. Primarily a professional dance theater: Walking distance from convention site. Group however, other events covering local culture are tours may be arranged. Alamo Plaza. 225-1391. scheduled. Includes art, music, and theater. On THE ALAMODOME bus routes. 266 North Hackberry. 229-7211. This state of-the-art multipurpose stadium FIESTA TEXAS opened in 1993 with a Paul McCartney Admission is $22.50, 12 years and up; $15.95, concert. 100 Montana Street. 223-3663 4-11 years: children under three are free. BOAT RIDES Rental strollers are available. Parking is Large barges takes passengers on a half-hour $3.00. Via express bus North 94 from Market

ride through downtown on the San Antonio St. and South Alamo downtown 85 cents one GUIDEBOOK River. Boats depart when full. Tickets and way. The bus runs Fri., Sat., and Sun. starting information near Caso Rio Restaurant or at noon on Friday and leaves every 40 Rivercenter Mall. minutes. FIESTA TEXAS is located near the intersection of I-I0W and Loop 1604. BRACKENRIDGE PARK North of downtown, the Park is 343 acres of GUADALUPE CULTURAL ART CENTER fun-in-the-sun or shade. Includes picnic area, Mexican-American and Latino arts in film, golf course, polo field, bridle trails, paddle literature, music, and theater. Visitors have a boats, carousel, skyride, and miniature real treat when festivals are scheduled. A true FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997| GUIDEBOOK Tfe Second Occasional UmeStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

Latino cultural trip. On bus routes. 1300 INSTITUTE OF TEXAN CULTURE Guadalupe St. 271-3151. Ethnic diversity and pioneer heritage are represented in exhibit featuring HEMISFAIR PARK approximately 30 cultural groups. 801 S. Location of 1968 World's Fair. Features Bowie Street in Hemisfair Park. 226-7651 dramatic water fountains, streams, and ponds. Home of the 750-foot "Tower of the Americas". IAPANESE SUNKEN GARDEN A must-see for spectacular view of San Brackenridge Park. Site of a former quarry.

GUIDEBOOK Antonio. Walking distance from convention Beautiful flowers. Free. center. 600 HemisFair Park. 299-8615. KING WILLIAM HISTORIC DISTRICT HORSE-DRAWN CARRIAGE RIDES 25 blocks make up one of the most elegant Carriages can be boarded in front of the residential areas in the city. Be sure to stop Alamo. There are several carriage companies, at the Steve's Homestead at 509 King so prices may vary. William St.

IMAX THEATRE LA VILLITA Six-story screen, with 45-minute docudrama A quaint and historic walled village, La Villita about "The Battle of the Alamo." Plus other is the original site of San Antonio. Now an special features. Really impressive show. In arts and crafts center. Within walking Rivercenter Mall and in walking distance. distance from the convention center. Shows daily. Also show major movies in the Bounded by S. Alamo, E. Nueva and S. Presa. evening. 225-1MAX South Alamo Street. 229-8610. GUIDEBOOK FANNI9H GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997 Tfte Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

MARKET SQUARE (EL MERCADO) PADDLE BOATS Shopper's paradise. Anything and everything Children and adults can paddle down the from hot peppers, dresses, t-shirts, San Antonio River at their leisure, two or curiosities, etc. Many excellent eateries, three person per boat, In Brackenbridge Park. shops and galleries. A flavor of old San 736-9534 . Antonio. Easy access by downtown Street PEAR APPLE COUNTY FAIR Cars. Located at the corner of Commerce Family entertainment center on 15 acres. Street and Santa Rosa Avenue. 299-8600. Includes indoor Ferris wheel, bumper cars, MEXICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE state-of-the-art go-karts, miniature golf, A piece of Mexico in San Antonio. Exhibits playground and food service. 5778 N.W. Loop contemporary artists from Mexico and South 410. 521-9500. America. Walking distance from convention SAN ANTONIO BOTANICAL GARDEN center. 600 Hemisfair Park. 227-0123 A good place to visit all your leafy friends. GUIDEBOOK MISSION TRAIL Open Tuesday through Sunday, from 9 a.m. Includes Mission Conception, established in until 6 p.pm. Admission is $3,00 for adults, 1730; Mission San Francisco de la Espada, $ 1.50 for senior citizens and 50 cents for established in 1731; Mission San lose, a children. Features traditional formal gardens, Spanish Colonial mission and Mission San native Texas plants, indoor collections luan Capistrano, still in use today. Not featuring exotic and tropical plants, and also recommended as a one day tour. May be an authentic Japanese garden. 555 Funston. taken via tour bus, auto, or bicycle. 821-5115 FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997| GUIDEBOOK Tfte Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

