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Welcome to Nine Worlds Welcome to Nine Worlds Geekfest 2014! Nine Worlds is a big festival for all kinds of geeky interests. From sci-fi and fantasy literature, to science, comics and cosplay, to technology, food geekery and creative writing, to podcasting, social justice and much more, we’ve over a dozen things going on to choose from at any one time. We were overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and support that we received from fans after last year’s inaugural convention. We’re so pleased to get to put on an event for so many wonderful people. We hope you have a brilliant time at Nine Worlds. We wholeheartedly encourage you to jump in, to dress up, to join conversations, to dance and make friends and learn cool stuff and volunteer and have a whole lot of fun. Let us know how it’s going on Twitter – @London_Geekfest – or use the hashtag #nineworlds. We’re looking forward to hearing about your adventures!

Where to find information

This book contains all the information you’ll need on what’s happening and a map so you can find various rooms. Other sources of information include: • Timetables on each room door • Printed signs and floor plans around the hotel • Our friendly volunteers in hi-vis – brightlycoloured – vests around the hotel, for help and information any time • Track heads will be wearing bright badges – ask them for information about their track • Tweet @London_Geekfest with questions • The Info Desk in the third floor atrium, for pretty much anything any time.

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Be excellent to each other and party on, Dan, Ludi, Erich, Steph, Kath, Ash, Sol, Josie, Claire, Jaime, Jenni G, Jared, Anne, Jenni H, Hazel, Charlotte, Fabby, Fitzy, Rose, Lee, Megan, Hannah, Dan S, Liz, Kate, Tanya, Andrew, Ruth, Tiana, Phil, Clara, Alice, Fran, Rowan, Viktoriya, Zalia, Ash, Sasha, Rachael, Hanbury, Tori, Barry, Stephen, Zen, Iona, Lesley, David, Hope, Alex, Deborah, Matt, Marek, Tinker, Elsie, Tim, Becky, Rhiannon, Tisa and so many more!

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If you’re having any trouble, or to report an incident, come to the Info Desk in the third floor atrium. There, one of our staff will be able to help you out, and assist you in taking a report further if that’s what you’d like to do. They’ll also have local emergency phone numbers. If you need to call the police, we will support you. The Radisson have a good relationship with the local police, so if it can wait a few minutes, speak to one of the Nine Worlds organisers or the hotel directly and see if you can take it through their channels – it may make things run a bit more smoothly If you’d just like to talk, we also have a listening service: a volunteer can join you for a cup of tea and a chat. Do bear in mind that our volunteers can’t promise to keep everything confidential, and that they don’t have formal counselling training – they’re here for informal emotional support only. Come and ask the Info Desk for the listening service anytime, and we’ll sort you out with a volunteer.

Contents Maps Welcome to Nine worlds Where to find information Where to find help Food in the area Message in a bottle - the Nine Worlds game Volunteering Access Families Code of conduct Anti-harassment policy Costume and weapons policy Photography policy Official photographer Cosplay content Vendors Enterainments Signings Informal meet-ups Kids’ programme Tracks, in alphabetical order Timetables

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Food in the area There are a number of local food options.

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Lobby Cafe offers various quick food options including sandwiches at £3.50, baked potatoes at £5 and canned drinks at £1.50. Also open 9pm to midnight on Friday and Saturday for late-night snacking. Trunk Restaurant offers a selection of convention meals for around £10, as well as a standard menu. Annayu Indian Restaurant is open for dinner from 6.30pm to 10.00pm. Bijou Bar does snacks and sandwiches, open from 10.30am to 1.00am. Convention Bar is on the third floor, outside the Commonwealth – drinks are 20% off, but only in this bar. Room Service is available 24 hours a day. Perfect for late night snacking.

Il Basilico serves Italian food, with some vegan options. They’re open 5.30pm to 10.00pm. Also on this corner, two shops selling snacks and sandwiches.

Three Magpies is a pub with pub food, open 11.00am to 9.30pm.

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Market Garden serves European food and is open for breakfast and dinner. Starbucks is open breakfast and lunch, maybe until 7.30pm.

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Tuscany Ristorante serves Italian food and open for dinner from 6.00pm to 10.30pm. Allie’s American Grille and Steakhouse is open: Breakfast 6.00am to 10.30am, Lunch 12 noon to 2.30pm Dinner 5.30pm to 10.30pm Starbucks is open for breakfast and lunch

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Madhu’s Heathrow: Indian and Kenyan, open 6.00pm to 11.30pm Starbucks: open 7.00am to 9.00pm American-themed Sports Bar & Grill: open 12 noon to 12 midnight

Pheasant Inn: Indian, open 12 noon to 10.30pm

Harlington Tandoori: Indian, open for lunch 12 noon to 2.30pm, dinner 5.30pm to 11.30pm. They’ll happily pick up groups of four or more from any hotel. Tel 020 8754 1414 or 020 8754 7711.

Access

We weren’t able to visit these venues before the event to look into their accessibility provisions. We recommend phoning them to check specifics.

Play Message in a Bottle What is this?

We want everyone to have fantastic memories of Nine Worlds, so the Social Gaming track has made A Thing to help you with that! The game encourages you to visit different tracks, and see a wide range of everything Nine Worlds has to offer. It also gives you an electronic keepsake of the great time you’ve had this weekend!

How do I play?

In each track main room, there will be a prominent A4 laminate on the wall with a word related to that track on it. This is the track’s keyword. You can use the keyword to put a message in a bottle in two ways: •

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Text 020 3322 9366 with the keyword then the story, such as “GEEK Lots of people love my cosplay! <3”. Go to nineworlds.habgames.com on your smartphone. It will let you write a new message, and see everything you’ve written thus far.

During or after Nine Worlds, you’ll be able to go to nineworlds.habgames.com and see all your stories. The first time you go there, you’ll be asked to create an account. We’ll ask a couple of questions relating to whether you want to keep your stories private, if you’re happy to share them more publicly with us, and if you’re happy for them to be anonymously tweeted by @9W_Stories during the Con. You’ll also be asked for your badge number, which we use to prove you’ve been with us this weekend. We’ll also ask for your mobile number; if you’ve texted us stories, we’ll use that information to bring everything together for you. And we won’t share your personal information with anyone!

Things you might want to write a message about: • I learned... • I laughed... • I made a new friend... • I met an old friend... • I played... • I cosplayed... • I squeed at... • I ‘shipped... • I danced... • I saw... • I made...

What if I want to write something not about a particular track?

There are two keywords available any time, anywhere: • PARTY: for lovely things that happen during the evening and at entertainments. • GEEK: for anything Nine Worlds-ish that doesn’t fit anywhere else!

This is a game, so how do I win?

Having a great set of memories of some of the awesome stuff you’ve done at Nine Worlds is a pretty good way of winning! However, there will be a small prize or two for people who have written stories about lots of tracks and stories that the Nine Worlds behind-the-curtain folks think are particularly fabulous. If you win, we’ll be in touch with you by text on the Sunday afternoon of Nine Worlds to let you know! We’ll need your mobile number to do this, so if you only use the website, bear this in mind!

What if I don’t want to play to win?

That’s cool. If you still want to use the site, follow the guidance above and use the keyword GEEK for everything. If you’d prefer just to have your memories in fleshy, neural form, then you might still want to follow @9W_Stories on Twitter, where stories from other people who are at Nine Worlds, who’ve agreed to share, will appear!

Volunteering and Access How to volunteer

Would you like to be part of what makes Nine Worlds so awesome? We’d love it if you volunteered to join our crew of Stewards, Gophers and Registration Desk Genies! We’re the gang always there in the background keeping things running smoothly, helping Con attendees find their way and possibly providing a little inspiration for things to see and do! We’re looking to recruit Con-goers into our team for a few hours at a time, giving you the chance to enjoy Nine Worlds as an attendee and as part of the team that makes it happen. If you fancy giving it a go, ask at the Registration Desk or say hello at Volunteers HQ in room 35.

Sessions

We’re running 75-minute sessions with 30-minute breaks. You can enter and leave sessions when you like.

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Access

Nine Worlds is founded on the belief that geekdom should not be restricted by class, age, gender, sexuality, disability, ethnicity, or the ability to cite Wookiepedia in arguments. We’re doing our best to make Nine Worlds as accessible as possible. Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to make it more accessible for you. Reach us at the Info Desk, Tweet @9WAccess or @London_Geekfest. You can also send feedback to access@nineworlds. co.uk or feedback@nineworlds.co.uk.

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Facilities

The Radisson Edwardian, Heathrow has: • step-free access • accessible toilets • gender-neutral toilets • designated quiet space • car parking • kid-friendly content • a small amount of content clearly marked 16+ and 18+ • space for infant feeding and changing.

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The main social space is the third floor Atrium. Access from the lobby is by 38 steps, with four landings, or by lift along a side corridor. The atrium is naturally lit and consists of small areas connected by walkways with shallow ramps. The kids’ area is in the atrium down two steps which can’t be ramped. The fourth floor has one room, Room 42, that’s through two narrow single doors - rather than a double door. We’ve minimised content in Room 42 as much as we can. If you or your kid are wheelchair users and hoping to attend the kids’ track, come and see us on the Info Desk as soon as you can, and we’ll sort out moving some of the content into a more accessible space. Most track rooms have double doors for entry, and are carpeted and artificially lit. The main restaurant and bar areas on the ground floor have hard floors and low-tomoderate lighting. Most of the corridors to hotel rooms and track rooms have carpets. There are two accessible toilets on the ground floor: one for transfer from the left, and one from the right. Each contains a washbasin and grab rail. These are gender neutral. We’ll also mark out some toilets on the third floor as gender neutral. There will be other, gendered, nonwheelchair-accessible toilets throughout the building. Assistance animals are welcome in the hotel. Car parking is available on-site and free of charge for blue badge holders. Other vehicles are charged £7 for 24 hours.

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On the ground floor, private room 15 is a quiet space and families’ room. It has a single door, so may not be accessible for larger wheelchairs and scooters. On the third floor, private room 36 is a quiet space, and private room 37 is a families’ room. These are reached through several narrow doors, so may not be accessible to wheelchairs or scooters.

We’re sorry there isn’t a better option for accessible quiet spaces - these are the best the hotel had. We’re working on finding better options for next year’s event.

About quiet spaces

Anyone can use our quiet spaces as places where no one will talk to or interact with them. Multiple folks are welcome there, as long as they maintain that. Please don’t use these spaces for socialising.

Badge and clip systems

If you want to use any of the following systems to help others identify your preferences and needs, go to the Registration desk anytime and ask for them the badge or clip that you want. We won’t ask any questions. • Priority seating badge: Some sessions will fill up, so if you’re unable to stand for long for any reason, you may wish to ask at Registration for a Priority Seating badge. • Communication preference clips: These clips are commonly used by people with autism spectrum conditions, and any one else who finds communication overwhelming at times. You do not need any reason though. Clip one of these to your badge or lanyard if this applies to you: Yellow clip means, “Please don’t talk to me unless I know you, I talk to you first, or in an emergency.” Red clip means, “I do not want to talk to

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anybody. Please don’t talk to me unless I know you, I talk to you first, or in an emergency.” Blue clip means “I’d especially like people to initiate conversations with me.” No clip can be taken to imply blue. My pronoun is... badges: You may wish to use this badge to let people know which pronoun to use for you, be it one, ze, sie, hir, co, ey, they, she or he, or something else.

More access information

Please see nineworlds.co.uk/content/accessibilityinformation for more access information, including for the Marriott and Sheraton Skyline, McDonald’s and public transport. You can also tweet @9WAccess or ask the Radisson hotel about specific concerns.

For families

Breastfeeding is welcome anywhere at the convention, under UK law. We will not tolerate the harassment of breastfeeding parents. If you’re harassed while breastfeeding, please let a volunteer know, and we’ll deal with it. You can also feed and change in Room 15 on the ground floor, and Room 37 on the third floor, if you’d prefer. Families, and everyone else, are welcome to come in and out of sessions as they wish. We just ask that you’re as quiet as you can be, and respectful, while doing so. All sessions welcome kids and teenagers, other than the small number marked 16+ or 18+. Our kids’ programme has dedicated content for kids, roughly to age 12, to enjoy with their families. See page 16. We have no rules on mobile phone use as we know parents may need to take calls. We just

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Code of conduct

We’d like Nine Worlds to be an awesome, fun and safe space for everyone, so we’ve asked ticket holders to agree to this code of conduct as a condition of attending. We take this code very seriously. Please read it thoroughly.

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You must wear your badge in plain sight at all times. We’re a family-friendly event: there’ll be kids around. Keep it PG-13. You must abide by our anti-harassment policy and if applicable, our costume and weapons policy. No camping in convention spaces. Folks found sleeping in public spaces will be asked to move to their hotel rooms, or offsite. Under-16s must have an adult with them at all times. Our kids’ track is meant for families to enjoy together - it’s not a crèche. Please leave your phone number with your kid in case they get lost - we don’t have an intercom. If you’re taking photos, always ask your subjects’ permission first. Do not photograph anyone wearing a bright yellow lanyard. This means they do not want to be photographed. We reserve the right to ask attendees to leave the convention without refund if they are behaving in a way we think is inappropriate. Our decision is final.

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Events and guests may change or cancel. We’ll do our best to warn you of changes on our website and Twitter, but sometimes changes will happen without notice.

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Keep an eye on @London_Geekfest and #nineworlds and for up-to-date information. We’re not responsible for lost, stolen or damaged property, or for injuries during the convention. We can offer sympathy, though. Please bring any lost kids to the Info Desk in the third floor atrium. Please get to know the meanings of the Priority Seating badges, blue, red and yellow clips for communication preferences and “My pronoun is...” badges explained under Access, and respect people’s preferences. Read more about these on page 10. It’s okay if you make a genuine mistake because you didn’t know - like if you didn’t see someone’s badge or clip, or forgot what it meant. Don’t beat yourself up about it! Just keep an eye out for next time.

Anti-harassment policy

Nine Worlds is dedicated to providing a great convention experience for everyone, whatever their gender, sexuality, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion. We will not tolerate any form of harassment of convention participants. Attendees found to be harassing anyone may be expelled from the Con without refund. Harassment can include: • offensive comments about gender, sexuality, impairment, physical appearance, body size, race or religion • intimidation, stalking or following • showing sexual imagery in public spaces, unless as part of scheduled content with prior agreement from the organisers • photographing or recording someone without their permission • sustained disruption of talks or other events • uninvited physical contact • uninvited sexual attention.

Harrassment, costumes We’d also like to draw attention to some forms of racist harassment that people of colour at geek events have spoken about, including: • white people critiquing their cosplay choices without being asked • being expected to be an authority on nonwhite characters in various shows or comics • being talked down to or assumed to be less knowledgeable about topics being discussed.

offensive on the grounds of gender, sexuality, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion. This includes t-shirt slogans. We decide what’s offensive – please don’t debate with staff. We’re a family-friendly event, with kids running around. Please keep it PG-13: no nudity, don’t dress in overtly sexualised costumes, and be mindful of how gory or scary your costumes are. You may like to wash off especially gory make-up after the Cosplay Beyond workshops, for example. Don’t go around deliberately scaring kids. Thanks!

What should I do if I am harassed?

In some cases you may find the harassment stops if you clearly say ‘no’ or ‘please leave me alone’, or simply walk away. We would appreciate it if the Info Desk was still informed to help us identify any repeat offenders.

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If you continue to be harassed, or notice someone else being harassed, please visit the Info Desk in the third floor atrium or contact a volunteer with hi-vis – brightly coloured – vest or Staff badge. Our volunteers can help participants contact venue security, provide a listener, or otherwise help those experiencing harassment to feel safe during the Con. If you need to call the police, we will support you. The Radisson have a good relationship with the local police, so if it can wait a few minutes, speak to one of the Nine Worlds organisers or the hotel directly and see if you can take it through their channels: it may make things run a bit more smoothly.

Costume and weapons policy

We love costumes at Nine Worlds, and are very much looking forward to seeing all your amazing cosplays! Here are the cosplay rules to help keep things fun and safe for everyone.

