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When Will The Real Parts Be Here?
Friday November 8, 2024 6:00pm - 7:00pm CST
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Special Guest, Bill Fawcett & Associates
Hi!I'm Tamara (rhymes with camera).I'm just a reader who loves to gab about scifi/fantasy stuff.
Chris Gerrib admits to being a bit obsessed with Mars, but in a healthy way – all three books of his Pirate Series are set on Mars. Chris lives in the Chicago suburbs and still has a day job in IT. He holds degrees in history and business from the University of Illinois and Southern...
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Friday November 8, 2024 6:00pm - 7:00pm CST
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8:00pm CST
9:00pm CST
The Crafty Connection
Friday November 8, 2024 9:00pm - 10:00pm CST
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I'm the author of nearly 200 books on various topics, prime among them the subject of women in baseball. For my research and writing on the history of women in baseball I was recently honored wit the SABR Dorothy Seymour Mills Lifetime Achievement Award. I've also written mystery...
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Friday November 8, 2024 9:00pm - 10:00pm CST
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9:00am CST
Writer's Workshop 1
Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
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Sue Burke’s most recent science fiction novel is Usurpation, published on October 29, the conclusion of the trilogy that began with Semiosis and Interference. She began writing professionally as a teenager, working for newspapers and magazines as a reporter and editor, and began...
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Author, Dawnrigger Publishing
I write books, tell tales, and generally spin stories in as many ways as I can. I also like to sing but not on stage, dance but rarely when anyone is watching, and take many pictures of my cat.
Guild Founder and Head Editor, York Editing Guild
Gracie York is the guild founder and head editor of the York Editing Guild, offering editorial services to self-published authors. She's also edited everything from medical textbooks to sci-fi/fantasy books for traditional publishers.Gracie accidentally writes things in her spare...
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Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
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12:00pm CST
Cosplay Is For Everyone!
Saturday November 9, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST
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Costumer, HI wrangler, techie. Apparently, I'm not happy unless I have 20 projects going at once.
Saturday November 9, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CST
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1:00pm CST
Self-Care for the Creative
Saturday November 9, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
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Ryan Francis is a multi-talented cartoonist and animator who likes to draw animals with swords.After spending time in college learning to draw for money, Ryan tackles the day to day arrangements of projects, commissions, and ventures where he must draw like a mad lad.
Dex Greenbright is a writer of monsters both kind and cruel, an award-winning artist, and the editor, illustrator, and a contributing author for Tales of the Automazombs, a book series with steampunk cyborg zombies. He is a creative whirlwind, a magical master of dungeons, and the...
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Saturday November 9, 2024 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST
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2:00pm CST
Little Bits of This ...
Saturday November 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
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Costumer, HI wrangler, techie. Apparently, I'm not happy unless I have 20 projects going at once.
Saturday November 9, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
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3:00pm CST
Writers & Donuts
Saturday November 9, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST
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Writer, Teacher
Nebula winner; Hugo, Sturgeon and Rhysling award nominee. Adjunct Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago, where I've taught Science Fiction Writing, Fantasy Writing, Science Fiction, and Tolkien, among other courses. I've been involved in convention writing workshops...
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Saturday November 9, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST
Butterfield
4:00pm CST
Robots of Future Wars
Saturday November 9, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm CST
Moderators BF
Special Guest, Bill Fawcett & Associates
Author, Science Fiction You Can Enjoy
My aim is to write science fiction you can enjoy. So far that's manifested as what I call Light Space Opera. Imagine Starship Troopers, hijacked by Monty Python, or space opera as produced by Gilbert and Sullivan, while bankrolled and bullied by Flo Ziegfeld. Additional links:Ray's...
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Saturday November 9, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm CST
Butterfield
7:00pm CST
From One Planet to Another
Saturday November 9, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm CST
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I obtained a PhD in biochemistry but, lacking the patience for scientific research, switched into science/medical writing. Now retired, I have recently completed a first novel, a sword and sorcery work titled The Whip of Abadur, and am currently seeking a publisher. I am interested...
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Physicist. Interested in astronomy, spaceflight, history of science, history of science fiction, weird aviation, and, of course, various corners of physics. Approaching 50 years in SF fandom. Attended Windycon 3.
Writer, Teacher
Nebula winner; Hugo, Sturgeon and Rhysling award nominee. Adjunct Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago, where I've taught Science Fiction Writing, Fantasy Writing, Science Fiction, and Tolkien, among other courses. I've been involved in convention writing workshops...
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Hi!I'm Tamara (rhymes with camera).I'm just a reader who loves to gab about scifi/fantasy stuff.
Saturday November 9, 2024 7:00pm - 8:00pm CST
Butterfield
8:00pm CST
The Many Facets of Fandom
Saturday November 9, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm CST
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Sue Burke’s most recent science fiction novel is Usurpation, published on October 29, the conclusion of the trilogy that began with Semiosis and Interference. She began writing professionally as a teenager, working for newspapers and magazines as a reporter and editor, and began...
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I obtained a PhD in biochemistry but, lacking the patience for scientific research, switched into science/medical writing. Now retired, I have recently completed a first novel, a sword and sorcery work titled The Whip of Abadur, and am currently seeking a publisher. I am interested...
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Saturday November 9, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm CST
Butterfield
9:00pm CST
Spooky Stories
Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00pm - 10:00pm CST
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Saturday November 9, 2024 9:00pm - 10:00pm CST
Butterfield
10:00pm CST
Fan Fic Erotica
Saturday November 9, 2024 10:00pm - 11:00pm CST
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Fandom additict. Fanfiction connoisseur. Professional napper.
Malda Marlys teaches science just outside Chicago and writes the sort of speculative fiction that requires too many qualifiers for the normal flow of conversation. Fortunately the SFFH umbrella is wide (and kind of spooky and full of brass fittings and snakes). Eir short fiction has...
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Saturday November 9, 2024 10:00pm - 11:00pm CST
Butterfield
9:00am CST
Writer's Workshop 3
Sunday November 10, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
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Malda Marlys teaches science just outside Chicago and writes the sort of speculative fiction that requires too many qualifiers for the normal flow of conversation. Fortunately the SFFH umbrella is wide (and kind of spooky and full of brass fittings and snakes). Eir short fiction has...
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Rob is a reformed medieval academic who draws upon those skills and resources for his stories and settings. He has also been an IT professional, a cook, and a soda jerk. As a child, his parents discovered about the only way to keep him quiet was to give him a book. Without books...
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Sunday November 10, 2024 9:00am - 12:00pm CST
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