SEA WORLD OF TEXAS Considered to be one of the world's best. A 250-acre marine theme park in northwest Barless cages and open pits display baboons, San Antonio. Shows, exhibits, attractions, penguins, flamingos and other animals. Over dining and guided tours. Extraordinary place 3,000 specimens are housed here. Adults, to spend a day. Off Texas Highway 151. $5.00; Children 3-11, $3.00. Hours 9:30-6. Discounts and tours easily available. 536- RIVERWALK (PASEO DEL RIO) I 3611 or 1-800-422-7989. Easily found. All major highways will eventually lead to Sea The Riverwalk helps make San Antonio one of Q World. City buses also go to Sea World. the four unique cities in America. Lined with c cafes, restaurants, night clubs and shops geared SPANISH GOVERNOR'S PALACE to the tourist, the river is also the scene of many The only remaining example in Texas of an of the varied festivals to be found in San early aristocratic Spanish home. The Spanish Antonio. Lunch and dinner boats are available Governor's Palace features authentic from certain restaurants along the River. reproduction furnishing and artwork. Handicapped accessible from hotel lobbies. Admission is $1.00 for adults, 50 cents for children ages 7-13 and free for children under RIVERCENTER SPECIALTY SHOPS 7. Open Monday through Saturday from 9 Cats Cats Cats - What the name says: a.m. until 5 p.m. and on Sundays from 10 a.m. Everything you could want for, about and until 5 p.m. 105 Military Plaza, just west of with cats on it. If you love cats, be ready to City Hall. spent lots of time here. In the Blum Street Section of Rivercenter, on the outside of the ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS AND AQUARIUM mall, between Dillards and the Menger Hotel. 3903 N. St. Mary's St. in Brackenridge Park. GUIDEBOOK |______FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997 T/ie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

Brentano's - Upscale bookstore, with an Street shop between Dillards and the emphasis on best sellers and a good Menger Hotel. selection of non-fiction. Worth a good browse. River level of Rivercenter Mall, next MUSEUMS to the Rivercenter Marriott. Time travel into Earth’s past in some of San Antonio’s unique museums. Primarily Purple - If you’re into purple, this THE ALAMO place is for you. They have teddys, pencils, t- The most important place to see in San shirts, toys, mugs, etc. from a Si.99 to $59.00 Antonio, where 187 men held off 5,000 Open Monday thru Saturday 10-9. Sunday Mexican Army besiegers for 12 days, falling 11-6. 224-8373. on the 13th day. Two good museums Texas Store - High fashion apparel with a chronicle Texas history. On Alamo Plaza. Lone Star flair. Expensive. Inside Dillards on Open Monday thru Saturday from 9-5:30. GUIDEBOOK the first floor. Sunday 10-5:30. Free. Gift Shop. ****

River Center Drugstore - An incredible BUCKHORN HALL OF HORNS MUSEUM array of Texas and San Antonio souvenirs 600 S. Lone Star. (IZ miles south on US 281 here, from t-shirts and coonskin hats to on the grounds of the Lone Star Brewery.) those little paperweights that snow. Also Has a collection of animal horns, antlers, packaged munchies, cold drinks (alcoholic mounted fish and wildlife specimens. Daily and non], plus the usual drugstore notions 9:30 -5. Adults S3.50. Children 6-11 $ 1.50. and health-and-beauty aids. If you forgot to Free on Tuesdays from 3-9. *** pack it, you can probably find it here. Blum FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997______| GUIDEBOOK The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

