Loscon 2012 Program Schedule - Sunday Day/Time Title Description Panelists Room Sun 8:30 Catholic/Christian Catholics and Christians can gather Fr. John Blaker Scottsdale Services together for Sunday Morning services. Sun 10:00 DAWN: Journey A slide show on NASA/JPL’s Dawn Bridget Landry Marquis 1 To The Beginning Mission investigating two of the largest Of The Solar proto-planets, Ceres and Vesta, in the System asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to explore the conditions and processes of the solar system's earliest epoch. Sun 10:00 Guest Of Honor Our Fan Guests of Honor, active in Lloyd Penney Marquis 2 Lloyd & Yvonne many areas of fandom from their home Yvonne Penney Penney base of Toronto, interviewed by Christopher Garcia raconteur and fan writer extraordinaire Christopher Garcia. Sun 10:00 Doctor Who, Then There's always been a huge fandom for Robert N. Skir Marquis 3 & Now Doctor Who but for a lot of other Eric L. Hoffman people, the show didn't do much. But Andrew Trembley the new Doctor Who series has won a Colleen Crosby legion of converts. Is the new show that Mitch Wagner different from the old one? Sun 10:00 Beyond Harry What books would interest kids (or Cecil Castellucci Marquis 4 Potter adults) who enjoyed Harry Potter? For Valerie Estelle many, Harry was the first fantasy they Frankel read. Why has it drawn so many and Amy Sterling Casil where can they go now? Sharan Volin

Sun 10:00 Race & Racism In Why is science fiction so white? The Bradford Lyau Chicago Science Fiction characters seem almost all to be Laurie Tom Caucasian (except when they’re aliens). Kenne Estes Is this simply because so many of the Shaene Siders writers are white? (And why is that?) Nancy Holder Or are there marketing concerns at work? Should we care whether Kimball Kinnison or Teela Brown are black, white or Hispanic? Sun 10:00 Ray Bradbury and Ray Bradbury said that, when he was Steven Barnes Dallas His Influence young, Leigh Brackett gave so much of Bill Warren her time over to giving him advice that Kenn Bates helped him become a great writer that Larry Niven he’s always felt the need to do the same for others. And lots of people can testify that he did. And, of course, his books and stories have likewise influenced generations of writers. A discussion of his influences, direct and indirect. Sun 10:00 Fan Fund Auction Fan Funds are groups that, by vote, Jacqueline Saddlebrook bring fans from one continent to Monahan another, to help spread the word between our international brethren. Funding for these trips is by donation or fund raising like auctions of cool and fannish stuff. Come bid. Come help. Sun 10:00 How To Do The trick to making your story Barbara Hambly Scottsdale Research believable is "getting it right". And the Richard Foss trick to that is doing research. Harry Turtledove Experienced researchers and writers tell Sarah Joy Adams you the secrets to good research. Sun 10:00 Autograph Session Vernor Vinge Autographs Sun 11:30 A Fandom After It was fandom that kept Star Trek alive Michael Siladi Marquis 1 The Show for years after its cancellation and was Steven Sears the tool that eventually brought it back. Lorien Gray Which recently cancelled show has the Nancy Holder kind of fandom that will keep the show Shaene Siders alive even though it's not on the air? Which will be the next Trek? Sun 11:30 Working Spacecraft What’s it like to have a job in space? Trina L. Ray Marquis 2 Operations Well, if not in space, working Bridget Landry spacecraft operations. Some of the Sarah Milkovich people whose day-to-day jobs involve Steven Collins getting spacecraft designed, built, into Tara Estlin space, to their destination, and working once they get there talk about what they do and what it’s like to have a really cool job like driving the Mars Rover. Sun 11:30 Writing Characters It's one thing to create characters, come Doris Egan Marquis 3 You Didn't Create up with who they are, what they're like, Len Wein and how they talk. It's quite another to Richard Dean Starr come into someone else's world and James Hay have to tell stories with and about those Gillian Horvath characters. How do you keep them the same and still put some of yourself into them? Or should you even try? And how does it differ between movies/TV, comics, and games? Sun 11:30 Shakespeare’s There’s not much science fiction in Steven Barnes Marquis 4 Influence On Shakespeare’s plays but there’s plenty S.P. Hendrick Science Fiction & of fantasy. It’s pretty well accepted that Harry Turtledove Fantasy he’s had a tremendous influence on all Valerie Estelle of English literature. What influence, Frankel though, on science fiction and fantasy? Sarah Joy Adams

Sun 11:30 Future Remakes Hollywood has loved remaking movies Kenne Estes Chicago since its earliest days and this doesn’t Shawn Crosby seem likely to change anytime soon. Jacqueline Our panel discusses old movies they’d Monahan like to see remade and the changes Bill Warren they’d make to them. Audience participation definitely invited. Sun 11:30 Religion In Genre Religion is frequently ignored in Allison Lonsdale Dallas Books & Movies science fiction and fantasy. But Buzz Dixon sometimes it isn't. How is it treated? Bradford Lyau Do we see standard Earth religions or Laurie Tom all-new ones? Or ones that just think Fr. John Blaker they're all new? Some authors seem to think that, come the future, all people will just abandon their religious beliefs. Does that seem likely? Sun 11:30 Extraterrestrials Where are the Extraterrestrials? Why Timothy Cassidy- Saddlebrook haven't we been contacted? A gold Curtis mine for science fiction ideas, the James C. Glass academic study of this problem has Arthur Bozlee come a long way in the last 10 years. Chris Butler Are we victims of a galactic conspiracy, or is the forest full of wolves? Sun 11:30 Military Tactics In Many science fiction stories have a Edward L. Green Scotttsdale Science Fiction military background. Heinlein, Mike Shepherd Dickson, Pournelle, and many others Moscoe have used space-faring soldiers as the Steve Frankel centers of their stories. But how would Regina Franchi those tactics work in "real life"? Who gets it right? What should be done better? Sun 11:30 Autograph Session Maria Alexander Autographs Eric Choi Barbara Hambly Sun 1:00 Hard Fantasy Is there such a thing as "hard" fantasy, Todd McCaffrey Marquis 1 like "hard" science fiction? Is it just a Nathan Long matter of research or better world Tim Powers building? What does it take to make a Amy Sterling Casil fantasy "hardcore"? Who's writing hard fantasy, what is it, and how does it work? Sun 1:00 Parody, Pastiche, There's a time and place for everything. Philip Proctor Marquis 2 And Humor Or is there? Does humor have a place Regina Franchi in modern fiction? Can there ever be Charles Lee too much? Jackson II Milton F. Stevens

