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Start Time Acapulco Addams Astor Suite Atlanta Buckingham Columbian Columbus Fan Concourse Fishbowl Gold Coast
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08:30   Friends of Bill W.               Tai Chi
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10:00   Motivation: Why Ask Why?   Reading: Terry Pratchett Web Site Design Beyond Harry Potter: They're Hooked, Now What? Books for Juveniles That Deserve Fame and Fortune   Autographing: Steve Sawicki   Forrest J. Ackerman Remembers
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11:30   Filk Workshop: Percussion   Reading: Eleanor Arnason, James Stevens-Arce Virtual Reality Out of the Gutter and into the Classroom: Explaining Academics to the Fans   Autographing: Lynn Flewelling   So, What Is Filk All About?
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12:10 Filk Concert                  
12:30 Filk Concert                  
13:00   Are Comic Book Plots 'Real Literature'?   Reading The Future Through the Past: Archaeology in Science Fiction The Ethics of Creativity The Faces of Fandom Tour Autographing: Stephen Goldin   History of Filk
13:20 Filk Concert                  
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14:00 Filk Concert                  
14:30   Avoiding Literary Scams   Reading: Allen Steele Reenactment Groups Meet the Critics History of Worldcon Tour Autographing: Stanley Schmidt Book to Costume to Paint Parodies-Steal That Tune
14:50 Filk Concert                  
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15:25 Filk Concert                  
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16:00   Is the Science Fiction Book Club Still Necessary in a World of On-Line Booksellers?   Reading: Carol Berg, M. Shayne Bell Audience Panel: Should the Vote Be Earned a la Starship Troopers? Ancient and Medieval Economic Systems Planet Chicago: The Fandom Tour Autographing: Jacqueline Lichtenberg   Twenty-First Century Fanhistorians
16:15 Filk Concert                  
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16:50 Filk Concert                  
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17:25 Filk Concert                  
17:30   I'll Buy That For a Dollar: Free Expression and Free Markets   Reading: Charles Sheffield The Cozy, Nuturing Community of RASFF SF as Rhetoric: How Does the Book Get Us to Change Our Minds   Autographing: Tippi N. Blevins   Audience Panel: Give the Kid a Book
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18:20 Filk Concert                  
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19:00   Gender Issues in SF Literature: Are We Getting Any Better?     Writers and Illustrators of the Future How Do I Review a Movie?        
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20:30         Hallowe'en: the Costumer's Holiday          
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22:00 Filk: North America Meets the Rest of the World The Making of 'Terror at Tate Manor'       Filk: Parodies: Stealing the Tune        
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23:00         Round Robin: So What Is Filk All About? Humor Songs        
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Start Time Grand Ballroom A Grand Ballroom B Grand Ballroom C-D Haymarket Horner Hyatt Live Stage New Orleans Ogden Picasso Regency A Regency B Regency C Regency D
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08:30                   Great Unsung SF Films Estate Planning for Authors and Artists    
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10:00 Alternate Prehistory GoH Programming: Godzilla Through the Years Melissa, Chernobyl and Michelangelo England's Other Matter Children's Dino Hunt   Reading: Lee Gold, jan howard finder Children's Build a Lunar Colony Your First Worldcon Chicago Programming: L. Frank Baum and 100 Years of Oz It Takes a (Strange) Village No Award?  
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11:30 Modeling Worlds Space Law Beyond the Generic Middle Ages Forthcoming from Pocket Books     Reading: James Alan Gardner   Designing Computer Games The Fifty-Three Most Significant Events in the History of the Universe Xenoarchaeology Road Show The People v. James T. Kirk  
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13:00 The Physics of Fantasy The Sources of Fantasy: Folklore Keeping Up With What's New in Science Lost Wax Casting Children's Cavern's of Kelnahr   Reading: Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg, David M. Honigsberg Children's Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Makeup Using Robots and Machines to Improve Life Researching Your Writing Is This the Ebony Age of Science Fiction?  
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14:30 But Heinlein Said... Cubs vs. Sox in the World Series You Can Fly! Forthcoming from Del Rey     Reading: Jack L. Chalker Children's What We Don't Understand About Science and Physics Are Computers Becoming Our Significant Others? Slideshow Chicago Programming: Discussing James Tiptree, Jr. Where Have All the TV Vampires Gone?  
