Darkover 2002

Main Programming

Friday

1PM What's New Our There? A Round Table Discussion of New and Wonderful Books. Nancy Berman & Carl Cipra

2PM What Makes a Lady. Realistic Upper Class Female Characters. Nancy Berman and Katherine Kurtz

3PM From Words to the Screen. Writing for Hollywood. Scott MacMillian

4PM Designing Role Playing Games: Nancy Berman, Deborah Teramis Christian, Ann Dupuis Carl Cipra, Moderator

5PM Violence and Gore. When does it become too descriptive. Cahan Kyle and Scott MacMillian

6PM Artist GoH Speech - Rebecca Liptak

7PM Mining Mythos. Sources for Fantasy. Deborah Teramis Christian, Debra Doyla, & Katherine Kurtz. Carl Cipra Moderator

8PM Costume Competition

9PM Homespun Ceilidh Band. Note: Time approximate, after costume competion

10PM On The Mark Note: Time approximate

Saturday

10AM Freemasonary: What's it all About. Frank Kautz, Scott MacMillian & TommyLee Whitlock. Carl Cipra Moderator

11AM Realism and Pornography. When does description go to far. Deborah Teramis Christian, Debra Doyle, and Don Sakers. Jack Frost moderator

Noon: Swoosh! Bang! The Sounds of Space Opera. Nancy Berman, James MacDonald & Don Sakers. Herbert Gerjuoy Moderator

1PM GOH Speech

2PM Two Millions Ways to Kill Off Bad Guys. Death and Dying in Fantasy. Katherine Kurtz, Cahan Kyle, & Alanna Moreland Jennifer Heise Moderator

3PM When Magic and Politics Intersect. Deborah Teramic Christian, Debra Doyle, Katherine Kurtz, James MacDonald and Scott MacMillian. Carl Cipra Moderator

4PM Autograph session

5PM Regency Ball

6PM Continued

7PM SET UP - CLAM CHOWDER

8PM ART AUCTION

9PM CLAM CHOWDER CONCERT

10PM Continued

11PM Continued

Midnight HALLELUJAH CHORUS - POOLSIDE

Sunday

10AM Alternate Worlds, Alternate Life Styles. Should Fantasy Worlds use Conventional Life Styles? Deborah Teramis Christian, James MacDonald, & Don Sakers. Carl Cipra Moderator

11AM Katherine Kurtz Question and Answer Session. Katherine Kurtz

Noon: Is Evil More Tempting than Good? The Morality of Evil Characters. Deborah Teramis Christian, James MacDonald & Scott MacMillian. Jennifer Heise Moderator

1PM Art Auction II

2PM Continued

3PM Talk to the Chair Alton about this and future Darkovers - Yes, there will be one next year!