WillyCon VIII (March 31 - April 2, 2006)

 

—Guests of Honor:

Authors: Robert Reed & Kate Klise
Artists: John and Denise Garner
Fans: The Townsend Family (Robert, Mary, Eric, and Michelle)

—The Convention's Poster

—The Convention's Program Book Cover

—Electronic Photo Album from the convention: OOOPS! We'll look for photos...

—Programming Samples:

• Screening of the retro-horror film "Frankenstein Vs. The Creature From Blood Cove"
• Artists' Workshop: "Artistic Influences" - John and Denise Garner
• Writers' Workshop - Robert Reed
• The dynamics of Science Fiction on TV: Why it tends to fail on network while succeeding on cable channels. Explores why series with ratings that would get them canceled on UPN or WB are rated as highly successful in SciFi (Firefly is a good example)
• "These Are The Voyages...": Watch the final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise as we discuss how well or how poorly the Star Trek saga came to a close before hiatus.
• Firefly/Serenity: "Here's how it is...Earth got used up, so we terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with new technologies, some not so much."
• DFT Studies of Solvatochromic Effects: The (? symbol could not be reproduced on the web)* Scale
• Introduction to Role Playing: What it is, how you get started, and what you need in order to play
• "World Building" in SF literature - Robert Reed
• Vampire LARP
• Sam's Dot Publishing: What we do, how we deal with submissions, etc.
• Predicting the Site of Electron Transfer Using DFT Frontier Orbitals: Studies on Porphyrin Attached Either to Quinone or Hydroquinone and Quinhydrone Self-Assembled Supramolecular Complexes
• Midwest Fandom/Conventions
• Robert Reed - selected reading of his work and book signing opportunity
• Prediction of the PKA of Weak Bases From DFT Studies
• Battlestar Galactica: Never create what you can't control...They look like us...They act like us...They want to destroy us...The threat of a new Cylon Empire has begun...
• GENE-CHIPS: Revolutionizing Molecular Biology
• SETI/ET's: Conceptualizations and Misconceptions
• DFT Studies of the Anion Binding Behavior of Tetra-Oxocyclohexadienylidene Porphyrinogen and Its N-Benzylated Analogs
• Halo 2 Tournament
• Babylon 5: In the year 2258, it is ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. Commander Sinclair takes command of... Come listen to Sam as you learn the answer to this, and more...