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914.0. "Worldcon 1993, San Francisco, "CONFRANCISCO"" by STAR::CANTOR (Diginymic name: D2E C0.) Sun Sep 16 1990 13:17

The following is quoted exactly as it appeared in SF-LOVERS Digest.  I
do not know whether the misspelling of 'Francisco' as 'Fransisco'
appeared in the original PR0 or was a typo on the part of Henk
Langeveld.

The dates are not given in this entry.  Tradition would dictate that
the worldcon be held the weekend leading into Labor Day, 1993.

Dave C.
--
SF-LOVERS Digest            Friday, 14 Sep 1990       Volume 15 : Issue 321

                               A B S T R A C T
Today's Topics:
 
		  Miscellaneous - Conventions (4 msgs) &
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Date: 28 Aug 90 09:33:29 GMT
From: henkl@glorantha (Henk Langeveld - Sun Nederland)
Subject: Re: SF in 93 GoH's
 
From PR 0 of ConFransisco:
 
			San Fransisco Wins!
 
			  Honored Guests:
 
			    Larry Niven
 
		Tom Digby		Alicia Austin
 
	    Guy Gavriel Kay	    	   Wombat 
	  *master of ceremonies*    (jan howard finder)
		
			    Mark Twain
			*dead guest of honor*
 
Henk Langeveld
[email protected]
[email protected]
 
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914.1Maybe it will START by Labor DayDELREY::STERN_TOHave TK; Will TravelMon Oct 08 1990 23:4613
>>>   The dates are not given in this entry.  Tradition would dictate that
>>>   the worldcon be held the weekend leading into Labor Day, 1993.
    
     Yes, but they waited until AFTER they'd won before announcing that the
    convention would not (as most traditionally do) take occupancy of the
    facilities on the Wednesday before (allowing for the convention to
    start on the traditional Thursday), but not until sometime around noon
    on Friday (which means its anybody's guess as to when they will really
    start).
    
    
    Tom Stern
    Disgruntled, poor-sport, Phoenix committee member
914.2Update on ConFranciscoSTAR::CANTORIM2BZ2PSat Apr 13 1991 12:4956
The following article from SF-LOVERS Digest contains some electronic
mail addresses.  You can write to their Internet address using the 
VMS Mail utility at

         To:  NM%DECWRL::"[email protected]"

Use the NM% if Nmail is installed on your system.

Dave C.


SF-LOVERS Digest           Thursday, 11 Apr 1991      Volume 16 : Issue 134

                            A B S T R A C T
 
------------------------------
 
Date: 4 Apr 91 08:08:24 GMT
From: [email protected] (John McMahon)
Subject: ConFrancisco (Worldcon in '93) Announcement
 
Confrancisco Bulletin                             April 4th, 1991
 
                New Electronic Mail Addresses for Confrancisco
 
Due to technical problems, Confrancisco has closed the Electronic Mail
addresses advertised in earlier flyers and in Progress Report #1.  From now
on, the following addresses are valid:
 
Internet:			[email protected]
 
NSI-DECnet (NASA SPAN) &
ESnet-DECnet (DoE HEPNET):	KAOS::CONFRANCISCO (24761::CONFRANCISCO)
 
CompuServe:			72377,3623
 
UUCP-Based Networks:		{internet gateway}!TGV.COM!CONFRANCISCO
 
Other advertised E-mail addresses on CompuServe and on WELL.SF.CA.US are no
longer valid.  If you have tried to contact Confrancisco using these
addresses and have not received a reply, please resend your mail message to
one of the new addresses.
 
Please direct all questions and comments to [email protected].
 
Approved - Kevin Standlee (Confrancisco Executive Committee)
           E-Mail: [email protected]
 
John McMahon
TGV, Incorporated 
603 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, California 95060
408-427-4366 or 800-TGV-3440
[email protected]
 
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914.3New chair for ConfranciscoSTAR::CANTORHave pun, will babble.Wed Mar 11 1992 11:4338
Subject: New CF Chair Named
From:    Kevin Standlee-ConFran93 72377,3623
To:      ALL


David W. Clark has been named the new Chairman of ConFrancisco, the 1993 World
Science Fiction Convention, by the President of the Board of Directors of
ConFrancisco's parent corporation, San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions,
Incorporated.  He fills the position left vacant when Terry Biffel died on
January 8 after a long battle with lung and liver cancer.

Clark is a resident of Berkeley, California, and has been intimately involved
with the SF in '93 bid and ConFrancisco, serving on the SFSFC Board of
Directors and the "Chariot" (Senior Executive Committee) as the Facilities
Liaison.

At this time, no other major structural changes in ConFrancisco's organization
have been announced or planned.  Clark's appointment must be confirmed by the
SFSFC Board of Directors at their regular meeting in April, but this is not
expected to be a problem.

Any questions about ConFrancisco should be directed to Kevin Standlee at
CompuServe account 72377,3623.  (Internet e-mail may be sent to that address or
[email protected])

[Internet for Compuserve 72377,3623 is [email protected].]

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914.4Email address for ConFranciscoSTAR::CANTORDave CantorSun Sep 13 1992 15:5225
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From: [email protected] (Michael Wallis)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom,alt.fandom.cons
Subject: Re: Confrancisco e-mail address
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[email protected] (Christophe Pettus) writes:
 
> Could someone forward to me the Confrancisco e-mail address?  Thanks!
 
                        ConFrancisco
                        712 Bancroft Rd, Suite 1993
                        Walnut Creek, CA
                        USA   94598
                        (510) 945-1993
                        [email protected]
 
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914.5Lost Souls...of ConfranciscoSCHOOL::BOBBITTdances with deadlinesTue Jun 08 1993 13:5041
    
Subj:	Lost Souls

  According to ConFrancisco's Progress Report #6, the following are
"Lost Souls" (people they've lost).  If you know anyone on this list
have them write to ConFrancisco at:

ConFrancisco
712 Bancroft Rd. Suite 1993
Walnut Creek, CA 94598-1500

or [email protected]


Chris Aylott
Ken Barry
William Bishop
David Bloom
David Broadbent
David Carter
Donald Day
Beth Freeman
Lisa Greene (and guest)
David Haster
Sharon Locke
Randolph Markham
Rosemary Miller
Gytha North
Terry O'Brien 
David Schafer
Jon Schild
Frances Skene
Art Slutsky
John Teall
Adam Gregory Tilghman
David Travis
Marlys C Walburger
Rainer Wolf
Debra Wright
Candace Young
    
914.6Who is going ?SHARE::WILLISTue Aug 17 1993 10:218
    
    Who is going?
    
    I am I  think :-)
    
    Have my plane ticket, hotel booked, membership, and time off    :-)
    
    jw
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Subject: ConFrancisco Progress Report 7 (700 LINES LONG)
Date: 10 Aug 1993 14:19 EDT
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
This is the full text of PR7 for the upcoming WorldCon in San Francisco.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
 
ConFrancisco, The 51st World Science Fiction Convention
 Thursday, September 2, through Monday, September 6, 1993
 Moscone Convention Center     
 San Francisco, California     
 United States of America
 
 Being the Seventh and Last Report of Progress on Preparations for the Fifty-
First World Science Fiction Convention, San Francisco, California
 
 REGISTRATION AT CONFRANCISCO
 A Short Note From Your Registration Staff
 
 Our goal for Registration at ConFrancisco is to make it totally forgettable
for
 you.  We have been working very hard to make sure you get through as quickly
 and painlessly as possible.  There are some things you can do to help this
 process along.
 
 REGISTRATION HOURS 
 Moscone Center, North Lobby
 
 Thursday and Friday 9:30 AM to 8:00 PM    
 Saturday and Sunday 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM
 Monday 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM
 
 For those of you who are PreRegistered (including committee, staff, program
 participants, dealers, artists, handicapped, and others):
 1)  In order to pick up your badge and program book, you will need to show 
 either the cover of this Progress Report (PR7) or some formal ID (drivers 
 license, military ID, etc.).
 
 2)  If one member of the family wishes to pick up badges for the rest of the
 family, that will be permitted, providing:  All the nonpresent members show
 the same address in our files as the member pickup up the badges or a letter is
 shown authorizing the pickup.
 
 3)  Badge pickup will be alphabetical, by last name of registered member. 
 There will be big signs and staff there to help direct you.
 
 We realize that everyone receiving this PR has a membership and is therefore
 preregistered.  However, you might be sharing this PR with friends who will be
 buying memberships at the Con, so here is the information about AtCon 
 Registration.
 
 The at the door rates will be $35 for Thursday or Monday, and $50 for Friday,
 Saturday and Sunday.
 
 1)  There will be information cards available before you get to the cashier
 stations.  Please fill these cards out completely before you come up to pay. 
 It will speed your progress considerably.
 
 2)  We will be accepting cash, checks (with ID), MasterCard and Visa.
 
 3)  Each registration station will be able to handle any of the above.
 
 We will have a SOLUTIONS DESK to handle membership transfers, special
 problems, etc.  A replacement badge will cost $145.  If you find your original
 badge and you return your replacement badge, we will return $125 to you.  Some
 things to remember:
 
 1)  To transfer a membership, you must send a letter authorizing the transfer
 to the ConFrancisco office no later than August 10, 1993.  The membership will
 be transferred to the new name, and a badge will be waiting at PreRegistration.

 2)  If you decide to transfer your membership at the last minute, you must send
 a letter authorizing the transfer with the new member.  We will not transfer a
 membership without an authorizing letter from the existing member.
 
 NIGHT REGISTRATION
 
 Night registration will start about half an hour after the main registration
 closes, for late arrivals on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. Signs in
 the major hotels will tell you its location.
 
 We will issue temporary badges at night and there will be a special table at
 preregistration the next morning to trade in your temporary badge for your
 permanent badge.
 
 We look forward to seeing you at ConFrancisco. We hope to give you the most
 forgettable Registration ever!
 
 Grand Guignol Division
 
 Grand Guignol Division is responsible for all major events in the Esplanade
 Ballroom in Moscone Center.  Our headquarters, for all information, signups,
 and forms about events in this division, will be found in Room 300 adjacent to
 the Esplanade Ballroom. Come talk to us!
 Video Taping in Moscone Center
 All video taping of events in the Moscone Center must be pre-approved.  For
 amateur tapes for personal use only, please come to Room 300, sign a release
 form, and get a video sticker.  Those people with press credentials can get
 their video stickers from the Press Office.
 If you plan on any taping for commercial purposes, you must contact us in
 advance to get a copy of the rules and fees.  Please contact:  Janet Wilson
 Anderson, 3216 Villa Knolls Drive, Pasadena, CA 91107 or 72437, 474 on
 Compuserve or 818/791-9434 for faxes.
 Opening Ceremonies 
 Thursday 8:00 p.m.  Please join us for a joyous celebration to start 
 ConFrancisco.
 Meet The Guests 
 Friday 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.  His Imperial Majesty has invited the membership to 
 join him at a reception for ConFrancisco's Honored Guests, the Hugo and 
 Campbell Award nominees. Fortune cookies, entertainment, a birthday party and
 more are promised!
 Masquerade
 Saturday at 8 p.m.  Attention Masquerade contestants, prospective crew, photo
 and video folk:  Everyone involved in the Masquerade, in whatever capacity,
 should come by Room 300 well before the show. Fan photo area access is
 limited, preregistration only on-site or in advance to Danny Low, 1460 San
 Marcos Circle, Mountain View, CA 94043. All those wishing to videotape the
 show will need to sign a release form. No one will be allowed in with a video
 camera who has not been pre-approved!
 We do need volunteers  lots of them! Please come by Room 300 by noon
 Saturday to signup, and to learn briefing and call times.  Contestant
 registration confirmation  before 6 p.m. Friday, please!
 Hugo Award Ceremonies
 Sunday at 8 p.m.  ConFrancisco invites its membership to attend the awards
 ceremonies wherein the Hugo and Campbell awards will be bestowed on their
 worthy winners in the Esplanade Ballroom, Moscone Center.  Dress in your
 elegant best or "fannish formal" to pay tribute to the occasion, which also
 celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Hugo awards.
 Closing Ceremonies
 Monday at 3 p.m.  Say good-bye to San Francisco and welcome next year's
 Worldcon, Conadian, in Winnipeg, Canada.
 Music Programming and Dances
 The ANA hotel is host to afternoon and evening musical events  including filk,
 folk, fannish and professional. A wide variety of musical styles and performers
 will be featured, both in concert and in group sings.
 The ANA is also host to Con-Francisco's three dances. On Friday night, 
 celebrity DJ Steve Barnes rocks us to the sounds of San Francisco, from 
 the '60s through the '90s, including a light show!
 On Sunday, travel back in time to 17901820 for an elegant afternoon of
 Regency dances (with instruction, of course), flirtation, and good company.
 Period costume acceptable but not required.
 And just added!  join us Sunday evening for the Gold Rush Victorian ball, full
 of waltzes, polkas, the Virginia Reel and more. There will be instruction, of
 course, so shake out those hoops, and polish your dancing pumps!
 
 His Imperial Majesty
 Norton I
 Emperor of the United States
 and
 Protector of Mexico
 invites his loyal subjects
 the members of ConFrancisco
 to a reception 
 honoring
 the Hugo and Campbell Nominees
 and 
 His Honored Guests
 7:30 p.m.  9:00 p.m.
 Friday September Third
 Con Suite - Parc Fifty Five Hotel
 
 Dining with a Difference
 Want to build international bridges, practice another language (including
 English), meet fans from different countries - and have dinner?  Host fans are
 invited to take visitors with limited cash resources out to dinner; Guest fans
 are invited to sample fannish hospitality.  Come to a table under the foreign
 flags in Hall D, Thursday through Sunday evenings between 5 and 7 p.m. to meet
 prospective dinner partners and form groups.  Come earlier, if you wish, and
 sign the Host or Guest list to make contacts ahead of time.  Pick up a label to
 advertise the language(s) you speak, another label to identify whether you wish
 to be Host or Guest and check out the selection of menus.  Plan on a different
 dining experience in the spirit of the Worldcon.
 
 Lunch with the Honored Guests
 We are having a lunch with the Honored Guests on Saturday, September 4 at
 11:30 a.m.  Those of yuou who responded to our previous questionnaire in PR4
 will soon receive lunch registration instructions.
 If you did not send in the questionaire, don't despair.  Check at the Sales To
 Members booth in the Moscone before 8:00 p.m. on Friday, September 3.  As long
 as space is available, you can reserve it then.  The lunch ocost is $25 per
 person and must be paid at the time of reservation.  Additional advanced 
 reservations will not be taken.
 
 CHAIRMAN'S PIECE
 
 We've got this fence here in San Francisco. It's a mighty structure that 
 extends completely around the Moscone Convention Center, made entirely from 
 Rocky Mountain pine. We're going to be whitewashing it during Worldcon.We will
 be looking for a few brave souls, with strong hearts and keen eyes, who might 
 be deserving of the honor... ah, heck.
 Enough Tom Sawyer references. What we've really got is this Worldcon in a few
 weeks. And what we really want is for people to offer a little of their time to
 pitch in and help. Between setup and teardown, we'll be doing a lot of work to
 keep things running smoothly.
 But then, think of the new, exciting possibilities this can open up for you.
 New friends! New relationships! New skills learned and new appreciation of your
 character! Why, a few years ago I volunteered to help at a Worldcon, and now
 I'm a Chairman. (Okay, maybe that's not the best recommendation...)
 We really want help. We need help, from gophers to watchpersons to info desk
 sitters to art show personnel to cashiers to grunt labor to younameit. We
 need people who know that helping with a convention is fun, when it's done
 right. If someone asks for your help, give it some thought. If no one asks you
 for help, volunteer.
 
 If you have any problem checking into your hotel and you need ConFrancisco
 assistance, call 974-6400 and ask to be connected to ConFrancisco Operations.
 
 Save your pennies, folks.  Besides the items listed in the Pre-Order Form in 
 PR6, we have many other distinctive ConFrancisco items for purchase at the 
 Sales to Members table at the entrance to Hall D in Moscone Center.  We will 
 be open everyday, so don't forget to bring that extra suitcase!
 
 MarineWorld, Paramount's Great America, and other local attractions will
 provide discount coupons to members of ConFrancisco at Guest Services in the
 ANA Hotel.  You must identify yourself as a member of ConFrancisco.
 
 ART!  ART!  ART!
 
 The Art Show is full.We have 332 spaces filled with art. There is no more room.

 Art Show Hours
 Thursday (Artist Setup Only) 4-8pm
 Friday Noon-7pm
 Saturday Noon-8pm
 Sunday Noon-7pm
 Monday Art Auction
 NEED VOLUNTEERS
 Please, Please, anyone who wants to work in the art show during Confrancisco,
 please write to ye director ahead of time.  Please send a short note to:
 Elayne Pelz, 15931 Kalisher St., Granada Hills, CA  91344.  Cite experience, if
 any.
 SHAMELESS FUTURE PLUG
 Anyone who wants to receive information on the 1994 World SF Convention Art
 Show, the convention will be in Winnipeg, please send a selfaddressed stamped
 envelope to the address above.  Info will be available after October 1, 1993.
 
 How to Get Here from There
 (or All you ever wanted to know about mass transit - and more)
 
 DISCLAIMER: Yes, we know. There are lots of ways to get around the Bay Area
 and most of you locals will know at least three faster and/or easier ways to do
 what we are trying to do here. We claim no vast or complete knowledge of the
 people moving systems of the Bay Area. I think it's better that way. These
 directions are the result of a oneday odyssey in which we actually traveled
 the systems. One of us had "done it once or twice," the other never at all. We
 tried to note names of entrances and exits and landmarks. We used the transit
 systems that seemed the most obvious to us. We hope this information will be
 the start of a great experience for you at ConFrancisco. All information is
 current as of late May, 1993.
 
 OAKLAND AIRPORT 
 We put this one first because we really recommend this route to anyone
 traveling light. It's much cheaper than any other route.
 Via BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, the subway.  Great if you don't have a lot of
 people/luggage)  From the Baggage claim area, go outside the terminal, cross to
 the median strip to the shuttle stops. Find the stop labeled AirBART. Exact
 change is required  bills or coin OK. You will have to load your own luggage 
 but there are racks available. Two of the shuttles are equipped for wheelchairs
 (wheelers). The driver of any shuttle not so equipped can tell you how long you
 will have to wait for the next one. The shuttle will drop you off at the 
 Coliseum BART station. There are no other stops so you can't miss.
 Service Name Cost
 Frequency
 Hours AirBART
 $2.00
 10 minutes
 
  Mon  Sat    
 
 6am  Midnight 
 
 Sun       
 
 9am  Midnight
 You can travel anywhere in the system if you are inside a station before
 midnight.
 Once you get to the station, go inside and purchase your BART ticket.
 A ticket to the Powell St. station (the closest one to the venues) will cost
 $1.90. Save some aggravation and get a ticket with $3.80 value to cover the
 return trip. Most machines take $1, $5, $10, and $20 dollar bills, but there is
 a limit to the amount of change they will return (be sure the machine says it
 will give change). Put in your bill(s), push the blue arrow buttons to enter 
 the exact amount you want, push the big blue button for your ticket.
 There are often several people hanging around who will "help " you buy your
 ticket. They really do help but expect a tip.
 The gates are to the left. Put the ticket in the front of the gate and it
 comes out the top. When you remove the ticket, the gates open. Go up the 
 escalator to Platform 2.
 If you look across the other platform, you will see the Oakland Coliseum where
 the Oakland A's play baseball.
 All stations have video monitors or lightboards that give the status of the
 trains coming in to each platform. The monitor will give the destination and
 number of cars for each train. There is a minimum of three and a maximum of 10
 cars per train.
 The shorter the train, the closer you should stand to the center of the 
 platform.
 IF IT IS BEFORE 6PM: Take the San Francisco destination train. Get off at the
 Powell St. station (the third station after the train comes out of the transbay
 tube at Embarcadero station.). 
  IF IT IS AFTER 6PM: Take the Richmond destination train. Get off at Oakland
 City Center/12th St. (the fourth stop). Follow the signs to the Fremont/Daly
 City train (go downstairs). The monitors will read San Francisco destination.
 Get off at the Powell St. station. 
 To the ANA or Moscone: Exit the train to the left. Follow the signs to "4 St.".
 At the top of the escalator, go to the right, up another escalator to street 
 level. When you come up to street level, walk one block straight ahead to 3rd 
 and turn right. The ANA is in the middle of the block on the right. To get to 
 the Moscone, pass the ANA, cross Mission. One block to Howard, turn right. 
 The Moscone North is in the middle of the block to the right. 
 To the Parc Fifty Five, Hilton, Nikko: After exiting the train, follow the
 signs to "Hallidie Plaza". When you step outside, you will be in a sunken 
 plaza with the San Francisco Visitor Information Center to your left. If you 
 look up and slightly left, you will see the Parc Fifty Five. You can take the 
 stairs or an escalator up to street level. The Powell Cable Car Turnaround is 
 at the top of the escalator.

 Service Name Cost
 Frequency
 Hours BART            $1.90 1 way
 1530 minutes 
  Mon  Sat 
 
 6am  Midnight 
 
 Sun        
 
 8am  Midnight 
 Special for Wheelers:  Try to board the first car of the train. Some cars have 
 a space to the right of the door where wheelers can park. Watch the gap! The
 space between the platform and the train varies from 24" (5-10cm)
 Via Taxi   It's VERY expensive.
 Via Shuttle
 Your best bet is the BayPorter. You can pick it up in the shuttle area right
 outside the baggage claim. It will cost $15.00 one way.
 Service Name Cost
 Frequency
 BayPorter $15.00
 20-30 minutes
 
 SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT
 Via Shuttle: By far, the most pleasant way to get from the SF airport to the
 venues is to take the SFOAirporter (see coupon on Page Five). You can catch it
 at the shuttle stand in the median strip outside the baggage claim areas on the
 lower level of each terminal. Look for the blue columns. The driver will load
 your luggage. You ride in a very nice, quiet, air conditioned bus complete with
 bathroom. The ride takes about 30 minutes. 

 Route #1 goes to the following hotels: ANA, Grand Hyatt, Westin/St. Francis, 
 Hilton, Nikko, Parc Fifty Five, Marriott. The bus drops you off at the hotel 
 and the driver unloads your luggage right into the waiting arms of the bellboy.

