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Registration 4 PM-8:30 PM 9:30 AM-6 PM 9 AM-Noon

Art Show 6 PM—Midnight 10 AM-10 PM 10 AM-Noon

Art Show Closeout - - Noon

Art Show Sales - - 1 PM-3 PM

Con Suite 4 PM-1AM 10 AM-1 AM 10 AM-4 PM

Hucksters Room 5 PM-8 PM 10 AM-6 PM 10 AM-3 PM

Information/Volunteers 3 PM-9PM 10 AM-9 PM 10 AM-3 PM

Programming 5 PM—Midnight 10 AM-Midnight 10 M-4 PM

Dragonslair 6 PM-9 PM 9 AM-Noon 9 AM-2 PM 1PM-5 PM 7 PM-9 PM

Magic Tournament - - 9 AM (registration) 10 AM-??

"Dead Dog" socializing - - Sunday evening, post teardown

Boskone is the annual science fiction convention run by NESFA, the New England Science Fiction Association. For latest information on Boskone check www.boskonc.org.

Cover image © Dan dos Santos Boskone and NESFA are registered service marks of the New England Science Fiction Association, Inc. LOCATIONS see maps on back cover

EVENT LOCATIONS

Fascinator Construction (Fri night) Galleria Boskone Reception (Fri night) Sword-fighting demos Dead Dog(Sun)

Silent movie (Faust) (Fri night) 2nd floor rooms Filking (evenings) Interview and Portraiture (Sat) Tricky Pixie concert (Sat night) Awards Ceremonies (Sat night) Magic the Gathering® Tournament (Sun)

ACTIVITY LOCATIONS

Newsletter Distribution Point 2nd floor Photo Booth pre-function space Program Participant Check-in Registration

Anime/Video 2nd floor Filking (evenings) function rooms Main Programming

Fan tables (lower and upper levels, not 1st floor) escalator lobbies

ArtShow Galleria Art Demos Art Show Sales Autographing Con Suite Hucksters’ Room Discussion Groups Dragonslair Gaming (general) Information Kaffeeklatches Literary Beers Newsletter Distribution Office Party board Print Shop Program Operations Volunteers desk 2 PROGRAM F R I DAY

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The Publishing Industry Fuzzies Must Die! for the Teen Perspective S. C. Butler (M), Jordin T. Kare, Leah Wilson (M) Catherynne M. Valente Westin • Galleria-Demo • 1 hour Westin • Burroughs • 1 hour Special Interest Group. An interactive Panel. Be brave, and come declare your discussion for pre-teens and teens about the hatred of cute BEMs from every genre. whole publishing process, plus a creative If you hold a Smurf’s head in a plastic group activity. bag, what color does it turn? Tribbles are vermin! Is Little Fuzzy a fur-bearing Welcome to Boskone! animal? Do you like Hokas ... stewed or broiled? Which furry sidekicks should be Laurie Mann kicked to the curb? And do you know any Westin • Galleria-Discussion Group • 1 hour recipes for tasty BEMs? Docent Tour. Is this your first Boskone? Welcome! Join us in the Galleria (look Sui-sui: Currents in Anime for the cluster of blue balloons in the Timothy R Szczesuil (M), Reuben Baron, Discussion Group area), and we’ll give you Lisa Hawkridge, Gillian Daniels the grand tour. Westin • Carlton • 45 minutes Illuminati Panel. What directions has anime taken? What trends are hot at the moment? Westin • Galleria-Gaming • 2 hours What type of productions are fans likely Gaming. The classic game of conspiracy — to see over the next couple of years? with all three decks and the bonus pack. And given several big shake-ups in the industry recently (studios closing, prices HowTo Build A Genius shifting, digital releases), how can we Resa Nelson (M), Charles Stress, Greer expect to see them? Gilman, Catherynne M. Valente Westin • Harbor I • 1 hour Sexual Harassment & Assault Panel. Our panel of really intelligent in Fandom writers will discuss how to create characters Shira Lipkin (M) that are even smarter than they are. Westin • Galleria-Discussion Group • 1 hour Special Interest Group. Bruce Schneier Talks on the Human Side of Security and How It Making Art Show Awards Improves Society Westin • Galleria-DragonsLair • 1 hour Bruce Schneier Childrens. Westin ■ Harbor II • 1 hour Solo Talk. Our Hal Clement Science Speaker, Bruce Schneier, gives a talk on the human side of security, and how it induces trust in society. PROGRAM FRIDAY 3

SF/F/H in the Classroom Dressing the Parties — Jack M. Haringa (M), F. Brett Cox, Regalia and Symbolism B.A. Chepaitis, Kenneth Schneyer Darlene Marshall (M), Leonid Korogodski, Westin • Griffin • 1 hour Walter H. Hunt, Elizabeth Bear Panel. Kids today don’t have to hide their Westin • Harbor III • 1 hour SF book in class. It is their class. How Panel. Developing symbols and regalia are science fiction, fantasy, and horror in your worlds. Associations of colors taught in a typical course today? What and creatures. Displays of rank. Pilot do the teachers know that we fans don’t, patches. Japanese symbology and family. or vice versa? What works work best in A lot of the systemization of heraldry is the classroom? Does studying the stuff in a very late development. Any hints from school recruit lifelong speculative fiction SCA experience? Has awareness of all this readers, or drive them away in droves? increased from Game of Thrones?

Winter is Here: How Game of Reading: John Langan Thrones Plays on TV John Langan Bob Devney (M), Myke Cole, Teresa Nielsen Westin • Independence • 30 minutes Hayden, Joshua Bilmes Reading Westin • Harbor I • 1 hour Panel. The HBO series Game of Thrones was must-see TV for fans of the George R. 6:30 PM R. Martin books and millions of others. And everyone has an opinion. Did the Reading: Kathryn Cramer onscreen depiction live up to the written Kathryn Cramer word — the story, the casting, the action, the food? Will you tune in next season? Westin ■ Independence • 30 minutes What are you anticipating when Game of Reading. Thrones returns in April?

How Scientists Influence SF & Vice Versa Jerry Pournelle, Toni Weisskopf Westin ■ Harbor II • 1 hour Dialog. Join Boskone Special Guest Toni Weisskopf and NESFA Press Guest Jerry Pournelle in a dialog about the way scientists have had an impact on SF — and the way SF has impacted scientists. 4 PROGRAM F R I DAY

------7 Wonders Westin ■ Galleria-Gaming-2 hours The Thorn and the Blossom - Gaming. Try out one of die hottest games Unique Challenges of on the market as you race to build up your Specialty Book Publishing empire — whilst trying not to give your Stephen Segal, Theodora Goss opponents the chance to build theirs. A game of manipulation ... and just a tad of luck. Westin • Burroughs ■ 1 hour Dialog. The Thorn and the Blossom is NESFA Hymnal Singing Theodora Goss’s latest book, edited by Stephen Segal. They’ll discuss the unique Erwin S. Strauss challenges that went into writing and Westin • Griffin • 1 hour producing it, and the process of crafting a Demonstration. Group singing of “geek story that reads both as mythic fantasy and songs” from the NESFA Hymnals, Vol. 1 as contemporary romantic realism. and 2. Loaner hymnals will be provided. A good way to learn some of the old classics Sword of the Stranger of filk and find your inner geek. Westin • Carlton • 1 hour 40 minutes Anime. (Bandai; PG-13 for violence) Reboots: Refreshing or Depressing? A young boy is on the run from Ming Ian Tregillis (M), Daniel P. Dern, Leah Wilson, Dynasty assassins, who want to use him as John Scalzi part of an experiment to gain immortality. Westin • Harbor I • 1 hour His only company: his dog and a nameless Panel. From Star Trek to DC comics to ronin. Inspired by the epics of Kurasowa the Fuzzy saga, hitting the “start over” and Leone, this film is filled with amazing button is suddenly a popular move. Why action from the animators of Fullmetal do creators do it? (And how can they Alchemist. do it well?) Why do fans enjoy it? Is it a gravestone on top of exhausted ideas, or Fascinator Construction a neon sign pointing the way back to a Westin • Galleria-Demo ■ 2 hours brighter future? Demonstration. Join us for an event inspired by a certain astonishing royal A Study of the Humours — Medieval wedding hat! Make your own, er, Medicine whatever-it-is! Laurie Mann (M). Elaine Isaak, Darlene Marshall, Kenneth Schneyer, Storytelling with Bruce Coville James D. Macdonald Bruce Coville (M) Westin • Harbor II • 1 hour Westin • Galleria-DragonsLair ■ 1 hour Panel. For thousands of years, learned Childrens. doctors insisted that health and illness was governed by “the four humours” http://www.klieper.net/topics/typology/ four_humours.html. A look at how old ideas persisted and how they led to odd treatments like bleedings. PROGRAM FRIDAY 5

Why I Love/Hate Heinlein 7:30 PM Karen Cooper (M), Dana Cameron, Sharon Sbarsky, Bud Sparhawk, Fred Lerner Reading: Chad Orzel Westin • Harbor III • 1 hour Chad Orzel Panel. Surveying the celebrated — if Westin • Independence • 30 minutes sometimes controversial — works of Reading. classic SF author Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988), writer Jo Walton observes, “Even when I don’t like Heinlein I do like him.” Discuss. Ten Best Books Reading: Resa Nelson of the Past Ten Years Resa Nelson Claire Eddy (M), Ellen Asher, Don D'Ammassa, Westin • Independence • 30 minutes Michael J. Walsh, Paul G. Tremblay Reading. Westin ■ Burroughs -1 hour Panel. Let’s take the longer view and Absent Friends pick the works of science fiction, fantasy, Tony Lewis (M), Don D'Ammassa, Ellen Asher or horror that stood the test of the last Westin • Lewis • 1 hour decade or so. We’ll bring our own lists Panel. Diana Wynne Jones, Joanna and opinions; please share yours too. Do Russ, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Joel any trends stand out? What makes a book Rosenberg, Martin H. Greenberg, L. A. lasting rather than just latest and greatest? Banks, William Sleator, Colin Harvey, Sara Douglass, Darrell K. Sweet, Anne Art with Daniel dos Santos McCaffrey, Rusty Hevelin, and John Daniel dos Santos (M) Christopher are no longer with us. Other Westin • Galleria-DragonsLair • 1 hour writers, artists, fans, and other well-recalled Children’s. Our Official Artist brings members of our community have also died the kids deep into his own world of since last we met. Lets remember a little of fantastic — and fun — images. what they did, and what they meant to us. Workshop: Unusual Instruments Ben Deschamps, Denise Gendron, Betsy Tinney Westin • Griffin • 1 hour Workshop. Filk instruments aren’t just guitars and keyboards. Our participants talk about and demonstrate unusual filk instruments, including two — count them, two! — cellos. 6 PROGRAM F R I DAY

