Letter from the Chairs

Faculty, Students, and community— Welcome everyone to another wonderful year for the Life, the Universe, & Everything Symposium. Now in our 27th year, we are excited to be around and looking forward to the future, with a great nod of thanks to our past. This year we’ve really had to look back to our roots, finding the core of what LTU&E truly stands for, and realizing the great debt that we owe to our founders—the amazing group of students and faculty who got LTU&E started. While I suspect that many of them would be surprised at how we have changed over the years—let alone lasting this long—I hope they are proud of what we are. LTU&E is still a wonderful forum of thought, a vast gathering of great ideas and interests, bringing together successful professionals and struggling beginners alike to expand their knowledge of not only the world around them, but also how it could be and how to share that idea. Through the study of and , we really do connect with life, the universe, and everything. In the annual struggle to prepare for the symposium, we ran across a great number of unexpected obstacles, driving us to great lengths and calling upon all our resources, even so far as to contact members from those early LTU&E committees for assistance. Fortunately, we’ve been blessed with an amazing committee this year as well. Each of them has put in what I would have believed to be inhumane amounts of effort to help this 2009 symposium come together. With thanks to our sponsorship from the department of Theater and Media Arts in the college of Fine Arts and Communications here at , and to all those involved in the many aspects of this event from production to participation, we wish you welcome and hope you enjoy this 27th edition of Life, the Uni- verse, & Everything. Tim Richardson & Nathan Langford Symposium Committee Chairs

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Contents

Ettiquette with the Pros 4 Parking Guests of Honor: As a guest of BYU, and to help you enjoy your stay, please remember that Tracy and Laura Hickman 5 disability stalls, dean and official stalls, Special Guests 7 service stalls, red curbs, etc., require Participating Guests 9 special permints. Parking in any of Educator’s Conference 17 these stalls without the proper permit will result in a parking citation. Please Listing of Events 18 remember that timed stalls are enforced Readings/Book Signings 24 for the time posted. Acknowledgments back cover

Wilkinson Center third floor The food court and the bookstore are located on the second floor.

3 Etiquette with the Pros

One question any symposium-goer inevitably asks is, “How do I talk to authors and artists?” Getting to know them takes a few common sense rules of etiquette that will make the experience enjoyable for both of you. First, remember that the authors and artists are only human. Just because they write fantastic books or draw fabulous pictures doesn’t mean they are ready to be on stage at any moment. An author or artist may have just had a lousy night or be suffering from something the symposium committee fed them at lunch. Don’t take it personally if they don’t want to talk to you right then. Also, don’t try to dazzle them with your latest story idea or pet project. Most authors are paid to edit material; don’t expect them to do it for free. And don’t make the mistake that one convention attendee made when he tried to discuss the wage differences between British and American actors with a main guest. We promise you, brilliant as they may be, authors and artists don’t know everything. When you want to meet the authors or artists, wait for a good moment when they aren’t busy. If they are talking with someone else, wait patiently for them to finish, then introduce yourself. Try to say something nice before you fire away with criticism. Remember, they may be as shy of meeting you as you are of meeting them. Most importantly, don’t monopolize! Share with others these mar- velous people you’ve just met. Rather than saying everything at once, try talking to them on several occasions. (Even your mother would rather hear from you for three minutes once a week than for three hours once a year.) Just remember to be courteous. Respect their privacy and respect their time. They have come to the symposium to meet people, though, so don’t be afraid to approach them. That is why they came!

4 Tracy and Laura Hickman

Tracy Hickman was born in Salt Lake City on November 26, 1955. He graduated Provo High School in 1974 where his major interests were in drama, music, and Air Force JROTC. In 1975, Tracy began two years of service as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His initial posting was for six months in Hawaii before his visa was approved and he moved on to his final calling in the nation of Indo- nesia. There, he served as a missionary in Surabaya, Djakarta, and the mountain city of Bandung before being released honorably in 1977. As a result, Tracy can still speak conversational Indonesian and occa- sionally basis his magical phrases on that language. Tracy married his high school sweetheart, Laura Curtis, within four months of his returning to the United States. They have been married ever since and are the parents of four children. Tracy has worked as a supermarket stockboy, a movie projectionist, a theater manager, a glass worker, a television assistant director, and a drill press operator in a genealogy center. It was in 1981—between jobs and wanting to buy shoes for his children—that he approached TSR about buying two of his modules . . . and ended up with a job instead. That job lead to his association with and their first publication together: the Chronicles. Since that time in 1985, they have jointly authored over forty book titles. Tracy’s first two solo novels,Requiem of Stars and The Immortals were published in the spring of 1996. More recently, Tracy and his wife Laura have been able to fulfill a long-time dream; they once again are writing together. Their first joint novel, Mystic Warrior, was published in 2004 and they look for- ward to a long and exciting career together.

5 Tracy remains highly active in his church and pursues a number of hobbies including guitar, singing, piano, models, Laserdisc movies, computer games, television production, and animation. He loves to read biographies, histories, and popular science books. Tracy and Laura currently reside in Salt Lake City.