 Service Name    Cost                Frequency         Hours 
 SFOAirporter    $8.00 1 way          20 minutes       6:10am   10pm  
                 $14.00 round trip
 
 
 Route #2: Sir Francis Drake, Holiday Inn Union Square, Westin/St. Francis,
 Hilton, Nikko, Sheraton Palace, Hyatt Regency. The bus drops you off at the 
 hotel and the driver unloads your luggage right into the waiting arms of the 
 bellboy.

 Service Name    Cost                Frequency         Hours 
 SFOAirporter    $8.00 1 way          20 minutes       6:00am   11pm  
                 $14.00 round trip
 
 The fastest shuttle to downtown is the Super Shuttle. This service will deliver
 you to any address in the city. The cost is $10 to downtown hotels, $11
 anywhere else. They are located on the upper level of the airport and are 
 dispatched as they fill up with passengers going to the same general area.
 Transit time varies from 30-40 minutes to the main hotels.
 Service Name       Cost     Frequency      Hours
 Super Shuttle    $11.00     varies,        On demand          
                  $8.00  2nd person to same place
 
 Call558-8500
 
Via Bus:  SamTrans will take you from the airport to the venues in less comfort
but also at MUCH less cost. You can catch the bus at the end of each of the two
domestic terminals on the upper (street) level. From the baggage claim, go
upstairs and follow the signs. Route 7F is quicker (35-45 minutes) but doesn't
allow luggage except for small carryons. Route 7B does allow luggage but is
much slower (55-65 minutes). 
Service Name   Cost   Frequency       Hours 

SamTrans     $1.75    30-60 minutes 
  7F North                           5:30am1:00am 
SamTrans
   7B North
           $ .85    30-60 minutes     6:00am1:00am

 Via Taxi: You can get a taxi on the lower level outside the baggage claim area.
 The cost will be $30-35 dollars depending on traffic.
 
 AMTRAK TRAIN OR GREYHOUND BUS
 Take the bus from the Oakland station to San Francisco. You will be deposited
 at Fourth and Townsend, which is a considerable distance from Moscone. 
 Greyhound buses arrive at the Transbay Terminal which is four blocks away from
 Moscone.
 
 DRIVING
 There are three main routes into the city. From San Jose and the Peninsula 
 Take US 101 North or I280 North, which connects with US 101 before getting
 to the downtown area. Take US 101 North to I80 East. Get off at the 4th Street
 exit. Go straight ahead on Bryant to 3rd Street. Turn left on 3rd Street to go
 under the freeway.
 To the ANA or Moscone: Three blocks up, on the left is the Moscone North. The
 ANA is another block up on the left between Mission and Market.
 To the Parc Fifty Five, Nikko. Hilton: Five blocks up, turn left on Market.
 Two blocks on Market then turn right on Cyril Magnin St. Go up one block. 
 The Parc Fifty Five will be on your left. The Hilton is one block further on 
 the left and the Nikko is one block further left on Ellis. 
 From the EAST via Sacramento/Reno or NORTH from Redding via I5 
 Take I80 West and cross the Bay Bridge ($1 toll) and get off at the 5th Street
 exit. Go right on 5th three blocks to Folsom. Turn right on Folsom two blocks
 to 3rd. Left on 3rd (you will be at the back of the Moscone South).
 To the ANA or Moscone: One block up, on the left is the Moscone North. The ANA
 is another block up on the left between Mission and Market.
 To the Parc Fifty Five, Nikko, Hilton: Three blocks up, turn left on Market.
 Two blocks on Market then turn right on Cyril Magnin St. Go up one block. The 
 Parc Fifty Five will be on your left. The Hilton is one block further on the 
 lef and the Nikko is one block left on Ellis.
 From Southern California via I-5 and I-580
 Take I-5 North to I-580 West near Tracy in California's Central Valley.  Take
 I-580 West to I-80 West in Oakland and follow the instructions under "from the
 EAST or NORTH" above.
 - Gail Sanders, Kevin Standlee, and Russ Elliott
 
 PARKING NEAR MOSCONE CENTER
 HEARST PARKING  45 Third Street (entrance on Stevenson) 
  (4159894000) 
 
  $12.00 All Day  $2.00/30 minutes 
  Closed Sundays & Holidays 
  HOURS: 6:30 AM  12 MIDNIGHT
 METRO PARK Mission Street @ Third (4159895100)
  $10.00 max up to 12 hours
  $2.00/20 minutes
  $5.00 evenings & weekends
  HOURS: 7:30 AM  5:30 PM *
 METRO PARK 718 Mission Street (4159895100)
  $8.00 max up to 12 hours  $2.00/20 minutes
  $6.00 evenings & weekends
  Early Bird Parking (before 9:00 AM) $7.00 all day
  HOURS: 7:30 AM  5:30 PM *
 MISSION STREET 740 Mission Street (4154959022) (next to
 above)
  $8.00 max for 12 hours  $2.00/20 minutes
  After 6:00 PM, $5.00 all night
  HOURS: 7:00 AM  6:00 PM *
 CITY PARK Stevenson Alley (behind ANA Hotel)
  $6.00 up to 12 hours (no hourly rate)
  Attendant there 6:00 AM - 10:00 on Saturday
  Saturday & Sunday  $5.00 all day
  CAR KEYS MUST BE PICKED UP BY 5:00 PM, 
 MONDAYFRIDAY, AS
  ATTENDANT LEAVES THE LOT BY 5:30 PM
 5TH & MISSION 833 Mission Street (4159828522)
  Entrances on 4th St., 5th St., and Mission
  Rates
 1 hour: $ .75
 
 2 hours: $1.25
 
 3 hours: $2.50
 
 4 hours: $4.00
 
 5 hours: $5.50
 
 6 hours: $7.00
 
 724 hours: $9.00
  OPEN 24 HOURS
 MOSCONE CENTER 255 3rd Street @ Howard (4157772782)
 GARAGE Early Bird Special $7.00 (in by 9:00 AM & out by 6 
 PM)
  Other rates same as Fifth & Mission
  HOURS: 6:00 AM  10:00 PM
 
  * Cars observed parked late at night; entrance/exit 
 open.
 
 PROGRAMMING
 
 Pleasing Program Planned
 We are scheduling an exciting program of panels, lectures, workshops,
 demonstrations, films, and other activities to educate, entertain and interest
 fans of all ages, backgrounds and interests. Our list of confirmed
 participants -
 which appears elsewhere in this report - grows every day.
 "Be Prepared": Get Ready For Workshops
 We are planning a number of interesting and exciting workshops in the arts,
 science, and costuming. For a list of workshops and the materials you might
 want to bring to participate in the workshops, send us a stamped, self
 addressed, "business" envelope .
 Honored Guest Presentations
 Larry Niven's Honored Guest Speech
 Sunday, 2pm
 Alicia Austin's Slide Show: 25 Years of Art
 Saturday, 2 pm
 Bubbles Hour:  Tom Digby's Honored Guest Speech
 Saturday, 5pm
 The wombat Speaks:  jan howard finder
 Sunday, 3pm
 Mark Twain, "My Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands"
 Sunday, Noon
 Films
 All of the Hugo nominated films and videos will be presented during the
 convention.  
 
 Programming for the Younger Fan
 
 Various programs are in the works for the young and the young at heart.
 Although there will be adult supervision of Young Fan Activities, we do not
 assume responsibility for your children.  Young Fan Programming is for children
 and young adults whose parents are comfortable leaving them in an unstructured
 environment and for parents to enjoy with their younger children.  Of special
 interest to fans of thirteen to seventeen years (and others, as space allows)
 is the CONTACT/Cultures Of The Imagination (COTI, Jr.) track. Participants in
 this series of workshops and seminars learn world building and alien design 
 with the help of scientists and professional writers, then roleplay a "First 
 Contact" scenario between the cultures they have designed.
 Young Fan Programming will take place in the Parc Fifty Five during the
 following hours: Thursday from 1pm-5pm, Friday from 11am-5pm, Saturday
 from 11am-5pm, Sunday from 11 am-5pm, and Monday from 11am-2pm.
 Please note that Young Fan Programming is not Childcare. Use Childcare if you
 want your child "signed in" to a place under the care of professional child
 care workers provided by NannyCare, Inc., a licensed and bonded company.  
 Childcare costs $5 per hour.  You must pre-register for Childcare.  We must 
 receive your deposit ($100 for one child or $150 for more than one child in 
 the same family)
 no later than August 11.  Hotel babysitting is much more expensive. 
 
 Weapons Policy
 
 Any members wearing props as part of a costume, both Hall and Masquerade,
 must act with common sense and full consideration for the safety of others and
 their surroundings. They must conform to all Federal, California state, San
 Francisco City/County statutes and to any restrictions placed on the Convention
 by the Moscone Convention Center and the Hotels. Most weapons are prohibited
 by local laws. These include genuine firearms, facsimile firearms, and
 functional projectile weapons (i.e. sharpened knives, battle axes, throwing
 darts, stars, nanchajku, etc.). Additionally, ConFrancisco prohibits anything
 except a match or cigarette lighter that emits real flame and anything that
 emits a harmful energy field (i.e. lasers). All weapon facsimiles or props must
 be peace bonded in a visible manner in such a way that they cannot be removed.
 The use of a weapon as part of the Masquerade must be approved by the
 Masquerade Director prior to the event. Failure to do so is grounds for
 immediate expulsion from the Convention.
 Any weapons purchased In the Dealer's Room must be securely wrapped and the
 buyer provided with a copy of the weapons policy.
 
 Addresses:
 ConFrancisco
 712 Bancroft Road, Suite 1993
 Walnut Creek, CA  94598-1500
 
 (510) 945-1993    FAX (510) 945-8705
 
 Compuserve: 72377, 3623
 Internet: [email protected]
 GEnie: K.STANDLEE (CAT 25 TOP 6 SFRT3)
 
 Other seated worldcons:
 
   1994                   1995
 
 CONADIAN                INTERSECTION
 P.O. Box 2430           121 Cape Hill
 Winnipeg, MB  R3C 4A7    Smethwick, Warley
 Canada                   West Midlands B66 42SH UK
 
 TRADEMARKS
 
 "World Science Fiction Society", "WSFS", "World Science Fiction
 Convention", "Worldcon", "NASFiC", and "Hugo Award" are registered service
 marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
 "ConFrancisco" and the bridge and world map logo are service marks of San
 Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc., a nonprofit corporation recognized
 under IRS 501(c)(3).
 
 ConFrancisco Progress Report 7 is 
 copyright (C)1993 San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. for the 
 contributors. All rights revert upon publication. Duplication and distribution
 of this publication, in its entirety, is heartily recommended. Duplication and
 distribution of portions of this publication without the written permission of
 the individual authors and artists involved is prohibited. Unsigned material is
 credited to the appropriate Department Head. This Report of Progress is
 published for SFSFC by ConFrancisco, 712 Bancroft Road, Suite 1993, Walnut 
 Creek, CA USA 94598-1500.
 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
For the ConFrancisco Committee...
 
John 'FuzzFace\Fast-Eddie' McMahon
[email protected]   {use finger to get my PGP public key}
 
"Any networking problem can be solved by the application of 75 miles of
         Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP)" - InterOp Spring 1993
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CONFRANCISCO--STEP BY STEP
By Kevin Standlee
 
For some time now, people have been asking just how far apart the various main 
ConFrancisco hotels are in relation to Moscone Center.  We have given the 
distances in blocks and in feet, but neither measurements have satisfied many 
people.  Therefore, I went down to San Francisco and walked from the Parc 
Fifty Five hotel to the Moscone Center, then to the ANA Hotel, then returned 
to the Parc Fifty Five, using what I think are the most-likely-to-be used 
routes.  I measured how many steps it was and kept a detailed record of each 
street crossing.
 
I am 6'3" tall.  I've not measured my stride exactly, but I'd guess it's about 
a meter (just over three feet), so the measurements could probably be turned 
into meters.
 
I also recorded my departure and arrival times at each site.  Remember, 
however, that my times include the delay at each street crossing where I took 
the notes of how far I'd walked, so your time will probably be less.
 
PARC FIFTY FIVE HOTEL TO MOSCONE CENTER
 
At 10:35 am, I started at the south end of the Parc Fifty-Five, at the 
automatic doors.  I believe that people exiting from the hotel heading for 
Moscone are most likely to use these doors.  I headed straight out the doors 
and diagonally right down Cyril Magnin St.
 
Steps  Description/Directions
 
  36   To crosswalk at Eddy & Cyril Magnin Streets.  Cross Cyril Magnin St.
       here.
  15   To cross Cyril Magnin St.  You are now at the edge of the plaza which
       includes the Powell Street Cable Car turnaround.  Ahead and to the
       right is Hallidie Plaza, which includes the BART and MUNI Metro
       streetcar station and the San Francisco Visitor Information Center.
       Cut through the cable car plaza.  Bank of America's One Powell St.
       branch will be on your left.  There are ATMs here (Plus/Star/Cirrus),
       and foreign exchange services are available inside.
 105   To cross the plaza to the pedestrian traffic light at Market Street.
       cross Market Street here.
  17   To cross Market Street.  Turn left (east) on Market.  Market St. is
       the main street of San Francisco.
 205   To the corner of Market and Fourth Streets.  If you are going to the
       ANA, cross Fourth and continue straight ahead to Third, then turn right
       and the ANA will be in front of you.  However, we're headed to the
       Moscone Center, so turn right (south) on Fourth Street.  The SF 
       Marriott is on the opposite side of the street, and the Mosser
       Victorian will be on your right.
 195   To the corner of Fourth and Mission Streets.  Turn left (east) and 
       cross Fourth Street here.
  20   To cross Fourth Street.  Turn right (south) and cross Mission Street.
  20   To cross Mission Street.  Continue straight ahead (south) on Fourth
       Street.  See the banners ahead and to your left?  They're flying over
       the Moscone Center.
 195   To the corner of Fourth and Howard Streets.  Turn left (east) on
       Howard.  The two halves of Moscone Center area ahead of you, with
       an arch under construction connecting the two.  There are signs that
       say "Moscone Center NORTH" ahead of you.  That's where the convention
       is at.
 150   To the center entrance of Moscone Center North.  Con registration is
       in the lobby.  If you already have your badge, proceed to the
       "re-entry" door, which will allow you to bypass registration and
       go downstairs to the main convention hall.  (Most of Moscone Center is
       underground.  The construction you see in the area is for the Yerba
       Buena Center which will be on top of Moscone Center; unfortunately,
       the Center won't open for a few months.
 
Arrival time including lots of stops to take notes: 10:53 am.  Total steps 
door-to-door: 968.
 
MOSCONE CENTER TO THE ANA HOTEL
 
Start: 10:55 am at the center doors of the Moscone Center North.  Turn left 
(east) on Howard Street.
 
Steps   Description/Directions.
 147    To corner of Howard and Third Streets.  Turn left (north) on Third
        Street.  Watch out for the construction.
 190    To corner of Third and Mission Streets.  Cross Mission.
  20    To cross Mission.  You can see the ANA Hotel ahead of you on the left.
  90    To the main entrance of the ANA Hotel.
 
Arrival time including stops to take notes: 11:00 am.  Total steps door-to-
door: 447
 
ANA HOTEL TO PARC FIFTY FIVE HOTEL
 
Start: 11:02 am at the main entrance to the ANA Hotel.  Turn left (north) on 
Third Street.
 
Steps  Description/Directions
 115   To corner of Third and Market Streets.  Turn left (west) on Market
       Street.  Just ahead and to the left (25 steps) is Copy Central, a
       copy shop which will be open during ConFrancisco, including Labor
       Day.  The shops hours are:  M-Thu 7:30 am-10 pm; Fri 7:30 am-7 pm;
       Sat 10 am-6 pm; Sun Noon-6 pm; Labor Day 10 am-6 pm.  They have
       Macintoshes and Mac laser printers available on a pay-for-time basis,
       as well as copiers.  On this trip, however, we're not stoping for
       copies, so let's continue.
 300   To the corner of Market and Fourth/Stockton/Ellis streets.  Stockton
       and Ellis merge at the corner of Market to the North, and Fourth
       heads south from market.  Turn right (north) and cross Market St.
  20   To cross Market.  Turn left (east) and walk over to the crossing of
       Stockton/Ellis Streets.
  12   To the Stockton/Ellis crossing.  Cross Stockton/Ellis streets.
  30   To cross Stockton/Ellis.  You could continue straight ahead and
       return to the cable car turnaround, but I'm going to walk up Ellis
       Street instead.  Head diagonally right (northwest) to the right of
       the California Savings Buliding on Ellis.
  65   To Ellis and Powell Streets.  Cross Powell Street here, but watch
       out for the cable cars!
   8   To cross Powell Street.  Continue straight ahead on Ellis.
  70   To Ellis and Cyril Magnin Streets.  On your way, you'll pass the
       Monticello Inn.  
  16   To cross Cyril Magnin Street and you'll have the Parc
       Fifty Five in front of you.  You can enter by these stairs or turn
       left and walk down to the front door.  The Nikko is across Ellis St on
       your right.
  45   To the main entrance of the Parc Fifty Five.
 
Arrival time including stops to take notes: 11:20 am.  Total steps door-to-
door: 681
 
General note:  There is a lot of construction going on in these areas.  At 
certain places you may need to negotiate construction-related detours and 
pedestrian walkways.
 
I hope you find this information useful.
 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
 
John 'FuzzFace\Fast-Eddie' McMahon
[email protected]   {use finger to get my PGP public key}
 
"Any networking problem can be solved by the application of 75 miles of
         Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP)" - InterOp Spring 1993
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ConFrancisco
The 51st World Science Fiction Convention
Schedule for Thursday, September 2, 1993
ConFrancisco will be the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention, Thursday,
September 2 through Monday, September 6, 1993 at the Moscone Convention
Center, Parc Fifty Five Hotel, ANA Hotel, and Hotel Nikko, in San Francisco,
California.  Memberships will be available at the door for $145 for all five
days or $35/day on Thursday and Monday and $50/day on Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday.  For more information, contact Kevin Standlee on CompuServe at
72377,3623 ([email protected]) or GEnie at K.STANDLEE
([email protected]), or call the ConFrancisco Office 510-945-1993.
 
The following file is the tentative program for Thursday, September 2, 1993.
It is subject to last-minute changes without notice, although every attempt
will be made to announce program changes in the convention newsletter.
 
