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Cedar Rapids Doubletree - October 16-18, 2015
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Friday, October 16
 

11:00pm CDT

I won't grow up!
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How does science fiction/fantasy keeps us connected to our youth? Let's discuss how middle grade and young adult science fiction and fantasy is being consumed by adults.
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Athena Foster

Guest Liaison

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CC
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Catherine Schaff-Stump

Author, Paradise ICON, Kirkwood Community College
Catherine Schaff-Stump writes books for adults and children. Her short fiction has appeared in The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, Spirit's Tincture, various publications from Paper Golem Press and on Drabblecast. She is the author of the Klaereon Scroll series. Catherine is a graduate... Read More →

Friday October 16, 2015 11:00pm - 11:50pm CDT
Taft B Cedar Rapids Doubletree, 350 1st Avenue NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52401
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Saturday, October 17
 

12:00pm CDT

Human Rights and the influence of Science Fiction/Fantasy
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How scifi/fantasy has advanced human rights...a gateway to opening the conversation.
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JM

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AK

Anna Kathryn Davis

Author
Anna Kathryn Davis is a Young Adult Fiction author from Birmingham, Alabamacurrently attending the University of Alabama where she majors in English. Shesigned her first novel, The Gifted, during her senior year of high school and itreleased in April of 2013. Geek Exchange Magazine... Read More →
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Rachel Eliason

Author
Rachel is a transgender woman and writer living in the Midwest. She writescontemporary YA stories under her given name and fantasy/science fictionunder the name R. J. Eliason. Her contemporary YA novels published as RachelEliason include: Run, Clarissa, Run; The Case of Nikki Pagan... Read More →
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Jim C. Hines

Author, Toastmaster
Jim C. Hines began writing in the early 90s, while working on a degree in psychology from Michigan State University. His first professional sale was the award-winning “Blade of the Bunny,” which took first place in the 1998 Writers of the Future competition and was published in... Read More →
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Jed Quinn

Author, DreamCon
Author, historian, world traveler and raconteur, Jed Quinn is a man of obscuretalents and strange associations. Jed spends his days teaching as a communitycollege history professor, being a father to five ridiculously awesome kids,serving on his local school board, writing, and traversing... Read More →

Saturday October 17, 2015 12:00pm - 12:50pm CDT
Room #319 Cedar Rapids Doubletree, 350 1st Avenue NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52401
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1:00pm CDT

Blurred Lines
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More and more popular novels and media tell stories with a Fantasy or SciFi bent without getting the label. Think of TV shows like Forever, and books by people like Daniel Suarez. Is this good or bad for our genre?  We'll have some examples of crossovers, both good and bad, and examine their effect on SciFi/Fantasy.
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Joe Haldeman

writer, MIT
Joe Haldeman is an American science fiction author and combat veteran of Vietnam. He is best known for his 1974 novel The Forever War. That novel, and other of his works including, The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won major science fiction awards including... Read More →

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Dennis W. Green

Author
Best known in Iowa for his long career as a radio personality, Dennis’s on-air adventures were covered by newspapers from Anchorage to Los Angeles, and he has received awards from Billboard Magazine, JazzWeek, and many community organizations.His first novel, "Traveler," a sci-fi... Read More →
TJ

Tamara Jones

Author
Jones started her academic career as a science geek, earned a degree in art, and, when she's not making quilts or herding cats, writes grisly thrillers. Her award winning Dubric Byerly Mystery series, “Ghosts in the Snow”, “Threads of Malice”, and “Valley of the Soul... Read More →

Saturday October 17, 2015 1:00pm - 1:50pm CDT
Room #315 Cedar Rapids Doubletree, 350 1st Avenue NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52401
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5:00pm CDT

The Philosophy of Trek
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What is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future and how has it been presented in Trek episodes, movies and literature? In what ways may Roddenberry's Trek reflect and rebut the philosophy of Ayn Rand? Panelists will briefly present on a topic and submit them for audience discussion.
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Matt McKeever

Attorney - Shareholder, Copple Rockey McKeevery & Schlecht, PC, LLO
Matt is an attorney and shareholder with Copple, Rockey, McKeever & Schlecht, PC, LLO, with offices in Omaha and Norfolk, NE. He is in his 20th year of practicing law and looking forward to the Sci-Fi Economics panel at ICON 41. He obtained his B.A. in Economics and History from... Read More →

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David Gerrold

Author
David Gerrold has been sitting alone in a room and talking to himself for more than fifty years. If he hears anything good, he types it up. When he has enough words, he sends it to an editor. Occasionally some editor somewhere is so desperate for something to publish, he sends David... Read More →
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Denny Lynch