Symposium Committee

Chair Tim Richardson Co-chair Nathan Langford Faculty Advisor Eric Fielding Track Coordinator Charlene Harmon Track Coordinator Assistant Rebecca Strein Academic Track Marny Parkin CYOW Track Nathan Langford Writing Track Charlene Harmon Deep Thoughts Proceedings Editor Marny K. Parkin Contest Administrator Ross K. Wolfe Guest Liaison Marny Parkin Volunteer Coordinator Steve Harmon Volunteer Coordinator Assistant Toad Bascom A/V Coordinator Nicholas Montelongo Treasurer Harrison Paul Webmaster Charlene Harmon Mailing List Administrator Joe Monson Educator’s Conference Charlene Harmon

Congratulations to the Whitney Award finalists in the Youth Fiction and the Speculative Fiction categories:

Youth Fiction: The Journal of Curious Letters by James Dashner, Alcatraz vs. the Scrivner’s Bones by Brandon Sanderson, Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague by , FarWorld: Water Keep by J. Scott Savage, and Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George Speculative Fiction: Ender in Exile by , The Great and ­Terrible: From the End of Heaven by Chris Stewart, The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson, The Host by Stephanie Meyer, and The Wyrmling Horde by David Farland

For more information about the Whitneys, go to www.WhitneyAwards.com 6 Special Guests

David Farland David Farland is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author who has penned nearly fifty science fiction and fantasy novels for both adults and children. Along the way, he has also worked as the head judge for one of the world’s larg- est writing contests, as a creative writing instructor, as a videogame designer, and as a movie producer. In 1991, Dave was invited to act as a judge for the Contest, the world’s largest science fiction and fantasy writing contest for new authors, and was soon promoted to the position of Coordinating Judge. As Coordinating Judge he acted as first reader—screening thousands of stories over the next eight years. He also edited the anthologies, taught writing courses to the winners, and made numerous personal appearances—often at DragonCon in Atlanta, where he headed up the writing track for a few years. In 1999, Dave was invited to teach the science fiction and fantasy writing at Brigham Young Univer- sity, and over the years he has taught dozens of writing seminars around the U.S. and Canada and appeared at hundreds of conventions. Recently, Dave accepted the position of Director of Storytelling for a new animation studio, Crocodiles Not Waterlilies Entertainment, where he will help guide the company’s production of books, videogames, and animated films. Dave has also worked as something of an acquisitions consultant for publishers. In 1992 and 1993, he worked for Gibbs Smith Publishers, helping them find manuscripts for children’s books, and he recently accepted a similar position for Tor books. His Web site is www.DavidFarland.com. L. E. Modesitt Jr. L. E. Modesitt Jr. is the author of more than fifty novels—primarily science fiction and fantasy, a number of short stories, and numerous technical and economic arti- cles. His novels have sold millions of copies in the U.S. and world-wide, and have been translated into German, Polish, Dutch, Czech, Russian, Bulgarian, French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, and Swedish. He has been a delivery boy; a lifeguard; an unpaid radio disc jockey; a U.S. Navy pilot; a market research analyst; a real estate agent; director of research for a political campaign; legislative assistant and staff director for U.S. Congressmen; Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; a consultant on environmental, reg- ulatory, and communications issues; a college lecturer and writer in residence; and unpaid treasurer of a civic music arts association. Along the way, Mr. Modesitt has weathered eight children, a fondness for three-piece suits [which has deteriorated into a love of vests], a brown Labrador, a white cockapoo, an energetic Shih-tzu, two scheming dachshunds, a capricious spaniel, a crazy Saluki-Aussie, and various assorted pet rodents. Finally, in 1989, to escape nearly twenty years of occupational captivity in Washington, D.C., he moved to New Hampshire. There he married a lyric soprano, and he and his wife Carol relocated to Cedar City, , in 1993, 7 where she directs the opera program at Southern Utah University and he contin- ues to create and manage chaos. His first story was published inAnalog in 1973, and his latest book is The Lord-Protector’s Daughter. His brand-new fantasy series debuts next month with Imager, the first book of the Imager Portfolio. His Web site is www.LEModesittJr.com. Brandon Mull As a kid, Brandon lived in his head a lot, making up adventures, and sometimes sharing his imaginary games with siblings and friends. For as long as he can remem- ber, he has always spent a huge portion of his free time daydreaming and making up stories. As he aged, those stories became more elaborate and compelling, and he decided that he wanted to share them with others. That was when he became serious about writing. He figured that if he could learn to write a good scene, he could eventually write a good novel, so through high school and college he mostly practiced by writing short fiction. After graduating from Brigham Young Univer- sity in 2000, Brandon started working on his first full-length novel. It was rejected by many agents and publishers before an editor at Shadow Mountain found prom- ise in it. Shadow Mountain did not purchase that first book, but they asked to see something else, and the book he wrote for them was Fablehaven. So Fablehaven was published by the first publisher who saw it, after he did a lot of work shopping around that first book. The first book has not yet been published, but he expect to rewrite it someday and show it to publishers again. Fablehaven surpassed his expec- tations with how quickly it found an audience. It seemed that wherever the book got a start, good word of mouth followed, and soon Brandon had a career. He had been working writing marketing copy to pay the bills but was able to quit his day job about six months afterFablehaven was published. By then he had already writ- ten Fablehaven: Rise of the Evening Star, so he started on The Candy Shop War, since his publisher didn’t want more than one Fablehaven title per year. He is now con- tentedly living his dream. Between writing and promoting, he works more hours in a week than he ever has, but he am passionate about the work. Brandon loves his wife and kids a ton and is relieved to be supporting them by doing a job he adores. His Web site is www.BrandonMull.com. Brandon Sanderson Brandon Sanderson writes fantasy novels for both adults and children. He likes Mac and Cheese. His Web site is www.BrandonSanderson.com. Howard V. Tayler is the creator, writer, and illustrator of , a serial comic space-opera with over three thousand strips in the archives at SchlockMercenary.com. He has been cartooning full-time since September 2004. He and his family have never been happier.