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16:00 It Came from Space: The NASA Space Product Development Program Critics' Views of the Recent Crop of Science Fiction Movies Volcanoes and Ice: The Last Days of the Galileo Spacecraft How to Make a Million Dollars Publishing a Fanzine     Reading: Mary Marshall Children's Madam Ovary 50s-70s VINTAGE GoH Programming: Military Issues James Tiptree Award Auction GoH Programming: Creation of a Publishing House  
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17:30 Earth's Severe Weather Too Good to Be Popular Is It the Best, or Just My Opinion? The Third Millennium     Reading: Pat Murphy   Costuming on the Web How to Unfairly Judge a Book by Page 119   Pulling Fiction from the Real World  
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19:00       Del Rey On-Line Writers Workshop Meeting Open     Children's Riddles in the Dark       Alien Fashion Show The Martian Chronicles
19:30           Chesley Awards              
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20:00                   Guest of Honor Speeches      
20:30                 Art and Writing     Experimental Rocket Society  
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21:30 Disco Dance                        
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23:00       Filk Rock         Open Filk: Plain Bardic Style Hugo Nominee: The Matrix      
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Start Time San Francisco Skyway 280 Truffles Wright Ambassador (Fairmont) Crystal (Fairmont) Diplomat (Fairmont) Embassy (Fairmont) Regent (Fairmont) State (Fairmont) Alpine 1 (Swissotel) Alpine 2 (Swissotel) Swissotel: William Tell ELSEWHERE
00:00                     Anime: Jungle de Ikou   Mystery Science Theater: First Spaceship on Venus  
01:30                     Anime: Dark Warrior-1st Strike Anime: Variable Geo    
02:30                     Anime: T.T.S. 801 Airbats-1st Strike      
03:00                       Anime: Black Jack    
07:00                     Anime: Catgirl Nuku Nuku 2 Anime: Dangaioh    
08:00                     Anime: Magic Knight RayEarth: Sunrise      
08:15                       Anime: Riding Bean    
08:30                 World Science Fiction Society (WSFS) Meeting          
09:00                       Anime: Samurai Showdown Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922)  
09:45                     Anime: Original Dirty Pair V1      
10:00 Reading: Lee Killough   Gripe Session   Pattern Crunching     The SF-Comic Connection   Fact Catching Up with Fiction        
10:30                       Anime: Gunsmith Cats: Bulletproof    
10:45                     Anime: Fist of the North Star 2      
11:30 Reading: Elizabeth Hand.   Kaffeeklatsch   Hairstyles     Genre as Legal Defense: Star Wars v. Battlestar Galactica Chicago Programming: Discussing Walt Disney Exercises in Style        
12:00                     Anime: Those Who Hunt Elves 2 Anime: Golgo 13-The Professional The Crimes of Dr. Mabuse (1932) Blood Drive
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12:30                       Anime: Psychic Wars    
13:00 Reading: S.M. Stirling   Kaffeeklatsch Children's Land Before Time Reviewing SF Books     Filk Workshop: Improv Singing Two Millennia of Roman Rule Farscape Anime: Street Fighter IIV #2      
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13:30                       Anime: Master of Mosquiton 1    
13:50                         The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse  
14:00           Journey to the Center of Your Mind-Hypnosis 2000                
14:30 Reading: Kate Elliott (also writes as Alis Rasmussen)   Kaffeeklatsch   The Many Faces of Fandom     Book Discussion: Ben Bova's Mars How Well Did They Do? Is Bigger Always Better? Anime: Blue Seed 2 Anime: Giant Robo 2    
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15:20                         Spies (1928)  
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15:30                     Anime: Berserk 1-4      
16:00 Reading: Suzanne Alles Blom   Kaffeeklatsch Children's Fossil Workshop The Future of the Human Form Prometheus Awards   Comics Underground ASFA and the Chesleys Little Answers to Big Problems        
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16:30                       Anime: Gestalt    
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17:00                         A Fritz Lang Retrospective  
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17:30 Reading: Joshua Mertz, Cory Doctorow   Kaffeeklatsch   Election Year SF: Political Influence     Conversation: Gene Roddenberry: The Vision That Is Immortal First Contact Ethics Anime: New Dominion Tank Police 2 Anime: Ninja Cadets    
18:00                         M (1931)  
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18:30                     Anime: Blue Submarine #6 V1 Anime: Prep for Ghost in the Shell    
19:00       Children's Science Oriented Music Videos       Shabbat Services     Anime: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing V1 Anime: Ghost in the Shell(DVD)    
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19:50                         Siegfried  
20:00           Don't Quit Your Day Job Players                
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20:45                     Anime: Shadow Skill 1      
21:00                       Anime: Perfect Blue    
21:10                         Metropolis (1927)  
21:30                     Anime: Gatchaman 1   Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)  
22:00                           Made It and I Didn't Go to Clarion
22:30                     Anime: T.T.S. 801 Airbats V2 Anime: Sonic: The Hedgehog    
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23:30                     Anime: Dragoon Anime: Queen Esmeraldas    

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