SATELLITE 2 CONVENTION

July 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and so some of programme will have a lunar theme, ranging from discussions of how the moon is portrayed in SF, to the chance to fake your very own moon landing!

The convention is at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Congress Road, Glasgow, adjoining the SECCso you can't miss it

HERE IS THE PROGRAMME OF NEXT WEEK'S CONVENTION

Time Main (Argyll 1)#########Alternative (Argyll 2)
SATURDAY
10:30 Opening Ceremony
11:00 i21st Century Exploration
- 1960s Hardware David Woods #####Eco-Con?
12:00 Literary Moon##########iMusic of the Spheres
Mark Meenan (M), Ed Buckley,
David Dryden, Mike Gallagher
Cuddles
1:00 Inadvisable Rocket Science###Fortean Time
Phil Wellings
Ksimes (M), Dalg, Fran Dowd, John Dowd, Rhionnach
2:00 Guest of Honour
Iain M Banks
3:30 Once More With Feeling...
Steve Rogerson et al#########Chaos Modelling:
Alex Holden##################Build a Lunar Lander
4:30 The Life of a Star
Nik Whitehead
5:30 The Future of Space Exploration##One Small Step
Nik Whitehead (M), Iain M Banks.#######Mad Elf
Andy Nimmo, Frank O'Brien,David Woods
6:30 Night is Day####Do you worship Cthulhu?
Fraser Coull#########Throgg the Despicable
7:30 (closed for turnaround)
9:00 Beach Party on the shores of the Sea of Tranquillity

SUNDAY
Time Main ################### Alternative
10:00 Me and the Moon: ######finding Uranus
A personal reflection########Mad Elf
Ed Buckley
11:00 Small Space?#########iLunar Pub Sign Workshop
Phil Wellings (M), Robert Law,
Duncan Lunan, Colin McInnes
12:00 The Apollo Guidance Computer System
Frank O'Brien
1:00 Culturally Challenged###Moon Rover Driving Test
DC (M), Iain M Banks,######## Munchkin
Mike Cobley, David Haddock
2:00 Where Science Produces Art##fantasy Football' Con
Alligator Descartes
3:00 Room 101#############Media Moon
Iain M Banks #########Dalg (M), Mad Elf, Mike Cobley
4:00 Random Thoughts of a#######Grumpy Old Fen
Techno-Utopist Running Dog####Ian Sorensen et al
Colin McInnes
5:00 Return to the Moon#######Book and Comic Auction
Robert Law ###################Mark Meenan
6:30 Closing Ceremony
8:00 Dead Dog Party
featuring SF and Space Pub Quiz and space band Arbelos

Membership £50 on the door
Adult One-Day £25 on the door

I will be closing early on Saturday 2.00 & will be at the convention after that including Sunday. Colin McInnes (Sunday 4.00) did a very good lecture for the Glasgow Royal Phil last year & is exactly the sort of technophile I agree with. He also regularly has letters in the Herald saying that it would be a good idea not to let Scotland's lights go out - something of a minority opinion among our political leaders.