If you are a program participant and have a program-specific comment, address
it to Sarah Goodman, the Programming Division Chief, at [email protected]
Copyright (c) 1993 by San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc.,
712 Bancroft Road, Suite 1993, Walnut Creek, CA 94598 USA. "Worldcon",
"World Science Fiction Convention", "WSFS", "World Science Fiction
Society", "NASFic", and "Hugo Award" are registered service marks of the
World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
"ConFrancisco" is a service mark of San Francisco Science Fiction
Conventions, Inc. Reproduction or retransmission of this file is
permitted for non-commercial use only, and only if the full text of this
notice and the copyright are included.
12 Noon
    Child Care Opens                                                  P BARC1
  1 Building Bridges & Other Things [YP]                              P MEDI
    Workshop for children 8 and up (and for interested adults).  It's fun to
    make: geometric construction kits; tooth pick bridges; masks and fun
things
    to wear. (3 hrs)
2:00 PM
  2 Costume Acoutrema: The Props                                      M 112
    It's the little things that count.
    -- Jay Hartlove, Stacey A Jenkins, Brian Mix (m), Kevin P Roche
  3 Writers' Rituals and Superstitions                                M 120
    What kind of rituals and superstitions do writers indulge in around
writing?
    How to invoke the ghods of creativity and propitiate the gremlins in the
    wyrd processor.
    -- Karen Anderson, Bryan Cholfin, Nicholas A DiChario (m), Rhondi Vilott
       Salsitz
  4 Japanese Fandom                                                   M 121
    A snapshot of Japanese fandom.
    -- Masamichi Osako, Shibano Takumi, Takayuki Tatsumi, Ken Yamaoka
  5 Erotic Elements in Horror & Super Hero Comics                     M 123
    For adult readers of comics.
    -- Loren MacGregor (m), Mark Merlino, Frederick Patten, Trina Robbins,
Dave
       Smeds
  6 Graphic Novels in F&SF                                            M 124
    A survey of the field and discussion of what makes them graphic NOVELS.
    -- Phil Foglio, Steve Leialoha, Len Wein (m), Marv Wolfman
  7 SF Media: Vast Wasteland or Teaching Tool                         M 131
    Movies and TV as a tool for teachers, perhaps focusing on media as a
    stimulus for both teaching and learning (e.g. in science).
    -- Greg Barr (m), Jok Church, Zelda Gilbert, Val Ontell, Hal Clement
  8 Reading by Thorarinn Gunnarsson                                   M 135C
  9 AMBER Diceless Role-Playing                                       M 135D
    If you love Roger Zelazny's "Amber", find out about this new style of
role-
    playing. Forget the old stereotypes of war-gamers, dice and rulebooks.  (3
    hrs)
    -- Erick Wujick
 10 John G Cramer, George Alec Effinger, Suzette Haden Elgin          M AUTO
    Autograph session.
3:00 PM
 11 Science Fiction and Fantasy Images of the Military                M 110
    From Conan to Starship Troopers to the Forever War and beyond. How does
the
    genre portray the military?
    -- Shariann Lewitt (m), John Mansfield, John Maddox Roberts, Ben Yalow
 12 MannerPunk                                                        M 113
    Fantasies of manners and the etiquette of the future, dark or light.
    -- Teresa Edgerton, Howard V Hendrix, Don Keller, Kevin A Murphy (m)
 13 SF: New Bridges Around the World                                  M 121
    International fan & pro networks: what's out there and how to get
involved.
    -- Elizabeth Anne Hull (m), Waldemar Kumming, Larry Roeder, Shibano Takumi
 14 Putting on a Multiworld Convention                                M 123
    Plan a convention of fictional characters from many different universes
such
    as Oz and Niven's Known Space and ToonTown and Lankhmar and the Iceworld
    universe? Choose fictional characters for your concom. Make up program
    items. What hotel or other facilit
    -- Tom Digby, Marjii Ellers, Tim Illingworth (m), Larry Niven, Edie Stern
 15 Mainstream/slipstream                                             M 124
    "Mainstream" fiction hovering on our borders.
    -- Edward Bryant (m), Jonathan Lethem, Gordon Van Gelder, Mark V Ziesing
 16 From Plato to Chaos Theory and Fuzzy Logic                        M 130
    A brief survey of the important historical developments in theories of
    knowledge reveals how the works of the past remain relevant today.
    -- Bradford Lyau
 17 Grab Bag Art: Make an Alien [YP]                                  P DANTE
    How many space aliens can you recycle from tissue paper, newspaper,
    cardboard tubes and other "junk"?
    -- Amelia Sefton
 18 Roger MacBride Allen, David Gerrold, Stephen Goldin               M AUTO
    Autograph session.
 19 BoaF: Runners Delight                                             M HOWARD
    Meet under the Pedestrian Overpass on the north side of Howard Street to
    join veteran runner Chuck Divine on one a run along the Embarcadero.
Public
    transit will be used from the meeting place. Runners, walkers, and all
non-
    motorized forms of transportati
4:00 PM
    Bubble Gum Crisis #1 & #2                                         N PINK
    Day of the Triffids                                               N GREY
    Fahrenheit 451                                                    N GRAN23
 20 The First Bay Area Worldcon                                       M 110
    What was the first SFcon really like? A discussion with those who were
    there. (Interview, sort of)
    -- Esther Cole, Lester Cole, Richard Lynch (m), Aubrey McDermott
 21 State of the Short Story                                          M 111
    How does this form fare in science fiction and fantasy magazines and
books,
    and in the rest of the literary world.
    -- Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, James Brunet, Scott Edelman, Ashley D Grayson
       (m), Rick Wilber
 22 Cordwainer Smith Panel                                            M 112
    Smith remains one of the most fascinating characters to have worked in the
    field, and his boldly innovative fiction still seems pertinent. This
program
    will examine the man and his work.
    -- James W Fiscus, Paul E Moslander (m), Ross Pavlac, Frederik Pohl, Tom
       Whitmore
 23 Darkover, Wraeththu & Valdemar                                    M 120
    Compare & contrast the various worlds where sexuality and psychic/magic
    powers are so much a part of the narrative.
    -- John Jarrold, Jean Lamb, Cynthia McQuillin (m)
 24 Getting Into Orbit                                                M 123
    How & when? How well has science fiction portrayed this first step to the
    stars?
    -- Steve Howe (m), Sean McMullen, Larry Niven, Gerald D Nordley, Henry
       Vanderbilt
 25 Practical Research Methods                                        M 124
    How to research science fiction and fantasy without doing 5 PhDs worth of
    work.
    -- Jim Benford, Dr. Michael K. Brett-Surman, Thorarinn Gunnarsson, Keith G
       Kato (m), Mary Mason
 26 Eric Drexler on Nanotechnology                                    M 130
    Nanotechnology, Machine Intelligence and the Human Future.
    -- Eric Drexler
 27 Worldbuilding in 50 Minutes                                       M 131
    A jam session for designers of alien worlds.
    -- Holly Lisle, Paul J McAuley, Kevin A Murphy, Robin F Rowland, Tad
       Williams (m)
 28 Eggbeater or Torture Implement?                                   M 132
    Archeology of the Future: Our experts analyze common household tools as
    though they were members of a future civilization.
    -- L Warren Douglas, Barbara Hambly (m), T Jackson King, Len Wein
 29 Riddles in the Dark [YP]                                          P MICH
    Our Honored Guest, jan howard finder, reads from some of his favorite
    Tolkien passages.
    -- jan howard finder
 30 Reading by Rick Cook                                              M 135C
 31 Harry Turtledove, Walter Jon Williams, Janny Wurts                M AUTO
    Autograph session.
5:00 PM
 32 SF/F: Many Worlds/Many Cultures                                   M 111
    Our panelists discuss their personal reading lists of SF/F portraying many
    peoples.
    -- Geary Gravel, Ian K Hagemann (m), Guy W Thomas, Amy Thomson
 33 Dracula: Historical Reality, Myth, Icon                           M 120
    Transylvania to the silver screen.
    -- Suzy McKee Charnas, Georgiana Farnoaga (m), Alexandru Mironov
 34 What Shall We Do With a Broken NASFiC?                            M 121
    Is the North American Science Fiction Convention broke? Should we fix it?
    Committee members discuss their report (which will be officially presented
    at the Friday WSFS Business Meeting) and the various alternatives they
    considered. (2 hrs)
 35 Introduction to Computer Networking                               M 123
    Discussion of the world of electronic mail and beyond--CompuServe, GEnie,
    Prodigy, BIX, the WELL and the Internet.
    -- Seth Breidbart, Wilma Meier, Mark L Olson, Martha Soukup (m)
 36 Beating "Star Wars" into Plowshares                               M 124
    How can the USA convert defense and aerospace engineers to other useful
    peacetime functions?
    -- John G Cramer, Pauline B Cramer, Richard F Dutcher (m)
 37 CONTACT: Introduction                                             M 132
    Cultures Of The Imagination (COTI) begins with an introduction that is
    designed to present a vision of humanity's future as a technological,
    spacefaring culture. Students will be given examples and then asked to
    create their own simulations of a spacefari
    -- Greg Barr, James Funaro
 38 Jack L Chalker                                                    M AUTO
    Autograph session.
 39 Open Filking                                                      A CITY
 40 Margaret and Kristoph and Friends                                 A FRAN
5:18 PM
    Urusei Yatsura Movie #1                                           N PINK
5:48 PM
    Earth vs. the Spider                                              N GREY
6:00 PM
    Dreamscape                                                        N GRAN23
 41 Medical Technology in SF                                          M 111
    Make no bones about it: get the biology and the medicine right!
    -- Sharon N Farber, David M Kushner, Perrianne Lurie, Pras Stillman (m)
 42 Today is Tomorrow's Yesterday                                     M 120
    Likely errors in future historical fiction about our era.
    -- Barbara Delaplace, John Hertz, Kim Stanley Robinson, Harry Turtledove
(m)
 43 Virtual Blood and Guts                                            M 124
    Can virtual violence take the place of the real thing, or will it be a
    practice session for violence in the flesh?
    -- Pat Cadigan, D N Crowe, Jack Nimersheim (m), Amy Thomson
 44 Reading by Kristine Kathryn Rusch                                 M 135C
 45 Music From the Worlds of Science and Technology                   A CITY
    -- Joe Ellis, Heather Rose Jones, Jordin Kare, Jane Robinson, Steve
Savitzky
6:15 PM
 46 WSFS/Mark Protection Committee Meeting                            A FRAN
    The meeting is open to all Members of ConFrancisco.  (2 hrs)
7:00 PM
 47 BoaF: Friends of Bill W.                                          N WHITE2
 48 Open Filking                                                      A CITY
     (2 hrs)
 49 Music From the Worlds of Assorted Writers                         A FRAN
     (2 hrs)
    -- Philip Allcock, Lee S Billings, Barry Gold, Jordin Kare, Rennie Levine,
       Kathy Mar, Cynthia McQuillin, Linda Melnick, Roberta Rogow, Kate Soley,
       Jean L Stevenson, Beth Stevens
7:10 PM
    Vampire Hunter D                                                  N PINK
7:18 PM
    First Spaceship on Venus                                          N GREY
8:00 PM
    Fantastic Voyage                                                  N GRAN23
 50 Fannish Family Feud                                               N GRAN1
    As seen at ArmadilloCon!!! Who is better-equipped to read the minds of the
    fannish community? (3 hrs)
    -- Pat Cadigan, Karen Meschke
 51 Opening Ceremonies                                                M ESPL
    Guy Gavriel Kay serves as toastmaster for this spectacular event.
    -- Alicia Austin, Mark Twain, Tom Digby, jan howard finder, Guy Gavriel
Kay,
       Larry Niven
8:40 PM
    Orange Road #1                                                    N PINK
8:45 PM
    War of the Worlds                                                 N GREY
9:00 PM
 52 Roll-Your-Own Filking                                             A CITY
    Whatever style audience and performers agree on. (10 hrs)
 53 Bardic Circle Filking                                             A COMM
    Everyone gets a turn to pick, play, or pass. (10 hrs)
 54 Chaos Filk                                                        A FRAN
    Unmoderated, jump in with a follower, midwestern style filk singing. (10
    hrs)
9:15 PM
    Aladdin                                                           M ESPL
     (2 hrs)
9:40 PM
    Guyver Volume 1                                                   N PINK
9:48 PM
    Angry Red Planet                                                  N GRAN23
10:15 PM
    Amazing Colossal Man                                              N GREY
10:40 PM
    Giant Robo #1                                                     N PINK
11:30 PM
    Video Interviews                                                  N GRAN23
12 Midn
    Child Care Closes                                                 P BARC1
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ConFrancisco
The 51st World Science Fiction Convention
Schedule for Friday, September 3, 1993, 7:00 AM to 1:30 PM.
ConFrancisco will be the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention, Thursday,
September 2 through Monday, September 6, 1993 at the Moscone Convention
Center, Parc Fifty Five Hotel, ANA Hotel, and Hotel Nikko, in San Francisco,
California.  Memberships will be available at the door for $145 for all five
days or $35/day on Thursday and Monday and $50/day on Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday.  For more information, contact Kevin Standlee on CompuServe at
72377,3623 ([email protected]) or GEnie at K.STANDLEE
([email protected]), or call the ConFrancisco Office 510-945-1993.
 
The following file is the tentative program for Friday, September 3, 1993.
It is subject to last-minute changes without notice, although every attempt
will be made to announce program changes in the convention newsletter.
 
If you are a program participant and have a program-specific comment, address
it to Sarah Goodman, the Programming Division Chief, at [email protected]
Copyright (c) 1993 by San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc.,
712 Bancroft Road, Suite 1993, Walnut Creek, CA 94598 USA. "Worldcon",
"World Science Fiction Convention", "WSFS", "World Science Fiction
Society", "NASFic", and "Hugo Award" are registered service marks of the
World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
"ConFrancisco" is a service mark of San Francisco Science Fiction
Conventions, Inc. Reproduction or retransmission of this file is
permitted for non-commercial use only, and only if the full text of this
notice and the copyright are included.
7:00 AM
    Music Programming Closed for Cleaning                             A FRAN
    Filking rooms (Franciscan, Commonwealth & City) closed for cleaning.  (3
    hrs)
8:00 AM
 55 Open Filking                                                      A CITY
     (5 hrs)
9:00 AM
    Child Care Opens                                                  P BARC1
    Bubble Gum Crisis #3 & #4                                         N PINK
    It! The Terror Beyond Space                                       N GRAN23
    They Came From Beyond Space                                       N GREY
 56 Aerobics I                                                        A METR3
    -- John Douglass
 57 BoaF: Friends of Bill W.                                          N WHITE2
10:00 AM
    Open Gaming Opens                                                 P DAVI
 58 The Care and Feeding of the Creative Process                      M 110
    What artists, writers, musicians, dancers, etc. do and think and "are" to
    keep the process up and running.
    -- Allison Hershey, Ginger LaJeunesse, Brian Moriarty, Bruce Holland
Rogers,
       Amelia Sefton (m)
 59 Science Fiction, Poetry, and Science Fiction Poetry               M 111
    Fiction and Poetry are different (although not mutually exclusive)
literary
    forms. What does each form offer the other, and how do we bridge the space
    between?
    -- Arthur Loy Holcomb, Sharon D King (m), Joy Oestreicher
 60 Should SF/F Strive for Literary Respectability                    M 112
    A debate over whether or not mainstream literary respectability is a
    desirable goal.
    -- Gregory Benford, David Drake, David G Hartwell, Don Keller, Ron Montana
       (m)
 61 Music in the Next Century                                         M 120
    What will technology, such as instruments that almost play themselves, do
to
    or for the music of the future?
    -- Nora Maki, Elisabeth Waters, David Wingrove, Janny Wurts (m)
 62 Writing Your Fingers to the Bone                                  M 121
    How to recognize job related physical and psychological injuries and
    illnesses, and to stay happy and healthy as a writer.
    -- Rebecca Moesta Anderson, Sharon N Farber, James W Fiscus (m), Flash
       Gordon MD, Pras Stillman
 63 Simple Stage Effects                                              M 124
    High tech on a low budget.
    -- Russell B Dawe (m), Jay Hartlove, John Youden
 64 Do Neural Networks Dream of Electric Sheep?                       M 130
    Neural networks try to make computers act more like biological brains.
This
    talk will describe what neural networks can do in real life, as opposed to
    science fiction.
    -- Dr. John Platt
 65 Japanese Artists                                                  M 132
    Slide show of Japanese Art.
    -- Yasuo Kawai
 66 Drawing Draperies, Fabric and Clothing                            M 135A
    Art workshop (3 hrs)
    -- Robert Alexander
 67 Marion Zimmer Bradley, Melissa Scott                              M AUTO
    Autograph session.
 68 M Flynn, J Nye, H Clement, H Turtledove                           A METR12
    Roundtable discussion with authors and others. Sign up at Information.  (2
    hrs)
 69 Tai Chi (Session I)                                               A METR3
    -- Steve Barnes
10:20 AM
    The Thing (1951)                                                  N GRAN23
10:39 AM
    Invasion of the Saucer Men                                        N GREY
    Urusei Yatsura Movie #2                                           N PINK
11:00 AM
 70 Multi-Cultural Sources and Resources for Writers                  M 110
    Where can writers get good information about societies and cultures other
    than their own?
    -- Janet Gluckman, Sean McMullen, Mike Resnick, Amy Thomson (m), David
       Wingrove
 71 What Do We Mean By "Crazy"?                                       M 111
    Mad scientists, twisted villains and paranoid rulers are all stock figures
    in the genre, but what are sociopaths and psychopaths REALLY like? Does
SF/F
    do a good job of depicting them?
    -- Dr. Kim McKinzey
 72 Blending Science Fiction and Fantasy                              M 112
    There are more possibilities than urban elves & neo-pagan cultures. What
    does the future offer the fantasist that the past & alternate universes do
    not?
    -- Tara K Harper (m), Michael Kandel, Patrick Nielsen Hayden
 73 "Nukes" in the Real World and SF/F                                M 113
    A review of the way SF has been affected by the nuclear age and a
discussion
    of how the current changes in the balance of nuclear power may be
reflected
    in the literature.
    -- Glen Cook, Rick Cook (m), Janet Catherine Johnston, Frederik Pohl, John
       Maddox Roberts
 74 Fat, Feminism, and Fandom - The Next Step                         M 120
    We discuss issues in fandom, science fiction and fact, and a project to
deal
    with some of these issues. As an outgrowth of discussions at SF
conventions,
    we have decided to show as well as tell what we see when we look at fat
    women.  (2 hrs)
    -- Patricia A Diggs, Laurie Edison (m), Cynthia McQuillin, Debbie Notkin,
       Carol Squires
 75 Postmodernism and SF                                              M 121
    Lecture.
    -- Kim Stanley Robinson
 76 Terry's Guests                                                    M 123
    A discussion with the beneficiaries of the Terry's Dream auction on the
    state of SF/F in their homelands.
    -- Ivan Adamovic, Elizabeth Anne Hull (m), Alexandru Mironov
 77 How to Anthropologize                                             M 124
    How do anthropologists do what they do? What can readers and writers learn
    from them?
    -- Jack C Haldeman II, Janet Lafler (m), Lynn D Maners, Michaela Roessner,
       Dirk van der Elst
 78 Terrestrial and Alien Embryology                                  M 130
    Biology uses a common set of rules to design the body's shape. We'll talk
    about those rules and show how simple household implements (like vitamin A
    supplements and single malt scotch) can predictably alter those rules.
    -- Susan M Smith
 79 The Choice of Color or Black & White in Art                       M 131
    What goes into a decision to create a work in full color, with a limited
    color palette, or in black and white? How does it affect what you do in
the
    creative process?
    -- Alicia Austin, Freddie Baer, Bob Eggleton, Rachel E Holmen (m), Jody A
       Lee
 80 Frankenstein: A Modern Myth in the Making                         M 132
    What does the power of this story to move us say about us?
    -- Bradford Lyau, Peter Nicholls, Art Widner (m)
 81 Safe(r) Sex                                                       M 133
    Practical ideas for staying healthy while having fun.
    -- Eve Ackerman, Tom Digby, Lyn Paleo (m)
 82 Building Bridges & Other Things [YP]                              P MEDI
    Workshop for children 8 and up (including interested adults).
 83 Reading by Joan Slonczewski                                       M 135C
 84 Costuming: Art or Obsession?                                      M 135B
    -- Adrian Butterfield, Leslie Johnston (m), Pierre E Pettinger Jr,
Jennifer
       G Tifft
 85 Jennifer Roberson, Lucius Shepard, Robert Silverberg              M AUTO
    Autograph session.
 86 Female Self-Defense                                               A METR3
 87 BoaF: Runners Delight                                             M HOWARD
    See Thursday, 3:00 PM.
11:50 AM
    Earth vs. the Flying Saucers                                      N GREY
    The Thing (1984)                                                  N GRAN23
12 Noon
 88 Ahoy, Have You Seen the Great White Archetype?                    M 110
    What are they? Uses and abuses? Are there "styles" in archetypes over the
    years?
    -- Mary J Caraker, Howard Frank, Katharine Kerr (m), Mike Resnick, Carol
       Severance
 89 Themes of Mental Illness & Disability in SF/F                     M 111
    SF/F treatments of mental health and developmental disability-related
    themes.
    -- David Brin (m), Susan T Casper, Bob Klaehn, Dr. Kim McKinzey
 90 Bridge Over the River SubGenre:                                   M 112
    How have SF, fantasy and horror merged, and why?
    -- Edward Bryant, Jeanne M Cavelos, Ellen Datlow, Tom Doherty, Sherry
       Gottlieb (m)
 91 Future Drugs for Fun and Profit                                   M 121
    What is known and on the horizon? Neurotropic drugs and formulations.
    -- D N Crowe, George Flentke (m), Flash Gordon MD, K. W. Jeter, Lucius
       Shepard
 92 The Ever-Popular Slush Pile Panel                                 M 123
    Editors and agents read their favorites.
    -- Laura Anne Gilman, Josepha Sherman (m), Gordon Van Gelder, Eleanor Wood
 93 Come Out, Come Out, Wherever...                                   M 124
    Lesbians, bisexuals and gays in the SF/F community. What are the
    ramifications of coming out and being out as an SF/F fan?
    -- Betty Lane (m), Keith A Rodwell, Joey Shoji
 94 One Day in the Life of an Editor                                  M 131
    An hour by hour account of what an editor actually does. It's 11:00 AM --
do
    you know where your manuscript is?
    -- Gardner Dozois, Claire Eddy (m), Ellen Key Harris, Betsy Mitchell, Toni
       Weisskopf
 95 Dressing Funny Over the Years                                     M 132
    Fannish costuming history program.
    -- Marjii Ellers
 96 Predictive SF: Perils and Promises                                M 133
    Notable predictions --which ones were accurate, wrong or too close to
call.
    -- Jim Baen, Rick Katze (m), Larry Niven, Dr. Jerry E Pournelle
 97 The Disney Panel                                                  M 134
    Special Presentation on Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas".
    Coming from Disney's TouchStone Division.
 98 Weird Material Science [YP]                                       P MICH
    What is "stuff" made of?
    -- Bob Webber
 99 Reading by Melinda Snodgrass                                      M 135C
100 Teresa Edgerton, Raymond Feist, Holly Lisle                       M AUTO
    Autograph session.
101 G Frost, H Gladney, T Robbins, M Wells                            A METR12
    Roundtable discussion with authors and others. Sign up at Information.  (2
    hrs)
102 Backrubs by the Wombat                                            A METR3
    Join the Wombat for an hour long backrub "workshop".
    -- jan howard finder
103 BoaF: History and Moral Philosophy                                N WHITE1
    A discussion of history in relation to the field of civic virtue, and the
    balance of authority and responsibility. We will also discuss the actions
of
    Rodger W. Young (1918-1943), on the island of New Georgia, Solomons, South
    Pacific, and the relationship
104 WSFS Meeting                                                      A FRAN
    Open to all attending members of ConFrancisco, the Business Meeting is
where
    changes to the WSFS Constitution (including Hugo Awards and Site Selection
    Rules) are debated. At today's session, debate time limits will be set and
    nominations accepted for the
12:30 AM
    Castle Cagliostro                                                 N PINK
1:00 PM
105 High Adventure and Low Humor                                      M 110
    Finding a balance between the real world (mud, and chamberpots included),
    and heroism and grand adventure.
    -- John DeChancie (m), Patricia A McKillip, Jody Lynn Nye, Dave Smeds
106 Military Science Fiction & Fantasy                                M 111
    What makes good military speculative fiction? Must authors have a military
    background to write in this sub-genre? Is good military fiction always
pro-
    military?
    -- Glen Cook, Moshe Feder, Stanley Schmidt, Susan Shwartz (m), S M
Stirling
107 Using Literary Techniques in SF/F                                 M 112
    Is there room for stream of consciousness, self-referentiality, fractured
    time schemes and so on in SF?
    -- Nicholas A DiChario, Jean Mark Gawron, Eileen Gunn (m), Michael Kandel
108 Auctioneer's Workshop                                             M 113
    For the people who stand up in front of the audience and go "Do I Hear
Ten?"
    How to get and hold an audience...
    -- Sandy Cohen, Mark Ferrari, jan howard finder, Phil Foglio, Andi
Shechter
       (m)
109 Professional Ethics for the Amateur                               M 120
    Artists, writers & editors: being professional --even if you're not paid.
    -- David G Hartwell (m), Teddy Harvia, Rachel E Holmen
110 Sequels in SF                                                     M 123
    Planned series and single stories that grow!
    -- Robert Chilson, Alexis A Gilliland, Karen Haber, Paul Preuss (m), Joe
       Siclari
111 The Accessable Convention                                         M 124
    What convention runners need to know about the Americans with Disabilities
    Act.
    -- Guy W Thomas
112 Sex in Space: Spatial Cognition and Gender                        M 130
    In this talk I will attempt to navigate a reasonable course through the
    complex psychological literature on spatial cognition, including a
    discussion of gender (and developmental) differences in spatial abilities.
    -- Diane Schiano
113 Step by Step Through the Painting Process                         M 132
    Slide show
    -- Patricia Davis
114 Sexual Biology in Fact and Fiction                                M 133
    A serious discussion of the origins and pathways of developing sexuality
and
    gender in reality and fiction.
    -- Suzy McKee Charnas, Mary Mason, Joan Slonczewski, Susan M Smith (m)
115 Volcanic Rock Treats [YP]                                         P DANTE
    Making an edible display to illustrate volcanic rock types & genesis,
using
    Rice Krispies, marshmallows & various kinds of chocolate.
    -- Jeanne Bowman
116 Reading by William F. Wu                                          M 135C
117 No Dice: Zen and the Art of Role-Playing                          M 135B
    Is it possible to achieve a higher state of role-playing involvement?
Erick
    Wujcik will present strategies for eliminating rules, procedures,
    conventions, and even getting rid of dice. (3 hrs)
118 Pat Cadigan, Tara Harper, George R R Martin                       M AUTO
    Autograph session.
119 "New Games"                                                       A METR3
    Game master David Honigsberg offers a relaxing afternoon of games with
names
    such as "Hagoo", "Prui", and "Knots". New Games bring people closer
together
    in an atmosphere of pure fun. Comfortable clothes are recommended; a sense
    of humor is required. (2 h
120 Music From the Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien                           A CITY
    -- W Kristoph Klover
1:30 PM
    This Island Earth                                                 N GREY
--- End of Schedule for Friday, September 3, 1993, 7:00 AM to 1:30 PM.
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ConFrancisco
The 51st World Science Fiction Convention
Schedule for Friday, September 3, 1993, 2:00 PM to 2:00 AM.
ConFrancisco will be the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention, Thursday,
September 2 through Monday, September 6, 1993 at the Moscone Convention
Center, Parc Fifty Five Hotel, ANA Hotel, and Hotel Nikko, in San Francisco,
California.  Memberships will be available at the door for $145 for all five
days or $35/day on Thursday and Monday and $50/day on Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday.  For more information, contact Kevin Standlee on CompuServe at
72377,3623 ([email protected]) or GEnie at K.STANDLEE
([email protected]), or call the ConFrancisco Office 510-945-1993.
 