8 Participating Guests

James Brown James Brown is a software engineer, technologist, educator, technical writer, and entrepreneur. He has spent the last twenty-five years working with and develop- ing solutions in a variety of technical fields. He currently runs his own technology consulting company, BL Design Solutions, LLC. James has participated at LTU&E for the last several years on various panels. He enjoys technology, outdoor activities, and Scouting. John Brown John Brown is the author of a forthcoming epic fantasy series from Tor Books. Ser- vant of a Dark God, the first in the series, will be released September 2009. Brown currently lives with his wife and four daughters in the hinterlands of Utah, where one encounters much fresh air, many good-hearted ranchers, and an occasional wolf. His work has been published in Orson Scott Card’sIntergalactic Medicine Show, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and Best of the Rest 4. He is also won first place in the Writers of the Future contest, published in volume 13 under the name Bo Grif- fin. His Web site is JohnDBrown.com. Patricia Castelli Patricia Castelli is Children’s Librarian at Orem Public Library, the Informational Book Chair for the Children’s Literature Association of Utah, and a reader for the biannual Dolly Gray Award for excellent literature featuring a character with an intellectual disability. Her most recent publication is an article in Women in Sci- ence Fiction and Fantasy (Greenwood Press) on the beginnings of SF&F for young readers. Ami Chopine Ami Chopine started dabbling in computer graphics when she was just 11 years old, on an Atari 800, using a tape deck to record her programs. Her goal at the time was to create a cool game like Space Invaders. She later turned to science and was study- ing molecular biology in college when she met and married her husband Vladimir. Together they founded Geekatplay Studio 2001 through which several award win- ning images and animations were released. In September 2007, the Geekatplay team started releasing video tutorials for Vue. She and Vladimir have a book called Vue 7 From the Ground Up: The Official Guide that will be released in May. A graduate of Orson Scott Card’s Literary Bootcamp with published fiction, Ami loves to write science fiction and fantasy. As well as science and computer graphics, she enjoys history and etymology. She believes that everyone has an artist inside and has a passion for teaching and helping others to develop their creativity. Her Web site is www.AmiChopine.com. 9 Aleta Clegg After years of doing other things, Aleta Clegg has finally made it into the published world. She has a regular column in Abandoned Towers magazine writing dinner menus that are anything but ordinary. She has several short stories in the process of publication. Her first novel,Nexus Point, will be out this spring from the Altered Dimensions imprint of Cyberwizard Productions. Her day job involves scaring young children, flying a starship simulator, and teaching impressionable young minds the wonders of space. Michael R. Collings Dr. Michael R. Collings is Professor Emeritus of English at Pepperdine University, with experience and expertise in poetry, the works of Stephen King and Orson Scott Card, and writing. Dr. Collings has also published several novels and volumes of poetry and short fiction, includingThe House beyond the Hill, Dark Transformations, and Naked to the Sun. He lives in Meridian Idaho—returning to the state of his birth after almost sixty years—where he and his wife, Judi, make jewelry and enjoy watching the seasons change. His Web site is www.StarshineAndShadows.com. Dr. Collings is willing to do his one-on-one poetry workshop throughout the symposium. Any time he is at his table in the registration room, you can talk to him about your poem. Larry Correia Larry Correia is the author of Monster Hunter International, coming in June 2009 from . His blog is LarryCorreia.wordpress.com. Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury has six short stories published. She moderates the Hat­ rack River Writers Workshop at Orson Scott Card’s science fiction and fantasy Web site (www.hatrack.com/forums/writers/cgi/Ultimate.cgi) and the Nauvoo Workshop for LDS Writers at Orson Scott Card’s LDS Web site (www.nauvoo.com/ubb2/cgi/ ultimatebb.cgi). She serves on the staff of the Association for Mormon Letters and is the new managing editor for their publication, Irreantum. She is the wife of a chemical engineer, the mother of three girls and one cat, and the grandmother of two boys and a girl. She earned a BA degree in mathematics and an ME degree in mechanical engi- neering, both from the University of Utah. She taught a short story writing course for her local high community school for many years and has done first reading for a few fiction magazines. She has a part-time computer business where she helps people with those scary machines, especially with putting their genealogy on computer. She col- lects dragons, unusual names, and information about her ancestors. James Dashner James Dashner is the author of the 13th Reality series, of which book 2, The Hunt for Dark Infinity, was just released. He’s also the author of The Maze Runner, coming this Christmas from Random House. His Web site is www.JamesDashner.com. 10 Robert J. Defendi Robert J. Defendi has worked on many projects. He was one of the writers for Savage Seas for the game Exalted. He has done a good bit of work for Spycraft, Shadow­force Archer, Rolemaster, and the Stargate SG-1 role playing game. He wrote the current incarnation of Spacemaster. Robert is also a winner of Writers of the Future and has been published in their anthology. He has stories in When Darkness Comes, as well as Spacemaster. He is currently working on a novel for Black Library. Anna del C. Dye Anna was born in the extreme South along some famous beaches. She loves read- ing but had few opportunities to do so while growing up. Once married she was introduced to the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books, which she admits to col- lecting. Anna fell in love with Tolkien’s characters and could not bear to see them end with the last page of his books. Thus, she created the Silent Warrior trilogy to give new life to the beautiful race of elfs that Tolkien created. Within the pages of her two published books, The and the Princess and Trouble in the Elf City, she has spun completely original tales of medieval fantasy times, the creation of her which is the result of many years of daydreaming and, now, her own laptop. Her Web site is www.AnnaDelC.com. David Ferro David Ferro is currently an associate professor of computer science at Weber State University. He has written and presented on history and social implications of technology, computer-human interfaces, economics, software engineering, and the intersection of literature and science. Suzy Gehring Suzy Gehring has been writing since she was as small as her two children are now. She is currently a student at the Salt Lake Community College, with all intentions of transfering to the University of Utah to pursue a MFA in creative writing and a minor in journalism. Her works include over one hundred articles published in various newspapers. In her “spare time” she works on her teen “problem novel”; enjoys books, biking, and rock climbing (in warmer weather); and is locked into Salt Lake’s poetry scene as a member of the Salt City Indie Arts, which really means she’s a cafe junky and attends poetry readings regularly in Salt Lake, often writing her own poetry. Her blog is SuzysQs.blogspot.com. Paul Genesse Paul Genesse is the author of two novels, The Golden Cord and The Dragon Hunters, books one and two of the Iron Dragon series. Book three comes out in May 2009. He’s also sold nine short stories to various markets, worked as a copy editor, enjoys teaching writing to kids, and is the editor of the free Writers’ Symposium Ezine. His Web site is www.PaulGenesse.com.