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Costumes must abide by our antiharassment policy - they must not be

Weapons must: Be non-functional. That means they can’t actually hurt anyone. • Look fake from at least three metres away. Absolutely no weapons that looks like real guns. We’re at Heathrow - the police will take potential threats very seriously. • If they look like they could be dangerous in any way, they must be peace-bonded cable-tied - at registration. • As a guideline, the more costumed you are, the more forgiving hotel security will be regarding fake firearms. Stormtroopers with blasters - awesome! Street clothes with a black plastic toy pistol - problem. 2. Don’t aim weapons at people without their consent. If you’re posing for a photo, try aiming them skywards. 3. Don’t fire projectile weapons outside of event-organised weapon-play sessions. This includes NERF guns, water pistols, sillystring guns, ping-pong pistols and more. 4. No metal-bladed weapons. Non-metal bladed weapons should be blunt. 5. Absolutely no explosives, including, but not •

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limited to, smoke powder, sparklers and fireworks. No play-fighting with prop weapons outside of event organised weapon-play sessions.

Photography policy Attendees

We’ll be taking lots of photos at the event, including crowd shots, for publicity. If you don’t want to be photographed, please swap your lanyard for a bright yellow lanyard at the Registration Desk or the Info Desk, and wear it. Photographers are asked not to photograph anyone wearing a yellow lanyard. We can’t guarantee that you won’t appear in the background or in any crowd shots.

Photographers

Please ask your subjects for their permission first - it’s only polite. Some people will be wearing bright yellow lanyards - ensure you don’t photograph them. We’d love to see your photos after the event - tweet @London_Geekfest with a link, or tag #nineworlds.

Official photographer

You’ll likely see our official photographer Jamie Drew all over the Con, making a valiant effort to capture as much of the fun and spirit of Nine Worlds as possible. If you see something particularly special that should be preserved for posterity, let Jamie know by Tweeting @dreadpiratedrew.

Photobooth

We chose Jamie out of more than 40 people who wanted to be our official photographer. His photography is pretty special. If you’d like to get a cracking photo of yourself at Nine Worlds in Cosplay or not, with a group of friends or solo, rock up to to the photobooth:

Friday and Saturday, 3.00pm to 4.00pm The Atrium, Third floor After the event, you’ll be able to buy digital copies of your photos for £3 each.

Cosplay contest

We love cosplay. From the well-known to the obscure, from the semi-professional to the lastminute cobbled-together. Cosplay rocks. We’re so excited to see yours. Check the Costume and weapons policy to make sure you’re within boundaries. If you take pictures, tag us @London_Geekfest or #nineworlds so we can see! Our cosplay contest is not-very-competitive and non-hierarchical. It’ll be social and fun. All attendees will get five awesome cosplay! tokens in their goody bags. Please give a token to someone whose cosplay you like! Thanks go to EasterCon for this idea: turns out that giving someone an “awesome cosplay!” token is a lovely way to have a friendly interaction. If you collect more than fifteen tokens, you’ve won a prize! Come to the Cosplay Contest table in the Vendors’ Hall in Commonwealth West, between 2pm and 4pm on Sunday and exchange your tokens for a prize. All under 12s, plus under 16s who self-identify as kids for this contest - get a prize simply for cosplaying. Just come to the table in your cosplay, with your adult.

Vendors

Everyone loves browsing awesome geeky merchandise, books and crafts of great beauty and skill. We’ve carefully selected our vendors with that in mind.

Vendors, entertainments Main market - Commonwealth West Open every day, 9.00am to 5.00pm • Forbidden Planet: The first port of call for geeks worldwide! Collectables, books, toys and much more. • All of the Books: Small press and independently published books. • Leisure Games: London’s largest tabletop game vendor. • Stagman Creations: Leatherwork, ornate props, elegant clothing and drinking horns. • Soapasaurus: Bath and body goods with a distinctly geeky twist. • Cheeky Geeky Goodness: Unique geek clothes, available for customisation. • Unseen Shadows: Works by the Geek Syndicate’s Barry Nugent. • Genki Gear: creative and cute t shirts, hoodies, tote bags and mugs. • Eithin: Elegant handmade paper art and jewellery - Saturday only • LeadAche: Prints, comics and badges with an occasionally dark twist. • Chimera: Collectable card trading games from all around the world. • Isala: Second hand books and DVDs. • Retrogreat: Vintage clothes, handmade jewellery with retro themes. • Steampunk Market: Last year’s market is back and covering all aspects of steampunk. • Newcon Press: Books, particularly novels and genre fiction. • Geekstitch: Cross stitch works and geek themed embroidery kits. • Scorch’s Pyrography: Handmade wooden gifts, art and custom woodburning. • Nerdgasm UK: Retro small collectables, toys, videogames and gifts. Pop Up Market, in Commonwealth East Saturday 2.00pm to 4.00pm Sunday 3.00pm to 5.00pm • Profound Decisions: Organisers of many of

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the UK’s largest professional LARP events. Science Fiction Foundation: Society and advocate for writers, critics and academics of SF worldwide. BSFA: One of the largest and most respected associations of SF. Ruth Wheeler: Author of the comedy science fiction Truxxe series. Canvas and Paints: Video game paintings, also available for commission. Jenny Haines: Digital art, including classical takes on video games. Khaos Komix: Webcomic with LGBTQ themes.

Evening entertainments Thursd a y

Rock Club London – rock out with Rock Band karaoke 10.00pm to late Commonwealth East

Friday

The Mechanisms – steampunk pirate sci-fi musical cabaret fairy tales. In space. 6.30pm to 8.30pm Commonwealth East Only a Moment – quiz show with Paul Cornell 8.30pm to 10.00pm Room 38 Speed Friending – with Geek Chic 8.30pm to 10.30pm Royal C&D The Nine Worlds Party 10.00pm to 11.30pm Commonwealth East Theme is Flash Gordon v the Highlander, featuring Rhapsody, the UK’s top Queen tribute band.

Signings 80s Disco – All-Cheese Dance Party 11.30pm to 2.00am Commonwealth East

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Quantum Battlestar Deep-Space Voyager Tardis Wars: The Million Dollar Space Epic 5.00pm to 6.30pm Room 12 Sci-fi comedy skits Rock Club London – rock out with Rock Band karaoke 10.00pm to late Commonwealth East

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Robot Woman of Tomorrow – science comedian Helen Keen 6.30pm to 7.30pm Commonwealth East

Signings All at the Forbidden Planet table in Commonwealth West.

2.45pm Adrian Tchaikovsky Lauren Beukes Jen Williams 4.30pm Jon Wallace Gavin Smith Mark Alder

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10.00am John Connolly Jonathan L Howard 11.15am Paul McAuley Gareth Powell Mark Charan Newton 1.00pm Elizabeth Bear Scott Lynch 2.45pm Den Patrick Anna Caltabiano Michael J Ward

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4.30pm John Hornor Jacobs Joanne Harris Will Hill

11.15am Ed Cox Benedict Jacka

Sunday

10.00am Kim Curran Laura Lam

1.00pm Paul Cornell Kate Griffin Nick Harkaway

10.00am Philip Reeve Sarah McIntyre 11.15am Sarah Lotz Francis Knight Tom Pollock

Informal meet-ups 1.00pm Daniel Polansky Adam Christopher Danie Ware 2.45pm Gail Carriger Stephanie Saulter M Suddain 4.30pm Gaie Sebold Rebecca Levene Ian Whates

Informal meet-ups

Families meetups Families area, third floor Atrium Every day, 9.00 am to 9.45am Meet up with other families to discuss all the things, and share tips about how to get the most out of Nine Worlds. Cosplay positivity: Meet and Mingle! with Cosplay Beyond track Ground floor Bijou Bar Friday, 10.30am to 11.15am Whether nervous and looking for a bit of encouragement or a confident cosplayer looking to make friends with other people who like to dress up, this is the space for you! Come and grab a coffee or a snack and trade compliments, costume tips and the stories about the triumphs and frustrations that went into making your costumes for this weekend! With Ollie Starr. New folks meet-up, with Emma Newman Friday and Saturday, 11.30am Bijou Bar Whether you’re anxious about the idea of the Con, or would just like to meet some friendly faces, you can come along to these meetups, run

by author and anxiety-wrangler Emma Newman, for a relaxed cuppa and chat with others new to Nine Worlds. You can also chat with Emma @ EmApocalyptic.

Kids’ programme

Most of our content is suitable for kids, unless marked 16+ or 18+. These sessions are especially designed to be enjoyed by families together.

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Kid-friendly area In the main central Atrium, with crafty materials, games, storytelling, and lots more. Kids can enjoy it, and their adults can supervise while still getting to socialise.

Friday

The Gruffalo at the Dentist, with Pyjama Drama for ages 2 to 5 10.00am Room 42 It’s hard being scary when you’ve got a poorly pain and the Gruffalo knows all about that – he’s woken up with the most terrible toothache! Will he ever be scary again? Basic wounds workshop one: bruises and superficial cuts (PG fake blood) with Cosplay Beyond 11.45am Room 32 After a short demo explaining the theory of making gruesome wounds with make-up, everyone can have a go, with advice along the way on bringing realism to your work. Build Your Own Spectroscope, with Space, Ships and Steampunk 1.30pm to 2.45pm Room 12 Spectroscopes are vital in studying astronomical

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phenomena. In this interactive workshop, we’ll build our own spectroscopes, play with discharge tubes, and learn about how astronomers can study the composition of distant astronomical bodies. Calling Planet Earth, with Pyjama Drama for ages 6 to 10 5.00pm Room 42 It’s time to find a new home for your family, but when the nearest planet is a trillion miles away and covered in litter, what do you do? Use your dramatic skills to explore a story.

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Dalek Disaster! With Pyjama Drama for ages 2 to 5 10.00am Room 42 The Doctor has finally managed to bring peace to the universe, but those dastardly Daleks are up to their old tricks again! Can you help The Doctor save the day? Basic Wounds Workshop Two: Burns and Bruises (PG fake blood), with Cosplay Beyond 11.45am Royal B After a short demo explaining the theory of making gruesome wounds with make-up, everyone can have a go, with advice along the way on bringing realism to your work. Writing Workshop with Quen Took for ages 8 to 11 1.30pm Room 30 Small-group creative writing workshops in which people aged 8-11 can experiment with storytelling. We’ll begin by writing a short story as a group, with each person adding to the story as we go along. Participants will then be encouraged to work either in groups or

individually to write their own flash fiction, with support from the group leader and small prizes for the best work. Super Speedy Yarn Crafts, with Knitting 1.30pm to 2.45pm Room 40 Projects using needles, hooks, yarn and an hour. Finish a selection of projects within this hour long session and take your completed project home with you. Projects range from pom poms to granny squares to baby squid monsters. This session is kid-friendly and some of the projects can be easily picked up by non-crafters. Punk your Nerf, with Steampunk 1.30pm to 2.45pm Room 12 Nerf Guns are a great steampunk accessory. This session will give you some hints and tips on how to take a toy, and with a few easy steps, turn it into a Steampunk weapon and accessory. There will be time to show you how to run a Steampunk Shootout and join in a Steamwestern Shootout. Making Comics: workshop for kids and their adults, with Comics track 3.15pm to 4.30pm Royal A Turning concepts into scripts into pages into pantheons- bring your characters, your ideas, your total lack of experience and/or buckets of enthusiasm and we’ll supply pens, paper and helping hands. The Doctor’s Lodge, with Pyjama Drama For ages 6 to 10 5.00pm Room 42 The Doctor’s been to many places, but this strange, empty house can’t be what it seems. Will your Sonic Screwdriver be the final piece of the puzzle?

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Edible Knitting: cord bracelets from strawberry laces, with the Knitting and Food Geekery tracks 6.45pm to 8.00pm Room 32 Come and make your own edible bracelets! We’ll teach you to make a bracelet from delicious strawberry laces. Kid-friendly for ages 8+ but also suitable for adults.

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The Preschool Triwizard Tournament, with Pyjama Drama For ages 2 to 5 10am Room 42 It’s the final of the Triwizard tournament for preschoolers – who knows what’s around the next corner! Who will be crowned the winner? Battle Rapping Monsters, with Creative Writing 10.00am to 11.15am County A Create your own monster and send them to rap battle against others! A writing and performance workshop, suitable for 11+. Fanfic for Kids: what happens next? Making up your own stories 10.00am to 11.15am County B Workshop on fanfiction for pre-teens. Many preteens also want to read fanfiction: we’ll discuss the best and safest sites for them to visit. Cakes in Space with Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre 11.45am to 1.00pm Room 38 Robots! Spaceships! Killer Cupcakes! Batty Battenbergs! Explore the furthest reaches of storytelling and drawing with this space-suited

dream team! Grab your pencil and get set for zany adventure! #CakesinSpace Model Making with Kerry Dyer 1.30pm to 2.45pm Room 42 Join animator and model-maker Kerry Dyer for a masterclass in model-creating. Kerry will share her animation secrets, and guide kids and their adults through creating their own. Materials provided, and everyone is welcome! Hogwarts Farewell, with Pyjama Drama for 6-10 year olds 3.15pm Room 42 Everyone loves Professor Picklenose – he’s the best Potion Master the school has ever seen! But what happens when he makes a surprise announcement?

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Weirwood Eyes: Looking forward to The Winds of Winter 10.00am to 11.15am A fan discussion based on the currently published material from The Winds of Winter. Two academic talks 1.30pm to 2.45pm Identity in A Song of Ice and Fire Academic presentation from Andrew Jones. George RR Martin has highlighted the conflict of identity which results and promotes conflict with the unknown. Over the series almost every character has an identity, and the series is also well known for the use of otherisation. Over the course of the novels, this duality explores how those reading the novel encounter the relationship between the known and the unknown.

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Sex work and A Song of Ice and Fire Sex work is mentioned frequently in ASOIAF, but not all portrayals are good portrayals. We are joined by people from the Sex Workers Open University to give their views on the portrayals of sex work in the books.

about worldbuilding, foreshadowing, points of view and killing off your beloved characters. With Susan Bartholomew, Cristina Macía, Anne Perry and Adrian Tchaikovsky.

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Sewing circle 10.00am to 11.15am Bring your own craft project to work on while we talk about the books. There’ll be colouring-in pages for those between projects. Writing Westeros: a Corpus Linguistic Study of A Song of Ice and Fire 5.00pm to 6.15pm Matthew Voice examines George RR Martin’s use of language. Using linguistics software, we will explore the language associated with specific characters to discover the way the author creates an individual identity.

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Braids of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones hair design workshop 1.30pm to 2.45pm Royal B Cosplay Beyond bring you a workshop on recreating the hairstyles of Westeros and Essos. We’ll guide you through the basics, so you’ll pick it up quickly. From there, we’ll show you how to combine methods to imitate styles worn by many beloved - and less beloved - characters. We’ll aim to include character styles suitable for many hair lengths – maybe even a beard or two! The Bards Speak: Authors views of the World of Ice and Fire 3.15pm to 4.30pm A panel of fantasy authors and experts from the publishing industry give their opinions on the world created by George RR Martin, talking

Academia Archaeological Exploration of Fantasy Worlds, with H. Grünefeld 9.00am to 9.45am Connaught B An archaeological look at Middle Earth, Westeros, and elsewhere. Presenting the historical background, notable artefacts, and promising excavation sites for enterprising archaeologists and other interested parties. 10.00am to 11.15am Connaught B LGBTQ subtext in genre TV, from Star Trek to Supernatural, with Jenny Alexander Despite the emergence, since Willow came out on Buffy in 2000, of overt LGBT representation in sci-fi and fantasy television, “hidden”, hinted at, same-sex romance, in the subtext of genre shows, continues to be significant. Is there a progressive place for queer subtext, or is it, today, an exploitative marketing tactic, known in fan culture discussion as “queer-baiting”? Gender as Performative in Avatar: The Last Airbender, with Lauren McPhee We explore how gender is written on the animated body using theories of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble and Nickelodeon cartoon, Avatar: The Last Airbender. We’ll look at drag, performativity and gender subversion. 11.45am to 1.00pm Connaught B Deadly Little Bodies: The Silent Asian Female Assassins in Comics, with Kelly Kanayama The East Asian female assassin is a common

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character type in contemporary comics. Although their fighting abilities are often presented as a sign of empowerment, in practice depictions of these characters often combine Orientalist portrayals of female Asian identity with stereotypes regarding Asian culture. We Come In Peace: Immigration In Post-Cold War Science Fiction, with Samantha Kountz We’ll examine how mainstream post-Cold War science fiction films such as Star Wars: Episodes I-III, Men In Black, District 9, Alien Nation, The Coneheads, Man of Steel, and Elysium depict aliens in terms of race, class, gender, and citizenship, and there is a clear reflection of contemporary antiimmigrant sentiment. 1.30pm to 2.45pm Connaught A How Granny Weatherwax Out-Nietzsches Nietzsche: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld and Philosophy, with Christina Richards and Meg John Barker It is important to know what’s really real. There is some interesting stuff to be found in the philosophy of roundworld and this session draws on both universes to lead an interactive discussion about how each philosophy informs the other. Christian Theology and Culture in Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods with Rev Phil Bettinson Small Gods follows the story of Brutha, the only believer in the city, as he comes to terms with the fact that his God, normally seen as a mighty Bull, has come to him in the shape of a tortoise. Brutha’s journey through the book helps both him, and Om, grow in understanding of one another. The story has many obvious parallels with the Christian Faith. Here, we’ll explore what kind of interaction there is between the cultural view shown in book and a modern understanding of Christian theology.

