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Tentative Program Schedule

 

as of 27 October 2003 (subject to change)

 
Program Participants
 
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
 
(M) = Panel Moderator
 

 

Program Changes

Friday

Capitol Room (Lobby level)

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

An Overview of the Chesley Awards [Added Tom Kidd]

John Grant (a.k.a. Paul Barnett) (M); Tom Kidd; Pamela Scoville

10:30 – 11:00 PM

Ghost Story Reading: Richard Parks [Title change]

Regency Foyer (Ballroom level)

10:30 – 11:30 AM

Inventing Society [Added Joel S. Ross]

How can you make a society that is itself dark, and how can you write a story in this society that the members of the society would view as dark?

Suzy McKee Charnas, Kay Kenyon; Joel S. Ross; Susan Shwartz (M)

10:30 PM – 12:00 Midnight

Rapid-fire Readings [Removed Liz Williams, added Di Francis]

Catherine Asaro (M); Patricia Bray; Suzy McKee Charnas; Di Francis; Anne Harris; Kay Kenyon; Louise Marley; Nancy Jane Moore; Chris Moriarty, Wen Spencer

Valley Forge / Yorktown / Ticonderoga (Ballroom level)

8:30 – 10:30 PM

Autograph Reception [Time Change]

Saturday

Capitol Room (Lobby level)

4:00 – 5:00 PM

Dark Alternatives [Added Alex Irvine]

Fantastic History: Why and How is It so Dark?

Jack Dann, Phyllis Eisenstein; Alex Irvine; Louise Marley

8:00 – 9:00 PM

Fantastic Bureaucracies [Location change]

The government as inspiration or as an important plot element in dark fantasy.

Di Francis; Mindy Klasky; L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (M); Tony Ruggiero

9:00 – 9:30 PM

Reading: John Kessel [New item]

9:30 – 10:00 PM

Reading: Ed Bryant [New item]

Congressional A/B (Lobby level)

8:30 – 11:00 PM

Musical Interlude [Time change]

Charles de Lint, MaryAnn Harris, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Peter Heck, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and David Honigsberg

Congressional C/D (Lobby level)

12:30 – 1:00 PM

Reading: Alex Irvine [Replacing Charles de Lint]

Sunday

Capitol Room (Lobby level)

10:00 – 11:00 AM

Good to Great [Added John Kessel]

What distinguishes the merely good from the eminently rereadable? Also, is being rereadable a valid criterion for greatness?

Patricia Bray; Theodora Goss (M); John Kessel; Patrick Nielsen Hayden

 

 

Program Participants

Justin Ackroyd
Catherine Asaro
audre
Sherry Austin

Dale Bailey
Christopher Barzak
Alan Beatts
Carol Berg
Richard Bowes
Patricia Bray

Jack Chalker
Suzy McKee Charnas
Stepan Chapman
Alan Clark
Brenda Clough
David Coe
Albert Cowdrey
F. Brett Cox

Ellen Datlow
Jack Dann
Charles de Lint
Stephen R. Donaldson
David Drake
Andy Duncan

Scott Edelman
Les Edwards
Phyllis Eisenstein

Barbara Ferrenz
Jo Fletcher
Lynn Flewelling
Jeffrey Ford
Di Francis
Esther Friesner
Gregory Frost

W. Paul Ganley
Robert Garcia
Laura Anne Gilman
Kathleen Goonan
Theodora Goss
Mitchell Graham
John Grant (a.k.a. Paul Barnett)
Gavin Grant
Paula Guran

Anne Harris
Stephen Haffner
Joe Haldeman
Marty Halpern
J. C. Hendee
Glen Hirshberg
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg
Sarah Hoyt

Mary Theresa Hussey

Jael
Harvey Jacobs
Kij Johnson
Stephen Jones

Kay Kenyon
Tom Kidd
Mindy Klasky
Karl Kofoed
Allen Koszowski
Ellen Kushner

Jay Lake
John Langan
Jagi Lamplighter
J. Ardian Lee
Jane Lindskold
Kelly Link
Todd Lockwood
Brian Lumley

Ian Macleod
David McDougle
Louise Marley
Fiona McIntosh
Patricia McKillip
Karen Michalson
L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Tom Monteleone
Nancy Jane Moore
Chris Moriarty
Tee Morris

Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Garth Nix
Sharyn November

Patrick O'Leary
D.H. Olson
Mark Owings

Richard Parks
Frederik Pohl

Benjamin Rosenbaum
Lynda Rucker
Tony Ruggiero

Fred Saberhagen
Steve Saffel
Al Sarrantonio
Eric Schaller
Stuart David Schiff
Darrell Schweitzer
Pamela Scoville
Lucius Shepard
Delia Sherman
Sharon Shinn
Susan Shwartz
Melissa Singer
Jack Slay
Wen Spencer
Nancy Springer
Jonathan Strahan
Christopher Stasheff
Lilian Stewart Carl
Lance Storm
Michael Swanwick

