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Preliminary Program Grid for Charles Gannon This is the Preliminary program schedule. Charles Gannon may or may not actually be on these items, but probably will. However, due to circumstances beyond our control, modifications to the program can occur throughout the convention.

Friday 7:00 pm: They Can't Do That (Ends at: 7:55 pm) Washington Theater Participants:Jack Campbell, Charles Gannon, Mary G. Thompson, Christopher Weuve (M) Bending bullets, noise in space, and other things which can't happen. Authors discuss the physics defying action in stories.

Friday 9:00 pm: Author Reading: Charles Gannon (Ends at: 9:25 pm) Adams Participants:Charles Gannon Charles Gannon reads from new and upcoming works.

Saturday 12:00 pm: How Much Is Enough? (Ends at: 12:55 pm) Eisenhower Participants:Charles Gannon, Joshua Benjamin Palmatier, Suzanne Palmer, Darrell Charles Schweitzer, Karlo Yeager Rodriguez (M) Describing location, setting, clothing, food, and actions can be an important part of telling a story. But when does detail become overwhelming? The data dump is real, but is it necessary, and how do you know when it is needed? Panelists discuss balancing descriptions.

Saturday 3:00 pm: Advanced Worldbuilding: A Soup-To-Nuts Primer (Ends at: 4:55 pm) Lincoln Participants:Charles Gannon (M) Who doesn’t enjoy wielding infinite power and telling stories and getting paid for doing them at the same time? But that’s not just a catchy intro: it’s a deadly serious question. Because, unless you are immortal, infinitely wealthy (or, ideally, both) creating planets and cultures that both immerse readers in their believability and naturally give rise to the exact stories you want to tell, you’re going to need more than extraordinary creativity and work ethic. You’re going to need a good helping of interdisciplinary knowledge and a keen sense of time-to-profit task planning to make sure you get the world you want in the time you’ve allotted to create and refine it. For instance, what makes a desert or an ocean world? What about worlds with many moons—or none at all? How are different environments (heavy or thin atmosphere, more or less gravity, freezing cold, burning heat) likely to shape species, and even the intelligence that might evolve from them? The objective is to help you create the best—and most natural—planets on which to set your stories. But without a clear plan, that process could consume a great amount of time. So the second part of our focus is to be able to accomplish that in the time and energy you have available? We’ll start with a few key tricks of the planet-creating trade, move on to some familiar examples, but the real fun starts in the second half of the session, where we’ll give all that information a test run . . . in a workshop where you get to create (or enrich) the planet and people you want to use for your stories.

Saturday 5:00 pm: 1632 Continues (Ends at: 5:55 pm) Jackson Participants:Charles Gannon, Bjorn Hasseler (M) The long-running shared 1632 Universe is continuing. Ring of Fire authors discuss the future of this alternate timeline.

Sunday 1:00 pm: History: The Ultimate Source Document (Ends at: 1:55 pm) Eisenhower Participants:Jack Campbell, Charles Gannon, Bjorn Hasseler (M), Larry Hodges, Rosemary Claire Smith Many authors mine the past to create good stories. What are some of the best untapped eras and sagas? Is there a limit on who can tell the story? Ultimately stories diverge from history, why and how much?

Page last updated: 9 September 2024