Special events are convention activities besides panel programming. Here are some things related to special events to bring with you to con:
Props, costumes, and t-shirts proclaiming your fan loves for the Thursday Night Dance: Fandom Mash with DJ Wüdi! If you have items you don't mind lending for a photo shoot, please bring them to the info table Thursday before 7 p.m., or bring them with you to the dance. This could be phasers, a Crow T. Robot puppet, Funko Pops, a lightsaber, anime eyeglasses, a Green Lantern ring, etc.
Your own Nerf blaster and eye protection for the Sunday Nerf BYOB (Bring Your Own Blaster) game!
Your finest Fae wear for the Saturday Night Dance: The Fae Ball! Also bring any props you wouldn't mind sharing for photos.
Everyday things someone in a B-movie might have, for the It Came From the Late, Late, Late Show LARP sessions on Friday (movie monsters) and Sunday (alien invaders).
Dress-up items for the midnight Rocky Horror Picture Show after the Friday Night Dance. No toast, rice, or squirt guns, please (we want the hotel to welcome us back next year).
Dice for gaming! Check out scheduled gaming options on Guidebook and the website!
Personal information cards for the Speed Friending sessions on Thursday and Friday. We'll have slips of paper available for sharing contact information as well.
And as always: comfy shoes, a reusable water container, snacks, and whatever makes you happy!
In a previous newsletter we highlighted Thursday's happenings, with programming starting at 2 p.m. Did you know that we have lots of panels on Sunday? Here are just a few:
If you are planning to enter the Norwescon 46 Masquerade, we need your registration and your audio/video file by March 25. Last-minute registrations are allowed at the pre-masquerade meetings on Friday and Saturday, but it is hard to troubleshoot problems day of. All of the information can be found on the Masquerade web page.
The Norwescon 'Zine (the official daily news sheet for Norwescon 46) is going back to its roots. That means your 'Zine will be interactive and welcomes your submissions to zine@norwescon.org.
What kind of submissions, you ask? (Even if you didn't, we're going to tell you anyway.) We have a couple new columns just waiting for your input. One is called "Blast from the Past," where we'll do a roundup of our favorite geeky films and why we love them (with a focus on the past five decades that Norwescon has been around).
Another is "Con Stories," which are micro stories (just a couple paragraphs) of interesting or funny interactions you have at Norwescon 46. Think: The New York Times' "Metropolitan Diary," and you'll have a good idea of what we're looking for.
Photos are always welcome---costumes, groups having fun, that elusive clear photo of a Sasquatch.
And a perennial favorite: the "Overheard" column. The things you're only going to hear at a sci-fi/fantasy convention. Tidbits of delight that have you chuckling with fannish glee because you aren't in the mundane world.
Send your content and ideas to zine@norwescon.org. And look for the 'Zine each morning of Norwescon 46 at 10 a.m.
We are excited to announce that BritCon is sponsoring several panels at Norwescon! Come enjoy their panels and learn about BritCon and their one day event on August 4, 2024.
60th Anniversary of Doctor Who Updates, Thursday 4--5 p.m.
Favorite Versions of Robin Hood, Saturday 7--8 p.m.
QI (Quite Interesting). Sunday 10--11 a.m.
Bigger on the Inside, Sunday 1--2 p.m.
If you're entering the Single Pattern Contest, please follow the link to sign up so we know how many people to expect. However, no pre-registration is required. Just bring your entry to Cascade 5 & 6 at noon Saturday for judging, and return for the Show & Share at 1 p.m.
Norwescon 46 will be March 28--31, 2024 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Seattle Airport in SeaTac, Washington. Join us for a weekend of sci-fi and fantasy fun!
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Do you only have a day or two available to attend Norwescon? Want to dip your toe back in without going all out? Single-day admissions are available for purchase starting on Monday, March 18. Advance purchase makes your registration stop quick. Just pick up your badge at registration and join the fun! Single-day badges may only be picked up on the day on which they are valid. The rates are $50 Thursday, $65 Friday or Saturday, and $40 on Sunday.
Guidebook is Norwescon's online schedule app, with complete, up-to-date, and exclusive information about panels, special events, scheduled games, and all the guests of honor, attending professionals, art show participants, dealers, and club tables. It also has convention maps, the Daily 'Zine, hotel restaurant menus, the membership guide, and other
We are excited about all the activities at Norwescon, but to make it happen we need volunteers. Everyone has their own unique skill set, so don't worry---we'll find something for you! Adults and teens 14+ are welcome. To volunteer pre-con email personnel@norwescon.org. At con come to the volunteer table located in the lobby!
Here are some specific volunteer needs you can email us about today:
If it is your first or 46th time at Norwescon, stop by the info table in the lobby to pick up a copy of our stunning souvenir program book, add a pronoun sticker to your badge, sign up for workshops, and check out a display of the schedule grid and map of the hotel. Any questions? Just ask!
The Norwescon Little Free Library now has donation ribbons for your badge. If you've ever donated a book, please stop by the table to get yours. Grab a book or two while you're at it!
Thinking about what to pack for Norwescon? Don't forget we are accepting donations of items that are fannish in nature, such as art, jewelry, books, and games, to sell in our art show with all proceeds going to a nonprofit, this year being the Young Black & Brilliant Book Club. Using the transformative power of books, YB&B fosters literacy and life skills for our local youth. Items will be available for sale throughout the convention in the art show. Please stop by to see what we have to offer---it's all for a good cause! If you would like to donate an item, please drop it off in the art show with a staff member. Reach out to us with questions at charities@norwescon.org.
We're looking forward to seeing you at the end of the month at the DoubleTree. Please note that on-site parking fills up quickly. If you are not staying at the hotel the train is a good option for getting to the venue. There are also multiple parking lots within walking distance due to the proximity to the airport.
Once you arrive at the hotel you will pick up your badge from registration in the grand foyer. Reg opens at 9 a.m. Thursday and the first program begins at 2 p.m., so take time to familiarize yourself with the various locations. Guidebook has maps! Workshop signups are at the info table across from registration, with most workshops occurring on the Maxis' Level at the top of the tower. Open gaming is in Cascade 11 and scheduled gaming can be found in the Rotundas (past the pool at the junction of Wings 4 and 5).
The convention office opens at 9 a.m., and can be found in Wing 7. The Speculative Film Fest is showing blocks of short films in Evergreen 1 & 2 on Thursday and Friday, with a Best-Of on Sunday. More schedule details are available on the website and Guidebook. Download the Guidebook app before you arrive for the best convention experience.
Hotel check-in starts at 3 p.m. If you are at loose ends, please consider stopping by the volunteer table in the convention lobby. Haven't purchased your membership yet? It's not too late, get a membership now before our final price increase on the 28th.
Norwescon 46 will be March 28--31, 2024 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Seattle Airport in SeaTac, Washington. Join us for a weekend of sci-fi and fantasy fun!
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All Norwescon attendees are required to complete an online registration process before receiving a membership badge. Membership forms are digital, and are completed and signed through the Norwescon registration website/database. Signing the membership form indicates that you understand the rules of conduct as listed in this document and posted in our policies manual (available on our website) and agree to abide by them. Children 12-and-under receive a free membership when attending with their parent or guardian; their membership is linked to an adult's registration.
Membership includes:
The right to attend the convention
Membership badge
The opportunity to attend a variety of community events throughout the year, including the volunteer picnic, camping trip, book club, etc.
Your membership badge with legible ID# must be visibly displayed while in any designated convention space. Anyone who cannot produce a current membership badge upon request will be asked to leave the convention space.
A minor, as defined by the State of Washington, must have a parent or legal guardian/individual designated by the parent or legal guardian who is on-site when the minor is on-site. Minors must have a permission slip on file with Registration signed by a parent or guardian.
If a membership badge is lost, you are encouraged to search everywhere before a new one is issued. Make sure you check with Lost and Found (both the hotel and the convention have lost and found departments), Registration, and Safety before purchasing a replacement badge. The fee for replacement of a lost badge is $120. If you find your badge after having us replace it, we will return
$115 of the replacement fee. The remaining $5 covers processing the new badge.
Norwescon memberships are non-refundable. If you are unable to attend the convention after purchasing your membership, you may roll that membership over to the following year. You may also transfer your membership to someone else in the current convention year. Please contact with membership questions.
A member may transfer their membership to the following year by submitting a written, signed request to Norwescon no later than 30 days following the convention for which the membership was issued. There shall be a downloadable form for requesting a rollover of membership to the next convention on the website.
If a membership goes unused the year it is issued, and a transfer is not issued during the following year, it is forfeited.
Norwescon reserves the right to refuse or withdraw membership at any time for any reason.
Norwescon is a safe and welcoming space for persons of all backgrounds and descriptions. Everyone should have a great time in their own way at the convention---but not if it comes at the expense of others. As a community, we insist on behavior that respects the autonomy of each individual member.
To help ensure an enjoyable experience for all, we expect you to abide by the following guidelines. Norwescon will take appropriate action to enforce our code of conduct at all of our meetings and events.
Be respectful of others. This includes the members, program participants, volunteers, convention staff, and hotel staff.
Do not display potentially offensive images or symbols in public spaces, or in your background in the case of virtual participation. This includes images that are sexually graphic, or which carry connotations that are historically or racially offensive, including bigoted iconography or symbolism.
Do not record any convention content without prior permission from Norwescon.
Keep all content appropriate for all ages unless you are participating in an area or activity explicitly labeled as 18+.
Comply with applicable laws, regulations, and the policies of Norwescon as described in the Membership Guide.
Commit to behavior that uplifts marginalized voices in our community and advances a more equitable, just society.
Norwescon strives to provide a safe and welcoming space for persons of all descriptions. Everyone should be able to have a great time, in their own way, at the convention---but not at the expense of others. As a community, we insist on behavior that respects the autonomy of each individual member.
Norwescon members and convention staff have the right to be free from unwanted harassment at the convention and while performing convention-related duties throughout the year. Harassment is behavior that focuses unwelcome attention on a person and either inappropriately crosses reasonable expectations of social boundaries or continues after a clear showing of disinterest or a request to desist.
Harassment during the year may be reported to the Personnel Exec, the person's immediate supervisor, or the chair or vice chair. At the convention, reports of harassment are handled by the convention safety team or the Personnel Exec. Any staff member wearing a convention badge may
receive a report of harassment. It is each staff member's responsibility to treat a person making such a report with respect, and to offer to accompany the person to Convention Safety or the Personnel Exec. The Personnel Exec may designate a person to receive reports of harassment on their behalf.
Violations of this policy may lead to a range of consequences based on the circumstances, from a warning to more serious steps, such as revocation of convention membership or banning from future conventions.
Convention staff are required to report all incidents brought to their attention. These incidents should be reported to the safety office or the Personnel Exec as soon as possible.
Because inequality and bias pervade our culture, it is not enough to passively avoid discrimination. To uplift marginalized voices in our community and advance equity and justice, we must be anti- racist. To combat inequality, we commit to the following:
We affirm that Black lives matter, Indigenous lives matter, and the lives of people of color matter.
We will take actions that support and uplift marginalized voices in our community and advance a more equitable and just society and ask our members to do the same.
We will actively recruit diverse voices to participate in the convention and other educational activities and the planning of the convention and those activities, and then empower, not tokenize, those voices.
We will critically examine our history, traditions, and privileges and question how they impact all members of our community.
We will consider how Norwescon's educational activities and charitable giving can be leveraged to advance the principles described in this statement.
We welcome dialogue about these principles and being held accountable when we fall short of them.
Norwescon will follow all public health laws and emergency directives in force at the time of the convention. Unless local or national laws or guidelines change with respect to COVID-19 or large public gatherings, Norwescon 46 will not impose a mask requirement or a policy requiring proof of vaccination. Volunteer staff, members, and guests are strongly encouraged to test for COVID-19 before arriving on site, and may mask or not mask at their own discretion. Harassment of others for their choice to mask or not mask will be considered a Code of Conduct violation and may result in a forfeiture of membership/removal from the convention without refund, liability, or compensation. Although we will not be checking vaccination cards, Norwescon encourages all members to be vaccinated and to stay up-to-date with vaccinations against COVID-19 and other communicable diseases.
Please be advised that a risk of exposure to communicable diseases, including COVID-19, exists in any event or public space, including at Norwescon. Before registering for and attending Norwescon,
each member should read the latest CDC guidelines for prevention. By attending Norwescon, you acknowledge this inherent risk on behalf of yourself and any minor for whom you serve as guardian.
Please do not attend Norwescon if you feel sick or test positive for a communicable illness, including COVID-19 within the period of recommended isolation or quarantine. If this occurs, your membership(s) will be transferable to other attendees or may be rolled over to the following year, which we will be happy to help with if you contact
Norwescon welcomes its young and future fans. To do this, we have programs planned throughout the convention geared for different age groups. Please refer to the Pocket Program and online guide for information about programming for children, tweens, and teens.
A minor, as defined by the State of Washington, must have a parent or legal guardian/individual designated by the parent or legal guardian who is on-site when the minor is on-site. Minors must have a permission slip signed by a parent or guardian on file with registration. Children 12 and under must have a guardian with them while in convention space. They **cannot be dropped off and left unattended **at panels or events. Children presenting at panels also need their parent or guardian present.
Norwescon does not accept responsibility for supervision of attending minors; that responsibility remains with a minor's parent/guardian/designee.
Norwescon reserves the right to inspect and reject any weapon at any time for any reason.
Violation of this policy in part or in whole may lead to being removed from the convention by convention executive staff and from the hotel by hotel security or local authorities.
This policy includes all real and replicated weapons of any type that may be construed as a projectile weapon or any extension of the human hand.
The following are not allowed at all in convention or hotel space: Tasers, stun guns, batons, real guns (including but not limited to handguns, pistols, rifles, shotguns, black-powder loaded, semi- auto or full-automatic weapons, other); pepper spray, crossbows, slingshots, pellet guns, water pistols, blowguns, catapults, or any type of functioning projectile weapon.
Peacebonding will be available next to the info table during open registration hours and in the Safety office when the peacebonding table is closed.
Peacebonding is required on all weapons worn/carried on the hotel property including parking areas and indoor spaces. The only type of peacebonding allowed is that provided by the convention.
Fashion-coordinated substitutes are not sufficient.
No unsheathed weapons are allowed in any public space (unless approved in advance for the masquerade or a programming event in which bonding ties will be removed for such an event and replaced immediately afterward).
All bladed/pointed weapons must be appropriately covered in all public areas and function spaces. This includes but is not limited to daggers, swords, pikes, axes, and polearms, be they made of steel, plastic, or any other hard material.
Polearms, spears, staves, and other such weapons must be kept upright at all times and have weapon heads sheathed and bonded. The ends of said weapons must never project more than 12ʺ from the bearer's body.
Special considerations for the following:
"Nerf-style" weapons:
At no time is ammo allowed on person, in weapons, or in the magazine of such weapons, except during convention-hosted/programmed Nerf game events and only within the designated space for such programmed events.
Empty magazines are not allowed to be carried in the weapon but are allowed on the belt or in a pouch for costume purposes (again: no ammo allowed).
Bows (again, crossbows are not allowed):
Any obvious appearing toy "side arms" such as disruptors, phasers, laser tag pistols/rifles, sonic screwdrivers, laser pointers, or any other item that can project/emit light or sound shall be peacebonded; and shall remain in an appropriate holster at all times or held in an appropriate manner. Exemptions must be authorized by qualified Safety personnel.
Special consideration may be granted by the convention services executive or their designee to merchants or dealers who display or show for the purpose of sale. Any weapons removed from the dealers' room will fall under the above guidelines.
No weapons (real or replica) are allowed in the hotel's public lounges and restaurants.
This policy complies with hotel policy and local, state, and federal laws. There will be no appeal to any violation of these rules.
Be sensitive to others with your costume choices. Norwescon is a family-friendly convention, and genitals and nipples must be covered at all times. Skin paint or makeup that can be perceived as mimicking or mocking an ethnicity or culture that is not your own is unacceptable---this means no black face, brown face, red face, or yellow face is permitted, not even for fantasy races. Costumes that include or suggest Nazi imagery are also not permitted. And no messy or sticky costumes either---peanut butter is not a costume!
Norwescon members ages 21+ who choose to consume alcohol are encouraged to do so responsibly. As such, Washington state laws concerning alcohol consumption can and will be enforced by police, hotel security, and Convention Safety. Norwescon also requires all parties serving alcohol to check ID.
Guest rooms in Wing 5b and suites will be available for social events. A "social event" is a reception or open house-type event held in a guest room in Wing 5b or a hotel suite. Food and beverages may be served in compliance with hotel, state, and local regulations. Maximum occupancy guidelines will be enforced. Service of alcohol must be in accordance with Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board provisions. A special occasion license or banquet permit MUST be obtained and posted in the suite. Events that do not qualify for a special license or permit must not serve alcohol. Alcohol service times must be in accordance with state regulations. Complete social event guidelines are posted on the Norwescon website.
Washington state law states that smoking of any type is prohibited within a presumptively reasonable minimum distance of 25 feet from entrances, exits, windows that open, and ventilation intakes that serve an enclosed area where smoking is prohibited, to ensure that any type of smoke (including tobacco) does not enter the area through entrances, exits, open windows, or other means. Smoking areas at the hotel are clearly marked.
The DoubleTree does not permit the smoking of marijuana or other cannabis products anywhere on the property. Norwescon members ages 21+ who choose to consume smokeless cannabis products are encouraged to do so responsibly. As such, Washington State laws concerning cannabis consumption can and will be enforced by police, hotel security, and convention safety.
Although the DoubleTree is a pet-friendly hotel, only service animals are allowed in Norwescon convention space, not pets. Service animals may be issued a complimentary convention badge at registration. Please be considerate of other convention attendees when navigating hallways and convention space with your service animal. If you encounter a working service animal, please do not touch it without first asking permission from the owner. Contact the hotel for their specific rules about animals in guest rooms and public hotel areas.
Norwescon intends to provide all convention members with an equal opportunity to participate in all panels, programs, and activities, including members with accessible needs. Norwescon has therefore implemented a policy to increase awareness of the needs of individuals with disabilities as outlined in the text of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. ADA seating should be clearly marked with blue tape and obvious placards in most convention programming space. Please note that for larger events with early ADA seating, seating in front of the blue line will be limited to two (2) attendants per disabled person. Seating to the rear of the blue line shall be unlimited.
Flyers may be posted only on the paper or cloth-covered kiosks provided by Norwescon. Check at the info table for locations. Do not attach anything to walls, windows, or doors. The hotel and/or the convention staff will remove any flyers found in unauthorized places.
One word on this subject:
Don't.
While in public areas, panels, or events, it is possible official Norwescon photographers may take your photo as part of a group. You may request that photographers not photograph you, and our photography team will do their best to comply. If you find photos in our galleries after the convention, you may contact us to request that your photo be removed.
Opening Ceremonies are held on Thursday night of the convention. They are an excellent way to catch a first glimpse of our guests of honor and find out about exciting events.
Art in Action is a very special area where you can interact directly with artists and makers while they work. See the process unfold and ask questions as several artists, working in multiple media, show how they do it. Look for information about Art in Action this year in Guidebook, on the website, and at the info table.
BAG CHECK: For the safety and protection of the artwork, some personal items may need to be checked at the time of entry into the art show at the bag check station. These items may include, but are not limited to: all bags, large coats or cloaks, and any large costume accessories that may cause safety concerns. Bag check is located in the Grand cloakroom directly across from the art show entrance.
BIDDING: You can use the kiosk in the art show to generate bid stickers that are tied to your Norwescon account. Attach one of the stickers to the bid tag along with the amount of your bid. Remember- a bid is a commitment to buy and you will be held to that commitment should you win. Under no circumstances may you withdraw your bid, so please consider carefully before placing any bids. It is not fair to the artist or other potential bidders if you bid on a piece and then decide you do not want it.
DIRECT SALE: If you purchase a piece at the direct sale price, it belongs to you and will be marked SOLD. For attendees with a full membership, the art must remain on display until Sunday morning. A receipt will be issued at the time of sale, and you must present this receipt when picking up your art on Sunday. Attendees with one-day memberships may take their purchases with them at the time of sale. The art show director will provide pick-up times.
PRINT SHOP: Many of our artists bring prints of their work. Watch for a sign in an artist's display area advertising if they have prints for sale. Print shop items may be purchased at any time during the convention. Additionally, many of our music performers have their CDs available for sale in the art show print shop.
The last event of the convention each year, closing ceremonies gives us a chance to say "goodbye" and "thank you" to our guests of honor.
Onions and Roses is a panel held immediately following closing ceremonies on Sunday. At this panel, the convention membership provides feedback both positive (roses) and negative (onions) to the Norwescon chair and convention services director.
The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States. The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society sponsors the award, and Norwescon sponsors the award ceremony. For more information on the award, see https://www.philipkdickaward.org.
The first time the Philip K. Dick Award was presented at Norwescon was at Norwescon 7, when the award went to Tim Powers for The Anubis Gates. See your pocket program for the location and time of this year's ceremony.
Each year the Norwescon masquerade showcases the works of many of the best costumers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The masquerade is held Saturday night in Grand Ballrooms 2 and 3 and is open to all Norwescon attendees. If you wish to enter, you must pre-register. Please check the pocket program or Guidebook for the days/times of required meetings you must attend to compete.
The single-pattern contest focuses on wearable art pieces created from a preselected pattern. Each year the contest coordinator selects a pattern, which often ties into the convention's theme. The entrants then create their designs prior to the convention. There is no pre-registration needed.
Entrants will show their creations at the single pattern contest show and share event.
If you would like information on entering future single pattern contests, watch the Norwescon website in the fall or register for the Norwescon electronic newsletter.
The cloak room is located in the Grand cloakroom in the lobby behind registration and across from
the art show, and will be open 24 hours. Refer to Guidebook for hours of operation. This is a free service provided by the convention for the use of convention members. The cloak room is for temporary storage of parcels, coats, and bags; it is not meant as a substitute hotel room, food locker, or storage of medications or medical supplies. Please make other arrangements for these types of items. We reserve the right to refuse any article.
Norwescon is not responsible for items left in the cloak room. Use of the room is at your own risk. Before you place your items in the cloak room, make certain to understand the hours of operation.
We invite you to hang out in the convention lounge: the convention's "living room." We are happy to offer a comfortable, genial space for members to hang out, plan your next workshop, panel, or event, relax with friends, enjoy lively conversation, and partake of some light snacks. The convention lounge is located in 7106 and 7108 in Wing 7. It will be open Thursday through Saturday, 9 a.m.--11 p.m., and Sunday, 9 a.m.--4 p.m.
We know it's important to offer nourishment in a friendly atmosphere to our members and we're confident the Convention Lounge offers the right combination.
The nerve centers of the convention are the convention offices. The main convention office and the convention safety office are both located in Wing 7, Olympic 3. Someone will be available all hours of the day to assist with convention issues and concerns.
The convention office hours are:
Thursday 9 a.m.--1 p.m. and 2--10 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m.--1 p.m. and 2--10 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m.--1 p.m. and 2--10 p.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m.--1 p.m.
A dedicated place for BIPOC and AAPI members of the Norwescon community together, rest, and refresh. BIPOC = Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. AAPI = Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The Lounge is located in Room 7101 in Wing 7 of the hotel.
The BIPOC & AAPI Lounge Hours are:
Thursday 9 a.m.--8 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m.--8 p.m.
Saturday 9 a.m.--8 p.m.
Sunday 9 a.m.--3 p.m.
Norwescon's official daily 'zine contains news of the day from around the con as well as last-minute schedule changes. The most up-to-date information can be found on the Guidebook app. A digital copy will also be available for viewing at the info table in the lobby.
Find the most complete information about Norwescon participants and activities online via Guidebook. Content is updated continuously after our paper publications go to print, including hyperlinks to our guests of honor and panelists' websites, schedule changes, convention information, interactive hotel maps, and downloadable materials from our panels. You can set up your own schedule of events and have the app send you reminders! Guidebook is user-friendly on iPhones, Android phones, tablets, and all other devices. There is a native app for iPhone and Android and a mobile web app for other devices. Access it via guidebook.com/getit.
See CONVENTION LOUNGE
Information about the convention, the hotel, and the local area can be found at the info table, located in the convention lobby, across from registration. If you have questions after the information table closes, please go to the convention office in Wing 7.
The lost and found is located in Olympic 3, the convention safety office. If you lose something during the convention, check both the convention's lost and found and with the hotel. If it does not turn up right away, check back on Sunday afternoon---sometimes a lost item can take a while to be discovered and filter in.
Lost and found as well as unclaimed articles left in the cloak room after 4 p.m. on Sunday will go into the hotel's lost and found. Please check with both the convention and the hotel lost and found departments during the convention for items that you may have misplaced during the convention.
SEE RULES AND POLICIES: Weapons Policy
Norwescon recognizes that the future of convention attendees and volunteering staff will come from the teens currently attending the convention with their parents. In an effort to give our younger members the opportunity to gain firsthand experience and a behind-the-scenes look into the world of conventions, Norwescon implemented the Teen Runner program. If you are between the ages of 13 and 17 and are looking for things to do at the convention, stop by the volunteers table and try your hand at helping out as a runner. There are jobs in many areas, such as registration, technical services, the convention office, volunteers, masquerade, and dispatch, which are suitable for teenagers and are vital to the convention.
The teen lounge is a public space where convention attendees ages 13-17 may gather and get to know one another. It is located in Concourse East, between Wing 6 and Wing 7.
Norwescon runs on volunteers, and without them, no convention would be possible. As such, everyone is encouraged to volunteer at the convention for a few hours. There are many things you can volunteer for that allow for attendance at certain events. As a bonus, volunteers who have helped at any time during the con will receive a special token of appreciation. Go to the volunteer table in Olympic 3 in Wing 7 and sign up for a shift (or two, or three, or four, or five).
Volunteering does not provide babysitting. Minors may volunteer with permission of their parent/guardian/designee but should not be dropped off without a specific purpose.
The pool and hot tub are open to hotel guests until 11 p.m. and can be accessed with a hotel room key. The pool and hot tub will be closed for scheduled cleaning and maintenance during part of the day. Please read the pool and hot tub rules posted in that area. The rules, including hygiene rules, must be obeyed if we want to keep this area open for the weekend.
Free WiFi is available in the coffee area outside of Seaports Lounge. There may be public terminals available for limited use in the same area.
The DoubleTree has a monitored parking system. There are three entry gates into the hotel parking lot. Tickets are dispensed at each gate, and payment is made as you leave or at one of the marked kiosks in the hotel lobby. Off-site parking is also available nearby.
The first car registered to each hotel room is free.
Any additional cars registered to the same hotel room are charged $16 per day and receive in/out privileges.
Attendees who drive to the convention but do not stay at the hotel will be charged $16 per 24-hour day with NO in/out privileges.
Motorcycles are charged the same convention rate of $16 per 24-hour day. No special motorcycle parking spaces are available, and a standard parking space must be used.
If you are pulling a trailer and/or use more than one parking space, the parking fee will be $16 per parking stall used. (Using two stalls will be $32 per day and so on.)
Disabled parking stalls are charged the same convention rate of $16 per day.
Parking is always limited at Norwescon. Do not park in fire lanes. Do not park in spaces marked for those with disabilities unless you have a valid handicap permit. Please only park in marked parking spaces. Vehicles parked in unauthorized areas (including those set aside for reserved parking spaces) will be towed. Please park legally and walk the distance rather than parking in unauthorized areas. Many parking lots are available in the area, and some provide transport to and from the airport and hotel.
(Please note that hours are subject to change.)
Open from 5 a.m.--10 p.m. Between the main hotel lobby and Norwescon registration you will find the Thunderbird Market gift shop and coffee bar.
The Coffee Garden will be open daily from 6--10 a.m., Monday through Friday, and 6--11 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
Open from noon--1 a.m., Seaports offers a lunch and dinner menu, plus a large selection of cocktails, craft beer, and wine.
Menus for these restaurants and lounges can be found on our website.
Room service is available daily from 6 a.m.--midnight and can be accessed through your in-room telephone.
We recommend that you speak with your server before ordering. Hotel menus clearly indicate which dishes are vegetarian, vegan, or contain allergens.
13 Coins---18000 International Blvd. (206-243-9500). Open Monday through Thursday from 6 a.m.--11 p.m. Open 6 a.m.--2 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Serving up hearty fare just a five-minute walk north of the hotel.
Denny's---18623 International Blvd. (206-248-1558). Across International Blvd. Road from the convention hotel. Open 24 hours.
Jack-In-The-Box---2840 South 188th (206-244-6293). Across International Blvd. from the convention hotel. Drive-through is open 24 hours. This restaurant is open for dining 6 a.m.-- midnight Monday through Sunday.
L&L Hawaiian Barbecue---18613 International Blvd., Bldg. B-3 (206-432-9646). Across International Blvd. from the convention hotel. The name says it all: Hawaiian-style BBQ and other Hawaiian staples. Monday through Sunday, 10:30 a.m.--9 p.m.
Mango Thai Cuisine & Bar -18613 International Blvd (206-243-1888), across International Blvd. from the convention hotel. Casual, contemporary eatery offering a varied menu of classic Thai dishes and handcrafted cocktails. Monday through Friday 11 a.m.--9 p.m.; Saturday noon--3 p.m. and 4--9 p.m. Closed on Sundays.
Masae's Teriyaki---19021 International Blvd. (206-241-6231). A few minutes' walk south on International Blvd. from the convention hotel, just past the Days Inn. Japanese food. Monday through Friday, 11 a.m.--9 p.m. Saturday from 11:45 a.m.--8 p.m. Closed on Sundays.
Sharps RoastHouse---18427 International Blvd. (206-241-5744). Across International Blvd. the convention hotel. Features rotisserie chicken, baby back ribs, smoked meats, daily happy hours, and a kids' menu. Restaurant and bar are open for dine-in and takeout Monday through Sunday 11 a.m.-- midnight. Happy hours are 3--6 p.m. Takeout is available 11 a.m.--midnight.
Subway---18613 International Blvd. (206-436-8570). Across International Blvd. from the convention hotel. Sandwiches and salads. Monday through Sunday 9 a.m.--1:30 a.m.
Taco Bell---18812 International Blvd. (206-243-8171). Across 188th St. from the convention hotel. The restaurant is open from 7 a.m. - 10 p.m. and the drive-through is open Monday through Sunday 7 a.m.--3 a.m.
7-Eleven---20008 Pacific Hwy S. (206-824-3984). South on International Blvd. from the convention hotel, just past the Day's Inn. Open 24 hours.
7-Eleven---3120 S 176th St (206-242-4559). North on International Blvd. from the convention hotel and right on 176th St. Near the Hilton. Open 24 hours.
7-Eleven---19023 International Blvd. (206-243-8854). South on International Blvd. from the convention hotel. Open 24 hours.
Costco -- 400 Costco Drive #150 (206-575-9191). Fifteen-minute drive east of the convention hotel. Open Monday through Friday 10 a.m.--8:30 p.m.; Saturday 9:30 a.m.--7 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.--6 p.m. Costco Food Court is open Monday through Friday 10 a.m.--8:30 p.m., Saturday 9:30 a.m.--6 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.--6 p.m. Costco Pharmacy is open Monday through Friday 10 a.m.--8:30 pm, Saturday 9:30 am--6 p.m. and is closed on Sundays. Costco gas station 6 a.m.--8 p.m. Costco membership required.
Safeway---4011 S. 164th St. (206-244-2567). Includes a deli, bakery, pharmacy, Starbucks, video, and liquor departments. Pharmacy open Monday through Friday 9 a.m.--1:30 p.m., 2--9 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.--1:30 p.m., 2--6 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.--1:30 p.m. 2--6 p.m. Store hours Monday through Sunday 5 a.m.--1 a.m. Delivery available Monday through Sunday 8 a.m.--9 p.m. Full-service Wells Fargo bank on-premises. FedEx drop-off and pickup location.
Safeway -- 21401 Pacific Hwy S. (206-824-2737). Includes a deli, bakery, pharmacy, Starbucks, and liquor departments. Open 5 a.m.--midnight Monday through Sunday. Pharmacy open Monday through Friday 9 a.m.--1:30 p.m., 2--9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m.--1:30 p.m., 2--6 p.m.
Safeway gas station open Monday through Friday 7 a.m.--10 p.m. ATM. FedEx drop off and pickup location.
There is an ATM in the hotel lobby. There is a U.S. Bank ATM inside the airport, 17801 International Blvd., open 24 hours Monday through Sunday. The Safeway at 4011 S. 164th Street has a Wells Fargo Bank, ATM open Monday through Sunday 5 a.m.--1 a.m. The 7-11 at 3120 S. 176th Street contains a Citibank ATM open Monday through Friday 24 hours. A Key Bank with ATM is located at 275 Andover Park West near Southcenter Mall, Open Monday through Friday 24 hours.
Attach your badge to the outside of your outfit. This act saves you from having to fish it out when asked by door guards or convention safety.
Remember to carry your identification (driver's license, state identification, etc.) with you at all times. Identification is required at the hotel lounges and room parties. Also, remember to bring money or your credit card; you never know when you will see something you want in the dealers' room or the art show.
Note: you may be asked to provide your identification for entry into events and panels labeled "18+ or 21+ with ID." Without your ID, you may be refused entry.
ID is also needed to borrow a board game in Cascade 12 (Dragonflight, and the Library of Alexandria)
Download the Guidebook app and add Norwescon 46. Every year this app is expanded and contains much more than just the daily schedule. Guidebook is updated regularly during the convention to keep you up-to-date on what is happening or what has changed. Vendors, pros, and artists frequently link additional content in Guidebook, so be sure to explore the app.
Highlight or favorite the panels you want to attend so that you do not miss them.
Check out the Daily 'Zine every morning to learn of any changes to the daily schedule. Mass copies of the Daily 'Zine are no longer printed, but you will find one posted at the info table, in the green room, the convention lounge, and the office, as well as in Guidebook.
Visit the convention lounge for a fannish family reunion. Catch up with old friends and share your fannish interests with new friends.
Please remember to eat! As noted above, the hotel has several options available at a variety of price points, and there are other food options within walking distance. Due to budget constraints, Norwescon is only able to offer snacks in our convention lounge, but feel free to bring in your own food while catching up with friends.
Practice good hygiene throughout the weekend; regular handwashing and showers are the best protection for yourself and others from any unwelcome microbial or viral friends.
Volunteer! It's a great way to get to know people.
The hotel's main doors in the lobby are the only hotel entrances guaranteed to be open at all times. Because of this, we recommend that hotel guests have their room key card with them whenever they leave their room. Example: Rotunda 1, for instance, can only be accessed with a room key card from the parking lot, or by navigating to Rotunda 2 and going downstairs.
Welcome to Norwescon 46: Into the Wylde
The Forty-sixth Annual Northwest Regional
Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
Writer Guest of Honor -
Jim Butcher
Artist Guest of Honor -
Charles Vess
Science Guest of Honor -
Dr. Raychelle Burks
Spotlight Publisher -
Clarkesworld Magazine
Special Guest of Honor -
Kate Alice Marshall
cover art © Charles Vess
Except where noted, contents are copyright ©2024 Norwescon for the contributors.
All opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Norwescon.
Your pocket program contains all kinds of cool stuff. There are schedules for events, information on those events, services available, maps, and convention hours.
For further information about the convention, go to the Information Table located in the convention space lobby.
The most up-to-date information can be found in the Guidebook app, as updates are made frequently during the convention. Feel free to download the app on your phone or other mobile device.
Your pocket program and event descriptions are broken up into two books for easier transportation.
The first book contains Thursday and Friday event programming.
The second book contains Saturday and Sunday event programming.
Thursday: 9 a.m.—8 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m.—8 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m.—8 p.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m.—3 p.m.
Thursday 9 a.m.—1 p.m. & 2—10 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m.—1 p.m. & 2—10 p.m.
Saturday 9 a.m.—1 p.m. & 2—10 p.m.
Sunday 9 a.m.—1 p.m.
(253) 235-9296
During programming hours, pick up a house phone, dial 0, and ask for "Norwescon"
Thursday: noon—9 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m.—9 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m.—9 p.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m.—3 p.m.
Thursday: 9 a.m.—11 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m.—11 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m.—11 p.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m.—4 p.m.
Open 24 hours
Thursday 9 a.m. —Sunday 6 p.m.
Thursday 9 a.m.—8 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m.—8 p.m.
Saturday 9 a.m.—8 p.m.
Sunday 9 a.m.—3 p.m.
Thursday: 9 a.m.—7 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m.—7 p.m.
Saturday: 9 a.m.—7 p.m.
Sunday: 9 a.m.—3 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m.—8 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m.—7 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m.—2:30 p.m.
Thursday 4—8 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m.—7 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m.—6 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m.—4 p.m.
Thursday: 2 p.m.—10 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m.—midnight
Saturday: 10 a.m.—midnight
Sunday: 10 a.m.—4 p.m.
Games may continue after hours, but no Games staff will be available after the posted closing time.
Thursday: 2 p.m.—10 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m.—midnight
Saturday: 10 a.m.—midnight
Sunday: 10 a.m.—4 p.m.
Thursday: 5 a.m.—10 p.m.
Friday: 5 a.m.—10 p.m.
Saturday: 5 a.m.—10 p.m.
Sunday: 5 a.m.—10 p.m.
Thursday: noon—1 a.m.
Friday: noon—1 a.m.
Saturday: noon—1 a.m.
Sunday: noon—1 a.m.
Thursday: 6 a.m.—10 a.m.
Friday: 6 a.m.—10 a.m.
Saturday: 6 a.m.—11 a.m.
Sunday: 6 a.m.—11 a.m.
Thursday: 6 a.m.—midnight
Friday: 6 a.m.—midnight
Saturday: 6 a.m.—midnight
Sunday: 6 a.m.—midnight
7—9 a.m. Grand 2
Play Lazer Tag, either with or against your friends! All equipment is provided. We will be playing with vintage Star Wars Lazer Tag equipment from Tiger Electronics.
9—10 a.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Calling all costumers, cosplayers, and stage crew volunteers. Swing into the pre-Masquerade meeting to find out the essential details for entering or assisting with this year's masquerade. Whether you want to strut your stuff for the first time or are returning to up your game, we will cover the information you need to participate in this year's big event and answer your questions. If you plan to enter the masquerade you MUST attend one of the two pre- masquerade meetings: Friday at 7 p.m. or Saturday at 9 a.m. in Cascade 7 & 8.
Dahlia (M)
9—10 a.m. Olympic 1
Start your day with some coloring sheets and cartoons.
Jenny Shafer (M)
9—10 a.m. Olympic 2
Teens and tweens: come show off your achievements and earn coin! Exchange coin for prizes.
10—10:30 a.m. Cascade 3
Fang—an AI-enhanced canine who retired after his human Special Ops partner died in combat—now runs an online PI agency. Fang teams up with Katarin (herself an orphan) when a series of murders and an abduction leads to Gaia's Children—an eco-activist cult. As Fang and Kat try to save the world from the cult's terrorist act of literally biblical proportions, can he transcend his wounded past to form a bond with his new partner? This WIP grew from a short story published in Abyss & Apex, and re-released in The Best of Abyss & Apex Volume Three. Rated PG (mild descriptions of violence and torture).
Tom D Wright (M)
10—11 a.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Recommended printers, paper, and even third-party printing companies for your art. Learn what would be best for you!
Michael Brugger (M), Brittany Torres, Lizzy D. Hill
10—11 a.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Come join us as we discuss methods and resources for everything from improving basic wigs straight out of the bag to creating elaborate sculptures that complete your show- stopping costume masterpiece.
Melissa Quinn (M), Julie Zetterberg, Zamesta Cosplay, Torrey Stenmark
10—11 a.m. Cascade 9
Before COVID, it seemed like the default for gaming tables was a whole lot of miniatures and many different battle maps. But as we all quarantined, virtual tabletop programs rapidly became the norm. Are we going to see gaming with miniatures disappear? Panelists will discuss the pros and cons of each approach.
Tim Nightengale (M), Luis Loza, Ron Lundeen, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, Jason Nelson
10—11 a.m. Cascade 10
What is burnout? Learn about causes, signs, and recovery. How do you prevent it?
Liz Coleman (M), Danielle Gembala, Laura Cranehill, Sara A Mueller
10 a.m.—midnight
Cascade 11 Want to set up your own game? Cascade 11 has space for your RPG, board, or card games. Check one out from Dragonflight's Lending Library or bring your own.
10 a.m.—midnight Cascade 12
Come check out games from our lending libraries. We have RPGs, card games, board games, and so much more! An official state driver's license or state ID is needed to check out games. This space has tables to play the games you borrow or bring yourselves. There will also be some scheduled games. Need ADA access? Please speak to our staff when you sign up so we can meet your needs.
10—11 a.m. Cascade 13
The finale is in sight, and it's time to stick the landing. Discover the art of concluding fantasy tales as our authors share their thoughts on impactful endings, the qualities that tie up story and theme threads, and practical ideas to enhance the conclusion of your work.
G.R. Theron (M), Kate Ristau, Brenda Carre, Carol Berg, Dean Wells, Tegan Moore
10—11 a.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
Even those existing U.N. space treaties/ agreements have not been signed by many governments, but more and more countries are achieving a presence in space. Does anybody think disputes over space resources won't cause trouble on Terra? Before it's too late, what kind of pressure can be applied to stop the waffling? Some kind of multi-group strike?
Bart Kemper (M), Dave Davis, Kathy, Ethan Vodde, Phil L. Swan
10 a.m.—noon Evergreen 3 & 4
You were there for the previous part, right, where we figured out what we needed and planned this movie all out? Quick! Time travel! Or drop in anyway and become a Valued Actor Person. Today, we shoot like mad weasels, because there's not much time! So don't be late, or you'll just see red-shifted versions of us. The key to making a movie, of course, is to get the footage in the can (or "box", actually, because we're shooting video). It's two hours of madness but always worth it in the end!
Brian D. Oberquell, dQ Kaufman, Ryan K. Johnson, Edward Martin III
10—11 a.m. Olympic 1
Costume craft hour! Let's make tails, tiaras, belts, hats, and other accessories using techniques like gluing, simple sewing, and stapling. Small children will need assistance.
Jenny Shafer (M), Bryana Cross Bean, Attorney at Law, Belsac
10—11 a.m. Olympic 2
Join us as we talk about the fantasy genre: what is it, how we approach it, and why you should write it. After the panel, we will brainstorm a fantasy story or two together.
Camden Rose (M), Lezli Robyn, Randy Henderson, Brianna Tibbetts
10—11 a.m. Grand 2
Our guests of honor and attending professionals are available to sign autographs. Note: so that as many fans as possible can participate, we will be enforcing a three-item (or single-sketch) autograph limit.
Jim Butcher, Charles Vess, Dr. Raychelle Burks, Kate Alice Marshall, Neil Clarke, Nancy Kress, Brenda Cooper, Daryl Gregory, David D. Levine, D.L. Gardner, Gordon B. White, Gwendolyn N. Nix, Talulah J. Sullivan, Jack Skillingstead, Julie McGalliard, Karen Eisenbrey, Kate Sherman, Kat Richardson, Ken Bebelle, Kendare Blake, Liz Argall, Rhiannon/R.Z. Held, Richard Sparks, Sean K. Reynolds, Spencer Ellsworth, Steven Barnes, Tara Campbell, Travis Baldree, Tyrean Martinson, S.L. Coney, Bethany Jacobs, Evan J. Peterson, L.J. Melvin, Dilman Dila
10—11:30 a.m. Maxi's Ballroom
Come make necklaces, bracelets, or earrings. All supplies provided. Limited to 20 participants. $5 cost, cash only. Signups will open at the info table 24 hours before the panel.
Cindy Fangour (M), Thursday, Pat Reed, L.E.G.
10—11:30 a.m. Maxi's Lounge
This is a beginner's dance class focused on learning basic moves and how to move your body for belly dance, plus tips for building the strength needed to excel. Please bring a water bottle.
Siyrren (M)
10—10 p.m. Maxi's Salon
Artemis is a spaceship bridge simulator where players assume the jobs of captain, helm, science officer, communications, engineering, and weapons, and work together to defeat alien enemies.
10—11 a.m. Art Show Panel 8
Ellis Bray will be demonstrating the art of woodburning on a wood panel, using a pyrography pen and a variety of nibs. Come for the art, stay for the pleasant (and faint) scent of woodsmoke.
10—11 a.m. Presidential Suite 1360
There will be just a few minutes of chatting at the beginning, as a kind of welcome. The remainder of the time will be spent silently reading our individual books of choice. That's it! Just a designated time and space to silently read with others. Feel free to bring a blanket, pillow, or your favorite reading comfort item.
10 a.m.—midnight Rotunda 1 & 2
Come sign up for a game! We have Pathfinder Society, Adventure League, RPGs, card games, and much more! After scheduled gaming closes, this area is available for open games. Need ADA access for a game? Please speak to our staff when you sign up so we can be sure to meet your needs. Rotunda 1 is located down Concourse 1 or 2 on the first floor.
10:30—11 a.m. Cascade 3
Where Rivers Go to Die. The story of a child, might be human, grieving the deal of their mother, which they caused, and discovering their true identity and purpose. Rated G.
Dilman Dila(M)
11—11:30 a.m. Cascade 3
After the Tide. A brief description: A mysterious game has been announced, this night only, and Adria is one of many hopefuls drawn to the promise of fortune. She has her father's ashes in her pack, hard-fought freedom in her future, and the growing suspicion in her mind that something alarmingly alien lurks in the City-beneath-the-City. Rating PG.
Jessie Kwak (M)
11 a.m.—noon Cascade 5 & 6
Several companies, including Blue Origin, Bigelow Aerospace, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic, are pushing sub-orbital space tourism, while SpaceX is selling private orbital spaceflight missions. Which is safer? What do you expect to accomplish, and are those flights worth the money? When are we going to get our cheap tourist flights to space?
Hugh S. Gregory (M), Andy Dykes, Phil L. Swan, Dr. Sean Robinson, Dave Davis, Dan Dubrick
11 a.m.—noon Cascade 7 & 8
How do you manage consent at your table? Are you tired of losing good players? Are your players being consensual with each other? What are the expectations of the characters? Have you even talked about it? TTPRGs can enter a lot of difficult, amazing, and edgy psychological territory. It's part of what makes it fun and interesting. There are ways to make the game and the exploration that goes with it deeper, more open, and safer. Join our panelists as they discuss ways to make things more consensual at the table and how, in doing so, you can create even more amazing sessions.
Sar Surmick (M), Shanna Germain, Elliott Kay, Sean K. Reynolds, Jenny Jarzabski
11 a.m.—noon Cascade 9
Fanfic isn't a new invention. For a long time it has been a safe space in which to play and create, from the birth of slash fiction and Mary Sues to current professional authors who still write and post fanfic on the side. How has fanfiction been published and shared in the past, and how has it evolved into its own creative entity, not just "practice for real writing?"
Kris "Pepper" Hambrick (M), Berlynn Wohl, Janna Silverstein, Anne Stewart, B. Zelkovich
11 a.m.—noon Cascade 10
Researching Asian myth for fiction writing is not always what you expect it to be. Finding the material you need may require digging deeper into references, and sometimes asking your parents. Come hear our panelists talk about their experiences.
Ken Bebelle (M), Shiv Ramdas, Ann Shilling
11 a.m.—noon Evergreen 1 & 2
Indigenous SFF is often misunderstood and rejected by the mainstream as "too complicated" or not following a "three act structure." Many times, these stories—and the rich cultures they come from—are left out of the discussion entirely. But we have always been here and have intriguing stories to tell.
Talulah J. Sullivan (M), Mir Plemmons, Scotty McIntosh
11 a.m.—noon Olympic 1
Listen to stories as you color.
Jenny Shafer (M), Lizzy D. Hill
11 a.m.—noon Olympic 2
Have you ever wanted to build a board game? Come talk to experts about all aspects of creating a game, from idea, to playtesting, to finding markets. If there's time, we'll brainstorm and create one during the panel!
Camden Rose (M), Marta Murvosh
11 a.m.—noon Grand 2
Our guests of honor and attending professionals are available to sign autographs. Note: So that as many fans as possible can participate, we will be enforcing a three-item (or single-sketch) autograph limit.
Charles Vess, Dr. Raychelle Burks, Jim Butcher, Kate Alice Marshall, Neil Clarke, Stan!, Jeff Grubb, Brianna Tibbetts, Alma Alexander, Amanda Cherry, Andrew Penn Romine, D.L. Solum, Ellis Bray, Kurt Cagle, Laura Anne Gilman, Patrick Swenson, Clara Ward, Thea Prieto, Erik Scott de Bie, Eva L. Elasigue, J.P. Barnett, Kara Swanson, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Lish McBride, Agathon McGeachy, Dr. Mark Rounds, Curtis C. Chen, David Boop, Lydia K. Valentine, G. David Nordley, S.L. Coney, Brenda Carre, Carol Berg, Dean Wells, Sandra Rosner, Jeannine Hall Gailey
11 a.m.—noon Presidential Suite 1360
Discuss utopian and dystopian writing and concepts. What if utopia was objectively achievable? What happens when that utopia collapses?
11:30—noon Cascade 3
Better Living Through Alchemy. Evan's new occult noir novel follows Kelly Mun, a "non-linear" detective with a psychic sense of smell. A mysterious businesswoman hires Kelly to find the source of a magical drug causing bizarre deaths in Seattle. Rated R.
Evan J. Peterson (M)
noon—12:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Traveling With the Wolf. Excerpt from Book 5 in the Tales of the Rougarou series. Rated PG.
Julie McGalliard (M)
noon—1 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
No pre-registration is required to compete in the Single Pattern Contest. Please bring your completed entry to Cascade 5 & 6 for judging. Please provide a short description of your entry, its inspiration, and any special techniques or materials used.
noon—1 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Writer's workshops can be an amazing way to hone your skills and meet likeminded writers, but they are often inaccessible due to cost, the need to travel, or limited accommodations. What's changed since the pandemic, and what's stayed the same? What happens once you're there, online or in person? Alumni from some of spec fic's top workshops share their experiences, including topics such as the romantic ideal of the writing workshop, things they wish they'd known before they went, and whether or not attending a workshop has advanced their writing careers.
Celeste Wakefield (M), Randy Henderson, Remy Nakamura, Luke Elliott, K.G. Anderson
noon—1 p.m. Cascade 9
How and from what does neurodivergence diverge? What may be some cognitive differences and how do they express themselves in the world?
Liz Coleman (M), Danielle Gembala, Liz Argall, Brian U. Garrison, A.W. McCollough
noon—1 p.m. Cascade 10
There are plenty of reasons not to write a sex scene—your audience may not like it, it's boring if done badly—but what is a sex scene good for? What can a well-written sex scene do that another type of scene can't? How much spice do readers expect to find in space opera?
Rhiannon/R.Z. Held (M), Steven Barnes, Shanna Germain, Sar Surmick
noon—1 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
Since 1999, the Endeavour Award has recognized the best of fantasy and science fiction novels or short story collections published by Pacific Northwest authors. Come learn more about the award and the regional luminaries who have been honored as winners or finalists over the years.
Jim Kling (M), Sara A Mueller, Ken Scholes, Laura Anne Gilman, Brenda Cooper, David D. Levine, Kat Richardson
noon—1 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually at Norwescon with the support of the Philip K Dick Trust and recognizes distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust, and the award ceremony is sponsored by Norwescon. Come learn all about it!
Gordon Van Gelder (M), S.L. Coney, Bethany Jacobs, Dilman Dila
1—2 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
How many artists does it take to make a monster? Well, in this case it'll take more than one! Come watch these talented artists as they switch from easel to easel, each doing their part to create awesome unique monsters.
Lizzy D. Hill (M), Douglas Herring, Stan!, Eric L Vargas, Larry Lewis
noon—1 p.m. Olympic 2
What is the difference between a short story and a novel? Hear from writers about how they approach the two differently (or similarly) and what makes each so distinct. If there is time, we might even discuss forms that don't fit in either category, like novelettes or novellas.
Camden Rose (M), Tom D Wright, Kendare Blake, Tyrean Martinson
noon—1 p.m. Grand 2
Padawans, do you feel the call of the Force? Join the Jedi and Sith of Kamino Temple and learn how to use a lightsaber! Take your first steps into a larger world.
Torrey Stenmark (M)
noon—1 p.m. Maxi's Ballroom
Come and learn many tips and tricks from our panel of experts. Each panelist will demonstrate various sewing skills in short, live demonstrations, with each demo lasting approximately 15 minutes. Participants will rotate from demo to demo, learning and exploring the multiple facets needed to enhance your sewing journey. Beginners and experts alike will find this round-robin panel fun and informative.
Theresa Halbert (M), Melissa Quinn, Ieva Ohaks, Hazel
12:30—1 p.m. Cascade 3
Richard reads an excerpt from his fantasy adventure New Rock New Role— one with a strong comic thread. Rated PG.
Richard Sparks (M)
1—1:30 p.m. Cascade 3
TBD
Nancy Kress (M)
1—2 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Come and see all the entries and learn about them firsthand from their creators. The People's Choice award will be decided, and the winners will be announced at this panel along with the showing and sharing of the items.
1—2 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Many films now recognized as horror classics were scorned by critics when they were new. But some poorly received horror movies are still waiting for their time to be recognized as masterpieces. Our panelists discuss their favorite examples.
Gordon B. White (M), Brian D. Oberquell, Kendare Blake, Anne Stewart
1—2 p.m. Cascade 9
What is the right path for you? Discuss the pros and cons of each so that you can make more informed decisions.
Tom Whitmore (M), Rhiannon/R.Z. Held, Brianna Tibbetts, D.L. Solum, Leslie Varney
1—2 p.m. Cascade 10
Nearly two years after the Dobbs decision, people with wombs are publishing speculative stories and poems that center the pregnant/ postpartum body. Some are science fictions whose dystopian futures blend uneasily with our daily news feeds and reports from the Guttmacher Institute. Others are gothic fantasy and horror tales with pregnancy, childbirth, and systemic oppression at their core. What publishing strategies have been effective in getting these stories to market? What's in the pipeline? What do readers seem to want more of?
Celeste Wakefield (M), Laura Cranehill, Tara Campbell, Colleen Anderson, K.G. Anderson
1—3 p.m. Cascade 13
Have you ever wanted to write for a tabletop game publisher? Join professional game developers as we discuss the basics of adventure design and share tips for creating a memorable campaign, whether you're looking to break into the industry as a paid writer or want to home-brew your own adventure for your friends.
Jenny Jarzabski (M), Mike Kimmel, Patrick Hurley, Jason Tondro, Jason Nelson
1—2 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
How do different cultures view the future? How do tradition, religion, beliefs, and superstition shape and form the perceptions and expectations of what the future holds? We'll look at a variety of different examples from popular media—from Ghost in the Shell to Dirty Computer, from movies to comics, from art to music.
Lydia K. Valentine (M), Mir Plemmons, Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti, Bethany Jacobs, Dilman Dila
1—2 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
How many artists does it take to make a monster? Well, in this case it'll take more than one! Come watch these talented artists as they switch from easel to easel, each doing their part to create awesome unique monsters.
Lizzy D. Hill (M), Douglas Herring, Stan!, Eric L Vargas, Larry Lewis
1—2 p.m. Olympic 1
Get a sparkle tattoo! Children and adults welcome.
Cindy Fangour (M)
1—2 p.m. Olympic 2
Come listen to audiobook narrators read excerpts from willing authors. Have you ever wondered what your book would sound like read aloud? Here is your chance. If you like to listen to audio books or wonder what the hype is, this panel is for you.
Sam Stark (M), Lezli Robyn, Alma Alexander, Gary Bennett, Spencer Ellsworth
1—3 p.m. Grand 2
Kamino Temple of Saber Guild welcomes all prospective Jedi and Sith! Come learn the basics of stage lightsaber combat and develop your first choreographed performance. Come dressed to move; loaner lightsabers will be provided.
Torrey Stenmark (M)
1—3 p.m. Lobby Photo Area
Get your 2024 winter holiday season card photo well ahead of time! Bring your camera or cell phone. Krampus and Santa will be on hand for you to snap pics. These two fine... er... people ask only that you make a donation to the convention's chosen charity: Young Black & Brilliant Book Club.
1—2 p.m. Maxi's Lounge
You think you know anime? Come put it to the test in a game of charades that's all about anime, and find your fellow fans!
1—2:30 p.m. Presidential Suite 1360
Come to a tea party hosted by the Seattle Worldcon 2025 team! The Seattle Worldcon will be held at the Seattle Convention Center August 13—17, 2025. Meet some of the plotters and planners, hear what a Worldcon entails, and add your two cents about how to make it a great event. The tea party will feature a special blend of tea, snacks, and conversation. You can learn more about the convention and buy a membership at , or by visiting the club table in the lobby.
Kathy (M)
1:30—2 p.m. Cascade 3
Please join Patrick Swenson as he reads from a new story or novel in progress. Rated PG.
Patrick Swenson (M)
2—2:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Jon reads "The Other River," a dark fantasy story forthcoming in Lightspeed Magazine. Content warnings for drug use and salty language. Rated R.
Jon Lasser (M)
2—3 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Did you know that some of speculative fiction's most popular authors are actually author teams? James S.A. Corey and Kit Rocha are pen names belonging to partners. Meanwhile, teams such as Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne (The Tales of Pell) and Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone have created masterly worlds together while sharing cover credit. Come hear coauthors talk about the ups and downs, joys and frustrations, and craft of writing together.
Amanda Cherry (M), Ken Bebelle, Steven Barnes, Erik Scott de Bie, Laura Anne Gilman
2—3 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Laughter is not the best medicine; that honor belongs to medicine. But in science fiction and fantasy stories, comedy can be a delicious spice or even the main course. In this panel, we will talk about how to mix humor into your fiction and how to entertain readers whose funny bone is shaped differently than your own. Warning: jokes may be dissected live, which always ruins them.
Mitchell Shanklin (M), Shiv Ramdas, David Boop, Gina Saucier, Richard Sparks
2—3 p.m. Cascade 9
Who needs extraterrestrials when 90 percent of species in our own ocean have yet to be cataloged? Panelists discuss known sea creatures which might change color, shape, and texture at will, or hunt for dinner using electroreception. We will extrapolate from there to plausible/fantastical beings that might have evolved here on Earth—or deep in space.
Bart Kemper (M), Charlotte Lewis Brown, Clara Ward, Gwendolyn N. Nix, Tegan Moore, G. David Nordley
2—3 p.m. Cascade 10
Booksellers, librarians, and reviewers play key roles in connecting readers with books. What do they look for when selecting books for reviews, displays, book talks, book lists, and online promotion? What role does the review system play in these decisions, and what can you do to make your work stand out after it's published? This panel of behind-the-scenes book mavens offers insight into everything from the influence of business relationships to how reviewers work and think about stories.
Marta Murvosh (M), Aigner Loren Wilson, Lish McBride, Ozzie M. Gartrell, Tom Whitmore, Vladimir Verano
2—3 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
A discussion panel between techies and artists on how AI has affected the artistic world and its pros and cons.
Dr. Sean Robinson (M), Kurt Cagle, Colette Breshears, Dilman Dila
2—3 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Stranger Things uses what some call the "Stephen King font" (ITC Benguiat Bold Condensed) to suggest horror paperback design from the 1980s, often considered a boom time for horror. That decade had horror paperback bestsellers at every grocery store checkout, dark fantasy comic books like Sandman, and films encompassing everything from artsy David Cronenberg thrillers like *Videodrome *to slasher schlock like Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. Our panelists discuss notable examples, favorites, recurring themes, and was it really all about the prospect of dying at any moment in a global thermonuclear war?
Julie McGalliard (M), Gordon Van Gelder, Gwen Callahan , Jennifer Brozek, Gordon B. White
2—3 p.m. Olympic 1
Come show off your costume! Each contestant will have a chance to show off their look, and there will be a parade through the main con grounds. Participants will vote on their favorites.
Jenny Shafer (M), Zamesta Cosplay
2—3 p.m. Olympic 2
From D&D to Warhammer, there are many role-playing games that have expansive worlds to explore. But what if you want to create a world from scratch? Where should you start and what are some pitfalls? Come learn from expert worldbuilders.
Sar Surmick (M), Jeff Grubb, Bruce R. Cordell, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, Luis Loza
2—5 p.m. Maxi's Ballroom
Like painted minis, but not sure how to do it yourself? Join professional mini painter JD Wiker for a guided tutorial on how to get started in the hobby. You'll even get to take your mini home with you! Special thanks to WizKids for sponsoring this workshop. Limited to 24 participants. Sign up will open at the Info Table 24 hours before the panel.
JD Wiker (M)
2—3 p.m. Maxi's Lounge
You think you know video games? Come put your knowledge to the test in a game of charades that's all about them, and find your fellow players!
2—3 p.m. Art Show Panel 8
Theresa will demonstrate how she creates embroidery designs, from concept to finished design.
2:30—3 p.m. Cascade 3
The No-no Girls. In an alternate history 1940s, three generations of Japanese-American women steal diesel mechs and break out of a high-desert prison camp. Rated PG.
Remy Nakamura (M)
3—3:30 p.m. Cascade 3
A deleted scene from the third Kangaroo novel, scheduled for release later this year! Yes, it's from near the end of the story, but since I've just rewritten the ending, it's not a spoiler anymore! Rated PG.
Curtis C. Chen (M)
3—4 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Join us for discussion of editing, polishing, and finding markets to publish poetry, especially genre poetry. We will go into red flags, things to look for and expect, publishing contracts (including for minors), and answer questions about how to put your words out into the world.
Lydia K. Valentine (M), Colleen Anderson, Brian U. Garrison, Janna Silverstein, Jessica Rae Bergamino
3—4 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Culture helps to define the rank structure of its military. This panel will explore how different military cultures are reflected in how they structure their ranking systems.
Mike Brennan (M), Clayton Mann, Dr. Mark Rounds, Teresa Drag, Cait Alvarez
3—4 p.m. Cascade 9
Tons of fans from the Pacific Northwest go to Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Convention, every year. And yet it has only been held three times in this region: Portland in 1950, Seattle in 1961, and Spokane in 2015. But—it's coming back here to Seattle in August 2025! Worldcon members vote on the Hugo Awards and rub shoulders with the best and brightest stars of our field. Come learn how Worldcon operates, find out why you should go, and learn what it will take to make Seattle Worldcon 2025 a success.
Kathy (M)
3—4 p.m. Cascade 10
The dwarf planet Ceres has lots of accessible water, and nowhere else even comes close. Who will control it? China is interested.
Hugh S. Gregory (M), G. David Nordley, Dr. Sean Robinson, Dave Davis
3—4 p.m. Cascade 13
Ever find yourself frustrated, or even frozen, when it comes to writing your social media captions? You have all the content—but now what do you say about it?! Join Brittany Torres, a marketing and coach and artist, for this interactive workshop to help you quit the guesswork and start connecting with your audience more effectively. You'll learn such steps as how to set up post structure, get ideas for posts, and a three-step process to writing a caption. All creatives welcome.
Brittany Torres (M)
3—4 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
The most wondrous thing about seeing movies on the big screen is the fact that everything is larger than life. And when the movie is a visual extravaganza? It becomes a work of art for the eyes. Come to this panel to learn about some of the most beautiful science fiction, fantasy, and horror films to grace the big screen and see just why they are worthy of the title "Eye Candy."
Mimi Noyes (M), Nick Fraser, Luke Elliott, Richard Stephens, Brian D. Oberquell
3—4 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Exploring the worst misuses of science of any kind in sci fi/fantasy.
Jake McKinzie (M), Lawrence WattEvans, Agathon McGeachy, Kat Richardson, Dr. Raychelle Burks
3—4 p.m. Olympic 1
Come make your own fantasy map! We'll discuss basic geology and fun ways of generating a world.
Jenny Shafer (M), Brenda Carre
3—4 p.m. Olympic 2
Everybody gets stuck sometimes. Learn from published authors about how to get unstuck, how to stay motivated, and how to persevere through the crazy daunting task that is writing a novel.
Kate Ristau (M), Randy Henderson, Gwendolyn N. Nix, Travis Baldree, J.P. Barnett
3—4 p.m. Grand 2
Hands-on combat demo. Participants, equipped with wooden swords and shields, will learn and practice basic Norse weapon combat skills in a safe, highly supervised environment. What is it like standing in the shield wall? Instructors will provide training swords, shields, and gloves to be used by participants.
Bill Gruner (M), V Whitlock, Alexander Pereira, Paul Pedersen, Oliver
3—4 p.m. Maxi's Lounge
You think you know science fiction, fantasy, and horror literature? Come put it to the test in a game of charades that's all about them. Find your favorite author's fellow fans!
3—4 p.m. Presidential Suite 1360
Want to talk to others excited about a show that is balls-to-the-wall queer and beautiful? This the time and place. Let's talk it through as a crew.
Peggy Stewart (M)
3:30—4 p.m. Cascade 3
TBD. Ken Scholes reads a short story from one of his three collections. Rated PG.
Ken Scholes (M)
4—4:30 p.m. Cascade 3
The Ghost Eaters. A spooky Halloween story for April, the story of a ghost dog who has never abandoned his post. Rated PG.
Spencer Ellsworth (M)
4—5 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
For 50 years, media that flopped in the ratings or at the box office got a second chance at a devoted audience in syndication, home video, or the midnight movie circuit. From Star Trek to Rocky Horror, from *Pink Flamingos *to David Lynch's Dune, shows and movies that "failed" went on to influence future creators and alter the course of pop culture. Today, streaming services are quick to remove content that does not perform well immediately, robbing us of the ability to examine and re-evaluate it in years to come. Is it possible to nurture cult classics in this new era?
Kris "Pepper" Hambrick (M), Andrew Penn Romine, Andy Quinn, Nick Fraser
4—5 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Modify storebought items to make thrifty use of time and money and add functionality to your costume. Focus on shoes, handbags, starting from off-therack clothing or props.
Garth Stubbs (M), Ieva Ohaks, Theresa Halbert, Gina Saucier, Ms Purple Pearl
4—5 p.m. Cascade 9
The hero's journey is a good storyline, but it's not the only one. And its alltoo-prevalent three-act structure often fails to address women's journeys, and doesn't allow enough room for the storytelling arcs of non-Anglo peoples. Are you willing to wander off the path? Come explore different examples and ways to read and craft story.
Talulah J. Sullivan, Eva L. Elasigue, Sara A Mueller, Aigner Loren Wilson, Lezli Robyn
4—5 p.m. Cascade 10
The effects of climate change can no longer be denied. Vulnerable communities are already grappling with climate emergencies, and technology won't be the only thing to change our lives in the future when the Earth itself is changing all around us. Join SFF authors for a discussion on imagining and navigating future worlds with hotter temperatures, water scarcity, rising sea levels, crop failures, and the movement of climate refugees. Topics will include balancing research and writing, deciding how much science to include, and positioning your work within traditions of ecologically focused science fiction.
Tara Campbell (M), Thea Prieto, Brenda Cooper, Laura Cranehill, Clara Ward, Gordon Van Gelder, Jessie Kwak
4—5 p.m. Cascade 13
We've all been in games we thought would make a great novel, right? Books about game settings have been wildly popular for decades, but how do they work? How do you avoid the "dice rolling on the page" effect? How do you honor the game but still tell a story that stands on its own?
Erik Scott de Bie (M)
4—5 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
Have a project you want to see get off the ground? Maybe it's a board game about ninja squirrels or a coloring book of miniature giant space hamsters? Thinking of using Kickstarter to do it? Well, come and learn how to make a successful Kickstarter from those who have had a successful Kickstarter!
Michael Ormes (M), Gwen Callahan , D.L. Gardner, Sean K. Reynolds, Lizzy D. Hill
4—5 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
What would it take for your favorite monster to really exist?
Colette Breshears (M), Dr. Raychelle Burks, Julie McGalliard, Eric L Vargas, Larry Lewis, Ellis Bray
4—5 p.m. Olympic 1
This will be a simple how-to-draw lesson. Bring your ideas for what to draw and ask our artist to show you how it's done!
Jenny Shafer (M), Liz Argall
4—5 p.m. Olympic 2
Do you ever start a novel, get super excited about it, then find out that your world makes no sense? In this panel, experts will talk about how to create a world, what essential questions are needed for you to start writing, and how to pick what aspects of your world should stay or go when you put pencil to paper.
David D. Levine (M), G.R. Theron, L.J. Melvin, Sam Stark, Ken Bebelle
4—5 p.m. Grand 2
Teams of 20 or more participants, each equipped with wooden gladius (sword), and regulation scutum (shield) will learn and practice basic Roman legionary combat skills in a safe, supervised environment. Learn what it is like to be part of the Roman line. Instructors will provide swords, shields, and training. The audience will play an important part in the scenario: legionaries attacked by barbarians.
Oliver (M), Bill Gruner, Alexander Pereira, D.L. Solum, Agathon McGeachy
4—5 p.m. Maxi's Lounge
You think you know science fiction, fantasy and horror movies? Come put it to the test in a game of Charades that's all about D&D, and find your fellow film buffs!
4—5 p.m. Art Show Panel 8
Rob will be doing an acrylic speed painting demo. Don't be surprised if a dragon appears in an hour!
4:30—5 p.m. Cascade 3
Dear Penpal, Belgium 1980. Part of a longer epistolary project about a young girl living in a haunted mansion in Belgium in 1980. Rated G.
Jennifer Brozek (M)
5—5:30 p.m. Cascade 3
"The Journey of a Thousand Gifts." An exploration of the joys, terrors, and revelations of the afterlife. Rated PG.
K.G. Anderson (M)
5—6 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
They think they know it all about their topic... Watch a Whose Line is it Anyway?-style science production. You might even get to pick. You might even be on the panel!
Jake McKinzie (M), Colette Breshears, Brian D. Oberquell, David D. Levine, Charlotte Lewis Brown
5—6 p.m. Cascade 9
How to write believable, purposeful violent scenes and use them to advance the story and develop your world. Where do you even start when writing a battle scene? Let our panelists help answer your questions about military combat.
Travis Partington (M), Dr. Mark Rounds, Metaerie, Teresa Drag, Clayton Mann
5—6 p.m. Cascade 10
How exactly should you set up your will before you join the ranks of the undead? Or, how long exactly can you collect your pension after becoming a lich? Bring your burning legal questions for the fantastical to our panel of experts, and we'll take you through all the permutations to the lawyer's favorite answer—it depends.
Kathy (M), Ethan Vodde, Bryana Cross Bean, Attorney at Law, Gina Saucier
5—6 p.m. Cascade 13
We love well-researched stories, but we don't always love the info dumps they tempt writers to commit. What writers show off their research well? How can we, as writers, make our research integration sparkle instead of sputter?
Kat Richardson (M)
5—6 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
What makes a compelling jacket cover? How do you convey the story in a single image?
Brenda Carre (M), Brittany Torres, Janna Silverstein, Charles Vess
5—6 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Neither writers nor editors are AIs. Not only do writers and editors have their own priorities going into an editorial relationship (which all writers enter into when their manuscripts are under serious consideration), they also have emotions, sometimes extremely intense ones. This panel will discuss the joys and difficulties of the relationship, particularly the importance of clear, open communication and mutual trust.
Laura Anne Gilman (M), Neil Clarke, Monte Lin, Lish McBride, Gwendolyn N. Nix, Gordon Van Gelder
5—6 p.m. Olympic 1
Earth is our home, but do you know our neighborhood? Learn about the planets in the solar system and make a fun craft.
Jenny Shafer (M), Andy Dykes
5—6 p.m. Olympic 2
Join us as we talk about the science fiction genre: what is it, how we approach it, and why should you write it. After the panel, we will brainstorm a scifi story or two together.
Camden Rose (M), L.J. Melvin, Karen Eisenbrey, Marta Murvosh, Leslie Varney
5:30—6 p.m. Cascade 3
Joe Trucker. An American Doctor Who-type screenplay. Rated G.
John Lovett (M)
6—6:30 p.m. Cascade 3
"The Potion Maker & The Nuisance." All Athys wanted was for the seal pup to leave him alone. But when using magic to try and solve the problem puts the pup in danger, the merman is forced to decide if his peace and quiet is more important than the pup's life. Rated G.
Brianna Tibbetts (M)
6—7 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Humans versus the rest of the ecosystem. Plants can do it easily, can we? What stands in the way?
Sar Surmick (M), Mir Plemmons, Agathon McGeachy
6—7 p.m. Cascade 9
Billions of people spent months on end stuck inside their homes during the pandemic. Inevitably this has inspired new stories about domestic dangers, haunted homes, and antagonistic family members and flatmates. What's lurking in the basement? Where did the children disappear to? Can I trust my partner? Panelists look at the history of horror-athome, from classic Gothic literature to recent books and media.
Evan J. Peterson (M), Gordon B. White, Ozzie M. Gartrell, Gwen Callahan, Kate Alice Marshall
6—7 p.m. Cascade 10
Science fiction authors will share how they researched the real past to write an imagined future. Authors of science fiction are expected to research scientific principles and technology to portray believable futuristic worlds. But historical research comes into it, too, whether for alternative history narratives, time-travel stories, or invented plots patterned on historical events.
Karen Eisenbrey (M), Peter Fuller, Danielle Gembala, Ellis Bray, Joseph Malik
6—7 p.m. Cascade 13
You say you can only draw stick figures. Well, that's the first step to drawing! Come learn what the other steps are! Make sure to bring something to draw on.
Larry Lewis (M), Stan!, Lizzy D. Hill
6—7 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
You have picked the campaign you are eager to run, and it's time to introduce the players to your table. It's Session 0 Time! Our panelists go over the important agenda items to address during your Session 0 to help launch your campaign or adventure successfully.
Bruce R. Cordell (M), Luis Loza, Ron Lundeen, Alexander Pereira, Erik Scott de Bie
6—7 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Smart grid? Microgrid? Clean power? What about electromagnetic pulses, hackers, and squirrels? We can take electricity for granted, but what is the state of our power system today? Could an EMP really take it all down? Where does it come from, and where is it going?
Crystal Lloyd (M), Colette Breshears, Dan Dubrick, Wm Salt Hale, Howard Davidson
6—6:30 p.m. Grand 3
Masquerade doors open. Come find a seat.
6 p.m.—midnight Maxi's Lounge
Need a quiet space to just be for a while? Want to read a book? Looking for a space to run a long game of Twilight Imperium that isn't noisy? We've set this space aside for just that.
6:30—7 p.m. Cascade 3
"Ava." Library work in underfunded districts comes with many challenges, but when Ava shows up in the stacks, looking for books on birds, William is unprepared. Ava's birds bring gifts, and string games, and may be more dangerous than they appear. Rated G.
A.W. McCollough (M)
6:30—8:30 p.m. Grand 3
We invite all of you to attend the annual presentation of the finest creations that Norwescon costumers and cosplayers have to offer, at the Norwescon 46 Masquerade. Join us in cheering on this year's crew of creatives as they share their hard-wrought handiwork. Be a part of the oohing and aahing at the pageantry and presentation of these amazing makers.
7—7:30 p.m. Cascade 3
A horrific short story. From the POV of a cat. But not for children. Rated R.
Laura Cranehill (M)
7—8 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
What does it mean to have a diagnosis, either official or self-identified?
Liz Coleman (M), Danielle Gembala, Sar Surmick
7—8 p.m. Cascade 9
How do writing and music interact. Does one inspire the other? For those who do both, which came first? How does one modality help the craft of the other?
Richard Sparks (M), Ken Scholes, GregRobin Smith, Amanda Cherry
7—8 p.m. Cascade 13
Enter the world of comics! Minicomics are the most democratic of comics. Anyone can make them, and we'll show you how. You will take away two books and templates to help you make your own later.
Larry Lewis (M), Kate Sherman
7—8 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
The past year has seen some pretty big changes in the tabletop RPG industry. Maybe you heard something about an Open Gaming License (OGL). Let discuss the past year's events, the move of many companies to establish their own gaming licenses, and how the gaming industry landscape could change in the future.
Stephen Radney-MacFarland (M), Ethan Vodde, Sean K. Reynolds, Jeff Grubb, Jason Nelson
7—8 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
For Ursula K. Le Guin, the most pleasurable part of writing was editing her drafts. Whether you consider this stage a pleasure or a drudgery, it's an essential part of the creative process. A writer must remove the scaffolding they've used as a means of getting words on the page and also decide which detail, which word, which phrasing serves their work best. This panel will discuss what to look and listen for when editing your own manuscript, before you send it out.
Tom Llewellyn (M), Kara Swanson, Rashida J Smith, S.L. Coney, Sarah Chorn
7—9 p.m. Maxi's Ballroom
Don your best mad scientist outfit and come create marvelous monsters and creative chimera! We will take cute fluffy stuffed animals and hack them to pieces, only to reassemble them in wholly unnatural ways. WARNING! Not for the easily distressed or children! We will be working with scissors and needles and as such only mature mad scientists will be allowed to participate. The only skills required are rudimentary sewing skills (plush is very forgiving) and a sick sense of humor. A $5 materials fee covers the cost of DNA splitters, splicers, and experimental specimens.
Mimi Noyes (M)
7—9 p.m. Lobby Photo Area
Bummed that you can't take flash photos in the masquerade? Want to take pictures of the masquerade contestants? This is your chance. Most contestants will come to the lobby photo area after they exit the stage to pose for pictures with staff photographers. Please be polite and listen to those directing the event and the masquerade contestants.
7:30—8 p.m. Cascade 3
In this excerpt from "Sir Loren's Books of Sorrows," Sir Loren and Sir Aiken, two misfit knights of Arthur's Round Table, must use their charm and skill (and just a little bit of magic) to free a unicorn imprisoned in a king's menagerie. Rated PG.
Berlynn Wohl (M)
8—8:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Bones of Starlight. This fantasy space opera trilogy is a generational saga at the turn of the age in an alternateuniverse intergalactic imperium with fantasy aliens. Rated R.
Eva L. Elasigue (M)
8—9 p.m. Cascade 9
From the Unstoppable trilogy by Charlie Jane Anders to the Guardians of the Galaxy, young adult science fiction is brimming with found families. What should YA writers consider when they engage with this trope? We'll talk about what distinguishes a found family from any other fictional team or group of friends, when and how to bring the group together, and how to find the right tone for your cast.
David D. Levine (M), Kate Alice Marshall, Lezli Robyn, L.J. Melvin
8—10 p.m. Cascade 10
Join Broad Universe for a fun, fast-paced group reading to showcase the work of women and nonbinary authors who will read a short snippet from a recent work. Discover new writers, enjoy chocolate, and enter a drawing for a book, all while you support women and nonbinary people working in speculative fiction. Broad Universe is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that works to expand awareness of and promote women and other underrepresented gender identities in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Learn more at www.broaduniverse.org.
K.G. Anderson, Clara Ward, Marta Murvosh, Amanda Cherry
8—9 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
How to stand, walk, turn, block, and cut like a real knight. A hands-on class taught by an SCA knight with over 30 years of experience. We'll talk about armor, weapons, defenses, and attacks. How does the weight of your armor affect your posture and stance? How can a two-to-four-pound broadsword move quickly enough to defeat your opponent? How hard do you have to strike to penetrate various kinds of armor? Where does that power come from?
D.L. Solum (M), Agathon McGeachy, William Elder, Ann Shilling
8—10 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Greetings to warriors, wizards, clerics and rogues alike! Do you yearn for an action-packed journey onto fantasy battlefields and into dread dungeons? Look no further! Dargarth offers an inclusive community where you can unleash your inner adventurer in a game that is fun and physical. Join Dargarth for an adrenaline-pumping experience that couples strategy, teamwork, and your skill with a blade. You must be age 16 or older and sign a waiver to participate because our game involves full-force boffer combat.
Wm Salt Hale (M)
8:30—9 p.m. Cascade 3
The Natural Order of Things to Come (and Other Poems From the End of the World). Short-form poems told from the point of view of the apocalypse. Rated PG.
Ellis Bray (M)
9—9:30 p.m. Cascade 3
"Bell Biv Derailed." A comedy-horror piece about a subway train that takes a slight detour into a very spooky tunnel. Originally published in LOLcraft: A Compendium of Eldritch Humor. Rated R.
B. Zelkovich (M)
9—9:30 p.m. Cascade 9
Sometimes, the lives we save are our own, a love letter to storytelling. A comic, speculative and non-fiction performance piece. Inspired by my zine, Ordinary Madness, a love letter to an unread book and various short works. Rated PG.
Liz Argall (M)
9—10 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Writing adult material is a skill, much the same as writing any other genre, and adult-oriented slash fanfiction is no exception. This panel examines what makes slash good—and fun!—for writers and readers. 18+ years of age only.
Berlynn Wohl (M), Scotty McIntosh, Sam Stark, Elliott Kay, Kris "Pepper" Hambrick
9 p.m.—2 a.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
Come join the open filk circle.
9 p.m.—1 a.m. Presidential Suite 1360
Come to a party hosted by the Seattle Worldcon 2025 team! The Seattle Worldcon will be at the Seattle Convention Center August 13—17, 2025. Meet some of the plotters and planners, hear about what a Worldcon entails, and add your two cents about how to make it a great event. The party will feature apple crisp, cider, mocktails, other snacks, and conversation. You can learn more about the convention and buy a membership at seattlein2025.org, or by visiting the club table in the lobby.
9:30 p.m.—2 a.m. Grand 2
This is your chance to get dressed to the Fae nines as we dedicate this dance to our theme this year, "Into the Wylde," in honor of Jim Butcher and Charles Vess. The first 20 minutes or so will be music that you might find in a mystical garden. (It's the time to sashay about and show off your outfit! Or perhaps the Royal Court will favor us with medieval dancing?) The rest of the evening will be a wide mix of modern dance music.
10—11 p.m. Cascade 3
10—11 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Come find out what techniques from BDSM can be applied to protect us from COVID or con crud. We can still have some hot sexy times even while wearing a mask or staying six feet apart. Toys can extend our reach and prevent fluid exchange while adding a range of exciting kinds of touch. 18+ years of age and older.
Hazel (M), Sakari, Craig Jackson, Kate Sherman, Sar Surmick
11 p.m.—midnight Cascade 5 & 6
Maybe you've thought about trying out some recreational bondage but don't know where to start. Come learn some basic ties and safety tips so you can get started right. 18+ years of age and older.
Hazel (M), Sakari, Craig Jackson
9—11 a.m. Olympic 1
Enjoy an Easter egg hunt and get some prizes! Divided by age group.
Jenny Shafer (M)
9—10 a.m. Olympic 2
Come show off your achievements and earn coin! Exchange coin for prizes.
10—10:30 a.m. Cascade 3
The Drowned Horse Chronicle Vol 1 &
2. In the Arizona territory there was a cursed town populated by inner demons that manifested into actual monsters and the brave, albeit insane, settlers who stood between the dark and the light. Rated PG.
David Boop (M)
10—11 a.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Learn all about the game show where being interesting is more important than being right. Presented by BritCon.
Gina Saucier, Payne Haynes, Thursday, Andrew Williams
10—11 a.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Women have worn armor in the past and wear armor as re-enactors now. Are there suits of armor especially tailored for women? Find out from a jouster and shield maiden.
Ann Shilling (M), Peter Fuller, Clayton Mann
10—11 a.m. Cascade 9
From The Castle of Otranto (1764) to Wednesday (2022), the Gothic aesthetic and Gothic tropes have influenced books, paintings, comics, films, fashion, music, television, and video games. What makes a work "Gothic"? How has the genre changed over time? What are the reasons for its enduring appeal?
Evan J. Peterson (M), B. Zelkovich, Richard Stephens, Laura Cranehill, Julie McGalliard
10—11 a.m. Cascade 10
With a focus on visual arts and literary works, this panel will explore how to protect copyright, the benefits of registration, and the mechanics (and general costs) of licensing and enforcing copyright (including against unauthorized uses).
Ethan Vodde (M)
10 a.m.—4 p.m. Cascade 11
Want to set up your own game? Cascade 11 has space for your RPG, board, or card games. Check one out from Dragonflight's Lending Library or bring your own.
10 a.m.—4 p.m. Cascade 12
Come check out games from our lending libraries. We have RPGs, card games, board games, and so much more! An official state license or state ID is needed to check out games. This space has tables to play the games you borrow or ones you bring yourselves. There will also be some scheduled games here. Need ADA access for a game? Please speak to our staff when you sign up so we can be sure to meet your needs.
10—11:30 a.m. Cascade 13
In this generative writing workshop, we'll explore three ways of creating new worlds: defamiliarizing common expressions, drawing inspiration from poetic forms, and unlocking the power of deliberate paradox.
Tara Campbell (M)
10—11 a.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
Let's talk about the masquerade! This one is primarily for the entrants.
10—11 a.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Recognition, respect, and the (r) evolution of neurodiversity. Why the future is neurodiverse and how we can create that future.
Kurt Cagle (M), Liz Coleman, A.W. McCollough, Clara Ward
10—11 a.m. Grand 2
Heists and con jobs have high stakes and plenty of conflicted, lovable rogues who "stick it to the Man" and ensemble casts with internal romances and disputes. What factors make a heist or con story work? Are there standard plot structures or character archetypes to use, or to avoid? What kinds of twists do writers give these archetypes in science fiction? This is a great chance for writers to learn more about this story type, including sources to use for further research. Readers who want a look behind the curtain of stories like Inception, Cindy Pon's Want, and David Levine's The Kuiper Belt Job will likewise enjoy.
David D. Levine (M), Kat Richardson, Dr. Raychelle Burks, Steven Barnes
10 a.m.—noon Maxi's Lounge
Today's the day we shoot Alien Invaders from Planet Malbad. Unfortunately, the director left the script at Denny's this morning, but he swears it will go just fine, because he also wrote it and he remembers how it goes. Basically. But he wouldn't mind some help from his actors, whoever they are—he also lost the cast list. So whoever shows up, you get a part! He trusts that, if he gives you basic direction, you'll come up with something great. In other words, ICFTLLLS is a minimum-mechanic roleplaying game that lends itself really well to a LARP/Critical Role sort of experience. You do NOT have to play/ act to participate! Being an audience is perfectly fine—just come and enjoy the live insanity. We'll also need stunt doubles, actors who only get one line to make the most of, and extras to occasionally move/sit/pretend to talk.
10 a.m.—4 p.m. Maxi's Salon
Artemis is a spaceship bridge simulator where players assume the jobs of captain, navigator, pilot, science officer, communications officer, engineer, and tactical officer and work together to defeat alien enemies.
10 a.m.—4 p.m. Rotunda 1 & 2
Come sign up for a game! We have Pathfinder Society, Adventure League, RPGs, card games, and so much more! After gaming closes, this area is available for open games. Need ADA access for a game? Please speak to our staff when you sign up so we can be sure to meet your needs. Rotunda 1 is located down Concourse 1 or 2 on the first floor.
10:30—11 a.m. Cascade 3
"Shiplah's Eyes." Much is asked of a princess when a conqueror leads his horde to the gates of her city. Rated PG.
Agathon McGeachy (M)
11—11:30 a.m. Cascade 3
The author reads from her novel Gret of Roon. Rated G.
Brenda Carre (M)
11 a.m.—noon Cascade 5 & 6
Learn all the secrets to good convention photography for Norwescon cosplayers: lighting, composition, posing, and details that can really make con photos pop. Plus, we'll talk about photography etiquette, staying safe, and do's and don'ts for people on both sides of the camera.