6.45pm to 8.30pm Connaught A Self-Identity in young adult Dystopian Fiction: How Terrible Worlds are a Force for Good in Ours, with Rowan Williams-Fletcher This paper discusses, with a focus on three dystopian texts, how the emerging self-identity of YA protagonists intertwines with the class, gender and race-based identities of YA readers, to create a growing potential for political engagement. My Little Pony: Audience, Identity and Animation, with Ewan Kirkland The unprecedented success of the rebooted My Little Pony series amongst adult male fans raises questions concerning the relationship between screen audiences and particular forms of popular culture. This paper critically examines MLPFIM’s status as a show for young girls. Reading a million self-published books: Visualising trends in what’s written, with Matthew Pocock Last year publishers took over a million novels to market with many more being self-published. Nobody could read enough of this to know what people are writing about. How can academics and publishers who need to keep up, keep up?

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With the Video Games Culture track. 11.45am to 1.00pm Royal C&D Male, Pale, and Stale: Character Creation in Gaming, with Helen Gould White male protagonists are highly overrepresented in an industry where anything can be created: aliens, elves, trolls, orcs, giant cuttlefish monsters that fire molten metal. A paper published in 2009 found that male characters make up 85.2% of characters in games, with white characters at 80%. We’ll discuss the ways character creation is a good alternative, and some of the problems with it.

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‘Ideal’ Control Methods and Antisimulation, with Joseph Gavin Control schemes are not all designed to be the same. Instead, there are differing ‘ideal’ control schemes. While the usual two ‘ideals’ of control methods are the ‘arcade’ and the ‘simulation’, there may be a third, called ‘antisimulation’. 5.00pm to 6.15pm Connaught A Environmental Narrative and the Silent Story, with Thryn Henderson Games writing is an expanding field, but a new challenge for many traditional writers, requiring new forms of narrative. Environmental narrative is the increasingly popular method of using visual and gameplay elements themselves to immerse you in the game world and provide an understanding of its history and events. Actions, Choices, and Immersion: what can philosophers tell us? with John Brasington Are your actions in games, yours? Do we share the desires of our characters, have them, or emulate them? Do we think of ourselves as our characters, our avatars, or are we only sympathetic to them? Objection! What makes for a good adventure game puzzle, anyway? with Seb Atay “Use spork on rafflesia”; “use spork on necrotising bacteria”; “combine spork and antique silverware”; “give spork to tree”. We know what it feels like when an adventure game puzzle goes wrong, but what does it feel like when a puzzle goes right? The ideal of the adventure game puzzle is one that the player should solve by insight alone, and this has historically informed the design and development of the genre. We argue that fair puzzles help resolve this problem, and that furthermore fairness is instrumental in creating good puzzles.

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Covering all aspects of literary geekery.

Friday

Urban Fantasy: Cities of Angels and Demons and Bug-Monsters 10.00am to 11.15am The lure of cities – wherever they are in time and space. Why are urban environments the best places for adventure? What’s the secret of their appeal? Panel: Ed Cox, Laure Eve, Paul Cornell, Benedict Jacka Time Travel: where, why, how and when? 11.45am to 1.00pm This is a message from your future self: go to this panel! Panel: Paul Cornell, Lauren Beukes, Kate Griffin, Fabio Fernandes, Simon Guerrier Monsterclass: Nonlinear narratives 11.45am to 1.00pm Room 30 Stories that don’t behave the way you might expect, with Robert Sharp. Mythology and fairytales: pernicious supernaturalism or meaningful exploration of existence? 1.30pm to 2.45pm Where do myths and fairytales come from, and how are they influencing genre today? Panel: Lauren Beukes, Joanne Harris, Rochita Loenen Ruiz, Aishwarya Subramanian, John Connolly Writing the inhuman: more Yeti than human 1.30pm to 2.45pm County A From Frankenstein’s creation to Lady Stoneheart, literature constantly probes the boundaries between the human and inhuman to ask, who is the true monster? Panel: Pete Sutton, Adrian Tchaikovsky, David Mumford, Laure Eve, Jennifer Williams

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County C&D unless otherwise shown Superheroes and superhuman: exploding the myth of the super-what-have-you 3.15pm to 4.30pm Superheroes are everywhere these days, from comic books to literary novels to the Disney Store. How is society exploring what ‘super’ means and how does that change depending on the suffix attached? Panel: Jenni Hill, Nick Harkaway, Stephanie Saulter, Barry Nugent, Taran Matharu Monsterclass: Archeological worldbuilding 3.15pm to 4.30pm Room 30 Debbie Challis from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaelogy on what we can learn from ancient worlds. Looking forwards 5.00pm to 6.15pm What does the future hold? And how will it influence the books we read? A panel with all the answers. No pressure. Panel: Nick Harkaway, Fabio Fernandes, Lauren Beukes, Sarah Lotz Love and sex: an intimate exploration 6.45pm to 8.00pm From shipping to sex scenes, and from erotica to WTF-tica. Panel: E. Saxey, Rebecca Levene, Tiffani Angus, Sarah Lotz, Laurie Penny Writing Transmedia: ideas that cross formats and boundaries 6.45pm to 8.00pm County A Because a story can also be an app, computer game, vlog, fanvid, web series, docu-drama, interactive ebook, diary comic, inter-sensory experience or any other format currently existing or yet to exist not listed here. Kind of against the spirit of the thing, if you ask us. Guess you’ll just have to go to it in person. Panel: Barry Nugent, Anna Caltabiano, Simon Guerrier, Adam Christopher

Choose your own documentary: a forgotten diary falls from an old book. What would you do? 6.45pm to 8.00pm Room 41 With the Film Festival track. Join Nathan Penlington and a team of filmmakers as they embark on an epic and emotional quest to find the author of the diary and unravel the mystery. A true story of obsession, friendship, loss and adventure. But there’s a twist. You, the audience, decide Nathan’s fate by using remote controls. His destiny is in your hands. Choose wisely. Cthulhu?! 8.30pm to 10.45pm Royal A Sanity optional. Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn* *In a corner at Nine Worlds, four authors roll dice and battle evil. Panel: Jon Morgan, Jonathan L Howard, Rebecca Levene, Scott Lynch, Kim Curran School stories: prefects, headmasters and tuckshops, oh my! 10.15pm to 11.30pm Why are we so fascinated by school stories? From Harry Potter to Ender’s Game, St. Trinian’s to the X-Men, will we ever escape our school days? No talking in the back of the class. Panel: Aishwarya Subramanian, Zen Cho, Emma Vieceli, Tiffani Angus New voices: say hello to the Class of 2014! 10.15pm to 11.30pm Royal B Fun, fast-paced readings from the best new writers.

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CoffeeKitsch: with The Kitschies 9.15am to 9.45am Up early? Start your day right by meeting fellow writers, publishers and fans. And doughnuts.

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Cyberpunk: exploring society in the corporate machine age 10.00am to 11.15am Science fiction in a science fictional real world. Panel: Anne Charnock, Fabio Fernandes, Laurie Penny, Paul McAuley

Looking backwards 5.00pm to 6.15pm From Victorians to Egyptians, what’s the appeal of past worlds? What can we learn from them, and how do they inform our work today? Panel: Gail Carriger, John J Johnston, Marek Kukula

Dragons v Werewolves v Vampires v Warlocks: ultimate deathmatch smackdown 11.45am to 1.00pm Four monsters enter, one monster leaves. It all gets decided here. Debate: Anne Perry (Moderator), Elizabeth Bear (Dragons), Gail Carriger (Werewolves), Joanne Harris (Vampires), Scott Lynch (Warlocks)

Monsterclass: Comics 5.00pm to 6.15pm Room 30 Learn how comics and collaboration can inspire your storytelling skills. A Comics Jam session led by Sarah McIntyre and Philip Reeve to geek out about techniques and such. Bring your comicmaking questions!

Monsterclass: Street art 11.45am to 1.00pm Room 30 Unconventional artistry with Deadly Knitshade, Lauren O’Farrell.

Monsterclass: Postcolonial SF 6.45pm to 8.00pm Room 30 Genre fiction from around the world with Fabio Fernandes.

Likeable bad guys: loving you is easy, explaining you is hard 1.30pm to 2.45pm We love to hate them, we hate to love them: from great one-liners to a sympathetic backstory, from the evil laugh to villian-fabulous fashion - what makes bad guys so good? Panel: Ed Fortune, Rochita Loenen Ruiz, Stephen Aryan, Anna Caltabiano, Den Patrick

Noir: the dirty streets of fiction 6.45pm to 8.00pm “It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.” – Raymond Chandler Panel: Will Hill, Daniel Polansky, John Connolly, Sara Townsend, Francis Knight

Monsterclass: Mummies 3.15pm to 4.30pm Room 30 John J Johnston of the Egypt Exploration Society. Westerns: they’re your Huckleberry 3.15pm to 4.30pm Saddle up – we’re off to the not-so-distant past to find the secrets of this rough and tumble genre. Panel: Jared Shurin, Will Hill, Stark Holborn, John Hornor Jacobs, Joanne Harris

Working with Artists: drawing up professional relationships 6.45pm to 8.00pm County A How can artists get the best from their writers, and vice versa? Advice about making great things. Q&A with Sarah McIntyre, Emma Vieceli, Gillian Redfearn, Djibril al-Ayad and Adam Christopher #PROMNADO: The Gollancz Prom Party! 8.00pm to 10.00pm Drinks and nibbles in celebration of Gollancz’s talented 2014 Class of 2014, debut writers

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County C&D unless otherwise shown Den Patrick, Mark Alder, Jon Wallace, Anna Caltabiano, John Honor Jacobs and Ed Cox. Enjoy an evening old-school tunes, a mirror ball, The 2014 Year Book Quiz and more.

How can events, social media, publicity and marketing work? Tips and tricks from the experts. Q&A with Tom Hunter, Adam Christopher, Danie Ware, Sophie Calder and James Oswald

New voices: the Class of 2014 continued 10.15pm to 11.30pm Royal B More fun, fast-paced readings from this year’s best new writers.

X-Punk: punk as suffix, genre and state of mind 1.30pm to 2.45pm Steampunk, Cyberpunk, Grimpunk, Sandalpunk, Godpunk, Pinkpunk, Punkpunk - what’s nextpunk? Our panelists consider the next big thing – and the perils of the X-Punk genre lifestyle. Panel: Djibril al-Ayad, Kim Curran, M. Suddain, Mathew Pocock, Stephanie Saulter

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CoffeeKitsch: with The Kitschies 9.15am to 9.45am Up early again?! Warm up for a great day with coffee, doughnuts and other early birds. African speculative fiction: more than acacia trees 10.00am to 11.15am From Who Fears Death to Zoo City, African science fiction and fantasy is winning our hearts, and shelves. What should we be reading next? Panel: Geoffrey Ryman, Sarah Lotz, Tade Thompson Monsterclass: Mental illness primer 11.45am to 1.00pm Room 30 The fact and fiction of mental illness for science fiction and fantasy creators, with Tade Thompson.

Epic fantasy: the panel of prophecy! 3.15pm to 4.30pm And lo, it was prophecised that the heroes of the epic fantasy genre would ascend to the Nine Worlds, where they would battle the Evil One with the Sword of Banter and Wand of Quick Wit +2. Panel: Den Patrick, Scott Lynch, Rebecca Levene, Elizabeth Bear, Gaie Sebold Monsterclass: Marketing 3.15pm to 4.30pm Room 30 With Tom Hunter, marketing strategist and Director of the Clarke Award.

Spock v the Sorcerers: fantasy or science fiction? The genre deathmatch smackdown 11.45am to 1.00pm The vicious genre-pocalypse we’ve all been waiting for. There can be only one. Debate: Anne Perry (Moderator), Daniel Polansky (Fantasy), Liz Bourke (Fantasy), Zen Cho and Geoffrey Ryman (SF).

Ask a professional: all your questions about the book trade answered 3.15pm to 4.30pm County A Experts from every walk of publishing life, ready and willing to be put to the test. Feeling shy? Tweet questions in advance @booksnineworlds Q&A with Alasdair Stuart, Juliet Mushens, Ian Whates, Liz Gorinsky, Jenni Hill

Marketing and social media: getting the word out 11.45am to 1.00pm County A How do you get the word out about your book?

“Strong female protagonists” in young adult fiction 5.00pm to 6.15pm Connaught A

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The term “strong female protagonist” in young adult fiction is gaining popularity following the success of The Hunger Games’ Katniss Everdeen, who shoots arrows with pinpoint accuracy while defying the corrupt system. But what does the term mean? Panel: Rowan Williams-Fletcher, Juliet Mushens, Laura Lam, Tom Pollock, Anna Caltabiano Wow. So Panel: Much subtitle. Vague. 5.00pm to 6.15pm Panel: Jenni Hill, Jared Shurin, Anne Perry

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This track is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend Martin Skidmore, whose commitment to serious (and fun) critical analysis and appreciation of all comics is something we can only aspire to.

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Do you have a suit? Cosplayers assemble 8.00pm to 10.00pm Haven’t quite finished your cosplay? Need help? Need to start? We’ve all been there. Hazel Robinson and craft and fashion wizard Clara Belle will use their mutant powers for good by helping you make last-minute adjustments. We’ll have a big stash of supplies.

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Stark Tower sleepover: infinite washing-up crisis 1.30pm to 2.45pm Opening the track by settling into our room and talking superhero domesticity: games, snacks and drinking straight from the coffee pot. Briony Frost, Nat Wilkinson, Clara Belle, Dan Hart Falling and tumbling, power and struggle 3.15pm to 4.30pm Dr Briony Frost presents a paper on Loki, Thor, fallen gods and military-magical power, as Howard Hardiman and Cara Ellison talk about

stumbling badgers, self-care and non-adventure. Briony Frost, Howard Hardiman, Cara Ellison Mental health and comics: workshop 5.00pm to 6.15pm An interactive session about depictions of mental health issues in comics. Bring your favourite comics and join the conversation. Meg John Barker, Caroline Walters, and Joseph de Lappe Sex and violence 6.45pm to 8.00pm How comics do it right, how comics do it wrong: for a medium so inclined to - and so indicted for using sex and violence for thrill power, can it ever be totally non-salacious? Should it be? Howard Hardiman, Dan Hart, Emma Vieceli, Malin Ryden, Will Brooker, Hazel Robinson

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Dis/continuity: long-running characters, change, evolution and disruption 1.30pm to 2.45pm The challenges, joys, disappointments and outright confusion of writing, following and redesigning characters with 60+ years of sometimes-not-entirely-straightforward back story. Adam Christopher, Paul Cornell, Kieron Gillen, Nat Wilkinson, Misha Sumra Making comics, for kids and their adults 3.15pm to 4.30pm Turning concepts into scripts into pages into pantheons- bring your characters, your ideas, your total lack of experience and/or buckets of enthusiasm and we’ll supply pens, paper and helping hands. Louie Stowell, Sarah Gordon, Hazel Robinson, Kelly Kanayama, Martin Hand Creators on comics 5.00pm to 6.45pm Kieron Gillen - Phonogram, Uncanny X-Men, The Wicked + The Divine - dismantles Watchmen to

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Never just “comic book guy”: celebrating diverse comics fandom 1.30pm to 2.45pm Celebrating diverse comics fandom, defying stereotypes, encouraging participation and wondering when people will realise comics are for everybody. Adam Christopher, Helena McCallum, Tony Keen, Nat Wilkinson, Misha Sumra, Kate McAlpine, Charlotte Geater, Hazel Robinson More-than-mild peril: beyond sidekicks 3.15pm to 4.30pm Young adults and children in comics: from fridges to firefights, legacy, parents and representation. Louie Stowell, Kate McAlpine, Emma Vieceli, Malin Ryden, Melissa T, Heather Wickson, David Tallerman, Nat Wilkinson, Charlotte Geater A/romantic: asexuality in comics 5.00pm to 6.15pm A panel discussion on presentations of asexuality in comics – presumption and celebration, followed by comics artist Emma Vieceli BREAKS, Young Avengers, Vampire Academy discussing the ins and outs of drawing desire. Michelle Howe, Emma Vieceli, Charlotte Geater

Gutter spills: comics across other media 6.45pm to 8.00pm How to (not?) make concepts that work in comics work in films, TV, prose and fanfic. Si Spurrier, Alasdair Stuart, Roz Kaveney, Jenni Cole, Kate McAlpine and the Captain America: The Winter Soldier junior novelisation

Cosplay Hair and m a k e u p , w i t h Cospla y B e y o nd Cosplay Beyond will teach you some fun and easy tricks on make-up effects that’ll give your cosplay that convincing edge.

