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SlanCon '88'

Know you're into HC, so I thought I'd send you our hyper-prgrm. It's still being finalized, but your times etc. are ruffed in.
Lemme know what ya think.

-Gerald

The Society for Promulgating Alternative Science, Technology and Individual Consciousness

The Saint Louis Arch, a totally non-functional (except for the tourists) 66-story stainless-steel parabola makes this city perfect for an SF convention. Think of Ringworld, or a giant metal rainbow in the sky, and you'll have no trouble appreciating the view.

This preconference program for SlanCon '88 is being distrubited as freeware. Make as many copies as you can and give them to everyone you know. Urge them to attend. Promise enlightnemnet. Promise deviant sex. Promise really great keg parties in the ConSuite. (That one, we think we can reasonably deliver.)

Art..........................Ian Davidson
Copy....................Steve Kowalski
Programming........Chris Dennehy

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Ninth Annual Convention
November 18-20, 1988
Clarion Hotel
Saint Louis
Missouri

Conference Calendar
Program Chair: Gerald Cambrensis, CMP

Friday, November 18
Registration and Information............12-8 p.m.
Workshops...................................2-5:30 p.m.
Reception.......................................6 p.m.
Dinner & Speaker..............................8 p.m.
A Shrewdness of Apes.........................10 p.m.

Saturday, November 19
Registration and Information......8 a.m.-8 p.m.
Power Breakfast....................8 a.m.
Morning sessions...............9-11 a.m.
Breakfast for Night People...............Noon
Afternoon Sessions...............1-6 p.m.
Cocktail reception..................6 p.m.
Filksing/Costume parade...............8 p.m.
Film/Guest speaker....................8 p.m.

Sunday, November 20
Cleanup party.........................4-6 p.m.

Introducing
SlanCon

SlanCon is The Society for the Promulgation of Alternative Science, Technology, and Individual Consciousness. SlanCon is a division of the Center for Mental Penship, a non-profit educational instituation dedicated to promoting and disseminating alternative viewpoints about reality, particularly through the medium of science fiction. We are not (despite the charges you may have seen on some tabloid TV shows) a 'religion.' We leave that to Other -- much more uniquely suited -- SF instituations.
Election of officers will be held at the cleanup party. One more reason to pitch in and help, eh?

1987-1988 Executive Committee

Samm Alison, Rachel Cohen, James Freud
"SlanCon Visions" journal editors
Mary K. (fiction) Richard Sunshine (art)

Convention
Reference

ConSuite: Clarion hotel, Rm. 312-313
Gofer suite: Clarion Hotel, Rm. 842
Dungeon: Clarion Hotel, Rm. 1312
Registration: Main lobby, Clarion hotel
Times: Friday 12-8 p.m.
Saturday 8-5 p.m.
Art room: Function Room A, Main floor, Clarion
Friday 5-7 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Sunday 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Dealer room: Exhibit Hall, Clarion
Friday 1-7 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Sunday 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Messages: Message board outside dealer room

Important,
Potentially
Life-Saving
Advice.
Read this
REAL
Carefully!

Convention Weapons Rules:
All weapons MUST be peace bonded.

Check in IMMEDIATELY, upon arrival, at the ConSuite

If you must wear full costume continually, do not joke with or antagonize the locals or the Normals. St. louis is a tourist and convention center, and many tourists and conventioneers have no sense of humor and/or may be armed.
With REAL guns. the life you save could be your OWN.

At convention functions, standard weapons rules are in force: You shoot it, you eat it.

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

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

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.

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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.

Local
Attractions

The old courthouse.
Famous as the location of the Dred Scott trial. Open for tours.

Registration

Advance: $50
Door: $75

Print this form out and mail to:

SlanCon
Box n
Brooklyn, NY
11217

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