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世界 SF 大会てのがアナハイムで開幕したようで。車で一時間だからいってみようかな。といっても最近仕事の邪魔が多くてイライラしてるんで平日は無理。土曜にハーラン・エリスンが来るらしいから一日だけ行こうかな。一日$50だそうで。以下メモ。

  • 656..GALAXY QUEST REVEALED (media)(180 min) ACC 204-ABC | Sat 10:00 am
    • Robert Gordon, the writer of Galaxy Quest, talks about writing and making this Hugo-winning paean to science fiction television and Fandom.
  • 751..SCIENCE FICTION OF THE '50S & '60S (lit)(90 min) ACC AR-1 | Sat 11:30 am
    • Speaker(s): Darrell Schweitzer, Hank Reinhardt(M), Robert Silverberg, Jim Young, James Killus, Harlan Ellison
  • 746..HARLAN ELLISON TELLS US (oneman)(90 min) ACC 204-ABC | Sat 01:00 pm
    • Possibly the genre's best writer/raconteur/critic tells us what he thinks.
  • 824..AUTOGRAPHING: HARLAN ELLISON (autog)(60 min) ACC ATGR1 | Sat 03:00 pm
  • THE RENAISSANCE IN HARD SF (lit)(90 min) ACC 201-B | Sat 04:00 pm
    • Speaker(s): Robert J. Sawyer, John Barnes, Alastair Reynolds, Dr. Gregory Benford, Allen M. Steele(M)
    • With the emergence of authors like Stross, MacLeod, Vinge, Egan, etc., Hard SF is making a comeback. What's brought it back to the fore? Or did it ever really go away?
  • 901..DUNGEONMASTER! (performances)(90 min) ACC SPL | Sat 05:30 pm
    • Enter a world where nothing is as it seems. A world where you must fight for your life, fight for respect and fight for justice. Enter a world where you must outwit clever sorcerers, outrun hungry imps and out-muscle a deadly dragon. It is a world of love and peace, of hatred and chaos. Dungeon Master is a role playing game staged in a theatre using actors as the monsters and non-player characters. The adventuring party is chosen from audience members who submit their names before the play starts. The party is supplied with costumes, weapons (foam of course), the use of ten spells (which must rhyme) and given a task which must be completed in the allotted time. Meanwhile, the rest of the audience can cheer for the heroes...or the monsters.
  • 904..HUGO AWARDS CEREMONY (events)(120 min) ACC ARENA | Sat 08:00 pm
    • Speaker(s): David A. Kyle, Harlan Ellison, Connie Willis, Craig Miller

夜の運転は自信ないんでヒューゴ賞受賞式は無理だな。