2012 Program: Day 2: Sunday, April 15

Time Table

Floor Map

1F/Ground

2F/First

Program Guide

Room 6

10:00    Guest of Honor Program: SF Anime Mechanical Design

Naohiro Washio is a mechanical designer for SF anime such as 'Stellvia', 'Fafner in the Azure', and 'Mobile Suits Gundam 00'. The moderator will ask him about where his unique designs come from, such as his latest mechanical design of 'Bodacious Space Pirates' etc.

Program Participant: Naohiro Washio

11:30    Guest of Honor Program: The world of Alastair Reynolds

Alastair Reynolds is known to write large-scaled stories such as Revelation Space series. The moderator will ask Alastair Reynolds how his world is actually created, and how his plots are structured. The fans who are wondering 'Why his books are so thick?' or want to understand his interests in scientific area will find this program interesting.
Program Participant: Alastair Reynolds

13:15    Guest of Honor Program: The way of creating Alastair Reynolds and other Science Fiction artworks

Alastair Reynolds' stories are full of hard SF discription based on scientific authenticity, which is the source of his popularity. Guest of Honor Naohiro Washio has been creating fabulous SF artworks. He will talk about how he is actually creating SF arts.
Program Participant: Naohiro Wahio, Nozomi Oomori

15:00    Guest of Honor Program: As a scientist, as an author

Alastair Reynolds's stories are regarded as Hard SF, containing many scientific descriptions. As the real world is catching up with science fiction, the moderator will ask what is the difference between science and fiction in him, and how are they related, and what he think the science fiction stories should be in the future.
Program Participant: Alastair Reynolds

16:15    Closing Program

It's a wrap-up for Hal-con 2012. We may be able to announce the details of Hal-con 2013. See you again at Hal-con 2013.
Program Participant: Hal-con Committee

Room 7

10:00    Lost in Transit - Part 2

Due to its popularity (many more people came to the panel than expected) Regina and the Halcon team again translated one of her short stories into Japanese (horror this time ;-)). Regina made the pre-translation, the Halcon team members transformed it into readable Japanese. The translators and the author will discuss problems and points of interest of English-Japanese speculative fiction translation during the panel where you'll receive a little booklet with the English and Japanese versions of Regina's short story "Half-Life".
Program Participants: Regina Glei

"Lost in Transit" in Hal-con 2011

11:30    Yokohama and Art

The curator from Yokohama Museum of Art will introduce Yokohama and Art, and of Museum of Art.
Program Participant:Curator from Yokohama Museum of Art

12:30    Auction

The pictures and prints displayed at Hal-con Art show will be auctioned. If there are many bids to the art, it will be auctioned at this time frame. Members are welcome to watch the auction.
* Please be noted that some of the pictures at the Hal-con Artshow are not for sale.
Program Participant: Hal-con Committee

13:45    A room of Paranormal Romance

Paranormal Romance is very popular in western world, however it is not so in Japan. We would like to introduce interesting Paranormal Romance novels and talk about it.
Program Participant: Hiller-may, Kyoko Ogushi

15:00    A room of 'Genshoku no Sozoryoku'

'Genshoku no Sozoryoku 2'

'Genshoku no Sozoryoku (The imagination in primary colors)' is the anthology book series collecting short stories by aspiring young writers who are the winners of Sogen SF Short Story Competition. After the final selection meeting for The 3rd Sogen SF Short Story Competition, the program participants will talk about the young talents, and their possibilities.
Program Participants: Haneko Takayama, Yuri Matsuzaki, Takehiko Okishi, Jou Hashieda, Yusuke Miyauchi, Tetsuya Kohama(Tokyo Sogensha)

Room 9

10:00    A Room of Hirotaka Tobi

Hirotaka Tobi is a SF author known for 'Katadorareta Chikara', 'Grande Vacance', and 'Ragged Girl'. Fans are waiting for his latest novel 'Rei Go Kin' to be published as a hard cover book, and 'Sora no Entei'. The moderator will ask him about his future plans, and about 'Mind Eater' whom he wrote a comment, and the outline of his unique SF perspective.
Program Participants: Hirotaka Tobi, Nozomi Oomori

11:30    Zombie Cafe

Introducing zombie movies from old to new. Any one is invited to join the conversation at any time with a drink. Feel free to drop by.
Program Participant: AMAB

13:15    A room of Local Conventions 2012

There are many small local SF conventions all around Japan. We will introduce these local conventions and how to enjoy them.
Program Participants: Shigeru Hayashida, etc

15:00    Are these SF movies great...? 2012

This program will show you the movie trailers of SF / Fantasy / Horror genre which will be released in Japan this summer. We would like to discuss if the movie is worth watching or not.
Program Participant: Kyoko Ogushi

Change Log

• 2012-04-11: Changed the Room of "Live Paint". "Room 8" from "Room 5".
• 2012-04-11: Changed the Close time of "Art show" on Sunday.
• 2012-04-04: Add the program item. --- "A Room of Hirotaka Tobi"
• 2012-04-04: Add the program participant. --- "Guest of Honor Program: The way of creating Alastair Reynolds and other Science Fiction artworks '"
• 2012-04-04: Add the program participant. --- "A room of 'Genshoku no Sozoryoku'"
• 2012-03-29: Correct the mistake. --- [Sunday at Room6] Start time of 3rd program item. "13:30" to "13:15".
• 2012-03-29: Reverse the order. --- "Guest of Honor Program: SF Anime Mechanical Design" and "Guest of Honor Program: The way of creating Alastair Reynolds and other Science Fiction artworks".