11 Brian C. Hailes Brian C. Hailes attended classes at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and received his BFA in illustration from Utah State University. Before his gradua- tion, he also spent a full semester to study in New York City, interning at the Society of Illustrators. Hailes has worked as a freelance illustrator, designer, and concept artist for over a decade, and has received numerous awards for his art from all across the country. His most recent publications include the graphic novels Dragon’s Gait: Volume One and Devil’s Tri­angle: Issue One. He is also working as cover and line artist on the comic series Continuum, to be released later this year by Arcana Comics. He currently resides in Salt Lake City. His Web site is HailesArt.com. Mette Ivie Harrison Mette Ivie Harrison wroteMira, Mirror, published in 2002 with Viking, as a formal challenge to see what a book written entirely in the viewpoint of an inanimate object would turn out. The most interesting inanimate object in a fairy tale she could think of was the mirror in the Snow White fairy tale. It turned out that she was the enchanted sister of the evil queen, but it was still tricky because she couldn’t actually move unless she talked someone else into picking her up. Then cameThe Princess and the Hound in 2004 with HarperEos, about a prince with animal magic and the prin- cess he is betrothed to who has no magic at all but a devoted hound at her side none- theless. The sequel,The Princess and the Bear, is due out in 2009. She especially enjoys interesting character dilemmas and surprising the reader. She doesn’t love rewriting, but she does do it a lot. Her Web site is www.MetteIvieHarrison.com. B. K. Fuller Bethany Kent (“B. K.”) Fuller grew up with a love of reading, which she attributed to her mother. After high school, she took a job at Scholastic Books, working as a telephone customer service rep. Employees were encouraged to read the firm’s books during down time to familiarize themselves with the company’s products. In Fuller’s case, it re-ignited a love of reading. From then on, she read everything she could get her hands on, especially fantasy. Fuller continued with marriage in 1998, leaving Moberly and her job at Scholastic. Her book Majee Legends is the first in a projected cycle of four or five books. Her Web site is www.BKFuller.com. Lynn Kurland Lynn Kurland is the New York Times bestselling author of over twenty-five novels and short stories. Her Web site is www.LynnKurland.com. Lesli Muir Lytle Lesli Muir Lytle is an award winning writer of paranormal and historical romance under the name Ainsley MacQueen. She was the 2008 president of the Utah chapter of the Romance Writers of America and presents workshops on Blurb Boiling and Pitching to the Pros. She authors an inspirational blog for writers at WritersBlockbuster.blogspot.com. 12 Michael McDonough Since graduating from Brigham Young University in 1976 in communications, Michael has been involved in various aspects of producing, writing, recording, edit- ing and mixing sound projects for radio, television, and film. Beginning in radio in the 1980s, he wrote, produced, and engineered thirteen half-hour science fiction radio dramas entitled Bradbury 13, featuring the short stories of long-time friend Ray Bradbury for National Public Radio, which captured him the Peabody Award in 1985. From there, Michael went on to film sound, doing location work, and eventually editing and mixing. Walt Disney’s The Black Cauldron was his first film assignment, in which he created over 250 original sounds for the film, coordinating his work with composer Elmer Bernstein. From 1977 to 1990, Michael taught classes in sound at Brigham Young Uni- versity, while also working on many film and television projects including sound design for CBS’s The Twilight Zone, special sound creation for Remington Steel, LA Law, and several movies-of-the-week and miniseries. In 1988, Michael was the sound editor on his first Imax film,Polynesian Odyssey, which was followed by twenty more 70mm large-format films. Two of them,Amazon and Special Effects, were nominated for Academy Awards. Mike recently was awarded a Golden Reel Award from the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) for his sound work on Island of the Sharks. Michael has also been sound editor/rerecording mixer on numerous indepen- dent live action and animated feature-length films, including additional Sound Design on Star Trek First Contact and Star Trek Insurrection. Recently he has finished sound on Forever Strong and The Work and the Glory trilogy. In addition to his film sound work, Michael has also been a regular contribu- tor of specialty sound effects to Sound Ideas, the world’s largest professional sound effects library. His explosions, thunder claps, science fiction effects, and many Ever wonder about the more sounds are heard on a daily basis on network televisions shows and fea- different badge colors? ture films. Michael has his own film and television sound facility in Salt Lake City, Michael McDonough Sound Yellow Committee Member Design, and with his wife, Marilyn, has Hot Pink Volunteer two daughters. Dark Blue Guest of Honor Neil Melville Light Blue Special and Neil Melville has been a sci-fi and fan- Participating Guests tasy fan from childhood and has a great Orange Panelist appetite for games. He has been work- Green Chair Emeritus ing on games professionally for fifteen years and has been involed with such White Attendee titles as Risk, Mortal Kombat, Redline, Tan Educator’s Conference 13 Hot Wheels, City of Heroes, and Star Trek Online. He is currently a game designer at Electronic Arts. John W. Morehead John W. Morehead has an MA in intercultural studies from Salt Lake Theological Seminary and is a PhD candidate at University Durham. He is the director of the Western Institute for Intercultural Studies. His research interests include religious and intercultural studies with a focus on new religious movements and inter- religious dialogue, as well as theology and popular culture with a focus on science fiction, fantasy, and horror which he explores on his blog TheoFantastique (www .TheoFantastique.com) as well as in contributions toCinefantastique Online. Greg Park Greg Park was born in 1967 in Provo, Utah, and spent much of his youth fishing the Provo River and hiking and hunting in the Wasatch Mountains with his father and brothers. In 1986, he served a two-year mission in Osaka, Japan, then attended Brigham Young University where he received a BA in English and a master’s degree in media education. He currently teaches English, Japanese, and courses in creative writing and science fiction literature at Timpanogos High School, in Orem, Utah. Still an avid outdoorsman, he spends much of his time fishing, hunting, and camp- ing with his wife and children in Utah’s backcountry. He his first two novels,Veil of Darkness and Cleansing Hunt, are part of a five book series called the Earthsoul Prophecies. His Web site is www.GregPark.net. Aprilynne Pike Aprilynne Pike has been spinning faerie stories since she was a child with a hyper- active imagination. She completed her BA in creative writing at the age of twenty at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. Aprilynne currently lives with her husband and three kids in Utah, where she dreams of warmer climates. Her blog is ApparentlyAprilynne.blogspot.com. Charlotte Randle Charlotte Randle in as anthropologist, having received her BA from BYU. Her specialty deals with ancient cultures and mythos, most particularly those of Japan and Wales. She has spent a good deal of time in both countries, researching, doing archeological digging, and photographing. She is also an artist and a writer. Rebecca Shelley Rebecca Shelley has been writing ever since she was old enough to hold a pencil. She has had a number of short stories published and is the author of Red Dragon Codex and Brass Dragon Codex under the pen name R. D. Henham. Her Web site is www.RebeccaShelley.com.