COWBOY MUSEUM AND GALLERY INSTITUTE OF TEXAN CULTURES 209 Alamo Plaza. Western art & memorabilia. 801 S. Bowie (Located in HemisFair Park). Large displays have handprinted Temporary and permanent exhibits illustrate explanations. Steers, mannequins in the customs, dress and job skills of ethnic vaquero, cowboy, and Indian outfits, saddles, groups that helped settle Texas. Guided trail maps, etc. Many items are not labeled. tours are available. 9 A.M.-5 P.M. Donations Handicapped accessible; however, the ramps are accepted. ***** are narrow. Adults 3.50. Children 2.00. Group MARION KOOGLER MCNAY ART MUSEUM G rates for 10 or more. ** c 6000 N. New Braunfels. Includes modern DALE WARREN WILDLIFE EXHIBIT French works, American and European 101 Broadway at Houston St. Has more than watercolors. Gothic and Medieval art, 300 mounted wildlife specimens from contemporary Indian and New Mexico santos, around the world, including a giraffe, 19th and 20th century bronzes, paintings by elephant, antelopes, fish, fowl, a cougar, etc. Picasso and Van Gogh, and a wing of Greek Monday-Saturday 10-6. Sunday 10-5. and Roman sculptures. Allow 2 plus hours Taxidermists delight. " minimum. Tuesday-Saturday and holidays 9-5. Sundays 2-5. Donations are accepted. ***** HERTZBERG CIRCUS COLLECTION 210 W. Market St. Traces the history of the PIONEER TRAIL DRIVER circus. Exhibits include Torn Thumb Texas Rangers Hall, 3805 Broadway next to the memorabilia, painting, posters, and a Witte Museum. Three rooms of memorabilia of miniature three-ring circus. Monday - Trail Drivers and Texas Rangers. Tuesday- Saturday 9-5; Sunday and holidays 1-5. **** Sunday Si.00. Handicapped accessible. * GUIDEBOOK |______FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997 The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

PLAZA THEATER OF WAX AND RIPLEY’S Greek and Roman antiquities. Hours: 10 BELIEVE IT OR NOT a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 301 Alamo Plaza. More than 225 wax figures Tuesday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday noon-5 p.m. based on Hollywood stars, well-known horror Admission; Adults $4.00; Seniors 65 and figures and Texas heroes. Summer hours are older, $2.00; children, 4-11, $1.50. Group 9 a.m. - 10 p.m. Adult $5.95; Over 55 $5.45; rates available with reservations. Children (ages 4-12) $3.95. * Handicapped accessible. *****

In the same building are more than 500 WITTE MUSEUM exhibits from Robert Ripley's Believe It or 3801 Broadway. Dioramas portray wildlife in Not collection, featuring oddities and Texas, also, native Americans and life in early curiosities from around the world. A Texas. Among the exhibits are natural combination ticket is $8.95 Children 6.95. science and a Fiesta collection. Special Not handicapped accessible. " exhibits have included "Muppets, and GUIDEBOOK Dinosaurs, the Next Generation". On the SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OPART grounds are several historic houses and 200 W. lones Ave. (The old Lone Star natural history exhibits. Hours: 10-6 P.M. Brewery). Permanent collections emphasize Monday thru Saturday. Tuesday, noon-9. regional materials and art of the Americas. Sunday, noon to 6. Admission Adults $4.00, There are exhibits on pre-Columbian Seniors over 65. $2.00, children, 4-11. $1.50. sculpture and pottery, Spanish colonial art; Group rates available with reservations. contemporary and modern painting and Handicapped accessible. ***** sculpture, 18th and 19th century art; 20th century Mexican folk art, oriental art; and FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997 GUIDEBOOK The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

