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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:
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Timetables on each room door
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Printed signs and floor plans around
the hotel
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Our friendly volunteers in hi-vis – brightlycoloured – vests around the hotel, for help
and information any time
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Track heads will be wearing bright badges –
ask them for information about their track
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Tweet @London_Geekfest with questions
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The Info Desk in the third floor atrium, for
pretty much anything any time.
Where to find help
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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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6-7
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Food in the area
There are a number of local food options.
At the Radisson hotel
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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.
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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.
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Three Magpies is a pub with pub food, open
11.00am to 9.30pm.
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Renaissance hotel
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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.
McDonalds is open 24 hours a day.
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The Marriott hotel
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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
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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.
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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!
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Things you might want to write a message about:
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I learned...
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I laughed...
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I made a new friend...
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I met an old friend...
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I played...
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I cosplayed...
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I squeed at...
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I ‘shipped...
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I danced...
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I saw...
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I made...
What if I want to write something not
about a particular track?
There are two keywords available any time,
anywhere:
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PARTY: for lovely things that happen during
the evening and at entertainments.
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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.
Access to main spaces
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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 [email protected].
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Facilities
The Radisson Edwardian, Heathrow has:
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step-free access
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accessible toilets
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gender-neutral toilets
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designated quiet space
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car parking
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kid-friendly content
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a small amount of content clearly marked
16+ and 18+
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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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Access and families
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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.
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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.
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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
Code of conduct
ask that you only use phones if you have to, and
answer calls outside the room if possible.
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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.
Rules
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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.
Stuff to note
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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:
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offensive comments about gender, sexuality,
impairment, physical appearance, body
size, race or religion
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intimidation, stalking or following
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showing sexual imagery in public spaces,
unless as part of scheduled content with
prior agreement from the organisers
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photographing or recording someone
without their permission
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sustained disruption of talks or other events
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uninvited physical contact
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uninvited sexual attention.
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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:
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white people critiquing their cosplay choices
without being asked
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being expected to be an authority on nonwhite characters in various shows or comics
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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!
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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.
Weapons
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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.
Costumes
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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.
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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.
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If they look like they could be dangerous
in any way, they must be peace-bonded cable-tied - at registration.
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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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Photography and cosplay
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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.
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Vendors, entertainments
Main market - Commonwealth West
Open every day, 9.00am to 5.00pm
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Forbidden Planet: The first port of call for
geeks worldwide! Collectables, books, toys
and much more.
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All of the Books: Small press and
independently published books.
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Leisure Games: London’s largest tabletop
game vendor.
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Stagman Creations: Leatherwork, ornate
props, elegant clothing and drinking horns.
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Soapasaurus: Bath and body goods with a
distinctly geeky twist.
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Cheeky Geeky Goodness: Unique geek
clothes, available for customisation.
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Unseen Shadows: Works by the Geek
Syndicate’s Barry Nugent.
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Genki Gear: creative and cute t shirts,
hoodies, tote bags and mugs.
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Eithin: Elegant handmade paper art and
jewellery - Saturday only
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LeadAche: Prints, comics and badges with
an occasionally dark twist.
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Chimera: Collectable card trading games
from all around the world.
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Isala: Second hand books and DVDs.
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Retrogreat: Vintage clothes, handmade
jewellery with retro themes.
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Steampunk Market: Last year’s market is
back and covering all aspects of steampunk.
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Newcon Press: Books, particularly novels
and genre fiction.
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Geekstitch: Cross stitch works and geek
themed embroidery kits.
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Scorch’s Pyrography: Handmade wooden
gifts, art and custom woodburning.
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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
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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
S a t u r day
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
S u nd ay
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
Saturda y
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
Friday
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
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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
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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.
All wee k e nd
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
Kids’ programme
Rooms as shown
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.
S a t u r day
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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A Song of Ice and Fire
Room 32 unless otherwise shown
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.
S u nd ay
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
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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?
A Song of Ice and Fire
Friday
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.
Academia
Rooms as shown
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.