Friday

Basic wounds workshop one: bruises and superficial cuts - PG: fake blood 11.45am Room 32 After a short demo explaining the theory, everyone can have a go, with advice along the way on bringing realism to your work. We’ll finish with a more advanced effect, a deep, painfullooking vampire bite. The horror! Gruesome injuries workshop one - pustules and bruises - Ages 15+ 5.00pm Room 32 After a short demo explaining the theory, everyone can have a go, with advice along the way on bringing realism to your work. We’ll finish with a more advanced effect - a bloody eye socket.

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Basic wounds workshop two: burns and bruises - PG: Fake blood 11.45am After a short demo explaining the theory,

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everyone can have a go, with advice on bringing realism to your work. We’ll round off the session with a more advanced effect; this time we’re doing an infected knife wound.  Laugh it up, fuzzball: sci-fi and fantasy hair design workshop 1.30pm From Legolas, the Timotei Elf, to Leia, Princess of Cinnamon Buns, fantasy and science fiction has some of the most creative and extravagant hair styles. A fun tutorial on hair braiding and styling, starting with the basics, then showing how these can be used to imitate character styles, from Star Wars, Disney, Lord of the Rings and more.

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The horror! gruesome injuries workshop two: advanced bruises and deep cuts - Ages 15+ 11.45am After a short demo explaining the theory, everyone can have a go, with advice on bringing realism to your work. We’ll finish with a more advanced effect - using prosthetics to create a slit throat.  Braids of Ice and Fire: Game of Thrones hair design workshop 1.30pm Royal B See page 19 for details.

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How to Make Natural Dyes: Authenticity and Budget Cosplaying 10.00am to 11.15am Using a selection of easy to find and cheap items, we will be looking at how to dyes various fabrics and other materials to see what works, and what doesn’t! With Rosemary Darkshines.

Styling a Loki wig: Perfect Jotenheimian hair in an hour! 11.45am to 1.00pm Create the hair of one of the most popular characters to cosplay, from scratch, in an hour. With Rosemary Darkshines. Prop Weapons Construction: Making Props Using Styrofoam Foam Board and More 1.30pm to 2.45pm Where to get materials and how to use different mediums together, with tips and advice for what to use for different projects. There’ll be a chance for hands-on time with everything. With Lee Houlgate. Props and Armour Using Pepakura 5.00pm to 6.15pm How to make your own realistic, detailed armour on a budget, using a simple print-out, cut-out method, then hardening with fibreglass and detailing with car body filler. With Lee Houlgate.

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Geek Dictionary Corner All cultures have their own languages, and geekdom is no different! Catherine Sangster from Oxford Dictionaries invites you to County A to help tweak definitions, propose meanings and get geek words and meanings in the dictionary.

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The Writers’ Process: an adapting, evolving, creating and editing masterclass 10.00am to 11.15am Join Editor Abigail Nathan for practical advice to sharpen your writing from the ground up! Putting the Geek into Poetry, Putting Poetry to the Geeks 11.45am to 1.00pm Join spoken word artist and poet Dan Simpson

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to explore the geeky side of poetry. Write, edit, share, perform your words. Writing the Inhuman – with All of the Books 1.30pm to 2.45pm See page 21 for details. Writing LGBTQ+ characters in science fiction and fantasy 3.15pm to 4.30pm Laura Lam, author of the award-winning Pantomime & Shadowplay, which has an intersex, bisexual and genderqueer protagonist, shares insights and experiences of writing characters from the LGBTQ+ spectrum. Fight choreography for writers, with Retro Fandom 5.00pm to 6.15pm We all hate a badly edited fight scene, whether on screen or on the page. We’ll look at how to make every fight scene unique, explore character and motivation, achieve perfect pacing, and address the fact that fight scenes are not just for the ‘tough guys’. Writing Transmedia – with All of the Books 6.45pm to 8.00pm See page 22 for details. Geek lust: how to write a sex scene - 18+ 8.30pm to 9.45pm A practical workshop of guidance on writing smart, seamless, effective sex scenes. Whether you want to spice up your sci-fi or construct a complete erotic narrative, authors Zak Jane Keir and Kristina Lloyd will advise on avoiding common pitfalls and creating sizzling prose. Smut slam - 18+ 10.15pm to 11.30pm Smut slammers sign up on the night to read a 5-minute piece of smut, sex or erotica. A lucky

eight to ten names will be drawn at random. Our judges will decide who has served up the most sizzling, scintillating smut of the night!

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Poetry For Breakfast 9.00am to 9.45am Grab some food, OJ and an extra helping of freshly-toasted words. Start your day right with geek poems and spoken word. Putting Sherlock in your Pocket 10.00am to 11.15am Writer David Varela on creating the chart-topping mobile adventure, Sherlock: The Network. The all-new story was developed with the show’s creators and involved shooting original scenes and audio with the core cast. Creating fantasy languages – talk and Q&A 11.45am to 1.00pm Giving your fantasy setting a language of its own can help add a sense of depth and realism to your work. Join Matt Voice, Edmund Weiner and Catherine Sangster to discuss language systems, structures and how best to use them in your writing. Creating fantasy languages – practical workshop 1.30pm to 2.45pm Bring a sample of your own fantasy languages to the experts. We have a pronunciation specialist on hand, so by the end you might even be speaking it! With Matt Voice, Edmund Weiner and Catherine Sangster How to beat writers’ block 3.15pm to 4.30pm Join the T Party writers for some games and exercises designed to generate ideas and inspiration when you don’t know what to write about. It might just light the spark that leads to

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Royal C&D unless otherwise shown the great idea for a novel! Maximum 30 places please arrive promptly. Putting the science into sci-fi 5.00pm to 6.15pm Calling on her wealth of experience in the civilian and military space programs, where she trained astronauts, and her years as a sci-fi writer, Stephanie Osborn answers your questions about space, the universe and everything. Working with artists – with All of the Books 6.45pm to 8.00pm See page 23 for details. Story Writing and Performance Panel 8.30pm to 9.45pm Join Sidekick Books’ editors and poets Kirsten Irving and Jon Stone, co-founder of The Centre for Solo Performance and author of Creating Solo Performances Sean Bruno, and master poet Jacob Sam-La Rose, for a panel discussion and Q&A on practicing literature professionally. Feedback among friends 10.15pm to 11.30pm Bring along your writing or ideas for some informal feedback and ideas-bouncing.

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Battle Rapping Monsters - ages 11+ 10.00am to 11.15am Create a monster and send them to rap battle against others! Writing and performance workshop. Marketing - with All of the Books 11.45am to 1.00pm See page 24 for details. How To Invent The Wheel: Why You Should Write Sci-Fi About Existing Technology 1.30pm to 2.45pm We’ll look at why Singing in the Rain is science

fiction, the unexpected ways technology can change our lives and how writing about the ways that real technology has changed us can help us write about imaginary technologies better. With Chris Farnell. Ask A Professional – with All of the Books 3.15pm to 4.30pm See page 24 for details. Applied Mathematics: Poetry for Geeks 5.00pm to 6.15pm Spoken word poet Dan Simpson performs lively poems, smart jokes and awesome flipchart presentations for geeks, nerds and anyone who likes playing with words. Videogame verse and sci-fi-filled stanzas combine with meta-metre in an engaging show. Party and open reading slam 6.45pm to 8.00pm Finish off your Geekfest by sharing your creation! Take the mic for five minutes and share your Nine Worlds-inspired poems, short stories, oneliners and writing.

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Fanvid Adventures in Space and Time 6.45pm to 8.00pm Fans have been cutting and recreating footage of their favourite shows since the 70s. We look at our favourites before our panelists discuss trends in Doctor Who vidding, and ask the audience what they think. With Amy (such_heights) and Jenni Hughes.

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Queer in the Text, with LGBTQAI+ Fandom track 11.45am to 1.00pm There’s much queer subtext in classic Who, but there were no explicitly queer characters until

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Royal C&D unless otherwise shown the new series. How successful are these new representations? Has the subtext been lost? Do we want it back? With Amy (such_heights), Cleo, Sarah Groenewegen, Alyss Abyss The Doctor’s Privilege 3.15pm to 4.30pm The Time Lords are portrayed as an aristocracy, and though the Doctor destroyed his home, he benefits from that birth right. How aware is he of his privilege? Does he use his advantages for good, or is he no more than an idealised colonialist figure? Amal El-Mohtar, Laurie Penny, Matthew Kilburn, Adrian Tchaikovsky. Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey Stuff: The Science of Time Travel in the Real World 6.45pm to 8.00pm Astrophysicist and rocket scientist Stephanie Osborn on how physics that might actually enable us to travel in time.

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Why Continuity Doesn’t Matter 10.00am to 11.15am How much of Doctor Who continuity really matters, and how much should we shrug at? Is any really important? What are the bits really worth arguing over? Paul Cornell, Abigail Brady, Dave Probert, Una McCormack, Marcus Gipps.

be a woman is over. Of course she can. The series even said so. Now let’s move on to a more interesting conversation and discuss how it could, would, and should have worked. Cleo, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Michael Lee, Rebecca Tilley Received Fan Wisdom is Wrong 6.45pm to 8.00pm There are so many things new fans of the show are told by Older, Wiser fans; things that have often been taken for granted as being true. We take a look at this Doctor Who Fan Wisdom and see when it holds up and when it doesn’t. Una McCormack, Paul Cornell, Jenni Hughes, Judith Jackson

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Anytime, Anywhere 10.00am to 11.15am The Doctor can travel anywhere in time and space. The pure historical story was a regular thing in the early days, but has been seen only once since 1966. Would a pure historical work in today’s Doctor Who? Simon Guerrier, Adam Christopher, Joanne Harris, Anna Jackson Writing Circular Gallifreyan 11.45am to 1.00pm Room 31 See page 30 for details.

Writing Circular Gallifreyan 11.45am to 1.00pm Room 31 Learn Circular High Gallifreyan writing! We’ll be using the writing developed by Loren Sherman with permission, and we’ll provide all the materials and knowledge you need. Space is limited, so come promptly! Again on Sunday.

AGuide to the Wilderness Years and Beyond 1.30pm to 2.45pm Doctor Who isn’t just a telly show, it’s also books, audios, comics, webcasts, and computer games. In the 90s, these were the only way to get (official) new Doctor Who stories. For those looking to step into the worlds of book and audio, where do you start? David Bailey, Sarah Groenewegen, Rebecca Levene, Simon Guerrier, David McIntee

If A Woman Was Cast As The Doctor 1.30pm to 2.45pm The argument of whether or not the Doctor can

Representation of Gender Roles 3.15pm to 4.30pm At its best Doctor Who challenges the normative

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Welcome Games and Vids: fic and word games, accompanied by favourite fanvids 6.45pm to 10.00pm Room 41 Join us for a relaxed evening of games and fanvids. Party with Kate Keen and Tanya Brown.

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Welcome Tea Party: tea, squee, and introductions 10.00am to 11.15am A gentle and genteel tea party, with fandom teas and delicious cupcakes. Fandom Poster-Making Session: make a “my fandom is fabulous” poster 11.45am to 1.00pm Fandom is fabulous! Advertise your fandom on a poster. We’re running this session to help you

create one. We’ll supply A3 paper and some art materials: bring your own artwork, printed material and internet connection. What’s My Medium? The effect of canon and platform on fanworks 1.30pm to 2.45pm We’ll examine the advantages and challenges involved in using various media platforms as inspiration for fanworks. We’ll consider various ways of telling a transformative story and which types of original media tend to inspire particular transformative styles. Panel: Pen, Zalia, Emily Robbins. Fanworks Anonymous: fanworks and media consumption 3.15pm to 4.30pm We’ll consider how the discovery of fanworks changes the quantity and type of mainstream media that we consume. We’ll also ask whether creators should be concerned about losing audience, and how they might benefit from an understanding of fanworks. Roundtable: Kate Keen, Michele Howe, Tony Keen Nine Fanwork Recs: nine people tell us about their favourite fanwork 5.00pm to 6.15pm Nine speakers, nine favourite fanworks! A fast-paced TED-style set of seven-minute presentations, in which nine people talk about their favourite fanwork - why they love it and why they recommend it. With Alex Civita, Tanya Brown, Nat Wilkinson, Kari Sperring, Pip Janssen, Emily, Tony Keen, Elizabeth Minkel and Emily Robbins. Fourth Wall Fandom: creator and fan interaction, gently crumbling the fourth wall 6.45pm to 8.00pm Creators of canon are increasingly likely to interact with their fanbase. The panel discuss how creators can learn to love fandom, how fans

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can engage with creators, and whether creators (fan or pro) should engage with transformations of their work. Panel: Emma England, Kieron Gillen, Roz Kaveney, Melissa Taylor, Zalia Last year’s best fanvids 8.30pm to 9.45pm such heights will show off some of the best vids of the last twelve months as well as looking at vids that push the envelope and redefine the artform. Hosted by Amy (such heights) The Fanvid Phenomenon: every fanvid tells a story 10.15pm to 11.30pm Fanvids are a long-standing and ever-growing part of fandom, with new technology making them more accessible than ever. Come and listen to the panel talk about just what makes vids such an exciting part of the transformative works world. Panel: Amy (such heights), Hannah, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Cleo, Llin

Fandom Academia: Marvel Cinematic Universe, AO3 survey, and Slash Fiction 11.45am to 1.00pm Serialisation, Conspiracy and the Arc of History in the Marvel Cinematic Universe; Slash Fiction: A Primer – 101 Ways To Subvert A Subtext and AO3 Surveyed: The Demographics of Fanfiction. Chaired by Tony Keen. Talks from Joseph Oldham, Ashton Spacey, Lulu (Centrumlumina) #itsallconnected: multi-canon creation in a bigger universe 1.30pm to 2.45pm At the end of the first Iron Man movie, Nick Fury welcomes Tony Stark to ‘a bigger universe’ – the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in which #itsallconnected. Meanwhile, the latest Star Wars film has elected to ignore their own expanded universe. The panel discuss the pros and cons of each approach, and how they are and how they affect fanworks. Panel: Tony Keen, Abigail Brady, Jenni Cole, Joseph Oldham

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Self-Worth For Fanfic Writers 9.00am to 9.45am Mainstream authors are envious of the feedback and appreciation fanfic writers receive - but is positive feedback a good measure of selfworth? We discuss what matters most: hits, AO3 kudos, comments, bookmarks. Are any of these good metrics for success? Roundtable: Emma England, Emily, Tesria, Kate Keen

Slash and feminism: how can slash be a feminist activity? 3.15pm to 4.30pm Male characters in canon are often more rounded, three-dimensional and credible than female characters. When we write M/M slash, are we reinforcing popular culture’s bias towards male characters, or are we reclaiming them? Panel: Viktoriya H, Emily, Tanya Brown, Kari Sperring, Pen

Go Craft Your Geek On: create a badge celebrating your favourite fandom 10.00am to 11.15am Felt and yarn crafty fun! Come and sew or crochet a little badge to celebrate your favourite fandom. Make a Tardis, the 221B Baker Street door, Hedwig or a comics shield. Suitable for beginners. All materials provided. Facilitator: Laura

How To Be A Better Beta: beta-reading, and teaching writing, in fandom 5.00pm to 6.15pm Beta-reading is an art as well as a skill, and betas often go well beyond editing text. The panel discuss effective beta-reading and feedback techniques, and follow up with an interactive workshop. Panel and workshop, with Pennypaperbrain, Kari Sperring, Erin Claiborne