BOOK STORES of used science fiction is available. Also used BARNES AND NOBLE fiction and non-fiction, remainders, records One of the new breed of bookstores. Has a and tapes. 3207 Broadway, near Brackenridge coffee shop next door. Very good selection of Park; 7959 Fredericksburg Rd, outside Loop new fiction and non-fiction. 410; and Lehman's Village 4919 NW Loop 410 (Summitt exit) also 281 N. at Bitters Road. BOOKSTOP A vast selection of new fiction and non-fiction FOR THE HORSEY SET at discounted prices. Also a varied selection of KALLISON'S magazines. On I-10 NW in the Colonnade The oldest and best Western store in town. If Center, between Wurzbach and Huebner - take you are a cowboy, or you always wanted to the Wurzbach exit. Also in Alamo Heights, be one, you can get yourself outfitted here. north of downtown, at 6496 N. New Braunfels. 123 S. Flores, across from the Courthouse.

BORDERS LEBMAN'S A new bookstore on IH-IO W. Take the A department store for Western horsemen. DeZavala exit. The store is on the right side of Not complete, but some good bargains to be the surface road. This is a very nice bookstore had. 8701 Perrin-Beitel, or 6504 Bandera Rd.; with a cafe inside. Lots of art, science fiction both just outside Loop 410. 655-7553 or 680- and crafting books. 7118

HALF PRICE BOOKS RANCHMART-SADDLETREE A Texas chain of used bookstores, but with The only local shop devoted to English that corner bookstore flavor. A wide selection riding. Carla, Fenwick the dog, and their staff GUIDEBOOK ______FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997 The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

will be happy to cater to all your needs. adults and $2.00 for children. (210) 537-4212 Carries the latest in clothing, tack and NATURAL BRIDGE CAVERNS supplies. Check out the resale racks for 1-35 North to exit 175 then take Natural bargains on used apparel and equipment. Bridge Caverns Road (FM 3009). Named for 8542 Fredericksburg Rd, outside Loop 410, in the 60-foot natural bridge that spans its the Oaks Shopping Center, 614-1737 in entrance, this attraction fascinate visitors CM UNDERGROUND with its colorful limestone. These caverns CASCADE CAVERNS were formed more than 140,000,000 years A 100-foot waterfall deep within the cave ago. Tours start every 30 minutes between 9 gives this impressive natural attraction its a.m. and 6 p.m. Each tour last 1 hour and 20 name. Approximately 14 miles from Loop minutes. Admission is $6.75 for adults and 1604 on I-10 West. Tours start every half-hour $5.00 for children age 3-11; 2 and under free. 651-6101

from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $6.95 for GUIDEBOOK adults and $4.95 for children age 3-11; 2 and OFF THE BEATEN TRACK under$l.00. Exit 543, Boerne. (210) 755-8080 BUSSY'S FLEA MARKET CAVE WITHOUT A NAME 18738 IH 35 N (near the Garden Ridge exit). I-10 West to Farm Road 474. About 30 miles. They've got everything from junk cars to Open daily from 9:30 to 4:30. (Closed on window shades, lust show up Saturday or Tuesday.) The "Room of 1,000 faces', Sunday. Plenty of fantasy and science fiction encourages you to look for formations for everyone. 651 -6830 resembling faces. Admission is $5.00 for CAMARILLA VINTAGE BOUTIQUE FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997______j GUIDEBOOK The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

1809 Blanco Rd. Specializes in vintage candies, toys and just plain strange. Not for clothing mainly from the 40s and 50s. May the squeamish or puritanically minded. 654- be pricey but good quality. 735-6781 8536 or 349-9615

NATURAL BRIDGE WILDLIFE RANCH THE TIME ZONE 1-35 North to exit 175 then take Natural 427 Bonham. Vintage clothing usually Bridge Caverns Road (FM 3009). A 200-acre reasonable and in good condition. 226-4063 wildlife preserve this ranch features SHEER

GUIDEBOOK hundreds of exotic animals. For those of you who like their quaff hand NELDA'S VINTAGE CLOTHING brewed, San Antonio has several very good 2227 Blanco. Specializes in vintage clothing. Micro-Brewies and Brew-Pubs. I can't vouch for 30s to 50s, also shoes. Most of the items are the facilities, but I can say that all the brew is in fine condition. 734-3678 good. These include:

