THURSDAY
Time	Panels and Discussions, Etc.		Readings		Discussions, Talks, Etc.
	Salon E	Salon B	Vinyard	Salon A	ME / CT
8:00 PM	Writers Who Review	When The World Ends, And Nobody Notices
	Bishop, Di Filippo, Hand, Malzberg, Waldrop, Ge. Wolfe	Dillon w/ Gilman, Ringel, Sutherland
9:00 PM	The Origin of Character in Breakthrough of the Mind	You Don’t Know Dictionary!			What Did You Guys Think Of . . . ?
	Gregory, Gunn, Hand, Kelly, Kushner, Straub	Garrott, Gilman, Kaftan, Micklem, Taaffe			Person & Waldrop
FRIDAY
Time	Panels		Readings		Special Panels, Discussions, Talks, Etc.		Kaffeeklatsches	Autographs
	Salon E	Salon B	Vinyard	Salon A	ME / CT	830	456 (top nm) / 458
11:00 AM	Egocentrism and Creativity	SF As The Literature Of Things			The Seeds of Poe: Two Anthologies	Turning Writer’s Block into Stories
11:30 AM	Edelman, Gunn, Kelly, Shirley, Valente, Ge. Wolfe	Bobet, Clute, Di Filippo, Nakashima-Brown, Weinstein			Charnas, Datlow, Hand, Sherman, Straub, Ga. Wolfe	Longyear
12:00 PM	The Catharsis of Myth, the Shock of Invention	The Nature of Evil in Horror Fiction			Geek Card Workshop	Poetry and SF
12:30 PM	Asher, Goss, Isaak, Miller, Valente	Barron, Clute, Schweitzer, Shirley, Weinstein			Frederick	Allen & Bishop
1:00 PM	Novels You Write vs. Novels You Talk About in Bars	The Career of Elizabeth Hand			Narrative Psychology and SF	Acting Techniques and Writing
1:30 PM	Malzberg, J. Morrow, Pollack, Steele, Wilber	Cox, Golaski, Sleight, Witcover, Ga. Wolfe			Abrahams	Arthen ( 2 hrs)
	Salon E	Salon B	NH/MA	VT	ME / CT	RI	456 (top nm) / 458	Salon F
2:00 PM	Hacks Anonymous vs. The Art Police	The Year in Novels			Preons as the Most Fundamental Particle	Tarot, Myth, and Imagination
2:30 PM	Edelman, Hand, Reed, Shaw, Shirley	Brown, Lilley, Lipkin, Sleight, Witcover			Van	Pollack
3:00 PM	Just Who the Hell Am I, Anyway?	Apollo 11 and Science Fiction			How To Review	Vocabulary in Gilman (Garrott)
3:30 PM	S. Berman, Charnas, Kushner, Lewitt, Reed, Straub	Daley, Di Filippo, Frederick, Malzberg, Steele, Strock			Brown, Dirda, Fox, Grossman, Ga. Wolfe	Language as a Tool (Phillips-Sears)
4:00 PM	Words as Magic	So, What’s New?			How I Wrote Wonderwall	The Savage Humanists (Kelleghan)
4:30 PM	Crowley, Gilman, Klages, Sherman, Ge. Wolfe	Bacigalupi, Buckner, Collins, Lapine, Trudel			Hand	Robert Hooke (Cambias)
5:00 PM	Off Color	The Golden Age of SF Was 1968			Slipstream in the Postwar Short Story	How I Wrote A is for Alien (Kiernan)
5:30 PM	Bradford, Durham, Gunn, Menon, Tan	Cox, Crowley, Keller, Reed, Zeddies			Beamer & Ga. Wolfe	How I Wrote The Orphan’s Tales (Valente)
6:00 PM	Reality and Dream in Fiction	Reconsidering The Classics			A Different Mind	Speculative Poetry Workshop
6:30 PM	Berry, Cisco, Kiernan, Meynard, Ge. Wolfe	J. Berman, Brown, Dirda, Malzberg, Person			Micklem	Allen
7:00 PM	The Emotional Roots of Fantasy, Part 2	Edgar Allan Poe			The Use of History in the Fantastic	Reading Dr. Seuss as Weird Fiction
7:30 PM	Abrahams, Gregory, Swanger, Tan, Van	Buckner, Cox, Ford, Golaski, Goss, Hunt			Sleight	Kiernan
8:00 PM	How Do We Choose What We Read?	The Career of Hope Mirrlees			Annual Interstitial Arts Town Meeting	Rewriting Lewis And Rowling
8:30 PM	Bishop, Dirda, Janssen, Kirstein, Rothman, Wilber	Gilman, Hand, Keller, Kissane, Swanwick			Kushner	Grossman
9:00 PM	(setup)				Exceptions to the Rule	Bookaholics Anonymous
9:30 PM					Crowley, Freund, Jones, Krasnoff, Redick	Hanger et al
10:00 PM	Readercon 20 Grand Ceremony
10:30 PM	Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award
10:45 PM	Meet the Pros(e) Party (120+ min.)
