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PROGRAMME This programme is, as far as possible, With the exception of the Clarence Room a complete guide to all convention (films), which is non-smoking only, events. Please take care of it -- we programme rooms will be divided into cannot guarantee to supply replacements, smoking and non-smoking sections. (The although extracts will be prominently sections for smokers, if not more obviously posted as appropriate. It goes to press labelled, will be the ones with ash-trays. three weeks before the convention, and Again, if you're in doubt (or anti-social) during that time there are certain to be a security guard will put you right. You some alterations. These will be will not be allowed to carry food, drink announced on notices and where possible or bags other than handbags into any of in the daily convention newsheet the art or film exhibition rooms: this (available from the convention is for the protection of the many information office - Churchill Room). individuals and institutions that have loaned us valuable and often irreplaceable items. A few general remarks. Firstly, please Remember, please, most of these precautions remember to wear your convention badge are common-sense — apply it yourself and at all times. This applies no matter how eminent you are. The convention has save us the trouble, and embarrassement, of applying it for you. professional security guards on duty in certain areas, and one of their duties We hope you will have a smooth and trouble will be to challenge people without free weekend. If you have problems or badges, and to deny them access to complaints ( to do with the convention or convention areas. This is a necessary with the Metropole), please go to the precaution and nothing will be gained Information Room (Churchill Room) and we by your arguing with the guards. If you will do our best to help you. But please lose your badge please go to the remember that all the convention workers Registration desk in the Primrose room are unpaid volunteers who also want to have or the Information Room (Churchill Room) a good time and try not to burden them but bear in mind you may well be charged with trivialities. a small fee for a replacement badge Above all, enjoy yourselves. and you will be required to prove your identity. INDEX FUNCTION ROOMS OPENING SCHEDULE...2 AUTHOR SIGNING SESSIONS SCHEDULE ...11 THURSDAY PROGRAMME .........................................3 CONVENTION HALL PLANS ....................................10 FRIDAY PROGRAMME ............................... 0 & 5 METROPOLE HOTEL PLANS ...............................15 SATURDAY PROGRAMME .......................... 6 & 7 FILM PROGRAMME NOTES.........................................16 SUNDAY PROGRAMME ............................... 8 & 9 SHORT FILMS ................................................................20 MONDAY PROGRAMME ................ 10 BOOKROOMS ~ PLANS..................................................22 "SOME OF YOUR blood" ............................ 