Aug., 28, 2003-Sept. 1, 2003

 read a Torcon Report by David Silver

Heinlein's Women -- " Just Like the Girl Who Married Dear Old Dad"

Description: An audience participation discussion of female character types, their purpose and impact in Heinlein's works.

Day: Thu Time:1700
Duration: 1 Room:CC: 206F

Panelists: David M. Silver, Elizabeth Ann Hull, Pat York

Heinlein's Juveniles -- "Just Plain Kids, Superkids, or Sociopathic Monsters?"

Description: An audience participation omnibus overview and survey of the themes, writing techniques, literary forms and character types, their purpose and impact used in the juvenile stories of Heinlein's works, with discussion of their suitability for K-12 education or their introduction to adolescent readers.

Day: Mon Time: 1100
Duration: 60 Room: CC: 206F

Panelists: David-Glenn Anderson, Michael F. Flynn, Robert James, Bill Patterson, David Silver

"Heinlein's Take on Law and Lawyers: The Year We Hanged All the Lawyers"

Description: An audience participation survey of the themes, roles and character types, their purpose and impact relating to lawyers and law used in Heinlein's works. Law, legal beagles, and trials pop up over and over in Heinlein's fiction. Is he fascinated with the subject because he thinks of lawyers and the law as guardians of civilization? Not likely -- he created a utopia by hanging them all. Let's talk about this professional satirist and subversive's take on law and lawyers. Caution! Count your cards! Hands on wallets! Some of these panelists are lawyers! You Have Been Warned!

Day: Sun Time: 1700
Duration: 60 Room: CC: 206F

Panelists: Arthur M. Dula, L. N. Collier, Samuel M. Kramer, David Silver, Fran Van Cleave

Heinlein: Lost, Strayed, Misplaced, and Found Again

Description: From the author's even earlier efforts than the 'lost' novel, Heinlein's so-called opus no. 1, "For Us the Living --" through obscurely published essays and addresses on science-fiction writing of the 1940s and 50s, the so-called 'stinkers,' stories that supposedly were never republished, and, even, lately discovered letters to authors, such as the fabled extensive critiques of the first draft of Pournelle's and Niven's "The Mote in God's Eye", and others, there exists a body of Heinlein work that should be rediscovered, republished and examined.

Day: Sat Time: 1600
Duration: 60 Room: CC: 202ABCD

Panelists: Arthur M. Dula, Robert James, Bill Patterson, Eleanor Wood, Spider Robinson, David Silver

Heinlein, Stranger than Stranger, Four Decades after the Hugo

Day: Sat Time: 1400
Duration: 60 Room: CC: 104B

Description: An audience participation survey of the Hugo award winning novel Stranger in a Strange Land

Panelists: Robert James, Bradford Lyau, Bill Patterson, Geo Rule, David Silver