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Draft Program Grid
This is the Final draft program schedule for Harry Turtledove. There will undoubtably be changes after the fact. Please keep an eye out for notices of program changes at the Con. And have fun!
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| Day | Time | Title | Description | Participants | Room |
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| Friday |
| Friday | 6:00pm | Turtledove reading | Our author GOH reads from a new or unpublished work | Harry Turtledove | Montrose |
| Friday | 7:00pm | Alternate Dogcatchers | What makes a good alternate history work and bad ones fail? What points of departure do you change? How do you build a good alternate history? What alt histories aren't done that we would like to see? | Michael Flynn (m), Harry Turtledove, Tom Doyle, Virginia DeMarce, Edmund Schubert, Christopher M. Cevasco | Plaza |
| Saturday |
| Saturday | 12:00pm | Truthiness | What is the relationship between alternate and real history? Does alt hist encourage people to learn real history? How can you write alternate history for an audience that doesn’t really know real history? | Christopher M. Cevasco (m), Iver Cooper, Virginia DeMarce, Thomas McCabe, Alan Smale, Harry Turtledove | Plaza |
| Saturday | 2:30pm | Reading | | Harry Turtledove | Twinbrook |
| Saturday | 5:00pm | Harry Turtledove GOH interview | Capclave's author GOH gets interviewed on the real history (or interesting alternates) of Harry Turtledove. | Peter Heck (m), Harry Turtledove | Plaza |
| Saturday | 8:00pm | The infodump and research | How do you research a book without it turning into a textbook? How much research is enough and how much do you need to show? What kind of detail? How do you reveal information without doing a boring infodump? Does it differ by genre? | Harry Turtledove (m), Eric Choi, J. J. Smith, Bud Sparhawk, Iver Cooper | Montrose |
| Sunday |
| Sunday | 10:00am | The continuing character | Some characters work for a single novel and their story just ends. Others, like Miles Vorkosigan, can support a large number of different adventures. Why? Is this something the writer deliberately sets out to do or does it catch the author by surprise? How do you know when the character has more to be revealed? | John G. Hemry (m), Mattie Brahen, Michael Flynn, Peter Heck, Harry Turtledove | Plaza |
| Sunday | 12:00pm | Why the civil war? | Why are Americans still fascinated with the civil war? In an America with a black president is the civil war still relevant? Is there room for new civil war alternate histories or is it all tapped out? Do civil war books sell outside the U.S.? | Darrell Schweitzer (m), Captain Chris Christopher, Tom Doyle, Andrew Fox, John G. Hemry, Harry Turtledove | Plaza |
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