11 BOOKROOMS - EXHIBITORS .................................23 OPENING TIMES BOOK ROOM (HALL 3) THURSDAY 2,00PM “ 6.00pM FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY IO.OOAM - 6.OOPM Monday 10.00am - 2,00pm ART & FILM EXHIBITS (HALLS 6 & 7) THURSDAY 2.00PM ~ C.OOPM FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY IO.OOaM - 6.00PM MONDAY IO.OOAM " 12.00 NOON FANDOM ROOM (HALL 4) THURSDAY 3.00PM " UNTIL LATE (BAR CLOSES I.OOam) FRIDAY 10.00am - 7.30pm SATURDAY IO.OOAM - 8.30PM, 11.30pm - UNTIL LATE Sunday 10.00am - 5.30pm, 11.30pm - until late MONDAY 10.00am - 6.00pm REGISTRATION DESK (PRIMROSE ROOM) WEDNESDAY 2.OOPM - 5.00PM THURSDAY, FRIDAY, IO.OOAM - 5.OOPM INFORMATION ROOM (CHURCHILL ROOM) WEDNESDAY 7.00PM - 9.00PM, THURSDAY 10.00aM~9.OOPM FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY IO.OOAM - 9.00PM MONDAY 10.00am - 6.00pm NOTE: Registrations will also be taken in the Information room Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 7.OO-9.00pm; Saturday & Sunday lO.ooam - 9.00pm. Banquet tickets (subject to availability) will be on sale in the information Room during opening hours. Entry forms for the Fancy Dress will also be available here. A British Rail/Southdown Bus Travel Desk will also be available on Thursday and Friday only. In case of EMERGENCY ONLY outside opening times of Information desk please ask Hotel Reception to bleep Operations Controller. STAR WARS EXHIBIT (KENT SUITE 3) TIMES TO BE ANNOUNCED S.F.W.A. suite (Dorset suite 3) times to be announced EUROPEAN SPACE PROMOTION ASSOCIATION ( KENT SUITE 1) TIMES TO BE ANNOUNCED VARIOUS MEETINGS AND PARTIES (SURREY SUITE 3) TIMES TO BE ANNOUNCED BABYSITTING SERVICES (KENT SUITE 4) TIMES TO BE ANNOUNCED DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES ENTIRELY BEYOND OUR CONTROL we have had to switch SOME OF THE CONVENTION FUNCTIONS INDICATED IN OUR SOUVENIR PROGRAMME BOOK. PLEASE CONSULT THE PLANS IN THIS BOOKLET FOR (GOD WILLING) THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH ABOUT WHERE AND WHEN EVERYTHING IS. *** THE FANDOM ROOM will now be in HALL 0 on the first floor and not in Hall 5 as previously announced. *** Hall 8 will now not be available as a bar and lounge refreshment area *** Refreshments will now be available in the winter gardens ballroom 2. THURSDAY 25rd august AFTERNOON PROGRAMME SPONSORED BY POCKET BOOKS 2.00pm | 3.00pm | A,00pm 5.00pm 5.00pm 1-1 OPENING CEREMONIES 1 REPORT ON THE THIRD ' EPIC FANTASY ~ panel with; FAR-OUT PROPULSION: J END OFAFTERNOON _J featuring theCaledonian J PLANET: SF AROUND THE , L. Sprague de Camp, Tanith CONCEPTS OF INTERSTELLAR PROGRAMME IN HALL 1 < Pipe Band , WORLD ~ speech by ( Lee, Fritz Leiber and ‘ TRAVEL ~ Speech by Dr. > 1 . Frederik Pohl , Karl Wagner , Robert L. Forward 1 NORFOLK ROOM i PRELIMINARY BUSINESS MEETING --------------------------------------- - STARTS 12.00 NOON g § THE IWI WHO FELL TO THEODORE STURGEON PRESENTS A FRENCH TV MOVIE VERSION OF "BRIGHT SEGMENTS" PHASE IV -------------------- EARTH 7.00pm 8.00pm I 9.00pm 10,30pm 11,00pm I STAR WARS II: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK - JSUPERMAN------------------------------------------ 12.30am J . AN ADVANCE PRESENTATION WITH SLIDES, FILM CLIPS, < • AND QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION FEATURING ; MARK HAMILL AND GARY KURTZ NORFOLK ROOM THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY — THE RADIO FOUR SERIES IN COMPLETE CONTINUOUS PRESENTATION ( ENDS 11.OOPM) COUNTY. SUITE SOME OF YOUR BLOOD A play based on Theodore Sturgeon's famous and disturbing novel. County Suite opens 6.30pm for audience to take seats. Play starts 7.00pm and runs for approximately 1 hour without interval. See full notes on page 11 12.30AM (FRIDAY MORNING) 2.30am CLARENCE ROOM - FILM PROGRAMME SHIVERS DEAD OF NIGHT VIDEO: IT IS NOT POSSIBLE AS WE GO TO PRESS TO GIVE A SCHEDULE FOR THE VIDEO PROGRAMME. THIS WILL BE ANNOUNCED THROUGH NOTICES AT THE