Northwest’s Premier Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention

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Pocket Program & Event Descriptions April 1− 4 2010 Northwest’s Premier Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention ©John Jude Palencar TABLE OF CONTENTS

Hours of Operation ...... 2 Members Rules ...... 3 WELCOME Convention Hints ...... 5 The Convention Committee wishes to welcome you to Norwescon 33! This pocket program Guest of Honor Locations ...... 11 contains information on the location and schedules for events and services that are Autograph Sessions ...... 13 available throughout the convention. For more information on these events look in our Program Book, or visit the information table located in the convention space lobby. Also Thursday Programming Grids ...... 14 remember to check out the Dailyzine for announcements, changes and updates to the programming schedule. Thursday Programming by Subject ...... 22 Again we the Norwescon ConCom hope you have a Great Time! Friday Programming Grids ...... 32 Friday Programming by Subject ...... 40 VOLUNTEERS Saturday Programming Grids ...... 66 Saturday Programming by Subject ...... 74 Norwescon 33’s volunteers - staff, leads,and assistants - wish to thank those of you who have given so much to make this event possible. From those who made up Norwescon 33’s Sunday Programming Grids ...... 102 Executive Team, to concom staff and their assistants, to the fellow who walked in the door Sunday Programming by Subject ...... 106 and asked, “Where do you need me?” You are all gems in the sea of humanity, and for that you deserve a heartfelt THANK YOU. Without you, this event would not have been possible. Gaming Schedule ...... 114 Gaming by Subject ...... 115 Brian Pickett Exhibiting Artists ...... 120 Norwescon 33 Volunteer Services Lead Artists Alley Participants ...... 121 www.norwescon.org Dealers ...... 121 Lobby Tables ...... 122 Video Programming ...... 124 Where Things Are ...... 129 Map 1st Floor ...... 130 Map 2nd Floor ...... 131 Map Wings ...... 132 POCKET PROGRAM TEAM Map 14th Floor ...... 133

Publications Director Design & Layout Assistance Editor Notes ...... 134 ADRIENNE LOSKA GAYLE MACARTHUR P.MAC KATRINA MARIER

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Art Auction Gaming, scheduled (Cascade 11/12) MEMBERSHIP Weapons Policy Sunday 11:30am-2:00pm Thursday noon-11:00pm Everyone attending Norwescon 12 year of age and Friday 8:00am-11:00pm 1. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO INSPECT AND over are required to fill out a membership form REJECT ANY WEAPON AT ANY TIME. Saturday 8:00am-11:00pm before receiving a membership badge. Signing the Art Show Sunday 8:00am-4:00pm membership form indicates that you understand the 2. VIOLATION OF THIS POLICY IN PART OR Friday 10:00am-8:00pm rules of conduct as listed in this document and agree WHOLE MAY LEAD TO YOUR REMOVAL FROM Saturday 10:00am-7:00pm to abide by them. THE CONVENTION BY CONVENTION EXECUTIVE STAFF AND FROM THE HOTEL BY HOTEL (Bidding closes Saturday at 7:00pm) Hospitality Membership includes: Sunday 10:00am-3:00pm Thursday noon-4:00pm, 6:00pm-11:00pm SECURITY OR LOCAL AUTHORITIES. (Only open for direct sales) Friday 9:00am-4:00pm, 6:00pm-11:00pm • The right to attend the convention Saturday 9:00am-4:00pm, 6:00pm- 3. This policy includes all real and replicated 11:00pm • Membership badge weapons of any type that may be construed as a Sunday 9:00am-4:00pm projectile weapon or any extension of the human Artists Alley • Program Book, Pocket Program, and hand. Thursday 4:00pm-6:00pm Member’s Guide Friday 9:00am-6:00pm 4. Peacebonding will be available next to the Saturday 9:00am-6:00pm Hotel Dining: • Post-Con Report (for all current members) Information Table during open registration hours Sunday 10:00am-2:00pm Espresso Cart: 6 am – 8 pm Your membership badge must be visibly displayed and in the Security Office when the Peacebonding Coffee Garden: 6 am – 11 pm while in designated convention space. Anyone who table is closed. Seaports: 11 am – 2 am cannot produce a current membership badge upon Maxi’s Lounge – See Pocket Program for 5. Peacebonding is required on all weapons Cloak Room request will be asked to leave convention space. worn/carried on the hotel property including Thursday noon-Sunday 6:00pm Special Events - Open to NWC Attendee’s Only: 21 and Over Only Badge Replacement Fee parking areas and indoor spaces. The only type Room Service Hours: 6 am – 11 am of peacebonding allowed is that provided by the 5 pm - Midnight If you lose your membership badge, you are convention. Fashion coordinated substitutes are not Con Office encouraged to search everywhere before a new one sufficient. Thursday 9:00am-10:00pm is issued. Make sure you check with Lost and Found Friday 9:00am-10:00pm (both the hotel and the convention have Lost and a. NO unsheathed weapon allowed in Saturday 9:00am-10:00pm Registration Found departments), Registration, and Security ANY public space (unless approved in advance Sunday 9:00am-3:00pm Thursday noon-10:00pm prior to purchasing a replacement badge. There is a for Masquerade or programming event in which Friday 9:00am-10:00pm replacement fee of $40 for lost badges. bonding ties will be removed for such an event and Saturday 9:00am-10:00pm replaced immediately afterward). Sunday 9:00am-5:00pm Right of Refusal Con Security i. All bladed/pointed weapons will Available by calling 77108 from any Norwescon reserves the right to refuse or withdraw be appropriately covered in all public areas and house phone membership. function spaces. This includes but is not limited to: Volunteer Lounge Daggers, Swords, Pikes, Axes, and Polearms, be they Thursday 3:00pm-10:00pm RULES AND POLICIES made of steel, plastic or any other hard material. Friday 9:00am-11:00pm Dealers Room Saturday 9:00am-11:00pm Child & Teen Rules ii. Polearms, Spears, Staves and other Thursday 4:00pm-8:00pm Sunday9:00-noon such weapons shall be kept upright at all times and Friday 11:00am-6:00pm The Norwescon convention committee welcomes young and future fans. Please refer to the pocket have weapon heads sheathed and bonded. The ends Saturday 11:00am-6:00pm of said weapons must never project more than 12” Sunday 11:00am-4:00pm program guide for information about programming for children, tweens and teens. Children attending from the bearer’s body. Norwescon must be registered convention b. Some weapons are not allowed at attendees and wear their convention badge. Parents all: Tazers and batons; real guns, pepper spray, Gaming, Open (Rotunda 1 and 2) must have a permission slip on file at registration. Thursday noon-6:00am crossbows, slingshots, pellet guns, water pistols, Parents or adults guardians must accompany blowguns, catapults or any type of functioning Friday 8:00am-6:00am children under 12 years of age of at all times. Saturday 8:00am-6:00am projectile weapon. Sunday 8:00am-4:00pm

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SPECIAL CONSIDERATION FOR THE and other drugs. We, the Norwescon Committee, FLYERS YOUNG AND FUTURE FANS FOLLOWING: are realistic enough to know that if a young adult is determined to drink, it is not always possible to stop Flyers may be posted only on the paper or cloth Norwescon welcomes it’s young and future fans. To 1. “Airsoft-style” or “Nerf-style” weapons: them. We do require that all parties serving alcohol covered kiosks that we have provided. Check at do this, we have programs planned throughout the the Information Table for locations. Do not attach convention that are geared for different age groups. 2. At NO time is ammo allowed, on person, in check ID. Washington law forbids serving alcohol to minors with the exception of your own children anything to walls, windows, or doors. The hotel and/ weapon or in magazine. or the convention will remove any flyers found in Children attending Norwescon must be registered and then only in your own home when there are and wear convention identification. There is no no visitors. Responsible imbibing by those over unauthorized places. 3. Empty magazines are NOT allowed in the charge for Children under 12 years of age. Parents 21 (that means not getting falling down drunk or weapon, but allowed on the belt or in a pouch for SLEEPING IN HALLS AND STAIRWAYS must have a permission slip on file at Registration. becoming a menace to yourself and others) will not costume purposes (again NO ammo allowed). Children under 12 years of age must be accompanied be noticed as much, and the heavy hand of the hotel One word to say on this subject . . . Don’t. 4. Bows (again, crossbows are NOT allowed): detective and/or our Site Services director may not by a parent or adult guardian at all times. All teens be felt. We want all of our members to have a good HINTS TO MAKE YOUR CONVENTION must have a parent/guardian on site at all times; but 5. Arrows must be proven to be secured in such time at Norwescon, and we want you all to return EXPERIENCE THE BEST they need not be physically with them. a manner as to be unable to be removed from their home safely. container and be secured by Peacebonding the same Attach your badge to the outside of your outfit. It Please have your child stay close to you when as all other weapons. PARTIES saves you from having to fish it out when asked by in public areas of the hotel, as it is often hard to door guards or convention security. distinguish that the parent is at hand and the child is 6. Any obvious appearing toy “side arms” such Guest rooms in Wing 5b and suites will be available not lost. The DoubleTree Hotel Seattle Airport has a as Disruptors, Phasers, Laser Tag pistols/rifles, for social events. A “social event” is a reception Remember to carry your identification (driver’s relationship with Best Sitters, Inc., more information laser pointers, or any other item that can project/ or open house type event held in a guest room in licenses, state identification, etc.) with you at all on Best Sitters can be found at 206-682-2556 emit light or sound shall be peacebonded and Wing 5b or a hotel suite. Food and beverages may times. Identification is required at the hotel bars and remain in an appropriate holster at all times or held be served in compliance with hotel, state and local room parties. Also, remember to bring money or EVENTS regulations. Maximum occupancy guidelines will be in an appropriate manner. Exemptions must be your credit card—you never know when you will Philip K. Dick Award Ceremony authorized by qualified Security personnel. enforced. Service of alcohol must be in accordance see something you want in the Dealers’ Room or with Washington State Liquor Control Board the Art Show. The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually for 7. Special consideration will be granted by provisions. A special occasion license or banquet distinguished science fiction published in paperback the Convention Services Executive or a select permit must be obtained and posted in the suite. Note: You may be asked to provide your original form in the United States. The Philadelphia designee by said Executive to Merchants or Dealers Events that do not qualify for a special license or identification for entry into events and panels Science Fiction Society sponsors the award and the who display or show for the purpose of sale. Any permit must not serve alcohol. Alcohol service times labeled “A” for adult, you must be at least 18 years of Northwest Science Fiction Society and Norwescon weapons removed from Dealers Room will fall under must be in accordance with state regulations. Social age. Without your ID you may be refused entry. sponsor the award ceremony. For more information above guidelines. Event guidelines will be posted on the Norwescon on the award, see http://www.philipkdickaward. web site by October prior to the convention. Carry the Pocket Program with you so that you know 8. No weapons are allowed in the Lounges and what’s happening and where to find it. Highlight org/ SMOKING Restaurants open to the public. the panels you want to attend so that you don’t The first time the PK Dick Award was presented at miss them. 9. This policy complies with hotel policy and Washington State law states that smoking is Norwescon was at Norwescon 7 to William Gibson local, state, and federal laws. prohibited within a presumptively reasonable Pick up a Daily ‘Zine every morning to see what is for Neuromancer. See your Pocket Program for the minimum distance of twenty-five feet from happening that day and to learn of any changes to location and time of the ceremony. 10. THERE WILL BE NO APPEAL TO ANY entrances, exits, windows that open, and ventilation the daily schedule. VIOLATION OF THESE RULES. intakes that serve an enclosed area where smoking Artist Alley is prohibited so as to ensure that tobacco smoke Check out the Voodoo Message Board daily to see if 11. This policy supersedes all previous versions. Come see artists in action! Artist Alley is a very does not enter the area through entrances, exits, you have messages. special event where you can interact directly with open windows, or other means. Smoking areas at DRINKING Stop by Hospitality to see who you know and who the artists while they work. See the process unfold the hotel are clearly marked. and ask questions as several real artists, working If you must drive, please let others know, so that you want to know. ANIMALS in multiple media, show how they do it. If you’re they can help you stay away from alcohol (whatever Smile and say “Hi” to the people around you! You having difficulties with your own art, bring it form it takes) and stay sober so that you arrive at Service animals only are allowed in Norwescon never know who is standing next to you. They may down and seek advice on getting past your block. your destination safely. If you plan to drink, PLEASE, function space. Service animals will be issued be the next big author or artist. Then you can say “I Alternately, if you have an idea or would like a sketch do not drive. There is another topic under the convention identification at registration. Contact knew them when …” of yourself done, many of the artists will do on-the- heading of responsible drinking which is a touchy the hotel for their rules about animals in the guest spot custom work (fees may be charged and will subject . . . persons under 21 indulging in alcohol rooms and public hotel areas. vary by artist). Come down and take a look!

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If you like what you see, original work will be masquerade rules and entry form at the Norwescon and voiceovers, and more. The Judges give awards Daily ‘Zine available on a limited basis. Artist Alley is located on information table and carefully read them. You must that are divided by skill levels and excellence of the first floor corridor just after the turn to Wing 7. go to ONE of the two masquerade panels listed in performance within those different skill levels. Norwescon’s official daily ‘zine carries news, the pocket program, as this is where you will get all schedule updates, and entertainment. After 9:00 Art Show your questions answered and it is where you turn in Workmanship Judging a.m., copies can be found in numerous locations throughout the convention. Bag Check: For the safety and protection of the your forms and music. Workmanship judging is optional. It takes place artwork, some personal items may have to be If you have never seen a masquerade, here are a few in the masquerade backstage area before the As always, news, information, and other tidbits, checked at the time you enter the art show, at the tidbits to help orient you to what to expect. show begins. It allows the workmanship judges to from members of the con, are welcome and strongly bag check station. These items may include, but consider exceptional accomplishment in crafting encouraged. Boxes for your submissions are placed are not limited to, all bags, large coats or cloaks, Entries are categorized by skill divisions. The costumes, props, and accessories. This is the place at some of the distribution points around the and any large costume accessories that may cause divisions are based on the guidelines of the where exquisite attention to detail is recognized. con. Items left by 10:30 p.m. will be eligible to be safety concerns. International Costumers Guild (www.costume.org). included in the next day’s edition. The divisions are: During the judging process, there is a half time Bidding: Your badge number is your bidding presentation. During the halftime there will be First Aid number. Write your name, badge number, and bid Rising Star is for any contestant 13 years of age or movie previews, special announcements, and the on the bid tag associated with the item. Remember younger who is not part of an adult group. Rising announcement of next years Guests of Honors, after A limited supply of first aid equipment is available that a written bid is a commitment to buy and Star costumes must be made by the entrant with which the masquerade awards are announced. You in the Convention Office (room 7106). There are you will be held to that commitment. Under no no more than a minimum amount of supervisory will miss a lot of great things of you leave early, so bandages for cut fingers and wrapping for sprains. circumstances may you withdraw your bid. So, help. An adult-made costume may not be entered you should definitely stay until the end and applaud There is also a supply of various medications for consider carefully before you place any bids. It is not in this category and should instead be entered in the winners. your headache or upset stomach. None of our staff fair to the artist or other potential bidders if you bid the appropriate skill division of the adult or in the can administer medication. If you have a genuine on a piece and then decide you do not want it. children’s masquerade. SERVICES medical emergency, and you need to go to an emergency room, we can call 911 for you. Direct Sale: If you purchase a piece at the Direct Novice is for any contestant who has not previously Cloak Room Information Table Sale price, it belongs to you and will be marked won an award for a costume in any masquerade, The Cloak Room is located in Wing 7, room 7101. SOLD. It must remain on display until Sunday or who has won a maximum of two awards in See the Pocket Program for hours of operation. This Information about the convention, the hotel, and morning. When you make a Direct Sale purchase, the Novice division for different costumes at a is a free service provided by the convention for the the area can be found at the Information Table, you will be given a receipt. You must present this world-class convention masquerade such as World use of convention members. The Cloak Room is for which is located in the convention lobby, across receipt when you come to pick up your art on Con or Costume Con, or at a regional convention temporary storage of parcels, coats, and bags; and is from Registration. If you have questions after Sunday. masquerade such as Norwescon or Westercon. not meant as a substitute hotel room or food locker. the Information Table closes, you can go to the Auction: Items purchased at auction will be paid Journeyman is for any contestant who has won a Please make other arrangements for inappropriate Convention Office in room 7106 or the Security for at the Art Show checkout. maximum of three awards for different costumes in items. We reserve the right to refuse any article. Office in room 7108. the Journeyman division at a world-class or regional Norwescon is not responsible for items left in the Lost & Found Print Shop: Many of our artists bring prints of their convention masquerade. work. A copy of the print is hanging in their panel, Cloak Room. Use of the room is at your own risk. We suggest that before you place your items in the The Lost & Found is located in the Cloak Room, room with the additional copies located in the Print Shop. Master is for any contestant who has won four 7101. During the time the room is closed, lost items Print Shop items can be purchased at any time or more awards for different costumes in the room, you make certain to understand the hours the room will be open. In addition, please do not linger should be taken to Convention Security in 7108, or during the convention. If the print is not the one Journeyman or Master division, or who has won to the DoubleTree front desk. Lost ID badges should hanging on the panel, the print can be removed at one or more Best in Show awards, at a regional or at the dance, the Cloak Room staff will not. There is a 25¢ charge for lost claim tags. go to Registration or to Convention Security. If you time of purchase. world-class convention masquerade. Professional lost something during the convention, be sure to costumers must enter the Master division. Norwescon 32 Masquerade Convention and Security Offices check both with the convention’s Lost & Found, and with the hotel. If it does not turn up right away, Judging for the masquerade has two components: The nerve centers of the convention are the Each year the Norwescon masquerade showcases Presentation and Workmanship. check back on Sunday afternoon; sometimes things the works of many of the best costumers in the Convention Offices located in Wing 7. The main take a little while to be discovered and filter in. Pacific Northwest and beyond. The masquerade is Presenting Judging Convention Office is located in room 7106 while the held Saturday night in Grand Ballrooms 2 and 3 and Convention Security Office is in 7108. You can find Unclaimed articles left in the cloakroom after 4:00 is open to all Norwescon attendees. Presentation judging evaluates the presentation one of these open all hours of the day to help iron p.m. on Sunday, will go into the hotel’s Lost & as it is displayed on stage. It judges the costume’s out any wrinkles you may encounter. Found, or will go home with Norwescon’s Lost & If you are interested in participating in the appearance from the audience, how the contestant Found Manager. Determination of which location masquerade, there is still time. Pick up the acts and moves, the effectiveness of the music items will be placed will depend on their nature;

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luggage and like items with the hotel’s Lost & alphabetical order. This will let others know that you Hotel Pool and Hot Tub parking spaces) will be towed. Please park legally Found, miscellaneous objects and small items with are on-site and will be checking for messages. and walk the distance rather than parking where the Norwescon Lost & Found. Again, be sure to The pool and hot tub are open to hotel guests you should not. There are many parking lots in the check with both the convention and the hotel’s Lost To leave a message for another convention member, 24 hours a day and can be accessed with a hotel area and some provide transport to and from the & Found departments for items that you may have write the message on one of the provided index room key. The pool and hot tub will be closed for airport and hotel. misplaced during the convention. cards, and place it in the appropriate slot in the file scheduled cleaning and maintenance during part box. Then place one of the pins, which are provided of the day. Please read the pool and hot tub rules Restairamts amd Bars After the convention, inquiries about lost items can next to the member’s name. Everyone is encouraged posted in that area. The rules must be obeyed if we be made to [email protected] or P.O. Box 68547, to check the board for messages. want to keep this area open for the weekend. The Coffee Garden: The Coffee Garden offers a Seattle, WA 98168-0547. Inquiries should also be comfortable, casual dining area, serving breakfast, made with the hotel. Lost items will be kept until Volunteering Internet Access lunch, and dinner with a straightforward approach to American cuisine and express buffet. July 1 of the convention year. After that date, any Norwescon runs on volunteers - without them High speed internet (DSL) access is available in all unclaimed items will be auctioned at the Volunteer there would be no convention. As such, everybody guest rooms during Norwescon for a fee. Please call Seaports: Seaports restaurant and lounge offers fine Picnic, with the proceeds going to the Northwest is encouraged to volunteer at the convention the hotel front desk for access. dining in a comfortable Norwescon atmosphere. Science Fiction Society (NWSFS). for a few hours. There are many things that you Open for lunch and dinner. can volunteer for that still let you attend certain Parking Room Service: Room Service is available during PEACEBONDING events. As a bonus, volunteers who have helped at The Hotel has a monitored parking system. There are any time during the con have early entry into the specific hours. See Hours of Operations in the Pocket four entry gates into the hotel parking lot. Tickets Program for details. SEE RULES AND POLICIES: Weapons Masquerade; may attend a special event arranged are dispensed at each gate and payment is made as for them; are invited to a post-con party during the Teens and Teen Runners you leave or in one of the marked kiosk in the hotel Espresso stand: espresso drinks, coffee, juice, soft summer; may be entered in drawings for special lobby. Offsite parking is available in the area as well. drinks, cookies, and pastries. Norwescon recognizes that the future of convention gifts; and receive tokens to show our appreciation. attendees and volunteering staff will come from Go to the Volunteer Table in the convention lobby or Hotel Parking Rates Maxi’s Lounge: (Open Friday and Saturday evenings) the Volunteer Office and sign up for a shift (or two, Maxi’s is open to Norwescon attendees exclusively. the teens currently attending the convention with • The first car registered to each hotel room is their parents. In an effort to give you, our younger or three, or four, or five). You must be 21 years of age, have legal I.D. AND free. the current Norwescon convention badge to enter. members, the opportunity to gain firsthand Single Pattern Contents experience, and a behind the scenes look into the • Any additional cars registered to the same Members wearing costumes, especially those that world of conventions, Norwescon implemented the The single pattern contest focuses on wearable art hotel room are charged $8.00 per day and receive obscure the face and preclude identification, may be “Teen Runner” program. So, if you are between the pieces created from a preselected pattern. Each in/out privileges. denied alcohol and/or entrance to lounge. ages of 12 and 17, and you are looking for things year the contest coordinator selects a pattern, • Attendees who drive to the convention, but to do at the convention, stop by Volunteers and try which often ties in with the convention’s theme. WHAT’S IN THE LOCAL AREA your hand in helping out as a Runner. There are jobs The entrants then create their designs prior to the do not stay at the hotel, will be charged $8.00 per in areas such as: Registration, Technical Services, convention. Entrants show their creations at the 24-hour day with NO in/out privileges. Restaurants Office Service, Volunteers, Masquerade, and Single Pattern Contest Fashion Show. In addition • Motorcycles are charged the same Dispatch that have jobs, suitable for teenagers and to the Judges Awards, there is also a Fan Favorite • 13 Coins - 18000 Pacific Highway South, convention rate of $8.00 per 24-hour day. There are 206.243.9500. http://www.13coins.com/ Five are vital to the convention. Award that is given based on votes received from no special motorcycle parking spaces and a standard the audience. minute walk north of hotel. Serving up hearty fare Voodoo Message Board parking space needs to be used. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If you would like information on entering future Have you ever wanted to know if your friends have • If you are pulling a trailer and use more than • Denny’s - 18623 Pacific Highway South, Single Pattern Contests watch the Norwescon one space, the parking fee will be based on the arrived at the con? Have you ever wanted to leave a website or register for the Norwescon eNewsletter. 206.248.1558. Across Pacific Highway from hotel. message for somebody but didn’t know if they are number of parking stalls you use. Open 24 hours. staying in a room? Hotel Shuttle • Handicapped parking stalls are charged the • Dave’s Diner and Brew - 19204 Pacific Norwescon offers members a way to leave The hotel shuttle can transport you to SeaTac same conven­tion rate of $8.00 per day. Highway, 206.277.7196. www.restaurant.com/ messages for each other by means of a Voodoo International Airport as well as the Hilton. Check Parking is always limited at Norwescon. Do not davesdinerandbrew/ Diner open 6:00 am - 10:00 Message Board. The board is located by the with the Concierge for availability, departure and park in fire lanes. Do not park in spaces marked pm., Lounge open until 2:00 a.m., 2 min. walk. restrooms near Registration and will have a list of return times. for those with disabilities unless you have a valid Classic diner food. all pre-registered convention members. When you handicap permit. Vehicles parked in unauthorized get to the convention, please place a check mark areas (including that which is set aside for reserved next to your name or add your name to the list in

8 v April 1-4, 2010 Norwescon33 Pocket Program v 9 MEMBERS GUIDE RULES GUEST OF HONOR LOCATIONS • Sharp’s Roaster & Ale House - 18427 Pacific Autograph Session #1 Highway South, 206.241.5744. sharpsrestaurant@ dr. john g. cramer Friday, 4 - 5 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 comcast.net Across from hotel. Features rotisserie Zombie Banquet PK Dick Awards chicken, baby back ribs, smoked meats, and Thursday, 5 - 7 p.m. Grand 2 American food. Sunday – Thursday 11:00 a.m. – 101, or Friday, 7 - 8:30 p.m. Grand 2 midnight, Friday – Saturday 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 a.m. Opening Ceremonies Writing For Young Adults Walk, Thursday, 7 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2 • Taco Bell - 18812 Pacific Highway South, Zombies, Saturday, 10 a.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 206.243.8171. Across 188th from the hotel. 9:00 The Universe is Changing! The Dilution of the Fannish a.m. – 10:00 p.m. Walk Thursday, Friday, Noon Evergreen 1 Ideal Saturday, 11 a.m. Cascade 9 • Jack-In-The-Box - 2840 South 188th, Interview with John Cramer Autograph Session #2 206.244.6293. Across Pacific Highway from the 8:00 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 Saturday, 1 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 hotel. Open 24 hours. Grand 2 The Large Hadron Collider Autograph Session #3 Grocery Stores Friday, 3 p.m. Evergreen 1 Saturday, 2 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 • Costco - 1160 Saxon Drive, 206.575.9191. Shamble yourselves Autograph Session #1 Keysigning Reception Fifteen minute drive east of hotel. Open Monday down to Grand 2 to Friday, 4 - 5 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 Saturday, 4 - 5:30 p.m. Presidential Suite - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m., Saturday 9:00 a.m. learn what it takes - 6:00 p.m., Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Costco to be a zombie. Our PK Dick Awards Surveillance in the 21st Century – is it membership required. zombie pros will Friday, 7 - 8:30 p.m. Grand 2 good or bad? Saturday, 6 p.m. Evergreen 1 • Tukwila Trading Company - 3725 S 144th St., teach you how to Autograph Session #2 move, think, and Saturday, 1 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 phone 206.242.5290. Open 6:00 a.m. - 10:00 pm. In act like a zombie. Law and the Virtual World the location of the former Larry’s Market, they carry Autograph Session #3 Sunday, Noon Evergreen 3 & 4 many of the same types of products. There will also be people available to Saturday, 2 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 Closing Ceremonies • Safeway - 4011 S 164th, phone apply basic zombie Quantum Entanglement, Nonlocality, Sunday, 5 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 206.244.2567. Includes a Deli, Bakery, Pharmacy, makeup to help and Back-In-Time Messages Starbucks, Floral, Video, Liquor, and Produce you achieve that Saturday, 4 p.m. Evergreen 2 departments. zombie feel. Wear david hartwell old clothes and get Closing Ceremonies Banks & ATMs in the spirit, because Sunday, 5 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 Banquet this is the start of Thursday, 5 - 7 p.m. Grand 2 There is an ATM in the hotel lobby. There is a Chase the 1st Norwescon bank at the north end of the parking lot and is a full- Zombie Walk. Feel Opening Ceremonies service bank with ATM. Both the Tukwila Trading cory doctorow Thursday, 7 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2 Company and Safeway listed above have bank free to come already facilities and or ATMs. zombified Banquet The Years’s Best Fantasy and Science Thursday, 5 - 7 p.m. Grand 2 Fiction of 2009 Opening Ceremonies Saturday, 10 a.m. Evergreen 1 Thursday, 7 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2 Spotlight Publisher: TOR Computer Misconceptions in Science Saturday, Noon Evergreen 2 Fiction Literature and Film The Genre Divide Learn to Friday, 11 a.m. Grand 2 Saturday, 1 p.m. Cascade 9 Intellectual Property and Creative Closing Ceremonies Commons Sunday, 5 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 awalk zombie! like Friday, 2 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 10 v April 1-4, 2010 Norwescon33 Pocket Program v 11 GUEST OF HONOR LOCATIONS AUTOGRAPH SESSIONS

Bureaucratic Mechanisms to Hasten john jude palencar (or retard) Humanity’s Conquest FRIDAY SATURDAY Banquet of Space Thursday, 5 - 7 p.m. Grand 2 Saturday, 11 a.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 Autograph Session #1 Autograph Session #2 Evergreen Rooms 3 & 4 Evergreen Rooms 3 & 4 Opening Ceremonies Autograph Session #2 Thursday, 7 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2 Saturday, 1 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 Alexander James Adams, Alma Alexander, John P. Alexander, Carol Berg, David Boop, Autograph Session #1 Autograph Session #3 Bethalynne Bajema, Richard Baker, Steven SatyrPhil Brucato, Ted Butler, Bruce R. Friday, 4 - 5 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 Saturday, 2 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 Barnes, Arthur Bozlee, Andy R. Bunch, Alan Cordell, Dr. John G. Cramer, Jeff Davis, A.M. M. Clark, Greg Cox, Dr. John G. Cramer, Cory Dellamonica, Cory Doctorow, James Ernest, PK Dick Awards Interview with Vernor Vinge Doctorow, Elton Elliott, James C. Glass, Yasmine Galenorn, Daryl Gregory, Jeff Friday, 7 - 8:30 p.m. Grand 2 Saturday, 3 p.m. Evergreen 2 Todd Lockwood, Lisa Mantchev, John Jude Grubb, Eileen Gunn, Brandon Jerwa, Jak John Jude Palencar Slideshow Space - Humanity’s Best Hope for Palencar, John A. Pitts, Mark Rahner, Leo Koke, Ian McDonald, John Jude Palencar, Saturday, 10 a.m. Grand 2 Long-Term Survival? Roberts, Merrillee Schedin, Jeanne C. Stein, Kevin Radthorne, Ken Scholes, Lorelei Sunday, 11 a.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 Eric James Stone, Jeff Sturgeon, Vernor Shannon, Jack Skillingstead, G.Robin Smith, Autograph Session #2 Vinge, Jaye Wells, Saje Williams S. J. Tucker, Vernor Vinge, Gareth Von Saturday, 1 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 Closing Ceremonies Kallenbach Sunday, 5 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 Autograph Session #3 Saturday, 2 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 Finding Inspiration Autograph Session #3 Saturday, 3 p.m. Cascade 9 Evergreen Rooms 3 & 4 The Business of Art Myke Amend, Brenda Cooper, Dr. John G. Cramer, Saturday, 9 p.m. Cascade 9 Cory Doctorow, S. Joe Downing, Roberta Gregory, NORWESCON 33 Mark Henry, Jean Johnson, Rosemary Jones, Closing Ceremonies Mary Robinette Kowal, G. David Nordley, John Sunday, 5 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 Evergreen Rooms 3 & 4 Jude Palencar, Joshua Palmatier, Adrian Phoenix, Second Floor Cat Rambo, Sean K Reynolds, Renee Stern, Ben Thompson, Amy Thomson, Vernor Vinge, Rob Welch vernor vinge Banquet Thursday, 5 - 7 p.m. Grand 2 Opening Ceremonies Match Game Thursday, 7 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2 Fri 9pm If All the Computers Stopped Norwescon34 Working Cascade 9&10 Friday, 10 a.m. Grand 2 Pre-register SF/F-themed version of the What If the Singularity Does NOT Evergreen Rooms Elevator* Sunday at the classic Match Game game Happen? 1-2 show. Fill-in-the-blank Friday, Noon Evergreen 3 & 4 Registration questions such as ‘Captain Autograph Session #1 Kirk has the biggest ____ in Friday, 4 - 5 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 Center7 Starfleet!’ PK Dick Awards Friday, 7 - 8:30 p.m. Grand 2 PRIZES!

