Friday
Big Room
18.00 Good Reads
Our traditional first panel. Four people each choose a book, they all read them, and discuss all four.
Thomas Noriega, Shaz Taslimi, Grace Burson, Mary Reppy
19.15 Building a Textured World
Some worlds are so real you can bite them, others are flimsy, how do you give an invented world texture?
Victoria Goddard, Ada Palmer, Sherwood Smith, Jo Walton (M), Greer Gilman
20.30 Ask a Scientist
Bring all your questions for:
Alison Sinclair, Michael Lueckheide, Michael Mellas (M), Henry Farrell, Diane Kelly
Reading Room
19.15 Henry Farrell interviews Ruthanna Emrys
20.30 Jo Walton Reading
21.00 Su Sokol Reading
Saturday
Big Room
10.00 True Journey Is Return
Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed
Jo Walton (M), Alexis Shotwell, Hannah Trower, Alison Sinclair, Henry Farrell
11.15 Imaginations of Government
Actually running the world, making decisions, changing things, let's have more fiction about it!
Ada Palmer (M), Victoria Goddard, Ruthanna Emrys, Henry Farrell, Patrick Nielsen Hayden
12.15 LUNCH
13.30 Red Cover With an Elf
How to identify long lost books from clues.
Gillian Speace, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Moti Lieberman, Rich Horton, Eugene Fischer (M)
14.45 Magic Words
Magic is often entangled with language in interesting ways
Jo Walton (M), Gretchen McCulloch, Greer Gilman, Sherwood Smith, Lila Garrott
16.00 Designing Aliens, Biology and Society
Jim Cambias, Ada Palmer (M), Amy Thomson, Rich Larson, David Levine
17.15 Robots, AI, Class, and Rights
Jon Evans, Jo Walton (M), Amy Thompson, Ada Palmer, Eugene Fischer
18.15 DINNER
19.30 Scenes from Shakespeare
The Caterpillars of the Commonwealth present Pyramus and Thisbe and the Ghost Scene from Cymbeline.
20.45 Sassafrass Concert
Reading Room
10.00 Grace Burson interviews Victoria Goddard
11.15 Lila Garrott Reading
11.45 David Levine Reading
12.15 LUNCH
13.30 Sherwood Smith Reading
14.00 Ada Palmer Reading
14.45 Who Writes This Stuff?
Rene Walling reports on the results of his statistical analysis of writers
16.00 Jon Evans Reading
16.30 Ruthanna Emrys Reading
17.15 Sherwood Smith & Greer Gilman interview each other
18.15 DINNER
19.30 Jon Evans Interview
20.45 Emmet O'Brien interviews Amy Thompson
SUNDAY
Big Room
10.00 Pacing, shape, and length
Jo Walton (M), Rich Larson, Ada Palmer, Jon Evans, Teresa NH
11.15 Activism in Fiction
How do we make it work and not be overwhelming
Su Sokol, Ruthanna Emrys, Alexis Shotwell (M), David Levine
12.15 LUNCH
13.30 Why You Want to Read the Vorkosigan Series
Because it's doing lots of really interesting things, that's why!
Gretchen McCulloch (M), Ruthanna Emrys, Alice McCloud, Lila Garrott, Alison Sinclair
14.45 History of SF Class
Jo and Ada taught an online history of SF class, and these people took it!
Mary Ellen, Mathieu Glachant, Hannah Trower, Cari Friesen Buhr, Doug Palmer
16.00 Journeys: making space and time work
This is a technically hard thing to do, but all the panelists have done it well: how?
Ada Palmer (M), Jon Evans, Jim Cambias, Victoria Goddard, Su Sokol
17.15 How do you write about books you love?
It's easy to be negative or even mixed, but why is it so hard to write about the ones you really love?
Rich Horton, Jo Walton (M), Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Lila Garrott
Reading Room
10.00 Greer Gilman Reading
10.30 Victoria Goddard Reading
11.15 Terra Ignota Discussion with Ada Palmer
12.15 LUNCH
13.30 Nine Princes in Amber
How does Roger Zelazny do it, and does it hold up?
Jo Walton (M), Thomas Noriega, Jon Evans, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Sherwood Smith
14.45 Gillian Speace interviews David Levine
16.00 Rich Larson Reading
16.30 Jim Cambias Reading
17.15 Emmet O'Brien & Greer Gilman read Little Kingdom