14 Nathan Shumate Nathan Shumate is the editor of Arkham Tales, a free magazine of weird fiction. He also reviews genre movies at www.ColdFusionVideo.com. Eric James Stone One of Eric James Stone’s earliest memories is seeing an Apollo moon-shot launch on television. That might explain his life-long fascination wih astronomy and space travel. His father’s collection of science fiction ensured that Eric grew up on a full diet of Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke. Despite taking creative writing classes in the 1980s, Eric did not begin seriously writing fiction until 2002. In 2003 he attended Orson Scott Card’s Literary Boot Camp. Since then, he has sold stories to the Writ- ers of the Future contest, Analog, and Intergalactic Medicine Show. Eric lives in Utah. His Web site is www.EricJamesStone.com. Eric Swedin Eric G. Swedin is an associate professor at Weber State University in the Informa- tion Systems and Technologies Department, specializing in information security and interdisciplinary studies. He teaches students how to be hackers so that they may defend against hackers. His doctorate is in the history of science and tech- nology and he regularly teaches history classes at Weber State. His publications include numerous articles, three history books, and a historical mystery novel, The Killing of Greybird (2004). Eric lives in a 125-year-old house with his wife Betty and four children. His Web site is www.Swedin.org. Laura Swift Laura Swift was a space educator for 3.5 years at the Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City. She is now establishing a portable planetarium program in Cache Valley, home of Utah State Univeristy. She is a graduate of USU and the International Space University. Her Web site is CacheStarhouse.org. Roger Bourke White Jr. Roger Bouke White Jr. is a careful observer of life and people, and he’s done so from many interesting perspectives. He was a soldier in Vietnam in the 1960s, a college student at MIT in the ’70s, a computer network pioneer in the ’80s and ’90s, and an ESL teacher in Korea in the ’90s and 2000s. Roger thinks about how technology affects how we live and then writes about it. While at , he wrote magazine columns about computer networking for the LAN Times, and he started writing “traditional” science fiction (science fiction stories) as well as “real” science fiction (instruction manuals and marketing materi- als for software that wasn’t yet developed). His stories are the fusion of years of high technology experience, years of explaining experience, and years of carefully observing human motivation—why people do what they do.

15 Stacy Whitman Stacy Whitman specializes in fantasy and science fiction for children and young adults, and related genres. She spent three years as an editor for Mirrorstone, the children’s and young adult imprint of in Seattle. She holds a master’s degree in children’s literature from Simmons College. Before that, she edited elementary school textbooks at Houghton Mifflin and interned at the Horn Book, as well as a brief stint as a bookseller. Stacy edited such favorite fantasy titles for children and young adults as the highly acclaimed YA series Hallowmere, the middle grade fantasy adventure series that debuted with Red Dragon Codex, and the New York Times best-­selling picture book A Practical Guide to Monsters. Her blog is SLWhitman.livejournal.com. Julie Wright Julie Wright was born in Salt Lake City. She fell in love with reading as a very small child and at the age of fifteen started writing her first novel. She currently resides in west central Utah, where she and her husband own a little country grocery store. She has three published novels and a fourth coming out in July, which is a time-travel. She writes mainly for the oung adult and middle grade markets. She loves speaking to youth groups, women’s groups, and schools. Her Web site is www.JulieWright.com.