Andrew Williams, Torrey Stenmark
11 a.m.—noon Cascade 7 & 8
A place of meditation and discussion, contemplation, and thought for those who have passed since the last Norwescon. Honor those who have passed on with a thought, memory, or a simple prayer to whatever you wish. Leave the name of someone you remember.
Tom Whitmore (M)
11 a.m.—noon Cascade 9
As artificial intelligence, ubiquitous access, and autonomous robotic systems become the norm, how will this change the shape of economies? What happens when remote work becomes the norm? Will capitalism as we know it become capitalism as we don't? Is a basic living stipend (BLS) likely? Will financial inequality be the defining characteristic of the 21st century? What happens to those who fall through the cracks (or chasms)? This is a panel focusing on your inner economist.
Jon Lasser (M), Tom D Wright, Kaylea Champion, Norman K. Moss, Shahid Mahmud
11 a.m.—noon Cascade 10
Your reader doesn't owe you one second of their attention. How do you grab them by the lapels? Should your hook be a memorable line or more transparent prose that drops the reader into the middle of the action? Learn to craft an opening line that makes the right promises for your story and pulls readers in for that first fateful page, then the next one.
Dean Wells (M), Ellis Bray, Nancy Kress, Daryl Gregory, Bethany Jacobs
11—1 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
See the award winners and some of the other best short films from this year's festival. As a bonus, we will be showing the Let's Make a Movie final film for Norwescon 46.
Edward Martin III, Ryan K. Johnson, Shawn Marier
11 a.m.—noon Evergreen 3 & 4
Fantasy's roots extend deep into alternative, magical versions of our world. Join our panelists as they explore urban, portal, dystopian, and modern myths and discuss the origins, evolution, and current expressions within the genre.
Rashida J Smith (M), Kat Richardson, Rhiannon/R.Z. Held, Ken Bebelle, Jim Butcher
11 a.m.—noon Olympic 1
Interested in longer stories? Come hear the first chapters of some chapter books.
Jenny Shafer (M), Sam Stark
11 a.m.—noon Olympic 2
We all do it—write fanfiction, that is. And we shouldn't be ashamed! Come learn about the world of fanfiction writing, including techniques, avenues for sharing, and where to grow from there.
Berlynn Wohl (M), Brianna Tibbetts, Scotty McIntosh, Amanda Cherry, Janna Silverstein
11 a.m.—noon Maxi's Ballroom
Assemble some costumed models, tables, and a timer. Sprinkle in some people with drawing materials, and voilà! A figure drawing class!
Douglas Herring (M), Liz Argall, Sven Red Beard, Lizzy D. Hill, Kris "Pepper" Hambrick
11—1 p.m. Presidential Suite 1360
Come and decompress before you go home. We'll open with a few minutes of chatter as a welcome. The remainder of the time will be spent silently reading our individual books of choice. That's it! Just a designated time and space to read with others who want to read. Feel free to bring a blanket or pillow or your favorite reading comfort item.
11:30 a.m.—noon Cascade 3
The author will read selections from the YA science fiction Curd Immunity series, a four-book chronicle about life after the release of the Curd, a bioengineered super-food that altered the course of climate change and human civilization. Jorge lives in Pelago, a string of quarantine cities connected by a shining solar railway. Flynn lives in a camp for people whose brains have been damaged by the Curd. Ova lives in a self-replicating desert habitat with her own symbiont partner. Val is a castaway on a floating island that grows among the refuse of the seas. They all have one thing in common: the Curd has altered life on earth and they are all immune. Rated G.
L.J. Melvin (M)
noon—12:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Alma will be reading from her book Newly Banned in Florida or her work-inprogress novel. It will be the audience choice. Rated G.
Alma Alexander (M)
noon—1 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
How do we raise kids whose brains work differently from ours?
Kathy (M), Danielle Gembala, Tom D Wright, Payne Haynes
noon—1 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
How far do you have to go? What will the reader deal with? Do you explain in detail (Asimov) or do you deal in generalities (Foster)? How consistent with this should you be? Are some sciences easier?
Rhiannon/R.Z. Held (M), Jim Kling, Tom Llewellyn, Colette Breshears, J.P. Barnett
noon—1 p.m. Cascade 9
High fantasy, sword and sorcery, urban fantasy, historical fantasy, so many flavors! How do you tailor a game's setting and rules to bring out the type of fantasy you want?
Jason Tondro (M), Stephen RadneyMacFarland, Jeff Grubb, Sean K. Reynolds
noon—1 p.m. Cascade 10
Fic writers face the same challenges as other writers: where do you get your ideas? How do you keep yourself focused? How does writing fit into your daily schedule? Other concerns are more specific: Do I post this story as a work- in-progress or wait until it's finished? Where should I post it? How do I react to readers' comments? Our panel of seasoned fic writers will talk about their solutions for writing productively.
Berlynn Wohl (M), Clara Ward, B. Zelkovich, Elliott Kay
noon—1 p.m. Cascade 13
Zine culture has been around for decades and has hugely influenced internet culture and fandom. This panel is geared towards younger people who want to explore new ways to express themselves and their interests. Topics will include production (physical and digital), ethical considerations, distribution, and more. There will be time for attendees to put together their own mini-zine.
Thursday (M), Marta Murvosh, Larry Lewis, Julie McGalliard
noon—1 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Crafting compelling dialogue is an often- overlooked skill in fantasy writing. Our panelists will explore the nuances of dialogue within the genre, discussing how to infuse personality into characters and maintain authenticity in fantastical settings. Gain practical tips on finding the right balance between natural speech and the unique elements of your fantasy world.
G.R. Theron (M), Patrick Hurley, Travis Baldree, Amanda Cherry, Sara A. Mueller
noon—1 p.m. Olympic 1
Sing along as we listen to favorite songs from Disney shows.
Jenny Shafer (M), Scotty McIntosh
noon—1 p.m. Olympic 2
If you came to any teen/tween panels this year and have some feedback, come to this! The track lead is ready to talk about what worked well, what didn't, and any panels you might have in mind for next year. This is for teens and tweens only.
Camden Rose (M)
noon—12:30 p.m. Grand 2
Twelve Months. Jim Butcher will read one chapter from his upcoming Dresden book, Twelve Months. Rated R.
Jim Butcher (M)
noon—1 p.m. Maxi's Ballroom
Learn about the use of leather in art throughout history.
Sven Red Beard (M), Belsac, Bill Gruner
noon—12:30 p.m. Lobby Photo Area
"My life tattered. The vision threadbare. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos... ruined dreams... this wasted land. But most of all, I remember the Thunderdome Prom." This is a costume photo shoot open to anyone dressed in postapocalyptic formal. The group photo will be at 12:15pm.
Peggy Stewart (M)
12:30—1 p.m. Cascade 3
"Belonging." The author reads an excerpt from her upcoming memoir A Different Drum: A Black, Autistic, Polyamorous, Mentally Ill, Former Fundamentalist Christian/Cult Member and Breast Cancer Survivor WHO JUST WANTS TO FIT IN. The title of the book gives away what her story is about, just like the *Gilligan's Island *and *The Brady Bunch *theme songs. Rated PG.
Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti (M)
12:30—1 p.m. Grand 2
The Queen of Summer's Twilight. Published in September 2022 by NewCon Press, this contemporary novel is set in Scotland (and the realms of Faerie) and is based on the ballad "Tam-Lin." Rated PG.
Charles Vess (M)
1—1:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Intrigue Among Vampires. In 1685, two noble-born Huguenot sisters escape the Dragonades. France has turned against them, but they find sanctuary with two vampires who need assistance with the new rules of etiquette. Historical family drama with vampires. Rated PG.
Elizabeth Guizzetti (M)
1—2 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Whether you are making steam by burning something, nuclear power, or magic, steam power is more complicated than turning the key and driving off. How was it done? How could it be done with different tech (or magic)? Join our panelists as we puff along about steam.
Mike Brennan (M), Norman K. Moss, Howard Davidson, Agathon McGeachy
1—2 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Within geek culture we value intelligence over appearance. We are body-positive and believe all sizes and abilities can be beautiful. But everyone needs exercise in their life, particularly if we have sedentary tech jobs and indoor hobbies. Fitness doesn't have to look like the spandex gym-rats or sports fans, or be about weight loss. Learn about the many kinds of physical activities that appeal more to the geeky community.
Hazel (M)
1—2 p.m. Cascade 9
In the last decade more nations have been working towards putting people into space. This includes the USA, Russia, China, India, and Europe. Is this the beginning of a new race to the moon, Mars, and asteroids?
Dr. Sean Robinson (M), G. David Nordley, Hugh S. Gregory, Phil L. Swan
1—2 p.m. Cascade 10
The way your characters speak and the descriptions you write create your fictional world. If you want a world that is not patriarchal or a world that works just like ours does, your language must reflect that. Language is an essential part of worldbuilding.
David D. Levine (M), Joseph Malik, Talulah J. Sullivan, Cait Alvarez, Sandra Rosner
1—2 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
More than just barkeeps or innkeepers, more than just quest givers, NPCs are the supporting cast that populate your adventure. Our gaming experts discuss what makes an NPC stand out and how to create a character that players will talk about long after the campaign ends.
Erik Scott de Bie (M), Patrick Hurley, Luis Loza, Ron Lundeen, Sean K. Reynolds
1—3 p.m. Olympic 2
Have an idea for a story? Not sure where to start? Join other teens in a nuts-and-bolts story-writing workshop. We'll use supportive, active listening and idea-generating exercises to explore worldbuilding, characters, plot, and theme. Restricted to ages 14-18. Limited to 15 teens. Signups will open at the info table 24 hours before the panel.
L.J. Melvin (M)
1—2 p.m. Maxi's Ballroom
See a demonstration of the making of leather artwork.
Belsac, Bill Gruner
1—4 p.m. Maxi's Lounge
Come learn about the style and core concepts of FatChanceBellyDance® Style belly dance with a certified instructor. Get shimmying with this workshop, as we dance through different vocab families and learn the unique joys of group improv belly dance! Please bring a water bottle. Not required to take the class, but for an optional material fee of $5, a workbook and a pen are available.
Siyrren (M)
1:30—2 p.m. Cascade 3
TBD.
Andrew Penn Romine (M)
2—3 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
The Exorcist, released on December 26, 1973, turned 50 last year. The film, a bona fide horror blockbuster, was enormously influential and still tops many lists of "scariest films of all time." How does it hold up today? Do the themes still resonate? And how about those sequels? Our panelists discuss the film and its impact.
Julie McGalliard (M), Gloria JacksonNefertiti, Gwen Callahan , Sam Stark, Ozzie M. Gartrell
2—3 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Nothing is worse than something going wrong with your costume. What should you bring with you to the con to cover any repairs?
Ieva Ohaks (M), Julie Zetterberg, Theresa Halbert, Garth Stubbs, Ms Purple Pearl
2—3 p.m. Cascade 9
This is an introduction to speculative/ genre poetry with examples from history (both literary history and anthropology), media (poetry in video games—it's more common than you think), and around the world. Attendees will hopefully walk away with not just a new awareness of a new (to them) type of writing, but also the role poetry plays in our conception of nerd culture.
Lydia K. Valentine (M), Thursday, Jeannine Hall Gailey
2—3 p.m. Cascade 10
Horses are vital to pre-industrial history in Europe and Asia and have impacted every part of the globe via importation. They pepper myth, fantasy, and folklore. This is a beginner's class in broad strokes: types of horses, markings, variations of saddles, historical roots, and historical misnomers. If you've worked with horses, you may find this a refresher course. If you haven't any experience, come learn some basics that'll help you stay out of trouble.
Sara A. Mueller (M)
2—3 p.m. Cascade 13
Do you consider yourself an expert on a geek-related short topic (how magma works, what are story beats, how to make cat ears)? Are you willing to talk about it for 3-10 minutes to an audience? Sign up, then vote for your favorite topics on the lobby board! If there is an image you'd like to be shown on the screen during your talk, please email it to specialevents@norwescon.org no later than Saturday at 5 p.m.
2—3 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
Using high-end laser simulators and electronic sensors, a professional instructor will go over the fundamentals of pistol safety and use. This workshop will help you get a feel for pistols and their proper handling. All safety rules will apply.
Bill Gruner (M), Oliver, John Lovett, Dr. Mark Rounds, Clayton Mann, D.L. Solum
2—4 p.m. Grand 2
Bring your own blaster and play Nerf games. (We will have some blasters available.) Eye protection is a must! Load up and Nerf on!
4—5 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
We're so glad we had this time together, just to learn and laugh and dance and craft. It seems like we just get started, then before you know it, the time comes for us to thank our guests of honor and end Norwescon 46 on a high note!
Lydia K. Valentine (M)
5—6 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
The convention is over. Here's your chance to weigh in on what went well and what didn't. Tell us your favorite and least favorite parts of the convention so we can try to make it better next year. After all, as a member of Norwescon, this is YOUR convention!
Welcome to Norwescon 46: Into the Wylde
The Forty-sixth Annual Northwest Regional Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
Writer Guest of Honor -
Jim Butcher
Artist Guest of Honor -
Charles Vess
Science Guest of Honor -
Dr. Raychelle Burks
Spotlight Publisher -
Clarkesworld Magazine
Special Guest of Honor -
Kate Alice Marshall
cover art © Charles Vess
Except where noted, contents are copyright ©2024 Norwescon for the contributors.
All opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Norwescon.
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10 a.m.—4 p.m. Grand 2
Come test out your aim with a provided assortment of Nerf blasters against a variety of targets! Underage players must have a parent present to check in. Shoes are required. Badges are not necessary for this event.
2—2:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Storm Crow. Rated PG.
Kurt Cagle (M)
2—3 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
TikTok has it all, from people explaining jet parts by comparing them to different scenes of *The Lord of the Rings *movies, to movie reviews for every genre, to costuming DIY for anything you can think of, just to name a few. How has TikTok affected the geek lifestyle?
Birdie (M), Brittany Torres, J.P. Barnett, Anne Stewart
2—3 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Revenge and reckoning are thematic pillars of the horror genre, and SFF has its vengeance stories as well. Tales like "And Now His Lordship Is Laughing" by Shiv Ramdas*, The Only Good Indians *by Stephen Graham Jones, and "We, the Ones Who Raised Sam Gowers from the Dead" by Cynthia Chang pull at readers' insides, connecting us with bitter emotions. How do writers design their tales to achieve this effect? What is the relationship between catharsis in the writer and in readers? Is catharsis always the goal? Writers of revenge tales will exchange recipes for the dish that's best served cold.
Celeste Wakefield (M), Shiv Ramdas, Sara A. Mueller, Amanda Cherry
2—3 p.m. Cascade 9
With current space technology, getting to Mars and back will require a large amount of fuel. A rocket using nuclear reactor technology would be able to complete the mission with less fuel and spend less time in space. New nuclear technologies called small modular reactors are being tested that should be safer. Is this the way to complete a trip to Mars and back?
Dan Dubrick (M), Mike Brennan, Andy Dykes, Dr. Sean Robinson, Dave Davis, Howard Davidson
2 p.m.—midnight Cascade 11 Want to set up your own game? Cascade 11 has space for your RPG, board, or card games. Check one out from Dragonflight's lending library or bring your own.
2 p.m.—midnight Cascade 12
Come check out games from our lending library. We have RPGs, card games, board games, and so much more! An official state driver's license or state ID is needed to check out games. This space has tables to play the games you borrow or bring yourselves. There will also be some scheduled games here. Need ADA access for a game? Please speak to our staff when you sign up so we can be sure to meet your needs.
2—3 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
How to write believable, purposeful violent scenes and use them to advance the story and develop characters. Are your characters capable of interpersonal violence?
Metaerie (M), Gwendolyn N. Nix, Russell Ervin, Jim Butcher, Sandra Rosner
2—4 p.m. Maxi's Lounge
Need a quiet space to just be for a while? Want to read a book? Looking for a space to run a long game of *Twilight Imperium *that isn't noisy? We've set this space aside for just that.
2—10 p.m. Maxi's Salon
Artemis is a spaceship bridge simulator where players assume the jobs of captain, helm, science, communications, engineering, and weapons and work together to defeat alien enemies.
2 p.m.—midnight Rotunda 1 & 2
Come sign up for a game! We have Pathfinder Society, Adventurers League, RPGs, card games, and so much more! After scheduled gaming closes, this area is available for open games. Need ADA access for a game? Please speak to our staff when you sign up so we can be sure to meet your needs. Rotunda 1 & 2 are located down Concourse 1 or 2 on the first and second floors.
2:30—3 p.m. Cascade 3
In 1884, Sean O'Herlihy plants a bomb at the Irish Special Branch. The explosion injures Lord Mowbray. Sean escapes to Ireland. Mowbray alerts Scotland Yard. The IRB send Sean and wife to Mars for protection. Follow their adventures crossing the void to their new home.
Dr. Mark Rounds (M)
3—3:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Invisible Cities meets sentient gargoyles in Campbell's cli-fi novel City of Dancing Gargoyles, a journey through a future U.S. where wolves float, bonfires sing, and devils gather to pray. When sentient stone gargoyles E and M flee their abandoned church in search of water, they meet a mother-daughter duo of climate refugees seeking safety. They join forces to search for a mysterious new city of gargoyles—but is it the key to a more sustainable future, or could it destroy everything they know? Rated PG.
Tara Campbell (M)
3—4 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Gaming used to target the teenage years, but that's not true at all these days. Our gaming panelists discuss the differences (and similarities) in designing games for kids vs. teens vs. adults vs. all ages.
Jason Nelson (M), Ron Lundeen, Mike Kimmel, Stan!
Misconceptions
3—4 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Join a very brief overview of modern and historical belly dance styles, the influence of western culture on the perception of belly dance, portrayal of it in modern fiction, and a brief history of origins.
Siyrren (M)
3—4 p.m. Cascade 9
Do you have a story that would make a great comic? Learn how to prepare your writing to work with an artist and write a comic book script.
G.R. Theron (M), David Boop, Eric L Vargas, Elizabeth Guizzetti
3—4 p.m. Cascade 10
"Poetry?" I hear you cry. Yes, poetry, aimed at your SF/F sensibilities. Come listen to our panelists or bring your own favorites to share. We promise you'll be out in time for the Opening Ceremonies.
Mike Brennan (M), GregRobin Smith, Kurt Cagle, Eva L. Elasigue
3—4 p.m. Cascade 13
So you've finished the first draft and it's... well... it's rough. Where do you start revising and how do you decide what to keep and what to throw out? Come to the workshop and get some ideas and tips for how to start wrangling that manuscript into shape. Limit 15 participants. Signup will be at the info table.
Kat Richardson (M)
3—4 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
It's the 1980s again. Technology is developing faster than ever. The NES and SEGA Genesis have shown us what gaming can do. The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi are changing the way we see science fiction. In Japan, Otaku culture is exploding with content: Bubblegum Crisis, Castle in the Sky, Dirty Pair, Dragon Ball, Gundam, Captain Harlock, and many others. Let's take a trip back to the 1980s for the golden era of science fiction in anime, and explore the hows and whys of how it came to be. (Leijiverse fans welcome!)
Birdie (M)
3—4 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Fictional worlds offer teen readers a place to call their own, a place that stays with them even after they leave. If the world is built well, they'll come back to it, sure as Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children yearn for their magical lands. For the writer, building worlds well isn't just a matter of maps, languages, histories, and cosmologies. It's the connections between theme, world, and story that make the setting feel real. We'll talk about world-building and what themes resonate especially well for teens, with input from readers in the audience.
Kate Ristau (M), Tom Llewellyn, Kate Alice Marshall, Lish McBride, Kendare Blake
3—4 p.m. Olympic 2
Authors like Tolkien have been putting songs in their books for years. Can you still do that? If so, how? And what if you want to use a song written by someone else? Get answers to all these questions and more in this panel.
Amanda Cherry (M), Metaerie, Karen Eisenbrey, Tyrean Martinson
3—4:30 p.m. Maxi's Ballroom
Ever thought of looking like a showgirl with a big, fluffy, feathery tail and bridle? In this workshop you will learn the skills of wire bending and knotting to assemble the tail and bridle frames. All the frame materials will be provided, along with boas, ostrich feathers, and strapping to complete your bridle in this workshop. If you own a glue gun, please bring it. Limit 12 participants and those people who just want to watch. Adults only. Signup will be at the info table.
RAND the vampire (M)
3:30—4 p.m. Cascade 3
Sword of Cho Nisi: Rise of the Tobian Princess. Sword of Cho Nisi is a high fantasy series with island magic, romance, and a dragon. With one fleeting mistake, her dreams were lost. Now she must fight to win them back. Rated PG.
D.L. Gardner (M)
4—4:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Selection from "Titan of Chaos." In Titan's Kraken Mare, submarines and their crews have gone missing and foul play is suspected. Hartigan O'Reilly is the chief law enforcement official in the Saturn system; his long-ago ex is on a sub swallowed by a giant Kraken Mare worm and has called for help. Rated G.
G. David Nordley (M)
4—5 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Indie novelists of all ages and backgrounds have one thing in common: they're publishers. If you're selfpublishing, this means you are heading up your own production department, and you'll need solutions for problems such as: How do I get cover art? How do I handle book design? What formats should I publish in, and what steps do I take to make that happen? Come learn about your tactical options as an indie author. You'll walk away with notes on digital tools, as well as tips on formatting, editing, book covers, blurbs, and reviews.
Shahid Mahmud (M), Neil Clarke, Elliott Kay, Anastasia Wilde, Talulah J. Sullivan
4—5 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Costuming usually starts with shopping, so let's share all the wacky and wonderful places we've found the components for our creations.
Ieva Ohaks (M), Ms. Purple Pearl, Andrew Williams, Torrey Stenmark, Garth Stubbs
4—5 p.m. Cascade 9
Many fans are drawn to nonhuman characters like Data and Spock because they can relate to their "alien" experience among "normal" humans. What other metaphors of neurodivergence are out there? How can neurodivergent writers share their experiences with the neurotypical world? Moving beyond the sociopathic genius and the childlike savant—how do we write neurodivergent characters who are compelling and reflect reality?
Liz Coleman (M), Tom D Wright, Clara Ward, Danielle Gembala, Craig Jackson
4—5 p.m. Cascade 10
Explore the art of writing authentic dialogue, pluses and minuses of using popular slang, and how to find your unique writing voice.
K.G. Anderson (M), Jennifer Brozek, Richard Sparks, Lezli Robyn, J.P. Barnett
4—5 p.m. Cascade 13
Dive into the unique elements that define the beginnings of fantasy stories. Our authors will guide you in identifying these crucial components and demonstrate practical ways to apply them to your own work.
G.R. Theron (M), Kate Ristau, Randy Henderson, Travis Baldree, Brenda Carre, Carol Berg
4—5 p.m. Olympic 2
We all know that almost every Disney creature ends up acting like a dog in the end. What should you do to make sure that your animals are believable in your work? And how do you know what creature to include or not include? Learn from writers about how they chose their animals and what research was needed to represent them properly, even if the animals were mythical!
Jake McKinzie (M), Julie McGalliard, D.L. Gardner, Tegan Moore, Sara A Mueller
4:30—5 p.m. Cascade 3
Dust. The truth about Neverland is far more dangerous than a fairy tale. Ever since her twin brother was stolen away as a child, Claire Kenton believes the world is too dark for magic to be real. Now Claire's desperate search points to London... and a boy who shouldn't exist. Meanwhile, Peter Pan is having a beastly time getting back to Neverland. Grounded in London and hunted by his own Lost Boys, Peter searches for the last hope of restoring his crumbling island: a lass with magic in her veins. The girl who fears her own destiny is on a collision course with the boy who never wanted to grow up. The truth behind this fairy tale is about to unravel everything Claire thought she knew about Peter Pan—and herself. Rated PG.
Kara Swanson (M)
5—5:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Flash fiction readings from *Queer Sci Fi'*s flash fiction anthology series: "A Flacon of Ink" and "It Came from Atom City." Rated PG.
Dean Wells (M)
5—6 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Where would the horror genre be without deranged psycho killers and unhinged lunatics who have escaped from nightmarish asylums? But the way horror uses "crazy" as a shorthand for "violent" can perpetuate the stigma around mental health. Is it possible for horror to handle mental illness better? What are some good examples? Some bad examples? What would we like to see in the future?
Camden Rose (M), Liz Coleman, Laura Cranehill, Ellis Bray
5—6 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
What happens when belief trumps science? Is society doomed?
Bryana Cross Bean, Attorney at Law (M), Jon Lasser, Howard Davidson, Julie McGalliard, Colette Breshears
5—6 p.m. Cascade 9
Many writers and game designers have only an academic knowledge of modern weapons, much of it drawn from movies and TV and either wrong or impractical. Come listen to our panel of veterans and other experts dispel some of the myths that continue in fiction.
Bill Gruner (M), Clayton Mann, D.L. Solum, John Lovett, Teresa Drag
5—6 p.m. Cascade 10
Fiction is full of clever spies who know secrets about codes and can crack them in days. Messages are tampered with between friends or enemies, sowing chaos. Super-intelligent computers can break any code. Stories often revolve around ideas like these. But what about the real world? What can you do with encryption? Why is it safer if everyone knows your code inside and out? Is there an unbreakable code and, if so, why don't we use it all the time? What is a "quantum computer" and what does it mean for our society? Join us as we explore the secrets of encryption!
Dr. Sean Robinson (M), Travis Partington, Cait Alvarez, Michael Ormes, Andrew Williams
5—7 p.m. Cascade 13
Do you like mobile suits, valkyries, powered armor, and super robots? Come join in with suggestions and a drawing pad of your own (if you want to draw too). We'll talk about the thought process that goes into designing a mecha, whether in the "real" robot or super robot genres. Then we'll take input from the audience and design a custom mecha. We'll also discuss how to justify mecha existing in your setting and how to make them match your pilot's personality or the story's theme. From pile bunkers to rocket punches, let's have fun with it!
Eric L Vargas (M)
5—7 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
Start your convention with a celebration of science fiction and fantasy short films from around the world. Films: "All Eyes," "Archive & The Storyteller," "Bird Drone," "FOREIGNER," "Ghost Song," "Promise Me," "Scrum Wars • Episode 1: A New Sprint," "The Path of the Greys," "The Right Vintage," and "Will Ye No Come Back Again?"
5—6 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Look, we all know things aren't great: climate change, political upheaval, virulent new diseases, mass extinctions, ecological collapse. But does looking into the future have to mean staring into the void? What if we're not quite certain about the optimism of Solarpunk, but still want to read about futures that don't make us fall into despair? Let's talk about "cozy dystopia": who's writing it, who's reading it, and why. Is it a way to cope, or just copping out?
Tara Campbell (M), Shiv Ramdas, Kathy, L.J. Melvin, Brenda Cooper
5—7 p.m. Olympic 1
Come do supplied crafts, make buttons, or work on your own stuff.
Jenny Shafer (M)
5—6 p.m. Grand 2
Attending a historical or fantasy ball? Wondering how to up your etiquette and dancing game so you can act as fabulous as your costume looks? Unsure of how to ask someone to dance? Do you know who should lead in a samegender, gender-neutral, or gender-fluid dancing couple? Come find answers to these questions and more, and learn two to three fun historical-based dances which are easy and fun! By the end you'll be ready to dance the night away with confidence at the Fae Ball.
5—7 p.m. Maxi's Ballroom
Want to learn how to paint minis? Teens and tweens can learn from professional mini painter JD Wiker, Man of 1,000 Minis, with a guided tutorial on how to get started in the hobby. Participants even get to take their mini home! Special thanks to WizKids for sponsoring this workshop. Limited to 24 participants. Signup will be at the info table.
JD Wiker (M)
5—6 p.m. Lobby Photo Area
First time at Norwescon? Returning after a long absence? Welcome! We're so glad you're here! The convention's chair and/or vice-chair will orient you to Norwescon, fill you in on where to find the fun stuff, and answer your questions about the convention.
SunnyJim Morgan, Rob Stewart
6—6:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Where Rivers Go to Die. The story of a child, might be human, grieving the death of their mother, which they caused, and discovering their true identity and purpose. Rated G.
Dilman Dila (M)
6—7 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
How do SF authors and futurists determine what trends are likely to be important? What differentiates a megatrend from a transient fad? Why do marketed trends seem to fail so spectacularly... and so consistently? Why is the future so hard to read?
Crystal Lloyd (M), Kurt Cagle, Brenda Cooper, Jon Lasser, Kaylea Champion
6—7 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Several modern animals live on blood. Griffins and dragons may have been inspired by the bones of dinosaurs. What are other possible biological inspirations for mythological creatures?
Colette Breshears (M), Ellis Bray, Gwendolyn N. Nix, Brian D. Oberquell, Darren McKinty, RVT
6—7 p.m. Cascade 9
While we all recognize how great the graphics or gameplay are in our favorite video games, what would any game be without the writing? Our panelists discuss the process of writing for a video game and what role(s) the writing plays in making a game memorable and successful.
Evan J. Peterson (M), Sandra Rosner, Jeff Grubb, Monte Lin
6—7 p.m. Cascade 10
It's a fact of popular media—old shows will get made into new shows, old movies into new movies. The question in these cases is always the same: why? Is there a good reason to remake them, or is it just about banking on a familiar name? Is the new show better than the original? Are the stories the same or different? Let's take a look at the movies and television shows that have been created and recreated to see why they were redone and whether the end result was worth it.
Kathy (M), Luke Elliott, Nick Fraser, Kris "Pepper" Hambrick, Richard Stephens
6—7 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Our panel of professional audiobook narrators will give you advice and answer your questions.
Sam Stark (M), Gary Bennett
6—7 p.m. Olympic 2
What's the difference between the young adult and middle grade genres? Learn from writers and readers of both about the differences and similarities, the trends in each, and what to know if you want to write in these spaces.
Marta Murvosh (M), Camden Rose, L.J. Melvin, Tom Llewellyn
6—7 p.m. Grand 2
Come learn some dances that will be done at the fairy ball on Saturday night! Medieval dances from Italy and England will be taught.
6—7 p.m. Maxi's Lounge
Want to get to know other congoers, but find that the idea of striking up conversation with someone you don't know makes you think about running the other way? First of all, welcome! You're in a *lot *of good company. Second, we have a solution to feeling alone in a crowd! This is similar to speed dating. You sit down with someone and each of you talks for up to two minutes about easy topics: Have you been to Norwescon before? What events sound interesting this year? What are your fandoms? If the two of you want to talk further, exchange info. Otherwise, hey, you still met someone! And every few minutes, you both switch to someone new and start again. Find some of your tribe here!
6:30—7 p.m. Cascade 3
Be the Sea. In November 2039, marine scientist Wend Taylor heaves themself aboard a zero-emissions boat skippered by elusive nature photographer Viola Yang. Guided by instinct, ocean dreams, and a shared birthday in 1972, they barter stories for passage across the Pacific. Aljon, Viola's younger cousin, keeps a watchful eye and an innovative galley. Story by story, the trio rethink secrets, flying dreams, their own minds, and a calling to Be the Sea. Rated G.
Clara Ward (M)
6:30—7 p.m. Grand 3
Doors open for Opening Ceremonies.
7—8 p.m. Grand 3
The official kickoff to Norwescon 46, featuring interviews with our guests of honor, a taste of things to come, and general shenanigans.
Lydia K. Valentine (M), Jim Butcher, Dr. Raychelle Burks, Kate Alice Marshall, Neil Clarke, Charles Vess
8—8:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Flare, Corona. Jeannine will be reading from her book Flare, Corona, published in May 2023 by BOA Editions. Poems will involve space weather, science fiction, and chronic illness/disability. Rated PG.
Jeannine Hall Gailey (M)
8—9 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Every costume is a project! Identify its scope: How many pieces of clothing do you need? What accessories are required? For group costumes, what attributes ensure a cohesive look? Determine a schedule and specific milestones: When will you wear it? How much work time will each costume piece take? Does your group need scheduled sessions and presentation rehearsals? Identify a reasonable budget: Do you already own parts or supplies? How many yards of silk do you actually need? Can you recycle existing accessories? Are you buying or making props? Realistic expectations create fantastic results!
Ms. Purple Pearl (M), Theresa Halbert, Siyrren , Gina Saucier
8—9 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
So you finally got the sword of your dreams or picked up a rusty blade somewhere. How do you keep it shiny or make it shiny? Do you walk around with it in your hand? Do you stick it under your belt? What are the weapon rules at Norwescon? We have the answers.
Peter Fuller (M), Bill Gruner, Ann Shilling, Joseph Malik
8—9 p.m. Cascade 9
Not only has history been portrayed as white, not only has it been portrayed as male, but stories centering queerness are supposedly a "recent occurrence." Right? SO VERY WRONG. Join us while we explore very real instances of historical LGBTQ2S+ people from varying cultures and learn how to use that as background for crafting worlds that empower queer spaces.
Talulah J. Sullivan (M), Lezli Robyn, S.L. Coney, Anne Stewart, Dilman Dila
8—9 p.m. Cascade 10
Relive the best "Let's Make a Movie" shorts we've produced at Norwescon over the past 25 years (and maybe you'll catch a glimpse of a much-younger you!). We aren't going to show them all, but there are various favorites, plus more recent efforts will be in the mix. Don't forget to come to our organizing panel on Friday for this year's workshop!
Brian D. Oberquell, Ryan K. Johnson
8—9 p.m. Cascade 13
Just as science inspires sci fi, history serves as a wellspring for fantasy. Our panelists will guide you through techniques for researching and distilling historical elements and seamlessly incorporating them into your fantasy work.
Remy Nakamura (M), D.L. Gardner, Shiv Ramdas, Kat Richardson
8—11 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
Even more great science fiction and fantasy short films. "Closing Time," "Ellipsis," "Five," "Genre," "Spiral to the Center," "The Astronaut," "The Indulgence of Viv le Vac," "The Miners," and "The Wayfarer."
8 p.m.—1 a.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Come join the open filk circle.
8—10 p.m. Olympic 1
Create a floral head wreath for our Fae ball on Saturday using wire, ribbon, artificial flowers, and foliage. It will be durable and adjustable. You can make it as realistic or fantastical as you want. Recommended age 13 and up (sharp tools). Limit 15 participants. Cost $10 cash. Signup at the info table.
Ieva Ohaks (M)
8—9 p.m. Olympic 2
Want to know more about how to practice consent? Join us for a series of consent exercises to practice and hone your skills as you enjoy Norwescon. This will be an interactive, noncontact (hands off) workshop and, of course, consensual.
Sar Surmick (M)
8 p.m.—midnight Maxi's Ballroom
Still working on something to wear in the halls or the masquerade, or just on a project? This is your place. Bring your items to work on and enjoy good company and the opportunity to get help, if needed.
Scotty McIntosh (M)
8 p.m.—midnight Maxi's Lounge
Need a quiet space to just be for a while? Want to read a book? Looking for a space to run a long game of Twilight Imperium that isn't noisy? We've set this space aside for just that.
8:30—9 p.m. Cascade 3
Thursday reads a collection of nerd poetry. Rated PG.
Thursday (M)
9—9:30 p.m. Cascade 3
"A Testament to Indirection, An Enigma, The Sun Above." A flash fiction story about rewriting your partner's life poem. (Very quickly! The brain surgeon is waiting for you to finish). Rated R.
Mitchell Shanklin (M)
9—10 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Writing fanfic can be a freewheeling good time, but doing it well often involves research—sometimes a *lot *of research. You need to know your source canon, but there's so much more. What type of gun does a British WWII soldier carry? What do 1950s police forensics teams pack in their work kits? How do you actually run a coffee shop? Is your search history going to put you on a government watchlist? It can be overwhelming, but our panelists are here to help with useful resources and effective research techniques.
Berlynn Wohl (M), Anne Stewart, Sam Stark, B. Zelkovich, Birdie
9—10 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Come listen to/participate in a live reading of scenes from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but as if Shakespeare wrote it, using the text of Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher. Sign up for a role and pick up a script at the info table, or just come to the reading. We need volunteer actors to have fun with it, and an audience ready to laugh!
9—10 p.m. Cascade 9
OceanGate was trying to be a disruptor and find ways to build submarines more cheaply. They claimed the rules were favoring the "big guys" and were trying to prevent innovation. This idea has appeared in science fiction over and over, whether it's the movie *Salvage-1 *or the portrayal of Belters in The Expanse books and TV show. How would OceanGate have been viewed last year, before the loss in June? Is it wrong to allow experimental crafts, whether underwater or in space? Should formal engineering be required or is it enough to just design stuff?
Dr. Sean Robinson (M), Bart Kemper, Russell Ervin, Phil L. Swan
9—10 p.m. Cascade 10
Our panelists discuss what actually happens at crime scenes. Helpful for writers and general interest. Goodies will be given away!
Cindy Fangour (M), Dr. Raychelle Burks
9 p.m.—2 a.m. Grand 2
Play Nerf, either with or against your friends! All equipment is provided.
9 p.m.—1 a.m. Grand 3
It's the Thursday night dance! On our first evening venturing Into the Wylde, who knows what manner of fantastical beings we will encounter... or we will be? Mix-and-match from whatever outfits you brought for the weekend to create mashup costumes, or wear something to represent your fandom(s), and come down and dance to a mix of dance tracks across eras, convention favorites, and all manner of mashups and oddities, all brought to you by DJ Wüdi!
10—11 p.m. Cascade 3
10—11 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Sci-fi fans are great at asking "what if" and envisioning different possibilities— so we can also reject the rules, and choose different options in our real lives. Polyamory has been around as a fringe lifestyle for decades but has lately been getting more attention in the mainstream. If you're wondering if it would work for you, join the panel discussion.
Hazel (M), Craig Jackson, Kate Sherman, Sar Surmick
10—11 p.m. Cascade 9
Is Captain Kirk more influential than John Carter? Is Ellen Ripley cooler than E.T.? Panelists and audience will discuss, explore, and ultimately rank every science fiction character ever to grace the screen. Or at least as many as we can get to in 45 minutes!
Berlynn Wohl (M), Gina Saucier, Brian D. Oberquell
11—midnight Cascade 5 & 6
If you have been in the polyamorous community for a while, come discuss some of the nuances and challenges with panelists who have been there. Limited to over 18+ years of age.
Craig Jackson (M), Hazel, Kate Sherman, Eva L. Elasigue
7—9 a.m. Grand 2
Join us early in the morning for Lazer Tag with a round robin format. All equipment will be provided. We will be playing with vintage Star Wars Lazer Tag equipment from Tiger Electronics.
9—10 a.m. Olympic 1
Start your day with coloring sheets and cartoons.
Jenny Shafer (M)
10—10:30 a.m. Cascade 3
The Essence of All Things. A young stabbing victim collapsed at the doorstep of an apothecary claims he is possessed by a daemon. His wild temperament and dangerous talents seem to bear that out, leaving the apothecary pondering whether to murder the lad or find some way to harness his skills. Rated G
Carol Berg (M)
10—11 a.m. Cascade 5 & 6
What makes fanfiction a popular hobby for so many people? What trends can be tracked over time, and how do changing conditions (the rise of social media, direct access to professional content creators, evolution in social attitudes, etc.) influence how people interact with transformative fanworks?
Kris "Pepper" Hambrick (M), Berlynn Wohl, Brianna Tibbetts, Anne Stewart, B. Zelkovich
10 a.m.—noon Cascade 7 & 8
Norwescon's original movie-making workshop (begun in 2000) will show you how to make a movie on a shoestring in just a few hours! But first, we'll talk basics: what equipment do you need to make a movie? (Hint: it might already be in your pocket). How can you make it look good? Learn the tips 'n tricks we've picked up over the years. Then you, our audience, come up with an idea, develop it into something doable at a con, plan the shoot, do some quick casting, and anything else we can think of! This is your chance to be a part of this unique workshop and learn how to make a movie on a budget so tiny calling it "tiny" makes people who are tiny feel insulted. The key to making a movie is good planning! If you want to get in on the action tomorrow, you'll want to be here for the planning.
Brian D. Oberquell, dQ Kaufman, Ryan K. Johnson, Edward Martin III
10—11 a.m. Cascade 9
Research is tough. If you've never served in the military, it can be difficult, or well-nigh impossible to write your story with any degree of accuracy. Multiple panelists who have all served in the military will help you get the military aspects of your story correct.
Peter Fuller (M), Teresa Drag, Bill Gruner, Russell Ervin, Mike Brennan, Dr. Mark Rounds
10—11 a.m. Cascade 10
Over the decades, what we have collected as a society has dramatically changed. We've gone from first edition books to first edition comic books. Glass and ceramic figurines to plastic action figures. Framed art and posters by famous artists to framed art and posters by famous fan artists. Each of our panelists will bring with them their faaaaaavorite geeky "toys" and share their stories. The audience is also invited to bring one special item to share in our geeky show and tell!
Birdie (M), Janna Silverstein, Crystal Lloyd, Tom Whitmore, Douglas Herring
10 a.m.—midnight Cascade 11
Want to set up your own game? Cascade 11 has space for your RPG, board game, or card game. Check one out from Dragonflight's lending library or bring your own.
10 a.m.—midnight Cascade 12
Come check out games from our lending libraries. We have RPGs, card games, board games, and so much more! An official state license or state ID is needed to check out games. There are tables to play the games you borrow or ones you bring yourselves. There will also be some scheduled games here. Need ADA access for a game? Please speak to our staff when you sign up so we can be sure to meet your needs.
10 a.m.—noon Cascade 13
This is a no holds barred, every-question- counts fast-paced Q&A for brand-new writers wanting to break in with Ken Scholes and Kristi Charish.
Kristi Charish, Ken Scholes
10—11 a.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
Do you want to work in digital art but don't know what tech is best recommended? Come and see what the pros use for their art and find what's right for you!
Kurt Cagle (M), Brittany Torres, Ellis Bray, Lizzy D. Hill, Michael Brugger
10—11 a.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Uncover the roots of your favorite fantasies by exploring myths and fairy tales. Our panelists will discuss the influence of these timeless tales on fantasy, providing tips on incorporating them into your own work and suggesting additions to your reading list.
Kate Ristau (M), Rhiannon/R.Z. Held, Shiv Ramdas, Anastasia Wilde, Richard Sparks
10—11 a.m. Olympic 1
There are many things you can do to play with yarn. Come try yarn dolls, god'seyes, pompoms, and finger-knitting and bring your creations home. Small children will need assistance.
Jenny Shafer (M), Danielle Gembala, Marta Murvosh
10—11 a.m. Olympic 2
Join us as we talk about the horror genre: what is it, how to approach it, and why should you write it. After the panel, we will brainstorm a horror story or two together.
Camden Rose (M), Julie McGalliard, Evan J. Peterson, Gordon B. White, J.P. Barnett
10—11 a.m. Grand 2
You've got the seed of a short story, and you're certain of its brilliance. Problem: it takes place at the event horizon of a black hole/during the Spanish Civil War/ in a virology lab hidden away in the jungles of the Amazon basin/in a Sichuan cooking school. And you know only the Wikipedia highlights. How do you write this without accidentally falling into a Google hole, possibly forever? How do you find reliable resources, sort through them, prioritize your research time, and filter what's relevant? How do you know when you've done enough? And how many books are you allowed to buy?
David Boop (M), Tegan Moore, Neil Clarke, Luke Elliott
10—11 a.m. Grand 3
Come join us for an interview with Norwescon 46's special guest of honor, Kate Alice Marshall, and get a chance to ask your own questions during the Q&A.
Kate Alice Marshall (M)
10—11:30 a.m. Maxi's Ballroom
Come work with a veteran photographer and a veteran cosplayer to learn tips and tricks for doing great cosplay photography in a hands-on environment! We'll walk to a few different settings, and learn how to take the best photos in each one, based on lighting, costume considerations, and more. Bring your phone, your camera, or your cosplay, and come ready to get some great photos! Cosplayers and photographers are all welcome, at any level of skill and equipment.
Andrew Williams (M), Torrey Stenmark
10 a.m.—11 a.m. Maxi's Lounge
Want to get to know other congoers, but the idea of striking up a conversation with someone you don't know makes you think about running the other way? One, welcome! You're in a *lot* of good company. Two, we have a solution to feeling alone in a crowd! This is similar to speed dating. You sit down with someone, and each of you talks for up to two minutes about easy topics: have you been to NWC before, what events sound interesting this year, what are your fandoms? If the two of you want to talk further, exchange info! Otherwise, hey, you still met someone! And every few minutes, you both switch to someone new and start again. Find some of your tribe here!
10 a.m.—10 p.m. Maxi's Salon
Artemis is a spaceship bridge simulator where players assume the job of captain, helm, science, communication, engineering, and weapons and work together to defeat alien enemies.
10—11 a.m. Presidential Suite 1360
We'll spend just a few minutes chatting at the beginning, kind of a welcome. The remainder of the time will be spent silently reading our individual books of choice. That's it! Just a designated time and space to silently read with others who want to read. Feel free to bring a blanket, pillow, or your favorite reading comfort item.
10 a.m.—11 a.m. Art Show Panel 8
Elizabeth will show you how to knit metal scales into yarn pieces like fingerless gloves.
10 a.m.—midnight Rotunda 1 & 2
Come sign up for a game! We have Pathfinder Society, Adventurers League, RPGs, card games, and so much more! After scheduled gaming closes, this area is available for open games. Need ADA access for a game? Please speak to our staff so we can be sure to meet your needs. Rotunda 1 & 2 are located down Concourse 1 or 2 on the first and second floors.
10:30—11 a.m. Cascade 3
"Fallon's Lament." This is a blending of two poems, written decades apart, now being set to music for future videography for the fiction series. Rated G.
Metaerie (M)
11—11:30 a.m. Cascade 3
Persephone: A Tale of Darker Seattle. Dark epic urban fantasy based in Seattle. Wytches, Werewolves, Vampires, Fae, and the mortals who love them. Rated PG.
D.L. Solum (M)
11 a.m.—noon Cascade 5 & 6
A novum is the heart of strangeness in science fiction, the speculative element that sets your world apart from consensus reality. Professor Darko Suvin gave it a name 45 years ago, but science fiction writers had been exploring sentient monsters, life on other planets, and changes to human biology well before then. SF readers have always expected a well-imagined novum, so how do you make sure your story delivers? We'll talk about how a good novum reveals itself through narrative and some questions writers can ask to develop a story's kernel into a fully functional operating system.
L.J. Melvin (M), Nancy Kress, Lezli Robyn, Mitchell Shanklin, Brenda Cooper
11 a.m.—noon Cascade 9
Hero or zero? Examine what characteristics teen characters need to remain authentic and still have credibility in the adult world.
Lish McBride (M), Kara Swanson, Tyrean Martinson, Karen Eisenbrey, Anastasia Wilde
11 a.m.—noon Cascade 10
King County Library System librarians give a book talk on BIPOC and LGTBQIA+ representation in sci-fi and fantasy and suggest titles covering books and authors from tweens to adults.
King County Library System (KCLS) (M)
11 a.m.—noon Evergreen 1 & 2
Chatbots built on large-language models and trained on existing literary texts are new players within the creative space. Authors and artists are faced with a malleable new medium that may be accompanied by an increased risk of infringement. This panel discusses how this new technology fits into the old mold of copyright law and how courts, agencies, and authors are addressing issues relative to unauthorized uses.
Tara Campbell (M), Ethan Vodde, Curtis C. Chen, Shahid Mahmud, Talulah J. Sullivan
11—noon Evergreen 3 & 4
Are you interested in getting a 3D printer? What is the best entry point into this expensive but cool hobby? What do you want to make with it, and how does that affect what you buy? Filament or resin? Let's discuss the possibilities and what is available.
Wm Salt Hale (M), Melissa Quinn, Darren McKinty, RVT, Kevin Taft
11 a.m.—noon Olympic 1
Listen to stories as you color.
Jenny Shafer (M), Birdie
11 a.m.—noon Olympic 2
Come learn to play a role-playing game! Our gamemaster (GM) will walk you through how to make a character and a short adventure. Dice will be provided for use. This is for teens and tweens only!
Jenny Jarzabski (M), Scotty McIntosh, Bruce R. Cordell, Monte Lin, Ron Lundeen
11 a.m.—noon Grand 2
Are you looking into working in the art world? Or just curious about what artists do? Have lots of questions? Here's your chance to get them answered by a professional artist!
Michael Brugger (M), Charles Vess, Brittany Torres, Rob Carlos
11 a.m.—noon Grand 3
Come join us for an interview with Norwescon 46's science guest of honor, Dr. Raychelle Burks, and get a chance to ask your own questions during the Q&A.
Dr. Raychelle Burks (M)
11 a.m.—noon Lobby Photo Area
Is it your first time at Norwescon? Are you returning after a long absence? Welcome! We're so glad you're here. The convention's chair and/or vicechair will orient you to Norwescon, fill you in on where to find the fun stuff, and answer your questions about the convention.
SunnyJim Morgan, Rob Stewart
11 a.m.—noon Presidential Suite 1360
Join Norwescon's Bibliophiles, the official book club of Norwescon, for a discussion of our March book, Infinity Gate by M.R. Carey, which is also nominated for this year's Philip K. Dick Award. The book examines a threat to a million worlds, which are all Earth in many different dimensions. All are welcome. Norwescon's Bibliophiles meets online on the third Monday of each month, with occasional in-person gatherings. Look for us on our Facebook page.
11:30—noon Cascade 3
"Goblins & Greatcoats." A mystery short set in the world of *Legends & Lattes *involving goblins, ponies, chaos, and cutlery. Rated PG.
Travis Baldree (M)
noon—12:30 p.m. Cascade 3
These Burning Stars. Rated R.
Bethany Jacobs (M)
noon—1 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Relax and have fun as you watch artists challenge themselves in quick-draw cartooning challenges.
Sven Red Beard (M), Stan!, Eric L Vargas, Liz Argall
noon—1 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Are you ready to compete? Do you have an idea for sound or movement? How do you know what level to compete at? How do you use the stage safely and to your benefit? How long will you be in your costume? How long will you be on stage? Can you just yell? No, you can't, if you want to win. You have meetings to go to, rules to follow, and rehearsals. This panel will try to prepare you for the masquerade experience. This is not the masquerade panel that is required for entrants, just informational.
Richard Stephens (M), Torrey Stenmark, Zamesta Cosplay, Julie Zetterberg, Garth Stubbs
noon—1 p.m. Cascade 9
As the role-playing game and story game hobby grows, we need to pay attention to creating a warm, inviting, and safe atmosphere for new players. How do we do our best to make sure these players have fun and come back?
Bruce R. Cordell (M), Jason Tondro, Jeff Grubb, Jenny Jarzabski, Luis Loza
noon—1 p.m. Cascade 10
Horror isn't limited to the horror shelf. Delve into the incorporation of spooky and macabre elements in fantasy novels. Our panelists will discuss works that masterfully blend eerie elements, offering tips and ideas for infusing your own writing with a touch of the creepy.
Remy Nakamura (M), David Boop, Jennifer Brozek, Tegan Moore, Camden Rose
noon—2 p.m. Cascade 13
So, you want to have magic in your story, but you don't know where to start? Explore the creation and use of an original magic system for your fantasy fiction. We'll talk through the early decisions, the ways magic systems inform and improve the story, and how to interweave the workings into the narrative without breaking the flow. We'll chat about our favorite examples of magic in fiction and those we feel weren't as successful. You'll leave with the beginnings of your own magic system, plus a better understanding of how to use it in your next story.
Amanda Cherry (M)
noon—1 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
Webb was originally supposed to replace Hubble, but they are both still producing valid data. Why? And which is giving the best data and pictures?
Dan Dubrick (M), G. David Nordley, Dr. Sean Robinson, Hugh S. Gregory, Andy Dykes
noon—1 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Examine the essential elements of creating a well-rounded world.
Brenda Carre (M), Tyrean Martinson, Sandra Rosner, Thea Prieto, Lish McBride, Kate Alice Marshall
noon—1 p.m. Olympic 2
Play an exclusive demo of the Starfinder 2nd Edition role-playing game with one of the game's developers!
Mike Kimmel (M)
noon—1 p.m. Grand 2
Magic is a cornerstone of fantasy, from nuanced systems to mysterious forces. Join our panelists as they delve into magic systems, discuss impactful examples, and provide insights on balancing magic with world and plot elements, offering techniques to seamlessly incorporate magic into your writing.
Dean Wells (M), Rashida J Smith, K.G. Anderson, Alma Alexander, Ken Bebelle
noon—1 p.m. Grand 3
Come join us for an interview with Norwescon 46's writer guest of honor, Jim Butcher, and get a chance to ask your own questions during the Q&A.
Jim Butcher (M)
noon—1 p.m. Maxi's Lounge
You think you know all things British? Come put it to the test in a game of charades that's all about it. Find your fellow fans!
Michael Citrak (M)
noon—1 p.m. Art Show Panel 8
Ceramic figure sculptor Agathon McGeachy will demonstrate sculpting facial features in clay, with commentary.
12:30—1 p.m. Cascade 3
Wild Spaces.
An 11-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog Teach. But when the boy's eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain. The longer his grandfather outstays his welcome and the greater the tension between the adults grows, the more the boy feels something within him changing—physically—into something his grandfather welcomes and his mother fears. Something abyssal. Something monstrous. Rated PG.
S.L. Coney (M)
1—1:30 p.m. Cascade 3
"The Robot and the Winding Woods." Rated G.
Brenda Cooper (M)
1—2 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Graphene. Aerogels. Buckypaper. Metallic glass. Memory metal. Transparent aluminum. Self-healing concrete. Hempcrete. Metamaterials. Quasicrystals. Permeable pavement. Quantum dots. New materials with useful and often strange properties are being developed all of the time. What can they do? What can we use them for? Will they transform the world? Which ones? Come join our panelists for a look at what the future will, may, or won't be made of.
Dave Davis (M), Howard Davidson, Phil L. Swan, Andy Quinn, Ken Bebelle
1—2 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
A story can last long past its original publication date. What stories are "forever," and how can you adapt your content and publishing strategies to take advantage? Learn how to work with other creative individuals and how to make your creative projects continue working for you for the rest of your life, and beyond.
Jennifer Brozek (M), Talulah J. Sullivan, Gwendolyn N. Nix, Jack Skillingstead, Eva L. Elasigue
1—2 p.m. Cascade 9
What's a game without fearsome, horrifying monsters, right? Our panelists discuss what goes into the design of the best and most challenging monstrous opponents.
Stephen Radney-MacFarland (M), Jason Nelson, Ron Lundeen, Erik Scott de Bie, Tim Nightengale
1—2 p.m. Cascade 10
People wear clothes on purpose, be it for fashion, to avoid attention, or for protection from the environment or from other people who want to poke them full of holes. Historically there are entire sets of laws about what people can and can't wear. Wars have been fought, continents colonized, and entire species have been hunted to near or actual extinction, all in the name of clothes. Clothes tell your readers volumes about your world and the transportation systems and economic balances of society, adding richness to your creation.
Ieva Ohaks (M), Sara A. Mueller, S.L. Coney, Jessie Kwak, Thea Prieto
1—2 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
SFF and horror magazines bring new talent into the field. The slush pile, typically managed by teams of volunteers or low-paid editors, has historically allowed SFF magazines to discover emerging writers and find new talent. But AI-generated submissions have disrupted that system, causing markets to make changes, both temporary and permanent. What approaches can SFF magazines take to manage the deluge of robo-slush? What's been working? What has failed? Join us for a practical discussion.
Craig Jackson (M), Neil Clarke, Monte Lin, Gordon Van Gelder
1—2 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
What is neurodiversity? Who is neurodivergent? Is being neurotypical just an illusion? Come learn the basics. It's more than just autism and ADHD!
Caren GS (M), Liz Coleman, Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti, Liz Argall, Tom D Wright
1—3 p.m. Olympic 1
Take your first step into role-playing games! Pick a character and play in a story led by our dungeon master.
Oliver (M), Jenny Shafer, Alexander Pereira
1—2 p.m. Olympic 2
Ever want to make the cosplay costume of your dreams, but have the budget of your nightmares? Learn tools, tricks, and tips that will help you create what you want without breaking the piggy bank!
Richard Stephens (M), Melissa Quinn, Ms Purple Pearl, Hazel, Crystal Lloyd
1—2 p.m. Grand 2
The myth of the "brilliant" serial killer is embedded deeply into our pop culture, but is that just a false story covering up police incompetence? Sometimes serial killers get caught (Ted Bundy), sometimes they never get caught (Jack the Ripper), and sometimes they get caught decades later through changes in forensic technology (The Green River Killer). How do they get away with it for as long as they do?
Julie McGalliard (M), Sar Surmick, Dr. Raychelle Burks, Jake McKinzie, Kate Sherman
1—2 p.m. Maxi's Lounge
Do you think you know Firefly? Come put it to the test in a game of charades that's all about Firefly, and find your fellow Browncoats!
1—2:30 p.m. Presidential Suite 1360
Come to a tea party hosted by the Seattle Worldcon 2025 team! Meet some of the plotters and planners, hear about what a Worldcon entails, and add your two cents about how to make it a great event. Seattle Worldcon 2025 will be at the Seattle Convention Center from August 13-17, 2025. The tea party will feature a special blend of tea, snacks, and conversation. You can learn more about the convention and buy a membership at seattlein2025.org, or by visiting the club table in the lobby.
Kathy (M)
2—2:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Hugo- and Nebula-winning writer David D. Levine reads from his latest novel, The Kuiper Belt Job, a space opera caper novel best described as "Ocean's 11 meets The Expanse." Rated G.
David D. Levine (M)
2—3 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Wheelchairs, walkers, canes, glasses, service dogs, and other helping apparatus work fabulously with costuming! Join us for a lively discussion about what you can do with these necessary items to enhance your costume experience. If you have a wheelchair, you've got your very own starship Enterprise!
Garth Stubbs (M), Zamesta Cosplay, Deborah Strub, Hazel
2—3 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
In school we were told that in the past, people wanted spices to mask the taste of spoiled foods. Is that a myth, like so many others mentioned in public school? Why were spices so highly valued and considerable effort expended in moving them about?
Pat Reed, L.E.G. (M), Sara A. Mueller, Cait Alvarez, Spencer Ellsworth
2—3 p.m. Cascade 9
Strange as it may seem, many fans have favorite horror books and movies that they revisit again and again for emotional solace. Maybe it's the catharsis. Maybe it's the whispery ASMR vocals. Maybe we're just weirdos. Panelists discuss their favorite horror comfort viewing/reading and why it soothes them.
Jennifer Brozek (M), Steven Barnes, Gwen Callahan , Kendare Blake, Remy Nakamura
2—3 p.m. Cascade 10
You've written a book. Great! You want to sell it. Wonderful! Chances are the agent or publisher you want to pitch to will require a query letter and synopsis of your book up front, which is a different type of writing altogether. How do you compose a strong, engaging, and succinct query letter and synopsis that will catch the eye and spark interest? Our panelists will share what to aim for and what to avoid in this often-overlooked aspect of the writing craft.
Janna Silverstein (M), Leslie Varney, Ellis Bray, Lezli Robyn
2—3 p.m. Cascade 13
Come for a bit of applied comparative anatomy dressed up as an SF/F art class. We will give hints on how to make your bizarre imaginings look like they should actually have evolved somewhere.
Larry Lewis (M), Darren McKinty, RVT, Colette Breshears, Douglas Herring
2—3 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
For those of you missing Sakura-Con, here's an anime panel for you! Attendees are invited to come dressed as their favorite anime characters while our panelists share with you some great new shows and some old favorites that you might have missed. The last portion of the panel we will open up so attendees can share any beloved anime we didn't cover. All fans from newbies to seasoned veterans are welcome! Otaku unite!!
Mimi Noyes (M), Birdie, Melissa Quinn, Tom Whitmore, Andy Quinn
2—3 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Explore the pivotal role of worldbuilding in fantasy stories. Our panelists will discuss standout examples, explaining how effective worldbuilding sets the tone, informs character experiences, and enhances the reader's journey. Gain insights on replicating these techniques in your writing.
Carol Berg (M), Travis Baldree, Brenda Carre, Alma Alexander, Kara Swanson
2—4 p.m. Olympic 2
What is this witch's brew of words we call "story?" In this hands-on workshop, young and beginning writers will explore the structure, techniques, and best practices of what goes into crafting a work of fiction: plot, character, setting, problem, and resolution. You'll be building your own story in class, so be prepared to be creative! Priority seating to teens and tweens.
Dean Wells (M)
2—3 p.m. Grand 3
Come join us for an interview with Norwescon 46's artist guest of honor, Charles Vess, and get a chance to ask your own questions during the Q&A.
Charles Vess (M)
2—3:30 p.m. Maxi's Ballroom
Shodo artist Shoryu (A.W. McCollough) presents an introduction to exciting and meditative Japanese art. A form of meditative writing, Shodo is an art form that was practiced by scribes and samurai alike and brings benefits of meditation, discipline, and artistic expression. In this 1.5-hour workshop, you will learn about the Four Treasures, practice the Eight Principle Strokes, decide on a kanji (character) to practice, and make a piece of art to take home with you. If you have ever wondered about Japanese Calligraphy, or if you just want to write Blue Sun (蓝日), this is your chance for a brush with Shodo. Limited to 20 participants. Cost $25, cash only. Signup will open at the info table 24 hours before the panel.
A.W. McCollough (M)
2—3 p.m. Maxi's Lounge
Do you think you know Dungeons & Dragons? Come put it to the test in a game of charades that's all about D&D, and find your fellow fans!
2—3 p.m. Art Show Panel 8
Ashley will provide a brief overview of her collaging methods, including adding additional embellishments such as stencil work, and adding charms and wax seals.
2:30—3 p.m. Cascade 3
Excerpt from Unmanned. Rated G.
Jessica Rae Bergamino (M)
3—3:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Frantastic. A young witch, called on to evaluate a possibly cursed object, discovers something even more dangerous hidden inside... Rated G.
Laura Anne Gilman (M)
3—4 p.m. Convention Lounge (Room 7108)
Come meet other teens and tweens (10 - 17 years old) attending this year's convention. We will consume ice cream and soda while reviewing what's new and exciting this weekend. For those interested, this will be the first step in adventuring with the Norwescon Shire!
3—4 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
The stereotype of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants as the only professionals in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) is going away, but less so in management. How do women in leadership positions in STEM earn their positions, what challenges do they face, and how do they make changes in their technical fields and business operations? What are the pitfalls they see that are both common for all in the field and specific to women? What are the intersectional factors for people of color, LGBTQIA, immigration status, etc.?
V Whitlock, Pat Reed, L.E.G., Kaylea Champion, Bart Kemper
3—4 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Arrakis, Hoth, Dagobah, Cachalot? Yep, all hostile. Why your favorite inhospitable planet is all wrong... sorry.
Colette Breshears (M), Travis Partington, Alan Andrist, Charlotte Lewis Brown
3—4 p.m. Cascade 9
There are three easels and three artists. Someone from the audience describes a book cover idea, and the artists draw it without seeing what the others are drawing.
Lizzy D. Hill (M), Douglas Herring, Eric L Vargas, Charles Vess
3—4 p.m. Cascade 10
Our beloved pirates have set an incredibly high bar for love and acceptance with season 2. Is this a sign of the future for TV, or are we just lucky to have this? Will other fan favorite shows join in the love?
Jon Lasser (M), Richard Stephens, B. Zelkovich, Andrew Penn Romine
3—4 p.m. Cascade 13
You've set the stage, but what comes next? Join our authors to explore the complexities of writing fantasy story middles and, by analyzing successful examples, discuss how to expand on your story's foundations and integrate those insights into your own writing.
G.R. Theron (M), Kate Ristau, Randy Henderson, Brenda Carre, Travis Baldree
3—4 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
Have you wanted to learn 3D printing but been intimidated by the cost or technology? Interested in using a laser cutter or a serger but can't fit one in your space? Join King County Library System Makerspace staff as they discuss various equipment and opportunities available at the Bellevue and Federal Way libraries. You'll find examples of what you can make and learn about how you can build your skills as a maker with the library. Bring your curiosity, enthusiasm, and ideas.
King County Library System (KCLS) (M)
3—4 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
From the cynical blade runner to the wise-cracking Fae fatale or a wizard in a trench coat, the private eye of the pulps still pursues crime. We find examples of this enduring character type throughout genre fiction. Get tips and tricks from our all-star panel for creating compelling cross-genre gumshoes and shady shapeshifters, incorporating the hardboiled tropes and structures of crime fiction in your science fiction and fantasy writing.
Jessie Kwak (M), Kat Richardson, Dr. Raychelle Burks, Tom D Wright, Jim Butcher
3—4 p.m. Olympic 1
Create a tiny garden for a fairy or gnome to live in. Construct some small furniture and decorate your garden. Small children will need assistance.
Jenny Shafer (M), Birdie
of Clarkesworld Magazine
3—4 p.m. Grand 3
Come join us for an interview with Norwescon 46's spotlight publisher representative, Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld Magazine, and get a chance to ask your own questions during the Q&A.
Neil Clarke (M)
3—4 p.m. Maxi's Lounge
You think you know Star Wars? Come put it to the test in a game of charades that's all about Star Wars, and find your fellow fans!
3:30—4 p.m. Cascade 3
"The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe." In this rollicking homage to the Culture novels of Iain Banks, two dimwitted but good-hearted Canadian boys try to move a couch during an alien invasion—but the couch is not a couch. Rated PG.
Daryl Gregory (M)
4—4:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Selected works from The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams. Rated G.
Colleen Anderson (M)
4—5 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
What does it mean to create a community that accepts and accommodates all types?
Thursday (M), Danielle Gembala, Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti, Shoshana "Sho" Glick, Kate Sherman
4—5 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Dueling teams of scientists and artists build something from the mind of the audience—say, three teams of two?
Jake McKinzie (M), Larry Lewis, Eric L Vargas, Lizzy D. Hill, Darren McKinty, RVT, Brenda Cooper
4—5 p.m. Cascade 9
Alternate timelines, quantum universes, or just plain-old time machines—all of these concepts create a way for an author to play with history. This is an interactive panel where the audience chooses a significant event in medieval history and comes up with alternatives— and their consequences. A lively dialogue always ensues. Come join us!
Russell Ervin, Ann Shilling, William Elder, GregRobin Smith
4—5 p.m. Cascade 10
How a story is consumed can change the way you write it, and stories written for audio performance have specific requirements. Within the sphere of audio drama, there are different styles to work with: a single reader versus a limited cast versus a full cast with sound effects. Each one of these uses a different technique. How should you approach writing a script for a podcast as opposed to a radio play? A panel of writers, narrators, and readers will discuss.
Jennifer Brozek (M), Sam Stark, Elizabeth Guizzetti, Curtis C. Chen, Shiv Ramdas
4—5:30 p.m. Cascade 13
Want to write fanfic? Not sure how to get started? In this workshop, participants will brainstorm a set of fandoms and a set of common fanfic alternate universe (AU) scenarios (mermaid, barista, etc.). Then everyone will pick their prompts and write!
Berlynn Wohl (M), Scotty McIntosh, Brianna Tibbetts, B. Zelkovich
4—5 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
2023 saw the rise of frameworks for regulating artificial intelligence in the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Russia, and Japan, with more such efforts likely to take place in 2024. The panel explores the impacts of such frameworks and why it goes far beyond Azimov's three laws of robotics. The key questions for the panelists: what impact will this have on the development of AI, on jobs, and on intellectual property?
Kurt Cagle (M), Dr. Mark Rounds, Dr. Sean Robinson, Ethan Vodde, Bryana Cross Bean, Attorney at Law
4—5 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
What happens when human beings go from subject to object, from observers to the observed? What happens when we hardly matter at all? Join us for a discussion on how writing from the perspectives of objects, plants and animals, ancient creatures, and entirely new organisms can reveal deeper truths about what it means to be human. We'll discuss how to de-center human biases and priorities to unlock new non-human realities.
Tara Campbell (M), Steven Barnes, Nancy Kress, Jessie Kwak, Ellis Bray
4—5 p.m. Olympic 1
Make a magical friend or two to live in your pocket (or in the garden in the Fairy/Gnome Garden panel!). Small children will need assistance.
Jenny Shafer (M)
4—5 p.m. Olympic 2
It's important to create a piece that is representative of all people. In this panel, pros will discuss what representation looks like in writing and art, ways to approach it, and the importance of research and sensitivity readers.
Marta Murvosh (M), Rashida J Smith, Sarah Chorn, Caren GS, Tom Llewellyn
4—5 p.m. Maxi's Ballroom
Ever been curious how textile artists, quilters, and costumers add detailed images that look like paintings, and then on closer inspection find the image was created with fabric? If you have ever wanted to learn this technique, this workshop is for you. We will cover materials used for collage techniques. At the end of the workshop you will have a piece of art you can take home to quilt, bead, or embroider! Limited to 20 participants (under 12 must be accompanied by an adult). Cost $5, cash only. Sign up will open at the info table 24 hours before the panel.
Theresa Halbert (M)
4—5 p.m. Maxi's Lounge
You think you know Star Trek? Come put it to the test in a game of charades that's all about Star Trek, and find your fellow Trekkies!
4—5 p.m. Presidential Suite 1360
*Be the Sea *is a near-future science-fantasy with sea creatures, human tech, chosen family, mysteries pulling them all together, and chocolate. In celebration of its publication this month we will have freebies, art, a short reading, a drawing with awesome prizes, and plenty of chocolate!
Clara Ward (M)
4:30—5 p.m. Cascade 3
From the Caves. To escape the choking heat of deep summer, Sky and his family survive on stories of the dead in an underground darkness at the end of the world. Rated PG.
Thea Prieto (M)
5—5:30 p.m. Cascade 3 TBD.
Gordon B. White (M)
5—6 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
The self-publishing market has exploded in the last dozen years, creating exciting new opportunities for writers. Whether your dream is a sixor seven-figure income from selling on commercial platforms like Amazon or Apple Books, reaching readers on serial platforms like Kindle Vella or Ream, or connecting direct to your audience through Kickstarter, Patreon, or your own online store, there's someone out there doing it! Our panelists will explore various possibilities in self-publishing, talk about the pros and cons, and give you ideas on how to get started.
Celeste Wakefield (M), Elliott Kay, Joseph Malik, Anastasia Wilde
5—6 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
You have a beloved collection or two. Come get some practical information and advice on how you should handle it in your estate planning: wills, trusts, etc.
Bryana Cross Bean, Attorney at Law (M), Belsac
5—6 p.m. Cascade 9
An interstellar empire connected by instantaneous portals will, of necessity, have very different politics and economy from one connected by slower-thanlight generation ships or suspended animation or one connected by FTL but not instantaneous travel. The difference between days and months of travel time between inhabited planets can have a huge effect on the culture. And what happens when a new, faster technology is added to the mix? Learn how to use your mode of travel to launch the worldbuilding process.
David D. Levine (M), Dave Davis, Andy Dykes, Curtis C. Chen
5—6 p.m. Cascade 10
This workshop offers time to discuss specific writing techniques and space for attendees to write poetry of their own. Poetry can explore a cherished world through fan fiction-style poetry or build a new mythology. Take this opportunity to get your ideas written!
Thursday (M), Jeannine Hall Gailey, Jessica Rae Bergamino, GregRobin Smith, Mike Brennan
5—6 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
News, pictures, and sometimes video from the non-U.S. space programs, including, but not limited to, Europe, Canada, China, Russia, India, and Japan. Each presentation is different from the previous one. A perennial favorite.
Dan Dubrick (M), Hugh S. Gregory
5—6 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Why are universes without limits so... well, limited?
Eva L. Elasigue (M), Ozzie M. Gartrell, Leslie Varney, Spencer Ellsworth, Shahid Mahmud
5—7 p.m. Olympic 1
Hit pause on the tablet and play a good old-fashioned board game! We'll have classic games and some new ones, too.
Jenny Shafer (M), Marta Murvosh, Alexander Pereira
5—6 p.m. Olympic 2
Come prepared with questions for our science panelists. Seats given to and questions taken from teens and tweens first.
Jim Kling (M), Bart Kemper, Cindy Fangour, Alan Andrist
5—6 p.m. Maxi's Ballroom
Inktense pencils are a great way draw, color and shade onto fabric without heat-setting. In this workshop we will start by learning several color techniques to create a sampler to you will keep for reference. For the last part, you will receive a printed fabric sample for practice with your newly learned skill. Limited to 12 participants, 16 years and older. Cost $10, cash only. Sign up will open at the info table 24 hours before the panel.
Theresa Halbert (M)
5:30—6 p.m. Cascade 3
Time & Again. When a billionaire supervillain becomes the target of timetraveling miscreants, she finds herself with no choice but to turn to the one person in town who may be able to stop them: her ex. Rating PG.
Amanda Cherry (M)
6—6:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Pretty Hate Machine (Girl Vengeance book 1). Rebellious teen Vivienne Cain has messed up big this time, and the adults in the room won't cover for her anymore. Set in the '90s, Pretty Hate Machine and its sequel The Downward Spiral are a prequel duology to my Justice/Vengeance superhero series! Rated R.
Erik Scott de Bie (M)
6—7 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
Or, being fabulous every day in a jeans-and-T-shirt world.
Richard Stephens (M), Ms Purple Pearl, Melissa Quinn, Gina Saucier
6—7 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Interest leads to knowledge, knowledge leads to obsession, obsession leads to world domination...simple logic, Pinky.
Colette Breshears (M), Torrey Stenmark, Agathon McGeachy, Michael Ormes, Michael Brugger, Charlotte Lewis Brown
6—7 p.m. Cascade 9
Over the years, various real and fictional religions have been portrayed both accurately and inaccurately in popular media. We will discuss the works of H.P. Lovecraft and the Blade Runner novel, as well as films such as The Ten Commandments, The Handmaid's Tale, The Serpent and the Rainbow, The Witch, and the Avatar movies. How does representation affect real practitioners? Does fiction ever become real life?
Mir Plemmons (M), Dean Wells, Sandra Rosner, Jason Nelson
6—7 p.m. Cascade 10
It's more than a Doctor Who thing! It's our obsession with fitting more things into smaller footprints. A few examples are tents in Harry Potter, the suitcase in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Dungeons & Dragon's' bag of holding, and, of course, rental trucks for conventions. Presented by BritCon.
Julie Zetterberg (M)
6—7 p.m. Cascade 10
Ever thought about turning your novel or short story into a fancy Hollywood screenplay? There are a lot of differences, from basic things like structure and character arcs, to weird formatting stuff, like those fancy scene headers. And, yeah, those 10 secondary characters you love in your novel, and those three subplots which are "crucial" to your overall narrative? They gotta go. Come learn the basics, the mistakes you'll make starting out, and why ellipses are annoying.
dQ Kaufman (M)
6—7 p.m. Cascade 13
Clarion West staff, alumni, and instructors will speak to the many alternative workshopping methods we've tried out, and others! We'll cover why we moved beyond the Milford method, present attendees with lots of options for their own workshopping, and discuss pros and cons!
Tara Campbell (M), Monte Lin, Amy Hirayama, Jae Steinbacher
6—7 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
How to start and continue to make words happen.
A.W. McCollough (M), Caren GS, Danielle Gembala, Tom D Wright, Clara Ward
6—7 p.m. Olympic 2
Draw a sci-fi creature with artists! Will it be a robot, an alien, or something else? For all skill levels. Materials will be provided.
Eric L Vargas (M), Lizzy D. Hill, Belsac
6—7 p.m. Maxi's Ballroom
Bamboo has been used by people through the ages, and the technology of working with this material has advanced steadily over these many years. Come see some of the cool things that can be done with this giant grass and talk about the others that are on the horizon. There will be a demonstration of the tools and techniques, and samples to take home.
Mike Brennan (M), Carl Strand
6—8 p.m. Maxi's Lounge
Today's the day we shoot My Mummy, the Werewolf II: Daddy's Home. Unfortunately, the director left the script at the Waffle House, but he swears it will go just fine, because he also wrote it and he remembers how it goes. Basically. But he wouldn't mind some help from his actors! Whoever they are—he also lost the cast list. So whoever shows up, you get a part! He trusts that, if he gives you basic direction, you'll come up with something great. *ICFTLLLS *is a roleplaying game where the players are the main actors. It has minimum mechanics and lends itself really well to live-action role-playing (à la Critical Role). You do NOT have to play/act to participate! Being the audience is fine—just come and enjoy the live insanity. We also need extras, stunt doubles, and single-line actors.
6:30—7 p.m. Cascade 3
S.P.A.: Small Business Division. Welcome to the Space Public Accountants. Torny wondered why a spa would hire a bodyguard, until he found out the truth. Join him on the rather hilarious trip of protecting a group of accountants on their wide adventures. Rated PG.
Payne Haynes (M)
7—7:30 p.m. Cascade 3
Storm Waters (working title). Historical fantasy crime noir set in Los Angeles and New Orleans in 1934. A playboy former bootlegger who has "a way with water" finds himself framed for his mistress's murder. To save his own neck he must solve the case, but finds himself drawn into the violent world of his family's magical history, and is forced to make choices about his own magic and to protect his found-family. Rated R (language, violence, sex, smoking, drinking, drugs).
Kat Richardson (M)
7—8 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
A woman who seemed to the gifted out of time. Born in the early medieval era, she could do anything she set her mind to. She was a polymath active as a composer, a writer, a philosopher, and a medical writer and practitioner. Was she a time traveler?
V Whitlock (M), Pat Reed, L.E.G., Ann Shilling, Cait Alvarez
7—8 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Calling all costumers, cosplayers, and stage crew volunteers! Swing into the pre-masquerade meeting to find out the essential details for entering or assisting with this year's masquerade. Whether you are wanting to strut your stuff for the first time or are returning to up your game, we will cover the necessary information you will need for participating in this year's big event and answer what questions you may have. If you would like to enter the masquerade, you MUST come to one of the two premasquerade meetings.
Dahlia (M)
7—8 p.m. Cascade 9
The Space Launch System (SLS) is NASA's attempt to launch people, and supplies, to the new Lunar Gateway space station, the moon, and possibly Mars. Are people getting their money out of the system, or is it a boondoggle of large proportions?
Dan Dubrick (M), Dave Davis, G. David Nordley, Phil L. Swan, Andy Dykes
7—8 p.m. Cascade 10
There's something fundamental and resonating about epic fantasy that remains timeless for wide appeal. Join our panelists as they identify and discuss these qualities, distilling them down to how and why they impact the reader's experience, and techniques for replicating them in your own writing.
G.R. Theron (M), Kate Ristau, Carol Berg, Randy Henderson, Sarah Chorn
7—8 p.m. Cascade 13
Who we are isn't the same as what we show everyone else. We all wear masks. Join us for a hands-on creative workshop where we'll explore identity concepts while creating wearable masks. Join us to better explore who you are and who you show to others. Bring your authentic self and we'll provide a blank mask to get you started.
Sar Surmick (M)
7—9 p.m. Evergreen 1 & 2
Join us for a block of foreign science fiction, fantasy, and horror short films. We have seven different countries represented in the block, but don't worry if you don't speak all those languages, as the films will either be subtitled or dubbed into English. Films: "A Nightcare on Elm Street" (France), "Astronauts" (Brazil), "I Came From the Future" (Poland), "Megaville—After Hours" (Germany), "Overtime // The Love Project" (Japan), "Pur Sang" (France), "Sincopat" (Spain), "The Capsule" (Poland), and "The Weight of Data" (Republic of Korea).
7—8 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
The audience picks 3-5 words (could be more depending on time/numbers). Three to four poets get several minutes to compose a poem incorporating as many as possible and then read their results. The audience votes for the winner, and the losers have to tear up their results (note: We don't actually have to make anyone do that!).
Thursday (M), Lydia K. Valentine, Richard Sparks, Colleen Anderson, Ellis Bray
7—8 p.m. Olympic 1
Come join the fun and dance, dance, dance! Light-up masks will be provided.
Cindy Fangour (M)
7—8:30 p.m. Olympic 2
A beginner's dance class focused on learning basic moves, how to move your body for belly dance, and tips for building the strength needed to excel at belly dance. Please bring a water bottle.
Siyrren (M)
7—8:30 p.m. Grand 2
The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually at Norwescon with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust, for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust, and the award ceremony is sponsored by Norwescon.
Michael Hanscom (M), Bethany Jacobs, Gordon Van Gelder, S.L. Coney, Dilman Dila
7—8 p.m. Maxi's Ballroom
Practice makes perfect in sewing, like in anything else. We'll discuss what a mock-up is, why you should make one even though it takes more time and resources, how to maximize your return on effort, and what you'll learn from the process. Panelists may even bring in prototypes and final costumes to demonstrate.
Melissa Quinn (M), Ieva Ohaks, Theresa Halbert, Garth Stubbs
7:30—8 p.m. Cascade 3
TBD.
Karen Eisenbrey (M)
8—8:30 p.m. Cascade 3
I Have Asked to Be Where No Storms Come. The fact of Domino's afterlife is simple: he's a witch from a people without a name, living out a cursed existence... and no one wants to be stuck in Hell with witch blood. When he discovers demonic bounty hunters on his tail, he is shocked to learn they were hired by his brother. Wicasah, wielding insurmountable power, has struck an ill-made bargain with an ancient being of lighting and thunder to resurrect Domino from his terrible fate. But the two discover an even darker power resides within the fractured world, one that will stop at nothing to be released... Full of grit and heartache, this thrilling ride delivers a story of fate versus free will and family versus the world, against the backdrop of a new weird west. Rated R.
Gwendolyn N. Nix (M)
8—9 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
It seems like the days of the more campy or lighthearted "fun" theme in gaming has been slowly replaced by games taking on darker, more disturbing themes. Join us for a discussion on why these darker themes have gained in popularity, and maybe pick up on some tips of which ones are worth checking out.
Tim Nightengale (M), Jeff Grubb, Luis Loza, Stephen Radney-MacFarland
8—9 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
If an SF story has more than one spaceship, it's a good bet that at some point they'll find a reason to shoot at each other. But at huge distances and tremendous speeds, shooting things is HARD! Come join our panelists as they draw a bead on the problems and opportunities of space combat. Shooting and ships and space combat...
Mike Brennan (M), Travis Partington, Peter Fuller, G. David Nordley, Elliott Kay
8—10 p.m. Cascade 9
Join our reading as several local authors read from their work in this Norwescon version of the Northwest Speculative Reading Series.
G.R. Theron (M), Jessie Kwak, Caren Sumption, Joseph Malik, Brenda Cooper, Eva L. Elasigue, Rhiannon/R.Z. Held, Remy Nakamura
8—9 p.m. Cascade 10
Attendees have the opportunity to bring in or make up speculative-themed haiku to compete for scifaiku dominance. Two poets will present their pieces and the audience will vote for a favorite, then next pair goes. Could be single or double elimination, depending on numbers. Open to everyone who can count out 17 syllables (and even that, we might be soft on)! Prize for the winner.
Thursday (M), Ann Shilling
8—10 p.m. Cascade 13
Consider a story as a collection of related events, each of which occurs at a point in space and time. If you picture these events as beads, you can create a plot by stringing them together in chronological order. There may be more than one plot string, but the plot is always chronological, because the events of the plot are connected by cause and effect (unless you are writing a time travel story). Once you have a plot, you can snip those strings into segments and lay them out, not necessarily in chronological order, in a single line that is the narrative of the story. Thinking of a story in this way can lead to some interesting insights into the relationship between the events of the story, the cause and effect relationships between them, and the order in which they appear on the page. Bring writing materials.
David D. Levine (M)
8—9 p.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
As fans, we all tend to collect something. What is the difference between that and hoarding? How can you honor your collection and keep it from becoming a hoard? What is the best way to thin it out?
K.G. Anderson (M), Janna Silverstein, Tom Whitmore, Patrick Swenson
8—9 p.m. Olympic 1
Wool felt is a traditional and highly malleable material for hat-making. Thriftshop felt hats can be softened with steam and reshaped using traditional hat blocks, improvised forms, and hand sculpting. In this demonstration, you'll see how it's done: what to look for in a salvageable hat, how to prepare a hat for reblocking, steaming, and manipulating the felt, and what techniques to use for finishing.
Ieva Ohaks (M)
8 p.m.—midnight Maxi's Ballroom
Still working on something to wear in the halls or the masquerade, or just a project? This is your place. Bring your items to work on and enjoy good company and the opportunity to get help, if needed.
8:30—9 p.m. Cascade 3
Wind Strewn (dystopian urban fantasy). SHadeel works for a private security force, helping keep order in what passes for a government. She finds an old (fortified) apartment and place of healing. Big Molly, the owner, provides chicken soup at important times. There is a hot shower in SHadeel's apartment made of old Egyptian tomb walls. The patterns in its stone bleed off onto her skin like tattoos, and when she is in dire stress, these tattoos animate and become part of her defense team. In this world, she's glad for any added help. Rated PG.
GregRobin Smith (M)
9—10 p.m. Cascade 5 & 6
The term "body horror" means stories about bodies mutating into horrific forms (à la David Cronenberg) and stories about bodies being subjected to extreme graphic violence. Which usage is correct? Both? Neither? Our panelists examine the question through the lens of favorite examples of what they would and would not call body horror.
Evan J. Peterson (M), Colleen Anderson, Jon Lasser, Sam Stark
9—10 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
What is so much fun about the costumes in Bridgerton? Let's break them down.
Richard Stephens (M), Scotty McIntosh
9—10 p.m. Cascade 10
A demonstration of making electron tree sculptures.
Michael Brugger (M)
9 p.m.—midnight Evergreen 1 & 2
End your Friday evening with a selection of horror short films. Some are funny, others are scary, but all of them are worth watching. Films: "Aracne," "autopsIA." "Grogan's Lodge," "SCRIPT, STIGMATE," "The Nightmare Adorable," "The Painting," "The Retreat," "Three Houses Down," "You Have Reached Your Destination."
9 p.m.—1 a.m. Evergreen 3 & 4
Come join the open filk circle.
9—11:30 p.m. Grand 3
Come groove to the music with mc300baud as he spins a choice selection of convention classics and thumpin' newer tracks.
9 p.m.—midnight Maxi's Lounge The definitive SF&F trivia pub quiz experience! Multiple rounds of classic SF&F trivia from the worlds of media, fantasy, SF, and more. There will be a sound round, a picture round, and more. Exciting and not-so-exciting prizes will be on offer. Teams of four preferred. Use of electronic devices, external brains, or telepathy is strictly forbidden.
10—11 p.m. Cascade 3
10—11 p.m. Cascade 7 & 8
Most dark fantasy tropes have much in common with the kink scene. Do you want to be bitten by a vampire? Why are we attracted to things that are dangerous? Come learn how to explore fantasies, sexual or not, safely and consensually. The kink community has its own traditions and cultural norms, but the core value is consent. Must be 18+ years of age.
Sar Surmick (M), Craig Jackson, Hazel, Sakari, Kate Sherman
11 p.m.—midnight Cascade 7 & 8
If you are already in the kink scene, you know that much of it is about exploring new experiences. Come talk about some new ideas and edge play. Must be 18+ years of age.
Hazel (M), Craig Jackson, Sakari, Kate Sherman
midnight—2 a.m. Grand 3
Rocky Horror is back, but with a brand new shadowcast, the Swords of Damocles! Antici...pate singing, dancing, laughing, and amazement at what the Motion Picture Association considered an R rating back in the 70s. Participate as you wish!
Have you registered for Norwescon yet? Preregistering means that a quick stop to pick up your badge from our friendly registration team is all you need before heading to panels, readings, workshops, and more! The registration rate for a full four-day adult membership is still $100. That’s only $25 a day for some of the best science fiction and fantasy convention content in the Pacific Northwest! Visit the Memberships page to find out more and register today before prices increase.
