I'll be giving two slide talks and two panels at
Capricon this coming weekend. Thirty Capricons, and I've attended every one. Wow.
Capricon (near Chicago) is supposed to have a teleconference hookup with Boskone in Boston. It will be interesting to learn whether this works well. I think it would be cool to be on a transcontinental panel someday-- and there will be lots of people at Boskone I'd like to converse with.
K will also be a panelist on "Mental Health Treatment: How Far Have We Really Come?" Saturday at 10 AM.
Here's my own schedule. See you there.
Searching for Weirdness in the Vaults of Life Magazine
Time: Friday - 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Category: Panel-Event
Track: Other
Location: Birch A
Panelists: Bill Higgins
Puppets, Jetpacks, and Ballet on the Moon: Recently Google placed online TWO MILLION images shot by Life magazine photographers. There's something for everyone in this mountain of negatives, from flying cars to behind-the-scenes photos of classic science fiction movies. Bill Higgins conducts a tour of Twentieth Century oddities lurking in the archive.
Assault On The Moon: Chasing Lunar Water
Time: Saturday - 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Category: Panel-Event
Track: Science
Location: Ravinia B
Panelists: Brother Guy Consolmagno, Bill Higgins
In a surprising development last fall, observations from several spacecraft found evidence for water molecules distributed widely across the face of the Moon. Then NASA's LCROSS spacecraft, crashing deliberately, uncovered another trove of frozen water near the Moon's south pole. Join Bill Higgins and Brother Guy Consolmagno to review these novel results.
The Golden Age of 2010
Time: Saturday - 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Category: Panel-Event
Track: Other
Location: Ravinia A
Panelists: Brother Guy Consolmagno, Phyllis Eisenstein (M), Bill Higgins, Fred Pohl, Bill Thomasson
What would SF pioneers think of the world today?
Cancelled TV Shows You Should Love
Time: Saturday - 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Category: Panel-Event
Track: Media
Location: Birch B
Panelists: Michael D'Ambrosio, Bill Higgins, Phoenix, Jim Rittenhouse, delphyne woods (M)
From Firefly to The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. to Wonderfalls, there are many shows that existed for less than a season but are available on DVD. What are some of these flops that you should know about and watch with the sadness of knowing there will never be any more episodes?