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Robert Buettner
Robert Buettner’s best-selling debut novel, Orphanage, 2004 Quill Award nominee for Best SF/Fantasy/Horror novel, was called the Post-9/11 generation’s Starship Troopers and has been adapted for film by Olatunde Osunsanmi (The Fourth Kind) for Davis Entertainment (Predator, I Robot, Eragon). Orphanage and other books in Robert’s Jason Wander series have been translated into Chinese, Czech, French, Russian, and Spanish. Robert was a 2005 Quill nominee for Best New Writer.
In March, 2011 Baen books released Overkill, his sixth novel, and in July, 2011 his seventh, Undercurrents. A long-time Heinlein Society member, he wrote the Afterword for Baen’s recent re-issue of Heinlein’s Green Hills of Earth/Menace From Earth short story collection. His own first original short story will appear in the forthcoming anthology, Armored, edited by John Joseph Adams.
Robert is a former U.S. Army intelligence officer and National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology. As attorney of record in more than three thousand cases, he practiced in the U.S. federal courts, before courts and administrative tribunals in no fewer than thirteen states, and in five foreign countries. Six, if you count Louisiana.
He lives in Georgia with his family and more bicycles than a grownup needs.
Programming for Robert Buettner
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| Thu | 14:00 | (A10) | 1 hr |
Designing Believable Paleontology
If you were building a world with a different early history than Earth's, what would the early life forms have been like? Would its creatures have "skipped over" the megafauna stage? |
| Fri | 10:00 | (KK1) | 1 hr |
KaffeeKlatsch: Fri 10:00
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| Fri | 13:30 | (A14) | 30 min |
Reading: Robert Buettner
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| Fri | 17:00 | (A05) | 1 hr |
Why Does the Left Still Love Military Science Fiction?
It's not surprising for the Right to love military SF, but people of all political stripes buy, read, write and publish military SF. |
| Sat | 10:00 | (Roma2) | 2 hrs |
Writers Workshop, Section R
All workshop sessions required advanced sign-up and are filled. |
| Sun | 12:00 | (Hall 2 Autographs) | 1 hr |
Autographing: Sun 12:00
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| Sun | 13:00 | (A10) | 1 hr |
The Continuing Impact of Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein is arguably them most influential and popular SF writer ever. What made his work both so influential, and what makes much of it remain so popular. |
Home Page: http://www.robertbuettner.com