Programming starts at 2 p.m. Thursday and doesn’t stop until closing ceremonies. Check out these panels from Thursday’s lineup:
All these happen before opening ceremonies at 7 p.m.!
Like something hands-on? There are also workshops on Thursday, including:
Come early and stay late to enjoy the great programming and events!
And to make your planning even more exciting the Norwescon 46 schedule is now live!
There is something going on in every corner of our con. Here are some events to try:
Follow our social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon) to get a sneak peek at some of the artists and dealers who will be joining us in the art show and dealers’ room at Norwescon 46.
We have dances on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, including the Fae Ball on Saturday. You can let our DJs know in advance if you have any fannish favorites or new dance mixes you’d like to hear by requesting a song. Otherwise they might not bring it with them. Prepare for the Fae Ball at our historical dance or floral head wreath-making workshops on Thursday.
Norwescon has events all year! Stay connected by visiting our Socialize page. You can register for Norwescon’s annual camping trip, which is July 26–28 at Kitsap Memorial State Park outside of Poulsbo. The Norwescon Volunteer Picnic is July 28, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Steel Lake Park, Site No. 1, Federal Way. Norwescon Bibliophiles, Norwescon’s book club, meets monthly. Check out the Facebook page, to learn what they are reading and to join the discussion. You can also join our public Discord community to stay in touch year-round.
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NOTE: The PDF file hosted here has been remediated for compatibility with accessible technology, but now contains occasional visual artifacts. A version without the visual artifacts but lacking accessibility features is also available: Norwescon 45 Program Book (inaccessible) (7.1 MB .pdf).
Between Two Worlds
April 6-9, • 2023 • SeaTac, WA
Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention
[Artwork] Genya Safin ©Grace P. Fong
Cover: Izanami ©Grace P. Fong
Back Cover: Deck of Worlds ©Grace P. Fong
Letter from the Chair 5
Philip K. Dick Award 6
Guests of Honor 11
Professional Panelists & Performers 19
Artist GOH Grace P. Fong Art Gallery 33
Memorials 59
Artists & Dealers 65
Norwescon Staff Organization 66
Norwescon Staff Photos 69
Charitable Giving 70
[Artwork] Northern Worlds ©Jeff Sturgeon
THE EARLIEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY CONVENTIONS were born of groups of fans pulling together to throw themselves a party. That’s why business conventions have attendees, movies have audiences, but science fiction conventions have members. For more than 80 years, SFF fans have gotten together with a willingness to pitch in and throw the kinds of conventions we want to attend.
In the spirit of those community-generated events, I’d like to welcome you to the Norwescon community, and specifically to Norwescon 45.
Norwescon is more than just a show you attend for passive entertainment. It is an immersive experience, where you can be - and indeed are encouraged to - talk, laugh, learn, and play with others. It is a chance to be as smart, nerdy, and interested as you want, surrounded by people who understand and feel the same way.
I love how everyone takes part in Norwescon. Some participate by working all year on staff to make sure the convention happens. Others volunteer a few hours, or speak on panels, or work on a costume to enter in the masquerade. Some wear a hall costume, contribute to a discussion in a panel, or cheer on the competitors in the Single Pattern Contest. My friend Mike used to say the only thing he didn’t like about Norwescon was that it was only four days a year, but now he’s extended his Norwescon experience by joining the staff! If you are interested in becoming part of the con-within-a-con that is the convention staff, just ask anyone wearing one of those nifty staff t-shirts—you may get to hear how they became involved.
Norwescon has been a thriving community for decades, where friendships and families have grown. As we (hopefully!) move into a post-apocalypse era, we can again meet in person, welcome new members, and renew old friendships. So, welcome to Norwescon. We are glad you are here.
SunnyJim Morgan
Chair, Norwescon 45
The judges of the 2023 Philip K. Dick Award and the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, along with the Philip K. Dick Trust, are pleased to announce the six nominated works that comprise the final ballot for the award.
First prize and any special citations will be announced on Friday, April 7, 2023 at Norwescon 45 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Seattle Airport, SeaTac, Washington.
The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States during the previous calendar year. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust and the award ceremony is sponsored by Norwescon.
This year’s judges are Michael Cassutt (Chair), Matthew Goodwin, Stina Leicht and Elise C. Tobler.
For more information, contact the award administration: Gordon Van Gelder (201) 876-2551, John Silbersack (347) 787-7445, Pat LoBrutto (301) 460-3164
For more information about the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society: http://www.psfs.org/: Contact Gary Feldbaum (215) 665-5752
[Artwork] Ol Nick ©Raven Oak
As announced on January 12, 2023, the nominees for the 2023 Philip K. Dick Award are:
ARBOREALITY
by Rebecca Campbell (Stelliform Press)
WIDOWLAND
by C. J. Carey (Sourcebooks Landmark)
YMIR
by Rich Larson (Orbit)
JANUARY FIFTEENTH
by Rachel Swirsky (Tordotcom)
THE LEGACY OF MOLLY SOUTHBOURNE
by Tade Thompson (Tordotcom)
THE EXTRACTIONIST
by Kimberly Unger (Tachyon Publications)
Presentation Year / Eligibility Year - W: Winner - SC: Special Citation
2022 / 2021
W: Dead Space, Kali Wallace
SC: The Escapement, Lavie Tidhar
2021 / 2020
W: Road Out of Winter, Alison Stine
SC: The Book of Koli, M.R. Carey
2020 / 2019
W: Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories, Sarah Pinsker
SC: The Little Animals, Sarah Tolmie
2019 / 2018
W: Theory of Bastards, Audrey Schulman
SC: 84K, Claire North
2018 / 2017
W: Bannerless, Carrie Vaughn
SC: After the Flare, Deji Bryce Olukotun
2017 / 2016
W: The Mercy Journals, Claudia Casper
SC: Unpronounceable, Susan diRende
2016 / 2015
W: Apex, Ramez Naam
SC: Archangel, Marguerite Reed
2015 / 2014
W: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Meg Elison
SC: Elysium, Jennifer Marie Brissett
2014 / 2013
W: Countdown City, Ben H. Winters
SC: Self-Reference Engine, Toh EnJoe
2013 / 2012
W: Lost Everything, Brian Francis Slattery
SC: LoveStar, Andri Snaer Magnason
2012 / 2011
W: The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy, Simon Morden
SC: The Company Man, Robert Jackson Bennett
2011 / 2010
W: The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, Mark Hodder
SC: Harmony, Project Itoh, translated by Alexander O. Smith
2010 / 2009
W: Bitter Angels, C.L. Anderson
SC: Cyberabad Days, Ian McDonald
2009 / 2008
W (tie): Emissaries from the Dead, Adam-Troy Castro
Terminal Mind, David Walton
2008 / 2007
W: Nova Swing, M. John Harrison
SC: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain, Minister Faust
2007 / 2006
W: Spin Control, Chris Moriarty
SC: Carnival, Elizabeth Bear
2006 / 2005
W: War Surf, M.M. Buckner
SC: Natural History, Justina Robson
2005 / 2004
W: Life, Gwyneth Jones
SC: Apocalypse Array, Lyda Morehouse
2004 / 2003
W: Altered Carbon, Richard K. Morgan
SC: Dante's Equation, Jane Jensen
2003 / 2002
W: The Mount, Carol Emshwiller
SC: The Scar, China Mieville
2002 / 2001
W: Ship of Fools, Richard Paul Russo
SC: Divine Intervention, Ken Wharton
2001 / 2000
W: Only Forward, Michael Marshall Smith
SC: Evolution's Darling, Scott Westenfeld
2000 / 1999
W: Vacuum Diagrams, Stephen Baxter
SC: Tower of Dreams, Jamil Nasir
1999 / 1998
W: 253: The Print Remix, Geoff Ryman
SC: Lost Pages, Paul Di Filippo
1998 / 1997
W: The Troika, Stefan Chapman
SC: Acts of Conscience, William Barton
1997 / 1996
W: The Time Ships, Stephen Baxter
SC: At the City Limits of Fate, Michael Bishop
1996 / 1995
W: Headcrash, Brush Bethke
SC: Carlucci's Edge, Richard Paul Russo
1995 / 1994
W: Mysterium, Robert Charles Wilson
SC: Inagehi, Jack Lady
1994 / 1993
W (tie): Growing Up Weightless, John M. Ford Elvissey, Jack Womack
1993 / 1992
W: Through the Heart, Richard Grant
SC: In the Mothers' Land, Elizabeth Vonarburg
A full list of winners going back to 1982 may be found on Wikipedia. For more information about the Philip K. Dick Award, please visit the official award website at philipkdickaward.org.
[Artwork] Promo Page ©Andy Vanoverberghe
Phenderson Djèlí Clark is the award winning and Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy nominated author of the novel A Master of Djinn, and the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. His stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Lightspeed, Fireside Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including, Griots, Hidden Youth and Clockwork Cairo. He is a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons.
Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, Texas, he spent the early formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago. When not writing speculative fiction, P. Djèlí Clark works as an academic historian whose research spans comparative slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic World. He melds this interest in history and the social world with speculative fiction, and has written articles on issues ranging from racism and H.P. Lovecraft to critiques of George Schuyler’s Black Empire, and has been a panelist and lecturer at conventions, workshops and other genre events.
At the current time, he resides in a small Edwardian castle in New England with his wife, daughters, and pet dragon (who suspiciously resembles a Boston Terrier). When so inclined he rambles on issues of speculative fiction, politics, and diversity at his aptly named blog The Disgruntled Haradrim.
Grace P. Fong is a Chinese-American writer, artist, and narrative designer living in British Columbia, Canada.
As an artist, she specializes in content for speculative fiction publications and promotional material for authors. Her work has been included in multiple anthologies and gallery shows. She exhibits regularly at conventions. Recent notable clients include Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Neon Hemlock. She won the inaugural 2020 Ignyte Award for best artist and has been nominated four times for the Hugo Award for best fan artist.
As a writer, her style combines soft moments with harsh-edged truths. Her stories explore the lives of people living in worlds not built for them, using magic and transformation as metaphors for feminist and Asian-American themes. Her first prose work, "For Want of Milk" was recently published in Uncanny Magazine. Her next piece, “Girl Oil” won second place in the 2022 Levar Burton Reads short fiction contest. She has forthcoming fiction in Apex and Uncanny for 2023.
Grace works as a narrative designer for Singularity 6 on Palia, a cozy life-sim MMO. Previously, she worked as a writer-designer on Magic: The Gathering by Wizards of the Coast (leading the New Phyrexia: All Will Be One expansion, the upcoming Final Fantasy product, and two unannounced sets), and as an occasional instructor at Clarion West.
Her loves include history, science, cooking, and travel. She has been to all seven continents and every U.S. state except Hawaii. Having grown up in Philadelphia and cut her creative teeth in Los Angeles, she is a die-hard fan of soft pretzels and animal fries.
[Artwork] Untitled II ©Grace P. Fong
Dr. Greg Dubos is a systems engineer with expertise in robotic planetary exploration. Born and raised in France, he moved to the United States 20 years ago to pursue his passion for space and build a career in the field.
He is currently responsible for leading the end-to-end system test campaign for the Clipper spacecraft, which is designed to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa and is being developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Dr. Dubos’ previous experiences include serving as the activity lead, systems chair, and avionics chair for the Mars 2020 mission, during the cruise, landing, and surface operations of the Perseverance rover. Prior to launch, he was responsible for the uplink, commanding, and health and redundancy functions of the spacecraft, ensuring that the vehicle would remain safe and would respond properly to instructions throughout its mission.
Before his role on the Mars 2020 mission, Dr. Dubos spent three years working on the Curiosity rover surface operations, where he served as a science planner, payload downlink coordinator, and strategic planner for the communications with the deep space network and the Mars relay orbiters.
During his doctorate degree studies and early in his career, he was part of the team that formulated and modeled the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s fractionated spacecraft strategy aimed at developing space-based networks.
Dr. Dubos has an undergraduate degree in aeronautics from Supaero, France, and a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has co-authored over 20 technical publications and book chapters on space system design.
Aside from his work, he enjoys doing STEM outreach in schools and underserved communities in the U.S. and Europe. He is passionate about inspiring the next generation of engineers and scientists to pursue their dreams in space exploration.
[Artwork] Planets ©Ellis Bray
Founded in 2014 by Co-Publishers/Co-Editors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas (9-time Hugo Award winner) and Michael Damian Thomas (6-time Hugo Award winner), Uncanny Magazine is a bimonthly eBook and monthly online Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine featuring passionate SF/F fiction and poetry, gorgeous prose, provocative nonfiction, and a deep investment in the diverse SF/F culture. Each issue contains intricate, experimental stories and poems with verve and imagination that elicit strong emotions and challenge beliefs, from writers of every conceivable background. Uncanny believes there is still plenty of room in the genre for tales that make you feel. Uncanny Magazine is a 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 Hugo Award winner, 2016 Parsec Award winner, 2019 British Fantasy Award winner, and numerous-time Locus Award finalist. Many pieces from Uncanny Magazine have been awards winners and finalists and have been included in Year’s Best anthologies. Uncanny Magazine stories have won Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, and Ignyte Awards.
Represented by Uncanny Magazine Co-Publishers and CoEditors-in-Chief Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas:
Lynne M. Thomas is the nine-time Hugo, Parsec, and British Fantasy Award-winning co-publisher and co-editor-in-chief of Uncanny Magazine with her husband, Michael Damian Thomas. In her day job, Lynne is the Head of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She was the co-editor of the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords (2010) with Tara O’Shea, and the former Editor-in-Chief (2011-2013) of the Hugo Award-nominated (2012 & 2013) Apex Magazine. She moderated the Hugo Award-winning SF Squeecast, a monthly podcast (with Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Michael Damian Thomas, and Catherynne M. Valente) in which a group of SF/F professionals get excited about stuff they like, and contributes to the Parsec Award-winning Verity! podcast (with Erika Ensign, L.M. Myles, Katrina Griffiths, Tansy Rayner Roberts and Deborah Stanish), where a bunch of smart women talk about Doctor Who. Lynne lives in Champaign, IL, with her husband Michael and their daughter Caitlin. Caitlin has a rare congenital disorder called Aicardi syndrome.
Michael Damian Thomas is the six-time Hugo, Parsec, and British Fantasy Award-winning copublisher and co-editor-in-chief of Uncanny Magazine with his wife, Lynne M. Thomas. Michael was a two-time Hugo Award finalist as the former Managing Editor of Apex Magazine (2012-2013), co-edited the Hugo Award finalist essay anthology Queers Dig Time Lords (2013) with Sigrid Ellis, and co-edited the anthology Glitter & Mayhem (2013) with John Klima and Lynne M. Thomas. Michael lives in Champaign, IL, with his wife Lynne and their daughter, Caitlin. Caitlin has a rare congenital disorder called Aicardi syndrome, and Michael is her full-time caregiver.
[Artwork] Alien Iron 1 ©Bill Grader
[Artwork] Future World 7.1 ©Bill Grader
Agathon McGeachy
Going by the name Manfred Kriegstreiber, he built armor and mastered personal combat in the Society for Creative Anachronism in the 1970s through early 1990s. As a sand sculptor, he participated several times as a soloist at the prestigious world championship in Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia. Best known in fandom for ceramics and mixed-media figure sculpture, he won best 3D art in show at Sasquan. Agathon started studying the craft of writing in 2015, and sold his first fantasy story, “Shiplah’s Eyes,” in 2021.
Alaina Ewing
Alaina Ewing entered the writing community as an author and has since expanded into the realms of editing, publishing, author branding, and workshop organizing. Their fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies. Alaina owns a small press and is the former President of Cascade Writers, a nonprofit writing workshop connecting writers to senior-level editors and agents. They have organized countless workshops spanning from craft and development to agenting and the business side of writing.
Alan Bond
Alan is a strong believer that perfection is a process and not a state, and there is no achieving it in the end. As such, they would like you to know that they are not perfect. They do strive to do the best they can with what they’re given, making many mistakes along the way.
Ann Shilling
Ann Shilling has spent several years riding, jousting, and swinging swords with the Seattle Knights, and has also logged countless hours on horseback compiling a list of King County horse trails, riding in wagon trains, and investigating the countryside of Europe from the saddle. She has also ridden in the Tournament of the Phoenix, a historical re-enactment tournament in Poway, California, and the Hackaland tournament in Liege, Belgium. Ann enjoys organizing and squiring for other knights at events around the country when the opportunity presents itself. Her historical interests range from medieval Europe to the American West to ancient China, and her written work includes several plays performed regularly around the Northwest by the Seattle Knights and several short stories.
Bart Kemper
Bart is a writer, photographer, inventor, and consulting professional engineer. He is a U.S. Army veteran based in South Louisiana, wandering the world to solve problems. Technical areas of interest include forensics, subsea, aerospace, failure analysis, manufacturing, equipment design, medical systems, and biomechanics. He is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers. He recently wrote and edited for Three Ravens Publishing and seeks refuge in his B&W darkroom.
Belsac
Brian Grinnell has been carving leather under the name Belsac Leather Art for almost 30 years. His primary focus is Viking, Celtic, medieval, and fantasy art. His art can be found in the art show and on Facebook.
Benjamin Gorman
Benjamin Gorman is the publisher at Not a Pipe Publishing and author of The Sum of Our Gods (2013), Corporate High School (2015), The Digital Storm (2017), The Convention of Fiends, Book 1: Don’t Read This Book (2019), and two books of poetry, When She Leaves Me (2020) and This Uneven Universe (2021). He’s a high school English teacher. He lives in Independence, Oregon, with his fiancée, bibliophile, and guillotine aficionado Chrystal, his favorite son, Noah, and his dog E.V. (External Validation).
Berlynn Wohl
Berlynn Wohl is an octopus in a Russian fur hat who sometimes writes science fiction and Sherlock Holmes pastiches. No one knows why this is. Berlynn’s anthologies include Oh, Doctor Watson! and Mad Scientists Need Love Too.
Bill Gruner
An armorer and weaponsmith, Bill Gruner travels worldwide to historical sites. He has a Master of Science in education, has been an emergency medical technician, taught science, and leads an SF OPDETA (special forces operational detachment A—a special forces A team). Bill studies metallurgy, Roman tech, Latin, geology, blacksmithing, military history, historical reenactment, and Euro-martial arts. He is a member of the Senior Classical League, the Society for Creative Anachronism (a peer), and SASS (the Single Action Shooting Society), and fights in Cohorts II Legion VI. He operates a 12-foot traction trebuchet, and teaches classes in Roman and Norse combat. He also teaches wood and metal crafts out of his atelier. He is an NRA firearms instructor with seven NRA certifications.
[Artwork] Eassie Stags ©Belsac
Brenda Carre
Brenda Carre is the author of more than 40 works of pro and semi-pro short fiction. She has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Fiction River Anthologies, Pulp Literature Magazine, Heart’s Kiss Romance Magazine, and elsewhere. Her adventure fantasy novel Gret of Roon, book one in The Chronicles of Ardebrin, will be released in 2023 through Pulp Literature Publishing. Join her on this adventure at https:// brendacarre.com/.
Brenda Cooper
Brenda Cooper writes science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. Check out her website at www.brenda-cooper.com. Brenda lives in the Pacific Northwest in a household with two people, five dogs, more than three computers, and only one TV.
Bri Orsborn
Bri has been an active part of the Norwescon volunteer staff since the second year she attended—long, long ago—and has spent many years working specifically on the masquerade, in one role or another. Her passion for costuming has informed and fueled her drive to support other costumers in sharing their art with our vast convention community.
Brian U. Garrison
Brian Garrison serves as secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA). His poetry has waited at a bus stop in Montpelier, Vermont; popped out of a vending machine in Boston, Massachusetts; traveled to Tuscaloosa, Alabama (among other cities) aboard Asimov’s Science Fiction; and flown to Mars aboard NASA’s MAVEN mission. 50 poems are squeezed into his chapbook New Yesterdays, New Tomorrows. Find him in Portland, Oregon, or online at bugthewriter.com.
[Artwork] Tree of Life ©Belsac
Brianna Tibbetts
Raised on a diet of fiction, novelist Brianna Tibbetts has been writing speculative worlds as long as she can remember. Currently based in the Pacific Northwest, she reads voraciously and writes extensively. From short stories to novels, Brianna demonstrates her passion for lively stories infused with hope. Her other superpowers include being ginger and yarn crafting. When she isn’t spending time in her own creations, she loves indulging in the fictional worlds of others.
Brittany Torres
Brittany Torres likes dragons, wine, and creating artwork late into the night. She has a degree in English and Medieval studies and has consistently worked in the creative industry, from doing book cover designs to working at art schools. Her current company, The Social Atelier, based in Seattle, is where she coaches artists in discovering the power of their unique branding. Brittany seeks to represent female empowerment through her artwork and tell the stories of women from myth in a new light.
[Artwork] Golden Hour ©Katie Croonenberghs
Brooks Peck
As a pop culture museum curator, Brooks draws on his strong knowledge of science fiction, fantasy, and horror to create exhibitions on subject as diverse as space-themed record album covers, Battlestar Galactica, SETI, and Avatar, among others. Recent exhibitions include Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds, Marvel: Universe of Superheroes, and Minecraft: The Exhibition, the last two of which he co-curated. Brooks is also a fiction writer and a screenwriter of two low-budget, direct-to-cable monster movies. Rawr!
Cait McKinzie
Cait McKinzie is a high school senior who’s been writing for fun since she was eight. Her dad started taking her to Norwescon when she was 12. She’s a creative makeup and digital artist. Alongside classes, she has track, an editorial position in her high school’s newspaper, a small-scale art blog on Instagram, and is a colorist for a graphic novel. So hey, if she embarrasses herself, blame it on sleep deprivation.
Camden Rose
Camden Rose brought her typewriter across the country to Seattle after completing degrees in marketing and creative writing at Elon University. She can often be found at the ocean’s edge taking notes on the local mermaid population. She loves exploring nature and seeking out the magic hidden beneath the everyday world.
Carmen Beaudry
Carmen Beaudry started her costuming career when she was 14. She has costumed for musical theater, opera, television, historical reenactment, and science fiction conventions. Historic clothing is her passion, especially the early 17th century and the 1880s. Her historical designs come from the study of period source material and of extant garments in museums in North America and Europe.
Carol Berg
A former software engineer, Carol Berg majored in math and computer science so she wouldn’t have to write papers. Her 18 fantasy novels have won national and international awards, including multiple Colorado Book Awards and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for adult literature. Her newest novel (writing as Cate Glass) is A Summoning of Demons, which was released in 2021 from Tor. Learn more at categlass.com.
Caroline M. Yoachim
Caroline M. Yoachim is a three-time Hugo and six-time Nebula Award finalist. Her short stories have been translated into several languages and reprinted in multiple best-of anthologies, including four times in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Yoachim’s short story collection Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World & Other Stories and the print chapbook of her novelette “The Archronology of Love” are available from Fairwood Press. For more information, check out her website at carolineyoachim.com.
Casey Dunn
Casey Dunn was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Her grandfather, nicknamed Casey Jones by local law enforcement for his habit of hopping trains, would sit with her and spin tales of a girl who ran wild in open country. His voice lives on in her mind. She is the author of Silence on Cold River and The Hightower Trilogy, which won the best equine fiction award at the 2018 Equus Film Festival in New York City, and was a finalist for the 2015 Frank Yerby award. She lives in Southern Oregon with her family.
Charlotte Lewis Brown
Charlotte Lewis Brown is a vertebrate paleontologist, a science writer, and a college professor. She has published numerous science articles for adults and three books that use true stories about dinosaurs and other fossil animals to draw children into the world of reading.
Cindy Fangour
Cindy Fangour has been going to science fiction conventions for 30 years. She loves costuming, belly dance, animals, and children. Her day job is working as a fingerprint examiner for a sheriff’s department, a position she’s held for 30 years. In the past, she has processed, collected, and analyzed fingerprint evidence. She hopes to see you around!
Colette Breshears
Colette Breshears is an academically trained geologist (plate tectonics). Before joining the natural gas team at Wood Mackenzie, where she spies on the natural gas market, she worked with the U.S.F.S. conducting climate change research. She has a Bachelor of Science in geology from Pacific Lutheran University, and a Master of Science in Earth science from Boise State University. Her hobbies include D&D, fishkeeping, gardening… and lasers. Let’s talk lasers.
Conor Tuohy
Coral Moore
Coral Alejandra Moore has always been the kind of girl who makes up stories. Fortunately, she never grew out of it. She writes because she loves to invent characters, and the desire to find out what happens to them drives her tales. She is an alum of the Viable Paradise workshop and has published short fiction with Diabolical Plots, Zombies Need Brains, and Secrets of the Goat People. She is one of the editors-in-chief of Constelación Magazine, a quarterly bilingual speculative fiction magazine.
Crystal Lloyd
Crystal Lloyd is a lifelong lover of science fiction, fantasy, and historial fiction. Armed with degrees in literature and sustainbility/public policy, she strives to understand our collective history as humans, and how we can better ourselves in the near future.
Curtis C. Chen
Once a Silicon Valley software engineer, Curtis C. Chen (陳致宇) now writes stories and runs puzzle games near Portland, Oregon. He’s the author of the Kangaroo series of funny science fiction spy thrillers, and has written for the Realm originals Echo Park, Ninth Step Murders, and Machina. His short fiction has appeared in Playboy Magazine, Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey, Daily Science Fiction, and elsewhere. Curtis is not an aardvark.
D.L. Solum
D.L. Solum is a recently published author of the four-volume urban fantasy series Persephone, A Tale of Darker Seattle. He lives in Seattle, Washington, but will always be from Butte, Montana. He’s a collector of odd friends and even odder hobbies, including medieval combat, armor and weapon collection, fishing, hunting, and computer games. His latest obsession with writing contemporary fantasy and sci-fi is only made possible through the mostly gentle encouragement and tolerance of his partner, Kate.
[Artwork] Shadow ©Michael Kucharski
DameRuth
DameRuth has a wide-ranging and checkered past involving science, history, fandom, art, and writing, and she’s happy to talk your ear off about any (or all) of those subjects. She currently works as a technician in a neurobiology research lab.
Dan Dubrick
Known to many in the Northwest U.S. fandom, Kahboi (pronounced Cowboy) has for many years been the editor for the H.R. McMillan Planetarium’s affiliated space and astronomy educational BBS SpaceBase™. Dan has witnessed space launches as an accredited journalist, including the U.S. Space Shuttle.
Daryl Gregory
Daryl Gregory’s novels and short stories have been translated into a dozen languages and have won multiple awards, including the World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and Crawford awards, and have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar, Locus, Lambda, and Sturgeon awards. His latest books are the novels Revelator and Spoonbenders, and the novella The Album of Dr. Moreau. He also writes for TV and is a regular instructor at the Viable Paradise Writing Workshop.
Dave Davis
Dave Davis has a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering and more than 30 years’ experience in the aerospace field, ranging from commercial projects to the Space Shuttle. He works as a project manager on a commercial aircraft program. A member of the National Association of Rocketry and a tornado/ storm chaser, Dave has merged these two endeavors into The Glenda Project, which launches weather-related payloads into storms to supply data for improved severe weather warning systems.
[Artwork] Pony Fish Illuminators300 ©JeM Z Art
Dave O’Neill
Dave O’Neill has been an aerospace engineer, a marine engineer, and for one depressing and smelly summer, an engineer at a paper mill. He moved into software before it was cool. He has traveled a lot and knows far, far, FAR too much about flying, aircraft, and chain hotels. He writes because he needs something that takes his mind off what that weasel at CERN did to the universe in 2016. His science fiction is mostly light space opera with a satirical edge, and involves amusing (at least to him) animals. He lives in Seattle, where he moved for the weather. If you’d ever been to the Northwest of England, you’ll get the joke.
David D. Levine
David D. Levine is the author of Andre Norton Nebula Award-winning novel Arabella of Mars, sequels Arabella and the Battle of Venus and Arabella the Traitor of Mars, and more than 50 science fiction and fantasy stories. His story “Tk’Tk’Tk” won the Hugo, and he has been shortlisted for awards including the Hugo, Nebula, Campbell, and Sturgeon. His stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Tor.com, numerous year’s best anthologies, and his award-winning collection Space Magic.
Dawn Shaw
Dawn Shaw is the chair of BritCon.
DJ Wüdi
DJ Wüdi has been spinning tunes since the 1990s, from all-ages alternative clubs in Anchorage, Alaska, to pandemic-induced Twitch DJing. He is happy to come back for his third Norwescon appearance! He’s always very request friendly, and loves finding creative and unexpected ways to blend formats and keep the dance floor busy. Star Trek is his home fandom, and he has been volunteering with Norwescon in various roles for more than a decade.
dQ Kaufman
dQ Kaufman has been a regular at Norwescon since the mid-80s. He is a filmmaker and graphic designer who has worked for several game and entertainment companies you’ve heard of, doing creative and cool things you’ve benefited from. He has occasionally designed and typeset the Norwescon program book. He is a frequent participant in local 48-hour film contests. His recent project is a Birds of Prey fanseries you can find on youtube.com/ pulledprok. That’s right, prok.
Dr. Ricky
Dr. Ricky is the nom de plume of a working research scientist with a passion for science education outreach, and the science and impact of food on culture and evolution. He blogs at http:// sciencebasedcuisine.com and is active on Twitter at @drricky.
Dr. Sean Robinson
Data scientist and astrophysicist by training; nerd, gamer, and athlete by avocation. With 20 years in applied statistics and research, Sean helped pioneer autoencoder-driven generalized anomaly detection. He has been a tech lead and business analyst for pre-seed and early-stage startups across the artificial intelligence/machine learning sector. He is also a long-time LARPer and role-player.
Dr. Susan Langley
Susan Langley is the Maryland State underwater archaeologist. She teaches at colleges and universities, currently St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Her classes include underwater archaeology, the anthropology of pirates and piracy, and a fiber, textiles, and trade course. She taught maritime archaeology in Thailand for UNESCO, is a master SCUBA diver instructor, and lectures internationally for Abercrombie & Kent and Zegrahm Expeditions. She was the beekeeper for two governors.
[Artwork] Celtic Fox ©Victoria Shaffer
Elise Stephens
Elise Stephens credits much of her storytelling influence to a lifelong love of theater and childhood globetrotting. Her work explores themes of beauty within imperfection, and finding purpose after a great loss. Her short fiction has appeared in Analog, Galaxy’s Edge, and Escape Pod. Learn more at EliseStephens.com.
Elliott Kay
Like many Seattleites, Elliott is a transplant from Los Angeles. He took a swing at selfpublishing just for grins and soon found his books paying more bills than his day job. His work ranges from military sci-fi to steamy/comedic urban fantasy. Elliott’s Poor Man’s Fight series has hit the top of Amazon’s sci-fi charts.
Ellis Bray
Ellis Bray is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror author and poet who lives near Seattle and hates the recent addition of a Fire Season to the regular Winter/Spring/ Summer/Fall lineup. He has a master’s degree in Medieval Scandinavian studies, and if you don’t run away fast enough, he will tell you everything he knows about the Old Norse poem “Vǫluspá.” You can find his nonfiction at NewMyths.com and the Sci Phi Journal (under S.P. Hofrichter), and his poetry at Eye to the Telescope and F&SF.
Emily Leverett
Emily Leverett is an author, editor, professor, and scholar. She writes the Medieval paranormal romance series The Wolf and the Nun, and the contemporary fantasy series The Eisteddfod Chronicles. Emily co-edited several short story anthologies. She has created scholarship on Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, and the Vegas Golden Knights. A professor of English, Emily teaches creative writing, Chaucer, and Shakespeare. She lives in North Carolina with her spouse and three cats, where they are all avid Carolina Hurricanes hockey fans.
[Artwork] Mission to Mars ©Bill Grader
Eric L Vargas
Eric L Vargas is a freelance comic artist and illustrator with seven years’ experience in the industry. Based out of Washington state, he is currently doing pencils, inks, world building, and mecha and character design for a series called “Steel Siege” for Battle Quest Comics. He does character and monster design for Rocket Cat Games.
Erica L. Satifka
Erica L. Satifka’s fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Interzone, Apex, and many other places. Her collection How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters was named one of the best SF books of the year by the Washington Post, and is a finalist for the 2021 Endeavour Award.
Erin Wilcox
The work of Pushcart Prize nominee Erin Wilcox appears in journals, magazines, radio broadcasts, and collections such as Cirque, Short and Twisted, and Veil: Journal of Darker Musings. She writes a wide range of speculative fiction, including SF, fantasy for young readers, and horror for adults under the pen name Celeste Wakefield. As an editor she has worked with some of the finest talent of our day, including winners of the Hugo Award and Pulitzer Prize.
Ethan Vodde
Ethan Vodde is an intellectual property attorney with the law firm Lee & Hayes, PC. His practice focuses primarily on trademark and copyright protection, registration, enforcement, licensing, and litigation. While he’s got a lot of clients with SaaS, he likes working with pizzazz. Specifically, Ethan enjoys working with creatives. An avid gamer, reader, nerdpop, and should-be-pop culture fan, Ethan is always happy to talk about the intersection of geek and IP.
[Artwork] Bewcastle Vine #2 ©Belsac
Eva L. Elasigue
Eva L. Elasigue combines an honor-awarded imagination with scientific and empirical backgrounds to create the fantasy space opera trilogy Bones of Starlight, as well as works from poetic to humorous for internet and stage. She lives on San Juan Island, Washington state, in the Pacific Northwest Cascadia bioregion. There she manages Primal Spiral, her imprint/events collective/ studio. A mixed-media artist and Renaissance woman, she loves music and the wilderness.
Evan J. Peterson
Evan J. Peterson is an author, critic, game writer, and Clarion West alum. His latest book is Better Living Through Alchemy from Broken Eye Books. Recent work includes Drag Star! (Choice of Games), the world’s first drag role-playing game, and Metaflesh: Poems in the Voices of the Monster (ARUS Entertainment). His writing appears in Weird Tales, PseudoPod, Queers Destroy Horror, and Nightmare Magazine. Go to Evanjpeterson.com to learn more.
Frank Morin
Frank Morin is a storyteller and outdoor enthusiast. He is the author of fast-paced grab-you-by-the-eyeballs-and-don’t-let-go adventures, including The Petralist, an epic YA fantasy, The Facetakers, a fastaction fantasy, and Bacon Master of the Apocalypse, a humorous epic fantasy. He’s often found hiking, camping, scuba diving, or traveling to research new books. Find out more about his novels and his shorter fiction, or join his readers group at www.frankmorin.org.
Gabe (G.S.) Denning
Gabe (G.S.) Denning writes the Warlock Holmes series for Titan Books. Anybody who thinks Sherlock Holmes would be more fun with a side plate of demons and absurdity is set to be his new best friend. Gabe is a lifelong D&D geek, console and computer gamer, and improv theater dork. He’s written video game scripts for Nintendo and articles for Wizards of the Coast and has been a live performer at Disney World. Say hi and he’ll tell you all about it.
Gordon B. White
Gordon B. White is a Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of horror and weird fiction. Based in Seattle, he is a Clarion West alum and the author of As Summer’s Mask Slips and Other Disruptions, Rookfield, and And in Her Smile, The World (with Rebecca J. Allred). Gordon’s stories, reviews, and interviews have appeared in dozens of venues, including The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 12. You can find him online at gordonbwhite.com or on Twitter @GordonBWhite.
Gordon Van Gelder
Gordon Van Gelder became the sixth editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1997. He held the position until 2015. Before that, he worked as an editor for St. Martin’s Press and for The New York Review of Science Fiction. He has edited several anthologies, including Welcome to the Greenhouse, Fourth Planet from the Sun, and, most recently, Go Forth and Multiply and Welcome to Dystopia. He lives in New Jersey.
GregRobin Smith
GregRobin is a performance artist. As Ben Franklin, he has performed at fundraisers across the U.S. As a musician, he performs with the group Celt Check, as well as solo works and collaborations at Renaissance Faires. With The Washington Shakespearean Festival (www.WaShakespeare.org) he helps produce books and other media, performs at Ren Faires, does podcasts, and more. With the group Scholars for Educational Advance (S.E.A.) he produces educational and public historical-themed events.
Heather S. Ransom
Heather is a middle school science, careers, and creative writing teacher; a pizza pub and cigar shop owner; a science fiction author of the awardwinning YA Going Green trilogy and multiple short stories which have been published in various anthologies; a director for the Southern Oregon Young Willamette Writers; and a believer in the magic of an incredible story.
Howard Davidson
Howard Davidson was captured by a Heinlein book in second grade and hasn’t been seen much since. Inspired to do science fiction by reading it, he went off and got a Ph.D. in physics, the best training available for becoming a crackpot inventor. He is currently a senior physicist in the computer industry. He gets to write science fiction for the annual budget cycle.
Ian Shaw
Ian Shaw is a retired electrical engineer and long-time old school AV nerd. When not paneling (or being paneled) you will find him handling the nuts-and-bolts audio-visual requirements in Norwescon’s panel rooms.
Ieva Ohaks
Ieva Ohaks’ background in theatrical costume includes construction and alteration of costume accessories, costume design, and design support roles. She gained her special expertise in costume maintenance, storage, and packing during her 23-year tenure as costume stock and rental coordinator at the Seattle Opera. Her current costume interests include designing specialized clothing for imaginary professions in fictional locations.
J Tullos Hennig
Talulah J. Sullivan has been a professional equestrian, a dancer, an actor, a teacher... and yet has never managed to not be a storyteller. Ever. Her novel Blood Indigo seeks to weave a tale basket in the proud example of her Choctaw and Chickasaw grandmothers. As J Tullos Hennig, she was awarded the Speculative Literature Foundation’s juried older writers grant, and wrote the awardwinning historical fantasy series The Books of the Wode, which reimagines Robin Hood as a queer, chaotic-neutral druid.
J.P. Barnett
J.P. Barnett is the author of the awardwinning Lorestalker series, a six-book collection of horror adventures examining folklore of mysterious creatures roaming our world, published by Evolved Publishing. As a life-long consumer of stories, J.P. was more than ready to move from writing software to novels when he published his first book in 2019. J.P. currently resides in Redmond with his partner and hellion of a cat, both of whom look at him dubiously with some frequency.
[Artwork] Bookworm ©Rebecca Scarborough
Jack Skillingstead
Jack Skillingstead’s stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld, F&SF, and Lightspeed, as well as various year’s best volumes and original anthologies. His first published story was a finalist for the Sturgeon Award. His second novel, Life on the Preservation, was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. He lives in West Seattle with his wife, writer Nancy Kress.
Jake McKinzie
Jake McKinzie, a high school science teacher since 1999, currently teaches astronomy and chemistry and runs his high school’s philosophy club. His favorite authors are Moorcock, Feist, Niven, Bova, Howard, and deGrasse Tyson. A gamer since 1980, beginning with Car Wars and Red Box D&D, he is currently playing various Savage Worlds settings and D&D 5E. His daughter Cait is also a panelist on the teen and writing tracks. Traveling where his jeep, ShadowWalker, takes him is one of his favorite things.
Janet Borkowski
Janet Borkowski is a costumer, artist, tarot reader, and professional psychic. She has been a professional actress, retail salesperson, caregiver, nanny, and photographic stylist prepper for Ralph Lauren’s Polo for Kids. She knows more about suitcases than your average human should.
Worldcon has been the flagship convention for literary SF/F for 83 years.
The last time Worldcon was in Seattle was 1961.
It's past time to bring Worldcon back to the Emerald City.
A group of Norwescon-trained volunteers is bidding to make this a reality in the under-construction WSCC Summit Expansion on August 13-17, 2025.
To make this happen, we need your help.
To win site selection, we need volunteers and financial support (opportunities to offer both can be found at our website):
A Tip for the Barista ($20) — Thank you for the donation!
Tall ($50) — This is a supporting membership. You will receive a do1lar-for-dollar credit if you upgrade your membership later.
Grande ($150) — This level entitles you to an adult attending membership if we win the bid and you vote in site selection in 2023.
Triple Shot ($300) — Support at this level for a full adult attending membership and our undying gratitude.
[Artwork] Alina Starkov ©Grace P. Fong
[Artwork] City of Bridges ©Grace P. Fong
[Artwork] Silk and Steel ©Grace P. Fong
[Artwork] Six of Crows ©Grace P. Fong
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[Artwork] The Hunger Games ©Grace P. Fong
Jeff Sturgeon
Jeff is a Northwest artist known for his beautiful award-winning metal paintings. He is considered one of the top astronomical and science fiction artists working in the field today, with guest of honor appearances at exhibitions and conventions around the country. His newest works are highly sought after by collectors. Jeff paints primarily with acrylics on textured aluminum and over the years has had an impressive client list from book, music, and magazine publishers to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Jeff was an art director and game designer in computer games for many years, most notably Electronic Arts, before turning to illustrating and painting full time. Jeff is working on the anthology The Last Cities of Earth, a world he created that is being brought to life by his paintings and stories written by many of the leading writers in science fiction.
Jennifer Brozek
Jennifer Brozek is a wordslinger and optimist, author, media tie-in writer, editor, and a collector of antique occult literature. She believes the best thing about being a full-time freelance publishing industry professional is that she gets to choose which 60 hours of the week she works. In-between cuddling her cats, writing, and editing, Jennifer is an active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, Horror Writers Association, and International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. She keeps a tight schedule and credits her husband with being the best sounding board ever.
Jenny Shafer
Jessie Kwak
Jessie Kwak has always lived in imaginary lands, from Arrakis and Ankh-Morpork to Earthsea, Tatooine, and now Portland, Oregon. When she’s not writing, she can be found sewing, mountain biking, or out exploring new worlds both at home and abroad. She is the author of a supernatural thriller, two series of space pirate and space mafia novels, and the productivity guides From Chaos to Creativity and From Big Idea to Book.
Jim Kling
Jim Kling is a science and medical writer. He has also published short fiction, and serves as the reader coordinator for the Endeavour Award.
Joseph Brassey
Joseph Brassey lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, children, and two cats. In his spare time, he trains in and teaches historical European martial arts. He has lived on both sides of the continental United States and has worked everywhere from a local newspaper to the frame shop of a crafts store to the smoke-belching interior of a house-siding factory with questionable safety policies.
Joseph Malik
Joseph Malik is the bestselling author of Dragon’s Trail and The New Magic. A veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom, he has worked as a stuntman, high-rise window washer, touring rock musician, and a soldier in the United States Special Operations Command. He is represented by Sarah Hershman of Hershman Rights Management, New York.
[Artwork] ForestPerch ©Katie Croonenberghs
[Artwork] Fishing ©Katie Croonenberghs
[Artwork] Things Are Going Well ©Ellis Bray
Julie McGalliard
Julie McGalliard is a writer and occasional cartoonist. Her most recent novel is Fighting the Moon, the second sequel to the werewolf coming-of-age novel Waking Up Naked in Strange Places. Her short stories have appeared in the magazine Talebones and in the anthologies Witches, Stitches & Bitches: A Three Little Words Anthology (Volume 1) and Space Grunts: Full-Throttle Space Tales #3. She lives in Seattle with her husband Paul, a fellow lover of books and New Orleans native.
Julie Zetterberg
Julie Zetterberg has been making and wearing costumes since 1975. She has appeared as everything from Princess Leia (at Norwescon 1) to Rocket Racoon; and from Olive Oyl to Queen Anne’s Lace. She has won major awards at multiple Costume-Cons and Worldcons. She was Costume GoH at Marcon 39 and Rustycon 33, and co-chair for Costume-Con 14. She is a twice-past president of the Beyond Reality Costumers’ Guild. She lives in Seattle with her husband, fellow costumer Greg Sardo, and their two cats.
K.G. Anderson
A journalist and technology writer, K.G. Anderson has interviewed Muddy Waters and Harlan Ellison, worked on the launch of the iTunes Music Store, and served on the boards of Clarion West Writers Workshop and the Northwest Folklife Festival. Her short fiction appears in magazines, anthologies, and podcasts including Galaxy’s Edge, The Overcast, Weirdbook, Welcome to Dystopia, and Alternative Deathiness. Find out more at writerway.com/fiction.
Kimberly Unger
Kimberly created her first videogame back when the 80-column card was the new hot thing. This turned her literary love of science fiction into a full-blown obsession with the intersection of technology and humanity. Today she spends her day job working for Meta in XR, lectures on the intersection of art and code, and writes science fiction about how all these app-driven superpowers are going to change the human race.
Kris “Pepper” Hambrick
Kris “Pepper” Hambrick has been in fandom since she discovered Prodigy message boards in 1994. She used to put on plays for her parents, always as Sherlock Holmes or Doctor Who. Now she is the co-founder/producer of Hello Earth Productions’ outdoor Star Trek and Star Wars series, so life has not changed much. Since moving to Seattle in 2005, she has been involved in libraries, laser shows, SIFF film classes, informal science education, and acting. In her “spare time” she does writing and cosplay
Larry Lewis
Larry Lewis is a cartoonist, illustrator, writer, and teacher whose degree is in architecture. He lives with his girlfriend and adoptive family near Tacoma, and his son is from Shoreline. Lately he has made 40+ autobiographical minicomics, and is working on much larger fantasy, sci -fi, and urban planning projects.
Leigh Harlen
Leigh Harlen is a queer, non-binary writer who lives and works in Seattle. Their nonwriting hobbies include petting strangers’ dogs and enthusing about how awesome bats are. Leigh is the author of the novella Queens of Noise and an illustrated horror collection, Blood Like Garnets. Their novellas A Feast for Flies and What Time Forgets, the Blood Remembers are forthcoming.
[Artwork] Sherlock Holmes ©Michael Kucharski
Luke Elliott
Luke Elliott’s fiction has appeared in Reckoning, Metamorphosis, and Buckman Journal, among other magazines and podcasts. He is the cohost of the Ink to Film podcast where he discusses books and their film adaptations from a writing craft perspective. He has a Master of Fine Arts in writing popular fiction from Seton Hill University, and is a graduate of the Viable Paradise writers workshop. His creative work spans science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but he goes wherever the inspiration takes him.
Maddy Vonhoff
Maddy Vonhoff is the co-founder of Foulplay Games, a women-owned murder mystery company based in the Pacific Northwest. Through Foulplay Games she helps geeks everywhere throw killer murder mystery parties.
Maquel A. Jacob
Maquel A. Jacob is an author of gendershift social science fiction with a bit of romance and a touch of gore. She originally hails from Chicago, Illinois, and resides in the Pacific Northwest. She has over 15 titles that span three different series, with short stories in various anthologies and magazines. She holds degrees in accounting and business administration, was the head of programming for OryCon 41 and 42, and was an instructor at the 2022 Cascade Writers Critique Workshop.
Marie Bilodeau
Marie Bilodeau is a French-Canadian author and storyteller who writes mostly in English because, as her family would say, she’s contrary. Her speculative fiction has won several awards and has been translated into Chinese and French (to her family’s delight, though they still believe her to be contrary). Marie is also a storyteller and has told stories (in both languages!) across Canada in theatres, tea shops, at festivals, and under disco balls. Find out more at mariebilodeau.com.
Marilyn Holt
Marilyn Holt is the current chairperson of the Endeavour Award. She was a founder of the current Clarion West, with J.T. Stewart, cheered on by Vonda N. McIntyre, who started the original in the 1970s. She has two mystery thriller novels written as M.J. Holt. She has published science fiction and fantasy short stories, as well as crime stories.
Mark Teppo
Mark Teppo is the author of more than a dozen novels, including The Potemkin Mosaic, Solitaire, and In the Mansion of Madness. He also teaches writing and living a creative life. When he’s not doing this, he’s running Underland Press, an independent genre publisher.
Marlow Weaver
Marlow is a long-time science fiction and fantasy fan, who has been going to conventions for over 40 years. She collects Star Wars toys, mainly female figures and the occasional Ewok, plus too many others to list them all. She is a longtime fan of Doctor Who and other British television shows. Historical mysteries are of special interest. Marlow has been a panelist at Anglicon, Britcon, and Norwescon. She manages the club table for Britcon at various other conventions in the local area, including Norwescon. Come by and say hello.
Pemmi-Con
The 15th North American Science Fiction Convention
Philip John Currie • Julie E Czerneda
George Freeman • John Mansfield
Waubgeshig Rice • Nisi Shawl
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Tanya Huff, Toastmaster
20–23 July 2023
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Marta Murvosh
Marta is a teen librarian and writer living in the Pacific Northwest. She grew up watching Star Trek reruns and lunar landings. She loves pulp fiction with gnarly apocalypses and hard-boiled mysteries. Prior to becoming a librarian, she was an award-winning newspaper reporter and continues to write for national trade magazines. She will talk anywhere, anytime about books, writing craft, research skills, digital literacy, and digital citizenship. Find her at murvosh.weebly.com.
Melissa Quinn
Melissa Quinn’s life took a sharp turn when she discovered costuming at her first sci-fi convention. She opened Faerie Fingers Custom Costumes & Event Apparel in Seattle, where she has spent the last 20 years creating costumes and unique event attire for clients around the country. Her current pursuits include cosplaying with her daughter and launching her YouTube channel, Faerie Fingers.
Mermaid Merlissa
Melissa “Merlissa” Thomas, also known online as “Little Orca,” has been part of the mermaid community since 2008, when she got her first monofin and made her first tail. Since then, she has made many more tails and acquired a silicone tail made by Merbella Studios. She has volunteered at various fantasy-themed events and served as inspiration for other merfolk to achieve their dreams regardless of body type and society’s pressure to look a certain way.
Mermaid Undine
Tam Songdog, aka the mermaid Undine (among other recurring characters), is a professional entertainer, sound effects and props fabricator, haunter, and circus arts performer. She has almost 20 years in the entertainment industry and considers herself to be a true “Ghoul Friday.” She is a strong advocate for body positivity, sex positivity, and chronic illness awareness. Part of her life mission is to reignite the magic we experience in the world for not only a better future, but a better now.
Mermaid Ylluria
Yl’luria has been flipping her fins and making darkly sparkly magic both above and below the waves at festivals, cons, parades, and other events as a professional mermaid for the past eight years. She’s a Mermaid at Any Age ocean ambassador, a certified level 1 NAUI mermaid, a level 2 Portland Parks & Recreation swim instructor, an artist, singer, bellydancer, and content creator, and a fantasy, horror, and makeup fan. In all she does, her goal is to uplift, educate, and entertain, while inspiring EVERYbody to live their dreams.
Michael “Tinker” Pearce
Michael “Tinker” Pearce lives in Seattle with his wife Linda. He is a well-known sword maker, author of The Medieval Sword in the Modern World, and coauthor of The Shield Maiden, Tyr’s Hammer, Diaries of a Dwarven Rifleman, its sequel Lord of the North, and Rage of Angels. He is a student of historic European martial arts and has worked as a fight choreographer and consultant. He also writes a popular firearms hobbyist blog, Tinker Talks Guns.
Michael Ormes
Michael has a diverse and dynamic set of interests limited (largely) by time and focused (somewhat) by current projects. An avid reader of science fiction since finding the genre in his high school library, he learned to pace himself after running out of readily available SF novels later that same year. Normally describing himself as a computer programmer, a full account of his career would include four continents and involve most aspects of the software industry, with various side trips into other areas.
[Artwork] Jeremy Brett Violin ©Michael Kucharski
[Artwork] The Watcher ©Brittany Torres
Two exciting fantasy series by award winning author, artist, and screenwriter D.L. Gardner
SWORD OF CHO NISI
Her dreams were lost with one fleeting mistake, now she must fight to win them back.
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"Sword of Cho Nisi...a rising star in a universe of fantasy favorites" —Independent Book Review
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Mikko Azul
Mikko has always pursued knowledge of magic, secret societies, the occult, science, and spirituality. As an adult, Mikko’s tastes broadened to include historical fiction and action-adventure. These influences can be found in her epic fantasy novels. Mikko’s debut novel Askari won a Moonbeam Children’s Book Award and took first place at the San Francisco Writer’s Conference. Her novel The Staff of Fire and Bone was released in 2018, and its sequel, The Rod of Wind and Iron, was released in 2020. She lives on the shores of Puget Sound with the love of her life.
Mimi Noyes
Convinced as a child that she was left on this planet by aliens and taken in by a kind lady who became her mother, Mimi has always been a bit weird. Drawn to the fantastic and the strange, she has “grown up” to be an artist, muralist, monster-maker, convention runner, and film critic, among other random careers. Mimi is currently obsessed with anime, creating games, and reading fanfiction. She spends an inordinate amount of time being silly and adding sound effects to everyday life.
Monte Lin
While being rained on near Portland, Oregon, Monte Lin writes, edits, and plays tabletop role-playing games. He is managing editor for Uncanny Magazine and staff editor for Angry Hamster Publishing. Clarion West got him to write about dying universes, dreaming mountains, and singularities made of anxieties. He can be found tweeting Doctor Who news, Asian American diaspora discourse, and his board game losses at @Monte_Lin.
Nancy Kress
Nancy Kress is the author of 35 books, most recently Sea Change (Tachyon, 2020) and The Eleventh Gate (Baen, 2020). Her work has won six Nebulas, two Hugos, a Sturgeon, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. She is best known for her stories about the Sleepless, people genetically engineered to not need sleep, as well as other fiction featuring genetic engineering. Nancy frequently teaches writing at various venues, including numerous Clarions, summer writing workshops, an intensive workshop in Beijing, and a semester as a visiting professor at the University of Leipzig in Germany. She lives in Seattle with her husband, SF writer Jack Skillingstead, and Pippin, a lethally cute chihuahua.
Nick Fraser
Nick is a librarian, traveler, reader, and film buff. He is the co-programmer and co -host for Seattle Movie Geeks.
Nisi Shawl
Nisi Shawl is the multiple award-winning author and editor of over a dozen books of speculative fiction and related nonfiction, including the Nebula Award finalist novel Everfair, two volumes of the New Suns anthology series, and the collection Filter House, co-winner of the 2008 Otherwise Award. They’ve taught and spoken at Duke University, Sarah Lawrence, and many other institutions. Recent titles include the horror collection Our Fruiting Bodies and the middle-grade fantasy Speculation.
[Artwork] Mandala Moon ©Victoria Shaffer
Patrick Swenson
Patrick Swenson runs Fairwood Press, a book line that began in 2000. A graduate of Clarion West, his first novel The Ultra Thin Man appeared from Tor. His novel Rain Music came out in late 2021. He has sold stories to the anthologies Unbound II, Crooked V.2, Unfettered III, Gunfight at Europa Station A, Seasons Between Us, Like Water for Quarks, and a number of science fiction magazines. He runs the Rainforest Writers Village at Lake Quinault, Washington.
Paul Pedersen
Paul Pedersen is with NorthWest ShieldWall, who are Viking reenactors and educators. Their quest is to share their knowledge and passion for the ancient Viking world.
Rachel Swirsky
Rachel Swirsky lives in rainy Portland, Oregon, where she writes short stories. Her work has appeared in venues such as Tor.com and Clarkesworld Magazine, been nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards, and twice won the Nebula Award. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers Workshop. Her 2022 Tor.com novella, January Fifteenth is a nominee for this year’s Philip K. Dick Award.
Randy Henderson
Randy Henderson is the author of the quirky Finn Fancy urban fantasy trilogy from Tor and member of the Dungeon Scrawlers D&D live-play show. He’s also a Writers of the Future grand prize winner, Clarion West grad, and relapsed sarcasm addict. Don’t hesitate to say hi or ask questions, he’s happy to chat and be of help where he can. Web: www.randy-henderson.com. Facebook: / randyhenderson. Twitter/Mastodon/ Instagram: @randyauthor .
Rebecca A. Demarest
Rebecca A. Demarest is an awardwinning author, book designer, and writing coach living in Seattle, Washington with her two Muppets and her husband. When not obsessing over words, you can find her tending her indoor jungle, enjoying the outdoors, or being crafty.
Remy Nakamura
Remy is a writer of dark and weird fiction. You can find his stories in Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and several anthologies. He works in the funeral industry, is a student in a genre writing master’s program, and is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. He currently serves on the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) Board as a director at large. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner and their celebrity cat, and spends his free time getting cold, wet, and muddy.
Rhiannon/R.Z. Held
Rhiannon Held is the author of the Silver series of urban fantasy novels published by Tor. As R.Z. Held, she writes the Amsterdam Institute series of space opera novellas. Her short fiction, also under R.Z. Held, has most recently appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies. She lives near Seattle, where she works as an archaeologist and technical editor for an environmental compliance firm.
Richard Stephens
Richard Stephens works as an actor, director, and costume designer. During 30+ years in fandom, his costume journey has gone from media recreation to fashion anthropology. Recent design credits include Fortinbras, Gaslight, and Miss Bennet - Christmas at Pemberley, which he also directed. In the spring he will be directing and designing Medea for Peninsula College.
Ryan K. Johnson
Ryan K. Johnson is an independent camera operator and video editor living in Seattle who has also produced two dozen shorts ranging from parodies to thrillers. He has shot every year of the Hellbender Filmmaking Workshop, as well as three feature-length films. His work has been shown on the BBC, TLC, and at the Seattle International Film Festival. He’s married to Kate Waterous.
Sam Stark
Sam Stark is a queer author and audiobook narrator living in Everett, Washington, about 20 minutes north of Seattle. They’re a parent, spouse, former army vehicle operator, and foodie. They definitely play too many video games, watch too many horror movies, and believe there are not enough BBQ potato chips in the world.
Sar Surmick
Sar is a nonbinary trans fem therapy professor and marriage and family therapist/supervisor specializing in identity, systems work, and consent. As a therapist, Sar focuses on non-monogamy, sex and gender, trans, and BDSM/kink. Sar is the former director of the Consent Academy, author of The Consent Primer, and a consultant, sexpositive educator, and organizer. In what little downtime remains, Sar is an author, gamer, GM, world builder, and seeker of interesting people.
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[Artwork] Siren Shield ©Rebecca Scarborough
Scott James Magner
Scott James Magner is an author, game designer, editor, and developer. His work has appeared in games such as Dungeons & Dragons, TERA Online, Kritika Online, Closers, AEON, and Lineage II. He spends his days twisting and tuning new worlds, and is always looking for something new to learn.
Seth Tufteland
Seth Tufteland (Olaf) is the Jarl of Hrafngardr Vikings in Bothell, Washington. He is also an elder in the Northwest Viking Alliance. Jarl Olaf is the current lawspeaker for the Northwest Viking Alliance.
Shaylee “Davros” Bell
Shaylee is well-known in the Seattle area as the driver of two different Daleks since 2013. A former resident of the United Kingdom, Shaylee moved to the Seattle area in 2009, and has been a regular convention attendee since 2011. Shaylee has a background in engineering, and various hobbies that include gaming and model railroading.
Sheye Anne Blaze
Sheye Anne Blaze grew up reading Zelazny and Piers Anthony books that were left about by her uncle. She is a gadgety, geeky, queer, kinky, fat, polyamorous activist-type of Native (Lakota ). She has a passion for civil liberties for everyone. She lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband, two children, every Heroscape piece ever made, more than 15,000 Magic cards, The Box of Many Munchkins, hundreds of video games, and more computers than humans.
Shiv Ramdas
Shiv Ramdas is an Indian writer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and humor. His short fiction has appeared in publications like Strange Horizons, Slate, Lightspeed, and others, and has been nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, and Ignyte Awards. He currently lives and works in Seattle with his spouse, three cats, and two highly demanding trees. You can find out more about him at https://shivramdas.net/ or find him tweeting as @nameshiv.
Shweta Adhyam
Shweta belongs to Madras, Seattle, and speculative fiction. She speaks five languages, has had four careers, is three layers of immigrant, calls two cities home, and believes escapism is of the first importance. She is frenemies with ADHD, knows far more about Hindu mythology than is good for her, and attended Clarion West in 2017. She lives with her spouse and child and can be found online at www.shweta-adhyam.com, on Twitter as @shweta_adhyam, and Mastodon as @shweta@mastodon.social
Sonja Thomas
Sonja Thomas writes stories for readers of all ages. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence is her debut middle grade novel. Her next book is scheduled for release in spring 2024, and she’s a contributing author for Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic. Raised in Central Florida and a Washington, D.C. transplant for 11 years, she’s now “keeping it weird” in the Pacific Northwest. Visit her at www.bysonjathomas.com or @bysonjathomas on Twitter and Instagram.
Sven Red Beard
Sven Red Beard is a retired Boeing worker with interests in the history of flight. He has also been an active member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) for over 30 years. He is a past baron of Blatha An Oir and a member of the Order of the Laurel, with his area of study being Viking Age and Pre-Viking Age history and culture. Blacksmithing and armormaking are among his hobbies.
Teresa Drag
T. Drag grew up in Maine and attended college and worked in Washington, D.C. before going the U.S. Marine Corps. She retired after 20 full years, having served all around the globe. She found time to get her pilot’s license and participate in Renaissance festivals as a squire to several jousting knights. T. Drag has kept busy after retiring from the military. Some of her pursuits include editing books, studying martial arts, and quilting.
Theresa Halbert
Theresa Halbert is a textile artist with a focus on costumes, art quilts, and art bags. She has worked professionally in Chicago and Los Angeles theaters for over 20 years and received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Southern California. She has received awards at Worldcon and Norwescon for her costumes, and at Norwescon, OryCon, and other shows for her artwork.
R. Thursday
R. Thursday (they/them) is a writer, educator, historian, and all-around nerd. When not subverting Middle School Language Arts and Social Studies curricula, they can be found watching cartoons, playing video games, reading, or writing about vampires, mutants, queerness, space wizards, and sometimes, all of the above. Their poetry and short fiction have been featured in numerous journals and they’ve been wandering the halls of Norwescon since they could toddle.
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[Artwork] Dr. Manhattan ©Victoria Shaffer
Tom Whitmore
Tom Whitmore was one of the founders of The Other Change of Hobbit bookstore in Berkeley in 1977, has been a Locus reviewer for decades, and co-chaired the Worldcon in 2002. He lives in Seattle with his partner K.G. Anderson, several cats, many thousands of books, and a wealth of stories. Ask him about data analysis, The Book of the Law, his collection of etchings, or odd books. He is currently a licensed massage therapist as well.
Torrey Stenmark
Torrey Stenmark is an award-winning costumer and a college chemistry instructor. The same skillset that earned her a master’s degree in organic chemistry (attention to detail, record keeping, delicate physical coordination, and refusal to be intimidated by new problems) enabled her to compete and win in the master’s division of several costume contests on the local and national scale. She now teaches at Shoreline Community College.
Tracy Furutani
A physics instructor at North Seattle College for years and years, Tracy now spends his time grading while watching Gravity Falls reruns.
Tyrean Martinson
Tyrean Martinson is a word hunter and English language arts tutor and coach for students ages 12 to 92. She lives and writes on the Washington state peninsula, enjoys a full family life, and likes to daydream about life in rocket boots or flying on griffins. She is the author of a fantasy trilogy, a fantasy serialization, and a science fiction novella series for young adult readers, and also writes poems, short stories, and nonfiction for all ages.
V Whitlock
Victoria has spoken around the world on topics of privacy, computer security, and women’s history. She has written and contributed to over 13 books on highly technical topics involving Oracle. Victoria loves learning and sharing and is now working on a pairing blog for food and wine.
[Artwork] Nostoc BGA 300 ©JeM Z Art
Vandy H. Hall
Vandy is a multimedia artist and glassblower who makes functional and decorative art with the goal of bringing magic and beauty into people’s everyday lives. When not making art, Vandy enjoys travel, the outdoors, waterfalls, storms, spinning, historical reenactment, juggling, rock climbing, caving, canyoneering, and circus arts. Vandy lives on a small farm near Portland, Oregon with her boyfriend Chris, several cats, cashmere goats, and a flock of chickens.
William C. Tracy
William C. Tracy writes and publishes queer SF/F through his indie press Space Wizard Science Fantasy, open to submissions (spacewizardsciencefantasy.com). He is an North Carolina writer with a master’s degree in mechanical engineering who has designed and operated heavy construction machinery. He is a practitioner of Wado-Ryu karate, gamer, reader, writer, and cosplayer. William has written about musicbased magic, seasonal fruit-based magic, and hard sci-fi with generational ships and a sentient fungus.
Wm Salt Hale
Salt is a Seattle local involved with a wide variety of Free/Libre/Open (FLO) communities. He attended graduate school at the University of Washington, studying the intersection of communication, computer science, and law. Salt participates, organizes, and speaks worldwide at various conferences, conventions, events, festivals, and faires. He tries to be very approachable and will always be found wearing a kilt.
Xander Odell
Xander lives in Washington state with his/ their husband and sons. His/their work has appeared in such venues as Jim Baen’s Universe, Daily Science Fiction, Galaxy’s Edge, Crossed Genres, Pseudpod, Cast of Wonders, and Podcastle. His/their short story collection, Godfall & Other Stories, was released by Hydra House Books in 2018.
Zamesta Cosplay
Zamesta Cosplay is an Army veteran who uses her cosplay to combat her MST PTSD symptoms. Her favorite thing about making costumes is getting to incorporate her mobility aids as props!
DRAGONFLIGHT GAMECON 43
August 18-20, 2023
Bellevue Hilton
The Pacific Northwest's Longest Running Tabletop Game Convention
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Tech Tips for Authors
from Nate Hoffelder, The Author Website Guy
I like sharing tech tips with my friends just as much as I like solving problems. Here are a few tricks I've learned over the years. - Nate
Screen Size Matters
Never evaluate a design or proofread text on a smartphone. It doesn't matter whether you are checking a new logo, a print layout, or on illustration, a smartphones screen is simply too small to properly evaluate the content.
Contact Forms
I know you have a contact form on your site, but does your site also log the messages sent through the form? A recent discussion in my FB group The Help Desk reminded me that emails sometimes go astray. This is why I make sure that the sites I build use a contact form that logs all submissions.
Backups
Backups are the foundation of all website security and maintenance if your website is backed up regularly, you can use it to undo whatever accident just caused your site to crash. And if your site gets hacked, there's a good chance you will have a backup from before the hack, saving you some of the time and energy required to de-hack the site.
eBook Formatting
This breaks with print formatting rules, but when you use an ellipsis or m-dash In your ebook, you really need to add a space both before and after. Some reading apps will treat...this as one long word Trust me, this can do terrible things to the ebook's formatting.
Spam
Spammers are going to flood your site with their trash, trust me on that. Luckily, you can use the Cleantalk Wordpress plugin to automatically keep spam comments from ever being seen by legitimate visitors. It even kblocks spam in your contact forms!
Internet Archive
If you've ever discovered a post or page was mysteriously deleted from your site, and wanted to get that one post back without restoring your entire site from a backup. I may have a solution. The Internet Archive regularly scans and backs up most websites, and if you are lucky it will have a copy of your missing page or post.
Let me know if you found these tips useful!
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[Artwork] Nott, Goddess of Night ©Brittany Torres
[Artwork] The Lady of Shalott ©Brittany Torres
We will missing these attending professionals who were at Norwescon 44.
Greg Bear
August 20, 1951 - November 19, 2022
Greg Bear did more for science fiction, fantasy, and comics fandom than any of us can know. This tribute can touch on only a few aspects of what he’s left us: investigate any of them, and you’ll discover more riches. He was a prolific, award-winning writer. If you want to start reading his novels, try Blood Music (his Nebula winner), Eon, or one of his fantasies. He was an artist, the only science fiction writer I know of to do covers for several of his own books. As one-third of the Killer Bs, with Greg Benford and David Brin, Greg was an educator, a passionate advocate for science, and an engaging public speaker. He was a film buff and treasured his memories of meeting Ray Harryhausen, Chuck Jones, and other greats of the field.
Greg brought all of this to Norwescon whenever he attended. He brought his personality. Greg was approachable. He liked people, and he liked finding out who he was talking to. You didn’t need to be famous to talk with Greg about anything—just knowledgeable. He’d make sure you had enough time to talk; he wasn’t interested in hogging the conversation. What made his life full was learning. He was always in discovery mode, looking for another new tidbit to help expand his world. If you could give that to him, he wanted it. His world was very large and complex, so there was plenty of room to grow.
The last novel published before he died was The Unfinished Land. That’s a description of Greg: he was always growing, always polishing, always becoming. When we were around him, he brought us along, using us to polish him and polishing us right back. He was kind, insightful, and dedicated. The best we can do to honor his memory is to talk with one another, and expand who we are. If you knew Greg, talk with someone who you don’t know this weekend and ask if that person knew him. If they did, you can have some great reminiscences; if they didn’t, you can tell some stories. Greg loved stories, and would love for you to share them. —By Tom Whitmore
Dr. Dana Andrews
Died January 10, 2022
Dana Andrews served for many years as an attending professional at Norwescon in the science track. He worked in aerospace for more than 45 years, including 33 years for Boeing, 10 years for Andrews Space, Inc., and three years teaching at the University of Washington. His 2020 book Chasing the Dream provided an insider’s view and critique of the development of the U.S. space program over 50 years. Dana designed commercial airplanes, military aircraft, missiles, spacecraft, and the current space station modules. His areas of expertise were space systems design, orbital mechanics, safety, and advanced propulsion.
Bruce Taylor
May 28, 1947—August 31, 2022
Bruce Taylor was the one at Norwescon wearing the white suit and top hat. He was called Mr. Magic Realism for the style of magic in his hundreds of stories and two novels. He was president of the Seattle Writers Association from 20012004.
We remember significant figures in our genre and Pacific Northwest fandom who have left us since the last time we were together. Some biographical information taken from Wikipedia.
"To live in hearts we leave behind, is not to die.”
Alexei Panshin
August 14, 1940—August 21, 2022
Alexei Panshin wrote; he wrote science fiction, he wrote about science fiction, and he wrote about science fiction writers. He was nominated twice for the Hugo Award for best fan writer, and won a Nebula Award for his novel Rite of Passage. With his wife Cory he won the 1990 Hugo Award for best non-fiction book for The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence.
Aline Kominsky-Crumb
August 1, 1948—November 29, 2022
Aline Kominsky-Crumb was one of the first women to write and draw underground comics. She contributed to Wimmin’s Comix, co-founded Twisted Sisters, and collaborated with her husband, Robert Crumb, on Dirty Laundry.
Bryan Barrett
August 11, 1957—June 21, 2022
Bryan was a book dealer from the late 1970s until early this century. He chaired Bouchercon 16, cochaired Bouchercon 28, chaired the 1991 and 2022 Left Coast Crime Cons, and co-chaired the World Fantasy Convention in 1998. Bryan was a bird breeder and ceramic artist.
Daniel P. Lynge
January 27, 1974—October 29, 2022
Daniel was well known at Norwescon. He was considered one of the gentle giants of the parties for many years. When Norwescon asked him to be the liaison between the convention, the hotel, and the parties, naturally he accepted and served that role for a couple of years. Dan was also a science professional at Norwescon. He developed a formula and process for Aerogels that he was able to create in his own home lab. He could be found discussing a variety of real science and science fiction topics during the day at the con.
In later years, Dan was a member of the security team. Patrolling the hotel and helping the dispatch team were some of the ways Dan served the convention. Since his roommates and his son were part of the team, he wanted to do his part.
Dan passed on October 29, 2022, two days after his silver anniversary with his wife Tanya.
[Artwork] I Would Give You The Moon and The Stars ©Sherry Kirk
[Artwork] Dragon Dreams ©Sherry Kirk
David Warner
July 29, 1941—July 24, 2022
David Warner was a British actor seen in many movies, television shows, games, and audio dramas.
A recognizable face on TV and film, the Emmy-winning actor’s career spans back to the 1960s with memorable roles in films including The Omen, Time After Time, Time Bandits, Tron, A Christmas Carol, Titanic, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, and the 1984 television movie Frankenstein.
Star Trek fans will remember Warner in a number of roles starting with Federation representative St. John Talbot in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Klingon Chancellor Gorkon in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), and in 1992, he appeared as the Gul Madred, the Cardassian who tortured Picard, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation two-parter “Chain of Command.”
He was a regular actor of Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who audio adventures. At one point, 1980s Doctor Who writers Pip and Jane Baker recommended him for the role of the Seventh Doctor.
Eric Flint
February 6, 1947—July 17, 2022
Eric Flint wrote a lot of books, including many that changed people’s lives. That is because he coauthored with many, many people; some established authors, but a lot of them who had never written a novel before. He created a universe with his novel 1632 that spawned a growing number of books written by other authors, and hundreds of stories published in The Grantville Gazette, a fan fiction e-magazine, and set of anthologies.
His work spans time, mostly alternative timelines, often with magic and humor.
Michael Montoure
December 1, 1970—December 19, 2022
Michael was an active fan and pro known for horror writing, an artist, author, Whovian, and all-around nerd. He was active in Star Trek fandom, being a member of the Klingon Diplomatic Corps, and the local Terran Empire. Michael was a major force in Merchants of Deva.
Nichelle Nichols
December 28, 1932—July 30, 2022
Nichelle Nichols was an American actress, singer, dancer, and best known for her portrayal of Nyota Uhura in Star Trek (1966-1969) and its film sequels. Later, she volunteered her time to promote NASA programs, and to recruit diverse astronauts, including women and ethnic minorities.
On Star Trek, Nichols was one of the first African American women featured in a major television series. Her prominent supporting role as a bridge officer was unprecedented. Nichols was once tempted to leave the series; however, a conversation with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. changed her mind.
Tom Maddox
Oct 1945 - October 18, 2022
Tom Maddox was a science fiction author with one novel and several short stories, well known for his collaborations with William Gibson, with whom he authored two episodes of The X-Files. He attended The Evergreen State College, graduating in 1975, and earned his Ph.D. at American University, later teaching literature at Evergreen.
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Master of Space and Time
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Nisnow Studios
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Sidhefire Arts
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The Creeping Moon
Theresa Halbert
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Tricia Diaz
Vandy Hall
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1985 Games
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Authors 4 Authors Publishing
B Cubed Press
Blue Heron Games
Brio and Brandish
Cargo Cult Books
Celtic Moonlighting, LLC
D and D Chain Maille Creations Dragon’s Hoard Games
DragonStorm Sports
Dropping Needles Embroidery
Elizabeth Guizzetti- Author & Illustrator
Firebird Creative / Underland Press
Firefox Fashions (The Fur Connection)
Forest Path Books
Frank Morin
Friday Afternoon Tea
Geek Girl Stuff
Gretchen S.B.
Jennifer Brozek Productions
Lost Heart Leather
Matt Dinniman
Miranda Levi
Monkey House Studio
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Not a Pipe Publishing
Optimystical Studios
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PM Press
Practically Perfect Pillows
Robin Jeffrey Author
SewCherie
Simply Passe’ Mardi Gras Masks
Sinister Metalworks
Six String Games LLC
Skydragons
Space Wizard Science Fantasy
Springtime Creations
Studio Foglio
TANSTAAFL Press
The OddPetz Emporium
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Chair SunnyJim Morgan
Charitable Giving Assistant Phillip Buff
Elections Myke Gephardt
Historian Michael Citrak
Timeline Kyle Hall
Vice Chair Rob Stewart
Hotel Liaison Pat Booze
GOH Selection Thom Walls
GOH Selection Richard Stephens
Secretary Jenn Baker
Secretary Second Caryn Meyer
Business Tim Ketron
Auditors Mike Orosz, Eric Weber, Mary Parker, Kevin Black,
Purchasing Agent Cherie Playter
Purchasing Runner Caryn Meyer
Treasurer Shawna Batty
Member Services Michelle Morrell
Member Services Second Alex Demboski
Registration Manager John Demboski
Reg. Services Staff Jessica Akins, Carla Viltz
Art Show Manager Doug Booze
Print Shop Staff Laura Penty
Lead Cashier Jean Carlos
Art Show Cashier Lori Burtis (Shaughnessy)
Art Show Staff Mary Parker, Mike Orosz, Caroline Westra, Sally Woehrle, Bill Cochell, Jr.
Information Table Manager Alex Dembowski
Info Table Staff Tina Anderson
Club Tables Jerry Johnson
Dealers' Room Manager Amy Gembala
Dealers' Rm 2nd Lea Rush
Accessibility Team Lead Loree Parker
[Artwork] Celluloseto Ethanol 300 ©JeM Z Art
[Artwork] PCB Degrading Community 300 ©JeM Z Art
Publications Katrina Marier
Newsletter Staff Writer Mike Brennan
Daily Zine Editor Scotty Summers
Daily Zine Assist. Minion Sterling Summers
Graphic Designer Caitlyn McKinzie
Souvenir Book Designer Shelley George
Pocket Program Editor Cheryl Dyson
Photography Team Lead Thom Walls
Photographers Patrick White, Lennyx
Lead Editor Kevin Black
Editors Carla Moore, Emily Teng, Anne Cagel, Mark Sebring, Max, Katie Waterous
Web Team Lead/Webmaster Michael Hanscom
Social Media Assistant Alex Demboski
Signage Tabby L Rose
Guidebook Asst. Kurt Cagle
Convention Services Keith Jewell
A/V Tech & Facilities
A/V Services Manager Ian Shaw
A/V Services Tech Dawn Shaw
Layouts Designer Michael Citrak
Hotel Layouts Assistant Caryn Meyer
Logistics (Transportation) Manager Yvonne Pawtowski
Logistics Staff Eric Pawtowski, Daniel Pawtowski
Main Stage Manager Alan Bond
Audio Lead Alex Kiwerski
Grip Nels Satterlund
Tech Dawn Shaw
Safety
Radio Operator Mir Plemmons
Safety Ambassador Grey Wolfe
It’s the little things…
[Artwork] Dolphin Rider 300 ©JeM Z Art
Programming Adrienne Loska
Programming Assistant Bernie Strub
Autograph Sessions Coordinator Autumn Santercier
Guest of Honor Liaison Marilyn Mauer
Pro Check-in Staff Meghan Lancaster, Crystal Lloyd, Marilyn Mauer
Programming Service Marilyn Mauer, Crystal Lloyd
Hands-On Workshops Assistant Autumn Santercier
Personnel Jeanine Swanson
Job Descriptions Admin Purple Pearl Young
Year Round Engagement
Book Club Kevin Black
Book Club 2nd Caryn Meyer
Gaming Meetups Rob Stewart
Geek Garage Sale & SF/F Swap Meet Cate Siguenza
Camping Trip Sunny Jim Morgan
LAW (listen assure walk) Jeanine Swanson
DEI Training Rebecca Demarest
Convention Lounge Hosts Lead Michael Pinnick
Teen Runners Advisor Myke Gepharde
Cloakoom Host Lead Tory Poling
Cloakroom Hosts Donna Poling, Daniel Campbell, James Akins Zillman
Special Events Peggy Stewart
Opening Ceremonies Lydia Valentine
Lazer Tag Lead Scott Perrin
Lazer Tag Assistant Elizabeth Fellows
Nerf Lead Steven Hasenbuhler
Nerf Herders Donna Strain, James Adkins-Zillman
Dance DJ's DJ Wüdi, DJ Equus, mc300baud
Masquerade Director Bri Orsborn
Masquerade Head Ninja Nels Satterlund
PK Dick Awards Producer Michael Hanscom
PK Dick Awards Second William Sadorus
Artemis Coordinator Mark Alexander
Single Pattern Contest Meghan Lancaster
Game Shows Dave O'Neill
Speculative Film Festival Producer Shawn Marier
Film Festival Judges Peggy Stewart, Marie Jackson, Abie Ekenezar, Kin Ferate, Willlow Clark, Alan Bond
[Artwork] Glass Eaters 300 ©JeM Z Art
[Artwork] Dreamer Final ©Jeff Sturgeon
Norwescon acknowledges that we conduct our meetings and hold our annual convention on the traditional land of the Salish and Coastal Salish peoples, including the Duwamish People - the first peoples of what is now called Washington State. We honor with gratitude the land itself and the Duwamish Tribe: past, present, and future. This acknowledgment does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities but serves as a first step in honoring the land we are on.
[Photo] 2023 Norwescon ConCom by Thom Walls
Standing (from the left): Tim Ketron, Jeff Cornish, John Demboski, Salt Hale, Keith Jewell, Julie Demboski, Michael Hanscom Shawn Marier, Steve Hasenbuhler, Jenn Baker, Make McKindle, Michelle Morrell, Ian Shaw, Pat Booze, Doug Booze, Alex Demboski
Seated (from the left): Elizabeth Fellows, Shawna Beatty, William Sadorus, SunnyJim Morgan, Kevin Black, Bond, Daniel Pawtowski, Meghan Lancaster, Yvonne Pawtowski, Eric Pawtowski, Laura Penny, Maureen LaCoss, Jeff LaCoss, Kat Marier, Tina Anderson, Caitlyn McKinzie
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ZOOM CHAT (from top, left to right): Thom Walls, Rebecca Panzer, Kyle Hall, Sam Stark, Adrienne, Michael Citrak, Jeri Lynn Cornish, Rob Stewart, Lea Rush, Mark & Cas (Artemis), Jeffrey Cornish, Bill Boyde, Peggy Stewart, Bernie Strub, Jerry Johnson, Shelley George, Loree Parker, Don Glover.
Charitable giving is part of Norwescon’s identity and history. Our mission statement is:
To promote science fiction, fantasy, horror, related fictional genres, and science through the written word, art, and educational programs, such as the holding of a yearly convention where the public is provided with the opportunity to hear noted writers, scientists, and educators speak on various aspects of the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and science, and to participate in discussions, displays, and lectures involving these fields.
Norwescon believes that its mission is to provide to the public the opportunity to be educated on the latest trends in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and science, as science fiction in many cases becomes the science of the future. As one of the many consequences of doing this, Norwescon will uplift marginalized voices in our community and work to advance a more equitable, just society.
To further our mission, your membership dollars help us fund a scholarship to the Clarion West workshop—a prestigious, six-week intensive workshop for emerging writers. Clarion's students are given the opportunity to make intimate connections among a close-knit community of peers and hone their writing skills in a challenging and supportive environment. They are joined each week by a different instructor who is a highly regarded author or editor, who offers their unique perspective on the field.
Charitable donations made during the convention, such as by purchasing items from the charity sale in the art show, will be going to the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA)'s charitable funds. SFWA administers multiple funds to benefit their mission to support, defend, advocate, educate, and promote writers of science fiction, fantasy, and related genres both within their organization and the SFF community at large. The Emergency Medical Fund (EMF) and SFWA Legal Fund help members with urgent medical or legal fees. The Givers Fund additionally funds grants to deserving organizations in support of their mission and the SFF community. Prior recipients include the Alpha SFF Teen Writing Workshop, Clarion West, and the Parsec YA Lecture Series.
As a part of the larger SFF community, Norwescon believes that it’s important for us all to support each other, especially those in our community who need additional assistance. Please consider a donation to help us continue to promote SFF, both now and in the future.
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Each year we ask Norwescon members to donate items for sale during the convention to support a chosen nonprofit or to offer as prizes to our hard-working volunteers. This year our chosen nonprofit is the Young Black & Brilliant Book Club. Using the transformative power of books, YB&B fosters literacy and life skills for our local youth. They will be joining us at Norwescon this year.
We accept donations of items that are fannish in nature, such as art, jewelry, books, and games. Items will be available for sale throughout the convention in the art show. Please stop by to see what we have to offer—it’s all for a good cause! If you would like to donate an item, please drop it off in the art show with a staff member. Reach out to us about donations at charities@norwescon.org.
Love meeting new people? Do your friends say you are warm and welcoming? Consider joining Norwescon’s Personnel Team. We need people to act as convention lounge hosts, convention greeters, recruiters, and volunteer support leads.
Photographers wanted! Norwescon is looking for photographers to take photographs at Norwescon 46. Our photographers also take photos at monthly convention committee meetings and other events like the volunteer picnic. Experience with photography and familiarity with photo-sharing software is a plus. Email us at publications@norwescon.org for more details!
Many other departments have open positions. Some of them include: Fundraising Coordinator, Art In Action Lead, Newsletter Editor, Dance Director and Games Volunteer and a LOT more!
See our Open Positions page for details about the above positions and many others – and find out who to reach out to.
The scheduled games that have been submitted so far for Norwescon are now available to accept sign-ups from players. Please visit our page: Warhorn Games at Norwescon 46.
We are pleased to announce that Art in Action will once again happen at Norwescon! A special space will be set aside in the art show where artists can demonstrate how their art is created. This is a great opportunity to see some artists in action, all of whom are also showing in the art show. Demonstrations will occur on Friday and Saturday of the convention during art show open hours, and will be listed on the schedule. Come by, say hello, ask questions, and watch art get made!
The Northwest Science Fiction Society proudly presents
April 20–23, 2000
Annual Northwest Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
HarperCollins Publishers_ congratulates its nominees for the 1999 Philip K. Dick Award
Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter published by HarperPrism
Code of Conduct by Kristine Smith published by Avon Eos
and salutes all the nominees.
