| THURSDAY | |||||||||
| Time | Panels | Readings | Discussions, Etc. | Kaffeeklatsches | Autographs | ||||
| Salon F | Salon H | NH / MA | VT | ME / CT | RI | 456 (top name) / 458 | Salon E | ||
| 8:00 PM | "The Real Year" is Ageless! | ||||||||
| Clute, Hand, Hartwell, Malzberg, Sleight, | |||||||||
| 9:30 PM | What Single Novel Exemplifies Readercon? | ||||||||
| Di Filippo, Cox, Schweitzer, Smith et al | |||||||||
| FRIDAY | |||||||||
| Time | Panels | Readings | Discussions, Etc. | Kaffeeklatsches | Autographs | ||||
| Salon F | Salon H | NH / MA | VT | ME / CT | RI | 456 (top name) / 458 | Salon E | ||
| 11:00 AM | A Heinlein Roundtable | Fowler | |||||||
| 11:30 AM | Clute, Brown, Sleight, Wolfe | ||||||||
| 12:00 PM | Reading the Super-Long Narrative | Ford | Taaffe | Shepard & | |||||
| 12:30 PM | Asher, Crowley, D'Ammassa, Hartwell, Kenyon | Singh | McHugh | ||||||
| 1:00 PM | Brilliant But Flawed | The Slipstream / Magic Realism Canon | Wexler | Silverman | Black & | ||||
| 1:30 PM | Crowley, Fowler, Link, Malzberg, Schweitzer | DiFillipo, Cox
, Drummond, Goss, Kessel, McManus, Sleight, Valente (100 min) |
Langan | Kowal | L. Gilman | ||||
| 2:00 PM | Writing and the Rest of Life | Witcover | Marley | Hartwell/Cramer & | |||||
| 2:30 PM | Ford, Kenyon, Malzberg, Marks, Maxey, Singh | Tremblay | Grossman | G. Gilman | |||||
| 3:00 PM | The Retold Fairy or Folk Tale | The Fiction of William Hope Hodgson | Shepard | Genoa | Implausible Teaching | Longyesr & | Crowley & Hand |
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| 3:30 PM | Black, Datlow, Goss, Ga. Grant, Valente | D'Ammassa, Golaski, Schweitzer, Weinstein | McManus | Marks | Levinson | ||||
| 4:00 PM | Rebel, Rebel: Ex-Rocker Writers | Smooth and Lumpy Expanded Universes | Link | Edelman | Secrets of Great Public Readings | Fowler & | Kenyon & J. and K. Morrow |
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| 4:30 PM | Gl. Grant, Cox, Hand, November, Shepard | Cisco, Gardner, Meynard, Strock, Wilber | Thomas | Kowal | S.Berman, Butter, Daley | ||||
| 5:00 PM | "The Singularity Needs Women!" | Awe, Horror! | Kessel | Purdom | Writing Sequels | Link/Grant & | Daley & Longyear |
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| 5:30 PM | Bear, Cramer, Marley, McManus, J. Morrow | Clute, Datlow, Mamatas, Paffenroth, Wolfe | Goss | Levinson | Kressel | ||||
| 6:00 PM | Hunted Jaguars: Fiction in Another Land | Absent Friends (In Memoriam) | Marks | Maxey | Why The Small Press Matters | Bookaholics Anonymous | Jarpe & | ||
| 6:30 PM | Di Filippo, Kowal, Lewitt, Park, Shepard | Genoa, Freund, Kessel, Taaffe, Weinstein | Bear | Valente | Kressel | Hanger et al | Hecht | ||
| 7:00 PM | Young (and Very Young) Adult F&SF | The Fiction of Lucius Shepard | McHugh | Cox | The Public Domain Land | Spec Poetry Workshop | Kirstein & | ||
| 7:30 PM | Black, Daley, Durst, Hoffman, November, Wein | Langan, Golaski, Sleight, Swanwick, Witcover | Schweitzer | Grossman, Levinson, Macdonald, Quilter, Watts | Allen | Genoa | |||
| 8:00 PM | Filling In the Middle | SF Writers Who Deserve Biographies | Morrow | Broad Universe |
The Readercon Book Club: Little, Big | "Nightfall" Radio | Datlow & | ||
| 8:30 PM | Dolley, Kenyon, Kirstein, Lewitt, Macdonald, Wilber | Lerner, Malzberg, Van Gelder, Weisman, Wolfe | J. Berman, Drummond, Hand, Sleight, Walewski | Golaski | Adams | ||||
| 9:00 PM | (setup) | Crowley | Wein | SF Reviewing in the Blogosphere | Interfictions | Hunt & | |||
| 9:30 PM | Durst | Clute, Cramer, Freund, Lilley, Purdom, Van Gelder | Goss, Singh, Valente et al | Langan | |||||
| 10:00 PM | Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award | ||||||||
| 10:15 PM | Meet the Pros(e) Party (120+ min.) | ||||||||
| SATURDAY | |||||||||
| Time | Panels | Readings | Discussions, Etc. | Kaffeeklatsches | Autographs | ||||
| Salon F | Salon H | NH / MA | VT | ME / CT | RI | 456 (top name) / 458 | Salon E | ||
| 10:00 AM | Must Great Narrative Art Have Humor? | The Year in Short Fiction | Park | Smith | Other Points of View | HIW Generation Loss (Hand) | Doyle / McDonald & | Ford & Hoffman |
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| 10:30 AM | J. Berman, Di Filippo, C. Gardner, Longyear, Van | Cramer, Datlow, Hartwell, Van Gelder, Wallace | L. Gilman | D. Edelman, Marks, McHugh, Spencer, Watts | Willa Cather (Ringel) | Valente | |||