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Thrill the World Maxi’s Ballroom/Bar Dance Class 

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No One Cares About Dystopian versus Cascade 6 NASA Filk 101 Utopian Urban Fantasy Activism Through SF/ Great Players Make Cascade 7 Fantasy Writing and Art Great Games You Are What You Play Gadgets: Back to the Tragedy, Comedy and Cascade 8 (Or Are You?) Future Fantasy International Space Cascade 9 Masterpieces in Motion Fantasy Footwear Get Your Diesel On! Station: Was It Worth It? Low Budget Special Low Budget Special Cascade 10 Human Evolution Eff ects Effects

Cascade 13 Clay-O-Rama Art Aerobics

You Never Forget Your Evergreen 1 First Doctor

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Evergreen 3 & 4 Medieval Games and  Medieval Games and Pastimes  Pastimes

Olympic 1 Thursday Movie Matinee: Treasure Planet Treasure Map Quest Story Hour

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Maxi’s Ballroom/Bar  Thrill the World Thrill the World Dance Class Dance Class

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Come On Baby Light Cascade 5 My . . . Costume

Alternate Scene How Full of Crap is Slash Goggles ® Cascade 6 Etiquette Wikipedia? Fans and the Efffects of Cascade 7 Testing the Limits of New Technologies on MMORPG 101 Urban Fantasy Fandom Cascade 8 Re-Imaginings The Living Dead Sex Tech (A)

Horror on the Big (and Star Trek: Where Does it Underneath and Over Intro to Seattle Sex Cascade 9 Small) Screen Boldly Go Now? the Top Positive Culture (A)

Best Games for Two Let’s Make a Movie: Intro Cascade 10 Players The Shapes of Things Cascade 13 How I Got My Start That Were

Evergreen 1 Opening Ceremonies Bardic Filk  Evergreen 2

Evergreen 3 & 4 Lazer Tag   Lazer Tag

Olympic 1

Zombie 101 or Walk, 1st Norwescon Grand Ballroom 2 Zombies, Walk Zombie Walk   1st Norwescon Zombie Walk

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Scheduled Gaming Thursday Movie Matinee: Treasure You Are What You Play (Or are you?) Clay-O-Rama Thursday, Noon – 11:00 p.m. Planet Thursday, 4:00 p.m. Thursday, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Cascade 11 & 12 Thursday, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cascade 8 Cascade 13 Olympic 1 You’re at the Con, waiting for things to rev Maybe you always play a dwarf. Or an elf. Come learn to make little creatures and up, but we’re already off and running in the LouAnna Valentine Perhaps you’re the half-orc type? Maybe then play a hilarious game with them. scheduled gaming rooms! Come and see you’re a guy that prefers playing female Much screaming and laughing for the what we’re playing and sign up for a game characters? Or vice-versa? Perhaps you’re whole family. or two! We have card games, role-playing Masterpieces in Motion the person that always, ALWAYS, plays the games, miniatures and more all lined up Thursday, 3:00 p.m. rogue-type? Or you’re the one that plays Betty Bigelow for YOU! Get in early! Bring in your game Cascade 9 the evil character pretending to be a good and schedule a spot to make new gaming character? Yeah, sure … no one has figured friends! You could qualify for a prize! Using your favorite work of art and making you out yet. Come join our panelists in a Treasure MapQuest it wearable. Inspiration hits in many ways: discussion of what your favorite character Thursday, 4:00 p.m. Kathi Pickett be a Picasso, wear a Calder on your head, says about you, the player. Olympic 1 dress like a Degas. Let us give you some ideas to help you bring Art to your life. Richard Baker(M), Eric Cagle, Dylan S. All good aventurers need one simple thing Open Gaming to get started - a treasure map! Come make Thursday, Noon – 6:00 a.m. Janet Borkowski(M), Ieva Ohaks, your own to get your adventure started! Anita Taylor (yes, all night) Fantasy Footwear Kim Poua Rotunda 1 & 2 Thursday, 4:00 p.m. Cascade 9 Got an hour before your next session? Stop Medieval Games & Pastimes by open gaming and play for a while. We Thursday, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Matching, complementary footwear is Thrill the World Dance Class have plenty of tables for fans to sit down Evergreen 3 & 4 the final, essential part of completing any Thursday, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. with old friends (or new) and play... no great costume. This popular panel returns Maxi’s Ballroom Maypole, Skittles, Shut the Box, Drawing a sign-up sheet required. The Rotunda is with more practical, hands-on advice, On October 26, 2009, 22,596 people available for open gaming all weekend on a Labyrinth, Blind Man’s Bluff, Jousting at the show and tell on how to create new shoes Quintaine . . . Drop in for some interactive worldwide participated in the 4th annual first-come, first-serve basis. for your costumes, and how to sew, attach Thrill the World event dancing to Michael and fun medieval games! and recover shoes to give them a period Pro Roy Jackson’s entire Thriller song; yes, the Cymbric Early-Smith or historic look to make your costume look entire 5 minutes, 58 seconds. Anyone in professionally finished. reasonable shape can learn this dance! Thrill the World Dance Class Katrina Marier(M), Vicki Glover, Ieva Ohaks If you’re a little awkward – hey, you’re a Thursday, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. No One Cares About NASA zombie! Dress comfortably and wear shoes Maxi’s Ballroom Thursday, 4:00 p.m. you can dance in. We will teach the entire Cascade 6 Human Evolution dance in each session. Thursday night On October 26, 2009, 22,596 people at the end of the zombie walk, you are Public interest in the space program Thursday, 4:00 p.m. worldwide participated in the 4th annual Cascade 10 encouraged to join in as we perform this for Thrill the World event dancing to Michael seems to be at an all-time low, with news the crowd at the dance! Jackson’s entire Thriller song; yes, the of massive budget overruns, internal Are we still evolving? How will entire 5 minutes, 58 seconds. Anyone in scandals, and the general public not feeling environmental effects from global Julie Zetterburg reasonable shape can learn this dance! any connection to space exploration warming and increased levels of pollutants, If you’re a little awkward – hey, you’re a contributing to this ennui. How do we affect humanity? How soon will we be able zombie! Dress comfortably and wear shoes revitalize the public’s interest and best see and measure the results of such effects? Filk 101 you can dance in. We will teach the entire convey to them the benefits of space What will we become? Thursday, 5:00 p.m. dance in each session. Thursday night exploration? Cascade 6 at the end of the zombie walk, you are Mike Brennan(M), Jason Henninger, Charles F Radley(M), Arthur Bozlee, Annie Morton, Richard Sucgang The usual “what the hell is this?” panel. encouraged to join in as we perform this for Bart Kemper the crowd at the dance! Creede Lambard, David Nasset, Sr. Julie Zetterburg

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Activism Through SF/Fantasy Writing Low Budget Special Effects Reading: Randy Henderson Tragedy, Comedy and Fantasy and Art Thursday, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Thursday, 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. Thursday, 6:00 p.m. Thursday, 5:00 p.m. Cascade 10 Cascade 3 Cascade 8 Cascade 7 Although each of us would love to have a Incrediguy Meets Bartholomew P. Lovelace, Should all fantasy be escapist and always Can art change the world? What statement hundred million dollars for the top-of-the- What happens when Incrediguy attempts end in ‘happily ever after?’ Of course not. can you make through SF writing and art? line special effects, the sad truth is that to save a pastor who refuses to believe in But how does a writer balance ‘happily Panelists will share success stories and those PowerBall numbers remain as elusive him? Rating: PG ever after’ with ‘the heroes paid a price discuss strategies for effective activism as ever. In lieu of an unspeakable budget, for their triumph?’ How much reality do through art and writing. here is a collection of techniques and tricks Randy Henderson readers want in fantasy, and when do real (including live demonstrations) of some life consequences become a bummer at Myke Amend(M), John R. Gray III, special effects that you can do on a more the end of the story? The best told tales Tiffany Toland “dinner-and-a-movie” budget! Comics and Horror balance dark and light. What is the current Thursday, 6:00 p.m. recipe for a book that both writers and Edward R. Martain III, Eric Morgret, Cascade 5 readers enjoy? Gadgets: Back to the Future Brian D. Oberquell, Ryan K. Johnson Thursday, 5:00 p.m. The Black Hole, Marvel Zombies, Walking Jean Johnson(M), Carol Berg, Cascade 8 Dead, 30 Days of Night. Horror stories have Keffy R. M. Kehrli, Kevin Radthorne, You Never Forget Your First Doctor . . . come a long way since Tales from the Crypt. Garth Upshaw “I was promised flying cars! What Thursday, 5:00 p.m. Come take a look at some modern horror happened to the flying cars?” What ever Evergreen 1 comics, upcoming trends in the genre, and happened to the neat gadgets of old- what it’s like writing scary stories in the The International Space Station: time SF? Weren’t we supposed to have The mantle of Doctor Who is soon going comic format. Was it Worth it? personal flying cars by now? Where are to fall on a new actor . . . the ELEVENTH to Mark Rahner(M), Anthony van Winkle Thursday, 6:00 p.m. the atomic rockets (not to mention the play the good Doctor. What are some of Cascade 9 atomic automobiles)? Personal jet packs? the great Doctor Who moments? How does Dinner-in-a-pill? Helicopter flivvers? new Who compare to the Old School? And The ISS was sold to Congress in the `80s Visi-phones? Blasters? Are we doomed to a where should it go from here? Dystopian versus Utopian on the platform that it would cure cancer, dull, mundane future? Urban Fantasy but it has since been advertised as an Ryan K. Johnson(M), Janet Borkowski, Thursday, 6:00 p.m. experiment in international cooperation. Bart Kemper(M), Keffy R. M. Kehrli, Greg Renee Stern Cascade 6 Has the massive cost of the station paid off? Paddock, Burt Webb Dystopian urban fantasy seems to be Arthur Bozlee, Bob Crichton, Tanya N. Story Hour the rule in this genre as authors use the Harrison, Charles F Radley Get Your Diesel On! Thursday, 5:00 p.m. boundaries and grittiness to probe societal Thursday, 5:00 p.m. Olympic 1 issues. What about utopian urban fantasies Cascade 9 though? Or is that what paranormal Art Aerobics LouAnna Valentine romance is for? Thursday, 6:00 p.m. Does steampunk leave you cold? Do you Cascade 13 prefer the roar of a biplane engine, or the Mickey Phoenix(M), Bethalynne Bajema vroom-vroom of a tricked-out Indian with Banquet Just as one can get worn down and out of a sidecar? Would you much rather spend Thursday, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. shape physically, one can also get worn time with Sky Captain than Captain Nemo? Grand 2 Great Players Make Great Games down and out of shape mentally. Come A discussion of dieselpunk, and how it Thursday, 6:00 p.m. to this panel and indulge in some fun and differs from steampunk. Dr. John G. Cramer, Corey Doctorw, Caren Cascade 7 wacky exercises as our panelists help give Gustoff, David Hartwell, Lelsie How, John Experienced players and GMs gather to talk your brains a fun workout that will get Diana Vick(M), Neil (Lights) Duttkin, Jude Palencar, Vernor Vinge those neurons firing. Katrina Marier about what makes a good player and how to become one. Learn how to make your Wolf Lahti(M), Myke Amend, Rob Carlos, gaming experience better for yourself and John R. Gray III your fellow gamers. Tim Nightengale(M), Eric Cagle, Dylan S.

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Reading: Kris Millering Testing the Limits of Urban Fantasy How I Got My Start Poker Tournament Qualifying Thursday, 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. Thursday, 8:00 p.m. Thursday, 8:00 p.m. Round 1 Cascade 3 Cascade 7 Cascade 13 Thursday, 8:00– 10:00 p.m. Rotunda 2 The Isthmus Variation, Forthcoming in What’s beyond all the vamps, werewolves, Did you always want to be an artist? Did Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Rating: PG angels, and demons? Having explored all of it come upon you in the dark of the night, Do you have a poker face like Worf? Able to the old tropes, what’s next? or did you work on it long and hard? What bluff like Riker? Know a few Jedi mind tricks steps did you take to figure out what you to float yourself successfully down the Opening Ceremonies Cat Rambo(M), Caren Gussoff, Jaye Wells wanted to make? What kind of an impact river? Or maybe you’re just hoping to pull Thursday, 7:00 p.m. has your art made on your life? Come and a Maverick with a royal flush. It’s a social Evergreen 1 & 2 hear the stories of some of our artists or tournament; so whatever your skill level, Re-imaginings share your own! there’s a place for you at the table. If you’re William Sadorus(M), Dr. John G. Cramer, Thursday, 8:00 p.m. a beginner and would like some pre-game Cory Doctorow, David Hartwell, Cascade 8 Rob Carlos(M), Bethalynne Bajema, Alan M. instruction, please come by a little early. John Jude Palencar, Vernor Vinge Last year, we deconstructed some classic Clark, Claire Hummel, Betsy Mott Remember, the first place winner at the fairy tales to analyze some of their origins. final table Saturday night wins a prepaid membership for Norwescon 34! Reading: Andrew Dolbeck Now let’s see where familiar stories are fitting into new, innovative re-tellings such Lazer Tag Thursday, 8:00– 8:30 p.m. as Wicked, The Last Wish, Tin Man and a Thursday, 8:00– 11:00 p.m. Mariah Johnson Cascade 3 host of other books, movies and games. Evergreen 3 & 4 Halloween Ladies, Rock Star. Supermodel. Chris Nilsson, Felicity Shoulders, S. J. Tucker The only place in the convention you are Reading: Pat MacEwen Witch. Ashleigh has everything. So why allowed to draw your lazer weapons. We does she so desperately need to change? Thursday, 8:30 – 9:00 p.m. have equipment for use; it is compatible Cascade 3 The Autumn book of the Witch Seasons. with the Tiger Lazer Tag system, not the Rating: PG Horror on the Big (and Small) Screen Thursday, 8:00 p.m. Team Ops system. For those players who Under the Eye, An alien sex/whodunnit Cascade 9 are under 18, you must have a parent or cross-genre. Rating: R guardian present at the arena. Lazer Tag is Come On Baby Light My … Costume With The Walking Dead finally coming a live action, NON-CONTACT sport. Thursday, 8:00 p.m. to AMC, what other horror stories would Friends of Bill W. Cascade 5 you like to see on the big or small screen? Scott Perrin, Elizabeth Fellows Thursday, 9:00 p.m. Come discuss which neglected or forgotten Cascade 3 Our panel of experts will discuss the many tales could be the next big fright. What lies concepts of adding light to enhance your beyond the umpteenth remake of Dracula? Zombie 101, or Walk, Zombies, Walk costume. Thursday, 8:00 p.m. How Full of Crap Is Wikipedia? Nathan Crowder(M), Mark Rahner, Grand 2 Thursday, 9:00 p.m. Jonnalyhn Wolfcat(M), Neil (Lights) Lorelei Shannon Duttkin, Merrillee Schedin Shamble yourselves down to Grand 2 to Cascade 6 learn what it takes to be a zombie. Our Or is it really a solid source of information? Best Games for Two Players zombie pros will teach you how to move, How does the process of inputing, editing Alternative Scene Etiquette Thursday, 8:00 p.m. think, and act like a zombie. There will and reviewing data work? Are there Thursday, 8:00 p.m. Cascade 10 also be people available to apply basic enough protections in place to make Cascade 6 zombie makeup to help you achieve that certain it is accurate and not subject to So, it’s just two of you. You’re looking for The etiquette for alternative culture events zombie feel. Wear old clothes and get in personal interpretation? Or are we facing something to do... hey! Let’s play a game! the spirit, because this is the start of the 1st the “Survivor Phenomenon” when it comes has become much more important in recent What game? Good question! Come to this years. As the Goth, Con and Kink scenes Norwescon Zombie Walk. Feel free to come to data, with popular vote determining panel, where our panelists will give you already zombified. what is truth? seem to both blend and diverge, so can their recommendations for some of the the rules that apply to appropriate social best two-player board and card games out Eric Pope Ted Butler(M), The Reverend En Fuego, behaviors. Come and join the discussion! there today! Creede Lambard, John M. Lawler Alexia Roy(M), Delta Hranek, Elisabeth Van Tim Nightengale(M), Julie Haehn, Every, Jillian Venters Jeremy Holcomb

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Fans and the Effects of New Let’s Make a Movie: Intro! Thursday Night Bardic Filk MMORPG 101 Technologies on Fandom Thursday, 9:00 – 11:00 p.m. Thursday, 9:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. Thursday, 10:00 p.m. Thursday, 9:00 p.m. Cascade 10 Evergreen 1 & 2 Cascade 7 Cascade 7 It’s our 11 year anniversary! For more than Come-as-you-are music performance, one Massively multiplayer online role-playing The primary communication tools of fen in a decade, we’ve been making movies every song at a time, taking turns. Or just come games have revolutionized computer the early days were fanzines, newletters, Norwescon, like some sort of terrifying and listen! Everyone welcome gaming, and become the dominant model letters, and gatherings at conventions. clockwork monkey. Be a part of history for computer role-playing games. Thought Now we have email lists, blogs, and social without actually burying yourself in about playing one? Are the acronyms media. How has this changed fandom and the desert for a thousand years! In this 1st Norwescon Zombie Walk confusing? Can’t follow the gaming chatter fannish interaction? introduction, see all the movies ever made Thursday, 9:00 p.m. from your friends? Come learn about at Norwescon as a part of this ground- Grand 2 MMORPGs. Get suggestions from our Don Glover(M), Judith Herman, J. Grace breaking workshop, including hilarious panelists on what type of MMO would fit McKelvy, Donna “Danicia” Prior video introductions by the filmmakers. Join us here to be a part of the 1st your gaming style, schedule, and budget. Here’s the best place to watch all these Norwescon Zombie Walk; take over the movies at once, and behold the genesis of halls of the Doubletree. Zombies will Donna “Danicia” Prior(M), Jeff Grubb, Julie The Living Dead one of the weirdest and funniest workshops shamble around the con, ending up in Haehn Thursday, 9:00 p.m. ever to be tolerated by Norwescon! Learn the dance where they can take part in the Cascade 8 about some of the weird and heinous Thrill the World zombie dance to Michael behind-the-scenes stories! Feel free to ask Jackson’s entire “Thriller.” Please see the Sex Tech Forty years after George Romero gave us earlier panels today that will teach the Thursday, 10:00 p.m. Night of the Living Dead, his zombies still the filmmakers questions afterwards, if they’re brave enough to stick around! Be Thrill the World dance if you wish to learn Cascade 8 walk among us in remakes, new films from it in advance. Romero himself, and astonishing recent inspired for part 1! Where is it going? Sex Droids. VR Pleasure movies ranging from Shaun of the Dead to Ryan K. Johnson, Edward R. Martain III, Eric Eric Pope Dens. Neural net fantasies. Do we really 28 Weeks Later. Zombies are cropping up Morgret, Brian D. Oberquell need human interaction any more? How far in popular literature as well. Why is this are we from Gigolo Joe? SF/horror subgenre so enduring? What are Thursday Dance Mickey Phoenix(M), Kal Cobalt its classic books and films and which are The Shapes of Things That Were Thursday, 9:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. merely the walking dead? Thursday, 9:00 p.m. Grand 3 Mark Henry(M), Daryl Gregory, Cascade 13 Join us for a Tour of a House of Horrors as Underneath And Over The Top Randy Henderson, Jack Skillingstead, Ever wonder how to describe or draw DJ Irah hosts a night of frights and delights. Thursday, 10:00 p.m. Anthony van Winkle chainmail? Would you like to know what Watch out for zombies on the dance floor as Cascade 9 a real medieval siege-encampment might they “thrill” us with their moves, dancing to music from back in the day up to today’s Building a costume infrastructure to create look like? Interested in incorporating illusions, including using corsetry as more Star Trek: Where Does It Boldly Go realistic everyday objects into your next hottest hits. Now? than supporting a bust and nipping in a piece of poetry, music, writing, gaming or Todd Clark(M), DJ Irah waist by attaching fantasy armor bits, Thursday, 9:00 p.m. art? Bring along your cameras, art pencils Cascade 9 supporting a wing structure, battery pack or note-taking materials and come check for EL wire or lighting, and more. J.J. Abrams rebooting/revisioning of Star out a selection of medieval style objects Slash Goggles - the Joy of Subtext Trek seems to have re-invigorated what and ask our extremely knowledgeable Thursday, 10:00 p.m. Jonnalyhn Wolfcat(M), Molly Boone, Neil many thought was a dying franchise. But panelists your questions about recreating a Cascade 6 (Lights) Duttkin where should it go from here, and what medieval environment. For slashers only. How did you become a kinds of stories should it tell? Is it still Cymbric Early-Smith true to Roddenberry’s vision, and how slasher? What are the best resources for important is it that it remain so? finding subtext? Leo Roberts(M), Doug Odell, Cheryl Dyson(M), Byaghro Esby Gibson Maxi’s Merrillee Schedin 21 and Over Only Open to Norwescon Attendees Exclusively

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Poker Tournament Qualifying Poker Tournament Qualifying Round 2 Round 3 Thursday, 10:00 p.m. – Midnight Thursday, Midnight – 2:00 a.m. Rotunda 2 Rotunda 2 Do you have a poker face like Worf? Able Do you have a poker face like Worf? Able to bluff like Riker? It’s a social tournament; to bluff like Riker? It’s a social tournament; so whatever your skill level, there’s a place so whatever your skill level, there’s a place for you at the table. With only a limited for you at the table. With only a limited number of seats at the final table, you will number of seats at the final table, you will need to win one of the qualifying rounds. need to win one of the qualifying rounds. Mariah Johnson Mariah Johnson

Intro to Seattle Sex Positive Culture Thursday, 11:00 p.m. Cascade 9 What is “sex positive”? Where can you find sex positive environments? How can Onions you get involved? Learn more about this movement and what it implies. & Roses Laurie Reynolds(M), Matt Bamberger In order to maintain Midnight Movie: Night of the Comet Thursday, Midnight – 2:00 a.m. the quality of this Evergreen 3 & 4 convention we need Night of the Comet: What happens when the comet that made the dinosaurs your input. disappear passes the Earth again? Red dust and zombies, of course. The comet wipes Share your experiences out most life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to shop, drive fast and shoot zombies. Move over Ellen Ripley, here come Regina and Samantha. They kick zombie butt the good, with the help of Star Trek: Voyager’s own Chakotay. A young Robert Beltran is the handsome truck driving, zombie killing the bad and Hector. You can’t call your zombie movie collection complete until you have seen Night of the Comet (1984). the ugly Barry Bloch

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Cascade 9 Drowning in the Gene Latest Board and Card Pool The History of Underwear Games

Cascade 10 Let’s Make A Movie:  Let’s Make A Movie: Alternative Energy: It's They're Gonna Put Me Plan It!  Plan It! Political Implications in a Spaceship Angels and Demons: Cascade 13 Origami Tradition vs. Technology Steampunk Art Costuming the Divine and the Damned Don’t Say It, Have the Medieval Weaponry for The Universe is Are Vampires Just for Evergreen 1 Characters Say It Fun and Profit Changing Tweens?