8:00 PM continued E 8:45 PM

The Fairyland Roadshow Redline Catherynne M. Valente, S. J. Tucker Westin • Carlton • 1 hour 45 minutes Westin • Harbor I • 1 hour Anime. (Manga Entertainment; PG-13 for Dialog. Come one, come all! See the violence, nudity) In the far future, Sweet JP Panther of Rough Storms, the Green Wind, has been chosen to compete in the Redline, and beautiful women weaving WONDERS! an illegal underground car race where he Singer S. J. Tucker (Tricky Pixie), will compete with robots, cyborgs, magical Wordsmith Catherynne Valente and friends girls, and gorilla aliens. Director Takeshi split a reading-concert on the other side of Koike oMw/Wra fame spent 7 years dream in celebration ofValente’s novel, 7/v creating this visual spectacular. And you Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a thought Speed Racer got crazy ... Ship of Her Own Making. Applause most welcome. (Fairies love that sort of thing.) PM The Year in Review: Dramatic Presentations Looking Forward To John Carter Jim Mann (M), Vince Docherty, Bob Devney, Bob Devney (M), Allen M. Steele, Daniel Kimmel Melinda Snodgrass, Bob Eggleton, Westin • Harbor II • 1 hour John Joseph Adams Panel. What fantastic moving images Westin • Burroughs -1 hour moved you the most this past year? Join us Panel. This long-awaited film of the first to discuss the best science fiction, fantasy, book in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic and horror movies, TV shows, theatrical Barsoom series (1912-1943) will finally be productions, and more of 2011. And if released next month, in a first-class 3-D you’re into awards, let’s hurry: those Hugo production. (Get in the Martian mood nomination ballots are due in Chicago by with a new hardcover not otherwise related March 11. to the film, just-released original story anthology Under the Moons of Mars: New How to Read Aloud Adventures on Barsoom.') What elements of the original sword-sand-and-six- Bob Kuhn (M), Justine Graykin, Bruce Coville, limbed-tribesmen story do we hope will B.A. Chepaitis be retained, or removed? Could the flick Westin • Lewis ■ 1 hour possibly live up to our expectations? And Panel. Guidance for professionals reading why on Jasoom (Earth) would they drop their own work, as well as parents reading the “of Mars” bit from the title? Dr. Seuss for the zillionth time. PROGRAM FRIDAY 7

3 Dragon Ante Changing Views of the Aristocrat Westin ■ Galleria-Gaming • 2 hours in SF/F/H Gaming. A wonderful take on the game of Mary Kay Kare (M), Gregory Feeley, poker. Leonid Korogodski, B.A. Chepaitis Westin • Harbor II • 1 hour The Faust Legend Panel. The first fantasy we know featured Gary D. McGath (M), Faye Ringel, John Langan a king (Gilgamesh). Ever since, readers of Westin • Griffin • 1 hour the fantastic have dearly loved a lord. Since few genre writers actually are aristocrats, Panel. The story of the man who sold his how realistic can such depictions be? Are soul to the Devil has taken many forms, growing concentration of wealth and power from old German legends to modern in the real world, plus budding populist movies. What is the story’s appeal? How backlashes, likely to affect our fictions? has it changed over the years? Hear the panel, then stay to see the spectacular 1926 silent movie (with live musical How Much Steam Is There accompaniment) coming up next! in Steampunk? Rosemary Kirstein (M), Stephen Segal, Occupy SF: The Corporation Genevieve Valentine, Margaret Ronald in Speculative Fiction Westin • Harbor III • 1 hour Teresa Nielsen Hayden (M), Charles Stross, Panel. Is steampunk destined to remain Justine Graykin, S. C. Butler a distinct subgenre, or will its edges blur Westin • Harbor I • 1 hour into the rest of alternate history? Why does it appeal to us? Are its appeals enduring Panel. From Rossum’s Universal Robots, aspects of the genre? U.S. Robotics, General Services, Fowler Schocken, and Solar Spice and Liquors to CHOAM, Tyrell, Weyland-Yutani, Open Filk Blue Ant, Blue Sun, Buy n Large, Westin • Lewis - 4 hours Jeeves, Viprine, and of course Soylent, Filk. Filk singing through the night. Come how has science fiction seen the future to sing or just listen. of big business? What works seem to get corporations right? Are visions of corporations more powerful than nation states or planetary governments looking more likely lately? 8 PROGRAM F R I DAY

---- -—FTTOI7W------Trivia for Chocolate Mark L. Olson, Priscilla Olson Short Friction Westin ■ Harbor I • 1 hour James Patrick Kelly (M), F. Brett Cox, Game Show. Flow much chocolate can John Joseph Adams you collect in an hour? The MCs ask the Westin • Burroughs • 1 hour questions, and the audience shouts out Panel. Short tales are the root of fantasy; short the answers. Hie people with the correct stories were long the heart of SF and horror; answer first win a small wrapped chocolate. YA, which like short fiction may feature less complexity and fewer characters, has never The Influence of Lovecraft on been more popular. So given the breakneck Horror Today rhythms of life today, you’d think short Jack M. Haringa (M), Theodora Goss, fiction would still rule. But some writers Darrell Schweitzer, David Wellington, always struggle at this length. Why? And John Langan many readers never read the stuff. Again, why? If they only tried it, would they like it? Westin • Harbor II • 1 hour Panel. In his thesis Lovecrafts’ Progeny, Art Show Reception horror scholar John Langan considers how Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Westin • Galleria-Demo • 1 hour Ligotti, and other writers were influenced Other. This tasteful close to your Friday by the weirdest New Englander of all, evening is open to all. Stroll about Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937). and appreciate all the art, enjoy light OK, we’ll bite. How did the long-dead refreshments, and perhaps engage in some creator of the Cthulhu cult insinuate his artful conversation. unspeakably squamous sensibility into the unresisting intellects of these and other Silent Movie: Faust scribes and screenwriters? How can you tell? Gary D. McGath Westin • Griffin • 2 hours Video. F. W. Murnau’s classic 1926 silent 10:30 PM version of the Faust legend, with dramatic and diabolical special effects. (Roger Ebert Hetalia: Paint It, White applauds its “landscape of nightmares,” Westin • Carlton • 1 hour 30 minutes and notes a poll naming this one of the Anime. (FUNimation; R for language, best horror films of all time.) Extra special ethnic humor) feature: live keyboard accompaniment by ’Flic anthropomorphic-personifications- Gary McGath. Seating limited to 40. of-countries series was a hit at last year’s [This is a licensing issue.] Boskone, so this year we will be showing the movie. Decidedly less historically- themed than the TV series, the film’s official promotional tagline is “Alien invaders. A world united. Weird goo. LOL, WUT?” That probably says it all. PROGRAM SATURDAY 9

12:00AM-midnight Autographing: Elizabeth Bear Elizabeth Bear Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl Westin • Galleria-Autographing -1 hour Westin • Carlton • 1 hour 30 minutes Autographing. Anime. (FUNimation; R. for sexual content, incredibly unrealistic violence, Boskone 101 horrific racial stereotypes) And now, for Priscilla Olson (M) something completely different. Welcome Westin • Galleria-Discussion Group • 1 hour to a world where sunlight affects vampires like gravity affects Wile E. Coyote (AKA Special Interest Group. Is this your first only when they notice it), sexy nurses convention? Welcome! Join us in the Galleria dance around in puddles of gore without to learn all about Boskone and fandom. getting any blood on their clothes, and schools somehow are OK with wrist­ Clay Magic slitting and blackface clubs. Oh, Japan... Lisa Hertel Westin • Galleria-DragonsLair • 1 hour 9:00 AM Children’s. Frag Costuming: Mad Hatter Hats Westin ■ Galleria-Gaming • 2 hours Westin • Galleria-DragonsLair • 1 hour Gaming. Based on the videogame Quake Childrens. Arena, this is a board game version of a first-person shooter. All the weapons, all the power-ups, and all the action you could 10:00 AM hope for!

Medical Myths and Errors in SF/F Kaffeeklatsche: Guy Consolmagno Kenneth Schneyer(M), Susan MacDonald, Guy Consolmagno Christopher Kovacs Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 • 1 hour Westin • Burroughs • 1 hour Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at Panel. A look at common mistakes about Information required; limited to 10. medicine that writers make in their fiction Kaffeeklatsche: Toni L. R Kelner The Baen Roadshow Toni L. P. Kelner Toni Weisskopf (M) Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 • 1 hour Westin • Carlton • 1 hour Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at Solo Talk. SF publisher Baen Books Information required; limited to 10. discusses its 2012 lineup. Occupy Luna Slide Show - Normand Vince Docherty (M), Allen M. Steele, Jean-Pierre Normand Ian Randal Strock, Alexander Jablokov Westin • Galleria-Art Demos • 1 hour Westin • Griffin • 1 hour Solo Talk. Canadian artist Jean-Pierre Panel. How do we have a lunar society that Normand presents his work. avoids some of the problems we have today. 10 PROGRAM A T U R D A Y

10:00 AM continued B Reading: Jennifer Pelland Jennifer Pelland Creating Alien Characters Westin • Independence • 30 minutes Claire Eddy (M), Frank Wu, Benjamin Tate, Reading. Michael F. Flynn Westin • Harbor I • 1 hour Reading: Sharon Lee Panel. From the outside, how do we create Sharon Lee alien species that are not just giant X or sentient Y — like big ants or smarter cats? Westin • Lewis • 30 minutes From the inside, how do we even conceive Reading. mentation that is fundamentally nonhuman, rather than just like us with an obsession for Z — like money, honor, or status? 10:30 AM