HarperCollins Publishers
www.harpercollins.com
Color Scans, Separations & Film Output
Designers Service Bureau, Olympia, WA
General Chair: Pat Booze
Administrative Assistant: Doug Booze
Mailing Services: Gayle MacArthur
Public Relations: William Sadorus
Convention Outreach: William Sadorus
Exhibit & Fan Tables: Beth Allen
Promotions: William Sadorus
Recording Secretary: Alyxx Feltser
Historian: Carolyn Palms
Vice Chair: Betty Claar
Hotel Liaison: Jeanine Swanson
Business: Jayson Claar
Treasurer: Toffer Erikson
Member Services: Ben Schreiber
Assistant: Jeff Cornish
Information: Patrick Nash
Lost & Found/Cloakroom: Carolyn Palms
Peacebonding: Nancy Brown
Children/Teen Services: Wendy Irvin
KidKon: Max Irvin
KidKon Older Children: Mika Bartroll
Quiet Room: Miriam Kaye
Teen Response: Wendy, Cheryl and Miriam
Registration: Mike Orosz
Assistant: Karen Mostella
Computer Support: Scott Jansen
Static Services: Eric Weber
Art Show: Association of Operation Volunteers
Dealers Room: Tracy Knoedler, Charlie Knoedler
Fanzine Library: R’ykandar Korra’ti
Gaming: Robert Moshell
Hospitality: Elizabeth “Dragon Lady” Warren
Publications: Michael Brocha
Web Page: Jack Beslanwitch
Convention Services: Cheryl Ferguson
Assistant: Damian Weaver
ADA Liason: Terry Swan
Event Services: Jordan Orr
Assistant: Nick Feltser
Properties/Technical: Jay Miller
Lighting Director: Paul Wocken
Con Maps/Layouts: Michael Citrak
Stage Management: Grace McKelvy-Smith
Assistant: Nathan Smith
Media Services: Alan Halfhill
Office Services: Jody Franzen-Schreiber
Assistant: Damian Weaver
Charitable Events: Cheri Playter
Daily 'Zine: R’ykandar Korra’ti
Site Services: Steve Cook
Dispatch: Brad Nelson
Security: Peter Horvath
Signs: Prudence Bohnas
Transportation: Eric Pawtowski
Transportation Assistants: Daniel Pawtowski, Yvonne Pawtowski
Programming: Bob Grieve
Administrative Assistant: Ali Young
Assistant Programmer: Judy Suryan
Art Track: Steve Adams
Autograph Party: George Nyhen, Lisa Woodings
Camarilla Liaison: Julie Christensen
Costuming Track: Lori Edwards
Filk Track: Karen Rall
Gaming Track: Brannon W. Boren
Green Room: Alyxx Feltser, Connie Kesterson, Gene Romaine
Guest Relations: Robert Suryan
Assistant Guest Relations: Ali Young
Literature Track: Duane Wilkins
Movie Previews: Daryl Allison
Opening/Closing Ceremonies: George Nyhen, Lisa Woodings
Opening/Closing Ceremonies Host: Richard Stephens
P.K. Dick Award Reception: William Sadorus
Poetry Track: GregRobin Smith
Pro Reception: George Nyhen, Lisa Woodings
Science Track: Burt Webb
Writers Workshop: Fairwood Writers Group, David Addleman
Hard Planet Cafe: William Sadorus
Entertainment Services: Keith Johnson
Assistant: LouAnna Valentine
Masquerade: Peggy Stewart
Masquerade Assistant: Felice Nightengale
Dances: LouAnna Valentine
Thursday Dance: Kim Valentine
Stardance: Shawn Marier
MasterMix Cafe: Keith Johnson
Laser Tag: Prudence Bohnas
SCA Fair: Priscilla Verzola
Personnel: Shawn Marier
Staff Support: Elinor Fadgen, Marjorie Rosen, Katrina Marier
Volunteers: Mary Westerling
Assistant: Vicky Rudesill
Room Hosts: Wilma Jensen, Deborah Wood, Marjorie Stratton
Crisis Management: Denise Prowse
Club Liaison: Autumn Groves
Lobby Table: Charlene Bell, Becky Fallis
Gopher: Larry Stratton
Night Crawler: Becky Citrak
The Northwest Science Fiction Society proudly presents
NORWESCON 23
April 20–23, 2000
Annual Northwest Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
April 20–23, 2000 - DoubleTree Hotel/SeaTac
Twenty-Third Annual Northwest Regional Science Fiction Convention
Sponsored by the:
Northwest Science Fiction Society
P.O. Box 68547
Seattle, WA 98168
Dedicated to the memory of Marion Zimmer Bradley, DeForest Kelley, Shel Silverstein, John Sladek, A.E. van Vogt, James White and all of the other greats we lost this year
Guest of Honor
David Brin
Guest of Honor
Gregory Benford
Artist Guest of Honor
Barclay Shaw
Fan Guest of Honor
Bjo Trimble
Fan Guest of Honor
John Trimble
Spotlighted Publisher
Jennifer Brehl for HarperCollins and Eos
Table of Contents
Cover Copyright © 2000 Barclay Shaw
Programming: 2
Writer Guest of Honor: David Brin by William H. Calvin: 29
Writer Guest of Honor: Gregory Benford by Peter Nicholls: 31
Gallery: 35
Artist Guest of Honor: Barclay Shaw by Paul Chadwick: 39
Spotlighted Publisher: HarperCollins and Eos, and Jennifer Brehl: 41
Fan Guests of Honor: John and Bjo Trimble by Lora Boehm: 42
Guests of Norwescon: 43
Members of Norwescon: 69
Advertisers & Art Credits: 72
Acknowledgments: 72
Nametag © 2000 by Barclay Shaw
We are ADA aware.
Norwescon Voice Mail: 206–270–7850
E-Mail: info@norwescon.org
addresschange@norwescon.org
lostandfound@norwescon.org
chair@norwescon.org
and many more which can be found on our web page.
Web Page: http://www.norwescon.org
Contents Copyright © 2000 by Norwescon for the contributors.
All opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Norwescon or the Northwest Science Fiction Society.
[Artwork] Mercycle © 2000 by Barclay Shaw.
Cover for the book by Piers Anthony, published by Berkley Books, 1992. Oil on acrylic.
The Norwescon Program can be regarded as sort of “meta-convention”—that is, the raw materials out of which one can construct one’s own convention. We expect that no one attending Norwescon will experience exactly the same con, but do hope we’ve provided you with the opportunity to have the convention you want.
The following listing shows most of the programming events. Things change daily before and even during the con and panelists sometimes have to drop out. More up-to-the-minute changes are listed at the Information Table in the convention lobby and on the hour-by-hour signs outside of each programming room. Programs start on the hour and are one hour long unless stated otherwise.
The convention committee welcomes you to Norwescon 23 and hopes that you have an enjoyable convention.
Galaxy Quest: The Phenomenon
Cascade 5 & 6
Fandom From the tacky costuming to the fannish geeks, how close to home is Galaxy Quest?
Betty Bigelow (M), Richard Stephens, Adam Buchner, Bjo Trimble
Fanzine Library
Cascade 3 & 4
Fandom
The Fanzine Library is now open for your reading pleasure. Come and browse through the collection of fanzines, clubzines, APAs, and other fannish literature.
UFOs: Where Did They Go?
Cascade 5 & 6
Science
Are alien spacecraft still exploring the Earth? Or did they ever really exist? Isn’t something defined as a UFO because it is unidentified? Will Steve Dallas' brain ever be really safe? Are Fox Mulder’s eyes brown?
Nels Eric Satterlund (M), David Graham, Bryce Walden,
Meet Fandom
Grand Ballroom 2
Fandom
Clubs, cons, and organizations form the backbone of fandom. Representatives will be here to extol the virtues and drum up support for their particular group.
John Trimble (M)
Reading: Rebecca Neason
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Rebecca will be reading from the first book in her new series: The Thirteenth Scroll which is due out in June 2001.
Science Fiction vs. Science
Cascade 5 & 6
Science
In the early days of science fiction, many authors would make predictions of what scientific discoveries the future would bring. They would fill their audience with wonder prognosticating technological advances and the accompanying geysers from the well of knowledge. Is the sf of today keeping up with the real thing? How is science fiction lagging behind science and technology? Are we now marveling more at what the truth is than what we read as fiction?
Ted Butler (M), Elton T. Elliott, James C. Glass, Nels Eric Satterlund
Caricatures
Cascade 13
Art
Learn how to do caricatures with artist Larry Lewis.
Science Fiction Pictionary
Cascade 7 & 8
Art
This game is a molding oldie but still a lot of fun. Come play this old favorite with a sf/fantasy twist.
Steve Adams (M), Roberta Gregory, Nicola Leonard, Craig Figley
Improbable Poetic Improvisation: Stump the Imposter!
Cascade 12
Poetry
Panelists will do improvisational speeches to your situations mixed with standard Shakespearean characters: Puck meets Han Solo, Henry the 5th at the Alamo, MacBeth and Kenneth Starr. “Verily, Luke, I am thy Father!” Come have fun!
Andrew Dolbeck (M), GregRobin AV Smith, Donna Barr, Brian D. Oberquell, Joan M. McCarty, and you!
Reading: Kij Johnson
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Kij will be reading from her novel which has received rave reviews. The Fox Woman is about a shape-changing fox in Heian, Japan. Come and listen!
Ethnic Influences in Fashion Design and Costuming
Cascade 5 & 6
Costuming
Taking ethnic designs and incorporating them into your science fiction and fantasy costumes. Also discussed will be current media uses of ethnic designs in such movies as Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Topsy Turvy, and Anna and the King.
Julie Hoverson (M), Betty Bigelow, Terri “Sprite” Specht, Garth Stubbs, Wendy Chateau
Star Trek: The Slide Show
Grand Ballroom 2
Fandom
A humorous and loving look at 30 years of Star Trek. A must see for all trekkers, trekkies, and anyone, with stars in their heart and the cosmos in their eyes who has ever wanted to boldly go.
Bjo Trimble
Reading: Mel Gilden
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Mel will read “The Little Finger of the Left Hand,” which recently appeared in Bruce Coville’s Book of Alien Visitors. A charming author with a rich voice; this should be a delightful half-hour.
Fanzine Library
Cascade 3 & 4
Fandom
The Fanzine Library is now open for your reading pleasure. Come and browse through the collection of fanzines, clubzines, APAs, and other fannish literature.
Norwescon 23 Opening Ceremonies
Grand Ballroom 2
Traditional
Richard Stephens and Lori Edwards have cooked up something special to introduce you to Norwescon 23 and to some of our Guests of Honor. Stars! Planets! Rocket ships! Potted plants! Live girls on stage!
Richard Stephens (M), Lori Edwards, Barclay Shaw, Bjo and John Trimble, Jennifer Brehl, Pat Booze, Robert J Grieve
[Artwork] Isolated Parallel Processors © 2000 by Barclay Shaw.
Originally published by DARPA, 1997. Digital.
[Artwork] Eurydice © 2000 by Barclay Shaw.
Cover for the book Megagnomes by Alan Dean Eoster, published by Ballantine Books, 1990. Acrylic.
Reading: Mona Lee
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
From her novel, Alien Child, Mona has selected readings which will illustrate the development of alien psychic abilities in the main character, Dana, through childhood and early adulthood as she finds her place in the world.
Cultivating Costume Ideas
Cascade 5 & 6
Costuming
How to brainstorm ideas for new designs and presentations and options for spicing up old costumes.
Richard Stephens (M), Lori Edwards, Garth Stubbs, Keri Lynn Doering
Y2K Revisited
Cascade 7 & 8
Socio-cultural
Did it live up to the hype or was this the biggest media flop of the 20th century? Were all the Chicken Littles correct or is Foghorn laughing his ass off? Hey, all you survivalists out there in the hills: Did you keep your receipts? Brian D. Oberquell (M), Richard Michaels, Larry Lewis, David Graham
Friends of Bill W.
Olympic 1
Sex in Space
Evergreen 3
Science (Mature Theme)
Everyone is talking about it, but is anyone doing it? What will zero gee do to the wild thing? How will we decide who is on top when there is no right side up?
Bryce Walden, Brian J. Tillotson, Robyn Sondra Wills
The Erotic Paintings of Ray Pelley
Evergreen 1 & 2
Art (Adult Theme)
An erotic art slide show of the works of this Dharmic Engineer. No one under the age of 18 will be admitted!
Clay-O-Rama
Cascade 13
Art
Come and have an hysterical time while learning how to work with clay, build monsters, and pit them against each other in a really earthy kind of mortal combat. One hint: let the Wookie win. Betty Bigelow
Camarilla Gaming
Cascade 11
Gaming
The Cam is back and their fangs have been sharpened. Watch out! Julie Christensen
Open Circle
Evergreen 4
Filking
Come and join friends, both old and new, for an evening of music and storytelling. Karen Ralls
Reading: Joan M. McCarty
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature (Mature Theme)
Joan will read from The Harbingers. Before Christ came mankind’s greatest challenge. The “Creator,” bored with the way his newest experiment was progressing, sent to Earth a catalyst, the “Four,” the Nephillim, to test mankind’s faith and morality. The outcome of mankind’s existence lies with a shepherd boy, a sage, and one of the truly faithful. With unrealistic odds, can three of the “Chosen” really change the way of the world?
Corsets and Other Contraptions
Cascade 5 & 6
Costuming
For anyone who is curious about the history of unmentionables, this discussion will include the origin of various corsets and contraptions used to support men’s and women’s clothing through the centuries.
JoAnne Kirley (M), Anita Taylor, R. Margo Loes, Lori Edwards
Flirting and the Best Pickup Lines to Use at a Convention
Evergreen 3
Art
So you have a whole convention ahead of you and it’s guaranteed that you’ll have the opportunity to meet new people. Don’t get tongue-tied! Prepare ahead of time and arm yourself with a plethora of witty repartee for those moments when you just have to say something, and don’t want to risk saying the wrong thing.
Donna Barr (M), Kij Johnson, Alan Fairies, Larry Lewis, Rhias K. Hall, N. Monique Mitchell
Kim Valentine’s World of Music Dance Party
Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Dance
Break out your dancing shoes and boogie the night away. The con is young!
Leather and Lace, Leash and Collar
Cascade 7 & 8
Fandom (Mature Theme)
Fewer and fewer eyebrows are being raised as more and more fen are leading each other around on leashes. Where in the world did BDSM enter into fandom? What has any of this to do with science fiction? Can one be a Dominatrix and a sf fan at the same time?
Deborah Christian (Teramis) (M), Alan Fairies, Robyn Sondra Wills, Diana Vick
Fanzine Library
Cascade 3 & 4
Fandom
The Fanzine Library is now open for your reading pleasure. Come and browse through the collection of fanzines, clubzines, APAs, and other fannish literature.
Maundy Thursday Church Service
Olympic 1
A celebration of the Holy Eucharist based on Rite Two of the Episcopal Church, with traditional foot washing. Members of all faiths are welcome to come to the service and all baptized Christians are invited to share communion with us.
Brought to the Norwescon membership by the Order of St. Chiros
Bodacious Babes! Finding Sexy and Seductive Costumes for the Luxury Sized Fan
Evergreen 1 & 2
Costuming (Mature Theme)
Creating a titillating or sensual look for voluptuous body types. A practical panel discussing cut, fabric, design and pattern selection, accessories and attitudes for finding that sexy look.
Julie Hoverson (M), Renee Byrd, R. Margo Loes, Wendy Chateau, Terri “Sprite” Specht
11 PM - 1 AM
Horror Readings
Cascade 5&6
Literature
The witching hour is back at Norwescon as readers spin dark tales of the macabre. Come and find out the true meaning of horror.
John Pelan (M), Joan M. McCarty, Brian Tillotson, James C. Glass, Robyn Sondra Wills
Tai Chi
Grand Ballroom 2
Traditional
A great way to start the morning and prepare yourself for the day. Center yourself, Grasshopper! Steven Barnes
Fanzine Library
Cascade 3 & 4
Fandom
The Fanzine Library is now open for your reading pleasure. Come and browse through the collection of fanzines, clubzines, APAs, and other fannish literature.
Free-lance Writing in Role Playing Games
Cascade 5
Gaming
If you have ever considered writing for a RPG, come out and talk to the folks who do it for a living. Have your illusions of riches and fame crushed by the experts or let them help you figure out how to be better than those other wannabes.
Brannon Boren (M), Jason Carl
[Artwork] Advertisment for Ace Books © 2000 by Barclay Shaw.
Create a Horror Game Scenario in One Hour
Cascade 8
When you want to make some of your own scary fun.
Julie Hoverson
Stupid Writer Tricks
Evergreen 2
Literature
So you just finished your short story or novel and you’re bursting to send it out to the publisher. Before you do—hear from the pros on the dos and don’ts on publisher etiquette.
Peter Schneider (M), Kathryn Cramer, Patrick Swenson, Kim Mohan
NASA vs. Private Space Launches
Evergreen 4
Science
Government funding for space projects has its rewards and drawbacks. What will happen if Boeing decides to do its own space program? What if Bill Gates decides he wants to take a vacation on Mars? Should privatization be encouraged or discouraged?
Elton T. Elliott (M), Jim Burk, Peter Douglas Ward, James C. Glass, Christopher Erickson, David D. Graham
New Wave vs. Old Wave SF
Cascade 6
Literature
How have trends in science fiction changed since the early years of the genre? Join the Amazing Stories editorial staff for a lively discussion of sf themes, from Buck Rogers and Bug-Eyed Monsters to cyberpunk and Star Trek.
Sue Cook (M), Kim Mohan, Johnny Wilson
Literary Kung Fu
Evergreen 1
Literature
A demonstration of martial art techniques for writers. Are you portraying it correctly? Does your manuscript read like a black belt in karate or like a really bad “B” movie? Learn what the moves look like to be able to write about them.
David Addleman, Toni Anzetti
Writers of the Future: Battlefield Earth
Grand Ballroom 3
Literature
Folks from Bridge Publications will be on hand to let us know all about this epic feature that will be released next month. The movie will star John Travolta, Barry Pepper, and Forrest Whitaker. Come and get a glimpse of the movie and find out about the production.
Scott Welch
Let’s Make A Movie—Part I
Evergreen 3
Fandom
Hey, baby, I can make you a star! No, really. See, we are making this movie at Nor-wescon this year and… Yeah, that’s right! A movie! We will be doing the whole nine yards. Script. Production. Filming. Acting. Everything! So why don’t you join us? We’ll watch the finished product on Sunday. Really cool, huh?
Edward Martin III (M), Leopoldo Marino
Costumer’s Coffee Klatch (Stitch & Bitch)
Olympic 1
Costuming
A casual problem solving/costuming discussion over coffee. Bring your sewing project and join us!
Cheryl Glover, Lori Edwards, Anita Taylor, Keri Lynn Doering, Jo Anne Kirley, Joy Day
Tournament Gaming
Cascade 11
Gaming
Games TBA.
The DeForest Kelley Memorial Blood Drive
Cascade 12
Our annual blood drive will be in memory of DeForest Kelley—"Bones". Please stop in and save a life. Your blood is needed. This is a real easy way to help someone else.
Star Trek Costuming
Grand Ballroom 2
Fandom
View this slide show of Star Trek costuming through the years.
Bjo Trimble
Reading: Melisa Michaels
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Melisa Michaels will be reading from Painted Houses.
The Harry Potter Revolution
Cascade 5
Literature
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter fantasies have taken the children’s book world by storm. How is this good or bad? And how do we take advantage of it?
Duane Wilkins (M), Christopher McKitterick, Lisa Satterlund
Who Will Control the Eyes of the Internet?
Cascade 8
Computers
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has won 80% of market share of the desktop browser market. Even if Netscape 6 comes on the scene with the latest and greatest, it is virtually an also ran. Where the market is really heating up is on your cell phone and your hand held and there, IE is not even on the radar screen. Come discuss what interface your eyes will be viewing the Internet with, and where.
Jack Beslanwitch (M), Dave Butler, Kevin Kerr
A Blast from the Past
Evergreen 2
Art
A slide show presentation of cool old illustrators and fantasy art. If you think what they do now is great, you should see what they did back then. Wow!
Paul Chadwick
What We Don’t Know About Physics and Astronomy
Evergreen 4
Science
Our own renowned astrophysicist will explain the latest and greatest on the cutting edge of research.
John Cramer (M), James C. Glass
3-D Bead Sculpture Workshop for Beginners
Cascade 13
Art/Costuming
Julie Hoverson
Reading: Robyn Sondra Wills
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Robyn will be reading from “Reasons for Revenge.” It was not a good beginning. Then again, is there a good way to begin captivity? Lieutenant Landerin not only finds himself captured by his homeland’s sinister foes but the personal prisoner of Suke’s Princess Lorkiff—a young girl being trained not only as a sorceress, but to rule The City of Death as well!
The Poetry (and Practicality) of Feng Shui
Cascade 6
Poetry
The art of placement and balance to create a harmonious space. Cymbric VanFaulker-Smith speaks of the liberating power of Feng Shui, and how it can help your writing or other creative endeavors. She can also give advice on your writing space. Drawing implements will be available to lay out your study, garret, or crawl space so that Cymbric can make suggestions.
GregRobin AV Smith (M), Cymbric VanFaulker-Smith
Who’s Killing the Children?
Grand Ballroom 2
Socio-cultural
Columbine, Pearl, Central, Westside, Springfield, Moses Lake. The last few years have shown an alarming increase in gun wielding, disturbed children and misanthropic madmen engaged in mass murders that have captured international headlines. What can/should be done now and in the future to stop the carnage?
Patricia H. MacEwen (M), Craig Figley, A.E. Roberts, Steven Barnes
Dharmic Engineers: The Movie
Grand Ballroom 3
Art
Who are they? Who were they? Where did they go? Gone. Gone to flowers, everyone. What did they learn? Here it is. The movie that will show what it was all about. Not only that, but we have five engineers on hand to let you know all about it.
Ray Pelley (M), Milo Duke, Jon Strongbow, Rob Schouten, Jim Papp
Reading: Christopher McKitterick
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Christopher will be reading from his novel, Transcendence.
Creating Hall Costumes That Are Out of This World
Cascade 5
Costuming
Great ideas for creating hall costumes from other planets and galaxies. What creation lurks in the cosmos of your mind?
Keri Lynn Doering (M), Wendy Prather, Lisa Satterlund, Barbara Beden-Hill
Website Site Design
Cascade 7
Computers
Some tricks and tips from those that do this on a regular basis.
Jack Beslanwitch (M), Eric Brown, David Butler, Scott A. MacHaffie
Tarot Cards for the Beginner
Cascade 8
Fandom
An introduction to the meaning of the cards, along with easy ways to remember them.
Janine Ellen Young (M), Dennis Bergum
From Now Until Arrakis Evergreen 3
Socio-cultural
While the controversy over biological evolution rages, the methods, means, and myriad ways in which we govern society has been constantly evolving as well. It was not that long ago when the United States threw off the yoke of regal dominance in favor of a Democratic Republic. This panel will be a discussion of the political process from ancient times to the present day to the far future. How would our Babel of present day governments on this planet evolve to something that would resemble the universe of Dune?
Mona Lee (M), Brian Herbert, Louise Marley, Joan M. McCarty, David D. Graham
The Art of Margaret Organ-Kean
Evergreen 2
Art
Margaret Organ-Kean will show and discuss her artwork in this slide show presentation.
Science vs. Pseudo Science
Evergreen 4
Science
A discussion about what science really is and is not. How charlatans, fanatics, and the sometimes well intentioned use the name of science to push their pills, promote their schemes, or dupe the public into thinking something is based on good, hard science when it is not. Elton T. Elliott (M), Kristine Smith, Kathy Watts, Chris Vancil, James C. Glass
Reading: Ken Rand
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Ken will be reading from a story titled: “Charlie’s in the Bottle.” Poor Charlie is in an empty gin bottle. His friends can’t remember how he got there.
Alien Artifacts
Evergreen 1
Science
OK, now we are among the stars. If we do come across evidence of an alien race, how will we know? This will be a panel where you, the audience, will examine artifacts brought back from distant planets. Tell us what they are and what is their purpose—if you can!
Mel Gilden (M), Janet Tanaka, John H. Reiher Jr., Anthony Ward
Fanzine Library
Cascade 3 & 4
Fandom
The Fanzine Library is now open for your reading pleasure. Come and browse through the collection of fanzines, clubzines, APAs, and other fannish literature.
Getting into Character-Are You What You Wear?
Cascade 5
Costuming
Creating a character to go with the costume you are wearing whether in the halls or on stage.
Betty Bigelow (M), Garth Stubbs, Julie Hoverson, David Bigelow
Our Artist GoH Gets It!
Cascade 6
Costuming
An interview with Artist GoH Barclay Shaw. The audience is welcome to contribute their own questions as well.
Interviewer: Paul Chadwick
Neurological Hypnotherapy
Cascade 7
Hypnotherapy can be used from a neurological rather than a behavioral or analytical paradigm. Registered counselor and certified hypno-therapist KinShan explores this area and discusses body-mind connection, emotion as chemistry, how the brain affects the body, and handling stress and reducing fear.
Games that Suck V
Cascade 11
Costuming
Come out, and air your complaints about the games you hate, while our panel drags out the dirty laundry of the game industry. Five years and they still haven’t run out of bad games!
Paul Reed (M), James Ernest
Dune Update Evergreen 2
Literature
Hear the latest about the new Dune prequel trilogy from one of the authors, Brian Herbert.
Living in Space Evergreen 4
Science
Learn how to build a space habitat. Now, how will people cope with living in an environment where one cannot go outside without special equipment? What will be the social rules in a culture where space is limited and the mistakes of others can kill the whole populace?
Christopher Erickson (M), Chris Vancil, Bryce Walden, David Graham
Europa: Under the Ice Slide Show Grand Ballroom 2
Art/Science
A look at the known conditions on Europa and some terrestrial examples known to exist under similar conditions, along with extrapolations on what we might find when we do poke our heads through the ice.
Patricia MacEwen
Fun with Creativity Evergreen 3
Literature/Art
Turn up the brain volume then put your cerebrum into neutral for an hour of creative exercises. Where do I get ideas? Let it all soak in, as one of our Fan Guests of Honor shows you some really fun exercises in creativity.
Bjo Trimble
Publishing Online
Olympic 1
Computers/Literature
The Internet has taken over the whole world. So it seems, anyway. Non-paper publishing is a new market that is just starting to take off. How big will it get? What competition will the “e” market give NY publishing? Or will the big houses simply buy out the net publishers?
Dave Howell (M), Kim Mohan, Craig Engler, Sue Cook
Sex: Biology 101
Grand Ballroom 3
Science
Males and females are different in many ways, from chromosomes, to the physical bodies and chemistry, to the way the brain functions. While it is politically correct to think that men and women are identical except for a few basic physical differences, those biological differences are the foundation for many other things, including our social and cultural gender roles. Should we celebrate these differences, or work hard to overcome biology to stamp them out with social and cultural conditioning? What is happening now?
Ted D. Butler (M), Stoney Compton, N. Monique Mitchell, Rebecca Neason, William H. Calvin, Ph.D.
Reading: Kristine Smith
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
P.K. Dick Award Nominee Kristine Smith will be reading from her second book, Rules of Conflict.
Filk 101
Cascade 5
Filking
Whether you’re new to the circle, or an experienced participant, come with your questions and comments. Karen Rall (M), Joe Bethancourt, Paul Kwinn
OK, I Sold My Book—Now What?
Cascade 6
Literature
Congratulations—you’ve just sold your first book. Now all you need to do is sit back and watch your publisher make you money. Ha! Learn how to market yourself and plug your product from these veterans.
Howard Hendrix (M), Greg Cox, James C. Glass
A Fistful of Blood Suckers
Cascade 8
Art
Vampires, as they are portrayed in cultures around the world. How they are different than the Americanized vampires, and how the popular vamps of today (Nick Knight) differ from older ones (Dracula, Barnabus Collins).
Lorelei Shannon (M), Suzanne Jachim, Jana Danielle Wright, Jason Carl
Medieval Armour Crafting Cascade 11
Art
Learn about handcrafting armor from the owner of Valentine Armouries, the largest functioning armory in North America.
Rob Valentine
Origami Dragons
Cascade 13
Art
Learn the art of Origami.
Deborah A. Wood
Dragonflight 2000
The Dragonflight Gaming Convention will be held on the grounds of Seattle University from August 25–27, 2000.
Be there or we’ll have to come looking for you!
www.dragonflight.org
Artwork used with permission of John Chandler
[Artwork] Empire of the Atom © 2000 by Barclay Shaw.
Cover for the book by A.E. van Vogt, published by McMillian Books.
Violence in Media and Entertainment Evergreen 1
Socio-cultural
Is violence in news reports, movies and games promoting violent actions or is it merely reflecting a violent society? Does fictitious violence make us more violent or could it merely be providing an alternative release for people with a natural inclination towards violence?
Craig Figley (M), Mona Lee, Lisa Satterlund, J.T. Traub, Diana Vick
Embellishment Workshop
Evergreen 2
Costuming
How to add those special finishing touches to your costume. Techniques discussed include: smocking, ruching, cartridge pleating, beading, sequins and stones, ribbon, embroidery and flowers, and trim layering.
JoAnne Kirley (M), Anita Taylor, Wendy Prather, R. Margo Loes
Trouble in Orbit
Evergreen 4
Science
Learn how to survive catastrophes in space habitats. When you have an environment that has an enriched oxygen atmosphere, and you are in a closed container, even a very small fire presents very big problems and a rather large pucker factor.
Christopher Erickson (M), Chris Vancil, Bryce Walden
Artists' Disease Cascade 7
Art
Do you look at a beautiful woman, or man, and notice first how the light hits on hair, costume, and body, and wonder how it would be painted? Or is this just a great excuse to ogle?
Wolf Lahti (M), Steve Adams, Russell D. Campbell, Gail Butler
The Barclay Shaw Slide Show
Grand Ballroom 2
Art
Come, see, and learn about the incredible work of our Artist GoH.
Reading: James Rollins
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Mr. Rollins reads from his upcoming novel, Excavation, from our Spotlight Publisher HarperCollins. This is a scientific thriller. Dig deeper… into ancient catacombs… something is waiting for untold centuries, the secrets of life have been buried in a sacred forbidden chamber.
Songwriting Workshop
Cascade 5
Filking
Bring a song you’ve been working on, a few chords, or just some ideas; and our filksong writers and poets will do their best to answer your questions about the songwriting process.
Joe Bethancourt (M), Andrew Dolbeck, GregRobin AV Smith, Paul Kwinn
A Room of One’s Own-Finding Time to Write with a Family
Cascade 6
Literature
How does a writer, surrounded and overrun by children, spouses, and pets, find the time and energy to write.
Amy Axt Hanson (M), Kay Kenyon, Toni Anzetti, Kathryn Cramer, David Addleman
Pinky and the Virus
Cascade 8
Computers
Will computer viruses take over the world? As our dependency on computers grows, will we become more and more vulnerable?
Ted D. Butler
Alternative Religions
Evergreen 1
Socio-cultural
So much of our culture is inundated with Christian beliefs. So much so, that, during a Middle East negotiation, the American mediator stated to the heatedly arguing Israeli and Palestinian delegates to please calm down and to settle their differences like good Christians. So what other choices do we have besides mainstream religions? What about future religions? What about resurrecting past religions? What about your religion?
Kij Johnson (M), Roberta Gregory, Steven Barnes, Janet Tanaka, Rhias K. Hall
Creating Media Costumes
Evergreen 2
Costuming
Strategies for recreating media costumes. Discussion includes research, sources for materials and how-to ideas for building the costume.
Julie Hoverson (M), Joy Day, Dave Tackett, Joanne Kirley
Asperger’s 101: Aliens Among Us
Evergreen 3
Science
What do Albert Einstein, Mr. Spock, Isaac Newton, Bert (from Sesame St.), our panelist, and the Third Rock From the Sun crew have in common? Asperger’s Syndrome— an alternate way of perceiving the world that is hardwired into the brains of one out of five hundred of us. Come and see if this turns a light on in your life (no we are not looking for converts—Aspies don’t like to lead and make terrible followers).
Barbara Beden-Hill
Terraforming
Evergreen 4
Science
How to make a planet more Earth-like for colonization starting with Mars. What about caverns on planets like Mars? Couldn’t we use natural cave systems on other planets to begin turning an inhospitable environment into another Eden?
Stephen Gillett (M), Vicki Mitchell, Chris Vancil, Bryce Walden
Going, Going, Gone!
Olympic 1
Literature
Science fiction is a field of rich literary traditions, and great authors, but too many of these are forgotten and out of print today. Where do we stand and what can we do about it?
Peter Dennis Pautz (M), Peter Schneider, Dave Howell, Melisa Michaels
Printmaking
Cascade 13
Art
A history and demonstration of Euro-pean/Western block prints.
Julie Baroh
Reading: Louise Marley
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Louise Marley will read from her new novel, The Glass Harmonica.
Artists to the Stars
Cascade 7
Art
Will artists be needed or among the first to go? Or have we already been there?
Steve Adams (M), Roberta Gregory, Wolf Lahti, April Lee
Touch and Body Language
Cascade 11
Socio-cultural
A demonstration and workshop about different body language signals and pleasant, consensual ways to initiate touch and conversation with a new person.
Katrina Barr
Reading: Susan R. Matthews
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Another HarperCollins writer will be reading her novel, Colony Fleet, which is about a voyage of exploration and colonization nearing the first of five looked-for “waystations” or colony worlds after nearly four hundred years in transit from Earth.
My Starship Crew is Naked
Cascade 5
Costuming
Concepts in dressing your starship crew. From creating a theme for your ship to designing the uniforms and insignia. Lots of fun and loads of laughs.
Bjo Trimble (M), Dave Tackett, Jeff Larson, Dave Doering, Lori Edwards
Where Ideas Come From…
Cascade 6
Literature
…and how to get them. This is a one-hour workshop from a four-part course on writing. Come and improve your literary skills by learning one of the basics.
Ken Rand
Creating Aliens for Games
Cascade 8
Gaming
Panelists and the audience work together to create an alien race. Biology, evolution, culture, and technology will be vat-grown for your entertainment. Discuss the factors that go into making a great alien race for your game.
Rich Redman (M), Brannon Boren, Beverly Marshall Sailing, Nathan G. Doster
Biotech
Evergreen 2
Science
What advances will biotechnology bring in the 21st century? Cloning, nanotechs, gene splicing, absolute immunity… we’ve heard the promises and read the fiction— what will be the reality? What changes will biotechnology actually bring to the world as we know it?
Jim Kling (M), Gus Fredrick, Elton T. Elliott, William H. Calvin, Ph.D., Gregory Benford
Grooming the Next Generation: How Do We Find, Create, and Inspire the Next Wave of SF Readers?
Evergreen 3
Literature/Fandom
Sf Fandom definitely (at least the readers of it) seems to be graying. How do we get today’s youth turned on to speculative fiction and build the audience for our product? Learn about projects like Reading for the Future.
Duane Wilkins (M), David Brin, Christopher McKitterick, Howard V. Hendrix, Kuo-yu Liang
Dishing Dirt: Using What’s Beneath Your Boots to Settle the Solar System
Evergreen 4
Science
It’s not glamorous, but dirt provides on-the-spot radiation shielding, rocket propellant, energy storage and more on almost any solid body in the solar system. Discuss how travelers and settlers in space might use this most humble resource.
Brian J. Tillotson
Electronic Publishing
Evergreen 1
Literature
In the vicious cycle of modern publishing does the electronic world possess any solutions for writers? What are its promises and pitfalls? What will the future bring?
Rhias K. Hall (M), Kij Johnson, Joan M. McCarty, Rick Lawler, Melisa Michaels, Richard K. Michaels
Camarilla Gaming
Olympic 1
Gaming
Hey, vamp: bite me!
Julie Christensen
Reading: Lisa Smedman
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Lisa will read two selections from her recent novels, Tails You Lose and The Apparition Trail.
Writers Beware: Online Scams
Cascade 7
Literature
Hey, Mildred! Are you having a problem selling your manuscript? Well, have I got just the right thing for you! You just fork over way more than you can afford and I will line you up with all these publishers who have never heard of me. They will take that book that you have sweated blood over and dump it in the slush pile. Then I’ll ask for some more fees so I can keep lowering your bank balance and…
Our distinguished panel will let you hear all about the latest scams.
Peter Dennis Pautz (M), David Hartwell, Joan M McCarty, Frank Catalano
Reading: Steven Barnes
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Come and listen to this wonderful writer. If you have never met this soft spoken and friendly person, now is your chance. His fiction will enthrall you.
Turning Japanese
Cascade 5
Costuming
For centuries, the Land of the Rising Sun has played a significant influence on Western fashion and art. This panel will survey the historic influences of Japanese culture in historic clothing as well as futuristic visions from anime to The Phantom Menace.
Richard Stephens (M), Deborah K. Strub, Cheryl Glover, Barbara Beden-Hill
Getting Started: How to Get That Novel Written
Cascade 6
Writing
How to get it in gear and get yourself up and running as a professional writer.
Kay Kenyon (M), Lori Ann White, Amy Sterling Casil, Syne Mitchell
What Do Women Want in a Game?
Cascade 8
Gaming
Women are from Mars and men are from… well, something like that, anyway. The point is that we don’t quite think alike and the thing that appeals to guys, as a group, are not the same that appeals to gals, as a group. Our panelists will tell us what it is about certain games they give thumbs up to and what it isn’t to the ones that get thumbs down.
Beverly Marshal Sailing (M), Deborah (Teramis) Christian, Suzanne Jachim
Ad Astra-Homo Sapiens Non Terra Firma
Evergreen 2
Socio-cultural
Humans were created on earth, and seem to be very well adapted to the environment here. How well will people adapt to life on other planets or in space? Is genetic therapy and engineering the answer to populating otherwise uninhabitable environments? What are the pros and cons of messing with the human genetic structure to create different races of humanity to populate the universe with?
James C Glass (M), John H. Reiher Jr, Larry Lewis, Eric Brown
Living on the Moon
Evergreen 3
Science
When and how could we colonize our moon? What will be the hurdles to overcome when we populate our one and only satellite? How do we sneak by the bean counters? Do we build domes or burrow into the Lunar surface?
Bryce Walden (M), Chris Vancil, Stephen L. Gillett, Cheryl Lynn York
There Must be Fifty Ways to Leave Your Planet: An Introduction to Some Advanced Space Propulsion Concepts
Evergreen 4
Science
Science has come up with scores of plausible concepts for moving people and things around in space. What will actually work? What might if only we had this or knew that?
Brian Tillotson
Valentine Armouries Medieval Combat Demonstration
Grand Ballroom 2
Valentine Armouries, the largest armory in North America, will present a demonstration of medieval combat.
The Valentine Armouries Fight Demo Team
Color Pencil Techniques
Cascade 13
Art
A demonstration on the techniques to use when drawing with color pencils.
Katherine L. McLean
Reading: Roberta Gregory
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Comic book creator Roberta Gregory will read from her novel in progress, “Mother Mountain,” a humorous look at the darker side of life under a Goddess.
Makeup for the Masquerade Stage
Cascade 5
Costuming
Here are some easy makeup techniques that will enhance any stage presentation. Hall vs. Stage makeup will also be discussed as well as applying prosthetics and other special effects.
Betty Bigelow (M), Terri “Sprite” Specht, Keri Lyn Doering
Art as a Career
Cascade 6
Art
Breaking in, making a living—is it still feasible?
Jon M. Gustafson (M), Paul Chadwick, Dennis Bergum, Russell D. Campbell
World Building
Cascade 7
Science
How to construct a realistic alien planet. A slide show presentation on how to build a habitable planet.
Stephen Gillett
Alternative Realities Via the Trance
Cascade 8
Socio-cultural
Carol Duby (M), KinShan
Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime
Cascade 12
Literature
There are rules for traumatizing, maiming, and killing fictional characters believably. Learn the gentle arts of fictional murder from real experts.
A.M. Dellamonica, Joan M. McCarty, James Clemens, Jana Danielle Wright (M)
Congratulations to the Nominees of the Philip K. Dick Award
from the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Northwest Science Fiction Society
The Philip K. Dick Award for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States will be presented on Friday at 7pm in Grand 2. This ceremony is open to all, though seating is limited. The presentation of the award will be followed by entertainment at the Hard Planet Cafe.
Kristine Smith
Code of Conduct
published by Avon Eos
Toni Anzetti
Typhon’s Children
published by Del Rey
Constance Ash, editor
Not of Woman Born
published by Roc
Stephen Baxter
Vacuum Diagrams
published by HarperPrism
Jamil Nasir
Tower of Dreams
published by Bantam Spectra
William Barton
When We Were Real
published by Warner Aspect
Tournament Gaming
Cascade 11
Gaming
Legends of the Five Rings.
Reading: Lori Ann White
Cascade 3 & 4
Literary
Listen to a wonderful tale of social satire as the Pillsbury Doughboy gets his. Lori will be reading from “Target Audience.”
Filk Concerts
Evergreen 3 & 4
Filking
A variety of artists will be entertaining you tonight.
Karen Rall (M)
Big Furry People: Building Mascots
Cascade 5
Costuming
How to create large creature costumes, and mascots, and how to function in them.
Jeff Larson, Cheryl Glover (M)
Science and the Future of Marriage
Cascade 6
Science
How will longevity enhancement and other scientific advancements affect this ancient institution? We are living much longer than our ancestors but using much the same rules for this prominent social institution. If science and technology put our lifetimes way up past the century mark, what will happen to until death do us part?
Janet Rhodes (M), Bryce Walden, Rebecca Neason
Space Art—A Few Sprits of the Airbrush or…?
Cascade 7
Art
Professional secrets of the artists.
Gail Butler (M), Betsy Mott, Craig Figley
Visual Effects of Star Trek
Olympic 1
Art
Slide show presentation, along with a question and answer period, with one of the visual effect supervisors who worked on ST:DS9.
Adam Buckner
Philip K. Dick Reception/Hard Planet Cafe
Grand Ballroom 2
Join us for the presentation of the Philip K. Dick Award, presented to the best U.S. published original paperback of 1999.
William Sadorus, David G. Hartwell, Pat Booze
Fanzine Library Cascade 3 & 4
Fandom
The Fanzine Library is now open for your reading pleasure. Come and browse through the collection of fanzines, clubzines, APAs, and other fannish literature.
Mindprobe Trivia
Cascade 12
Gaming
Members of the Mindprobe staff will select audience members for a round of hard-hitting science fiction trivia for fun and prizes.
Kathie Huddleston (M), Lisa Cohen, Brooks Peck, A.M. Dellamonica
Camarilla Friday Night Gaming
Evergreen 1 & 2
Gaming
The neck biters are at it again.
Julie Christensen
Footwear Frenzy
Cascade 5
Costuming
Creating, adapting, or purchasing footwear that is appropriate for your costume.
Terri “Sprite” Specht (M), Pippin Sardo, Lisa Satterlund, Audrey Schmidt
Science and the Future of Recreational Drugs
Cascade 6
Science
Will electrodes replace chemicals?
Brian J. Tillotson (M), Jim Kling
The Shared World Experience-Trap or Blessing?
Cascade 7
Literature
Working in a shared universe can help a writer get started and hone their craft, but does this type if writing help writers or hold them back?
Greg Cox (M), Lisa Smedman, Deborah (Teramis) Christian, Rebecca Neason
Violence Against Gays
Cascade 8
Socio-cultural
We hear about it on the radio. We read about it in the newspaper. We watch reports of it on the TV. Someone has been beaten senseless or killed. Tortured. Maimed. Viciously attacked. Why? Because they happen to prefer sexual relations with others of the same gender. Come and learn what you can do to stop this ugly trend of intolerance.
Alan Fairies (M), Robyn Sondra Wills
Science and the Future of Religion
Olympic 1
Science
Will developments in science and technology spawn new religions or change old ones, or will we, at long last, understand our world enough not to have religions at all?
Gus Fredricks, Janet Rhodes (M), Timothy S. O’Brien
Life Drawing
Cascade 13
Art (Mature Audience)
This “R-rated” version of how to draw the human form will have artists ready at their sketch pads to render works from somewhat clad to scantily clad models. Diana Vick
Reading: James P. Hogan
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
What happens when a Velikovskian catastrophe strikes Earth in modern times?
Costume Camouflage
Cascade 5
Costuming
Manipulating costume shape using color, texture and trim to highlight your best features and hide the less desirable ones.
Wendy Chateau (M), Julie Hoverson, JoAnne Kirley, Renee Byrd
Horror May Be Dead—But Vampires Still Rule
Cascade 6
Literature
Horror fiction has slumped badly, but these vampires keep coming on strong. Why do they still fascinate us so much? Watch out! This panel could really suck! Your neck, anyway.
Greg Cox (M), Suzanne Jachim, Evelyn Gratrix, Lorelei Shannon
Alternative Sexuality
Cascade 12
Socio-cultural (Adult Theme)
What do a slip’n’slide, three gallons of baby oil, a midget, a camel, and a feather duster have in common? Find out here as we explore sexuality from a different perspective. Yes, Virginia, there are other ways of doing it. No one under the age of 18 should attend this panel!
N. Monique Mitchell (M), Heather Candelaria, Robyn Sondra Wills
Friends of Bill W.
Olympic 1
*Talebones*: Live
Cascade 7 & 8
Literature
Writers who have contributed to the Talebones collection will give readings of their works.
Patrick Swenson
Stardance
Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Traditional
Watch our world-famous Opening Number and then get on that dance floor and boogie! It’s only Friday, for crying out loud!
Shawn Marier
Gothic Literature: What Exactly is It and How Vibrant is It Today?
Cascade 5
Literature
Discussion about the classic definition of Gothic literature, and how these traditional themes are reflected and modified in modern works.
Rhias K. Hall (M), Jana Danielle Wright, Evelyn Gratrix, Suzanne Jachim
Science and the Future of Sex
Cascade 6
Science (Mature Theme)
Viagra has already turned the American sex life on its ear. Virtual sex on the Internet is rewriting the dating rules for generations to come. How will technology impact sexuality in the future?
Brian J. Tillotson, Patricia MacEwen, Larry Lewis, Robyn Sondra Wills
Clan Court
Olympic 1
Gaming
Live action role playing with Clan Burnout. All Burnout members are requested to attend and play in character. Anyone else is invited to attend and join our audience. The story, thus far, can be gleaned from the Clan Burnout Newsletter, The Smidgen, which is available at the Clan’s club table.
Gerald Gieseke, Bobby DuFault (M)
Fanzine Library
Cascade 3 & 4
Fandom
The Fanzine Library is now open for your reading pleasure. Come and browse through the collection of fanzines, clubzines, APAs, and other fannish literature.
10 PM - 2 AM
Mars Society Meeting
Cascade 11
Clubs
This will be a combined meeting for the National Space Society, the Artemis Project, and the Mars Society. If you do not know what this is all about, please join in and ask questions. There will be plenty of folks here to answer them.
Chris Vancil
11 PM
Eroticism in Costume and Costume Design
Cascade 6
Costuming (Mature Theme) Examples of fashion and costume designers who specialize in eroticism including Bob Mackie, Therry Mugler, Shaparelli, Paul Poiret, Jean Paul Gaultier, Issey Miyake, Erte and others.
Richard Stephens (M), R. Margo Loes, Lori Edwards, Anita Taylor
Open Circle
Evergreen 3 & 4
Filking
Come and join friends old and new for an evening of music and storytelling.
Karen Rall (M)
Horror Readings
Cascade 7 & 8
Literature
Things that go bump in the night. Things that go bump on your head. Things that bump your fear level up a bit. Come and bump with the readers of the darker side of fiction.
John Pelan (M), Alan Rodgers, Geoff Cooper, Kij Johnson
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Evergreen 1 & 2
Fandom
Well, here it is: The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Norwescon. The Vicarious Theatre Company will be on hand to do this live (?) production in full Rocky tradition. Seating will begin about twenty before the witching hour. Be there!
Justin Mitchell and The Vicarious Theatre Company
Tai Chi
Grand Ballroom 3
Traditional
A great way to start the morning and prepare yourself for the day.
Steven Barnes
Fanzine Library
Cascade 3 & 4
Fandom
The Fanzine Library is now open for your reading pleasure. Come and browse through the collection of fanzines, clubzines, APAs, and other fannish literature.
Norwescon’s Writers Workshop: Session One
Literature
Workshop session where a manuscript, submitted before the convention, is critiqued by several attending pros. Norwescon holds this workshop on an annual basis and accepts works, in advance, from all Norwescon members. Information about next year’s workshop can be found in the lobby. This year’s sessions are closed and by invitation only. Presented by the Fairwood Writers Group.
Movement in Costume
Cascade 12
Costuming
In this panel we will examine the way that fabric moves. We will explore using the appropriate fabrics to construct your costume. How to emphasize your movement with costuming. How fashion has restricted movement. How clothing has interacted with structured movement such as dance and vise versa. And how to move and behave in historically correct fashion.
Pippin Sardo, Audrey Schmidt (M), Renee Byrd
Spring
Eos/HarperPrism
Grand Conspiracy
The Wars of Light and Shadow
Janny Wurts
Two half brothers gifted of Light and Shadow stood together and defeated the Mistwraith. In defeat, their magical foe set its captors at odds, bestowing upon them a life long curse of enmity that has since woven three bitter wars and uncounted deadly intrigues.
HarperPrism
Beyond the Stars
Quest for Tomorrow #4
William Shatner
Jim Endicott has become one with the Omega Point, and has altered his own past. But does the alternate Jim remember the old Jim? When he finds himself aboard the Out Beyond, he meets up with a deep space street gang that teaches him hard-earned lessons about courage, loyalty — and love.
HarperPrism
Infinity Beach
Jack McDevitt
We are alone. That is the verdict, after centuries of SETI searches and space exploration. The only living things in the Universe are found on the Nine Worlds settled by Earthlings, and the starships that knit them together. But if this is the case then who—or what—murdered the crew of the starship Hunter?
HarperPrism
Carthage Ascendant
The Book of Ash #2
Mary Gentle
In a brutal age of bloodshed and miracles, where dark sorcery has extinguished the sun, the fate of Western Europe - and perhaps the world - rests in the hands of a warrior woman named Ash.
Eos
Lord of Emperors
Book Two of the Sarantine Mosaic
Guy Gavriel Kay
A dramatic new triumph of love, adventure and magic by today’s most esteemed master of High Fantasy. The eagerly awaited, concluding novel to The Sarantine Mosaic.
HarperPrism
Fortress of Owls
C.J. Cherryh
A weapon in an ancient war between wizardry and sorcery, Tristen was created to be a combatant in a far older and more fearsome conflict than ever imagined by mere mortal man. And he is about to do battle once more.
HarperPrism
Crescent City Rhapsody
Kathleen Ann Goonan
It begins with silence… a powerful electromagnetic pulse from the far reaches of space triggers a communications blackout. One woman’s quest for vengeance will lead beyond a revolutionary technology capable of resurrecting lives-to a conspiracy linked to the mysterious event known as The Silence.
Eos
The Fourth World
Dennis Danvers
On a planet going rapidly to hell-whose privileged residents spend each day plugging into big lies and shared fantasies-lie clues to the ultimate conspiratorial outrage winding its way from the wealth of the First World through the grinding poverty of the Third … all the way to Mars.
Eos
Singer from the Sea
Sheri S. Tepper
On the seemingly backward planet of Haven, one woman must fulfill a forgotten destiny -something inborn passed for untold generations from daughter to daughter-or she and the planet’s entire civilization will be swept away on a cosmic wave of oblivion.
Eos
The Fifth Elephant
Terry Pratchett
Everyone knows that Discworld is supported on the backs of four elephants who in turn stand atop an enormous turtle. But wait: weren’t there supposed to be five elephants?
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HarperPrism
Imprints of HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers
www.harpercollins.com
[Artwork] Cosmic Egg © 2000 by Barclay Shaw
What It’s Like Living with a Famous Person
Evergreen 3
Day-to-day life can be challenging enough, but how does one get the shopping done with one’s spouse when autograph seekers and fans mob that person? OK, maybe it’s not all that bad, but what’s it like living with someone who has made the NY Times Best Seller List, has a flood of fan mail filling the mailbox, and gets invited to every convention in creation?
John Trimble (M), Jan Herbert, Cheryl Brin, Kate Shaw, Astrid Bear
The Top Ten Ways to Sabotage Your Writing
Evergreen 4
Literature
Listen to how writers can get in their own way!
Melissa Shaw (M), Janine Ellen Young, Elisabeth DeVos, Louise Marley, Kay Kenyon, Susan Matthews
Let’s Make a Movie—Part II
Olympic 1
Fandom
Lights! Camera! Action! Our intrepid producers will be back at it again. Join them as they make cinematographic history at Norwescon.
Leopoldo Marino, Edward Martin III (M)
Masquerade Briefing
Grand Ballroom 3
If you are planning to enter the Masquerade, you must attend this meeting. All your questions will be answered, forms will be handed out to those who have not already picked them up and important information will be given out.
Masquerade Director Peggy Stewart, Assistant Masquerade Director Felice Nightengale
Tournament Gaming
Cascade 11
Gaming
Games TBA.
Norwescon’s Junior Writers Workshop
Cascade 5 & 6
Literature
This is the first of what we hope to be an annual event. The Eatonville Writers Group leads a four-hour session to teach the next generation of writers their art. This is a closed session.
Junior Writers Teachers Workshop
Cascade 7 & 8
Literature
Teachers from around the state will have a chance to learn more about teaching young writers to write. This is a closed session.
Barclay Shaw Slide Show
Evergreen 1 & 2
Art
Artist Guest of Honor Barclay Shaw shows and discusses his outstanding work.
Barclay Shaw
Norwescon’s Writers Workshop: Session Two
Literature
Workshop session where a manuscript, submitted before the convention, is critiqued by several attending pros. Norwescon holds this workshop on an annual basis and accepts works, in advance, from all Norwescon members. Information about next year’s workshop can be found in the lobby. This year’s sessions are closed and by invitation only. Presented by the Fairwood Writers Group.
Reading: Katie Waitman
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Katie will be reading from two of her works: “The Merro Tree” and “The Divided.”
Masquerade Presentations that Succeed
Cascade 12
Costuming
Successful masquerade presentations don’t just happen, they are carefully planned out. Learn how to design a strong presentation that satisfies the audience, meets the judges criteria and showcases the costume to it’s best advantage.
Garth Stubbs, Lori Edwards, Richard Stephens, Cheryl Glover, Joy Day (M)
Life Drawing
Cascade 13
Art
Draw from real life human type models.
Wendy Chateau
Reading: A.E. Roberts
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
“The Price of Music” is a Japanese story about an Ogre who wants to be liked by people, and what price has to be paid.
Ribbon Dragons
Cascade 13
Art
Learn to make those wonderful ribbon critters.
Deborah A. Wood
Star Gazers Guide to the End of the World Slide Show
Evergreen 1 & 2
Science
Remember the solar eclipse of August 11, 1999 or this past New Year’s? Looking forward to the planetary “line-up” coming in May or the end of the Mayan Calendar in 2012? Let’s look at the night sky on those dates and talk about why our ancestors would have been terrorized (and we won’t).
Kathy Watts
Autograph Party—1st Seating
Evergreen 3 & 4
Barclay Shaw, James P. Hogan, Richard Hescox, Steven Barnes, Bjo Trimble, John Trimble, James Clemens, Mel Gilden, Amy Axt Hanson, Norman E. (Norm) Hartman, Howard V. Hendrix, Brian Herbert, Wolf Lahti, Mona Lee, Syne Mitchell, Mike Moscoe, Peter Dennis Pautz, John Pelan, Ken Rand, Bruce Taylor, Ray Vukcevich, Robyn Sondra Wills, Joan M. McCarty
Channeling Isaac: Foundation and the Killer Bs
Grand Ballroom 2
Literature
The three Killer B’s discuss their experiences of working in the legendary Foundation Universe. The authors of the latest Foundation Trilogy discuss how their saga came about and how it felt to have a legend peering over their shoulders.
Gregory Benford, David Brin, Greg Bear, Jennifer Brehl
Art in Computer Games
Olympic 1
Art
Talk about the past, present and future of computer art in games
April Lee (M), Taunya Gren, Lorelei Shannon
Your First Kimono
Cascade 12
Costuming
Sleek, elegant, simple—these words describe the timeless appeal of the practical kimono. Learn the basic principles of how to make your own kimono, how to determine how much yardage to buy, how to lay out the fabric and much, much more.
Deborah K. Strub
Reading: Rich Edwards
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
A reading of his latest poetry.
Reading: Syne Mitchell Cascade 3 & 4 Literature
Murphy’s Gambit: An alien spaceship is found, the pilot burned to ashes. Thia Murphy, a brilliant test pilot, is drawn into corporate and political intrigue over ownership of the craft. These forces will crush Murphy, and her tribe, unless she can solve the ship’s mystery.
Obscure Fantasy Art
Evergreen 1 & 2
Art
A slide show presentation by Norwescon 22’s Artist GoH of forgotten, and unknown, fantasy paintings by some of the great illustrators and artists of the last 120 years.
Richard Hescox
Autograph Party—Seating 2
Evergreen 3 & 4
David Brin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, Jennifer Brehl, Donna Barr, William H. Calvin, Ph.D., Frank Catalano, Stoney Compton, Greg Cox, John Cramer, Elton Elliott, James C. Glass, Jon M. Gustafson, Susan R. Matthews, Janine Ellen Young, Kij Johnson, Louise Marley, Christopher McKitterick, Melisa Michaels, Vicki Mitchell, Rebecca Neason, GregRobin AV Smith, Kristine Smith, Katie Waitman, A.E. Roberts
Computers as Art Tools
Olympic 1
Art
Can anyone be an artist now?
Steve Adams (M), Dave Butler, Margaret Organ-Kean, Nicola Leonard, Russell D. Campbell
Color Theory-and Practice!
Cascade 13
Art
Learn everything you wanted to know about mixing colors and more!
Gail J. Butler
Filk Songs for the Non-Filker
Cascade 11
Filking
Have you played your favorite song for your friends or family and had them look at you strangely because it included references to aliens or gaming? Have you thought about how the attendees at tomorrow’s Open Mike session will really react to your spoof of the computer industry? Come and listen to some experienced performers share their own experiences of this kind. Song examples included.
Karen Rall (M), Jeff Hitchin, Joe Bethancourt, Paul Kwinn, Taunya Gren, Alisa Garcia
Reading: Kathy Watts
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Kathy will read from “Fake Science,” which is a near future story of comet craziness and exhaustion in Lucky Shot City, Alberta, Canada.
Musketeer Battle Club Demonstration
Grand Ballroom 2
Take part in a 17th century battle reenactment as a musketeer, cavalier, or an artilleryman firing a cannon!
The Musketeer Battle Club
Norwescon’s Writers Workshop: Session Three
Literature
Workshop session where a manuscript, submitted before the convention, is critiqued by several attending pros. Norwescon holds this workshop on an annual basis and accepts works, in advance, from all Norwescon members. Information about next year’s workshop can be found in the lobby. This year’s sessions are closed and by invitation only. Presented by the Fairwood Writers Group.
Reading: GregRobin AV Smith
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
“Ghosts, Gargoyles, Sprites, and Spirits,” will be the poem read, and filmed, by this distinguished poet. Art by Tim Gillette, for the upcoming book, will be on display.
Harper Eos: After the Merger of Avon & Harper, One SF Line Emerges
Cascade 7 & 8
Literature
The Executive Editor/head of Harper’s sf line talks about the strengths of her combined house’s publishing and where it’s headed in the future.
Interviewer: George Nyhen
Jennifer Brehl
Rejections Don’t Mean Rejection: How the Writer Can Build Healthy Self-Esteem in a Universe of One
Olympic 1
Writing
As a writer, have you ever come away from the mailbox feeling a bit bruised, if not downright bloodied and broken, with a rejection… or ten? Blythe Ayne, Ph.D., has had hundreds of poems and short stories published. In an alternate reality, she’s a therapist in private practice, and as both writer and therapist she’s had considerable experience teaching and learning the myriad advantages of maintaining a healthy self-esteem.
Dr. Ayne will be conducting a two hour seminar/workshop aimed at helping the writer armor his or her self-esteem in an environment that espouses the word “rejection” as a key concept.
The Great Space Costume Race
Cascade 12
Costuming
On your mark, get set, sew! You in a room with fabric, craft materials, a hot glue gun, and a sewing needle. Form a team, or race by yourself, to create a costume and a headpiece to go with your costume, to be featured in the halftime show at the Masquerade. Hidden audience judges will give a special award!
Jeff Larson, Dave Tackett, Lisa Satterlund (M), Wendy Chateau, Joy Day, Dave Doering, Renee Byrd, JoAnne Kirley
Medieval Madness Cascade 13
Costuming
This panel will feature a wide variety of medieval costumes ranging from period specific and historically accurate, to whimsical interpretations to abstract variations in science fiction and fantasy.
Wendy Prather (M), Barbara Beden-Hill, Audrey Schmidt, Pippin Sardo
Rare Earth or Many Edens?
Evergreen 1 & 2
Science
Dr. Ward, in his book Rare Earth that he coauthored with Dr. Brownlee, has postulated that the conditions that gave rise to intelligent life forms on this planet are a rare occurrence in the Universe. So rare, in fact, that we may be alone. Complex life forms require so special a set of circumstances that it just might be that this planet is the one planet where it has happened. On the other hand, the Universe is a very big place.
John Cramer (M), Peter Douglas Ward, David Brin, Gregory Benford, Burt Webb
Reading: Kay Kenyon
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Kay will read the work titled Rift, the story of a planet where the terraforming is coming unraveled, and the effect on the colonists who are adapting to the new environment in strange ways.
Cross Genreing—Is It a Good Thing?
Cascade 5
Literature
Publishers love to package books with neat labels and categories. However, many books don’t easily fit in tidy boxes or cross over genres. Is this good or bad? And why have genres at all?
Kuo-Yu Liang (M), Greg Cox, Jennifer Brehl, David Hartwell
ASFA Meeting
Cascade 6
Art/Clubs
The Association of Science Fiction Artists will be having an open meeting. All interested parties are welcome to attend.
Cartooning Jam or “Ad Astro to the Stars!”
Cascade 7 & 8
Art
Rat’s right, Rorge! Come suggest silly ideas and watch them come alive under the talented pens of our artists and cartoonists.
Wolf Lahti, Steve Adams (M), Larry Lewis, John R. Gray III
A Good Fantasy is Hard to Find
Cascade 11
Literature
Fantasy books are everywhere—how do you make yours stand out in the crowd and get noticed. What traps should you avoid?
James Clemens (M), Deborah (Teramis) Christian, Adrienne Martine-Barnes, Kij Johnson, Carl Miller
Middle Eastern Dance Workshop
Evergreen 3 & 4
Filking
Learn the folkloric style dances for men and women of the Saudi and Gulf State countries.
Betty Bigelow
Rustycon Social
Hospitality, Olympic 4
Nose says come and join Sluggo and his pals for a scoop of frozen sweet confection and find out more about their annual winter gathering of fen.
Reading: Ted Butler
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Ted Butler will read from his works for your listening pleasure.
Favorite Sewing Tools and Techniques
Cascade 13
Costuming
A show and tell panel showcasing useful tools you may not have used before and special tricks of the trade to help improve your sewing time, the fit of your garments and add a professional finish to your costume embellishments.
Audrey Schmidt (M), Barb Beden-Hill, Wendy Prather, Vicki Mitchell, KinShan
Reading: Norm Hartman
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Norm Hartman will be reading from his short stories. Come and listen!
Writing Groups: Paradise or Hell?
Cascade 5
Literature
Writers have to work alone, but sometimes we want feedback on our work—something more informative than a form rejection letter. A writers group is a good alternative, bringing together local writers in the same genre. But not every group is suited for every kind of writer. We’ll get experienced groupies together and discuss what elements make for a good group, how to keep groups vital, and what can turn them toxic.
Amy Axt Hanson (M), Patrick Swenson, Renee Stern, Ken Rand, Ray Vukcevich
TITAN A.E.
Only in Theatres…
Summer 2000 from Twentieth Century Fox Animation.
The novels…only from ACE.
TITAN A.E.
The official novelization by New York Times bestselling author Steve Perry and Dal Perry. Based on the original Titan A.E. screenplay.
Fifteen years after Earth, Cale Tucker still remembers the invasion of the alien Drej— but with human survivors scattered across the galaxy, he has forgotten how to dream. Until he discovers a map that reveals the location of a legendary spacecraft known as Titan. Now Cale will discover that he must solve the secrets of Titan—because he himself is humanity’s last hope.
0–441–00736–8/$5.99
And don’t miss these two original prequel novels by New York Times bestselling authors Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta:
TITAN A.E.: Cale’s Story
Cale watched the alien Drej destroy earth and his father leave him, borne skyward in the great starship Titan. He sometimes feels the Drej are after him personally. He’s right, Cale holds the secret to the salvation of mankind. The Drej know this but Cale doesn’t—and it could cost him his life…
0–441–00737–6/$5.99
TITAN A.E.: Akima’s Story
Akima escaped earth just as the Drej destroyed it. She found a new home among the stars. Now Akima must abandon the safety of her new home to face the Drej and search for the legendary Titan…
0–441–00738–4/$5.99
Coming this May. Available wherever books are sold.
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All Rights Reserved.
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How Not to Get Published
Cascade 6
Art
Learn the “what nots” and pitfalls that keep you collecting those rejection slips.
Margaret Organ-Kean (M), Edward Martin III, Lee Elfman
Satan—Myth and Archetype
Cascade 7 & 8
Socio-cultural
The phenomenon of “Satanic Ritual Abuse” has been researched and written off as nothing more than urban legend by many people, and yet the conspiracy theories are still very prevalent. Is there such a thing as organized SRA? Why do we have organized and legally established satanic religions? Is the Prince of Darkness really a bad guy, or is he merely the victim of bad press?
Joe Bethancourt (M), Katie Waitman
Tournament Gaming
Cascade 11
Gaming
Legend of the Five Rings.
Reading: James Clemens
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Mr. Clemens will be reading from the upcoming novel Wit’ch War (Del Rey)
Celtic Dance Workshop
Evergreen 3 & 4
Filk
Have you seen Riverdance? Come and learn a few of the simpler social dances of Celtic culture.
Scott MacHaffie (M), Nancy MacHaffie, Karen Rall
Reading: Howard Hendrix
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Excerpts from four novels will be read. These include Better Angels, Standing Wave, Lightpaths, and a novel in progress Empty Cities of the Full Moon.
It’s Not Writer’s Block, It’s Writer’s Empty
Cascade 5
Literature
A panel on the “Plague of the Blank Page” and how to focus (or relax) your way out of it.
Richard Edwards (M), Andrew Dolbeck, GregRobin AV Smith, Blythe Ayne, Ph.D.
New British Science Fiction TV Shows
Cascade 6
Some interesting things, including the recent Neverwhere and Gormenghast, have come out of the U.K. and there’s more where those came from.
Ryan K Johnson
Is the Supernatural All in Your Mind?
Cascade 7 & 8
Socio-cultural
Explore why, and how, we believe in supernatural agents such as Gods, spirits, UFOs, Magic, and other psychic phenomenon such as divination, ESP, and telekinesis. A look at all sides.
Burt Webb (M), William H Calvin, Ph.D., Elisabeth DeVos
The Galactic Patrol:
protectors of fandom, fun, and flaming laser death.
Presupporting memberships $12
Intergalactic friends $75
Boston in 2004
P.O. Box 1010
Framingham, MA 01701
Check us out online: email: info@mcfi.org
www.mcfi.org
We Want YOU!
(To come to Boston in 2004)
With your support, we can protect the galaxy from zwilniks.
Internet Resources for Writers
Olympic 1
Computer
The Internet: information superhighway. More knowledge at your fingertips than what Aristotle had available his whole life. So what’s out there for writers?
Jack Beslanwitch (M), Frank Catalano
Norwescon Honors
Evergreen 1 & 2
Come and hear from all of our Guests of Honor as we give them a bit more lime to talk about their work and their interests. We may even have the potted plants!
David Brin, Gregory Benford, Barclay Shaw, Bjo & John Trimble, Jennifer Brehl
Beginning in Acrylics Demo
Cascade 13
Art
An introduction to the medium with tips and technique.
John R. Gray III
Small Presses—Vanities or a Valid Alternative
Cascade 5
Literature
In these days of mega-media conglomerates, it’s harder than ever to attract attention at the “major” publishers. Are small presses a powerful, vital alternative or just picking up scraps?
Lisa Jean Bothell (M), Dave Howell, Johnny Wilson, Pamela Mohan, John Pelan
Rapid Space Tether Transportation
Cascade 6
Science
Swinging on a rope.
Dr. Robert Hoyt
Creating Book Cover Art
Olympic 1
Art
Discuss the challenges and techniques of creating book covers.
Richard Hescox (M), Betsy Mott
PolyAmory
Cascade 7 & 8
Socio-cultural
The monogamistic concept may be what is most prevalent in our culture but there are other ways to make commitments to those you love. Not everyone believes that you only love, and be faithful to, one other person at a time. Humans have such a capacity for positive emotions. Why limit yourself?
N. Monique Mitchell (M), Edward Martin III
Forensics & Science Fiction
Evergreen 1 & 2
Science/Literature
A panel that will explore the melding of a very intense, and fascinating, mundane occupation with speculative fiction. Before we can begin to write fiction that includes forensics, we need to take the fiction from the concepts about forensics.
Patricia MacEwen
Fanzine Library
Cascade 3 & 4
Fandom
The Fanzine Library is now open for your reading pleasure. Come and browse through the collection of fanzines, clubzines, APAs, and other fannish litera-ture.
Open Circle
Evergreen 3 & 4
Filk
Come and join old friends, and new, for an evening of music and storytelling.
Karen Ralls
Alien Poetic Forms
Cascade 5
Poetry
How to create new poetic or speaking forms for your characters/cultures. Diagrams and hands on exploration provided. Also, the use of poetry in science fiction, especially Star Trek.
GregRobin AV Smith (M), Richard Edwards, Andrew Dolbeck
“So, You Want to be a Video Game Designer?”
Cascade 6
Ever find yourself saying, “I could make a better game then this?” Want to find out how you can take your shot at it? We will be discussing some of the more realistic methods, so pull up a chair and feel free to take notes.
Paul Reed (M), Suzanne Jachim, James Ernest
Masquerade
Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Traditional
Stunning costumes, dazzling lights, and much, much more!
Doors open at 6:30. Masquerade begins at 7pm.
Masquerade Director Peggy Stewart, Assistant Masquerade Director Felice Nightengale
Camarilla Role Playing—Saturday Night
Cascade 11
Gaming
Several RPGs will be played tonight.
Julie Christensen
Drum Circle
Cascade 12
I don’t want to work; I just want to bang on the drum all day. Or night, as it is in this case. Come and join us!
Tobin Greywolf (M), Richard Dahm
The Erotic Side of Mainstream SF
Cascade 5
Literature (Mature Theme)
Science fiction has long been one of the most puritanical genres, with some very notable exceptions, but the current market shows signs of changing that perception. Come explore why this happening and how authors are doing it.
Deborah Christian (M)
Erotic Art
Cascade 7 & 8
Art (Mature Theme)
Let’s discuss sex in art. What makes it erotic? Or pornographic?
Larry Lewis, Betsy Mott, Spring Schoenhuth (M)
Aura Healing
Cascade 6
Socio-cultural
Recommended (but not required) prerequisite: Tai Chi. This workshop teaches the basics of aura healing, covers some of the safety and ethics issues involved, and gives some information about energy work in general. It also gives you the skills to continue the learning process on your own. Please! Plan on being in this panel for the entire two hours. Interruptions from people coming and going are very disturbing.
KinShan
Reading: Donna Barr
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature (Mature Theme)
Donna will be reading about a murder (?) in 1972 in a WAC Barracks. A fictionalized memoir.
Alien Sex
Cascade 7 & 8
Science (Adult Theme)
What are the potential types of alien reproduction? There are some pretty strange methods here on terra firma. When we get out there, at long last, are we even going to be able to recognize what the aliens are doing as being sexual? Hey! What’s that thing doing to my leg?
Janet Rhodes (M), Patricia MacEwen
Laser Tag
Evergreen 1 & 2
Gaming
The only place at the con where you are allowed to draw a weapon and are encouraged to fire! It’s time to get up and get active.
Prudence Bonhas
Fanzine Library
Cascade 3 & 4
Fandom
The Fanzine Library is now open for your reading pleasure. Come and browse through the collection of fanzines, clubzines, APAs, and other fannish literature.
MasterMix Cafe and Radio Show Dance Club
Grand Ballroom 2 & 3
Traditional
It may already be Saturday night, but we know that you still have the energy to dance the night away!
Keith Johnson
Friends of Bill W.
Cascade 5 & 6
Alternative Sexuality
Cascade 7 & 8
Socio-cultural (Adult Theme)
OK, we explored the realm of “what if” in the bedroom last night. Now we get to do it from within ourselves. Literally. Humans come in more forms than just male and female. Amerindian cultures called it being two spirited. John Varley wrote about multi-gender, switch gender, and duo-gender. Even Robert Heinlein could not leave the subject alone and neither will we.
Robyn Sondra Wills (M), Vicki Mitchell, Katie Waitman, James Clemens
Easter Vigil Church Service
Olympic 1
Religion
A celebration of the Holy Eucharist based on Rite Two of the Episcopal Church. Members of all faiths are welcome to come to the service, and all baptized Christians are invited to share communion with us.
Offered by the Order of St. Chiros
Horror Readings
Cascade 5 & 6
Literature
This will be the last chance for a terrifying evening. Send a shiver up your spine and join the readers one last time.
John Pelan (M), Ray Vukevich, A.E. Roberts
Tai Chi
Grand Ballroom 2
Traditional
A great way to start the last morning and prepare yourself for the last day.
Steve Barnes
Fanzine Library
Cascade 3 & 4
Fandom
The Fanzine Library is now open for your reading pleasure. Come and browse through the collection of Fanzines, Clubzines, APAs, and other fannish literature.
Easter Morning Church Service
Olympic 1
An Easter celebration of the Holy Eucha-rist based on Rite Two of the Episcopal Church. Members of all faiths are welcome to come to the service, and all baptized Christians are invited to share communion with us.
Offered by the Order of St. Chiros
Retro-Future Costumes
Cascade 5 & 6
Costuming
For sheer fun and amusement, you can’t beat the kitchy class of vintage visions of the future fashion. Learn how to make your own classic Flash Gordon, Ming the Merciless, or Buck Rogers. Create your own retro chic and join the Space Cadets!
Richard Stephens (M), Jeff Larson, Dave Tackett, Garth Stubbs, Dave Doering
Being Your Own Best Editor-How to Critique Yourself
Cascade 7 & 8
Literature
Good dialogue is hard to come by, of course, but so is a solid plot and strong characters. How does the writer evaluate his/her own writing honestly? What ways can they use to improve their skills? Come and learn some self-editing skills from these knowledgeable pros.
Evelyn Gratrix (M), Blythe Ayne, Ph.D., Mike Moscoe, Syne Mitchell, Kay Kenyon
Richard’s Panel
Cascade 12
Fandom
This is a fan panel. It is named after one fan in particular, but it is for every fan. Richard Wright contributed heavily to Northwest fandom. We wouldn’t be what we are today without him. This panel is for you, Richard.
Since Richard’s death, there have been others who left their mark on fandom before they died. Some were local and others were international stars. This panel is for them as well.
There won’t be any lengthy discussions or demonstrations or slide show or a whole lot of activity during this panel. What there will be is a place where you can come in and chat with other fans about those who are no longer with us. A place where you can come in, spend a quiet moment, and remember. This panel is also for you.
Richard Wright (M), DeForest Kelley, Marion Zimmer Bradley, A.E. van Vogt
Watercolor Workshop
Cascade 13
Art
The basics of this painting technique.
Philip Wagner
Nanotech and Resource
Evergreen 1
Science
How can nanotech remove the need for space resources? Then again, wouldn’t it be great if we could change refuse into something useful by programming the nanites to do it?
Stephen Gillett
A Trip to Tomorrow
Evergreen 3 & 4
Art
A humorous, satirical film spoofing those “What-will-the-future-be-like?” shorts of the 1940s. Production artist Richard Hescox shows and talks about his work on this low budget cable TV masterpiece.
Richard Hescox
Literary Kung Fu
Evergreen 2
Literature
A demonstration of martial art techniques for writers. Are you portraying it correctly? Does your manuscript read like a black belt in karate or like a really bad “B” movie? Learn what the moves look like to be able to write about them.
Steven Barnes (M), Lori Ann White
Tournament Gaming
Cascade 11
Gaming
Games TBA.
Reading: Bruce Taylor
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
A one hour reading from his new book: Kafka’s Uncle and Other Strange Tales.
Historical Costume Ideas for Beginners
Cascade 5 & 6
Costuming
Want to do historical costumes, but they seem difficult or you don’t know where to start? This panel will help to give you the jump-start you need! Discussion will include a survey of historical costume, appropriate foundation garments, fabrics and colors and easy sewing techniques.
Keri Lynn Doering (M), Lisa Satterlund, Pippin Sardo, Wendy Prather, Vicki Mitchell
Writing a Successful Book Proposal
Cascade 7 & 8
Literature
Unless your name is recognized or you have an agent pedaling your manuscript, getting your brand new novel out of the slush pile can be an overwhelming task. Here are some tips from people who have been there, done that.
Dave Doering (M)
Illustrators of the Future
Cascade 12
Art
Come and learn about this slightly lesser well know contest from the people who administer the Writers of the Future. Scott Welch, from Bridge Publications, will on hand to explain.
Scott Welch
The Norwescon Knitting Workshop
Cascade 13
Art
It has been a long and stressful weekend. As a little R&R therapy, here is a workshop to relax you. OK, OK, so it has sharp objects, too. I didn’t say it wouldn’t be without dangers. Now, where did I put that skein?
Audrey Schmidt (M), Lisa Satterlund
Phone Home—FTL Communication
Evergreen 1
Science
Communicating over interstellar distances. What goes faster than light?
John Cramer (M), Dr. Robert P. Hoyt
a northwest bestseller for 100 years
MORE BOOKS, MORE SERVICE
Join us on May 19th at 7 PM for book signings by your favorite Northwest science fiction and fantasy writers to celebrate the Nebula Award Weekend.
COMING SPECIAL EVENTS:
June 27
Buzz Aldrin, The Return
July (Date TBA)
Spider Robinson, Callahan’s Key
UNIVERSITY DISTRICT
4326 University Way NE 206 634–3400
Open weeknights until 9 PM!
UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE
[Artwork] MARS Mobile Autonomous Robot Software © 2000 by Barclay Shaw.
Originally published by DARPA, 1999. Digital.
The Dharmic Engineer Panel Part II
Evergreen 3 & 4
Art
The Dharmic Engineers return for another showing of art slides, discussion of surrealism, and answers to questions from you!
Ray Pelley (M), Milo Duke, Jon Strongbow
D: None of the Above
Olympic 1
Socio-cultural
Matter has its anti-matter: does religion have anti-religion? Are Atheism and Scientism really religious beliefs or the absence thereof? There is a growing segment of the population that is treating religion and religious beliefs like street drugs and simply saying “No.” This is a panel discussion for all of us who mark down D: none of the above.
Heather Candelaria (M), Robert J. Grieve
Reading: Wolf Lahti
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Listen to Wolf Lahti read from one of his books, The Four Pirates.
Masquerade Debriefing
Cascade 5 & 6
Costuming
If you were in the masquerade, let us know how it went for you.
Masquerade Director Peggy Stewart, Assistant Masquerade Director Felice Nightengale
Northwest Convention League and ConComCon Meeting
Cascade 7 & 8
Fandom
The Norwescon meeting of the above will discuss issues relevant to fandom in the Northwest. Long live SciFi! Be sure to wear your beanie.
Becky Citrak (M), Larry Baker
Norwescon 23: The Poem
Cascade 12
Poetry
Readings of the poems done on site at the Poetry Table and in the halls by the Gorilla [sic], RevolutionaryArmy of Poets, Pundits, Liars and Essayists—"GRAPPLE". Your con character immortalized in verse. Come and hear poems about you performed by the artists who composed them.
GregRobin AV Smith (M), Andrew Dolbeck
Basket Weaving 101
Cascade 13
Art
This panel is really meant for the concom. They will need it at this point. For the rest of you: the ins and outs of weaving baskets by a master at the craft.
Janet R. Rhodes
The Future of Science and SF in Schools
Evergreen 1
Socio-cultural
What is the future of science and science fiction in our public school systems? How is science faring in the schools, what is being done at the elementary, middle, and high school, levels to encourage future thinkers and writers of science and science fiction?
Spring Schoenhuth (M)
The Norwescon 23 Volunteer Event
Hospitality, Olympic 4
Volunteers of Norwescon 23 only! A chance to see our GoHs and win prizes! Come and let us say Thank You!
Shawn Marier
Art Auction
Grand Ballroom 2
Art
Time to bid on that piece of art that you always wanted hanging on the walls of your home. Don’t let someone else have your artwork!
Auctioneers: Betty Bigelow and Bjo Trimble
SCA Faire
Grand Ballroom 3
Fandom
Travel back in time with the Society for Creative Anachronism. A medieval faire in the hotel!
Priscilla Verzola
Reading: Adrienne Martine-Barnes
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
Ms. Martine-Barnes will be reading from a selection of her works.
Reading: James Glass
Cascade 3 & 4
Literature
James Glass will read from his new novel, Chuang-Shi, which is the third book in the Shanji trilogy.
Introduction to Elizabethan Elegance
Cascade 5 & 6
Costuming
A great follow-up to Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love, this class is a basic introduction to Tudor and Elizabethan fashion for men and women and will cover fabric selection, accessories as well as provide resources for patterns, hats and more.
Richard Stephens (M), Deborah Strub, Anita Taylor, Margo Loes
What’s Cooking in Games?
Cascade 7 & 8
Gaming
Rumors and announcements. What’s up with D & D3? When is the Star Wars version of Brawl coming out? Is anyone ever going to make an X-Files RPG? Come and contribute to the general hysteria and confusion! Thumbscrews provided for use on tight-lipped panelists…
Monte Cook, Brannon Boren (M), James Ernest
Camarilla Postmortem
Cascade 11
Gaming
The Camarilla’s Onion (Garlic?) & Roses. How the con went for us and things we can do better next time.
Julie Christensen
Writers of the Future
Cascade 12
Norwescon 9 proudly hosted the first annual presentation of the winners of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future literary contest. There have been many winners since then, and this contest has become an institution in the genre. What better way for a new writer to break into the market? Come and find out about it.
Scott Welch (M)
Dino Drawing Workshop
Cascade 13
Art
The art and splendor of dinosaurs. Well, at least how to draw them that is.
Richard A. Scott
Humans on Mars
Evergreen 1
Science
Colonizing the red planet. Will we use dome cities on the surface or terraform the caves of Mars? What will be the advantages to Earth with human habitation on Mars? How much can we do and how quickly can it be achieved?
Bryce Walden (M), Chris Vancil, Burt Webb, Anthony Ward, Elton Elliott, Dr. Robert P. Hoyt
Susan Splains' Runes
Evergreen 2
Literature
A panel about runes in magic and stunt rune readings. In this panel we will examine a mnemonic for memorizing rune names, but the focus will be on the first rune row. The first aett will be discussed in some depth and sample readings done with audience participation from the first aett only. There will be a recommended reading list.
Susan R. Matthews
Fanacs at the Bijou
Evergreen 3 & 4
Fandom
Has Norwescon got a treat in store for you! Here it is: a whole hour of fan made films! Included in this showing will be the one that was made in our very own movie making workshop!
Edward Martin III (M), Leopoldo Marino, Ryan K. Johnson
Stage Presentation
Olympic 1
Filk
There’s more to performing in front of a crowd than just standing in front of a microphone. Come and learn about body language, audience repartee, and how to cover when you make a mistake or need to tune your instrument
David Bigelow, Jeff Hitchin, Joe Bethancourt, John Moore
GoH on the Hot Plate
Cascade 7 & 8
An interview with our wonderful GoH, Dr. Gregory Benford.
Burt Webb, George Nyhen (M)
Computer RPGs: Will They Ever be as Good?
Cascade 5 & 6
Gaming
How close can a computer RPG really come to “the real thing?” Compare and contrast the computer RPG with the Human Game Master in this session sure to stir up some debate.
Paul Reed (M), Monte Cook
SFFWA Meeting
Cascade 12
This panel is the Norwescon meeting of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Peter Dennis Pautz, Frank Catalano (M), John G. Cramer
What’s Up, Doc?
Evergreen 1
What advances are we likely to see in the 21st century? Was the liver “pill” that Bones gave that patient in Star Trek IV a complete piece of fiction or will we be swallowing nanites before the 2090s? Come hear the answer to Bugs' oft-repeated question.
Jim Kling
Special Thanks to
Talking Rain
Endangered Species—Evolve or Die
Evergreen 2
Socio-cultural
Why should we be more concerned with species that are becoming extinct, than we are with the well-being of our own race? Evolution implies that over 99% of all species already have become extinct, through competition and survival of the fittest, why should mankind then step in and interfere with the process?
Adam Buckner (M), James Clemens, Vicki Mitchell, David Silas, Kathryn Cramer
Songs of Science, Technology, and Alien Contact
Olympic 1
Filking
Computers, spacecraft, and creatures from other worlds: oh my!
Jeff Hitchin (M), Joe Bethancourt, Taunya Gren, Paul Kwinn
Fanzine Library
Cascade 3 & 4
Fandom
The Fanzine Library is now open for your reading pleasure one last time. This is your last chance to come and browse through the collection of fanzines, clubzines, APAs, and other fannish literature. At Norwescon 23, anyway.
SWOC Meeting
Cascade 11
Fandom
This is a general meeting of the Seattle Westercon Organizing Committee. Yes, Virginia, them folks is gonna do it again. Vote for Seattle in 2003!
Jack Beslanwitch
Movie Previews II
Evergreen 3 & 4
If you didn’t see them during the halftime show at the Masquerade, now is your last chance. Check out what’s the latest and greatest from Hollywood for this year. Which one do you think will be this summer’s big hit?
Daryl Allison
The Saving of Star Trek and Other Tales
Cascade 7 & 8
An interview with Bjo and John Trimble, Fan GoHs extraordinary! Come and listen to tales of fandom that most of us only dream about.
George Nyhen (M), Kitty Cantebury
Scary Elements in Costume Design
Cascade 5 & 6
Costuming
What part of a monster’s look scares you? What kind of fabric treatment or design elements can you incorporate into your costumes to make them truly scary? Find out at this panel as we review super scary outfits from art and film and discuss ways you can add the thrill of the chill to your next hall or masquerade costume.
Dave Tackett (M), Richard Stephens, Jeff Larson, Joy Day, Dave Doering
Internet: Urban Legend Hoaxes, Viruses
Cascade 7 & 8
Computers
There are new forms of urban legends, hoaxes, viruses and chain letters which are becoming an epidemic through distribution via the greatest meme vector of all times: the Internet. How do you detect a hoax? How have they evolved to be more suitable in the new environment? How can we use what we’ve learned to promote out own agendas and propaganda? Is this an ethical form of promoting your own ideas? Jack Beslanwitch (M), Edward Martin III
The Marion Zimmer Bradley Memorial Auction
Grand 2
The Marion Zimmer Bradley Memorial Auction for Northwest Harvest. Please join us as items are sold to the highest bidder to help feed the hungry. Dig deep into your pockets to purchase those items. The mouth you may be feeding may turn out to be someone you know.
Open Circle
Olympic 1
Filking
Come and join friends old, and new, for one last round of music and storytelling. Karen Rall
Onions & Roses
Grand Ballroom 2
What did you like? What didn’t you like? Come and tell us. Please: it is impossible to please everyone all of the time. What we need at this time is constructive criticism. If you have ideas on how to fix something, thought something could have been done better in a way that you know about, or have any other suggestions on how to improve this convention, we want to hear from you. We will also listen to any complaints or compliments. Tell us what you think is worth keeping and what needs to be put out with the cat.
Cheryl Ferguson (M), Pat Booze, Robert J. Grieve, Terry Halverson, Jeanine Swanson
Norwescon 23 Closing Ceremonies
Grand Ballroom 2
A last look at Norwescon 23. The stars have set. The rocket ships have all fallen to earth, but Richard Stephens and Lori Edwards still have the potted plants. Also, hear about our plans for NWC 24.
Richard Stephens (M), Lori Edwards, Gregory Benford, Barclay Shaw, Bjo and John Trimble, Pat Booze, Robert J. Grieve
Dead Sasquatch Party
Hospitality, Olympic 3 & 4
Fandom
Is the sass in your squatch dead yet? Well, then drag it into Hospitality for a last giggle, a last wiggle (or maybe even two) and one more party until we call it a day and send you on your way. We’re cleaning out the fridge and setting out the last of the goodies.
Judy Suryan (M), Elizabeth “Dragon Lady” Warren
David Brin
by
William H. Calvin
Appropriately enough, I first met David Brin on a high-speed French TGV train heading south out of Paris. It was ten years ago, and David was maneuvering down the aisle carrying this backpack. It was huge, rectangular, and black, instantly recognizable as a well-padded Mac in transit. This was several years before Apple finally got its act together to produce a decent laptop, and David stopped to look at my little Toshiba laptop, on which I was writing contentedly.
I could almost hear his teeth grinding. He sputtered. There he was, carrying the embryonic Glory Season around on his back, buried inside 25 pounds of hardware. And there I was, finishing up The Ascent of Mind on my lap, as the train was approaching what, in a jet airplane, would be take-off speed.
We became friends despite the MacWindows Divide. David and 1 were both en route to speak at a SETI symposium. It was mostly radio astronomers. I gave a talk about the evolution of intelligence (it evolved into a Scientific American article in 1994). David, who is usually funny, instead gave them the sobering story of what happened to the Polynesians who had settled on isolated Easter Island, how they did themselves in with environmental damage and overpopulation. He made his recent trip to Easter Island into a little parable concerning what likely happens to many civilizations—and could happen to ours.
