Professional artist and industry lecturer Pamela Shanteau offers a free workshop for future illustrators. Learn proven SF painting techniques, helpful shortcuts (such as using projectors), and ideas for howto deal with problems of scale and other issues gemxme to the SF artist. This free, hour long workshop also covers course material inmirations and portfolio do's and don'ts.
Amazing Stories proudly presents, live and on stage - the indomitable, inscrutable, insufferable Dr. Sciense! The good doctor, along with his faithful friend Neal Barrett, Jr., steps out of the pages and into our faces to ponder questions that plague humankind about "Sciense ana other stuff that's hard to understand." Don't miss Inis one-of-a-kind answer man's hilarious premiere.
"It was a dark and stormy night..." Bulwer-Lytton look out! It's no secret that some memorable manuscripts cross an editor's desk-but often they're ones the editor would rather forget. Now our panel shares with you the best of the worst (all in good fun!) Hopeful authors can expect to learn about the don'ts... and the don'ts of unsolicited submissions.
Too good to be true, you say? Not on Science Fiction Saturday! Join Babylon 5 actors Julie Caidin Brown, Roblin Atkin Downes, and Walter Koenig, and author Neal Barrett, Jr. as they reminisce about the roles they played in bringing to life the SF sensation that was the last, best hope for mankind.
Two, two, two autographings in one! Babylon 5 fans can meet Julie Caiflin Brown, who plays Na'toth, and Roblin Akin Downes, also known as Byron the rogue telepath, at the Exhibit Hall's Autograph Area. Get there early for this session, as space is limited! This ticket does not guarantee you a space in line. It is merely a reminder of the time and place.
Major Zocchi tells of major RAF and Luftwaffe blunders as well as errors made in his Battle of Britain game design. Six exciting, new discoveries could have changed the battle. Gen Con Symposium.
Regardless of genre, all writers use certain tools to create good fiction. Author Kij Johnson discusses how to build plot and structure, characters, settings, dialogue, and narrative-all the building blocks that work together to make a short story or novel exciting.
Come and meet the Game Masters of the play-by-mail game Beyond the Stellar Empire(BSE). We will be discussing the current BSE system as well as the upcoming BSE 2000 game improvements. Pete and Neil from Rolling Thunder Games look forward to meeting our current (and future) Players.
Mr. Maker explains why Great Britain was forced to field the largest expeditionary force in its history, to fight a handful of farmers. He tells what made their guerilla warfare tactics so effective and the long term consequences. Gen Con Symposium.