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County B unless otherwise shown Tell me a story: Podficcers and podcasters share techniques and technology 6.45pm to 8.00pm Can podficcers learn anything from podcasters, and vice versa? The panel discuss techniques, technology and performance aspects of their respective fields. Panel: Elizabeth Bear, Barry Nugent, Pip Janssen, A L Johnson Fandom is Fabulous poster session: Show and tell - why my fandom is fabulous 8.30pm to 9.45pm Fandom is fabulous: we’ll be displaying our contributors’ posters and giving people the opportunity to look at all the submissions and chat to the creators. With Kate Keen, Emma England Collaborative Fanworks: making up stories 10.15pm to 11.30pm Emma and Malin, and some of the creative team behind the classic fanwork “Steve Rogers at 100” will discuss how to make collaborative fanworks fun and fabulous, and how the process can inspire other forms of creativity. Discussion: Emma Vieceli, Malin Rydén, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw and Erin Claiborne, Charlotte Geater, Nat Wilkinson

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Chains Of Transformation: remixing the remix – the etiquette of transforming fanworks 9.00am to 9.45am Remix challenges have been running for well over a decade, but there’s increasing debate about the etiquette of the remix. The panel discuss how permissions work in a culture founded on unauthorised ‘remixes’ of canon. Panel: Erin Claiborne, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Cleo Fanfic for Kids: what happens next? Making up your own stories 10.00am to 11.15am Discussion and workshop centred on fanfiction for pre-teens. Many pre-teens also want to read

fanfiction. What are the best (and safest) sites for them to visit? Discussion and workshop, with Tanya Brown, Hazel Robinson, Helena McCallum Sherlock’s Scavenger Hunt 11.30am to 1.30pm Join us for a Sherlock fandom-themed scavenger hunt around the convention site. With Amy, Trillsabells and Louise. Writing Historical Fiction and Fanfic: is RPF okay when the person is dead? 11.45am to 1.00pm How do we write about historical characters? Is historical fiction a form of Real Person Fiction if it features people from the historical record? Panel: Alex Dally MacFarlane, Tanya Brown, Elizabeth Bear, Aliette de Bodard, Kieron Gillen Fashion, Costume and Inspiring Fans: three talks on fashion and costume 1.30pm to 2.45pm The Narrative of Costume Design, by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw aka. Hello, Tailor and Stealth Cosplay: Nerdery for the Subtle by E K McAlpine. Sexuality and Fanfic: exploring depictions of sexuality in fanworks [ages 16+] 3.15pm to 4.30pm Many fanwriters write about sex acts outside their experience. Others may be projecting their own fantasies onto canon characters. How accurate are fanfic depictions of sex and sexuality? Why does it matter if we get things wrong? Panel: Hazel Robinson, Hannah, Emma England Legitimacy and Monetisation of Fanworks: who owns an idea? Who profits from it? 5.00pm to 6.15pm Retelling, embellishing and developing stories was once common. We look at how the ownership model has become prevalent and been subverted by fanworks. Discussion, with

Film Festival

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Malin Rydén, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Erin Claiborne, Lesley McIntee, Elizabeth Minkel

Film Festival

All films ages 16+ unless otherwise shown.

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Welcome Games and Vids, with the Fanfic track 6.45pm to 10.00pm A relaxed evening of games and fanvids. Midnight Movie: The Final Programme (1973, Robert Fuest) Midnight til late Imagine Doctor Who mixed with James Bond mixed with Dorian Grey and made by film-makers who tripped and got the script pages mixed up. Featuring secret agents, drugs, violence, several ends of the world and ginger lesbian vampires, The Final Programme is all kinds of wonderful.

The Duke Mitchell All-Nighter – they won’t stop til the last person falls! 9.30pm The greatest film club in London takes over the film festival for an entire night! Shorts, trailers, ads, cartoons, quizzes, prizes, music from Deathwaltz records, and much, much more: The Duke promise to keep you up all night with incredible cinema you will never have seen before.

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Nine Worlds Film Festival shorts showcase 2 10.00am to 11.15am Our officially selected shorts, submitted from all over the world. This session is the one with the sex, violence and juicy stuff – exploding heads, sexbots, phone sex, Freddie off of Angel saying naughty swears and a couple of board games.

Nine Worlds Film Festival shorts showcase 1 1.30pm to 2.45pm Our officially selected shorts, submitted from all over the world. This session features dystopias, robots, paranoia, bad hair days and badly run geek conventions – oh my!

Queer Eye For The Dead Guy – the secret queer history of the horror genre 11.45am to 1.00pm With the LGBTQAI+ Track, Micheal Blyth presents a revisionist history of horror through a queer lens. We’ll see how this often reviled genre has allowed filmmakers to explore radical ideas and taboos, and revel in the queerest of polymorphous desires and perversions.

Whedon v Tropes – genre rules and genre disruption - with the Whedon track 3.15pm to 4.30pm Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s The Cabin in the Woods emerged from development hell and right into cult movie status. Critic Ed Boff looks at why it works so well as a horror deconstruction, and how it reflects the state of the genre.

Screening – A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985, Jack Sholder) 1.30pm to 4.30pm A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by Freddy Krueger who is out to possess him to continue his murdering in the real world. Contains violence, towel whippings, exploding budgies and a nice ginger lady – all the good stuff.

Choose your own documentary - with All of the Books 6.45pm to 8.00pm See page 22 for details.

The Bechdel Film Test – a look at the perennially controversial test 5.00pm to 6.15pm With the Geek Feminism Track. The Bechdel Test

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Room 41 unless otherwise shown asks if a film has two named women characters that talk to each other about something other than a man. Formulated in 1985, it remains controversial and often misunderstood to this day and as such, vital and relevant. Tara B of the Wotever Festival facilitates a panel discussion about the good and bad of the Bechdel test. Screening: Hanna (2011, Joe Wright) 6.45pm to 8.45pm A sixteen-year-old girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives. The Duke Mitchell Film Club – shorts, trailers and surprises with The Duke Mitchell Boys 9.00pm to 10.30pm Bringing the very best in films, shorts, B-Movie trailers, exploitation soundtracks and more to your Saturday night, the best film club in London shares their obscure and incredible cinematic finds over the last year. The Film Festival Film Quiz 10.30pm to 11.30pm The worst thing about quizzes is having to know stuff, so we promise that this film quiz will require as little film knowledge as possible. We may even mark down correct answers. Rounds will include Kirkioke - Karaoke in the style of Wiliam Shatner - and Kazooioke - karaoke with kazoos - and as many other silly things as we can think of. Prizes for everyone, guaranteed. Midnight Movie: Army Of Frankensteins (2013, Ryan Bellgardt) - European Premiere! Midnight to 2.00am After being kidnapped by a mad scientist and his boy genius assistant, a young man accidentally ruptures space and time, manifesting multiple Frankensteins from parallel universes. They are all thrust back to the 19th century, into the heart of

a bloody battle between the North and the South. History will never be the same. 108 minutes.

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Nine Worlds Film Festival Shorts Showcase 3 10.00am to 11.15am Our officially selected shorts, submitted from all over the world. This session is full of nice, childfriendly things and people being nice to each other – playgrounds, aliens, fantasy kingdoms and a couple of secrets of the universe. Morning Of The Trailers – The Duck Video Mix – the strangest, rarest and most awesome trailers 11.45am to 1.00pm One year in the making, Night Of The Trailers presents The Duck Video Mix, a 60-minute trip into the outer reaches of your imagination. Some of the strangest footage you’ll ever see, all cut together into a non-stop blistering mixtape. Screening: SOS: Save Our Skins (2014, Kent Sobey) 1.30pm to 4.30pm The story of Ben and Stephen, who wake one morning to find that the human race has disappeared. As they explore the seemingly empty world, they first celebrate the freedom. The joy turns to boredom, then fear as they find other forms of life. 84 minutes. Evening Of The Trailers 5.00pm to 6.15pm You know how some weird, forgotten films go viral all of a sudden? Someone has to find them in the first place, digging away at the coalface of world cinema to find the gems. Night Of The Trailers are those people. They will share some of the incredible library of trailers they have amassed. Join us at the bar! Bijou Bar 6.45pm to 8.00pm

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Contribute to the Nine Worlds Cookbook We’ll be collecting fantasy recipes for the Nine Worlds 2014 Cookbook. Post your recipes on the giant pinboard in the food track room and see what others have posted.

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Cheese and Cheese! Eating, talking and getting to know each other, and pop-up wine bar! 8.00pm to 10.00pm Room 38 Ease yourself into the weekend and get to know some new people, over two kinds of cheese: we’ll be providing some finest cheese - the food kind - for you to nibble on, while you regale your fellow attendees with cheese - the writing kind. Come celebrate the cheap erotica, pulp sci-fi and unlikely crime stories we still love, no matter what anyone else thinks. The hotel will provide a pop-up wine bar.

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more recently, by how we can modulate flavour by using different sound frequencies. Anatomy of a Blend: talk and tasting with Alchemist Dreams handmade liqueurs - ages 18+ - Ticketed 8.30pm to 9.45pm Alchemist Dreams produce custom handmade liqueurs from a kitchen in East London. Order from them and you’re invited to design your own unique flavour by combining the fruits, herbs and spices of your choice. Head Alchemist and Food Geekery track head Ruth Ball will gives a guided tasting, explaining how to design your own perfect blend.

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Food in Fantasy 1.30pm to 2.45pm So, you’ve made a world. You’ve designed people or other beings to inhabit it and you’ve given them culture, history and language. How will your food reflect the cultures which you have created? Our panel discuss the role of food in fantasy writing. Panel: Esther Saxey, Ed Cox, Mark Newton and Gail Carriger

Tales from The Underground Restaurant: how to run a supperclub 3.15pm to 4.30pm Kerstin Rodgers (aka, MsMarmitelover) launched the underground restaurant movement in the UK with her eponymous supper club, The Underground Restaurant. Since then, she’s been at the heart of the supper club movement, providing advice, publishing a book on how to start your own and even running an underground farmers’ market in her own house and garden.

What Is Experiential Food? 3.15pm to 4.30pm The Robin Collective are Elspeth Rae, Robin Fegen and Brandy Wright. Working at the cutting edge of experiential food, their projects have names like Extreme Garnishing, Marshmallow Apothecary, Creating Senses Orchard, and Cryptology Tours. They’ll tell you what experiential food is and why it’s important, and give some live demonstrations.

Food As Art 6.45pm to 8.00pm Caroline Hobkinson curates dining experiences that force diners to reassess the way they eat. She is fascinated by the spectacle of eating, and

Edible Knitting: bracelets from strawberry laces, with the Knitting track 6.45pm to 8.00pm Come and make your own edible bracelets! We’ll teach you to make a bracelet from

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delicious strawberry laces. Kid-friendly (recommended 8+). Also suitable for adults. Anatomy of a Blend: talk and tasting with Alchemist Dreams handmade liqueurs - ages 18+ - ticketed 8.30pm to 9.45pm See page 36 for details.

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Talking With Food, Not Words: Telling an edible story 11.45am to 1.00pm Chloe Morris talks about her project, Edible Stories. This carefully curated and themed dining experience takes some of your favourite written stories and brings them to life: exclusively through the use of food. Chloe will be taking us behind the curtain of this creative process. Food in Science Fiction 1.30pm to 2.45pm How do aliens eat? What do they eat? Do they eat at all? Will they want to eat us? Our panel discuss the many different ways in which we might grow or construct food in the future, as well as the role food plays in science fiction. Panel: Sarah McIntyre, Gareth L. Powell and Aliette de Bodard. Peer Recipe Writing: Get help writing your Nine Worlds Cookbook entry 3.15pm to 4.30pm Bijou Bar Want to contribute to the Nine Worlds Cookbook but feeling a little unsure of exactly how to write your recipe up? In this peer recipe writing session, Food Geekery track head Ruth Ball and professional food writer and blogger Kerstin Rogers will work with you, and encourage you to work with each other, to get your recipes down in writing.

Future Tech Friday

Virtual Reality and Oculus Rift Demo 10.00am to 11.15am Ian Peters, an independent software developer and specialist in cyber security, VR and astrophotography will be giving the definitive guide to virtual reality and bringing an Oculus Rift, with a number of games for everyone to have a go with. From Killer Drones to Cuddly Robot Companions 11.45am to 1.00pm Talk and robot demo with robotics scientist Emma Byrne. Free Is A Lie 1.30pm to 2.45pm Talk on privacy and survelliance, with Aral Balkan, founder of Indietech.org. In 2014 our corporeal selves enjoy fundamental freedoms but our digital selves - our simulations - are enslaved in corporate laboratories. We’ll consider what it means to live in a world where our simulations have no rights, what that means for our fundamental freedoms, and we can do about it. How To Get Your Idea Crowdfunded 3.15pm to 4.30pm Kate Russell and Allen Stroud will explain everything there is to know about crowd funding and help you structure your own campaign to have the best chance of succeeding. Mindpong with Stephen Chan 5.00pm to 6.15pm Stephen Chan celebrates the power of the brain with his latest project, which uses breakthrough electroencephalography (EEG) technology to read brain waves and combines it with

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EEG: Brain Hacking and Technology demo 11.45am to 1.00pm Martin Dinov and Oliver Rimington are working together on DIY brain hacking and neurotech projects. Drone Zone: introduction to open source hardware and the maker movement 1.30pm to 2.45pm Anish Mohammed will ask how drones could work with other services to enhance our everyday lives. You can also see a live drone demonstration.

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Neuroscience of swearing 10.00am to 10.40am Science writer Emma Byrne argues that, far from tuning out, we should listen carefully when people swear, because they often do so for good reasons. Illusions and brains 10.40am to 11.15am David Corney will demonstrate some illusions and argue that our perceptions of them are a consequence of our evolution and development. Is it possible to learn to avoid seeing them? Lateral Search: Alternative search engines 11.45am to 1.00pm Join J. Paul Neeley and Dan Foster-Swith to explore Yossarian – a search engine that helps generate ideas through lateral connections, returning metaphorically related results. Gamification of Everything: mapping human psychology to technology 1.30pm to 2.45pm Gamification designers combine game logic with everyday activities, events, services and products to make the world a more playfully

challenging place. Cormac Horan will look at the potential power of gamification as a future tool for organisations and its power to change behaviour.

Game of Thrones with Ti t a nc o n

Game of Thrones fan convention TitanCon has created this great line-up of panels and events. TitanCon is fan-run, not-for-profit and based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. More at titancon.com.

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Game of Thrones gaming session 6.00pm to 7.30pm Bijou Bar Join us for the Game of Thrones Board Game by Fantasy Fight Games. Which House will take the Iron Throne in this game of warfare and political intrigue? Firefly and Discworld: Ankh Morpork board games will also be available.

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Game of Thrones Season 4 in review 3.15pm to 4.30pm We look back on an eventful Season 4 and reflect on the story so far. Why it is the TV show is even more brutal than the books, killing off characters that are still alive in the source material? With Josef Altin, Miltos Yerolemou, Amrita Acharia and Laura Pradelska. Justice in Game of Thrones 5.00pm to 6.15pm Justice was a major theme of Season 4. Is Daenerys right to free the slaves of Meereen delivering them into a harsh world that offers little opportunity for them? Is being sentenced to life on the Wall fair justice for criminals? We’ll examine the justice systems of Westeros. Josef Altin, Miltos Yerolemou, Amrita Acharia and Laura Pradelska.

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Connaught A unless otherwise shown Game of Thrones signing 6.45pm to 8.00pm Autographs £15 each. With Josef Altin, Miltos Yerolemou, Amrita Acharia, Laura Pradelska Game of Thrones gaming session 8.30pm to 10.00pm As on Friday.

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Visiting the filming locations 1.30pm to 2.45pm Phil Lowles on visiting filming locations in Northern Ireland and Dubrovnik, Croatia, with tips for reaching the hard-to-find locations and cool things to look out for. Game of Thrones: Going beyond the Books 5.00pm to 6.15pm Season 4 went beyond the books for the first time with the answer to what happens to Craster’s male babies. From here on we’ll see more questions answered by the TV show before we get to read them. Will fans switch off and wait for the books or see things through on screen? Miltos Yerolemou, Cristina Macia and Phil Lowles. Game of Thrones gaming session 6.45pm to 8.00pm As on Friday and Saturday.

Geek Feminism Friday

Open Session With Tea: Geek Culture Needs Feminism Because... 11.00am to 1.00pm Come, gather and be merry… with tea! This open-house session is an informal opportunity to come chat to the organisers, and meet other likeminded geeky feminists.