The following file is the tentative program for Friday, September 3, 1993.
It is subject to last-minute changes without notice, although every attempt
will be made to announce program changes in the convention newsletter.
 
If you are a program participant and have a program-specific comment, address
it to Sarah Goodman, the Programming Division Chief, at [email protected]
Copyright (c) 1993 by San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc.,
712 Bancroft Road, Suite 1993, Walnut Creek, CA 94598 USA. "Worldcon",
"World Science Fiction Convention", "WSFS", "World Science Fiction
Society", "NASFic", and "Hugo Award" are registered service marks of the
World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
"ConFrancisco" is a service mark of San Francisco Science Fiction
Conventions, Inc. Reproduction or retransmission of this file is
permitted for non-commercial use only, and only if the full text of this
notice and the copyright are included.
2:00 PM
    Alien                                                             N GRAN23
121 Human Evolution in SF                                             M 110
    How does "prehistoric SF" illuminate the beginnings of our species?
    -- Roger MacBride Allen (m), Erica V.D. Ginter, Janet Lafler, Lynn D
Maners,
       Jane Robinson
122 Gender Bending: What's Good                                       M 111
    Exploration of gender and roles isn't as popular in science fiction as it
    used to be. Are the issues too imponderable or have we explored this area
    thoroughly?
    -- Michael Blumlein, Holly T Boswell, Jeanne Gomoll (m), Robin F Rowland
123 Specialty Publishing Then and Now                                 M 112
    The more things change the more they stay the same. Or do they?
    -- Charles Hornig, E M Korshak (m), Edmund R Meskys, Dean Wesley Smith,
Mark
       V Ziesing
124 Art Disasters: Failures That Never Left My Studio                 M 113
    How do you know when a work of art is going wrong? What do you do when it
    isn't fixable? How do you cope with Artistic Frustration?
    -- Armand Cabrera, Ingrid Neilson (m), Anatoly Paseka, Stephen Youll
125 The Mythology of Space Exploration                                M 120
    Everyone interested in space exploration has their own personal myths.
    -- Paula Butler (m), Dave Duncan, Steve Gillett, S M Stirling
126 Concert: Computer Interactive Music                               M 121
    Tim Walters presents his composition for human and computer.
127 Klingon "Dating Game"                                             M 123
    The Klingon Assault Group brings you one of the hot new shows.
128 For Our Moderators: A Workshop                                    M 124
    General moderator techniques, including discussion of management styles
    appropriate for conventions.
    -- Debbie Notkin, Tom Whitmore
129 Terry's Dream Auction                                             M 131
    Terry Biffel, our late chair, believed that science fiction and fantasy
    professionals from all over the world should meet at ConFrancisco. The
    Terry's Dream auction funds our project to help bring in guests who would
    not otherwise have been able to come.
    -- jan howard finder
130 Acrylic Painting Technique                                        M 132
    Slide show (2 hrs)
    -- David Cherry
131 Coming Soon: Babylon 5                                            M 133
    -- Steve Burg, J. Michael Straczynski, Ron Thornton
132 Grab Bag Art [YP]                                                 P MEDI
    More fun using "useless" stuff.
133 Filk to Soothe a Mighty Beast [YP]                                P MICH
    Dino tunes and monster ditties.
134 Niobium Jewelry Workshop                                          M 135A
    Art workshop (3 hrs)
    -- Katherine A Allen
135 Reading by P. C. Hodgell                                          M 135C
136 Greg Bear, David B Mattingly, Melinda Snodgrass                   M AUTO
    Autograph session.
137 M Bourne, D Herron, J Roberson, M Whelan                          A METR12
    Roundtable discussion with authors and others. Sign up at Information.  (2
    hrs)
138 Fans of Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah                    N WHITE1
    Birds of a Feather.
139 Filk's Golden Oldies                                              A CITY
    Joe Ellis has a great slide show and you even get to sing along! (2 hrs)
2:20 PM
    Guyver Volume 2                                                   N PINK
3:00 PM
140 The Future of Athletics, Aging & Health                           M 110
    What does the future hold for our bodies: Will we become atrophied button
    pushers or nano-enhanced, super-jocks?
    -- Steve Barnes, John Douglass (m), Lisa Mason, Larry Niven
141 The First Femmefen (Old FemmPharts!)                              M 111
    What was it like to be a woman in SF/F fandom when women were a rarity
(pre-
    1960, perhaps)?
    -- Karen Anderson, Martha Beck, Catherine Crook de Camp, Leah Zeldes Smith
       (m), Elsie B Wollheim
142 Feudal Attraction: Feudalism in SF/F                              M 112
    How realistic are modern depictions of feudalism? How appropriate is
    feudalism as a model for future societies?
    -- David Brin (m), Dave Duncan, Harry Harrison, Jacqueline Lichtenberg,
       Craig Mills
143 Mining Extraterrestrial Resources                                 M 120
    Do other galactic bodies really contain riches waiting to be harvested?
Is
    it worth our time?
    -- Aleta Jackson (m), Geoffrey A Landis, Dr. Jerry E Pournelle, Hal
Clement
144 Tribute to Avram Davidson                                         M 123
    Reminiscing and reading from the author's work.
    -- Peter Beagle, Gregory Benford, Ethan Davidson, Grania Davis, Gardner
       Dozois, Eileen Gunn, Lucius Shepard (m), John Silbersack, Robert
       Silverberg, Harry Turtledove
145 Fandom: Threat or Menace?                                         M 124
    Can too much involvement in the "spec fic" community lead to the
tarnishing
    of enjoyment of the literature?
    -- Richard Brandt, Seth Breidbart (m), Moshe Feder, Janice Gelb, Josepha
       Sherman
146 Virtual Reality 101 for Science Fiction Fans                      M 130
    Virtual Reality technologies, from an approach of building hardware and
    software to meet known human perceptual requirements, concentrating on the
    visual system. (2 hrs)
    -- Michael Deering
147 Right Kind of Magic                                               M 133
    What kind of magic systems exist in various cultures and levels of
    urbanization? Does anyone care?
    -- Raymond Feist, Guy Gavriel Kay (m), Terry Pratchett, Melissa Scott,
Carol
       Severance
148 Talk Story  [YP]                                                  P MICH
    Tell or read a story to younger kids.
    -- Alice Massoglia
149 Reading by Holly Lisle                                            M 135C
150 WorldCons of the Future: 1997 and Beyond                          M 135D
    Representatives of bid committees tell you what they hope to do (if they
win
    your vote). (2 hrs)
151 Frank Kelly Freas, Laura Brodian Kelly Freas, Frederik Pohl       M AUTO
    Autograph session.
152 "Non-Rave"                                                        A METR3
    A chance for fen who are ravers to exchange stories and experiences from
    around the world. Bring your favorite music to share and to dance to! (2
    hrs)
    -- Larry Ching
153 BoaF: Mythopoeic Society                                          N WHITE2
    For all those interested in discussing serious myth and fantasy
literature,
    especially J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.
3:09 PM
    Day the Earth Stood Still                                         N GREY
3:30 PM
    3 x 3 Eyes Volume 1                                               N PINK
154 Annwn in Concert                                                  A FRAN
4:00 PM
155 Publishing Artwork - What's Involved                              M 110
    Markets, media and merchandising.
    -- Beth Avary, Freddie Baer (m), Mark Ferrari, Ron Walotsky, Stephen Youll
156 Non-Paper Publishing                                              M 112
    Telling your story in a new way: Hypertext novels, novels generated from
    computer games, game universe books, graphic novels, interactive software
&
    television, computer on-line services.
    -- Frank Catalano (m), Greg Costikyan, William Gibson, Brad Templeton
157 How to Fake It on the Cheap                                       M 113
    Costuming without completely depleting your bank balance.
    -- Adrian Butterfield, Jay Hartlove, Stacey A Jenkins (m), Bruce R
       MacDermott
158 Computers and Class                                               M 120
    In an increasingly technology driven future, will the computer illiterates
    be the next underclass?
    -- Lisa Mason, Tim May, Althea McMurrian, Jack Nimersheim, Richard Weiss
(m)
159 Words and Music: Multimedia Poetry Reading                        M 121
    -- Joy Oestreicher
160 Art and Obsession                                                 M 123
    The relationship between art and obsession.
    -- Pat Cadigan, Tom Digby, Eileen Gunn, Jonathan Lethem, John Shirley (m)
161 Way of the Writer/Warrior                                         M 124
    Mind/body/spirit connections are very important in creative processes.
    Writers discuss their art, and the relation between it and writing and
    reading.
    -- Steve Barnes, Tara K Harper, Michaela Roessner, Thomas T Thomas (m)
162 Bridges Built to Last: Fan Funds                                  M 131
    What are TAFF, DUFF, FFANZ and GUFF? Erection and maintenance of these
long-
    standing fannish bridges.
    -- Abi Frost, Jerry A Kaufman (m), Richard Smith II, Leah Zeldes Smith,
Art
       Widner
163 A Quarter of a Century: Locus                                     M 132
    Locus is 25 years old. Charlie Brown and original subscribers discuss what
    Locus has meant to them.
    -- Martha Beck, Charles N Brown (m), Edward Bryant, Alexis A Gilliland,
       David A Kyle
164 How to Enjoy Your First Convention                                M 133
    Convention Fandom 101. If this is your first WorldCon (or even your 51st)
    our panelists have some tips on what to see and do (and how to stay
healthy
    and sane in the process).
    -- Gay Haldeman (m), Rusty Hevelin, Tim Illingworth, Keith A Rodwell
165 Fossils and Earth Science [YP]                                    P MICH
    All about dirt, rocks, fossils and other treasures you can find in the
    Earth.
    -- Dr. Michael K. Brett-Surman, Steve Gillett, Jane Robinson
166 Reading by Nina Kiriki Hoffman                                    M 135C
167 Dean Ing, Connie Willis, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro                     M AUTO
    Autograph session.
168 J Cramer, G Laskowski, M Resnick, W Williams                      A METR12
    Roundtable discussion with authors and others. Sign up at Information.  (2
    hrs)
169 BoaF: Space Access Society Meeting                                N WHITE1
    Non-members also welcome. (2 hrs)
    -- Henry Vanderbilt
170 BoaF: LitSearch                                                   N WHITE2
    A small firm made up of fans and authors looking for a more effective way
to
    help people find the fiction they want.  (2 hrs)
    -- Larry Roeder
171 Roy Thorley and Joan Gaustad in Concert                           A CITY
172 How to perform with Mikes                                         A COMM
    -- D N Crowe, W Kristoph Klover, Mary Mason
4:10 PM
    Aliens                                                            N GRAN23
    Twilight of the Cockroaches                                       N PINK
5:00 PM
    It Came From Outer Space                                          N GREY
173 The Family in F&SF Literature                                     M 110
    Discussion, with booklist.
    -- Gerri Balter (m), Ian K Hagemann, Janet Kagan, Kate Elliott
174 The Three Worlds of Star Trek                                     M 111
    Classic, TNG & Deep Space 9: Discussion of the 27 years of Star Trek,
    including the 3 shows, the films, etc.
    -- Camille Bacon-Smith (m), Amy R Falkowitz, Arthur Loy Holcomb, Jean
       Lorrah, Bill Trojan
175 Nema Problema                                                     M 112
    The Worldcon is not in the former Yugoslavia this year, but many fans
still
    live there. Who are they, and what's happened to them?
    -- Scott C Dennis, Lynn D Maners (m)
176 Tips for Your First Masquerade                                    M 120
    Award-winning master costumers will give you pointers on stage
presentation,
    music, what judges look for, etc., using videotape examples from past
    masquerades.
    -- Eleanor M Farrell (m), Jana Keeler
177 Hugo Voting: How It Works                                         M 121
    Find out how Hugo balloting works. Learn how to be a more informed voter
and
    why you should vote early (but not often).
    -- David Bratman (m), Andrew Porter, Ben Yalow
178 Can Bad Art Be Good?                                              M 123
    Why we enjoy things like Plan 9, Fanthorpe and paintings on velvet. A
    (semi)serious discussion of the nature of such pleasures.
    -- Susan T Casper, David W Clark (m), Stephen Goldin, Cynthia Ward
179 Where is the Boundary of a Person?                                M 130
    We will explore the potential contribution that technology might make to
    personal privacy and personal freedom and contrast this with the
relentless
    attack that is now going on.
    -- Whitfield Diffie
180 Love (as Opposed to Sex) in SF/F                                  M 132
    Until the late 1960s there was no sex in published SF/F writing. Now, sex
    we've got, but who understands love?
    -- Aaron Allston, Margaret S. M. Flinn, Patricia A McKillip, Mary H
       Rosenblum (m), Takayuki Tatsumi
181 TAFF DUFF Auction I                                               M 134
    Buy Neat Stuff! Help finance an international fannish exchange!  (2 hrs)
182 Reading by Roger MacBride Allen                                   M 135C
183 Kevin J Anderson, Rick Cook, John DeChancie                       M AUTO
    Autograph session.
184 CONTACT/COTI: Spacekind                                           P RAPH
    The human team will create a background against which the simulated
mission
    to visit another solar system takes place.  (2 hrs)
    -- Chris McKay, Dirk van der Elst, Israel Zuckerman
185 CONTACT/COTI: Alien Home World                                    P RUBE
    The alien team will create an atmosphere suitable for life and will
    establish the climatic patterns and geological structure of their planet.
(2
    hrs)
    -- Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, Dirk van der Elst, Israel Zuckerman
186 Open Filking                                                      A CITY
     (4 hrs)
187 Music From the Worlds of Marion Zimmer Bradley                    A FRAN
    -- W Kristoph Klover, Cynthia McQuillin, Linda VonBraskat-Crowe
6:00 PM
    Robot Carnival                                                    N PINK
188 Ghetto of the Ghetto: SF/F for Young People                       M 110
    The problems and rewards of writing science fiction and fantasy for young
    adults, and how the sub-genre relates to the "mainstream" of SF/F.
    -- Amy R Falkowitz (m), Frederick Andrew Lerner, Patricia A McKillip
189 Science Fiction and the Image of the Scientist                    M 111
    Does the portrait of science and scientists in SF match reality? Does SF
    have a responsibility to educate the public about the ways of science?
    -- Jok Church, Janet Catherine Johnston, Jonathan V. Post, Paul O Williams
       (m)
190 Writers with Three Names                                          M 112
    We wanted an excuse to put three people we like a lot together to talk
about
    writing and words.
    -- Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
191 What is Science Fiction For?                                      M 120
    Why write it? Why read it?
    -- Ginjer Buchanan (m), Tara K Harper, Beth Meacham, Jack Williamson
192 Turning the Wheels of If                                          M 121
    A discussion of likely change points for alternate realities, universes
and
    histories.
    -- Charles K Bradley, John L Flynn, Evelyn Leeper (m), Brad Linaweaver,
Paul
       J McAuley
193 Mythology is Not Just Stories                                     M 123
    Why does a people have myths; what do myths "do" for a culture.
    -- Peter Beagle (m), Gregory Frost, Diana L Paxson, Greg Stafford, Norman
C
       Talbot
194 Reigning Cats and Dogs: Canines and Felines in SF/F               M 124
    Fans' best friends: how do they fare in science fiction and fantasy
    literature and media.
    -- Kathryn Daugherty, Christine Markel, Jennifer Roberson, Edwin L
       Strickland III, Tad Williams (m)
195 Hades Ham Journal                                                 M 131
    KFJC DJ "Nora Maki" does an installment of her post-modern radio serial.
196 Jim Burns Slide Show                                              M 132
197 Reading by Jack L. Chalker                                        M 135C
198 BoaF: Science Fiction/Fantasy Poetry                              N WHITE2
    Discussion and readings of science fiction and fantasy poetry by working
    poets in those genres. (2 hrs)
6:48 PM
    Angry Red Planet                                                  N GREY
7:00 PM
    Alien 3                                                           N GRAN23
199 The Procrastinators Panel                                         M 111
    No one's gotten around to writing a description, or scheduling panelists
    yet. Information will be posted in the newsletter.
200 Friday Evening Services (Jewish)                                  N WHITE1
     (1.5 hrs)
7:30 PM
201 Filk Concert                                                      A FRAN
    7:30 Linda Melnick & Jean Stephenson, 7:50 Sue Knapp, 8:10 Lee Billings,
    8:30 Barry Gold, 8:50 Spencer Love, Lois Mangan and Gary McGath, 9:10
Break,
    9:20 Leslie Fish, 9:40 Mike Stein, 10:00 Bill Roper, 10:20 Cindy McQuillin
&
    Jane Robinson, 10:40 Phil &
202 His Imperial Majesty's Reception to Meet the Guests               P BALL
    Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico invites
you!
    (1.5 hrs)
    -- Alicia Austin, Mark Twain, Tom Digby, jan howard finder, Guy Gavriel
Kay,
       Larry Niven
7:45 PM
    Orguss #1 & #2                                                    N PINK
8:00 PM
203 Stfnal Pursuit                                                    N GRAN1
    Trivial Pursuit with a fannish twist. (3 hrs)
    -- Richard Brandt (m)
8:30 PM
    Alien                                                             N GREY
9:00 PM
    First Spaceship on Venus                                          N GRAN23
204 Roll-Your-Own Filking                                             A CITY
    Whatever style audience and performers agree on. (10 hrs)
205 Bardic Circle Filking                                             A COMM
    Everyone gets a turn to pick, play, or pass. (10 hrs)
206 The 60's in San Francisco Rock Dance                              A METRO
    Dance to the best of the past four decades of rock music, with a special
    stroll back through the sizzling sixties. (4 hrs)
9:45 PM
    Kabutu                                                            N PINK
10:30 PM
    The Thing (1951)                                                  N GREY
    Warner Pilot                                                      N GRAN23
10:45 PM
    Appleseed                                                         N PINK
11:00 PM
207 Chaos Filk                                                        A FRAN
    Unmoderated, jump in with a follower, midwestern style filk singing. (8
hrs)
12 Midn
208 Ghost Tales Around the High Tech Camp Fire                        N GRAN1
    Reading/telling scary stories. What better place than in a darkened room
    around a flickering light? What better time than midnight?
    -- Scott Edelman, Zelda Gilbert, Aimee Hartlove (m), John Shirley, S. P.
       Somtow
2:00 AM
    Child Care Closes                                                 P BARC1
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ConFrancisco
The 51st World Science Fiction Convention
Schedule for Saturday, September 4, 1993, 7:00 AM to 1:30 PM.
ConFrancisco will be the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention, Thursday,
September 2 through Monday, September 6, 1993 at the Moscone Convention
Center, Parc Fifty Five Hotel, ANA Hotel, and Hotel Nikko, in San Francisco,
California.  Memberships will be available at the door for $145 for all five
days or $35/day on Thursday and Monday and $50/day on Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday.  For more information, contact Kevin Standlee on CompuServe at
72377,3623 ([email protected]) or GEnie at K.STANDLEE
([email protected]), or call the ConFrancisco Office 510-945-1993.
 
The following file is the tentative program for Saturday, September 4, 1993.
It is subject to last-minute changes without notice, although every attempt
will be made to announce program changes in the convention newsletter.
 