Steve Rasnic Tem

Laura Underwood

Jeffrey VanderMeer
Gordon Van Gelder
James Van Pelt
Carrie Vaughn

Sean Wallace
Jean Marie Ward
Gary Wassner
Lawrence Watt-Evans
Robert Wexler
Sean Williams
F. Paul Wilson
Douglas Winter
Lynne Winter
Paul Witcover
Eleanor Wood

Jane Yolen
Rebecca York

 
 
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Thursday, 30 October 2003

Congressional C/D (Lobby level)

2:00 – 2:30 PM

Reading: Tee Morris

2:30 – 3:00 PM

Reading: Laura Underwood

3:00 – 3:30 PM

Reading: David Coe

3:30 – 4:00 PM

Reading: Jane Yolen

4:00 – 4:30 PM

Reading: Kij Johnson

4:30 – 5:00 PM

Reading: tba

5:00 – 8:00 PM

Dinner Break

8:00 – 8:30 PM

Reading: Tom Monteleone

8:30 – 9:00 PM

Reading: Susan Shwartz

9:00 – 9:30 PM

Reading: Catherine Asaro

9:30 – 10:00 PM

Reading: Benjamin Rosenbaum

10:00 – 10:30 PM

Reading: Esther Friesner

10:30 – 11:00 PM

Reading: Gary Wassner

Lexington/Bunker Hill (Ballroom level)

8:00 – 9:00 PM

Don't Open That Door: The Role of Stupidity in Fantasy Fiction

Why must the hero(ine) go down into that dark basement? Can't they just call the police? Or the exterminator?

Esther Friesner; Sarah Hoyt; Jagi Lamplighter; Carrie Vaughn

9:00 – 10:00 PM

The Short Story Collection: Its Continuing Role in Horror and Fantasy

Gavin Grant (M); Marty Halpern; Gordon Van Gelder; Sean Wallace

10:00 – 11:00 PM

What's Dark?

Is there a useful distinction between evil, opposition, and simple bloodthirstiness?

Thomas Monteleone; Patrick O'Leary (M); Lynda Rucker, Douglas Winter

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Friday, 31 October 2003

Valley Forge / Yorktown / Ticonderoga (Ballroom level)

8:30 – 10:30 PM

Autograph Reception

 

Congressional C/D (Lobby level)

10:00 – 10:30 AM

Reading: F. Paul Wilson

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Reading: Kelly Link

11:00 – 11:30 AM

Reading: Rebecca York

11:30 – 12:00 Noon

Reading: Robert Wexler

12:00 – 12:30 PM

Reading: Lucius Shepard

12:30 – 1:00 PM

Reading: Douglas Winter

1:00 – 1:30 PM

Reading: Albert Cowdrey

1:30 – 2:00 PM

Reading: Ellen Kushner

2:00 – 2:30 PM

Reading: Jack Dann

2:30 – 3:00 PM

Reading: Joe Haldeman

3:00 – 3:30 PM

Reading: Gregory Frost

3:30 – 4:00 PM

Reading: Brian Lumley

4:00 – 4:30 PM

Reading: Michael Swanwick

4:30 – 5:00 PM

Reading: Steve Rasnic Tem

10:30 – 11:00 PM

Reading: Brenda Clough

11:00 – 11:30 PM

Reading: Delia Sherman

 

Regency Foyer (Ballroom level)

10:30 – 11:30 AM

Inventing Society

How can you make a society that is itself dark, and how can you write a story in this society that the members of the society would view as dark?

Suzy McKee Charnas, Kay Kenyon; Joel S. Ross; Susan Shwartz (M)

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Best of Year, Part One (Reviewers)

Readers, booksellers, and reviewers discuss the best reading of the last year.

Alan Beatts; Paula Guran (M); Jay Lake; Kelly Link; Paul Witcover

12:30 – 2:00 PM

The Achievement of Jack Williamson

This panel is a celebration of the accomplishments of Jack Williamson, our absent Guest of Honor.

Scott Edelman (M); Stephen Haffner; Frederik Pohl; Fred Saberhagen; Eleanor Wood

2:00 – 3:00 PM

The Place of Place

Memorable locales or settings and why they haunt the reader. Can you take the Arkham out of Lovecraft and still call it Lovecraft?

Catherine Asaro (M); Fiona McIntosh; Lucius Shepard; Jeffrey VanderMeer

3:00 – 4:00 PM

Tag Team Wrestling with Taste

Lance Storm; F. Paul Wilson; Douglas Winter; Lynne Winter

4:00 – 5:00 PM

Passionate Crossovers

Combinations of romance with the fantasy, horror, and sf genres are becoming commonplace. Is this something new or have they always been around? What are the pleasures and pitfalls of these crossovers?