Playing God, Part I: What is Consciousness? Build a Better Future of Malware Evergreen 2 World Building Adventure What if the Singularity Interview with John Evergreen 3 & 4 Wargaming 101 Does Not Happen? Cramer

Olympic 1 Fly Me To the Moon:  Fly Me To Cool Summer Movie Fleet Workshop  the Moon . . . Stuff! Computer Grand Ballroom 2 If All the Computers Misconceptions in SF Stopped Working Literature and Film Grand Ballroom 3 Firefl y Fanfi lm Premier and Cast Panel

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Performance Is Electronic Publishing The Medieval Night Sky Biological and Scientifi c Relationship Woes Cascade 6 Enhancement the Future? Accuracy in Your Art

Gay Characters in Are Angels and Demons Webcomics Kaaate! We Have to Go Cascade 7 Comics Terraforming 101 the Next Big Monster? Baaack! Bones, House and CSI: Influence of Goth on Cascade 8 Fantasy Masquerading Personal Heads-Up Marty and Doc’s Final Art of the Salon SF/F and Mainstream as Reality Display Ride Media Floozies, Soiled Doves Cascade 9 Artists’ Sci-Fi/Fantasy Pictionary Unusual Fibers and Ladies of the What Happened to Evening Robots? Vehicles of Self Did the Revolution of Geek Parents The First One is Free! Polyamory 101 Cascade 10 Expression the 60’s Succeed? Medieval Re-Creation Cascade 13 and Medieval Re- Masquerade Tips Face Painting Basics What is the Future Thrifting Your Way to a Enactment Societies Made Of? Steampunk Wardrobe And They Pay Me for The Large Hadron Energy Weapons: A Language Fossils Best Board Games for Evergreen 1 This! Collider Reality Check a Party Underwater Ninja Creede Evergreen 2 Rolling With the Dice What is D&D? Tigers! Female Friendly Horror Lambard

Intellectual Property Autograph Session #1 Evergreen 3 & 4 and Creative Commons

Olympic 1 I Robot Story Hour Single Pattern Contest Judging

FMTtM: Test Grand Ballroom 2 Lazer Tag Flight

Grand Ballroom 3 Movie Previews Tricky Pixie In Concert

Maxi’s Ballroom/Bar

Rotunda 2  Open Gaming   Open Gaming Poker Tournament/Open Gaming

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Michael Ehart Book Presidential Suite  Gothic Tea Party Launch Reception  34 v April 1-4, 2010 Norwescon33 Pocket Program v 35 FRIDAY PROGRAMMING GRIDS NORWESCON 33 PROGRAMING Room 7 p.m. 7 :30 p.m. 8 p.m. 8:30 p.m. 9 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 10 p.m. 10:30 p.m. 11 p.m. 11:30 p.m. READING: READING: Kal READING: READING: READING: READING: Cascade 3 Irene Lorelei Jack Skilling- Friends of Bill W Jaye Wells (A) David Radford Cobalt (A) Shannon (A) stead (A) Williams (A) Medieval Characters - Hey, Check Out the Sex Zombies: How Do They Cascade 4 Women Authors What Is Goth? Scene in My Fantasy Happen? Slash Stereotypes Philosophy and the Cascade 5 The Amazon Princess Fanfic Love, Fanfic Hate Undead 101 Home Recording I This Blood’s For You Star Trek Fans and the Gender Queers in Vampire World Cascade 6 Changing of the Guard Steampunk Archetypes Urban Fantasy Building Victorian Sex (A) Can Hollywood Leave Cascade 7 How to Survive the Joseph Campbell Alone Alien Sex Thinking Small Apocalypse Now? Gamers Need Love Too Cascade 8 (A) BDSM 101 (A) Steampunk Gaming Build Your Own Bimbo

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Aging and Distressing “Controlled  “Controlled ...... dQnial Kaufman’s Cascade 13 Costumes Accident” Demo  Accident” Demo Graphic Design 101

Evergreen 1 Single Pattern Contest Midnight Fashion Show Movie: Rocky Fetish Fannish Fashion Show (A) Horror Picture ASH Tempered Show  Evergreen 2 Productions Glass

Evergreen 3 & 4 Lazer Tag   Lazer Tag Open Filk 

Masqurade Pre- Totally Out of This Olympic 1 Meeting World Pajama Party Costumers Stitch ‘n Bitch  Philip K Dick Award Ceremony and Grand Ballroom 2 Reception Stardance  Grand Ballroom 3

Maxi’s Ballroom/Bar Weird Tales Night at Maxi’s Lounge (A)  Poker Tournament/ Rotunda 2  Open Gaming Open Gaming   Poker Tournament/Open Gaming 

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Evergreen 1  Midnight Movie: Rocky Horror Picture Evergreen 2 Show

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Olympic 1  Costumers Stitch ‘n Bitch

Grand Ballroom 2  Stardance Grand Ballroom 3

Maxi’s Ballroom/Bar  Weird Tales Night at Maxi’s Lounge (A)

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Scheduled Gaming Climate Change in the 21st Century Reading: John Alexander Stuck On The Surface Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. Friday, 9:00 a.m. Friday, 10:00 –10:30 a.m. Friday, 10:00 a.m. Cascade 11 & 12 Cascade 7 Cascade 3 Cascade 8 The first full day of the con is packed with There is more CO2 in the atmosphere now I, Bonita, The misadventures of an From stencils to embroidery to flowers and games! Stop in to see what we’ve added! than at any time during the last 650,000 immortal witch. Rating: PG feathers, embellishments add dimension There’s always more than you find in the years. Climate alterations are expected and interest to a costume. book, because game masters pop in and to be serious: more intense storms, more schedule at the last minute! Sit in on demos pronounced droughts, coastal areas more Artist Koffee Klatch Melissa Quinn(M), Katrina Marier, Julie of new games! Chase ghosts, conquer severely eroded by rising seas. At the high Friday, 10:00 a.m. Zetterberg kingdoms, and win riches! The only way end of the predictions, the world could Cascade 4 you’ll know what you’re missing is by face abrupt, catastrophic, and irreversible coming in! The more games you play the consequences. Is there any chance at Come spend an hour with some of our fine Drowning in the Gene Pool better chance you have at winning a prize! all that we can alter people’s behavior artists in an informal setting. Friday, 10:00 a.m. enough to slow down global warming? Cascade 9 Kathi Pickett Russell D. Campbell, Alan M. Clark, If not, are there engineering solutions to Mark Roland What are the ethical problems of the climate change? Can giant space mirrors Human Genome Project? Are we playing or salt water sprays realistically solve our God when we fool around with genes and Open Gaming problems? Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m. Space Propulsion Systems chromosomes? Can a world of all “perfect” (yes, all–night) Mary Rosenblum(M), Kurt Cagle, Friday, 10:00 a.m. blonde children be far behind? When we Rotunda 1 & 2 Brenda Cooper, Derek Zumsteg Cascade 6 can work miracles on the molecular level, will the people in areas we can “correct” be Got an hour before your next session? Stop While the space shuttle is being retired, discriminated against? Have we begun a by open gaming and play for a while. We its successor is based on the same basic massive eugenics project without knowing European High Fashion of the propulsion technology. What advances are have plenty of tables for fans to sit down 14th Century it? with old friends (or new) and play... no in the pipeline, and what will we need to Friday, 9:00 a.m. make space travel commonplace? Are there Amy Thomson(M), Janet Freeman, Guy sign-up sheet required. The Rotunda is Cascade 8 available for open gaming all weekend on a better technologies we could be using? Immega, Felicity Shoulders first-come, first-serve basis. The age of chivalry and grand heraldic G. David Nordley(M), Greg Paddock, display marked a significant shift in fashion David Stuart Pro Roy from the previous century. Tighter, shorter, Let’s Make a Movie: Plan It! and more colorful garments enraged Friday, 10:00 a.m. – Noon some moralists of day, while others Cascade 10 Fictional Linguistics The Comics Format as a railed against women parading about in Storytelling Device You were there for part 0, right? Quick! Friday, 9:00 a.m. masculine attire. Jewels, furs, fine linens, Cascade 6 Friday, 10:00 a.m. Time travel! In part 1, we go over the plan, and richly embroidered fabrics; hats, Cascade 7 figure out the gear, work up a story, write A linguist discusses how to use existing hoods, and sleeves of extravagant length the script, plan the shoot, and pretty much languages as a model for fantasy or alien with no purpose other than fashion were How does the combination of words, anything else we can think of. That’s right, languages. A fascinating look at how what reproduced in great detail in manuscript sequential pictures, and art style affect the from soup to nuts, we’re going to make we say (or don’t) shapes our world and how illumination and sculpture. Join us for story being told? Do you need all three to an entire movie here at Norwescon. This is that principle affects alien tongues. a survey of the clothing and accessories tell a good story? Come take a look at the your chance to be a part of the annual fun of this fashionable age and learn how to unique methods only available to the comic and learn how to make a movie on a budget Jake Ballin(M), Brent Kellmer, John M. reproduce them using modern materials. format. so tiny calling it “shoestring” would be an Lawler, Kris Millering Anita Taylor(M), Cymbric Early-Smith, Brandon Jerwa(M), Roberta Gregory, insult to shoestrings. The key to making a Jonnalyhn Wolfcat Anthony van Winkle movie, of course, is good planning! Maxi’s Ryan K. Johnson, Edward R. Martain III, Eric 21 and Over Only Morgret, Brian D. Oberquell Open to Norwescon Attendees Exclusively 40 v April 1-4, 2010 Norwescon33 Pocket Program v 41 FRIDAY PROGRAMMING BY SUBJECT NORWESCON 33 PROGRAMMING

Origami computers. How would your life change? do your books fill? Do you need a million Medieval Weaponry for Fun and Profit Friday, 10:00 a.m. What have we lost in the transition? bucks, or will a couple hundred do? How Friday, 11:00 a.m. Cascade 13 do you get what you publish into stores? Evergreen 1 Don Glover(M), Christopher Konker, Charles Are independent small press projects An overview (in 50 minutes) of medieval Your basic course in basic paperfolding. F Radley, Vernor Vinge financially viable in today’s market? Learn how to make hearts, stars, weaponry, in all its fascinating variations. snowflakes, etc. while getting a solid Caren Gussoff(M), Rosemary Jones, Rose Who would have used them, how, and grounding in the foundations of this Reading: Steven Barnes O’Keefe, Mary Robinette Kowal what kind of damage did they do? Is anyone craft. We’ll show you how to read the Friday, 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. still making this stuff, and if so, where can instructions, and how to make a couple of Cascade 3 I get it? nifty things out of plain old paper. The Dark Side of Trek The Moon Maze Game, The fourth Dream Christopher Konker(M), Bill Gruner, Rebecca Friday, 11:00 a.m. Neason Jacqualynn D. Duram Nilsson(M), Alma Park novel. Rating: PG Cascade 7 Alexander, A.M. Dellamonica, Jean Johnson, Kevin Radthorne From the Mirror Universe, to the Borg, to Reading: Alma Alexander distorting planets, come look at the dark What is Consciousness? Friday, 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. side of Trek. The side that Starfleet doesn’t Friday, 11:00 a.m. Playing God, Part I: World Building Cascade 3 Rating: G want you to see. Evergreen 2 Friday, 10:00 a.m. How does the brain, with its diversely Evergreen 2 Greg Cox(M), Ben Andrews, Leo Roberts, distributed functions, come to arrive Urban Fantasy 101: Introduction Merrillee Schedin at a unified sense of identity? As A world created in seven days? Yeah, right. to the Field neuroscientists marvel at the patterns Not in the gaming industry. Come hear Friday, 11:00 a.m. cascading from their high-resolution brain what our industry professionals have to say Cascade 4 History of Underwear scanners, they are nagged by a mischievous about the back-breaking labor involved in Friday, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. question: who’s running the show? Can shaping the huge backdrop that is a game’s What are the seminal works in this field? Cascade 9 we speak of a person’s brain without, setting. What should people be reading? Old ultimately, speaking of the person? What classics, new roads? What did our ancestors wear under Clint Ogre Whiteside(M), James Jacobs, their clothing? How unmentionable is human consciousness? If the Singularity Andy Megowan, Anthony Pryor Darragh Metzger(M), Mark Henry were unmentionables, really? Find out does happen, what will machine the difference between stays, corsets, consciousness look like? hoops, panniers, bustles, and more as we Janet Freeman(M), Daryl Gregory, Jason Fly Me to the Moon: Fleet Workshop Fandom in Daily Life make a quick trip through the history of Henninger, Christian t. L. Mecham, Jack Friday, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Friday, 11:00 a.m. underwear. Skillingstead Olympic 1 Cascade 5 Carmen Beaudry(M), Tammie L Dupuis, Design and assemble your own private fleet Weird and/or geeky... and proud of it. Do Deborah Strub, Anita Taylor of futuristic paper aircraft. Then join us in you express your fannishness in daily life? Wargaming 101 the afternoon for intensive test flying and Come participate in a discussion and share Friday, 11:00 a.m. Evergreen 3 & 4 competition. how you show your fannish colors. Tradition vs. Technology What is miniatures wargaming? How does Kevin Standlee(M), Joseph Hill, Jonnalyhn Friday, 11:00 a.m. James Poua Cascade 13 one get started? Do you really have to be Wolfcat a good painter? Do games last for hours? As art continues to evolve, has digital What is the difference between skirmish If All the Computers Stopped Working media made all other mediums obsolete? and battle? Is this a good hobby for Friday, 10:00 a.m. Independent and Small Press Or is there still value to be found in the women? Come learn more about miniatures Grand 2 Publishing hand-created object, be it collage, an oil wargaming, from historical to sci-fi/fantasy Friday, 11:00 a.m. painting, an acrylic painting, or a hand- and steampunk. Our panelists will explain Do you remember a time before cell Cascade 6 pulled print? phones, iPods, and UPC codes? Computers the attraction to the hobby and what types affect just about every aspect of our daily Thinking about starting up a small press? of games are available for everyone, from Rob Carlos(M), Russell D. Campbell, newbies to experienced players. lives now. Many people under the age What do you need to know? Where do Peggy Foy, Mark Roland, Jeff Sturgeon of 30 do not remember the world before you find authors and artists? What niche Dylan S.(M), Jason Bulmahn, Chris Pramas

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Computer Misconceptions in Science What is lost in the change? Is the future of way to the philosophical underpinnings The Universe is Changing! Fiction Literature and Film Norwescon headed this way? that make these brain eaters so compelling. Friday, Noon Friday, 11:00 a.m. Evergreen 1 Grand 2 Kevin Standlee(M), J. Grace McKelvy, Chris Ciandi Patry(M), The Reverend En Fuego, Nilsson, Jesse Simpson Derek M. Koch Or rather, our understanding of it is. Are Viruses that take out alien computers, text cosmic strings still in? How much of the that flows across the screen, code written universe is dark matter? How many planets in a few keystrokes to do complex tasks. Biology in SF: The Good, the Bad, Survivor: Pandora are there outside our solar system now? How does the presentation of computers and the Ugly Friday, Noon Come and discuss the current state of the in literature and media affect the Friday, Noon Cascade 8 universe. expectations of the public? Cascade 5 Pandora, Skull Island, Jumanjii – all these G. David Nordley(M), Dr. John G. Cramer, Ted Butler(M), Cory Doctorow, Brian David What science fiction movies or books fantasy locations had extremely hostile James C. Glass Johnson, David Shoemaker handled biology well? Day of the Triffids, environments that make a reasonable person wonder – could anyone actually The Left Hand of Darkness, Battlestar Build a Better Adventure Galactica: each of these dealt with biology survive there? Survival strategies, discussion of arms, gear and more will be Friday, Noon Scavenger Hunt and evolution. What other SF books and Evergreen 2 Friday, 11:00 a.m. films have addressed this subject well and discussed. Salon how did they do it? Andy R. Bunch(M), Robert Grey, Jacqualynn What makes a good adventure? One that D. Duram Nilsson players can’t wait to continue; that they Come participate in the Norwescon Miki Garrison(M), John P. Alexander, spend their off-time thinking about and Scavenger Hunt! Grab your list, hear the Annie Morton planning for until they play again? Join our rules, and then run amok through the Con, gaming panelists in a discussion of how to gathering items as you spot them. The Alternative Energy: Its Political Implications design better adventures winner will receive a paid membership to Beyond Doctor Who: Other next year’s Norwescon! Friday, Noon Erik Mona(M), Richard Baker, Bruce R. British Sci-Fi Cascade 10 Friday, Noon Cordell, James Jacobs Sheye Blaze Cascade 6 Political and economic issues are inherent in any new source of power or “green Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Blake’s 7, energy” being developed. There are social What If the Singularity Does Reading: Jennifer Brozek and The Survivors. Come find out about implications as well. What new energy NOT Happen? Friday, 11:30 a.m. – Noon other BBC sci-fi shows you may not have technologies are available, and what Friday, Noon Cascade 3 heard of. are their political, social, and economic Evergreen 3 & 4 Grants Pass & In a Gilded Light, Horror/Dark Ryan K. Johnson(M), Janet Borkowski, Ian consequences? Vernor Vinge still believes that a Singularity Urban Fantasy. Rating: PG McDonald Mike Brennan(M), Bart Kemper, Eden event in the next few decades is likely - that self-accelerating technologies will Robins, Amy Thomson speed up to the point of so profound a Another Zombie Panel transformation that the other side of it is unknowable. This transformation will Friday, Noon Steampunk Art SF Con or Pop Culture Event? Cascade 7 be driven by Artificial Intelligences that, Friday, Noon Friday, Noon once they become self-educating and Cascade 4 There can never be enough discussions Cascade 13 self-empowering, will soar beyond human about zombies. As the zeitgeist of From gadgets to weapons to jewelry, we’ve capacity with shocking suddenness. But When does a SF con lose its identity and our generation, we tend to think they all seen fabulous steampunk paraphernalia. what if it doesn’t happen? Vernor Vinge become a Pop Culture Event? The nature shambled their way out of our recent But is steampunk only for costumes and has come up with three possible scenarios of fandom and its acceptance into the imagination, but this is far from the case. A cool devices? No, we say! Come meet some outlining a non-Singularity future. mainstream has changed the nature of historical look at the evolution of zombies artists who represent both arenas to see Come hear Vernor talk about A Return to conventions. As more and more convention from the victims of voodoo ritual to Venus how they imagine, design, and create these MADness, The Golden Age, and The Wheel runners subscribe to the “grow huge or die” radiation, to virus spreaders who stumble beautiful steampunk works of art! of Time. philosophy, the identity of conventions and then run, we will poke and prod our must change to accommodate it. Diana Vick(M), Myke Amend, Peggy Foy, Guy Immega(M), Brian Johnson, Tiffany Toland Vernor Vinge

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Cool Summer Movie Stuff! Working On Your Craft: Writing as an Copyright and You Angels and Demons – Costuming the Friday, Noon Evolving Process Friday, 1:00 p.m. Divine and the Damned Olympic 1 Friday, 1:00 p.m. Cascade 8 Friday, 1:00 p.m. Cascade 5 Cascade 13 Come see what cool (and family friendly) What do you need to know about copyright stuff is coming to the movies this summer As with any other art, writing requires law to both protect your own work and How does one dress the armies of Heaven practice; and a writer’s skill can improve ensure that you don’t infringe on that of and Hell? Is there more to angelic garb than Keith Johnson(M), Alan Halfhill over time. Writers discuss techniques they others? What are the best ways to get your just a white robe? If dressing a demon, have learned as they have evolved and art out into the public but protect it from what further options are there than horns ways in which they gained new levels of being used without your permission? How and forked tail? Our stellar panel wrestles Courage: The Series - A Firefly expertise. How can you tell when you’re do the new copyright extension laws affect with these cosmic challenges of how to fan series panel and episode improving? How can you judge your own artists today? Come to learn the answers costume the highest and lowest of celestial premier. progress as a writer? to these questions and bring some more of soldiers. Friday, Noon – 2:00 p.m. your own. Grand 3 Cat Rambo(M), Daryl Gregory, Eileen Gunn, Richard Stephens, Garth Stubbs, Diana Vick, Randy Henderson, Jack Skillingstead Spring Schoenhuth, Tiffany Toland Jonnalyhn Wolfcat A two hour panel with the entire cast of the new fan series, Courage, based on Joss Whedon’s Firefly universe. Ask the cast 101 Songs Every Filker Should Know The Latest Board and Card Games Are Vampires Just for Tweens? questions and get to see special footage Friday, 1:00 p.m. Friday, 1:00 p.m. Friday, 1:00 p.m. followed by an episode premier! Attending Cascade 6 Cascade 9 Evergreen 1 cast include: David Townsend (Director), The list of songs every filker should know Chris Kimball (Director/Producer), Justin changes over time. Come discover some Board and card games certainly have Why do people hate Twilight so much when Rister (Creator/Actor), Phil Delorenzo songs you don’t know and probably should changed since the early days of Monopoly it is getting young girls to geek out and (Actor), Daniel Wolf (Actor), Aimee - and maybe bring a few you know that and Candyland. With the economy a read? Are there other new vampire stories Binford (Actress), John Branch (Actor), more people should learn. tangled mess, more people are buying being told these days that are targeted at a Erica Pomerleau (Actress), and Alyssa board and card games instead of going out more mature audience? Or a better read for Roerenbeck (Actress). Steven Dixon, Creede Lambard, on the town. Find out which games are the YA audience? David Nasset, Sr. the most popular as well as which ones are Nathan Crowder worth the time and money investment. Julie McGalliard(M), Rosemary Jones, J. Grace McKelvy, Adrian Phoenix, Jaye Wells Tomorrow’s World Julie Haehn(M), Jason Bulmahn, Jeremy Reading: Carlos Cortes Friday, 1:00 p.m. Holcomb Friday, 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Cascade 7 Future of Malware? Cascade 3 Friday, 1:00 p.m. What amazing advances in technology They’re Gonna Put Me in a Spaceship! Evergreen 2 are about to change the way we live? In Friday, 1:00 p.m. Devising Magical Systems the works are farmscrapers, cybertecture Cascade 10 Malware (viruses, worms, trojans, etc.) is Friday, 1:00 p.m. that integrates technology, multimedia, getting more sophisticated and widespread Cascade 4 intelligent systems and user interactivity Art Bozlee is in training to fly the XCOR by the day (hour?). What happens when to create customizable living and working LYNX! Come find out more about this the network is in all our stuff? In our How do you go about devising a magical spaces, “nap pods” (sci-fi shaped sleep spacecraft program with film, photos, bodies? Just how scared of future malware system in urban fantasy? How fantastical capsules) at the work place, energy- and actual prototype hardware, and see should we be? is too fantastical? Do magic missiles work positive buildings, software almost how easy it really could be for the average in this genre or is subtlety the key? What indistinguishable from reality, portable citizen to become an astronaut. Don Glover(M), Ted Butler, Greg Paddock do you pick and choose from existing consoles embedded in sophisticated mythology, and how much do you invent spectacles, or endlessly variable alternative Arthur Bozlee yourself? worlds that demand you press emotional Interview with John Cramer buttons, not plastic ones. We’ll explore Friday, 1:00 p.m. A.M. Dellamonica, Jeanne C. Stein, the science fiction that’s on its way to Evergreen 3 & 4 Saje Williams becoming a reality. Kurt Cagle, Guy Immega, David J. Williams

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Gothic Tea Party Performance Enhancement Artists’ Sci-Fi/Fantasy Pictionary panelists talk about what they do to feed Friday, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Friday, 2:00 p.m. Friday, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. their inner nerd and pay the bills. Presidential Suite Cascade 6 Cascade 9 L.J. Bothell, Todd Lockwood, What is a Gothic Tea Party? Don’t be left in Do you want to play in front of others, The audience comes up with the clues; the Janna Silverstein the dark, stop by and find out. but are shy about performing in front of artists do their best to draw them! Let the crowds? Are you okay with crowds, but games (and the silliness) begin! Jillian Venters just don’t know what you’re doing? Do Rolling With the Dice: Role Playing, you just want some tips? Sign up for this Betty Bigelow(M), Myke Amend, Pop Culture, and Philosophy workshop, play a song of your choice, and John R. Gray III, Roberta Gregory Friday, 2:00 p.m. Reading: Spencer Ellsworth get feedback and commentary from our Evergreen 2 Friday, 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. panel of experienced performers. Cascade 3 Vehicles Of Self Expression: Costuming “Know Thyself. Nothing In Excess.” These Steven Dixon, Creede Lambard, S. J. Tucker For Wheelchairs, Walkers And Other five words inspired over 2000 years of The Girl Who Was Loved By The Sea. Rating: Necessary Helpers philosophical development in the West; PG Friday, 2:00 p.m. while similar simple origins also compelled Gay Characters in Comics Cascade 10 the philosophers of the East. Your panelists Friday, 2:00 p.m. are here to argue that similar platitudes can Reading: Ian McDonald Cascade 7 Wheelchairs, walkers, canes, glasses, be found in gaming, especially classic table Friday, 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. service dogs, and other helping apparatus top games such as Dungeons and Dragons, Cascade 3 Batwoman may be the first gay A-list don’t need to harsh your mellow when the World of Darkness, and GURPS. Your superhero, but lesser known heroes have it comes to costuming! Join us for what panelists will explore the various ways been around for a while, along with is sure to be a lively discussion and idea Amateur Contributions to Space in which philosophy permeates gaming autobiographical comics. Come take a sketch show on what you can do with and how gaming can, in turn, influence Exploration broad look at gay characters and creators in these necessary items to enhance your Friday, 2:00 p.m. philosophy. No a priori or a posteriori the industry, and the challenges they face. costume experience. If you have a wheel knowledge of philosophy is required, just Cascade 4 chair, you’ve got your very own star ship Ashley Cook, Spencer Ellsworth bring your enquiring mind and a set of dice. You don’t have to have a Ph.D. or be Enterprise! a professor to make contributions to Mike Derheimer, Greg Lotz, Richard Stephens(M), Carmen Beaudry, Christian t. L. Mecham astronomy and planetary science! Come Bones, House, and CSI: Fantasy Tammie L Dupuis, Deborah Strub, and hear about recent discoveries made by Masquerading as Reality Garth Stubbs amateur astronomers that have excited the Friday, 2:00 p.m. scientific community, and learn how you Intellectual Property and Creative Cascade 8 Commons can get involved. Medieval Re-Creation and Medieval More and more shows present unrealistic Friday, 2:00 p.m. Tanya N. Harrison, David Stuart Re-Enactment Societies. Evergreen 3 & 4 tech in the guise of realism. What does that Friday, 2:00 p.m. mean for the everyday understanding of Cascade 13 In this fast-changing world, new modes real science and technology? How does this Welcome to the Scary World of Horror of publishing and production are leading affect our understanding of things such as An overview. The SCA, Realm of Chivalry, to new ideas about ownership and rights. Friday, 2:00 p.m. our legal system? Our panelists discuss the Medieval Studies & Recreation, Hastings, Cascade 5 Creative Commons offers new possibilities worst offenders and the shows and movies and others. Their histories and where to and new challenges, but can also open Intro to horror fiction/movies “Horror 101” that get it closer to real. find them. writers up to exploitation. Where is and/or Horror for non-horror geeks. David Boop, A.M. Dellamonica, G.Robin Smith, Jonnalyhn Wolfcat the future of copyright and intellectual property going? Jenna M. Pitman(M), SatyrPhil Brucato, Miki Garrison Shannon Flowers Eileen Gunn(M), Ben Dobyns, And They Pay Me for This! Cory Doctorow, Elton Elliott Friday, 2:00 p.m. Evergreen 1 There are jobs, careers even, that can satisfy the geekiest of us. Come listen to our

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I Robot Crossing the Rainbow Bridge to that would need to be asked to make that The Large Hadron Collider Friday, 2:00 p.m. Valhalla kind of decision? Friday, 3:00 p.m. Olympic 1 Friday, 3:00 p.m. Evergreen 1 Cascade 4 Bob Crichton, Brent Kellmer, Pat MacEwen, Create fanciful robot paperdolls from a Mickey Phoenix What are we going to learn from the LHC? variety of materials Valhalla: home of the fallen heroes and Note: it’s NOT going to create a black hole central focal point of Norse Mythology. We and destroy the Earth. Kim Poua Personal Heads-Up Display review the various concepts and conceits of Dr. John G. Cramer, James C. Glass, Valhalla in pre-Christian Scandanavia and Friday, 3:00 p.m. Cascade 8 Corry L. Lee Lazer Tag what the promise of living in the Halls of Friday, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Heroes meant to average Norse men. Where’s my personal heads-up-display? Grand 2 Jeff Davis, John A. Pitts, Ben Thompson Will the “contact lens display” work? What What is D&D? about personal-area networks, smart Friday, 3:00 p.m. The younger players are encouraged to clothes, etc.? Come discuss the fusion of Evergreen 2 come and play Lazer Tag for our first-ever technology, communications, and clothes. daytime session. We have equipment for How to Run a Fest D&D has been through a number of use; it is compatible with the Tiger Lazer Friday, 3:00 p.m. Chris Nilsson, Greg Paddock, Burt Webb editions, each of which has changed the Tag system, not the Team Ops system. Cascade 5 rules and the core setting around it. In For those players who are under 18, you Interested in starting a fest or taking over the past few years, games like Pathfinder, must have a parent or guardian present at one that has been abandoned? It’s harder Did the Revolution of the `60s Castles and Crusades, and Swords & the arena. Lazer Tag is a live action, NON- than it seems. Come discuss the pros and Succeed? Wizardry have emerged from the OGL to offer their take on traditional, D&D fantasy CONTACT sport. cons of fandom fests and formats, and if Friday, 3:00 p.m. Cascade 10 gaming. What is the core of D&D; and what Scott Perrin, Elizabeth Fellows you are still interested, some tips and tricks allows it to remain so popular despite the to help you get started. The Women’s Movement, the Anti-War rise of digital games? Movement, the Civil Rights Movement - all Attack of the Movie Previews! Cheryl Dyson, Byaghro Esby Gibson of these were parts of one of the most Wolfgang Baur(M), Jason Bulmahn, Bruce Friday, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. significant, yet undigested, movements in R. Cordell, Chris Pramas Grand 3 America. Has there been a lasting effect? Is Electronic Publishing the Future? What have we learned? Why aren’t there Join us for the latest previews, news, and Friday, 3:00 p.m. movements like these against the Iraq War? Story Hour rumors – the hot topics and the latest Cascade 6 Friday, 3:00 p.m. trends – out of Hollywood. Gordon Eklund, Julie McGalliard, Amy Olympic 1 With the advent of electronic readers like Thomson Keith Johnson(M), Alan Halfhill the Kindle and even iPhones, will all books Kim Poua eventually turn into ebooks? Books are being published on electronic readers Masquerade Tips Reading: Daryl Gregory along with your music and movies – is it all Friday, 3:00 p.m. Reading: Brian Johnson Friday, 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. merging into one multi-media future? Cascade 13 Friday, 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Cascade 3 Cascade 3 L.J. Bothell, Ben Dobyns, Rosemary Jones, How to write a presentation, move on Becoming Digital, Author’s note: the title Jak Koke stage, pick your music and generally look Nebulous Mechanisms, Dr. Simon Egerton is doesn’t mean what you think it means. like you know what you are doing, even if sent to find out why the robots are going to Rating: PG it’s your first time on stage. church. Based on actual research in AI and Terraforming 101 robotics. Rating: PG Friday, 3:00 p.m. Julie Zetterberg(M), Janet Borkowski, Reading: A.M. Dellamonica Cascade 7 Peggy Stewart, Anita Taylor Friday, 3:00 – 3: 30 p.m. Cascade 3 Can a lifeless planet really be made to BLUE MAGIC, the sequel to INDIGO SPRINGS. support life? How might it be done? Is it Rating: PG practical? How do we know that said planet is indeed “lifeless?” What are the questions

