My Balticon Schedule

Next week, I will be reading Redwing’s Gambit at Balticon in Baltimore, Maryland. I’ll also be bringing samples from Steve Jackson Games and will attend and speak on several panels. If you’re at this show, come say hello!

Here’s my schedule for Balticon 46:

G-2. Game Production from Concept To Reality

Friday at 5:30 pm in Parlor 3041

Have you ever come up with an idea for a game and wondered how to go about creating it, play-testing it, marketing it, and producing it? Come to this panel to talk to several game creators as well as someone from the manufacturing and production/marketing side of game design.

Moderator: Bill T. Levay
Speakers: Monica Valentinelli; Peter BL!X Bryant; Neal Levin; Art Blumberg

SE-9a. Friday Face Time: Meet the Guests — Mix and Mingle

Friday at 9:00 pm in Con-Suite



Mix and mingle with the Guests of Honor and Balticon 46 Program Participants.
Moderator: Con Chair Patti Kinlock
Speakers: Jody Lynn Nye (Guest of Honor)

R-67. The Generation Starship Concept As A Locus For Stories

Saturday at 10:00 am in Salon A

Since 1934, we have kept telling stories set inside those space arks, drawing a constant sense of fascination from the basic dramatic premises of the idea. Why? What is it that attracts readers and writers to generation starship stories? Also, what kind of generation starship stories would we like to write or read next?
Moderator: David Batchelor
Speakers: Monica Valentinelli; Paul D, Lagasse; Simone Caroti; Jody Lynn Nye (Guest of Honor)

G-6. What are The Best 2-Player Games?

Saturday at 2:00 pm in Parlor 3041

Do you have trouble finding more than 2 people to play games with? How many times have you looked at your game collection and wondered what game would work well for 2? Come find out what games can be great fun for only 2 players.
Moderator: Donna Dearborn
Speakers: Monica Valentinelli; Cathy Raymond; Art Blumberg; Eric B. (Hymie!) Hymowitz

Reading: Monica Valentinelli

Saturday at 8:30 pm in Pimlico

Monica Valentinelli reads from her works.
Speakers: Monica Valentinelli

R-68. The Nature of Faster-Than-Light Travel as An SF Trope

Sunday at 1:00 pm in Salon A

Some SF writers will not use it in their stories, because it may not even be possible and therefore smacks too much of the magical. Others happily use it, reasoning that what was considered impossible in the past is commonplace technology today, and the same will be true of FTL travel.
Moderator: Eric Raymond
Speakers: Monica Valentinelli; Simone Caroti; David Batchelor; Yoji Kondo/Eric Kotani

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