What the FRAK is Geek Feminism? 3.15pm to 4.30pm Not sure what Geek Feminism is? Not a problem, ducky. Grab yourself a cuppa, and I’ll tell you all about it. A talk from Geek Feminism track head, Clara Jackson. From Magical Girls to Drunken Road Trips: The Women of Manga 5.00pm to 6.15pm A brief look at the history of women in manga and their creations and characters; from schoolyard sword duels of Revolutionary Girl Utena to the alchemy fueled adventure of Fullmetal Alchemist. A talk by Zalia Chimera and Ash. Sex in Video Games, with the Video Games Culture track - ages 18+ 8.30pm to 9.45pm Royal B Our panel discuss portrayals of sex and sexuality in games, from the good to the bad to the downright bizarre. Panel: Cara Ellison, Esther MacCallum-Stewart

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Cyborgs, Robots and Gender: reality v fiction, and the body v technology (16+) 10.00am to 11.15am Science fiction narratives often imagine the body’s relationship to technology and how this might change what it means to be “human”. The question is whether such technology will reinforce existing gender inequalities or whether it gives us a tool that can allow us to transcend them. Talk by Fran Haswell. Policing the Net: Balancing Rights and Responsibilities (16+) 11.45am to 1.00pm Following reports that half of low-level crime is internet-related, the issue of online policing – and censorship – has never been hotter. Jane Fae,

Geek Feminism

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feminist and writer on IT, sexuality and the law takes a look at the issues. “It’s A Man’s World”: Where Are The Women In The Creative Industry? 1.30pm to 2.45pm What are the implications of a male dominated creative system on creative output? If most writers, designers, producers and directors are men, what effect does this have on our choices of female role models and protagonists. What can be done to redress the balance? Panel: Clara Jackson, Kim Curran, Juliet Mushens, Laurie Penny, Shalegh Rowan-Leg, Dr Will Brooker

narrative. We’ll look at how a diverse cast of characters and a healthy dose of ‘feels’ have inspired people to master the art of running while crying, in a story that lets you save the world in the zombie apocalypse. Panel: Zalia Chimera, David Bryher, Naomi Alderman, Phil Nightingale, Rebecca Levene

Sunday

Slash and feminism: how can slash be a feminist activity? - with the Fanfic track 3.15pm to 4.30pm County B See page 32 for details.

Assaulting the Narrative: Rape as Character Motivation (16+) 10.00am to 11.15am From Game of Thrones to Lara Croft’s retconned backstory, sexual assault saturates narrative We look at violent, drugged and coerced assault in film, TV, literature and other media and ask whether rape can ever be used effectively as character motivation. Panel: Viktoriya H, Cara Ellison, Den Patrick, Jane Fae, Sophia McDougall, Tom Pollock

Political Needlepoints: how the craft resurgence has influenced social politics with the Knitting track 3.15pm to 4.30pm Stitch London’s Lauren O’Farrell and Royal Holloway’s Laura Price discuss how the rise in craft relates to feminism and how needlecrafts can be a political tool. Non-crafters welcome.

Can’t Stop The Signal: A Geeky, Feminist Advocacy Workshop 11.45am to 1.00pm Have an idea for a campaign but don’t know where to start? Want to be part of the solution but not sure how? Join us for informal brainstorming and developing problems into our solutions. Moderated by Rowan Williams-Fletcher.

The Bechdel Film Test: Pros, Cons and Beyond - with the Film Festival 5.00pm to 6.15pm Film Screening: Hanna (2011) Dir. Joe Wright with the Film Festival 6.45pm to 8.00pm Room 41 See page 34 for details.

Unspeakable Things: geekery, gender and the future of feminism 1.30pm to 2.45pm Author Laurie Penny talks about sex, capitalism and the internet, men, women, everyone else and her latest book Unspeakable Things.

Zombies, Run! When fitness and fandom collide 6.45pm to 8.00pm This running app fuses fitness with powerful

Sex Work and Whedon: Dollhouse’s Echo and Firefly’s Inara, with the Whedon track - Ages 16+ 3.15pm to 4.30pm Using a sex-positive framework which centers on choice and consent, we’ll look in depth at Whedon’s sex workers. Talk by Fran Haswell.

Knitting

LARP

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“Strong female protagonists” in young adult fiction - with All Of The Books 5.00pm to 6.15pm See page 24 for details.

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Nine Worlds Stitch n Babble 10.00am to 11.15am Social knitting and drop-in beginner’s workshop. Bring your projects or learn how to knit with needles and yarn provided. Super Speedy Yarn Crafts 1.30pm to 2.45pm Projects using needles, hooks, yarn and an hour. Finish a selection of projects within this hour long session and take your completed project home. Political Needlepoints: how the craft resurgence has influenced social politics – with the Geek Feminism track 3.15pm to 4.30pm Connaught A See page 40 for details. CosKnitting: knitting for cosplay and fanart 5.00pm to 6.15pm Show off your yarn-based costumes or faninspired items and swap skills and tips. There’s even a prize for Best Knitted Fan Item! Edible knitting: cord bracelets from strawberry laces - with Food Geekery 6.45pm to 8.00pm Room 32 See page 36 for details. Brain of Knitain Quiz 8.30pm to 9.45pm Form a crack team of knowledgeable knitters and

compete against others to become the Brain of Knitain. Non-knitters welcome.

LARP

Theatre - S t y l e L i v e A c t i o n Role Pl a y Theatre-style LARP is live-action non-contact roleplaying. All sessions suitable for beginners.

Friday

Amnesia - a supernatural mystery 1.30pm to 3.30pm Room 42 The end of the world is nigh. You were meant to do something very, very important. But you can only remember your own name. Discover your secret mission and decide the fate of the world. The clock is ticking... written by Sarah Cook of Firecat Masquerade. Doctor Nefarious and the Paradise Project 5.00pm to 7.00pm Deep beneath Paradise Island lies the secret lair of the infamous villain, Dr Nefarious. Dr. Nefarious is currently enjoying his regular holiday. And that satellite death ray had better be ready when he gets back. Written by Daniel Taylor, Su Jolly, Mike Snowden, Nick Curd and Clare Gardner. Players are welcome to drift in and out of the game throughout.

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Attendees can join in either or both of Part One or Part Two of the writing workshops. No previous experience needed. Theatre LARP Writing Workshop Part One: Structure and Ideas Generation, with the Whedon track 11.45am Ever been curious about writing your own LARP?

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Participants will write a basic LARP, set in the Whedonverse.

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Theatre LARP Writing Workshop, Part Two: Playtest and Discussion 11.45am Grab the collated version of the game we wrote in Part One and have a go at playing it! Then we’ll discuss what worked and what didn’t, how the game might be edited and how to achieve different variations, themes and styles.

LGBTQAI+ Fandom Friday

Queer in the Text, with the Doctor Who track 11.45am to 1.00pm See page 29 for details. Suffering Sappho! Queer representation in superhero comics 1.30pm to 2.45pm Striking costumes. Secret identities. Fights for justice. The queering of superhero narratives is not new, but are we reaching our own golden age? Comics creators and fans discuss this interesting time in comics. With Amal El-Mohtar, Cleo, more TBC Positive practice: awesome portrayals of people with mental illness 3.15pm to 4.30pm Those with mental illness aren’t just collections of symptoms - we’re at this con, in these panels, wearing awesome cosplay. This panel aims to critically celebrate fiction that knows this. With Katherine Fabian, Iona Sharma, more TBC Tea Party, with the Race and Culture track 6.45pm to 8.00pm You’re cordially invited to a tea party in our

lovely headquarters. Decorate and eat cakes and cookies, meet others, chat over tea and coffee, and help us declare the weekend officially open!

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Rule 63: Gender and subversion in history, popular culture and fandom 10.00am to 11.15am Rule 63 states that for every fictional character, there is an opposite gender counterpart. This panel will discuss Rule 63, from real historical examples of people inhabiting ‘opposite’ genders to contemporary fanworks, through queer and feminist lenses. With Tab Kimpton, Zen Cho, Alex Dally MacFarlane, more TBC Queer Eye for the Dead Guy - with the Film Festival 11.45am to 1.00pm Room 41 See page 34 for details. Wouldn’t It Be Cool If… 3.15pm to 4.30pm From TV shows pitched in Tumblr tags to gifsets from imaginary films, fandom is bursting with ideas for the media we dream of. Join a panel of creators and fans to talk about the best shows, films, books and games that never were – and pitch your own. With Roz Kaveney, Amal ElMohtar, Maki Yamazaki, Cleo Twine For Beginners Workshop, with the Video Games Culture track 5.00pm to 6.15pm Want to make a game, but feel intimidated by how much you’d need to learn? We’re here to show you that doesn’t have to be the case – if you can write some paragraphs and follow simple rules, you can make a game with Twine! If you can, bring a laptop and you can start getting your stories playable.

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Bifröst! Queer Cabaret and Rock Party 8.00pm to midnight Bifröst is an unforgettable night of glitter, rock, and fabulosity, featuring Elaine Scattermoon, Amal ElMohtar, Sally Outen, The Dykeness, Sebastienne Stardust, Dr Carmilla and Lashings of Ginger Beer Time. Cabaret in the Commonwealth 8.00pm to 10.00pm, then to Connaught 10.00pm to midnight for All The Dancing, led by our brave captain DJ Ruth Pearce.

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Diversifying young adult literature: youth voices on youth literature 1.30pm to 2.45pm Identity, discovery and adventure – young adult literature is full of themes that can feel both universal and personal to many, but how good a job does it do of exploring gender and sexuality? Aliens and Outsiders: asexual stereotypes and how to break them 3.15pm to 4.30pm We look at asexuality and fandom, discussing which characters are often labelled asexual and why, and considering other candidates. With Neth Dugan, Pip Janssen, Kathryn Glover, Helen Guthrie LGBTQAI+ After-Party 8.30pm to 9.45pm Bijou Bar Join the LGBTQAI+ Fandom team in the bar for a farewell drink and chat.

Podcasting Studio During the convention, podcasters can book hour-long slots in our podcasting studio Room 31 to record interviews and commentary about the event. Book by emailing podcast@nineworlds co.uk.

Friday

Finding Your Voice 10.00am to 11.15am Whether you want to find out more about podcasting in general or you’re thinking of starting your own podcast, this panel is a great place to start. Speakers: Dave Probert, Emma Newman, Michaela Gray, AL Johnson, Dan Hart Realities of Podcasting 11.45am to 1.00pm The panel will reveal some of the realities, both good and bad, that are faced by today’s podcasters. Speakers: Martyn Havell, Debbie Timmins, Sol Craighead Wheeler, Gillian Coyle, Alasdair Stuart

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Democratisation of podcasting and new media 10.00am to 10.30am Dr Scott Grandison takes his audience on a journey through podcasting and associated new media, discussing their evolution and where the future may lead. The 1st Annual Podcaster Games 11.00am to 12.30am Two teams of podcasters go head to head in the ultimate battle of genre knowledge covering all things geek from films, TV, comics, books and much more. Players: Rebecca Duty, Ash Farbrother, Laura Kate, James Sims, Paul Heath, Lizbeth Myles. Gamers Masters: Gavin Jones, Dan Marshall

Sunday

The Life and Times of a Podcaster 10am to 11.15am Podcasters on how they got started, why they do it, and what they get from it personally. Speakers: Nicolas Papaconstantinou, Rebecca Duty, Ed Fortune, Stephen Lacey, Phil Hobden, Alex Fitch.

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The Power of New Media 11.45am to 1.00pm Four podcasters will discuss and explore with the audience the growing power of new media and the rise of the everyman journalist. Speakers: Barry Nugent, Emma Newman, Stephen Aryan, Scott Grandison

Race & Culture Friday

Voices From Other Worlds 5.00pm to 6.15pm Readings from authors of colour on the theme of race and culture. Guests: Taran Matharu, Zen Cho, Adam Lowe Tea Party, with the LGBTQAI+ Fandom track 6.45pm to 8.00pm See page 42 for details.

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Writing the Other: workshop for writers 11.45 to 1.00 How do you write ‘the Other’ without falling into common traps, harmful tropes and clichés? Stephanie Saulter explores the issues in a writers’ workshop, with exercises, discussion and Q&A. This Will Always Be Your Home: Race, Culture, and Fannish Life 1.30pm to 2.45pm Western media fandom, from zines to Tumblr, has been something special to so many people: a community and a home. We live here too – so what does it mean to be a fan of colour? Guests: Iona Sharma, Frank Voss, Koel Mukherjee and Kelly Kanayama

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Reading science fiction while brown 11.45am to 1.00pm For many of us, reading science fiction and

fantasy was a formative experience. It introduced new ideas and shaped what we knew or hoped was possible. But what imaginative leaps does a reader have to make to buy into worlds that don’t include anyone who looks or talks like them? And what impact does making that imaginative leap, time and again, ultimately have? Genre writers and readers talk about their experiences of reading science fiction while brown. Guests: Aishwarya Subramanian, Taran Matharu, Camille Lofters, Rochita Loenen Ruiz

Retro Fandom

Retro Fandom, brought to you by the Redemption conrunners, looks at genre media pre-2000 and its effect on current and future shows.

Friday

Introduce Your Retro Fandom To The Family 10.00am to 11.15am Tell us all about your ideal pre-Millenial show for friends, family and fandom. Who’s afraid of Joseph Campbell? The hero’s journey 11.45am to 1.00pm Joseph Campbell’s definition of the Hero’s Journey has been used by screenwriters for generations. We’ll explore why this model has so much appeal, why and how it is received, and where screenwriters have developed, or subverted, Campbell’s original ideas. Chaos Costuming the Old Shows 1.30pm to 2.45pm This panel will look at the most hectic moments of chaos costuming: what works, what doesn’t, quick fixes and how to cosplay on a budget. Interrogating The Old Shows: Retro Fandoms and Cultural Critique

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Roleplay

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3.15pm to 4.30pm The passage of time has excused a multitude of sins in design and production values on shows now considered Retro. Can, or should, we do the same with issues of sexual, gender and racial politics, by viewing them in their historic and cultural contexts, or should some shows and episodes be deemed unwatchable for a new generation of fans?

Friday a nd S a t u r d a y

Fight Choreography for Writers, with the Creative Writing track 5.00pm County A See page 28 for details.

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Military Retro Fandom Top Trumps 3.15pm to 4.30pm Top trumps compares the strengths and weaknesses of fictional military organisations in strategy, weaponry and who had the coolest uniforms. Ruler of the Earth Elections 6.45pm to 8.00pm The Earth needs concerted rule to unify its nations, distribute wealth, privilege and resources fairly and convince the Intergalactic Powers to take us seriously for once. The aim of the game is to form teams and help worthy candidates prepare and present a campaign, after which there will be five-minute presentations followed by audience questions and voting.

Roleplay & Storytelling w i t h Storygasm

Join Storygasm, the queer storytelling and roleplaying collective, to tell collaborative stories! We’ll have open sessions in the bar every day, or join us for our Firefly or Buffy RPG.

Open storytelling 10am to 1pm Bijou Bar Come spend ten minutes to a couple of hours with us telling your story. No experience needed! If you’ve ever wanted to play a roleplaying game (RPG) but been put off by vast tomes and ruleslawyering, check us out.

Firefly RPG: River’s Absolution 1.30pm to 4.30pm There’s a young lady on your boat with a mighty fine bounty on her head. Five men and a young woman hurtle through space towards a Core World maximum security facility. Come along and play one of these men, or River, and find out where River’s absolution lies. Buffy RPG: Sunnydale High Sunday 1.30pm to 4.30pm Room 40 Come play a Witch, Werewolf, Demon or Hunter! We’ll use the Monsterhearts game to recreate the adolescent relationships and dramas of a monster-filled High School!

Ships, Clocks & Stars

with Th e R o y a l O b s e r v a t o r y Astronomers and curators from the National Maritime Museum and the Royal Observatory Greenwich running lectures and demonstrations themed around current special exhibitions: • Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude - on navigation at sea • Stars to Satellites - on the history of satellite navigation • Longitude Punk’d - a steampunk showcase of fantastical inventions alongside historical artefacts.