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Reading: Jean Johnson Marty and Doc’s Final Ride This will be a very discussion heavy panel, Autograph Session #1 Friday, 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Friday, 4:00 p.m. so come in with your ideas! Friday, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Cascade 3 Cascade 8 Evergreen 3 & 4 Michelle Lyons, Kris Millering, Dierdre Theirs Not To Reason Why: A Soldier’s 20 years ago, in 1990, Marty McFly and Phoenix, Steve Savitzky, Leon J. West Alexander James Adams, Alma Alexander, Duty, Futuristic Military Science Fiction. Doctor Emmet Brown embarked on their Bethalynne Bajema, Richard Baker, Steven Rating: PG final adventures in time travel. Take a look Barnes, Arthur Bozlee, Andy R. Bunch, Alan back at Back to the Future III, as well as Face Painting Basics M. Clark, Greg Cox, Dr. John G. Cramer, Cory the other movies in the trilogy. Why has Friday, 4:00 p.m. Doctorow, Elton Elliott, James C. Glass, Writing: The Long and the this trilogy stood the test of time? Is time Cascade 13 Todd Lockwood, Lisa Mantchev, John Jude Short of It travel truly possible, be it at 88 MPH or Palencar, John A. Pitts, Mark Rahner, Leo Friday, 4:00 p.m. not? Perhaps someone may even answer Face paint is a quick way to take a costume Roberts, Merrillee Schedin, Jeanne C. Stein, Cascade 4 that age old question: what the hell is a from ordinary to FANTASTIC! We can Eric James Stone, Jeff Sturgeon, Vernor gigawatt? show you the fundamentals to create Vinge, Jaye Wells, Saje Williams Why are some people good at writing fun characters, from animals to aliens to novels but not short stories or vice versa? David Boop(M), Shannon Flowers, Jeromie whatever your imagination can come up What does it take for an idea to be `novel Foulger, Brandon Jerwa with! Alexander James Adams and Tricky length?’ Are short stories just like novels Jacqualynn D. Duram Nilsson Pixie in Concert only you finish sooner? Friday, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Unusual Fibers (How’d You Get THAT!?) Grand 3 Mary Rosenblum(M), Daryl Gregory, Friday, 4:00 p.m. Eileen Gunn, Mary Robinette Kowal, Cascade 9 Energy Weapons: A Reality Check S. J. Tucker Jack Skillingstead Friday, 4:00 p.m. How to use items not usually considered Evergreen 1 as fabric or costume notions as materials Reading: Cat Rambo Will the Robots be Our Friends? for clothing or accessories. Cellophane, Flash Gordon aside, what are the weapons most likely to be used in the future? Friday, 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Friday, 4:00 p.m. Angelline fiber, hot glue and more. This Cascade 3 Cascade 5 includes the use of an iron and ironing Brent Kellmer, Greg Paddock, David J. board, and can be done as a hands-on Williams Queen of the Fireflies, Section from a horror How will the humanoid robots feel about us to even make a simple pair of wings or a novel. Rating: PG when we create them? As robotics and AI necklace/brooch. technologies mature, we will create beings that will have mobility and intelligence. Jonnalyhn Wolfcat(M), Molly Boone, Underwater Ninja Tigers! (or A Friendly Discussion on Monster Fly Me to the Moon: Test Flight When will they become sophisticated Katrina Marier, Deborah Strub & Competition enough to pose a threat, and what will their Design) Friday, 4:00 p.m. Friday, 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. attitude be toward their makers? Grand 2 Geek Parents Evergreen 2 Brian David Johnson, David Shoemaker, Friday, 4:00 p.m. Join us in Grand 2 and test the mettle of Felicity Shoulders What makes a truly great monster in a Cascade 10 game? Our panelists discuss the best of your fleet against your fellow test pilots’. All ‘lol virgin nerd’ comments aside, there the best in the gaming menagerie (or James Poua The Medieval Night Sky - The State are a lot of geek/nerd parents in the world, the worst of the worst, depending on of Astronomy in the Middle Ages. and among the numerous other concerns your perspective), with an emphasis on Friday, 4:00 p.m. that face them, they must confront some the monsters themselves and not on any Reading: Jak Koke Cascade 6 tough questions only nerds would know. particular game systems statistics, and give Friday, 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. How early should you involve your kids in their expert advice on how to come up with Cascade 3 How different cultures saw what we your geeky activities? When do you start your own creations. call the Big Dipper and other familiar Edge of Chaos, a Forgotten Realms novel. exposing them to fantasy literature and Erik Mona(M), Wolfgang Baur, James Jacobs Rating: PG constellations. How different Medieval know they will understand the nuances of cultures’ cosmology worked. fiction? How do you balance gaming with P r e - r e g i s t e r S u n d a y Cymbric Early-Smith(M), Ben Andrews, child rearing? Are there activities that you both can enjoy that’s fun and educational? NORWESCON 34 Adrian Phoenix at the Registration Center 52 v April 1-4, 2010 Norwescon33 Pocket Program v 53 FRIDAY PROGRAMMING BY SUBJECT NORWESCON 33 PROGRAMMING

Creating Your Voice Webcomics The First One is Free! Female Friendly Horror Friday, 5:00 p.m. Friday, 5:00 p.m. Friday, 5:00 p.m. Friday, 5:00 p.m. Cascade 4 Cascade 7 Cascade 10 Evergreen 2 Plot and character are critical; but voice and Are they replacing newspaper comics as the Casual games are usually free on-line Some women are put off by horror films, point of view can be just as important for preferred daily/weekly comic strip? How or free to download and try; and are but there has to be women-friendly horror crafting an effective work of fiction, and does the medium affect the message – or “casual” in that they have extremely out there. Join a discussion of the tropes, can even suggest interesting new stories. at least the art and storyline? What are simple gameplay, like a puzzle game, stereotypes, and archetypal themes that We’ll explore point-of-view, tense, voice, some of the challenges and limitations for that can be played in a web browser or both bring women viewers flocking and and character choice, and we’ll show how creating webcomics? cell phone. And they are addictive. Oh, turn them off, off, off. an understanding of these elements can so addictive . . . Join our panelists in actually create ideas and stories. SatyrPhil Brucato, Brandon Jerwa, Anthony a discussion of the numerous types of Shannon Flowers(M), Jenna M. Pitman, van Winkle casual games, how they’ve evolved from Lorelei Shannon Mary Rosenblum(M), Eileen Gunn, Darragh their humble beginnings, and how they Metzger, Kevin Radthorne, Mary Robinette affect the gaming market. Kowal Art of the Salon: Hosting the Dark Single Pattern Contest Judging and Decadent Donna “Danicia” Prior(M), James Ernest, Friday, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Friday, 5:00 p.m. Andy Megowan Olympic 1 The Natural World Cascade 8 Friday, 5:00 p.m. Closed Judging session for the Single Cascade 5 Some people claim there is no place for What is the Future Made Of? Pattern Contest entries. Judges and pre- lively conversations and light refreshments Friday, 5:00 p.m. registered participants only. Despite being set in urban locales, the in today’s online universe of screen Cascade 13 natural world seems to creep into some names and avatars. Fie, we say! Come and Terri “Sprite” Specht(M), Richard Stephens, urban fantasies quite regularly in the learn how to revive this ritual of human Fullerenes. Buckypaper. Bose-Einstein Garth Stubbs form of fairies, green things, and other interaction in our increasingly cyber world. condensates. Metallic glass. Quasi-crystals. aspects of the animalistic side of human Aerogels. Materials technology is finding nature. Is this just modern, tree-hugging Alexia Roy(M), Delta Hranek, Elisabeth Van strange and wonderful materials with Poker Tournament Qualifying Round 4 environmentalism or does it speak to Every, Jillian Venters fascinating properties at a rapid pace. What Friday, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. something deeper in our psyches? materials are out there, what can they Rotunda 2 do, and what is on the horizon? A look at A.M. Dellamonica, Adrian Phoenix Floozies, Soiled Doves and Ladies Do you have a poker face like Worf? Able to materials technology and what it holds for bluff like Riker? Know a few Jedi mind tricks of the Evening: The Oldest our future. Profession in the Old West and What to float yourself successfully down the Biological and Scientific Accuracy They Wore David Nasset, Sr., G. David Nordley, Leon river? Or maybe you’re just hoping to pull in Your Art Friday, 5:00 p.m. J. West a Maverick with a royal flush. It’s a social Friday, 5:00 p.m. Cascade 9 tournament; so whatever your skill level, Cascade 6 there’s a place for you at the table. If you’re Join us while we explore the myths and Language Fossils a beginner and would like some pre-game To draw a dragon is one thing. To draw a truths of prostitution in the American Friday, 5:00 p.m. instruction, please come by a little early. dragon that not only looks realistic, but in West, and how prostitutes and dance hall Evergreen 1 Remember, the first place winner at the fact could be real, is quite another. Meet girls dressed both in reality and in media final table Saturday night wins a prepaid with some of our experts in how to make portrayals. Language evolves, leaving a trail of membership for Norwescon 34! anything that doesn’t currently exist look outmoded words and expressions behind like the real thing. Subject matter and reference material may it leading back to the past. How does Mariah Johnson not be suitable for those under age 16. language evolve and why? John P. Alexander, Russell D. Campbell, Rob Carlos, David W. Ehlert, Tiffany Toland Carmen Beaudry(M), Janet Borkowski, John M. Lawler, Kris Millering, David R Silas match game Wendy Prather, Victoria Shaffer fri 9pm cascade 9&10 sf/f-themed version of the classic match game show. PRIZES!

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Reading: Wolf Lahti Alien Religions and Religious Practices Influence of Goth Subculture Thrifting Your Way To A Steampunk Friday, 5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Friday, 6:00 p.m. on Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Wardrobe Cascade 3 Cascade 5 Mainstream Media Friday, 6:00 p.m. Friday, 6:00 p.m. Cascade 13 WIP: Wolf In Progress, Wolf reads from Avatar gave us a serious look at aboriginal Cascade 8 novels and novellas that aren’t finished religious practices. We review other noted Where to look, what to look for and how yet. (Maybe you could give him ideas?). religious systems in SF/F and compare how The goth aesthetic has moved out of the to put it all together for a look that works. Rating: G they are similar and different. horror realm and become more prevalent From everyday steam to steamy heroine, in other genres during the past two you can find everything you need if you Spencer Ellsworth, Brent Kellmer, Darragh decades. Join us for a discussion of how this look. Reading: John Pitts Metzger happened and the impact it’s had on media Friday, 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. and culture. Victoria Shaffer(M), Janet Borkowski, Cascade 3 Joanne Kirley, Wendy Prather, Diana Vick Relationship Woes: Or What Does It Andrew Herington, Delta Hranek, Elisabeth Black Blade Blues, Urban Fantasy Novel Take for a Supernatural Being to Van Every, Jillian Venters excerpt. Rating: PG Find True Love? Best Board Games for a Party Friday, 6:00 p.m. Friday, 6:00 p.m. Cascade 6 What Happened to Robots? Evergreen 1 Non-Profits, Fundraising, Grassroots Friday, 6:00 p.m. Awareness. Urban fantasy protagonists often have Cascade 9 Tired of breaking out Pictionary, Trivial Friday, 6:00 p.m. difficult finding true love. Some sustain Pursuit, or, heaven forbid, Twister, at Cascade 4 relationships for a couple of books, but By now we were supposed to have our own your parties so everyone can play a game then the relationship withers. Why do you robotic servants cleaning our homes and together? Have no fear! Our panel of “Fundraising is not about asking for money. think this is? Is it just easier/more exciting doing all the hard work for us. What is the gaming experts can help you find a game It’s about inspiring people to believe that to throw relationship trouble at your true state of robotic science and will there for six or more players for your next shindig! they can make a difference, then helping characters? Is it that everyone wants to ever be humanoid robot companions in our them make that difference.” WAYYY read about that “first blush” of love? kitchens? Mike Selinker(M), James Ernest, Jeremy beyond putting a jar out on a counter or Holcomb begging from your friends, fundraising Rhiannon Held, Irene Radford, Mary David Boop(M), Janet Freeman, is about time, ideas, and energy as well Rodgers, Jaye Wells Guy Immega Michael Ehart Book Launch Reception as money. How to encourage, network, respond, and change your thinking, Friday, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. from being on a board to developing a Kaaaaaaate! We Have to Go Polyamory 101 Presidential Suite Baaaaaaack! Friday, 6:00 p.m. fundraising strategy. Taught by G.Robin Join Michael Ehart for the launch of his new Smith, the Washington Ambassador for Friday, 6:00 p.m. Cascade 10 Cascade 7 book The Tears of Ishtar! Eat his food and SOFII (Showcase of Fundraising Innovation What is polyamory? Why would anyone drink his booze as he celebrates the launch and Inspiration www.sofii.org) and the This is it. The 6th and final season of Lost want more than one partner? How does of his best fantasy yet. Fantasy legend COO for Five Rivers Fundraising (www. is coming. It’s been a wild ride; and they everyone interact so eveyone’s needs are Michael Moorcock says “It’s a very long FiveRiversFundraising.org) and the new really dropped a bombshell last season. met and no one gets hurt? How do more time since I read a fantastic tale as good as marketing organizer for the SCA, Inc.” How do you think they’ll be able to wrap conservative family members react to these this!” Dancing girls (and boys) are optional. up all the loose ends of the series without plural relationships? Should you, shouldn’t Useful to teachers, PTA members, concom Michael Ehart leaders, and non-profit organizers. incident? Theories are all we’ve got at this you? What are the pros and cons? point, so lets hear ‘em! Charles F Radley, Ken Scholes, Robert Grey(M), Jake Ballin, Loree Parker G.Robin Smith Chris Nilsson(M), Andy R. Bunch, Judith Herman Maxi’s 21 and Over Only Open to Norwescon Attendees Exclusively

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Reading: Jenna Pitman Star Trek Fans and the Changing of Single Pattern Contest Fashion Show Table, you can get them here. Please turn Friday, 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. the Guard Friday, 7:00 p.m. in your completed entry forms by the end Cascade 3 Friday, 7:00 p.m. Evergreen 1 of this panel (or you can turn your forms Cascade 6 in at the Saturday morning panel), but Chosen Dancer, Novel in progress: a young Fashion Show and Awards Presentation Most people (or so I am led to believe) the sooner the better. The hard deadline woman, the last queen of an ancient line of for the Single Pattern Contest. Come for both is Saturday morning at 10 a.m. exiled rulers, must fight to bring her people love the new Star Trek movie, and a few and see all the wonderful entries of the don’t. What does this mean for the future If you have questions about entering, or into a land of safety. Rating: PG Single Pattern Contest, cheer on the aren’t quite sure you want to, come to the of Star Trek and Trekker/Trekkie fandom? contestants, vote for your favorite, and see Will Trekkie fandom split or is there room meeting and all your questions will be the presentation of the awards. Along with answered. Creede Lambard in Concert enough for everyone? the judge’s awards we’ll be presenting the Friday, 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. J. Grace McKelvy(M), Ben Andrews, Fan Favorite award and maybe your favorite Trent Lum Evergreen 2 Christopher Konker, Jesse Simpson will win. Terri “Sprite” Specht(M), Richard Stephens, PK Dick Awards Reading: Irene Radford How to Survive the Apocalypse Garth Stubbs Friday, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Friday, 7:00 – 7:30 p.m. Friday, 7:00 p.m. Grand 2 Cascade 3 Cascade 7 Ash Productions in Concert William Sadorus(M), Carlos Cortes, Dr. John Shadow Dancer, Steampunk about the If an asteroid was on a collision course Friday, 7:00 – 7:30 p.m. G. Cramer, Cory Doctorow, Daryl Gregory, premiere performance of Giselle. with Earth, what could we do with today’s Evergreen 2 David Hartwell, Ian McDonald, John Jude Rating: PG technology to survive as a species? What Palencar, Vernor Vinge are the challenges we would face in implementing them in time? And if we Lazer Tag Medieval Characters - Women Authors couldn’t destroy the asteroid, could we still Friday, 7:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. Reading: Kal Cobalt Friday, 7:00 p.m. survive? Evergreen 3 & 4 Friday, 7:30 – 8:00 p.m. Cascade 4 Pat MacEwen(M), David Stuart Join us for another exciting night of Lazer Cascade 3 Marjorie Kemp, Christine de Pisan, Marie de Tag action. We have equipment for use; Agrathia’s Freedom, A sentient spaceship is France, Hildegard of Bingen, the anchorite it is compatible with the Tiger Lazer Tag rescued by freedom fighters. Rating: R, for Julian of Norwich, etc. Their works and Gamers Need Love, Too system, not the Team Ops system. For those spaceship-on-human sexuality. influences on their world and ours. An Friday, 7:00 p.m. players who are under 18, you must have introduction and overview. Cascade 8 a parent or guardian present at the arena. How to hook up at conventions. Hook-up Lazer Tag is a live action, NON-CONTACT Tempered Glass in concert G.Robin Smith(M), Michelle Lyons, safety, communications skills, and sport. Rebecca Neason Friday, 7:30 – 8:00 p.m. etiquette. Hey, you respect the GM and Evergreen 2 your fellow gamers, respect should follow Scott Perrin, Elizabeth Fellows you into the bedroom. How to not be “that The Amazon Princess creepy person” others avoid. Reading: Lorelei Shannon Friday, 7:00 p.m. Pre-Masquerade Meeting Friday, 8:00– 8:30 p.m. Cascade 5 Loree Parker(M), Peggy Foy, Friday, 7:00 p.m. Cascade 3 Clint Ogre Whiteside Olympic 1 Is Wonder Woman a feminist icon, a Possum Kingdom, Supernatural Southern stereotype designed by and for men, an To enter the Masquerade you MUST Gothic. Rating: R archetype, something of each of these, or Aging and Distressing Costumes attend either this meeting or the Saturday something beyond? Come and take a fresh Friday, 7:00 p.m. morning pre-Masquerade meeting. You look at the most well known and influential Cascade 13 will receive the important information that superheroine. you need to know to compete. This year, Pre-register Sunday Ways to make your costumes look old and we are asking for everyone’s music by the NORWESCON 34 Ashley Cook(M), Marcus Evenstar, dirty without rolling in mud. end of this panel, even if you can’t stay for Shannon Flowers at the Diana Vick(M), Joanne Kirley, Ieva Ohaks, the panel. If you haven’t already gotten Registration Center Julie Zetterberg your Masquerade forms at the Information

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What is Goth? BDSM 101 Poker Tournament Qualifying Philosophy and the Undead 101: Friday, 8:00 p.m. Friday, 8:00 p.m. Round 5 Philosophical Zombies Think, Cascade 4 Cascade 8 Friday, 8:00– 10:00 p.m. Therefore Brains! Why is denying that you’re Goth the most Rotunda 2 Friday, 9:00 p.m. Interested in BDSM? Want to find out what Cascade 5 Goth thing you can do? What is up with all it’s all about? What are these “limits,” Do you have a poker face like Worf? Able you freaks in black anyway? Are you really to bluff like Riker? It’s a social tournament; Coming back like the proverbial cat, this as spooky as you look? “boundaries,” and “play” people keep talking about? Come to BDSM 101 and we so whatever your skill level, there’s a place year’s “Philosophy of the Undead” panelists Bryan Lovely, Alexia Roy, Elisabeth Van will endeavor to answer your questions, for you at the table. With only a limited will continue their explorations down the Every, Jillian Venters or if we can’t, we’ll point you to a resource number of seats at the final table, you will dark alleys and graveyards of mind and need to win one of the qualifying rounds. matter. Join them as they link the walking that can. We will also discuss BDSM dead of pop culture to the philosophies etiquette and resources for you to find out Mariah Johnson of Socrates, Augustine, Heidegger, and Fanfic Love, Fanfic Hate more. Rating: A (18+ only, ID required) Friday, 8:00 p.m. more. No background in philosophy Cascade 5 required; the freshly unearthed are more Mickey Phoenix(M), Matt Bamberger, Clint Reading: Jack Skillingstead Ogre Whiteside than welcome to join us as we explore the Everyone writes down three things they Friday, 8:30 – 9:00 p.m. epistemological, ethical, and metaphysical love and three things they hate about Cascade 3 ramifications that our living impaired peers fanfiction. Panelists will collect the lists - present to us. ranting and praise to follow. “Controlled Accident” Demo Rating: PG/R Friday, 8:00– 10:00 p.m. Betty Bigelow Christian t. L. Mecham(M), Mike Derheimer, Cascade 13 Greg Lotz, Sonia Orin Lyris, Ciandi Patry Friends of Bill W. Artists Alan M. Clark and Mark Roland will Friday, 9:00 p.m. Steampunk Archetypes demonstrate a style of painting by which Cascade 3 Gender Queers in Urban Fantasy Friday, 8:00 p.m. techniques for creating textures, shapes, Cascade 6 Friday, 9:00 p.m. and contrasts inform the artist of exactly Cascade 6 How to use the main archetypes to figure what the subject matter will become and Hey, Check out the Sex Scene in out how to dress. Are you an aviator, an what the final painting will be. Come watch My Fantasy Where are the novels that discard the explorer, or a mad scientist? What are the two artists work to ‘discover’ a painting and Friday, 9:00 p.m. gender binary in this genre? Where are the Cascade 4 archetypes, and what would they wear? make it come to life before your very eyes. drag queens and other gender queers? Diana Vick(M), Peggy Foy, Victoria Shaffer Writers discuss the challenges and rewards K.C. Ball(M), A.M. Dellamonica, John A. Pitts Alan M. Clark, Mark Roland of writing sex scenes. What do you need to construct believable sex scenes? How can Can Hollywood Leave Joseph Campbell you tell when they are a necessary addition Alien Sex Alone Now? Totally Out-of-This World to the plot? Is it O.K. to just be hot? How Friday, 9:00 p.m. Friday, 8:00 p.m. Pajama Party! explicit do you need to be to best serve Cascade 7 Cascade 7 Friday, 8:00 – 9:00 p.m. your story? Examples may be read aloud, Olympic 1 so use your judgment if you are easily How might alien reproductive biology Somewhere in the ‘70s Hollywood suits embarrassed. work? What are the questions you need to discovered Joseph Campbell’s theories Come decked out in your comfiest jammies ask to “flesh” out a believable reproductive on the “Hero’s Journey” and it seemed and snazziest slippers and spend a couple Greg Cox(M), Mark Henry, Joshua Palmatier, strategy? Come discuss how this might every SF/F movie had a quest formula with of hours lounging around, playin’ games, Eden Robins work and what resources for research are certain archetypical characters, which has and engaging in the odd pillow fight or 2. “out there.” been repeated for the last 40 years. Is it time to retire this formula or does it still LouAnna Valentine Jake Ballin(M), Annie Morton, Amy have value and meaning? Is the Hero’s Thomson Journey different for men and women? Is the Journey always a quest? Maxi’s Jesse Simpson(M), David Boop, Andy R. 21 and Over Only Bunch, Ben Dobyns, Andrew Dolbeck Open to Norwescon Attendees Exclusively 60 v April 1-4, 2010 Norwescon33 Pocket Program v 61 FRIDAY PROGRAMMING BY SUBJECT NORWESCON 33 PROGRAMMING

Steampunk Gaming Costumers Stitch & Bitch Graphic Design 101 Thinking Small Friday, 9:00 p.m. Friday, 9:00 p.m. – 1:00 a.m. Friday, 10:00 p.m. Friday, 10:00 p.m. Cascade 8 Olympic 1 Cascade 13 Cascade 7 With the arrival of more steampunk than The traditional Friday night stitch & bitch. Come learn a wide-variety of tips and Where will the nanotech revolution lead? ever in games, what makes this genre secrets to make your flyers, posters, party At a recent meeting of the American tick? What can players and game masters Wendy Prather, Terri “Sprite” Specht invites, or even homemade CD covers, stand Academy of Sciences, researchers reported expect? What companies are supporting out from the crowd. Simple rules covering steampunk with rules, adventures, and that developments in nanotechnology the way we communicate visually, covering are moving faster than predicted. settings? Our panel has a very genteel and Stardance the gamut from print to web, taught by a civilized round of fisticuffs about the “new” Friday, 9:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. Nanotechnology will make the future very style in games. working, professional graphic designer and Grand 2 & 3 art director. If you’re brave, bring your con different from what many of us, and most science fiction stories, have suggested. Julie Haehn(M), Wolfgang Baur, Donna Come on down to Bartertown, that flyer or poster for an honest critique. “Danicia” Prior outpost of civilization on the edge of the dQniel Kaufman (M) Raymond McCauley(M), Doug Odell, Burt apocalypse. Leave your weapons behind Webb and be careful not to pick a fight or you Match Game might find yourself facing death in the Home Recording I Friday, 9:00 p.m. – 1:00 a.m. Thunderdome! DJ’s Girly Girl and Black Cascade 9 & 10 Friday, 10:00 p.m. Build Your Own Bimbo Maru play music to accompany the end of Cascade 5 Friday, 10:00 p.m. Get ready to match the stars! In this SF/F- the world as we know it. Cascade 8 themed version of the classic Match Game Everybody wants to make a demo. What game show, contestants will be randomly Todd Clark(M), DJ Girly Girl, DJ Black Maru can you do with what you’ve got? If that A fun way to build aliens and their cultures selected from the audience to compete won’t do - and it probably won’t - what is to start with their sex lives... what kind of in guessing how our panel will complete do you really need to create a good demo? culture results when sex is fatal? When do fill-in-the-blank questions such as ‘Captain Reading: Jaye Wells How little can you get away with; or, if you you need four genders? What if males and Kirk has the biggest ____ in Starfleet!’ Friday, 10:00 –10:30 a.m. have even a small budget, what can you females never meet? When gender depends Prizes include book packages worth more Cascade 3 do to turn a spare bedroom into decent on the time of day, how does that affect than $100, gift certificates to selected recording space? Norwescon dealers, and a membership to The Mage in Black, urban fantasy. Rating: everything from the workplace and leisure next year’s Norwescon. All contestants will PG/R Alexander James Adams, Steven Dixon, pursuits to the act itself? A workshop with also receive “Lovely Parting Gifts.” Vixy & Tony audience participation and/or role playing would be fun. Start with sex, and end with Lisa Hayes(M), Andrew Dolbeck, Zombies: How Do They Happen? religion and politics. Christopher Konker, Spring Schoenhuth, Friday, 10:00 p.m. David Shoemaker, Kevin Standlee Vampire World-Building Cascade 4 Friday, 10:00 p.m. Mickey Phoenix(M), Kal Cobalt, Pat MacEwen What makes a zombie? Viruses scare us Cascade 6 Fannish Fetish Fashion Show now, but is that what creates a zombie? Vampires in a Charlaine Harris’ book can’t Friday, 9:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. Come discuss all the possible origins of this handle daylight. Stephanie Myers’ vampires First Ever! Evergreen 1 & 2 (18+) loathesome creature, from the historical to can. It all depends on the writer who Fannish Flea Market! We want … Flesh! Flesh for fantasy. the supernatural. creates the rules. Are there any universal Surrender your flesh to your fantasies Derek M. Koch(M), Julie McGalliard, Mark vampire rules that writers must follow? Barter Cash & Carry of delicious latex and lustful corsets. Rahner Writers discuss vampire world-building and Sunday The Fannish Fetish Fashion Show is at it culture, including vampire mythology from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. again! This year there is magic in the air, other countries. mystery around the corner, Tempting Tarts Grand 3 Burlesque and a few surprises hidden up Kris Millering(M), Adrian Phoenix, Jeanne C. Bring your cash and check out our sleeves (or is that tucked away snug Stein, Saje Williams the bargains and incredible stuff under that bustier?). You know you want Norwescon fans are getting rid of. to take a peek . . .Rating: A Laurie Reynolds, emcee: Caren G. See page 107 for further info

