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SlamCon '88
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SlamCon'88
Program 1
Ninth Annual Convention
November 18-20, 1988
Clarion Hotel
Saint Louis
Missouri
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Program 2
Introducing
SLAMCON
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Program 3
Convention
Reference
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Program 4
Important,
Potentially
Life-Saving
Advice.
Read
this
REAL
Carefully!
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Program 5
Film Fest
Ballroom B
Friday
3:30 Silent Running
5:00 Soylent Green
7:30 The Omega Man
9:00 Blade Runner
11:00 StarTrek
1:00 StarTrek II
2:30 StarTrek III
4:00 StarTrek IV
5:30 Tex Avery Cartoons
6:00 Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster
Saturday
7:10 COSMOS Episode 12
8:00 The Prisoner (The Chimes of Big Ben)
9:00 The Prisoner (Free for all)
10:00 The Prisoner (Last episode)
11:00 The Transformer Movie
12:30 Time After Time
2:30 The Blob (1959)
4:00 The Day The Earth Caught fingers
5:30 Day of the Triffids
8:00 Sooner or Later (author discussion to follow)
10:00 Screenwriter Arthur "Buddy" Newkirk
11:00 Alien Nation
12:30 V (TV Movie)
2:00 Morons From Outer space
3:30 The Abominable Dr. Phibes
5:00 Dr. phibes Returns
Sunday
6:30 Wizards
8:00 Kingdom of the Spiders
9:30 Gidrah the two headed Monster
11:00 Godzilla 1985
12:30 Destroy All Monsters
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Program 6
Program
Friday Workshops
2:30 Breaking into SF (TBA) Salon G
Writing the Short-short Barbara Winston Salon H
How to get an Agent (roundtable) Al Magnusson, Chris Reynolds, Dale Helix
Salon H
6:00 Cocktails Ballroom East
Dinner Ballroom C
After-Dinner SPeaker: Artist GOH Tom Kidd
10:00 A Shrewdness of Apes Ballroom C
The third annual fan poetry evening. Come to listen.
Come to read. Come to snap your fingers.
Saturday
10:00 ST/ING-roundtable (TBA) Salon G
Fantasy, Magic, and Mysticism-panel (TBA) Salon H
11:30 Lunch Ballroom C
Speaker: Fan GOH Ron Evans
1:00 Superstring Theory and Postmodern SF Arthur "Buddy Newkirk Salon G
The Damp World Chronicles - roundtable, Salon H
2:30 SF on TV -roundtable (TBA) Salon G
CyberPunk-Dead of an O.D.? panel (TBA) Salon H
4:00 ST-TING: Fannish or not? Roundtable Salon G
Sharing the Fantasy:Interactive Fiction. Stuart
Moulthrop, Salon H
6:00 Cocktails Ballroom C
Dinner Ballroom C
Speaker: prof. Paul Levinson. "Technology as the
Cutting edge of Cosmic Evolution"
8:00 Filksing, Ballroom C
Screening: Sooner or Later Ballroom B
10:00 Discussion with screenwriter Arthur "Buddy"
Newkirk, Ballroom B
Costume parade and judging, Ballroom C
Sunday
11:30 Lunch Ballroom C
2:00 Clean-up detail, Ballroom B
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Program 7
Map
Saint Louis is served by a major airport, Amtrak,
and bus lines. It is located on the Mississippi River, and can be reached by car
from most places in the Midwest.
(more copy to come)
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Program 8
Local
Attractions
Anheuser-Busch is headquarted here in St. Louis. Come Meet the Clydesdales, smell hops & mash thick as wet paint in the air. Watch guys fishing waders walk around inside the drum YOUR Bud gets brewed in. You get three free beers on the brewery tour. Come early, come often.
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Program 9
Local
Attractions
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Program 10