• Thursday 1:00pm Reading (0.5 hrs)
• Thursday 6:00pm What is the Future of the Developing World?
  John-Henri Holmberg
  Grant Kruger
  Lawrence Person
  Karl Schroeder
  Should the West stay out of it? Is Development Politics irretrievably contaminated by the past? Or is the free market the answer?
• Friday 3:30pm Kaffeeklatsch (1.5 hrs)
  David D. Levine
  George R.R. Martin
  Richard Morgan
  Karl Schroeder
  
• Friday 8:00pm Space Pirate Night
  Steven Cain
  Steve Davies
  Karl Schroeder
  Mike Scott
  Alison Scott
  Splice the main brace! Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Blog! Pirate Night is back, and this time we're Space Pirates! Parrots! Tattoos! Pieces of Eight! ARRRR! Costumes encouraged. (Go to Chaos Costuming room and make one!)
• Saturday 11:00am Autographing
• Saturday 3:30pm On Augmented Reality(0.5 hrs)
  An Augmented Reality (AR) system generates a composite world for the user -- a real scene merged with an information-rich virtual scene, ideally becoming an indistinguishable whole. What is the current state of the technology and what are its ramifications?
• Sunday 12:00 noon Genre Killing Ideas
  Ian McDonald
  Alastair Reynolds
  Karl Schroeder
  Charles Stross
  "The Singularity is this enormous turd that Vernor Vinge crapped into the punchbowl of SF writing, and now nobody wanting to take a drink can ignore it." [Charlie Stross] What other ideas have had the same effect on the genre?
• Sunday 5:00pm Rumpole of the Spaceways: Depicting Law in SF
  Simon Bradshaw
  Roz Kaveney
  John Pomeranz
  How does SF depict court cases, legal suits, and how does it portray the legal process?

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Personal Note

Hmm... Looks like a certain U2 album cover. David Nickle (on the right) and I look particularly smug after having written "The Toy Mill" in two days while on retreat at Hart House Farm. Circa 1992, I believe.