The Tom Grover Award is generally given to a someone who exemplifies an attitude of doing whatever is needed to help further science fiction at BYU; primarily by helping with LTU&E. Tom Grover was an active part of the science fiction community at BYU in the early 1980s. He was always there to help, often unasked. He exemplified service. This LTU&E marks the twentieth symposium since he died in a tragic hiking accident in the fall of 1988. This year, the committee struggled both with finding a new sponsor and advisor and with a chair whose work schedule didn’t allow him to attend committee meetings very often. Nathan Langford stepped up to talk to potential sponsors, get former committee members involved to help brain- storm and write proposals, and keep meetings running. He was willing to do anything to make sure the symposium happened this year. We are grateful for Nathan’s enthusiasm and energy in pulling together the extra threads we don’t usually have to worry about but are crucial to our rela- tionship with the university. Without his unceasing determination, there would most likely not have been a symposium this year. We are pleased to present Nathan with the Tom Grover Award. (As a note, Nathan’s father, Jonathan Langford, is a past chair of LTU&E and was instrumental in the early development of the symposium.) 16 Educator’s Conference Schedule Saturday, February 21, room 3223 wilk

9:00–9:25 am Why Use SF&F in the Classroom? (David Glenn Anderson, Laura Swift) 9:30–9:50 am RFF Utah (David Glenn Anderson, Laura Swift) 10:00–10:50 am The Importance of Art in the K–12 Classroom (Brian Hailes, Jessica Douglas, Keele) 11:00–11:50 am Keynote Speech: Creative Reading 201 () 12:00–12:50 pm What Makes a YA/MG Book Different from an Adult SF&F Book? (Jessica Day George, Clint Johnson, Aprilynne Pike, Laura Swift) 1:00–1:50 pm Myth and Mythology in SF&F (Mette Ivie Harrison, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Aprilynne Pike, Nathan Shumate, John Brown) 2:00–2:50 pm Math and SF&F (Laura Swift, Aleta Clegg) Handouts include: Writing contests for kids: What’s out there? Info on obtaining “Reluctant Reader Kits” from Wizards of the Coast Educator’s CD and Workbook from The Heinlein Society, CascadiaCon, and the SF Museum Free books and information on RFFUtah’s Box of Books program “The Worlds of Lynda Williams” CD by RFF Utah Handouts for using the Okal Rel Universe in the classroom Lists of books that are good for classroom use and for individual reading

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See the block schedule handout for room numbers and any last-minute changes.

One-on-one poetry workshop any time Michael Collings is at his table in the regis- tration room. Bring a poem and let Michael help you make it better!

Thursday, February 19, 2009 The Use of Math in Cryptography (Dr. Rodney Forcade) 9:00 am 12:00–12:50 pm Registration opens Middle-Grade and Young Adult Fiction 10:00–10:50 am What is it, why are so many YA/MG Science Fiction and Academics books becoming so popular? What (or who) should you be reading? The two aren’t as incompatible as you might think. (James Dashner, Suzy Gehring, Jessica Day George, Mette Ivie Harrison, Stacy (Michael Collings, David Ferro, Paul N. Whitman) Hyde, Brandon Sanderson) Using Open Source Software (Open Looking through a Glass Darkly: Office, Abiword, etc.) to Reduce Your ­Cautionary Tales and Post-apocalyptic Expenses Fiction Discuss the availability of reliable and Writing post-apocalyptic fiction can be easy to use open source alternatives a way to write a cautionary tale, or it to the traditional writer’s tools (Word, can be a prediction of the future. Why Excel, Photoshop, etc.). How to find are people so interested in this sub- good quality open source alternatives. genre and how can you as a writer tap into the form? (James Brown) (James Dashner, Nathan Shumate, 1:00–1:50 pm Eric James Stone, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Turning Your Research into Writing Karen Webb, ) workshop (2 hours) 11:00–11:50 am (Scott Parkin) The Sound of Science Fiction: If a Tree C. S. Lewis’s Purgatory and the Hell- Falls in Outer Space, Do You Hear It? Tour Tradition Mike is a professional sound editor and (M. L. Hedengren) mixer. He has worked on numerous 2:00–2:50 pm feature films (likeStar Trek 8 & 9), TV shows, commercials, and radio dramas. Turning Your Research into Writing (Michael McDonough) workshop (cont.)

18 Cinefantastique as Theofantastique: 3D Art for Very Little or Even Free Fantastic Cinema and Interreligious (Ami Chopine) Dialogue Creating a Fictional Language (part 1) (John W. Morehead) (Dr. Dirk A. Elzinga, Nathan 3:00–3:50 pm Richardson) Gandalf, Please, Should Not Sputter: 6:00–6:50 pm Dialog Tags and Speech Patterns in Podcast the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien Writing Excuses Come see a live prodcast of One of the great successes that Tolkien Writing had as a writer was his uncanny ability Excuses to depict his characters through his use (Brandon Sanderson, Howard Tayler, of dialog. In fact, with a little introspec- Dan Wells) tion, most readers would discover that Drawing Dragon’s Gait the absence of dialog is what is most (Brian Hailes) troubling about reading the Silmarillion. Reading (1/2 hour each) TheUnfinished Tales covers about the (Aleta Clegg, JoSelle Vanderhooft) same material as the Silmarillion but is far more readable. 7:00–7:50 pm

(Paul N. Hyde) Writing Groups Jewelry-Making Demonstration What are they good for? How do (2 hours) you find one? How can you use one (Michael and Judi Collings) effectively?