SF/F/H As a Mirror on Society Higgins Armory - Jeanne Cavelos (M), Dana Cameron, Demonstration of a Fencing Class John Joseph Adams, Peter V. Brett Westin • Galleria-Demo • 1 hour Westin • Harbor II • 1 hour Demonstration. This is the routine class Panel. It’s simplistic to say genre fiction maps held weekly. Narrated for the benefit of to current politics. Vampires are bankers, the convention. zombies are the revengeful victimized classes, and werewolves are the media in Reading: Justine Graykin feeding frenzy? C’mon. But did we write Justine Graykin more optimistic SF when the space race was young? Or victorious spacewar stories when Westin • Independence • 30 minutes we were losing Vietnam? If fiction in any Reading. way reflect societal anxieties or moods, what do we make of steampunk, or sparkly vamps, Reading: Steve Miller or dystopian YA, or upticks in stories about Steve Miller ghosts or gaming? Westin • Lewis • 30 minutes Survive and Thrive in the New World Reading. of Publishing Joshua Bilmes (M), Neil Clarke, Alan F. Beck, 11:00 AM Jeffrey A. Carver, Beth Bernobich Westin • Harbor III • 1 hour The Year in Astronomy Panel. Traditional publishing is under Mark L. Olson (M), Jeff Hecht, siege from all sides as online publishing Guy Consolmagno proliferates, cheap and easy self publishing is Westin • Burroughs -1 hour available, and readership in general declines. Can the rise of e-books, audiobooks, print- Panel. So what happened in astronomy and on-demand save the industry? What must physics in 2011 ? Old mysteries solved? New you do to be successful today? mysteries found? Join us for the annual panel on the wonders of our universe! PROGRAM SATURDAY 11

The Writing of Short Fiction Writing Freelance: Alexander Jablokov (M), F. Brett Cox, James How to Pitch Your Idea Patrick Kelly, Beth Bernobich Ethan Gilsdorf(M) Westin • Carlton • 1 hour Westin • Galleria-Discussion Group -1 hour Panel. Let’s take a close-up view of what Special Interest Group. A journalist and to do when you create a horror, science critic for The New York Times and The fiction, or fantasy story in one of the Boston Globe, as well as an instructor at shorter lengths. How do you decide that Grub Street, talks about how to pitch this idea will work best short? How many your SF/F story, article, and book ideas to characters can you fit? What’s got to go in? publications, editors and agents. What must you leave out? What short form masters should you steal blind? Higgins Armory Swordsguild Westin • Galleria-DragonsLair • 30 minutes Official Artist Demo Children’s. Daniel dos Santos Westin • Galleria-Art Demos • 1 hour Kaffeeklatsche: Dana Cameron Demonstration. This year’s Boskone Dana Cameron Official Artist displays some of his work Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 • 1 hour and outlines the making of a Magic card. With his career scarcely a decade old, Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at Daniel dos Santos is already a two-time Information required; limited to 10. Chesley Award winner, and nominee for the Best Professional Artist Hugo the past 3 Kaffeeklatsche: Peter V. Brett years (and counting?). The saturated colors, Peter V. Brett luminous light, deceptive depth, and Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 • 1 hour sheer sexy intensity of his work will keep Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at you watching. Come see an upside-down Information required; limited to 10. ninja girl, a sulky white trash zombie, everybody’s favorite Browncoat — and the war between angels and demons fought out Life Without Borders on the inky canvas of one man’s skin. Joshua Bilmes (M), Laurie Mann, Michael J. Walsh, Kathryn Cramer Autographing: Darrell Schweitzer, Westin • Griffin • 1 hour Michael E Flynn Panel. The country’s second-largest Darrell Schweitzer, Michael F. Flynn bookstore chain closed its last 399 doors Westin • Galleria-Autographing -1 hour last fall. What effects has Borders’ closing, along with similarly transformational Autographing. events, had on other chains, independent booksellers, con dealers, publishers, authors, agents —and oh yes, readers? We talk about the e-book — what’s the future of the p-book? 12 PROGRAM SAT U R D A Y

11:00 AM continued E Reading: Bruce Coville Bruce Coville The Women of Doctor Who Westin • Lewis • 30 minutes Stephen Segal (M), Vince Docherty, Theodora Reading. Goss, Catherynne M. Valente Westin • Harbor I • 1 hour Panel. Why is there such a love/hate 11:30 AM relationship between Dr. Who Fandom and River Song and Amy Pond? Higgins Armory Swordsguild Truly Awful Eyefuls: Bad SF/F/H Westin ■ Galleria-DragonsLair • 30 minutes Movies and TV Children’s. Steven Sawicki (M), Bob Eggleton, Reading: Darlene Marshall Daniel Kimmel, Leah Wilson Darlene Marshall Westin • Harbor II • 1 hour Westin • Independence • 30 minutes Panel. You know them. You may even love them. They stink. Let’s plunge joyfully Reading. into the muck and come up with the most authentically abysmal genre flicks and shows Reading: Jane Yolen of all time. How did they get so bad? Is there Jane Yolen any way they could have been worse? Westin • Lewis ■ 30 minutes Reading. Hell in the High School: Evolution in Science and Fiction Joan Slonczewski 12:00 PM • noon Westin • Harbor III • 1 hour Solo Talk. 'Ihe greatest threat to high Writing Workshops school today is not drugs or alcohol: & Critique Groups It’s evolution. Then in college, students Jeffrey A. Carver (M), Jeanne Cavelos, conduct their own evolution in the lab, S. C. Butler, James Patrick Kelly, overturning centuries of knowledge. And Suzanne Palmer industry evolves bacteria for synthetic Westin • Burroughs • 1 hour biology. Finally, the science fiction of Vonnegut and Slonczewski concocts mind­ Panel. A look at periodic writers workshops blowing forms of evolution. and ongoing groups where writers frequently critique one another’s work. Reading: Bud Sparhawk SFWA Eastern Regional Meeting Bud Sparhawk Bud Sparhawk, John Scalzi, Kate Baker, Westin • Independence • 30 minutes Catherynne M. Valente Reading. Westin ■ Carlton • 1 hour Other. PROGRAM s A T U R D A Y 13

Watercolor Demonstration Kaffeeklatsche: Myke Cole Alan F. Beck Myke Cole Westin • Galleria-Art Demos • 1 hour Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 • 1 hour Demonstration Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at Information required; limited to 10. Docent Tour of the Special Art Exhibit Performance Workshop Joe Siclari, Edie Stern Ben Deschamps, Edward L Stauff Westin • Galleria-Art Show • 1 hour Westin • Griffin • 1 hour-Workshop Docent Tour. Join the curators of the Suffering from stage fright? Want to learn Special Art Exhibit on the SFWA Grand how to be a better musical performer? Master Illustrations for a tour of the exhibit. Come on in and pick up some tips from experienced filk performers. Autographing: Bruce Coville Bruce Coville My Favorite Writer and Why Jacob Sommer (M), Allen M. Steele, Westin • Galleria-Autographing -1 hour Gregory Feeley, Ellen Asher, Toni L. P. Kelner Autographing. Westin • Harbor I • 1 hour Higgins Armory - Panel. Not necessarily the best, and usually not the most popular. But if everybody A Game of Thrones Demo you’ve ever read came out with a new book, Westin • Galleria-Demo • 30 minutes and you could read only one, whose would Demonstration. From swaggering bravos to it be? Our panelists discuss this whole knightly judicial duels, George R.R. Martin favoritism phenomenon, then present their drew on historical exemplars in creating his choices and their reasons. ultra-realistic, ultra-gritty fantasy world. But how did these martial arts really work, How Not To Produce An E-Book and where does truth end and fiction begin? Stephen Segal (M), Neil Clarke, Join renowned historical combat master Dr. Teresa Nielsen Hayden Ken Mondschein and the Higgins Armory Westin • Harbor II • 1 hour Academy of the Sword for an exploration and demonstration of the combative skills Panel. For prospective publishers (and authors found in A Game of Thrones. who want to pub their own stuff in e-format), veteran designers offer tips for what to avoid Kaffeeklatsche: Joan Slonczewski — and best practices for what to do right. Joan Slonczewski Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 • 1 hour Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at Information required; limited to 10 14 PROGRAM SAT U R D A Y

12:00 PM ■ noon continued B Reading: Ian Tregillis Ian Tregillis Robocop State Westin • Lewis ■ 30 minutes Daniel Hatch (M), Charles Stross, Reading. Bruce Schneier, Patrick Nielsen Hayden Westin • Harbor III • 1 hour Panel. The growth of the surveillance society. PM Proliferating new crowd control technologies. Increasingly militarized police forces—and Liaden Universe progressively more privatized security entities such as prisons and guard companies. Our Guy Consolmagno (M), Steve Miller, Sharon Lee panelists will survey these highlights, and Westin • Burroughs -1 hour decide if they bring bright new prospects for Panel. Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have future dystopian storytelling. written more than a dozen novels set in their Liaden Universe. And they have won Reading: Debra Doyle both romance and science fiction awards for Debra Doyle them. What inspires the fervor of the fans of this husband-and-wife writing team? Westin • Independence • 30 minutes Reading. Character and Hard SF Reading: Greer Gilman Justine Graykin (M), Allen M. Steele, Bud Sparhawk, Kathryn Cramer, Peter V. Brett Greer Gilman Westin • Carlton • 1 hour Westin • Lewis • 30 minutes Panel. A stereotype of hard SF is that it’s all Reading. about the hardware, and that the characters are one-dimensional. This hasn’t been true for a long time. The panel discusses whose 12:30 PM characters work in hard SF — and why.

