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Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Getting Started: Your friend wants to know what’s the big deal with MilSF. You want them to “get it” like you do. Which three movies, which three books, and which three games do you recommend in order to simultaneously provoke, ensnare, and entertain your friend? Panelists and audience participate in identifying the best three choices, and vote on what options we give our hypothetical friend. 
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Brent Roeder

Author, STEM
Brent Roeder, PhD, is a neuroscience researcher that is exploring how to restore damaged memory function. A lifelong geek, he enjoys writing sci-fi and fantasy to relax from work. Very occasionally, he even remembers to finish a story
Guests
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Alma T. C. Boykin

Author
Alma T. C. Boykin, author of over a hundred novels and short stories, spent her growing-up years in flat places without trees. After living Back East and traveling all over northern Europe, she turned travels into stories, some of which happen to have footnotes. Beware: she also... Read More →
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Scott Swoope

Author
Scott Swoope is a speculative fiction writer whose work blends the sweep of history with the imagination of science fiction and fantasy. His stories explore power, loyalty, and the human cost of ambition across worlds both ancient and futuristic.

When he’s not writing, Scott wo... Read More →
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Melissa Olthoff

Author
Melissa Olthoff spent her youth daydreaming about riding dragons and slaying monsters. After joining the United States Air Force, she might not have gotten to ride any dragons, but she had plenty of real-world adventures over the years—including flying the T-6, becoming a certified... Read More →
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Jay Maynard

Author
Jay Maynard is a lifelong computer geek whose career spans everything from embedded systems — like the ones in microwave ovens — to IBM mainframes. When he’s not in front of a keyboard, he’s on ham radio, serving on the Fairmont, Minnesota city council, tinkering with his... Read More →
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Gary Poole

Editor
Gary Poole is the founder and longtime host of Robot Battles, has edited three national bestselling anthologies set in John Ringo's "Black Tide Rising" universe (which a fourth coming in 2023), and runs the Southern Fandom Resource Guide website.

And if that wasn't enough, he has been in radio for over thirty years (currently hosting a popular morning show in Chattanooga), is the managing editor of a longstanding alt-weekly news site, is a developmental editor for Baen Books, has voiced over 3,000 radio and television commercials... Read More →
Friday June 26, 2026 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C

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