David and I, along with an archaeologist from England, usually sat in the back row of the little auditorium in the French Alps and gossiped in whispers when the radio astronomy got too ethereal. It was a wonderful week, though I think David was anxious to get back to his wife Cheryl the cosmochemist. She was then doing postdoctoral research in a Paris lab that studies how all the heavier-than-iron atoms in your body were created in our “local” supernova, a little fusion furnace that happened when a large nearby star collapsed more than five billion years ago. It blew a lot of heavier elements out into the interstellar dust, and that’s what our solar system coalesced from, a billion years later. David and Cheryl now have a five-year old daughter who “looks suspiciously human,” plus a couple of sons they claim not to be so sure about.
The year before our TGV meeting (the acronym rolls off a French tongue as a high-speed version of Tay-Jay-Vay), David had finished his novel Earth. It was full of simulated hypertext links and screen displays. Were you to display it today on a computer screen, parts of it would look like a series of web pages. But 1989 was a few years before the first web browser was invented. And it was a good six years before most of us got a chance to surf the World Wide Web (and the trendy billboards erupted with URLs). Al Gore may have played godfather to the Internet, but David Brin told us all about the web well before it happened. When 1 first saw an early web browser in 1994, I had deja vu—and then rushed to create a home page.
Since the future is happening ever more quickly these days, prophets have to be fast on their feet. David’s nonfiction book The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? came out in 1998, describing the public policy implications of the trends toward webcam surveillance. David points out the important advantages that candor and openness offer to a confident civilization, and contrasts them to the “who watches the watchers” problems that come with narrowly sanctioned police-only surveillance. It was less than a year later that we began hearing those radio ads for a web-based service that would allow parents to watch the daycare scene via a window on their desktop at work. Looks to me as if David’s prophesy about wearable web access is about to come true, too.
The British writer Brian Stableford has a nice appreciation of Brin. “He has shown that space opera can be written with a good sciencefictional conscience without compromising its potential to excite readers, and he has shown that one can bring a similar conscientiousness to accounts of the near future and to social-scientific thought-experiments with productive results.” While I agree, David’s reaction to this encyclopedic writing style would probably be a quip, like the one about his foray into writing nonfiction: “Nonfiction is ten times the work of writing fiction, for one-tenth the pay— and you have to watch out that the characters don’t sue you, as well!”
I hope that David will continue treating us to both his novels and his nonfiction. There aren’t that many scientists who write well, especially for younger readers. While David would describe himself as a former scientist (B.S. from Caltech, Ph.D. from UCSD in planetary sciences) now writing and speaking (and “tending a hundred very demanding trees”), doing science is not something you forget. Neither is medicine. 1 run into all sorts of nonpracticing M.D.s—say, orthopedic surgeons who have taken to cloning orchids or creating speech-recognition software—and they still think like physicians, good at spotting trouble in the making and moving to head it off. Well, “nonpracticing” scientists like David have instincts about worldwide trends that are similarly well-honed, and he’s made the time to write about them.
Careers, you see, are a funny thing. That’s always been the case for writers, but now many people have to cope with several career changes in mid-life, retooling themselves yet again to take advantage of new technologies and opportunities or escape from the demise of older industries. But multiple careers are done “in parallel,” too. Maybe a career used to be a linear, keep-your-nose-to-the-grindstone ascent, but they are increasingly weblike. Majors and minors have become far more common in life after college. Some people keep several careers going at once (though, I admit, one career plus a serious hobby is the more common example—the novelist Vladimir Nabokov was a serious naturalist who wrote scientific papers on blue butterflies). But young people today have some unusual opportunities to have their cake and eat it too, making use of technology to gain nearprofessional results in their minor.
Writing is a skill that is helpful in almost every kind of career, just as public speaking or computer proficiency is, but even more so as writing forces you to organize your thoughts and hone them. Even writing amateur fiction and nonfiction has great carryover, provided you progress to the stage where you discover how to hold your reader’s attention without fail. Getting started on writing has, however, remained largely untouched by technology. Whether you use long-hand or a word processor, getting your ideas in the right order is still the big problem. Stephen Jay Gould, who writes more than any scientist 1 know, tells me that he only writes one draft— that he outlines beforehand, and scribbles a little on the page before handing it to his secretary to translate, but seldom does he do the multiple drafts which most of us utilize (and which technology makes so much easier). Steve still uses an old IBM Selectric (the last big generation of office typewriter, current about 1970). Isaac Asimov had a similar attitude toward rewriting, claiming that in the time it would take to rewrite a book manuscript, that he could write a second book. And he did, too.
But Gould and Asimov are surely the wrong role models for most of us, and certainly for any beginning writer, for whom rewriting is the royal road. And computers now make a difference, enabling you to rewrite ten times as extensively as can the devotee of longhand. I learned to write nontechnical prose by perpetually rewriting a dozen essays, bringing the older ones up to the latest standard when improvements finally occurred. David is at the opposite end of the Asimov spectrum. His books usually have fifty names listed in the acknowledgments, and each reader suggestion likely prompted yet more rewriting.
We writers get into some techie habits that, unasked for, become part of the creative process. I now understand those earlier writers who said they couldn’t write without just the right type of pen or paper. I used to laugh at that, but computer keyboards can also become part of the way in which you think. Yes, David Brin could have written in longhand for that week in the French Alps, but the keyboard becomes such a part of the creative environment that you now have to carry it to the scenery, in order to describe it. 1 was probably the first person to carry a laptop computer down the Colorado River through the bottom of the Grand Canyon (that was in 1984, just nine months after the first Radio Shack laptop appeared; my manuscript became The River That Flows Uphill). I’d already lost the ability to write in long-hand. I’m insufficiently versatile.
Speaking of role models, I find some writers slightly disappointing, when first meeting them after having read them a lot. They’re not as witty and well-spoken as they appear in their books. Sometimes they are quiet watchers, not especially engaging. But the disconnect is all because of what rewriting can routinely accomplish. Do you think of the witty reply a half hour after leaving the party? Too late to use, for most people, but not for you the writer. You just find a good place to insert it into a manuscript. The impression of the writer that you get reading their book is that of the writer at his or her occasional peaks in performance. It’s part of the magic of writing. You, the author, will re-read something you’ve written, think it’s pretty good. (“Gee, 1 said that?”) That wonderment is thanks to being able to select the thoughts of a month and cram them into a paragraph that can be read in a minute. We distill routinely.
David Brin is, of course, the exception to my observation about meeting authors. Good as he is in print, he’s even better in person. You come away with nuggets of wit and insight that keep resurfacing over the next few months. Soon, you begin to pass off his ideas as your own….
William H. Calvin is a neurobiologist and author. He is Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. His ten nonfiction books are mostly about brains and evolution; How Brains Think has been translated into a dozen languages. He wrote a cover story for The Atlantic Monthly several years ago, “The Great Climate Flip-flop,” on how civilization is threatened with another of the massive climate flips which happened so often to early humans. As the climate chatters between modes, with abrupt coolings in a decade’s time, there is a madhouse century which destroys ecosystems and agriculture. It’s the subject of his next book, Cool Crash and Burn: The Once and Future Climate of Human Evolution. His most recent book, just out, is Lingua ex Machina on the evolution of structured thought, with Chomsky’s Universal Grammar as its prime example. His web pages start at http://WilliamCalvin.com and Brin’s are at http://www.kithrup.com/brin.
Copyright © 2000 by William H. Calvin.
Gregory Benford
by
Peter Nicholls
Greg Benford is the sort of man you can (and do) meet anywhere. I was not at all surprised in 1997 to run into him unexpectedly while he was holding forth on the deck of the Queen Mary. As he talked with typical animation, in my mind’s eye I saw the Greg Benford I had originally met almost a quarter of a century ago—I think it was 1976— and mentally superimposed the past image over the present one. Astonishingly, he had hardly changed at all from the youngish man I’d met while he was working in Cambridge, UK.
It’s true the greying beard is a rather pepper-and-salt affair now, but he hasn’t become overweight, and still looks youthful though he’s in his late 50s—born 30 January 1941—and still holds a glass of something alcoholic as he gestures, while he talks nineteen to the dozen. His conversation is knowledgeable, argumentative and good-humoured. He’s a good man to talk to (though he doesn’t suffer fools gladly), and a good friend of mine, though I suppose we’ve only got together twenty or so times in three decades. In appearance, he looks intellectual but tough. He looks as if he might have been a sportsman once, maybe a football player, but he probably wasn’t. (Footnote: Greg told me when he read the above that he gave up quarterbacking in Junior High, getting tired of being knocked down, but has suffered around ten broken bones from surfing, baseball, etc.)
Most famously, of course, he has combined two complementary careers, academic physicist and sciencefiction writer. (He must be the only writer in the world to have published both novels and scientific papers on the galactic centre: one of the novels is Furious Gulf, 1994, and one of the papers is “An Electrodynamic Model of the Galactic Center,” Astrophysical Journal, October 15th, 1988, pp 735–42.) But he was already active in science fiction long before either of these careers took off.
Benford has been a Californian for several decades now, but his childhood was in the Deep South, in Alabama, plus years spent in Japan and Germany because his army-officer father was posted there. Benford has a Texas connection too. An interview tells us “I have the weird distinction of having been an instigator of the first con in Texas and the first con in Germany.” The Texas con was the Southwestern Con, July 1958. The German convention was even earlier, WetzCon (for Wetzlar, Hesse) in 1956. Not bad going for a teenager.
Like so many other sf writers, Benford began life in the sciencefiction world as a fan, and rather a notable one. He was, for example, cofounder in 1955 of the celebrated fanzine Void with his identical twin James, at the age of 14; subsequent coeditors included Ted White and Terry Carr. (Carr’s experience here stood him in good stead; he went on to win a 1959 Hugo for his later fanzine Fanac, co-edited with Ron Ellik, and later became a distinguished writer also, and editor of the Ace Specials.) By now Benford was moving westward, and he did his undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Oklahoma, graduating in 1963.
Professional writing came quite a bit later than fan writing. His first published story was “Stand-In,” 1965, written while he was a Ph.D. student at the University of California, San Diego. It won second prize in an amateur writing contest held by the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, but he wrote little more before 1969.
Much of his early work, and some later, was written in collaboration. These stories and novels included some written with his brother Jim, with his sister-in-law Hilary, and most importantly with Gordon Eklund. There were later novels in which he collaborated with William Rotsler, and subsequently with David Brin.
His earlier novels were usually based on stories previously published, sometimes by reworking three or four of them and putting them together in mosaic style. In another writer this could be laziness, or a mean-minded attempt to wring every possible last nickel from previously published work. With Greg, I think the motivation is quite different. He gets dissatisfied, he wants to work out the implications of ideas more rigorously and deeply. Like a terrier with a bone, he shakes an idea and tosses it about and buries it, then digs it up again to worry it still further. Or, as Greg put it another way in an interview, “Ideas come to me in a lapidary way, layering over the years.”
For example, his first novel was Deeper than the Darkness, published by Ace Books in 1970. It was based on a 1969 story, one of his earliest, and also called “Deeper than the Darkness.” When he looked back on the booklength version later on he was dissatisfied, thought it “dreadful,” it was “hastily written.” So he expanded and rewrote it into a more sophisticated version, The Stars in Shroud, 1978.
But I’ve just re-read the original novel, having remembered that it excited me at the time. Sure, there are infelicities, and the ending is ill-plotted and rushed, but it’s still pretty good. It’s obvious why I liked it: it came out in the middle of the rather phoney debate between “hard sf” on the one hand, and “New Wave sf” on the other, and with extraordinary dexterity it reconciles the warring factions. It’s about both inner and outer space. It sees value in and uses the soft sciences sociology and psychology, but it also includes tachyons, gravity waves, and some rather nifty orbital calculations. The story is indescribable and rather ugly—telling the effects of an alien “plague” weapon on a human race, scattered through the galaxy, whose dominant mode of living is a form of collectivism based on oriental philosophies. The plague takes the form of its victims suffering acute agoraphobia, and burrowing into shit-lined tunnels where they lie cocooned, straight from the collective into stinking isolation, and ultimately die. It is a memorably telling image.
Before leaving this novel, I should refer Australian readers to the following: “…my father a truly rare specimen: one of the last pure Americans, born of the descendants of the few who had survived the Riot War. That placed me far down in the caste lots, even below Australians.”
Deeper than the Darkness foreshadows Benford’s later work in many respects: a love of anarchic individual ism which is interpreted by some as a version of right-wing Californian libertarianism (though I’m pretty sure Greg wouldn’t go along with that); a melding of psychological studies (linguistics, the nature of intelligence, the nature of sentience, the function of emotions) with hard physics (Benford’s real-world specialty is plasma studies, especially as they relate to astrophysics, but he has worked in other areas of astrophysics as well); an extraordinary breadth of theme. He works on a broader canvas than almost any of his hard sf colleagues and with more colours on his palette.
Benford became well known quite quickly. After a couple of previous award nominations, he quickly won a Nebula in 1974 for a fine novelette he wrote with Gordon Eklund, “If the Stars are Gods.” This was one of the four pieces that were woven together to make the collaborative novel of the same title, If the Stars are Gods (1977). This first-contact story tells of aliens in our solar system, who regard our sun as a sentient being, and treat it as a god. It is one of the most interesting 1970s stories that use religious themes in sf. (It was around this stage of his career that I first met Greg, when he was a Visiting Professor at Cambridge University, in 1976.)
Benford won his second Nebula, this time for best novel, for the 1980 novel Timescape. It remains his best-known work, and has deservedly become a classic, but I think it has had an unfortunate side effect in somehow shadowing his subsequent career. Perhaps readers expected more of the same, which Greg was not really prepared to give them. Timescape is the definitive time-travel-through-tachy-ons story, and is set in the world of scientific research, a world that Greg of course knows intimately, and he makes vivid use of his insider knowledge. The plot involves a vital, panicky message sent by future scientists to present-day ones via tachyonic coding. The book was so powerful that one publishing house, Tor Books, named an entire sf line the Timescape line. Few novels become logos.
I had vaguely assumed that Benford had won Hugos as well as Nebulas, and it was only while researching this introduction that I found I was wrong. He has never won a Hugo in any category. Benford’s absence is arguably the major omission in the list of Hugo winners over the last three decades. Among his fellow hard sf writers who have won Hugos in the same period are Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven, Kim Stanley Robinson, Charles Sheffield, John Varley and Vernor Vinge. Naming no names, Benford surely writes as well as the best of these, and better than several of them. (Surprisingly few Hugo awards have gone to sf writers who use hard science, despite the mundane stereotype of the sf fan—the man or woman who votes for the Hugos—as typically a technonerd. This is, it occurs to me, a very significant datum.)
As it happens, I recently re-read the classic works of many of the above writers including Benford (not Robinson and Vinge, but with the addition of James Blish from the U.S.A., and Bob Shaw and Paul McAuley from the U.K.). I was researching hard sf, which I love, despite the reputation sf encyclopedia editors have for being New-Wave lit-loving aesthetes, who wouldn’t know a Lagrange Point from a Punctuation Point.
I have to say that the results, perhaps because I’m getting old, were disappointing. Only three of the writers seemed as good or better on re-reading, and few of their books managed to renew the original sense of wonder I’d had when I first encountered them. The writers that most successfully survived this cranky, subjective examination were Larry Niven (a veteran), Paul J. McAuley (a younger writer) and Gregory Benford (two years younger than me). Re-reading Benford, I kept finding neat nuances and implications that I’d somehow missed first time through. It was an exciting voyage through Benford’s weird but stimulating mind.
The Benford series I had just read again is the enormous Galactic Center series of six connected novels. It consists of, as a kind of prologue, In the Ocean of Night (1977), followed by the series proper: Across the Sea of Suns (1984), Great Sky River (1987), Tides of Light (1989), Furious Gulf (1994) and Sailing Bright Eternity (1995). It would take thousands of words to describe the cosmic sweep of these novels properly; they consist of a swirling sea of characters and ideas, bubbling with manic energy, serving as venue for a heady narrative of conflict between organic (mostly human) intelligences, and machine intelligences. But it goes a lot further than that. The nature of sentience and the nature of the universe are only two of the series' ambitious themes. Benford must be the pre-eminent inventor of aliens working in sf today, and he really thinks them through. They do not just come from the standard alien template. Go and read the books. You may, like me, find them even better the second time.
This series makes utterly clear that to call Greg Benford a hard sf writer is only to tell half the story. For one thing, he has read a great deal, and a lot of what he writes has resonant allusions to other writers. (Notably to William Faulkner. I always enjoy Benford’s public controversies—there have been quite a few of them. But the Faulkner-homage scenario was the most enjoyable yet, with Greg receiving what looked like a knock-out uppercut from ace critic Gary Wolfe, only to bounce back off the canvas and bruise Wolfe with a series of well-judged left hooks.)
As he foreshadowed in Deeper than the Darkness, Benford has continued (particularly in the Galactic Center series) to balance outer space against inner space, biology against physics, history against information theory. If you think this sounds daunting, well, yes it is a bit. But it’s entertaining, too, every now and then to read books that rigorously exercise the mind, rather than feeding it the usual fast-food snacks. This quality of Greg’s writing, together with his sporadic willingness to take experimental risks with ordinary English-language prose, means that he has never been able to seduce what I call the Star Wars audience. But then, where would movies like Star Wars get their ideas from if it were not for the pioneer work of the Asimovs and Clarkes and Benfords and Bears? (No offence meant to movie fans here— I’m one myself.) No, Benford’s secret, and from a certain point of view his failure, is that he writes for grown-ups.
This is a brief introduction, not a critical essay, so 1’11 not discuss all Greg’s books, though I must at least mention a few. There are two good collections of short stories, the first being In Alien Flesh (1986) and the second being Matter’s End (Bantam 1994, but the UK edition of 1996, Gollancz, has extra stories added.) Many stories, however, remain uncollected.
There was much sometimes heated discussion of Benford’s authorized sequel to Arthur C. Clarke’s Against the Fall of Night, entitled Beyond the Fall of Night (1991), and of his recent contribution to Asimov’s Foundation sequence, Foundation’s Fear (1997), when they appeared. I haven’t yet read his most recent novel, which is Cosm (1998), but it has had some great reviews.
It is a mystery to me how Greg finds the time for all this stuff. He does not generally seem stressed or tense when you meet him, and his relaxation can almost reach the point of leglessness, so to speak. He and I on one occasion in the 1980s got embarrassingly drunk, though this—for Greg at least— is atypical.
However, he obviously works very hard. In 1971 he became Assistant Professor at University of California, Irvine. He became Associate Professor there in 1973, and has held this position ever since. This research post is a real and demanding job, not just a sinecure like Asimov’s post at Boston University mainly was. He has also been an advisor both to NASA and to the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy. And he was rewarded for all this in 1995 with a Lord Foundation award, which is a seriously heavy distinction given to not many scientists.
He has published around 150 scientific papers, which is a lot, and in addition has produced many popular science articles for Amazing (1969–76, and some much later), Vertex (1973–75) and in the '90s for Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. (However, quite a few of the more recent Benford columns—these have attitude, being simultaneously levelheaded and deliberately polemical—have been more about literary criticism than popular science.) It is perhaps odd, given this rich publishing history, that not until the end of 1998 did Benford’s first nonfiction book appear. It is Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia.
Greg Benford is arguably the premier hard sf writer of our time—though Greg Bear, Greg Egan, Paul J. McAuley and Kim Stanley Robinson in their different ways are up there too—and he is amusing and interesting in person, too. Also approachable and friendly. Don’t be frightened to talk to him. Chances are he will talk right back, and if he doesn’t, well, no damage has been done. He will not be the sort of guest of honor that spends most of the time lurking in his or her hotel room. I like him a lot, and I think you will too.
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[Artwork] Ringworld Throne © 2000 by Barclay Shaw. Cover for the booh by Larry Niven, published by Del Rey Books, 1995. Digital.
[Artwork] Bitch’s Brew © 2000 by Barclay Shaw. Previously published by Advanced Rendering Technology, Ltd., 1998. Digital.
[Artwork] Dr. Adder © 2000 by Barclay Shaw. Cover for the book by K.W. Jeter, published by Bluejay Books, 1983. Acrylic.
[Artwork] Medusa © 2000 by Barclay Shaw. Acrylic. 1980.
[Artwork] The Machineries of Joy © 2000 by Barclay Shaw. Cover for the book by Ray Bradbury, published by Bantam Books, 1988. Oil on acrylic.
[Artwork] Spiderkiss © 2000 by Barclay Shaw. Cover for the book by Harlan Ellison, published by Ace Books, 1981. Acrylic.
[Artwork] Gentleman Junkie © 2000 by Barclay Shaw. Cover for the book by Harlan Ellison, published by Ace Books, 1982. Acrylic.
[Artwork] Back Door Man © 2000 by Barclay Shaw. Cover for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1998. Digital.
[Artwork] Forced Entry © 2000 by Barclay Shaw. Digital, 1996.
[Photo] Barclay Shaw copyright © 2000 by David B. Mattingly
Barclay Shaw: a profile
by
Paul Chadwick
Illustrator Barclay Shaw has been one of the leading lights in sf illustration for nearly 20 years. His highest profile in the field was probably in the late 1980s and early 90s, if his Chesley awards and Hugo nominations (most, alas, during the years his friend Michael Whelan had an iron grip on the Best Artist award) are any guide. Recently, circumstance and his formidable computer skills have drawn him to work outside publishing. But the sf field is richer for his contributions.
I was lucky enough to know Barclay pretty well at this time. We’d both recently moved to Connecticut, and were part of a circle of sf illustrators who socialized. Tom Kidd, Victoria Lisi, David Mattingly, Kevin Johnson were also part of it. Whelan came to the summer parties occasionally, as did Rowena Morrill, Cortney Skinner, Jim Gurney, James Warhola, and others. Although a fairly contained man, Barc was the center of the group.
We’d talk art and careers and gossip. Tom and I had a way of rubbing Barc the wrong way with our callow confidence, opinionated views and competitiveness. At the time I wondered why Barc was so touchy; he was at the top of his field, hugely creative, with every reason to be proud and serene, it seemed. Now that I’m in my 40s (as Barc then was) I understand how nervous anxiety underlies every day of this phase of life. These twentysomethings who have it all figured out drive me up the wall. Sorry, Barc, I finally get it!
What I like is the way Barc’s anxieties—his shadow side, the Jungians would say—emerge in his work. Look through his images and see how many beautiful women are somehow being corrupted with corrosion, reptilian scales, hardware implants or other disfigurements. He loves snaky tubes, twisted vines, voluptuous goo, breakage and decay of every sort. He excels at technology treated as an aesthetic object, a reflection of his early training as a sculptor.
His sculpture gave him his first big career boost, in fact. He’d been struggling along with low-level sf illustration jobs. Then, at the 1980 Worldcon, he exhibited a fanciful desk made from walnut and poplar, but looking more like solidified wisps of ectoplasm. It went to auction. A bidding war ended with Harlan Ellison victorious. Harlan was so taken with it, and with Barc’s painting, that he insisted (over publisher resistance) Barc illustrate a series of reprints of Harlan’s work.
A great match it was. The vivid, symbolic images, playing off the titles, benefited from the tight rendering and love of surrealism that are a Shaw hallmark. They properly put across the literary sensibility of Ellison’s work-contemporary, angst-filled fantasy with little reliance on traditional fantasy elements. From then on, Barc had plenty of book cover work, soon from the top publishers in the field.
Too bad there aren’t more books calling for the approach the Ellison books featured. When Barc would do a straight sf adventure book, or a young adult choose-your-adventure title, it felt to me like Christopher Walken playing a role written for Robin Williams. Barc is better employed when illustrating Philip K. Dick (a favorite of his) or a high-profile anthology (like Full Spectrum) where he can do one of his surreal, symbolic montages.
Not that he isn’t a total pro. His women are beautiful, his heroes chiseled (Fabio was an occasional model), spaceships massive and he can do a Whelanesque turn when necessary, blue vistas and Doric columns. His covers for Asimov and Heinlein (which ingeniously incorporated a common central ovoid shape in an array of compositions) were done “straight” and done beautifully.
Several good collections of Barc’s work are available. A collector’s card set of 90 of his paintings was published by Friedlander Publishing Group, and available, last time I looked, from budplant.com. Second Nature Software released a screensaver: “Barclay Shaw’s Eclectic Collection.” And Paper Tiger published Electric Dreams: The Art of Barclay Shaw, which is especially enjoyable because of Barc’s candid and wry commentary. A number of websites feature his work. Start at barclayshaw.com, and follow the links.
Barc is a restless technologist. He devised an elaborate system to evacuate airbrush overspray from his studio (which looked as cool as it worked). Even his palette, I recall, was kind of teched-up: indented reservoirs of paint kept from evaporating by a sealing system. He did Herculean quantities of finishing work on his Connecticut house. He seems to do one major sculpture a year, involving all manner of fabrication techniques. And I shudder to think of what he’s spent on computer equipment over the years, first to manipulate his music, then his images.
Indeed, Computer Generated Imagery has largely supplanted the acrylic and oil paint images in Barc’s professional output. When Photoshop and 3D Studio Max and Electric Image became available, he couldn’t keep his hands off them. It’s led to work for the gaming industry, the Defense Department, and for software developers. And away, alas, from sf and fantasy.
I hope he comes back to the field now and then. But whether or not you do, Barc, the next time you’re doing some high-tech control center plan for the military, sneak in some snaky tubes—and maybe a decaying woman—for me.
[Photo] Jennifer Brehl
HarperCollins Publishers and Eos
Norwescon 23 is pleased and honored to announce HarperCollins Publishers and its science fiction and fantasy imprint Eos as our Spotlighted Publisher. Harper-Collins was founded in New York City in 1817 by the brothers James and John Harper and was, at that time, known as Harper Brothers. Today, HarperCollins Publishers is one of the largest English language publishers in the world, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corporation. The house of Mark Twain, the Bronte sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Maurice Sendak, HarperCollins is a broad-based publisher with strengths in academic, business and professional, general interest, and religious and spiritual books. InJuly 1999, HarperCollins acquired William Morrow and Avon Books, strengthening HarperCollins’s presence in the science fiction and fantasy, romance and mystery genres.
InJanuary 1998, Avon Books, under the leadership of publisher Lou Aronica (founder of Bantam Spectra), launched a new science fiction and fantasy imprint, Avon Eos. Prior to that time, Avon had published sf and fantasy under the AvoNova imprint. Avon Books, a paperback house, had released its AvoNova hardcovers in conjunction with its sister company William Morrow. In September 1996, Avon inaugurated its first hardcover list, becoming an allformat publisher with a full line of hardcover, trade paperback (original and reprint), and mass market (original and reprint) books. In an attempt to underscore the new publishing vision at Avon, the decision was made to start a new sf and fantasy imprint and thus Avon Eos (named for the Greek goddess of the dawn) was born. Avon Eos has published such authors as Gregory Benford, Dave Duncan, Raymond E. Feist, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Stephen R. Lawhead, Paul J. McAuley, Maureen F. McHugh, Michael Swanwick, and Sheri S. Tepper, among others.
John Silbersack founded HarperPrism, HarperCollins’s science fiction and fantasy imprint, in 1994. Since then, HarperPrism has published a stellar list of leading sf and fantasy writers including Stephen Baxter,
Greg Bear, David Brin, GJ. Cherryh, Greg Egan, Elizabeth Hand, Guy Gavriel Kay, Ursula K. Le Guin, Anne McCaffrey, Jack McDevitt, Terry Pratchett, Robert Silverberg, and Walter Jon Williams, among others.
With HarperCollins’s acquisition of Morrow/Avon, the decision was made to merge the companies' two sf imprints into one entity. And so HarperPrism and Avon Eos became Eos, combining the considerable strengths of both lists. Currently, Eos publishes an impressive list of the best science fiction and fantasy being written today. Eos releases fifteen hardcovers a year (five per season), three to four trade paperbacks, and 24 to 30 mass market paperbacks (original and reprint) a year.
Eos is committed to publishing the finest sf and fantasy, and includes on its list established stars as well as some of the most exciting new voices in the genre including Tony Daniel, Dennis Danvers, Kelley Eskridge, Jeffrey Ford, James Alan Gardner, Susan R. Matthews, Severna Park, and Kristine Smith, to name a few.
Upcoming releases from Eos include major new works from Lois McMaster Bujold, Sean Russell, Dan Simmons, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, and Martha Wells. As well, Morrow/Avon and HarperCollins are proud to publish other renowned authors outside of the core Eos list whose work has significant appeal to speculative fiction lovers, including Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, Terry Pratchett, and Neal Stephenson.
The “Eos Team” is comprised of Executive Editor Jennifer Brehl, Senior Editor Caitlin Blasdell, Editor Diana Gill, Editorial Assistant Devi Pillai, Publicity Manager Andy Heidel, Publicist Lindsay Lifrieri, Marketing Director Dominique D’Anna, and EosBooks website manager Hadija Aljuwani. Together this group is working to make Eos the premier publisher of science fiction and fantasy of the new millennium.
Jennifer Brehl is the Executive Editor of EOS, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisher. She began her career at Doubleday, where she was Isaac Asimov’s editor for 8 years. Since then, she has worked with authors such as Gregory Benford, Ray Bradbury Jeffrey Ford, Maureen F. McHugh, Tim Powers and Sheri Tepper. With the merger of Avon and Harper-Collins, she is now in charge of a very diverse line ranging from the hard science fiction of Steven Baxter to the intricate fantasy of Martha Wells. And of course, with the merger, she is in charge of the new Foundation Trilogy, written by our two of our GoH’s, Gregory Benford and David Brin, and Greg Bear.
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About Those Trimbles
by
Lora (nee Trimble) Boehm
By the time they met under Forrest J (no period) Ackerman’s grand piano, my parents, John Griffin Trimble and Betty Jo (Bjo) McCarthy knew that “science fiction fandom” was an intriguing life to study. Bjo started by revitalizing the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, and its journal, Shangri-L’Affaires, plus getting a Hugo nomination for her cartoons. John, as faithful sidekick in the fannish film, The Musquite Kid Rides Again, married director Bjo in mid-movie, as shown by the wedding ring that mysteriously appears on his left hand. Together they attended many arcane “fannish” events known as “conventions” and even chaired a few Westercons, Filmcons and Equicons.
My parents introduced me into fandom at an early age, while they originated and directed Worldcon Art Shows. By the early 1960s they had taught my sister and me to sleep in many extremes: in cramped cars with lots of other people and luggage, heading across country to a con; under registration tables; in noisy party areas; in strange hotel beds. They taught me how to collate and staple “fanzines” in uncounted miles of circulating our own dining room table. I learned the grueling task of hanging art show burlap structures—I can wing-nut with the best!
Then in the late 1960s, they spearheaded a brilliant letter writing campaign to save a simple TV show, with nearly instantaneous contact with thousands of fans worldwide. They self-published my mother’s book, a new venue to pass information to fans, encoded in such a way that laymen— ''mundanes" in fan-language—could not understand; genius, pure genius. I could only watch, help, and learn.
Meanwhile, I learned the art of camouflage in inventive costumes, first at “con” masquerades, then in the SCA. My parents made a lasting contribution by instituting the masquerade division system so newbies had as good a chance at prizes as experienced costumers. My father acted twice on the SCA Board of Directors, and my mother set up the SCA-wide chirurgeonate. I learned discipline as a knight’s squire, and as the SCA’s only 10-year-old Princess. I also watched endless hours of hand-to-hand combat, studying every move; it came in handy a couple of times when I started dating.
The 1980s saw all the Trimbles in “clown” training for the Special Olympics, where my sister was an avid—and medal-winning—athlete. Special Friends clown group spent hours in the hot sun in costume and makeup, learning not to think that anyone was too disabled to be “helpless.” These people taught me strength of will and the need to achieve.
My parent’s campaign to save the space program and name the shuttle put us in contact with more fans, while we put our collating, folding, stapling and stamping experience to work on up to 23,000 pieces of mail on our dining room table. Being one of the Trimbles introduced me to some of the greatest minds of our time, met at these cons, or in space groups, and when fans from all over the world stayed with us. Our house was Grand Central Trimble, and for good reason; many a Hollywood hopeful slept on our couch and ate mom’s spaghetti. It sometimes seemed very strange to my friends that I had such unusual parents, but I loved every minute. Now, at the turn of a new millennium, 1 feel proud to have graduated from their indoctrination program, and am ready to serve with the proud, the few, the insane.
Steve Adams is an artist/illustrator/cartoonist and all around art whore—he’ll draw anything for money! While his most recent pro contract has been providing graphics for CBT’s (Computer Based Training Programs) in the airline industry (Boeing and Airbus), he is still found doing everything from comic books, to sf/f painting, computer art, and is the current art director for Westwind. He has been published by several comic publishers, has several art awards to his credit, and a recent degree in computer graphics and animation.
Dave R. Addleman has sold over 89 short stories. Two mystery novels were published on audio tape in late 1998: Irrevocable Trust and A Contract on Stone. A third mystery, Shy Guy, will be out in early 1999. Two additional novels: The Osmian Search, (sf) and Witch Hunter, (fantasy) are also out. Dave is a charter member of the Fairwood Writers Group in Kent, Washington, and teaches fiction writing at Renton Technical College. He competes in masters swimming and holds a black belt in Uechi Ryu karate. Dave lives in Auburn, Washington, with his wife, Deborah, and his ten-year-old son, Paul.
Toni Anzetti’s interest in biology began at age 3, when she collected a bucket of assorted amphibians and turned them loose in the tent where she was living with her parents and younger brother. In a later experiment, she and her brother tried to raise tadpoles and instead created a jar filled with methane-producing bacteria. While her brother subsequently became a professional biologist, Toni followed the less orthodox path of the science fiction writer. Her novel, Typhon’s Children, has been nominated for the Philip K. Dick award. A sequel, Riders of the Leviathan, will be published in October 2000. She is currently working on Steel Helix, set in the same universe but not on the same planet.
Constance Ash, editor of the Philip K. Dick Award nominated Not of Woman Born, lives in New York City with her husband.
Blythe Ayne, Ph.D., has had hundreds of poems and short stories published. In an alternate reality, she’s a therapist in private practice, and as both writer and therapist she’s had considerable experience teaching and learning the myriad advantages of maintaining healthy self-esteem.
Born and raised in Southern California, Steve Barnes currently resides in the Northwest because, in his own words, “the con dances are better up here.” Author of thirty novels and television episodes (ranging from Outer Limits to Baywatch), he is now working on an alternate history novel, Insh" Allah, which is his pride and joy. His web page is www.lifewrite.com.
William Barton is the author of Hunting on Kunderer, A Plague of Cowards, Dark Sky Legion, and When Heaven Fell. Two novels, The Transmigration of Souls and Acts of Conscience, were nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. This year, When We Were Real is nominated for the award.
Donna Barr has been having fun at Nor-wescon for years. Some of you may remember the days of the notorious Desert Peach skits, that served both to add to the entertainment at the cons, and to publish her books, The Desert Peach. She spends most of her travel on trade shows, these days, but Norwescon introduced her to the sf/ fantasy con, and she tries to take time out of her busy schedule every year to come enjoy the company of friends, colleagues and readers. A Fine Line Press continues to publish her books, which have gained a loyal and worldwide audience, and won many awards. Her background in languages, literature, world mythologies and religion, history and her original artwork, based on a personal interpretation of classical art. The best place to see her work is at www.stinz.com, or contact her directly at donnabarr@silverlink.net She’s always answered any reader mail. Write if you have comments or questions or to just say “hi!”
Stephen Baxter, raised in Liverpool, has a mathematics degree from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. from Southampton. Stephen sold his first short stories to Interzone in 1986 and is a prizewinner in the Writers of the Future contest. His novels include Raft, Timelike Infinity, Anti-Ice, Flux, Ring, and Voyage.
His novel The Time Ships was awarded the Philip K. Dick Award in 1997. Vacuum Diagrams is nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award this year.
Greg Bear is the proud owner of two Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. Greg’s novels include Blood Music, Eon, The Forge of God, Moving Mars, Anvil of the Stars, and the second book in the Second Foundation Trilogy, Foundation & Chaos.
A long, long, time ago in a college campus not so far away, Barbara Beden-Hill, an unsuspecting sophomore, accepted an invitation to be transported over the border for immoral purposes. She attended her first con (a V-Con), won Best of Show in the masquerade and acquired yet two more obsessions: costuming and conventions. The next year, against her better judgment, she attended Norwescon 2, and, as they say, “The Rest Is History.” Over the years obsessions have come and gone, but a few remain constant: books, sewing, books, family, books, live action role playing, books, gardening, and books. Barbara eventually got her college degree (science education) and went on to do a variety of panels at different cons (science, costuming, gaming—just about anything they asked her to do). She currently lives in Snohomish county with one husband, three sons, one cat, one dog, a tank of fish, two degus and a mortgage.
Dennis Bergum is known around conventions for his walking sticks, canes, and fantasy sculptures. His sculptures vary from sculpey-like materials to pewter and bronze. He is also a well known Tarot and numerology reader on AOL and the world wide web. Normally found in the dealers room, this year he plans to just enjoy the convention.
Jack Beslanwitch has been reading, writing and hanging around science fiction conventions for many years, involving himself in many worth while projects related to fandom. Recent participation includes being the webmaster for the Norwescon website, the Westercon 50 and Westercon 52 sites as well as Northwest Science Fiction Resources (www. sfnorthwest.org), the Northwest Science Fiction Society (www.nwsfs.org) and forwriters.com (www.forwriters.com) a site for writers that also includes Writers Notebook and Writers Workbook. He is the founder of the Seattle HTML SIG (www.halcyon.com/seasigi/html.html) and while not chasing around conventions, he is running his own web design business, Web Witchery Consulting (www.webwitch.com). He is also the bid chair for bringing Westercon 56 to western Washington in 2003 (www.webwitch. com/westercon56).
Joe Bethancourt was raised mostly in the Southern Appalacians, in North Carolina, and absorbed the music almost from the time he could walk.
He began learning banjo at age 9, after he heard his grandfather, C.H. Burnett, playing fiddle. His first banjo was given to him by his grandfather. When his family moved to Phoenix in 1961, Joe began learning guitar, hanging around coffeehouses, mariachi bands, bluegrass groups, and a place called “J.D.’s,” where he would sneak in to listen to a local guy called Waylon Jennings. He has worked as a pro musician since 1964. He plays, at current count, over 64 different stringed instruments, both modern and medieval, and is a walking library of traditional American and Irish music.
Joe was introduced to hiking by Bjo Trimble, who knew him from his activities within the SCA. Joe is known in the SCA as “Joseph of Locksley,” and his CD with Leslie Fish, Serious Steel, is a best seller in that group.
Joe’s tape of the songs from Manly Wade Wellman’s “Silver John” stories, called Who Fears the Devil, is an acknowledged masterwork. Joe is also a fan of H.P. Lovecraft, and operates the famed “Campus Crusade for Cthulhu” web page.
Bon vivant, raconteur, woman about town, and evil sword wielding dominatrix of the pesky space time continuum, Betty Bigelow is an old fan (119 and counting) best known for her award-winning costuming and her singing and dancing Klingon halftime reviews.
Betty is also an artist (under the nom de paintbrush of Rena Bassilvergoran) who works in a variety of media. She has also studied belly dance, flamenco, and Middle Eastern ethnic dance for 27 years. She is artistic director of Shahrazad Middle Eastern Dance Ensemble.
Dave Bigelow is a writer of science fiction short stories. He belongs to the Seattle writers group known as “The Ink Slingers,” and had a story included in the 1994 Worldcon (Winnipeg) program book.
Lisa Jean Bothell has been involved with independent publishing since the publication of her first science fiction novel, Nashramh: The Red Thread in 1984. She also authored Nashramh: The Blue Thread, and co-authored two more Nashramh novels with local Seattle authors. She has had numerous short stories and articles published in Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, Speculations, The Urbanite, Heart Attack, Neophyte, Scavenger’s Newsletter, and The Magic Within. In 1991, Lisa developed the quarterly Heliocentric Net Magazine which she turned into the Heliocentric Net/STIG-MATA Anthology (currently on hiatus); she also created and now edits the bimonthly Writer’s Network newsletter. She is currently studying graphic design and will pursue illustration in addition to writing.
Brannon Boren has been a free-lance writer in the RPG industry since 1991. Growing up in the shadow of Saturn V rockets in Cape Canaveral gave him a healthy interest in science and science fiction which soon spread to comic books and role playing games. If diagnosed early he might have been helped. Although he claims that he has a life, and is not a geek, chances are that he really doesn’t, and really is.
Born in Seattle, Adam Buckner has spent the last six years in Hollywood creating visual effects for film and television. He was nominated for the Emmy Awards for his work on the final episode of the Star Trek series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Adam has also won the International Monitor Award for Best Visual Effects on the Deep Space Nine episode “A Call to Arms,” the season finale during his first year at Paramount Pictures. Other credits include such shows as Babylon 5, Xena, Hercules, and Legend.
Gail J. Butler was born in Marin County, California (an Air Farce—er—Air Force brat). She moved involuntarily from coast to coast with her family until they settled in Cheney, Washington in 1962. Gail escaped from Cheney in 1983 and now lives in Everett with Theo Williams, Rustycon’s former chief vidiot. Gail describes herself as a “biophile and frustrated technophile” (in other words, she domesticates any passing life-form and wishes she had better techno-toys). Best known for the “Embassy” series of fantasy paintings, Gail has illustrated for Analog and MZB’s Fantasy Magazine (including the cover of issue 14). In her theoretical free time, she’s Jewish-mother-by-default to much of Northwest art-fandom.
Ted D. Butler is an emerging technology analyst and computer virus specialist who has had several short stories published. His first novel won an award at the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Conference. A second novel is in the works.
William H. Calvin, Ph.D., is the author of ten nonfiction books on brains and evolution, including How Brains Think. He is a theoretical neurobiologist on the faculty of the University of Washington. He is the author of The Atlantic Monthly cover story, “The Great Climate Flip-flop,” on abrupt changes in the earth’s climate. He is a science advisor to the forthcoming NOVA TV series, Evolution, and a member of the Board of Advisors to the Foundation for the Future.
Growing up, Russell D. Campbell always liked to doodle. His mother recently gave him a drawing he did in 3rd grade of a manned landing on Mars! It’s raw looking but somehow he never stopped being creative. Maybe that means he hasn’t “grown up?” He started showing his art to the public with a Christmas card of a dragon in a Santa suit. He followed that with participation in a convention show in 1988. After that, all manner of oddities spewed from his imagination.
Best known, thus far, for his pen and ink work, Russ also works in other media. His work is fanciful, often humorous, usually fantasy oriented. Just for good measure he occasionally lets a nightmare escape his mind onto paper as well. He also does various needle crafts, loves to cook, and works full-time as a professional web developer. He recently finished a master of science degree in applied information management.
At conventions you may find him giving demos, wandering the dealers room or art show, or several other places. And if, in the evening, you see a fellow with a grey goatee, somewhat resembling a musketeer, carrying a large blue-ish drinking horn… say “hi!” and join him in the search for truth (or ale).
Amy Sterling Casil’s fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Zoetrope: Allstory, the Writers of the Future anthologies, Talebones and Pulp Eternity. She has been an active member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America since 1995.
She is a 1984 graduate of the prestigious Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop. She has written hundreds of articles on writing and literature in dozens of publications. She currently writes and edits the monthly Science Fiction and Fantasy market newsletter for Writers Club on the web (http://www.iuniverse.com).
Her short fiction has received Nebula Award recommendations and Honorable Mentions in the Year’s Best Science Fiction and the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies. She is the only four-time finalist and one-time winner in the Writers of the Future contest.
She teaches writing and literature at UC Riverside and Chapman University in addition to various online courses through Writers Club and NovelAdvice.com.
Author Dave Wolverton has called her work “powerful” and “compelling.” Her friend and mentor, World Fantasy Awardwinning novelist James Blaylock said, “I’ve been a professional writer myself for over twenty years, but I’d be happy to take a creative writing class if Amy were the teacher.”
Frank Catalano has a diverse background in writing and technology. A veteran technology strategist and analyst, Frank has advised many top-tier companies on business and Internet strategy over the past decade, including McGraw-Hill, PC Data, Apple Computer, Silicon Graphics, and several others. He has been an executive at Seattle-based Internet start-up iCopyright.com and held management positions at Egghead Software and the Apple Programmers and Developers Association.
In addition to consulting, he currently is Tech Editor for KCPQ-TV 13 Fox Seattle, providing tech industry commentary and analysis in regular segments on both Q13 Reports@Ten and Mornings Live on Q.
Frank wrote the popular “Byte Me” columns for more than four years in Seattle Weekly and Eastsideweek. His essays have appeared in Orange County Weekly, Minneapolis City Pages, ClickZ, Omni, The Seattle Times, Windows Watcher, Computer Retail Week, Inside Multimedia, and many others. He’s also the co-author of Marketing Online for Dummies, published in 1998.
Prior to working in the technology industry, Frank was a broadcast news reporter and anchor for a dozen years, including a long-term stint with King Broadcasting in Seattle, where his work received several United Press International, Associated Press, and Society of Professional Journalists honors. He also was an active science fiction writer in the 1980s, with work appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Analog, Amazing, and Omni, and he served as secretary for the Science Fiction Writers of America.
He can be reached at frank@frankcatalano.com.
Paul Chadwick grew up in Bellevue, WA. His early cartoons appeared in fanzines including Science Fiction Review. He majored in illustration at Art Center College of Design. Afterwards, he drew movie storyboards for Disney, Lucasfilm and other studios; painted advertising posters for films and book covers for Jack Vance, Tanith Lee, Gordon Dickson and many others; and served as production designer for the film After Midnight. He’s best known for his comics series Concrete, winner of many awards and currently being developed as a film by Disney Studios. His comics series The World Below, sf adventure set in the strange, vast world beneath Washington state, concludes this month, and he is now working on new Concrete projects. He now lives in the San Juans, but knew Artist Guest Barclay Shaw pretty well when they both lived in Connecticut.
Starting out in life by jumping out of top hats, and having her head cut off repeatedly (super glue was a must in her family) and also disappearing as if by magic, has given Wendy Chauteau a unique outlook on life. The daughter of stage magicians prompted her to look at life, as well as clothing, differently. Watching stage shows as a child, she yearned to make that unique and feathery costume style her life. As a Master class costumer in Norwescon, she has left enough feathers around the halls to have some people come up with feather masks made from her moltings. She has chaired Rustycon twice and has been on the Board of Directors for the same convention. Now, as an artist, she has taken a unique attitude towards life, doing henna body painting, canvas work, designing, painting longhorn steer horns, and making a wonderful drinking horn using lions, tigers, dragons and all sort of real and mythical creatures. In asking a friend (Sheila Green) about her, Sheila replied with a few comments: L Manages to entice unsuspecting souls to fandom. (giggle); 2. One helluva great friend; 3. Sexiest smile; 4. Extensive sf video collection that helps to lure unsuspecting souls to fandom; 5. Raised a very beautiful, talented daughter; 6. Can be a Power Ranger when called upon. (“I know, I’ve seen her in action”); 7. Can throw together a fantastic winning costume with scraps of material laying around the house (so that’s what she did with the old kitchen sink!); 8. “The most fun I’ve ever had in my life was living next door to Wendy. She opened up a new world for me and I’m forever in her debt (yes, I am one of many unsuspecting souls)”. Wendy lives in Everett with her husband Frank, 2 dogs and 9 cats.
Teramis is a writer of erotica, a public speaker and BDSM essayist active in the leather and alternative life-style communities in San Francisco. Published under the name of Deborah Christian, she has authored Mainline, Kar Kalim, and The Truthsayer’s Apprentice, and is presently working on the second book of the Loregiver series. She is a former role playing game designer, an Army vet, and an occasional systems consultant when supporting her writing habit. She is involved in a new art foundation and creative projects that present positive portrayals of leatherfolk.
James Clemens was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1961. With his three brothers and three sisters, he was raised in the Midwest and rural Canada. There, he explored cornfields, tadpoles, and frozen ponds, dreaming of worlds and adventures beyond the next bend in the creek.
Eventually, forced to grow up, he went to school at the University of Missouri where he graduated with a doctorate in veterinary medicine in 1985. Presently, he shares his home with two Dalmatians, a stray Shepherd, and a love-sick parrot named Igor.
Wit’ch Fire, was his first novel, followed by Wit’ch Storm and the upcoming novel, Wit’ch War. He is currently hard at work on the fourth installment of his fantasy series.
James Clemens also writes a series of sci-entific/archaeological thrillers under the penname “James Rollins.” These novels include Subterranean, and this upcoming summer’s Excavation.
Lisa R. Cohen’s fiction has appeared in Pulphouse, F&SF, Story and Realms of Fantasy and has received honorable mentions in the Year’s Best SF and Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies. She has written book reviews for the online magazine Science Fiction Weekly and trivia games for SciFi channel’s Mindprobe. Her current fascinations include professional wrestling, knitting, filmmaking, cooperative publishing, throat-singing, and pornography.
Stoney Compton, a new resident of Washington state, is a visual information specialist for NOAA in Seattle. He spent three decades in Alaska before finally tiring of winter. He has had three short works see print and currently is flogging asf novella and an historical novel.
Amazing Stories Managing Editor Sue Weinlein Cook handles day-to-day operations for the magazine, including working with shared-world licensors and developing authors. After several newspaper jobs, she decided she didn’t really want to become Lois Lane and instead went on to work in book publishing for TSR, Inc. and as an editor and later creative director of Dragonlance role playing games. In addition to her role with Amazing Stories, she also serves as content manager of the Wiz-ards of the Coast website (www. wizards.com) and has had several short stories published.
Monte Cook started working professionally in the game industry in 1988. In the employ of Iron Crown Enterprises, he worked with the Rolemaster and Champions games as an editor, developer, and designer. In 1994, Monte went to work for TSR as a game designer. Now a senior game designer with Wizards of the Coast, he has just completed the new Dungeon Master’s Guide for the third edition of Dungeon’s and Dragons. A graduate of Clarion West Writers' Workshop, Monte has also had short stories published and a novel, The Glass Prison. He is working on a new novel to be published next year. In his spare time, he runs anywhere from one to three games per week, holds a yearly game convention at his house, builds vast dioramas out of Lego building bricks, and reads a lot of comics.
Greg Cox is the author of numerous media tie-in books, including Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Q Continuum, X-men/ Avengers: Gamma Quest, and Battle On!: An Unauthorized, Irreverent Look At Xena: Warrior Princess. His most recent Star Trek story appears in the current issue of Amazing Stories magazine, and the third book in his Gamma Quest trilogy will see print (finally!) in June 2000.
A veteran of the Clarion West science fiction writing workshop, Greg now lives in New York City, where he works as a Consulting Editor for Tor Books.
John Cramer’s latest hard sf novel Einstein’s Bridge (Avon, 1997) is now available as a $3.99 Avon paperback. It’s about particle physics, wormholes, alien contact, time travel, and the killing of the Superconducting Supercollider project. John’s first hard sf novel Twistor (Morrow, 1989), also out as a new Avon paperback, twice earned him John W. Campbell Award nominations as best new sf writer. Since 1984 he has written the bimonthly science-fact column, “The Alternate View” for Analog Science Fiction/Fact and recently submitted his 102nd column.
John is a Professor of physics at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he leads a research program in ultra-relativistic heavy ion physics, participating in experiments at the CERN in Geneva, Switzerland and Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, NY. His work on the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics (see http://www.npl. washington.edu/ti) was featured in John Gribbin’s 1995 science-fact book Schroedinger’s Kittens and Paul Preuss' recent sf novel Secret Passages. John also works in high-energy astrophysics. Reprints of John’s Analog columns and selected physics publications, as well as information about his novels, can be found at his web site at http://faculty. washington.edu/jcramer.
Kathryn Cramer is a writer and anthologist presently doing website design. She won a World Fantasy Award for best anthology for The Architecture of Fear co-ed-ited with Peter Pautz; she was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for her anthology, Walls of Fear. She co-edited several anthologies of Christmas and fantasy stories with David G. Hartwell but her most recent book is a huge anthology of hard sf, The Ascent of Wonder, co-edited with David G. Hartwell. She was a runner-up for the Pioneer Award for best essay on sf of the year, and is on the editorial board of The New York Review of Science Fiction, of which she is also the Art Director. Her dark fantasy hypertext, In Small and Large Pieces, was published by Eastgate Systems, Inc. She was named on a list of the 50 most important people in hypertext/electronic literature. She lives in Pleasantville, NY where in 1997 she became the mother of Peter Henry Cramer Hartwell.
Joy Day is a professional artist specializing in landscape, astronomy, science fiction and fantasy painting. She is represented in galleries internationally and her work has been published on CD-ROMs, prints, bookmarks, postcards and notecards. Although she has a fine arts degree from Purdue University, she is entirely self taught in her painting technique of reverse painting on glass.
Her glass technique produces vibrant, brilliant eye-catching works by the dangerously delicate art of painting directly onto the underside of a sheet of glass, instead of onto the front of paper or canvas. Multiple layers of glass are sometimes used to achieve added depth, gold leaf for iridescence and vibrancy and esoteric materials for texture and translucence. Shards of glass, razor blades, ice picks and scalpels transform otherwise flat colors into intriguing texture and detail. Portions of paintings are even set on fire, producing dramatic results—and a great whooshing sound.
She has won awards for her stunning artworks and has been invited coast to coast to give presentations and demonstrations of this rare technique.
A.M. Dellamonica has been a rape crisis worker, theater technician, piccolo diva, burglar alarm monitor, guerilla secretary and actor. A resident of Vancouver, BC, where she lives with the most wonderful woman in the world, she is a member of the Fangs of God writer’s workshop. She is also a student of ki aikido.
Current grooves include the history of Quebec, medical trivia and epidemiology. She is at work on a novel and her most recent appearances in print have been in Realms of Fantasy and the Best of Crank! anthology.
Elisabeth DeVos left high school to become a ballerina, left dance to get a computer science degree, and left software engineering to write uncategorizable science fiction/fantasy. Her debut novel, The Seraphim Rising, draws on her experiences growing up amid Central Florida’s amusement parks, space shuttles, and mammoth churches. Recently she made her first short fiction sale to Talebones. Several years before that, Elisabeth and her husband escaped the sunshine, tourists and humidity by moving to the Seattle area, where she is now at work on her second novel.
Photo © 1999 by Dominic Bonuccelli
David Doering is a free-lance journalist in the computer industry. He’s been an editor of a regional sf magazine, three-time chair of Provo’s annual con, twenty-year fan of conventions, Head of the Utah Costumers Guild, president of TechVoice (a communications consulting firm), and has had every story he’s ever submitted published. His most recent fiction has appeared in the anthology Washed by a Wave of Wind.
Keri Lyn Doering is a noted costumer who has won awards at every level: here at Norwescon, regional conventions and finally at Worldcon. Her first costume appeared at the San Francisco Worldcon (1993), which she entered only because no one ever told her how difficult it was to compete at that level. She is currently president of the Utah Costumers Guild. Keri runs her own costuming, quilting and sewing business in Utah.
Guerilla poet, playwright and storyteller, Andrew Dolbeck has been active at Norwescon for many years. He has written six full-length plays, and many shorter ones, usually with fantasy or historical themes. Many of his plays have been produced locally on a semi-professional level. He has also acted and directed in community theater productions, and has told stories (both his own and folktales) professionally. For his most recent trick, he has managed the poetic and scripting arts to write his most recent play, Love Amongst the Lost, entirely in verse.
Nathan G. Doster has been active as an educator, writer and game designer. He has contributed to collectible card games, miniatures and board games, and computer game designs. He is currently living on the central coast of California and working on the sequel to the game The Quest for Piptwynn’s Scroll, and the book Boonya’s Epic Adventure.
Richard A. Edwards, also known as Sir Richard Fitzalan, Baron in the Society for Creative Anachronism has been writing poetry in many historical forms for several years and has published two chapbooks of his poems. In addition to various newsletters published by several branches of the Society for Creative Anachronism, the nationally known Renaissance Magazine has also published several of his poems.
Professionally he is a librarian and researcher. His web site for The Ella Wheeler Wilcox Society (a Victorian-era American poet) at: http://192.211.16.13/individu-als/edwardsr/ella/ellahome.htm is internationally recognized.
His personal poetry web page is located at: http://192.211.16.13/individuals/ edwardsr/poetry.htm
Milo Duke has been an artist working in the Northwest for over 20 years. He has exhibited in galleries and museums regionally and nationally, and his work has appeared on program, magazine, book, and CD covers. He was a founding member of the Dharmic Engineers. In Seattle, he is represented by the Davidson Galleries, and he is currently an instructor of painting at the Academy of Realist Art. His most recent work is the “Book of Orpheus,” a graphic novelette in woodcuts. Excerpts of his works in progress can be seen at his web site, “Milo Duke’s Library of Alexandria,” www.halcyon.com/ mduke/.
Lee Elfman is a multitalented artist and writer, working in a variety of mediums. She holds degrees in graphic arts, multimedia design, and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts. She is the lead CGI artist for a local movie production company. Her art includes colored pencil, pen and ink, and painting in various styles. She is primarily a computer animation artist, having produced numerous shorts, special effects, and several children’s games. She is also a fanzine writer and plays electric bass on the side. She met her husband through the con circuit and was married in a Klingon ceremony—the bride’s dowry was 500 gold-wrapped chocolate bars! She has a wicked sense of humor and an excellent set of ears, so if you’re not careful about what you say and do around her, you just might end up as a parody in one of her drawings or animation pieces. So warns The Elf!
Since January 1996 Elton Elliott has served as Chairman, President, and cofounder of VA Technologies, Inc., a company specializing in digital projection systems for the entertainment industry.
Elton, a former magazine publisher and editor, is a novelist, anthologist, essayist, poet, playwright, lecturer, and public relations consultant, whose work has been featured or mentioned in publications ranging from Amazing Stories to Scientific American.
He served as editor for his latest book, Nanodreams (Baen Books, August 1995), an anthology of stories and essays on nanotechnology. Dr. Gregory Benford, in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (May 1995), called Nanodreams a good example of “firm thinking,” and Scientific American (April 1996) observed that it explores “the societal implications of a nanotechnological future.”
He currently is working on two story cycles, one set on an Alderson Disc, and the other in the same universe as “Lighting Candles On The River Styx” (Amazing, March 1991).
Craig E. Engler is the executive producer for scifi.com, the website of the SciFi Channel. He is the former owner and editor of Science Fiction Weekly, the leading online source for sf news and reviews, which he sold to SciFi in 1999. Craig has written about science fiction for publications ranging from Wired to Yahoo! Internet Life, and he has also served as a consulting sf&f editor for Amazon.com.
James Ernest became known in the Northwest as a comic juggler, then as a graphic artist, and is now known best as the presi-dent of Cheapass Games. Since 1996, James has created more than three dozen games for Cheapass, and has also designed games for other companies including Slag-Blah Entertainment and Wizards of the Coast. He currently lives at his office, which is just fine, because he also works at home.
Alan Fairies lives in Fairie, MT with his furry critter’s and the other fairies. He started writing some years ago and now he has worked on a fanzine, Spacecadets and Dreamers, for a year and has some stories floating around the net here and there. He love’s his friends and has put one or two of them in some very interesting stories! You know who you are! He has many niece’s and nephew’s and spoils them all the time. He has three godchildren— Cassanbra, Sebashtin, and his sister, Zoe.
Craig Figley is a sf artist from the eastern Washington area who fills his life with family, artistic pursuits, the Internet, reading and music. Somewhere amongst all that, he also earns a living as a school psychologist, is active in his church, and even manages to help coach youth soccer. Norwescon regulars know him for his artwork, which has won various awards over the years, his participation on a wide-range of panels (everything from Alien Psychology to Xenophobia in Science Fiction), his convention T-shirt designs and his tendency to lurk in unexpected places. Craig was recently Art Guest of Honor at Rustycon 15 and is prone to dropping names rather shamelessly; he has successfully monopolized several Norwescon Art Guests of Honor for hours at a time, all in the worthwhile cause of learning another artistic trick or two. An old hand with the airbrush and a veteran of several art demos at Norwescon, he is remembered as the guy who once blew up his airbrush hose after unwittingly setting the line pressure at 1800 psi. He is glad to be attending Norwescon this year and looks forward to renewing old acquaintances among the science fiction faithful.
Mel Gilden has written kid’s books, licensed books (three-and-a-half Star Trek novels; 11 Beverly Hills, 90210 novelizations; assorted movie tie-in titles); and episodes of HeMan, Smurfs, James Bond Jr., The Mask, and many other animated TV shows. Adult novels—meaning grown-up, not dirty—include Surfing Samurai Robots and its two sequels. He is a frequent contributor to the Kids Reading Room page of the Los Angeles Times, and for five years he was co-host of Los Angeles' premier science fiction radio program, Hour-25. He is a hopeless Trekkie and lover of old radio.
Since 1989, Steven L. Gillett has been a research professor at the Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, where he’s worked on Paleozoic paleomagnetism, Lunar resources, and seismic risk at Yucca Mountain, NV, the proposed high-level nuclear waste repository. He also teaches intro geology classes including one on planetary geology. Most recently he has focused on molecular nanotechnology as applied to environmental and resource issues, and is even currently funded to do so. Gillett also writes speculative science articles for places like Analog (most recently “Unresources,” 9/99, and “Diamond Ether, Nanotechnology—And Venus,” 11/ 99). His book World-Building, a how-to guide to designing a planet, was published by Writer’s Digest Press in spring 1996. He has also written fiction, often in collaboration. Gillett has a B.S. in geology from Caltech and a Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook.
A Writers of the Future grand prize winner (WotF vol 1. VII), James C. Glass has sold over thirty stories to a variety of magazines including Analog, Aboriginal S.F., and Talebones. Shanji, his first novel in mass paperback form, came out last year from Baen Books. Four novels are available in audio editions from Books in Motion, and a selection of his stories can be found on the web at www.alexlit.com.
Jim now writes full-time after recently retiring from a 35 year career as an academic. His research during that career was in molecular biophysics and superconductivity. He and wife, Gail, live in Spokane, and are often see at Northwestern cons.
When she isn’t protecting the castle from mercenaries with Clan Carn (Oh wait! We’re the mercs…), Cheryl Glover will be found building new costumes, dodging errant pins and picking fur bits off the couch. This closet “meeper” has been building costumes since the mid '80s and has recently been the target of furry creature sightings in convention hallways and stages. In her vast amounts of “spare time” (ha) she also dabbles in carpentry, personal web design & acrylic painting, and vows to someday finish a piece of artwork.
In the past David Graham has done programs on the Japanese space program and the Artemis Society. He has written on the use of civil engineering technologies (as opposed to aerospace technology) in Lunar environments. Several of his concepts received awards from the Space Exploration Initiative of the National Space Council and several of his submissions were written up in NASA’s Stafford Report.
Current projects are launching Woolly Mammoth Press, a web-based e-publish-ing and CD effort.
Evelyn Gratrix is the Associate Editor of Indigenous Fiction. She writes fantasy, science fiction, and children’s stories. Her short fiction has been published in the small press. Her current projects include Indigenous Fiction, dark fantasy short stories, and a fantasy novel set in ancient Mesopotamia.
Evelyn is a native Washingtonian and graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S.E.E. (metamorphosing her freshman year from a music major to engineering). She describes herself as “a woman of a certain age” whose avocations include music, ancient history, mythology, and her children.
John R. Gray III (member ASFA) has been showing his artwork at convention art shows nationally since 1981. At these shows he has taken a number of awards, including Best Fantasy, Best Color, Best Use of Humor, Most Unusual Concept, and Director' Choice.
Publishing history includes book and cassette covers, a series of fantasy bookplates, CD-ROM fantasy clip art collections, gaming books and illustrations in various convention program books and fan publications.
Roberta Gregory has been creating strange stuff ever since she first picked up a Crayola. The latest issue (#27) of her notorious comic book, Naughty Bits, visits the 14th century, where Bitchy Bitch is a witch! She has finally published the second part of her graphic novel, Winging It: A Work of Fantasy (for want of a better term to describe something starring angels, horned beasts, anthropomorphic winged horses, and one very confused human being!) And now she’s fooling around with animation.
Jon Gustafson has two bachelor’s degrees, one in fine arts and the other in education. He now works primarily as an editor and art appraiser.
Active in Northwest convention activities, he edited the program book for the 1993 Seattle Westercon, edited the 1992 MagiCon (Worldcon) program book, which was called (by people other than himself, even) the best Worldcon program book ever created, and the 1994 Winnipeg Worldcon program book. In 1988, he edited the MosCon 10 program book, called by Algis Budrys the best convention program book ever produced.
He was one of the founding members of many organizations, including ASFA (the Association of Science Fiction/Fan-tasy Artists), the Northwest Convention League, PESFA (the Palouse Empire Science Fiction Association), MosCon, the Moscow Moffia Writers' Program, Writer’s Bloc, and J. Martin & Associates Literary Agency.
In 1976, he entered professional publishing by writing a history of sf art for Brian Ash’s The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1977). In 1978, he wrote sf artists' biographies for Peter Nicholl’s The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1979; a Hugo winner) and added more bios for the updated, award-winning version of it (1994). He wrote artists' biographies for James Gunn’s New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Viking, 1988) and edited a large fiction anthology titled Rat Tales (Pulphouse Press, 1994).
In 1986, his first work of fiction appeared in Writers of the Future, Volume II anthology, and he has had fiction appear in the legendary The Moscow Moffia Presents Rat Tales anthology and Figment. His first book was a biography: CHROMA: The Art of Alex Schomburg. Jon recently completed editing a series of eight science fiction/fantasy art CD-ROMs. In 1997 he was nominated for a Chesley Award, ASFA’s equivalent of the Hugo Award. He is married to best-selling author V.E. (Vicki) Mitchell.
Rhias K. Hall is the horror and poetry editor for Alexandria Digital Literature, http:/ /www.alexlit.com. She also holds a seat on the board of directors for the Seattle Star Wars Society, and is a member of the Camarilla: a vampire fan organization. In addition to her other activities, she is working on several projects which include the creation a newsletter for the Museum of Death (located in Hollywood, CA.), and a fully annotated script for the film Velvet Goldmine.
Amy Axt Hanson has personally interviewed Apple Computer founder Steve Wozniak, Nobel laureate Glenn T. Seaborg, and Bob Hope in her many years as a science writer at newspapers, magazines, and the “Bill Nye the Science Guy” TV show. Before all that, she was a microbiologist; after all that, she inflicted herself on the good folks at Clarion West. She now has a career as a “do-it-yourselfer,” learning to side houses, caulk windows, teach bio labs, raise children, and write the kind of novel she’s been looking for all these years. (The novel is not yet done, but the house is finally weatherproofed.) In other activities, she helps organize the amazingly wonderful writers—and artists track programming at Wiscon, the feminist science fiction/fantasy convention in Madison, Wisconsin (May 26–29— www.sf3.org/wiscon).
Norman E. Hartman lives in Tigard, Oregon. He is comfortably semi-retired, and his primary occupation these days consists of writing his book review column, “Norm’s Notes,” which appears about four times a year on his web page at: www.teleport.com/nhartman/ normsnotes.com His most recent appearance in print was with his short story Contagion, in Elton Elliott’s anthology, NanoDreams. More recently he has placed several short stories with Alexandria Digital Library, where they are accessible to anyone who has a web browser.
Illustration © 1999 by Christine Mansfield
David G. Hartwell is a Senior Editor of Tor/Forge Books. He is the proprietor of Dragon Press, publisher and bookseller, which publishes The New York Review of Science Fiction, criticism by Samuel R. Delany and other books; and the President of David G. Hartwell, Inc., a consulting editorial firm. He is the author of Age of Wonders and the editor of many anthologies, including The Dark Descent; Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment; The World Treasury of Science Fiction, Northern Stars, The Ascent of Wonder (co-edited with Kathryn Cramer) and a number of Christmas anthologies, among others. Recently he edited the third annual paperback volume of Year’s Best SF. He has won the Eaton Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Science Fiction Chronicle Poll, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award eighteen times to date. He also has theories about fashion in clothing, especially men’s neckties, A lot more info is available at his website.
After moving to Seattle in 1976, Jane Hawkins met Greg Bennett at a organizational meeting for a comics con. The two commiserated about the lack of any SF cons in the Seattle area and Greg has since accused her of impregnating him with the idea of Norwescon. She is one of those stalwart people who manufactured Norwescon from only an idea. Through the years Jane has also worked on various cons around the country and was the Fan Guest of Honor of Norwescon 16.
Howard V. Hendrix is the author of the novels Lightpaths (1997), Standing Wave (1998) and Better Angels (1999). A fourth novel, Empty Cities of the Full Moon, is due out in 2001. Hendrix holds a B.S. in biology as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature. He taught his first college level class at age 20 and has been teaching for 20 years. He began seeing his short sf in print in 1986 and hasn’t stopped writing since.
Brian Herbert is the author of a number of science fiction novels, including The New York Times best-seller, Dune: House Atreides, which was co-written with Kevin J. Anderson. The writing duo has recently completed Dune: House Harkonnen (the second book in their “Prelude to Dune” trilogy), and have begun work on the third, Dune: House Corrino. Brian has also written Dreamer of Dune, a biography of his illustrious father, Frank Herbert. Brian’s other science fiction novels include: The Race for God (nominated for the Nebula Award); Prisoners of Arionn; Sidney’s Comet, Sudanna, Sudanna; Man of Two Worlds (co-authored with Frank Herbert); The Garbage Chronicles; Blood on the Sun (co-authored with Marie Landis); and Memorymakers (co-authored with Marie Landis). He has also written humor books, has edited several books, and is the creative advisor on the new Dune television mini-series that will star the Academy Award-winning actor, William Hurt.
Photo by Jayana Herbert
Richard Hescox earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from Art Center College of Design in 1972. His first paperback cover for DAW books appeared in 1976, and since then he has produced scores of book covers for nearly every major publisher of fantasy and science fiction. Among his other credits are illustrations for the motion picture industry. He did pre-production illustrations for The Howling and The Philadelphia Experiment. Surrealist paintings for the film House were used as props in the movie. Ad campaigns include E.T., The Dark Crystal, The Fly and Swamp Thing (for which he created the theatrical release poster).
He has since worked with computer games including the acclaimed Ripley’s Believe It or Not "The Riddle of Master Lu and the Rama games, working with Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee.
James P. Hogan is the author of the New York Times best-seller The Proteus Operation and the Prometheus Award-winning Multiplex Man. His other novels include Paths to Otherwhere, Bug Park, Endgame Enigma, and the Giants series.
Born in London, James splits his time between his homes in Ireland and Florida.
The publisher and chief butt-kicker for the Origins Award-nominated role playing fanzine Serendipity’s Circle, Julie Hoverson has been running and writing in the horror gaming genre for over half her life, both for fun and profit. A woman of half-a-dozen faces, Julie is also a costumer who specializes in amusing, odd, and downright cartoony costumes, both for the stage and the halls. She also constructs elaborate sculptures (such as dragons and mermaids) entirely out of beads.
Dave Howell is founder and CEO of Alexandria Digital Literature, a publishing company selling digital fiction via the World Wide Web (www.alexlit.com). He was also the Chairbeing for Foolscap 1, a sf conference held June 11- 13 1999, and was, once upon a time, Employee #7 at Wizards of the Coast, and a member of Norwescon’s concom for #’s 12 through 17. His cat believes he needs to find more free time, as there is an insufficient amount of ear-scratching going on.
Dr. Robert P. Hoyt is a physicist and engineer who has worked on a number of advanced space propulsion concepts, including space tethers for Lunar and Mars transport, electrodynamic tethers for disposal of space junk, magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters for interplanetary missions, and solar thermal propulsion. He is President, CEO, Chief Engineer, and Head Barrista at Tethers Unlimited, Inc., a Se-attle-area space technology startup.
Katie Huddleston writes live trivia games (http://www.scifi.com/mindprobe) for the SciFi Channel’s website and have written TV and movie reviews for Science Fiction Weekly (http://www.scifi.com/sfw) for the last four years. Every fall, she does a TV Preview for Science Fiction Weekly which is a comprehensive look at the upcoming season. You’ll find the last one at http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issuel26/ screen.html.
Kij Johnson is a writer and editor. She has written a fantasy novel, The Fox Woman (currently available in hardcover from Tor Books), and co-written a Star Trek: The Next Generation novel with Greg Cox. She has had dozens of short stories published in markets including Amazing Stories, Analog, Asimov’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy. She won the Theodore A. Sturgeon Award for the best short story of 1994 for her novelette in Asimov’s, “Fox Magic.” She has taught writing and science-fiction writing at Louisiana State University, and lectured on creativity and writing at bookstores and businesses across the country.
She works as a program manager for the Microsoft Reader, and lives in Seattle with her husband, a dog, a cat, an aquatic frog, and five motorcycles. For more information, visit her website at http:// www.sff.net/people/kij-johnson.
Ryan K. Johnson is an independent filmmaker living in Seattle who has produced 13 shorts, ranging from parodies to thrillers. He is best known for his Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation, which has appeared on the BBC, and two “homebrew” Mystery Science Theater 3000 movies. An ardent fan of British media, he helped co-found Anglicon (now in its 13th year), started a video club that has met biweekly since 1985, and is the About.com Guide to British Television online.
Kay Kenyon has had three science fiction novels published by Bantam. The latest, Rift, is about terraforming coming unraveled on a planet, and the ways the colonists and a race of aliens must adapt or die. Her first book, The Seeds of Time, is a story of time travel and a galactic search for bio diversity. Kay’s second science fiction novel, Leap Point, is a cautionary tale of virtual reality, first contact with an alien race. Tropic of Creation will come out next winter. She lives with her husband in Edmonds, Washington, and keeps house for a very demanding cat.
Kevin F. Kerr is associate editor of Talebones magazine and a founding member of the Fairwood Writers Group. A 1985 graduate of Clarion West, Kevin’s fiction has been published in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine and Midnight Zoo. He has taught creative writing for Renton Technical College, and has coauthored the computer networking book Inside TOPS. Kevin is currently lab supervisor for Software Testing Laboratories. He lives in Auburn, WA, with his wife Janis and four children.
JoAnne Kirley has been costuming professionally for over twenty years, and while she loves media and fantasy, modern and future fashions, she loves historical best. Her creations have captured Best of Show on Norwescon Masquerade stages, as well as at other events across the country, and her creations have gone on from there to places around the world.
Her costume shop is in Auburn, but you can catch some of her costumes online at http://members.aol.com/dressmup but if you can, visit her shop, you can try things on there!
Currently she is hiring her services out to Village Theater in Issaquah, where she heads the Wardrobe Department. She is in production to create a series of instructional videos as well.
From the shadows of a dormant volcano and the Cascades mountain range, Jim Kling covers the ever-changing world of biotechnology for the webzine HMS Beagle (http://www.hmsbeagle.com). He also writes for print publications, and his work has appeared in Scientific American, Science, Nature Biotechnology, Inc. magazine, and newsletters of the Harvard Business School.
Wolf Lahti is a professional writer, artist, editor, cartoonist, folk musician, photographer, and website designer, and amateur everything else. He lives on five-plus acres in northwestern Washington with two horses, two cats, seven dogs, and one shaman. He is not, nor ever has been, a member of the Communist party.
Jefie “The Grunting Cavalier” Larson has just finished codirecting LepraCon 2000’s Grande Masque with his cohort in crime. He is a mad costumer and has been on a continuous search for the perfect hat for longer than he remembers. But, in between the searching, he can be found on the SCA warfield with sword and shield in the ranks of Clan Carn, or finding new and interesting ways to build costumes. (The more hot, heavy or uncomfortable, the better it must be.)
April Lee is a free-lance illustrator, computer game animator and artist who has worked on a number of CD-ROM games (Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and 3, Might and Magic 6, 7, and 8, Inherit the Earth, Halls of Doom), and also illustrated many computer game manuals and role playing game books. Her collectible card game art may be found in Legend of the Five Rings, Magic, Middle Earth, DoomTown, 7thSea, Shadowfist, Wheel of Time, Xxxenophile, and others. She has displayed and sold original paintings and prints for over ten years, winning awards at Worldcons and Westercons. She holds degrees in illustration from Art Center College of Design, in English literature from Mt. Holyoke College and in history from Oxford University, England. She loves traveling, skiing, reading, and listening to all kinds of music, especially Loreena McKennit and The Cure.
A lifelong activist for peace and justice, Mona Lee lives in Seattle where she is a vocational counselor to disabled people. She was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She majored in English at St. Louis University and later earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology from the University of Oregon. She has worked as a counselor in both the United States and Europe.
Photo © 2000 by Nichole DeMent
Nicola Leonard has been working in the game industry as a painter since 1993. She started on Magic and has since painted for Jyhad, Shadowfist, Legend of the Five Rings, Xxxenophile, Legend of the Burning Sands and Dragon Storm. She paints in watercolor and acrylic.
Nicola also designs jewelry and has operated her business, Agauricus (pronounced ah-gor-i-kus), for nine years. Her
Kuo-Yu Liang is the Associate Publisher of Del Rey, a leading publisher of science fiction, fantasy, and alternate history books since 1977. Kuo-Yu is in charge of the day-to-day operations and supervises all aspects of Del Rey’s business, including sales, marketing, editorial, promotions, production rights, publicity and finance. Authors Kuo-Yu publishes at Del Rey includes Greg Bear, Stephan Baxter, Terry Brooks, Orson Scott Card, Arthur C. Clarke, David Eddings, Greg Keyes, Anne McCaffrey, and R.A. Salvatore. Del Rey is the proud publisher of Norwescon’s Guests of Honor Harry Turtledove and Jack Chalker.
Margo Loes, an Aries with the moon in Gemini, has always wanted to go to the stars… but there’s that restraining order thingy. Margo is interested in costumes, art, costumes, theatre, costumes, makeup, costumes, fabrics, costumes, hats, costumes and history. Oh yeah, did she mention costumes? (Actually going to the stars simply opens up lots of new costume and fabric storage space.)
Pat MacEwen is a forensic technician who is also the author of a growing number of published science fiction and fantasy stories. Her work gives her grist for her stories and novels and great, real-life stories to tell.
Pat was Science Guest of Honor at Norwescon 21.
Scott MacHaffie is a lead software engineer with a small company in Tigard, OR, which specializes in math-based software. In his copious amounts of spare time, he has managed to learn and even teach Scottish and Irish dancing. He is also a shodan in aikido with the Oregon Ki Society.
Louise Marley is the author of four novels published by Ace Science Fiction. Sing the Light, Sing the Warmth, and Receive the Gift comprise the science fantasy Singers of Nevya trilogy. The Terrorists of Irustan has received critical acclaim as feminist and social science fiction. Louise recently turned in a fifth novel to Ace, The Glass Hermonica. She has had the short stories “Small in the Saddle,” published by Atomic Westerns, and “Body and Blood,” in the Canadian anthology, Divine Realms, published by Turnstone Press. She has authored a number of nonfiction articles, most recently one for Seattle Opera Magazine about the comprimario artists of the company.
Louise is also a classical concert and opera singer who appears frequently with Seattle Opera, the Seattle Symphony, St. James Cathedral Concerts, and other companies. Her concerts and recitals have taken her across the United States and to Russia and Italy. She taught voice and related subjects at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle for a number of years, but has left that position to have more time for writing. She recently began a series of workshops for young adult writers.
Louise lives in the Seattle area with her husband and son and is at work on a sixth novel.
Edward Martin III is a frenetic writer who has had fiction, nonfiction, cartoons, comic strips, technical documents, travelogues, humor columns, promotional packages, and the ubiquitous web work (Lose money now! Ask me how!) published. He has completed five motion picture screenplays and is producing two short films for local film festivals. To calm down, he engages in improv comedy, where he frequently forgets his English.
Susan R. Matthews' fourth and latest novel, Avalanche Soldier, steps away from the Jurisdiction universe to follow the spiritual journey of a young woman struggling to reconcile her civic duty with her religious convictions—a theme it has in common with the Koscuisko novels.
Susan lives on Capital Hill in Seattle with Maggie, her domestic partner of 20 years, and two joyful Pomeranian puppies who are not completely clear yet on the concept of “potty training.” Though tempted on a regular basis, she has yet to quit her day job. Check out Susan’s website at www.sff.net/ people/Susan.scribens!
Adrienne Martine-Barnes is the author of fifteen books. She is presently working on an Arthiurian novel, The Last Grail Knight, and several other projects. She lives in Portland, Oregon with a very nice cat, Caitlin, and four thousand volumes, most of which she has actually read.
After an accident left Joan M. McCarty disabled, she came to realize the call of the pen. Since that time she founded Alternate Realities Webzine, an award-winning e-zine of speculative fiction, and, as of this year when it obtained its ISSN, entered the paying market as its Senior Editor. She resides in Portland, Oregon with her family and dogs and from there creates fantasy worlds and alternate histories with a fantasy flair. Her first and second books are currently at the publishers and several short stories have been printed both on the web and in print.
Raven c.s. McCracken is best known for his role playing game, The World of Synnibarr. He hosted a local television program, Rockhard TV, on Channel 13 for many years and just completed work designing the computer game Birthright II, for Synergistic-Sierra On-line.
Currently he is completing his fourth novel, entitled Mage Warrior, along with working on the music, AI and game design for a computer game based on Mike Grell’s comic book series, Tears and Bar Sinister.
Christopher McKitterick’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Analog, E-Scape, Extrapolation, and Tomorrow, among other places. Currently, he lives in Seattle with his beautiful monkeygirl, Kij Johnson. He’s a technical editor at Microsoft, and Nominations Director of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short science fiction of the year. Chris is just finishing a novel, Empire Ship. Another, Transcendence, is looking for a home with help from his agent, Algis Budrys.
Katherine L. McLean earned a B.A. in fine arts: art with 30 hours toward her master’s degree from WSU and an associate degree in civil engineering technology from Spokane Community College. She has worked for the State of Washington Transportation Department for the last fourteen years. She is currently a CAD operator in a design office in Seattle.
Kathy has participated in a small scale way in the Norwescon art show for a number of years in several different mediums, including colored pencil and glass engraving.
Richard K Michaels is a computer programmer who has been a science fiction fan all his reading life. Frustrated, as many of us have been, by the decline of the midlist and the loss of out-of-print classics, Richard has long wanted to help rectify the situation. With Embiid Publishing, Richard hopes to help guide the future of electronic publishing toward greater author-and reader-friendliness.
Melisa Michaels is the author of nine published science fiction, fantasy, and mystery novels, and a dozen or so articles and short stories. Her most recent books are Cold Iron and Sister to the Rain, published by Roc. With her husband, Richard, she has recently started a new company, Embiid, Inc., a division of which publishes electronic novels for multiple platforms.
Syne Mitchell graduated from college when she was 15 and went on to get a master’s degree in solid-state physics. She now works as a web developer for an online gaming site: www.zone.com. Her short fiction has appeared in markets such as Writers of the Future, MZB’s Fantasy Magazine, and Talebones. Recent accomplishments include selling her first novel, Murphey’s Gambit, to be published by ROC in December 2000.
Photo © 2000 by Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli
N. Monique Hayes is now N. Monique Mitchell, living in Tacoma with two husbands, and has found a boyfriend who just adores that bulldyke Plymouth she persists in driving. Her art studio has been upgraded, and all else is well in the Coma of the Coast!
Victoria E. Mitchell has been involved in science fiction for over 20 years. She joined PESFA in 1977 and soon became one of the core members of the group. She was one of the founding members of MosCon, Writer’s Bloc, the Moscow Moffia Writer’s Program, and J. Martin & Associates Literary Agency. She has four college degrees, including a master’s in geology and an M.B.A., and is currently working on her fifth, a Ph.D. in geology. She works full-time as a geologist for the Idaho Geological Survey.
Vicki has been writing for as long as she can remember. In 1986, she won the national Amazing Stories Calendar Story Contest and sold a short story to a mainstream anthology. In 1987, she had a story appear in the legendary The Moscow Moffia Presents Rat Tales anthology and had a different “Rats” story accepted for the other Rat Tales (1994) anthology from Pulphouse Publishing. Her first novel, Enemy Unseen (a Star Trek novel from Pocket Books, which has also appeared in English and German versions), appeared in 1990 and spent three weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list. She has had three more Star Trek books published since then. She also sold a novella to Amazing Stories, which was published in May and June, 1992. She continues to work on novels, short stories, and articles. She is married to Jon Gustafson and is owned by a gigantic and excessively silly dog named Shilo.
Mike Moscoe’s latest book, The Price of Peace, continues his far future science fiction saga full of starships and human struggle begun with The First Casualty. Look for Who Stand and Wait coming in January 2001. With “Lost Days,” Mike completes the story he started in “First Dawn” and “Second Fire,” but not Launa and Jack’s adventures 6,000 years ago. Analog will soon publish Mike’s latest novelette, about his toddler granddaughter’s future first job, delivering pizza… on the moon.
Growing up Navy, Mike learned early about geography, change, and the chain of command. He’s worked as a bartender and cab driver, personnel officer and labor negotiator. Now that he’s retired from his last day job of building databases about the critters of the Northwest, both the endangered ones and the ones endangering them, he can concentrate on writing. In retirement, he’s looking forward to a serious study of human folly and glory.
He lives in Vancouver, Washington, with his wife Ellen. He enjoys reading, writing, watching grandchildren for story ideas and upgrading his computer—all are never ending.
In a career spanning nearly 20 years with TSR and Wizards of the Coast, Kim Mohan has done just about anything an editor can do. He currently serves as Managing Editor for Wizards RPG R&D and as Editorin-Chief of Amazing Stories Magazine. His hobbies include stamp collecting, eating, and wishing he had more time to play games on his computer.
Pamela Mohan straddles two departments at Wizards of the Coast, Inc. She is the Events Publications Manager for Event Marketing/Management and Associated Editor for Amazing Stories Magazine. In her spare time, she enjoys gourmet cooking, reading, and playing with her dogs, Justice (an appropriately named German Shepherd) and Cody (a canine of unknown heritage).
After nine years of college and two masters' degrees (English literature and theatre) Betsy Mott decided to be a professional artist. For over fifteen years her media portrait and fantasy paintings have been seen in science fiction art shows all over the country. Her work can also be seen on MacMillan’s Imagine It! SciFi CD-ROM, on the Landmark and Great Warrior series of notecards and in fanzines and collections around the world. Her awards include Best of Show, Best Fantasy, Best Two Dimensional, Best Body of Work, People’s Choice, Best Color, Best Science Fiction, Best Pro Artist, and many others. She is listed in the Directory of American Artists and is a member of ASFA. Betsy is a fourth generation native of Spokane, a Mensan, and a Mayflower descendent. Her hobbies include gaming, kayaking, researching obscure subjects and playing trumpet in local pit orchestras and wind ensembles.
Jamil Nasir has sold fiction to Asimov’s, Universe (vols 1, 2, and 3), Interzone, Aboriginal SF, Best of the Rest, and Angels! He won first prize in the 1988 Writers of the Future competition.
His third novel, Tower of Dreams, is nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award.
