Welcome to the not-quite-ready-for-prime-time schedule for OryCon 44! Seriously - we’re still hard at work on the schedule, but we want to give you an idea of what wonders await you in just a few more weeks. Please check back frequently for changes and additions, and see you in October!
Teaching at the Intersection of Science Fiction and Radio Astronomy This presentation will recap my experience teaching an undergraduate honors seminar about the intersection of science fiction and radio astronomy in books and films. This presentation will also invite discussion and ideas about expanding curricular opportunities on this exciting topic.
Ancient Bird Lizards WTF were the Capthraw? An elaborate work of my personal imagination; noodling over what if there were other technological civilizations that had popped up over the millions of years of this planet's history? This is a thought experiment which assesses modern science's ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilizations, millions of years ago. This will be a presentation regarding my own thoughts on this concept, as the basis of a potential future story.
Cultures of the imagination Participants will begin to design an integrated world, alien and its way of life. They will construct a world and its ecology, an intelligent native life form and its culture, basing each step on the previous one and utilizing the principles of science as a guide to imagination. They will finish this design at the Saturday session and conclude on Sunday in a live action roleplay of the meeting of two alien cultures.
Friday October 18, 2024 3:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
Mt Hood
Alien Development – PART 1 of 3 Participants will begin to design an integrated world, alien and its way of life. They will construct a world and its ecology, an intelligent native life form and its culture, basing each step on the previous one and utilizing the principles of science as a guide to imagination. They will finish this design at the Saturday session and conclude on Sunday in a live action roleplay of the meeting of two alien cultures.