Name: Travel for Fun, Writing, and Research
Start: 2025-06-21T17:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-21T18:00:00-0400

Saturday June 21, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming)

Dr. Robert Hampson moderates this panel answering the question: How do you use travel and lived experience to get first-hand knowledge for your books?

Moderators

Robert E. Hampson

Dr. Robert E. Hampson is a Neuroscientist and author. By day, he is a professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine, studying how our brains encode memory. By night, he writes military, adventure and hard-science Science Fiction as well as nonfiction articles explaining science to the... Read More →

Guests

Ian McMurtrie

Born on the island of Malta to an Oklahoma oil engineer and a Texas school teacher, author Ian McMurtrie a.k.a. LawDog was raised in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. He has been a soldier, an EMT, a volunteer fireman, a short-order cook, the world's worst rodeo clown, and a peace... Read More →

John Ringo

John Ringo's science fiction is action-oriented and abounding in characters to root for. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling military science fiction series The Posleen Wars, with over one million copies in print. Ringo is also the author of the far-future science... Read More →

David M. Weber

David Weber was born in Cleveland a long, long time ago, and grew up in rural South Carolina. He was a bookworm from childhood, blessed with a father who collected autographed copies of every E. E. Smith hardcover and introduced him to Jack Williamson at the tender age of 10 and a... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402

Literary/Publishing, Panel

LibertyCon 37

Robert E. Hampson

Ian McMurtrie

John Ringo

David M. Weber

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