Higgins Armory — Open Fencing Science Fiction and Fantasy Demonstration with Q&A Pictionary Westin • Galleria-Demo • 1 hour 30 minutes Bob Kuhn (M), Alan F. Beck, Jennifer Pelland, Demonstration. A demonstration of fencing S. C. Butler, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, in which con members who are experienced Benjamin Tate, Suzanne Palmer, Ruth Sanderson fencers are allowed to participate. Waiver Westin • Galleria-Art Demos • 1 hour required, and use the provided protective gear. Game Show. Two teams of four celebrities Attendees questions answered by some of die vie for bragging rights, drawing pictures participating Higgins historical martial artists. so their team works out titles of science fiction and fantasy books/films/TV shows Reading: James D. Macdonald suggested by the audience. James D. Macdonald Westin • Independence • 30 minutes Reading. PROGRAM s A T U R D A Y 15

Autographing: Jerry Pournelle, Are Movies Ready for Wild Cards? Toni L. P. Kelner Melinda Snodgrass (M), Ian Tregillis Jerry Pournelle, Toni L. P. Kelner Westin • Harbor I • 1 hour Westin • Galleria-Autographing -1 hour Panel. Can these shared-world stories Autographing. of the alternate-history aftereffects of an alien virus masterminded by George R. R. Knitting/Knit-along Martin (the series, not the virus) infect the big screen? Melinda Snodgrass is writing Priscilla Olson (M) the screenplay for a Wild Cards flick to be Westin • Galleria-Discussion Group • 1 hour produced by Syfy Films! Let’s talk about Special Interest Group. the books, and speculate wildly about the movie to come. Why has the series lasted Making Art Show Awards Part 2 since 1987? What cool stuff should transfer well to film? Who should play what super­ Westin • Galleria-DragonsLair • 1 hour powered Ace or monstrous Joker? Could Children’s. this be the next Game of Throned

Guru of the Game Room Misuse of Weapons in Movies and Tournament on TV Westin • Galleria-Gaming • 5 hours Westin • Harbor II • 1 hour Gaming. Munchkin, Dominion, 7 Panel. Historians and sword experts from Wonders, and 3 Dragon Ante. the Higgins Armory talk about how movie makers don’t understand weapons. Kaffeeklatsche: Michael E Flynn Michael F. Flynn Send in the Clones: the Near Future Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 • 1 hour of Bioscience Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up ar Tom Easton (M), Jeanne Cavelos, Frank Wu, Information required; limited to 10. Joan Slonczewski Westin • Harbor III • 1 hour Literary Beer: Irene Gallo Panel. What we want are corner clone Irene Gallo booths, nanodocs, designer babies, brainiac Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 ■ 1 hour pills, safe chocolate-flavored heroin, diet Literary Beer. AAdvance sign-up at guns, and immortality rays. In these and Information required; limited to 10. similar regards, what have fields from biotechnology and medicine to genetics Song Sequitur and biochemistry done for us lately? Mark Mandel, Gary Ehrlich, Roberta Rogow, Reading: Alexander Jablokov Paul Estin, S. J. Tucker Alexander Jablokov Westin • Griffin • 1 hour • Concert Westin • Independence • 30 minutes A performance circle in which each performer has to follow the previous song Reading. in some way — same tune, same subject, whatever — but the next person has to follow in a different way. Weird and silly kinds of “following” are encouraged. 16 PROGRAM A T U R D A Y

1:00 PM continued Tabletop Gaming in the Electronic Age Ethan Gilsdorf(M), Bob Kuhn, Walter H. Hunt, Reading: B.A. Chepaitis Jacob Sommer B.A. Chepaitis Westin • Carlton • 1 hour Westin • Lewis • 30 minutes Panel. What’s the future of “Dungeons & Reading. Dragons" and other tabletop games played with dice, maps, and the imagination — when everyone is playing “Call of Duty: | 1:30 PM | Black Ops” on their PS3s, or “Angry Birds” on their iPhones? D&D/Wizards of the Reading: Beth Bernobich Coast just announced a major effort to reinvigorate their brand, re-engage their Beth Bernobich player base, and revamp the rules. So now is Westin • Independence • 30 minutes a key moment for the tabletop role-playing Panel. game industry. What is the role of tabletop games in an increasingly Internet/MMO/ Reading: Walter Hunt video gaming world? Come to this panel to Walter H. Hunt hear and share perspectives, hopes, and fears. Westin • Lewis • 30 minutes Autographing: Sharon Lee and Reading. Steve Miller Steve Miller, Sharon Lee Westin • Galleria-Autographing -1 hour Autographing. An Interview With Jerry Pournelle Daniel P. Dern (M), Jerry Pournelle Kids’ Concert Westin • Burroughs • 1 hour Mary Ellen Wessels, Heather Dale, Edward L. Stauff Panel. Our NESFA Press Guest is interviewed for Boskone and Byte.com Westin ■ Galleria-DragonsLair • 1 hour by Boston-area writer Daniel Dern. Children’s. (Jerry Pournelle was Byte magazines lead columnist — his “Chaos Manor” column Kaffeeklatsche: Jeanne Cavelos & began there in 1979. Daniel was editor of Elaine Isaak Byte.com from 1998-2001.) Their topic is Jeanne Cavelos, Elaine Isaak “Computers and Science Fiction.” What did SF get right — and wrong — about Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 • 1 hour computers? For example, did we fail to Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at anticipate small, ubiquitous devices? What Information required; limited to 10. is SF saying about the future of computing? What’s next? What isn’t? And what new Literary Beer: Melinda Snodgrass tech is Jerry currently trying out back at Melinda Snodgrass the Manor? Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 • 1 hour Laterary Beer. Advance sign-up at Information required; limited to 10. PROGRAM s A T U R D A Y 17

When Underpinnings Come Certainty Is For Wimps: Unstable Unpinned Reality In SF Jeffrey A. Carver (M), Don D'Ammassa, Myke Benjamin Tate (M), Elizabeth Bear, Cole, F. Brett Cox, Jane Yolen Steven Popkes, Daniel Kimmel, Steven Sawicki Westin • Griffin • 1 hour Westin • Harbor III • 1 hour Panel. Golden Age SF has mega Panel. SF starts speculating early that reality (sometimes entirely sub rosa) assumptions may be purely subjective, as in the 1941 that are naive by todays standards. Now Heinlein short story “Uiey” or practically apply that to today’s classics and uncover anything by Philip K. Dick. But recently, the hidden subtexts. the unease grows in movies such as The Matrix, Inception, The Adjustment Bureau, Guest of Honor Interview and and Source Code. Why now? Is blaming Portrait Painting current societal, economic, or political instability too easy? Are the aliens moving Daniel dos Santos, John Scalzi our interdimensional furniture again? Westin • Harbor I ■ 1 hour Panel. In this unique mega-mixed-media Reading: Dana Cameron event, our Official Artist Daniel dos Santos Dana Cameron will both interview and simultaneously create Westin • Lewis • 30 minutes a fabulous painting of our Guest of Honor John Scalzi. We considered requesting that Reading. John also be suspended facedown in a tub of Coke Zero and Daniel ride a unicycle, but you can only take fan service so far. 2:30 PM

The Heroine’s Path Reading: Theodora Goss (M), Greer Gilman, Margaret Westin • Independence • 30 minutes Ronald, Phoebe Wray, B.A. Chepaitis Reading. Westin • Harbor II • 1 hour Panel. Maureen Murdock’s 1990 study The Reading: From the Anthology Heroines Journey served as a complement Under the Moons of Mars: (and sometimes corrective) to Joseph New Adventures on Barsoom Campbell’s work on the Hero’s Journey. John Joseph Adams Both put deep store in stories drawn from world myth. But what do working genre Westin • Lewis • 30 minutes writers actually do with these theories or Reading. Just in time for the John Carter materials? Are they present at the creation, movie, here’s an anthology of brand-new or useful for analysis afterward? Do they stories set on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ affect your characters or their origins, romantic Red Planet. Come fill your ears relationships, arcs, or resolutions? Which with new tales of Mars the way it should mythic or theoretic elements have you have been. actually incorporated? What path do — must — your own heroines tread? 18 PROGRAM SAT U R D A Y

------Release Party - New John Scalzi Book From NESFA Press Environmental Rearguarding: John Scalzi What To Do After It’s Too Late Westin • Galleria-Demo • 1 hour Alexander Jablokov (M), Jordin T. Kare, Other. Come join the party! Help our Jeff Hecht, Tom Easton, Joan Slonczewski Guest of Honor John Scalzi celebrate the Westin • Burroughs • 1 hour launch of his brand-new Boskone Book Panel. Let’s assume, as some scientists now 24 Frames Into the Future: Scalzi on Science fear, that the tipping point for catastrophic Fiction Film. (Now on sale at the NESFA global climate change has already been Press table in the Hucksters Room, hint reached. What can and should we do to 1) hint.) The festivities will definitely be more lessen its effects and 2) build a sustainable fun than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, civilization on the world we’ll have left? which Scalzi described as “oversexed, gun-happy, and boring as a test pattern.” Breaking into the Art Field Because here, there will be cake. Alan E Beck (M), Marc Scheff, Irene Gallo, Jean-Pierre Normand, Ruth Sanderson Long Live the Legion! Westin • Carlton • 1 hour Priscilla Olson (M) Panel. Hear from artists and art editors Westin • Galleria-Discussion Group • 1 hour about the dos and don’ts of breaking into Special Interest Group, and the team the field as an art professional. soldiers on.

Growing Up Geek Frank and Brianna Draw Dragons Ethan Gilsdorf Frank Wu, Brianna Spacekat Wu Westin • Galleria-Art Demos • 30 minutes Westin • Galleria-DragonsLair • 1 hour Solo Talk. D&D taught this author of Children’s. Fantasy Freaks and Gaining Geeks, how to emerge from his -5 Shell of Introversion and Kaffeeklatsche: Tricky Pixie become a confident, decisive, even cocky, Ben Deschamps, Betsy Tinney, S. J. Tucker creative soul. This humorous, self-deprecating Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 • 1 hour and inspirational talk — punctuated by the author’s own 1970s and 1980s-era slides and Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at movies of maps, dungeons and character Information required; limited to 10. sheets and snapshots — will take you on a nostalgic trip through a love affair with Literary Beer: Toni Weisskopf D&D, and show you how to feel good about Toni Weisskopf all those years spent in the dungeon. Westin ■ Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 • 1 hour Literary Beer. Advance sign-up at Information required; limited to 10. PROGRAM SATURDAY 19

Song Circle: Silent Voices Reading: David Wellington Mark Mandel (M) David Wellington Westin ■ Griffin • 1 hour Westin • Independence • 30 minutes Filk. A moderated song circle in memory Reading. of those we lost in 2011. Reading: Suzanne Palmer Not So Separated at Birth: Dracula Suzanne Palmer and The War of the Worlds Westin • Lewis - 30 minutes Faye Ringel (M), Gregory Feeley, Reading. Darrell Schweitzer, David G. Hartwell Westin • Harbor I • 1 hour Panel. Fantastika scholar Faye Ringel 3:30 PM observed, “What a year 1897 must have been: Dracula was published and 7he Reading: Kenneth Schneyer War of the Worlds was first serialized. Kenneth Schneyer Both are ‘invasion of England’ and Westin • Independence • 30 minutes reverse colonization stories ...” What else compares, and what contrasts, in these Reading. early classics that kickstarted horror and science fiction? How, where — and why — Reading: Catherynne Valente do their themes still resonate? Catherynne M. Valente Westin • Lewis • 30 minutes Trends in Young Adult Literature Reading. Darlene Marshall (M), Jack M. Haringa, Susan MacDonald, Jordan Hamessley Westin • Harbor II • 1 hour Panel. Has the paranormal gotten to the end of the line? Where is YA fiction going H. Beam Piper Retrospective to, now that Twilight and the Harry Potter Fred Lerner (M), Jordin T. Kare, John Scalzi, stories have wound down? Mark L. Olson Westin ■ Burroughs -1 hour Who’s Your Daddy? Panel. The space adventures and alternate Kate Baker (M), F. Brett Cox, Jacob Sommer, histories of Henry Beam Piper (1904- Gillian Daniels 1964) are fondly recalled by many Westin • Harbor III • 1 hour fans of the right age. They’ve also been Panel. TV’s Doctor Who has brought rediscovered periodically by younger generations of fans into the SF world. How readers, in sporadic but persistent reprints has it influenced other broadcast or print of his Paratime, Federation, and Fuzzy work? Why the lasting brilliance, when so stories. What’s his charm? How does he many other shows only flicker for a season compare to 1950s-1960s peers L. Sprague or so? de Camp, Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, Clifford D. Simak, or James H. Schmitz? Flow did he innovate? Whom did he influence (present company included)? 20 PROGRAM T U R D A Y

4:00 PM continued E How to Wreck Your Career with Social Media Making It All Up Faster Than Usual: Chad Orzel (M) Improvisational Storytelling Westin • Galleria-Discussion Group • 1 hour Jane Yolen (M), Bruce Coville, B.A. Chepaitis Special Interest Group. What are the Westin • Carlton • 1 hour new opportunities for public humiliation Panel. Our master storytellers spin fantastic opened by the Internet? Join this tales that seem memories of far-fabled entertaining discussion about authors events well recalled rather than fleeting getting into nasty public spats with phantoms of their own ever-embroidering, reviewers and fans, going off on long infinitely entertaining intellects. Plus they unhinged political tirades, sharing a little make it look easy. too much of their unfiltered id, and so on.