Concom, Publicity, Hotel Liaison, Kirkwood Community College

Saturday October 17, 2015 5:00pm - 5:50pm CDT
Room #319 Cedar Rapids Doubletree, 350 1st Avenue NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52401
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9:00pm CDT

No, it's MY story!
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Star Wars - Is it the "The Fall and Rise of the Jedi?" How about "The Tragedy of Annekin Skywalker?" Or maybe even "The plucky little R2 unit who saved the Galaxy?" We'll examine some of our favorite tales with the idea of analyzing whether or not the protagonist is the person (or robot) we've always thought it was.
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AL

Ann Leckie

Author, Guest of Honor
Ann is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Award winning novel “Ancillary Justice”.  She has also published short stories in: Subterranean Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Realms of Fantasy.  Her story, Hesperia and Glory, was reprinted in Science Fiction: The... Read More →

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avatar for Dennis W. Green

Dennis W. Green

Author
Best known in Iowa for his long career as a radio personality, Dennis’s on-air adventures were covered by newspapers from Anchorage to Los Angeles, and he has received awards from Billboard Magazine, JazzWeek, and many community organizations.His first novel, "Traveler," a sci-fi... Read More →
avatar for Jed Quinn

Jed Quinn

Author, DreamCon
Author, historian, world traveler and raconteur, Jed Quinn is a man of obscuretalents and strange associations. Jed spends his days teaching as a communitycollege history professor, being a father to five ridiculously awesome kids,serving on his local school board, writing, and traversing... Read More →

Saturday October 17, 2015 9:00pm - 9:50pm CDT
Room #319 Cedar Rapids Doubletree, 350 1st Avenue NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52401
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11:00pm CDT

Steampunk in mainstream society
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As a subgenre of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Steampunk has become ingrained within both fandoms and is making inroads into everyday life. Come join this discussion about how this journey got started and where it is headed.
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Susan Leabhart

ConCom, DAGOBAH
Suzan Leabhart is a Vintage Fhan from the Quad Cities and a former ICON FANGOH. She is the Empress of DAGOBAH, which is a silly way of saying she moderates the Davenport Area Gathering of Books and Humanoids book club. She's a member of the Brassgears Adventurers Society steampunk... Read More →

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ED

Saturday October 17, 2015 11:00pm - 11:50pm CDT
Taft B Cedar Rapids Doubletree, 350 1st Avenue NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52401
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Sunday, October 18
 

11:00am CDT

Comics 101
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What's the difference between D.C. and Marvel? Who was part of the Justice League and the Avengers? What else is out there beyond mainstream comics? Come learn the basics about comics and what they are all about.
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RM

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AC
DS

Daniel 'Stitch' Mohr

Artist, Mohr Creations
Daniel “Stitch” has lived his entire life in Minnesota, and he asks that you don’thold that against him. He has been drawing and writing comics for over twentyyears, and his mom says he’s great. He has drawn and written multiple WebComics, and comics in print, such as “Everyday... Read More →
JW

Sunday October 18, 2015 11:00am - 11:50am CDT
Room #319 Cedar Rapids Doubletree, 350 1st Avenue NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52401
  Genre-Bending

12:00pm CDT

From Fringe to Dominance: Science Fiction in Film, TV, Books, and Comics
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Once relegated to the corner of lunchrooms, dark dank basements and long weekends in a hotel in October, the world of science fiction is experiencing a surge in mainstream culture. This panel will take a look at the last 40 years of science fiction in the media.
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Denny Lynch

Concom, Publicity, Hotel Liaison, Kirkwood Community College

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Peter Balestrieri

Curator, Science Fiction and Popular Culture Collections, University of Iowa Special Collections
Please talk with me about: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, TV, Radio, Theatre Arts, Cinema, Fandom Studies, fanzines, fan art, fan fiction, cosplay, social media, ephemera, Romantic poetry and fiction, Frankenstein, digitization, de-acidification, and popular culture in general... Read More →
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David Gerrold

Author
David Gerrold has been sitting alone in a room and talking to himself for more than fifty years. If he hears anything good, he types it up. When he has enough words, he sends it to an editor. Occasionally some editor somewhere is so desperate for something to publish, he sends David... Read More →

Sunday October 18, 2015 12:00pm - 12:50pm CDT
Taft B Cedar Rapids Doubletree, 350 1st Avenue NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52401
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  • HDMI outlet and a screen (Sarah's tablet has a mini HDMI port and can use a cable to connect that with a regular HDMI on the other end; the cable is 6 feet long.)
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  • projector with an RGB cable (laptop doesn't have HDMI)
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