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Big Target or Big Capability
Sunday June 22, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 5 (Main Event Programming)
Big Target or Big Capability – Discussion on whether large, expensive, manned systems are a capability or a liability. Are giant spaceships feasible anymore, or do single ships, unmanned systems and AI dominate the future? Mark Wandrey, moderator.
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Mark Wandrey

International bestselling author of military sci-fi, space opera, and zombie apocalypse, Mark Wandrey is also the only 4 time DragonCon Dragon Award finalist! Newest Release - Winged Hussars: Andromeda - Book 9 in the 4HU Phoenix Initiative series, set in the Four Horsemen mil-sf... Read More →
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Nathan Balyeat

A USMC veteran, Nathan has written the fantasy short stories in the "Fellblade" and "Powers of the Night" settings and is working on a science fiction novel based on the life of the William Marshal. He has a degree in history and his hobbies include weightlifting, martial arts, and... Read More →
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Jonathan LaForce

Born in southern Arizona, Jonathan LaForce spent his formative years in northern Los Angeles County before moving to Texas at the age of 19. Two years later, he enlisted in the USMC and found himself stationed in Hawaii. Had it not been so expensive, he'd have stayed in Hawaii at... Read More →
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Mary Hare

I’m a wife, mother, and grandmother, who had a four-year stint in the USAF in the Manned SpaceFlight Support Group at the Johnson Space Center in the 80’s, where I met and married my husband, also in the USAF at the time. Since then, almost every job I’ve had has involved computers... Read More →
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Sean Patrick Hazlett

Sean Patrick Hazlett is an Army veteran and former captain, speculative fiction writer and editor, and finance executive in the San Francisco Bay area. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, but trekked across the country to pursue an AB in history and BS in electrical engineering from... Read More →
Sunday June 22, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 5 (Main Event Programming) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
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