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Weird Tales party Slash Stereotypes Friday Night Open Filk Friday, 10:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. Friday, 11:00 p.m. Friday, 11:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. Let’s Make a Maxi’s Lounge (21+) Cascade 4 Evergreen 3 & 4 Movie: Intro! Ready for an exciting night of music, Let’s take the gloves off, and talk about Come-as-you-are music performance, one Thursday drinking, dancing and literature? Yes, slash stereotypes. Top/bottom roles, kink, song at a time, taking turns. Or just come 9:00 – 11:00 p.m. literature. Weird Tales is sponsoring hurt/comfort… what are the stereotypes and listen! Everyone welcome. tonight’s party in Maxi’s Lounge on the that you love, and which ones get under Cascade 10 14th floor. This is Norwescon’s first year your skin?. Rating: A Behold the genesis of with exclusive use of Maxi’s Lounge; help Midnight Movie - Rocky Horror Cheryl Dyson one of the weirdest and make it a huge success by joining Weird Picture Show funniest workshops Tales and your friends up in our new space. Friday, Midnight (seating 11:30 p.m.) Weird Tales and their fabulous authors will Evergreen 1 & 2 ever to be tolerated by be providing the night’s entertainment. This Blood’s for You Norwescon! Friday, 11:00 p.m. The Vicarious Theatre Company returns to It is 21 and over, with ID and Norwescon See page 28 for further info badges required. You must match your ID, Cascade 5 give you a night of live action Rocky Horror so watch the makeup and masks. Weird Picture Show that you will never forget. True Blood’s season two just wrapped. For Seating starts at 11:30p.m., so don’t be late! Tales promises to give you a thrilling time the most part the producers and crew have Let’s Make a you won’t soon forget, so join us for the stayed true to the Southern Vampire series Vicarious Theatre Company Rate: R Movie: Plan It! inaugural night in Maxi’s Lounge. Rating: by Charlaine Harris in this HBO adaptation, 21+ (photo ID required) but so much has been added to the show Friday Peggy Stewart it’s like watching something new! What 10:00 a.m. – Noon are some of our favorite moments from the Cascade 10 show? Things that we could seriously do The key to making a Poker Tournament Qualifying without? Do you love the additions, or do Onions Round 6 they make you wanna do bad things to the movie, of course, is Friday, 10:00 p.m. – Midnight screen writers? good planning! Learn Rotunda 2 Ciandi Patry(M), Phillip Brugalette, Mimi & Roses how to make a movie on a budget. Do you have a poker face like Worf? Able Noyes to bluff like Riker? It’s a social tournament; See page 41 for further info so whatever your skill level, there’s a place In order to maintain for you at the table. With only a limited Victorian Sex number of seats at the final table, you will Friday, 11:00 p.m. the quality of this Fandance Film need to win one of the qualifying rounds. Cascade 6 convention we need Festival Mariah Johnson Love the subtle bondage and discipline a corset implies? A hint of ankle or flash of your input. Sunday stocking come across as shocking? Want 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Share your experiences Evergreen 1&2 Reading: David Williams to incorporate the Victorian sensibilities Friday, 10:30 – 11:00 p.m. of steampunk into your “bedsport?” Come The Fandance Film Cascade 3 learn about the not-so-straightlaced Victorians and what was really going on Festival is the final The Machinery of Light, Reading from underneath all that clothing. Rating: A the good, terrifying phase of the forthcomng novel (Bantam Spectra May Let’s Make a Movie 2010). Rating: R Mickey Schulz(M), Victoria Shaffer the bad and Workshop the ugly See page 113 for further info 11 Year Anniversary

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Cascade 13 Monster Mash   Monster Mash Polymer Clay Demo Mask Making 

The Best Fantasy and Evergreen 1 Science Fiction of 2009 Theatrical Period Undergarments Revealed Ask the Gamemasters

Evergreen 2 Let’s Make a Movie:  Let’s Make a Movie: Spotlight Publisher: TOR Once More...With Shoot It! Shoot It! Feeling Sing-a-Long  Bureaucraticy and Evergreen 3 & 4 Writing for Young Humanity’s Conquest Autograph Session #2 Adults of Space Olympic 1 The Trouble with  The Trouble with Star Trek Scene It Tribbles Workshop  Tribbles Workshop

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Olympic 1 Road Warrior Arsenal  Road Warrior Arsenal Story Hour Kinderfilk Factory  Factory

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Presidential Suite Babel 

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Evergreen 3 & 4 Lazer Tag   Lazer Tag

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Queer Eye for the...Con Goer Maxi’s Ballroom/Bar Maxi’s Lounge Event - Star Trek: Phoenix (A) 

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Evergreen 3 & 4 Midnight Movie: I AM VIRGIN (A)

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Maxi’s Ballroom/Bar  Maxi’s Lounge Event - Star Trek: Phoenix (A)

Rotunda 2  Poker Tournament/Open Gaming  Open Gaming

Salon

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Scheduled Gaming Impact of Digital Media Pre-Masquerade Meeting has a pantheon of a cast, Dante’s Inferno is Saturday, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. Saturday, 9:00 a.m. Saturday, 9:00 a.m. going to be a hell of a game and the third Cascade 11 & 12 Cascade 6 Grand 3 installation in the God of War series proves just how much we love ripping the heads Day three and scheduled games are still Hand-held book readers, pocket computers, To enter the Masquerade you MUST have off Gorgons. Why do these stories have going strong! Come up and see what’s digital music players, and even cell phones. attended last night’s meeting or this pre- such staying power and why do we keep on the table; you may have never seen it How have all of these devices changed the Masquerade meeting. You do not need to recreating them in new ways? Are this before! Fill in time between panels and way that we access works of art, literature, come to both. At this panel you will receive generation’s interpretations of classical events by learning a new game! The dice and music? Where is the technology the important information that you need mythology darker than those previously are hot, the cards are on the table and the leading us? to know to compete. If you haven’t already seen? miniatures are marching! Something new gotten your Masquerade forms at the every day up in our corner of the Con! Take Judith Herman(M), Ben Dobyns, S. Joe Information Table, you can get them here. Spencer Ellsworth(M), Yasmine Galenorn, every opportunity to qualify for a great Downing, Chris Nilsson The deadline for all entry forms is 10 a.m. or Jason Henninger prize! the end of this panel. If you have questions about entering or aren’t quite sure you Kathi Pickett Costume Design for Dummies want to, come to the meeting and all your The Ethics of War Machines Saturday, 9:00 a.m. questions will be answered. Saturday, 10:00 a.m. Cascade 9 Cascade 7 Open Gaming Trent Lum Saturday, 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m. Ever wondered how to take the idea in your The military is investing serious bucks in (yes, all–night) head and make it a reality? Ever sketched military robots. Some are perfectly benign, Rotunda 1 & 2 that idea and then got stumped on how to Reading: David Boop like robot logistical transport vehicles. But refine it? Ever refined an idea only to have Saturday, 10:00 –10:30 a.m. last year one blew up a house in Pakistan, Got an hour before your next session? Stop it completely fall apart? Join us for a fun Cascade 3 killing 18 people. What happens if we give by open gaming and play for a while. We discussion on the elements of design and robots the decision-making authority of have plenty of tables for fans to sit down strategies and tips on how to get that idea Murdered in a Mechanical World, Sci-fi when and whom to kill? How will you feel with old friends (or new) and play... no from your head to become a reality. Noir. Rating: PG about the Marines looking for a few good sign-up sheet required. The Rotunda is circuits? And who does the programming available for open gaming all weekend on a Tammie L Dupuis(M), Katrina Marier, Melissa Quinn, Richard Stephens for these machines? What happens to the first-come, first-serve basis. Resurrection...Good or Bad? 3 Laws? Saturday, 10:00 a.m. Pro Roy Cascade 5 Brenda Cooper(M), Mike Brennan, Robert Teaching the Middle Ages Grey Saturday, 9:00 a.m. Is the constant revival of dead superheroes Building a Balanced Mythos Cascade 10 good, or is it time to push the stories forward? Should American comics Saturday, 9:00 a.m. Queen Elizabeth Goes To The Movies Cascade 5 How to make classes in the Middle Ages borrow from anime and truly kill popular interactive and interesting. Hands-on characters off? Should characters like Bruce Saturday, 10:00 a.m. When building a religion for your world, approaches to what to teach and how to Wayne and Wolverine ever really die? Cascade 8 how do you make it balanced and plausible teach it to make this fascinating period Distinctive elements of Elizabethan without riffing off of existing religions? understandable. Andrew Dolbeck(M), Marcus Evenstar, clothing have influenced costume How will myth and religion impact your Brandon Jerwa designers since the start of movie making. plot and motivate your characters? Why G. Robin Smith(M), Jeff Davis, Ben Thompson Join us for a survey of costumes/movies should there be several types of belief spanning several decades as we see where systems on a world? The Return of Mythology Elizabethan fashion finds itself and how Saturday, 10:00 a.m. it’s re-done to fit into various cinematic Mary Robinette Kowal(M), Jason Henninger, Cascade 6 Joshua Palmatier, Mary Rodgers worlds such as Dune, Star Wars, and other Maxi’s Pull out that dusty copy of Bulfinch’s blockbusters. because you’re going to need it! Clash 21 and Over Only of the Titans is getting a fresh coat of Tammie L Dupuis(M), Julie Zetterberg Open to Norwescon Attendees Exclusively computer-generated paint, Percy Jackson 74 v April 1-4, 2010 Norwescon33 Pocket Program v 75 SATURDAY PROGRAMMING BY SUBJECT NORWESCON 33 PROGRAMMING

Alien Biology the cost of DNA splitters, splicers, and Writing For Young Adults speculative fiction at the start of their Saturday, 10:00 a.m. experimental specimens. Rating: PG Saturday, 10:00 a.m. careers. Norwescon is very excited to be Cascade 9 Evergreen 3 & 4 sponsoring Clarion West this year as it is Mimi Noyes(M), Roberta Gregory dear to many of our panelists and guests. How would alien bodies operate? Does it take special training or knowledge How would they move? Breathe? Eat? to write for young adults? Are they Marc Semenchuk Reproduce? Would their biochemical The Years’s Best Fantasy and Science different from adult works in any way, mechanisms be similar to ours, or would Fiction of 2009 other than vocabulary? How do you break they evolve entirely different paths? Would Saturday, 10:00 a.m. in? What are the boundaries? How do you Scavenger Hunt they need all of the same functions that Evergreen 1 stay honest to the story’s integrity and still Saturday, 10:00 a.m. we have? be sensitive to the need to restrict content Salon Our panel will discuss the best stories and/ for young readers? Brent Kellmer(M), Pat MacEwen, Annie or novels they read in 2009 and explain Latecomers welcome! Even if you missed Morton what made them great. You’ll come away Steven Barnes(M), Alma Alexander, Cory Friday’s session, you can still join the with a reading list of books you might not Doctorow, Lisa Mantchev Norwescon Scavenger Hunt! Stop by to pick otherwise have heard of! up the list and the rules. If you are already Family-Friendly Games hunting, feel free to ask for clarification on Saturday, 10:00 a.m. Derek Zumsteg(M), David Hartwell, Bob The Trouble with Tribbles Workshop what we are looking for and see how the Cascade 10 Kruger Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – Noon other teams are doing. Olympic 1 Panel experts discuss what makes a family- Sheye Blaze friendly game and what options are out Let’s Make a Movie: Shoot It! Everyone wants a fuzzy Tribble or two, there for the family that wants to game Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – Noon don’t they? Since it is illegal to transport together. Our panelists will discuss age- Evergreen 2 them, come and make your own! We’ll help Reading: Rosemary Jones and family-appropriate games for all ages, with the cutting, sewing, and stuffing (but Saturday, 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. covering everything from board and card You were there for Part 1, right, where we we won’t feed them!). Cascade 3 games to video games. figured out what we needed and planned this movie all out? Quick! Time travel! In LouAnna Valentine Dusty Bones, A graveyard adventure in Chris Pramas(M), James Ernest, Mike part 2, we shoot like mad weasels, because Waterdeep. Rating: G Selinker there’s not much time and if we’re going to make a movie at light speed, then we have John Jude Palencar Slideshow to move like light! So, don’t be late, or you’ll Saturday, 10:00 a.m. Reading: Lisa Mantchev Monster Mash just see red-shifted versions of us. The Grand 2 Saturday, 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – Noon key to making a movie, of course, is to get Cascade 3 Cascade 13 the footage in the can! Or, “box”, actually, because we’re shooting video. But you 501st Charity Event Backstage at the Théâtre Illuminata, Join Don your best mad scientist outfit and know what we mean. Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. the author for further tales of Beatrice come create marvelous monsters and Rotunda 2 Shakespeare Smith and her fairy friends, creative chimera along with Dr. Meme No/ Ryan K. Johnson, Edward R. Martin III, Eric with a sneak preview of Book 2 in the Yes, Master Monster Maker! We will take Morgret, Brian D. Oberquell Have you ever wanted to have your picture series, Perchance To Dream. Door prizes, cute fluffy animals, hack them into pieces, taken with Darth Vader and/or Storm chocolate, and mayhem guaranteed! and then reassemble them in wholly Troopers on the Death Star? Your dreams Rating: G unnatural ways. WARNING! Not for the can come true; the 501st Legion is back easily distressed or children! We will be again, but in a new location. You can find working with scissors and needles, and them in the second floor Rotunda where Pre-register Sunday as such only mature mad scientists will a photographer will take your picture be allowed to participate. The only skills in front of a backdrop of the Death Star. NORWESCON 34 required are the most rudimentary of Your picture will be printed out on-site, at the sewing skills (plush is very forgiving) and ready to show off to your friends! This year a sick sense of humor. There will be a $5 all proceeds will be donated to Clarion Registration Center materials fee per participant to cover West, a charity that provides high-quality educational opportunities for writers of

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The Themes and Career of The Best and Worst Movies of 2009 and allow you to work at the same time. Star Trek: Phoenix Premiere Poul Anderson Saturday, 11:00 a.m. Come and discuss how spacesuit design has Saturday, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Saturday, 11:00 a.m. Cascade 7 evolved over time, and the latest advances Grand 2 Cascade 4 2009 was an interesting year for movies attempting to make suits lighter and with Star Trek: Phoenix is returning to greater mobility. Poul Anderson is remembered as one of - it brought us the resurgence of Captain Norwescon! Cast and crew are coming the most imaginative and hugely prolific Kirk and the even harder downfall of two Arthur Bozlee, Guy Immega, David Stuart, back to share the premiere in a special fan authors of science fiction’s Golden Age, Hasbro toy franchises. Come debate with Chris Vancil screening of the Phoenix pilot, ‘Cloak & yet his solid body of work spans decades your fellow critics on what were the best Dagger,’ on April 3. The pilot takes place beyond. The winner of, or nominee for, at and worst movies of 2009. in 2422, one year into the USS Phoenix’s least 30 major science fiction awards, he Gareth Von Kallenbach(M), Steven Barnes, Theatrical Period Undergarments maiden voyage. After a major attack on the wrote some 70 novels, and over 100 short Shannon Flowers, Judith Herman, Keith Revealed ship, the captain and crew launch a mission stories (plus novellas and novelettes and Johnson Saturday, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. to rescue an away team stranded on the even a handful of chapbooks). We’ll discuss Evergreen 1 remote planet Katrassii Prime. But, the some of the themes and high points in the closer they get to rescuing their shipmates, work of this popular award-winning author. Forgotten Realms: Past, Present, The very popular Seattle Opera Trunk Show the more they become entangled in the Future returns with a two hour costume showcase secrets contained on the perilous, hostile Astrid Anderson Bear(M), John P. Alexander, Saturday, 11:00 a.m. featuring Period Undergarments from planet. A “Making Of” documentary and a Elton Elliott, Doug Odell, Renee Stern Cascade 8 the Seattle Opera Collection. Dress forms Q&A session featuring cast and producers will be layered up with various period follow the screening. Star Trek: Phoenix is a Since 1987, this campaign setting has undergarments and then dressed with era- fan-based series set 42 years in the future Old-Fashioned Horror grown and developed, generating over appropriate clothes to demonstrate how from Star Trek: Nemesis. http://www. Saturday, 11:00 a.m. two hundred novels, dozens of computer foundation garments create an authentic stphoenix.com/ Cascade 5 RPGs, and a host of adventures and gaming supplements. Join our distinguished group historical look. Discussion will include Leo Roberts(M), Ben Andrews, Joe 100 years ago, the first Frankenstein movie of gaming professionals as they discuss the differences between true historic Downing, Merilee Shedin, Rob Welch was filmed. 50 years later came Hitchcock’s the Forgotten Realms and their parts in foundation garments and the concessions Psycho. What has scared us in the past developing it. that are necessary for modern theatrical 100 years to get where we are now? Have use. Reading: J. McKelvy we moved beyond these two classic films Jeff Grubb(M), Richard Baker, Bruce R. Richard Stephens, Ieva Ohaks Saturday, 11:30 a.m. – Noon (and others), or do they still have an impact Cordell Cascade 3 on us? The Watermelon Patch, A caretaker Julie McGalliard(M), Phillip Brugalette, The Dilution of the Fannish Ideal Bureaucratic Mechanisms to Hasten discovers the true sweetness of his Derek M. Koch Saturday, 11:00 a.m. (or Retard) Humanity’s Conquest assignment. Rating: G Cascade 9 of Space Fen once believed that we were a breed Saturday, 11:00 a.m. The Editor and Writer Relationship Evergreen 3 & 4 Reading: Darragh Metzger Saturday, 11:00 a.m. apart from the general population and now fandom is nearly mainstream. What Saturday, Noon – 12:30 p.m. Cascade 6 What can we do to push space exploration Cascade 3 does that mean for the future fandom? If through the labyrinth of political agendas, A good editor can be a writer’s best friend. everyone is a fan are we now all mundanes? funding faux pas, and bureaucratic Green Triad, 4th in a series; fantasy What should a writer expect from their Don Glover(M), Cory Doctorow, Chris Nilsson stalemates? Is it even possible? Are adventure. Rating: PG editor? What should they ask for; and there alternative possibilities (public and how should they respond to their editor’s private)? Are self-sufficient space colonies a requests for changes? Editors will provide possible reality or a fantasy? guidelines for new writers on the etiquette Evolution of the Spacesuit of the editor/writer relationship. Saturday, 11:00 a.m. Derek Zumsteg(M), Greg Bear, Brenda Cascade 10 Cooper, Vernor Vinge Greg Cox(M), Ian McDonald, Anthony Pryor, Ken Scholes, Janna Silverstein It’s not easy to design a suit to shield you from the harshness of space (or moondust!)

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Sucks To Be Medusa Fone in the Filk Polymer Clay Demo Women Characters in Comics Saturday, Noon Saturday, Noon Saturday, Noon Saturday, 1:00 p.m. Cascade 4 Cascade 7 Cascade 13 Cascade 5 The story of Medusa is one of the most The left side of the audience will be given Come learn to work with polymer clay and A look at some well known female tragic in Greek lore and yet her iconic image lines from filk songs and told to whisper make the creatures you love! characters and related themes. How do continues to haunt and intrigue us to this them to their neighbours on the right. Our portrayals of women in manga and other day. Find out how a wig of snakes was one pros will plug whatever comes out the right Jacqualynn D. Duram Nilsson(M), Myke foreign comics differ from portrayals in the of the least of this poor girl’s problems and side back into the songs, and try to sing Amend U.S.? Are there some universal constants? how her tragic story is a commentary on them verbatim. Good luck with that! Is the “Women in refrigerators” theory the culture that spawned her. relevant? Not to mention universal… David Nasset, Sr., Mickey Phoenix, Vixy & Spotlight Publisher: TOR Mark Roland(M), Bethalynne Bajema, Tony Saturday, Noon Ashley Cook(M), Andrew Dolbeck, Marcus S. J. Tucker Evergreen 2 Evenstar Augmented Reality David Hartwell Write a Story in an Hour Saturday, Noon Attaching This to That Saturday, Noon Cascade 8 Saturday, 1:00 p.m. Cascade 5 Reading: G. Nordley Cascade 6 Imagine a future when you can overlay Saturday, 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Prompts will be given to attendees and reality with any additional information Cascade 3 Ever ask yourself, “How the heck can I they will be given time to write a story. or images you like. It’s starting to happen attach foo to bar?” Should I weld it? Sew Discussion to follow – where did you go now, with smartphone applications To Climb a Flat Mtn, Novel excerpt: it? Glue it? Tape it? And if so, what kind with your story? What fandom did you available any day now (already?). To what marooned on a cubical world. Rating: PG of welding material? What kind of glue? choose? uses will it be put? Will we lose touch with What kind of tape? Artists using all types actual reality? of different media will be here to offer Cheryl Dyson, Byaghro Esby Gibson Reading: Adrian Phoenix their expertise, share their own stories, and Miki Garrison(M), Kurt Cagle, Sonia Orin Saturday, 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. answer your questions. Lyris, Burt Webb Cascade 3 Feminist Female Protagonists in Black Dust Mambo, urban fantasy novel. Jeff Sturgeon(M), Durlyn, Neil (Lights) Urban Fantasy? Rating: PG Duttkin, Peggy Foy, John R. Gray III Saturday, Noon Writing for the Gaming Industry Cascade 6 Saturday, Noon Cascade 10 In urban fantasy, we have violent, kick-ass That Was a Great YA Series! Mmm. heroines . . . who are also subject to How do you write for a game? How does What Next? Onions insecurities and exhibit several other it differ from writing a novel or short Saturday, 1:00 p.m. problematic traits that bring their real, story? How does writing for a video game Cascade 4 functional strength into question. This differ from RPGs or board games? What & Roses Just finished a great book or series? What genre is admired for its strong women are they looking for? Our panel of editors, should you read next? The YA choices have In order to maintain the characters—that’s often the reason given publishers, and gaming authors and grown by leaps and bounds; and we’ve got quality of this convention for its appeal and popularity —but is the freelancers share what is wanted - nay! the inside scoop on the next great thing we need your input. genre also guilty of undermining some of what is needed! – from writers in the you’ll love to read. those strengths? gaming industry. Share your experiences Lisa Mantchev(M), Spencer Ellsworth, Jeanne C. Stein(M), Mark Henry, Loree Sean K Reynolds(M), Michelle Lyons, Mike Rosemary Jones Parker, Saje Williams Mearls, Andy Megowan the good, the bad and the ugly

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Hollywood Goes Green! Wait, They’re The Greener Revolution Once More, With Feeling: the Poker Tournament Qualifying Remaking What? Saturday, 1:00 p.m. Joss Whedon Sing-a-Long Round 7 Saturday, 1:00 p.m. Cascade 10 Saturday, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Saturday, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Cascade 7 Evergreen 2 Rotunda 2 The 1960s saw vast improvements in Yeah, we all know that asteroid was a worldwide crop yields. How will we Sing along with the Buffy musical - full Do you have a poker face like Worf? Able to potato, that doesn’t mean they need to feed the world’s growing population? version! bluff like Riker? Know a few Jedi mind tricks re-shoot the entire movie 30 years later! Genetically engineered crops? Vertical to float yourself successfully down the Hollywood is on an updating rampage, farms? Will there be a place for organic river? Or maybe you’re just hoping to pull and everything from The Prisoner to The agriculture? Autograph Session #2 a Maverick with a royal flush. It’s a social Smurfs is scheduled for a 21st century Saturday, 1:00 p.m. tournament; so whatever your skill level, makeover. My childhood is rolling in its Annie Morton(M), Russell D. Campbell, Amy Evergreen 3 & 4 there’s a place for you at the table. If you’re grave. And that’s not even mentioning Thomson a beginner and would like some pre-game everything they’ve already gotten their John P. Alexander, Carol Berg, David Boop, instruction, please come by a little early. “artistic license” on! Panelists will discuss SatyrPhil Brucato, Ted Butler, Bruce R. Remember, the first place winner at the the influence the modern world has on the Mask Making Cordell, Dr. John G. Cramer, Jeff Davis, A.M. final table Saturday night wins a prepaid various TV shows and movies we grew up Saturday, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Dellamonica, Cory Doctorow, James Ernest, membership for Norwescon 34! with and whether “modernization” was for Cascade 13 Yasmine Galenorn, Daryl Gregory, Jeff the better. Do the remakes make the grade? Grubb, Eileen Gunn, Brandon Jerwa, Jak Mariah Johnson A return of this all-ages favorite, members Koke, Ian McDonald, John Jude Palencar, Brian D. Oberquell(M), Mark Rahner, Jesse of the Beyond Reality Costumer’s Guild Kevin Radthorne, Ken Scholes, Lorelei Simpson assist you in making your own unique piece Shannon, Jack Skillingstead, G.Robin Smith, The Dummy Is You! of wearable art using poster board, fabric, S. J. Tucker, Vernor Vinge, Gareth Von Saturday, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. adhesives, trim, jewelry bits, low-temp Kallenbach Salon Mars: Where We Are and Where to Go hot glue, and more. Children need to be From Here accompanied by their adults, but all will Learn how to create your own paper tape Saturday, 1:00 p.m. have fun. If you have special bits you would Star Trek Scene-It and or duct tape custom dress form that Cascade 8 like to use, bring them, but otherwise Saturday, 1:00 p.m. you can use to sculpt and build fit specific materials are provided. Olympic 1 clothing. This workshop will show you how Come and hear about the latest discoveries to build, stabilize and maintain your duct on Mars and discuss NASA’s new joint plan Vicki Glover(M), Terri “Sprite” Specht Test your knowledge of all things Star Trek tape form and how having a custom built with the European Space Agency for the against like-minded humanoids. dress form will improve and enhance your future of Mars exploration. costuming skills. You will need to bring Ask the Gamemasters James Poua your own materials: A t-shirt that can be cut Spring Schoenhuth(M), Tanya N. Harrison, Saturday, 1:00 p.m. up, and a roll of paper (painters) tape. David Stuart, Chris Vancil Evergreen 1 Molly Boone, Jonnalyhn Wolfcat Has your current campaign reached a dead Pre-register The Genre Divide end? Not sure how to keep your players Saturday, 1:00 p.m. happy? Have a problem player that you Norwescon Reading: Mary Robinette Kowal Cascade 9 need to deal with? Want to add some house Saturday, 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. rules to your game, but unsure how to Cascade 3 What are the differences between make them work? Come to this panel with 34 literature and genre fiction? Are they real or questions about your RPG campaign. Excerpt from Shades of Milk and Honey, artificial? What differentiates fantasy from Sunday Mary Robinette Kowal’s debut novel, horror? Does New York hate what we do? Erik Mona(M), Jason Bulmahn, Sean K coming out from Tor in Spring of 2010. It’s Reynolds what Jane Austen would write, if she wrote Cat Rambo(M), Greg Bear, Greg Cox, David at the fantasy. Rating: G Hartwell, Janna Silverstein Registration Center