Laura Anne Gilman; Mary Theresa Hussey; J. Ardian Lee; Rebecca York

10:30 PM – 12:00 Midnight

Rapid-fire Readings

Catherine Asaro (M); Patricia Bray; Suzy McKee Charnas; Di Francis; Anne Harris; Kay Kenyon; Louise Marley; Nancy Jane Moore; Chris Moriarty, Wen Spencer

 

Capitol Room (Lobby level)

10:30 – 11:30 AM

Greetings from Jack Williamson

Videotaped Guest of Honor interview with Christopher Stasheff.

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

An Overview of the Chesley Awards

John Grant (a.k.a. Paul Barnett) (M); Tom Kidd; Pamela Scoville

1:00 – 2:00 PM

Great Old Ones

A discussion of notable horror and other fantasy books published before 1950. Are they still worth reading? Also, is there an international division to this: For instance, are there great old ones from Britain that have never seen the light of day in the U.S.?

Jack Chalker; W. Paul Ganley; Mark Owings; tba

2:00 – 3:00 PM

The Achievement of W. Paul Ganley

This panel is a celebration of the accomplishments of our Publisher Guest of Honor.

Brian Lumley, D.H. Olson; Stuart David Schiff; Darrell Schweitzer

3:00 – 4:00 PM

Scaring the Little Monsters

Dark fantasy for the young; what makes it scary, but not too scary.

Barbara Ferrenz;, Garth Nix; Sharyn November (M); Nancy Springer

4:00 – 5:00 PM

W. Paul Ganley Guest of Honor Interview

Darrell Schweitzer, interviewer; W. Paul Ganley

10:30 – 11:00 PM

Ghost Story Reading: Richard Parks

11:00 PM – 12:00 Midnight

The Ghost Story Revenant

The ghost story is enjoying a renascence. Is this an example of grandma’s dress coming back into style, or is it something new?

Sherry Austin; Jeffrey Ford; Glen Hirshberg; Kelly Link

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Saturday, 1 November 2003

Congressional A/B (Lobby level)

8:30 – 11:00 PM

Musical Interlude

Charles de Lint, MaryAnn Harris, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Peter Heck, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and David Honigsberg

Congressional C/D (Lobby level)

10:00 – 10:30 AM

Reading: L.E. Modesitt, Jr.

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Reading: Darrell Schweitzer

11:00 – 11:30 AM

Reading: Jeffrey VanderMeer

11:30 AM – 12:00 Noon

Reading: Stephen R. Donaldson

12:00 – 12:30 PM

Reading: Jeffrey Ford

12:30 – 1:00 PM

Reading: Alex Irvine

1:00 – 1:30 PM

Reading: Garth Nix

1:30 – 2:00 PM

Reading: Frederik Pohl

2:00 – 3:00 PM

Reading: Brian Lumley

3:00 – 3:30 PM

Reading: Sean Williams

3:30 – 4:00 PM

Reading: Andy Duncan

4:00 – 4:30 PM

Reading: Patricia McKillip

4:30 – 5:00 PM

Reading: Ian Macleod

5:00 – 8:00 PM

Dinner Break

8:00 – 8:30 PM

Reading: Fiona McIntosh

8:30 – 9:00 PM

Reading: Dale Bailey

9:00 – 9:30 PM

Reading: James Van Pelt

9:30 – 10:00 PM

Reading: Sharon Shinn

10:00 – 10:30 PM

Reading: Glen Hirshberg

10:30 – 11:00 PM

Reading: Patrick O'Leary

11:00 – 11:30 PM

Reading: John Langan

 

Regency Foyer (Ballroom level)

10:00 – 11:00 AM

Bad Religion and Odd Religion

A good deal of very good contemporary dark fiction depends on religion gone bad or odd. A discussion of the reasons for this and the peculiar demands it makes on the reader and writer.

Dale Bailey (M); John Langan; Ian Macleod; Douglas Winter

11:00 – 12:00 Noon

The Dark Between the Stars: Understated Horror in Science Fiction

Can science fiction occupy the same space in the imagination as horror? Examples: Williamson's The Humanoids and The Humanoid Touch.

Chris Moriarty (M); Joe Haldeman; Fred Saberhagen; Al Sarrantonio

12:00 – 1:00 PM

Myth, Fable and Folklore

Lilian Stewart Carl; Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg; Kij Johnson; Laura Underwood; Jane Yolen

1:00 – 2:00 PM

The Achievement of Brian Lumley

A celebration of the works of our attending Author Guest of Honor.