4:00–4:50 pm (Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury, Bethany Fuller, Suzy Gehring, Jeremy Remy, Eric Reality in Sci-Fi, or “Why doesn’t the James Stone) cyborg’s arm tear off when it lifts a car?” LDS Art and SF&F How can we make Sci-Fi more realis- tic? Can a writer create an internally (Brian Hailes, Howard Tayler) consistent universe that also follows the I-Sci-Fi basic laws of physics and still have an Come talk to the folks who run the interesting story. I-Sci-Fi podcast! (James Brown, Aleta Clegg, Robert J Defendi, Eric James Stone, Eric Swedin, Friday, February 20, 2009 Karen Webb) Jewelry-Making Demonstration (cont.) 9:00–9:50 am 5:00–5:50 pm LDS SF&F Writers Poetry: Where Every Word Counts Being LDS and writing SF&F can be difficult. Many people believe you can’t

(Michael Collings, Suzy Gehring, be both. How does being LDS help you JoSelle Vanderhooft) write SF&F? 3D on the Cheap: Creating Your Own (Michael Collings, James Dashner, 19 Jessica Day George, Laura Hickman, Tracy reader suspense, things that ruin it, and Hickman, Brandon Sanderson) the role of suspense in a satisfying story. Creating a More Realistic Fight Scene (John Brown, James Dashner, Berin Stephens, Howard Tayler, Roger White) (Association for Renaissance Martial Utah Writers 1: YA and Middle Grade Arts) Who are the current Utah YA writers 10:00–10:50 am and what are they writing? Putting Romance into Your Fantasy, (Jessica Day George, Mette Ivie Har- or How Did a Nice Romance Writer rison, Brandon Mull, Aprilynne Pike, Like Me Get Lost in a World Full of Rebecca Shelley) Dragons, Magic, and Mages? Conflict and the Mechanism of Story

(Lynn Kurland) workshop (2 hours) The History of Science Narrative is a machine. The true story­ teller must understand how the distinc- (Eric Swedin) tive parts of a story create a unified, 11:00–11:50 am functioning whole. Participants should Keynote Address: Truly Ficiton come willing to write and discuss thoughts and ideas. (Laura Hickman) (Clint Johnson) 12:00–12:50 pm 2:00–2:50 pm Writing Romance Writing for the YA/MG Market

(Laura Hickman, Tracy Hickman, Lynn Kurland, Lesli Muir Lytle, Stacy (James Dashner, Jessica Day George, Whitman, Julie Wright) Mette Ivie Harrison Brandon Mull,, Roaming Middle-Earth: The Influence Rebecca Shelley, Stacy Whitman, Dan Willis) of the Anglo-Saxon Poem The Wanderer Bookbinding presentation on J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (2 hours)

(Andrew Bahlmann) (Michael Collings) Jewelry-Making Workshop Conflict and the Mechanism of Story workshop Bring $50 to purchase supplies or bring (cont.) your own to make a necklace or other 3:00–3:50 pm piece of jewelry. Podcasting for Writers: What Pod- (Michael and Judi Collings) casts Will Help You Be a Better Writer Signing (in BYU Bookstore)

(Robert J Defendi, Tracy Hickman, (Brandon Mull) Laura Hickman, Brandon Sanderson, 1:00–1:50 pm Howard Tayler, Dan Wells) The Principles of Suspense Bookbinding presentation (cont.) What things might the reader feel sus- Murray Leinster and “A Logic Named pense about, how is suspense different in Joe” different genres, key factors in generating (Eric G. Swedin) 20 4:00–4:50 pm Writing a Video Game Dialog Tags and Speech Patterns: (Neil Melville, Howard Tayler) When How Your Characters Speak Is 7:00–7:50 pm as Important as What They Have to Say Three Things You Must Learn to (Paul Genesse, Tracy and Laura Hick- Write Killer Stories workshop man, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Roger White) (cont.) Blurb Boiling 101 Making a Living as an Artist How to package your novel into 25 words (Jessica Douglas, Brian Hailes, Kevin or less for use in queries, face to face Keele, Steve Keele, Sarah Seiter, Howard pitches, and elevators. Tayler) (Lesli Muir Lytle) Creating a Fictional Language (part 2) How to Draw Wings (Dr. Dirk A. Elzinga, Nathan (Jessica Douglas, Sarah Seiter) Richardson) 5:00–5:50 pm 7:00–10:00 pm Following Through on Your Plot Filking Promises So many times an author or a book promises to answer certain questions Saturday, February 21, 2009 or solve certain problems, and then the book goes in a totally different direc- 9:00–9:25 am tion. How can you be true to your story Why Use SF&F in the Classroom? and true to your promise? How do you know if your story is making promises (David Glenn Anderson, Laura Swift) you can’t keep? 9:30–9:50 am

(Aleta Clegg (M), Tracy Hickman, RFF Utah Clint Johnson, Greg Park, Julie Wright)

SF in the Movies (David Glenn Anderson, Laura Swift) 9:00–9:50 am Why plot and story is taking second place to special effects. What effect is this hav- Current Trends in Fantasy and Sci- ing on the movie genre? What movies are ence Fiction standing above the rest and why? How do you know what is hot, what (Brandon Sanderson, Nathan Shumate, is fading and what will be the next big Howard Tayler, Roger White, Dan Willis) thing? And should you even care? Diagrams of Life, the Universe, and (David Farland, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Everything Brandon Sanderson, Eric James Stone) (Michael Lyon) Demons and Wizards: Heavy Metal and Fantasy Literature 6:00–6:50 pm How bands from various decades have Three Things You Must Learn to incorporated elements of fantasy and Write Killer Stories workshop (2 hours) science fiction novels into their songs. (John Brown) (Harrison Paul) 21 10:00–10:50 am L. E. Modesitt Jr., Aprilynne Pike, Nathan The Importance of Art in the K–12 Shumate) Classroom A Western in Space: An Analysis of and How It Relates to Cowboy (Jessica Douglas, Brian Hailes, Keele) Fire­fly Culture The Problem of Sequels