Living Steampunk: Turning Fantasy Kunstbruder Sword Training into Reality Westin • Galleria-DragonsLair • 1 hour Bruce Rosenbaum, Melanie Rosenbaum, Children’s. Kimberly Burk Westin • Galleria-Art Demos • 1 hour Kaffeeklatsche: Patrick & Teresa Demonstration. Steampunk is a literary Nielsen Hayden genre as well as an aesthetic and cultural Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Patrick Nielsen Hayden movement. Ihe only thing better than losing Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 • 1 hour yourself in a great retrofuture novel, film or RPG is coming home to spaces and projects Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at that express what we love most about our Information required; limited to 10. Active worlds. This talk will discuss how can we make the fantastical functional and how Literary Beer: Sharon Lee & can we blend the ideas in speculative fiction Steve Miller with the objects and skills we already have in Steve Miller, Sharon Lee order to create the world we want to live in. Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 • 1 hour Literary Beer. Advance sign-up at Autographing: Ethan Gilsdorf, Information required; limited to 10. Walter H. Hunt Ethan Gilsdorf, Walter H. Hunt Westin • Galleria-Autographing -1 hour Autographing. PROGRAM S A T U R D A Y 21

Optimism vs. Darkness in SF Discarded Images: Astronomical Peter V. Brett (M), Leonid Korogodski, Ideas That Were Almost Correct Jennifer Pelland, Phoebe Wray, Guy Consolmagno John Joseph Adams Westin • Harbor III • 1 hour Westin • Griffin • 1 hour Solo Talk. Astronomy is more than just Panel. Some says it’s historical. So early SF observing; it's making sense of those stories were all, “We’re going to the stars observations. A good theorist needs a good and will live forever yay,” while more recent imagination...and no fear of being wrong. SF tends to moan, “If the ecocatastrophe Aryabaha in ancient India and Ptolemy doesn’t get us the zombie plagues will.” Or in ancient Rome, the medieval bishops geographical: do Brits do it more in the Oresme and Cusa, the 19th century dark? Or ageist: is YA usually light-hearted? astronomers Schiaparelli and Pickering, Or stylistic: does realism bloom better in all rose to the challenge; and they were all the shade? almost correct. Which is to say, they were wrong... sometimes hilariously, sometimes Concert - Mandel heartbreakingly so. What lessons can Mark Mandel 21st century astronomers take from these discarded images? Westin • Harbor I • 30 minutes Concert. Reading: Elizabeth Bear SF/F/HTVOMG Elizabeth Bear Westin • Independence ■ 30 minutes Suzanne Palmer (M), Vince Docherty, Melinda Snodgrass, Genevieve Valentine, Resa Nelson Reading. Westin • Harbor II ■ 1 hour Reading: James Patrick Kelly Panel. Fans of the fantastic have plenty to squee about on todays TV. Let’s talk James Patrick Kelly about what’s happening — and what’s Westin • Lewis • 30 minutes ahead — with long-running shows such Reading. as Fringe, Supernatural, Warehouse 13, Dr. Who, and Merlin. Flow about hits such as Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Grimm, | 4:30 PM | American Horror Story, and Once Upon a Timel Are Being Human, Alphas, and Terra Concert — Tucker Nova finding their stride? What are the prospects for new entries such as Alcatraz, S. J. Tucker Awake, The Fades, Touch, and Lost Girl! Westin ■ Harbor I • 30 minutes Plus what’s big on British TV? What’s in Concert production? And what’s up with Webcasting? Reading: Paul G. Tremblay Paul G. Tremblay Westin • Independence ■ 30 minutes Reading. 22 PROGRAM SAT U R D A Y

4:30 PM continued E Worldcon Heritage - Preserving Fannish History Reading: Theodora Goss Laurie Mann, Joe Siclari, Mark L. Olson Theodora Goss Westin • Galleria-Discussion Group • 1 hour Westin • Lewis • 30 minutes Special Interest Group. We are working to Reading. preserve, catalog and increase the collection of Worldcon Heritage objects originally collected by Bruce Pelz and displayed at Worldcon. Stop by to learn about Worldcon history and how you can help preserve Neglected Authors artifacts and share them in the future. Bruce Coville (M), Daniel P. Dern, Gregory Feeley, Tony Lewis, Steven Popkes Kaffeeklatsche: John Scalzi Westin • Burroughs • 1 hour John Scalzi Panel. Which SF/F/H writers should wc Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 • 1 hour drag back into the limelight? Who’s good, Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at but doesn’t get the notice they deserve? Information required; limited to 10. Who’s great, but pretty much forgotten? Let’s right some wrongs — and turn the Literary Beer: Charles Stross audience onto some great reads — with a Charles Stross fond discussion of the ones who shouldn’t get away. Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 • 1 hour Literary Beer. Advance sign-up at Return of the Stagirite - Information required; limited to 10. or Aristotle’s Revenge Creating Worlds for Online Gaming Michael F. Flynn Melinda Snodgrass (M), Walter H. Hunt, Westin • Carlton • 1 hour Timothy P. Szczesuil, Margaret Ronald, Solo Talk. Aristotle’s notions are being Brianna Spacekat Wu resurrected with a fresh coat of paint and a Westin • Griffin ■ 1 hour new label. Panel. How do you start to create a world Slide Show — Sanderson for online gaming? Is it harder to start a game from scratch, from a book, or Ruth Sanderson from a movie? What’s different about Westin • Galleria-Art Demos • 1 hour worldbuilding for a narrative that’s meant Demonstration. to be played instead of read?

Autographing: Jeffrey A. Carver, Concert - Heather Dale Bruce Schneier, Joan Slonczewski Ben Deschamps, Heather Dale, S. J. Tucker Bruce Schneier, Jeffrey A. Carver, Westin • Harbor I • 30 minutes Joan Slonczewski Concert. Westin • Galleria-Autographing • 1 hour Autographing. PROGRAM SATURDAY 23

Actuarial Studies in the Year 3000: 5:30 PM Insuring Against Space Disasters S. C. Butler (M), Allen M. Steele, Martian Parlor Croquet: Ian Randal Strock, Jerry Pournelle, A Steampunk Diversion Daniel Hatch Susan de Guardiola Westin • Harbor II • 1 hour Westin • Galleria-Demo • 1 hour 30 minutes Panel. Let’s think about the actual Other. Victorian explorers, adventurers, probabilities of doing stuff you read in chrononauts, and aethernauts! Join us in the genre stories. When transiting the asteroid fine sands of the remote Martian Canal Estates, belt, what are your chances of (fatally) where the well-dressed 19th-century tourist meeting an asteroid? When you worm­ and all civilized alien entities may indulge in hole to wherever, how likely are you to the genteel yet cutthroat Martian pastime of end up feeding the worms? Wouldn’t your parlor croquet. Portable gravity generators time machine travel to where Earth used encouraged to prevent loss ofcroquet balls into to be? Before the average fantasy quest, the aether. Steampunk, historical, or science would any actuary in her right mind sell fictional costume encouraged for all species. you insurance? Tentacular assistance prohibited.

Importance of Book Covers Concert - Wessels & Stauff Toni Weisskopf(M), Stephen Segal, Mary Ellen Wessels, Edward L. Stauff Bob Eggleton, Irene Gallo, Daniel dos Santos Westin • Harbor I • 30 minutes Westin • Harbor III • 1 hour Concert. Panel. On the shelf or on the screen, the cover is the first part of the book you encounter. If it doesn’t engage you, it may PM well be the last. Let’s talk about how covers get made, and why they come out the way Avatar: The Last Airbender they do. We’ll also view the cover at various stages in the book publishing process. Westin • Carlton • 1 hour 30 minutes Anime. (Nickelodeon; TV-Y7 for mild Reading: Daniel Kimmel violence)Repeat after me: there was no M. Night Shyamalan movie. OK, good. Daniel Kimmel Now we can go back to-enjoying this great Westin • Independence • 30 minutes all-ages epic fantasy series. With National Reading. Book Award nominee Gene Luen Yang's graphic novel sequel on shelves and a new Reading: Clarkesworld series due next year, now’s a good time to Neil Clarke (M), Genevieve Valentine, Kate get acquainted or reacquainted with Aang Baker, Catherynne M. Valente and the gang. Westin • Lewis • 1 hour Reading. To celebrate the fifth anniversary of this top-flight, Hugo-winning magazine, Clarkesworld contributors gather to read some of their best stuff. 24 PROGRAM A T U R D A Y