| 11:00 AM | Political Beliefs and Fiction | "The Door Dilated": Heinlein as Innovator | Hand | G. Gilman | Obscure Fiction Outlets | Humor, Cont. | Swanwick & | Palmatier & Valente |
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| 11:30 AM | Bacigalupi, D. Edelman, Fowler, Kessel, J. Morrow, Shepard | Cambias, Cox, Dern, Lerner, Purdom | Hoffman | Datlow, Golaski, Kressel, Pelland, Tremblay | see Salon F at 10 AM | Park | |||
| 12:00 PM | James Frey Recapitulates Santa Claus | Sense of Wonder or Sense of Cool? | Doyle/McDonald | Sybil's Garage |
Talking Film with Lucius | Writing Tricks (Spencer) | Crowley & | Kirstein & Levinson |
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| 12:30 PM | J. Berman, Fowler, Golaski, Jablokov, Malzberg, McHugh | Adams, Easton, L. Gilman, Lilley, Strock | Kenyon | Shepard | Ergonomics (Smith) | Hand | |||
| 1:00 PM | Fantasy as Inner Landscape | Blindsided by the Fantastic | Longyear | Burstein | Library Thing | The Odyssey Workshop | Allen & | Durst & Wein |
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| 1:30 PM | Crowley, G. Gilman, Link, McManus, Park, Swanwick | Clute, Daemon, S. Edelman, Goss, Sleight | Jarpe | Bear, Blachly, Quilter et al | Cavelos | Weisman | |||
| 2:00 PM | The Case for Archetypal Evil in Fantasy | The Fiction of Karen Joy Fowler | Coyote Road | Di Filippo | The Megaverse, Etc. | Dead Reckonings | Bacigalupi & | Hartwell/Cramer & Kingsbury |
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| 2:30 PM | Asher, Butler, Cavelos, J. Morrow, Palmatier | Beamer, Houghton, Kessel, McHugh, McManus | Frederick | Langan | Durst | ||||
| 3:00 PM | The Rhysling Award Poetry Slan | A Promiscuous Theory of Story Structure | Swanwick | Carter by Brody |
Near-Future Political SF | HIW Ironside (Black) | Bear & | Fowler & L. Gilman |
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| 3:30 PM | Goss, Allen, Shepard, Schweitzer, Taaffe, Valente et al | Clute, Crowley, J. Morrow, Smith, Van | Ga. Grant, Gl. Grant, Hunt, Jarpe, Menon | HIW Bright of the Sky (Kenyon) | Edelman | ||||
| 4:00
PM 5:00 PM |
Salon F, 4 PM: Lucius Shepard Interviewed by Jeffrey Ford. 5 PM: Karen Joy Fowler Interviewed by Adam Golaski | ||||||||
| 8:00 PM | The 21st Kirk Poland Memorial Bad Prose Competition. C. Gardner, Doyle/Macdonald, Meynard (champion), Gl. Grant, Van (c. 100 min.) | ||||||||
| SUNDAY | |||||||||
| Time | Panels | Readings | Discussions, Etc. | Kaffeeklatsches | Autographs | ||||
| Salon F | Salon H | NH / MA | VT | ME / CT | RI | 456 (top name) / 458 | Salon E | ||
| 10:00 AM | The Other Sciences in Hard SF | Horror and Social Observation | Bacigalupi | Mythic 2 | Extreme Brain States & Brains | How to Write Good | Kingsbury & | Datlow & Shepard |
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| 10:30 AM | Chiang, Easton, Frederick, Levinson, Marley | Cisco, Fowler, L. Gilman, Golaski, Langan | Hunt | Van | Longyear | McManus | |||
| 11:00 AM | See It Like Saruman | The Fiction of Angela Carter | Jablokov | Cisco | Molecular Assembly & Origins of Life | (Talk + open
workshop, 120 min) |
Kessel & | Doyle/Macdonald & Marley |
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| 11:30 AM | J. Berman, Crowley, Houghton, J. Morrow, Swanwick | G. Gilman, Goss, Hand, Smith, Taaffe | Kingsbury | D'Ammassa | Jarpe | Purdom | |||
| 12:00 PM | SF Cinema in the DVD Era | After Rowling and Pullman | Interfictions | Golaski | What, No Flying Car? | Storyboarding | Morrow & | Bear & Hunt |
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| 12:30 PM | Allen, Genoa, Shepard, Silverman, Van | S. Berman, Black, Durst, Link, November | Kirstein | Trudel | Kenyon | Clute | |||
| 1:00 PM | Personal Archetypes | I Have a Proof of This | Levinson | Palmatier | Lucius, Central America, and Us | Persistence Pays Off | Kenyon & | Butler & Dolley |
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| 1:30 PM | Doyle, Fowler, J. Gardner, G. Gilman, Longyear, Park | Hecht, Burstein, Kingsbury, Marley, Watts | Spencer | Dern | Shepard | Daley | Strock | ||
| 2:00 PM | Intimidated by Story Potential | SF in Other Tongues | D. Edelman | Berman, Butler, & Daley |
HIW Blindsight (Watts) | Wein & | |||
| 2:30 PM | Bear, Drummond, S. Edelman, Marks, Witcover | Hartwell, J. Morrow, K. Morrow, Singh, Trudel, Walewski | Cambias | Grossman | |||||
| 3:00 PM | Readercon 18 Debriefing | ||||||||