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Program Grid Welcome to Renovation! Renovation THE 69TH WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION Because the Convention Guide had to go to press prior to the convention, some late changes were not included. Look for the “pink sheets” of program changes at the convention, both when you register and as the convention progresses. Program changes may be announced in the newsletter as well. You can see the most current program online at www.RenovationSF.org, or through our mobile app, available at the same site. Note: The Sunday grid is on the back of the Thursday evening schedule, to allow Friday and Saturday to each fit on a single sheet, for those of you who like to take one day at a time (as it were). Wednesday Morning/Early Afternoon 10:00a 10:30a 11:00a 11:30a noon 12:30p 1:00p 1:30p 2:00p 2:30p Tourists: Creating Breaking into Comics A01+6 Characters and Stories in an Existing World A02 Welcome to Reno A Trip to the Creation Adventures in Gaming: The Museum Business of Game Design A03 Designing Believable Physics A04 Green Chemistry Molecular Gastronomy Tour of Historic Nevada A05 Reading: Cory Doctorow Not My Fandom: Other A10 Fandoms and Their Worldcon Experience I Think I Want to Make a A11 Costume—What do I do Next? Teaching SF: Teaching SF: Friends of Bill W A13 Introduction Motivation (9am, A18) (9:15, A18) Teaching SF: Teaching SF: Teaching SF: Lunch and Teaching SF: Stellar Evolution/Alien Design Teaching SF: Give the Kid A18 Keynote Scientific Video a Book Literacy D07 Read or Die—OVA Tokyo Godfathers Claymore Anime D08 Enchanted Alice in Wonderland Cartoons Directed by Tex Avery Cartoons E02+03 Kick the Can Ice Cream An Introduction to Role Take it Apart, Part 1 Kids’ Activities Playing Games for Kids (E01) Wednesday Evening 8:00p 8:30p 9:00p 9:30p 10:00p 10:30p 11:00p 11:30p midnight 12:30a A01+6 Music Night Filk Jam A04 SF and Musical What Does Your SF Performance Sound Like? A09 Writing Parodies C04 Godson, a Play by Roger Zelazny Kinemato- Man vs Bus Pirates Charlie The Familiar D06 graph, Cost Woman, Un- Thistle Film Festival of Living, Gone, Pit & Ascension Pendulum D07 Afro Samurai: Resurrection (7:45pm) Vampire Knight Anime D08 Mad The Little Prince Cartoons Monster Party (7pm) Hall 2 Bar Music Night Poetry Slam Hall 2 Stage Concert: Mary Crowell Roma 1 High School of the Dead AMV Hell Batman and Boogiepop Video Robin Riffrax Phantom (2:30am) Wednesday Afternoon/Early Evening Renovation THE 69TH WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION 3:00p 3:30p 4:00p 4:30p 5:00p 5:30p 6:00p 6:30p 7:00p 7:30p Getting Started in Our Journeys Through the A01+6 Illustration Twisty, Curvy Mazes of Game Development Finding Your Home in the Publisher Presentation: Working Out the Cover “The Bird’s Eye View”: A02 Art World Quirk Books The Art Collection of Kenneth A. Moore Ask Doctor Genius Nevada as a Setting for SF A03 & Fantasy Have We Reached the Publisher Presentation: Form and Content: Using A04 Ecological Tipping Point? Tachyon Publications Music in Science Fiction and Fantasy The Real Revenge of the Classic Movies Before A05 Nerds: Geek as Hero 2001 & Star Trek Planning a Set Interview with Are You as Smart as a Rat? Introduction to Filk I A09 Aliette de Bodard Done to Death: Program In Memoriam— Reading: Night Shade Books A10 Topics that have Out-Stayed Remembering Our Absent Their Welcome Friends How to Watch a A11 Masquerade No Sew Color A12 Posing Your Costume On Stranger Tides Mark Protection A13 by Tim Powers Committee Meeting A14 John Maddox Peadar Ó Bud Gregory A. Readings Roberts Guilín Sparhawk Wilson A15 Tanglwyst John G. Readings de Holloway Hemry Renovation Feedback Fandom Online: Is the A16 Session Argument Over? What Was (Is?) the Argument About? A17 Giving an Effective Reading Concert: Academic Alex Boyd Teaching SF: Empower Teaching SF: Stretching Teaching SF: Not Quite A18 Students: Teach Them the Mind While Thinking 1001 SF Resources Science Fiction, Too Outside the Box Dance to Tricky Pixie’s C03 Concert! Opening Ceremony Dr. Demento Tricky Pixie C04 Special Guest Item Special Guest Concert Social Media, Online D05 Technologies, and the Way We Will Live D07 Claymore Vexille Afro Samurai Anime (1:15pm) D08 The Little Mermaid 1975 The Daydreamer Mad Monster Party Cartoons E01 Science Fictional Music Kids’ Program for Young Fans E02+03 Take it Apart, Part 1 (2pm) Dr. Who Lego Build Kids’ Activities Hall 2 Ellen Asher, Pat Rothfuss, Autographing: Wed 17:00 Autographs Lawrence M. Schoen, Edward Willett Hall 2 Bar Bill Willingham Lauren Beukes Literary Beer Hall 2 Teen Rock Band Competition Lounge Thursday Morning/Early Afternoon Renovation THE 69TH WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION 10:00a 10:30a 11:00a 11:30a noon 12:30p 1:00p 1:30p 2:00p 2:30p A01+6 Stroll with the Stars Collaboration in Game A Dialog on Free Will Reading: (9am, Stroll Meeting Spot) Design George R. R. Martin A02 Preliminary WSFS Business Meeting The Art of Winona Nelson Vallejo