Ships, Clocks & Stars Room 12

Friday

Photographing the Universe, with Dr Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer 10.00am to 11.15am This talk explores astronomy’s long association with photography taking in science, technology, art and history on the way. Longitude, with Dr Richard Dunn, Senior Curator For The History Of Science 11.45am to 1.00pm The Royal Observatory’s Longitude Season is celebrating the 300th anniversary of the passing of the Longitude Act in July 1714, which offered a national award to whoever could solve the ‘unsolvable’. Dr Dunn will explain the range of schemes offered to the Board of Longitude and the extent to which they were irrational, or not. Build Your Own Spectroscope, with Brendan Owens, Astronomy Programmes Officer 1.30pm to 2.45pm Spectroscopes are vital in studying astronomical phenomena. In this interactive workshop, we’ll build our own spectroscopes, play with discharge tubes and learn how astronomers can study the composition of distant astronomical bodies.

Skepticism Room 11

Steampunk Telescopes, with Tom Kerss, Planetarium Astronomer and Observing Expert 6.45pm to 8pm A talk on the golden age of giant Victorian refractors. What would the Universe look like to us if we still relied on this technology today?

Skepticism

Curated by The Skeptic Magazine, talks and discussions on science and critical thinking.

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Temporal Lobes and Spiritual Experiences, with Niall McCrae 10.00am to 11.15am In his work on spiritual experiences in temporal lobe epilepsy, Niall McCrae has developed his critique of the doctrine of evidence-based practice. Magicians and Misdirection: using magic for psychology research, with Robert Teszka 3.15pm to 4.30pm Magicians have the uncanny ability to manipulate how people perceive the world. Rob discusses how magic is studied experimentally, and what the findings of magic research mean for the psychology of attention and awareness.

Do Black Holes Really Exist? Dr Marek Kukula 3.15pm to 4.30pm Black holes are one of the most exotic predictions of theoretical physics and debate still rages about the ultimate fate of the material which falls into them. But do black holes really exist, and if so how and where should we look for them?

The Psychology of Alien Contact, with Professor Chris French 5.00pm to 6.15pm Thousands of people worldwide claim to have had contact with extraterrestrials. How are we to explain such claims?

Travellers of the Fourth Dimension: the secrets of time travel – with Brendan Owens 5pm to 6.15pm In this talk we will explore together the secrets of the fourth dimension and take H G Wells’ glorious steampunk Time Machine in for a service to fit it with our latest understanding of time and space.

Interview with a Vampire Expert, Deborah Hyde 6.45pm to 8.00pm The Vampire has fascinated Western Europe from the early 1700s, but was a real part of Eastern European lives long before. But what is the authentic story behind tales of the predatory, living dead?

Social Gaming

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Room 38 Hear from and ask questions of Reiner Knizia, the two-time Spiel des Jahres-winning designer of many classic board games. Reiner will also be signing photos and any of his board games you’ve brought. Interviewed by Matt Johnson.

Psychics and Pseudoscience, Michael Marshall 5.00pm to 6.15pm We’ll look at what happens when we crack the surface of the pseudosciences that surround us.

Sunday

London Skeptics Roundtable 3.15pm to 4.30pm Topic tbc. London Skeptics in the Pub is an award winning lecture series, covering science, technology, history and current affairs.

Autism Treatments – the good, the bad and the ugly, with Tannice Pendegrass 6.45pm to 8.00pm Tannice discusses the toxic treatments that alternative medicine subjects autistic children to.

Social Gaming

w i t h The Haberdashery C o l l e ctive Ages 16+. If you fancy a change from sitting down in a room listening and talking to people, come and play some active games with the Haberdashers and other Nine Worlders! Friday 3.15pm Saturday 10.00am, 3.15pm, 6.45pm Sunday 3.15pm, 6.45pm

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London Bubble Football League Kickstarter Launch 12.15pm to 1.00pm Room 32 What’s bubble football? It’s football, with a zorb on your head! The silliest sport since Quiddich is launching a Kickstarter to fund a full London league. Drop by for cake and balloons. In Conversation With Reiner Knizia – AwardWinning Board Game Designer 1.30pm to 2.45pm

Behind the Curtain: Game-Making with the Haberdashery Collective 10.00am to 11.15am Join the Haberdashers for a gentle Sunday morning discussion, play-testing and gamemaking session.

Steampunk

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So you want to write Steampunk 10.00am to 11.15am Steampunk books aren’t only novels! Come and meet three authors of different kinds of Steampunk books: Liesel Schwarz, Karl Burnett, and John Naylor, chaired by Andrea Burnett. Hear how they’re inspired and what they make of steampunk as it develops into a genre in its own right. Not Just Books 11.45am to 1.00pm Steampunk is much more than a literary genre. Meet Yomi Ayeni, Gary Nichols, and Lady Elsie, chaired by Malika Andress, who will discuss their take on the world of Steampunk. Punk your Nerf 1.30pm to 2.45pm Nerf Guns are a great steampunk accessory. We’ll give you hints and tips on how to take a toy and turn it into a Steampunk weapon and accessory. There will be time to show you how

Steampunk Room 12

to run a Steampunk Shootout and join in a Steamwestern Shootout. Multiculturalism and a Global Perspective on Steampunk 3.15pm to 4.30pm When people see Victorian fashions reimagined in steampunk it is perhaps easy to assume that Victorian values go along hand in hand with this, but what is the truth about steampunk as scene, genre and movement? With Yomi Ayeni, Malika Andress and John Naylor, chair Andrea Burnett. Gin Appreciation - Ages 18+ - Ticketed 6.45pm to 8.00pm Packed with fun facts, helpful information and, most importantly, the opportunity to drink gin where the excuse is… research! With Lady Elsie and Lady M. Steampunk Cabaret: a steamy evening of entertainment 8 30pm to 11.30pm Join us for an evening of Steampunk entertainment with Dr Corvas Marconi, The Cogkneys, You Only Laugh Twice (No Guarantees) and Thadeus Tinker.

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Here’s One I Made Earlier: steampunk makers share their hints and tips 10.00am to 11.15am With artist Herr Doktor, leather worker Mark Simpson and milliner Andrea Burnett. Female characters in Steampunk: strong women get an audience 11.45am to 1.00pm The Steampunk genre has a whole bevvy of sassy women who do not let their petticoats get in the way of solving puzzles or having fun. Gail Carriger, Liesel Schwarz and Toby Frost discuss female characters in their novels, guided by Count Rostov.

Corsets in an hour 1.30pm to 2.45pm Dressmaker and corset maker Trevor Wilson will show from start to finish how a corset is made and fitted. The science of Afternoon Tea: how does chemistry help us to make scones? 3.15pm to 4.30pm What should the discerning Steampunk pack to ensure they field a flawless afternoon tea? Presented by Malika Andress of the National Space Center.  Steampunk Fashion 5.00pm to 6.15pm The whole Steampunk Track team will strut their stuff in a fashion show. Each of our crew will show you how to put together many styles of outfits.

Video Games Culture Friday

Indie Game Jam Conference, with Indie Haven chats 9.00am to 10.00am and various The wonderful people from Indie Haven will be on hand all day chatting to indie developers new and old about their games and games culture. Indie marketing 10.00am to 11.00am Our panel of press, marketing and PR people will give you the best tips on how to get people playing your games. Failing faster 11.45am to 12.45pm You’ll have a lot of failures before you hit the right approach, and the sooner you find them, the easier they’ll be to fix. We’ll talk about the best ways to get your prototypes up to speed.

Video Games Culture Room 38 unless otherwise shown

Meet all the people 1.30pm to 2.30pm Carrying on from the morning’s Indie Haven chats, the team will be around, looking to talk games with anyone and everyone! Game police v indies 3.15pm to 4.15pm Video games are a rapidly evolving medium; is it even possible to say what a game is any more? Of course it is. According to the Game Police, anyway! Come see them take the indies who dare to create “things which are not games” to task! Need-to-Know About The Indie Life 5.00pm to 6.00pm So, you want to be an indie dev. We’ll look at the pitfalls, problems and potential financial woes you might encounter, alongside the best way to chat to your fans and getting to know the UK scene. The Mechanisms 6.30pm to 8.30pm Commonwealth East The Mechanisms are a bunch of steampunk space pirates who enjoy telling stories about their exploits through the medium of music. Give our game jam theme of fairytale retellings, we thought we’d leave you time to enjoy them first hand! Go check out their sets: Ulysses Dies at Dawn and High Noon Over Camelot. Sex in Games – with the Geek Feminism track 8.30pm to 9.45pm Royal B See page 39 for details.

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Philosophy in games 10.00am to 11.15am Ethical theories, determinism, identity... come and join in our discussion of philosophy and games, where we’ll look at all this and more.

Personal games Royal C&D 11.45am to 1.00pm Gaming has a lot of potential for dealing with personal issues. Thanks to its interactivity and the ability to use more than just text, games are a great place to engage people’s empathy rather than sympathy. Twine for Beginners Workshop, with the LGBTQAI+ Fandom track 5.00pm to 6.15pm Connaught B See page 42 for details.

Sunday

Advanced Twine Workshop 10.00am to 11.15am Connaught B So you’ve got the basics of Twine down. Want to see what else it can do? We’ll show you how to get your games to do exactly what you want. with the Academia track: Male, Pale, and Stale: Character Creation in Gaming ‘Ideal’ Control Methods and Antisimulation 11.45am to 1.00pm Royal C&D See page 20 for details. Environmental Narrative and the Silent Story Actions, Choices, and Immersion – What can philosophers tell us? 5.00pm to 6.00pm Connaught A See page 21 for details. Cara’s Fireside 8.30pm to 9.45pm Rounding out the convention in front of Cara’s fireplace for a relaxed evening chat about life, the universe and video games.

Whedon

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Whedon Friday

The Symbolism and Metaphor of Buffy 10.00am to 11.15am Exploring symbols Buffy uses to comment on real life, with Shane Davis. Avengers Jossemble! Burdened With Glorious Squee, with Tlanti 1.30pm to 2.45pm Let’s celebrate the cosplays, fan fiction, fan art and interest in the characters that this colourful, action-packed movie has inspired! Whedon v Tropes – a look at genre rules and genre disruption through cult classic “The Cabin In The Woods”, with the Film Festival 3.15pm to 4.30pm Room 41 See page 34 for details. The Joss Whedon quiz 5.00pm to 6.15pm A quiz on all things Whedon. Assemble a team of six or come along to be placed with fellow fans!

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Theatre LARP Writing Workshop, Part One: Structure and Ideas Generation, with the LARP track Saturday, 11.45am Room 40 See page 41 for details. “Shut that crazy mouth”: exploring mental health and madness in the Whedonverse, with Alice Nicholls 3.15pm to 4.30pm Joss Whedon is well-known for writing diverse and unusual characters. How accurate are his depictions of mental illness, and have they done

anything to reduce the media’s stigma of it? LGB(T) representation in the Whedonverse: From Willow Rosenberg to Victoria Hand, with Dr Jenny Alexander 5.00pm to 5.50pm When Willow and Tara progressed from “doing spells” to being “lesbian, gay-type lovers” in Buffy, their relationship was ground-breaking for genre television. Buffy’s impact can be seen in shows that came after, like James Cameron’s Dark Angel and Julian Jones and Lucy Watkins’ Hex where a LBF - lesbian best friend - became almost de rigeur. Ironically, as genre TV has become more open to LGB(T) representation, from True Blood to Penny Dreadful, Whedon has apparently been moving in the other direction. Join us for a discussion about all things LGB(T) in the Whedonverse. Whedonverse sing-along 6.00pm to 7.30pm Commonwealth East Fancy yourself the next Lorne of Caritas? Come on over for our Whedonverse Sing-Along.

Sunday

Theatre LARP Writing Workshop, Part Two: Playtest and Discussion, with the LARP track 11.45am Room 40 See page 42 for details. Sex Work and Whedon, with Fran Haswell and the Geek Feminism track - Ages 16+ 3.15pm to 4.30pm Connaught A See page 40 for details.

Thursday Track Comics

Doctor Who

Evening ents

Fanfic

Film Festival

Food Geekery

Usual Royal A room

Royal C&D

Comm. East

County B

Room 41

Room 32

Welcome Games and Vids (Room 41)

Welcome Games and Cheese & Vids: fic and Cheese! word games Eating, talking, and getting to know each other (Room 38)

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Fanvid Adventures in Space and Time

8.00pm 8.30pm

Cosplayers 9.45pm assemble!

10.00pm 10.15pm 11.30pm 12.00am

Rock Club London - til late

Midnight Movie: The Final Programme (1973 Robert Fuest)

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Friday Song of Track A Ice and Fire Academia

All of the Books

Comics

Cosplay Beyond

Usual Room 32 room

County C&D

Royal A

Royal B

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Connaught B Archaeology of Fantasy Worlds

9.45am 10.00am 10.30am Weirwood Eyes 10.45am

LGBTQ subtext in genre TV Urban Fantasy: Cities of Angels Gender Trouble & Demons & Bug-Monsters in Avatar

11.15am 11.45am 12.15pm 12.30pm

Deadly Little Bodies We Come In Peace

Nonlinear Narratives (Room 30)

Time Travel: where, why, how and when?

Writing the Inhuman (County A)

Mythology and Fairytales

Introduction to Ickiness: Workshop One [PG] (Room 32)

1.00pm 1.30pm

Discworld and Identity and Philosophy sex work in 2.00pm Theology in ASOIAF Small Gods 2.15pm (Connaught A)

Stark Tower Sleepover

2.45pm 3.15pm

Archaeological Superheroes and Falling Worldbuilding Superhuman and (Room 30) tumbling

4.30pm 5.00pm

Mental Health and Comics

Looking Forwards

6.15pm 6.45pm 7.15pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.45pm 10.15pm 10.45pm

Self-Identity in Choose YA Fiction Your Own MLP & Identity Documentary (Room 41) Million selfpublished books (Connaught A)

Writing trans media (County A)

Love and Sex: [18+]

New voices (Royal B)

School stories

CTHULHU?! (Royal A)

Sex and Violence [18+]

Gruesome Injuries 1 [15+] (Room 32)

Friday Track Cosplay UK

Creative Writing

Doctor Who

Usual Royal B room

County A

Royal C&D Comm East

Evening ents

Fanfic County B

9.00am 10.00am How to Make The Writers’ a Natural Dyes Process: masterclass

Welcome Tea Party

11.15am 11.45am Styling a Loki Geek into in the Poetry, Poetry Queer Wig Text into geek

Fandom Poster-Making Session

1.00pm 1.30pm Prop Weapons Construction

Writing the Inhuman

What’s My Medium?

Writing The LGBTQ+ Characters in Doctor’s Privilege SFF

Fanworks Anonymous

2.45pm 3.15pm

4.30pm 5.00pm Props and Fight choreoArmour Using graphy for Pepakura writers

Nine Fanwork Recs

6.15pm 6.30pm 6.45pm

Writing for Transmedia

WibblyWobbly The Mechanisms TimeyWimey Stuff

Fourth Wall Fandom

8.00pm 8.30pm

How To Write A Sex Scene [18+]

9.45pm

Only a Moment (Room 38)

10.00pm 10.15pm 10.30pm 11.30pm

Smut slam [18+]

Last year’s Best Fanvids Speed Friending (Royal C&D)

The Nine Worlds Party

The Fanvid phenomenon

80s Disco - All-Cheese Dance Party

2.00am

Friday Festival Food Track Film (Ages 16+) Geekery

Forbidden Planet Signings

Future Tech

Game of Geek Feminism Thrones

Usual Room 41 room

Comm West

Room 11

Room 38 Connaught A

Room 32

9.00am 10.00am

Kim Curran & Laura Lam

11.00am

Oculus Rift

11.15am

Ed Cox & Benedict Jacka

11.45am 12.15pm 1.00pm

Paul Cornell, Kate Griffin & Nick Harkaway

1.30pm Film Festival Shorts 2.00pm Showcase 2.45pm 3.15pm 3.45pm

Whedon vs Tropes

Geek culture needs feminism because...

From Killer Drones, To Cuddly Robot Companions

Free is a lie

Adrian Tchaikovsky, Tales Lauren Beukes How To Get from The & Jen Williams Your Idea Underground Crowdfunded Restaurant

4.30pm

What the FRAK is Geek Feminism?

