| Time | Panels | Readings | Discussions, Etc. | Kaffeeklatsches | Autographs | |||
| Salon F | Salon H | NH / MA | VT | ME / CT | RI | Vineyard | Salon E | |
| FRIDAY | ||||||||
| 03:00 | The History of Clarion | Levinson | 3 Theories of Fantasy | |||||
| 03:30 | Delany, Edelman, Haldeman,
Hoffman, Kelly (+M), Wilhelm |
McManus | Keller | |||||
| 04:00 | The Appeal of the SF War Story | Edelman | M. Tem | Be A Public Intellectual | Clute & Dern | Tourtellotte | ||
| 04:30 | T. Nielsen Hayden (M), Haldeman, Hunt, Marks, Trudel | Langan | Levinson | |||||
| 05:00 | The Years in Short Fiction | Education and Social Control | Klages | Sherman | Reed How-I-Wrote | McCarthy & Strock | Charnas & O'Leary | |
| 05:30 | Frederick (M), Cramer,
Datlow, Di Filippo, Ga. Grant, Link |
Asher, Genoa, Lilley (+M), McManus, Mendlesohn | McGarry | Hand How-I-Wrote | ||||
| 06:00 | Reading Through Another's Eyes | The Career of Kate Wilhelm | Park | Gl. Grant | Medieval Lit as Proto-SF | Viable Paradise | Morressy & Sherman | Levinson & Steele |
| 06:30 | J. Gardner, Kushner (+M), La Farge, Sawyer, Walker | Matthew (M), Clute, Hoffman, McManus, Van Gelder |
Marks | Cambias | Trudel | Doyle, Macdonald et al | ||
| 07:00 | Author on the Side of the Milk Carton | Einstein and Modernity | Kelly | Cisco | The Mechanics of Writing | Bookaholics Anonymous | McGarry & Park | |
| 07:30 | Gilman, Gravel, Keller, Morressy (+M), Ringel | Berman, Cramer, Frederick (+M), Levinson, McCarthy | Reed | Isaak | Haldeman | LaFarge et al | ||
| 08:00 | The Reading Protocols of Slipstream | The Fiction of Kuttner and Moore | Wilhelm | Sawyer | Hal's Worlds | Strategies That Don't Work | Grossman & Klages | |
| 08:30 | Cox (+M), Lethem, O'Leary, S. Tem, Walker | Hartwell, Houghton (+M), Lake, Schweitzer, Stine | Tourtellotte et al | T. Nielsen Hayden | ||||
| 09:00 | (setup) | Delany | Kushner | If They Were Alive & Writing | Translating Ægypt | Levinson & Nielsen Haydens | ||
| 09:30 | Singh | Di Filippo, Edelman, Feeley, Freund (+M), Macdonald |
Crowley How-I-Wrote | |||||
| 10:00 | Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award and Meet the Pros(e) Party (120+ min.) |
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| SATURDAY | ||||||||
| 09:00 | Cook | |||||||
| 10:00 | After the Cover's Closed | Pleasures of the Mystery Novel | Haldeman | Burstein | Swords & Spaceships | Ancient Metrology | Crowley & McManus | Allen & Genoa |
| 10:30 | Clute, Delany, Klages (+M), Park, Platt, Reed | Charnas, C. Gardner, Lethem, Levinson (+M), S. Smith | Tourtellotte | Do Quit Your Day Job | Kingsbury | |||
| 11:00 | Genre-Switching For Fun & Profit | Novel, La! | Broad Universe | Morressy | Programmable Matter | SF vs. National Delusion | Goss & Link | Crowley & Haldeman |
| 11:30 | Blumlein, Delany,
Lethem, T. Nielsen Hayden (+M), Reed, Wilhelm |
Burstein, Doyle, Hartwell (+M), Sawyer | Dern | McCarthy | Hatch | |||
| 12:00 | A Writer's Workshop in Action | Wow, I Actually Wrote That? | O'Leary | Jabberwocky | "25 Years Passed" | Two Types of Fantasy | J. Gardner & Hand | Carver & Datlow |
| 12:30 | The Cambridge SF Writers Workshop | Black (+M), Bowes, Gilman, Tan, S. Tem | Berman | Di Filippo, Feeley (+M), McGarry, Meskys, Sleight | La Farge | |||