Does Tarot A03 Reading: Fairy Tales and Storytelling People for the Ethical Science Fiction, Gender, Brandon Sanderson Treatment of Mars and Social Change A04 The Psychogeography of Writing Soundtracks and Fanzine & Semi-Prozine What to Do in a Disaster Ideals Songs for Books Hugo Categories A05 The 1960s, 50 Years On Far Future SF, Remembrances of Then and Now Joanna Russ A09 When Faith and Science Anime Cons: When will Reproductive Technology, Reading: Paul Cornell Meet They Grow Up? Medical Ethics and the Law A10 The Best Reviews and Will Eisner: Pioneering Your First Masquerade Designing Believable Reviewers of 2010 Comics Genius Paleontology A11 Publisher Presentation: Publisher Presentation: Charles N. Brown: Early Publisher Presentation: Pyr Miles Above: A Short Film Analog Angry Robot Years in Fandom about the Columbia A12 Sketching Your Costume Beginning Make-Up Effects Advanced Make-Up Effects Idea A13 Friends of Bill W Karate Workshop ASFA Meeting A14 David D. Daniel M. Ty Franck Irene Alan P. Greg Bear Ken Scholes Joe Susan Readings Friedman Kimmel Radford Smale Haldeman Palwick A15 Eric Swedin Richard A. David D. Lizzy Jim Young Lee Christopher Jennifer Laurel Anne Readings Lovett Levine Shannon Martindale Kastensmidt Brozek Hill A16 Music for Creative People The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet A17 String Theory Frontiers The Time Paradox Destroying Imagination to Academic Save Reality A18 Convention-Running 101 Photographing a Introduction to Filk II How to Draw People of Masquerade Different Races C01 The Ethics of AI Making It as a Full-Time For Fringe Fans Writer C03 Yoga Class Victorian Rotary Waltz Victorian Steampunk Tea Dance Class Dance D01 Dr. Demento: History of Concert: Throwing Toasters Concerts Humorous SF Music D03 The Necessity of Reviewers D04 Astrobiology and the The Moral Aesthetics of Renovation Feedback Fermi Paradox Steampunk Session D05 The Amish Approach to Short but Containing the Changing Technology World: A Look at Novellas D06 The Delivery Sintel, The Enigma Unearthed Solatrium A Can of Journey Stingray Sam Film Festival Cats of Mars Passenger Paint Quest D07 Evangelion 1.11—You Are (Not) Alone Evangelion 2.22—You CanAdvance The Girl Who Leapt Anime Through Time D08 The Three Stooges Cartoons from the Walter Lantz Cartoons E01 Where to Start With Comic Reading on the Kids’ Program Comics Couches with Tanglwyst E02+03 Steampunk My iPhone or Cookie Monsters Take it Apart, Part 2 Kids’ Activities iGoggles L. E. Modesitt Jr., Sheila Julie Bell, Beth Meacham, Mur Lafferty, Patrick & Daniel Abraham, John G. Susan Chang, Rose Fox, Kaffeeklatsch Williams Larry Niven, Boris Vallejo Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Hemry Alastair Reynolds Peadar Ó Guilín Hall 2 Art Show Art Show Docent Tour with Claire Brialey Autographing: Thu 10:00 Daniel Abraham, Paul Gregory Benford, Paul Adam-Troy Castro, Steven Alexander James Adams, Carlson, Daniel Coleman, Cornell, Michael F. Flynn, Gould, Steve Jackson, Mary Taylor Anderson, Aliette de Hall 2 James Patrick Kelly, Louise Martina Pilcerova, Melinda Robinette Kowal, M. J. Bodard, David D. Friedman, Autographs Marley, Lee Martindale, M. Snodgrass Locke, John Scalzi, Mary Lizzy Shannon, Betsy Courtney Schafer, Jeff A. Turzillo, Walter Jon Tinney, SJ Tucker, Connie Sturgeon Williams Willis Hall 2 Dealers: Richard Hescox Vicki Ralls Artist Alley Reg Hall Keeping the Magic Secret For Fans of the Fillory Discussion Area Novels Naples 1, 5 Writers Workshop, Section D, E Writers Workshop, Section G, H Roma 2 Writers Workshop, Section F Writers Workshop, Section I Thursday Afternoon/Early Evening Renovation THE 69TH WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION 3:00p 3:30p 4:00p 4:30p 5:00p 5:30p 6:00p 6:30p 7:00p 7:30p A01+6 Ellen Asher Guest of Honor My Trip to Mars Magical University Challenge Interview A02 Cover Art in the Age of The Autumn of the Making Wondermark Adventures in Ceramics e-Books Modern Ages Archaeology: a Field Report A03 What’s Up with Zombies? Arrrggh! Tall Tales versus The Works of Tim Powers Disasters, Crises, and Earth Abides: History in Pirate Research Industrial Progress After We’re Gone A04 Understanding Dothraki Locus, Vision and The Alternate 1632 and Beyond Realization Alternate History Panel A05 Writing Non-Human Who Was the Most Creating Costumes from Characters Influential Doctor? Fantasy Art A09 Creating Gods Society for Creative Infections and Viruses that Online Networking Before Anachronism Could Doom Humankind Social Networks A10 And the Award for Best SF Canon within Comics Lord of the Rings Movies Green Tree, Blue Tree, Anime Goes To… Who Gives a Frack? A11 The Arab Spring Fannish Inquisitions: Publisher Presentation: Geocaching Event Cache Future Worldcons Ace/Roc A12 Steampunk Your Props Steampunk Costumes A13 Collaborative Fan Editing SF and Fantasy Poetry Perspectives on the Golden Age of Science Fiction A14 Mary Aliette de Pat Rothfuss Jim Frenkel Melinda M.
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