PAPA JIM S BOTANICA BLUE STAR BREWING CO. 5360 S. Flores. For the largest selection of 1414 S. Alamo. A variety of beers available Herbal and Occult items in South Texas visit on premise. 212-5506 "Papa Jim's". From candles and herbs, to pamphlets on Occult and Herbal medicines - FRIO BREWING CO. this is a true botanica. 922-6665. 1905 N. Saint Mary's. Friday night party the middle of the month with free beer and PLANET K entertainment for a $5.00 cover charge. 2318 Austin Hwy or 1645 Babcock. Cards. 225-8222 GUIDEBOOK FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997 The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off RESTAURANT LISTINGS

SALADO CREEK BREWING CO. There are several Gentlemen's Clubs in San 312 Pearl Pkwy. No drinking on premise or Antonio. Cover charge is $5.00 to $7.00 and tours available but do try the beer. 224-5319 beer is $3.75 to $4.50. Two clubs also offer male dancers for the ladies on the weekends. THE LABORATORY BREWING CO. These are P.T.s and The Wild Zebra which are 7310 Jones-Maltsberger. Located in what also among the most popular clubs. Clubs used to be the lab building of a now moved offer happy hours and daytime specials. cement plant. A variety of beers in a lab setting. This is becoming a very upscale area ALL STARS so there may be a crowd. 822-1997 9440 IH 10 W (at Wurzbach) 593-0576 GUIDEBOOK YELLOW ROSE BREWING CO. BABES 17201 San Pedro Ave. The same as Salado 9504 Perrin Beitel 599-2836 Creek but don't leave town without trying GIORGIO'S one of their six beers available And as long 6109 Callaghan Rd (at Loop 410) 647-5667 as you are here don't leave town without drinking the national beer of Texas fandom - P.T.S Shiner Bock. 496-6669 111 NW Loop 410 (at San Pedro) 344-8531

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107 E. Martin at Soledad (downtown) 224-4400 ahead. Serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. Located in the basement of Mission style SHOTGUN WILLIE’S church on Historic Register. Inexpensive. Not 2482 NE Loop 410 (at Perrin Beitel) 599-6001 Handicapped accessible. There are three or THE WILD ZEBRA four small steps. 271-7791. ***** 2525 NE Loop 410 (at Perrin Beitel) 646-6331 ANAQUA ROOM TIFFANY’S Plaza San Antonio Hotel. Located at 555 South

GUIDEBOOK 8736 Wurzbach 614-3919 Alamo, it has a long standing reputation for All of the restaurants have been rated by local varied fish choices and excellent preparation. fans and/or George Alec Effinger. Check the The staff goes to great lengths to be of service. Ursa Major list for the initials of the fans. Reservations suggested. Expensive. *“*

ACAPULCO SAM’S Inexpensive SI0.00 and under (per person). 212 College. Also within easy walking Moderate S10.00 - $20.00 (per person) distance. The food is good and the prices are Expensive $20.00 and up (per person) reasonable. Drink specials, D| and live DOWNTOWN entertainment in the evenings. Call for details ALAMO STREET RESTAURANT or check your local listing. 212-7267 ** SY 1150 S. Alamo. Small, intimate, great home BILL MILLER’S BBQ cooking and gourmet dishes. Try the chef's 2823 West Commerce St. )ust one of the special. Beer and wine available. May be many Bill Millers in town. They raise, butcher closed on weekends for private parties, so call and cook their own meat. They also do all GUIDEBOOK ______FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997 The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

their own baking. Usually good Texas-styie ambiance. Live entertainment in the BBQ. Inexpensive. ** evenings. Call for bands and times or check your local listing. 224-0026 '* SY CASA RIO 430 East Commerce on the Riverwalk is one of THE FIG TREE the oldest tourist restaurants in San Antonio. La Villita at 515 Paseo de La Villita. Gourmet Beware of strolling mariachis. Dinner on cuisine in an Old World setting. Highly barges by reservations. Moderate. * recommended by locals. Reservations suggested. Expensive. *•'• CHAMPIONS SPORTS BAR & RESTAURANT River Level. Rivercenter Mall. Full lunch and THE FOOD COURT dinner menus. Good hamburgers. Live classic Rivercenter Mall. Has all of the requisite fast rock n' roll on Friday nights. D.J, on other nights. food franchises. Inexpensive. * ** *** Satellite sports on 17 TV monitors. Open 11 according to your taste in fast food.

