[This is a text-only version of the Minicon 4 program book, created in 2009. It does not attempt to reproduce the formatting of the original (except when doing so is trivial), but rather is meant to be as accessible to people and computer programs as possible. This file also does not contain the full text of advertisements in the program book. Errors may have been made in transcription, but some errors are in the original and are faithfully reproduced here. :-)] Minicon 4 The Committee Jim Young, Chairman Lynn Torline, Secretary Marge Lessinger, Treasurer Ruth Burman, Operatic Productions Chuck holst, Film Coordinator Linda Lounsbury, Registration Jim Schumeister, Art Show Walk Schwartz, Huckster's Room Don Blyly, Ken Fletcher, Jim Odbert, Blue Petal, Lois Spooner, Frank Stodolka, Anthony Tollin, Patt Worthington AND SPONSORED BY THE MINNESOTA SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes On The Convention The Banquet The banquet will be served buffet style. This means that you get all you can eat for $5.95. The entrees are Yankee Pot Roast of Beef, and Spaghetti with Meat Sauce. Along with these, you get Assorted Cold Meats, Assorted Cheeses, Sliced Tomatoes, Relishes, Fruit Salad, Herring, Potato Salad and Snowflake Potatoes, Tossed Garden Salad, Homemade Rolls and Buter, and Dutch Apple Pie, with your choice of beverage. Remeber that a banquet ticket not only entitles you to the meal, but also reserves for you the best seats for the Guest of Honor speech and the production of HMS Trek-a-star. continued ~ [page break] Notes (continued) PROJECTOR CREDITS Chuck Holst has arranged the use of projectors this year. For any photographic needs you have -- slide-duplication, machine rental -- contact Chuck at 536 - 8th Ave. S.E., Minneapolis, Mn. 55414. CHECK-OUT TIME The hotel has extended check-out time on Sunday to 5:00 P.M. ART CREDITS Cover for the third Progress Report was the work of Fred Haskell and Ken Fletcher. Cover of this Program Book is the work of Jim Odbert; portrait of Lin Carter by Jack Gaughan; and heading for this column by Jim Schumeister. THE SF COLLEGE-BOWL The SF Quiz-bowl competition is free to anyone who is a registered member of the convention. Simply fill in the entrace quiz after you register -- you'll find them set up near the registration desk. 1st PRIZE: Copies of Joyleg, Ward Moore and Avram Davidson; Horrors Unknown, edited by Sam Moskowitz; and Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow, by Miriam Allen DeFord. 2nd PRIZE: Joyleg. 3rd PRIZE: Elsewhere, Elsewhen, Elsehow. SPECIAL PRIZE: The 200th registrant at the convention will recieve the copy of Horrors Unknown. These prizes were donated to the convention by Walker Books. We urge you to patronize them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM All program items in the East Room unless otherwise noted. Friday noon: Set-up and registration desk opens 1:30 P.M. Science Fiction radio plays (From Dimension X, and X-plus-1, circa 1951) 6:30 Announcements, introductions 7:00 Science Fiction Research Association Symposium: "Settings in Science Fiction;" panelists Virginia Carew, Dale Mullen, and Clifford Simak, moderated by Ivor Rogers 8:10 Movies: "Lost Horizon," and 21st Century films, "Mars and Beyond," and "Cities of the Future" 9:30 Party Suite opens Midnight: Auction (the first issue of Unknown, and a few other midnight items) Saturday 11:00 A.M. Art-show, Huckster's area, and registration desk open 11:15 Star Trek slides -- from bad to verse; presented by Ruth Berman 11:30 Business Session of the Minn-Stf (Minnesota Science Fiction Society); Topics: Summer meetings, multimedia project, and the Picnic-con Noon-1:00 P.M Lunch Break 1:05 P.M. OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS Part One: "Creating Science Fiction Worlds" with Lin Carter and Clifford D. Simak 3:00 The Science Fiction College Bowl 4:00 Auction 5:30 Autograph session with all the pros, in the lobby near the East Room 5:30- 6:30 Break 6:30 Banquet dinner is served IN THE CARDINAL ROOM 8:00 Banquet Program: Art-show prizes awarded, Guest of Honor speech, and the production of HMS Trek-a-Star, all in the Cardinal room 9:30 Movies in the East Room: "Nosferatu," "The Critic," and the 21st Century films, "The Computer Revolution, parts I and II" Party suite opens once more Sunday 11:00 A.M. Art-show, Huckster's area. and registration desk open 11:05 "Profile(s) of the Future" an attempt to predict our future by Ben Bova, Virginia Carew, Gordon Dickson, Earl Joseph, and Clifford Simak Noon-1:00 P.M. Lunch break 1:05 P.M. "Teaching Science Fiction -- How and Why" with Allan Greenberg (Macalester College), Mary Merlin (Anoka Ramsey State College), and Dale Mullen (Indiana State University) 2:00 Auction 4:00 The Wrap-up Report: the financial state of the convention address, and a plea for suggestions on how to improve the convention 6:00 Movies: "Cyborg 2018," and the 21st Century films, "Incredible Voyage," and "At Home: 2001" [page break] Guest of Honor Lin Carter About a year ago, I sat down and began to talk to several local fans about a Guest of Honor for this year's Minicon. We all decided that someone who had been working in fantasy should be honored at this year's convention. "Who's the person that's doing the most for fantasy right now?" we asked ourselves. We all replied, "Lin Carter and Ballantine Books." Lin has been writing fantasy for several years now, and the Ballantine people have been publsiing both SF and fantasy since 1951 or so. Lin, who has been doing scholarly research on fantasy since 'way back in the 'fifties as well (see his apocryphal notes on H. P. Lovecraft in Something About Cats, Arkham House, 1958, for example), has been editing the Ballantine Books Adult Fantasy Series since its inception in 1969. All in all, we thought something had to be done to reward all this effort. Lin and Ballantine are responsible for bringing out the first paperback collections of the work of Clark Ashton Smith, for the first reprinting in more than 80 years of Morris' The Well of the Worlds, and so much more, that we invited Lin to be the Guest of Honor at this year's Minicon. Lin Carter's Guest of Honor speech, "The One Fixed Point in a Changing Age," will be delivered after the banquet, the evening of Saturday, 18 June. -- Jim Young ------------------------------------------------------------------------------