Here's my Schedule at Anticipation in August. Wow! I get to talk about steam AND put together a train.
Every Picture Tells a Story , (1-026 Thu 14:00 1hr, P-510B Kids Programming) Laurel Anne Hill: An artist draws a picture, then we create a story around it, guided by an expert storyteller. Which may lead to another picture…
Wooden Train Building (1-077 Thu 17:00 1hr, P-510A Kids Programming) Kevin Standlee, Laurel Anne Hill: Help us set up a massive wooden train layout, and maybe run an engine down the tracks.
Autographs (3-157S Sat 13:30 30min): Peadar Ó Guilín, Jean-Pierre Guillet, Karen Haber, Colin Harvey, John Helfers, Laurel Anne Hill
Steampunk that Works (3-349 Sat 21:00 1hr, P-518BC Science and Space) Henry Spencer, Laurel Anne Hill, Sean McMullen: Which of the envisaged steampunk technologies could actually work and how? How far could we take steampunk technologies? Could we have a steampunk quantum computer?
Author Reading (4-144R Sun 12:30 1hr, P-522A) Joe Haldeman, John Kessel, Laurel Anne Hill
Writing Workshop V (5-041 Mon 11:00 2hr, D-Royer) Laurel Anne Hill, Steve Miller, Adrienne Foster: Critique session for previously submitted manuscripts
A Century of Atom Smashing (5-107 Mon 14:00 1hr, P-516D Science and Space) Bill Higgins, Laurel Anne Hill, Stephen R. Cooper: Ernest Rutherford, the first atom smasher, won a Nobel prize for his work at McGill University in Montreal. We discuss his work, what he did and what it led to.