Award winners Peter S. Beagle and Cory Doctorow are Special Guests at WonderCon 2019 in Anaheim CA, March 29-31.

Beagle and Doctorow are involved in programming throughout the con.

Photo: Rina Weisman

Saturday, March
30

12:30PM

Writing
and Illustrating Books for Kids

Learn how to write
and illustrate for kids with authors and illustrators Peter S.
Beagle (The Last Unicorn), Barbara Bottner (Priscilla
Gorilla), Scott Campbell (Sleepy, the Goodnight Buddy),
Molly Idle (Flora and the Flamingo), Lee Wardlaw (Won Ton
and Chopstick), and Jo Whittemore (Supergirl). Moderated
by Henry Herz (Good Egg & Bad Apple).

1:45PM

Signing

WonderCon special
guest Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn), Barbara
Bottner (Priscilla Gorilla), Scott Campbell (Sleepy, the
Goodnight Buddy), Molly Idle (Flora and the Flamingo), Lee
Wardlaw (Won Ton and Chopstick), Jo Whittemore (Supergirl),
and Henry Herz (Good Egg & Bad Apple).

4:00PM

Even
if You’re Paying for the Product, You’re Still the Product with Cory
Doctorow

The Internet is the
planetary-scale nervous system for our species, and these days it
consists of four giant sites filled with screenshots from the other
three. The lesson of this moment in late-stage capitalism isn’t that
Facebook has figured out how to build a mind-control ray: Rather,
it’s that they’ve figured out how to scale up the paltry sums they
extract from your personal life into piles so big, they add up to
billions. WonderCon special guest Cory Doctorow shows us that
fixing technology isn’t a matter of paying for things instead of
seeing ads: It’s all about seizing the means of information and
controlling your tech, rather than being controlled by it.

5:15PM

Signing

WonderCon special
guest Cory Doctorow (Radicalized)

Photo: Jonathan Worth, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

Sunday, March 31

11:00AM

Technology
Is Cold; People Are Warm

An arguably
established aphorism in the field of speculative fiction is that
stories that focus on technology can lack emotional content.
Panelists including WonderCon guests Cory Doctorow
(Radicalized) and Michael
Grumley (Breakthrough series), S.B. Divya (Runtime), J. Dianne
Dotson (Heliopause: The Questrison Saga), and Maura Milan
(Ignite the Stars) will get to the heart of the matter with
moderator Maryelizabeth Yturralde (Mysterious Galaxy).

12:15PM

Signing

WonderCon guest Cory
Doctorow (Radicalized), S.B. Divya (Runtime), J. Dianne
Dotson (Heliopause: The Questrison Saga), and Maura Milan
(Ignite the Stars)

2:30PM

Spotlight
on Peter S. Beagle

Come for a fantastic
discussion with WonderCon special guest Peter S. Beagle (The
Last Unicorn) and moderator Delilah S. Dawson (Kill the Farm
Boy: Tales of Pell), covering 50 years of The Last Unicorn,
Star Trek, writing fiction and non-fiction, and evolving
perspectives.

3:45PM

Signing

WonderCon special
guest Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn), Delilah S.
Dawson (Kill the Farm Boy)

For full schedule of events, visit the WonderCon site.

WonderCon 2019
March 29–31
Anaheim Convention Center
Anaheim, CA