a.m. to midnight daily. Inexpensive. **** GUIDEBOOK FUDDRUCKER'S DICKS LAST RESORT 115 Alamo Plaza serves big, sloppy burgers. 406 Navarro. Go to Dicks to refresh your 3R's. Dress them yourself from the condiment bar. rude, raucous and rowdy. Located on the Pretty damn good home fries. Inexpensive. Riverwalk in downtown San Antonio within There is nothing to distract you from the easy walking distance of hotels. Burgers and burgers here. 223-9944 *** SY, LG, |W such are all served in a Bucket. The food is GUENTHER HOUSE RESTAURANT good, the prices are reasonable and the 205 E.Guenther St. (at the Pioneer Flour Mill, waitstaff is extremely rude which is the FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997______| GUIDEBOOK The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

entrance off South Alamo). The Guenther LAS CANARIAS House is located in the King William District. 112 College Street is located inside the La All baked goods, among the best and largest Mansion del Rio Hotel. Continental food in town, are made from their own milled with a flair. Don't miss the Sunday brunch. flours. Opens at 7:00 A.M. for breakfast. Expensive. *** Lunch is served until 3:00 PM. (No smoking) KANGAROO COURT Tour the house and visit their gift shop while 1 Good seafood and steak. Watch the tourists you are there. Not handicapped accessible. stroll the riverwalk. 512 River Walk. 224-6821. o Inexpensive. 227-1061. ***** MH, IS c LITTLE RHEIN STEAKHOUSE HARD ROCK CAFE Located at 301 S. Alamo. In a historic 1840s South Bank of the Riverwalk. Excellent service. house, this is the place for steaks downtown. Another of the new trendy restaurants showing Moderate for a steak house. * * * off collections of stuff. (They even have "Sonny and Cher” dolls." The food is good. *•• |W MI TIERRA CAFE & BAKERY 218 Produce Row (in El Mercado). Traditional JAILHOUSE CAFE Mexican food; excellent bakery. "Touristy" 1126 W Commerce. You can get a chicken and kind of noisy. Inexpensive to moderate. fried steak here big enough to give you Drop in for a late night chocolate and pan instant heart attack. Food is good, hearty and dulce and a look at the night people. Decent large portions. Prices are reasonable. This is food and fairly reasonable prices. 225- 1262 right across from the jail, hence the name. ** SY, AK, JW. LW, Not the best neighborhood, so go with others. 224-5001 *** SY GUIDEBOOK ______FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997 The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

OLIVE GARDEN SIAM RESTAURANT 849 E. Commerce St. (Rivercenter Mall). Meals 109 Alamo (across the street from Dillards come with all the soup or salad and breadsticks Rivercenter Mall location). Small, but not as you can eat. fest prices are on the luncheon busy as some placed on the Riverwalk. menu, which is served until 3:00 PM.. This is very Although some dishes are marked as spicy, popular and becomes very crowded during the they are not necessarily "hot" spicy. Beer and evening, especially on Saturday and Sunday. A wine available. Handicapped accessible. good time to go is between 2 and 3 RM.. Separate 226-4040. ’**% bar and full alcohol service. Handicapped SPAGHETTI WAREHOUSE accessible from the River level. Lunch portions are 1226 E. Houston. Good Italian food in near available at dinner. Just ask. Inexpensive to downtown at fairly reasonable prices. You moderate. 224-5956. *“* IS, MH, JW, LW, SY can eat in a trolley car and there are old PLANET HOLLYWOOD advertising signs all over. Endless warm, GUIDEBOOK South Bank of the Riverwalk. Very trendy. fresh bread. You might have to drive to this Lots of movie props. one or catch a trolley and you should go in strength. SY. Always crowded. 299-1114 SCHILO'S 424 E. Commerce. The oldest downtown deli. TACO CABANA Famous for split pea soup and corn beef 101 Alamo Plaza. Good Mexican food at sandwiches. Root beer should be the drink of good prices in a pink restaurant. What more choice. (This is a German style deli — not can you say. 224 6!58 *** SY New York.) Moderate. 223-6692 TONY ROMA'S RIBS FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997| GUIDEBOOK The Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

