DAY | START | END | LOCATION | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | PANELISTS |
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Friday | 6:00 PM | 6:50 PM | Keweenaw | Reading: John Scalzi | John Scalzi | |
Saturday | 12:00 PM | 12:50 PM | Keweenaw | Reading: Merrie Haskell, Michael R. Underwood, Mishell Baker | Merrie Haskell, Michael R. Underwood, Mishell Baker | |
Saturday | 3:00 PM | 3:50 PM | Keweenaw | Reading: Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar | Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone | |
Saturday | 4:00 PM | 4:50 PM | Keweenaw | Let’s Talk: Biology | A lighthearted talk on a hard science topics with smart and funny people. Let’s Talk: Biology features: Eating bugs , how birds help humans and what you will find in the depths of Lake Erie. | Christine Knight, Heidi Trudell, Daniel Dugan, Dr. Julie Lesnik |
Saturday | 5:00 PM | 5:50 PM | Keweenaw | Disney Rules Genre Film | With the acquisition of 21st Century Fox’s film and television studios, Disney has brought the X-Men, Deadpool, and Fantastic Four into the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s orbit. Between that, Pixar, and Lucasfilm, is Disney the only game in town when it comes to genre blockbusters? Can Warner Brothers, Sony, and the rest still compete? | Michael R. Underwood, Seleste deLaney / Julie Particka, Stacey Filak, Mari Ness |
Saturday | 10:00 PM | 10:50 PM | Keweenaw | Let’s Talk: Cells | A lighthearted talk on a hard science topics with smart and funny people. Let’s Talk: Cells will cover Cellular Chemistry, CRISPR and Cat Memes | Daniel Dugan, Derek Künsken, Alison Eastman |
Sunday | 11:00 AM | 11:50 AM | Keweenaw | Dressing A Fictional World | They say clothes make the man , but they also tell us a lot about his physical and social world. Come help a team of writers design a fictional world and determine how people in that world would dress , based on their climate , culture , technology , and resources. This is an audience-participation panel. | Annalee Flower Horne, Elizabeth Shack, Jessi Cole Jackson, Denise M. Beucler |
Sunday | 2:00 PM | 2:50 PM | Keweenaw | The Liar , The Traitor , And The Reader | The Red Queen in Through The Looking Glass manages to deceive Alice without ever telling a lie. Betrayal tales are as old as fiction, and betrayers can make fascinating villains–and heroes. But characters who can’t be trusted require delicate handling. Readers often feel that protagonists were stupid not to see a betrayal coming. What does it take to get readers to identify with the deceitful–or the deceived? Who are our favorite betrayers in science fiction and fantasy, and why do they work? | Cassandra Morgan, -E, Dyrk Ashton, K. Lynne O’Connor, Jason Sizemore |