Program Schedule

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5735. What Makes for a Strong Character?
How do you make an audience fall in love with your characters? In this panel, we discuss how to create three dimensional characters that your readers will love. Moderated by Glen W. Olson.
Glen W. Olson, Matt Conant, Nicholas Doan, Steven Barnes
 FRI 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm, California 1

5745. How to Write Memorable Characters
The title says it all. Moderated by Glen W. Olson.
Charles Lee Jackson II, Glen W. Olson, James C. Glass, John DeChancie
 FRI 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm, California 2

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5782. Has Science Fiction changed the course of relationships in America
America has gone through many social upheavals in the last half century. We are arguably not the same society that we were in the 1960's/70's. In many ways we have become the society that writers like Robert Heinlein, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Spider Robinson and Anne McCaffrey have written about. Besides the massive evolution in technology in the last fifty years, there are now people who live in multiply committed relationships, same sex marriages, triads, open marriages, group houses and other configurations. Many more people have thought about trying different kinds of relationships. The presenters of this panel have studied, written about, and lived many of these alternative lifestyles, and will talk about the changing face of relationships in fandom, and in America. Moderated by Glen W. Olson.
Glen W. Olson, Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers, Mark Merlino, Rodney O'Riley, Craig Brussel Rogers
 SAT 10:00 am - 11:15 am, California 3

5792. Autograph Session 1
Charles Lee Jackson II, Glen W. Olson, Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers
 SAT 11:30 am - 12:00 pm, Imperial A-B

5798. Science Fiction and How it Relates to the World Today
The inevitable march of time: how science fiction sometimes becomes science fact and sometimes misses the mark. Moderated by Glen W. Olson.
Bradford Lyau, Glen W. Olson, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, J. L. Doty
 SAT 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm, Pacific Coast 2

5819. What makes us human?
What defines us? And how is this idea explore in science fiction? Moderated by Glen W. Olson.
Ashish Mahabal, Glen W. Olson, Timothy G. Cassidy-Curtis, John Paterson
 SAT 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm, Pacific Coast 3

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5855. Building Empathy Through Storytelling
Learn how to build empathy and connect with your audience. Moderated by Barbra Dillon.
Barbra Dillon, Deborah Daughetee, Glen W. Olson, Joelle Sellner, David Avallone
 SUN 11:30 am - 12:45 pm, California 1

5874. Grokking Heinlein
What were the constants of Heinlein's writing? Where did he challenge things that even he might have believed in, because he thought everything needed to be challenged? A free mind is seldom politically correct. And if one doesn't want characters to be stereotypical shouldn't we allow a writer characters who are idiosyncratic and not a typical woman, boy, black, Phlilpino, or Martian? Moderated by Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers.
Bradford Lyau, G. David Nordley, Glen W. Olson, Wendy Van_Camp, Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers
 SUN 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm, Pacific Coast 2

5882. Time Travel: Should We?
Will time travel create irreconcilable paradoxes? Moderated by Glen W. Olson.
Chris Weber, Glen W. Olson, John DeChancie, Gregory Benford
 SUN 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm, Pacific Coast 2