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
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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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