Jon Wallace, Gavin Smith & Mark Alder Mindpong with Stephen Chan

5.00pm 5.30pm 6.00pm 6.15pm 6.45pm Choose Your Own Food As Art Documentary

The women of Manga Game of Thrones gaming session (Bijou Bar)

8.00pm 8.30pm 9.30pm Duke 9.45pm The Mitchell AllNighter 10.15pm 11.30pm 2.00am

Anatomy of a Blend [Ticketed, 18+]

Sex in Video Games - 18+ (Royal B)

Friday Track Informal Meetups

Kids

LARP

LGBTQAI Fandom

Podcasting

Usual Bijou Bar room

Room 42

Room 40

Connaught B

Royal A

9.00am Nine Worlds Families Meetup (Atrium)

9.45am 10.00am 10.30am Cosplay

Positivity: Meet and Mingle

Pyjama Drama: The Gruffalo at the Dentist ages 2-5

Finding Your Voice

11.15am 11.30am

Nine Worlds

11.45am Newbies Meetup

Introduction to Ickiness 1 [PG] (Room 32)

Queer in the Text (Royal C&D)

Realities of Podcasting

1.00pm 1.30pm

Build Your Own Spectroscope (Room 12)

2.45pm

Amnesia: A Supernatural Mystery (Room 42)

3.15pm

Suffering Sappho! Queer representation in superhero comics Awesome portrayals of people with mental illness

3.30pm 4.30pm 5.00pm

6.15pm 6.45pm 7.00pm

Pyjama Drama: Calling Planet Earth - ages 6-10

Doctor Nefarious and the Paradise Project Tea Party

8.00pm 8.30pm 9.45pm 10.15pm 11.30pm

Friday and Track Race culture

Retro fandom

Social gaming

Ships, clocks Video games and stars culture

Whedon

Usual Connaught room B

Room 40

Royal B

Room 12

Royal C&D

9.00am

Room 38 Chat with Indie Haven

10.00am

Introduce Your Retro Fandom To The Family

Indie Photographing Marketing the Universe

Who’s Afraid of Joseph Campbell?’: The Hero’s Journey

Longitude

Chaos Costuming the Old Shows

Meet ALL Build Your Own the people Spectroscope

Symbolism and metaphor in Buffy

11.00am 11.15am 11.45am 12.45pm

Failing Faster

1.00pm 1.30pm 2.30pm

Avengers Jossemble!

2.45pm 3.15pm

Interrogating The Old Shows [Triggers]

4.15pm

Social Gaming Game Police with the Whedon Black Holes vs. Indies Haberdashery Do v Tropes Really Exist? Collective (Room 41) [16+]

4.30pm 5.00pm

6.00pm

Fight Voices From Choreography Other Worlds For Writers (County A)

Travellers of the Fourth Dimension

Need-toJoss Know About The Whedon The Indie Quiz Life

6.15pm 6.45pm Tea Party

Steampunk Telescopes

8.00pm 8.30pm 9.45pm 10.15pm 11.30pm

Sex in Video Games (Royal B)

Saturday A Song Track of Ice and Fire

All of the Books

Usual Room 32 County C&D room

Comics

Cosplay Beyond

Royal A

Royal B

9.00am 9.15am

CoffeeKitsch

9.45am 10.00am Sewing Circle

Cyberpunk

11.15am 11.45am

Street Art (Room 30)

Basic Wounds Workshop Two [PG]

Dragons vs Werewolves vs Vampires vs Warlocks

1.00pm 1.30pm

Likeable Bad Guys

Dis/Continuity

Mummies (Room 30)

Westerns: they’re your Huckleberry

Making Comics, for kids

Looking Backwards

Creators on Comics

Sci-fi and Fantasy Hair Design Workshop

2.45pm 3.15pm 4.30pm 5.00pm Writing Comics Westeros (Room 30) 6.15pm 6.45pm 8.00pm 8.30pm

PostWorking colonial sci with Artists fi (Room 30) (County A)

Noir

Blurred Lines: boycotting & buying in

#PROMNADO: The Gollancz Prom Party!

9.45pm 10.00pm 10.15pm

New Voices (Royal B)

11.30pm

Saturday Track Creative Writing

Doctor Who

Entertainment

Fanfic

Film Festival (ages 16+)

Usual County A room

Royal C&D

Comm East

County B

Room 41

9.00am Poetry For Breakfast

Self-Worth For Fanfic Writers

9.45am 10.00am Putting Sherlock in your Pocket

Why Continuity Doesn’t Matter

Go Craft Your Geek On

Film Festival Shorts

Writing Circular Gallifreyan (Room 31)

Fandom Academia

Queer Eye For The Dead Guy

11.15am 11.45am Creating fantasy languages 1.00pm 1.30pm Writing with Quen Creating If A Woman Was Took, fantasy Cast As The ages 8-11 languages Doctor (Room 30)

Multi-canon creation in a bigger universe

2.45pm 3.15pm Beat Writers’ Block

Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

Slash and Feminism

4.30pm 5.00pm Putting The Science 5.45pm Into Sci-Fi

Quantum To Be A Battlestar Deep- How Space Voyager Better Beta Tardis Wars (Room 12)

6.15pm 6.45pm Working with Artists

Received fan wisdom is wrong

Tell me a story: Podficcing

8.00pm 8.30pm

Hanna (2011) ages 12+

Fandom is Fabulous poster session

Writing and 8.45pm Story Performance Panel 9.00pm 9.45pm

The Duke Mitchell Film Club

10.00pm 10.15pm

Feedback Among 10.30pm Friends

The Bechdel Film Test

Rock Club London

Collaborative Fanworks

Film Festival Film Quiz

11.30pm 12.00am 2.00am

Army Of Frankensteins

Saturday Track Food Geekery

Forbidden Game of Planet Signings Future Tech Thrones

Geek Feminism

Usual Room 32 room

Comm West

Connaught A

Room 11

Room 38

9.00am 10.00am

John Connolly & Jonathan L. Howard

Water Dancing Masterclass Cyborgs, Robots and [Ticketed] Gender [16+] (Comm East)

11.00am 11.15am

Paul McAuley, Gareth Powell & Mark Charan Newton

11.45am 12.15pm 1.00pm 1.30pm Food In 2.00pm Fantasy

EEG: Brain Hacking and Technology Demo

Water Dancing Masterclass Policing the Net [Explicit [Ticketed] content] (Comm East)

Elizabeth Bear & Scott Lynch

Where Are The Women In The Creative Industry?

Drone Zone

2.45pm

Den Patrick, Anna Caltabiano 3.15pm What Is & Michael J. Experiential Ward 3.45pm Food? 4.30pm

John Hornor Jacobs, Joanne Harris & Will Hill

5.00pm 5.30pm

Slash and Season 4 in Political review - panel Needlepoints Feminism (County B)

The justice systems of Westeros

The Bechdel Film Test (Room 41)

Signings session autographs £15

Zombies, Run! - when fitness and Hanna (2011) fandom collide (Room 41)

6.15pm 6.45pm Edible Knitting 8.00pm 8.30pm Anatomy of a Blend 8.45pm [Ticketed, 18+] 9.45pm

Game of Thrones gaming session (Bijou Bar)

10.15pm 11.30pm

Saturday Track Informal Meetups

Kids

Knitting

LARP

LGBTQAI Fandom

Usual Bijou Bar room

Room 42

Room 40

Connaught B

9.00am Families Meetup (Atrium)

Nine Worlds Families Meetup (Atrium)

9.45am 10.00am

Pyjama Drama: Dalek Disaster! ages 2-5

Stitch ‘n Babble

Rule 63: Gender and subversion

11.15am 11.30am

11.45am Newbies Meetup

Theatre Queer Eye For LARP Writing The Dead Guy 1 (Room 41)

Basic Wounds 2 [PG] (Royal B)

1.00pm 1.30pm

Punk your Nerf (Room 12)

Writing with Quen Took, Super Speedy ages 8-11 Yarn Crafts (Room 30)

2.45pm 3.15pm

Making Comics (Royal A)

Political Needlepoints (Connaught A)

Wouldn’t It Be Cool If...

Pyjama Drama: The Doctor’s Lodge, ages 6-10

Knitting for cosplay and fanart

Twine For Beginners

4.30pm 5.00pm 6.15pm 6.45pm

Edible Knitting (Room 32), ages 8+

8.00pm 8.30pm

Brain of Knitain Quiz

Bifröst! Queer Cabaret (Comm East)

9.45pm 10.00pm 10.15pm 11.30pm 12.00am

Bifröst! Rock Party (Connaught A&B)

Saturday Track Podcasting

Race & Culture

Retro Fandom

Roleplay / Skepticism Storygasm

Usual Royal A room

Connaught B

Room 40

Room 42

Room 11

9.00am 10.00am Democratisation of podcasting and new media 10.30am

Open storytelling (Bijou Bar)

11.00am

11.15am Podcaster Games 11.45am 12.30pm

Temporal Lobes and Spiritual Experiences

Writing The Other

1.00pm 1.30pm

This Will Always Be Your Home: Race, Culture, and Fannish Life

2.45pm 3.15pm

Military Retro Fandom Top Trumps

Firefly RPG: River’s Absolution

Magicians and Misdirection

4.30pm 5.00pm

The Psychology of Alien Contact

6.15pm 6.45pm

Ruler of the Earth Elections

Interview with a Vampire Expert

8.00pm 8.30pm 9.45pm 10.15pm 11.30pm

Saturday Track Social Gaming

Steampunk

Video Games Culture

Whedon

Usual Royal B room

Room 12

Room 38

Royal C&D

So you want to write Steampunk

Philosophy in Games

Not Just Books

Personal games (Royal C&D)

9.00am 10.00am Social Gaming with the Haberdashery Collective [16+] 11.15am 11.45am 12.15pm London Bubble Football League Kickstarter Launch (Room 32)

Theatre LARP Writing Workshop, Part One (Room 40)

1.00pm 1.30pm In Conversation with Reiner Knizia (Room 38) 2.15pm Signing with Reiner Knizia (Room 38 Lobby)

Punk your Nerf

2.45pm 3.15pm Social Gaming with the Haberdashery Collective [16+]

Exploring the Concept of Mental Health and Madness in the Whedonverse

Multiculturalism and a Global Perspective on Steampunk

4.30pm 5.00pm

Twine For Beginners Workshop (Connaught B)

5.50pm 6.00pm

Whedonverse SingAlong (Comm East)

6.15pm 6.45pm Social Gaming with the Haberdashery 7.30pm Collective [16+]

Gin Appreciation [Ticketed, 18+]

8.00pm 8.30pm 9.45pm 10.15pm 11.30pm

LGB(T) Representation in the Whedonverse

Steampunk Cabaret

Sunday A Song Track of Ice and Fire

Academia

Usual Room 32 Connaught room B

All of the Books

Comics

Cosplay Beyond

County C&D

Royal A

Royal B

9.00am 9.15am

CoffeeKitsch

9.45am 10.00am

African Speculative Fiction

11.15am 11.45am

Male, Pale, and Stale ‘Ideal’ Control Methods (Royal C&D)

12.15pm 12.30pm

Mental Illness Primer (Room 30)

Marketing and Spock vs the Social Sorcerers: F Media (County or SF? A)

Gruesome Injuries 2 [15+]

1.00pm 1.30pm Game of Thrones Hair Design (Royal B)

X-Punk: punk as suffix, genre and state of mind

Never Just ‘Comic Book Guy’

Game of Thrones Hair Design

2.45pm 3.15pm

Marketing Ask a monsterProfessional class (Room 30) (County A)

The Bards Speak

Epic MoreFantasy Than-Mild panel Peril

4.30pm

5.00pm 5.25pm 5.50pm

Environmental Narrative Choices and Immersion Adventure game puzzles (Room 32)

‘Strong Female Protagonists’ in YA (Conn A)

Wow. So Panel.

A/ Romantic: asexuality in comics

6.15pm 6.45pm

Comics across other media

8.00pm 8.30pm 9.45pm 10.15pm

Sunday Track Creative Writing

Doctor Who

Entertainment Fanfic

Film Festival (Ages 16+)

Usual County A room

Royal C&D

Comm East

Room 41

9.00am

County B Chains Of Transformation: remixing the remix

9.45am 10.00am Battle Rapping Monsters ages 11+

Fanfic for Kids: what happens next?

Anytime, Anywhere

Film Festival Shorts Showcase 3 (PG)

11.15am 11.30am

Sherlock’s Scavenger Hunt (until 1.30pm)

11.45am Marketing and Writing Circular Social Media Gallifreyan (Room 31)

Writing Historical Fiction and Fanfic

Morning Of The Trailers - The Duck Video Mix

1.00pm 1.30pm

A Handy to the How To Invent Guide Wilderness The Wheel Years and Beyond

Fashion, Costume Screening: SOS: and Inspiring Fans Save Our Souls (Dir. Kent Sobey 84mins)

2.45pm 3.15pm Ask a professional

Representation of Gender Roles

Sexuality and Fanfic (16+)

RTD vs Lambert

Legitimacy and Monetisation of Fanworks

4.30pm 5.00pm Applied Maths: Poetry for Geeks

Evening Of The Trailers

6.15pm 6.30pm 6.45pm Party / Open 7.30pm reading slam 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.45pm 10.15pm

Helen Keen: Robot Woman of Tomorrow

Join us at the bar! (Bijou Bar)

Sunday Track Food Geekery

Forbidden Planet Signings

Future Tech Game of Thrones

Geek Feminism

Usual Room 32 room

Comm West

Room 11

Room 38

Connaught A

Water Dancing Masterclass [Ticketed] (Comm East)

Assaulting the Narrative: Rape as Character Motivation [16+]

9.00am 10.00am 11.00am 11.15am 11.45am

12.15pm Talking With Food, Not Words 1.00pm 1.30pm

Food in Science 2.00pm Fiction 2.45pm 3.15pm Peer Recipe Writing 3.45pm (Bijou Bar) 4.30pm 5.00pm 5.30pm

Philip Reeve & NeuroSarah McIntyre science of swearing Illusions and brains Sarah Lotz, Francis Knight & Tom Pollock

Adam Christopher, Daniel Polansky, Danie Ware

Can’t Stop The Signal: A Geeky, Feminist Advocacy Workshop

Lateral Search: Alternative Search Engines

Gamification Visiting filming of Everything the locations

Water Dancing Masterclass [Ticketed] (Comm East)

Gail Carriger, Stephanie Saulter & M. Suddain Gaie Sebold, Rebecca Levene & Ian Whates

Unspeakable Things: geekery, gender, and the future of feminism

Sex Work and Whedon [16+]

Going beyond the books panel

‘Strong Female Protagonists’ in YA

6.15pm 6.45pm

Game of Thrones gaming session (Bijou bar

8.00pm 8.30pm 9.45pm 10.15pm

Sunday Track Informal Meetups

Kids

LARP

LGBTQAI Fandom

Podcasting

Race & Culture

Usual Bijou room Bar

Room 42

Room 40

Connaught B

Royal A

Connaught B

9.00am Families Meetup (Atrium) 9.45am 10.00am

Triwizard Tournament ages 2-5

Battle Rapping Monsters (County A)

Fanfic for Kids: (County B)

Life and Times of a Podcaster

11.15am 11.45am

Cakes in Space! (Room 38)

Theatre LARP Writing 2

Power of New Media

1.00pm 1.30pm

Model Making with Kerry Dyer

Youth voices on youth literature

Pyjama Drama: Hogwarts Farewell, ages 6-10

Asexual stereotypes and how to break them

2.45pm 3.15pm

4.30pm 5.00pm 6.15pm 6.45pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.45pm 10.15pm

After party (Bijou Bar)

Reading SF While Brown

Sunday Roleplay / Games Track StorySkepticism Social Gaming Steampunk Video Culture gasm

Whedon

Usual Room 42 room

Royal C&D

Room 11

Royal B

Room 12

Room 38

9.00am 10.00am

Behind the Curtain: Game- Here’s One Making with the I Made Haberdashery Earlier Collective [16+]

11.15am Open story11.45am telling (Bijou Bar) Female characters in Steampunk

Advanced Twine Workshop (Connaught B)

Male, Pale, and Stale: ‘Ideal’ Control Theatre LARP Writing 2 Methods and anti-simulation (Room 40) (Royal C&D)

1.00pm 1.30pm Buffy 2.45pm RPG: Sunnydale 3.15pm High (Room 40) London Skeptics Roundtable

Corsets in an Hour Social Gaming The science with the of Afternoon Haberdashery Collective [16+] Tea

Sex Work and Whedon [16+] (Connaught A)

4.30pm 5.00pm Psychics and Pseudoscience

Steampunk fashion

Environmental Narrative Actions, Choices, and Immersion Adventure game puzzles (Room 32)

6.15pm 6.45pm

Autism Treatments - good, bad and ugly

Social Gaming with the Haberdashery Collective [16+]

8.00pm 8.30pm

Cara’s Fireside

9.45pm 10.15pm

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