W. Paul Ganley; Stephen Jones; David McDougle; Melissa Singer

2:00 – 3:00 PM

Slipstream: The Writer's and Reader's Perspective

The qualities that situate stories and books in various traditions and communities. Also, interesting things that are happening inside and outside the genre that incorporate virtues of the fantastic and the literary.

Christopher Barzak; Gregory Frost; Kathleen Goonan; Benjamin Rosenbaum (M)

3:00 – 4:00 PM

Diversion in G/L/B/T DF/F/SF

A discussion of fantasy works in which gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered characters were introduced for novelty or local color versus others in which they were integral to the plot.

Richard Bowes; Lynn Flewelling; Anne Harris; Delia Sherman

4:00 – 5:00 PM

Brian Lumley Guest of Honor Interview

Douglas Winter, interviewer; Brian Lumley

5:00 – 8:00 PM

Dinner Break

9:00 – 11:00 PM

Small Press Roundtable

Robert Garcia, presiding

11:00 – 12:00 Midnight

Short Humorous Readings

Stepan Chapman; Alan Clark; Jeffrey Ford; Harvey Jacobs; Jay Lake; Eric Schaller, Jack Slay; Steve Rasnic Tem; Jeffrey VanderMeer

Capitol Room (Lobby level)

10:00 – 11:00 AM

The Serial Form in Fantasy Literature

By number of titles, this is probably the dominant form in current fantasy literature. What are its strengths and weaknesses?

David Coe (M); David Drake; Mitchell Graham; Steve Saffel; Michael Swanwick

11:00 – 12:00 Noon

Best of Year, Part Two (Editors)

Editors discuss the best reading of the last year.

Ellen Datlow (M); Jo Fletcher; Stephen Jones; Jonathan Strahan

12:30 – 1:30 PM

Greetings from Jack Williamson

Repeat of videotaped Guest of Honor interview with Christopher Stasheff.

1:30 – 3:00 PM

Digital Art for the 21st Century

Artists working in traditional and digital media discuss their techniques for adjusting, enhancing, and creating works that achieve their unique visions.

audre, Jael, Karl Kofoed, Todd Lockwood, Jean Marie Ward (M)

3:00 – 4:00 PM

Artist Guest of Honor Presentation

An illustrated presentation of our Artist Guest of Honor’s influences and sources of artistic inspiration.

Allen Koszowski

4:00 – 5:00 PM

Dark Alternatives

Fantastic History: Why and How is It so Dark?

Jack Dann, Phyllis Eisenstein; Alex Irvine; Louise Marley

8:00 – 9:00 PM

Fantastic Bureaucracies

The government as inspiration or as an important plot element in dark fantasy.

Di Francis; Mindy Klasky; L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (M); Tony Ruggiero

9:00 – 9:30 PM

Reading: John Kessel

9:30 – 10:00 PM

Reading: Ed Bryant

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Sunday, 2 November 2003

 

Valley Forge / Yorktown / Ticonderoga (Ballroom level)

1:00 – 3:00 PM

2003 World Fantasy Convention Banquet and Awards Ceremony


Congressional C/D (Lobby level)

10:00 – 10:30 AM

Reading: Suzy McKee Charnas

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Reading: Christopher Barzak

11:00 – 11:30 AM

Reading: Lynn Flewelling

11:30 – 12:00 Noon

Reading: Richard Bowes

12:00 – 12:30 PM

Reading: Nina Kiriki Hoffman


Regency Foyer (Ballroom level)

10:00 – 11:00 AM

Darkened Characters

Are the characters in horror fantasy different than characters in other modes of fantasy? Must certain characteristics have been honed or suppressed in the protagonists or antagonists for the stories to have worked?

Carol Berg (M); Stephen R. Donaldson; Karen Michalson; James Van Pelt

11:00 – 12:00 Noon

Dark Fantasy Across Cultures

Do all cultures express or deal with fears in the same ways?

Ellen Kushner (M); Garth Nix; Richard Parks; Sean Williams

4:00 – 5:00 PM

Judges' Panel

How the judges select World Fantasy Award winners. This panel will occur shortly after the conclusion of the Banquet and Awards Ceremony.

Justin Ackroyd; Les Edwards; Laura Anne Gilman; Lawrence Watt-Evans; Jane Yolen

Capitol Room (Lobby level)

10:00 – 11:00 AM

Good to Great

What distinguishes the merely good from the eminently rereadable? Also, is being rereadable a valid criterion for greatness?

Patricia Bray; Theodora Goss (M); John Kessel; Patrick Nielsen Hayden

11:00 – 12:00 Noon

Werewolves: The New Vampires?

Vampires are still thick on (or in) the ground, but werewolves seem to be the up and coming hero/villains. Why is this?

F. Brett Cox (M); J.C. Hendee; Jane Lindskold; Wen Spencer

 

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WFC 2003 Program
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Annandale, VA 22003-1734
USA
 

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