SATURDAY
Time	Panels		Readings		Special Panels, Discussions, Talks, Etc.		Kaffeeklatsches	Autographs
	Salon E	Salon A	NH / MA	VT	ME / CT	RI	Vinyard	Salon F
10:00 AM	History and Fictional History	Upbeat and Downbeat in YA Fiction			Notes on the Superhero (Clute)	Short Horror Fiction: The Art (and Market)
10:30 AM	Cevasco, Charnas, Durham, Finlay, Hobson, Waldrop	Bacigalupi, Bobet, Klages, Surrette, Sutherland			How I Wrote Enclave (Reed)	Barron, Cavelos, Datlow, Golaski, Tremblay
11:00 AM	Is Hard SF Just a Narrative Voice?	The Killers Inside Us			My Life in the Theater, 1910--1960	Odyssey Workshop Presentation
11:30 AM	Asaro, Carver, Easton, Hartwell, Jablokov, Zeddies	Allen, Antosca, Hand, Longyear, Tremblay			Crowley	Cavelos
12:00 PM	Boom & Bust in Genre Publishing and the Economy	Call and Response			The Genre Roots of Mainstream American Fiction	Coping with Diversity
12:30 PM	Arthen, Guran, Person, Van Gelder, Weisman	Cramer, Garrott, Gilman, Grossman, Miller			Finlay	Abrahams
1:00 PM	Novels of Advocacy vs. Novels of Recognition	The Invention of Fantasy in the Antiquarian Revival			The Radical Rewrite	Puppetry and SF (Kowal)
1:30 PM	Bacigalupi, Clute, Houghton, Malzberg, Sawyer, Sleight	Doyle, Gilman, Kissane, K. Morrow, Ringel, Taaffe			Asaro, Bernobich, Blake, Longyear, Mirabelli, Smith	Learning to Fight like a Knight (Nelson)
2:00 PM	Is Fiction Inherently Evil ?	The Fiction of Greer Gilman			Espionage Fiction and the Fantastic	Where Do You Get Your Ideas?:
2:30 PM	Bishop, Delany, Kiernan, J. Morrow, Straub, Ge. Wolfe	Dillon, Garrott, Keller, Ringel, Swanwick, Taaffe			D'Ammassa, Finlay, Macdonald, Nakashima-Brown, Shirley	Improv for Writers
3:00 PM	Is Darwinism Too Good For SF?	The Rhysling Award Poetry Slan			Academic Attention: Good, Bad, Or Ugly?	Klages
3:30 PM	Hecht, Kiernan, Menon, J. Morrow, Popkes, Sawyer	Allen, MC et al			Cheney, Danvers, Delany, Hartwell, Lerner, Schanoes	(2 hrs.)
4:00 PM	Salon E, 4 PM: Elizabeth Hand Interviewed by David Streitfeld. 5 PM: Greer Gilman Interviewed by Lila Garrott
6:00 PM	(dinner break)
8:00 PM	The 1st Kirk Poland Memorial Bad Prose Competition Tournament of Champions Gardner, Grant, Gravel, Kirstein, Lewitt, Meynard, Van (c. 100 min.)
10:00 PM	Howard Waldrop Reads				Diamond Star: The Concert Asaro, Wolcott
SUNDAY
Time	Panels		Readings		Special Panels, Discussions, Talks, Etc.		Kaffeeklatsches	Autographs
	Salon E	Salon A	NH / MA	VT	ME / CT	RI	Vinyard	Salon F
10:00 AM	Classics for Pleasure	After the Cover’s Closed			The Future of Magazines, Part 1 (Print)	The Weird and Unsettling Underland Press
10:30 AM	Dirda with Clute, Crowley, Delany, Hand, Waldrop	Edelman, Grossman, Heuler, Hunt, Reid, Roessner			Benson, Burstein, Lapine, Purdom, Silverman, Van Gelder	Golaski & Blake
11:00 AM	Divinatory Systems In Imaginative Literature	The Shirley Jackson Awards			The Future of Magazines, Part 2 (Online)	Dubai, City Of The Future? (J. Berman)
11:30 AM	Crowley, Gilman, Gunn, Micklem, Pollack, Van	Hand, MC et al			Bradford, Clarke, Killheffer, Kowal, Kressel, Wallace	How Body Shapes Intelligence (Collins)
12:00 PM	Outsider Artists and Speculative Fiction	Strong Stories With Strong Parents			Mainstream and Genre	The Fiction of Stanley Weinbaum
12:30 PM	Gilman, Gorinsky, Hand, J. Morrow, Shirley, Swanwick	J. Berman, Daemon, Hill, Johnson, Prineas			Beamer, Finlay, and Ga. Wolfe	Gravel, Lake, Schweitzer, Waldrop, Weisman
1:00 PM	The Notion of Lives on Paper	We Won, We Lost			The Book Club: Mieville	How to Give an Effective Reading
1:30 PM	Delany, Hartwell, Johnson, Malzberg, K. Morrow	Adams, Burstein, Cox, Di Filippo, Killheffer, Roessner			Berry, Clute, Freund, Grant, Sleight	Kowal
2:00 PM	Altered Minds, Damaged Voices	The Year in Short Fiction			Memorial Guest Of Honor Interview	Lasers, Death Rays, Ultimate Weapons
2:30 PM	Clute, Collins, Hand, Longyear, Shaw, Waldrop	Clarke, Cohen, Cramer, Datlow, Goss			Swanwick	Hecht
3:00 PM	Readercon 20 Debriefing