If you are a program participant and have a program-specific comment, address
it to Sarah Goodman, the Programming Division Chief, at [email protected]
Copyright (c) 1993 by San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc.,
712 Bancroft Road, Suite 1993, Walnut Creek, CA 94598 USA. "Worldcon",
"World Science Fiction Convention", "WSFS", "World Science Fiction
Society", "NASFic", and "Hugo Award" are registered service marks of the
World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
"ConFrancisco" is a service mark of San Francisco Science Fiction
Conventions, Inc. Reproduction or retransmission of this file is
permitted for non-commercial use only, and only if the full text of this
notice and the copyright are included.
7:00 AM
    Music Programming Closed for Cleaning                             A FRAN
    Filking rooms (Franciscan, Commonwealth & City) closed for cleaning.  (2
    hrs)
8:00 AM
209 Open Filking                                                      A CITY
     (6 hrs)
9:00 AM
    Open Gaming Continues (24 hours/day)                              P DAVI
    Bubble Gum Crisis #5 & #6                                         N PINK
    Video Interviews                                                  N GRAN23
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)                             N GREY
210 Tai Chi (Session II)                                              A METR3
    -- Steve Barnes
211 Shabbas Services                                                  N WHITE1
     (3 hrs)
212 BoaF: Friends of Bill W.                                          N WHITE2
10:00 AM
    Horror of Dracula (1958)                                          N GRAN23
213 Does Fandom Need a 12-Step Program?                               M 111
    Friends of Joe P. Is fandom an addiction or hobby? Is it possible to just
    say no to fandom? Can we make it, one con at a time?
    -- Scott C Dennis, Janice Gelb (m), Mike Glyer, David Levine
214 Best of CONTACT                                                   M 112
    A video will show some of the alien cultures that have been designed at
    CONTACT conventions over the years. Find out how CONTACT teaches science
    through hands-on world-building and first-contact scenarios. This is an
    overview intended for everyone.
    -- Greg Barr
215 The 100 MPG Engine: Legends That Will Not Die                     M 121
    "Suppressed technology." How do stories get started about cars that run on
    water, carburetors that allow 90 miles per gallon, and anti-cancer drugs
    made from common household chemicals?
    -- Gregory Benford (m), Rick Cook, Steve Howe
216 Kay is Not for Camelot                                            M 124
    An academic paper on the works of Guy Gavriel Kay, written and presented
by
    Norman Talbot.
217 Liposomes: Not Just Cosmetics                                     M 130
    How these little lipid particles enhance the efficacy and safety of drugs.
    -- Judy Lazar
218 ILM Slide Show                                                    M 131
    A retrospective and peek into the future, from those wonderful wizards at
    Industrial Light and Magic. (2 hrs)
    -- Martin Brenneis
219 Lily Coit: My Life as a Fire Fighter and Spy                      M 132
    Our speaker, the noted San Francisco debutante, historical figure, donor
of
    Coit Tower and supporter of Knickerbocker Fire Company Number 5, shares
some
    of her adventures for your education and edification.
220 Harlan Ellison: His Only Appearance                               M 133
    The one and only Harlan Ellison, the one and only time to see him in the
    flesh at ConFrancisco.
221 TESLA: The Genius & His Legacy                                    M 134
    Lecture including demonstration and video of Tesla coils small and large.
    Who was this Serbian genius?
    -- Pete Miller
222 Origami Workshop                                                  M 135A
    Art workshop (2 hrs)
    -- Michelle Lee
223 Ellen Datlow, Gardner Dozois, John Shirley                        M AUTO
    Autograph session.
224 E Friesner, G Landis, A Mironov, A Paseka                         A METR12
    Roundtable discussion with authors and others. Sign up at Information.  (2
    hrs)
225 Aerobics II                                                       A METR3
    -- John Douglass
226 SFWA Meeting                                                      A FRAN
     (2 hrs)
10:30 AM
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)                             N GREY
10:39 AM
    Urusei Yatsura Movie #2                                           N PINK
11:00 AM
227 Must a Picture Tell a Story?                                      M 111
    Not all art is illustration, or even narrative, but does that mean it
    doesn't say anything?
    -- Laura Brodian Kelly Freas, Don Maitz (m), David B Mattingly, Michael J
       McLaughlin, Margaret Organ-Kean
228 Do Artists Really Sleep Until Noon?                               M 112
    What is an artist's life really like?
    -- Robert Ashton, Maureen Garrett (m), Jody A Lee, Ingrid Neilson, Shea
       Anton Pensa
229 Women Writing About Gay Male Characters                           M 113
    What (if anything) does this say about the role of women and of gay males
in
    our society? How do gay men feel about all this?
    -- Billie Aul (m), Camille Bacon-Smith, Franklin Hummel, Maureen F McHugh
230 When Fandom and Real World Politics Collide                       M 120
    What should fandom do about boycotts, strikes, war, and real world
politics?
    -- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes (m), Abi Frost, Richard Lynch, Andi Shechter, Ben
       Yalow
231 "Science Fiction" as a Genre Around the World                     M 121
    Do the definitions of "Mainstream" or SF/F differ in different cultures?
    -- Ivan Adamovic, John Jarrold, Jane Johnson (m), Masamichi Osako
232 Libraries-- Civilization's Marker Species?                        M 123
    What services libraries could offer if they were reasonably funded? How
can
    we fund libraries to ensure that they stay open?
    -- Janice M Eisen, Devra M Langsam, Frederick Andrew Lerner, Shelley
Monson
       (m), Val Ontell
233 View from the Editor's Desk                                       M 124
    Editors who have worked with Guy Gavriel Kay offer their own insights into
    his work and its relationship to the field at large.
    -- Peter Ginna, Linda McKnight, Christopher Shelling, John Silbersack
234 The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence                      M 130
    NASA will soon begin an enormously more comprehensive search as part of
its
    new program to detect other planetary systems (TOPS). (2 hrs)
    -- Dr. John Billingham
235 Harlan Ellison Autographing                                       M 133
236 Backyard Bugs [YP]                                                P DANTE
    You don't have to go to the Amazon (or Arcturus) to see amazing insects!
    -- Jeanne Bowman
237 Building Bridges & Other Things [YP]                              P MEDI
    Workshop for children 8 and up (including interested adults). (2 hrs)
238 Karen Haber, Terry Pratchett, Dean Wesley Smith                   M AUTO
    Autograph session.
239 BoaF: Runners Delight                                             M HOWARD
    See Thursday, 3:00 PM.
11:30 AM
240 Buffet Luncheon with ConFrancisco's Honored Guests                A CAFE
     (2 hrs)
    -- Alicia Austin, Mark Twain, Tom Digby, jan howard finder, Guy Gavriel
Kay,
       Larry Niven
241 Dracula (1979)                                                    N GRAN23
12 Noon
    Child Care Opens                                                  P BARC1
242 What Kinds of 'Rights' Can You Sell?                              M 110
    When a book or story is sold, what exactly is sold? How much control can
an
    author maintain over how his or her work is treated? Who controls
    reprinting, foreign publication, movie rights, etc?
    -- Kevin J Anderson, Ashley D Grayson, Laura A Majerus, Frederik Pohl (m),
       Christine Valada
243 "Good" Wars in Fact and Fiction                                   M 111
    "War is," to quote General Sherman (who should know) "Hell." Given this,
can
    wars be necessary, just, or even good? Has the SF/F field offered a useful
    "laboratory" for discussion of these questions?
    -- Clifton Amsbury, Dick Eney, Joe Haldeman (m), Dean Ing, Elizabeth Ann
       Scarborough
244 Alternate Utopias                                                 M 112
    The classic utopia was presented as mono-cultural. Do different cultures
    have different ideas of a perfect world? Can a multi-ethnic utopia exist?
    -- Suzette Haden Elgin, Shirley Johnston, Keith A Rodwell (m), William F
Wu
245 Perception, Art and Iconography                                   M 120
    How an artist percieves the world and why he or she puts certain things
into
    his or her art.
    -- Paul S Clift (m), Frank Kelly Freas,  Jael, Franz Hermann Miklis,
Barclay
       Shaw
246 Inventions That Really Change History                             M 121
    Exactly 200 years ago Eli Whitney was granted a patent on the cotton gin.
    Which recent patents might be recognized 200 years from now as being that
    influential?
    -- Howard Davidson, Michael F Flynn, T Jackson King (m), Connie Willis
247 Fandom's Own Summer of Love: SF '68                               M 123
    Well, we came to OAKLAND with flowers in our hair...Memories of Baycon II,
    the Worldcon/Westercon at the Claremont Hotel.
    -- John D Berry, Bill Donaho, Lee Gold (m), Jerry A Kaufman, Edmund R
       Meskys, Robert Silverberg
248 From Global Myths to Local Legends                                M 124
    "The Shift in Focus from Fionavar to Arbonne." An academic paper on the
    works of Guy Gavriel Kay written by Neil Randall and presented by Brad
Lyau.
    -- Bradford Lyau
249 The Art of David Cherry                                           M 131
    Slide show
    -- David Cherry
250 Will the Future Look Like the Movies?                             M 132
    If a present-day cinematic art director could fast-forward to the future,
    how disappointed would he or she be?
    -- Forrest J Ackerman, Martin Brenneis (m), Evelyn Leeper, Bill Warren
251 Animals in Science Fiction & Fantasy                              M 133
    Science fiction, fantasy and the animal kingdom.
    -- Heather Gladney (m), Mark Merlino, Melanie Rawn, Mary A Turzillo,
Vernor
       Vinge
252 Rubber Stamp Madness: Big Kids [YP]                               P DANTE
    Design, execution and techniques of stamp art, stamp assembly & carving.
    -- Jeanne Bowman
253 Scratchboard Workshop                                             M 135A
    Art workshop (2 hrs)
    -- Carolly Hauksdottir
254 Reading by S. P. Somtow                                           M 135C
255 Suzy McKee Charnas, Phil Foglio, Charles Sheffield                M AUTO
    Autograph session.
256 P Cadigan, B Eggleton, A Gilliland, M Wolfman                     A METR12
    Roundtable discussion with authors and others. Sign up at Information.  (2
    hrs)
257 Aikido Demonstration                                              A METR3
    This martial art presentation will demonstrate some open hand techniques
and
    some of the weapons kata from which open hand techniques are derived.
    -- Michaela Roessner
258 BoaF: APA-NYU                                                     N WHITE2
     (3 hrs)
259 WSFS Meeting                                                      A FRAN
    Podium Staff: John Lorentz, Chair; Kevin Standlee, Parliamentarian; Davis
    Levine, Secretary; Rick Katze, Timekeeper. (2 hrs)
12:30 AM
    Otaku No Video                                                    N PINK
12:35 AM
    Amazing Colossal Man                                              N GREY
1:00 PM
260 Writers and Day Jobs                                              M 110
    How do, or don't, writers balance the need to write and the need to earn a
    livable wage. Are there advantages (besides the money) to having two
    careers?
    -- Edward Bryant, Glen Cook, Karen Haber, Dale Hoover (m), Julian May
261 Language: Barrier or Bridge                                       M 111
    Translation helps bring works to audiences who can't read them in the
    original, but what how are works affected when the words and the grammar
    change?
    -- Thorarinn Gunnarsson, Gay Haldeman (m), Michael Kandel, Yoshio
Kobayashi,
       Maureen F McHugh
262 Peaceful Futures                                                  M 112
    Visualizing change, difference, and conflict.
    -- Sherry Gottlieb (m), Harry Harrison, Susan Shwartz, Walter Jon Williams
263 The Cthulhu Mythos                                                M 120
    ... in literature, in gaming, and maybe even in [gulp] reality.
    -- Jack L Chalker, Franklin Hummel, Tappan King (m), Bill Trojan
264 Klingon Fashion show                                              M 123
    The Klingon Assault Group presents the latest in fashions for the well
    dressed Klingon.
265 Character and Ambiguity in Guy Gavriel Kay                        M 124
    Characters --more than just tools to solve a problem --they are real
people.
    Kay's characters possess tons of personality, are more multi-dimensional.
    -- Raymond Feist, Heather Gladney, Sonia Orin Lyris, Dena Bain Taylor (m)
266 Building Silicon Brains                                           M 130
    What it might take for silicon-based neural networks to match the
    compactness and energy efficiency of the human brain.
    -- Jim Burr
267 Jerry Jacks Remembered                                            M 131
    Jerry was one of the Bay Area's most active and successful organizers of
    cons. He was also outspoken, occasionally outrageous, and just plain out.
    Friends and others get together and reminise.
    -- Charles N Brown, Richard F Dutcher, Paul E Moslander (m), Debbie Notkin
268 Marion Zimmer Bradley, An Interview                               M 132
    -- Brad Linaweaver
269 Can Humans Respectfully Treat Aliens?                             M 133
    Looking at the history of contacts between human cultures, what are the
    implications (peaceful, warlike, beneficial, exploitive or otherwise) for
    first contact with aliens?
    -- Paula Butler (m), Gregory Frost, Janet Gluckman, Harry Turtledove
270 A Preview of Upcoming Films with Jeff Walker                      M 134
    Trailers, promos, or whatever Jeff has to show regarding upcoming SF
    features from the major studios. (2 hrs)
271 Edible Space Aliens [YP]                                          P DANTE
    Cookie decoration with a twist.
    -- Cindy Fulton, Kathy Fulton
272 Reading by Michael Blumlein                                       M 135C
273 Ben Bova, Jim Burns, Joan Slonczewski                             M AUTO
    Autograph session.
274 Southwest/Square Dance                                            A METR3
     (2 hrs)
1:30 PM
275 Nosferatu (1922)                                                  N GRAN23
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Subject: CF Schedule 5 - Saturday PM
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ConFrancisco
The 51st World Science Fiction Convention
Schedule for Saturday, September 4, 1993, 2:00 PM to 2:00 AM.
ConFrancisco will be the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention, Thursday,
September 2 through Monday, September 6, 1993 at the Moscone Convention
Center, Parc Fifty Five Hotel, ANA Hotel, and Hotel Nikko, in San Francisco,
California.  Memberships will be available at the door for $145 for all five
days or $35/day on Thursday and Monday and $50/day on Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday.  For more information, contact Kevin Standlee on CompuServe at
72377,3623 ([email protected]) or GEnie at K.STANDLEE
([email protected]), or call the ConFrancisco Office 510-945-1993.
 
The following file is the tentative program for Saturday, September 4, 1993.
It is subject to last-minute changes without notice, although every attempt
will be made to announce program changes in the convention newsletter.
 
If you are a program participant and have a program-specific comment, address
it to Sarah Goodman, the Programming Division Chief, at [email protected]
Copyright (c) 1993 by San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc.,
712 Bancroft Road, Suite 1993, Walnut Creek, CA 94598 USA. "Worldcon",
"World Science Fiction Convention", "WSFS", "World Science Fiction
Society", "NASFic", and "Hugo Award" are registered service marks of the
World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
"ConFrancisco" is a service mark of San Francisco Science Fiction
Conventions, Inc. Reproduction or retransmission of this file is
permitted for non-commercial use only, and only if the full text of this
notice and the copyright are included.
2:00 PM
    Them                                                              N GREY
276 Escape Velocity                                                   M 110
    Current state of the efforts to establish permanent settlements in space.
    -- Howard V Hendrix, Gentry Lee, Henry Vanderbilt, Marc Willner (m)
277 The Third World and Science Fiction                               M 111
    Are contemporary SF/F relevant to the "pre-industrialized" world, and vice
    versa? Can the Third World be portrayed by First World writers without
being
    exploited?
    -- Dick Eney, Gerald Pearce, Mike Resnick, Lucius Shepard, S. P. Somtow
(m)
278 Why Vampires?                                                     M 112
    Vampires are "hot" right now. Why?
    -- Jeanne M Cavelos (m), Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Paul O Williams, Chelsea
       Quinn Yarbro
279 SF in 1893                                                        M 113
    Discussion of the lost SF/F movement that originated on the West Coast
    during the latter half of the 19th century.
    -- Don Herron, Sam Moskowitz, Paul E Moslander, Ray Nelson
280 Could We have Skipped Electronics Altogether?                     M 120
    Could technology have given us the computer by 1840? Charles Babbage
thought
    so. What other inventions might have developed much earlier? Flying
    machines? Steam cars?
    -- William Gibson, William S Higgins (m), Hayford Peirce
281 Workable Technology that Isn't Being Worked                       M 121
    What really useful things aren't being invented / manufactured /
distributed
    because established companies are afraid of...?
    -- Arlan Andrews, Judy Lazar
282 Speculative Cuisine                                               M 123
    Creating futuristic foods and styles of cooking. Techniques for
    'presentation' of fictional cuisine.
    -- Donald Kingsbury, Tim Powers, Jon Singer
283 The Double-Edged Gift                                             M 124
    An academic Paper on the works of Guy Gavriel Kay written and presented by
    Dena Taylor.
    -- Dena Bain Taylor
284 Planetary Geology                                                 M 130
    Constraints for planet building come from widely diverse areas of
planetary
    science, astrophysics, climatology, and even nuclear physics.
    -- Steve Gillett
285 Alicia Austin-- 25 Years of Art                                   M 131
    A slide show featuring our Honored Guest and her works. (2 hrs)
    -- Alicia Austin
286 Time Travel in H.G. Wells and Mark Twain                          M 132
    Twain sent his Yankee back in time and Wells sent his adventurer forward.
    Why did each chose the approach he did? Are the conventions of literary
time
    travel still set by these early examples?
    -- Poul Anderson, Mark Twain, Lili Tyler (m), Connie Willis
287 Testosterone Poisoning                                            M 133
    Are men and women the same species? Are we victims of our hormones? Is it
    nature or nurture? Are we serious?
    --  Ctein, PMS Faught (m), Margaret S. M. Flinn
288 Grab Bag Art                                                      P MEDI
    Recycle yourself into fun and exciting art projects.
289 Colored Pencil Workshop with Mark Ferrari                         M 135A
    Art workshop (3 hrs)
290 Reading by Bridget & Marti McKenna                                M 135C
291 Esther M Friesner, Larry Niven, Dr. Jerry E Pournelle             M AUTO
    Autograph session.
292 I Adamovic, G Costikyan, J DeChancie, T Pratchett                 A METR12
    Roundtable discussion with authors and others. Sign up at Information.  (2
    hrs)
293 An Hour of Music and Poetry with Tom Digby                        A CITY
2:20 PM
    3 x 3 Eyes Volume 2                                               N PINK
3:00 PM
    Dracula (1931)                                                    N GRAN23
    Macross II Volumes I & II                                         N PINK
294 The United States Viewed from the Outside                         M 110
    Fans from the international SF community discuss the way USians look to
non-
    USians.
    -- Charles N Brown (m), Abi Frost, Yoshio Kobayashi, Waldemar Kumming,
John
       Mansfield, Peter Nicholls
295 Telecommunications, Telepresence, & VR                            M 111
    Virtual bridge-building, today and in the near future. What will life be
    like along the information highway?
    -- Jim Baen, Pauline B Cramer (m), Howard Frank, Stephen Goldin
296 Current Gothic Revival in Horror & Gaming                         M 112
    There is a resurgence of dark, fantastic, and erotic images in literature,
    and gaming. Divergence or parallel evolution?
    -- Aaron Allston (m), Teresa Edgerton, Barbara Hambly, Carrie Richerson
297 Hour with the de Camps                                            M 113
    "Informal but amusing memories of our 54 years in Science Fiction" (and
the
    many Writers, Editors, Artists, and Fans they have known.)
    -- Catherine Crook de Camp, L Sprague de Camp
298 Is Sex With Aliens a Good Idea, or Even Plausible?                M 120
    The ever-popular sex with aliens panel.
    -- Jack Cohen, Tom Digby, ElizaBeth Gilligan (m), Robert Mark Shepherd,
       Susan M Smith
299 Ethics in the Age of Computers                                    M 121
    Are computers changing the ethical questions we have to answer? Are they
    affecting how we answer the ethical questions of the past?
    -- Jean Mark Gawron, David Joiner, Sonia Orin Lyris (m), Laura A Majerus,
       Tim May
300 Brewing in Space                                                  M 123
    Brewing beer, both commercially and privately, will be affected by
    conditions in space or on light/heavy. How will we get our brew?
    -- Chris Cooper (m), Rick Foss, Mark L Olson, Richard Roepke, Ed Rush
301 Returning to Literary Traditions in New Fantasy                   M 124
    Not content to model himself on Tolkien, Guy Kay goes back directly to the
    medieval Romance tradition: in Fionavar and Arbonne.
    -- P C Hodgell, Katharine Kerr, Sharon D King, Janeen Webb (m)
302 The wombat Speaks                                                 M 132
    Noted fan, Artist and Interviewer Laura Brodian Kelly Freas interviews our
    noted bon vivant marsupial Honored Guest, jan howard finder. (2 hrs)
303 Fossils! [YP]                                                     P MICH
    Noted writer/scientist Hal Clement shows and tells about fossils.
304 Reading by Jennifer Roberson                                      M 135C
305 Gregory Benford, John Maddox Roberts, Marv Wolfman                M AUTO
    Autograph session.
306 Yugoslav/Balkan Dance                                             A METR3
    To celebrate our esteemed bid competitors we present a workshop featuring
    the dances of the Balkans. (2 hrs)
307 BoaF: APA-VCR                                                     N WHITE2
308 Heather Gladney in Concert                                        A CITY
309 Electronics and Music                                             A COMM
    -- D N Crowe, Joe Ellis
310 Music From the Worlds of Star Trek                                A FRAN
    Trek Classic, Trek Lite, and Deep Space 9. (2 hrs)
    -- Gary Ehrlich, Leslie Fish, Kathy Mar, Gary McGath, Linda Melnick,
Roberta
       Rogow, Joey Shoji, Jean L Stevenson
3:45 PM
    Tarantula                                                         N GREY
4:00 PM
311 The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick                              M 110
    Why are the works of Philip K. Dick ubiquitous now, when he received so
    little recognition while he was alive?
    -- David G Hartwell, K. W. Jeter, Tim Powers (m), Eric M Van, Paul S
       Williams
312 New SF Community: Fans & Pros On-Line                             M 111
    Are the Internet, CompuServe, GEnie, Bix, the WELL, et all part of the
same
    town, or on another planet entirely?
    -- Barbara Delaplace, ElizaBeth Gilligan (m), Saul Jaffe, Sasha Miller
313 Economics and Daily Life in Elizabethan Times                     M 112
    The age of Elizabeth I serves as a model for many cultures we imagine in
    other universes or on other planets. What was it really like to live in
the
    time of Shakespeare.
    -- Hilary Ayer (m), Karen Shearer Voorhees, Amy Wolf
314 Renovating the Tucker Hotel                                       M 113
    What features would the ideal con hotel have and has this ideal changed
over
    the years? Modem jacks? AI elevators? Escalators to all the party floors?
    Beer taps?
    -- Rusty Hevelin, Karen Meschke (m), Sam Moskowitz, Joe Siclari
315 Is Huck Finn Really a Danger to Our Kids?                         M 120
    Are books for children subject to different standards than other
literature?
    Do these standards change with time and place?
    -- Mark Twain, Sheila Finch, Val Ontell (m), Ross Pavlac
316 Any Sufficiently Complex Technology...                            M 121
    Magical explanations for technological goodies.
    -- Esther M Friesner, Janet Kagan, Jordin Kare (m), Bridget McKenna
317 Ethical Issues for Creative People                                M 123
    What ethical issues should the artist, writer, photographer or other
    creative person consider?
    -- Ellen Key Harris, Douglas Herring (m), Jane Johnson, Ginger LaJeunesse,
       Michaela Roessner
318 Guy Gavriel Kay Symposium Paper #4                                M 124
    An academic paper on the works of Guy Gavriel Kay written and presented by
    Janeen Webb.
    -- Janeen Webb
319 Infrared Astronomy                                                M 130
    An introduction to IR detector technologies used in astronomy. A variety
of
    recent IR images will be shown that probe the depths of newly forming
    stellar systems and nearby spiral galaxies.
    -- Suzanne Casement
320 Remembering Lester del Rey                                        M 131
    We gather in memory of a friend.
    -- Terry Brooks, Barbara Hambly, Frederik Pohl (m), Shelly Shapiro, Robert
       Silverberg
321 Stories of Hollywood Experiences                                  M 133
    People's experiences working in Hollywood --the highs, the lows, the
horror
    stories.
    -- Gillian Horvath, George R R Martin, Gerald Pearce (m), Melinda
Snodgrass
322 Computer-Generated Special Effects                                M 134
    A demonstration of computer-generated special effects.
    -- Steve Burg, Ron Thornton
323 Tell Me A Story [YP]                                              P MICH
    Story telling and reading for a younger fan audience.
324 Reading by S M Stirling                                           M 135C
325 James Gurney, Kate Elliott, William F. Wu                         M AUTO
    Autograph session.
326 G Effinger, D Gerrold, S Lewitt, J Wurts                          A METR12
    Roundtable discussion with authors and others. Sign up at Information.  (2
    hrs)
327 Filk Conventions: Why You Should Go to Them                       A COMM
    There are now 7 independent filk cons.  Come hear what their
representatives
    have to say.
    -- Lee S Billings, Bob Laurent, Spencer Love, Deborah Weiss
4:51 PM
328 Horror of Dracula (1958)                                          N GRAN23
5:00 PM
329 Vodoun in Science Fiction and Fantasy                             M 110
    What is Vodoun? Why the current upsurge in "voodoo" stories in the field?
    -- Greg Bear, Ethan Davidson
330 "Let's Put on a Convention in My Dad's Barn"                      M 111
    What questions you need to ask to determine what kind of a convention you
    want and how you want to go about running it. (Hey, Sue, we made it!)
    -- Chris Cooper, Alice Massoglia, Eric M Van, Patty Wells (m), Tom
Whitmore
331 Writing Different Experiences From One's Own                      M 112
    How to realistically and sensitively portray characters whose race,
    religion, gender, or planet of origin is different from your own.
    -- Roger MacBride Allen, Melanie Rawn, Carol Severance (m), Chelsea Quinn
       Yarbro
332 A Dialog with Ben Bova                                            M 113
    Ben Bova offers a chance to talk with him about any subject--from writing
to
    politics, from movies to Mars.
333 Bubbles Hour: Tom Digby Honored Guest Speech                      M 120
    Probably Something But Definitely Not Boring. (2 hrs)
334 REAL Computer Art                                                 M 121
    If an art form took full advantage of the computer's abilities, what
    characteristics would it have?
    -- Mark Ferrari, Jeanne Gomoll, Stu Shiffman (m), Don Simpson
335 Protecting Your Work                                              M 123
    Your rights to your intellectual property (what is "yours").
    -- Stephen Hickman (m), Donald Maass, Ron Montana, Michael Whelan
336 The Hubble Space Telescope: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1                 M 130
    Is the Hubble Space Telescope and orbiting headache or one of our greatest
    tools for exploring the universe? The answer is "Yes". From new planetary
    systems to black holes to galaxies at the edge of the universe, see why
this
    "hunk of junk" keeps outdatin
    -- Mark Bourne
337 Have Special Effects Taken Over?                                  M 131
    Have character, concept and story taken a back seat to splashy SFX?
    -- Martin Brenneis (m), Steve Burg, Daryl Mallett, J. Michael Straczynski
338 George Effinger Medical Fund Auction                              M 132
    Organized by Joe Maraglino. (2 hrs)
339 Reading by Diana L. Paxson                                        M 135C
340 Paul Preuss, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Dave Smeds                M AUTO
    Autograph session.
341 CONTACT/COTI: Have Spaceship, Will Travel                         P RAPH
    The human team will examine the design requirements of building a
structure
    that can sustain human life in space for long periods of time.  (2 hrs)
    -- Larry Niven, Dr. Jerry E Pournelle, Dirk van der Elst, Israel Zuckerman
342 CONTACT/COTI: Alien Sophont                                       P RUBE
    The alien team creates extraterrestrial organisms with biological
structures
    that are compatible with the created planetary environment. (2 hrs)
    -- Karen Anderson, Dirk van der Elst, Israel Zuckerman
343 Open Filking                                                      A CITY
     (2 hrs)
344 Non U.S. Filk                                                     A COMM
    Representatives from England and Canada talk and sing about what filk is
    like in their environments.
    -- Lissa Allcock, Philip Allcock, Dave Clement, Christopher O'Shea II,
       Alison Scott, Kate Soley
345 Music From the Worlds of Gordon R. Dickson                        A FRAN
    -- Jordin Kare, Kathy Mar, Bill Roper, Michael Rubin
5:15 PM
    Teenagers From Outer Space                                        N GREY
5:18 PM
    Orguss #3 & #4                                                    N PINK
6:00 PM
346 Translation Difficulties                                          M 110
    The problems and rewards of the translation process.
    -- Grania Davis (m), Georgiana Farnoaga, Shibano Takumi, Lili Tyler
347 Getting to the Stars                                              M 111
    Can we? Will we? Will it be like we imagined?
    -- Randall M Clague, Keith Henson (m), Frank M Robinson, Edwin L
Strickland
       III
348 What Science Fiction Means to Me                                  M 112
    Discussion and reminiscences.
    -- Bill Donaho, David A Kyle (m), Jean Lamb, Frederick Patten, Andrew
Porter
349 Future or Death of Rock and Roll                                  M 121
    When the music of rebellion becomes the music of the White House, what
    happens to the need to rebel with music?
    -- Bradley Denton (m), Maureen Garrett, Edward Kramer, Paul S Williams
350 What's Fun About Gaming?                                          M 123
    -- Lori Ann Cole, Noah Falstein, Lee Gold, Steve Perrin
351 Directed vs. Basic Research                                       M 130
    What type of research is most important? Do we have to make these choices,
    or is a compromise possible?
    -- Howard Davidson, Geoffrey A Landis (m), Larry Roeder, Bob Webber
352 Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon                                      M 131
    How our ideas about Titan in both SF and real astronomy have changed over
    the last three centuries. (Slideshow)
    -- Hal Clement
353 Reading by Charles Sheffield                                      M 135C
354 Heather Alexander in Concert                                      A FRAN
6:30 PM
    Dracula (1979)                                                    N GRAN23
7:00 PM
    Beast From 20,000 Fathoms                                         N GREY
355 Body Manipulation in Fact and Fiction                             M 120
    Why is there a resurgence in these "primitive" forms of decoration in this
    time & place & in the literature?
    -- Branwyn Bigglestone, Donald Kingsbury, Peter Larsen, Greg Stafford (m)
356 Soviet Space Disasters                                            M 134
    Lecture and video demonstration.
    -- Hugh S Gregory
357 Music From the Worlds of Larry Niven                              A FRAN
    -- Lee S Billings, Joe Ellis, David M Kushner, Beth Stevens
7:18 PM
    Devil Hunter Yohko                                                N PINK
8:00 PM
358 One Shot Performances-- Performers Choice                         A FRAN
359 Science Fiction and Fantasy Masquerade                            M ESPL
    Fantastic costumes and presentations, two emcees, large screen video and
an
    incredible variety of the costume makers' art to delight and amaze you. (4
    hrs)
8:15 PM
    Solbianco                                                         N PINK
8:30 PM
    Bram Stoker's Dracula                                             N GRAN23
    Godzilla                                                          N GREY
9:00 PM
360 Roll-Your-Own Filking                                             A CITY
    Whatever style audience and performers agree on. (10 hrs)
361 Bardic Circle Filking                                             A COMM
    Everyone gets a turn to pick, play, or pass. (10 hrs)
362 Chaos Filk                                                        A FRAN
    Unmoderated, jump in with a follower, midwestern style filk singing. (10
    hrs)
9:15 PM
    Robo Carnival                                                     N PINK
10:00 PM
    Valley of the Gwangi                                              N GREY
10:55 PM
    Madox 01                                                          N PINK
11:00 PM
363 Nosferatu (1922)                                                  N GRAN23
12 Midn
    Eye of Argon                                                      N WHITE1
     (4 hrs)
2:00 AM
    Child Care Closes                                                 P BARC1
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ConFrancisco
The 51st World Science Fiction Convention
Schedule for Sunday, September 5, 1993, 7:00 AM to 1:50 PM.
ConFrancisco will be the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention, Thursday,
September 2 through Monday, September 6, 1993 at the Moscone Convention
Center, Parc Fifty Five Hotel, ANA Hotel, and Hotel Nikko, in San Francisco,
California.  Memberships will be available at the door for $145 for all five
days or $35/day on Thursday and Monday and $50/day on Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday.  For more information, contact Kevin Standlee on CompuServe at
72377,3623 ([email protected]) or GEnie at K.STANDLEE
([email protected]), or call the ConFrancisco Office 510-945-1993.
 