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Reading: S. Tucker Techno Greens Technology Vs. The Future of Medicine The Church of the SubGenius: The Saturday, 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Environment- Is it Really a Battle? Saturday, 2:00 p.m. One True Religion, a Cheap Fraud, Cascade 3 Saturday, 2:00 p.m. Cascade 9 or Both? Cascade 7 Saturday, 2:00 p.m. Rabbit’s Song, Trickster chooses Rabbit, What’s the future of diseases and cures? Evergreen 1 Coyote, Raven, and Crow to help him teach Is there a middle path between raping the Some forms of cancer may be caused by a humans the value of laughter. Rating: G land and living in a cave? Is there a mid- virus. Some causes of cervical cancer may Let the Saint of Sales, J.R. “Bob” Dobbs, point between the classic anti-technology be prevented by a vaccine. Yet the new and his Church of the SubGenius wipe that greens and the pro-technology polluters? H1N1 flu shot was in short supply until smile back onto your face! Local SubGenius Little Known Horror Movies Can you support both nuclear power and recently. Even if we can “cure” cancer and contributor Popess Lilith von Fraumench Saturday, 2:00 p.m. composting worms? Are we missing some other diseases, will new diseases crop up and others will explain the world’s first Cascade 4 part of the solution here, or are technology to replace the old scourges… and human Industrial Religion, do-it-yourself dogma and the environment always at war? Can nature being what it is, will everyone for Superior Mutants, the precepts of Slack, Are there horror movies that every technology and environmentalism coexist? benefit from the “new medicine”? the Arisal of the alien sex goddesses, and horror fan should see but they might not Do we have to give up our computers and The Conspiracy Of Normalcy. Confused? have heard about? Come hear about the cars to save the planet? If we are pro- Miki Garrison(M), Matt Bamberger, Matt After this lightning round of divine forgotten, neglected, lost, and even foreign science, are we destroying the ecosystem? Hammond frenzy, confusion will be the least of your films you shouldn’t watch at 3:00 a.m. Are agricultural biotech, industrial worries—but you’ll laugh all the way to Lorelei Shannon(M), Phillip Brugalette, advances, and all those non-biodegradable Planet X anyhow! components in our ipods and cell phones What Exactly is Medieval – And What Nathan Crowder, James Jacobs, Anthony Was it Really Like? Lilith von Fraumench(M), Marcus Evenstar, Pryor going to spell the end of life as we know it? Or is technology the only thing that might Saturday, 2:00 p.m. Sonia Orin Lyris save the earth in the end? Come help Cascade 10 The Clarion West Writers Workshop define the middle ground between the two Thinking of finally writing that lovely extremes. Autograph Session #3 Saturday, 2:00 p.m. historic fantasy set in “medieval” 17th Saturday, 2:00 p.m. Cascade 5 Jim Kling(M), Mike Brennan, Russell D. century Florence? - Wondering what Evergreen 3 & 4 Campbell kind of castle, peasant or cow to draw for The Clarion West Workshop is in its 27th that new medieval-themed role-playing Myke Amend, Brenda Cooper, Dr. John G. year of providing a six-week workshop game? – Just wondering where to look Cramer, Cory Doctorow, S. Joe Downing, for writers of fantasy and science fiction. Women in Gaming for authentic inspiration for your school’s Roberta Gregory, Mark Henry, Jean Graduates of Clarion West will talk next production of “The Tempest?” – Come Johnson, Rosemary Jones, Mary Robinette about their experience and answer your Saturday, 2:00 p.m. Cascade 8 partake of an hour’s trip through the Kowal, G. David Nordley, John Jude questions. Middle Ages and discover the answers to Palencar, Joshua Palmatier, Adrian Phoenix, Leslie Howle(M), Greg Cox, Caren Gussoff, Our all-female panel of gaming these and many other questions. Cat Rambo, Sean K Reynolds, Renee Stern, Jordan Lapp, David J. Williams professionals discusses the growing Ben Thompson, Amy Thomson, Vernor presence / awareness of women in playing Cymbric Early-Smith(M), Christopher Vinge, Rob Welch and designing games, not to mention Konker, Rebecca Neason Spaceships, Armor, and Machines, busting those “girl gamer” myths. Our Oh My! panelists will discuss gaming from card/ Reading: G.Robin Smith Saturday, 2:00 p.m. board games to video games, how they Saturday, 2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Cascade 6 got started in the industry, and how you Cascade 3 can, too! Drawing convincing looking spaceships, Maxi’s EAS Androcles, Sci-fi, Earth Colonies, tanks, mechanized armor, vehicles, and Julie Haehn(M), Claire Hummel, Michelle separated 100 years from us, reconnect other technology is a whole other animal in Lyons, Donna “Danicia” Prior Open to Norwescon but refuse to come back ‘under’ Earth’s the arena of art. Come learn how to design Attendee’s dominion. Rating: PG and create science fiction technology that looks believable. Exclusively 21 & Over Only Brian Snoddy, Mark Tedin

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Reading: Guy Immega LGBT in Fandom Best Sewing Advice I Ever Got Road Warrior Arsenal Factory Saturday, 3:00 – 3: 30 p.m. Saturday, 3:00 p.m. Saturday, 3:00 p.m. Saturday, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Cascade 3 Cascade 7 Cascade 10 Olympic 1 A Little Knowledge, Biological Singularity. Attitudes have changed a lot in the last Our blue ribbon panel of experienced Design and construct your own post- Rating: G twenty or so years; but how is it for those costume pros share the best advice they apocalypic arsenal from our wide variety of struggling with their identities and have had on topics ranging from laying out lost-and-found materials. sexualities? We encourage young people a sewing room, how to budget and shop for It Ain’t All Geetars and Mopy with questions about their sexual identity large costume projects, to fitting yourself Kim Poua Saturday, 3:00 p.m. and place in society and fandom to come and more. Cascade 4 to talk and share strength with each other and older fen who’ve been through it Katrina Marier(M), Tammie L Dupuis, Poker Tournament Qualifying Non-folk filk–nerdcore, chiptunes, internet themselves. Joanne Kirley, Anita Taylor, Julie Zetterberg Round 8 musiks: it’s here, it beeps, it rocks, and it Saturday, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. raps. Get used to it. Loree Parker(M), J. Grace McKelvy, Dierdre Rotunda 2 Phoenix, Mickey Schulz Miniatures Painting 101 Workshop Jess Hart, Steven Perry, Celene Ramadan Saturday, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Do you have a poker face like Worf? Able to bluff like Riker? It’s a social tournament; Developing a Writers Toolbox and Cascade 13 Sci-fi and Fantasy shows on TV so whatever your skill level, there’s a place Saturday, 3:00 p.m. See all the cool miniatures in the game for you at the table. With only a limited Cascade 8 & hobby stores? Want to paint up one for number of seats at the final table, you will Honing Your Skills your D&D game or paint an entire army for need to win one of the qualifying rounds. Saturday, 3:00 p.m. Discussions regarding the current TV miniatures gaming? Come learn the basics Cascade 5 sci-fi and fantasy series. (ie. Heroes, Flash on how to get started painting miniatures. Mariah Johnson Do you keep submitting your work and Forward, Doll House, Fringe, Chuck, Eureka, Paints to use and a miniature to keep will receiving rejections? Have you hit a plateau Bones, Stargate Universe, Sanctuary). The be provided for 25 people for a workshop good, the bad, what works, what doesn’t, fee of $5. If you would like to bring your Reading: Eric James Stone with your writing? If you can’t afford a six- Saturday, 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. week workshop like Clarion West, where and what folks like. own miniature, you are invited to attend if space is available. Cascade 3 can you go to hone your skills? We’ll discuss Chris Nilsson(M), Elton Elliott, Judith writers’ workshops, online critique groups, Herman, Brandon Jerwa, Doug Odell Sean K Reynolds, Dylan S. Rejiggering the Thingamajig, An intelligent how to start a critique group of your own, T. Rex and a talking gun . . . Rating: PG and contests, like Writers of the Future, that offer workshops. Finding Inspiration The Origin of the Species: Zombies Leslie Howle(M), Ken Scholes, Jack Saturday, 3:00 p.m. Saturday, 3:00 p.m. Skillingstead, Patrick Swenson Cascade 9 Evergreen 1 Reading: Victoria Shaffer The creative process can often be a tricky Without Romero where would zombies be? Saturday, 4:00 – 4:30 p.m. one and it is easy to fall into ruts or hit a Without 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, Cascade 3 Fanfiction and Fanart - Where to Find blank wall. Our panelists will discuss how would zombies be different in our media Counting Heartbeats, Poetic Prose. It, Where to Post It to develop ideas, create compelling subject now, or would they be around at all? What Saturday, 3:00 p.m. matter, and what to do when you find seminal tropes did the classic film originate, Rating: PG Cascade 6 yourself stuck, not knowing what to do for or at least popularize? your next piece of art. A listing of where some of the best Derek M. Koch(M), Steven Barnes, The fanfiction and fanart can be found. Some Rob Carlos(M), Durlyn, Betsy Mott, John Reverend En Fuego, Mark Rahner suggested sites for finding it as well as how Jude Palencar, Mark Roland, Jeff Sturgeon to locate where to post your own. Maxi’s Cheryl Dyson, Peggy Stewart Interview with Vernor Vinge Open to Norwescon Saturday, 3:00 p.m. Attendee’s Exclusively Evergreen 2 21 & Over Only Greg Bear

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Military, War, and the Government: Goth Parenting Posing For The Camera Reading: Andy Bunch What’s a Hero to Do? Saturday, 4:00 p.m. Saturday, 4:00 p.m. Saturday, 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. Saturday, 4:00 p.m. Cascade 7 Cascade 10 Cascade 3 Cascade 4 Whether you’re a gothic parent or the How to show off a costume to its best Suffering Rancor, gritty coming-of-age As in other matters of morality, war is more parent of a goth, subcultures add a whole advantage, using props to their fullest, fantasy. Rating: PG 13, for epic battle ambiguous in urban fantasy than it is in new dimension to even the most basic of and creating a persona that reads right in scenes. traditional fantasy. With its emphasis on parenting topics. Come and join us as we a photo. the individual, does urban fantasy often discuss all things goth and parenting, from portray large units such as the military and how to set boundaries on attire for your Jonnalyhn Wolfcat(M), Joanne Kirley, Reading: Bruce Cordell government agencies as the Big Bad? Are budding fashionista (while honoring her Diana Vick Saturday, 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. they more likely to be the thing to escape creativity) to finding gothy breast-feeding Cascade 3 than the thing to join? clothes. Key of Stars, Book 3 of the Abolethic Upcoming Video Games of 2010-2012 Sovereignty, FR, D&D. Rating: PG Bart Kemper(M), Kim Ritchie, Jaye Wells Alexia Roy(M), Andrew Herington, Saturday, 4:00 p.m. Bryan Lovely, Jen Lovely Evergreen 1 The Publishing Revolution Comic Cross-overs and Tie-ins A one-hour panel that looks at upcoming Computers and the Changing Face games as well as some of the movie tie ins. Saturday, 5:00 p.m. Saturday, 4:00 p.m. of Education Cascade 4 Cascade 5 Q and A is involved as well as swag and gifts Saturday, 4:00 p.m. for congoers. Examples include new Star The future of publishing is a big question As comics become ever more mainstream, Cascade 8 Wars, Star Trek, Alien; games from films, as mark right now as traditional publishing more tie-ins are coming from popular video The $100 laptop for the Third World, well as stand alone games. houses shrink along with the economy. games, TV shows, and books. A look at the At the same time, multiple versions of schools in the US that require each Gareth Von Kallenbach unique aspects of writing in an established student to have a state-of-the-art laptop, community-driven new media publishing universe defined by a different medium. accredited universities accepting online models are popping up all over the internet; and some of the best fiction being Greg Cox(M), Jeff Grubb, Brandon Jerwa courses for class work, the prevalence of Quantum Entanglement, Nonlocality, online research. Will there come a time written today is showing up on the web out when the traditional school disappears all and Back-In-Time Messages of small independent publishers. What’s together? Saturday, 4:00 p.m. happening, what’s the future of publishing, Spirits in my Television Evergreen 2 and how can you become part of the Saturday, 4:00 p.m. Sonia Orin Lyris(M), Ted Butler, Kurt Cagle, publishing revolution? Cascade 6 John M. Lawler Featured Presentation by Science Guest of Honor John Cramer Jak Koke(M), Bob Kruger, Chris Pramas, A discussion regarding the impact, Patrick Swenson popularity, use of science and equipment Artificial Intelligence: How Far Off etc., as well as the fascination of the Is HAL? S.J. Tucker with guests Vixy and Tony paranormal genre from Ghost Hunters in Concert Subversive Content in Sequential Art Saturday, 4:00 p.m. Saturday, 5:00 p.m. to Ghost Whisperer. Additionally, the Cascade 9 Saturday, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. ethical and legal issues that are raised by Evergreen 3 & 4 Cascade 5 the depiction of purportedly paranormal 2001 has come and gone, yet we’re Comics are seen as a juvenile medium here events on a television program. nowhere near inventing a self-aware in the U.S. The benefits of this perception artificial personality. We’ll explore what Keysigning Reception include more creative freedom than Janna Silverstein(M), Jeff Davis, must happen before we can create an Saturday, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. other media for social criticism, political Jeromie Foulger, Adrian Phoenix emotional, reasoning being. Along the way, Presidential Suite satire, homosexual themes, and other we’ll discuss state-of-the-art applications controversial topics. Does the art form for AI elements such as heuristic learning, Join Special Guest of Honor Cory Doctorow promote radical content, or does the lack data-mining netbots, robotics, facial for a keysigning reception - bring your of outside pressure from a wider audience Maxi’s recognition, and natural language key! Don’t know what keysigning is? Come give creators the freedom to say whatever Open to Norwescon processing. find out! the *%#& they want? Attendee’s Exclusively Mary Rosenblum(M), Ted Chiang, Cory Doctorow 21 & Over Only Mark Rahner(M), SatyrPhil Brucato, Janet Freeman, Brian David Johnson Roberta Gregory

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Biological Inspirations Costumeblock: I’m Stuck and I’m Not The Future of Human Spaceflight What Popped Your Fannish Cherry? Saturday, 5:00 p.m. Sure What to Do Next Saturday, 5:00 p.m. Saturday, 6:00 p.m. Cascade 6 Saturday, 5:00 p.m. Evergreen 1 Cascade 4 Cascade 9 Mining biology for story ideas. What do With the impending retirement of the How did you join fandom and how did your you read to keep up with the field? What I have this great costume (idea, in process, space shuttle (and possibly the space life change? Are you still interested in what new discoveries are fodder for science needs finish details) and I’m not sure station), there is no completed up-and- brought you into fandom or have your fiction? How do you find good resources for what to do next. Come talk to others who running replacement and a grim outlook tastes changed? Come share and learn with research? experience the same issue and hear what from the Augustine Commission. What is fellow fen. they do to beat the dreaded affliction … the future of human spaceflight when it Annie Morton(M), David W. Ehlert, Costumeblock. comes to NASA? Can private industry step J. Grace McKelvy(M), Kevin Standlee, Miki Garrison, Raymond McCauley up to the plate? Amy Thomson Tammie L Dupuis(M), Janet Borkowski, Joanne Kirley, Wendy Prather Charles F Radley(M), Arthur Bozlee, Elton Elliott, Doug Odell, David Stuart Gender and Sexuality in SF/F Comics and Film Saturday, 5:00 p.m. Saturday, 6:00 p.m. Cascade 7 Meet the Cast of Star Trek: Phoenix Cascade 5 Saturday, 5:00 p.m. Setting up the Pieces Does SF/F have a responsibility to work Cascade 10 Saturday, 5:00 p.m. The last decade has seen an explosion of outside the gender norms? How do SF/F Evergreen 2 comics being made into movies, both indie Start Trek: Phoenix is a fan based series authors play with gender and sexuality So, you have a great board game idea. You and mainstream. Do these films live up to set 42 years in the future from Star Trek: the comics they are inspired by? Have we in their works? Are the works of the early Nemesis. The Star Trek: Phoenix Cast Panel may even have a prototype, and have been authors who played with gender, such will feature the entire principal cast from playtesting it with friends. Or maybe you really reached the saturation point, like as James Tiptree, Jr., still relevant? Up the series including Ben Andrews (Avari), haven’t. Join us to hear from people in the Spider-Man, where comics directors need for discussion are the works of Tiptree, Ben Johnson (Jaryn), James Lyle (Alden), industry how to design your own board to find new sources of inspiration? Is it time Jacqueline Carey, and others. Roy Stanton (T’Von), Elle Viane Sonnet game (so that it can actually be made), to take a break from the genre and reboot a (Solara), Nicole Santora (Vu’Shan), S. Joe and what you need to do to get your board few years from now? Jean Johnson(M), Jake Ballin, game published. Downing (Niran), Vanessa Cobbs (Laenah), John P. Alexander(M), Greg Cox, Nathan Keffy R. M. Kehrli and Jesse Pattison (Karkko). Also joining James Ernest(M), Jeremy Holcomb, Crowder the cast panel will be the creator and senior Mike Selinker executive producer, Leo Roberts. This panel Narrative Structure is open to Q&A from fans and discussion How Sci-fi Shaped the Space Program Saturday, 5:00 p.m. topics related to the pilot ‘Cloak & Dagger’ Story Hour Saturday, 6:00 p.m. Cascade 8 or the series in general. Find out more Saturday, 5:00 p.m. Cascade 6 about us here: www.stphoenix.com/ Olympic 1 Most readers read for story; but a story LouAnna Valentine How has science fiction literature has to hang from a structure, and if the Leo Roberts(M), Ben Andrews, influenced the course of space exploration, structure fails the story will collapse. The S. Joe Downing, Merrillee Schedin, and vice versa? story’s structure dictates where the story Rob Welch Reading: Christopher Bodan starts, where it ends, where each of the plot Saturday, 5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Brian David Johnson(M), Chris Vancil elements fits, and charts the space in which Cascade 3 your characters’ change and developments Figure Drawing Demo take place. Structure more than anything Saturday, 5:00 p.m. The Hiss of Steam and the Scrape of Claws. Pre-register else will keep the reader’s eyes glued to Cascade 13 Rating: PG the page to find out what happens next. Come watch, learn, and discuss how our Norwescon 34 Writers share how they approach narrative professional artists draw the human figure. Reading: Joshua Palmatier structure and plot. Immediately following this panel will be Saturday, 6:00 – 6:30 p.m. Sunday the Costumed Figure Drawing Workshop, Cascade 3 Leslie Howle(M), Daryl Gregory, where attendees will have the chance to at the Registration Ian McDonald, Cat Rambo, G.Robin Smith put what they’ve learned into practice. Mastihooba, SF Horror short story. Center Rob Carlos(M), Julie Baroh, Betty Bigelow Rating: PG

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Movie or Not to Movie Costume Tips from Medieval Let’s Make a Movie: Edit It! Reading: Cymbric Early-Smith Saturday, 6:00 p.m. Recreationists Saturday, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Saturday, 7:00 – 7:30 p.m. Cascade 7 Saturday, 6:00 p.m. Evergreen 2 Cascade 3 Cascade 10 How do you feel when they take your Let’s make a movie! You were there for Twinned Souls, Historic Fantasy. Rating: PG favorite YA book and make it a movie? Do Some of the best medieval recreationists Part 2, right, where we shot video like the characters look and act the way you around share their secrets. Get the inside crazy? Quick! Time travel! In part 3, we think they should? How about that big part scoop on finishing techniques, how to show you a little about editing, how we Finding a Beta of the book they left out? A discussion for research period garb, how to execute put all that crazy footage down and make Saturday, 7:00 p.m. our younger members. these designs, and how to utilize modern it into a movie that makes some kind of Cascade 4 techniques. sense. Actually, we hope it makes some Lisa Mantchev(M), Dierdre Phoenix, kind of sense. We never really know. If you What’s the value of a good beta? We’ll Spring Schoenhuth Cymbric Early-Smith(M), Tammie L Dupuis, bought a computer within the past two talk about where to find beta readers for Deborah Strub years, chances are excellent that you have different genres, and how to become a beta more digital video editing power at your reader if you love to read and edit. Low-energy Future? fingertips than has ever been subject to Byaghro Esby Gibson, Jean Johnson Saturday, 6:00 p.m. Figure Drawing Workshop – Models In the hands of Ordinary People. Learn about Cascade 8 Costume using this power for Good. Or Evil. We don’t Saturday, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. care, because we only use it for Fun. The Are we doomed to a low-energy future Mascade 13 Harm Me with Harmony (Think bicycles instead of cars, etc.) by key to making a movie, of course, is editing. Saturday, 7:00 p.m. climate change, peak oil, and population Models in costume will do a variety of Edward R. Martin III, Eric Morgret, Cascade 6 growth? Can we avoid it with technology, short and medium length poses (3 to 10 Brian D. Oberquell like LEDs, hybrid cars, and small-scale solar, minutes). Everyone is welcome to come Want to sing along, but don’t know how wind, and hydro? and sketch or paint. Please bring your own it works? Interested in exploring more drawing and painting supplies. than the melody line, but have no idea Kinderfilk where to start? Come to this workshop Kurt Cagle(M), Jak Koke, Greg Paddock, Saturday, 6:00 p.m. Charles F Radley Anita Taylor(M), Victoria Shaffer, Diana Vick on harmonies! Bring your voices or Olympic 1 instruments to play along live. Filk singalong for kids! Advanced Polyamory Surveillance in the 21st Century – is it Ash Productions, Creede Lambard, Alexander James Adams, Ash Productions Saturday, 6:00 p.m. Good or Bad? David Nasset, Sr. Cascade 9 Saturday, 6:00 p.m. Evergreen 1 Really Good Really Bad Guys So, you’ve decided that polyamory is Babel Saturday, 7:00 p.m. the lifestyle for you. What are the legal This is the age of hidden cameras, X-ray Saturday, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Cascade 7 ramifications of having more than one scans, the e-mail trail, and the illegal act Presidential Suite partner? What do you do about buying caught on tape. Surveillance immediately A good heroic fantasy needs a really a house? Having children? Power of conjures up images of Big Brother Come join representatives from local good bad guy. What makes a villain truly Attorney? Come and hear people who have and nefarious uses of eavesdropping fannish clubs and learn about opportunities vile? How do you make evil believable, successfully navigated the legal sea of technology. But it can have its positive to help your community while having understandable, perhaps sympathetic, polyamory. uses, including the detection of robberies. fun! Several of our local fan groups will be and conquerable - without descending Surveillance is everywhere, wanted or available to fill you in on what their club into campiness? Can a true villain be Loree Parker(M), Kal Cobalt, Robert Grey unwanted; is it good or bad? Where is does. If you’ve always wondered what sympathetic, and, if so, how does that surveillance technology going – what are these groups do, come meet them, and change the dynamic of the story? the technologies and the implications? find out! Alma Alexander, Andy R. Bunch, Cat Rambo(M), Cory Doctorow, Eileen Gunn, Jordan Lapp, Ben Thompson Maxi’s Ian McDonald Reading: Renee Stern Saturday, 6:30 – 7:00 p.m. 21 and Over Only Cascade 3 Open to Norwescon Attendees Exclusively Rating: PG?

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Urban Legends of History Lazer Tag Reading: Alan Clark (50). An overview look at the history and Saturday, 7:00 p.m. Saturday, 7:00 – 11:00 p.m. Saturday, 8:00– 8:30 p.m. progress of cinematic science fiction. Cascade 8 Evergreen 3 & 4 Cascade 3 Jesse Simpson(M), Jeromie Foulger, Sometimes a piece of propaganda, a lie, The third and final night of Lazer Tag. We D.D. Murphry, Secret Policeman, a new Merrillee Schedin, Spring Schoenhuth can, by its endless repetition, work its way have equipment for use; it is compatible novel co-written by Alan M. Clark and into accepted history. Think of Catherine with the Tiger Lazer Tag system, not the Elizabeth Massie. Rating: R the Great and her reputed love of horses. Team Ops system. For those players who Cyborgs If it’s true that the victors write the history are under 18, you must have a parent or Saturday, 8:00 p.m. books, what other urban legends have guardian present at the arena. Lazer Tag is Cascade 8 we been passing along to our children as a live action, NON-CONTACT sport. Cinema, Sci-fi and Classical Actors: An history that simply are not based on facts? Interview with Sir Alec Guinness Can we meld biology and machines? There Scott Perrin, Elizabeth Fellows Saturday, 8:00 p.m. has been much recent progress in the field Spencer Ellsworth(M), Bethalynne Bajema, Cascade 4 of prosthetic limbs, even including an arm Christopher Bodan, Ciandi Patry that responds to brain waves. Are we there Reading: Roberta Gregory From “Our Man in Havana” to “Our Man on yet? What comes next? Saturday, 7:30 – 8:00 p.m. the Millennium Falcon.” His life and times, What Is It With Lovecraft? Cascade 3 training, and winding up on a silly show Mickey Phoenix(M), Jake Ballin, Saturday, 7:00 p.m. about space (called Star Wars). Chautauqua Russell D. Campbell, Bob Crichton, Cascade 9 Mother Mountain. Rating: PG (not ‘Chewbacca’) artist G.Robin Smith David Shoemaker brings the character of Sir Alec to a panel The Cthulhu Mythos has its filthy for a polite and very comfortable Q&A. fingerprints all over Pathfinder, 4E D&D, Children’s Masquerade Sci-fi and Modern Technology and yes, even Call of Cthulhu RPGs, not to Saturday, 7:30 – 8:00 p.m. G.Robin Smith Saturday, 8:00 p.m. mention dozens of board and video games. Cascade 5 Cascade 9 What’s the appeal? Is it just designers and GMs who love Cthulhu? And just how Have a Padawan learner in the family? Or Scared Hot: Sex & Danger What effect has science fiction had ruthless do you need to be to run a lone- a Crusader knight? A fairy princess who Saturday, 8:00 p.m. on modern technology? Star Trek survivor adventure, anyway? Lessons from wants to show off her wings? Bring them to Cascade 6 communicators brought us the modern the fringes of sanity…. the Norwescon 33 Children’s Masquerade! cellular flip-phone - what other current The children’s masquerade allows children Why are sex and danger often enmeshed? marvels have the imaginations of SF Wolfgang Baur(M), Bruce R. Cordell, who are too young to compete as Rising What is it about sexy vampires, seductive authors brought us? James Jacobs, Mike Mearls Stars (self made costumes by children shape-shifters, and assorted creatures of 13 years and under) to show off their the night who worm their ways into the Chris Nilsson(M), Brian David Johnson costumes. The children will go on first. All protagonists’ hearts and beds? Do we fear Goth Fashion for Women children wishing to participate must meet sex itself, possibly due to ingrained cultural Saturday, 7:00 p.m. here (with parents) to fill out the Children’s guilt? Or is it the romantic surrender that is Advanced BDSM Cascade 10 Masquerade form. They will then walk as a inherently dangerous and scary? Why? Saturday, 8:00– 10:00 p.m. group down to the masquerade. Cascade 10 Not just corsets, hair dye, and nice boots, Mary Rodgers(M), A.M. Dellamonica, but also finding a style that’s truly your Katrina Marier Lawrence Kane, Garth Upshaw OK, you know about BDSM. You’ve even own, how not to break the bank to look engaged in play and perhaps had a kinky great, and why gothic style is about much, relationship. Where do you go from there? much more than just wearing black. Masquerade Seating ScI-fi through the Decades Do you necessarily have to? What is “Edge Saturday, 7:30 – 8:00 p.m. Saturday, 8:00 p.m. Play”? We’ll explain all that and how to do Alexia Roy(M), Elisabeth Van Every, Grand 2 & 3 Cascade 7 the edgier things safely and sanely. Rating: Jillian Venters A (18+ only, ID required) Show up early to get the best seats in the Several films are celebrating milestone house. anniversaries this year. Included are: Mickey Schulz(M), Matt Bamberger, Kal Cobalt Trent Lum X-Men (10 years), Total Recall (20), Back to the Future (25), Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (30) and The Time Machine