How can you write a sequel that is as (Asenath Rallison) good as—or better than—your first book? What Every Writer Needs To Know about Archaeology (James Dashner, David Farland, Paul Genesse, Mette Ivie Harrison, Laura Hick­ (Dr. Jaime Bartlett, Charlotte Randle) man, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Brandon Sanderson) Readings (1/2 hour each) Understanding Multiple ­Personality (Jessica Day George, James Dashner) Disorders and Other Dissociative States for Writers 2:00–2:50 pm (Al Carlisle) The Moral Universe of the Runelords

11:00–11:50 am (David Farland) Keele’s Korner Keynote Address: Creative Reading 201 (2 hours) A presentation on the art of gaming:

(Tracy Hickman) working for Disney games, educational 12:00–12:50 pm games, and what new cool things are happening generally in the 3D realm. What Makes a YA/MG Book Different from a Mainstream Book? (Steve, Kevin, and Joshua Keele) Math and SF&F (Jessica Day George, Clint Johnson,­

­Aprilynne Pike, Laura Swift, Stacy (Aleta Clegg, Laura Swift) Whitman) Readings (1/2 hour each) Robert Bloch: The Man behindPsycho (Dan Wells, TBA) (Nicholas Montelongo) Signing (in BYU Bookstore): Signing (in BYU Bookstore) (James Dashner, Jessica Day George, (David Farland, Brian Hailes, Tracy Greg Park, Rebecca Shelley, Eric James Hickman, Laura Hickman, L. E. Mode- Stone, Julie Wright) sitt Jr., Brandon Sanderson, Howard Tayler) 3:00–3:50 pm 1:00–1:50 pm How Novelists Fill 100,000 Words and Myth and Mythology in SF&F Still Keep the Story Interesting How is myth and mythology used in sci- (David Farland, Tracy Hickman, ence fiction and fantasy? How do you Laura Hickman, Paul Genesse, L. E. Mod- rewrite a myth to make it a new story? esitt Jr., Brandon Sanderson) How can you create your own mythos Lands of the Lost: Digging Into Other without detracting from the tale, or how People’s Worlds can you make it the tale? Ancient societies shaped their own land- (John Brown, Mette Ivie Harrison, scapes. The Egyptians built mountains 22 for their dead, the Maya constructed Readings (1/2 hour each) vast cities of stone in the jungle, and the (Rebecca Shelley, Aprilynne Pike) Celts fashioned sacred groves from wood and stone. For over 150 years, archae- 6:00–6:50 pm ologists have been piecing together the Utah Writers 2: Mainstream SF/F/H remains of these manufactured land- Authors scapes to understand how people cre- Who are the current Utah SF/F/H ated their own worlds. writers and what are they writing?

(Dr. Jaime Bartlett) (David Farland, Tracy Hickman, Keele’s Korner (cont.) Laura Hickman, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Bran- Readings (1/2 hour each) don Sanderson, Howard Tayler) SF Movies as Ambassador (John Brown, Robert J Defendi) (John Morehead, Eric Swedin, Nathan 4:00–4:50 pm Shumate, Dan Willis, Robert J Defendi) Worldbuilding 101: What Every Begin- Readings (1/2 hour each) ning Writer Needs to Know (Roger White, Eric James Stone) (Larry Correia, Anna del C Dye, ­Kristin Randle, Charlotte Randle, Stacy 7:00–7:50 pm Whitman, Dan Willis) Copyright and the Internet Award-Winning SF&F for Young How to avoid plagiarim. How to know Readers what you can and can’t put on the Internet and still sell a story/novel/ (Pat Castelli) work of art. How can you protect your- Reading self from plagiarism?

(David Farland) (Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury, Brandon 5:00–5:50 pm Sanderson, Eric James Stone, Howard Collaborating with Another Writer Tayler, JoSelle Vanderhooft) Editing Dos and Don’ts Sometimes it can be as easy as “I do the background and you do the fighting.” (Stacy Whitman, Greg Park, Kristen Sometimes it takes more work. Randle, Roger White) (Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury, Paul Readings (1/2 hour each) Genesse, Tracy Hickman, Laura Hickman, (Paul Genesse, Anna del C Dye) Dan Willis) 7:00–10:00 pm The Golden Age of Science Fiction What makes it “golden” and who are the Filking authors that we should read from this 8:00 pm period? Reception (David Ferro, Eric Swedin, Scott Dan- ielson, Janus Daniels (M), Julie Wright) Please join us to top off a great year! Creating a World for Your RPG/Story (Robert J Defendi) 23 Book Signings

Subject to change. Please check the registration room for locations. Books can be purchased in the BYU Bookstore on the second floor of the Wilkinson Center. Friday noon Brandon Mull

Saturday noon David Farland, Brian Hailes, Tracy Hickman, Laura Hickman, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Brandon Sanderson, Howard Tayler 2:00 pm James Dashner, Jessica Day George, Greg Park, Rebecca Shelley, Eric James Stone, Julie Wright

Readings

Thursday 6:00 pm JoSelle Vanderhooft, Aleta Clegg Friday 6:00 pm Brandon Sanderson Saturday 1:00 pm Jessica Day George / James Dashner 2:00 Dan Wells / TBA 3:00 John Brown / Robert J Defendi 4:00 David Farland 5:00 Rebecca Shelley / Aprilynne Pike 6:00 Roger White / Eric James Stone 7:00 Paul Genesse / Anna del C Dye

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