Rebecca Neason is the author of numerous nonfiction articles which, along with her poetry, have been featured in regional, national and international publications. In 1988 she was awarded a Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Literary Merit by the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference and she is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers' Workshop. A frequent speaker at local science fiction conventions, Ms. Neason also lectures on pre-Christian through Medieval British History, Middle English, and the development of English as a written language, and she works with elementary school children on developing the creative process. She plays four musical instruments and, specializing in Celtic folk music, is a participant in such yearly events as the Celtic Arts Showcase and the Seattle Scottish Highland Games.
Ms. Neason is the author of Highlander: The Path and the bestselling Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, Guises of the Mind.
WESTERCON 54
IT’S IN THE OTHER HOTEL Millennium!
PORTLAND, OREGON
DULY 5–8, 2001
AUTHOR GOH: TIM POWERS
FAN GOH: MIKE GLYER
EDITOR GOH: TERRI WINDLING
ARTIST GOH: FRANK LURZ
We will be at the DoubleTree Hotel Jantzen Beach And Doubletree Columbia River in beautiful Portland, Oregon
Contact us by mail or on the web:
URL: http://www.osfci.org/w2OOl
Phone: [redacted] Email: deaner@pacifier.com
Westercon 54
PO Box 5901
Portland, OR 97228–5901
MEMBERSHIPS ARE ONLY $40.00 UNTIL JULY 15, 2000
Supporting memberships: $20.00
Children 12 and under: half price
Children 6 and under: free.
“Westercon” is a service mark of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society SPONSORED BY OREGON SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTIONS, INC.
Timothy S. O’Brien was born in the Pacific Northwest. He has degrees in research and writing, comparative religion and mythology, and game studies, and currently works as a contractor for Microsoft Corporation’s Intellectual Properties Development Group. Tim is currently a gaming professional with credits in the Star Wars Second Edition, Ars Magica Fourth Edition, and Star Trek role playing games. Tim is currently consulting on both the board and computer game versions of Crimson Skies, an alternative history pulp fiction plane combat game. For fun, Tim kills his friends in Call of Cthulhu, Star Wars, Ars Magica, and other role playing games, and in his remaining spare time creates, develops, nurtures, and destroys fictional worlds.
Brian D. Oberquell has been working in the special FX field for almost 20 years, ranging from live theatre to film and television; his recent projects include Seven Days and the Brian DePalma film Mission to Mars (if you see him, ask him how long it took him to wash off all the Martian dust, and his opinion on the “glamour of the film industry”).
He currently resides in Port Moody, BC with his wife and pet rabbit.
Margaret Organ-Kean’s most important goal is to evoke a sense of magic on paper, a goal she kept through three universities (Boston University, Central Washington University and the University of Washington) and three majors before settling down to get a B.A. in art history in the regulation four years. It helped that all her majors had been related to art.
Currently she works in watercolor or pen-and-ink, and is beginning to work on the computer using Bryce, Fractal Paint, Photoshop and some other graphic programs (you can view her computer work at http://www.alexicom.net/moonstone). She uses photographic reference more extensively than she used to, with the result that not only are her paintings better, but her friends and family are showing up in the oddest places!
She lives with her husband in the north end of Seattle, and in her spare time enjoys reading fantasy and science fiction, walking around Green Lake, and baking gingerbread—but is busy enough painting that she doesn’t spend much time on these hobbies!
Actor, author, soldier, cop: Alan Paulsen’s adventures and misadventures have included tracking down murderers, fighting forest fires, parachuting out of perfectly good airplanes and exploring pyramids. Active in local theatre, Alan has landed his first movie role and can be seen this fall in a Sylvester Stallone film entitled Get Carter. A published writer, Alan is currently working on his second novel. Alan is a member of the Valentine Armouries fight demo team and chief among his hobbies is riding his horse, Beau Geste.
Peter Dennis Pautz was born in New Jersey and takes a piece of it everywhere, including to his work as a marriage and family therapist. He served as the Executive Secretary of the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc., for 20 years, and has been President of the World Fantasy Awards Association since 1981. (Having occasionally wielded the shovel, he knows where the bodies are buried.) He co-edited the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology, The Architecture of Fear, with Kathryn Cramer, and Nebulas Winners Fifteen with Frank Herbert.
Brooks Peck is the Editor-in Chief of Science Fiction Weekly, the online news and review magazine of the SciFi Channel. He’s also had his short fiction published in a variety of anthologies including, most recently, Merlin, and the upcoming Side Reality.
John Pelan has been active in the field for over ten years, both as a writer and as edi-tor/publisher of the highly regarded imprint Silver Salamander Press. As a writer John and his frequent collaborator Edward Lee are often referred to as the “Tag-Team Champions of Hardcore Horror.” Among their recent works are the novella Goon published by Necro Press and “The Piano Player Has No Fingers” in the 1996 issue of Palace Corbie. John and his wife Kathy reside in Seattle and have attended each Norwescon since Norwescon 7.
Ray Pelley received his degree in fine arts from Illinois State University. After graduation he worked in commercial art on a part time basis. He lived for a time in Illinois, Tennessee, and Massachusetts. He then began traveling extensively throughout the United States. He has spent time in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and California before finally settling permanently in Washington state.
Ray has been living and working as an artist in the Pacific Northwest since 1979. In 1980 he began selling his original seri-graphs on the crafts table at Pike Place Market. There he found a receptive audience for his work and subsequently began showing his works in SF convention art shows and juried arts and crafts fairs throughout the Pacific Northwest. His work has been published both as interior illustrations and covers for a wide variety of books and publications. He has had successful shows in many galleries and his work may now be found in several galleries in Washington state. His original oil paintings are currently represented by the Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery in Kirkland.
Puzzle Box—Paul Kwinn, Taunya Gren, Alisa Garcia
Karen Rall entered fandom in 1987, and promptly spent several years running Volunteers, Security and Logistics at various Northwest conventions. She rediscovered the joy of actually attending programming during a break for graduate school and now sticks to running Folk Music activities and few errands on site, and helping with the occasional overall Programming track in advance. In her “spare time” she maintains an active social life, practices with the NW Irish Dancers and avidly recruits new followers for Babylon 5. She also continues to study Celtic history, ongoing events in the space program, and the belief systems of various cultures.
Ken Rand writes “semi-full-time” from his home in West Jordon, Utah. He’s sold fiction to Writers of the Future volume 13 (second place), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds volume 2 (third place), Weird Tales, Pulphouse, Aboriginal, Quantum SF 1999, and others.
He writes a lot of nonfiction, including interviews for Talebones magazine. He’s written for Speculations, SFWA Bulletin, Science Fiction Chronicle, and Starlog among others. He wrote The Ten Percent Solution: Self-editing for the Modern Writer for Fairwood Press.
He makes kaleidoscopes for fun. His living and working philosophy: “Lighten up.” His web site: www.sfwa.org/mem-bers/Rand/.
Rich Redman has been a science fiction fan since he could read (anybody else remember Tom Swift, Jr.?) and a gamer for roughly the last 20 years. He received a bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia on an Army ROTC scholarship. His active duty assignment included Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. After the army, Rich worked as a PC repairman, a salesman (both retail and door-to-door), and is now the customer service supervisor for Wizards of the Coast.
Paul Reed’s mother is still amazed that all the quarters he blew on video games managed to pay off somehow. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Paul has worked for several prominent game companies including Nintendo, Squaresoft, and Electronic Arts. His credits include the role playing games Secret of Evermore, and Shadow Madness. He is currently hard at work designing a new RPG for the Sony PlayStation, and would like to plead innocent of all charges.
John H. Reiher, Jr. has been involved in the sf and gaming communities since 1975. He was one of the first playtesters for Tri Tac Systems, then known as Ticky-Tac Games. He worked as a free-lance game designer for Tri Tac for a couple of years, then became editor of a short lived newsletter for one of their games. He later signed on as a writer for two other newsletters, Terror Watch and Infinite Crossroads, and has written an sf short story for a small press group in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Currently he is working for a large software manufacturer based in Redmond, WA, and for hobbies counts physical therapy and microbrewing as two sides of the same coin.
Janet Rhodes has had short stories included in four Darkover anthologies and in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine. She has worked in the environmental field for over 25 years and has a degree in microbiology. In recent years, she has studied herbology, massage, and counseling. Her first science fiction novel, taking place on an alien planet where hostility between two sentient subspecies has led to infanticide, is nearly ready to send to a publisher
Janet facilitates meetings and workshops and is a volunteer mediator with the county dispute resolution center.
A.E. Roberts graduated from Clarion West in 1985. He joined the newly-formed Eugene Professional Writer’s Workshop soon after. His first fiction sale was printed in the Summer issue of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine. He is trying to survive as a full-time writer.
Alan Rodgers is the author of Bone Music, Pandora, Fire, Night, Blood of the Children, The Bear Who Found Christmas, Ghosts Who Cannot Sleep, and New Life for the Dead. Blood of the Children was a nominee for the Horror Writers of America Bram Stoker award; his first story (actually a novelette), “The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead,” won a Stoker and lost a World Fantasy Award. During the mid-eighties he edited the fondly-remembered horror digest, Night Cry. He lives in San Dimas, California where he sees his two daughters, Alexandra and Andrea Rodgers, and his son, Abram Rodgers, and often as circumstances and custody arrangements allow.
Beverly Marshall Saling was the second paid employee at Wizards of the Coast, where she has edited role playing games, trading card games, family games, and many other game-related materials. She especially enjoyed her most recent project, Wizards' upcoming MLB Showdown 2000 card game, which let her surf the Web for the latest baseball stats and call it working. Known for her ability to discuss Celtic mythology, cat-bathing techniques, and the serial comma with equal aplomb, Beverly recently left Wizards and now spends her time working on a variety of free-lance projects and catching up on nine years' worth of reading.
Pippin Sardo likes to play dress-up and dance and has been frequently known to make a fool out of herself on stage at Worldcons, Costumecons, Westercons, Norwescons, OryCons, and their little cons, too. She’s a historical costumer, a costume historian, a dancer and teacher of vintage dance, and she dabbles in science fiction and fantasy costuming in her more insane moments. She co-founded Somewhere in Time, Unltd. and performs historic and flamenco dance. You might have seen her most recently as the Seattle Mermaid or in past moments of glory as the moon in “2001, a Space Ballet in Less Than Two Minutes,” or a Mercilette to Madame Ming. (Although she knows what barbarians really wore, she happily volunteers to help any Conan wanna-bes with their brass accoutrements!)
After 20 years of costuming and interest in SF, Lisa L. Satterlund is finally starting to figure out what’s going on. She’s discovered that working on the masquerade gets you the best view of the costumes and that being on panels lets you meet neat people. With a background that includes law and librarianship, she knows where to find things out but not always what to do with the information.
Nels E. Satterlund is currently a manager at Intel Corp. Over the past 19 years he’s been involved in the electronics industry in many roles. Among his many skills, he is one of the world’s best bubble memory board designers and has worked on a number of other projects, including LAN and modem products. Currently he is involved in platform development for advanced processor testing.
His fannish involvement stems from PESFA and its pre-Moscon days. Moscon is the only convention he attends regularly.
As unconventional as her name, Spring Schoenhuth has been a taco bender, archaeologist, actress, credit investigator, legal aide, historian, scenic designer, radio announcer, artist, jewelry designer/cre-ator, and educator from preschool special education to college level. She has way too many college credits to speak of and consequently thinks she knows everything. She concurrently works for three East Bay school districts, and in her copious spare time also works for a large retail fine jewelry store. She also owns Springtime Creations, purveyor of exotic and fun jewelry (whose work has been seen in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). Her passions include paleontology, shopping, travel, clothes, astronomy, shopping, fashioning fun and fine jewelry and shaping future generations of readers of science fact, fiction and fantasy. She currently resides with her longtime love, Dave, in Dublin, California.
Richard A. Scott is also known as the Nefarious Spunky Cheese. In his long con career he has been responsible for the most acts of sheer ludicrousness. He has seen publication in DC comics Avatar, as well as having been a “staff artist” for the second incarnation of Science Fiction Review. He has recently assisted Andy Mangles with his new book From Scream to Dawson’s Creek. Out now!
He is currently “seeking new projects” and seeks to control all of existence. He is currently with Platinum studios.
Lorelei Shannon was born in the Arizona desert and learned to walk holding on to the tail of a coyote. She is now a writer, computer game designer, sculptor, and punk belly dancer. Her short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines. Her last game, A Puzzle of Flesh, was banned in three foreign countries, and Sears department stores everywhere!
Lisa Smedman is the author of the Shadowrun novels, The Lucifer Deck, Blood Sport, and Psychotrope. She has also had a number of short science fiction and fantasy stories published in various magazines and anthologies, and in 1993 was a finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest. Formerly a newspaper reporter and magazine editor, she now works as a free-lance game designer and fiction writer. She has designed a number of adventures and written short fiction for TSR’s Ravenloft and Dark Sun lines, and has designed gaming products for Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Cyberpunk, Immortal, Shatterzone, and Millennium’s End.
GregRobin AV Smith is a writer, poet, historian and educator, as well as an accomplished singer and musician. As General Manager of A Knight’s Tour, an interactive education company, he’s developed curriculum about: “Medieval Life;” “Period Poetic Forms;” “Shakespeare and His Au-dience/His World” and “The History of Shrewsbury Abbey.” Currently he’s working on a project to connect museums with artisans who will supply duplicated “artifacts” for hands-on displays. GregRobin is a bard for Renaissance Magazine. He’s also been published in Chronique and The Journal of Chivalry. For further info, browse www.knightstour.org.
Kristine Smith works as a process development scientist for a large pharmaceutical manufacturer. Her first novel, Code of Conduct, is nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award.
Terri “Sprite” Specht has been doing theatrical costuming and makeup and FX makeup for longer that she will admit. She is currently working to expand her repertoire to include historical costuming. Sprite has done makeup for many Best of Show and Best of Class—Master masquerade winners. She has also won Best of Class—Journeyman and Best in Show for her costumes at local masquerades.
Sprite has volunteered at The Taproot Theater (a small community theater) and with a North Seattle high school drama department. She enjoys sharing what she has learned in makeup and costuming with others and in encouraging people to try new ideas and to expand their abilities.
Renee Stern is a former newspaper reporter turned free-lance writer. When not working for trade publications on topics ranging from growing apples to building furniture, she also writes fantasy novels. She is a member of the Fairwood Writers Group in Kent, Washington.
Edward V. Stiner found science fiction in a 1950s school library. He read every Norton, Heinlein, Anderson, Clarke, and Vance story he could find. Since then, only the authors have changed. After a tour in the nuclear navy aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, he got a job in the computer industry, where he continues to work. For several years he owned a game and comic book store. He has edited and published The Die Hard Collector’s Checklist, Event One and Star Pulse. In 1990 he founded the organization that became The Science Fiction Museum, and is still on the Board of Directors. He is also on the board of Virtual Adventures, a new high tech entertainment company.
John Strongbow, son of outlaw Long Sean Strongbow, turned his back on his family’s pirate ways and vowed to devote himself to the arts in an effort to give back something to the people his family have plundered so long and frivolously.
Deborah K. Strub has been making and wearing costumes at Pacific Northwest conventions and SCA events for over 10 years. Some of her memorable masquerade costumes include “Satana, The Devil’s Daughter,” “Samurai Kitty,” the dancer in “The Wrath of Ra,” and “Katahira-Ainu Spellweaver.” She specializes in medieval Japanese costume and is currently working on a comprehensive “History of Japanese Costume” class for the University of Ithra. “No costume is complete without cat hair.”
Patrick & Honna Swenson edit and publish the quarterly semi-pro sf magazine Talebones. The magazine has two stories on the Preliminary Nebula this year. It has also had a Genre Writer’s Association award for Best New Magazine/Editor, a nomination for an International Horror Guild Award for Best Publication, and Honorable Mentions in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror and The Year’s Best Science Fiction. The parent company, Fairwood Press, has published two chapbooks so far including a writing reference by Ken Rand entitled The 10% Solution: Self-editing for the Modern Writer, and a collection called Zom Bee Moo Vee & Other Freaky Shows by Mark McLaughlin. You can get more information about the magazine from their web page at: http://www.fairwoodpress.com
Patrick and Honna have sold stories to such markets as Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Dialogue, Figment, Epitaph, Keen SF, Northwest Writers, and other small press magazines. Patrick, a high school English teacher, is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers' Workshop, and also plays in The Kings of Swing, a seventeen piece Big Band. Honna, an optician, plays top level soccer and often, with Patrick, teaches evening writing classes. The Swensons are members of the Fairwood Writers Group, based in Seattle.
David Tackett was raised by wolves and founded Rome. He fell in love with F&SF at age four—can leap tall sewing machines in a single bound, twist fabric with his bare hands, makes costumes and props from other people’s trash. He’s pretty sure the fantasy world is the real one. He likes Irish Cream and freckled brunettes. And, not to brag, he is a genius; but only for about 30 seconds a day…
Janet (Cullen) Tanaka and husband, Mike, are living the retired life (of leisure?) in Lacey, Washington. Janet’s professional life has spanned several careers; primarily writing and editing, geohazard planning consultant, folk-gospel singing, and citizen activist and appointed bureaucrat in the field of geohazards. She has also been, and is, an active lay teacher in the Baha’i Faith. Janet is currently reviving her previous publication, Volcano Quarterly, as an e-zine called just VQ.
She is a member of the international Association of Volcanology, Association for Women in Geoscience, Northwest Geology Society, Interfaith Council of Washington, a Star Trek fan club, the Planetary Society, and Skeptics Society, as well as the local Ministerial Association and a Baha’i choir.
“The train of my life runs on the rails of science and religion with my family being the ties.”
As the granddaughter and niece of professional seamstresses, Anita Taylor has been sewing and costuming since childhood. When not at her day job as a technical writer and project manager, she writes children’s stories and historical fiction, is a neophyte amateur astronomer, enjoys flying, sailboat racing, and builds model airplanes —remember the Ornithopter at Norwescon 20? Anita also currently serves as secretary for the Beyond Reality Costumer’s Guild.
Born in 1947, Bruce Taylor was raised in Seattle, his current home. Early in life he was drawn to science fiction, particularly the works of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, C.S. Lewis, and Ray Bradbury. Later, he became equally familiar with Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Steinbeck, Chapek, Kafka, and Chekov.
He attended the UW, where he received a B.A. in sociology while also writing for the UW Daily and studying fiction with such teachers as Jack Leahy and Jack Cady. After leaving college he worked a number of jobs before taking a job as a counselor at Harborview Medical Center on the locked inpatient psychiatric unit. After a great deal of work in hypnosis and psychotherapy, Taylor now teaches classes at Harborview on stress management techniques.
Brian Tillotson has been paid to figure out how to use dirt as rocket propellant, design spacecraft as large as Seattle and as small as the palm of your hand, program a robot to learn from experience, work in zero gravity aboard NASA’s Vomit Comet, levitate water with a magnet, and measure how much stars twinkle. He is the author of over 20 published technical papers and a nonfiction fantasy article. He writes science fiction in his spare time.
Joseph Traub has been involved with computers and programming since he was 14 and a professional in the computer industry for the past eight years. During that, time he has worked on things as far ranging as computer games and e-mail/list servers to multi-user online games. He is also a pagan (mostly solitary currently) and a practicing polyamorist. I’ve been involved in the con community since he was 18. He became involved with the local con and filk community when I moved here seven years ago. In addition to hosting semi-monthly Seattle area filks, he also run the northwest filk mailing list.
Valentine Armouries was started by Robert Valentine about 18 years ago. He has excelled in art all his life, winning art scholarships for oil painting, and trying most mediums. After discovering metal sculpturing, he immediately began to fulfill his boyhood dream to create his own suit of armour. Over the years his range of armour has grown substantially, and he now employs four full-time apprentices and is the owner of the largest armour making company in North America.
Chris Vancil was born in Washington in the mid 1950s and has spent a large percent of his life here. He graduated from The Evergreen State College in the early '80s with a BA in visual arts. While he never made his living doing art, Chris did work as a technician at COCA in Seattle for a couple of seasons. Contracting and remodeling houses is how he mainly made a living.
Being a product of the second half of the 20th century and an eye witness to the beginnings of the Space Age, Chris is, for want of a better term, a Space Enthusiast. He is an active member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, International Artemis Society, National Space Society and of course the Mars Society. All of these organizations have one goal in common getting us into space! He is presently the vice-president of NSS Seattle and the contact person for the Puget Sound Chapter of the Mars Society. Ad Astra!
Diana Vick is an illustrator, writer, pirate aficionado, and avid dancer. Her artwork can be seen on those pesky collectible cards in such games as Magic, Legend of the Five Rings, Shadowfist, Deadlands, and Seventh Sea. Despite not gaming, she finds the work challenging and fascinating to research. During her art directorship at MU Press, she helped create several titles including Beauty of the Beasts and Wild Kingdom. Her popular character, Cap’n Kate, saw her nascence there and graced her own book in 1999. A hobby of collecting cloisonne pins led her to design several for MU. Now living in Ballard, Diana continues to perpetrate ghastly puns, create magical art and cause her mother to murmur “Why can’t she wear normal clothes?”
Ray Vukcevich’s new novel is The Man of Maybe Half-a-Dozen Faces from St. Martin’s Minotaur. His short story “By The Time We Get to Uranus” is in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (Twelfth Annual Collection), and his short fiction has appeared in Aboriginal, Asimov’s, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Pulphouse, Talebones, Rosebud, The Urbanite, Sirius Visions, and several anthologies. He is working on another novel.
Philip P. Wagner (aka “The Doctor”) has shown at various science fiction convention art shows, including Norwescon and Rustycon. His media are watercolors and acrylics, which incorporate the beauty of the female form into various fantasy settings. In his foil art, he is trying to achieve a three-dimensional effect through whimsical settings. The finished pieces are highly labor intensive and require careful thought for composition. Phil works mainly from photographs and will do commission pieces upon request (ask for prices).
A native Californian, Katie Waitman began writing and illustrating original stories and poems when she was 8 years old. Her first novel, The Merro Tree, was Del Rey’s Discovery of the Year for 1997 and won the 1998 Compton Crook Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Her second work, The Divided (Del Rey, February 1999) was inspired in part by her 1995 visit to Egypt and Jordon. She has completed a sequel to The Merro Tree entitled The Roots of Forgiveness and is currently working on a new piece of science fiction tentatively called The Image Maker.
Kathy Watts used to live in L.A. and locate earthquakes for a living. Now she lives in a small costal town and writes darn near any kind of fiction that can have a ghost in it.
Burt Webb has appeared on radio, television, and in print on such topics as biology, psychology, SETI, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, virtual reality, and autonomous software agents. He also wrote a science column for Science Fiction Review.
He starred in the SF short film Eat the Sun and contributed computer graphics to Star Trek: The Search for Spock. He is coauthor of the action screenplay The Tracker, which is nearing production in Australia. Other script collaborations in-clude Shadowmaster, Terraforma, Blackout, and Spellbinder. He is currently the president of Northwest CyberArtists Productions which is an organization dedicated to combining art and technology.
Scott Welch is the Executive Vice President of Bridge Publications, publishers of the works of L. Ron Hubbard. He began consulting with the firm in 1983 and came up with the idea of the 30-foot tall inflatable alien, Teri, from Battlefield Earth, which was toured around the world. He has also been connected with the Writers of the Future Contest almost since its inception and launched the Illustrators Contest in 1988 at LosCon.
Duane Wilkins is the Science Fiction Buyer and Assistant Children’s Buyer for the University Book Store in Seattle. His life was warped at an early age when his sister handed him a copy of Rocket Ship Galileo, and said “read this”. A native Seattleite, he has been a bookseller for nearly fifteen years, working not only on buying and displaying titles, but also arranging author readings and signings. He is also a reviewer, whose work has regularly appeared in Talebones, as well as Westwind and the UBS Footnotes.
Robyn Sondra Wills was hatched under a Roc on November 21, 1951. Being related to both Benedict Arnold and Lord Mountbatten, she considers herself most properly English—Welsh to be exact (Let’s no' be havin' any more o' that traitorous talk about that heathen George! Fo' me own part, shall we be singin' the praises of Saint Draconius?). All things considered, a strange duck in any pond. Well traveled (airline brat and ex-military), reasonably educated from 15 as an avionics technician for Uncle Sam’s Canoe Club (not to mention getting 3/4 the way through an electrical engineering degree at Illinois Institute of Technology), Robyn came out of the closet and began to take her hobby of writing seriously a few years back. The strangeling first became published with Alternate Realities Webzine (www.alternaterealitieszine.com), has a currently running series, “Reasons For Revenge,” which landed her the job as Fantasy and Poetry Editor for Alternate Realities Webzine. Due to this involvement, she was approached by Dancing Willow (a new e-book publisher) resulting in a pending deal for two novels. Since the children have left the roost, Robyn now lives in Portland having grown tired of her long time, flatland home of Chicago.
Johnny L. Wilson is the Group Publisher of Amazing Stories, Dragon, Dungeon, and TopDeck magazines. He came to Wizards of the Coast from Ziff-Davis where he served as Editorial Director for Computer Gaming World. At Wizards of the Coast, Johnny’s main claim to fame has been retooling Duelist magazine into TopDeck and having enough sense not to publish any of his fiction in Amazing Stories. The only game reviewer to be named Best Software Reviewer by the Software Publishers Association, Johnny is an avid gamer who loves his current job because it blends all of his favorite pastimes into one job: role playing, strategy, science fiction, and fantasy. He also raises hackles in some conservative communities because of his background as a Southern Baptist minister and his insistence that gaming is not demonic.
Janna Wright has been active in the fan community for the past eight years, coinciding with the founding of White Wolf’s official fan organization, The Camarilla. After a few years of toiling at a local game company, she found intriguing employment with Alexandria Digital Literature, a web-based electronic publisher of science fiction, fantasy, and horror literature. She continues to free-lance as research support in the role-playing games industry, and maintains an avid and unhealthy interest in all things morbid.
Janine Ellen Young is the author of Cinderblock, a “groundbreaking example of Carrollian speculative fiction.” An instructor at Santa Monica College, she has been lecturing and teaching classes on speculative fiction for twelve years and, recently, was a guest speaker at the Mt. Saint Antonio’s Writer’s Conference. Her new novel, The Bridge, a story of first contact, astronomy, and microbiology, will be out from Warner Books in September. Cinderblock made Locus magazine’s 1997 Year in Review Recommended First Novel list.
[Artwork] Cyborg © 2000 by Barclay Shaw. Acrylic, 1979.
If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.
— Bishop Samuel Wilberforce
A GROSS PROPHETS PRODUCTION with a grant from the Addams Family Foundation.
[Artwork] Songs from the Drowned Lands © 2000 by Barclay Shaw. Cover for the book by E. Kernaghan, published by Ace Books, 1982. Acrylic.
Members of Norwescon 23 as of March 17, 2000
[Member list redacted]
[Artwork] Organic Perch © 2000 by Barclay Shaw. Originally published by Heavy Metal, 1983. Arcylic.
[Artwork] Work in Progress © 2000 by Barclay Shaw. Originally published by Heavy Metal, 1993. Mixed media.
Ace: 21
Boston in 2004: 22
Dragonflight 2000: 9
Eos/HarperPrism: 16, 17
HarperCollins: Inside Front Cover
Northwest Science Fiction Society: 34
Seattle Westercon Bid: Inside Back Cover
Talking Rain: 27
University Book Store: 25
Westercon 54 in Portland: 47
Stacy Anderson
AV-Pro
Bellevue Regional Library
Jack Beslanwitch
Jennifer Brehl
Capitol City Press, Inc.
Designers Service Bureau
Federal Way 320th Library
Gerry Ann LaPlante
Gordon LaPlante
Gayle MacArthur
George Nyhen
Offworld Designs
Talking Rain
Gordon Van Gelder
Lisa Woodings
Ben Schreiber and the Norwescon Registration Staff would like to thank all of the volunteers who participated in the special volunteer events and bugbashing efforts, and helped make sure that the new Registration system will run smoothly.
Capitol City PRESS
Olympia’s Business Printer for Over 20 Years
116 Capitol Way N. [redacted] Downtown Olympia
www.capitolcitypress.com
AV-PRO
Audio-Visual Products, Inc.
825 South Dakota St.
Seattle WA. 98108
[redacted]
Vendor for Norwescon A/V and other convention needs.
WERE BRINGING WESTERCON BACK TO WESTERN WASHINGTON
HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN
SWOC
the Seattle Westercon Organizing Committee
invites you to an open SWOC meeting on Sunday to find out about our Westercon bid and about what else SWOC is doing Visit us on the web at:
http://www.sfnorthwest.org/swoc
email: swoc@webwitch.com
THE SEA-TAC WESTERCON 56 BID
welcomes you to visit us at our table or come party with us on Friday night and see what all the excitement is about and why we want to bring the 2003 Westercon to the SeaTac DoubleTree on July 4th Weekend. Visit on the web at:
http;//www. webwitch.com/westercon56/
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The Northwest Science Fiction Society proudly presents
March 25-28, 1993
Annual Northwest Science Fiction Convention
WESTERCON '93
$45.00 through May 31, 1993
$55.00 at the door
$20.00 supporting membership until June 20
WESTERCON 46
P.O. Box 24292
Seattle, Washington 98124
[redacted]
$40 Special Rate at Norwescon Only.
Drop by the WESTERCON table today.
Current membership rate is $45. You save $5!
It's About Time...
JULY 4TH WEEKEND
RED LION HOTEL/BELLEVUE
GREG BEAR Writer Guest of Honor
GEORGE BARR Artist Guest of Honor
F.M. BUSBY, ELINOR BUSBY, & WALLY WEBER Fan Guests of Honor
GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER Toastmaster
Plus multi-track programming: authors, artists, editors, scientists, publishers, readings, writers’ workshops, masquerade, art show, science, hospitality, dealers, videos, anime, gaming, costuming and other fun and fantastic things to see and do!
Program Book Production:
Michael Brocha, J.C. Armbruster, Michael Citrak, Amy Lowenthal, Deborah Wood, Becky Simpson
Program Book Printouts:
Designers Service Bureau, Olympia, WA
NORWESCON 16 CONVENTION COMMITTEE
Chairman: Judy Suryan
Prom Queen: Kimmerly Valentine
Convention Secretary: Pat Oros
Hospitality Dept. Head: Terry Wyatt
Hospitality Dept. Seconds: Terri Jones-Wyatt, Theresa Wilson, Tony Case, Eric Carlson, Keri-Lynn Downey, Lettie Smith
Mail Services: Lauraine Miranda
Business Manager: Doug Booze
Treasurer: Paul Schaper
Budget: Doug Booze
Contracts/Legal: Paul Schaper, Judy Suryan
Public Relations: Richard Wright
Membership Services: Deb Anderson, Scott Anderson, Paul Schaper, Carolyn Palms
Publications: Michael Brocha
Photo Services: Thom Walls, Bob Youngs
Convention Services: Judy Suryan
Operations Manager: Michael Citrak
Assistant to Michael Citrak: Paul Wocken
Room Layouts: Judy Suryan, Chuck van der Linden, Hans Meier, Michael Citrak
Office: Pat Oros
Office Second: Jodi Scanlon
Blood/Food Drive: Pat Oros
Gophers: Jodi Scanlon
Lost & Found: Lauraine Miranda
Staff I.D.: Cherie Playter
Information: Mike Bentley
Site Services: Kathy Smith
Rovers Dept. Head: Peter Horvath
Rovers Dept. Seconds: Jamie Walker, Peter Kafka d'Alglemont
Watch Dept. Head: Steve Davies
Watch Dept. Second: Styvesen
Peacebonding: Don Kimberline
Signs: Robin Smith
Programming/Stage Services: Hans Meier
Stage Management: Vickey McCortney
Masquerade: Rick Bligh, Vickie Bligh
Stardance: Keith Johnson
Resurrection Dance: Shawn Marier
One Step Beyond Dance: Peter Kafka d'Anglemont
Properties: LouAnna Valentine
Technical Services: David Valentine
Volunteer Services: Carolyn Palms
Volunteering Recruiting: Julia McKinney
Staff Lounge: Carolyn Palms
KidKon VI: Sue Bartroff, Director
First Shift: Susan Allen
Second Shift: Mica Bartroff
Assistants: Jessica Holman, Shannon Hillinger, Katheryn Greene-Brocha, Elizabeth Brocha
Set-up & Tear-down/Security/Video: Andrew Bartroff
Static Programming: Dave Howell
Art Show: Katherine Howes, Tiffany Putman
Gaming: Pro Ray, Robert Moshell
Exhibit Tables: Becky Simpson
Dealers: Jane Larsen
Costume Gallery: Carol Monahan
Netgaming: Dave Howell
Programming Director: Sue Bartroff
Co-director / Computer Services: Sharon Sinclair
On-Site Programming: Richard Wright
Norwescon Writers Workshop: Michael Scanlon
The Olympic View Writers Workshop: Sharon Sinclair
VIP Guest Relations: Richard Wright
Green Room: Raymond Burke
Special Events
Banquets: Judy Suryan
Entertainment: Telgar Wyer, Leith & Allasandra, David Denz, James Ernest
Autograph Party: Michael Brocha
Movie Previews: Leif Brandon
Lazer Tag: Brian Smith
SCA Tourney: Joel Card
Fannish Olympics: Mark Richardson
Filking: Mary K. Kare
Media Services Director: Chris McDonell
Video Program: Joel Getschman, Terrence Hatcher, Ray Irish, Andrew Bartroff
Event Broadcasts/Media Technician: Chris McDonell
Media Programming: Joel Getschman
The Northwest Science Fiction Society proudly presents
NORWESCON 16
March 25-28, 1993
Annual Northwest Science Fiction Convention
MARCH 25TH - 28TH, 1993 - RED LION HOTEL/BELLEVUE
Sixteenth Annual Northwest Regional Science Fiction Convention
Sponsored by the:
Northwest Science Fiction Society
P.O. Box 24207
Seattle, WA 98124
Guest of Honor BETTY BALLANTINE
Special Guest of Honor
ANNE MCCAFFREY
Artist Guest of Honor
JANNY WURTS
Science Guest of Honor
CHRIS JONIENTZ-TRISLER
Fan Guest of Honor
JANE HAWKINS
Volunteer Guest of Honor
TERESA JANSSEN
Toastmaster
BONNIE BAKER
Curse of the Mistwraith © 1993 by Janny Wurts.
Cover for her forthcoming book, to be published by Harper Collins: Cover
Programming: 2
Guest of Honor: Betty Ballantine by Anne McCaffrey: 28
Special Guest of Honor: Anne McCaffrey by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough: 30
Art Guest of Honor: Janny Wurts by Raymond E. Feist: 33
Science Guest of Honor: Chris Jonientz-Trisler by Janet Tanaka: 35
Fan Guest of Honor: Jane Hawkins by Jane Hawkins: 37
Volunteer Guest of Honor: Theresa Janssen by Becky Rariden: 39
Toastmaster: Bonnie Baker by Bonnie Baker & Judy Suryan: 41
Fiction: Mistwriath by Janny Wurts: 43
Travel: 45
Gallery I: 49
Guests of Norwescon: 53
Gallery II: 83
Dealers: 93
Members of Norwescon: 95
Advertisers & Art Credits: 99
Acknowledgements: Inside back cover
Nametag © 1993 by Rob Alexander
Contents Copyright © 1993 by the Northwest Science Fiction Society for the contributors.
All opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Norwescon or the Northwest Science Fiction Society
[Artwork] Shadowfane © 1993 by fanny Wurts. Cover for her book, published by Ace Books.
The Norwescon Program can be regarded as sort of "meta-convention"—that is, the raw materials out of which one can construct one's own convention. We expect that no one attending Norwescon will experience exactly the same con, but do hope we've provided you with the opportunity to have the convention you want.
The following schedule shows most of the programming events. Whereas much work has gone into the scheduling of events and making the listings as complete and accurate as possible, things tend to change and panelists sometimes have to drop out. Be sure to check the Pocket Program to verify that the programs you wish to attend are still listed for the same time and location. More up-to-the-minute changes are listed at the Information Table, behind the elevators on the convention floor.
The convention committee welcomes you to Norwescon 16 and hopes that you have an enjoyable convention.
The Olympic View Writers' Conference Check-In
Olympic View I
Sharon Sinclair, A.L.H. Robkin, Lenora Rain-Lee Good, Terry Lusian, George E. Nyhen, Andrew Hamlin, Terry A. Fowler, Edward Martin III
Stop bv to visit and get oriented. Inking packets should be turned in.
Designing A New Society
Marymoor
Leonardo D. Rufo (M), Steve Gallacci, Quinton Hoover, Melinda Jodry, Carol Monahan
This group of costumers, artists and writers design a society. Remember that form follows function. Just how would this work?
BAFA-BAFA
Exhibit 3
Richard A. Wright
Come experience other cultures through alien eyes.
Why I Collect Comics Idylwood
Chris Lightfoot (M), lames Ernest (M)
The audience is the panel here. Why you collect, what you collect, where you collect.
Bruce Byfield Reading
Crossroads
Censorship: Books, Comics, Games
Marvmoor
Jon M. Gustafson, Lonnie G. Davis, Jesper Myrfors, Phil Foglio
Who controls what you read and see?
Star Trek: What's Next?
Idylwood
Carol Severance, Elton T. Elliott, Douglas Herring, Duane Wilkins, Ray Williams, Lisa Stevens
This group of authors, artists, and booksellers look ahead 'Where no script writer has gone before'.
Fantasy Art In The 90's
Fairweather
Julia E. Lacquement-Kerr, Freddie Baer, Kaja Murphy
A look at the current work of three artists who differ greatly in style, media and technique.
Military SF Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Don McQuinn, Gregory Bennett
The role of the military in SF, and future trends in this sub-genre.
Earthquake Hazards At Home And Work
Newport
Chris Jonientz-Trisler, Janet Tanaka, Lisa Woodings
Not just things falling, but chemicals hazards, gas explosions, fire. How to prevent problems in the future.
The Future Of Religion
Factoria
Mike Moscoe (M), Deborah Hudson, David Wolverton
Which global pressures might effect religion the most in the last decade of the 20th Century.
Amy Thomson Reading
Crossroads
S.F. Sings
Exhibit 1
Mary K. Kare, David Denz
Filking with Mary K. Kare and David Denz.
If I Ran The Zoo
Exhibit 3
Richard A. Wright
How to run a science fiction convention.
Agent Interview: James Allen
Olympic View II
By appointment only. To obtain an appointment, it was necessary to submit a request prior to the convention.
Tony Daniel Reading
Crossroads
The Ren And Stimpy Hour
Marymoor
Bonnie Baker, Dennis Cripps, Anthony Pryor
Officiandos of this classless cartoon series speak out on why you watch, who you watch with and have you experienced brain damage from watching it?
Costume Design
Idylwood
David Tackett, John Alvarez, Carol Monahan
Where do these people get those great ideas?
'KEV'
Fairweather
Kevin Brockschmidt
An hour with Kevin Brockschmidt, a rising young artist whose work is frequently seen in Starlog.
New TV Shows
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Andrew Hamlin, Bonnie Baker
What do you think of the new TV shows? Andrew Hamlin MC's, but the audience supplies the questions and the answers.
Affordable Collecting
Factoria
Chris Lightfoot, John Pelan, Brian Snoddy, Dave Smeds
Books? Art? Comics? How to start and what to collect. Is your collecting for investment or enjoyment?
[Artwork] Copyright © 1993 by Margaret Organ-Kean
Workshops Workshop: Short Story 1
NWC Writers Workshop
Michael Scanlon, Bruce Taylor, Robin Burchett, T. Jackson King
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Writers' Workshop: 409
Olympic View 1
A.L.H. Robkin, Bill Ransom
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Star Trek Universe: The Good, The Bad and The Q
Marymoor
Lisa Woodings, Chris Lightfoot, Lisa Stevens, Leonardo D. Rufo, Betsy Mott
What's new, what's old, what is Q? Audience participation requested!
Theater Costuming
Idylwood
A.L.H. Robkin, Kaja Murphy, Carol Monahan, Richard Stevens
The history of theater costuming and its influence today.
Movie Models & FX
Fairweather
Dragon, David Tackett, Bill Hay, Lita R. Smith-Gharet, Bear Burge, Sean Runyons
These model makers and FX specialists are straight from their latest triumph in Hollywood. They will talk about their trade, show a videotape of upcoming FX scenes, and bring actual props used in Terminator, Highlander, Deep Space 9, and ST:TNG.
The Arthurian Legends
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Greg Cox, Ru Emerson, Rebecca V. Neason
Why does this legend persist and appear in so many guises throughout literature?
Northern Exposure: Fact Or Fantasy
Newport
Janet Tanaka, Quinton Hoover
A look at an unfolding Northwest drama.
[Artwork] Jack of Shadows © 1993 by Richard Hescox. Cover for the book by Roger Zelazny, published by Signet Books (NAL).
Alien Flora & Fauna
Factoria
Bill Ransom, Odell Garrett, Toivo Rovainen, Dr. Robin Wright, Phil Foglio
When writers and artists apply 'what if' to biology, strange mutations may appear. This group of writers and scientists will consider the possible, the ridiculous and the impossible.
Freddie Baer: Collage
Lakehills
Freddie Baer
While you watch, bits and pieces will be shaped into form.
Acting Workshop
Exhibit 1
Linda M. Keen, Gerrold Keen, Dee Weiss
A discussion on developing your persona for role playing, gaming, and hall or masquerade costume presentations. If you are interested in participating in the Crossed Arrows Workshop this is the place to get the information.
The Olympic View Writers' Conference® Open House
Olympic View 1
Sharon Sinclair, A.L.H. Robkin, Lenora Rain-Lee Good, Terry Lusian, Andrew Hamlin, Edward Martin III
Stop by for a visit. Inking packets need to be turned in.
Sexy Male Costumes
Idylwood
David Tackett, Joy Day, Donna Strub, Bernard Street, Richard Stevens, Judy Smith, Thinker
What women find sexy in men's costuming.
New Movies
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Andrew Hamlin, Bonnie Baker
What do you think of the new movies? You, the audience ask the questions and provide all the answers.
Physics 100 For Writers And Artists
Newport
Greg Cox, James Ernest, Stephanie Ann Johanson, Mark Bourne, James Glass
Elementary physics for artists and writers.
Super-heroes
Factoria
Anthony Pryor, Don FL DeBrandt, Ray Williams, Douglas Herring
The function and role of the Super-hero in society today. Why we need them. Who they are. What role they play in their society and culture as well as ours.
Props For Costumers
Exhibit 1
Richard Stevens, Judy Smith
Do you have props and don't know what to do with them? Do you want props and don't know where to find them? Should you have props and don't know it yet? This is the panel for you!
L-5 Society
Marymoor
Bryce Walden
A discussion about space program budget cuts.
Myths Of Western Society
Newport
Beverly Marshall Sating, KaJa Murphy, Brian Snoddy
A look at myths from those surrounding Christanity to those of 'the Old West'.
NASA Space Station
Factoria
T. Jackson King, Karl Johanson, Melinda Jodry
An update and concerns.
Quick Sketch: Super-heroes
Lakehills
John Alvarez
Lightning drawings of super-heros, known and unknown.
Lisa Jean Bothell Reading
Crossroads
Military Futures Of Science Fiction
Exhibit 1
Mike Kelly
A comparison of military gaming and science fiction: Dorsai, Starship Troopers, Battletech, etc.
Writers' Workshop: 504
Olympic View 1
A.L.H. Robkin, Bridget McKenna, J.P. McLaughlin
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
John De Camp Reading
Crossroads
Opening Cermonies
Idylwood
Judy Suryan
Meet our Guests of Honor, hear about the new program items, see James Ernest juggle and catch first glimpses of the NWC movie previews.
Cartooning
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Jon M. Gustafson, Steve Gallacci, Dennis Cripps, Phil Foglio, Edward Martin III
A dialogue and practical demonstration.
Publishing Economics: Small Press
Newport
Elton T. Elliott, John Pelan
The reality of small press publishing—money is hard to find.
Government Funded Health Care
Factoria
Lonnie Davis, Kyle Kirkwood, Terry A. Fowler, Michael Kerr
A discussion of one of today's largest problems facing citizens on both sides of the border.
A Hunting We Will Go With Baen in July 1993
ELIZABETH MOON
HUNTING PARTY
Grand Space Adventure By the Coauthor of SASSINAK and GENERATION WARRIORS
Heris Serrano was an officer born of a long line of officers — until she was forced to resign her commission under a cloud and lost everything that gave her life meaning. Now she has wound up as captain cum chauffeur of a rich old lady’s hyperlight houseboat.
But all is not as it seems aboard the good ship Sweet Delight, and soon Heris finds herself fighting for her life against as varied and villainous a bunch of cut-throats, smugglers, and “sportsmen” as ever had the misfortune to cross her path when she was a captain of the Fleet.
Praise for Elizabeth Moon: “I thoroughly enjoyed The Deed of Paksenarrion. A most engrossing, highly enjoyable work.” —Anne McCaffrey
“The excitement of high heroic adventure is superbly cast with protagonists and supporting characters that will enchant the reader.” —The Bookwatch
JULY 1993 • 0-671-72176-3 • $5.99
Distributed by Simon & Schuster • 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
Scrimshaw With Kathy McLean
Lakehills
Kathy McLean
The art of scrimshaw using everything from plastic spoons to steak bones.
Graphic Novel/Comic Book Roundtable
Olympic View I
Barbara Randall Kesel, Edward Martin III, Kij Johnson
Inking workshop check in.
Millennium III
Marymoor
Dr. Thomas W. Sine, Jr.
As we approach the threshold of the third millennium, we will briefly discuss some of the challenges that are likely to face us in tomorrow's world. Against this backdrop, we will use the past to explore the kind of future we want.
Movie Previews
Idylwood
Lief Brandon
A one hour look at what's new at the movies, hosted by Lief Brandon.
Resurrection Dance
Fairweather
Music of the '70s and '80s programmed by Shawn Merrier and Peter Kafka.
M. Elayn Harvey Reading
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
A costumed poetry reading by the author and her friends.
Robin Hood
Newport
Rebecca V. Neason
Hero or anti-hero?
The Sci-Fi Channel
Factoria
Kent Patterson
What is it. Where is it. Why don't all cable channels carry it?
Lost Wax Techniques
Lakehills
Lauri Lynn L. Miller
A master at 3-D artwork shares some of her techniques.
Super-heroes In Comic Books
Idylwood
Barbara Randall Kesel
The super-hero: past, present and future. A dialogue with the Managing Editor of Dark Horse Comics.
Juggling With James Ernest
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Janies Ernest
James will demonstrate the inside and outside tricks to this fancinating skill.
Non-Traditional Religions
Newport
Stan Hyde, T. Jackson King
A look at non-traditional, sometimes controversial religious groups.
Artist's Block
Factoria
Jesper Myrfors, Freddie Baer, Steve Gallacci, Edward Martin III, Brian Snoddy, Stephanie Ann Johanson
When the creative process stalls, the panel has some ideas on how to get it started again.
Quick Sketch: Spaceships
Lakehills
Douglas Herring, Toivo Rovainen, Leonardo D. Rufo
Imagination, not necessarily engineering, is what this panel of artists specializing in spaceships will be using.
Co-Authorship
Marymoor
Raven C.S. McCraken, Bruce Byfield, Ru Emerson, Brynne Stephens, Kent Patterson, Bridget McKenna, Jak Koke, Bruce Byfield, Phyllis Ann Karr, Michael Reaves
[Artwork] Copyright © 1993 by Kaja Murphy
Vampire Books & Movies
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Nick Pollotta, Stan Hyde, Lynn S. Adams
The vampire in books and movies: frequent appearances of the undead on the big screen, the small screen, and the printed page.
Fantastic Animals & Silly Beasts
Factoria
Phil Foglio, Kaja Murphy
Quick sketches of the fantastic and the odd.
Midnight Horror Readings
Crossroads
D.T. Steiner
Your host, D.T. Steiner, welcomes you to join in the fun.
SF Sings
Crossroads
Mary K. Kare
Lead by Mary K. Kare.
Open Gaming
Back Exhibit Hall
Tai Chi: Steven E. Barnes
Exhibit 1
This is a good way to start the morning!
Hubble Update
Marymoor
Mark Bourne
From new planetary systems to black holes, the latest astronomical images and discoveries from the Hubble Telescope.
Writing About Women
Idylwood / Fairweather
Betty Ballantine, Anne McCaffrey, Carol Severance, Tom Doherty
Authors, editor and publisher converse on this subject with Anne McCaffrey (on telelink from her home in Ireland).
Dinosaurs On The Moon
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Bonnie Baker, Kij Johnson, Gregory Bennett, Steve Gallicci, Kevin Brockschmidt
A tongue-in-cheek look at Tabloid Science News.
Strong Women with Stronger Magic
From BAEN in June 1993
CHANGEWEAVER
by the Coauthor of Partnership
MARGARET BALL
One of the most powerful women of her clan, but unable to “ground” her intense magic, Tamai is a danger to all those around her. Forever parted from her clan, she serves it by dealing with the world outside the mountains of the Hindu Hush, wherein Gandhara is nestled.
Enter Lord Charles Francis Carrington of the British Empire, on a secret mission to the mysterious Chin Empire. Tamai will be his guide east, past the demons that have isolated the Chin Empire for hundreds of years.
Together Carrington and Tamai will discover just why it is the Chin Empire is defended by demons—and in so doing change the course of time itself....
**0-671-72173-9 • $4.99 **
TAMINY
MAYA KAATHRYN BOHNHOFF
A Legend Walks: A New Fantasy by the Author of The Meri
Tammy had power. And females weren’t supposed to have power in her world. One hundred years after joining with the Meri and becoming her aspect on earth, Taminy is free to walk the land as a human once more. But still Taminy is no ordinary human. She has a mission from the Meri. And she will bring turmoil and social upheaval in her wake—and woman’s place in the world of the Meri will be restored once more.
“...a gifted writer whose skillfully subtle use of language creates a beautiful reading experience... This is one author fans will watch in happy anticipation of future works.”
—M. Helfer, Rave Reviews
0-671-72174-7 • $4.99
Distributed by Simon & Schuster, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
[Artwork] Copyright © 1993 by Douglas Herring
Childrens' Literature
Newport
Jan King, Claudia McCormick, Rebecca V. Neason
Good kids' books that teach values as well as entertain.
David Wolverton Reading
Factoria
The author reads from his new novel, Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia.
Freddie Baer At Work
Lakehills
Freddie Baer
Artist at work. You are welcome to watch and ask questions.
Leonardo Rufo At Work
George Peirson At Work
Julia E. Lacquement-Kerr At Work
Lakehills
Artists at work. You are welcome to watch and ask questions.
Todd Logan Reading
Crossroads
Keeping Your Facts Straight
Exhibit 1
Chris Jonientz-Trisler, Janet Tanaka, Jean M. Auel
The importance of both field and library research.
Life Drawing: Tom Verre
Exhibit 2
Draw the costumed human figure. Artist Tom Verre will be there to assist you. Norwescon costumers will be your models. Bring your sketch pad and pencil.
Blood Drive
Exhibit 3
When you give blood, you help heal the world in a practical way.
Workshop: Novel 1
NWC Writers Workshop
Michael Scanlon, James Class, Kate Flynn Connolly, Amy Thompson
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Writers' Workshop: Novel 406
Olympic View I
Lenora Rain-Lee Good, Mark Coen, Barbara Denz
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Agent Interview: James Allen
Olympic View II
By appointment only. To obtain an appointment it was necessary to submit a request prior to the convention.
Tracy Vaughn Moore Reading
Crossroads
Author reads from his work.
Kurt Giambastiani Reading
Crossroads
Bloopers Reel
Marymoor
Pat Oros, David Valentine, Chris McDonell
Our technical crew, who spent a week in Ireland with Anne McCaffrey, will share their experiences and show a video of their visit.
Virtual Sound
Idylwood/Fairweather
Ari Hollander, Mark Takacs
The manipulation of sound, courtesy of the University of Washington's Human Interface Laboratory.
Star Wars & Star Trek Philosophy
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
S. Mike Tanaka, Janet Tanaka, Rebecca V. Neason, David Wolverton
The influence of the Bahai faith on these science fiction cultures.
Writer's Block
Newport
Carol Severance, David E. Myers, Tony Daniel, Phil Foglio, Nick Pollotta
What is it and what to do about it.
Richard Hescox Slide Show
Factoria
Artist shows slides of his work.
Stephen L. Gillett Reading
Crossroads
Megan Lindholm Reading
Exhibit 1
Writers' Workshop: Short Story 515
Olympic View I
A.L.H. Robkin, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Terry A. Fowler
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
OMSI's Star Trek: Federation Science
Marymoor
Mark Bourne
Take a look behind the scenes of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry's Star Trek science exhibit and planetarium show with its author. Find out how OMSI went where no science museum has gone before (and why Paramount will never do it again).
Jean M. Auel Interview
Idylwood/Fairweather
Dr. Robin Wright, Jean M. Auel
A conversation with Jean about herself, her books, her research methods, and what's next.
Artificial Intelligence
Overlake /Glendale / Sahalee
Burt Webb, Zen Foulkes, Jane Hawkins, Bryce Walden
The search goes on.
Overpopulation: Fact Or Fiction?
Newport
Lisa Woodings, Kyle Kirkwood, Vicki Mitchell, Lisa Jean Bothell, Greg Cox
How do we keep from overflowing the planet?
Humorous Objects
Factoria
Kevin Brockschmidt
Kev will show how to take any object and find its humor!
Richard A. Scott At Work
Lakehills
Artist at work. You are welcome to watch and ask questions.
Ru Emerson Reading
Crossroads
Alien Psychology
Exhibit 1
Terry A. Fowler, Harley Hashman, Bruce Taylor, Burt Webb, Gregory Kusnick, Craig Figley
On the planet, Wdjgl, the residents live in hexagons, eat dirt and think the sky is down. What kind of psychological problems might they experience and how would you treat them?
Workshop: Short Story 2
NWC Writers Workshop
Michael Scanlon, Patrick Swenson, Lisa Smedman, Todd Logan
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Writers' Workshop: Novel 408
Olympic View I
James Allen, Bob Howe, Nick Pollotta
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Agent Interviews: Mary Alice Kier
Olympic View II
By appointment only. To obtain an appointment it was necessary to submit a request prior to the convention.
Janny Wurts Slide Show
Idylwood/Fairweather
Our Guest of Honor presents slides of her work.
Working With An Agent
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Mary Alice Kier
What a writer expects from an agent; what an agent expects from a writer.
Science Fiction Poetry
Newport
John De Camp, Bill Ransom, Rhea Rose, Tony Daniel
The elements that make up a science fiction poem.
Craig Figley At Work
Lakehills
Artist at work. You are welcome to watch and ask questions.
Carla J. Mills Reading
Crossroads
Life Writing Seminar: Steven E. Barnes
Exhibit 1
This is a brief version of a much longer seminar. Its focus is to improve your life view.
Self-Publication Computer Support
Exhibit 2
Johnathan C. Hendee, Raven C.S. McCracken, Jon M. Gustafson, Jeffery Ferris
The ins and outs of desktop publishing for the small press or fanzine.
Writers' Workshop: Novel 404
Olympic View I
James Allen, Megan Lindholm, Claudia McCormick
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Cascade Comic Book Club Workshop
Olympic View II
Barbara Randall Kesel, Edward Martin III
By invitation only. To participate in this type of workshop it was necessary to submit material prior to the convention.
Jane Hawkins Reading
Crossroads
Jane Hawkins
Hobby To Job
Marymoor
Dr. Sharon Russell, (Popular Culture Academic); Edward Martin III, (Submissions Editor); James Allen, (Literary Agent); Joan Kotker, (Popular Culture Academic); Megan Lindholm, (Author); Jesper Myrfors, (Art Director); Peter Adkison, (Game Publisher); Dragon, (His Dreams Of Hollywood Came True)
The panelists share their stories on how they got started and give you tips on how to join them.
[Artwork] The Mind Pool © 1993 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Charles Sheffield, published by Baen Books. (Can you find the cat?)
Ram Accelerator
Idylwood/Fairweather
Dr. Carl Knowlen, Andrew Higgins
Latest information on the University of Washington's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics 'Direct Launch Systems for Space Cargo' project. See the first pictures of big boar firings to be shown to the public. Yep, this is the spacegun!
Your First Con(vention)
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Jane Hawkins, Bonnie Baker, Teresa Janssen, Pat Oros, Richard A. Wright, Ben Yalow
You are attending your first science fiction convention and you are no longer sure which section of the galactic map you are in! These panelists will be happy to answer your questions.
Mythology Of Volcanos
Newport
Janet Tanaka
The symbolism of the volcano.
Inking
Factoria
Quinton Hoover
Artist demonstrates the fine art of inking.
Vicki Mitchell Reading
Crossroads
Author reads from her latest Star Trek novel.
Crossed Arrows Acting Workshop
Exhibit 2
Linda M. Keen, Gerald Keen
This open actors' workshop will again help you find the persona within your costume or gaming character.
Sharpshooter
Back Exhibit Hall
Workshop: Short Story 3
NWC Writers Workshop
Michael Scanlon, David E. Myers, Tom Lindell, Kurt Giambastiani
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Writers' Workshop: Novel 407
Olympic View I
Rebecca V. Neason, L. Dean James
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Don Maitz Slide Show
Idylwood/Fairweather
This gifted artist presents a slide show of his work.
Seattle Shakes I, II & III
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Seattle Shakes I
Chris Jonientz-Trisler,Janny Wurts, Janet Tanaka, Frank Catalano, Michael Dean, Harley Hashman, Ray Vukcevich, Barb Hendee, Bridget McKenna, Carol Monahan
Seattle Shakes II
Kaja Murphy, Phil Foglio, James W. Fiscus, Mary K. Whittington, Todd Logan, D.T. Steiner, Robin Burchett, Kij Johnson, Sonia Orin Lyris,
Seattle Shakes III
Richard A. Scott, Jak Koke, Ru Emerson, Mark Coen, Raven C.S. McCracken, Steve Gallacci, Kevin Brockschmidt Our Science GoH Chris Jonientz-Trisler
Our Science GoH Chris Jonientz-Trisler presents the latest evidence on the Elliott Bay fault. We asked a group of writers and artists to adapt this information for different genres (horror, sf, fantasy, etc.) and markets (humor, media, juvenile, etc.)
Klingon 101
Newport
Betty Bigleow
Basic language instruction for those wishing to learn such immortal Klingon phrases such as 'the disrupter is on the desk' and 'summon the coronor, my friend has had an accident'.
Appraising SF Collectables
Factoria
Chris Lightfoot, Jon M. Gustafson
Do you have a complete set of Star Wars figures, autographed pictures, Kirk & Spock salt & pepper shakers? This is the panel for you!
Margaret Organ-Kean Demo
Lakehills
Dressing your artistic pets.
Dave Smeds Reading
Crossroads
Jean M. Auel Reading
Exhibit 1
Jean reads scenes from her books and explains her use of source material.
Writers' Workshop: Poetry 201, 202
Olympic View I
Terry A. Fowler, John H. De Camp, Bill Ransom
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Agent Interview: Mary Alice Kier
Olympic View II
By appointment only. To obtain an appointment it was necessary to submit a request prior to the convention.
SF Fanzines
Newport
George E. Nyhen, Clifford W. Wind, Jeffrey Ferris, Suzanne Thompkins, Mike Glyer
The who, what, why and how of fanzines.
Dameon Willich Slide Show
Factoria
Dameon presents a retrospective show of his work.
Comic Book Coloring
Lakehills
Julia E. Lacquement-Kerr
Julia shares her knowledge about comic book coloring. This is her last Norwescon for awhile, so take advantage of this demonstration.
Mike Moscoe Reading
Crossroads
[Artwork] Copyright © 1993 by Margaret Organ-Kean
Anne McCaffrey
THE CITY WHO FOUGHT
S.M. STIRLING
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Plagerism And Infringement
Exhibit 1
Jane Hawkens (M), Dean Wesley Smith, Barbara Randall Kesel, Ray Williams, Nick Pollotto, Marilyn J. Holt, Peter D. Adkison, Barbara Denz, Anthony Pryor, Steve Fahnestalk
This should be a very lively look at two very serious issues.
Basic Art Kit
Exhibit 2
Don Maitz, Cail Butler, Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk
What supplies you need and where to buy them. Tips on finding the best value for your money.
Gregory Bennett
Crossroads
Autography Party
Marymoor/Idylwood/Fairweather
Assorted Guests of Norwescon
Many of our guests, including our Guests of Honor, will be here to sign their art, their books and your program books.
Medieval & Middle East Costumes
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Betty Bigelow, Melinda Jodry, Carol Monahan
The design and evolution of the belly dance costume is only one aspect of this panel, but they plan to use a live model!
Writing Military SF
Newport
Tara K. Harper, J.P. McLaughlin, L. Dean James, Rhondi Vilott Salsitz, Don McQuinn
Creating realistic combat scenes and military organizations.
Sculpted Makeup
Factoria
Richard Stevens, Terry 'Sprite' Sprech
Use common household items to create special makeup effects from monsters to aliens.
Mark Bourne Reading
Crossroads
Hats & Feet
Exhibit 2
Joy Day, Dave Tackett, Deborah Strub
What to do with your head and feet when you have finished the ultimate costume.
Clinton's First 60 Days
Exhibit 3
Kate Flynn Connolly, Garrett Odell, Astrid Anderson Bear, Steven E. Barnes, Stuart Royan, Andrew Higgins, Doug Zimmer
A dialogue.
Quick Draw
Back Exhibit Hall
Agent Interviews: Mary Alice Kier
Olympic View II
By appointment only. To obtain an appointment it was necessary to submit a request prior to the convention.
Womens' Health Funding
Newport
Terry A. Fowler, Michael Kerr, MD, Elisabeth Waters
The politics of research.
Steve Gallacci At Work
Lakehills
Artist at work. You are welcome to watch and ask questions.
Andrew Hamlin Reading
Crossroads
Author reads short short stories!
Steve Fahnestalk Reading
Crossroads
T. Jackson King Reading Crossroads
Lost Hour Of Space Rangers
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Dragon, Bear Burge, Sean Runyons, Bill Hay
Insider stories and video.
I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
- Arthur Wellestey, Duke of Wellington
A GROSS PROPHETS PRODUCTION
with a grant from the Addams Family.
The Short, Short Story
Newport
Ru Emerson
Writing a story in 100 words.
Plotting Your SF Novel
Factoria
Greg Cox, Tara K. Harper, Vicki Mitchell, Richard Paul Russo,
Some writers dream their stories, others make intricate diagrams and outlines. Here are some tips from experts.
Kyle Kirkwood Reading
Crossroads
Comic Book Inking Workshop
Olympic View I
Barbara Randall Kesel, Edward Martin III
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of workshop it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Patrick Swenson Reading
Crossroads
Bridget McKenna Reading
Crossroads
Banquet
Exhibit 1
Bonnie Baker, David Hartwell (Philip K. Dick Awards)
The Norwescon 16 Banquet is a Pernese feast celebrating a hatching of fire lizards at Telgar Weyr, entertainment by harpers (courtesy of the SCA), the Philip K. Dick Awards, and speeches by our GoH's.
Artists Network
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Cail Butler, Leslie T. Newcomer
Artists get together and exchange tips. Here is a chance to meet with old friends and new.
The Gaming Industry
Newport
Peter D. Adkison, Jay Hays, Jesper Myrfors, Lisa Stevens, Beverly Marshall Saling
Everything you need to know about how to get published in the gaming industry. This is an open workshop presented by the Wizards of the Coast staff.
Quarantine
Factoria
Michael Kerr, MD, Elisabeth Waters, Elizabeth N. Moon, Kyle Kirkwood
With the arrival of drug-resistant bacterial strains, how hotly will the question of quarantine be debated?
Sculpy Dragons
Lakehills
Dennis Bergum
Don't miss this 3-D panel using sculpy (the Play-Dough of grownups) presented by this talented sculptor.
Robin Burchett Reading
Crossroads
Jak Koke Reading
Crossroads
SF Model Kits
Factoria
Stan Hyde
For general fans and model builders. Where to find hard-to-get parts, the best garage kits, and unusual models.
R. Garcia y Robertson Reading
Crossroads
Author reads from his latest novel.
Reception
Art Gallery
Stardance
Marymoor/Idylwood/Fairweather/Bellefield
Keith Johnson, Boogie Being
This year's Stardance has a Sweet 16/Prom Night theme with photo opportunities and flowers for your sweetheart. Along with great dances tunes from yesterday and today, Keith will also play requests.
Keeping It Funny
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Nick Pollotta, Robin Burchett, Phil Foglio, Kevin Brockschmidt, Kaja Murphy
How do you find humor and then pass it on without losing the funny.
[Artwork] Copyright © 1993 by Kaja Murphy
Making Costume Patterns
Newport
Richard Stevens
Did you ever need to create an animal costume, a monster, or a troll and could not find a pattern? Learn how to start making your own patterns.
Comic Book Language
Lakehills
Donna Barr
The language of sequential art is Donna Barr's topic. How the shape of the panels and balloons convey the timing and emotion of the comic book world.
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough Reading
Crossroads
Judging The Art Show
Art Gallery
Kathryn Howes, Janny Wurts, Don Maitz, Margaret Organ-Kean, Tom Verre, Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, Michael Brocha
Vampires
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Sharon Russell, Greg Cox
Is there a significance in the popularity of the vampire?
SF Sings
Factoria
Mary K. Kare
With the Kares and other filkers.
Quick Sketch: Horror
Lakehills
Robert Alexander, Julia E. Lacquenient-Kerr, Lenorado D. Rufo
Come see your favorite ghosts, werewolves and other horror themes take shape in the talented hands of these artists.
Midnight Horror Reading
Crossroads
Jodi Scanlon
Open reading hosted by Jodi Scanlon.
Northwest Convention League Breakfast
Hotel Snack Bar
Jon M. Gustafson (M)
No-host breakfast to discuss common convention business issues.
Tai Chi & Steven E. Barnes
Exhibit 1
Start the morning right.
KidKon Laser Tag
Exhibit 3
Sue Bartroff
While adults are sleeping in, the kids will play!
Open Gaming
Back Exhibit Hall
Mt. Rainier
Marymoor
Chris Jonientz-Trisler, Janet Tanaka
Washington state's largest volcano, its recent activity, and future projections based on past erruptions.
Anne From Ireland: Slide Show
Fairweather
Anne McCaffrey, Narrator; David Valentine, Photographer
A view of Anne's Ireland, her home, her horses, her favorite spots.
[Artwork] Copyright © 1993 by Margaret Organ-Kean
Tachyons & Space Drives
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Dr. John G. Cramer (M), Dr. Jordin Kare, Greg Bear, Dr. Stephen L. Gillett
There is evidence that neutrinos may be tachyons, particels that always travel faster than the speed of light. The panel will consider the implications of this for faster-than-light communications, backwards in time communications, and space drives.
Writing For Children
Newport
Mary K. Whittington, Jan King, Rhondi Vilott Salsitz
Writing stories for children and young adults.
Godzilla's Political Significance
Factoria
Stan Hyde
Why does Japan lead the world in giant monster movies? An educational, tongue-in-cheek look at the resurgence of monstro giganticum in Japan.
Papier-mache
Lakehills
Tara K. Harper
This talented artist shows unusual techniques and produces beautiful art using papier-mache.
Bill Ransom Reading
Crossroads
Author reads from his new book: Viravax.
Building A Masquerade Entry
Exhibit 1
David Tackett, Joy Day
You too can create an entry for the Masquerade. Come be part of this design and assembly project, and see your costume on stage tonight.
The Avatar In Science Fiction
Exhibit 2
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff(M), William C. Dietz, Sara L. Stamey, Chris Lightfoot
The role of the incarnate god or divine leader in science fiction.
Crossed Arrows Acting Workshop
Exhibit 3
Gerald Keen, Linda M. Keen, Company
This acting group will assist you with getting into your character for gaming without dice or rule book and will help you with your hall costume or masquerade persona. Watch for future workshops. Sign up at the Information Desk.
Workshop: Poetry 1
NWC Writers Workshop
Michael Scanlon, Tony Daniel, Rhea Rose, Todd Logan
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Writers' Workshop: Novel 410
Olympic View 1
A.L.H. Robkin, James Allen, Janny Wurts
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Jean M. Auel & John De Camp Reading
Marymoor
Jean M. Auel and John De Camp read poetry.
What's New: H.I.T. Lab
Fairweather
Ari Hollander, Mark Takacs
The University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Labratory demonstrates their latest virtual reality projects.
NEW TITLES
NIGHTSIDE THE LONG SUN
Gene Wolfe
VOLUME ONE OF THE BOOK OF THE LONG SUN
“Of all SF writers now active, none is held in higher esteem than Gene Wolfe.” —Washington Post Book World
0-312-85207-X • $21.95
DREAMS UNDERFOOT
Charles de Lint
MYTH, MUSIC, AND MAGIC IN THE STREETS OF THE CITY—BY THE FIELD'S TOP AUTHOR OF URBAN FANTASY.
“One of the most original fantasy writers currently working. —Booklist
0-312-85205-3 • $22.95
WARPATH
Tony Daniel
“Without a doubt the most lyrically gifted writer to enter the field in many a year. Warpath...is more than a brilliant first novel, it is a powerful and passionate act of the imagination.” —Lucius Shepard
0-312-85282-7 • §19.95
REDLINE THE STARS
Andre Norton and P. M. Griffin
A GRAND NEW TALE OF INTERSTELLAR ACTION AND INTRIGUE IN ANDRE NORTON'S CLASSIC SPACE OPERA SERIES.
“Fast-paced action characterizes this new science fiction adventure.” —A.L.A. Booklist
0-312-85314-9 • $19.95
COMING IN APRIL FROM TOR BOOKS
Damsels To The Rescue
Newport
Mike Moscoe (M), Janny Wurts, Ru Emerson, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Kate Flynn Connolly
Strong female characters—a new stereotype?
Klingon Transformations
Factoria
Betty Bigelow
Watch while the Klingon alter ego emerges during the makeup and dressing process. Questions encouraged.
Steven E.Barnes Reading
Crossroads
Figment Magazine
Exhibit 2
Jonathon C. Hendee, Barb Hendee, Mark Coen, J. P. Mclaughlin
What to submit for publication and how to do it.
Hitting Your Mark
Back Exhibit Hall
Tony Furucci
If you are entering in masquerades, here is where you can learn effective stage blocking techniques from a master.
Writers' Workshop: Novel 402
Olympic View I
Sharon Sinclair, Dean Wesley Smith, David Wolverton
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
[Artwork] Copyright © 1993 by Margaret Organ-Kean
Comic Book Writing Workshop
Olympic View I
Barbara Randall Kesel
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Agent Interview: James Allen
Olympic View II
By appointment only. To obtain an appointment it was necessary to submit a request prior to the convention.
Marketing Science Fiction
Marymoor
Tom Doherty, Betty Ballantine
That book on the supermarket shelf has come a long ways to get there. How publishers and editors sell to the distributor first.
Richard Hescox: Mainstream Fantasy Art
Fairweather
Fantasy themes by mainstream artists.
1990s Science Trends
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Dr. Carl Knowlen (M), Dr. Robert L. Forward, Professor Abraham Hertzberg
A look at what's going on now and what's coming in the near future by four preeminent scientists.
The Evil Empires
Newport
William C. Dietz, Don McQuinn, J.P. McLaughlin, Rhondi Vilott Salsitz, L. Dean James
Why are they necessary?
Janny Wurts Reading
Factoria
Our Artist Guest of Honor reads from her latest novel.
Nick Pollotta Reading
Crossroads
Dragon
Exhibit I
Dragon, Bear Burge, Sean Runyons, Bill Hay
A two-hour talk about, and with Norwescon's own Dragon. His dreams of Hollywood and what is next.
The Artist's Creative Responsibility
Exhibit 2
Don Maitz (M), Gail Butler, Rob Alexander, Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk
It is more than producing a great product.
Life Drawing: Margaret Organ-Kean
Exhibit 3
Another chance to draw the human figure under the kind guidance of Margaret Organ-Kean.
Workshop: Novel 2
NWC Writers Workshop
Michael Scanlon, R. Garcia y Robertson, Mary K. Whittington
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Writers' Workshop: Short Story 502
Olympic View I
Terry A. Fowler, Barbara Denz
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Cat Stories
Marymoor
Kij Johnson, Bridgit McKenna, Carla J. Mills, Kent Patterson, John Pelan, Dean Wesley Smith, Bob Howe, Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk, Jonathon C. Hendee, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Anyone who is owned by one or more cats will enjoy this panel.
Global Warming Seminar
Fairweather
Dr. Raymond B. Huey, Dr. Joel Kingsolver, Dr. Peter Karieva
The special presentation by the professors that wrote the textbook (***) brings you the latest news and advice. DO NOT MISS THIS PANEL. The future of the world may depend on you.
Gaming Character Creation
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Peter D. Adkison, Jay Hays, Lisa Stevens, Lisa Smedman, Anthony Pryor, Jesper Myrfors
The process of creating a character to live in a role playing universe.
Pacific NW Writers' Workshops
Newport
Claudia McCormick (National Writers Club) (M); Jon M. Gustafson (Moscow Mafia); Don H. DeBrandt (V-Con); David E. Myers (Clarion); Michael Scanlon (Rustycon, Norwescon); Sharon Sinclair (The Olympic View Writers' Conference)
From Vancouver (BC) to Idaho there are several writers' workshops. Each has a different flavor. All have deadlines. Meet with their directors and find out the entry requirements of each.
Black & White Technique
Factoria
Christopher Rush
Christopher Rush will show you how to produce a 3-D effect by using ink on both sides of bond paper. He used this technique for his self-portrait in the 'Guest' section of the program book.
Bruce Chrislip At Work
Lakehills
An artist at work. You may watch and ask questions.
Rebecca V. Neason Reading
Crossroads
Author reads from her forthcoming Star Trek novel, Guises of the Mind.
Computer Art
Exhibit 2
Douglas Herring, William R. Warren Jr, Michael Dean, L. Pierce Ludke
The how, the what, and the machine.
Writers Workshop: Short Stories 509, 510, 512
Olympic View I
A.L.H. Robkin, Barb Hendee, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Rhondi Vilott Salsitz
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Agent Interview: Mary Alice Kier
Olympic View II
By appointment only. To obtain an appointment it was necessary to submit a request prior to the convention.
Don Maitz's Pirates
Marymoor
This is a special show of work Don is doing now. The subject is 'Pirates'. There will be signed posters available for a small fee.
Role Playing Universe Creation
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Jay Hays, Lisa Smedman, Anthony Pryor, Beverly Marshall Saling, Raven C.S. McCracken
This panel shares the thinking that is behind the creation of role playing universes.
Creating Atmosphere
Newport
Jonathan E. Bond, Julian May, Tara K. Harper, Ru Emerson
How to use the shape, sound and meaning of words to set the scene.
Commercial Art
Factoria
Brian Snoddy
See the steps that go into producing a black & white or a color advertising mailer.
Douglas Herring At Work
Dameon Willich At Work
Lakehills
Artists at work. You may watch and ask questions.
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff Reading
Crossroads
Dark Horse: What's New
Exhibit 1
Barbara Randall Kesel, Kij Johnson, Edward Martin III
Editors from Dark Horse Comics give you tips on how to submit and what they are looking for.
This Is SFFWA
Exhibit 2
Julian May
Information about the function and functions of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.
Obstacle Course
Back Exhibit Hall
Workshop: Novel 4
NWC Writers Workshop
Michael Scanlon, Sara L. Stamey, Harley Hashman, Lisa Jean Bothell
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
[Artwork] Copyright © 1993 by Kaja Murphy
Agent Interview: Mary Alice Kier
Olympic View II
By appointment only. To obtain an appointment it was necessary to submit a request prior to the convention.
James Glass Reading
Crossroads
Popular Culture Forum: Trends Of The '90s
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Sharon Russell, Film (M); Many Alice Kier, Agent ;Tom Doherty, Publisher;Betty Ballantine, Editor; Barbara Randall Kesel, Comics; Terry A. Fowler, Psychology; Chris Jonientz-Trisler, Science; Michael Kerr, M.D., Medicine; Janny Wurts, Writing; Don Maitz, Art
What to look forward to in the publishing industry and popular press.
Market Research
Newport
William C. Dietz, Jonathon C. Hendee, Todd Logan, Jake Koke, J.P. McLaughlin
What it is, how it is done, and why you need to do it.
Smogmobile II
Factoria
Professor Abraham Hertzberg
The smogmobile and other wrong turns in science! Professor Hertzberg is back with an update on the nitrogen car.
Elizabeth N. Moon Reading
Crossroads
Anne's Ireland
Exhibit 1
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough is currently writing a book with Anne McCaffrey. She will tell you how they collaborated and about living in Ireland for four months last summer while working on the book.
Rubber Stamp Fantasy Art
Exhibit 2
Tracy Vaughn Moore
Converting a piece of fantasy art into a rubber stamp.
Writers Workshop: Novel 405
Olympic View I
A.L.H. Robkin, Bob Howe, Rebecca V. Neason
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Movie Previews
Marymoor
Lief Brandon
Lief Brandon (and perhaps a special guest or two) hosts clips and from upcoming releases.
Writing A Horror Story
Newport
Dean Wesley Smith, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Rhondi Vilott Salsitz
Crafting the well written, scary horror story.
Ray Williams Slide Show
Factoria
Rob Alexander's Watercolor Workshop
Lakehills
This is a course in watercolor technique with a fantastic artist. You need to bring your own screw top water jug, brushes, disposable pallet and paper. Sign up at the Registration Table.
Jerry Oltion Reading
Crossroads
Author reads from his work.
Computer Stories
Exhibit 1
Amy Thompson, Mark Coen, David Addleman, Bruce Taylor, Kent Patterson, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Marilyn J. Holt, Tony Daniel
A writers' dialogue.
Spandex Police II
Exhibit 3
Doug Zimmer (M), Deanne Zimmer(M), Pat Oros
This dialogue on the issue of size acceptance will be lead by Doug and Deanne Zimmer, officers of NAFA, and Pat Oros.
Writers' Workshop: Novel 401
Olympic View I
Sharon Sinclair, James Allen, Barbara Marshall Saling
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
J.P McLaughlin Reading
Crossroads
Richard Paul Russo Reading
Crossroads
Telgar Weyr
Overlake
This group, who presented the hatching at the banquet, talks about weyr life and how to form a similiar group.
Interspecies Communication
Newport
Dr. Peter Karieva, Dr. Joel Kingsolver, Dr. Raymond B. Huey, Dr. Robin Wright, Dr. Garrett Odell
From pheromones to butterfly wings—all species communicate with each other and even with trees and plants.
Making A Press Kit
Factoria
Betty Ballantine, Bill Ransom, Kevin Brockschmidt
How the artist and writer can best promote themselves.
Carol Severance Reading
Crossroads
[Artwork] Copyright © 1993 by Kaja Murphy
21st Century Medicine & Psychology
Exhibit 1
Jane Hawkins, Elizabeth Moon, Bruce Taylor, Claudia McCormick, Michael Kerr, MD, James Fiscus, Terry A. Fowler, Craig Figley
What new discoveries might be on the horizon?
Pulphouse: What's New
Exhibit 2
Dean Wesley Smith, Johnathan E. Bond
Publisher and editors discuss new titles, how to submit and when to submit.
Writers' Workshop: Short Stories 501, 516
Olympic View I
Terry Lusian, Sonia Orin Lyris, Mike Moscoe
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Interviews: Dark Horse
Olympic View II
Barbara Randall Kesel, Edward Martin III
By appointment only. To obtain an appointment it was necessary to submit a request prior to the convention.
Lisa Smedman Reading
Crossroads
Tony Daniel Reading
Crossroads
An all-new adventure never seen on TV
Based on the hit Universal series starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell
THE LEAPS JUST KEEP ON COMING!
QUANTUM LEAP: TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT
The second original "Quantum Leap" novel from Ace
Dr. Sam Beckett is transported into the middle of a men’s encounter group, circa 1990. There he meets Al, his holographic contact from the near-future. Only this time Al’s a middle-aged man on a soul-searching quest, beating his chest in a mock-tribal ritual designed to reveal his true self. The whole thing seems pretty a funny to Sam—except for the fact that Sam’s role in the group could make or break the Quantum Leap Project... for all time.
Based on the Universal television series “QUANTUM LEAP” Created by Donald P. Bellisario
$4.99
ON SALE IN MARCH
[Artwork] Copyright © 1993 by Kaja Murphy
Art Directors
Overlake
Jesper Myrfors, John Alvarez
The role of art directors in publishing.
Multimedia Today
Newport
Steve Gallacci, Leonardo D. Rufo, Michael Dean, Jerry Olton, William R. Warren Jr., L. Pierce Ludke
History and current uses of multimedia and computers.
Space Art
Factoria
S. Mike Tanaka (M), Ray Williams, Douglas Herring, William R. Warren Jr., Dr. John G. Cramer, Lonnie C. Davis
A dialogue about space art and how it differs from science fiction art.
Harley Hashman Reading
Crossroads
Writers' Workshop: Short Story 513
Olympic View I
George E. Nyhen, Nick Pollotta, Dean Wesley Smith
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Canadian Space Program
Exhibit 2
Karl Johanson, Steve Fahnestalk
What is going on besides the shuttle arm?
William C. Dietz Reading
Crossroads
Don McQuinn Reading
Crossroads
Norwescon Masquerade
Marymoor/Idylwood/Fairweather
Rick Bligh, Vickie Bligh, Hans Meier, the magic of Keith Johnson and Michael Citrak, a team of dedicated volunteers, and many Masquerade Contestants
Our wonderful Masquerade team presents the Norwescon 16 Masquerade.
Cryptozoology
Overlake
Todd Logan, Dr. Robin Wright, Dr. Garrett Odell, Dr. Peter Karieva, Dr. Joel Kingsolver, Dr. Raymond B. Huey
The coelacanth thought extinct for 30 million years thrives off Zanzibar. Could other species survive without our knowledge? Yeti, Big Foot, Nessie: fact or fiction?
Inventing Place Names
Newport
Jonathan E. Bond, Ray Vukcevich, Dave Smeds, Don H. DeBrandt, Don McQuinn
How do those writers keep coming up with all those names without repeating?
Slingshot To The Moon And Mars
Factoria
Dr. Robert L. Forward
Dr. Forward discusses his latest project.
John Alvarez At Work
William R. Warren Jr. At Work
Lakehills
William R. Warren Jr.
Artists at work. You may watch and ask questions.
Bob Howe Reading
Crossroads
M. Elayn Harvey Reading
Exhibit 1
A costumed poetry reading.
Publishing Yourself
Exhibit 2
Peter D. Adkison, Rachel Holmen, Lisa Stevens, Lisa Jean Bothell
The risks and benefits of publishing yourself.
Open Gaming
Back Exhibit Hall
Kij Johnson Reading
Crossroads
Shipping Art
Overlake
Don Maitz (M), Jon M. Gustafson, Lonnie C. Davis, Gail Butler
How to pack your art for shipping. Should you choose air cargo or baggage? Tips on how to prove what your art is worth to insurance companies.
Inventing Character Names
Newport
Kij Johnson, Michael Dean, Carol Severence, Bridget McKenna, Don McQuinn
Do character names reflect current fads? This panel demonstrates how to match name to character and do it originally.
Physics Of The 21st Century
Factoria
Dr. John G. Cramer, Dr. Robert L. Forward, Dr. Jordin Kare, Dr. Stephen L. Gillett, Stan Love, Karl Johanson, Steve Fahnestalk, Dr. Carl Knowlen
A speculative look at what the next century might bring.
Bruce Taylor Reading
Crossroads
The Writers' Life: The Role Of The Book Store
Exhibit 2
Duane Wilkins, Lady Jane Larsen, Deborah Hudson
What a writer can expect from book stores and what book stores expect from a writer.
** The Desert Peach Video**
Overlake
Donna Barr, T. Brian Wagner
ADULTS ONLY to this video copy of the stage play by Donna Barr and T. Brian Wagner. Filmed by our own Chris McDonell.
The Occult Sciences For The Writer
Newport
Terry A. Fowler, Sharon Sinclair
How to mine the basic concepts of astrology and other divining arts for plot structure and character traits.
Shading Techniques
Lakehills
Steve Gallacci
How to shade black and white drawings using zip-a-tone and other shading techniques.
Jonathan E. Bond Reading
Crossroads
Telynor Concert
Exhibit 1
Anna Peekstok, John Peekstok
Folk singing.
Comic Book Inking Workshop
Olympic View I
Barbara Randall Kesel, Edward Martin III
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Comic Book Roundtable
Olympic View I
Barbara Randall Kesel, Edward Martin III
Open session to discuss breaking into the comic book industry. Bring your portfolios.
Elisabeth Waters Reading
Crossroads
Forming A Writers' Circle
Factoria
George E. Nyhen (M), Patrick Swenson, Bruce Taylor, Mary K. Whittington
You can find a writers' circle meeting at least once a month, while some writers' workshops are only once a year. Several local group representatives tell how to form a group and how their groups are working.
Rob Alexander At Work
Toivo Rovainen At Work
Lita R. Smith-Gharet At Work
Lakehills
Artists at work. You may watch and ask questions.
Nina Kiriki Hoffman Reading
Crossroads
Tania Opland Concert
Exhibit 1
Folk singing.
What? SHOP PRESENTS
JAPANESE & DOMESTIC RESIN
SUPER-DEFORMED ROBOTS & FIGURES
VINYL AND PLASTIC MODELS
MOVIE POSTERS
NOTECARDS - PARKES - OLIVIA - PRE-RAPHAELITES
T-SHIRTS - MODEL PAINTS
DAY OF THE DEAD ARTIFACTS - POSTCARDS
740 BROADWAY
TACOMA, WA
98402
[redacted]
One Step Beyond Dance
Marymoor/Idylwood/Fairweather
Programming by Shawn Merrier and Peter Kafka. Today's music.
Dean Wesley Smith Reading
Crossroads
Quick Sketch: Vampires
Overlake
Jesper Myrfors, Julia E. Lacquement-Kerr, Leonardo D. Rufo
Watch the undead materalize under the pencils of these artists of the macabre.
An Hour With Richard Stevens
Newport
This premier costumer gives a peek at some costumes he is manufacturing now and talks with his fellow pros about past and future projects.
Interactive TV Games
Factoria
Come play this game!
New Faces
Crossroads
Kevin Brockschmidt (M), Harley Hashman, Robin Burchett, Mark Coen, Kate Flynn Connolly, Kurt Gianibastiani, Quinton Hoover, Tom Lindell, Brian Snoddy, Tom Verve
These artists and writers are new to the Northwest convention scene. Join them as they discuss where they are in their careers and how they got here.
Saturday Nite Filking
Exhibit 1
Mary Kay Kare
Join the fun in making up science fiction songs.
Camarilla Conclave
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
This new group gathers for their meeting. All are welcome.
Midnight Horror Reading
Newport
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Come join your host, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, for tonight's assortment of scary tales.
Tai Chi & Steven E. Barnes
Exhibit 1
Start the last morning of the convention with an excercise session.
KidKon Laser Tag
Exhibit 3
Team Competition
Back Exhibit Hall
Video Of Anne's Ireland
Marymoor/Idylwood
David Valentine, Pat Oros, Chris McDonell
Team Pern presents videos that were made in January when our technical crew visited Anne McCaffrey at her home in Ireland.