The following file is the tentative program for Sunday, September 5, 1993.
It is subject to last-minute changes without notice, although every attempt
will be made to announce program changes in the convention newsletter.
 
If you are a program participant and have a program-specific comment, address
it to Sarah Goodman, the Programming Division Chief, at [email protected]
Copyright (c) 1993 by San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc.,
712 Bancroft Road, Suite 1993, Walnut Creek, CA 94598 USA. "Worldcon",
"World Science Fiction Convention", "WSFS", "World Science Fiction
Society", "NASFic", and "Hugo Award" are registered service marks of the
World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
"ConFrancisco" is a service mark of San Francisco Science Fiction
Conventions, Inc. Reproduction or retransmission of this file is
permitted for non-commercial use only, and only if the full text of this
notice and the copyright are included.
7:00 AM
    Music Programming Closed for Cleaning                             A FRAN
    Filking rooms (Franciscan, Commonwealth & City) closed for cleaning.  (2
    hrs)
8:00 AM
364 Open Filking                                                      A CITY
     (7 hrs)
9:00 AM
    Open Gaming Continues (24 hours/day)                              P DAVI
    Child Care Opens                                                  P BARC1
    Batman the Movie (Adam West)                                      N GREY
    Beast From 20,000 Fathoms                                         N GRAN23
    Bubble Gum Crisis #7 & #8                                         N PINK
365 Tai Chi (Session III)                                             A METR3
    -- Steve Barnes
366 BoaF: Friends of Bill W.                                          N WHITE2
10:00 AM
367 Northern California in SF/F                                       M 110
    The where and why of using real world locations in speculative fiction,
with
    examples drawn from the world right outside the convention's doors.
    -- David Bratman (m), Don Herron, Pat Murphy, Diana L Paxson
368 Virtual World Building                                            M 111
    We all know (or think we know) what virtual reality will "look" like. What
    must designers and programmers take into consideration to make VR real?
    -- Ari J Hollander (m), Rudy Rucker, Bob Webber
369 Dozens of Good Ideas: Dream Anthologies                           M 112
    Putting together theme anthologies: what anthologies can we only dream of?
    -- Ellen Datlow (m), Dean Wesley Smith, Brad Templeton, Toni Weisskopf
370 Horses: Behavior, Bangles and Breeds                              M 113
    A panel for artists, writers and costumers on breeds, equine behavior,
tack
    and riding gear.
    -- Shelley Monson (m), Jennifer Roberson, Melinda Snodgrass, Janny Wurts
371 Writing with a Purpose                                            M 120
    How does one write from a background/agenda without writing a tract?
    -- Sheila Finch (m), Scott E Green, Alexander Jablokov, Amy Wolf
372 The Fixer-Upper Future                                            M 121
    Or, How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Toxic Cleanup. Restoration
    technology.
    -- Gail S Abend, Gerald D Nordley (m), Paul Preuss, Vernor Vinge
373 Smoke-Filled Back Room                                            M 123
    Our Honored Guest jan howard finder presents a shadow cabinet as a
    presidential "candidate" who is pro-space. WOMBAT For President!  (2 hrs)
    -- Arlan Andrews, Ben Bova, jan howard finder (m), Steve Gillett, Mike
       Glyer, Hugh S Gregory, Bradford Lyau, Richard Lynch, Charles Sheffield
374 Cloning Dinosaurs: Fact & Fiction                                 M 130
    This presentation will show how scientists would really have to do it,
    including exciting state-of-the-art techniques not mentioned in the book
or
    movie.
    -- Joan Slonczewski
375 Anime: Love It or Hate It                                         M 131
    Why people either love or hate "Japanimation".
    -- Roe R Adams III, Stephen Hickman, Lawrence Alden Lewis, Craig Miller
(m),
       Frederick Patten
376 What a Beginning Writer Needs to Know                             M 132
    Basic grammar, manuscript preparation, query letters, agent/transam,
secret
    incantations...
    -- Robert Chilson, Nicholas A DiChario, L Warren Douglas (m), Paula E
       Downing, Laura Anne Gilman
377 AIDS Benefit Auction                                              M 134
    David Gerrold, Auctioneer
378 Freddie Baer Collage Workshop                                     M 135A
    Art workshop (3 hrs)
    -- Freddie Baer
379 S M Stirling, Hal Clement, Martha Wells                           M AUTO
    Autograph session.
380 M Brenneis, R Feist                                               A METR12
    Roundtable discussion with authors and others. Sign up at Information.  (2
    hrs)
381 Aerobics III                                                      A METR3
    -- John Douglass
382 BoaF: Church of all Worlds/Live The Dream                         N WHITE
    The Church of All Worlds and Live the Dream are two associated groups
which
    were inspired by Heinlein. (2 hrs)
383 ASFA Meeting                                                      A FRAN
     (2 hrs)
10:30 AM
    Godzilla, King of the Monsters                                    N GRAN23
10:50 AM
    Urusei Yatsura Movie #3                                           N PINK
11:00 AM
    Batman (New)                                                      N GREY
384 Gutless Publishing                                                M 110
    The recession has had an adverse effect on publishing: cutting titles,
    publishing low-risk sequels and series novels. Where is this heading? Will
    it doom SF/F?
    -- Tom Doherty, Betsy Mitchell, Dean Wesley Smith (m), Mark V Ziesing
385 The Holocaust in F & SF                                           M 111
    Does SF/F serve as a useful forum to discuss the Holocaust?
    -- Eve Ackerman (m), Esther M Friesner, Lisa Goldstein, David M Honigsberg
386 Disabled Characters in SF/F                                       M 112
    What if technology and magic can't "fix" everything (or if people don't
want
    to be fixed); how do we then deal with the effects of disabilities in the
    future or in a magical universe.
    -- Joseph Lazzaro, Edmund R Meskys, Andi Shechter (m), Guy W Thomas
387 Plague, Vampires and AIDS                                         M 120
    Are the increasing number of stories about future plagues and vampires
    related to the AIDS crisis?
    -- Barbara Hambly, Perrianne Lurie (m), Frank M Robinson, Elizabeth Ann
       Scarborough
388 Star Trek: Early Fandom                                           M 121
    Don't call them "Trekkies". History and anecdotes of the early years of a
    major fannish subculture.
    -- Devra M Langsam, Jacqueline Lichtenberg (m), Ben Yalow
389 Help! The Universal Translator Just Broke                         M 124
    If and when we encounter an alien race, will we sing, gesture, paint
    pictures, use scientific symbols to communicate?
    -- Frank Catalano, Geary Gravel, Ari J Hollander, Craig M Jackson, Lyn
Paleo
       (m)
390 Smart Drugs                                                       M 130
    What do we want, what are we getting? This lecture describes of some of
    these compounds, the diseases they target, FDA requirements, and how the
    pharmaceutical industry is attempting to market them.
    -- George Flentke
391 Moral Issues for the Near Term                                    M 132
    What are the moral choices the human race (or any nontrivial part of it)
    faces over the next quarter century? What makes those choices "moral
    choices"? What impact will those choices have on the fortunes of the human
    race?
    -- Nancy Etchemendy (m), Terry Garey, Dean Ing, Tappan King, Jon Singer
392 In Celebration of Larry Niven                                     M 133
    A combination roast and toast to one of our most influential living
writers,
    from some of his friends and collaborators.
    -- Steve Barnes (m), Michael F Flynn, John Hertz, Donald Kingsbury, Dr.
       Jerry E Pournelle
393 Rockets on a Kite String [YP]                                     P DANTE
    Balloons, those cardboard tubes again, string across the room & we're off!
    (2 hrs)
394 Costume Headdresses [YP]                                          P MEDI
    Headdresses, crowns and other neat things to go to your head.
     (2 hrs)
395 Reading by Teresa Edgerton                                        M 135C
396 Is There a Formula to Winning Costumes?                           M 135B
    Are some themes and subjects more likely to impress the judges than
others?
    Or are "magic formulas" merely to help bring order to an irrational world
    (i.e., one in which your wonderful costume didn't win a prize).
    -- Aimee Hartlove, Leslie Johnston, Pierre E Pettinger Jr (m), Victoria
       Ridenour
397 Always Returning to Always Coming Home                            M 135D
    A discussion of a complex and quietly controversial work of recent Science
    Fiction, its unusual structure, and its perspectives on people,
environment,
    technology and culture.
    -- David Bratman, Jeanne Gomoll, Janet Lafler (m), Debbie Notkin
398 Catherine Crook de Camp, L Sprague de Camp, Gentry Lee            M AUTO
    Autograph session.
399 Shotokan                                                          A METR3
    -- Keith G Kato
400 BoaF: Runners Delight                                             M HOWARD
    See Thursday, 3:00 PM.
12 Noon
    Valley of the Gwangi                                              N GRAN23
401 Writing in Licensed Universes                                     M 110
    Creative cooperation and coping with a universe you didn't design.
Questions
    of ultimate rights and power, and the effect of these issues on
creativity.
    -- David Drake, George R R Martin, Sasha Miller (m), Elisabeth Waters
402 Escaping the Celtic Twilight Zone                                 M 111
    How to do a better job of mining other cultures and avoid the Fantasy
    Culture of the Month syndrome.
    -- George Alec Effinger, Guy Gavriel Kay, Holly Lisle (m), S. P. Somtow,
       Dirk van der Elst
403 Creating Your Character, Becoming Your Role                       M 112
    Comparison of character-creation process used by costumers, writers,
gamers,
    artists, actors and others.
    -- Aaron Allston, Hilary Ayer (m), Sandra G Pettinger, Carrie Richerson,
       Jennifer Roberson
404 Wake For Roger Weddall                                            M 113
    Last year's energetic, unstoppable DUFF winner charmed us all. Friends
meet
    to toast (and roast) his memory.
    -- Andy Hooper, Richard Lynch, Art Widner
405 So You Want To Be a Computer Game Designer                        M 121
    When creativity and software collide.
    -- Corey Cole, Lori Ann Cole (m), Carolly Hauksdottir
406 How to Buy SF and Fantasy Art                                     M 123
    For years, people on this panel have told you to Buy What You Like. We
will
    now, carefully, explore what constitutes a quality work of art.
    -- Allison Hershey, Margaret Organ-Kean (m), Peggy Ranson, Diana Harlan
       Stein
407 Inventing Languages for Fiction                                   M 124
    Do you have to invent an entire alien language to be realistic, or will a
    few words do?
    -- Suzette Haden Elgin, Jane Frank (m), Stanley Schmidt, Don Simpson,
       Timothy L Smith
408 "My Fellow Savages of the Sandwich Islands"                       M 131
    Mark Twain was famous not only for his writing, but for his tour on the
    lecture circuit. Come see him give his most popular speech "in the flesh."
    (2 hrs)
409 Saturday Morning Cartoons: Rights vs. Reality                     M 132
    A discussion of all the aspects of cartoons on TV, including violence and
    censorship.
    -- Craig Miller (m), J. Michael Straczynski, Len Wein
410 Peace, Love and Posters                                           M 133
    Art of the 60's, then and now.
    -- Alicia Austin, Roger Dean, Frank Kelly Freas, Luise Perenne (m),
William
       Rotsler
411 Rings of Saturn [YP]                                              P MICH
    Learn more about this facinating and lovely planet from Mark Bourne of the
    Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.
412 Reading by Carol Severance                                        M 135C
413 When Ugly & Beautiful Collide                                     M 135B
    Aesthetics of the future: If beauty becomes cheap and easy, how far can we
    go with ugliness? With our own images as an artistic drawing board, what
do
    we do next?
    -- Patricia Davis, Alexander Jablokov, Dana MacDermott (m), John Shirley
414 Esperanto, World Bridge Builder                                   M 135D
    Esperanto, from A to Z. Learn about the genesis and evolution of this
    "universal" language.
    -- Forrest J Ackerman, Harry Harrison (m), David Wolff
415 David Brin, Diana L Paxson, Michael Whelan                        M AUTO
    Autograph session.
416 BoaF: Star Trek Wellcommittee                                     N WHITE
    Star Trek Wellcommittee members meet & discuss STW policy. All Star Trek
    fans are welcome.
417 WSFS Meeting                                                      A FRAN
    Submitted business will be debated and the winner of the 1996 Worldcon
Site
    Selection will be formally announced.  (2 hrs)
12:39 AM
    Doomed Megalopolus #1                                             N PINK
1:00 PM
418 I Robot, You OK?                                                  M 110
    Jobs are being lost to robot arms and computer technology faster than new
    ones are being created by it. Can machines take all our jobs? What will we
    do for a living?
    -- Kevin J Anderson, Greg Bear, Janet Catherine Johnston (m)
419 Where do You Start With Art?                                      M 111
    How do you begin the path from concept to finished work?
    -- Robert Alexander (m), Beckett Gladney,  Jael, Christine Markel, Diana
       Harlan Stein
420 When Genres Collide                                               M 112
    Combining two genres in one book is a lot of work and may make some of
your
    fans unhappy. Why do it? Are there any tricks to make it easier or better?
    -- James P. Killus, Donald Maass, Julian May, Charles Sheffield (m),
Chelsea
       Quinn Yarbro
421 Tokenism in SF/F                                                  M 113
    How to tell the difference between tokenism and real diversity in fiction.
    -- Michael F Flynn, Althea McMurrian (m), Cynthia McQuillin, Deborah
Wheeler
422 Evolving Visions of the Future                                    M 120
    What do our visions of the future tell us about ourselves today?
    -- Gerri Balter, James Brunet, David Joiner (m), Robert Silverberg,
Cynthia
       Ward
423 Art as a Business                                                 M 121
    Business practices for the artist.
    -- Armand Cabrera, Jane Frank (m), Laura Brodian Kelly Freas, Lawrence
Alden
       Lewis
424 In Memoriam: Fritz Leiber                                         M 123
    Bring your memories of Fritz or his writing to share.  (2 hrs)
    -- Charles N Brown, Heather Gladney, Don Herron
425 New Ethnography of Science Fiction Fandom                         M 124
    The Hugo nominated author of "Television, Fandom, And The Creation Of
    Popular Myth" talks about her latest research into fandom and the
    publishing, tourism and computer industries, and interviews audience
    participants.
    -- Camille Bacon-Smith
426 Molecular Manufacturing                                           M 130
    Today's manufacturing methods arrange atoms statistically, without control
    over the placement of individual atoms. In the future we will manufacture
    products in which each individual atom is in its proper place.
    -- Ralph C Merkle
427 TAFF DUFF Auction II                                              M 134
    Buy Neat Stuff! Help finance an international fannish exchange!  (2 hrs)
428 Make Light With Jello [YP]                                        P DANTE
    Would you believe you can make a lens or prism from jello?  Would we kid
    you?
    -- Pat Murphy
429 Building Bridges & Other Things [YP]                              P MEDI
    Workshop for children 8 and up (including interested adults). (2 hrs)
430 Reading by Michaela Roessner                                      M 135C
431 Costume Designs: Where to Start                                   M 135B
    What is your inspiration, and how do you identify a genuine muse?
    -- Kayta Barrows (m), Charles Cady, Pierre E Pettinger Jr, Sandra G
       Pettinger, Victoria Ridenour
432 Art You Can Touch: Sculpture and Other Forms                      M 135D
    How does the tactile experience of sculpting influence the artists
    relationship with his or her work?
    -- Darlene P. Coltrain, Michelle Lee, Arlin Robins (m), Don Simpson, Ron
       Walotsky
433 Karen Anderson, Poul Anderson, Kim Stanley Robinson               M AUTO
    Autograph session.
434 Masquerade Post Mortem                                            M ESPL
    Meet the crew who did the show and the folks responsible for next year's
    event. Tell 'em what they did right and what can be improved. Pick up
    awards, tapes, documentation.
1:20 PM
    Flash                                                             N GREY
1:50 PM
    3 x 3 Eyes Volume 3                                               N PINK
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ConFrancisco
The 51st World Science Fiction Convention
Schedule for Sunday, September 5, 1993, 2:00 PM to 2:00 AM.
ConFrancisco will be the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention, Thursday,
September 2 through Monday, September 6, 1993 at the Moscone Convention
Center, Parc Fifty Five Hotel, ANA Hotel, and Hotel Nikko, in San Francisco,
California.  Memberships will be available at the door for $145 for all five
days or $35/day on Thursday and Monday and $50/day on Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday.  For more information, contact Kevin Standlee on CompuServe at
72377,3623 ([email protected]) or GEnie at K.STANDLEE
([email protected]), or call the ConFrancisco Office 510-945-1993.
 