| 01:00 | Secondary Characters | The Career of Joe Haldeman | Charnas | Cox | Poem To Song | Learning Online | Edelman & Hartwell / Cramer | Hoffman & Morressy |
| 01:30 | Kelly (M), Kushner,
Meynard, T. Nielsen Hayden, Park, Sherman |
Allen, Dern (+M), Hunt, Steele, Van Gelder | Walker | Tremblay | Kirstein | Grossman | ||
| 02:00 | Traumatized Authors | The Open-Ended Horror Story | Kuttner by Brody |
Genoa | Creative Being | The Andre Norton Award | Burstein & Tan | Sawyer & Wilhelm |
| 02:30 | Doyle, Haldeman, Hand,
Macdonald, Sleight (+M) |
Cavelos,
Cisco, Reed, Schweitzer (+M), S. Tem |
Hoffman | Marks | McManus | |||
| 03:00 | Beliefs You Can't Prove | The New Cordwainer Smith Winner | Crowley | McCarthy | Interstitial Arts | The Odyssey Workshop | Future Washington Reception | Hartwell / Cramer & Hunt |
| 03:30 | Kirstein, Lethem,
Mendlesohn, P. Nielsen Hayden, Sleight (+M) |
Clute, Edelman, Kingsbury, Schweitzer (+M), Van Gelder | Kushner | Cavelos | ||||
| 04:00 | Kate Wilhelm Interviewed | |||||||
| by David G. Hartwell | ||||||||
| 05:00 | Joe Haldeman Interviewed | Registration and Information: Ballroom Lobby | ||||||
| by Farah Mendlesohn | Fri. 2p - 9p, Sat. 9a - 6p, Sun. 9a - 1p | |||||||
| 06:00 | ||||||||
| Con Suite: Room 630 | ||||||||
| 08:00 | The Rhysling Award Poetry Slan (c. 75 min.) | Fri. 3p - 9p, Sat. 9a - Midnight, Sun. 9a - 2p | ||||||
| Allen (+M), Goss, Haldeman, McGarry, Schweitzer, Singh, Taaffe, Thomas | Bookshop: Grand Ballroom Salon E | |||||||
| 09:30 | The Best of the Kirk Poland Memorial Bad Prose Competition (c. 90 min.) | Fri. 4p - 7p, Sat. 10a - 6p, Sun. 10a - 2p | ||||||
| C. Gardner (+M), Gl. Grant (champion), Meynard, Tan, Van (M) | ||||||||
| SUNDAY | ||||||||
| 10:00 | Really Magic Realism | The Opposing Argument | Blumlein | Gilman | Immortality In SF | King's The Dark Tower | Haldeman & Sawyer | Kirstein & Doyle / Macdonald |
| 10:30 | Crowley, Dern (+M), Hoffman, M. Tem, Thomas | Hartwell (+M), Houghton, Marks, P. Nielsen Hayden, S. Smith |
Platt | Langan | ||||
| 11:00 | Teaching SF in the Classroom | Slingshot Ending & Sequel Tricks | Di Filippo | Hand | Physicists & Writers? | Out-Of-Genre Reading | Datlow & Kingsbury | J. Gardner & Tan |
| 11:30 | Lerner (M), Charnas, Delany, Goss, Grossman | Clute, Gravel, O'Leary, S. Smith (+M), Steele | La Farge | Frederick | Hipsters, Flipsters et al | |||
| 12:00 | Backwards From Effect To Story | Cross-Generational Fiction | Kirstein | Schweitzer | Drawing / Writing Interface | SF and Social Change | Feeley & Hunt | Kingsbury & McCarthy |
| 12:30 | Van (M), Cisco, Clute, Crowley, Mendlesohn, Wilhelm | Hartwell, Hecht (+M), Klages, Link, Morressy, Sherman | Doyle | Ga. Grant | Walker | Sawyer | ||
| 01:00 | Single v. Complete Extrapolation | SF Poetry | Macdonald | Tan | Theodore Sturgeon | Blumlein How-I-Wrote | Kirstein & Walker | Kushner & Marks |
| 01:30 | Cambias, Carver (+M), Easton, Gl. Grant, Tourtellotte | Allen, Goss (+M), Haldeman, Taaffe, Thomas | J. Gardner | Black | Delany | McCarthy How-I-Wrote | ||
| 02:00 | Best-Guess / Hand-Waving Science | Out-of-Genre Horror | Link | Krasnoff | Debriefing: Salon F, 3p | Copyediting | Kushner & Wilhelm | |
| 02:30 | Berman, Blumlein, Burstein (+M), Delany, Haldeman, Strock | D'Ammassa,
Datlow, Hand, Langan (+M), M. Tem, Tremblay |
Goss | McGarry | ||||