S a t u r day
Friday
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.
S u nd ay
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.
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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?
Sunday
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.
All of the books
County C&D unless otherwise shown
‘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.
All of the Books
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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All of the books
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
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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.
Saturda y
CoffeeKitsch: with The Kitschies
9.15am to 9.45am
Up early? Start your day right by meeting fellow
writers, publishers and fans. And doughnuts.
All of the books
County C&D unless otherwise shown
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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All of the books
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
S u nd ay
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
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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
Comics
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.
T h u r s day
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.
Friday
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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demonstrate what everyone should have ripped off
instead of just tediously having superdudes break
other dude’s fingers. Si Spurrier - Six-Gun Gorilla,
X-Force, Disenchanted - talks about the eternal
sexual war between words and pictures. Then they
answer questions! And chat! And hold one another!
Si Spurrier, Kieron Gillen, Hazel Robinson.
Blurred lines: boycotting and buying in
6.45pm to 8.00pm
What’s a fan to do when the people who make
a comic you love do things you hate? We try
to plumb the ethical minefield of purchase-assupport. Dan Hart, Melissa T, Alasdair Stuart,
David Tallerman, Hazel Robinson
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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
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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.
S u nd ay
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
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P r o p s and costuming, with
C o s p l ay UK
Friday
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.
Friday
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
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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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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.
S u nd ay
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.
Friday
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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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
Sunday
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
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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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gender roles of society, from Barbara’s implicit
rejection of the fifties ‘feminine mystique’ to
Sarah Jane’s explicit rejection of seventies
patriarchy. Ace and Rose are working class
heroes. Madame Vastra and Jenny are a married
interspecies couple who fight crime, and aliens,
in Victorian London. How successfully does the
show challenge prevailing gender norms? Where
does it succeed best? Where could it do better?
Simon Guerrier, Angela Blackwell, Una
McCormack, Amy
RTD vs Lambert
5.00pm to 6.15pm
Verity Lambert and Russell T Davies: two Doctor
Who producers making the same show fifty years
apart and for very different audiences. We look
at both producers’ eras and see how much has
changed, and why, and whether it’s all for the
better. Michael Lee, Matthew Kilburn, Tori Truslow
Fanfic
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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.
Friday
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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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
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Malin Rydén, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Erin
Claiborne, Lesley McIntee, Elizabeth Minkel
Film Festival
All films ages 16+ unless otherwise shown.
T h u r s day
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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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.
Sunday
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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Food Geekery
A l l w eekend
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.
T h u r s day
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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game development.
S a t u r day
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
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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.
Friday
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.
Geek Feminism
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,
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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
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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
Room 40 unless otherwise shown
“Strong female protagonists” in young adult
fiction - with All Of The Books
5.00pm to 6.15pm
See page 24 for details.
Knitting
S a t u r day
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
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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.
Podcasting
Royal A
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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Race & Culture
Connaught B
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.
S a t u r day
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
S u nd ay
Reading science fiction while brown
11.45am to 1.00pm
For many of us, reading science fiction and
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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
Retro Fandom
40 unless otherwise shown
Roleplay
42 unless otherwise shown
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.
Saturda y
S a t u r day
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:
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Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for
Longitude - on navigation at sea
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Stars to Satellites - on the history of
satellite navigation
•
Longitude Punk’d - a steampunk
showcase of fantastical inventions alongside
historical artefacts.
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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.
Saturda y
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?
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Social Gaming
Royal B unless otherwise shown
S u nd ay
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
S a t u r day
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
with th e V i c t o r i a n
Steamp u nk S o c i e t y
Saturda y
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
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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.
S u nd ay
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.
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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.
S a t u r day
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.
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Whedon
Royal C&D unless otherwise shown
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!
S a t u r day
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
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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)
6.45pm
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)
2.00am
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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
9.00am
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Saturday
Track Informal
Meetups
Kids
Knitting
LARP
LGBTQAI
Fandom
Usual Bijou Bar
room
Room 42
Room 40
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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