Sun 1:00 Writing Science Script writing is whole different Doris Egan Marquis 3 Fiction For medium from writing novels and short Steven Sears Television & stories. How is it different from writing Joe Pearson Movies prose? And what's it like working in Craig Miller television and the movies? Sun 1:00 The Slytherin J.K. Rowling painted a negative picture Lorien Gray Marquis 4 Question of Slytherin House, its principles, and Laura Frankos its students. Isn't putting them together Yvonne Penney likely to end up just reinforcing their Stephen Weese evil ways? Why would Hogwarts even have a house for teaching evil wizards? Sun 1:00 Hand Waving Or In order to write science fiction, do you David Gerrold Chicago Just How Much need a doctorate in theoretical physics? Vernor Vinge Physics Do Writers Or can you get by with a high school Steve Frankel Need To Know? education? Do you need to be able to Eric Choi explain how the science works or can you just say “warp drive” and be done with it? And how much hand waving is too much? Sun 1:00 Mistakes Future If we were to read a story written in the Mike Glyer Dallas Historians Will 23rd century but set in our time, what Christopher Garcia Make About Our might we find wrong with it? Steven Collins Time Richard Foss Justin Lloyd

Sun 1:00 Music From There are quite a few science fiction Fang van took Saddlebrook Mainstream Artists songs that have made the Billboard charts or had other notable mainstream success. This is not be a scholarly, comprehensive survey; just a time to hang out, listen to music, and talk about what you liked. Sun 1:00 Fantasy – How Can To a lot of hard science fiction readers, John DeChancie Scottsdale It Be Good? fantasy stories are those where the Neo Edmund authors don't have to be consistent – it Andrew Trembley works because it's magic. But good John Hertz fantasy is consistent, within each world's own rules. What are the rules and the restrictions for writing a "good" fantasy. Sun 2:30 How You Can Fly The era of private spaceflight has Arthur Bozlee Marquis 1 in Space arrived. See and hear the latest news from XCOR Aerospace, builders of the LYNX suborbital spacecraft, from someone who’ll be flying in it next year. With a combination of slides, videos, and prototype hardware, you’ll learn how the era of private spaceflight arrived and how you, too, can fly in space. Questions and audience participation encouraged. Sun 2:30 The Contract What responsibilities do authors have to John Hertz Marquis 2 Between Reader their readers? Any? What does each Maria Alexander And Writer partner bring to the arrangement? Tim Powers Mike Shepherd Moscoe

Sun 2:30 Suggestion Box Was it good for you? If you have ideas Christian McGuire Marquis 3 for running a better Loscon or just have Joyce Hooper questions about how it happened this Cathy Beckstead year, you're invited! Come let us know the good and the bad. This year's chair and next year's co-chairs will be there to listen and answer questions. Sun 2:30 Developing Your Okay, you've written a novel, created a Michael Donahue Marquis 4 Property For The comic book, or done a series of Louise Nemschoff Media dynamite drawings. How can you get Craig Miller your "intellectual property" from where Neo Edmund its at to the TV and movie screen? Sun 2:30 Aliens Beyond Some fictional creatures are just too James C. Glass Chicago Probability fictional to exist. What are some of the John DeChancie more outlandish and improbable aliens Milton F. Stevens and mythical creatures you've read Sharan Volin about or seen in the media? Sun 2:30 Writing For Does it take special training or Todd McCaffrey Dallas Children And knowledge to write books and stories Cecil Castellucci Young Adults for children and young adults? Are they Nancy Holder different from adult works in any way, Phil Proctor other than vocabulary? How do you break in? And if you write for kids, is it hard to also write for adults? And how does it differ between movies/TV, comics, and games? Sun 2:30 Science Fiction Music for Star Trek, Firefly, David Raiklen Saddlebrook Composers Transformers, Family Guy, Uncharted, Ron Jones and Space Command. Well known and Greg Edmunson rising stars in science fiction, fantasy, superhero, and horror genres discuss what makes these genres musically unique. They'll discuss the latest trends and classic scores for film, TV, and games as well as what goes into writing and producing a great score and their personal favorites.

Sun 2:30 The Ethics Of At some point, it seems pretty likely Fr. John Blaker Scottsdale Cloning there will be clones. Body parts at first Buzz Dixon but, eventually, cloned beings. What Scott Campbell rights would they have? What rights Richard Dean Starr won't they have? What about for robots or androids? Sun 4:00 Closing The curtain comes down on this year’s Christian McGuire Marquis 3 Ceremonies Loscon. Say goodnight, Gracie. And Joyce Hooper say hello to next year’s Loscon. Cathy Beckstead