Programming
PulpFest is proud of the variety of panels and presentations it offers to entertain our attendees. All scheduled activities will take place in the Fairfield Room located on the second floor of the Hyatt Regency Columbus. Below is our preliminary schedule for 2012. Please note that everything listed is tentative at this time. Suggestions are welcome.
Thursday, August 9
4:00 PM - 11:00 PM - Dealer Set-Up - the dealers’ room will be open only to dealers to assemble their displays.
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Early Registration - general members and dealers will be able to register for PulpFest.
Evening Programming
8:00 PM - The French Connection - Rick Lai will discuss "How French Literature May Have Influenced American Pulp Heroes" in a presentation featuring The Count of Monte Cristo, Arsene Lupin, Fantomas, Doc Savage, The Shadow, Zorro, and more.
9:00 PM - At the Newsstand with Hulse and Roberts - Professor Garyn G. Roberts and Blood ‘n’ Thunder editor Ed Hulse salute the 75th anniversary of John W. Campbell’s arrival at Astounding Stories and the beginning of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
10:00 PM - to be announced.
11:00 PM - to be announced.
Friday, August 10
9:00 AM - 5 PM - Wheeling and Dealing - the dealers’ room will be open to all.
1:00 PM - The New Fictioneers - Christopher Paul Carey will read from his novel co-authored with Philip José Farmer, The Song of Kwasin, part of the Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa omnibus, forthcoming from Subterranean Press.
2:00 PM - The New Fictioneers - William Patrick Maynard will read from his new, fully authorized novel, The Destiny of Fu Manchu, a continuation of the classic adventure series created by Sax Rohmer..
3:00 PM - The New Fictioneers - Tommy Hancock of Pro Se Press will be appearing.
Evening Programming
7:00 PM - Welcome to PulpFest - Jack Cullers offers an official welcome.
7:10 PM - Lord Tyger, Time’s Last Gift, and the Gods of Opar - our FarmerCon VII panelists discuss a sampling of the Burroughsian works of Philip José Farmer and their relation to the Wold Newton Universe. Moderated by Mike Croteau of Meteor Press. Panelists will include Win Scott Eckert and Christopher Paul Carey, with others to be announced.
8:10 PM - Guest of Honor Presentation - featuring award-winning science-fiction author and Burroughs authority Mike Resnick.
9:10 PM - Barsoom and Beyond: Visions of Mars in the Pulps - panel presentation on various depictions of the Red Planet as presented in the pulps. Panelists will include Henry G. Franke, III, editor of The Burroughs Bulletin; Stephen Haffner of Haffner Press; Garyn G. Roberts, editor of The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy; with others to be announced. Moderated by PulpFest’s Ed Hulse.
10:10 PM - Wild American Pulp Artist: J. Allen St. John - David Saunders examines the life and work of J. Allen St. John, the artist most associated with the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
11:10 PM - I, Tarzan - set in an English castle, this documentary features George McWhorter. editor emeritus of The Burroughs Bulletin, Philip José Farmer, Grand Master of Science Fiction, and popular culture expert Francis Lacassin in a discussion about Edgar Rice Burroughs’ most famous creation, Tarzan.
Saturday, August 11
9:00 AM - 5 PM - Wheeling and Dealing - the dealers’ room will be open to all.
1:00 PM - The New Pulp Fiction - Ron Fortier of Airship 27 moderates a panel featuring contemporary authors inspired by the pulp fiction of yore. Jim Beard, Mark Halegua, Tommy Hancock, Rick Lai, William Patrick Maynard, and Frank Schildiner will join Ron for a discussion of New Pulp fiction.
2:30 PM - The New Fictioneers - one of the founding members of the New Pulp movement, Win Scott Eckert, will read from a selection of his works.
3:30 PM - A Tribute to Howard Hopkins and David Burton - New Pulp author Win Scott Eckert and Wild Cat Books publisher Ron Hanna will lead a celebration of the lives and works of these two creative pulp fans, recently departed.
Evening Programming
7:00 PM - PulpFest 2012 Business Meeting - all members are invited to ask questions and offer suggestions at this session.
7:20 PM - 2012 Rusty Award Presentation - who will be the winner of this annual award for service to the pulp community? The award will be presented by Anthony Tollin, the winner of last year’s Munsey. A brief tribute to Rusty Hevelin, the guiding light of Pulpcon, will also take place at this time.
7:45 PM - The Illustrated Conan - artist Jim Keegan offers a look at Conan of Cimmeria as depicted by various illustrators over the last eight decades.
8:40 PM - Robert E. Howard’s Conan and the Birth of Sword and Sorcery - Rusty Burke, president of the Robert E. Howard Foundation moderates this panel about Conan of Cimmeria and the author who created the sword-and-sorcery genre. Panelists to be announced.
9:40 PM - Saturday Night at the Auction - "Going, going, gone." Bring your PulpFest badge and your checkbook and get ready to snatch up some of the gems and bargains typically offered.
Sunday, August 12
Daytime Schedule
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM - Rusty Award Breakfast - an informal meal in the hotel’s restaurant to celebrate this year’s Rusty Award winner and your PulpFest experience.
10:00 AM - 2 PM - Wheeling and Dealing - the dealers’ room will be open to all.
For questions and/or suggestions about our programming, please write to Ed Hulse at ed@pulpfest.com.