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Jewish Havdalah Service Artifactual: Janice Gelb The Warehouse 13 Game Westin • Independence • 30 minutes Bob Kuhn (M), Margaret Ronald, Special Interest Group. Jewish service to Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Daniel Kimmel, mark the end of the Sabbath and enable Steven Sawicki people to say kaddish. Service will start at 6 Westin • Burroughs ■ 1 hour pm; please arrive by then. Game Show. Inspired by Syfy TV’s popular Warehouse 13, this brand-new game show is an SFnal cross between “Whose Line PM Is It Anyway?” and “Fictionary.” For each round, the MC comes up with a strange Magic Show new happenstance, such as, “Reports say Daniel P. Dern (M) people have begun turning green.” From the TV show, we know that behind every odd Westin • Galleria-DragonsLair • 30 minutes occurrence is some strangely powerful object. Children’s. Be amazed! Be amused! And So our panel of out-of-the-box thinkers maybe learn some magic feats yourself. compete to guess that artifact, such as, “It’s the Wicked Witch’s hat from The Wizard of Oz or “It’s Larry Bird’s Celtics jersey.” | 7:30 PM | Competitors are encouraged to embellish their guesses to dae max; audience members clap Princess Tutu hardest to get their favorite guess rhe win! Westin • Carlton • 1 hour 15 minutes Anime. Section23 Films; TV-14 for mature Collateral Damage themes (probably could pass for a PG) Westin • Galleria-Gaming • 4 hours A duck turns into a girl turns into a Gaming. You’re a yakuza boss using ballet-powered superhero-therapist-person. anime-based characters as your henchmen Somehow this fazes no one. In a world to take over Neo-Tokyo. Things change, where fairy tale happenings are regular though, when the characters start falling in occurrences, how much power can a dead love and following their hearts instead of author have? If Walt Disney and Kurt your orders. A hilarious game of planning Vonnegut made an anime together, it and management. No anime experience would look something like this. required. Note: you must be 15 years of age to play this game. Kids’ Tour of the Art Show Westin • Galleria-DragonsLair• 45 minutes Reading: Broad Universe Children’s. Elaine Isaak (M), Justine Graykin, Jennifer Pelland Westin • Griffin • 1 hour Reading. PROGRAM S A T U R D A Y 25

The Politics of Horror 8:45 PM Paul G. Tremblay (M), Genevieve Valentine, Jordan Hamessley, John Langan Puella Magi Madoka Magica Westin • Harbor I • 1 hour Westin • Carlton • 1 hour 15 minutes Panel. Horror tales, like stories in many Anime. (Aniplex USA; TV-14 for violence) genres, work best when they work on more OK, how to avoid spoilers for this than one level. Let’s discuss the history of summary? Madoka is an 8th grader who is the political in horror, and the political given the chance to become a magical girl if underpinnings (or failures) of recent horror she makes a deal with a weird animal thing books and movies. named Kyubey. As a magical girl, she will have to fight witches in exceedingly trippy Guest Filk Concert alternate dimensions. Oh, and despite its cute exterior, it is not for the faint of heart. Ben Deschamps, Betsy Tinney, S. J. Tucker Westin • Harbor ll&lll • 1 hour Concert. Tricky Pixie is a fey fusion of ------three well-loved, whimsical talents who fearlessly tread the boards and the twilight Open Filk roads alike, using a wealth of instruments to guide themselves and their listeners Westin • Griffin • 4 hours along, including all manner of strings, Filk voices, and drums. SJ, Ben, and Betsy weave contagious faery magic, and you’re The Year in Review: Written Fiction bound to be caught in their spell when you Vince Docherty, Bob Devney, Jim Mann attend a Tricky Pixie concert. Westin • Harbor I • 1 hour Panel. What were the best science fiction, | 8:15 PM | fantasy, or horror novels, novellas, novelettes, short stories, related works, and graphic stories of 2011 ? Bring your Persis & Talis Do Something with favorites and your strong opinions to this Those Paper Towel Tubes stellar discussion. Heck, bring your Hugo Westin • Galleria-DragonsLair • 45 minutes nomination ballots too — they’re due in Children’s. only a few weeks! I 26 PROGRAM SAT U R D A Y

9:00 PM continued The Horrified Gaze: What Horror Stories Do To Us Boskone Saturday Night David Wellington (M), Jack M. Haringa, Don Award Event D’Ammassa, Jordan Hamessley, Brianna David G. Grubbs (M), Ben Deschamps, Spacekat Wu Bruce Schneier, Jerry Pournelle, Sharon Westin • Harbor I • 1 hour Sbarsky, Daniel dos Santos, John Scalzi, Panel. We read horror fiction and watch Toni Weisskopf, Betsy Tinney, S. J. Tucker horror (licks and TV just for fun. However, Westin ■ Harbor ll&lll • 1 hour • Other is anything else going on? If witnessing a Join every special guest we’ve got to show frightening real-world event can cause actual a little appreciation. The Skylark Award psychological trauma, what about seeing honors the work and personal qualities it on the page or screen? Can a scary story of an exceptional contributor to science really mess us up — but in a good way? fiction. (And it comes with a Jane Yolen story that’s a Boskone tradition — yet still Late Guest Filk Concert funny after all these years...) See this and Ben Deschamps, Betsy Tinney, S. J. Tucker other special announcements. Help us Westin • Harbor ll&lll • 1 hour celebrate the winner, thank all of this year’s Boskone special guests, and acknowledge Concert. Tricky Pixie returns to perform a every one of you who makes Boskone a con little more. to remember!

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FLCL Westin • Carlton • 2 hours 30 minutes Anime. FUNimation; TV-14 for sexual content, wacky violence. To finish off our video programming for the weekend, we’re running all six episodes of GAINAX’s legendary rocking coming-of- age-with-robots-and-aliens classic. If you’ve seen this one-of-a-kind series before on Adult Swim, maybe this time it might make more sense (warning: it probably won’t). If not, prepare to have your mind blown. PROGRAM SUNDAY 27

------Innovation Westin • Galleria-Gaming • 2 hours SOPA/PIPA Update Gaming. Build up your empire through the Jeff Hecht (M), Justine Graykin, Bruce ages using the innovations on the cards. Be Schneier, Patrick Nielsen Hayden very careful, though, that you don’t help Westin ■ Burroughs • 1 hour your opponents whilst helping yourself. Panel. In the wake of the SOPA/PIPA blackout day protest in mid-January by Kaffeeklatsche: Stephen Segal Google, Wikipedia, Wired, and other Web Stephen Segal sites, large and small, the congresspeople Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 • 1 hour steering the legislation are re-drafting the Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at bills. With the most egregious elements Information required; limited to 10. removed, what do they look like now, and what will be their impact on the Web if passed in their new forms? Kaffeeklatsche: Rosemary Kirstein Rosemary Kirstein Convention Planning 101 Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 • 1 hour Laurie Mann, Janice Gelb, Karen Cooper Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at Westin • Carlton • 1 hour Information required; limited to 10. Panel. So, you’re thinking about running a convention — where do you start? What Entitlement: What Makes for a do you do? Good Title? Toni Weisskopf (M), Debra Doyle, Steve Miller, Autographing: Dana Cameron, Allen Claire Eddy, Priscilla Olson M. Steele, Jane Yolen Westin • Griffin • 1 hour Allen M. Steele, Dana Cameron, Jane Yolen Panel. Titles first, or last? What are some of Westin - Galleria-Autographing -1 hour the most effective titles, in genre or out? Autographing. Magic The Gathering $1,000 Morning Writing Exercise Sealed Deck Tournament Elaine Isaak (M) Westin • Harbor I • 9 hours Westin • Galleria-Discussion Group • 30 Gaming. Magic tournament, separate minutes registration required. Check at Registration (2nd floor) to see if spaces are available. Special Interest Group. Stretch out your writing muscles and get the neurons firing with some writing exercises.

Astronomy for Kids Guy Consolmagno Westin • Galleria-DragonsLair-1 hour Children’s. 28 PROGRAM SUN DAY

10:00 AM continued E Reading: Margaret Ronald Margaret Ronald Romantic Comedy in Science Westin • Lewis • 30 minutes Fiction and Fantasy Reading. Ellen Asher (M), Paula Lieberman, Darlene Marshall, Toni L. P. Kelner Westin • Harbor II • 1 hour 11:00 AM Panel. What is romantic comedy? What are examples in science fiction and fantasy? What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Connie Willis says that the show Primeval Science Experiments You Can is a romcom...really? Do At Home Behind the Scenes of an Audiobook Guy Consolmagno, Mark L. Olson Westin ■ Burroughs • 1 hour Bob Kuhn, Bruce Coville, Jeffrey A. Carver Westin • Harbor III • 1 hour Panel. Not all experimental science requires expensive laboratory equipment. Our Panel. Most of us just listen, but what goes intrepid panel will discuss, and possibly into making an audiobook? This panel will demonstrate, neat science tricks you can look at the variety of audiobooks, how the do at home — yet still leave the structure professional publisher does it, what it takes standing. [No audience members will be for an author to make one, and who should harmed in this panel] read it? Unpacking SF’s Sexual QUILTBAG Reading: Steven Sawicki Charles Stross, Jennifer Pelland, Shira Lipkin, Steven Sawicki Gillian Daniels Westin ■ Independence • 30 minutes Westin • Carlton • 1 hour Reading. Panel. So human sexuality is a continuum and “normal” is a null concept. The new Reading: Michael F. Flynn term QUILTBAG tries to point to as Michael E Flynn many areas as possible on that continuum Westin • Lewis • 30 minutes — queer or questioning, unisex, intersex, lesbian, transgender or transexual, bisexual, Reading. asexual or ally, and gay. How has SF/F/H literature featured these aspects of the 10:30 AM continuum? Let’s name some outstanding examples. How have QUILTBAG fans fared within fandom? Reading: Susan MacDonald Susan MacDonald Art Demo - Frank & Brianna Westin • Independence • 30 minutes Spacekat Wu Reading. Frank Wu, Brianna Spacekat Wu Westin • Galleria-Art Demos • 1 hour Demonstration. PROGRAM SUNDAY 29

Autographing: Tricky Pixie My Top Ten Tips Ben Deschamps, Betsy Tinney, S. J. Tucker for the Prospective Author Westin ■ Galleria-Autographing -1 hour David G. Hartwell (M), Joshua Bilmes, Autographing. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Toni Weisskopf, John Scalzi Using Kickstarter to Rev-up a Westin • Harbor II • 1 hour Project Panel. Our brain trust of writing, agenting, editing, and publishing pros probably Marc Scheff won’t agree on every point. (If they did, Westin ■ Galleria-Discussion Group • 1 hour disappointingly short panel.) But they all Special Interest Group. You have an idea want you to become the best writer you but no money to get it started. What do can be. So today only. Finally. Just this you do? Kickstarter (and similar Websites) once. They’re prepared to reveal their most can help get you started. closely held secrets to make it happen.