The following file is the tentative program for Sunday, September 5, 1993.
It is subject to last-minute changes without notice, although every attempt
will be made to announce program changes in the convention newsletter.
 
If you are a program participant and have a program-specific comment, address
it to Sarah Goodman, the Programming Division Chief, at [email protected]
Copyright (c) 1993 by San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc.,
712 Bancroft Road, Suite 1993, Walnut Creek, CA 94598 USA. "Worldcon",
"World Science Fiction Convention", "WSFS", "World Science Fiction
Society", "NASFic", and "Hugo Award" are registered service marks of the
World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
"ConFrancisco" is a service mark of San Francisco Science Fiction
Conventions, Inc. Reproduction or retransmission of this file is
permitted for non-commercial use only, and only if the full text of this
notice and the copyright are included.
2:00 PM
    Mysterious Island                                                 N GRAN23
435 Going to the Dentist for a Living                                 M 110
    Swapping personalities around between bodies is a cliche in SF. How would
    this affect society? Could someone make a living going to the dentist in
    other people's bodies while those people relax somewhere else in rental
    bodies?
    -- Pat Cadigan, Jack L Chalker, George Alec Effinger, David Gerrold (m),
       Laurence M Janifer
436 Where's the Beef...Cake?                                          M 111
    Why aren't there more male nudes in SF/F art?
    -- Ginjer Buchanan, Paul S Clift, Claire Eddy, William Rotsler, Michael
       Whelan (m)
437 Getting Around the Solar System                                   M 112
    What will life be like when we're not confined to Terra?
    -- Jim Baen, Suzanne Casement, William S Higgins, Gentry Lee, Jonathan V.
       Post (m)
438 Limitations of Different Media                                    M 113
    How is a story told in one medium (art, comix, novel, hypertext, play,
etc.)
    is different than the same story told in another one.
    -- Stephen Goldin, Sherry Gottlieb (m), Douglas Herring, Steve Leialoha
439 Transgender Costuming                                             M 120
    How do you clothe yourself as a being of another sex? How do you learn to
    move and talk "right"? Where do you buy shoes?
    -- Kayta Barrows, Adrian Butterfield, P G Cwick (m), Kevin P Roche,
Jennifer
       G Tifft
440 Expanding Minds/Teaching SF/F                                     M 121
    The ways and values of teaching SF/F, from elementary school through
    graduate level college work. Can SF/F be used to teach other subjects?
    -- Charles K Bradley, John L Flynn, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Betty Lane
441 Has Star Trek "Sold Out"?                                         M 124
    Has Star Trek betrayed and/or forgotten the qualities (Real SF, Social
    issues) that made it a success?
    -- Gail S Abend (m), Franklin Hummel, Devra M Langsam, Jean Lorrah
442 Future Implications of Cryonics                                   M 130
    Following the lecture on nanotechnology, this panel discusses the
    controversial topic of cryonics from viewpoints pro, con, and in the
middle.
    -- George Flentke (m), Joe Haldeman, Ralph C Merkle, Charles Sheffield
443 Larry Niven: Honored Guest Speech                                 M 131
     (2 hrs)
    -- Larry Niven
444 The Fannish Inquistion: WorldCon '94, '95, '96                    M 132
    Representatives of Conadian, Intersection, and the 1996 winning bid
discuss
    their plans for three years of wonderful WorldCons. (2 hrs)
445 Dinotopia Presentation                                            M 133
    Slide show on the Hugo-nominated book.
    -- James Gurney
446 Drawing Heads and Hands                                           M 135A
    For artists, costumers, costumers and others who want to overcome their
fear
    of faces and fingers. (3 hrs)
    -- Luise Perenne
447 Reading by Maureen McHugh                                         M 135C
448 "That's Not Art!"                                                 M 135B
    What is "legitimate" artwork? Can craft be art? Are some subjects more
    acceptable than others? What about borrowed themes, characters, and icons?
    -- Beth Avary, John D Berry, Darlene P. Coltrain, David B Mattingly (m),
       Shea Anton Pensa
449 Forrest J Ackerman, Glen Cook, Jack Williamson                    M AUTO
    Autograph session.
450 Regency Afternoon Tea Dance                                       A METR12
    Our dancing master John Hertz takes you back in time to the elegant period
    of the late 18th and early 19th century. Period costume is encouraged, but
    not required. (3 hrs)
451 BoaF: Starfleet Region 4                                          N WHITE
    Hosted by Region 4, for Starfleet members to formally meet, and for
    interested Star Trek fans to learn about Starfleet.
2:30 PM
    Orange Road #2 & #3                                               N PINK
3:00 PM
    Superman                                                          N GREY
452 Are All Creative Arts the Same?                                   M 110
    Computer and paper game designers, playwriters and screenwriters, authors
    and artists: what's the same and what's different about their creative
    lives.
    -- Greg Costikyan, Shira Daemon, Raymond Feist, Dale Hoover, Janny Wurts
(m)
453 The Future of Interactive Entertainment                           M 111
    Where are computer games going?  What about virtual reality? When will
Dream
    Park be a reality? What is after that?
    -- Russell B Dawe, Keith Henson, Michael J McLaughlin, Brian Moriarty,
       Michael J Ward (m)
454 Editing Fiction                                                   M 112
    How to read like an editor.
    -- Gardner Dozois, John Jarrold, Beth Meacham (m), Toni Weisskopf
455 Time Bind-its: Young Turks Look in the Mirror...                  M 113
    ...and see Old Pharts. Through fanzines, future old pharts connect with
one-
    time young turks. Radical fannish nostalgia.
    -- Andy Hooper, Peter Larsen (m), George (Lan) Laskowski, Nicki Lynch, Art
       Widner
456 Why Speculative and Fantasy Art?                                  M 120
    With so many subjects in the "real" world, why do artists choose the
future,
    the strange, the fantastic, the wondrous, the weird?
    -- Bob Eggleton, Beckett Gladney, Don Maitz, Barclay Shaw, Michael Whelan
       (m)
457 Good Science Fiction and Fantasy for Young Readers                M 121
    Are the standards different when the readers are young? What would YOU put
    on a recommended list?
    -- Charles Cady, Mary J Caraker, Marian Huntsman Gibbons (m), Rick Wilber
458 The Past Seen Through Fictional Eyes                              M 124
    How historical fictions (including alternate history ones) really reflect
    present day concerns.
    -- Stu Shiffman, Susan Shwartz (m), S M Stirling, Harry Turtledove,
William
       F Wu
459 Contact Pacific                                                   M 133
    Alien design teams from US/UK meet alien design team from Japan for first
    contact between the inhabitants of Alpha Centauri & those of Epsilon Indi.
    -- Karen Anderson, Poul Anderson, Greg Barr, David A. Boulton, Paula
Butler
       (m), Randall M Clague, Craig M Jackson, Hideyo Ogino, Masamichi Osako
       (m), Masaya Sakamoto, Motoko Takebayashi, Mitsuhiro Toma
460 Clarion-West Auction                                              M 134
    For Clarion West science fiction writing program. (2 hrs)
461 What Will Life Be Like for Kids in Space? [YP]                    P MICH
    What do YOU think life will be like on a space station, or a colony on the
    Moon or Mars?  What about a space ship to Alpha Centauri?
    -- Gerald D Nordley
462 Reading by Mary H Rosenblum                                       M 135C
463 Melanie Rawn, Stanley Schmidt, Vernor Vinge                       M AUTO
    Autograph session.
464 Dave Clement Does Stan Rogers                                     A CITY
465 Music From Assorted TV Shows and Movies                           A FRAN
    -- Gary Ehrlich, Spencer Love, Jane Mailander, Kathy Mar, Gary McGath,
Linda
       Melnick, Roberta Rogow, Acacia Sears, Jean L Stevenson
3:50 PM
    When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth                                    N GRAN23
4:00 PM
466 Taboos of Science Fiction & Fantasy                               M 110
    What sort of topics are never seen in SF/F? What kinds of characters and
    relationships are never portrayed. What can, or should, the SF/F community
    do about these taboos?
    -- Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Laurence M Janifer, Bridget McKenna (m), Pat
Murphy,
       Eleanor Wood
467 How to Talk to Those Game People                                  M 111
    What are those gamers doing? Why are they yelling like that? Is it as
weird
    as it looks?
    -- Aaron Allston, Rembert N Parker, Steve Perrin
468 Law for Future Societies                                          M 112
    Cops, courts, & constitutions-- how will we govern ourselves in the
future?
    -- Paula E Downing, Rick Foss, Alys Hay, Rick Katze, Melinda Snodgrass (m)
469 Tinkerbell in the Big Apple                                       M 120
    Contemporary Fantasy: How do you sustain the fantasy element when your
    setting is the mundane world?
    -- Lisa Goldstein, Robert Mark Shepherd, Martha Soukup (m), William F Wu
470 Getting Away with ...                                             M 121
    ...using humor to make social statements, insult other forms of
literature,
    make snide remarks about public figures.
    -- John DeChancie (m), Esther M Friesner, Terry Pratchett, Connie Willis
471 Mark Twain as a Character in Science Fiction                      M 124
    Twain has been a major character in many SF/F stories. Why? What are the
    advantages and disadvantages of using a well-known person in fiction?
    -- Mark Twain, Jody Lynn Nye, Hayford Peirce, Bruce Holland Rogers (m)
472 Tachyons as Neutrinos                                             M 130
    Is it possible the electron neutrino is a tachyon? What would be the
    implications of such a discovery? Tachyons and their relation to FTL
    communication, causality, space drives, and black holes.
    -- John G Cramer
473 Can a Realistic Future Society be Portrayed?                      M 131
    Can future projections avoid the LeGuin ("Always Coming Home")-Wells
    ("Things to Come") axis of ultimate provinciality to ultimate conformity?
    --  Ctein, Janet Kagan, David M Kushner, Kim Stanley Robinson, Edie Stern
       (m)
474 Tell a Story  [YP]                                                P MICH
    Tell or read a story to younger kids.
475 Reading by Bradley Denton                                         M 135C
476 Maureen F McHugh, Len Wein                                        M AUTO
    Autograph session.
477 Chesley Awards                                                    A METR3
    ASFA Awards Presentation (2 hrs)
478 BoaF: Klingon Assault Group                                       N WHITE
    Everything you always wanted to know about Klingons, but were afraid to
ask.
4:30 PM
    Robotech Perfect Macross                                          N PINK
5:00 PM
479 How Hard Can It Be to Start a Game Company?                       M 111
    Panel by people who know.
    -- Corey Cole (m), Greg Costikyan, Noah Falstein, Paul Kidd
480 Children in SF/F                                                  M 120
    How real are children in SF/F? Does the presentation of childhood differ
in
    literature written for children, young adults, and "Gr'ups"?
    -- Ben Bova, Bob Klaehn (m), Marti McKenna, Martha Wells
481 Two Cultures/Two Genders --An Analogy                             M 123
    Studies show that men and women have different communications styles,
    although they use the same words. Do members of the 'Two Cultures'
(science
    and the humanities) have analogous problems? If so, how can we learn to
    understand each other?
    --  Ctein (m), Shariann Lewitt, Kate Elliott, Joan Slonczewski
482 Fannish Demographics                                              M 124
    The Worldcon is a small town that exists for five days in a different
    location every year. Who lives in that town? How does it work? Is fandom
    becoming more diverse, or less?
    -- Jack C Haldeman II, George (Lan) Laskowski (m), Mary Mason, Mark L
Olson,
       Leah Zeldes Smith
483 Fixing the Ozone Hole                                             M 130
    The proposals are vast, expensive and daring and have political economic
and
    ideological issues as well.
    -- Jim Benford
484 Reader's Theatre: A Play by S.P. Somtow                           M 132
    The Asian American Festival Theater presents a readers' theater preview of
    an exciting new work by S.P. Somtow. (2 hrs)
485 Reading by K. W. Jeter                                            M 135C
486 Steve Barnes, Mary J Caraker, Eileen Gunn                         M AUTO
    Autograph session.
487 CONTACT/COTI: Expedition to the Stars                             P RAPH
    The human team considers the kinds of exploration and experimentation they
    will do when they reach their destination. They examine the ethics of
    meeting new cultures and races. (2 hrs)
    -- Greg Bear, Dirk van der Elst, Israel Zuckerman
488 CONTACT/COTI: An Alien Culture                                    P RUBE
    The alien team establishes behavior, culture and language appropriate to
the
    creature and its environment for their organisms. (2 hrs)
    -- David Brin, Dirk van der Elst, Israel Zuckerman
489 Heather Rose Jones in Concert                                     A CITY
490 Filk Publishing                                                   A COMM
    The ins and outs of publishing tapes, CD's, songbooks, and other music
    related goodies.
    -- Jordin Kare, Bob Laurent, Gretchen Van Dorn, Rick Weiss, Leonard N
       Zubkoff
491 Music From the Worlds of Mixed Media                              A FRAN
    One hour of the LA Filkharmonics.
5:30 PM
    Batman Returns                                                    N GREY
    Rodan                                                             N GRAN23
6:00 PM
492 Cartoonists Jam                                                   M 120
    Several cartoonists, lots of paper!
    -- Phil Foglio, Alexis A Gilliland, Teddy Harvia, William Rotsler (m)
493 Faerie Tales: Alternative Sexuality Themes in SF/F                M 121
    How well does SF/F serve as a forum for exploring "alternate" sexual
    interests, both real and imaginary?
    -- Andy Hooper (m), Maureen F McHugh, Melissa Scott
494 Hear the Symbols Clash!                                           M 123
    Are we literate enough to use symbolism deliberately? When is it
dangerous?
    Who has final word on symbolism?
    -- Michael Blumlein, P C Hodgell, Tappan King, Patrick Nielsen Hayden,
Mary
       A Turzillo (m)
495 Star Trek: Federation Science                                     M 133
    A behind-the-scenes tour of the nationally traveling, interactive science
    exhibit that will open at the Academy of Science in San Francisco in
    February. Slides, video clips, anecdotes, and an insider's view of how the
    Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
    -- Mark Bourne
496 Reading by Tara Harper                                            M 135C
497 Media Costuming: How Do I Make It?                                M 135B
    Information, tricks and tips from the experts.
    -- Paula Crist-Pickett, Brian Mix
498 Open Filking                                                      A CITY
     (3 hrs)
499 Music From the Worlds of C J Cherryh                              A FRAN
    -- Heather Alexander, Leslie Fish, Kathy Mar, Cynthia McQuillin
6:30 PM
    Robotech Perfect Southern Cross                                   N PINK
7:00 PM
    Dark Star                                                         N GRAN23
500 One Shot Performances --New Material Only                         A FRAN
7:45 PM
    Warner Pilot                                                      N GREY
8:00 PM
501 Gold Rush Victorian Ball                                          A METRO
    Travel back to San Francisco's Victorian heyday as our dancing master
Kevin
    Hay leads us in waltzes, polkas, quadrilles and other dances of the time.
    Frock coats, hoops, and bustles are encouraged, but not required.
Beginners
    are welcome. (4 hrs)
502 Hugo (and Other) Awards Ceremony                                  M ESPL
    Guy Gavriel Kay is Toastmaster for the show which also "Celebrates 40
Years
    of the Hugos". (3 hrs)
8:30 PM
    Robotech Perfect Mospeada                                         N PINK
9:00 PM
503 Roll-Your-Own Filking                                             A CITY
    Whatever style audience and performers agree on. (10 hrs)
504 Bardic Circle Filking                                             A COMM
    Everyone gets a turn to pick, play, or pass. (10 hrs)
505 Chaos Filk                                                        A FRAN
    Unmoderated, jump in with a follower, midwestern style filk singing. (10
    hrs)
9:15 PM
506 Dracula (1931)                                                    N GRAN23
10:30 PM
    Riding Bean                                                       N PINK
11:00 PM
507 The Hugo Award Winner                                             N GRAN23
11:15 PM
    Dirty Pair                                                        N PINK
2:00 AM
    Child Care Closes                                                 P BARC1
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ConFrancisco
The 51st World Science Fiction Convention
Schedule for Monday, September 6, 1993
ConFrancisco will be the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention, Thursday,
September 2 through Monday, September 6, 1993 at the Moscone Convention
Center, Parc Fifty Five Hotel, ANA Hotel, and Hotel Nikko, in San Francisco,
California.  Memberships will be available at the door for $145 for all five
days or $35/day on Thursday and Monday and $50/day on Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday.  For more information, contact Kevin Standlee on CompuServe at
72377,3623 ([email protected]) or GEnie at K.STANDLEE
([email protected]), or call the ConFrancisco Office 510-945-1993.
 
The following file is the tentative program for Monday, September 6, 1993.
It is subject to last-minute changes without notice, although every attempt
will be made to announce program changes in the convention newsletter.
 
