DAY | START | END | LOCATION | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | PANELISTS |
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Saturday | 11:00 AM | 11:50 AM | Leelanaw | That’s Not My Star Wars! | At one point, it appeared most of the world agreed on the canon-destroying awfulness of the Star Wars prequel films, and their unholy avatar Jar Jar Binks. But a new generation of Star Wars is taking hold, and not everyone is pleased with the direction that’s going, either. Where do we draw our mental lines, and why? | James Breakwell, Ferrett Steinmetz, Jason Sanford, Mur Lafferty, Sarah Hans, Seleste deLaney / Julie Particka |
Saturday | 12:00 PM | 12:50 PM | Leelanaw | Writing about Forensics | Whether you’re writing a thrilling crime drama or a cozy whodunit , here are some useful tips for including forensics in your story. | Adam Shannon, Addie J. King, Bryon Quertermous, Jen Haeger |
Saturday | 2:00 PM | 2:50 PM | Leelanaw | Let’s Talk: Automation | A lighthearted talk on a hard science topics with smart and funny people. Let’s Talk: Automation will chuckle through the collapse of society as we know it. With 30% of the workforce at risk of being replaced by an algorithm , what will Humans still be good at? | Curtis Potterveld, David John Baker, Daniel Dugan, Jane Ugrinovskiy |
Saturday | 4:00 PM | 4:50 PM | Leelanaw | You Got Magic In My Science Fiction! | We’ve developed a variety of labels for works that mix fantastical elements like dragons or magic into science fiction settings like spaceships and sprawling futuristic cities. Does Star Wars’s use of The Force place it in a different part of the Science Fiction canon than Mass Effect’s use of biotics? From a storytelling and world-building perspective, what separates elements with magical trappings from those with science fictional trappings? Should fantasy vs scientific explanations be a purely aesthetic consideration, or does putting magical elements in science fiction meet a specific storytelling need that handwavy science cannot? | Dan Moren, John Chu, Lucy A. Snyder, Marie Bilodeau, Ryan Van Loan, Charlie Jane Anders |
Saturday | 5:00 PM | 5:50 PM | Leelanaw | Reading: Dyrk Ashton, Tracy Townsend, Sarah Hans | Dyrk Ashton, Sarah Hans, Tracy Townsend | |
Sunday | 10:00 AM | 10:50 AM | Leelanaw | Fandom in the Family | You grew up with fandom being a part of your life and now you want to involve the kids. But making them terrified of weeping angels might not be the best way to go. Come find out how to make sure your kids become productive, insightful, and best of all, nerd class citizens. | James Breakwell, Jackie (Literary Escapism), Stacey Filak, Vanessa Ricci-Thode |
Sunday | 1:00 PM | 1:50 PM | Leelanaw | Imagining A Future Without Police | Policing is so deeply-rooted in our ideas about society that calls to abolish policing can seem disconnected from reality. Won’t there always be bad guys? How would we enforce the rule of law? Even future utopias like Star Trek still have police. But alternative methods of justice exist in the world. What would a city, space station, or extra-planetary colony of the future without police look like? How could they build and maintain collaborative instead of adversarial justice systems? | Addie J. King, Andrea Phillips, Angus Watson, Carl Engle-Laird, Pablo Defendini, Teresa Nielsen Hayden |