Sasquan (Worldcon 2015) Schedule

Connie Willis and her daughter, Cordelia, will be doing programming at Sasquan, the 73rd World Science Fiction Convention happening this coming weekend (Aug 19-23) in Spokane, Washington.

Connie’s schedule on the Sasquan Web Site

Cordelia’s Schedule on the Sasquan Web Site

Here’s their schedules in text format

Connie Willis

Hard SF Movies: Rare but Not Extinct

Wednesday 14:00 – 14:45, Bays 111C (CC)

Hard SF has always been rare in the movies.  Forbidden Planet, 2001, 2010, and a few others set the standard.  Recently, Interstellar had a well-known physicist keeping the science (mostly) in line with reality, and next year we’ll have The Martian.   What are the great works of hard SF in the movies?  What tried and failed?  Are there cases where they tried to keep the science so hard they hurt the story? (We can all name pieces of written SF that did that.)

Connie Willis (M) , Fonda Lee, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Reading – Connie Willis

Thursday 16:00 – 16:45, 300C (CC)

Kaffee Klatche – Connie Willis

Friday 11:00 – 11:45, 202B-KK3 (CC)

Join a panelist and up to 9 other fans for a small discussion.  Coffee and snacks available for sale on the 2nd floor.

Requires advance sign-up

Stroll with the Stars

Saturday 09:00 – 09:45, Breezeway/Statue (CC)

A gentle morning stroll with some of your favorite authors, artists and editors. Meeting each morning at 9AM in the Breezeway between the INB Theater and the Convention Center (check your map), and returning in time for 10AM programming.

Stu Segal (M), Kevin J. Anderson, Paolo Bacigalupi, Troy Bucher, Vincent Docherty, Doug Farren, Toni Weisskopf, Connie Willis

Autographing – Brenda Cooper, Daniel Kimmel, Fonda Lee, William Campbell Powell, Kristine Rusch, Robert Silverberg, Connie Willis

Saturday 15:00 – 15:45, Exhibit Hall B (CC)

Colleagues as Family

Sunday 13:00 – 13:45, Integra Telecom Ballroom 100B (CC)

Unlike many other jobs, it is a brave, lonely, and financially very risky thing to be a fiction writer. But despite the physical distances, many writers develop close friendships with other writers and editors.

Melinda Snodgrass (M), George R. R. Martin, Vonda N. McIntyre, Connie Willis, David Gerrold

Cordelia Willis

Stage Movement and Presentation

Thursday 15:00 – 15:45, Spokane Falls Suite A/B (Doubletree)

How to move effectively on the masquerade stage. What does it mean to upstage someone? How do you get across an idea quickly and easily within the confines of the masquerade time limit? People should be prepared to get up and move.

Tanglwyst de Holloway, Torrey Stenmark, Cordelia Willis, Kevin Roche

Getting Started: Costuming

Thursday 16:00 – 16:45, 206A (CC)

Where do you find information? Resources? Who to ask? Where to look? Where can I find other people who share my interest? The information that most newcomers to costuming want to know.

Jared Dashoff (M), Tanglwyst de Holloway, Leslie Johnston , Cordelia Willis

Bad Science on TV

Friday 13:00 – 13:45, 300C (CC)

Science is a hot topic in TV entertainment: from CSI to Orphan Black to The Big Bang Theory to Person of Interest. Some of it is good, but much of it is bad. The panel will bash the bad science and clue you in to those shows that seem like the science is good, but not really.

Deb Geisler (M), Julie McGalliard, Janna Silverstein, Cordelia Willis

Getting Started: Cosplay

Friday 14:00 – 14:45, 206A (CC)

How to find information, groups, and Internet sources for cosplay topics.

Alicia Faires, Johanna Mead, Torrey Stenmark, Cordelia Willis

Masquerade Versus Cosplay

Sunday 11:00 – 11:45, 302AB (CC)

What are the differences between what everyone thinks of as a standard Worldcon masquerade and cosplay?

Ada Palmer (M), Johanna Mead, Cordelia Willis, Tanglwyst de Holloway