Writer's Basic Computer System
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Clifford W. Wind, Lisa Jean Bothell, Vicki Mitchell, Bridget McKenna, L. Dean James, Kurt Gianibastiani
How many bells and whistles do you need to write your story? Can you still get by with a 286 or is a 486 necessary?
Costume Economics 101
Newport
David Tackett, Betty Bigelow, George Peirson, Melinda Jodry
How to afford a costume: budgeting, building, borrowing, making do.
[Artwork] Copyright © 1993 by Margaret Organ-Kean
21st Century Religion
Factoria
T. Jackson King, Claudia McCormick, Janet Tanaka, S. Mike Tanaka, Glen Hiemstra, Raven C.S. McCracken
What form might religion take towards the end of the next century?
Quick Sketch: Super-heroes
Lakehills
Douglas Herring, Julia E. Lacquement-Kerr, Richard A. Scott
Our heroic team of artists dash off of quick sketchesof heroes: old, new, and unusual. How about doing the Flaming Carrot?
Rhondi Vilott Salsitz Reading
Crossroads
What Not To Say
Exhibit 2
Betty Ballantine, James Allen, Tom Doherty, Dean Wesley Smith
Things to never say to an agent, editor or publisher.
Writers Workshop: Short Story 4 Or Nonfiction
NWC Writers Workshop
Michael Scanlon, Marilyn J. Holt, Jak Koke, Ray Vukcevich
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Writers' Workshop: Novel 403
Olympic View I
Sharon Sinclair, James W. Fiscus, Bill Ransom
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Interviews: Dark Horse Comics
Olympic View II
Barbara Randall Kesel, Edward Martin III
By appointment only. To obtain an appointment it was necessary to submit a request prior to the convention.
Lynn S. Adams Reading
Crossroads
Mark Coen Reading
Crossroads
Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
A New Name in Collaboration
From Del Rey Books
The First Name in Imagination
'Twas in the green of early spring came Annie Scarborough
To Anne McCaffrey's Dragonhold in Ireland's Wicklow.
She came to study all about the folk music of Eire
Instead she stayed to write a book that had them both afire.
A wonderful new world conceived by Anne and Ann as one
They thought together, wrote together, and had a lot of fun.
Between these two award winners a partnership did flower
And a very special book was born—because they have the power!
POWERS THAT BE
THIS SUMMER IN BOOKSTORES EVERYWHERE!
DEL REY
WE HAVE THE POWER!
[Artwork] Copyright © 1993 by Kaja Murphy
What's New?
Marymoor/ldylwood
Dr. Chris Esposito
A new technology looks ever forward!
New SF TV Script Requirements
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Jerry T. Standal, Rebecca V. Neason, Vicki Mitchell
On the telephone from Hollywood is Arthur Loy Holcomb and friends with information on how to submit scripts for the new science fiction TV series.
Eavesdropping
Newport
Ru Emerson, Jane Hawkins, Carol Severance, Kent Patterson, Carla J. Mills, Ray Williams, David Wolverton, M. Elayn Harvey
The secrets of translating your observations of life into a fictional mode.
Makeup: Vampire
Lakehills
Richard Stevens, Lita R. Smith-Gharet
Two experts show different ways to create the vampire look.
Greg Bear Reading
Crossroads
Swords & Weapons Demo
Exhibit 1
Dragon, Bill Hay, Sean Runyons, Bear Burge
Our movie stunt men brought an assortment of weapons used in recent films and TV series. This is the place to see how the weapons were used.
Making Money From Art
Exhibit 2
Lonnie Davis
Artist's agent Lonnie Davis will provide tips for the financially struggling artist.
Parapsychology Dialogue
Exhibit 3
Terry A. Fowler, Harley Hashman, Bruce Taylor, Zen Faulkes, Burt Webb, Bryce Walden, Gregory Kusnick
This dialogue may cover various forms of Extra Sensory Perception. Or the state of invistigations. Or the status of the discipline within the scientific community. To say more might be foretelling the future.
Writers' Workshop: Short Stories 503, 505, 507
Olympic View I
Terry Lusian, David Addleman, Barb Hendee, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
McCaffrey Collaborative Works
Marymoor/ldylwood
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Carol Severance
Anne's last telelink from Ireland. Her fellow collaborators will discuss the process of collaborating.
Rob Alexander Slide Show
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
A new slide show from one of the Northwest's great young artists.
Choosing What To Publish
Newport
Janny Wurts, James Allen, Betty Ballantine, Tom Doherty
How the four sides of the publishing world make their decisions: writer, agent, editor, and publisher.
Terraforming
Factoria
Chris Jonientz-Trisler, Janet Tanaka, Amy Thomson
Creating a new planet: geologically unstable.
Kate Flynn Connolly Reading
Crossroads
Christian Fans
Exhibit 3
No host gathering.
Lenora Rain-Lee Good Reading
Crossroads
Author reads her poetry.
Rhea Rose Reading
Crossroads
The Virtual Organization
Marymoor/ldylwood
Dr. Jerry T. Standal (Evolution Of The Virtual Organization); Dr. C.A.P. Smith (Electronic Decision Making); Dr. Richard C. Harkness (Status Of TeleCommuting); Dr. Chris Esposito (Virtual Reality Technology); Dr. Glen Hiemstra (Social Implications Of TeleCommuting)
A symposium on the corporate organization for the future work place. Our professional team will explore what might happen to our social structure if we replace transportation to central work locations with telecommunications from our home.
New Computer Technology
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Gregory Kusnick, Garett Odell, Todd Logan, J. P. McLaughlin, John Brasher, Michael McLaughlin
Where do we go from here?
Polishing A Manuscript
Newport
Greg Cox, Nick Pollotta, Tony Daniel, Jerry Oltion
Make your words flow!
Hall Costumes
Factoria
Dameon Willich
Functional and wearable hall costumes with Dameon.
Quick Sketch: Spaceships
Lakehills
Steve Gallacci, Richard A. Scott, William R. Warren Jr.
Fantastic vehicles to travel to the Moon and beyond. Some might even work!
Jodi Scanlon Reading
Crossroads
Art Auction
Exhibit 1
Going, going, gone! And the next item up for bid is .. .
Arcade
Back Exhibit Hall
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Writers' Workshop: Short Story 511
Olympic View I
Terry Lusian, Kij Johnson, Mike Moscoe
By invitation only. In order to participate in this type of writers' workshop, it was necessary to submit a manuscript prior to the convention.
Emergency Preparedness
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Chris Jonientz-Trisler
Our Science GoH talks about her role at FEMA and what all of us need to know to be prepared for earthquakes, erupting volcanos, big wind storms, floods, etc.
Manuscript Submission
Newport
Betty Ballantine, Jonathon C. Hendee, Rachel Holmen, Elton T. Elliot
From our group of editors, learn the tricks and techniques that get your manuscript read and accepted.
Evolution Of Womens' Costumes
Factoria
Richard Stevens, Lita R. Smith-Gharet
A slide show presentation of the evolution of womens' costuming from Barbarella to Ripley.
Costumers Talk
Lakehills
Hans Meier, David Tackett
An informal visit with David Tackett and Hans Meier.
Writers And Illustrators Of The Future
Crossroads
David Wolverton
The coordinating judge explains how to enter and what happens if you win.
Agent Interview: James Allen
Olympic View II
By appointment only. To obtain an appointment, it was necessary to submit a request prior to the convention.
Movie Model Construction
Marymoor
Dragon, Bear Burge, Sean Runyons, Bill Hay
Our Hollywood model makers show more videos and discuss the tricks to constructing props for films.
Volunteer Hour
Idylwood
Judy Suryan, Janny Wurts, Betty Ballantine, Chris Jonientz-Trisler, Jane Hawkins, Teresa Janssen, Bonnie Baker, Carolyn Palms
An appreciation hour for all volunteers. Prizes and awards.
SF Sings
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Mary K. Kare, David Denz
Filking with Mary K. Kare and David Denz.
Rewriting
Newport
Rebecca V. Neason, Vicki Mitchell, David Wolverton
You have had your manuscript accepted by an agent, an editor, or a publisher, but they would like a few changes. Enter yea into the Realm of Rewrite!
Casting Pewter Jewelery & Models
Factoria
Chris Fuhr
Videotapes and actual demonstrations of the techniques used.
Airbrush Technique
Lakehills
Steve Gallacci
In the first hour Steve will explain airbrush techniques. In the second hour you can watch him work on a project.
Goddess Cults
Crossroads
Doug Zimmer, Kate Flynn Connolly, Dianne Zimmer
Come see if this panel is really about what you think it is about.
Agent Interviews: James Allen
Olympic View II
By appointment only. To obtain an appointment, it was necessary to submit a request prior to the convention.
Onions & Roses
Idylwood
Judy Suryan, Sue Bartroff, Keith Johnson, Rick Bligh, Vickie Bligh, Michael Citrak
How did Norwescon 16 go for you? Suggestions? Ideas? Comments!
SF Mysteries
Newport
David Addleman, Joan Kotker
How to write the science fiction detective story.
Margaret Organ-Kean At Work
Stephanie Ann Johanson At Work
Lakehills
Artists at work. You are welcome to watch and ask questions.
Costume Parade
Staircase & Hallway
Watch great Costumes of the Past come down the grand staircase and proceed into the closing ceremonies.
Closing Ceremonies & Movie Previews
Idylwood
Judy Suryan, Janny Wurts, Betty Ballantine, Chris Jonientz-Trisler, Jane Hawkins, Teresa Janssen, Bonnie Baker, Sue Bartroff
This event begins with the Costume Parade and ends with the movie previews. Come say your farewells and hear our thank yous. This is where the Volunteer Guest of Honor drawing for next year is held. (You don't need to be present to win, but you do need to volunteer enough time to put your name in the hat.)
Fannish Olympics
Overlake/Glendale/Sahalee
Mark Richardson
With Mark Richardson and a team of able judges (who can be bribed). Create a team and enter this zany event-fun for all.
Dead Sasquatch & Spring Rites Dance
Marymoor
The Dead Sasquatch & Rites of Spring Dance is designed by Michael Citrak and friends.
The following lists are provided as an aid in finding programming events that fall into similar categories and to help locate descriptions in the programming sectin. Due to time and space limitations, not all program events and programs of the same type are listed. Please check the Pocket Program to verify times and locations.
Anne From Ireland: Slide Show: Sat 10am
Anne's Ireland: Sat 3pm
Bloopers Reel: Fri 11am
McCaffrey Collaborative Works: Sun 12noon
Telgar Weyr: Sat 5pm
Video Of Anne's Ireland: Sun 10am
Writing About Women: Fri 11am
Airbrush Technique: Sun 3pm
Black & White Technique: Sat 1pm
Casting Pewter: Sun 3pm
Comic Book Coloring: Fri 4pm
Comic Book Language: Fri 10pm
Freddie Baer: Collage: Thurs 5pm
Humorous Objects: Fri 12noon
Lost Wax Techniques: Thurs 9pm
Margaret Organ-Kean Demo: Fri 3pm
Papier Mache: Sat 10am
Rubber Stamp Fantasy Art: Sat 3pm
Scrimshaw With Kathy McLean: Thurs 8pm
Sculpy Dragons: Fri 8pm
Shading Techniques: Sat 9pm
'KEV': Thurs 4pm
Art directors: Sat 6pm
Artists At Work: Everday
Artist's Block: Thurs 10pm
Artists Network: Fri 8pm
Basic Art Kit: Fri 4pm
Black & White Technique: Sat 1pm
Cartooning: Thurs 8pm
Commercial Art: Sat 2pm
Computer Art: Sat 1pm
Dameon Willich Slide Show: Fri 4pm
Don Maitz Slide Show: Fri 3pm
Don Maitz's Pirates: Sat 2pm
Fantastic Animals & Silly Beasts: Thurs 11pm
Fantasy Art In The '90s: Thurs 3pm
Inking: Fri 2pm
Janny Wurts Slide Show: Fri 1pm
Life Drawing: Organ-Kean: Sat 12noon
Life Drawing: Tom Verre: Fri 10am
Lost Wax Techniques: Thurs 9pm
Making Money From Art: Sun 11am
Margaret Organ-Kean Demo: Fri 3pm
Papier Mache: Sat 10am
Quick Sketch: Humor: Fri 12 Midnight
Quick Sketch: Spaceships: Thurs 10pm, Sun 1pm
Quick Sketch: Super-heroes: Thurs 7pm, Sun 10am
Ray Williams Slide Show: Sat 4pm
Richard Hescox Slide Show: Fri 11am
Richard Hescox: Main Stream Fantasy Art: Sat 12noon
Rob Alexander slide show: Sun 12noon
Rob Alexander's Watercolor Workshop: Sat 4pm
Rubber Stamp Fantasy Art: Sat 3pm
Shipping Art: Sat 8pm
SF Model Kits: Fri 9pm
Space Art: Sat 6pm
the Artist's Creative Responsibility: Sat 12noon
Affordable Collecting: Thurs 4pm
Appraising SF Collectables: Fri 3pm
Why I Collect Comics: Thurs 2pm
Comic Book Coloring: Fri 4pm
Comic Book Language: Fri 10pm
Keeping It Funny: Fri 10pm
Super-heroes In Comic Books: Thurs 10pm
Artificial Intelligence: Fri 12noon
Computer Stories: Sat 4pm
Multimedia Today: Sat 6pm
New Computer Technology: Sun 1pm
Self-Publication Computer Support: Fri 1pm
Writer's Basic Computer System: Sun 10am
Acting Workshop: Thurs 5pm
An Hour with Richard Stevens: Sat 11pm
Building A Masquerade Entry: Sat 10am
Costume Design: Thurs 4pm
Costume Economics 101: Sun 10am
Costume Parade: Sun 4:30pm
Costumers Talk: Sun 2pm
Crossed Arrows Acting Workshop: Fri 2pm, Sat 10am
Evolution Of Womens' Costumes: Sun 2pm
Hall Costumes: Sun 1pm
Hats & Feet: Fri 5pm
Hitting Your Mark: Sat 11am
Klingon Transformations: Sat 11am
Makeup: Vampire: Sun 11am
Making Costume Patterns: Fri 10pm
Medieval & Middle East Costumes: Fri 5pm
Props For Costumers: Thurs 6pm
Sculpted Makeup: Fri 5pm
Sexy Male Costumes: Thurs 6pm
Theater Costuming: Thurs 5pm
21st Century Medicine & Psychology: Sat 5pm
Millennium III: Thurs 9pm
Physics Of the 21st Century: Sat 8pm
The Virtual Organization: Sun 1pm
Gaming Character Creation: Sat 1pm
Interactive TV Games: Sat 11pm
Military Future Of Science Fiction: Thurs 7pm
Role Playing Universe Creation: Sat 2pm
The Gaming Industry: Fri 8pm
Cat Stories: Sat 1pm
Computer Stories: Sat 4pm
Dinosaurs On the Moon: Fri 10am
Godzilla's Political Significance: Sat 10am
Humorous Objects: Fri 12noon
Keeping It Funny: Fri 10pm
Quick Sketch: Humor: Fri 12 Midnight
The Ren And Stimpy Hour: Thurs 4pm
Arcade: Sun 1pm
KidKon Laser Tag: Sat 9am, Sun 9am
Obstacle Course: Sat 2pm
Open Gaming: Fri 9am, Sat 9am, Sat 7pm
Quick Draw: Fri 5pm
Sharpshooter: Fri 2pm
Team Competition: Sun 9am
Interactive TV Games: Sat 11pm
Lst Hour of Space Rangers: Fri 7pm
Movie Models & FX: Thurs 5pm
Movie Previews: Thurs 9pm, Sat 3:30pm
Multi-Media Today: Sat 6pm
New Movies: Thurs 6pm
New SF TV Script Requirements: Sun 11am
New TV Shows: Thurs 4pm
Northern Exposure: Fact Or Fantasy: Thurs 5pm
OMSI's Star Trek: Federation: Fri 12noon
Star Trek Universe: The Good, the Bad, and The Q: Thurs 5pm
Star Trek: What's Next?: Thurs 3pm
The Desert Peach Video: Sat 9pm
The Sci Fi Channel: Thurs 9pm
Saturday Nite Filking: Sat 11pm
SF Sings: Thurs 3pm, Thurs 12Mid, Fri 11pm, Sun 3pm
Tania Opland Concert: Sat 10pm
Telynor Concert: Sat 9pm
Goddess Cults: Sun 3pm
Mythology Of Volcanos: Fri 2pm
Myths Of Western Society: Thurs 7pm
Robin Hood: Thurs 9pm
The Arthurian Legends: Thurs 5pm
Alien Flora & Fauna: Thurs 5pm
Choosing What To Publish: Sat 12noon
Earthquake Hazards At Home And Work: Thurs 3pm
Klingon 101: Fri 3pm
Myths Of Western Society: Thurs 7pm
Northern Exposure: Fact Or Fantasy: Thurs 5pm
Parapsychology Dialogue: Sun 11am
Physics 100 For Writers And Artists: Thurs 6pm
Polishing A Manuscript: Sun 1pm
Art Directors: Sat 6pm
Censorship: Books, Comics, Games: Thurs 3pm
Choosing What To Publish: Sun 12noon
Dark Horse: What's New: Sat 2pm
Figment Magazine: Sat 11am
Making A Press Kit: Sat 5pm
Manuscript Submission: Sun 2pm
Market Research: Sat 3pm
Marketing Science Fiction: Sat 12noon
Plagerism and Infringement: Fri 4pm
Publishing Economics: Small Press: Thurs 8pm
Publishing Yourself: Sat 7pm
Self-Publication Computer Support: Fri 1pm
SF Fanzines: Fri 4pm
The Gaming Industry: Fri 8pm
The Writers' Life: The Role Of The Book Store: Sat 8pm
What Not To Say: Sun 10am
Working With An Agent: Fri 1pm
Writers And Illustrators Of The Future: Sun 2pm
1990s Science Trends: Sat 12noon
Canadian Space Program: Sat 6pm
Cryptozoology: Sat 7pm
Earthquake Hazards At Home And Work: Thurs 3pm
Global Warming Seminar: Sat 1pm
Hubble Update: Fri 10am
Interspecies Communication: Sat 5pm
L-5 Society: Thurs 7pm
Mt. Rainier: Sat 10am
NASA Space Station: Thurs 7pm
New Computer Technology: Sun 1pm
Ram Accelerator: Fri 2pm
Seattle Shakes I, II, & III: Fri 3pm
Slingshot To The Moon And Mars: Sat 7pm
Smogmobile II: Sat 3pm
Tachyons & Space Drives: Sat 10am
Virtual Sound: Fri 11am
What's New: H.I.T. Lab: Sat 11am
What's New?: Sun 11am
21st Century Medicine & Psychology: Sat 5pm
21st Century Religion: Sun 10am
Alien Flora & Fauna: Thurs 5pm
Alien Psychology: Fri 12noon
Designing A New Society: Thurs 1pm
Military SF: Thurs 3pm
Plotting Your SF Novel: Fri 7pm
Tachyons & Space Drives: Sat 10am
Terraforming: Sun 12noon
The Avatar In Science Fiction: Sat 10am
The Evil Empire: Sat 12noon
Writing Military SF: Fri 5pm
21st Century Religion: Sun 10am
BAFA-BAFA: Thurs 1pm
Children's Literature: Fri 10am
Clinton's First 60 Days: Fri 5pm
Emergency Prepardness: Sun 2pm
Goddess Cults: Sun 3pm
Government Funded Health Care: Thurs 8pm
Life Writing Seminar: Barnes: Fri 1pm
Millennium III: Thurs 9pm
Mt. Rainier: Sat 10am
Non-Traditional Religions: Thurs 10pm
Overpopulation: Fact Or Fiction?: Fri 12noon
Quarantine: Fri 8pm
Spandex Police II: Sat 4pm
Super-heroes: Thurs 6pm
The Artist's Creative Responsibility: Sat 12noon
The Future Of Religion: Thurs 3pm
The Virtual Organization: Sun 1pm
Womens' Health Funding: Fri 5pm
Camarilla Conclave: Sat 12midnight
Quick Sketch: Vampires: Sat 11pm
Makeup: Vampire: Sun 11am
Vampire Books & Movies: Thurs 11pm
Vampires: Fri 10pm
Childrens Literature: Fri 10am
Co-Authorship: Thurs 11pm
Creating Atmosphere: Sat 2pm
Damsels To The rescue: Sat 11am
Dark Horse: What's New: Sat 2pm
Eavesdropping: Sun 11am
Forming A Writers' Circle: Sat 10pm
Gaming Character Creation: Sat 1pm
Inventing Character Names: Sat 8pm
Inventing Place Names: Sat 7pm
Keeping Your Facts Straight: Fri 10am
Life Writing Seminar: Barnes: Fri 1pm
Manuscript Submission: Sun 2pm
Mythology Of Volcanos: Fri 2pm
New SF TV Script Requirements: Sun 11am
Pacific NW Writers' Workshops: Sat 1pm
Physics 100 For Writers And Artists: Thurs 6pm
Plagerism & Infringement: Fri 4pm
Plotting Your SF Novel: Fri 7pm
Polishing A Manuscript: Sun 1pm
Pulphouse: What's New: Sat 5pm
Rewriting: Sun 3pm
Role Playing Universe Creation: Sat 2pm
SF Mysteries: Sun 4pm
Star Trek: What's Next?: Thurs 3pm
The Arthurian Legends: Thurs 5pm
The Occult Sciences For The Writer: Sat 10pm
The Short, Short Story: Fri 7pm
This Is SFFWA: Sat 2pm
What Not To Say: Sun 10am
Working With An Agent: Fri 1pm
Writer's Basic Computer System: Sun 10am
Writer's Block: Fri 11am
Writers And Illustrators Of the Future: Sun 2pm
Writing A Horror Story: Sat 4pm
Writing About Women: Fri 10am
Writing For Children: Sat 10am
Writing Military SF: Fri 5pm
Betty Ballantine
A Few Chosen Words About (and not at all easy to find the right ones!)
by Anne McCaffrey
[Photo] Betty Ballantine
With certain trepidation and a sense of daunt, I approach the task of writing suitable remarks for this Convention Book on the subject of Betty Ballantine!
To get in the right mood, I put on my Flanders & Swann recording. I felt that appropriate. You see, Elizabeth Norah Jones started out as a good Anglo-Brit, getting herself born in Fyzabad, Innnnja.
You must admit she went out of her way to start her life off as bazaarly
I do believe, and this is telling tales out of school of course (because I'd hate to tell <and that's really talking out of turn> you just what nth reunion she'd be attending at the Jersey Ladies College these days), that some of her antics nearly finished that educational institution.
The one I now tell - because it is relevant, I feel, to what she was going to do with the rest of her life - is the time that she and her classmates rigged up various pieces of equipment in their classroom with black thread.
By subtle manipulation, these inanimate objects moved.
Since the perfectly behaved young ladies observed the effect on their teacher, maintaining the polite look which finishing schools inculcate into their graduates, the woman did not know what was occurring and was certain she was going round the bend. Can you imagine Elizabeth Norah Jones having anything to do with something so clearly smacking of sorcery and the supernatural?
No, of course, you can't. Because the Betty Ballantine we all know, respect, revere and honour wouldn't descend to such pranks, now would she?
However, I do think that such finishment as the Jersey Ladies College provided has probably come to her aid in many instances since. I don't say she's rigged anything at this Convention, but why do you think I don't dare attend?
She never did tell me where she met the man she married, nor what she saw in him, except that he would grow eyebrows like a wayward elf and allow her to develop the talents her finishing school had so brightly burnished.
How she got into books, publishing, editing, the soothing and placating of authors lacking in self-confidence, spelling, grammar, syntax and ideas, is also glossed over with what I feel to be suspicious haste.
She did, however, pick up a Penguin. If you don't understand the reference, that's too bad. It's a very British one which I can indulge in because I've also picked up a Penguin (milk chocolate biscuit bar to you lot.) She also put all the Penguins she picked onto the shelves in the eeyrie inhabited by Ballantines in Bearsville. In fact, every single book she and Ian have ever published are shelved in that house. Amazing! I've been there and to see that many books and know that your hostess not only rend them all, but was instrumental in their publication, is daunting.
In 1940 she also published a son, Richard. (He isn't on the shelves.) I've met him - he's a very nice edition. So I can absolutely assure those in doubt that you can be a mother and have a career. But only if you are very organized, dedicated, willing to work extraordinary hours and race the two blocks between your office and your home to feed your bouncing baby boy while also contriving to do a spot of housework and/or cooking.
Thank goodness the American public required cover illustrations on their paperbacks, because that totally irrational requirement decided the Ballantines to leave Penguin, who thought the typographical covers were quite sufficient for an intelligent, informed reading public. Then Ian broke his ankle skiing and, somehow, Ballantine Books seemed to be the inevitable outcome of his convalescence. You may ask why. How would I know? Ian and Betty have the most unusual capacity for instant and serendipitous decisions.
Of course, the Ballantines diversified in order to get their embryo publishing house - run out of their six-room New York apartment - in a competitive position. But they also had the wisdom, far-sightedness, instinct, intuition and common sense to realize that the genre-to-come would be science fiction and fantasy!
I can't say that that incident I mentioned - the one about rigging the waste-basket and the blackboard eraser and the other inanimate objects that inhabit the ordinary classroom, even on the Channel Island of Jersey - had anything at all to do with Elizabeth Norah's serendipitous preference for fantasy and science fiction. But it might have, you know. Adolescent influences do have far-reaching results!
In those benighted days (the '50s & '60s) science fiction and fantasy were ill-considered by those writing contemporary Lit'rachure! To overcome this glitch, Betty not only cultivated and encouraged the writers of such original and creative works but also the artists whose cover art would tempt people into buying and reading the enticingly adorned books with the BB logo. In that wise, she did the entire field a double service, for science fiction and fantasy started to move out of the pulp category which had kept it in limbo long enough. (I wore out a lot of brown paper bags reading Amazing, Fantastic, Galaxy, IF, and Astounding magazines. Ballantine Books I could proudly read with their covers showing.)
Half the extant luminaries in the field gathered at the Ballantine apartment in the 50's: names who conjured magic, sorceries, futures - Fred Pohl, James Blish, Cyril Kornbluth, Lester del Rey, Robert Sheckley, Arthur Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, Henry Kuttner.
But that's only the tip of the Ballantine iceberg because Betty's love affair with science fiction reinforced a conviction that Earth ought to be resurrected out of the grave modern science was digging for it. From this concern came such books as Diet for a Small Planet and The Population Bomb. Many of Ballantine's non-fiction books, their joint encouragement of the Sierra Club and its projects, are as important as the fictional side of their publishing and may help give us back Spaceship Earth.
Along with the prolific Ballantine Books, Betty also had Rufus Press going...Rufus being Betty's long-time canine companion. (He signed company checks with a pawprint.) Not having near enough imprints to publish the scope of their interests, Peacock Press came into being, which brought the bemused reading public Gnomes, Fairies, (and I'll plug my favourite), Brian Froud, the Shirley MacLaine epics, Debbie Harri's fantasies, Chuck Yeager's series of air and space books, and most recently Dinotopia, a publishing success of unprecedented popularity. (The Ballantines plugged dragons long enough: they felt obliged to give dinosaurs equal time!)
Betty's been a skier, a horseback rider, a guitarist and a song-writer - her husband's favorite is "A Hard Working Woman and A Shiftless Man." Now she's about to learn scuba-diving. The string attached to that discipline is that it's necessary to the fantasy she's planning on The Secret Oceans, that fragile, threatened integument that holds our world together.
That's the barest glimpse of the fiftyfour years of publishing this remarkable woman has achieved so far; enough for several lifetimes. She has plans for the rest of her life, too. So you can see why I experienced a frisson of daunt in trying to encapsulate some of her achievements, and drive you to at least have a few words with an amazing personality while you have the chance at Norwescon.
And don't hang back. She's never bitten anyone in the nearly thirty years I've known her. Go up and bathe in the sheer good humour and gentle wisdom of this extraordinary personality: respond to the warm smile she gives when meeting anyone new. I can assure you that the most significant moment in my life was the day she decided to buy a first novel from an obscure Long Island housewife. But then, she appreciated that Restoree was taking the mickey out of the way women were being written in science fiction. And now more of us are writing the kind of science fiction Betty Ballantine gave us a chance to write.
So, g'wan now. Go up to Betty Ballantine and say 'hi!' to a woman who is a legend in her own time. You don't meet many of those - ever!
Dragonhold-Underhill
Copyright © 1993 by Anne McCaffrey
[Photo] Anne McCaffrey. Photo © 1993 by David Valentine.
Anne McCaffrey
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
She's affectionately known to her fans as the Dragonlady, but Anne McCaffrey is as different from the long-nailed, villainous female Fu Manchu of comic strip fame as her dragons are from the maiden-munching marauders of medieval infamy. Like her dragons, Anne is one of the good guys.
The most obvious good thing she's done for most of us is that she invented the dragons—those jeweleyed Pernese dragons who heroically combat the burning threads menacing their planet and who have the sort of deep telepathic bond with their riders that everyone wishes they had with someone. She's also the creator of Helva, the singing spaceship, some rather charming dinosaurs, and an exciting alternative occupation for failed opera singers.
Besides which, she is kind to animals, has been known to take in stray children, and is a source of encouragement and morale support to many new writers. Like me.
The first time she helped me, she didn't know me and had not read anything I'd written. Which was logical enough, because I'd only written one book at the time, my first, still unpublished. After waiting seven months for a publisher's verdict, I fled my empty post office box in Fairbanks and flew to Kansas City to visit my parents during spring vacation from the University of Alaska. When I saw the notice in the Kansas City paper that the local library was having a signing party for Anne McCaffrey, I was so crazed with excitement my parents just about sent me back to Alaska to cool off. I was undaunted. "There is a reason for this," I told them portentously. "There has to be a reason why my favorite author is here in Kansas City during the same week I'm here. It's an omen." They looked doubtful, but my mother drove me to the autograph party, nevertheless, and loaned me the money to buy a hardback copy of one the dragon books for Anne to sign.
She looked pretty much like her oft-published self-description, "My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckle: the rest is still subject to change without notice." She tried to say a little something to each person there. I had hurriedly scrawled a handwritten note asking her all of the questions about writing and being a writer I had been dying to ask someone since I started my novel. I handed the note to her, and added that if she couldn't answer because she was too busy writing another book, I'd certainly understand. She smiled and admired my Eskimo snow-shirt and asked me about Alaska. I told her she had to come up and visit us sometime. She said she might. The next person in line shuffled nervously and I moved along, clutching my freshly signed book. I returned to my parents' house, ready to pounce on my Dad with an account of all the exciting details. Instead, he pounced on me, announcing that I had gotten a call from Alaska to tell me there was a letter from Bantam Books making me an offer on Song of Sorcery. After they scraped me off the ceiling, I tried to call Anne to tell her and thank her for being a harbinger of such happy news, but I didn't get to until a couple of years later when the Fairbanks Arts Association seconded my invitation to Anne to visit Alaska.
The plane trip to Fairbanks is not exactly restful. From Seattle it is a minimum of five hours and Anne had come from L.A. where she stopped on another of her marathon jaunts away from her home in Ireland. She must have felt somewhat daunted to see the entire population of the local Society for Creative Anachronism group fully garbed, waiting for her at the airport. But she looked delighted to see us, and amused, and stood for about twenty minutes answering questions.
"Why do all the dragons have names that end in 'th'?"
"Becauth," Anne explained, "Dragonth lithp. I don't know why they lithp. They jutht do."
I didn't have to worry about what I was going to say to her on the way to the hotel from the airport. I barely got a word in edgewise about how much I'd enjoyed Crystal Singer before she started telling me how much she enjoyed my books. I had asked Bantam to stop billing me as being "in the tradition of Anne McCaffrey and Ursula LeGuin", for fear the comparison might offend the ladies to whom I was being compared. Anne's response to this fear was to ask Bantam to send her my next book so she could give it an endorsement for its jacket. Since then, I have often received letters from her saying, "Watch for such-andsuch- a-book when it comes out! It's a knockout!" Tier enthusiastic comments crop up on the covers of previously unknown books by previously unknown writers with a frequency which is both generous and amazing—she actually seems to read as voraciously as all writers are supposed to, though she admits that like many of us, she too once had difficulty reading other peoples' work.
Nowadays, I suppose, she probably reads on planes a lot, since she travels frequently on business. Whether she's going to England to shop, to New York to her publishers, or to one or more cons scattered throughout the country, she always has to start with a transoceanic flight. She carries a portable electronic typewriter with her to work when she travels. Contrary to rumor, Dragonhold-Underhill, her home in Ireland, is not a castle but a comfortable looking suburban cottage without a tower or turret on the place. In 1984 Anne was able to purchase 47 additional acres for her horse business— I have not heard how many equine residents call the expanded Dragonholdings their home, but the human ones include Anne's daughter Gigi, her secretary, Jennifer, and her groom and long-time friend Dervil. Dervil was a partial inspiration for Menolly, the girl harper and dragonsinger.
Things have not always been so palatial around the McCaffrey household. Anne did not initially move to Ireland for the tax break, as is often assumed. When, shortly after her divorce, she transferred her mother and three children to the Emerald Isle, she didn't need a tax break. She didn't need it so badly that she worked part-time mucking out horse stalls to provide what her writing income didn't. What she did need was good schools for her kids and a mugger-free environment, which she found in County Wicklow in the southern Irish countryside. She says her children, tired of the nourishing but monotonous income her writing and part-time jobs provided, once asked, "Mama, wouldn't it be nice if we could have pancakes sometime because we liked them?"
Pancake days have long since ended. Her writing has been growing in popularity with every passing year. Her first novel, Restores, was a send-up of the silly and superficial portrayals of women in the SF novels of the '50s. McCaffrey heroines are real people, from their humor to their heroism. Many credit Anne with being the first science fiction writer to make emotion an integral element in the genre and for leading science fiction out of the robotic characterizations of earlier times.
Even her cyborgs are caring human beings. Helva, The Ship Who Sang, is a tender and vulnerable lady despite her metal skin and computer- enhanced cerebrations. Anne wrote the first chapter in The Ship Who Sang (a collection of connected short stories) as a tribute to her father, a career military man who spent years overseas and died six months after rejoining his family. When Anne read the story to the Fairbanks audience, she and everyone else cried quietly as she ended the tale by singing Taps.
Music is a pervasive influence in Anne's work and in her life. Like her heroine Killashandra, she studied voice (for nine years) but learned that her voice was not quite up to the task. Unlike Killashandra, she did not drop out of the whole milieu, however, but turned to character acting, appearing in the first successful summer music circus in Lambersville, New Jersey, where she became intensely interested in the stage direction of opera and operetta, ending that phase of her experience with the stage direction of the American premier of Carl Orff's Ludus de Nato Infante Mirificus, in which she also played a witch. It was during this stage in her life that she met the prototype for Masterharper Robinton, Frederick H. Robinson, her friend and vocal coach. Amie has also been known to use her vocal gifts to indulge in singing tourneys with the late Isaac Asimov at SFWA functions.
Music appears in her work not so much as entertainment, but as power. In The Ship Who Sang, Kira, one of Helva's brawns, confesses to being a Dylanist, defining a Dylanist as "a social commentator, a protester, using music as a weapon, a stimulus." This definition immediately warmed the cockles of my folkmusic- loving heart. The Harper Hall of Pern provides far more than ditties to the Dragonriders. Harpers are the teachers and political arbiters of Pern and Masterharper Robinton is a skilled diplomat, a wise and respected voice in Pernese government. The young dragonsinger Menolly, a girl initially prevented from being a harper not by her lack of talent but by sexism, contributes both problems and solutions to her planet's welfare when she impresses miniature dragons known as fire lizards and teaches them to sing. In To Ride Pegasus, one of Anne's earlier works about telepathy, another predominant element in her books, one of the most dangerous and most endangered characters is a singer who broadcasts her emotions in her songs and controls crowds with her voice. And of course, there's Killashandra, the Crystal Singer, whose voice is her fortune as she uses her perfect pitch to mine for minerals that power a galaxy.
In The Ship Who Sang, Helva is asked by a rude visitor to the school where she is learning to function as a "brain" whether or not the students at the school were taught to have a sense of humor. Helva responds that she and her classmates, all of whom suffer from birth defects that make their bodies essentially useless, are imbued with "a sense of proportion, which is much the same thing". That line seems to me to pretty well sum up Helva's creator's general outlook—insightful, and with a wry, witty and sometimes bawdy perspective. Her stories make more fun of herself than anyone else. "I wrote my first novel in Latin class. I might have gotten an A had it been written in Latin."
Her literary efforts in English, however have more than made up for the forfeited A. She has had published (at last count) fifty-nine books, including science fiction, romantic mysteries, a cookbook and two anthologies, and roughly forty short stories and novellas. The White Dragon, Dragondrums, Crystal Singer, Moreta, Dragonlady of Pern, and Killashandra have been international bestsellers. She won the Hugo Award in 1968 for "Weyr Search", the opening chapter of the dragon books, a Nebula in 1969 for "Dragonrider". She won the E.E. "Doc" Smith award in 1975 and the Australian Ditmar Award for The White Dragon (set partially in a Pernese down-under) in 1979. The White Dragon won her a Gandalf in 1979 and the same book won her the Streza at Eurocon in the same year. She received Balrogs in 1980 for Dragondrums and for achievement in the field of science fiction. Dragonsinger won her an ALA Best Books for Young Adults award in 1977 and the same year she also won an ALA award for Notable Children's books for both Dragonsong and Dragonsinger. Dragonsong has also won awards from the Junior Literary Guild, the Hornbook Fanfare, and the Childrens Book Showcase in 1977. A production of Dragonsong was performed by the Children's Adventure Theatre of Bethesda, Maryland (written and directed by Irene Elliott) in 1980. A speaking record from Caedmon includes the story "A Time When" in its entirety and a taped interview, Flight With a Dragonlady, is available from Hourglass Productions. Composer Joanne Forman has produced a songbook and tape of Pernese music.
I can only add to this impressive list of accomplishments that Anne McCaffrey can also wolf down moose spaghetti with the best of them and is, when the occasion arises, a very game dog-musher. She is adventurous, romantic, and heroic by nature as well as being talented and practical enough to make her dreams and adventures real, at least within the pages of her books, Still, I fully believe that if there were dragons who could go between and they needed someone to ride back and pick up a cure for a dread plague, Anne, like Moreta, is the kind of person who would do it.
Copyright ©1993 by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
[Photo] Janny Wurts © 1993 by Greg Preston
Janny Wurts
by Raymond E. Feist
So they asked me to write this about Janny. And like an idiot, I said yes. Why idiot? Don't I get along with the woman after co-writing three novels? Of course I do, but idiot because trying to sum up Janny Wurts in a couple of pages is something akin to saying the Sistine Chapel's ceiling has a nice paint job. The lady in question is very complex.
I met Janny in 1983, at the World Fantasy Convention in Chicago, was introduced to her by Don Maitz, who is now married to her. One of the first things I noticed was that she can look terribly serious. Then she laughed and her face lit up like a child's, delighted by something Don said—most likely a pun and probably rude. Janny can't tell a joke to save her life, but she can laugh with the best of them.
But that's one of the only things that Janny can't do. In the nearly ten years I've known her I've discovered that besides being a writer and professional illustrator of no mean talent, she's got what jazz musicians call, "a lot of riffs." Speaking of jazz, Janny hates it, but I don't hold that against her; she may see the error of her ways yet. But that's about the only music she doesn't care for entirely.
There may be an instrument she doesn't play, like the African thumb piano or the flugelhorn, but you wouldn't know by seeing her collection of instruments. She even has her own bagpipes, which she plays from time to time—I don't know much about bagpipe music, but if volume is any indication, she's probably very good. And she knows about every Irish and Celtic folk song ever recorded, and she plays anything with strings on it.
Janny also sails. She used to scratch her itch for deep water sailing by flying down to the Caribbean and sailing other folks' yachts to Baltimore or Philadelphia all by herself, despite the risk of foul weather and the occasional drug smuggler playing pirate. There are moments that I wonder at her sanity, but that's Janny doing what she wants to do, despite the risk.
She's one of the best horsepeople I've run across over the years. A lot of what I know about the care and feeding of these critters I learned watching over Jann/s shoulder while she did her thing. While I'll never be the rider she is, spending time with Janny got me ready for living with my wife, who is also a serious horse nut.
So there you have a few things to chat about with Janny. Along with a host of others. She's not very interested in what's happening in the world of high fashion, but she can talk for hours on the proper way to paint costumes in fantasy art. She could care less about cluttering up her memory with lots of trivial facts, but she can tell you from memory all the things you need to do to make sure you don't sink before you cast off on a long sailing voyage. She's like that; she used to drive me crazy when we were working together because she wouldn't remember some of the things we discussed. Because they weren't things she considered important at the time. But she always remembered the stuff she does consider important. Once I understood this distinction, we got along fine. She doesn't want to know about the variety of grape going into the bottle of wine; she just wants to know that the person picking it from the wine list will pick a good one. That's part of what I like about her; it's hard to win her trust, but once you do, she's willing to give you the keys to her car or let you play her heirloom mandolin.
What else do you want to know? Well, she's creative, and has a driving desire to improve every time she sits down before the word-processor or picks up a paint brush. I've witnessed that improvement in both her writing and painting over the years and it's fully a testimony to her passion to never settle for less. When we worked together, she never let me get lazy, which is why I find the work we created, the Empire series, so rewarding.
Another thing about Wurts; she's honest. I've seen her say things that could be kindly called just a little over the line beyond "direct," but she's never lied to anyone about anything as long as I've known her. And she brings that honesty to her craft. Janny can tell you to a fare-thee-well what she doesn't like in her older work; she's as self-critical as they come. This makes compliments tough to handle; she finally has learned to simply smile and say, "Thank you," instead of getting flummoxed when someone says something nice about her writing, painting, singing, or hat. Took a while, though.
On the whole you'll discover that she's a complex woman of many interests who is worth the trouble to get to know. Despite being this tower of talent, she can be shy around strangers, so don't be put off if she looks a little like she's about to bolt and run when you're first introduced. She gets over that pretty quickly these days.
No, Janny's one of the more interesting folks to have entered my life and things are never dull with her around. Even if she still can't tell a joke.
Copyright © 1993 by Raymond E. Feist
Raymond E. Feist is the author of numerous fantasy books including Faerie Tale, Prince of the Blood, Daughter of the Empire and Silverthorn.
[Photo] Chris Jonientz-Trisler
Chris Jonientz-Trisler
by Janet Tanaka
My first thought on meeting Chris Jonientz-Trisler was, "Hallelujah! At last, a WOMAN I can talk shop with!" Since then we've talked a lot of "shop"—vulcanology, seismicity of the Puget Sound region, earthquake preparedness, volcano mythology, and the politics of geohazards, to name a few. We've also talked about men, sex, kids, grandkids, and—honest—even exchanged some household hints. I guess you'd call us best friends. I also introduced her to an old rabblerousing geologist friend a few years ago, and he's since become the Number One man in her life—something for which she can't decide whether to thank or kick me.
One of the strongest bonds in our friendship is our shared love for the earth, especially volcanoes. If you start referring to volcanic activity or other tectonic processes as "evil" you'd better be wearing armorplate. To a dedicated geologist, Earth and everything in it comprise our shrines. Whether or not we hold a traditional concept of "God" or "religion," we are only too aware that we live in the midst of a mighty Power, and earth movements are His/Her/Its prophets!
In other words, as Chris agrees, God created the San Andreas Fault; She also gave us the brains to learn how it works and the good sense not to build nuclear power plants on it! Don't blame God (or the Universal Whatever) if you're dumb enough or stubborn enough to live on the slopes of an active volcano. After all, it is the nature of faults to move, volcanoes to erupt, wind to blow, and rivers to flood.
Astrologers may claim that the stars rule our destinies, but Chris' destiny seems to have been influenced by something closer to home. Her birthdate, March 27, not only coincides with some big eruptions, but with the dates of the Alaskan Good Friday Earthquake and the opening gun (vent-clearing eruption) of Mt. St. Helens in 1980. Born in West Seattle near where she now lives, Chris Jonientz was the eldest of three daughters of an avid hobbyist rockhound who took her on his rock and fossil collecting trips from the time she could walk. She was especially fascinated by volcanic rocks: "That something so cold and solid could once have been hot and flowing.." She and a playmate decided to study volcanoes or else "dig up dinosaur bones" when they grew up. Eventually she learned that their prized "sabre-toothed tiger teeth" were actually sea shells called dentalium, but there were still the volcanoes!
Think of Northwest earthquakes or Mt. St. Helens and there comes to mind a small, wiry woman with a faintly harried expression (grown more benign over the years) patiently explaining to news reporters and the public the hows and whys of western Washington's erratic geologic underpinnings. As the University of Washington's geophysical spokeswoman for ten years, Chris got a lot of TV exposure. It began on a frantic day in April 1981 in the midst of one of St. Helens' frequent eruptions.
"All the 'real scientists' were busy, and I (the student lab intern) was sent to deal with the media. I'd run down the hall to see what was going on, listen to what was being said, and then run back and try to sound as though I knew what I was talking about."
By the time her position at the University ended last summer, Chris Jonientz-Trisler had become an expert volcano seismologist, and The Authority on the internal and external movements of Mt. Rainier in particular. And although it sound glamorous and exciting, it often boils down to laborious hours of "measuring and categorizing squiggles—every damn squiggle!"
In June Chris was hired to manage volcano, earthquake, and dam safety programs for Region Ten, FEMA. But don't call her a Bureaucrat! Very much the scientist, she insisted that her contract allow for continuing her research at the University.
Does the media treat her any differently now that she's a Bur— well, a Managerial Scientist? "Whereas I used to be treated with respect, as someone who had The Answers, now I sometimes get attack questions. FEMA-bashing is the in thing right now, even though the things we get bashed for aren't always the agency's fault."
Turning to her appearance at Norwescon, Chris has loved science fiction since she was in high school, thrilling and agonizing over the adventures of spacemen and aliens . . . what people usually think of as "science fiction." But Webster's, she points out, defines it as:
"Fiction in which actual or potential scientific discovery or developments become part of the plot." Which takes it into the realm of geological fiction and earthquake/ volcano "disaster" fiction.
"Usually the characters are more realistic than the science. Sometimes the science is downright silly. An example is the yellow goop oozing from the ground in the movie about Mt. St. Helens. What was that stuff supposed to be?
"My favorite science fiction movie, and I've seen it many times, is Journey to the Center of the Earth. It has some flaws—nothing could survive being lifted the way they were, directly on the top of a magma column without being fried!! But the camaraderie between the scientists, and the way they cooperate to solve their situation is just great. And I like the way that, generally, women geologists are portrayed ... as intelligent, independent, serious scientists. They often come off better than the men, who sometimes are portrayed as cold and arrogant. Tremors and The Big One had a lot of scientific and engineering flaws, but I could really identify with the women seismologists."
The worst geological science movie? "St. Helens was one of them." (The Plan Nine From Outer Space of geology movies?) "It's so awfully awfully bad that it's good. We play it every year on May 18th. It's become sort of a tradition."
So what advice would she give a writer or producer embarking on an earthquake or volcano novel, miniseries, or movie?
The late, great American volcanologist, Gordon Macdonald, once said that if one is going to write a book about volcanoes, it behooves one to know something about them. Chris echoed that as the best advice possible.
"Study. Do your homework, but don't just read books. Go to the volcano you want to write about. Get to know it. . . materially, spiritually. Go to an earthquake fault; stand on it, feel the power latent in it. Meet the people in the profession. Drink coffee or beer with them. Hang out where they hang out. See where they work and what they do. One thing that struck me in the novel Fire Mountain was the accurate description of the seismology lab at the University of Washington. I was in that lab every day, and I knew that the author was at home in it, too. It made the rest of the book 'work' for me."
Copyright © 1993 Janet M. Tanaka
Janet Tanaka is a consultant in volcanic hazard management, a freelance writer, and Editor and Publisher of Volcano Quarterly, an international newsletter for volcanologists and volcanophiles.
Confessions of An Eavesdropper
by Jane E. Hawkins
[Photo] Jane Hawkins
On my kitchen wall is a framed Jules Feiffer cartoon I cut out of the Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1972.
Diogenes is holding up a lantern. A woman asks what he's doing with it. He says, "I'm searching." She says, "For an honest man?" He says, "I gave that up long ago." She says, "For justice?" "Are you kidding?" "For happiness?" "Fat chance!" After several more exchanges, she says, "Then what are you searching for?" He says, "Someone to talk to."
That's what I was looking for in the early seventies. That's what I found when I discovered SF fandom.
When I was in high school, I didn't know about having people you could talk to. College was a revelation—bull sessions through the night with people who weren't afraid to say what they thought. After college, I went to work for Bell Labs in New Jersey. Lots of smart and interesting people there, but the talk was either about work or babies.
I was going nuts, stuck in all this suburban domesticity. New Jersey has a lot of people; I figured there had to be some I could talk to. I joined the bowling league and took my average from 92 to 166.1 joined the canoe club and had a great time paddling around on the Delaware River. I went to lectures and concerts. I got mildly involved in local politics. I found a few people I could talk with, but it was slow going.
In 1974 I hit pay dirt. I went to Boskone for the art show and found an amazing amount of good talk. In the lobby, the halls, at parties, over dinner—people everywhere running their mouths a mile a minute. Better still, they mostly didn't mind if a house-broken stranger (me) horned in. I was in Fat City.
Not that everything I heard interested me, but I figured the hit rate was close to one in ten. Given my recent experiences I thought that damn near a miracle and surely an anomaly, but I decided to try a few more conventions.
Maybe it was a miracle, but it wasn't an anomaly. I've now been to over sixty conventions, and the only time I failed to find interesting conversations was the 1976 Lunacon. Of course, I had a 103° fever, a kidney infection, infected tonsils, and a tendency to throw up regularly. Maybe that had something to do with it.
I now have stalking talk at conventions down to a science. I wander around with a can of Pepsi in my hand instead of a lantern. I admire good costumes, visit the art show, check out the dealers room, and maybe go to a panel or two. All the while, my real goal is those little clumps of people who stand around talking.
When I find one, I drift closer, eavesdropping to catch the topic. Oops, they're talking about whether Fred got laid last night or not. Never try to move in on conversations when you know nothing about the topic and don't care. I retreat.
Another clump of people. I circle. I overhear something promising, so I stand a few steps away and openly watch them, looking harmless. One of them notices and glares at me. Retreat again. No need to push, this sea has plenty of fish.
I find another group and repeat my harmlessness routine. A woman looks up, her face puzzled. I smile at her and then focus on whoever is talking. She also looks at that person, but moves back a half-step, creating a space in the conversational circle. Aha! I move in.
Which starts the next phase of getting into the conversation. At this point, everyone thinks someone else knows me. My job is to make sure they don't care when they realize the sordid truth. I keep my mouth shut and listen until I'm very sure I've got something relevant to say. If it goes down poorly, I drift off and continue cruising. If I get a good reaction, I'm home free.
I couldn't tell you how much fun talk I've found this way. I've also made friends, gotten lucky, and been fed. If you're looking for someone to talk to, I highly recommend this technique.
If you haven't got the chutzpah, there's another way to find good talk at a con—volunteer to work. They need you and you can find some fine folks that way. There is nothing like shared work for creating ties—people remember your name, they thank you, they include you in the dinner expedition. And the work itself is pretty easy. Ask around for the "Gopher Hole," and they'll put you to work.
Of course, there's a catch. You might get over-involved and become a con fan. I did.
I moved to Seattle on a two-year assignment in 1976 (ask me if I like this city). I checked the Locus con listings and got depressed. Two cons per year within an eight hour drive. This place is a fannish desert. How am I going to find people to talk to?
I saw a flyer asking for volunteers to work on a con and went to a meeting, but it turned out to be a comics con. I like comics and have quite a few, but they aren't my main interest. I started talking to a guy who had showed up for the same reason I had. I said, "Why aren't there any SF conventions around here?" He said, "I'll start one."
The guy was Greg Bennett, who chaired the first Norwescon. He once said I was the father of it all, because I impregnated him with the idea. Which would make him the mother of Norwescon, and sometimes he sure was one, but he was a damn good chair.
I figure that is why I'm Fan GoH here, in case you were wondering whether I would ever get around to that.
We gathered up people and started planning. (I'm still irked that no one liked my name suggestion: NorWetCon. OK, maybe it is a bit dumb.) I became Art Show Director because I ranted at one meeting about how we had to have an art show, and then I missed the next meeting. "Wait just one minute here," I said, but they had my number and knew it.
It was fun. Well, mostly. Four days before the convention my homebuilt art show hangings were still collapsing under the weight of a paper clip. I sat on the floor of my basement, and thought about taking a long trip to a far away place. But I did succeed in fixing the design and they didn't fall over at the con.
The show went smoothly until about an hour before the art show auction on Sunday, when I realized I didn't have an auctioneer. I couldn't believe it. I had planned all the paperwork, made up tags, etc., and hadn't thought once about recruiting a staff. I guess I was too preoccupied with getting the art show's hangings to stand. I shanghaied a friend, Cliff Wind, into cashiering and I did the auction myself.
Probably the best piece of performance art I will ever do. I was manic, I was determined to get their money, I had a captive audience who had just eaten a big meal and weren't inclined to move. I harassed them, I made them laugh, I praised every piece of art like Da Vinci had done it. The final sales count was three times what I had been told was the best we could expect. Maybe not my very finest hour, but right up there.
Since then I have done a lot of work at cons. I think my favorite job was day shift head of ops at the Atlanta WorldCon. That meant that if someone was really unhappy or causing a problem and local staff couldn't deal with it, they got sent to me. I was yelled at a lot and I could almost never give these people what they wanted.
Sounds horrible? Ah, but the thing is, I had a 100% rate at that con: every one of those people smiled at me when we were done, and most apologized for yelling. One of the angriest groups wound up wanting to take me out to dinner. When I said I couldn't leave, they returned in twenty minutes with take-out Chinese food. Now, that's something to shine your nails over.
These days I leave working the big cons to other people. I've found a lot of people to talk to, both through prowling the halls and through working. I've gotten lazy. But I'm still up for a good conversation. If that's your cup of tea, get out your lamp and track me down. I'll be around. Or someone like me.
Copyright © 1993 by Jane Hawkins
[Photo] Teresa Janssen
Teresa Janssen
by Becky Rariden
"Attention, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Flight 1806. Shuttle service from Seattle Colony to Pluto, non-stop. Because of limited oxygen inside the shuttle area, please refrain from smoking during the flight. Seats must remain in the upright position through takeoff and during landing. Baggage may be stored in the compartments above your heads. Because of the limited leg room, we ask that all items not needed during the flight be placed in these compartments. Emergency instructions are as follows........."
"This was a great idea you had, Aseret, going to Disneyland Station for a week to relax. I needed some time away after that trouble with Robert." Treycia fastened her seat belt and looked around for the stewardess to order her first drink of the flight.
After stowing her carry-on baggage above their seats, Aseret sat with a thump. "Boarding this thing sure took long enough. I thought we'd still be in line when the shuttle took off. This isn't starting very relaxing. Maybe I can work on my book a bit while we're in flight." She began looking in her bag for her notebook.
"Aseret, if you start on that book this early in our trip, I'm going to go find someone else to sit with," Treycia said with a huff. "You'll be buried in that paperwork and I'll have no one to talk to but the window."
"I'm sorry. What would you like to talk about?"
"Well, how about what we're going to do when we first get there. You know, I hear they have great shops with clothes from every cor- ner of the galaxy. Super prices too, I hear." Treycia looked at Aseret for a response.
Leaning back in her seat, Aseret's eyes were closed. "Well," exclaimed Treycia, "I like that, I talk and she falls asleep." Treycia poked Aseret in the ribs.
"Huh? What?" Aseret looked up. "Sorry, I was just thinking about the book I'm writing."
"All right, let's have it out. Maybe if you tell me about the book, I can help. At least, I won't be bored watching you write."
"If you're sure," Aseret started. "You see, it's about Teresa Janssen. A 20th century woman who had a rather large impact on our world as we know it now. She began as a normal enough person, but in her 40s she brought about changes that made it possible for this trip."
"Sounds good so far," Treycia replied, "Go on and let's see what's so amazing about this woman."
"Well, it took two years of research, and I think I've finally got enough information to begin writing. See, she was born November 19,1966, in Seattle, Washington. Back when a company known as Boeing was building airplanes, of all things. They hadn't begun interplanetary travel yet so they had no need of shuttlecrafts. Her father was a math teacher at Evergreen High School where Teresa graduated in 1985. It was located in a small suburb of Seattle. In high school, she was a very active person. She was a member of Future Business Leaders of America, Pep Club, German Club, and National Honor Society. She also found time for swim team and worked part time at the local county pool. At the swimming pool, she worked as a lifeguard and head cashier. She spent time on the weekends finding trouble with her friends.
Her family was very important to her, they were very close. Her mother stayed home with the children, two brothers and one sister, all older, and though they grew up in the '80s they had a home and a life style of the '50s. They ate all of their meals together and played cards at night. During the summers, they would travel to Idaho. There, her grandfather lived on a farm, and she would ride the horses and enjoy the roundup activities. Her friend Becky used to call her Joanie Cunningham after that ancient TV series Happy Days. After graduating from high school with honors, her ambition was to complete college and have a career, then get married and have children of her own. She graduated from college in 1987 and worked for various companies using her accounting skills."
"Imagine," interrupted Treycia, "all that work they did, we take for granted now, what with advanced technology and all. Please go on, she sounds intriguing."
"Yes, it's true at the beginning of the computer era all the computers did was create more paperwork. At that time computers were not self-aware, therefore, the programmers had to do all the work."
"Well, at age 24, she married Scott Janssen, a boyfriend of hers for many years. He was also born and raised in Seattle and graduated from Highline High School. After high school, he worked as bench technician for Boeing. Then he tried sales in a couple of companies, and then moved to the computer industry. Being a big fan of computers, working as a computer tech was a dream come true. In 1993, he worked at Compu Add, a pioneer in the field of technology at that time. He attended ITT Technical College and received a bachelors in electronics engineering technology in 1994. They had a happy marriage and their mutual interest eventually brought them into business together. In the year 2000, they opened up their own computer company working with several government agencies, including NASA. It was Scott's invention of a special computer disk that began the robot creations in the year 2017. This company went on to supply all computer equipment for the Northwest area, becoming the only company to survive the Second Great Depression of 2020."
"What did she do for excitement?"
"If you'd stop interrupting, I'll tell you." Aseret shifted in her seat. "During the day she worked as an accounting assistant for Trinity Technology Inc. At night, while Scott was at school, she went out with her friends. Winter was hard for her, but she looked forward to the summer. She and Scott took scuba diving classes and loved to dive. Her favorite memory of their honeymoon in the Bahamas was snorkeling on the reef off the Island of Freeport. She went back many times over the years. In 1993, there wasn't a whole lot to do. She mostly did things with her family and husband and her close friend, Becky. You know, the great author of the late 20th century. Her books are required reading in all the schools these days. It's said that Teresa helped to launch her career. You see, Teresa's husband was a science fiction fan. They went to most of the conventions that were held in their area. In 1993, Teresa was chosen to be Volunteer Guest of Honor at the Norwescon 16 in Bellevue, Washington. She asked her friend Becky to write her biography. After that, Becky went on to write several famous articles. With the knowledge she got from these conventions, and the help of her husband, Teresa went on to change the course of history. In the year 2025, she brought about the revolution which rocketed our world into interplanetary travel. Her two sons, John Allen and Marcus Damon, were pioneers in space travel. They traveled through the solar system making alliances and treaties with the inhabitants of other planets. Their work made it possible for us to call any planet our home. John Allen was well decorated by Planet Earth for his heroic efforts in the colonization of Mars. Marcus Damon married a young woman from Uranus and had one son who grew up to be on the Grand Council of Planets."
"That's wonderful!" exclaimed Treycia. "I can see now why you had a hard time stopping your research. What a remarkable woman and such a remarkable family. Flow primitive life was back when she was born! I'm so glad we live in this time and that she was there to make our times what they are. Well, I guess we owe this trip to her greatness and ingenuity."
"Yes, my friend, I guess we do. If the book sells, we can take a real vacation. There is only one thing she didn't change. I'm sure the universe would have enjoyed very much, if she could have done something about the stewards! All this time, and she's still talking."
"Emergency exits are located two to the front and two to the rear. In the event of a crash landing, your seats will act as escape pods. And thank you for flying Interplanet Air. If you will notice, the seat sign has been turned off and you are free to walk about the shuttle. Dinner will be served in 15 minutes beginning with the First Class section."
"Lord, we'll be lucky to get lunch before we land. Did you happen to notice what's on our menu?" Treycia looked about to see who else was traveling with them.
Aseret looked up and tried not to laugh. "I believe I saw liver and onions."
Treycia turned green just from the thought of rehydrated liver and onions, "I think maybe I'll skip dinner. I believe I'm fasting."
Copyright © 1993 by Becky Rariden
[Photo] Bonnie Baker and her son Joey
Bonnie Baker
by Bonnie Baker & Judy Suryan
Bonnie Baker was born in, grew up in and was somewhat educated in the mid western part of these great United States. After graduation, marriage, childbirth and divorce, she escaped to Vail, Colorado, and began a career in the hospitality industry. Yes, folks, just another great mind reduced to running away from the Rat Race and living in the paradise of the Rocky Mountains. But she could only take just so much of the beautiful people and glamorous life, and, deciding she needed to be nearer to an ocean, relocated after 10 years to the Pacific Northwest, settling in Tacoma, Washington. Shortly thereafter she met Judy Suryan, became familiar with Norwescon, and her real education began. Yes, folks, she grew knowledgeable in the inner workings of Norwescon and, much to her amazement, grew quite fond of the people and personalities and peculiarities that make up Norwescon.
If you attended Norwescon at the Sheraton Tacoma Hotel, you certainly knew that she was instrumental in facilitating the con in Tacoma. It was a whole lot easier because of Bonnie's influence. Our first year there was also our first experience in a vertical hotel, and boy, did it show. After that con, Bonnie and Judy Suryan sat down to work out some of the more pressing problems. The move of Hospitality from the 17th floor suite to programming rooms on the 3rd floor (a very unusual and highly unprecedented move for a hotel) was pushed through management by Bonnie. Having hotel staff man the elevators was another of her innovations as well as the dinner, supplied by the hotel, at the volunteer sneak preview meetings a month before the con. She was always at the Onions and Roses panel on Sunday. She listened, took notes and answered questions from the audience. She then made changes in the way the hotel dealt with many Norwescon-related situations. Basically, Bonnie took the time to understand the needs of this somewhat unusual convention her hotel was to host.
She was contacted by the former General Manager of the Sheraton from his new hotel; he made Bonnie an offer too good to refuse (he knows a good sales manager when he sees one). So, with another divorce under her belt, and her grandson in her arms, and with webs between her toes, she departed the Pacific Northwest in the fall of 1991 for sunny southern California. Norwescon will never be the same. Or will it?
Bonnie returns to Norwescon this year as the Toastmaster. What better way to start off our stay at our new hotel than to have back on our team the woman who did so much for us. Her unique blend of humor and ignorance of what really happens during Norwescon will be interesting to watch. If you want to spend time with Bonnie, drop by the Convention Office at 4:00AM. She and Judy will be there, and this time it's for fun!
Copyright © 1993 by Bonnie Baker and Judy Suryan
Mistwraith
by Janny Wurts
Exerpted from the forthcoming novel Curse of the Mistwraith, the first volume of a new epic series by Janny Wurts. Mistwraith will be published in England in May by Harper Collins and in the U.S. in January 1994 by ROC Books.
About Mistwraith and its characters
The world of Athera lives in eternal fog, its skies obscured by the malevolent Mistwraith. Only the combined powers of two half-brothers can challenge the Mistwraith's stranglehold:
Arithon—Master of Shadows
A complex, enigmatic, powerful man, Arithon had rather seek release from an incompatible sensitivity by pursuing his talents as a bard than embrace the consequences of violent action.
Lysaer—Lord of Light
Born to the unbending responsibilities of kingship, Lysaer is charismatic and single-minded, a crusader powered by righteous anger: a man who will see justice done, by the sword if need be.
Two brothers worlds apart, their fates interlocked in enmity by the curse of the Mistwraith they are called to subdue. Arithon and Lysaer will find that they are inescapably bound inside a pattern of events dictated by their deepest convictions. Yet there is much more at stake than one battle with the Mistwraith—as the sorcerers of the Fellowship of the Seven know well. For between them the half-brothers hold the balance of the world, its harmony and its future, in their hands.
Here begins an odyssey of the spirit in which no single character will emerge unchanged.
At council the following morning, the acknowledged prince of Rathain was conspicuous by his absence. Worn by the tact needed to smooth down mutinous factions of councilmen, and strung up from picking apart intrigues that clung and interwove between the guilds like dirtied layers of old cobwebs, Lysaer decided he needed air. Of late, he had been troubled by a succession of fierce headaches. Threatened by another recurrence, he begged leave of the proceedings when Sethvir called recess at noon.
Lysaer seemed the only one bothered enough to pursue his half-brother's irresponsibility.
A hurried check on the guest chambers at Lord Governor Morfett's mansion revealed Arithon nowhere in evidence. The bed with its orange tassels had not been slept in; the servants were quick to offer gossip. Laid out in atrociously warring colors over the divan by the escritoire were the gold-worked shirt and green tabard that should have attired the prince.
Alone with his annoyance in the vestibule, Lysaer cursed softly, then started as somebody answered out of the empty air.
"If you want your half-brother, he's not here."
"Kharadmon, I suppose," Lysaer snapped; the morning's dicey diplomacy had exhausted his tolerance for ghosts in dim corners who surprised him. "Why not be helpful by telling me where else he isn't."
Equably, the discorporate Sorcerer said, "I'll take you, unless you'd rather charge about swearing at empty rooms."
"It's unfair," Lysaer conceded, "but I'm not in the mood to apologize. Help find my pirate bastard of a half-brother, and that might improve my manners."
Kharadmon obliged by providing an address that turned out to be located in the most dismal section of the poor quarter.
"You don't seem concerned about assassins," Lysaer noted, his crossness now equally due to worry.
"Should I?" Kharadmon chuckled. "You may have a point, at that. It's Luhaine's turn for royal guard duty."
Etarra's back district alleys looped across themselves like a botched mesh of crochetwork. The paving was slimy and frost heaved. Lysaer ruined his best pair of boots splashing through sewage and spotted his doublet on the dubious fluids that dripped from a brothel's rotted balconies. He lost his way twice. The street of the horse knackers where he arrived at last reeked unbearably of rancid tallow, and of the waste from unwholesome carcasses.
He wanted to kick the next beggar who solicited him for coins; he had already given all he had, and against his promise to Kharadmon, his temper had done nothing but deteriorate.
Blackly annoyed for having volunteered responsibility for this errand, he stalked around the next corner.
Laughter lilted off the lichen-stained fronts of the warehouses, as incongruous in that dank, filthy alley as the chime of carillon bells.
The sound stopped Lysaer short. The joy he recognized for Arithon's, as jokingly out of character for the man as this unlikely, dreary setting.
Pique replaced by curiosity, Lysaer edged forward. Past the bend, under the gloom of close-set walls, he saw a band of raggedy waifs, his errant half-brother among them. The prince of Rathain had spurned fine clothes for what looked like a ragpicker's dress. The elegant presence of yesterday had been shed as if by a spell, leaving him noisome as his company, whose unwashed, cynical faces were enraptured by something that transpired on the ground.
Lysaer stepped cautiously around a maggot-crawling dump of gristle and tendons. His step disturbed older bones. Flies buzzed up in a cloud, and his eyes watered at the stink. He covered his nose with his sleeve, just as a brigantine fashioned of shadows scudded out from between one child's bare legs. Of unknown sex under its rags and tangled hair, the creature screamed in delight, while the ship caught an imaginary gust in her sailsand heeled, lee rail down, through a gutter of reeking brown run-off.
But the smell was forgotten totally, as Lysaer, also, became entranced.
The little vessel cleared the shoals of a clogged culvert, rounded, and curtseyed over imaginary waves. Banners flying, she executed a saucy jibe, and with the breeze now full astern, surged on a run straight for the mouth of the alley.
Lysaer's presence blocked her course. Caught by surprise, Arithon lost his grip on the complex assemblage of shadows that fashioned her planking and sails. His beautiful little vessel unravelled in a muddied smear of colors that dissolved half a second before impact.
Heartsick to have spoiled the illusion, Lysaer looked up.
To the children, his silks and fine velvets had already marked him for a figure of upper crust authority. Huge eyes in gaunt faces glowered at him in accusation. Arithon showed a flat lack of expression. The moment's overhead laughter now seemed passing fancy, a dream put to rout by abrupt and unnecessary awakening. Had Lysaer not sensed the entreaty most desperately masked behind each hostile expression, he might have felt physically threatened.
One of the taller figures in a tatterdemalion blanket sidled away into shadow. A second later, running footsteps fled splashing through a side alley too narrow to be seen from Lysaer's vantage.
Trapped in the role of despoiler, he gave way to irritation. Although Arithon had not spoken to inquire what brought him, his opening came out acerbic. "Do you know I've been smoothing over your absence from the governor's council all morning? The guild ministers here are slippery as sharks, and just as quick to turn. The commander of the guard and his captain would wind your guts on a pole for mere sport. There cannot be a kingdom where now there is discord if you don't show them a prince!"
"Such affairs are your passion, not mine," Arithon said in desperate, forced neutrality. Several more children bolted despite his denouncement. "Why ever didn't you stay there?"
He had not denied his origins.
The accusing stares of his audience were quick to transfer to him. The girl nearest his side recoiled in betrayal, that the man who had thrilled with his marvels was other than the beggar he appeared. Arithon reached out and cupped her cheek. His attempt at reassurance was pure instinct; and remarkable for its tenderness since every other sinew in his body was pitched taut in unwished-for challenge.
Rebuked by such care for the feelings of a vermin-infested urchin, Lysaer relented. "Arithon, these governors are your subjects, as difficult in their way to love as thieving children are to the wealthy whose pockets they pick. Show the councilmen even half the understanding you've lavished here, and you'll escape getting knifed by paid assassins."
Arithon abandoned his effort to hold his audience; their fragile trust had been broken and one by one they slipped off. Deserted in his squalid clothes amid a welter of stinking refuse, Arithon's reply came mild. "This bunch steals out of need."
"You feel the governor's lackeys don't? That's shallow! You're capable of truer perception." Lysaer shut his eyes, reaching deep for tact and patience. "Arithon, these merchants see in you an anathema made real. Records left from the uprising have been passed down grossly distorted. Etarrans are convinced the Fellowship Sorcerers mean to give them an eye for an eye, cast them from their homes and expose their daughters to be forced by barbarians. They need so very badly to see the musician in you. Show them fairness they can trust. Give to them. They'll respond, I promise, and become as fine a backbone for this realm as any king could ask."
"Well, why come here and trouble me? You seem to understand everything perfectly!" Arithon visibly resisted an urge to hammer his fist against a shanty wall. "You'vestated my fears to a fare thee well, that this city will ingratiate itself to become my indispensable right hand."
"What in Athera can be wrong with that?" Whipped on by Arithon's expert touch at provocation, Lysaer lost to exasperation.
"This!" Arithon gestured at the mildewed planks that enclosed the back of the knacker's shacks. "You socialize amid the glitter of the powerful, but how well do any of us know this city? Did Diegan's lovely sister tell you the guilds here steal children and lock them in warehouses for forced labor? Can I, dare I, stroke the Lord Governor and his cronies, while four-year-old girls and boys stir glue pots, and ten-year-olds gash their hands and die of gangrene while rendering half-rotten carcasses? Ath's infinite mercy, Lysaer! How can I live?" The fury driving Arithon's defense snapped at last to bare his nerve-jagged, impotent frustration. "The needs of this realm will swallow all that I am, and what will be left for the music?"
Lysaer stared down at the dirty rings that crawled up his gold-sewn boots. "Forgive me." He allowed his contrition to show, for after all, he had been presumptuous. "I didn't know."
Arithon's sorrow subsided to a gentleness surprisingly sincere. "You shouldn't want to know. Go back. I appreciate your help with the diplomacy, but this problem is mine. When I'm ready, never doubt, I'll give it my best effort."
Copyright © 1993 by Janny Wurts
Weyr, Oh Weyr Has My Little Dragon Gone? or
A Visit With Anne McCaffrey, At Home In Ireland By LouAnna Valentine
[Photo] The entrance to Dragonhold-Underhill. Note the dragons on each gate. Photo © 1993 by David Valentine.
[Photo] Photo © 1993 by Pat Oros.
“When I die, I want to come back as one of Anne's cats" is a common saying heard regularly among the denizens of the Southern Ireland Writer's Ghetto. This is what the neighborhood where Anne McCaffrey lives is known as. Her estate lies in rural Ireland, about 20 miles south of Dublin near a small village called Bray. At Anne's estate, Dragonhold-Underhill, she writes about dragons, raises and trains horses, and owns a magnificent Doberman Pincer named Saffron. But her true passion is her cats. Her four cats (two Boston Coon kittens and two more independent adult cats) reside in equal partnership with the humans in Anne's house, though some folks think that the cats have the better deal! They are denied nothing and allowed everything. And they are Anne's darlings.
In January of this year, three extremely fortunate individuals were selected by the Norwescon 16 Con Committee to sojourn to Ireland to visit with Anne McCaffrey in her home so that she could appear electronically at this year's convention. Chris McDonell, Pat Oros and David Valentine made a trip that many of Anne's devoted fans would consider a dream come true. They came home with hours of videotaped interviews and readings, rolls and rolls of exposed slide film and a determination, much like that of Anne's neighbors, to somehow be reincarnated as one of those darn cats!
Our intrepid team (hereby dubbed Team Pern, in true Norwescon tradition) spent four wonderful days in Anne's home learning first hand what it is like to be a pampered resident of Dragonhold. Anne held a small reception for our crew upon their arrival at her home where the stellar guests, Katherine Kurtz and her husband, Scott McMillan, Diane Duane and her husband, Peter Moorewood (do you see a pattern developing here?), and a visitor from the States, Paul Dini, who just happens to write for Batman: The Animated Series and Tiny Toon Adventures, all treated the Team like they were the celebrities! Flight fatigue was quickly banished to the hinterlands as Team Pern enjoyed the hospitality and gracious company of Anne and her neighbors well into the Irish night.
[Photo] Anne McCaffrey and Saffron. Photo © 1993 by David Valentine.
Now, you know as well as I do that you simply do not go calling without bearing gifts for your host or hostess. What to take along to Ireland for Anne was a much-debated topic amongst the Team before departure. A dragon of some sort seemed like a natural offering (but much too common for our taste). It was suggested that a smoked salmon product would be nice (it just so happens that smoked salmon is very common in Ireland as it is one of their biggest exports). Many other suggestions were tossed around like a frisbee, and produced just about as much excitement as one, too. So what did they take? At Anne's request, Team Pern traveled to Ireland with several pounds of bacon and hot dogs in their luggage! Apparently Irish bacon just doesn't measure up to its American counterpart. I'd love to know how they got all that smoked meat through customs without causing a riot amongst the airport police dogs! The very next day, Anne's housekeeper, Sira, cooked up the bacon and people started coming out of the proverbial woodwork as if they had "bacon radar". Everyone, including Team Pern, Anne's sister-in-law, Sis, Dearbhail, the woman who runs Anne's stables, Jenny, Anne's secretary, Sira, and Anne herself eagerly consumed the entire cache of bacon in the form of bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches.
[Photo] Photo © 1993 by Pat Oros.
[Photo] Anne McCaffrey, one of the trainers, and Pie. Photo © 1993 by Pat Oros.
Anne was a gracious and indulgent hostess who sat patiently through hours of videotaping and interview sessions both with, and without cats in attendance (be sure to catch these at the convention) and treated Team Pern to a grand tour of her estate, Dragonhold-Underhill and her working horse stables. In addition to the many large and lovely rooms in Anne's new home, she has an indoor, heated swimming pool that is a local Mecca to her friends and neighbors. A constant parade of bathers can be seen coming and going from Anne's house at all hours! And in every room, on every surface, are dragons. Glass dragons, pewter dragons, stuffed dragons, wooden dragons. Small dragons, large dragons, medium dragons, you name it, she's got it! Almost all of them gifts from devoted fans. Anne says that she doesn't collect dragons, they collect her.
[Photo] Dragonhold Stables. Photo © 1993 by David Valentine.
Team Pern then got a tour of the stables. Dragonhold Stables is well known in Ireland for training riders and horses to participate in a common Irish riding competition known as a three-day trial. The stables are run by a very competent young woman named Dearbhail Diamond whom Anne has known and worked with since Dearbhail was eleven. Dearbhail was even the model for one of Anne's characters, Melanie. While visiting the stables, the Team got to watch some of the students putting their horses through their paces. They were then granted an audience with Anne's own personal riding horse, Pie. Recently, a member if the Irish group U2, Adam Clayton, came to Anne's stable to learn how to ride using an Australian saddle (which Anne just happened to have) and was allowed to ride Pie for his lessons. Anne likes to say that now "my bum has sat where his bum sat!"
The Team made a day trip out into the countryside around Dragonhold hoping to discover a glimpse of Pern in the Irish landscape. Anne drove them to a place that her son had run across once, while out riding his motorcycle, called Sally Gap. He had returned to his mother's house and proclaimed that he had found Pern! Anne responded by saying "You couldn't have found Pern, I made it up." But, after seeing Sally Gap for herself, Anne agreed with him. Team Pern did, too, as they stood at the top of one peak, looking across the gap at the other peak, all the while trying to remain standing upright in a 35-40 mile per hour wind! You didn't have to close your eyes to envision dragons soaring overhead! And the temptation to scrutinize the rocky cliff faces for resting dragons and their riders was almost too much to resist. Team Pern came away from Sally Gap with a new insight into Anne's fictional world that they wish every fan who has dreamt dragons and Weyrs could experience.
[Photo] The writing area. Photo © 1993 by Pat Oros.
Anne treated the Team to exciting and fulfilling dinners at two of her favorite restaurants in Bray, The Hungry Monk and The Tree of Idleness (a Greek establishment, no less!). From what I've been told, it's a wonder that anyone was able to drag the "boys" away from the incredible dessert cart at The Tree of Idleness, which consisted of about twenty varieties of the most decadent of confections you could ever hope to dream up. If that dessert cart was even on the same continent as me, I'd gain 20 pounds!
A visit down the road to have afternoon tea at Katherine Kurtz's and Scott McMillan's granite Georgian mansion was an unexpected bonus and an incredible delight. Katherine and Scott were gracious hosts who gladly conducted a tour of their home for Team Pern and then taped interviews and readings to be shown at the convention (both Katherine and Scott have books due out this year, so don't miss their readings).
[Photo] Pern found. Sully Gap. Photo © 1993 by Pat Oros.
Suddenly, it was time to leave.
Gracious is a word I've used often in this writing, but no other word seems to be adequate to describe everyone's demeanor toward Team Pern during their visit. They were treated like visiting royalty by all the extraordinary people that they encountered, especially Anne herself. People will tell you that you can't ever really go home again, but if your are extremely lucky (or were born on the right cusp, or something) you will get to visit Anne McCaffrey in her home where you'll be treated better than you are by your own mother, but not quite as well as the cats!
[Photo] The curved walls and gates leading to Dragonhold-Underhill. Photo © 1993 by Pat Oros.
[Photo] Yard Sculpture. Photo © 1993 by Pat Oros.
Copyright © 1993 by LouAnna Valentine
[Artwork] Master of Whitestorm © 1993 by Janny Wurts. Cover for her book published by ROC Books.
[Artwork] Crises © 1993 by Janny Wurts. Cover for the book by James Gunn, published by Tor Books.
[Artwork] Sorcerer's Legacy © 1993 by Janny Wurts. Cover for her book, published by Bantam Books.
[Artwork] Shipwrecker © 1993 by Janny Wurts. Cover for the game, published by Mayfair Games.
[Artwork] Stormwarden © 1993 by Janny Wurts. Cover for her book, published by Ace Books.
[Artwork] Drawn Astray © 1993 by Janny Wurts. Published as a greeting card by Dragon Tales.
[Artwork] Planet in Peril ©1993 by Janny Wurts. Cover for the book by Gary Gygax, published by New Infinity Productions.
[Artwork] Firestorm © 1993 by Janny Wurts. Previously published as a cover for Science Fiction Chronicle.
LYNN S. ADAMS from Springfield, Oregon, is an avid cyberpunk, who enjoys gourmet food, movies, twisted humor, SF conventions, and even more twisted humor. Her short fiction is published in the Eugene Writer's Series anthology, Strained Relations, and The Olympic View '91 Anthology. She has coauthored an SF trilogy, currently under consideration at a large publishing house. She shares her life with her writing partner, D.T. Steiner, three alien cats, and a neurotic Sheltie.
DAVID ADDLEMAN is a long-time mystery writer with 17 short stories and a novel, A Contract On Stone. He has recently turned his attention to writing science fiction and fantasy. During 1991 and 1992, he sold 38 short stories to such magazines as: Aberations, Ellipsis, Figment, Heliocentric Net, Lighthouse, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Midnight Zoo, Pandora, Pulphouse, The Vampire's Crypt, Thin Ice, and Vision.
PETER D. ADKISON has always had an active interest in gaming. He began playing wargames with his father and his father's army buddies as his family traveled in the military from base to base. Eventually Peter realized that he wasn't going to "grow out of" gaming, so he got together with a bunch of his friends and started a gaming company called Wizards of the Coast. The first book published by this company was a book written primarily by Peter, called The Primal Order. Wizards of the Coast has continued Peter's high-quality tradition by publishing eight other books of comparable quality, including the revival of the award-winning Talislanta line. Peter is currently working on his next book, The Military Order, which is scheduled for release later this year.
ROB ALEXANDER is the winner of the final quarter of the Illustrators of the Future Contest and has received numerous convention awards for his paintings. Published in various magazines, he recently completed a book cover and frontispiece for the limited hardbound edition of Mike Resnick's short story collection Pink Elephants and Hairy Toads. Born and raised in Canada, Rob now lives in Seattle.
JOHN ALVAREZ is a freelance illustrator and graphic artist working out of the Portland area. John's work has appeared in The Horror Show, Science Fiction Review and on the cover of Pulphouse, the Hardback Magazine. John is also on the Executive Board of the Northwest Costumers Guild.
JEAN M. AUEL married at 18, by 25 had five children, then in 1964 at age 28 started college night courses, and worked full time at an electronics firm. She studied math, physics, and electronics, while progressing from clerical work, to circuit board design, to technical writer. She moved into management, and was granted an MBA in 1976 . . . none of which has much to do with an idea in 1977 of writing a story about a young woman who lived during the Ice Age. But a love of reading, plus an insatiable curiosity and a penchant for research probably did. Hours with books from the library and a long first draft fora sixpart novel, resulted in a plan for a six-book series instead. Additional library research, supplemented by field courses that included making stone tools, building a snow cave, and brain-tanning buckskin, plus travel to both western and eastern Europe, have helped to flesh out details for The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, and two more "Earth's Children" books to come.
Photo © 1993 by John Emmerling
FREDDIE BAER is a graphic artist and illustrator who curently resides in San Francisco. Ecstatic Incisions: The Collages of Freddie Baer, a book of her collage work, was published in 1992 by AK Press of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her illustrations have been featured in Science Fiction Eye, Interzone, Semiotext(e): SF, Fifth Estate, Factsheet Five, and Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed.
DAMON BARD is a sculptor and artist whose statues have been winning awards at convention art shows for the past few years. Professionally he has done work for the film industry and has spent time working at Will Vinton Studios in Portland.
STEVE BARNES has authored a handful of short stories, the novels Streetlethal, The Gorgon Child, and The Kundalini Equation, and has co-authored (with Larry Niven) the novels Dream Park, The Barsoom Project, and The Descent of Anansi. He was a creative consultant for the animated film The Secret of NIMH, and adapted a Stanislaw Lem short story for the Disney Cable Network.
DONNA BARR has been involved in a lot of projects, and put out a lot of comic books. She's even produced a musical, The Desert Peach, based on the comic book by the same name. As a workshop, and as an audience-word-of-mouth production, it was a success. But for the foreseeable future, The Desert Peach, the comic/cartoon strip/book, will be occupying all her time. She's going to complete that story, if it takes the next 40 years...
GREG BEAR is married to Astrid Anderson Bear and the father of two, Erik and Alexandra. He is also the author of over twenty books, thirteen of them novels, including Hegira, Psychlone, Beyond Heaven's River, Strength of Stones, Eon, The Forge of God, and Blood Music. Tor Books will soon be publishing his next novel, Moving Mars.
GREGORY BENNETT, Norwescon's founder, returns this year as a professional science fiction writer. His first short story, "Protocol," saw print in the Mid-December 1992 Analog, and two novelettes will appear early this year. In 1976, Bennett founded both the Northwest Science Fiction Society and the first local chapter of the National Space Society. After three years of editing Westwind and serving as chairman of NWSFS, the first three Norwescons, and the Seattle in 1981 Worldcon bid, he absconded to Houston with NWSFS member Melva Lund. Today, he works at the Johnson Space Center as Manager of EVA Development for Space Station Freedom. Greg and Melva live in League City, Texas with their son, Alexander, and the family herald, Archimedes.
BETTY BIGELOW is both an award-winning science fiction costumer and artist from Seattle. She was Fan Guest of Honor at Noncon 7 and Rustycon 5. She is a professional belly dancer and artistic director of Shahrazad Ensemble in Seattle. She also holds the rank of Baroness in the Society for Creative Anachronism, and occasionally pretends she is a Klingon.
JONATHAN E. BOND has been writing for the last three years. In that time, he has sold stories to Pulphouse, Amazing Stories, Mystery Street, After Hours, and the Ultimate Witch anthology.
Jonathan is currently the editor for Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine.
Traumatized by The Day the Earth Stood Still at age six, MAYA KAATHRYN BOHNHOFF immediately fell prey to mysterious urges. At twelve, she secretly created SF comics in the back row of a Nebraska schoolroom. Comics gave way to Trekkish and Poe-ish stories which remain, mercifully, unpublished.
In 1988, Maya surrendered to her perverse passions and began writing speculative fiction professionally. She lives in northern California with husband, Jeff, and son, Alex, where she records original rock music, designs software and writes as much as humanly possible.
LISA JEAN BOTHELL is the author of the novels Nashramh: The Red Thread and Nashramh: The Blue Thread. She has also sold several short stories and articles to small press publications such as Plots, Vandeloecht's Magazine, Nightside, Wordweavers, Crossroads, and the upcoming anthology No Cats Allowed, and is a member of SPWAO. She is currrently the publisher and editor of the magazine Heliocentric Net and of the quarterly H-Net Newsletter.
MARK BOURNE is an astromony writer/educator for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry and its Sky Theater planetarium. He was the science writer for Star Trek: Federation Science, a nationally travelling, interactive science exhibit created at OMSI. He also wrote and produced Orion Rendezvous, the ST:TNG planetarium show starring LeVar Burton as Geordi LaForge and other actors from TNG. Currently, Orion Rendezvous and the Federation Science exhibit are breaking attendance records at the Boston Museum of Science. His newest show, Dream Worlds, opens at OMSI in June. A graduate of Clarion West '92, his story "Brokedown" is in this month's Fantasy & Science Fiction, and he has stories forthcoming in F&SF and Asimov's Science Fiction.