COUNTY SUITE ENTRANCE AND ELSEWHERE, AND WHENEVER POSSIBLE THROUGH THE DAILY CONVENTION NEWSSHEET FRIDAY 2ATH AUGUST MORNING PROGRAMME SPONSORED BY BERKLEY BOOKS 10.00am 111.00am 12.00noon 11.00pm | 2.00pm THE PLEASURES AND PERILS ' THE NATURAL HISTORY OF 'THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENTER1 FIFTY YEARS OF SCIENCE ' yesterdata: the future -H OF SERIES WRITING " panel 'THE DRAGON “ illustrated 1— Nigel Kneale in i FICTION — panel with ' AS AN OBSOLETE । with Marion Zimmer Bradley • lecture by Peter ■conversation with i Alfred Bester, Terry ! ASSUMPTION — speech < A. Bertram Chandler, Anne i Dickinson •John Baxter . Carr, Theodore Sturgeor 1, by John Brunner x McCaffrey, Larry Niven 1 1 i Manly Wade Wellman, 1 i i । Jack Williamson 1 SF IN RUSSIA —lecture by ' ha'PENNY MARVELS AND TEACH YOURSELF MASS ' ARTIST PROFILE: ' CALL MY BLUFF— panel Professor J. Kagarlitsky. 'MODERN WONDERS: SF IN 'EXTERMINATION; A BEGINNER' S1 Roger Dean talks to ' game chaired by John । BRITISH COMICS — ।GUIDE TO GENOCIDE — talk • Jim Slattery i Harvey and featuring the 3 illustrated talk by by Dave Langford . Pros (Robert Holdstock, 25 1 Denis Gifford । Chris Priest, Bob Shaw) or o i §2 1 i , Vs the Fans (Malcolm i r ( Edwards, Roy Kettle, i । , Peter Roberts) i 1 CLARENCE ROOT-1 - FILM PROGRAMME 1 IHE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH ■SON OF IDE BLOB ! PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK । 1 1 HALL A " FAN PROGRAMME i 1 l 1 'PANEL- AMERICAN FANDOM JAFF AND GUFF INTERVIEWS: • BRITISH FANDOM CHAT 1 (break) iwith Frank Denton, Suzle Terry Hughes & John Foyste r 1 SHOW: PART ONE, THE 1 iTompkins and others ( EARLY YEARS with Ken l 1 1 Bulmer, Ken Slater, 1 1 Bob Tucker and others 1 1 COUNTY SUITE 12.30pm 1 — VIDEO PROGRAMME -------- SOME OF YOUR BLOOD (SEE PAGE II ) 1 C.J. CHERRYH reading (Opens 12.00noon for audience to take 1 from her work seats - runs 1 hour without interval) i AFTERNOON PROGRAMME SPONSORED BY SPHERE BOOKS Ig.OOpm 3.00pm IA.OOpm |5.00pm I 7.00pm CAN A MACHINE THINK? — Oman's future in space — 'the only unnatural S?~'ALIEN --------------- ------------------------------- ENDS /.30PM speech by Dr. Christopher .panel with Ben Bova, speech by Theodore Evans .Arthur C. Clarke, Joe I ' AN ADVANCE PRESENTATION WITH SLIDES, FILM 1 1 CLIPS AND QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION. •Haldeman 1 • 1 1 NORFOLK ROOM 1 HOW TO WRITE 150 SF BOOKS ' ARTIST PROFILE - ‘ BOOK AUCTION (See notes below) ' FANCY DRESS SLIDE SHOW IN 8 YEARS IN YOUR SPARE ' Christopher Foss talks 1 Highl ights of previous TIME “ talk by R.L. Fanthorpe to Jim Slattery i । competitions । ■ i i 3.00PM 4.00PM 5.00PM 6.00PM 7.00PM CLARENCE ROOM - FILM PROGRAMME : THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW followed by ___________________________________ ; QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION WITH RICHARD O'BRIEN__________________________________________________ HALL 0 ~ FAN PROGRAMME 1 FAN GUEST OF HONOUR: HARRY BELL " interviewed by Eve Harvey COUNTY SUITE i ‘ ANNE MCCAFFREY PHYLLIS EISENSTEIN JOE HALDEMAN VIDEO PROGRAMME --------------------------------- reading from her work reading from reading "Blood Brothers" 1 "The White Dragon" 8.00pm |9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 12,00pm HALL 1 ~ MAIN PROGRAMME *STAR WARS CLARENCE ROOM pm ; 10.30 i 12.15am 1 GUEST OF HONOUR READINGS ALLEGRO NON TROPPO J PHANTOM OF THE • Brian Aldiss & Fritz Leiber i read from their work .