Origami The Art-Focused Con Westin • Galleria-DragonsLair • 45 minutes Vince Docherty (M), Bob Eggleton, Children’s. Irene Gallo, Daniel dos Santos Westin • Harbor III • 1 hour Kaffeeklatsche: Jerry Pournelle Panel. New conventions that focus solely Jerry Pournelle or mainly on SF/F/H art are gaining in Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 • 1 hour popularity. When and where are they held? What are the best ones? What goes on Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at there? Why should we go? Information required; limited to 10.

Kaffeeklatsche: John Joseph Adams Reading: Leah Cypess Leah Cypess John Joseph Adams Westin • Independence • 30 minutes Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 • 1 hour Reading. Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at Information required; limited to 10. Reading: Flash Fiction from the The Big Bang Theory & Other Cambridge SF Workshop Images of Geeks in Mass Media Elaine Isaak, E Brett Cox, Alexander Jablokov, James Patrick Kelly, Steven Popkes, Jean-Pierre Normand (M), Mary Kay Kare, Kenneth Schneyer Leah Wilson Westin • Lewis • 1 hour Westin • Griffin • 1 hour Reading. Panel. Has Hollywood finally “gotten” the geek? With 'IV shows like The Big Bang Theory (and even the proto-geeks of That ’70s Show) and movies like Paul, fannish types have gone mainstream. But are they exploding stereotypes or just reinforcing them? 30 PROGRAM SUN DAY

| 11:30 AM | Autographing: Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald, Melinda M. Reading: Benjamin Tate Snodgrass Benjamin Tate Debra Doyle, Melinda Snodgrass, Westin • Independence • 30 minutes James D. Macdonald Reading. Westin • Galleria-Autographing -1 hour Autographing.

12:00 PM Art Show Sales Westin • Galleria-Demo • 2 hours Strange Places, Stranger People: Other. The Works of Jack Vance David Wellington, Mark L. Olson, Jim Mann Tricky Pixie Kids Concert Westin • Burroughs • 1 hour Ben Deschamps, Betsy Tinney, S. J. Tucker Panel. John Holbrook Vance was born in Westin ■ Galleria-DragonsLair • 1 hour 1916, published his first short story in Children’s. 1945, and released his latest novel (so far) in 2004. The expansive length of his career is exceeded only by the exotic, luxuriant, Munchkin Brawl memorable immensity of the worlds, Westin • Galleria-Gaming • 3 hours societies, and characters he has created. Gaming. All the madness! /Xll the mayhem! Who else has moved so effortlessly between All the cards! It’s back — and this time, SF and fantasy? What do we remember in stereo. That’s right, once again there best of his Dying Earths or Demon will be two Munchkin games running Princes, or from his Alastor or Lyonesse simultaneously using the same decks. Each sequences? What do we appreciate more, player is allowed 2 cheats. his ironic tone of voice or his marvelous gift for names? Where else can we go to Kaffeeklatsche: Claire Eddy & read anything like Vance? David G. Hartwell In Memoriam: Anne McCaffrey & Claire Eddy, David G. Hartwell Diana Wynne Jones Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 • 1 hour Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at Bob Kuhn, Greer Gilman, Faye Ringel Information required; limited to 10. Westin • Carlton • 1 hour Panel. A discussion of two of Boskone’s Kaffeeklatsche: Paul G. Tremblay & previous guests, fantasy writers Anne John Langan McCaffrey (1926-2011) and Diana Wynne Jones (1934-2011). Paul G. Tremblay, John Langan Westin ■ Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 • 1 hour Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at Information required; limited to 10. PROGRAM SUNDAY 31

How Not to Lose the Plot PM James Patrick Kelly (M), Jennifer Pelland, Teresa Nielsen Hayden The Twilight of Twilight. Staking the Westin • Harbor II • 1 hour Heart of Paranormal Romance? Panel. Why do so many writers struggle Debra Doyle (M), Margaret Ronald, so hard with — and complain so much Leah Wilson about — plotting? Look, the plot is the Westin ■ Carlton • 1 hour chain that links the events of the story Panel. Lets look ahead to the November together. How could even a newbie screw 2012 release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking that up? Let us count the ways. Dawn, Part 2, the concluding flick to be made from Stephenie Meyers planet- Laser Power Beaming bustingly successful series. How good are Jordin T. Kare these books and movies? Does Twilight Westin • Harbor III • 1 hour fandom serve as gateway fanaticism for similar stories? Or will the end of this Solo Talk. Rocket scientist Jordin T. crepuscular phenomenon take paranormal Kare gives a presentation on laser power romance down with it? beaming. Autographing: Benjamin Tate, Reading: Leonid Korogodski Catherynne M. Valente Leonid Korogodski Benjamin Tate, Catherynne M. Valente Westin • Independence • 30 minutes Westin • Galleria-Autographing -1 hour Reading. Autographing. Reading: Fun and Games Westin ■ Lewis • 30 minutes Walter H. Hunt(M) Reading. Westin • Galleria-DragonsLair • 1 hour Children’s. 12:30 PM Kaffeeklatsche: Daniel dos Santos Reading: Shira Lipkin Daniel dos Santos Shira Lipkin Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 • 1 hour Westin ■ Independence • 30 minutes Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at Reading. Information required; limited to 10.

Reading: Daniel P. Dern Kaffeeklatsche: Jane Yolen & Bruce Daniel P. Dern Coville Westin • Lewis ■ 30 minutes Bruce Coville, Jane Yolen Reading. Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 • 1 hour Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at Information required; limited to 10. 32 PROGRAM SUN DAY

E 1:00 PM continued ! Reading: John Scalzi John Scalzi Instrumental Improv Jam Session Westin ■ Lewis -1 hour for Recovering Classical Musicians Reading. S. J. Tucker (M) Westin • Griffin • 1 hour Workshop. 1:30 PM

How Bad Can A Hero Be? Reading: Genevieve Valentine Faye Ringel (M), Darrell Schweitzer, Genevieve Valentine Shira Lipkin, Ian Tregillis, Rosemary Kirstein Westin • Independence • 30 minutes Westin • Harbor II • 1 hour Reading. Panel. He may lie, cheat, steal, curse, Hirt mercilessly, and disembowel bunches of hapless Darklordian henchman with a quip PM on his lips and a song in his heart. But can she step on her hamster’s head in a fit Song Circle: “Tricksters” of pique? Let’s see where the boundaries of our sympathy for heroes, heroines, and Ellen Kranzer (M) their stories lie. Westin ■ Burroughs • 1 hour Filk. A moderated song circle. Bring and Digital Estate - Virtual Property sing your favorite songs about tricksters of OR On the Internet, Nobody Knows all kinds. You’re Dead Surviving the Apocalypse Bruce Schneier (M), Daniel P. Dern, Gary D. McGath Myke Cole (M), Phoebe Wray, James D. Macdonald Westin • Harbor III • 1 hour Westin • Carlton • 1 hour Panel. It’s not just the Borg (Star Trek) or Methuselahs’ Children (Heinlein): if you’re a Panel. We survey the field for interesting presence on the Internet, you will never die. visions of how civilization might break z\ll those avatars in SecondLife, points in down, and offer practical tips for surviving online gaming, swords in D&D Online, ads if these bad dreams come true. on blogs, etc, are more or less forever. Let’s also talk about your opportunities to find Autographing: Peter V. Brett. money — abandoned property, abandoned S. C. Butler insurance and stock certificates, etc. S. C. Butler, Peter V. Brett Westin • Galleria-Autographing -1 hour Reading: Phoebe Wray Autographing. Phoebe Wray Westin • Independence ■ 30 minutes Reading. PROGRAM SUNDAY 33

Kaffeeklatsche: Bob Eggleton Reading: Melinda Snodgrass Bob Eggleton Melinda Snodgrass Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 • 1 hour Westin • Lewis • 30 minutes Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at Reading. Information required; limited to 10.

Kaffeeklatsche: Ian Randal Strock | 2:30 PM | Ian Randal Strock Westin • Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 • 1 hour Reading: Kelly Jennings Kaffeeklatsche. Advance sign-up at Kelly Jennings Information required; limited to 10. Westin • Independence • 30 minutes Reading. What Every Dog Should Know About Quantum Physics Reading: Charles Stross Chad Orzel Charles Stross Westin • Griffin ■ 1 hour Westin • Lewis • 30 minutes Solo Talk. Author of Hoiu to Teach Physics Reading. to Your Dog and How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog, Chad Orzel discusses the basics of quantum physics for two- and four­ ------legged audiences. MASSFILC Business Meeting The Art of the Sequel Westin • Burroughs • 30 minutes Elizabeth Bear, Sharon Lee Special Interest Group. All who are Westin • Harbor II ■ 1 hour interested are welcome to attend. Panel. You’ve already told an effective story. How do you do it again? Can you inclue Gripe Session the new reader without boring the old? For Rick Kovalcik, Sharon Sbarsky trilogies, can you avoid the middle-book Westin • Carlton • 1 hour doldrums? What if a character just runs out of arc? Which writers have successfully solved Panel. We’ll talk about how this con came all these questions, and given us sequels that out, before the memories get routed into really satisfy? How did they do it? dust}' storage neurons. Let us know what went right — and wrong. While it may be Research: Why Bother? a tad late to fix things now, you can make a big difference in what happens next time! Resa Nelson Westin ■ Harbor III • 1 hour Solo Talk. FINAL PROGRAM: 3:30 PM

Dead Dog Filk Westin • Burroughs • 3 hours Filk. Last chance to get together and sing! FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17, 2012 (5PM - 1AM SAT)

5:00 PM I 5:30 PM 6:00 PM 6:30 PM 7:00 pm 7:30 PM

The Thorn and the Blossom Burroughs Fuzzies Must Die! - Unique Challenges of Specialty Book Publishing

Carlton Sui-sui: Currents in Anime Sword of the Stranger

Galleria-Art Demos

Galleria-Art Show

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The Publishing Industry for Galleria-Demo Fascinator Construction the Teen Perspective

Sexual Harassment & Galleria-Discussion Group Welcome to Boskone! Assault In Fandom

Storytelling with Bruce Galleria-DragonsLair Making Art Show Awards Coville

Galleria-Gaming Illuminati 7 Wonders

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Griffin SF/F/H in the Classroom NESFA Hymnal Singing

Winter is Here: Reboots: Refreshing Harbor 1 HowTo Build A Genius How Game of Thrones Plays or Depressing? on TV Bruce Schneier Talks on the How Scientists Influence SF A Study of the Humours - Harbor II Human Side of Security and & Vice Versa Medieval Medicine How It Improves Society

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Dressing the Parties - Harbor III Why 1 Love/Hate Heinlein Regalia and Symbolism

Reading: Reading: Reading: Reading: Independence John Kathryn Resa Chad Orzel Langan Cramer Nelson

Lewis Absent Friends 8:00 PM 8:45 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM 11:00 PM 12:00 AM

Ten Best Books of the Past Looking Forward To John Short Friction Ten Years Carter

Vampire Girl vs. Redline Hetalia: Paint It. White Frankenstein Girl

Art Show Reception

Art with Daniel dos Santos

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Workshop: Unusual The Faust Legend Silent Movie: Faust Instruments

Occupy SF: The Corporation The Fairyland Roadshow Trivia for Chocolate in Speculative Fiction

The Year in Review: Changing Views of the The Influence of Lovecraft Dramatic Presentations Aristocrat in SF/F/H on Horror Today

How Much Steam Is There in Steampunk?