Rivercenter Mall. Variety of Ribs. Try the — the local Celtic bands usually play in Friday onion ring loaf. Moderate. 225-7662 *** and Saturday nights. Moderate. 824-0100. ***

TOWER OFTHE AMERICAS RESTAURANT CHESTER'S HAMBURGER CO Hemisfair Plaza. See all of San Antonio from You have to go out to loopland for a Chester's high in the air in a revolving restaurant. Food burger, but they are good and there is a large is edible for this kind of tourist attraction. selection of beer to go with them. Prices are Moderate. * reasonable. If you are in the area and want a burger drop in. Located at 1006 NE Loop 410 SUBURBAN DINING (at Broadway) and 16609 San Predo Av (281 N ALDO'S RISTORANTE ITALIANO at Thousand Oaks). *** SY LG 8539 Fredericksburg Rd. Gourmet Italian in a large 'country home'. Alcohol available. Lunch CICI'S PIZZA BUFFET and dinner. Handicapped Accessible. Expensive, Corner of Bandera and Huebner (next to Drug recommend reservations. 696-2536. ***** Emporium 7 Bandera Bowl). Forthose who just want "Cheap Food" and "lots of it", one of THE BOARDWALK BISTRO the best deals in town is CiCi's-for about 4011 Broadway (in the Boardwalk Shopping $3.00 ($2.00 for kids under 12) you get all the Center). Chi-Chi, upscale deli. Great Sandwiches pizza, pasta, salad and dessert you can chow and Italian food. Check the specials. (If they have down. All-you-can-drink drinks cost a dollar Beef bonrgighon, don't miss it!) Also excellent extra. If your favorite pizza is absent from the desserts, including the best carrot cake in town. buffet, they'll even cook one up for you! (Try A broad selection of wines and beer from the Florentine-cheese and spinach!) Hours around the world. Live music on various nights are M-F, Lunch I lam-2pm, then Dinner 5- GUIDEBOOK ______FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997 T/ie Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off

9pm; Sat. and Sun I lam-9pm. Unfortunately, 684-9677. *»“J6 this place is pretty far from downtown San HUNG FONG Antonio-Northwest in Leon Valley-although 3624 Broadway (across the street from the Bus 88 will get you there (eventually). Or get Whitte Museum). Oldest Chinese restaurant a gang together and go west on 1-10 West to in San Antonio. Take a look at the ceiling. Huebner, turn left under the freeway and 822-9211. •“* continue on Huebner until you reach Bandera Road. Turn right on Bandera. CiCi's KARAMS is just after the turn on the right. YUM! SW, 120 North Zarzamora has a beautiful outdoor JW, LW, AK patio with a waterfall. Fine Mexican food. Excellent bar. Moderate. FRATELLI'S IH10 at Callahan. Extensive menu. Has a TOMATILLOS CAFE Y CANTINA number of specialty European coffees

3210 Broadway. (Across the street from GUIDEBOOK available. Alcohol available. Handicapped Brackenridge Park). Very good Mexican food. Accessible. Inexpensive to moderate. Somewhat spicy. Moderate. 349-7997. ••• 824-3005 GABY'S GREEK CUISINE 7094 Bandera (North of Loop 410). Middle Eastern, French, Greek and American dishes. Best Greek food in town. Try the Moroccan tea. Beer and wine available. Lunch and dinner. Handicapped Accessible. Moderate. FANNISH GUIDE TO SAN ANTONIO 1997 GUIDEBOOK Tfe Second Occasional LoneStarCon Science Fiction Convention & Chili Cook-Off GUIDEBOOK