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Making Gothic Mini Hats Friends of Bill W. Novelization of a Game Son of the Movie Previews! Saturday, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, 9:00 p.m. Saturday, 9:00 p.m. Saturday, ~ 9:00 p.m. Cascade 13 Cascade 3 Cascade 8 Grand 2 & 3 Come and join us for a hands-on Many video games today have A concise summary of what’s coming at the demonstration on how to make, decorate, Werewolves accompanying fiction which often provides movies, with the weekends’ best sound and wear Gothic Lolita mini hats. Materials a more detailed storyline of current events and screen. are provided so you can wear your creation Saturday, 9:00 p.m. Cascade 4 as well as past or future action. Many when you’re done, but space is limited, so role-playing games have companion Keith Johnson(M), Alan Halfhill arrive early! A veiled, Jungian metaphor for the bestial series of novels expanding their worlds nature inherent in all men? A Freudian with characters and cities and events that Alexia Roy(M), Delta Hranek, Queer Eye for the . . . Con Goer Elisabeth Van Every, Jillian Venters image of savage sexuality? Werewolves become canon in that setting. Join our have haunted our collective imagination panelists as they discuss how a game’s Saturday, 9:00 p.m. for centuries and now they are back, setting is translated into a novel that, in Maxi’s Ballroom (18+) A Little Knight Music in Concert bigger and badder than ever. Find out turn, gives back to the game. Sure he’s dressed up like a gay sci-fi Saturday, 8:00 p.m. the underpinnings of this most mortal of Jeff Grubb(M), Richard Baker, Saje Williams character...so why is he checking out Xena’s Evergreen 1 monsters. chest? Oh wow, 7 of 9 is making out with SatyrPhil Brucato, Adrian Phoenix, a girl?! But will she make out with a grrl or a boi? Between the costumes, booze, and Talebones Live! Kim Ritchie The Business of Art Saturday, 9:00 p.m. sleep dep, how can you tell who’s batting Saturday, 8:00– 10:00 p.m. for what team? EASY! Come to our Queer Evergreen 2 Cascade 9 Gothic Fashion for Men Eye for the Con Goer Mixer! Enjoy a night of Writers who have contributed to the Saturday, 9:00 p.m. You need more than talent to make a speed dating and LGBT/Alt.-friendly games! Talebones collection will give readings of Cascade 6 living as an artist. A monthly salary, health And if that isn’t enough, The Tempting their works. insurance, taxes, marketing, organization, Tarts Burlesque will tantalize you with their There’s no reason to leave the gents out! promotion, portfolios – where do you find sci-fi based burlesque. Rating: 21+ only, Julie McGalliard, Patrick Swenson Find out where to get a great wardrobe, the time to do all that and still make art? ID required how to create your own look, the difference between a fop and a dandy, and why Todd Lockwood(M), John R. Gray III, Laurie Reynolds Masquerade the male goth is a bastion of style in an John Jude Palencar, Tiffany Toland Saturday, 8:00– 10:00 p.m. increasingly casual society. Grand 2 & 3 Maxi’s Lounge Party (21+) Bryan Lovely(M), Andrew Herington, Foreign Horror Saturday, 9:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. Spacemen, fairies, bounty hunters and Kevin Matthews, Alex Von Hochtritt Stargates; we’ve seen some amazing Saturday, 9:00 p.m. Maxi’s Lounge (21+) Cascade 13 costumes and performances in the past, so Beam up to Maxi’s Lounge and have some come and see what this year’s Masquerade It’s the End of the World as We Know It Horror isn’t just American. Let’s discuss drinks with your fellow congoers! This has to offer! Also watch 45 minutes (or more!) of the latest and greatest movie Saturday, 9:00 p.m. books, TV shows, and movies from other fabulous event will be sponsored by Star previews while the judges debate during Cascade 7 countries that people should try to watch. Trek: Phoenix so prepare to boldly go where half time. If you leave, you will miss no congoer has gone before. Make sure Recent years have given rise to an increase Lorelei Shannon(M), Phillip Brugalette you bring your Norwescon badge and your the exciting announcement of who our in post-apocalyptic storytelling. Games Norwescon 34 Guests of Honor will be. photo ID (21 and over). The drinks will be like Borderlands, Fallout 3, and Darksiders out of this world and the music hopping, so Trent Lum give the player a chance to roam a world Pondside Music In Concert don’t miss your opportunity to be part of devastated. Upcoming films like The Book Saturday, 9:00 p.m. of Eli and The Road play on our fear of the this brand new event. Rating: 21+ (photo Evergreen 1 ID required) Reading: Mark Henry loss of civilization. What can we learn from Saturday, 8:30 – 9:00 p.m. these End World scenarios and what is said Star Trek: Phoenix Cascade 3 by our present love of them? Battle of the Network Zombies, Zombie Robert Grey(M), Derek M. Koch, comedy. Rating: R Anthony van Winkle

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Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading threatened? Why are people so ready to JourneyQuest Preview Reading: Jeanne Stein Saturday, 10:00 p.m. – Midnight abandon scientific principles and is there Saturday, 10:00 p.m. Saturday, 11:00 p.m. Cascade 4 anything we can do about it? Is education Evergreen 2 Cascade 3 reform the answer? Is there an answer? First look at JourneyQuest with Dead Retribution, Book Five of the Anna Strong Can We Change the World through Jim Kling(M), Miki Garrison, Jak Koke, Gentlemen and Zombie Orpheus Chronicles. Rating: PG/R Science Fiction? Julie McGalliard Entertainment. Come meet the cast and see Saturday, 10:00 p.m. some footage prior to its release. Cascade 6 Good Horror Video Games Putting the “R” in RPG The Dead Gentlemen Saturday, 11:00 p.m. The literature of speculative fiction Saturday, 10:00 p.m. Cascade 7 provides the perfect oeuvre to hold a mirror Cascade 9 up to humanity and look at who we are and Poker Tournament Final Table Left 4 Dead 1&2, Plants vs. Zombies, what we might become. By telling tales Not a 13-year old gamer anymore? Saturday, 10:00 p.m. – Midnight Resident Evil, etc. Come discuss (or argue of “the other” we discover ourselves. By Wanting your games to have some more Rotunda 2 about) the best of the best in virtual space mature content? Our panelists will discuss – and maybe get some tips and tricks for projecting current trends forward, we ask The winners of all the qualifying rounds “what if?” and compare the world that is how to successfully incorporate the mowing down the undead onslaught. “R-rated” elements of sex and/or violence will compete to see who Norwescon’s best with worlds that might be. Fantastic fiction poker player is. Oh did we mention there Gareth Von Kallenbach has long been the home of astute social into your game or campaign. commentary and in-depth exploration will be a prize for the winner? Clint Ogre Whiteside(M), Wolfgang Baur, of what it means to be human; but can Mariah Johnson it be used as an art form to teach critical SatyrPhil Brucato, Mickey Schulz Philosophy and the Undead 201: thinking? Writers have long used SF to tell Hell is Other Undead - Vampires and Philosophy allegorical stories that criticize political Reading: Leon West realties and challenge us to question Alt. Sex for Writers and Artists Saturday, 11:00 p.m. Saturday, 10:00 p.m. – Midnight Saturday, 10:30 – 11:00 p.m. Cascade 8 the status quo. How deep of an impact Cascade 3 can literature, or any art form, have on Cascade 10 As our fanged friends continue to dominate informing people’s thoughts and behavior? What does it look like? Feel like? How long The Voyeur’s Guide to Sleepwalking, Crime/ various pop culture media (TV, movies, sex. Rating: R and literature), the lovers of wisdom once Leslie Howle(M), Caren Gussoff, can you tie someone up and have them Todd Lockwood, Ian McDonald, still like you? How the human body does more turn their critical unblinking eyes to David J. Williams and doesn’t work. This panel includes a the nightly existence of the vampire. Come one hour live modeling display of bondage Death*Star in Concert philosophize with your panelists as they and body positioning to understand the Saturday, 10:30 – 11:00 p.m. present a series of case studies and thought Evergreen 1 Avoiding Cliches in Urban Fantasy practicality and functionality of those experiments that draw from philosophies Saturday, 10:00 p.m. beautiful images we love to write and classic (Aristotle, Epicurus, Parmenides), Cascade 7 draw. Rating: A modern (Kant, Hobbes, Locke), and Saturday Night Hoedown contemporary (Sartre, Derrida, Heidegger) How many hard-boiled PIs does one genre Jake Ballin(M), Matt Bamberger, Kal Cobalt Saturday, 10:30 p.m. – 3:00 a.m. and are applied to modern vampire need? Gritty locales are fun, but why can’t Grand 2 & 3 interpretations (Whedon, Blake, Meyer). we ever be at the beach? Magic users, Put on your best square dancing shoes Just remember - the panelists don’t want to vampires, and werewolves, oh my! Do we Artist’s Jam and help put Norwescon to bed with suck your blood, just your knowledge. need something more original? Saturday, 10:00 p.m. – Midnight mc300baud and his eclectic collection of Cascade 13 tracks. Expect the unexpected as he spins Christian t. L. Mecham(M), Mike Derheimer, K.C. Ball(M), John A. Pitts Jason Henninger, Greg Lotz, Ciandi Patry Hang out with other artists, show your rave, wave, goth, alternative, electronica sketchbooks, and collaborate together. and more late into the night and won’t let up until the cows come home. Pre-register Sunday Voodoo Science Tiffany Toland(M)Lara Larson Saturday, 10:00 p.m. Todd Clark(M), DJ mc300baud (Todd Clark) NORWESCON 34 Cascade 8 at the Even in our high tech age, pseudoscience Registration Center is on the rise. Is scientific progress

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Lovecraft Mixed Media Saturday, 11:00 p.m. Let’s Make a Cascade 9 Movie: Intro! What are some great Lovecraftian movies, Thursday books, comics? Lovecraft’s works abound in rich imagery that has inspired many an 9:00 – 11:00 p.m. author and artist; each medium portrays Cascade 10 his vision differently. Is one better than the Behold the genesis of other? Are both equally horrific? one of the weirdest and Eric Morgret(M), Edward R. Martin III, funniest workshops Mark Rahner ever to be tolerated by Norwescon! Saturday Night Chaos Filk See page 28 for further info Saturday, 11:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m. Evergreen 1 Let’s Make a Come-as-you-are music performance, one song at a time, taking turns. Or just come Movie: Plan It! and listen! Everyone welcome. Friday 10:00 a.m. – Noon Cascade 10 Reading: Ben Thompson Saturday, 11:30 p.m. – Midnight The key to making a Cascade 3 movie, of course, is Wolf the Quarrelsome, Insane PowerPoint good planning! Learn about an 11th century Irish Viking- how to make a movie on destroyer. Rating: PG-13 a budget. See page 41 for further info Midnight Movie: I am Virgin Saturday, Midnight – 2:00 a.m. Fandance Film Evergreen 3 & 4 (Rated “R”) Festival I am Virgin: The sole human survivor in a world of sex-crazed, extremely hot and Sunday scantily clad vampires, Robby is desperate 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. to survive with his virginity (and humanity) Evergreen 1&2 intact. Can Robby keep himself pure, or will he succumb and join the ranks of lusty The Fandance Film bloodsuckers? Sean Skelding directed this Festival is the final movie, shot in Portland over a rigorous terrifying phase of the 20-day schedule, and it features a cameo by Let’s Make a Movie porn legend Ron Jeremy. Rating: R Workshop Edward R Martin III(M), Barry Bloch See page 113 for further info

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Evergreen 1 Movie: Dungeon Movie: Dungeon Masters  Masters  Movie Previews Evergreen 2

Science Fiction and Space: Humanity’s Best Law and the Evergreen 3 & 4 Fantasy Short Film Hope for Long-Term Trouble Clef Jam  Festival Winners Survival Virtual World Easter Egg Easter Egg Olympic 1 Hunt: 4 & Easter Egg Easter Carnival  Under Hunt: 5-8 Hunt: 9-12 Grand Ballroom 2 NWC 33 Art Auction

Grand Ballroom 3 Fannish Flea Market  Fannish Flea Market

Maxi’s Ballroom/Bar

Rotunda 2 Open Gaming Open Gaming 

Salon Scavenger Hunt

Presidential Suite

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So You Think You Can Believable Super Hero Cascade 5 Make Dance Costumes Garb Bloggers as Public Cascade 6 Science as a Weapon Intellectuals

Cascade 7 Masquerade Debriefing

The Future of Gaming/ Mars Conspiracy Cascade 8 Future of Game Design Theories Debunked Urban Fantasy: Bridge Cascade 9 Over a Genre

Cascade 10

Cascade 13 Making Magic Wands

Evergreen 1 Fandance Film Festival Evergreen 2

Evergreen 3 & 4  Trouble Clef Jam Onions & Roses Closing Ceremonies

Olympic 1  Easter Carnival

Grand Ballroom 2

Grand Ballroom 3

Maxi’s Ballroom/Bar

Rotunda 2  Open Gaming

Salon The Dummy is You!

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Scheduled Gaming What Color is Your Dragon? A Print By Any Other Name . . . Easter Egg Hunt Sunday, 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Sunday, 10:00 a.m. Sunday, 10:00 a.m. Sunday, 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Cascade 11 & 12 Cascade 7 Cascade 13 Olympic 1 Wind down by winding up in a game! Proper care of a large flying reptile requires So you’ve finished your piece of art and now Ages 4 & Under. There’s still plenty to enjoy in scheduled a great deal of material and labor, not to you want to make prints so you can sell it gaming. Maybe bring your cards in and mention the numerous challenges involved to as many people as possible. What is the LouAnna Valentine, Kim Poua do some trading with other players! And in “breaking” or “domesticating” these best way to go about doing this? What the don’t forget, the Grand Prize Drawing large animals for our use. We talk food, heck is a giclee print anyway? Learn about for all gaming attendees requires your grooming, tackle, dragon husbandry, flight the different printing options available and Fannish Flea Market presence to win! issues, stabling and more – bring your own where to go for them. Do you really need Sunday, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. stories of experience and share your tips for to spend a lot of money for a high quality Grand 3 Kathi Pickett the proper care and feeding of these scaly print, or is there a less expensive but still Love to go to flea markets and garage behomeths. acceptable middle ground? sales? Ever wished they had more fannish Open Gaming Irene Radford(M), Jonnalyhn Wolfcat Mark Roland(M), John P. Alexander, stuff? The SFFM is everything you have Sunday, 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. John R. Gray III, Tiffany Toland wished for: Norwescon attendees clear out Rotunda 1 & 2 their houses of stuff they don’t want, and it Future of Genetics is all here for you to buy or barter for. Bring Got an hour before your next session? Stop Sunday, 10:00 a.m. Dungeon Masters Movie your cash and check out the bargains and by open gaming and play for a while. We Cascade 8 Sunday, 10:00 a.m. – Noon incredible stuff people are getting rid of. have plenty of tables for fans to sit down Evergreen 1 & 2 (Unrated) with old friends (or new) and play . . . no It’s the 21st century. Where’s my clone? Peggy Stewart sign-up sheet required. The Rotunda is Replacement organs genetically tailored The Dungeon Masters: An evil drow elf is available for open gaming all weekend on a to you; biological databanks to track displaced by Hurricane Katrina. A sanitation first-come, first-serve basis. criminals… or anyone else, depending worker lures friends into a “Sphere of Reading: K.C. Ball on the need; cross-breeding humans with Annihilation.” A failed super-villain starts Sunday, 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Pro Roy other lifeforms: Science fiction or science a cable-access show involving ninjas, Cascade 3 fact? Where do genetic technologies go puppets, and a cooking segment. These are Flotsam, Near future science fiction, from here? the characters, real and imagined, of Keven Rating: G Reading: Keffy Kehrli McAlester’s documentary The Dungeon Sunday, 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Jim Kling(M), Janet Freeman, Guy Immega, Masters. Against the backdrop of crumbling Cascade 3 Richard Sucgang middle-class America, two men and one Easter Egg Hunt Daha’s Son, Epic Fantasy, Rating: PG woman devote their lives to Dungeons & Sunday, 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Dragons, the storied role-playing game, Olympic 1 Couture Techniques for Novices and its various descendants. Sunday, 10:00 a.m. Ages 5-8 Best Online Markets for Writers Cascade 10 Barry Bloch Sunday, 10:00 a.m. LouAnna Valentine, Kim Poua Cascade 6 Take your sewing skills to a whole new level as our costume pros demonstrate What are the best online markets for Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film sewing and finishing techniques that Festival 2010 Winners Reading: Carol Berg short fiction in 2010? Who is publishing will give your garments a much more the best science fiction? Who is Sunday, 10:00 a.m. Sunday, 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. sophisticated, professional look. Practical Evergreen 3 & 4 Cascade 3 publishing the best fantasy? What’s couture techniques that will help anyone of new and exciting? What are the best- any skill level. Come join in a screening and chat about The Soul Mirror. Rating: PG paying markets? We’ll discuss the latest this year’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Short and greatest. Wendy Prather(M), Melissa Quinn, Film Festival winners. Deborah Strub, Julie Zetterberg Cat Rambo(M), Caren Gussoff, Jordan Brooks Peck Lapp, Eric James Stone

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Unintended Consequences fantasy and science fiction. We review the Easter Egg Hunt Reading: Kim Ritchie Sunday, 11:00 a.m. looks and the influence of major fashion Sunday, 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Noon – 12:30 p.m. Cascade 5 forward groups and individuals from KISS Olympic 1 Cascade 3 to Michael Jackson, obscurer acts like Devo, Indoor plumbing led to polio epidemics. Ages 9-12 The Ash Grove, A time warp fantasy. the Tubes, Dark Fantasy of Marilyn Manson, Rating: PG Lead in paint and gas poisoned people. Siouxie and the Banshees, Judas Priest, and LouAnna Valentine, Kim Poua To what extent is modern science and much more. It’s back to the Yellow Brick technology responsible for figuring out Road with Elton John, Cher, Tina Turner, whether or not something that seems good E.T., Are You out There? Prince and Patti La Belle. Graphic Design 201 Sunday, Noon might also cause serious problems? Sunday 11:00 a.m. Carmen Beaudry(M), Melissa Quinn, Cascade 5 Matt Bamberger(M), Bob Crichton, Cascade 4 Richard Stephens This year marks the 50th year of attempting Jim Kling More advanced tips from Norwescon’s to contact extraterrestrial life using SETI, program designer include how to lay without an answer. What, if anything, are Illustration, Art, and the Economic out multi-page documents (like your we doing wrong? Should we ever expect to Creating a Movie Massacre: or, What Recession newsletter) and more detailed study of get an answer? Have They Done to My Book? Sunday, 11:00 a.m. fonts and color. Also tips on workflow, Sunday, 11:00 a.m. Cascade 13 organization of files and projects and David Stuart(M), Arthur Bozlee Cascade 7 user friendly interfaces in both print and Illustrators Mark Tedin, Julie Baroh, and web. Recommend to have some design You’ve read the book. You’ve seen the Brian Snoddy discuss the various traditional experience or have attended Graphic *POW!* Breaking into Comics movie. Why do some books seem to and non-traditional forms of surviving as Design 101. translate to the screen beautifully, Sunday, Noon an illustrator and artist during this current Cascade 6 while others just get butchered? What recession. dQniel Kaufman(M) contributes to this phenomenon? Can it be All the insider advice you could want: avoided, and how? Julie Baroh, Brian Snoddy, Mark Tedin publishing tips and tricks, art tools, Reading: Phil Brucato Brian D. Oberquell(M), Ash Productions Sunday, 11:30 a.m. – Noon collaboration advice, do’s and don’ts, and a whole lot more. Space - Humanity’s Best Hope for Cascade 3 Long-Term Survival? Echo Chamber, The caretaker of an ailing Roberta Gregory(M), Brandon Jerwa Playing God, Part II: Gods and Religion Sunday, 11:00 a.m. Sunday, 11:00 a.m. game company encounters a zombie Evergreen 3 & 4 apocalypse., Rating: PG Cascade 8 Online Writing Resources People like Stephen Hawking have said Part of world building is designing the Sunday, Noon that self-sufficient, off-Earth settlements Cascade 7 pantheon responsible for the whole are humanity’s best hope for long-term NWC 33 Art Auction thing. Our game experts discuss how they Sunday, 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. survival; and of course, such settlements Grand 2 Online sites that can assist not only with go about filling the cosmos with deities were at the heart of much of the 20th fanfiction, but with writing in general. worthy of a hero’s worship; and how they century’s science-fiction. Is it possible The Norwescon Art Auction will be a We’ll talk about Ficfinishing, NaNoWriMo, manage to stay upright on such a slippery that, in this century, the idea could move fun and exciting battle for most desired and others – bring your own favorites. slope as religion in gaming. back to center stage? Is pursuing space works of art from this year’s art show. And Cheryl Dyson Sean K Reynolds(M), Jeff Grubb, just a distraction from the life-and-death if that isn’t enough, come help support Christian t. L. Mecham priority of cleaning up the mess we have our two charities this year, Clarion West made of Earth? There is no other planet and Northwest Harvest, by bidding on in the solar system that can support life art, jewelry, and other objects of interest Pre-register Sunday Rock Stars Are Aliens “as is.” Can we create a reasonable habitat that have been donated by our dealers, within the solar system or find a habitable professional guests, and fans to support NORWESCON 34 Sunday, 11:00 a.m. these two great organizations! Cascade 10 planet that is not already in use beyond the at the solar system? Pat Booze(M), Betty Bigelow From Ziggy Stardust to Lady GaGa, rock Registration Center and roll has teased our imaginations with Brenda Cooper(M), Guy Immega, powerful and provocative fashion icons of G. David Nordley, Vernor Vinge

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Exploring the Human Condition Recycled Paper Bead Workshop Reading: Ted Butler What are you a fan of? Sunday, Noon Sunday, Noon Sunday, 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. Sunday, 1:00 p.m. Cascade 8 Cascade 13 Cascade 3 Cascade 8 Good fantasy is social commentary Making your own jewelry doesn’t have to New unpublished SF series, Rating: G Books, movies, going to conventions - what combined with good storytelling. How be expensive. We’ll do a beaded necklace is it that makes you a fan vs. someone who do we use fantasy as the lens through with recycled paper, scissors and glue. just really enjoys a particular medium? which we view the world? Many forms Reading: Kurt Cagle of literature use fantasy as the bedrock of SunnyJim Morgan Sunday, 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Amy Thomson(M), David Nasset, Sr., good story because it transcends its own Cascade 3 Chris Nilsson form in wider scope than any other type of writing. We’ll discuss how the evocation Revenge of the Movie Previews! The Healer’s War, Chapter from a work-in- Sunday, Noon – 2:00 p.m. progress about early 22nd century England, of myths can be used to stylize the real Playing with Medieval History - world in order to get at key issues for Evergreen 1 & 2 genetic engineering, awesome hacking, and magic., Rating: PG Wheeee! intellectual, moral, and political life, using Your final chance for the latest previews, Sunday, 1:00 p.m. the allegorical and heroic aspects of stories news and rumors from Hollywood. Cascade 9 to concretize philosophical musings. Including, at no additional cost, the Video Game Art famous, “why? Why? WHY?” “Alternate Timelines,” “Quantum Nathan Crowder(M), Ben Andrews, Sunday, 1:00 p.m. Universes,” or just plain-old Time Machines Christian t. L. Mecham, Kevin Radthorne Keith Johnson(M), Alan Halfhill Cascade 6 - all of these concepts create ways for an As technology continues to advance, more author to ‘play with history’. This will be and more artists are moving into the realm an interactive panel where the audience Home Recording II Law and the Virtual World of video games. Come and learn what goes will choose a significant event in Medieval Sunday, Noon Sunday, Noon on behind the creation of these games: history and come up with alternatives - Cascade 9 Evergreen 3 & 4 programs and techniques the artists use, and their consequences. A lively dialogue always ensues – Come join us! As virtual goods in Second Life, Everquest, the challenges of this new medium, and Everybody wants to make a demo. Okay, what the future of the business holds. you have some equipment. Now what do and other online games have taken on real Cymbric Early-Smith(M), Rebecca Neason you do with it? How do you set it up; how world value, new questions arise on who Claire Hummel(M), Andy Megowan, do you use it to capture or create the best has jurisdiction over these transactions. In Brian Snoddy sounds you can? If you didn’t make the first addition, there is a move afoot to tax the Capture The Rainbow – Fabric Color hour; that’s okay, come anyway. goods even if you never turn them into Techniques real world cash. Will we have a two-tiered V: The Visitors Sunday, 1:00 p.m. Alexander Adams, Jess Hart, Steven Perry, system of law? Will there be new virtual Sunday, 1:00 p.m. Cascade 13 Vixy & Tony crime? Cascade 7 There are a number of ways to turn fabric Cory Doctorow, Andrea Howe, Burt Webb Our panelists compare the new V series different colors, each creating a different Finishing Touches with the original miniseries in the `80s and effect. We’ll show you the tools and tips Sunday, Noon the subsequent television series run. What for coloring fabric, along with examples of Cascade 10 Scavenger Hunt Finals are the differences? What worked in the myriad techniques. Shibori, batik, tie dye, Sunday, Noon – 2:00 p.m. new series that didn’t work prior, and vice discharge, serti painting, vat dying, paints, So you’ve got an outfit. Don’t think you’re Salon versa? transfers, pens, and crayons - everything done costuming: What about makeup? is fair game! Hair? Accessories? Props? It’s time for The teams have been hunting all weekend Gareth Von Kallenbach(M), Leo Roberts, research, creativity, and fun! to find all the items on their lists. Now is the Jesse Simpson SunnyJim Morgan(M), Janet Borkowski, time for them to present their scavenged Katrina Marier Victoria Shaffer(M), Deborah Strub, items to the judges. Remember, it is not Garth Stubbs, Julie Zetterberg always what you find, but how you present it that determines the winner! P r e - r e g i s t e r S u n d a y Sheye Blaze NORWESCON 34 at the Registration Center 110 v April 1-4, 2010 Norwescon33 Pocket Program v 111 SUNDAY PROGRAMMING BY SUBJECT NORWESCON 33 PROGRAMMING

Trouble Clef Jam Science as Weapon Make Your Own Magic Wand plausible look for a costumed superhero. (Songs in the Key of R) Sunday, 2:00 p.m. Sunday, 2:00 p.m. What other films have given us a credible Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Cascade 6 Cascade 13 look for superheroes in a “realistic” setting? Evergreen 3 & 4 In today’s world, everything can be a All you need is a sheet of paper, some hot Garth Stubbs(M), Neil (Lights) Duttkin, A Norwescon tradition. Join our pros, and weapon, for war or terrorism. What kinds glue, a bit of paint, and about 40 minutes. Melissa Quinn, Jonnalyhn Wolfcat anyone else that cares to join in, for a fun of scenarios are really possible when No one will ever guess these wands are musical jam. biotechnologists, nanotechnologists, and made of paper. They look like the real other fanatic mad scientists get together? thing and can be customized to your own Bloggers as Public Intellectuals Is bioterrorism old news and what we really satisfaction! Sunday, 3:00 p.m. Easter Carnival need to worry about now involves mini Cascade 6 Sunday, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. black holes or silicon-digesting nanotech? Michaela Zielke Olympic 1 Is the blogosphere spawning a Jim Kling(M), Brenda Cooper, Brent Kellmer contemporary generation of important LouAnna Valentine, Kim Poua Fandance Film Festival public thinkers? Who are the ones you can’t Sunday, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. afford to miss? What are they saying? Masquerade Debriefing Evergreen 1 & 2 Reading: Elton Elliott Sunday, 2:00 p.m. Caren Gussoff(M), Kurt Cagle, Cat Rambo, Sunday, 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Cascade 7 In its eleventh year, the Festival is a Derek Zumsteg Cascade 3 celebration of low- and no-budget cinema, Come and tell us what we did well and how brought to wondrous lurching life by BISHOP OF ROME, Book Two: Nanoclone we can improve the Masquerade in the amateur filmmakers from all around the Mars Conspiracy Theories Debunked Trilogy, Rating: PG future. Any awards or trophies not picked Pacific Northwest. More than just the Sunday, 3:00 p.m. up at the masquerade will be available movies, this 120-minute extravaganza of Cascade 8 at this meeting. Please stop by and pick entertainment also includes the filmmakers Reading: James Glass yours up. regaling you with terrifying tales of their There are no pyramids, monoliths, or faces Sunday, 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. productions. Be there or be a regular right on Mars. We will discuss the reality of Cascade 3 Trent Lum quadrilateral! The Fandance Film Festival is Martian conspiracy theories and explain the final terrifying phase of the Let’s Make what’s really going on. Branegate, , Rating: G a Movie Workshop, in which participants The Future of Gaming / Future of walk through every step of making a movie, Chris Vancil(M), Arthur Bozlee, Game Design from conception to the premiere of the Tanya N. Harrison SWOC Meeting Sunday, 2:00 p.m. finished product. This year at Norwescon Sunday, 2:00 p.m. Cascade 8 marks the eleventh installment of the Let’s Cascade 4 Onions & Roses Join our esteemed panel of gaming Make a Movie Workshop! Sunday, 4:00 p.m. industry professionals in a discussion of Edward R. Martin III Evergreen 3 & 4 So You Think You Can Make Dance their views on the current status of the industry. How has it changed in the past What worked? What didn’t? Come give your Costumes feedback to the convention executives. Sunday, 2:00 p.m. year or two? Where is it going? Reading: Rhiannon Held Cascade 5 Mike Selinker(M), Eric Cagle, Mike Mearls, Sunday, 3:00 – 3: 30 p.m. Tracy Knoedler, Jeannine Swanson, Costuming for the dance stage is one of the Andy Megowan Cascade 3 Charlie Knoedler biggest challenges a designer faces. Learn Walks With Death, Urban fantasy novel, the practical ways to create costumes that Rating: PG move with the dancer and how to build Urban Fantasy: Bridge Over a Genre Closing Ceremonies garments that will last, hold up to multiple Sunday, 2:00 p.m. Rhiannon Held Sunday, 5:00 p.m. washings, and take a beating. Cascade 9 Evergreen 3 & 4 Richard Stephens(M), Carmen Beaudry, This is a genre that seems to pull ideas and William Sadorus(M), Dr. John G. Cramer, Betty Bigelow, Molly Boone forms from many different worlds. A little Believable Super Hero Garb Cory Doctorow, David Hartwell, noir here, some mystery there, and oh hey, Sunday, 3:00 p.m. Tracey Knoedler, John Jude Palencar, look steampunk! Where does urban fantasy Cascade 5 Vernor Vinge begin and end? Christopher Nolan re-invented the Dark K.C. Ball(M), Adrian Phoenix Knight with Batman Begins, offering a