How to Read Aloud Open Filk SATURDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2012 (9AM - 4PM)

9:00 AM 9:30 AM 10:00 AM 10:30 AM 11:00 AM 11:30 AM

Medical Myths and Errors Burroughs The Year in Astronomy in SF/F

Carlton The Baen Roadshow The Writing of Short Fiction

Galleria-Art Demos Slide Show - Normand Official Artist Demo

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Autographing: Darrell Galleria-Autographing Autographing: Elizabeth Bear Schweitzer, Michael E Flynn

Higgins Armory - Galleria-Demo Demonstration of a Fencing Class

Writing Freelance: How to Galleria-Discussion Group Boskone 101 Pitch Your Idea

Higgins Galleria-DragonsLair Costuming: Mad Hatter Hats Clay Magic Armory Swordsguild

Galleria-Gaming Frag

Kaffeeklatsche: Guy Kaffeeklatsche: Dana Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 Consolmagno Cameron

Kaffeeklatsche: Toni L R Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 Kaffeeklatsche: Peter V. Brett Kelner

Griffin Occupy Luna Life Without Borders

Harbor 1 Creating Alien Characters The Women of Doctor Who

SF/F/H As a Mirror on Truly Awful Eyefuls: Bad Harbor II Society SF/F/H Movies and TV

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Hell in the High School: Survive and Thrive in the New Harbor III Evolution in Science and World of Publishing Fiction Reading: Reading: Reading: Reading: Independence Jennifer Justine Bud Darlene Pelland Graykin Sparhawk Marshall

Reading: Reading: Reading: Reading: Lewis Sharon Lee Steve Miller Bruce Coville Jane Yolen 1:00 PM | 1:30 PM 2:00 PM | 2:30 PM 12:00 PM 12:30 PM 3:00 PM 3:30 PM

Writing Workshops & Critique An Interview With Jerry Environmental Rearguarding: Liaden Universe Groups Pournelle What To Do After It’s Too Late

SFWA Eastern Regional Tabletop Gaming in the Character and Hard SF Breaking into the Art Field Meeting Electronic Age

Science Fiction and Fantasy Growing Up Watercolor Demonstration Pictionary Geek

Docent Tour of the Special Art Exhibit

Autographing: Jerry Pourrelle, Autographing: Sharon Lee Autographing: Bruce Coville Toni L P Kelner and Steve Miller

Higgins - Release Party - New John Higgins Armory - Open Fencing A Game of Scalzi Book From NESFA Demonstration with Q&A Thrones Demo Press

Knitting/Knit-along Long Live the Legion!

Making Art Show Awards Frank and Brianna Draw Kids' Concert Part 2 Dragons

Guru of the Game Room Tournament

Kaffeeklatsche: Joan Kaffeeklatsche: Michael E Kaffeeklatsche: Jeanne Kaffeeklatsche: Tricky Pixie Slonczewski Flynn Cavelos & Elaine Isaak

Literary Beer: Melinda Kaffeeklatsche: Myke Cole Literary Beer: Irene Gallo Literary Beer: Toni Weisskopf Snodgrass

When Underpinnings Come Performance Workshop Song Sequitur Song Circle: Silent Voices Unpinned

Not So Separated at Birth: Are Movies Ready for Wild Guest of Honor Interview and My Favorite Writer and Why Dracula and The War of the Cards? Portrait Painting Worlds

How Not To Produce An Misuse of Weapons in Movies Trends in Young Adult The Heroine’s Path E-Book and on TV Literature

Send in the Clones: the Near Certainty Is For Wimps: Robocop State Who’s Your Daddy? Future of Bioscience Unstable Reality In SF

Reading: Reading: Reading: Reading: Reading: Reading: James D. Alexander Beth Reading: David Kenneth Debra Doyle Macdonald Jablokov Bernobich Wellington Schneyer Reading: Reading: from Reading: Reading: Reading: Reading: Ian Reading: B. Reading: Dana Under the Suzanne Catherynne Greer Gilman Tregillis A. Chepaitis Walter Hunt Cameron Moons of Mars Palmer Valente SATURDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2012 (4PM - 12:30AM SUN)

4:00 PM 4:30 PM 5:00 PM 5:30 PM 6:00 PM 6:30 PM

Burroughs H. Beam Piper Retrospective Neglected Authors

Making It All Up Faster Return of the Stagirite - or Carlton Than Usual: Improvisational Avatar: The Last Airbender Aristotle’s Revenge Storytelling

Living Steampunk: Turning Galleria-Art Demos Slide Show - Sanderson Fantasy into Reality

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Autographing: Jeffrey A. Autographing: Ethan Gilsdorf, Galleria-Autographing Carver, Bruce Schneier, Joan Walter H. Hunt Slonczewski

Martian Parlor A Steampunk Galleria-Demo Croquet: Diversion

How to Wreck Your Career Worldcon Heritage - Galleria-Discussion Group with Social Media Preserving Fannish History

Galleria-DragonsLalr Kunstbruder Sword Training

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Kaffeeklatsche: Patrick & Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 Kaffeeklatsche: John Scalzi Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Literary Beer: Sharon Lee & Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 Literary Beer: Charles Stress Steve Miller

Creating Worlds for Online Griffin Optimism vs. Darkness in SF Gaming

Concert - Concert - Concert - Concert - Harbor 1 Wessels & Mandel Tucker Heather Dale Stauff Actuarial Studies in the Year Harbor II SF/F/H TV OMG 3000: Insuring Against Space Disasters

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Discarded Images: Harbor III Astronomical Ideas That Were Importance of Book Covers Almost Correct Reading: Reading: Reading: Jewish Independence Elizabeth Paul G. Daniel Havdalah Bear Tremblay Kimmel Service Reading: Reading: Lewis James Theodora Reading: Clarkesworld Patrick Kelly Goss 8:15 PM | 8:45 9:00 PM | 9:30 PM 10:00 PM | 10:30 PM 7:00 PM 7:30 PM 8:00

Artifactual: The -Warehouse 13_ Game

Princess Tutu Puella Magi Madoka Magica FLCL (until 12:30 AM)

Persis & Talis Do Kids’Tour of the Art Magic Show Something with Those Show Paper Towel Tubes

Collateral Damage (until 12 AM)

Reading: Broad Universe Open Filk (until 1 AM)

The Year in Review: Written The Horrified Gaze: What The Politics of Horror Fiction Horror Stories Do To Us

Boskone Saturday Night Guest Filk Concert Late Guest Filk Concert Award Event SUNDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2012 (10AM - 4PM)

10:00 AM 10:30 AM 11:00 AM 11:30 am 12:00 PM 12:30 PM

What Could Possibly Go Strange Places, Stranger Burroughs SOPA/PIPA Update Wrong? Science Experiments People: The Works of Jack You Can Do At Home Vance In Memoriam: Anne Unpacking SF’s Sexual Carlton Convention Planning 101 McCaffrey & Diana Wynne QUILTBAG Jones

Art Demo - Frank & Brianna Galleria-Art Demos Spacekat Wu

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Autographing: Debra Doyle, Autographing: Dana Cameron, Galleria-Autographing Autographing: Tricky Pixie James D. Macdonald, Allen M. Steele, Jane Yolen Melinda M. Snodgrass

Galleria-Demo Art Show Sales

Morning Using Kickstarter to Rev-up Galleria-Discussion Group Writing a Project Exercise

Galleria-DragonsLair Astronomy for Kids Origami Tricky Pixie Kids Concert

Galleria-Gaming Innovation Munchkin Brawl

Kaffeeklatsche: Stephen Kaffeeklatsche: Jerry Kaffeeklatsche: Claire Eddy & Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 1 Segal Pournelle David G. Hartwell

Kaffeeklatsche: Rosemary Kaffeeklatsche: John Joseph Kaffeeklatsche: Paul G. Galleria-Kaffeeklatsch 2 Kirstein Adams Tremblay & John Langan

The B/'g Bang Theory & Other Entitlement: What Makes for Griffin Images of Geeks in Mass a Good Title? Media

Magic The Gathering $1,000 Harbor 1 Sealed Deck Tournament

Romantic Comedy in Science My Top Ten Tips for the Harbor II How Not to Lose the Plot Fiction and Fantasy Prospective Author

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Behind the Scenes of an Harbor III The Art-Focused Con Laser Power Beaming Audiobook

Reading: Reading: Reading: Reading: Reading: Reading: Independence Steven Susan Benjamin Leonid Leah Cypess Shira Lipkin Sawicki MacDonald Tate Korogodski Reading: Reading: Reading: Reading: Lewis Michael E Margaret Reading: Daniel P Flash Fiction Flynn Ronald Dern 1:00 PM 1:30 PM 2:00 PM 2:30 PM 3:00 PM 3:30 PM

MASSFILC Dead Dog Song Circle: "Tricksters" Business Filk Meeting

The Twilight of Twilight'. Gripe Staking the Heart of Surviving the Apocalypse Session Paranormal Romance?

Autographing: Benjamin Tate. Autographing: Peter V. Brett. Catherynne M. Valente S. C. Butler

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Kaffeeklatsche: JaneYolen & Kaffeeklatsche: Ian Randal Bruce Coville Strack

Instrumental Improv Jam What Every Dog Should Know Session for Recovering About Quantum Physics Classical Musicians

How Bad Can A Hero Be? The Art of the Sequel

Digital Estate - Virtual Property OR On the Internet, Research: Why Bother? Nobody Knows You're Dead Reading: Reading: Reading: Phoebe Genevieve Kelly Wray Valentine Jennings Reading: Reading: Reading: Melinda Charles John Scalzi Snodgrass Stress SUMMER STREET

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