FRIDAY

3:00 pm

Crackpot Science

4:00 pm

CGI Killed the Forehead-of-the-Month Club

Can RPGs Teach You to Write?

5:00 pm

Alien Libraries

New Body Mods: Expanding the Senses

6:00 pm

Why Will We Go?

Weird Superpowers

7:00 pm

Archival Standards for Data Storage

Cover Art: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

7:30 pm

Meet the Guests Mixer

8:30 pm

Concert

9:30 pm

Iron Hack

SATURDAY

10:00 am

Liminal States in Characterization

Feliway for Humans: Influential Pheromones

Internet Killed the Video Star

11:00 am

Star Wars Hits 30--30 Hits Back

Fantasy Houses with SF Furniture in Them

The Convention Hotel as an Alien Museum (Tour begins at Koi)

A Universal Translator--Yeah, Right

12:00 noon

Character Attributes in RPGs

Costuming from your Suitcase/Closet

Guest of Honor Lunch

Group Reading: Pratt, Shaw, van Eekhout

GoogleWiki High

1:00 pm

Non-Filk Music for SF&F Fans

Care and Feeding of Writers' Groups

Your Voice Online: Podcasting Seminar

Alien Minds on Earth

2:00 pm

Autographing: Larry Niven

Online Gaming: Hack-and-Slash vs. Free-Form

Reading Like a Writer

Mars in the Movies

Classrooms of the Future

3:00 pm

Peer-Produced Media

Getting There From Here--By Cheating

The Next Generation of Entertainment

Academic Study of Popular Culture

4:00 pm

The Future of Fanac: Wikis, Podcasting, Blogs, and Beyond

Clarion in San Diego

The Dark Side of TV

Hawaiian Vacuum Suits: Space Tourism

5:00 pm

Ribbons and Badges and Pins, Oh My! Fanthropology

From Kal-El to Katma Tui: Alien Superheroes

Alien Costuming: Humanoid Bodies

Pixel-Stained Technopeasantry (Online Publishing)

6:00 pm

Intertextuality in Genre Fiction

Invasion from Earth: The Robotic Exploration of Mars

7:00 pm

Awesome Writers You've Never Heard Of

Using SF to Push Scientific Literacy

8:00 pm

Masquerade

9:00 pm

Guest of Honor Interview

10:00 pm

Beyond Male and Female: Alien Sexes

Costuming: Disasters and Triumphs.

SUNDAY

10:00 am

Biomedical Research Breakthroughs and Traditional Chinese Medicine

San Diego Vintage Sci-Fi

Tech and Historical Determinism

11:00 am

Alien Cultures Here and Now

Resources for the (Beginning) Writer

Whoa, Dude: High Today, Higher Tomorrow

12:00 noon

How to Edit Yourself

Magical Crime Scene Investigation

ZBrush3

Cold Sleep & Generation Ships: Interstellar Travel Without FTL

1:00 pm

Alien Forms of Art

Collaborative Writing Methods

The Mars Underground

Alternate Histories with Real Historical Characters

2:00 pm

Communication in Five (or More) Senses

What Story Form Are You Playing?

SF&F: The Short Forms

3:00 pm

Oh, No, Cats With Thumbs!

Invasion of the Mollusks

I'm Not a 14 Year Old Boy -- Why am I Still Watching the SciFi Channel?

4:00 pm

Hiss and Purr--Con Talk Back

* Chaz Boston Baden (fannish photographer, con-runner--Anime Los Angeles)

* Arabella Benson (Association of Costumers, Related Objects, Ninjas, and Yak Merchants--ACRONYM)

* Jeff Berkwits (final editor, Amazing Stories)

* Amy Berner (SF Essayist and Reviewer)

* Tina Beychok (costumer, industrial-strength Firefly and Serenity fan)

* Marc Biagi (voice actor, RPG enthusiast)

* Stella Bloom (YA librarian)

* Eben Brooks (musician, RPG enthusiast)

* Traci Castleberry (Clarion 2005 graduate, Character-driven novels featuring alternative lifestyles)

* Sandra Childress (tireless convention runner)

* James Stanley Daugherty (Photographer, tireless convention runner)

* Kathryn Daugherty (tireless convention runner)

* Shaun Farrell (Adventures in Scifi Publishing podcast)

* James Floyd (San Diego Fan Force, San Diego Rocket Race)

* Sharon Gaffney (science teacher)

* Jean Graham ("Shining Brook and the Ice Moon Spirit", "Association of the Dead")

* Neal Hallford (computer game designer, Swords and Circuitry)

* Jim Hay (tireless convention runner, Mira Mesa Monster Manor tech)

* Howard V. Hendrix (The Labyrinth Key, Spears of God)

* Nancy Holder (Daughter of the Blood, Something Wicked Evil This Way Comes)

* Zak Jarvis (Voidmonster Productions, Viable Paradise IX graduate)

* Donna "Grey Jedi" Keeley (Rebel Legion, Sunrider Base)

* Judy Lazar (biologist)

* Allison Lonsdale (The San Diego SF&F Meetup)

* Lynn Maudlin (Mythopoeic Society; SF&F musician)

* Christian McGuire (LACon IV chair)

* Sharon Mock (Viable Paradise IX graduate)

* Deirdre Saorse Moen (Super Happy Writer House, "A Sword Called Rhonda")

* Tiffany Moon (the Harry Potter Opera Cycle)

* Kate Morgenstern (Association of Costumers, Related Objects, Ninjas, and Yak Merchants--ACRONYM)

* Kevin Andrew Murphy (RPG designer for White Wolf, Steve Jackson Games, & Bard Games)

* Shweta Narayan (cognitive linguist, Clarion 2007 graduate)

* John Oliver (book retailer, writing group organizer)

* Stephen Potts (Literature professor, Armageddon Buffet editor)

* Deborah Pratt (The Vision Quest Book One: The Age of Light)

* Tim Pratt (The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, Hart & Boot & Other Stories)

* Dave Rankin (The Mars Society, San Diego Chapter)

* Robert "Jubeloh" Ross (librarian)

* Heather Shaw ("A Serious Case of Fairies", "Blue Chuck Does Thrilltown")

* Nathaniel Smith (cognitive science grad student)

* Sherwood Smith (Crown Duel, Inda)

* Adina Sobo (biology teacher)

* William Stoddard (GURPS: Steampunk, GURPS: Low-Tech)

* Jefferson Swycaffer (Warsprite, Web of Futures)

* Janet Tait (industrial-strength media fan)

* Dave Thun (comic & RPG enthusiast, may actually be a member of the Green Lantern Corps)

* Adam Tilghman (tireless convention runner, San Diego Vintage Sci-Fi)

* Greg Van Eekhout ("The Osteomancer's Son", "Robots and Falling Hearts")

* Vernor Vinge (Rainbows End, A Deepness in the Sky)

* Scott Virtes (Blank Spaces and Other Dangers)

* Chris A. Weber (TV animation scriptwriter)

* David Wesley (Clarion 2007 graduate)

* Gerry Williams (The Mars Society, San Diego Chapter)

* Karen Willson (TV animation scriptwriter)

* William F. Wu (Hong on the Range, An Enemy Reborn)

* Sam Wynns (Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore)

* Mark Yturralde (aerospace enthusiast, filmmaker, Comic-Con International treasurer)