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The Gaming department will do their best to maintain this schedule. Cascade 12 The start times are set, the ending times will vary by game and Game Host Time players. If the game is listed as a drop in game, then you may join in Malifaux Barry Wilson 10:00 AM anytime during the scheduled play. Some games may be expanded Kingdom Hearts Jason Lum 1:00 PM due to popularity or cancelled if player minimums are not met. We Warhammer 40k - Dark Heresy Theodore Schiro-Miller 5:00 PM recommend that you sign up for those games that you really want to play. Remember, in the end, the Game Master is always right. Saturday Thursday Cascade 11 Cascade 11 Game Host Time Game Host Time AD&D 2E: City of Skulls Uncle 9:00 AM Feng Shui: Viking in L.A. Alan Bond 1:00 PM Pathfinder: #5 Pathfinder GM 10:00 AM RIFTS Richard Johnson 3:00 PM Pathfinder: #28 Pathfinder GM 10:00 AM Neverwhen Dragondyne Publishing 4:00 PM Shadowrun 4th Ed:Shdw Kamal Lombardi 11:00 AM D&D 4E 101 - Basics TBD TBA in Seattle Ironclaw Kathi Pickett 12:00 PM Cascade 12 Red Dwarf Alan Bond 2:00 PM Game Host Time Pathfinder: #35 Pathfinder GM 4:00 PM Yu-Gi-Oh Jason Lum 2:00 PM Pathfinder: #30 Pathfinder GM 4:00 PM Kingdom Hearts Jason Lum 5:00 PM Tower of Mysteries Chris 6:30 PM Warhammer 40k - Dark Heresy Theodore Schiro-Miller 5:00 PM Call of Cthulu 6th Edition Kamal Lombardi 7:00 PM D&D 4E 101 - Basics TBD TBA Friday Cascade 11 Cascade 12 Game Host Time Game Host Time Pathfinder #28 Pathfinder GM 10:00 AM Malifaux Barry Wilson 10:00 AM Pathfinder #43 Pathfinder GM 10:00 AM Neverwhen Dragondyne Publishing 10:00 AM Neverwhen Dragondyne Publishing 10:00 AM Warhammer 40k - Dark Heresy Theodore Schiro-Miller 5:00 PM Ghostbusters: Seattle Richard Johnson 1:00 PM Shadow Run: Esp Bug City Alan Bond 1:00 PM Sunday Jadeclaw: Sleeping Kittn Kathi Pickett 3:00 PM Cascade 11 Pathfinder: #30 Pathfinder GM 4:00 PM Game Host Time Pathfinder: #45 Pathfinder GM 4:00 PM Pathfinder: #43 Pathfinder GM 10:00 AM Cyberpunk 2020: Dream Park Kamal Lombardi 7:00 PM Pathfinder: #45 Pathfinder GM 10:00 AM Ghostbusters Richard Johnson 7:00 PM Cthulutech: Vancouver Kamal Lombardi 11:00 AM Tower of Mysteries Chris 7:30 PM Neverwhen Dragondyne Publishing 10:00 AM Call of Cthulhu: Mad House Pro Roy 10:00 PM Albedo: Drop and Roll Kathi Pickett 12:00 PM D&D 4E 101 - Basics TBD TBA D&D 4E 101 - Basics TBD TBA

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A brave are once again on the rise in Seattle in this duty is protect the Imperium from the spy in Dorakaa has shown the way to find time period. predatations of the Heretic, The Xenos, Jadeclaw: The Sleeping Kitten and free Holmer - but is your party up to and Chaos. Set in the Warhammer 40,000 the job of freeing him? King Belvor IV of Kamal Lombardi (GM) tabletop miniature game. You are what Jadeclaw is a game of Anthropomorphic Furyondy believes so. In the way stand stands between Damnation...and Death. animals in a land that is modeled after fearsome priests and mages of the Lord of Ave Imperator! a combination of Japanese, Chinese and Pain; ogres, giants, fiends, and worse will Cthulutech: Vancouver Arcology other Asian influences. You are a servant hinder the struggle to defeat traps and Theodore Schiro-Miller (GM) in the household of the Magistrate in This is a game which takes place in a the town of Li, in the State of Wen. The guardians of Iuz. Plucking Holmer from his futuristic setting in which the Old Ones grasp will bring great renown, knighthood, Magistrate’s estate houses the Mystical have returned and are assaulting a New Feng Shui: Vikings in L.A. Sleeping Kitten - a statue of the First and treasure - for those who survive. None Earth Government which is being defended have ever escaped Iuz’s jails. Will you be Emporer holding a figure of a jade sleeping by Evangelion-esque type mecha. The Alan Bond (GM) kitten on it’s lap. The kitten has vanished the first to use stealth or storm to breach game is sort of modern day Cthulu mixed them? and you and other servants are suspected with mecha anime type situations. Your of stealing it! You must work together to Uncle (GM) setting is that you are a team working for Ghostbusters: Ghostbusters Seattle find the true thief before the Magistrate the Federal Security Bureau working as must hand down the severe punishment! part of the Sectarian Crimes Division (Pregen or pre-approved player provided characters) Ghostbusters Seattle Branch Kathi Pickett (GM) Albedo: Drop and Roll Kamal Lombardi GM) is continuing to operate at a high rate. You Albedo is a game system based off the have several calls you need to take care of; who you gonna call? YOU! Anthropomorphic Comic of the same name Kingdom Hearts by Steve Galacci. You play anthromoporphic Cyberpunk 2020: Dream Park Richard Johnson (GM) Kingdom Hearts is a two-player battle card (human-like) animals in a Science Fiction Welcome to the Night City of the 2030’s, setting. You are all members of the game that is based on the Video Games. a place that has been vastly transformed Join Sora in his quest to rid the Worlds from Federation, serving in the conflict against by the emergence of new megacorps who Ghostbusters: the Independent Lapine Republic (ILR). the dark powers of the Heartless, with run elaborate roleplaying theme parks like the help of your favorite Disney and Final Your crack team of commandos has been Dream Park and the influence of Rising (Pregen or Pre-Approved Player provided assigned to drop onto an ILR-claimed characters). Various missions and some Fantasy characters Donald, Goofy, Ariel... Seas. You are part of Night Squad, a team and more. Four sets have been released planet and acquire their newest war- of Edgerunners who run security for Dream down-time. machine - a land vehicle with weaponry and with them come new deck types and Park and also run themselves as an ops Richard Johnson GM) advantages. The Darkness, where players and electronics far beyond the Federation’s team doing jobs for various megacorps on developments. get to use the Heartless to their advantage. the side. The adventure will use original Or The Organization, where players use Kathi Pickett (GM) Cyberpunk 2020 game rules. Ironclaw: Cleansing the Sewers the newest Nobody cards along with the Kamal Lombardi (GM) Ironclaw is a game of Anthropomorphic familiar ORG XIII cards. animals in a setting roughly based on early Jason Lum (GM) Call of Cthulhu: Mad House Renaissance Europe. On the small continent People are dying and terror stalks the D&D 4E 101 - Basics of Calabria no city is more beautiful than night. But, is it truly an ancient evil? Or Come and learn the basics of Dungeons & Triskellion… until you look under her just the psychotic ravings of lunatics? The Dragons 4th Edition. Create a character and streets where the ingenious engineers players must discover the truth...before it play through a short scenario. Host and routed her sewage. You have broken the discovers them. times to be determined. law somehow, and your sentence is to spend the day breaking up blockages in the Pro Roy (GM) TBA (GM) sewers. It’s back-breaking and agonizing

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Malifaux Pathfinder: #28 The Devil We Know - Pathfinder: #43 The Pallid Plague Shadowrun 4th Edition: Shadows in Part I, Shipyard Rats Seattle Open Demos. Malifaux is a character-driven You are sent to Andoran’s Darkmoon Vale to tabletop skirmish game comprising Crews When simultaneous kidnappings of investigate the cause of a local plague said You’re an up and coming team of runners, of 5-7 miniatures for most games. Malifaux Pathfinder and Aspis Consortium agents to cause certain death to fey--and possibly who are looking for your next shadowrun uses gothic, steampunk, Victorian horror rock Cassomir’s Imperial Naval Shipyards, to humanity as well. This is a Pathfinder in Seattle when a fixer contacts you and with a dose of wild west to create a world the Society orders you to join forces with Society Scenario designed for 1st to 5th tells you to meet at some location called of magical lawlessness rife with monsters, hated Aspis agents to solve the mystery. level characters (Tiers: 1–2 and 4–5). Matchstick’s down near the Space Needle. necropunks, man-machine hybrids, Can you work together with the enemies She suggests that she has put together a gunslingers, and power-hungry politicos. of the Society to uncover the source of Pathfinder GM (GM) hand-picked team consisting of you and The unique card mechanic in Malifaux the kidnappings, or will you perish in the a bunch of other shadowrunners. Some brings exciting levels of strategy to the shipyards of Cassomir? This is a Pathfinder megacorp is obviously behind the run, but wargame universe. Society Scenario designed for 1st to 7th Pathfinder: #45 Delirium’s Tangle level characters (Tiers: 1–2, 3–4, and 6–7) she neglects to mention which one. Barry Wilson (GM) You owe Grandmaster Torch a favor and Kamal Lombardi (GM) Pathfinder GM (GM) he’s calling it in. It seems he ... misplaced ... a certain famous minotaur prince of Neverwhen Absalom and needs you to help recover the Tower of Mysteries Pathfinder: #30 The Devil We Know - prince before the city discovers what he’s Welcome to the world of Neverwhen. Part II Cassomir’s Locker Neverwhen is a d20 Campaign system done.This is a Pathfinder Society Scenario Chris (GM) that uses Wizards of the Coast’s 4.0 The Pathfinder Society dispatches you to designed for 1st to 7th level characters gaming system license. It allows players the catacombs called Cassomir’s Locker (Tiers: 1–2, 3–4, and 7–8). and gamemasters to take items and/or to find the source of a rat cult breeding Warhammer 40k - Dark Heresy characters from any d20 setting and use monstrous vermin. After clearing Pathfinder (GM) them in their own campaign. In addition Cassomir’s dank sewers and delving into In the grim darkness of the far future, you we have provided a storyline that allows the dirty dungeons below, will you find are all that stands between Humanity the inclusion of your campaign. We are the artifact that powers Cassomir’s Locker RIFTS and its damnation. You are acolytes to doing demos of this new d20 role-playing or bring about the destruction of Taldor’s one of the Emperors Inquisitors. Your game. Pre-Generated characters are most important port? This is a Pathfinder (Pregen or pre-approved player provided duty is protect the Imperium from the available. Society Scenario designed for 1st to 7th characters) The Coalition has taken partial predatations of the Heretic, The Xenos, level characters (Tiers: 1–2, 3–4, and 6–7). control of Clairfield in fringe space between and Chaos. Set in the Warhammer 40,000 Dragondyne Publishing (GM) the Republic of Texas and Coalition Control tabletop miniature game. You are what Pathfinder (GM) territory. You have obtained a request stands between Damnation...and Death. for medical assistance, in the process of Ave Imperator! Pathfinder: #5 Mists of Mwangi delivering assistance a Coalition trooper Pathfinder: #35 Voice in the Void Pathfinder Lugizar Trantos recently has been discovered drowned in his own Theodore Schiro-Miller (GM) returned from the Mwangi Expanse with Mystery strikes again at the problem- sealed armor. haunted eyes and a pack full of strange plagued Blackros Museum in Absalom Richard Johnson (GM) idols. Absalom’s famed Blakros Museum and its curator, Nigel Aldain, needs your Yu-Gi-Oh purchased his pieces and Lugizar vanished. help. When a famed Osirian tomb raider In Neo Domino City, five Duelists are The strange monkey idols he pulled from returns to Absalom and disappears in the Red Dwarf: Hop, Jump and Leap marked by destiny to uncover the secrets the misty jungles of Mwangi carry with museum’s basement, Aldain fears the of the five dragons. The future of Yu-Gi-Oh them a fell curse, and now their power worst. When strange sounds echo from Alan Bond (GM) has laid claim to the museum. Can the below and several of the curator’s night is going into overdrive! Come to the place Pathfinder Society uncover the source watchmen go missing, he panics and begs where Duelists get together to play and have fun with the Yu-Gi-OH Trading Card of the curse in time, or will the Blackros the Society to investigate the mystery Shadow Run: Escape from Bug City Museum be forever lost to the mists of and save his museum from the darkness Game. Bring your decks and skills for what Mwangi? This is a Pathfinder Society that infests it. This is a Pathfinder Society Alan Bond (GM) will be an enjoyable event. With the newest Scenario designed for 1st to 5th level Scenario designed for 1st to 7th level 5D’s sets out, turn your deck and gaming characters (Tiers: 1–2, 4–5). characters (Tiers: 1–2, 3–4, and 6–7). experience into overdrive. Pathfinder (GM) Pathfinder (GM) Jason Lum (GM)

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Artist GoH Jospeh Hill − Knitting Maille John Jude Palencar Larry Lewis − Pencil, Pen-and-Ink 2D Art Loren Damewood − Tieing Knots in Precious Metal Chris Sumption − Illustration Alton Lawson − Illustration Adele Lorienne Mark Roland David Ketcherside − Digital Illustration Aimee Stewart Mark Tedin Mad Bee − Digital Art Alan M. Clark Megan McBurney Judy O − Handweaving - Inkle Looms April Faires Mimi Noyes Asstarte Monika Livingstone Belsac Nina Tabares Betsy Mott Patty A. Watson Butch Honeck Peggy Foy Chris Sumption Peri Charlifu Christine D. Winters Peter Pan Christy “Goldenwolf” Granjean Philip Wagner DEALERS Claudett Wagner Phillip Brugalette Collection of Becky Fallis Rebecca Schumacher Collection of Mildred Downey Broxon Rena Bassilvergoran Angelwear Creations Honeck Sculptures David Ketcherside Rita Townley Anna the Lost Last Wear Donna Barr Rob Carlos dba Colorsmith Productions Apex Publications Magickal Aardvark Douglas Herring Roberta Gregory Art of Wings Massoglia Books Durlyn Roger Wheeler Bad Dog Hats OffWorld Designs Eden Hopkins Rory Clark Badgers Den Ovation Productions Elizabeth Fellows Russell D. Campbell Evening Angel Ruth Peterson Bob Brown Paraselenic Studios Falstaff Saelle Book Universe Perilous Press Gayle MacArthur Sandra Santara Cargo Cult Books Prose and Steel Gemma Woodhouse Sarah Clemens Celtic Moonlighting Quicksilver Fantasies Jeff Knutson Shaughnessy Cleo Wolfus Designs Realm of Rreglia Jeff Sturgeon Stacey Hardin Cordochorea Creations Redwolf Hammer Jennifer J. Kelley Stephen Lestat Dawno’s Beaded Lanyards Rob & June Edwards Jo Brown Strange World Studio Dragon Hoard Games Royal Magick John P. Alexander Stu Shepherd Dragondyne Publishing Runecraft Creations John R. Gray III TaBry Illustrations Dragonmaker Seafire Productions Joshua Foreman Tammie Dupuis & Gwen McComb Eraserhead Press Seams Like Magik Julie Baroh Tattoo Stacy Everett Comics Sign of the Unicorn K. Amarak Waters Tenaya Sims Kevin Radthorne Teresa Miller Eye-Deas Sinister Metalworks Kyle Abernethy Theresa Lee Costanzo Firefly Cargo Springtime Creations Leslie Newcomer Theresa Mather Fur Connection Steelcraft/ Legends of Camelot Lily Munn Tiffany A. Toland Games Plus WR Slater Books Mad Bee Tina Klein-Lebbink Guilded Quill Xcentricities Margaret Organ-Kean Todd Lockwood Gypsy Troll

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Group: 501st Garrison Titan Group: Norwescon Charitable Events Contact: Marc Semenchuk Contact: Marlene Helms Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: http:// www.garrisontitan.com/ Web: Group: Alls Faire Group: NWSFS Contact: Kristin Bartholomew Contact: Michael Citrak Email: [email protected] Email: Web: http://www.allsfaire.org/ Web: http://nwsfs.org/ Group: Alpha Base Group: Reno in 2011 Westercon Contact: Chuck Foltz Contact: Email: [email protected] Email: Web: http://alpha-base.org/ Web: http://www.rcfi.org/ Group: Beyond Reality Costumers Guild Group: Seattle Browncoats Contact: Vicki Glover Contact: Robyn Haaf Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.brcg.org/ Web: http://www.cstsseattle.org/ Group: Blue Falcon Editing Group: Seattle in 2012 Contact: Andrea Howe Contact: Email: [email protected] Email: Web: http://www.bluefalconediting.com/ Web: http://westercon65.swoc.org/ Group: Camarilla Fan Group Group: Solseed Contact: Shane Freund Contact: Email: [email protected] Email: Web: http://camarilla.white-wolf.com/ Web: Group: Colonial Defense Forces Group: Star Fleet International Contact: Jeromie Foulger Contact: Email: [email protected] Email: Web: http://www.battlestarhyperion.com Web: http://www.sfi.org Group: EMP/SFM Group: Star Trek Phoenix Contact: Contact: Sue Mohn Email: Email: [email protected] Web: Web: http://stphoenix.com/ Group: International Wenches Guild Group: SteamCon Contact: Mary Weekman Contact: Diana Vick Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.wench.org/ Web: www.steam-con.com Group: ISS Group: USS Aurora Contact: Contact: Brian Pickett Email: Email: [email protected] Web: Web: http://www.gemicon.com/ussaurora/ Group: Jericho Fandom Group: USS Chinook Contact: Gwen Contact: C.P. Dalen Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: N/A Web: http://www.usschinook.org/ Group: MEW Convention Group: Washington Renaissance Faire Contact: Kristin Bartholomew Contact: Kate Gale Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.mewcon.com/joomla/index.php Web: http://www.washingtonrenfaire.com/ Group: National Space Society-Seattle Contact: David Stuart Email: [email protected] Web: http://chapters.nss.org/wa/seattle/

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TV Channel 46 TV Channel 46 - Continued

Thursday Saturday Night of the Living Dead: 1968 NR 3:00 pm V: Series 1:00 am Dr. Who: Planet of the Dead 4:40 pm Lexx: Lafftrak 4:10 am Torchwood: Children of Earth: Part 1 5:40 pm Time Tunnel: The Day the Sky Fell-in 4:55 am Red Dwarf : The End 8:35 pm Labyrinth PG 7:30 am RD Kryten 9:00 pm Coraline PG 9:00 pm Zombieland R 9:30 pm Max Headroom: Blipuert 9:10 am Transfomers PG 11:00 pm Bablon 5: The Lost Tales 10:00 am Quark 11:10 am Family Guy: Something Dark Side 11:35 am Friday Red Dwarf: Polymorph 12:30 pm Transfomers 2 PG 1:20 am Red Dwarf: Back to Reality 1:00 pm Lexx: Eating Patten 3:50 am Red Dwarf: Back to Earth 1:25 pm Lexx: Super Nova 5:20 am Max Headroom: Body Banks 2:35 pm Ice Age 3 G 7:00 am Red Dwarf: Only the Good 3:25 pm Dark Crystal PG 8:30 am Robot Chicken: Star Wars 2 3:55 pm Battlestar Galactica: 1978 PG 10:00 am Dr. Who: The End of Word 4:35 pm Buck Rogers in the 25th Century PG 12:05 pm Norwescon Masquerade: Live! 7:00 pm Buck Rogers: Planet of the Slave Girls 1:35 pm Under the Hood 9:30 pm Torchwood: Children of Earth: Part 2 3:10 pm Watchmen: 12 episodes 10:05 pm Star Trek: 2009 PG 5:10 pm Twilight PG-13 7:15 pm Sunday South Park: Ungroundable 9:20 pm Repo! The Genetic Opera R 9:40 pm Teles of the Freights R 3:30 am Rocky Horror Picture Show 11:20 pm Lexx: I Worship His Shadow 3:55 am Lexx: Giga Shadow 5:30 am Peter Pan PG 7:00 am Norwescon Masquerade: Taped 9:00 am Transfomers 1 PG 10:00 am Transfomers 2 PG 12:00 am

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TV Channel 48 TV Channel 48 - Continued

Thursday Saturday Cosmos 10:00 am Cannibal the Musical R 12:05 am Theremin an Electronic Odyssey PG 4:05 pm Blade Runner R 1:40 am Meet Dave PG 5:30 pm Battlestar Galactica: 1978 PG 3:40 am Speed Racer PG 7:00 pm Max Headroom: War 5:45 am The Happening R 9:10 pm Sarah Jane Adventures: Show 1 6:30 am Rollerball R 10:40 pm Sarah Jane Adventures: Show 2 7:30 am Sarah Jane Adventures: Show 3 8:30 am Man on the Wire PG 9:20 am Friday Batman: The Dark Knight PG-13 10:55 am Stargate PG 12:45 am Farscape 1:30 pm Doomsday R 2:50 am Moon PG-13 4:30 pm Journey to the Center the Earth PG 4:40 am Red Dwarf: Pet 6:10 pm Labyinth G 6:15 am Norwescon Masquerade: Live! 7:00 pm Mirrormask G 7:55 am Harry Potter: Half-Blood Prince PG 9:30 pm George Lucas in Love PG 9:35 am Troop 10:00 am Sunday Farscape: Premiere 10:10 am Firefly: Sernity 11:00 am District 9 R 12:05 am Space: Above and Beyond - Pilot 12:30 pm Aeonflux PG 1:55 am Time Tunnel 2:00 pm Ultraviolet R 3:30 am Max Headroom: Rakers 2:50 pm Futurama: The Beast with Back 5:05 am Flash Gordon: TV Series 3:40 pm Monster vs. Aliens G 5:20 am Flash Gordon: Movie PG 4:05 pm Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs G 8:05 am Nosferatu PG 6:00 pm Star Trek: 2009 PG 9:35 am Streets of Fire PG 7:20 pm Batman: The Dark Knight PG-13 11:40 am South Park: Major Boobage 8:50 pm Heavy Metal R 9:10 pm Kentucky Fried Movie R 10:40 pm

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main floor Grand 1 Art Show Grand 2 General Programning and Special Events Grand 3 General Programning and Special Events NW Ballrooms Dealers Room

second floor Everygreen 1-4 General Rogramming and Special Events Cascade 1 & 2 Green Room and Stage Managerment Cascade 3 Readings / Evening General Programing Cascade 4-10 & 13 General Pogramming Cascade 11 & 12 Schedule Gaming

tower - floor 14 Maxies Bar General Programming and Special Events Salon General Programming and Special Events Mt. Barker/ Mt. Rainer Writers Workshop

penthouse floor Presidential Suit 1360 Special Progamming

hallway to wing 7 and wing 6 Artist Alley

main floor Olympic 1 Family Programming and Special Events Olympic 2 Volunteers Olympic 3 Hospitality Room 7101 Cloakroom/ Lost & Found Room 7106 Norwescon Office Room 7108 Norwescon Security/ Dispatch

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NORWESCON 33 NORWESCON 33 Event Locations - First Floor Event Locations - Second Floor

Norwescon 32 Bathrooms Norwescon 32 Bathrooms Artsy Abstract Flow Chart to ConventionArtsy Services Abstract Flow Chart to Convention Services Event Locations Event Locations Stairs Elevators & Stairs First Floor * “R” to Second Floor Salon and Maxie This Floor Contains The First Floor Contains Readings 13 12 11 Art Show Elevators* Art Show Elevators Grand Ballroom Art Show Grand Ballrooms Grand Ballroom Cascade Rooms Registration Registration Dealer’s Room Dealer’s Room Green Room 1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10 Courtyard To Second Floor Courtyard

Registration Courtyard The Second Floor Contains This Floor Contains Cascade Meeting Rooms Cascade Meeting Rooms (Scheduled Gaming 11-12) (Scheduled Gaming 11-12) Green Room Dealer’s Room *Please ask ourGreen Room Bathrooms Evergreen Meeting Rooms helpfulEvergreen staff for Meeting Rooms Norwescon 32 Readings assistance Readings Artsy Abstract3-4 Flow Chart to Convention Services Hallways to Wings Bar Elevator* Evergreen Rooms Elevator* The Wings Contain The Wings Contain Event Locations 1-2 Elevators & Stairs Hospitality Hospitality Second Floor *Please ask our Volunteers Volunteers helpful staff for Hotel Check-In Coffee Garden Olympic Meeting Rooms Olympic Meeting Rooms The First Floor Containsassistance Readings 13 12 11 Security Security Art Show Elevators Convention Office Convention Office Grand Ballroom Cascade Rooms Cloak Room/Lost & Found Cloak Room/Lost & Found Registration Rotunda (Open Gaming) DoubleTree Ground Floor Rotunda (Open Gaming) DoubleTreeDealer’s RoomSecond Floor Green Room DoubleTreeCheck-In and Ground Lobby Floor Area CascadeDoubleTree and Evergreen Second Floor Rooms 1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10 Check-In and Lobby Area CascadeCourtyard and Evergreen Rooms

This Floor Contains This ThisFloor Floor Contains Contains Art Show CascadeCascade Meeting Meeting Rooms Rooms Grand Ballroom (Scheduled GreenGaming Room 11-12) Registration EvergreenGreen Room Meeting Rooms Dealer’s Room Evergreen MeetingReadings Rooms Courtyard Readings 3-4 Evergreen Rooms Elevator* 130 v April 1-4, 2010 The WingsNorwescon33 Contain Pocket Program v 131 1-2 Hospitality *Please ask our Volunteers helpful staff for Olympic Meeting Rooms assistance Security Convention Office Cloak Room/Lost & Found Rotunda (Open Gaming) DoubleTree Second Floor Cascade and Evergreen Rooms DOUBLETREE MAPS NORWESCON 33

NORWESCON 33 Event Locations - The Wings

Norwescon 32 Wing 5B Bathrooms Artsy Abstract Flow Chart to Convention Services Event Locations Elevators & Stairs The Wings Wing 5 The First Floor Contains Wing 6 Wing 7 Art Show Grand Ballroom Registration Volunteers Hospitality Dealer’s Room Courtyard Olympic 1 Security 7108

Con Office 7106 The Second Floor Contains Gym Cascade Meeting Rooms Cloak Room 7101 (Scheduled Gaming 11-12) Artist Alley Green Room Rotunda Evergreen Meeting Rooms To First Floor Pool Readings

This Floor Contains Hospitality Volunteers Olympic Meeting Rooms Security Maxi’s Convention Office Cloak Room/Lost & Found Rotunda (Open Gaming) Open to Norwescon Wing 4 Wing 3 Wing 2 Attendee’s Exclusively This Floor Contains 21 & Over Only Hospitality Volunteers Olympic Rooms Security Convention Office Cloak Room/Lost & Found Rotunda

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