If you are a program participant and have a program-specific comment, address
it to Sarah Goodman, the Programming Division Chief, at [email protected]
Copyright (c) 1993 by San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc.,
712 Bancroft Road, Suite 1993, Walnut Creek, CA 94598 USA. "Worldcon",
"World Science Fiction Convention", "WSFS", "World Science Fiction
Society", "NASFic", and "Hugo Award" are registered service marks of the
World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
"ConFrancisco" is a service mark of San Francisco Science Fiction
Conventions, Inc. Reproduction or retransmission of this file is
permitted for non-commercial use only, and only if the full text of this
notice and the copyright are included.
7:00 AM
    Music Programming Closed for Cleaning                             A FRAN
    Filking rooms (Franciscan, Commonwealth & City) closed for cleaning.  (2
    hrs)
8:00 AM
508 Open Filking                                                      A CITY
     (3 hrs)
9:00 AM
    Open Gaming Continues                                             P DAVI
    Child Care Opens                                                  P BARC1
    Blade Runner (Director's Cut)                                     N GREY
    Bubble Gum Crisis Music Videos                                    N PINK
    Dark Star                                                         N GRAN23
509 Aerobics IV                                                       A METR3
    -- John Douglass
510 BoaF: Friends of Bill W.                                          N WHITE2
10:00 AM
    Urusei Yatsura Movie #3                                           N PINK
511 Thorarinn Gunnarsson, Joe Haldeman, Amy Thomson                   M AUTO
    Autograph session.
512 Tai Chi (Session IV)                                              A METR3
    -- Steve Barnes
10:45 AM
    Plan 9 From Outer Space                                           N GRAN23
11:00 AM
513 Costumer Resources                                                M 112
    Where to get the ideal technoblivet or period shoe buttons to complete
your
    costume.
    -- Eleanor M Farrell (m), Jana Keeler, John Youden
514 Slavery Themes in Fantasy and SF                                  M 121
    How have science fiction and fantasy dealt with the concept of slavery and
    the issues it raises?
    -- Roger MacBride Allen, Suzy McKee Charnas, Michael F Flynn, Zelda
Gilbert
       (m), S M Stirling
515 Are 10 Heads Better Than One?                                     M 123
    Advantages and disadvantages of workshopping. The place of Clarion and
other
    writers' workshops in the SF community.
    -- Scott E Green, Andy Hooper (m), Marti McKenna, Sasha Miller
516 How Real Can Comics Get?                                          M 124
    Over the last decade, touches of reality have been injected into comics.
Has
    this spoiled the fantasy or added to it? How much more reality can we
    expect?
    -- John Hertz (m), Edward Kramer, Trina Robbins, Marv Wolfman
517 Getting Off the Rock                                              M 130
    There are lots of ways besides rockets to get "off the rock" and around
the
    universe. Tour through alternatives based on well-understood principles
(no
    warp drives allowed) that could radically change Space Flight As We Know
It.
    -- Jordin Kare
518 CONTACT: Establishing Communication                               M 131
    Both teams present their creations. The human crew lands upon the created
    alien world and makes contact with the alien team. Team participants and
    observers analyze the "contact". (2 hrs)
    -- Greg Barr
519 Building Bridges & Other Things [YP]                              P MEDI
    Workshop for children 8 and up (including interested adults). (3 hrs)
520 Reading by Nicholas DiChario                                      M 135C
521 Guy Gavriel Kay, Patricia A. McKillip, Jody Lynn Nye              M AUTO
    Autograph session.
522 BoaF: Runners Delight                                             M HOWARD
    See Thursday, 3:00 PM.
523 Time Travelers' Fashion Parade                                    M ESPL
     (2 hrs)
11:09 AM
    Silent Running                                                    N GREY
12 Noon
    Lensman                                                           N PINK
524 SF in Eastern Europe                                              M 111
    A view of the field in the former "Eastern Bloc." What has changed since
the
    fall of the USSR?
    -- Ivan Adamovic, Sharon D King (m), Alexandru Mironov, Anatoly Paseka
525 Real Magic In The Bay Area                                        M 112
    Spiritual power sites, myths and legends in the Bay Area.
    -- Ray Nelson, Diana L Paxson (m)
526 Clothes Make the Human: Future Fashion                            M 113
    How might future grooming & personal fashion styles change? Will basic
black
    ever go out of style?
    -- Erica V.D. Ginter, Aimee Hartlove, Dana MacDermott (m), Kevin P Roche
527 Anyone Can Write a Screenplay --Right!                            M 120
    Writing short stories &/or books vs. writing for TV &/or movies.
    -- David Gerrold, Marian Huntsman Gibbons (m), Gillian Horvath, George R R
       Martin
528 Abuse Themes in SF/F                                              M 121
    Books say things not directly intended by their authors, especially about
    their times and culture. For example, PKD's arbitrary realities reflect
the
    ways many children see adults and their demands. This panel is not about
    child abuse, but about how aspec
    -- Richard F Dutcher, Laurie Edison (m), Loren MacGregor, Mary H
Rosenblum,
       Kristine Kathryn Rusch
529 Books You Should Read                                             M 123
    Some personal recommendations, not limited to SF, of what the well-read
fan
    should read and why.
    -- Janice M Eisen, Terry Garey (m), David A Kyle, Eric M Van
530 SHARP: Towards a Jules Verne Launcher                             M 130
    SHARP is a two stage light gas gun capable of launching a 5 Kg projectile
to
    a 400 Km apogee. It is intended for materials that can withstand a 2000 g
    launch acceleration.
    -- Dr. John Hunter
531 Feedback Session                                                  M 133
    Join the executive committee and other interested SMOFs for the
traditional
    "gripe session". (2 hrs)
532 Reading by Martha Soukup                                          M 135C
533 Open Poetry Reading                                               M 135D
    A Birds of a Feather event of the Science Fiction Poetry Association.
534 Barbara Hambly, Katharine Kerr, Donald Kingsbury                  M AUTO
    Autograph session.
535 No Strings Attached in Concert                                    A CITY
    -- Robin Baylor, Fred Capp, Lynn Gold
537 WSFS Meeting/Mark Protection Committee Meeting                    A FRAN
    To be held only if business remains at the end of the Sunday session.
    Following the WSFS Meeting (or at 12:00 if no Meeting is necessary), the
    Mark Protection Committee will meet. (2 hrs)
12:15 AM
    Tremors                                                           N GRAN23
12:39 AM
    Soylent Green                                                     N GREY
1:00 PM
538 The Roads Must Roll: Mass Transit                                 M 110
    What is the future of the US highway system? What future transportation
    projects could have the same sort of profound but unintentional effects on
    society?
    -- Pauline B Cramer, Barry Gold (m), James P. Killus, Geoffrey A Landis,
       Michael J Ward
539 It Ain't Hannibal: Growing Up In Fandom                           M 120
    Adult children of fans compare how growing up in fandom influenced their
    lives, careers, etc.
    -- Branwyn Bigglestone, Ari J Hollander (m), C J L VonBraskat
540 Talking Computers and Robots                                      M 124
    Is reality matching science fiction with cure-alls for housework blues?
    What's on the way and what do we really want?
    -- Nancy Etchemendy, ElizaBeth Gilligan, Thomas T Thomas (m), Walter Jon
       Williams
541 Humanity's New Rocketship: DC-X                                   M 130
    Video and pictures of McDonnell Douglas's revolutionary new rocketship,
the
    DC-X.
    -- Aleta Jackson, Henry Vanderbilt
542 Forrest J Ackerman's Slide Show                                   M 131
    Guided tour of the world's largest collection of SF "stuff."
543 Art Auction                                                       M 134
     (4 hrs)
544 Comics & Cartooning: How They Do It! [YP]                         P MICH
    Comic professionals talk about what a cartoonist REALLY does!
    -- Jok Church, Trina Robbins, Marv Wolfman
545 Harry Harrison, Carol Severance, Susan Shwartz                    M AUTO
    Autograph session.
546 Medieval Dances of the Bay Area                                   A METR3
     (2 hrs)
547 Roll-Your-Own Filking                                             A CITY
    Whatever style audience and performers agree on. (5 hrs)
1:50 PM
    3 x 3 Eyes Volume 4                                               N PINK
2:00 PM
    Open Gaming Closes                                                P DAVI
    Attack of the 50 Foot Woman                                       N GRAN23
536 Dave Clement's Patented Traveling Jam and Chaos Filk              A FRAN
    Dave Clement and a cast of thousands. (3 hrs)
548 Cosmic Journey (Slide Show)                                       M 131
    The art of Franz Herman Miklis.
549 Edward Bryant, Lisa Goldstein, Josepha Sherman                    M AUTO
    Autograph session.
550 What Do We Do Wrong/Right?                                        A COMM
    Music program feedback session.
    -- Mary Kay Kare, Bob Laurent
2:30 PM
    THX 1138                                                          N GREY
    Vampire Princess Miyu Volumes 1 & 2                               N PINK
3:00 PM
551 Belly/Line Dances                                                 A METR3
     (2 hrs)
552 Music Next Year In Winnipeg                                       A COMM
    -- Dave Clement
553 Closing Ceremonies                                                M ESPL
3:24 PM
    Video Interviews                                                  N GRAN23
4:00 PM
554 Bardic Circle Filking                                             A COMM
    Everyone gets a turn to pick, play, or pass. (10 hrs)
6:00 PM
    Child Care Closes                                                 P BARC1
--- End of Schedule for Monday, September 6, 1993
914.18Part 9 - now with possible signer notedSHARE::WILLISThu Aug 26 1993 09:54619
    
    Found this showing who is sceduled to sign and replaced the old list.
    Beleive everything is the same except for those scheduled to sign.
    
    jw
    
    
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ConFrancisco
The 51st World Science Fiction Convention
Program Participant List.
ConFrancisco will be the 1993 World Science Fiction Convention, Thursday,
September 2 through Monday, September 6, 1993 at the Moscone Convention
Center, Parc Fifty Five Hotel, ANA Hotel, and Hotel Nikko, in San Francisco,
California.  Memberships will be available at the door for $145 for all five
days or $35/day on Thursday and Monday and $50/day on Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday.  For more information, contact Kevin Standlee on CompuServe at
72377,3623 ([email protected]) or GEnie at K.STANDLEE
([email protected]), or call the ConFrancisco Office 510-945-1993.
 
The following file is the tentative list of program participants,
including special notice of those people with scheduled autograph
sessions.  It is subject to last-minute changes without notice, although
every attempt will be made to announce program changes in the convention
newsletter.
 
If you are a program participant and have a program-specific comment,
address it to Sarah Goodman, the Programming Division Chief, at
[email protected]
Copyright (c) 1993 by San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc.,
712 Bancroft Road, Suite 1993, Walnut Creek, CA 94598 USA. "Worldcon",
"World Science Fiction Convention", "WSFS", "World Science Fiction
Society", "NASFic", and "Hugo Award" are registered service marks of the
World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society.
"ConFrancisco" is a service mark of San Francisco Science Fiction
Conventions, Inc. Reproduction or retransmission of this file is
permitted for non-commercial use only, and only if the full text of this
notice and the copyright are included.
 
 * = Scheduled for autographing.
 
  Abend, Gail S
  Ackerman, Eve
 *Ackerman, Forrest J
  Adamovic, Ivan
  Adams III, Roe R
  Alexander, Heather
  Alexander, Robert
  Allcock, Lissa
  Allcock, Philip
  Allen, Katherine A
 *Allen, Roger MacBride
  Allston, Aaron
  Amsbury, Clifton
 *Anderson, Karen
 *Anderson, Kevin J
 *Anderson, Poul
  Anderson, Rebecca Moesta
  Andrews, Arlan
  Ashton, Robert
  Aul, Billie
  Austin, Alicia
  Avary, Beth
  Ayer, Hilary
  Bacon-Smith, Camille
  Baen, Jim
  Baer, Freddie
  Balter, Gerri
 *Barnes, Steve
  Barr, Greg
  Barrows, Kayta
  Baylor, Robin
  Beagle, Peter
 *Bear, Greg
  Beck, Martha
 *Benford, Gregory
  Benford, Jim
  Berry, John D
  Bigglestone, Branwyn
  Billingham, Dr. John
  Billings, Lee S
  Blumlein, Michael
  Bohnhoff, Maya Kaathryn
  Boswell, Holly T
  Boulton, David A.
  Bourne, Mark
 *Bova, Ben
  Bowman, Jeanne
  Bradley, Charles K
 *Bradley, Marion Zimmer
  Brandt, Richard
  Bratman, David
  Breidbart, Seth
  Brenneis, Martin
  Brett-Surman, Dr. Michael K.
 *Brin, David
  Brooks, Terry
  Brown, Charles N
  Brunet, James
 *Bryant, Edward
  Buchanan, Ginjer
  Burg, Steve
 *Burns, Jim
  Burr, Jim
  Butler, Paula
  Butterfield, Adrian
  Cabrera, Armand
 *Cadigan, Pat
  Cady, Charles
  Capp, Fred
 *Caraker, Mary J
  Casement, Suzanne
  Casper, Susan T
  Catalano, Frank
  Cavelos, Jeanne M
 *Chalker, Jack L
 *Charnas, Suzy McKee
  Cherry, David
  Chilson, Robert
  Ching, Larry
  Cholfin, Bryan
  Church, Jok
  Clague, Randall M
  Clark, David W
  Clement, Dave
 *Clement, Hal
  Clift, Paul S
  Cohen, Jack
  Cohen, Sandy
  Cole, Corey
  Cole, Esther
  Cole, Lester
  Cole, Lori Ann
  Coltrain, Darlene P.
 *Cook, Glen
 *Cook, Rick
  Cooper, Chris
  Costikyan, Greg
 *Cramer, John G
  Cramer, Pauline B
  Crist-Pickett, Paula
  Crowe, D N
  Ctein,
  Cwick, P G
  Daemon, Shira
  Danehy-Oakes, Dan'l
 *Datlow, Ellen
  Daugherty, Kathryn
  Davidson, Ethan
  Davidson, Howard
  Davis, Grania
  Davis, Patricia
  Dawe, Russell B
 *de Camp, Catherine Crook
 *de Camp, L Sprague
  Dean, Roger
 *DeChancie, John
  Deering, Michael
  Delaplace, Barbara
  Dennis, Scott C
  Denton, Bradley
  DiChario, Nicholas A
  Diffie, Whitfield
  Digby, Tom
  Diggs, Patricia A
  Doherty, Tom
  Donaho, Bill
  Douglas, L Warren
  Douglass, John
  Downing, Paula E
 *Dozois, Gardner
  Drake, David
  Drexler, Eric
  Duncan, Dave
  Dutcher, Richard F
  Eddy, Claire
  Edelman, Scott
 *Edgerton, Teresa
  Edison, Laurie
 *Effinger, George Alec
  Eggleton, Bob
  Ehrlich, Gary
  Eisen, Janice M
 *Elgin, Suzette Haden
  Ellers, Marjii
 *Elliott, Kate
  Ellis, Joe
 *Ellison, Harlan
  Eney, Dick
  Etchemendy, Nancy
  Falkowitz, Amy R
  Falstein, Noah
  Farber, Sharon N
  Farnoaga, Georgiana
  Farrell, Eleanor M
  Faught, PMS
  Feder, Moshe
 *Feist, Raymond
  Ferrari, Mark
  Finch, Sheila
  finder, jan howard
  Fiscus, James W
  Fish, Leslie
  Flentke, George
  Flinn, Margaret S. M.
  Flynn, John L
  Flynn, Michael F
 *Foglio, Phil
  Foss, Rick
  Frank, Howard
  Frank, Jane
 *Freas, Frank Kelly
 *Freas, Laura Brodian Kelly
 *Friesner, Esther M
  Frost, Abi
  Frost, Gregory
  Fulton, Cindy
  Fulton, Kathy
  Funaro, James
  Garey, Terry
  Garrett, Maureen
  Gawron, Jean Mark
  Gelb, Janice
 *Gerrold, David
  Gibbons, Marian Huntsman
  Gibson, William
  Gilbert, Zelda
  Gillett, Steve
  Gilligan, ElizaBeth
  Gilliland, Alexis A
  Gilman, Laura Anne
  Ginna, Peter
  Ginter, Erica V.D.
  Gladney, Beckett
  Gladney, Heather
  Gluckman, Janet
  Glyer, Mike
  Gold, Barry
  Gold, Lee
  Gold, Lynn
 *Goldin, Stephen
 *Goldstein, Lisa
  Gomoll, Jeanne
  Gordon MD, Flash
  Gottlieb, Sherry
  Gravel, Geary
  Grayson, Ashley D
  Green, Scott E
  Gregory, Hugh S
 *Gunn, Eileen
 *Gunnarsson, Thorarinn
 *Gurney, James
 *Haber, Karen
  Hagemann, Ian K
  Haldeman, Gay
 *Haldeman, Joe
  Haldeman II, Jack C
 *Hambly, Barbara
 *Harper, Tara K
  Harris, Ellen Key
 *Harrison, Harry
  Hartlove, Aimee
  Hartlove, Jay
  Hartwell, David G
  Harvia, Teddy
  Hauksdottir, Carolly
  Hay, Alys
  Hendrix, Howard V
  Henson, Keith
  Herring, Douglas
  Herron, Don
  Hershey, Allison
  Hertz, John
  Hevelin, Rusty
  Hickman, Stephen
  Higgins, William S
  Hodgell, P C
  Hoffman, Nina Kiriki
  Holcomb, Arthur Loy
  Hollander, Ari J
  Holmen, Rachel E
  Honigsberg, David M
  Hooper, Andy
  Hoover, Dale
  Hornig, Charles
  Horvath, Gillian
  Howe, Steve
  Hull, Elizabeth Anne
  Hummel, Franklin
  Hunter, Dr. John
  Illingworth, Tim
 *Ing, Dean
  Jablokov, Alexander
  Jackson, Aleta
  Jackson, Craig M
  Jael,
  Jaffe, Saul
  Janifer, Laurence M
  Jarrold, John
  Jenkins, Stacey A
  Jeter, K. W.
  Johnson, Jane
  Johnston, Janet Catherine
  Johnston, Leslie
  Johnston, Shirley
  Joiner, David
  Jones, Heather Rose
  Kagan, Janet
  Kandel, Michael
  Kare, Jordin
  Kare, Mary Kay
  Kato, Keith G
  Katze, Rick
  Kaufman, Jerry A
  Kawai, Yasuo
 *Kay, Guy Gavriel
  Keeler, Jana
  Keller, Don
 *Kerr, Katharine
  Kidd, Paul
  Killus, James P.
  King, Sharon D
  King, T Jackson
  King, Tappan
 *Kingsbury, Donald
  Klaehn, Bob
  Klover, W Kristoph
  Knapp, Susan
  Kobayashi, Yoshio
  Korshak, E M
  Kramer, Edward
  Kumming, Waldemar
  Kushner, David M
  Kyle, David A
  Lafler, Janet
  LaJeunesse, Ginger
  Lamb, Jean
  Landis, Geoffrey A
  Lane, Betty
  Langsam, Devra M
  Larsen, Peter
  Laskowski, George (Lan)
  Laurent, Bob
  Lazar, Judy
  Lazzaro, Joseph
 *Lee, Gentry
  Lee, Jody A
  Lee, Michelle
  Leeper, Evelyn
  Leialoha, Steve
  Lerner, Frederick Andrew
  Lethem, Jonathan
  Levine, David
  Levine, Rennie
  Lewis, Lawrence Alden
  Lewitt, Shariann
  Lichtenberg, Jacqueline
  Linaweaver, Brad
 *Lisle, Holly
  Lorrah, Jean
  Love, Spencer
  Lurie, Perrianne
  Lyau, Bradford
  Lynch, Nicki
  Lynch, Richard
  Lyris, Sonia Orin
  Maass, Donald
  MacDermott, Bruce R
  MacDermott, Dana
  MacGregor, Loren
  Mailander, Jane
  Maitz, Don
  Majerus, Laura A
  Maki, Nora
  Mallett, Daryl
  Maners, Lynn D
  Mangan, Lois H
  Mansfield, John
  Mar, Kathy
  Markel, Christine
 *Martin, George R R
  Mason, Lisa
  Mason, Mary
  Massoglia, Alice
 *Mattingly, David B
  May, Julian
  May, Tim
  McAuley, Paul J
  McDermott, Aubrey
  McGath, Gary
 *McHugh, Maureen F
  McKay, Chris
  McKenna, Bridget
  McKenna, Marti
 *McKillip, Patricia A
  McKinzey, Dr. Kim
  McKnight, Linda
  McLaughlin, Michael J
  McMullen, Sean
  McMurrian, Althea
  McQuillin, Cynthia
  Meacham, Beth
  Meier, Wilma
  Melnick, Linda
  Merkle, Ralph C
  Merlino, Mark
  Meschke, Karen
  Meskys, Edmund R
  Miklis, Franz Hermann
  Miller, Craig
  Miller, Pete
  Miller, Sasha
  Mills, Craig
  Mironov, Alexandru
  Mitchell, Betsy
  Mix, Brian
  Monson, Shelley
  Montana, Ron
  Moriarty, Brian
  Moskowitz, Sam
  Moslander, Paul E
  Murphy, Kevin A
  Murphy, Pat
  Neilson, Ingrid
  Nelson, Ray
  Nicholls, Peter
  Nielsen Hayden, Patrick
  Nimersheim, Jack
 *Niven, Larry
  Nordley, Gerald D
  Notkin, Debbie
 *Nye, Jody Lynn
  O'Shea II, Christopher
  Oestreicher, Joy
  Ogino, Hideyo
  Olson, Mark L
  Ontell, Val
  Organ-Kean, Margaret
  Osako, Masamichi
  Paleo, Lyn
  Parker, Rembert N
  Paseka, Anatoly
  Patten, Frederick
  Pavlac, Ross
 *Paxson, Diana L
  Pearce, Gerald
  Peirce, Hayford
  Pensa, Shea Anton
  Perenne, Luise
  Perrin, Steve
  Pettinger, Sandra G
  Pettinger Jr, Pierre E
  Platt, Dr. John
 *Pohl, Frederik
  Porter, Andrew
  Post, Jonathan V.
 *Pournelle, Dr. Jerry E
  Powers, Tim
 *Pratchett, Terry
 *Preuss, Paul
  Ranson, Peggy
 *Rawn, Melanie
  Resnick, Mike
  Richerson, Carrie
  Ridenour, Victoria
  Robbins, Trina
 *Roberson, Jennifer
 *Roberts, John Maddox
  Robins, Arlin
  Robinson, Frank M
  Robinson, Jane
 *Robinson, Kim Stanley
  Roche, Kevin P
  Rodwell, Keith A
  Roeder, Larry
  Roepke, Richard
  Roessner, Michaela
  Rogers, Bruce Holland
  Rogow, Roberta
  Roper, Bill
  Rosenblum, Mary H
  Rotsler, William
  Rowland, Robin F
  Rubin, Michael
  Rucker, Rudy
  Rusch, Kristine Kathryn
  Rush, Ed
  Sakamoto, Masaya
  Salsitz, Rhondi Vilott
  Savitzky, Steve
 *Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann
  Schiano, Diane
 *Schmidt, Stanley
  Scott, Alison
 *Scott, Melissa
  Sears, Acacia
  Sefton, Amelia
 *Severance, Carol
  Shapiro, Shelly
  Shaw, Barclay
  Shechter, Andi
 *Sheffield, Charles
  Shelling, Christopher
 *Shepard, Lucius
  Shepherd, Robert Mark
 *Sherman, Josepha
  Shiffman, Stu
 *Shirley, John
  Shoji, Joey
 *Shwartz, Susan
  Siclari, Joe
  Silbersack, John
 *Silverberg, Robert
  Simpson, Don
  Singer, Jon
 *Slonczewski, Joan
 *Smeds, Dave
 *Smith, Dean Wesley
  Smith, Leah Zeldes
  Smith, Susan M
  Smith, Timothy L
  Smith II, Richard
 *Snodgrass, Melinda
  Soley, Kate
  Somtow, S. P.
  Soukup, Martha
  Squires, Carol
  Stafford, Greg
  Stein, Diana Harlan
  Stein, Michael P
  Stern, Edie
  Stevens, Beth
  Stevenson, Jean L
  Stillman, Pras
 *Stirling, S M
  Straczynski, J. Michael
  Strickland III, Edwin L
  Takebayashi, Motoko
  Takumi, Shibano
  Talbot, Norman C
  Tatsumi, Takayuki
  Taylor, Dena Bain
  Templeton, Brad
  Thomas, Guy W
  Thomas, Thomas T
 *Thomson, Amy
  Thornton, Ron
  Tifft, Jennifer G
  Toma, Mitsuhiro
  Trojan, Bill
 *Turtledove, Harry
  Turzillo, Mary A
  Twain, Mark
  Tyler, Lili
  Valada, Christine
  Van, Eric M
  van der Elst, Dirk
  Van Dorn, Gretchen
  Van Gelder, Gordon
  Vanderbilt, Henry
 *Vinge, Vernor
  VonBraskat, C J L
  VonBraskat-Crowe, Linda
  Voorhees, Karen Shearer
  Walker, Jeff
  Walotsky, Ron
  Ward, Cynthia
  Ward, Michael J
  Warren, Bill
  Waters, Elisabeth
  Webb, Janeen
  Webber, Bob
 *Wein, Len
  Weiss, Deborah
  Weiss, Richard
  Weiss, Rick
  Weisskopf, Toni
 *Wells, Martha
  Wells, Patty
  Wheeler, Deborah
 *Whelan, Michael
  Whitmore, Tom
  Widner, Art
  Wilber, Rick
  Williams, Paul O
  Williams, Paul S
  Williams, Tad
 *Williams, Walter Jon
 *Williamson, Jack
 *Willis, Connie
  Willner, Marc
  Wingrove, David
  Wolf, Amy
  Wolff, David
 *Wolfman, Marv
  Wollheim, Elsie B
  Wood, Eleanor
 *Wu, William F
  Wujick, Erick
 *Wurts, Janny
  Yalow, Ben
  Yamaoka, Ken
 *Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn
  Youden, John
  Youll, Stephen
  Ziesing, Mark V
  Zubkoff, Leonard N
  Zuckerman, Israel
 
 --- End of Program Participant List