KEVIN "KEV" BROCKSCHMIDT is best-known for his cartooning and illustration work as a correspondent for Starlog. His other genre work includes cartoons in Comic Scene and Dragon, illustrations in Vision, and his self-published comic, Warped.
A freelance humorous illustrator by trade, Kev supports himself by stealing lunch money from junior high school students, as well as designing t-shirts, magazine illustrations, advertising art, and gag cartooning. Surprisingly, his most respected work is as editorial cartoonist for the Federal Way City Herald.
ALGIS BUDRYS is a Free Lithuanian citizen, but has resided in the USA since 1936. In the early 1950s, he began his career as a professional editor and SF writer.
He has quite recently become the publisher of Tomorrow, a new speculative fiction magazine, adding that title to the positions of Editor and Art Director he had held previously.
For eleven years, he was one of the Visiting Writers at the Clarion SF Writing workshops. He has also held other writing seminars at many locales.
His fiction includes about 200 short works, mostly SF, and a number of novels including Who?, Rogue Moon, The Falling Torch, Michaelmas, and most recently, Hard Landing. A number of his works have been nominated for Hugo and Nebula awards.
Photo ©1993 by J.K. Klein
ROBIN JAMES BURCHETT, though a long-time scribbler, is new to being published. His short stories appear in the January 1993 Heliocentric Net and a future issue of Midnight Zoo. He usually writes humorous, apocalyptic novels, inspired by Voltaire, Vonnegut, and the ubiquitous Seattle rain. His second book, Just Add Water, should be finished by convention time; editors beware. In the meantime, he gets by, selling plasma and skin grafts, which he claims makes him feel like "part of the community."
GAIL BUTLER—Air Force brat and ex-Army wife—having lived from coast to coast, now resides in Everett. Her art has appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, and various convention books.
Because of the company he keeps, BRUCE BYFIELD often believes that he is green, thirty-five centimeters long, and fond of cuttlebone. In fact, he is an itinerant college instructor who has taught science fiction and children's fantasy at Simon Fraser University and who regularly sneaks SF into regular courses. He has written articles on the works of several SF writers, including Diane Paxson and Paul Edwin Zimmer, and is the author of Witches of the Mind: A Critical Study of Fritz Leiber. In addition, he has had many fantasy-oriented poems published. He is presently working on a volume of selected letters of Fritz Leiber, which he hopes will concentrate on the correspondence with Harry Fischer in which the characters of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser were created.
FRANK CATALANO is a computer industry marketer and award-winning broadcaster and writer. His essays, articles, columns, and fiction on the future of technology have appeared in Omni, the Seattle Times, MacWEEK, MacGuide, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, Writer's Digest, and others. Currently, he is a software and interactive technology marketing consultant, after five years as a marketing manager for Egghead Software and the Apple Programmers and Developers Association. He also spent 14 years as a broadcast journalist, and was regularly heard on KING-AM Seattle, NBC Radio, Mutual, UPI, and AP Radio.
BRUCE CHRISLIP is an artist who has had work published by Aardvark-Vanaheim, Eclipse, Starhead, Kitchen Sink Press, King Features Syndicate, United Features Syndicate, in the Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, National Enquirer, and the Fandom Directory.
Bruce has also exhibited his art in various galleries around the country.
He is the current editor of Outside In.
MARK COEN is a 1991 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop. He has had two short stories published to date, "Jolly Man" in Midnight Zoo (December 1991) and "Mullers Tunnel" in Fugue (Winter 1992). He is Associate Editor and movie reviewer for Figment: Tales of the Imagination, and with J.C. and Barb Hendee wades through about 500 manuscripts per month. Mark and his wife Juli live near Pullman, WA with their two cats, Spud and Sammy, and their 1957 Ford pickup. Mark is currently working on his first novel entitled Builder of the Gallows.
KATE FLYNN CONNOLLY has published articles about Irish politics and the Irish language, and her first novel, The Rising of the Moon, about a revolution in a near-future Ireland, will be published by Del Rey in September 1993. She is an editor at the University of Washington, where she will soon complete a master's degree in linguistics and has studied Spanish, French, Russian, German, Classical Hebrew, and Irish.
Kate lives in the Seattle area but wishes she were in Ireland.
GREG COX is an Associate Editor at Tor Books. In his spare time, he writes fiction. Recent stories have appeared in The Further Adventures of Batman, Vol. 2 (Bantam, 1992), The Further Adventures of Batman, Vol. 3 (Bantam, 1993), and Alien Pregnant by Elvis (DAW, 1993). A former resident of Seattle, he now lives in Manhattan.
Photo by Karen Palinko
JOHN G. CRAMER's first foray into SF writing was Twister, a near-future hard SF novel published by Arbor House. Since 1984 he has written the bi-monthly science column "The Alternative View" for Analog. John is Professor of Physics and Director of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington. In addition to teaching, nuclear physics research, and science writing, he has contributed to the interpretation of quantum mechanics.
John was the Norwescon 12 Science Guest of Honor.
DENNIS CRIPPS was born in Philadelphia on April 22, 1955. As a child, and even today, he has enjoyed Supercar and Fireball X-L 5. He is the culprit behind the creation of Spleen Magazine, The Las Vegas Vatican and the Post Vegas Vatican. In 1982 he became the Pope of Las Vegas. That same year he clashed with the Subgenius Foundation and began doing politically incorrect cartoons for the Starkfist of Removal (The Church of the Subgenius' Heretically Dogmatic Journal) and other zines. He is currently trying to get feedback on his so-called "Paintings".
TONY DANIEL grew up in Alabama, and now lives on Vashon Island, in Washington State. His first novel, Warpath, will be published in April by Tor Books. He has had stories in Asimov's and many other SF publications, along with poems and reviews. He's currently working on the story of the Olympic Pennisula's seccession from the Union.
LONNIE DAVIS is a representative for several artists whose work is often described as science fiction or fantasy. He is also an attorney working with a nonprofit public interest law firm which specializes in civil rights work for people with disabilities.
JOY DAY is a professional costume designer and artist. She has a B.F.A. in costume design and has been costuming for most of her life. She has designed costumes for many shows including Jesus Christ Superstar and The Nerd. She has won many awards and honors for her costumes and is a member of the Northwest Costumer's Guild. Joy recently founded Hairy Apteryx Productions, a costume and artwork design and production studio.
JOHN De CAMP is an Oregon poet who occasionally writes science fiction. Among his credits are a book, In the Shadow of Atlantis (Heron's Quill, 1977), a poem in Asimov's, and a short story in Wet Visions. Currently he has an action adventure novel circulating and a science fiction manuscript under construction.
Photo by Rick Hawes
WILLIAM C. DIETZ grew up in Seattle, served a hitch in the Navy, and graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in communications. He has worked as a surgical technician, news writer, television producerdirector, and is currently employed as a Marketing Communications Manager for one segment of a large telecommunications company. Dietz has had twelve novels published, of which Drifter’s War and Mars Prime are the latest. His next novel, Legion of the Damned, will be released in August of 1993. Dietz lives in Mill Creek, with his wife, daughters, and two cats.
MICHAEL DEAN, besides being a science fiction and mystery writer and a graphic designer, is the host of The Ether Patrol, a weekly half-hour science fiction radio show on Vancouver's CFRO radio. He was the editor of Horizons SF, a magazine published by the University of British Columbia's Science Fiction Society, and is a frequent contributor to Chuck's Bargin Basement, a B.C. based SF & fantasy journal. A former employee of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation he can still be heard on the CBC stereo network from time to time. He has worked as a radio and TV actor and has been involved in a number of independent video projects.
He is currently in the midst of collecting as much Doc Savage paraphenalia as he can reasonably afford, most importantly the last 16 or so paperback reprints that he needs to complete his collection.
BARBARA A. DENZ remembers her first writing experience at a specialized daycare center at the age of five. It wasn't until years later that she became a published author. That first published story, "The Amethyst Carekeeper," was included in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Spells of Wonder and her second, "The Gift From Ardais," appeared in Domains of Darkover. She has recently sold "The Will" to Weird Tales From Shakespeare, an anthology edited by Katharine Kerr which will be published by DAW Books late in 1993, and is working on a mainstream novel, extending "Amethyst..." into a novel (or several), and outlines for young adult mainstream novels and fantasy short stories.
She and her husband, David, live in Suguamish and are owned by nine ferrets.
TOM DOHERTY has been in publishing for 30 years. He started as a salesman with Pocket Books, and rose to be Division Sales Manager. From there, he went to Simon and Schuster as National Sales Manager, then became Publisher of Tempo Books. He was the Publisher and General Manager of the Ace and Tempo divisions of Grossett & Dunlap before founding his own company, Tom Doherty Associates, Inc. (publishers of Tor Books), in 1980.
Tor was sold to St. Martin's Press in 1986, and Tom continues as the President and Publisher. Tor Books is preeminent in the science fiction field, and also publishes fantasy, horror, mainstream fiction, cartoons, and a line of young adult titles. Many of Tor's authors are Hugo and Nebula award-winners.
ELTON ELLIOTT'S over 150 published articles, essays, columns, reviews, poems, and stories have appeared in a variety of magazines and newspapers, from Amazing Stories and Galaxy, to The Pulphouse Report and the Starlog SF Yearbook. He is the co-author of four novels, as Richard Elliott (with Richard E. Geis), published by Ballantine Books, under the Fawcett Gold Medal imprint. Their first novel, The Sword of Allah, has been translated into Japanese, and published by Tokyo Sogen-Sha.
Photo by Craig Peterson
JAMES ERNEST is a professional juggler of ill repute whose many illustrious appearances have included the Elma Slug Fest, the Hillsboro Illinois Sherwood Forest Fair, and the Fall City Herb Farm Scarborough Fair and Llama Festival. He also draws pictures and writes stories.
RU EMERSON grew up in Butte, Montana, lived in some of the more "colorful" neighborhoods of Los Angeles for 17 years, and now resides on five rural acres in the foothills of Oregon's Coast Range, with ducks, geese, rabbits, pigeons, a Samoyed, six cats, and her roommate of 20 years, Doug.
Her first published novel was The Princess of Flames (Ace Fantasy, 1986). Since then, she has written over 14 books, nine of them published, including the recent Night-Threads trilogy for Ace and a novelization from the TV series, Beauty & the Beast, for Avon. Another Night-Threads novel is completed, as is Bard's Tale: Fortress of Frost and Fire (with Mercedes Lackey) and The Wind and the Lion (DAW).
LYNNE TAYLOR FAHNESTALK has been illustrating professionally for over 12 years. Her artwork has appeared in F&SF, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Dragon and Dungeon magazines, Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, Pulphouse Fantasy Magazine, Science Fiction Review, Fantasy Tales and On Spec magazine.
Lynne was the 1991 recipient of the Canadian Aurora Award for artistic achievement and is art director of On Spec, the Canadian Magazine of speculative fiction.
She lives in Edmonton, Alberta, with the lovely and talented Steve Fahnestalk, where she is illustrating a children's book due out this year.
STEVE FAHNESTALK has been a nuisance at Northwest conventions since the mid-'70s, and has even put on a few MosCons with a lot of help. He'll be FGoH at MosCon 15 in September.
His nonfiction has appeared in Amazing and Starlog, and he's sold stories to Pulphouse, the two Rat Tales anthologies (one of which has yet to appear) and an unnamed upcoming major theme anthology (he thinks). He's currently trying to take the jump from short stories to novels.
He lives in Edmonton, Alberta with the beautiful and talented Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk. His cat died.
ZEN FAULKES is a Buckaroo Banzai wannabe. He has one degree in psychology and is working on another in biology, lettered the comic Time City, has been published in The Skeptical Inquirer, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and has worked at one time or another as a model, cartoonist, projectionist, movie extra, and editor. He lives in Victoria, B.C. You can be sure this is true since he penned this biography himself and his devotion to absolute veracity is notorious.
CRAIG FIGLEY is a self-taught science fiction illustrator whose design work has graced public buildings, publications, and byways in Eastern Washington. Formally trained as an educator with advanced degrees in Child Development and Applied Psychology, Craig is listed in the 1993 edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers. His illustrations have won top awards at the Science Fiction Art Show in Los Angeles, and he also dabbles in acrylic sculpture, silkscreen printing, and music. He currently earns his living as an elementary school counselor and teaches college courses in Psychology, Child Development, and Sociology.
JIM FISCUS is an Oregon writer and photojournalist who specializes in medical issues. He is a staff writer with Managed Healthcare News and Northwest correspondent for the Medical Post of Toronto.
He has a Master's Degree in Middle East and Asian history, taught military history for two years, and has worked in transportation planning in Portland. Various writing assignments have taken him to the Canadian Arctic and to exotic sections of Portland.
Photo by Donna McMahon
PHIL FOGLIO claims to be all things to all people. As one might well imagine, this monumental task leaves him little time for the simple joys of life that the rest of the world is accustomed to, but such is the lot of humanity's self-appointed benefactor. In the few brief moments that he doesn't spend perfecting his new strain of perambulatory cacti, he enjoys writing and drawing science fiction comics such as Buck Godot—Zap Gun for Hire and XXXenophile.
DR. ROBERT L. FORWARD is a science fiction and science fact writer, and consulting scientist. For his thesis he built and operated the world's first bar antenna for the detction of gravitational radiation, now at the Smithsonian Museum. For 31 years he worked at the Hughes Research Laboratories where he wrote 80 scientific papers and obtained 18 patents. From 1983 to the present, Dr. Forward has had a series of contracts with NASA and the DoD to explore the forefront of physics and engineering in order to find new energy sources for spacecraft power and propulsion. His published works include two science fact books, Future Magic (Avon), and Mirror Matter: Pioneering Antimatter Physics with Joel Davis (Wiley), and five hard science fiction novels, Dragon's Egg (Del Rey) and its sequel Starquake (Del Rey), Rocheworld (Baen), Martian Rainbow (Del Rey), and Timemaster (Tor). He has three novels in press, Return to Rocheworld with Julie Forward Fuller (Baen), Marooned on Eden with Martha Dodson Forward (Baen), and Camelot 30 K (Tor).
Photo © 1993 by Claudia Kunin
KURT GIAMBASTIANI has been a bank teller, a teacher, a professional ballet dancer, head pressman for a newspaper, principal violist in a metropolitan orchestra, a house painter, and a computer programmer. He thought writing would be easy. He was wrong. With a handful of small press publications under his belt, he's aiming at the majors.
After spending several lifetimes being a fan and a conrunner (distant cousin to the rumrunner and lineal descendent to the roadrunner) TERRY FOWLER's curent incarnation is being spent earning her doctorate in Clinical Psychology in Chicago. She has been a part of The Olympic View Writers Conference® for the last several years. Terry's intimate and personal knowledge of alien psychology is an asset in both her work and play.
Born on the tenth anniversary of the Nagasaki atom bomb attack, STEVE GALLACCI was raised in the thick of a military-industrial complex. A technology fan first, he didn't get into science fiction fandom until he was well into a stint in the Air Force, at which time he went all out. By the time he was back in the world, he was selling SF art professionally at cons. Not long after, Steve started the critically noted SF "funny animal" comic book Albedo, which also was a major prompt to the creation of "furry" fandom. Since then, he has been involved in several other comics and role-playing games, emphasizing seriously hard SF.
STEVE GILLETT writes speculative science articles for publications such as Analog (most recently 'Titan as the Abode of Life", November 1992), and has been the science columnist for Amazing since January 1991. He has also written fiction, often in collaboration with Jerry Oltion. He has recently fled back to academia; after a stint as a consulting geologist, he is now a research associate at the Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, where among other things he works on Paleozoic paleomagnetism and lunar resources.
JAMES GLASS was the 1990 Gold Grand Prize winner of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest. His stories have sold to magazines such as Aboriginal SF, Pulphouse, Midnight Zoo, Figment, Eldritch Tales, and Writers of the Future VII. His novel Visions is searching for a home and he has just completed Toth. By day, Jim is Dean of the College of Science, Math and Technology at Eastern Washington University. He holds a Ph.D. degree in physics.
An editor for the Boeing Company, LENORA RAIN-LEE GOOD goes home and writes poetry, articles, and fiction for her own enjoyment. Her poetry has appeared, among other places, in the TOV '91 anthology (The Olympic View Writers' Conference®, 1991) and in Jerry Pournelle's There Will be War, Volume VIII (Tor Books) and will be included in forthcoming volumes. Her articles have appeared in local publications including The Portland Oregonian and the Seattle Times.
RICHARD GRANT is the author of Through The Heart (Bantam Spectra), a finalist for the 1992 Philip K. Dick Award. The P.K. Dick Award is given to the best SF paperback original of the previous year. The award is sponsored jointly with the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and presented at Norwescon each year.
COLIN GREENWOOD is the author of Take Back Plenty (Avon), a finalist for the 1992 Philip K. Dick Award. The P.K. Dick Award is given to the best SF paperback original of the previous year. The award is sponsored jointly with the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and presented at Norwescon each year.
JON GUSTAFSON began writing a column on art crticism for Science Fiction Review in 1974 and has since had articles on SF and fantasy art included in The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Starlog Science Fiction Yearbook. He has also contributed over 80 biographies of SF artists for Peter Nicholl's The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. In 1986 his first fiction appeared in Writers of the Future, Volume II, and he has had work included in Rat Tales and Figment Magazine. He is also the author of Chroma: The Art of Alex Schomburg.
In 1983 Jon started JMG Appraisals, the first professional SF/fantasy art and book appraisal service in North America.
He has finished editing a new anthology titled Rats in the Souffle which will be published in the summer of this year. He has written quarterly columns on SF art for Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, Figment and Science Fiction Review. He is now a contributing editor for Pulphouse: The Magazine and Figment.
Jon is married to the best-selling author V.E. (Vicki) Mitchell.
GEORGE GUTHRIDGE has thrice been nationally honored for his work teaching Alaskan Eskimos. He has also sold over 50 short stories, mostly to such magazines as Amazing, Analog, Asimov's, and F&SF, and has been a Hugo and Nebula finalist. His latest work, Child of the Light, written in collaboration with Janet Gluckman, was published by St. Martin's.
ANDREW HAMLIN was eight or nine years old when he beheld a potato sack with two black-jeaned legs sticking out of them, nonchalantly weaving in and out of foot traffic on University Way. He later attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, where he contributed to and helped edit the campus newspaper and literary magazine. A lifelong resident of Washington state, he currently lives in a Seattle basement apartment with a six-foot long foam mattress and the ghost of a cat litter box. His short story "Fool of Grace" was published in the TOV '91 anthology.
TARA K. HARPER lives in Northwest Oregon. She hikes, rock-climbs, and collects and works with weapons from the modern to the primitive. These include swords, three sectional staves, compound bows, and boomerangs. She is a composer, violinist, painter, and stone sculptor. By combining her interests and nightmares, she creates SF novels such as Wolfwalker (1990), Shadow Leader (1991), and Lightwing (1992), all published by Del Rey Books.
Currently Tara works as a hightech writer, creative writing teacher, and community volunteer. She reads constantly, avoids health food, and prefers cold mornings in the mountains to temperate evenings in town.
The original Norwescon, the World Science Fiction Convention in Portland back in 1949, gave NORM HARTMAN a start on his wide circle of acquaintances among authors and editors. He appears frequently on panels, and has a wide knowledge of the genre. His stories and articles have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, and three novels are out to publishers. Norm presently writes book review columns for Midnight Zoo, Sharp Tooth, and Science Fiction Review. He lives in Tigard, Oregon with his wife Ann, and their Macintosh computers.
Illustration by Christine Markel
ELIZABETH HAND is the author of Æstival Tide (Bantam Spectra), a finalist for the 1992 Philip K. Dick Award. The P.K. Dick Award is given to the best SF paperback original of the previous year.
A former science teacher, HARLEY HASHMAN is a practicing pharmacist, a scuba diver, musician, sailor, and amateur astronomer. He is a published cartoonist and author of articles on space and astronomy. He is an agented author of the science fiction novel Somnium and is currently working on the sequel, Shades of Gray. Both books deal with virtual reality, the nature of perception, and the future of American society.
JAMES E. HAYS, JR. is the director of Research and Development and vicepresident of Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a Seattle-based game publishing company.
Jay has overseen the design and development of all seven books released by Wizards of the Coast in 1992. He currently reports that a dozen more books are in various stages of development.
BARB HENDEE has been the co-editor of Figment for the past three years. Her fiction has appeared in, or will soon appear in, Puplhouse, Bizarre Bazaar, Ghosttide, Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, Deathrealm, After Hours, Not One of Us, and other publications. She will graduate from the University of Idaho this May with a B.A. in Literature/Creative Writing. She collects stray kittens and friends who are into weird humor.
Writer, poet, artist, columnist, J.C. HENDEE, is co-editor/publisher of Figment, Tales From the Imagination. He has sold work to Quantum, Midnight Zoo, Amazing Experiences, MZ Calendar 1992, Recursive Angel Anthology Vol. 2, Fugue, Hardware, GWN Magazine, Poetic Knight, the 1992 Worldcon Program Book, and others. He spends considerable time arguing with his computers (and losing), and refuses to admit that he enjoys inventing new swear words while crawling down muddy drainpipes to save kittens ... to which he is allergic.
DOUGLAS HERRING is a freelance artist and computer game designer whose art has appeared in SF, comic, and Trek fan publications throughout the '70s and '80s. His art has also been published professionally by Marvel Comics, Deluxe, Steel Dragon, and Eternity Comics. In the last year he did the preproduction game and art design on Ringworld: The Return, and is currently animating Spider-Man for the Sega Genesis CD. He is married to science fiction and mystery writer Bridget McKenna.
ABRAHAM HERTZBERG is a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Director of the Aerospace and Energetics Research program at the University of Washington. His recent research has focused on the ram accelerator and its application as a launch system for space cargo.
Photo by Davis Freeman
RICHARD HESCOX is an artist of numerous magazine illustrations and book covers. Having lived in Southern California for many years, he did pre-production work for the movies The Howling and The Philadelphia Experiment and surrealistic paintings which were featured in House. He has also contributed to ad campaigns for many films including E.T., The Dark Crystal, and The Fly. His most memorable poster art was for Swamp Thing.
In recent years Richard has devoted himself exclusively to SF and fantasy paperback covers. His cover paintings have been exhibited at the Society of Illustrators and at the Delaware Art Museum.
Illustration © 1993 by Dave Stevens
GLEN HIEMSTRA is a consultant on vision-based planning, strategic change, and quality improvement to business, government, and communities. He has consulted with several members of Congress offering his insight in preferred futuring. Prior to going into private business, Glen spent a dozen years as a university educator at Whitworth College, the University of Washington, and Antioch University. In 1983 he coauthored (with Robert Theobald and Robert Gilman) a non-fiction book, At the Crossroads, about the necessary and possible societal changes in the late 20th Century. He is currently the president of his Redmond-based firm, Hiemstra International.
ANDREW HIGGINS is a graduate of the University of Illinois in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. He currently works as a graduate student in the Ram Accelerator Laboratory at the University of Washington. His areas of research include hypersonic and detonative gas dynamics.
NINA KIRIKI HOFFMAN is the sixth of seven children and grew up in Southern California. Her "real" job involves channeling other writers, most of them still living. She is also the author of many short stories, the forthcoming novel The Threads That Bind the Bones (Avon, May 1993), and was the featured author in Weird Tales #306. Presently she resides in Eugene, Oregon, with three cats and a mannequin.
Photo ©1993 by N.K. Hoffman
ANDREW HIGGINS is a graduate of the University of Illinois in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. He currently works as a graduate student in the Ram Accelerator Laboratory at the University of Washington. His areas of research include hypersonic and detonative gas dynamics.
ARI HOLLANDER grew up in the culturally anomalous Berkeley, California. He loved it there so much that he earned a B.A. in Astrophysics at U.C. Berkeley in 1991. While at U.C. he engaged in some interesting side activities: he created computer animation for the Grateful Dead's 1990 summer tour. He also worked as a peon for LucasFilm's computer games division.
Ari is now studying virtual reality for his M.S.I.E. at the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Laboratory.
MARILYN J. HOLT, a co-founder and past Director of Clarion West, writes science fiction, mysteries, non-genre fiction, poetry and criticism, but owes close friends several years of correspondence. Her published nonfiction work includes critical studies of fiction by Joanna Russ, Rudyard Kipling, and Gertrude Atherton. She has also written for computer newsletters and is the author of Ventura: The Complete Reference.
QUINTON HOOVER is a 29-year-old, self-taught comic illustrator and freelance artist who enjoys small-town living with his wife and children in Baker City, Oregon. He currently pencils and letters Morgana X (Freeman/Hoover, Sky Comics), and pencils Twilight Agency: Vampires' Curse (RipOff Press).
RACHEL E. HOLMEN is the Managing Editor of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, where she coordinates the magazine's production and promotion. She also serves as art director, copy editor, and database expert. She has been active in SF and fantasy publishing since 1979.
ROBERT J. HOWE has had his short fiction published in Analog, Pulphouse, Weird Tales, Newer York, Pandora, and several small press magazines. He is coauthor, with John Ordover, of Coney Island Wonder Stories, an anthology due out from Wildside Press in June. Robert is an assistant editor for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and writes a non-fiction column for Pulphouse magazine. A native New Yorker, he and his wife, writer Kij Johnson, now live in Portland, Oregon, with their dog and cat, neither of whom have much in the way of publishing credits.
After DEBORAH HUDSON decided that teaching high school English was not her particular talent, she decided to make a profession of what had always been her avocation. Where had her time and money gone? Into books! And she began selling books 12 years ago. Presently she works for Puss & Books in Redmond, Washington as events coordinator, and science fiction and metaphysical buyer.
Science fiction has been a passion ever since she discovered her brother's Tom Corbett Space Cadet books. (However, she promptly added her own female character to the all-male crew!)
As well as a bookseller, Deborah is a professional storyteller and has presented programs in schools, libraries, and at special gatherings in the Seattle area.
RAYMOND B. HUEY, PH.D. is an evolutionary physiologist. He is especially interested in how heat and cold tolerances of organisms evolve in response to climate change. Currently he is studying both lizards and fruit flies. He has also done considerable research on the evolution of "athletic" abilities in lizards and on aging in natural populations of lizards. He received his A.B. degree in zoology from the University of California at Berkeley, a M.S. in zoology from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is currently Professor of Zoology at the University of Washington.
A founding member of The Science Fiction Association of Victoria, STAN G. HYDE now lives in Vancouver where his alter ego, "The Light Hearted Vituperator and Jolly Reviler" vituperates in BCSFAzine. Part of the research team which delves into the sex life of Godzilla at conventions, Stan is also a modelbuilder whose work has appeared in McDonald's Fun-Times magazine, along with two other monsters of his creation, children Sarah and Owen. Comic stories by Stan for Ninja High School and Mechamen should appear from Antaric Press soon. A past Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future contest, he currently writes more prose and sniffs less model glue.
L. DEAN JAMES is still a newcomer to the publishing world. Her first novel, Sorcerer's Stone, was published in February of 1991 by TSR. Since then, three more have been published, and another three are slated for this year and next.
Ms. James, who has written horror and fantasy, now also writes science fiction. Her "first contact" novel, Mojave Wells, is due from AvoNova in July.
ManacLash
An Art Show And Product Announcement
by Wizards of the Coast
April 11, 1993
Open to the public from 11AM to 5PM
wizards of the Coast is about to release their best game ever, a series of card games by Richard Garfield known as the DeckMaster series. The first game in this series, ManacLash, is more than just a new game--it's a new gaming form. Not since the invention of roleplying has such an innovative concept been introduced to the table gaming market.
Two Hundred and Forty-Two pieces of high quality color art have been commissioned for this game from over twenty fantasy artists, including works by Anson Maddocks, Mark Tedin, Jesper Myrfore, Melissa Benson, Mark Poole, Amy Weber, Jeff Menges, Daniel Gelon, Dan Frazler, Sandra Everingham, and Andi Rusu. ManacLash promises to be one of the more visually appealing games ever published.
This event will be held at the Wizards of the Coast office, also the home of Peter and Cathleeen Adkinson, at 23815 43rd Ave S., Kent, WA 98032. Phone numbers [redacted] (downstairs, Wizards of the Coast), [redacted] (upstairs, Adkinson residence), [redacted] (facsimile).
Directions: From I-5 take the Kent-Des Moines road exit (between Federal Way and tukwila). From the exit turn east onto Kent-Des Moines Road. Take the first legal right, south, onto Military Road. Take the first left, east, onto 239th street, at the end of 239th street you'll be forced to turn left onto 43rd Ave. It's the 5th house on the left, white with brown trim. Enter through the front ground-level sliding glass doors.
ManacLash and DeskMaster are trademarks of Garfield Games Inc.
Wizards of the Coast
MELINDA JODRY is a dancer who is also a writer. She's been performing Raks Sharqi, commonly called "belly dance", for fifteen years, and is a member of the renowned Shahrazad Dance Ensemble of Seattle. Her research into ethnic Middle Eastern costume has resulted in several articles for regional publications. Ask her about the costumes and dancing in Aladdin.
She is now seeking a publisher for her first science fiction novel.
A passionate interest in sciences inspired KARL JOHANSON to write about inviromental and energy issues for newspapers and fanzines. This interest in science has also lead him to join such organizations as the "B.C. Skeptics", "The National Center for Science Education", and a "Canadian Humanist Association". Karl currently edits the Canadian SF newszine Under the Ozone Hole with John Wilcox Herbert.
STEPHANIE ANN JOHANSON is an artist from Victoria, B.C. Wire sculpture, carving, acrylic painting, and illustrating are some of the forms of art that occupy her. Stephanie has illustrated "The Hidden City: A Poem of Peru", written by Stanley K. Feiberg. She also is writing "Question of Art" for the Canadian newszine Under the Ozone Hole.
KIJ JOHNSON has had about twenty short stories published by or sold to markets including Asimov's, F&SF, Amazing, Weird Tales, and Pulphouse. Her first novel, The Fox Woman, is due to be published in hardcover by Tor Books in late 1994 or 1995. Curently she is the Books and Collections Editor for Dark Horse Comics in Portland. She has worked as a managing editor for Tor Books, a copy editor of romances and pornography, and a cocktail waitress. (And some other stuff, too.) Johnson is married to writer Robert J. Howe, with whom she shares a dog, a cat, a beat-up Mazda, and a nice duplex in Portland.
MARY KAY KARE has been working in libraries for, uh, well, a loooong time. She's also been going to cons for 16+ years; working on them for nearly that long. Somewhere along the way, she discovered filk. The most interesting result of that discovery was her husband Jordin. One of the positive results, for Norwescon anyway, has been that her interest led her to volunteer to help organize some filk here. The first year only a handful showed up; last year there were in excess of 50 people. Who knows what will happen this year . . . Mary Kay will also be in charge of music programming for the 1993 Worldcon in San Francisco. Pursuant to that she wishes everyone to know that she can be bribed with bittersweet chocolate, certain brands of Irish whiskey, and the chance to be immortalized in song.
Photo by Michael John
JORDIN KARE is a Generic Handwaving Physicist at Larry's Rad Lab—otherwise known as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He's got alphabet soup from M.LT.(Class of 78) and went to U.C. Berkeley for his Ph.D. in astrophysics, which he got by hunting for supernova with an automated telescope. He's best known in fannish science circles for his work on laser launch systems. More recently he helped plan the "Clementine" satellite mission, which will map the moon in living (well, sort of) color early in 1994. He's married to Mary Kay Kare, and is currently commuting between D.O.E. HQ in Washington, D.C. and California every week or so (gaak!). Oh, yes, he also filks ... in public!
In 1988, Clifton Hoyt of rural Wisconsin asked the bookmobile providing him science fiction if they knew someone who wrote it; at that time PHYLLIS ANN KARR (actually a fantasy writer, but the genres get confused) was using the same bookmobile in another town. Breaking a rule, the bookmobile librarians gave him her address, for which both Clif and Phyllis remain very grateful. Legally and professionally, Phyllis retains her professional name; socially, she will answer to "Mrs. Hoyt."
JERRY KAUFMAN has been a fanzine contributor since 1966, a fanzine publisher since 1974, and a small press publisher since 1984. With Suzanne Tompkins, he has published The Spainish Inquisition and Mainstream (both have been nominated for the Best Fanzine Hugo). The most recent issue Mainstream includes material from 'live' Mainstreams performed at Minicon and Westercon. His small press, Serconia, has published books by Aldiss, Delany, and Clute, and includes books by James Triptree, Jr., and about Gene Wolfe in its upcoming list.
MICHAEL KERR is a graduate of the University of Washington with a degree in microbiology/immunology. And in exactly two months, six days, and some odd hours he will graduate from medical school (sounds of cheering from long-suffering friends, family, and wife). In addition, he speaks on a variety of science issues for the Washington Association for Biomedical Research.
BARBARA RANDALL KESEL lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband Karl (a cartoonist working in the comics field, currently on illustrations for a Star Wars young adult book, coming from Bantam Books), and their Corgi, Bing. She has written a variety of comic books, and is the Managing Editor of Dark Horse Comics.
T. JACKSON KING is a writer and archaelogist who lives on 18 acres in the woods near Medford, Oregon, with his wife, fellow SF writer Paula E. Downing, and his three children, Keith, Karen, and Kevin. His first novel, Retread Shop, was published by Warner Books/Questar. He has sold short stories to Pulphouse, Tomorrow, Figment, Pandora, and Midnight Zoo, and is a member of SFWA and The Authors Guild. His nonfiction includes article sales to Writer's Digest, Byline, Small Press, Women & Guns, MZB’s Fantasy Magazine, the SFWA Handbook, the SFWA Bulletin, The Report, and Science Fiction Chronicle. King writes hard SF, social SF, and contemporary fantasy. He has just finished work on his ninth novel, The Turning of the Tide, an on-spec sequel to his first contemporary fantasy novel.
Photo by T. Jackson King
MARY ALICE KIER is part owner of Cine/Lit Representation, a full service literary agency based in Seattle. There, with partner Anna Cottle, she represents fiction and nonfiction writers, organizations, true-life stories, and original screenplays to publishers and the film industry. Mary began as a literary agent 15 years ago, and helped form Cine/Lit in 1982.
JOEL KINGSOLVER is Professor of Zoology at the University of Washington. He teaches and does research on a variety of topics in evolution, ecology, and mathematical modeling, including the evolution of insect wings and of butterfly color patterns, and the biological consequences of global warming. He has recently co-edited a book on global environmental change, Biotic Interactions and Global Change.
JAN KING is an educator from Colville, Washington. She co-sponsors a science fiction and fantasy club for high school students where she can share her passion for literature, art, costuming, future worlds, and Star Trek. For several years, she has chaperoned groups of young people at the con so she can watch them expand their horizons (zing!) and experience how creative, intelligent grown-ups have fun! Jan is constantly researching science fiction and fantasy literature for children/young adults and would appreciate any suggestions you have for her list. Off and on, she collects rocks and minerals and writes as a member of the Telgar Weyr for The Telgar Times.
KYLE R. KIRKWOOD is married to a wonderfully patient and intelligent wife. She slaves night and day for the little toad who swapped his computer for his wife's (because hers was faster); who never answers his own mail; and generally drinks far too much Cherry Coke. On the positive side he is a science teacher, but he does spend too much time marking and not enough with his wife. Oh yes, he does a radio show called The Ether Patrol.
CARL KNOWLEN is a postdoctoral research associate in the Aerospace and Energetics Research Program at the University of Washington. Dr. Knowlen has been involved with the ram accelerator program since its inception in 1983 and is co-inventor of several techniques for initiating and stabilizing combustion for this in-tube ramjet concept. He has also contributed to the development of liquid droplet radiator technology and has played a significant part in developing the microsecond shock wave reactor concept. In addition, Dr. Knowlen is part of the research team that is developing a cryogenic-powered automobile concept which provides an attractive alternative to battery-powered electric vehicles.
JAK KOKE has sold short stories to Amazing Stories, Aberations, After Hours, Pulphouse and Science Fiction Review and several anthologies. His most recent publications include "Deadwise" {Amazing, August 1992) and "Target Practice" (After Hours, January 1993), both in collaboration with Jonathon Bond.
Jak is currently working with the layout and design team of Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine, which he does when he's not writing or working in the laboratory. His lab work focuses on molecular and neuro-biology, specifically studying the localization of ion channels in auditory receptor cells. In the past he's worked with DNA (cloning, sequencing, PCR) and protein (expression, purification, x-ray crystallography).
Jak is married to a future marine biologist/ ecologist currently working in a neuroscience laboratory. They have a three-month-old daughter who takes up all the rest of their time.
JULIA LACQUEMENT-KERR is a French-Canadian-born artist who was kidnapped by gypsies and sold into slavery to DC Comics. When not chained to the drawing board, hoarding what crumbs are tossed to lowly color artists, she draws and paints her own work that can seen at finer science fiction conventions in your neighborhood. Currently living in Seattle with her cat and, incidentally, her husband, she is about to relocate to parts unknown. Take this time to say goodbye.
JOAN KOTKER obtained her B.A. and M.A. in creative writing from Ohio State University. She was an assistant editor of The Ohio Journal while in graduate school. Joan is an English instructor at Bellevue Community College and her primary interests are creative writing, mystery and detective fiction, popular culture and sports literature. Her short stories, poetry, and articles have appeared in both literary journals and national publications. She reviews books for the Journal American and Armchair Detective.
R.A. LAFFERTY is the author of Iron Tears (Edgewood Press), a finalist for the 1992 Philip K. Dick Award. The P.K. Dick Award is given to the best SF paperback original of the previous year. The award is sponsored jointly with the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and presented at Norwescon each year.
CHRIS LIGHTFOOT, a native Seattleite, is thrilled to attend Norwescon as a pro for the first time. Chris has been involved in fandon since mainlining Star Trek as a child. Chris is involved with the local small press scene, and most of his work has been published by Seattle's MU Press. His most recent fiction was the framing sequence for volume two of The Furkindred, which he cowrote with his wife and fellow author, Leslie Lightfoot. They also collaborated on a three-year-old monster named Nicholas. When not reading or writing comic books and science fiction, Chris is selling them as a manager at Golden Age Collectables.
THOMAS J. LINDELL's first sale, a collaborative piece written with Jonathan Bond, will appear in the anthology The Ultimate Witch (September 1993). Thomas has also made sales to Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine and the anthology Splatterfairies. When he isn't writing, Tom works as a system administrator for the March of Dimes. He lives in Seattle with his wife, two cats, and a tyrannical computer.
MEGAN LINDHOLM was raised in Alaska, but has been a resident of Washington State for 12 years now. She currently resides in Roy, a very small town, on a little farm where she raises ducks and chickens, and tends her garden when not writing. Current books include Cloven Hooves and Alien Earth, both from Bantam, and The Gypsy, a collaboration with Steven Brust from St. Martin's Press. Her short work has been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards. Other books include Wizard of the Pigeons, The Reindeer People and Wolf's Brother.
To support his chronic writing disorder, TODD LOGAN works half-time as a computer geek. He endures the sort of mundane, tedious existence that demands brutal creativity in response, and his main foci have been poetry and short stories. His first fiction to be published, "Non-Potential Citizen," appears in Tall Tales and Short Stories. He has also recently completed his first hard SF novel. Todd's other adventures include: stage acting, producing an album of his own folk music (Modern Panic), designing a role-playing system, and battling mediocrity in its myriad manifestations.
When not working as a drafting waldo for Boeing, L. PIERCE LUDKE is an artist. She works in various media (as she feels dictated by the subject/emotion of the piece) including ink, colored pencil, acrylic, and computer. Science fiction and fantasy have been part of her life and art for at least two decades.
STAN LOVE is a doctoral candidate in astronomy at the University of Washington, where he is presently writing his dissertation on the sources of interplanetary dust particles. His professional interests span aspects of planetary science, meteor physics, space propulsion, space power, and science teaching. His leisure activities include outdoor sports, science fiction, and fantasy role-playing game design. It is possible that he will eventually get a real job.
TERRY LUSIAN assists with The Olympic View Writers' Conference® and her work has appeared in the TOV '91 Anthology (The Olympic View Writers' Conference®, 1991). She resides in a big old dilapidated house in Everett with her two sons, Jeff and Jordan, her housemate, Dave, and assorted birds, cats, dogs, and ferrets, plus Mel, the parrot.
SONIA ORIN LYRIS has been published in Midnight Zoo and has stories forthcoming in Asimov's and Pulphouse. She won first place for her fiction in the Kay Snow Writing Contest at the 1992 Willamette Writers Conference. Sonia is a graduate of Clarion West '92.
Sonia has been a software engineer, technical writer, and sculptor. She has had articles published on cyberspace, studied martial arts, and continues to dilligently quest for the finest bittersweet chocolate.
Photo by Volnack
When PETER MacDOUGALL first began to write, he wrote in longhand because affordable word processors were not yet available. This is how he learned to write succinctly. However, none of these have seen the light. They were illegible.
While struggling to master his native tounge, Peter also taught himself to draw with much more success. By the time he reached U.B.C. and began his first degree in molecular biology, he begun to earn a tiny income as a artist.
He has had several stories (written on a computer; more legible, less succinct) published in Horizon SF, and has recently been asked to try out as the inker for the comic book, DragonStar II.
Peter and his wife, Anne, live in Halifax.
EDWARD MARTIN III is an editor at Dark Horse Comics. His current projects include Predator Trading Cards, JBNM Trading Cards, and assisting on RoboCop—Prime Suspect. His own work has appeared in Dream International Quarterly, TOV '91 Anthology, Aquarium Fish Magazine, We Are the Weird, and a few other publications here and there.
He lives in Milwaukie, Oregon, with his beloved wife Katrina and a fish named Fish, who may eventually eat all of Creation.
DON MAITZ has achieved national acclaim for his many book cover illustrations. Specializing in fantasy and science fiction imagery, he has had some 175 commissioned works published by Simon & Schuster, Berkley Publishing, Doubleday & Co., Bantam Books, Dell, Warner Books, DAW Books, and others. Don has received the Hugo Award for Best Artist, a Silver Medal award from the Society of Illustrators, and the H.P. Lovecraft Award (World Fantasy Con). He was a driving force in the organization of the first major exhibition of SF and fantasy art at an American museum. Don's work is included in the permanent collections of The Delaware Museum and the New Britain Museum of American Art. A variety of his artwork can be see in his book, First Maitz.
Photo © 1993 by Greg Preston
JULIAN MAY's latest science fiction book, Jack the Bodiless, was published by Knopf. Her latest fantasy, Blood Trillium, was published by Bantam-Spectra. She has had more than 260 books published since her first piece of SF, the novelette "Dune Roller," was published by John W. Campbell Jr. in 1951. She lives in Washington State where she enjoys her hobbies of electronic music and flyfishing.
Photo by John Coker III
CLAUDIA McCORMICK was born into the world of story. Madgie the Magic Lady lived next door, Daddy was an artist and storyteller and Mum too.
What began at her husband's side in the ministry has now ended up as refuge for writers. That she can balance corporate books, write grants, or run college work-study programs is much more a source of amazement to her than the fact that she writes books.
Her first novel, Raven at Sunrise, was published in 1991. In 1986, she founded the Seattle Chapter of the National Writers Club.
RAVEN McCRACKEN is a writer, musician, comedian, and actor. His work has been published in Fantastic Images and Vortext Magazine. Raven has recently written a new edition of the world of Synnibarr for international release. His interests include writing, martial arts, acting, music, gymnastics, mechanical engineering, and of course, gaming. Raven modeled for the D.C./TSR comic of Avatar for the character of Kelemvore, donning armor for the occasion. Currently he lives in Seattle with his wife, Renee.
BRIDGET McKENNA lives in Nipinnawasee, California (Pop. 75), with her husband, artist Douglas Herring, twelve cats, and eleven koi. She has sold fiction to Writers of the Future, Volume II, Pulphouse, Asimov’s, Amazing Stories, F&SF, and Tomorrow Speculative Fiction. Her mystery novels, Murder Beach, Fire on the Mountain, and No Hate Lost will appear in 1993-1994 from Berkley/Diamond.
Photo by Douglas Herring
After spending most of the late 1970s running cons in the Los Angeles area, J.P. McLAUGHLIN formed the Space Science Media Group in 1978 to promote space sciences in L. A. high schools and community colleges. Later, he became interested in history as a means of understanding technological change and its implications for the future. Currently he is president of J.P McLaughlin & Associates, a high-tech consulting firm specializing in historical analysis, future studies, and corporate re-engineering. A contributing editor to Figment magazine since its inception, his essays and reviews on science fiction and related fields appear in every issue.
MICHAEL McLAUGHLIN is the publisher of Silver Salamander Press, a new small press that debuted in February with the publication of I, Said the Fly by Michael Shea. Michael recognized the lack of a market for quality works of fiction in the 20,000 to 30,000 word range; particularly work that might be considered somewhat "dangerous" or "unsuitable in content" by most of the trade publications. With that in mind he coaxed John Pelan (former editor of Axolotl Press) ou t of retirement, and the result is a new publishing company. Michael resides in Woodinville where he divides his time between publishing, Whirly-Ball, and a real job.
DON McQUINN is a transplanted Texan, now permanently rooted in the Pacific Northwest as the result of a serious addiction to gray weather. As a reader, he's had a lifelong interest in science fiction. As a writer, his first effort in the field is Warrior, published by Del Rey as volume one of a speculative fiction triology. Wanderer will appear in November of 1994. Don and his wife, Carol, live in Seattle.
ANNETTE MERCIER is a transplanted Texan who has been attending cons as an artist and costumer since 1980. She now lives on a small farm in Hansville, WA, where she shows her art in some of the local art shows and galleries, and stays busy with the local theatre group as a makeup artist, scenery painter, and sometimes actor. Perhaps you have seen her in one of her many disguises.
C.J. MILLS lives in a farmhouse more than 100 years old on three acres in rural Stillwater, Minnesota. She lives there with her husband, three almost-grown children, three cats, three dogs, two parrots, and some fish. She has a B.A. and M.A. in English, a kindergarten-to- 12th-grade teaching certificate in German, and loves to do historical research, which shows in both her SF and historical novels.
Active in the Northwest convention scene for many years, VICKI MITCHELL has won many awards for her costuming. In 1986 she won the Amazing Stories Calendar Story Contest and had a story included in a mainstream anthology. Her first novel, Enemy Unseen (a Star Trek novel published by Pocket Books), appeared in late 1990 and spent three weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list. Her second novel, Imbalance (a Star Trek: The Next Generation novel), was published in June 1992. She has also sold a novella, "Against the Night," to Amazing Stories. Her third Star Trek novel, Windows on a Lost World, is scheduled for release in June 1993. Four more novels are currently making the rounds of the publishers and she is working on her dissertation for a Ph.D. in geology.
She is married to Jon Gustafson and is owned by a gigantic and excessively silly dog, Mica.
CAROL MONAHAN has been amazing local and national artists with her cute, cuddly, brainless little rats for over six weeks. She is also a costumer and Middle Eastern dancer, and is a model wife (just ask her lovely and talented husband, James Ernest).
ELIZABETH MOON lives in a one-blinker-light, two-feed-store Texas town with her husband and son and two old horses. She has degrees in history and biology, served in the military, did volunteer time as a rural paramedic and city council member. She writes both science fiction and fantasy, with occasional forays into nonfiction. Her most recent book was Liar's Oath (Baen, 1992) and her next will be Hunting Party, coming this summer from Baen.
MIKE MOSCOE started writing with the U.S. Government twenty-five years ago, initially answering congressional inquiries. Once he ghosted a letter for Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's signature. Shortly after that, Agnew resigned to avoid prosecution. Of course, Mike had nothing to do with that. After two decades of writing instructional memos and policies, he decided to get real and write science fiction. Mike has appeared in Analog and Aboriginal. Mike's story "Smart Weapons" will be in High Tech War coming next year from Baen Books, if the situation in the former Soviet Union will stand still long enough to get the manuscript finalized.
Mike is an experienced public speaker. Recently he was nominated for "The Best Stand-up Comedy Routine" at a MOSS Software Users Convention. Admittedly, the competition was thin, but it's the thought that counts.
TRACY VAUGHN MOORE is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in Figment, Modern Gold Miner, Midnight Zoo, and RubberStampMadness. When he's not writing or creating rubber stamp-art, he divides his time between his rubber art-stamp business, Rabid Rubber, his fire protection contracting company, Moore Fire Protection, and teaching creative writing at Renton Vocational Technical Institute.
After nine years of college and two masters degrees (English literature and theatre) BETSY MOTT decided she loved painting more than almost anything else in the world. For the past eight years her award-winning media portraits and fantasy paintings have been seen at cons in the Northwest and in fanzines and private collections throughout the world. A fourth generation native of Spokane, her hobbies include gaming, kayak/sailing, researching obscure topics, and playing trumpet in local pit orchestras and bands.
KAJA MURPHY wanted to be an illustrator and cartoonist, but she accidentally attended the University of Washington's "Fine Art" department, where she learned how to paint cinder blocks orange, put them in a public place, and not be embarrassed. This has prepared her for a fine career as a pearl diver, terrorist, or hermit. Not to be discouraged, Kaja is currently teaching herself the basics of cartooning, and is starting to make a name for herself in fanzines and comics. Look for her latest strip, The Adventures of Lars—The Orange Cinder Block With No Shame, in the art show.
JESPER MYRFORS was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and moved to the United States when he was two years old. He has long had an interest in fantasy and art. Currently, Jesper is finishing his degree in illustration at Cornish College of the Arts, doing freelance illustration and working full time as art director for Wizards of the Coast and the newly formed Garfield Games.
DAVID E. MYERS holds a Ph.D. in experimental psychology and has published in academic journals and The New York Review of Science Fiction. A graduate of Clarion West, he now helps administer this renowned writer's workshop. His fiction has appeared in Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock's, and Pulphouse. David lives in Seattle with his wife, Hali.
REBECCA V. NEASON is the author of numerous nonfiction articles and poems. In 1988, she was awarded a Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Literary Merit by the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. She is also a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop, and the founder of the Enumclaw Writers Group. As well as speaking at SF conventions, Rebecca also guest lectures on pre-Christian through Medieval British History, Middle English, and the development of English as a written language. Last year she worked with grade school children on developing the creative process.
Rebecca's first novel, Guises of the Mind, is a Star Trek: The Next Generation novel due to be released in September. She also has a two-part fantasy, The First Epiphany, under consideration and is currently working on a post-Arthurian fantasy.
JERRY OLTION has written mostly science fiction and an occasional fantasy for Analog, Pulphouse, Science Fiction Review, and various anthologies. His story, "The Love Song of Laura Morrison," won the Analog readers' choice award for best short story of 1987. His novels include Frame of Reference (Questar, 1987), and two books in the Isaac Asimov's Robot City series, Alliance and Humanity. Upcoming stories will appear in Analog, Pulphouse, and F&SF. He is also the originator of the Jerry Oltion Really Good Story Award.
Vocalist/multi-instrumentalist TANIA OPLAND performs a variety of international music. She sings in English, Gaelic, Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, Macedonian and Uzbek; and plays guitar, violin, dulcimer, and recorder. Her performances are woven together with stories about the music and the interesting places and people from whence they came. She has travelled around the British Isles, through Scandanavia, across Russia and into Central Asia, playing and collecting music. She's also spent time swapping tunes with musicians from some of the Northwest's many ethnic communities, adding Chinese, Turkish, Persian, and Greek influences to her already wide-based repertoire of traditional music.
Originally on a more technical path, Tania has now nearly finished paying off loans for five years of study in aeronautical engineering and physics.
KENT PATTERSON has sold fiction to Analog, Amazing, F&SF, Pulphouse, and Sci-Fi Channel, and nonfiction to more places than he can remember. The advantage of fiction is that your characters don't threaten to sue you if you misquote them.
He is a regular at the Pulphouse Gang writer's workshop, which is a great source of friendship, advice, and struggling writer's mutual aid and protection.
Lately Kent has become uneasily aware that he may be the only pro on the West Coast who does not have a cat. However, he knows where he can borrow one if it becomes obligatory for the continuance of his career.
JOHN PELAN is the editor for Silver Salamander Press; a new small press that debuted in February with the publication of I, Said the Fly by Michael Shea. John was the founder of Axolotl Press, (now an imprint of Pulphouse), which produced the first hardcovers of authors such as Tim Powers, James Blaylock, Charles de Lint, and Michael Shea. John resides in Seattle with his wife, son, three cats, and numerous fish.
NICHOLAS POLLOTTA is a former stand-up comic from Manhattan. His humorous SF short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and his novels include Illegal Aliens (SF/humor with Phil Foglio), the fantasy/adventure series of Bureau 13, Doomsday Exam, and Full Monsters. His new SF/humor novel Satellite Night Live (published under the name Jack Hopkins), will be followed by Satellite Night Special (June, 1993), and Satellite Night Fever (October, 1993).
As Telynor, JOHN AND ANNA PEEKSTOK have been performing folk, traditional, and early music from the British Isles, France, and beyond since 1984. They have recorded three albums, Telynor (1987), Telynor 2 (1990), and Off the Beaten Track (1992); and authored The Telynor Songbook (1991), which contains lyrics and scores for all of the disparate music recorded on their first two albums.
Portland, Oregon resident ANTHONY PRYOR has been working professionally in the gaming industry since 1986. His published works include Technical Readout: 3025, Wolf's Dragoons Resource, More Tales of the Black Widow, Battle for Twycross, and Solaris VII: The Game World (for Battletech, published by FASA, Inc.); Tales of Lankhmar, Dune Trader, Patriots of Ulek and Rary the Traitor (for Dungeons and Dragons, TSR, Inc.) He also has an unpublished novel, which he would love to sell (hint, hint—Free Plug City—oh, God—he's shameless!)
BILL RANSOM volunteers in Central America as a medic and firefighter. His journalism, novels, and short fiction reflect this experience. He is the co-author of The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect, and The Ascension Factor with Frank Herbert. His is also the author of Jaguar, published by Ace Books.
He is currently finishing Special Forces for Ace and working on a screenplay, ''Daughters of Salvador".
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MICHAEL REAVES is the author of many novels including Dragonworld, The Shattered World and its sequel, The Burning Realm. He has also written Dome and The Omega Cage with Steve Perry. He has had short stories published in F&SF, Twilight Zone, and Universe, among others. He has written several comic books and over two hundred teleplays for such live-action shows as Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Power, and Monsters. His animation work includes The Real Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Superman, and Batman: The Animated Series. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Brynne Stephens, and their daughter Mallory.
RHEA ROSE lives in Coquitlam, B.C. Her short stories have appeared in Tesseracts, Tesseracts 2, and On Spec. Her work has been nominated for a Casper Award (Canada) and her short story "Duty Free" made preliminary nominations for a Nebula. She has a short story forthcoming. Rhea also writes poetry, speculative and mainstream. Her poetry has appeared in The Mythic Circle and The Olympic View Writers' anthology. She spent 1992 becoming a certified teacher and now works as such to support her writing habit. She is a member of The Science Fiction Writers of Canada and The Lonely Cry—a small group of authors organized to present their work in "theatrical" readings to anyone who will listen.
TOIVO ROVAINEN sewed, fought, and cartooned in the midwest SCA during his formative years. He has since found that he can make more money as a con artist (and occasional Dragon cartoonist). He edits the Comics Fandom Examiner (CF/X, published by Mu Press), a magazine devoted to news and reviews of small press comics. He also contributes art to various fanzines, and plans to open Seattle's first cat stretching center.
A.L.H. ROBKIN is a middle-aged, dumpy lady who was supposed to be a tall, gorgeous redhead, with a terrific figure, and eternally 25 years old. Of course, all she has to do to be revealed is to step into the nearest TARDIS. Oh, well. She has a Ph.D. in drama arts and is involved in The Olympic View Writers' Conference®. Two of her children write science fiction. She writes poetry, scholarly articles, and newsletters for several organizations.
STUART ROYAN (Stu! or sometimes the mysterious Kent Allard) is the producer of Canada's only "true" science fiction and fantasy radio show, The Ether Patrol. Stu has worked at eight radio stations all over B.C. including stints with award-winning CBC radio producer John Juliani and the legendary Jack Cullen. He has produced more than 80 radio dramas, interviewed countless writers and personalities, and writes and hosts a monthly column on what's on T.V. and radio in SF. Stu claims he has the strange and hypnotic ability to cloud his own mind at will. He often performs this feat to prove that he is indeed the nephew of "The Shadow."
Born in a far, far away land known as New York in a region called the Bronx, LEONARDO D. RUFO began making models from kits at a very early age. Bored with the mundane simplicity of pre-made kits, he began experimenting with kit-conversion and scratch building. As a young adult, Leonardo traveled across the continent and settled in a hamlet known as Eugene where he attended the University of Oregon. After receiving a degree in architecture, he heeded his true calling and immediately returned to model building, and was soon hired to work on a movie called The Adventures of the Space Beavers. Searching for a way to share his creations, Leonardo discovered the convention circuit and began exhibiting at Norwescon 14. He has since won numerous awards including Best of Show at Dreamcon 7. Leonardo continues to create models and miniatures for the movie industry and exhibit them in the art shows at cons.
SHARON RUSSELL teaches film and popular culture at Indiana State University. She is the head of the Detective and Mystery Fiction area of the Popular Culture Association and chair of D'97 for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Art's celebration of the publication of Dracula. She has published many articles on popular fiction and is currently contributor to and editor of Animals in Mystery which will be published by Popular Press.
Trained in graphic design and illustration, CHRISTOPHER RUSH enjoys logo design and illustration for fantasy gaming. Works published include illustrations for Pawns: The Opening Move and the forthcoming The Compleat Alchemist (both published by Wizards of the Coast). He has also illustrated a short-lived graphic story about a vampire living in Seattle, which was written by his wife, Lana. They both share a passion for vampires, legends, and heroic romance (in the true sense of the word).
RICHARD PAUL RUSSO has had close to two dozen stories published in most of the major SF magazines, and three novels: Inner Eclipse (Tor, 1988), Subterranean Gallery (Tor, 1989), and Destroying Angel (Ace, 1992). Subterranean Gallery was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in England, and received the Philip K. Dick Award in 1990.
BEVERLY MARSHALL SALING is the executive editor at Wizards of the Coast. She has edited all of WotC's books, including The Primal Order, Pawns: The Opening Move, The Compleat Alchemist, and several books for the Talislanta game system. She also edited A Winter's Tale (1991) for White Wolf. When her blue pencil runs out, she relaxes with her husband, Rick, and their infamous cats, Morgana and Shakti, or haunts computer bulletin boards as Persistence.
ELIZABETH ANN SCARBOROUGH has written thirteen and a half novels, the half being her half of Powers That Be, the other half of which was written with Anne McCaffrey. While she and Anne wrote the novel, Elizabeth spent four months at Dragonhold-Underhill. Elizabeth is returning to Ireland to do the second book in the series, a totally new world for both authors set on an arctic planet which possesses something its corporate creators didn't plan on—an attitude. Elizabeth's most recent solo works include The Songkiller trilogy and a duet set in Tibet (rhyme intentional), Nothing Sacred and Last Refuge. Her 1989 novel, Healer's War, won the Nebula for novel of that year. Elizabeth is currently finishing The Godmother, in which a fairy godmother answers the wish of a Seattle social worker. She lives Port Townsend with three cats, Peaches, Mustard, and Popsicle, who will once more be attended by Neva Reece, to whom Powers That Be is dedicated, while Elizabeth is in Ireland. Powers That Be is a July 1993 Del Rel hardback.
RICHARD SCOTT has been working to get into the professional artist community for some years (21 at last count). He currently has been working for Science Fiction Review as a staff illustrator, and doing freelance work as well.
CAROL SEVERANCE is a Hawaii-based writer with a special interest in Pacific Island peoples and their environments. Carol is the author of Reefsong (Del Rey, 1991), a science fiction novel which received the 1992 Compton Crook Award for best first novel. She is also responsible for Demon Drums (Del Rey Discovery, 1992), the first book of the Island Warrior fantasy trilogy. Books two and three, Storm Caller and Sorcerous Sea, will be published by Del Rey in May and November 1993 respectively. Carol is a 1984 Clarion West graduate. She shares her Hilo home with a scholarly fisherman, a surfer and an undetermined number of geckos.
ROBERT SHECKLEY is best known for his SF short stories in collections such as Untouched by Human Hands and The Robot Who Looked Like Me. His novels include Journey Beyond Tommorow, Crompton Divided, and Dramocles.
SHERIDAN SIMON was born on April 20, 1947, and was for a short time thereafter the youngest person in the world. He received a Ph.D. in physics and astronomy from the University of Rochester, and is Professor of Physics at Guilford College. He has been published in places ranging from Astrophysical Journal to Astronomy, from Omni to Asimov's. He is the author of a biography of Stephen Hawking. His most unusual habit is designing planets for SF authors.
SHARON SINCLAIR is an historian whose research has ranged from the sacred snake of Asclepius to NASA's space medicine program. She coordinates The Olympic View Writers' Conference® and co-edited the TOV '91 Anthology (The Olympic View Writers' Conference®, 1991) with A.L.H. Robkin. Sharon collects hats and grows enough Nepeta to share with the neighborhood cats.
THOMAS W. SINE, JR. holds a Ph.D. in American history, minoring in the study of the future. He has been an instructor in social and behavioral science at Seattle Pacific University, intructor in future studies and ethical dilemmas at the U.W., Director of the Washington 2000 Demonstration Project, coordinator of Wheaton '83: A Christian Response to Human Need, and is currently a consultant with Mustard Seed Associates.
LISA SMEDMAN is the editor of Sounder Magazine, a monthly general interest community magazine. She has also worked as a journalist and columnist for a number of community newspapers. Her fiction has appeared in the anthology Civilization, as well as in Fictions, the magazine of the B.C. Science Fiction Association writer's workshop.
Lisa is also a game designer for TSR Inc., creators of Dungeons and Dragons. Her mini-module, The School of Nekros, appeared in Dungeon Magazine #27. She is co-designer of Dragon's Crown, a megamodule set in that world, that will be published in May as part of the module The Ivory Triangle. She is the designer of Castles Forlorn, a game set in the Ravenloft world and due for release in September. She has also written articles for Dragon Magazine.
Lisa also (under the name "Smedwoman") is an active member of the committee which puts on V-Con, Vancouver's annual science fiction convention. She chaired V-Con in 1990.
DAVE SMEDS is the author of The Sorcery Within, and its sequel, The Schemes of Dragons (both published by Ace Books). Works featuring his short fiction include In the Field of Fire, Full Spectrum 4, Far Frontiers 6, Dragons of Light, Sword & Sorceress 4, 5, 8 & 9, Asimov's, F&SF, Science Fiction Review, Ghosttide, Inside Karate, Penthouse Forum, Hot Talk, Genesis, Lui, Mayfair, Tales of the Unanticipated, Pulphouse, and Club. He was also the English-language rewriter of Justy, a Japanese "magna" SF mini-series released in the U.S. by VIZ Comics.
C.A.P. SMITH is an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Montana. Professor Smith has an engineering degree from M.I.T., and received his doctorate from the University of Arizona. Before starting his academic career, he worked for several years in the defense industry. His research interests are focused on the improvement of decision-making under time pressure; he has published serveral scholarly articles on this subject.
DEAN WESLEY SMITH is a writer, editor, and publisher. He has over 50 short stories published in professional markets such as F&SF, Amazing, Night Cry, The Horror Show, and Obscessions. His first novel made it to the final ballot of the Stoker Award. As an editor, he has twice been on the Hugo ballot, first for his editing with Kristine Kathryn Rusch of the SFWA Handbook and last year for his editing of Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine. He is also the publisher of Pulphouse and Axolotl Press. He lives with Kristine Kathryn Rusch, the editor of F&SF, in a house in the Oregon coastal mountain range. They have ten cats.
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LITA R. SMITH-GHARET has been busy this last year working in the film industry on such movies as The Temp, Sam & Ed, Demolition Man, and assisted Visual Concepts, a special effects company.
Lita has also designed costumes and make-up for a Sid Mead computer game, Cyber Race, and for a variety of theatres in Michigan, California, and Oregon. She is currently bidding to supply leather costumes, stone jewelry, skull altars and staffs on several film projects.
BRIAN SNODDY has been working as a professional artist for the past seven years. Graduating from the Art Institute of Seattle in 1985, he starved for almost a year before being hired as head production artist at Egghead Software. In the past year, he has worked with Rick Hoberg as art assistant on four Batman coloring and story books. He is currently working with Mike Grell as art assistant on the Swamp Angel saga. Brian's fulltime job at Egghead helps to support his rather expensive Samurai armour habit.
SARA STAMEY, a fourth-generation Pacific Northwesterner, is the author of the SF series from Ace Books: Wild Card Run; Win, Lose, Draw; and Double Blind. She has recently finished a near-future novel set in the Greek islands, and a Pacific Northwest post-apocalyptic novel. A former nuclear reactor operations technican, and a scuba instructor in the Carribbean, Mediterranean, and Honduras, she now teaches occasional writing courses at WWU.
Following M.B.A. coursework at the University of Washington, DR. JERRY T. STANDAL completed a Ph.D. in business administration in 1974. In 1976, he studied international economics and international relations at Stanford University. He holds an M.A. in communications from the University of Washington and a B.A. in radio-television speech from Washington State University. He has been faculty and adjunct faculty in the Albers School and Graduate School of Business at Seattle University and adjunct faculty in the School of Business Administration, University of Washington. Co-author with Dr. Richard C. Harkness of several articles on telecommunications and transportation, he also published or presented materials on human resources and strategy.
D.T. STEINER lives in Springfield, Oregon with her writing partner, Lynn Adams, three cats and a weird dog. Hobbies include collecting books, badgers, bats and castles (of the last three, so far no real ones), gaming, and other things best left unmentioned.
She's had short fiction published in Strained Relations, Pulphouse Report, and The Lavender Network.
BRYNNE STEPHENS is best known for her work in television, having written for shows such as He-Man, Dungeons and Dragons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the new Beany and Cecil. She was the story editor on the animated science fiction series Starcom, and coeditor, with Diane Duane, of Dinosaucers. She has also written comic books, computer games, and novels. She lives quite happily, thank you, in Southern California with her husband, Michael Reaves, and their daughter Mallory.
LISA STEVENS is a well-known game industry personality who began gaming in 1981. She was the vice president of Lion Rampant, a gaming company started in 1986 by fellow college gamers, Mark Rein-Hagen and Jonathan Tweet, where she edited every project and was a developer for the Ars Magica game system. In 1990, Lisa was instrumental in the merger between Lion Rampant and White Wolf Publishing, becoming the vice president of White Wolf and the assistant editor of White Wolf Magazine. Lisa was one of the authors of the Vampire role-playing game, authored adventures for Citybook IV: On the Road for Flying Buffalo, and has had articles and short stories published in White Wolf, Polyhedron, and the anthology Dragons Over England.
Lisa is currently the Vice President of Operations at Wizards of the Coast in Seattle. She also runs the Sales, Marketing, and Production Departments.
PATRICK J. SWENSON has had work appear in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Figment, Midnight Zoo, and Northwest Writers. He also has a music review column in Figment. He is a graduate of Clarion West, a member of the Pacific Northwest Writer's Conference, and belongs to the Fairwood Writers Group in Kent. His first novel is making the rounds with editors, and he's currently working on a mainstream/ghost/slice-of-life/environmental/nonfiction/fiction/what-have-you novel about the Olympic Peninsula and the rain forest, where he currently lives and works.
DAVID TACKETT was bitten by the costume bug while playing King Herod's Guard in a first grade Christmas play. He played with theatrical and Halloween costumes, toy gadgets, and scale models, finally moving to con masquerades where he has won a couple of nice awards. His dreams of going pro and being famous (infamous?) will be realized only when he can eat well enough to put on weight, and when he is caught in bed with Brooke Shields, Judy Tenuta, and Hilary Clinton, simultaneously. Meanwhile he searches for slack in his life and tries to use bike parts in all his projects. Look closely . . .
As for "talent" he feels the only thing setting him apart is that, like a writer, a costumer doesn't talk about it, he just does it. If you stop him in the halls and feed him, he will perform pet tricks as well as discuss costuming (of course). He will also relate the joys of masquerade run-thrus. (No really, they're a total hoot...) Always take him very seriously.
MARK TAKACS, a CSE refugee from the Midwest, moved to Seattle to pursue an M.S. at the U.W.'s Human Interface Technology Lab. Currently in his second year, Mark procrastinates on his thesis ("A God's Eye View") by exploring the Internet, programming Muds, and doing the Seattle club scene.
JANET TANAKA is best known in the Pacific Northwest for her work on Mt. Rainier mudflow hazards and her 1980 novel, Fire Mountain (Zebra Books). An associate editor of Volcano News, she now edits and publishes VN’s successor, Volcano Quarterly, in addition to being a volcanic and seismic hazards consultant in private practice. Janet has also published articles and papers on science and religion, personal spirituality, weightism, and domestic violence. She lives in Issaquah with engineer husband, Mike.
BRUCE TAYLOR has had stories published in New Dimensions 9 and 10 edited by Robert Silverberg, and was a featured reader in the 1981 Bumbershoot festival in Seattle. His story "Popcorn," published in Pulphouse (Fall edition, 1988), was nominated for the Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards. His stories have appeared in many publications including On Spec, Twilight Zone, Magic Realism, and Pulphouse. He has served as Vice President of the Seattle Chapter of the National Writers Club and as Chairperson for the Sharon Baker Memorial Award for the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. When not writing, Bruce pays the mortgage by working on the locked, inpatient psychiatric unit at Harborview Hospital as a therapist, hypnotherapist, and all around Tour Guide Through Existential Nightmares, where he has given up trying to tell the difference between patients and government officials.
AMY THOMSON is a fan, critic, and writer of science fiction and fantasy. She was a critic of short fiction for Locus magazine for two years, and has reviewed science fiction and fantasy for the Seattle Times. She has also been involved in several apas and is currently the official editor of BWA, an international women's apa. Her first book, Virtual Girl, a novel about robots, artificial intelligence, and homelessness, will be published in July by Ace Books. She is currently working on her second novel, which is set in an alien rainforest.
SUZANNE TOMPKINS attended her first con in 1967. Since then she has coedited several fanzines, including two with Jerry Kaufman, The Spanish Inquistition and Mainstream, both of which were nominated for a Hugo. During college in Pittsburg, Suzanne helped found the local SF club and began helping organize and run conventions; in the '70s and '80s, worked on many regionals/ Worldcons on both coasts; and most recently served as hotel liaison for local cons such as the 1989 World Fantasy Con, '88 Corflu, and '92 Potlatch. In real life, Suzanne is office manager for a computer consulting firm and a professional meeting/conference planner.
ELISABETH VONARBURG is the author of In the Mothers' Land (Bantam Spectra), a finalist for the 1992 Philip K. Dick Award. The P.K. Dick Award is given to the best SF paperback original of the previous year. The award is sponsored in jointly with the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and presented at Norwescon each year.
RAY VUKCEVICH is a writer, computer science teacher, research programmer, and graduate student in linguistics in Oregon. He has sold fiction to Aboriginal, Asimov's, F&SF, Pulphouse, and others.
T. BRIAN WAGNER is a performance artist most noted for his portrayal of Udo in the Desert Peach Pitt skits. He is also the co-writer and stage director of The Desert Peach musical which premiered last November at the Fremont Palace.
He is the designer of the live role playing games Conflict and Prisoner. He is the screenwriter of The Wolfe Project and the Doctor Who pastiche Broken Doors (both produced by Ryan K. Johnson).
BRYCE WALDEN has had a lifelong interest in hard science and science fiction. He has chaired a couple of SF conventions and helped with the development of Oregon Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. (OSFCI). He is a founder and officer of the Oregon L-5 Society, and an active researcher with the "Oregon Moonbase," an embryonic research facility including some caves near Bend, Oregon. Fie has authored and co-authored several papers on the use of lunar lava tube caverns for base siting, and been a consultant for Rockwell and NASA.
WILLIAM R. WARREN, JR. is an artist whose work has appeared in the Star Trek Concordance, Minus Ten and Counting, and L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future. He is currently one of the most-published illustrators in Analog and is producing illustrations for TSR's new full-color Amazing Stories. He works for Boeing Motion Picture and Television where, as an art director, he produces computer animation, miniatures and a variety of display and presentation graphics.
ELISABETH WATERS' short stories have appeared in The Keeper's Price, Greyhaven, Magic in Ithkar, Free Amazons of Darkover, Sword and Sorceress III, Red Sun of Darkover, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Four Moons of Darkover, Things That Go Bump in the Night, Domains of Darkover, Sword and Sorceress VI, and Tales of Witch World IV. She was a Grvphon Award winner in 1989.
BURT WEBB has appeared on radio, television, and in print on such topics as biology, cosmology, psychology, microcomputers, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and virtual reality. He starred in the SF short film, Eat the Sun, and contributed computer graphics to The Search for Spock. His science column "On the Future" appeared in Science Fiction Review. His professional work is focused on hypermedia and artificial intelligence. He is working on two SF novels and collaborating on SF and fantasy scripts.
MARY K. WHITTINGTON (alias The Grammar Witch) lives in Kirkland and is the author of Carmina, Come Dance! (1989), Troll Games (1991), and Winter's Child (1992) (all published by Atheneum), The Patchwork Lady (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991), and stories in the HarperCollins anthologies (edited by Jane Yolen and Martin Greenberg): Werewolves (1988); Things That Go Bump in the Night (1989); and Vampires (1991). She also teaches creative writing at Lake Washington Technical College.
DUANE WILKINS is a native-born Seattlite who discovered Robert Heinlein and science fiction in second grade. Hooked ever since, he has been a SF bookseller for the past five years at the University Book Store where he orders most of the SF, controls the displays and inventory, sets up autograph sessions, readings, and other SF events.
RAY WILLIAMS is an artist, illustrator, and game designer. He has done illustrations for Dragon, Sorcerer's Apprentice, Other Worlds, and Fantasybook magazines, and has been showing his art at SF cons throughout the U.S. since 1980. His artwork has won awards including Best of Show, People's Choice and, at last year's Norwescon, Best Fantasy. He served as art director, gallery manager, T-shirt designer, and slave artist at Prism Printing and Design in Longview for the past year. He has recently left that position to pursue the vocation of starving artist, game designer and village idiot once more.
DAMEON WILLICH founded The Fantasy Alternative and co-founded the Northern Lights Artists Group. His cover art has appeared on Warner, Pioneer, DAW books and D.C. comic books. He worked on the comic series Avatar, James Bond and The Return of the Warlord. His paintings and drawings have taken multiple Best of Show, Best Fantasy, Best SF, Best Color, and Best Black and White awards at conventions.
DAVE WOLVERTON is the author of On My Way to Paradise (1989), Serpent Catch (1991), and Path of the Hero (April, 1993) and the upcoming Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia (May, 1994), all published by Bantam.
Dave has had short fiction published in magazines such as Asimov's and Tomorrow, and in numerous anthologies.
In addition, Dave was recently made the Coordinating Judge for the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest where, among other things, he edits the annual Writers of the Future anthology and teaches writing workshops.
LISA WOODINGS is a graduate student in enviromental engineering. She has worked for an environmental management company where she collected environmental samples at hazardous waste sites, oversaw sampling as an EPA subconsultant at Superfund sites, and managed the documents relating to a dioxin clean-up. She also taught physics and physical science at a private high school. In her theoretical spare time she enjoys hiking, skiing, historical recreation and costuming, and studying the history of religion.
RICHARD WRIGHT is a product manager for a nearby large aerospace firm, has written numerous technical articles and manuals, and has co-authored two college textbooks. In his spare (?) time he chairs Science Fiction Northwest, the Northwest Science Fiction Society, and the 1993 Westercon. He is also the Norwescon Program Director, a well-known panelist, a costumer, masquerade judge and MC, and a dedicated party thrower.
Illustration © 1993 by Frank Kelly Freas
ROBIN WRIGHT pursues basic biological research concerning cell structure, particularly in relation to cholesterol biosynthesis. Robin is an assistant professor in the Zoology Department at the University of Washington and has a B.S. from the University of Georgia, a Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University, and has done post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
BEN YALOW will be attending his 400th convention in the next year or so. He passed the mark of working on 100 cons a few years ago. He has chaired a number of regional cons, and was one of the founders of SMOFcon (the international convention about running conventions). He's worked as divisional level staff for five Worldcons, and been on Chairman's staff twice. He's a member of NESFA (Boston), Fanoclasts (NY), FACT (Texas), SCIF1 (LA), and OSFCI (Portland). He travels too much.
DR. RICHARD C. HARKNESS has a B.S.E.E. from Duke University and a Ph.D. in urban systems planning from the University of Washington. He has held various planning and management positions with Boeing, Satellite Business Systems (IBM), Compression Labs, and Stanford Reasearch Institute. His main interests are stragic planning in the telecommunications and computing fields, where he has specialized in teleconferencing and telecommuting.
DRAGON is a local boy made good in the film industry. He was the lead model artist on Dreamer of Oz, sword master for Highlander II, and has also worked on Total Recall, Mr. Destiny, The Doors, The Addams Family Movie, and Deadlock. He is the designer of the sword which appears on the House of Lords album cover.
Dragon currently lives in L.A.
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[Artwork] Death From the Depths © 1993 by Janny Wurts. Previously unpublished.
[Artwork] The Nine Lives of Catseye Gomez © 1993 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Simon Hawke, published by Questar Books.
[Artwork] The Door to Ambermere © 1993 by Richard Hescox. Cover for the book by J. Calvin Pierce, published by Ace Books.
[Artwork] Copyright © 1993 by Armand Cabrera.
[Artwork] Heavy Time © 1993 by Don Maitz. Cover for the book by C.J. Cherryh, published by Warner Books.
[Artwork] The Maji ©1993 by Ilene Meyer.
[Artwork] Insomniac © 1993 by Rob Alexander. Originally published by Amazing Stories.
[Artwork] Copyright © 1993 by Barclay Shaw.
[Artwork] Berserker Lies © 1993 by Alan Gutierrez. Cover for the book by Fred Saberhagen.
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Jamie Woodward
Meeting your needs with the largest selection of games and gaming supplies, paints and tools, miniatures and models, comics and magazines, swords and knives, and scenic supplies. We also give a discount for mail order shopping; please write us for more information.
Boar's Tusk
1420 NW Gilman #2309
Issaquah, WA 98027
[redacted]
Bob Powell
Come see our table of fine arts and armor. Custom orders taken. Featuring Mike "Tinker" Pearce, our new knifemaker. Compare our price with our competition and come dicker. We enjoy it!
The Carriage Trade
c/o 1824-24th E.
Seattle, WA 98112
[redacted]
John P. Toutonghi
Dealing mainly in out-of-print, collectible, hardback first editions in science fiction, dark fantasy or horror. Many small press limited editions. We also feature original watercolors, acrylics and oils by Northwest artist Zak Pasco.
Charae Crystals
7116 Stinson Avenue #212
Gig Harbor, WA 98332
[redacted]
Charlotte Davis
Gorgeous crystals, in hundreds of shapes and stones, of fine quality, at low prices. Chip necklaces and pink ice rings, earrings and pendants. Hanging "rainbow catchers" for your car or home. Pick your own personal crystal to enhance your life with positive energy.
Chimera Publishing
719 Arena Drive
Hamilton, NJ 08610
[redacted]
Norman Hood
We carry prints from over 300 different artists, mainly in science fiction and fantasy. If we do not have an available item in stock, we can order it.
Conquest Colours
608 Catskill
Richland, WA 99353
Craig Nilsen
Creative Fantasy Jewelry and Costumes
17910 Olympic View Drive
Edmonds, WA 98026
[redacted]
BJ
Create a unique look from BJ's custom- designed selection of jewelry, costumes, and accessories, for a look that's out of this world.
Crystal Abbey
P.O. Box 293
Molalla, OR 97038
[redacted]
Aurin Haber
Crystal Abbey has stones, crystals, incense and lots of that fun, transformative New Age stuff. We carry our own line of dynamic handcrafted jewelry, made of natural gem stones, sterling silver, 14K gold and gold-filled metals.
db Studios
1006 SW Henderson
Seattle, WA 98106
Denis Berghum
Designs by Sera
5650 Yelm Hwy. SE #37
Olympia, WA 98503
Sera Hartman
Dick Wald
7744 SW 49th
Portland, OR 97219
Dick Wald
Donna Barr
1318 N. Montgomery
Bremerton, WA 98312
Donna Barr
Carrying all issues of The Desert Peach, Stinz, including collections, or any that have not been sold out. Original art available at the table, as well as sketches done on order.
The Dragon Works
3710 Walnut Avenue SW
Seattle, WA 98116
L.J. Kuhns
Dragonsfyre
14346 Wayne Place N.
Seattle, Wa 98133
[redacted]
Patricia McMahon
Unique costume accessories to please both science fiction and fantasy fans. Costume jewelry, decorated hairpins and hatpins, headbands, earcuffs, and earring cuffs (ear bondage). Remember, you are only limited by the imagination. All items are reasonably priced. Member of the Imaginators.
Escape Books
488 Willamette Street
Eugene, OR 97410
[redacted]
Bill Trojan
We have a full line of new science fiction, fantasy and horror hardcovers, paperbacks, magazines and role playing games. Come visit our extensive mystery section, especially if you're fond of private eye novels. We also carry used and collectable SF paperback and pulp magazines.
Everett Comics and Cards
2936 Colby Avenue
Everett, WA 98210
Charlie
Express Yourself
PO Box 82383
Portland, OR 97212
Sam Butler
Games and Gizmos
211 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
Terrace Jerome
Games Plus
17612 140th Avenue NE
Woodinville, WA 98072
[redacted]
Don Forbis
Specializing in games and comics, Games Plus also carries entertainment for the whole family. Come look at our selection of darts, puzzles, computer games, pewter and lead miniatures, and our large selection of used games.
Gamesters Lair
4046 SW 337th Street
Federal Way, WA 98023
[redacted]
Leif Brandon
Why not have the convenience of shopping at home without paying high prices? With Gamesters Lair as your full-line science fiction supplier, you can easily collect the latest (as well as that old hard-to-find item) from Dr. Who, Star Wars, Thunderbirds, Godzilla, The Prisoner, and of course Star Trek! We carry everything in books, fanzines, toys, models, music, props, and much, much more.
Genteel Steel
7680 SW Escalon Place
Beaverton, OR 97005
Cordite
Gnomenclature Collectibles
4527 NE 32nd Place
Portland, OR 97211
Jon Fraguadas
Hypatia Press
360 W. First
Eugene, OR 97401
Alan Newcomer
Head and Body Shoppe
7020 21st Drive NE
Marysville, WA 98271
[redacted]
Margie Goforth
Is your costume lacking that final accessory to make it perfect? Check the Head and Body Shoppe, and remember, ideas are free! Any idea worth having is worth sharing. Member of the Imaginators.
Isle of Pegacorn
55 Rainier Garden Road
Aberdeen, WA 98520
Laura Cook
James A. Dunithan
W 1701 Ford Loop Rd
Elma, WA 98541
James Dunithan
John Beau Bond
9032 10th Avenue SW
Seattle, WA 98106
John Beau Bond
Lady Jayne's Comics and Books
5969 6th Ave
Tacoma, WA 98406
[redacted]
Jane Larsen
Your fantasy and science fiction story in Tacoma. We carry a full line of fantasy and science fiction books, magazines, and adventure games, along with comics and other related merchandise. We welcome book searches and special requests. Visit our new store at Freighthouse Square.
The Magickal Aardvark, Ltd.
21632 High Rock Road
Monroe, WA 98272
[redacted]
Ardis Jakubaitis
Dragons! Hatching in 1993—Dragonus Magnificus—a winged dragon that can be fully posed to ride on your shoulder! Also available are bugbears, hatchlings, and other soft sculpture beasties, fantasy cloaks, crystal pendants, treasure pouches and more.
McGeeney's Books
1315 S. Mason
Tacoma, WA 98405
Bob McGeeney
McNamara's Green
PO Box 51188
Seattle, WA 98115
[redacted]
Katherine Moore
Specializing in Celtic jewelry, gifts, cards, decals, stickers and books. We have a wide assortment of Celtic, Arthurian and spiritual books.
Marian Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine
P.O. Box 249
Berkeley, CA 94701
Rachel Holmen
Mineral Magica
9706 120th Street E.
Puyallup, WA 98373
[redacted]
Jessica McLachlan
Mineral Magicka offers the finest in stone bookends, pewter figurines on amethyst, and pewter boxes. We carry seasonal exotic air plants attached to stones, as well as windstone statues. Stop by and enjoy our unique selections.
Necessary Accessories
PO Box 0088
Olalla, WA 98359-0088
Thomas Day
O'Leary's Books
3828 100th Street SW
Tacoma, WA 98499
Ron Trimble
Orion Unlimited
14920-113th Avenue Court E
Puyallup, WA 98374
[redacted]
Joann Gorshkoff
Otherworld Unltd.
PO Box 852
Roseburg, OR 97470
Don Dunlap
The finest drinking horns in the known universe. We also carry a fine selection of working crystal wands and incense.
Palliard Press West
9511 7th Avenue NW
Seattle, WA 98117
Phil Foglio
Paschelke & Stuart, Collectors
10571 SE Hillcrest Drive
Portland, OR 97266
Larry Paschelke
Pegleg Gifts and Crafts
11724-120th Avenue E.
Puyallup, WA 98374
Judy Sallee
Planets by Design
5723-A Bramblegate Drive
Greensboro, NC 27409
[redacted]
Sheridan Simon
I have been designing planets for SF authors since 1981. As a professional astrophysicist I offer you a unique combination of imagination and science. High resolution color graphics now available in sizes from 5x7 to 10x14, glossy or matte finish, framed or unframed.
Quicksilver Fantasies
W 1400 Ironhorse Drive #11
Post Falls, ID 83854
Pat Apodaca
Rabid Rubber
18603 SE May Valley Rd.
Issaquah, WA 98027
Jim Flagg
Rabid Rubber has a unique selection of unusual rubber art stamps. Daily demonstrations in stamp art techniques. Please stop by and see us.
Rhonda Gheen Sculptures
P.O. Box 946
Joseph, OR 97846-0946
Rhonda Gheen
Richard Hescox Illustration
1381 N. Dominion Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91104
Richard Hescox
Seattle Book Center
1832 N. 52nd Street
Seattle, WA 98103 Bob Brown
Second Genesis
4015 SE 56th
Portland, OR 97206
Richard Finn
Shersan the Buttonmaker
52311-127th Avenue E.
Eatonville, WA 98328
Sherry Anne Sanfilippo
Shersan, one of the Imaginators, will again be offering her buttons and custom button-making service. She will also have earwraps, necklaces and Beauty and the Beast fanzines.
Continued on page 99
[artwork] Shuttle Run © 1993 by Jauny Wurts. Originally published by the Science Fiction Book Club as an ad for Greg Bear's Eon.
Members of Norwescon 16 as of February 28,1993
[Member list redacted]
[redacted]
JOY LEE BARNHART
ATTORNEY AT LAW
SUITE 707, BROADACRES BLDG.
1601 SECOND AVENUE
SEATTLE, WA 98101-1591
[artwork] Fire Lord © 1993 by Richard Hescox. Cover for the book by Cheryl J. Franklin, published by DAW Books.
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[artwork] Copyright © by Margaret Organ-Kean
Continued from page 94
Simpson Nelson
W 6261 Shelton-Matlock Road
Shelton, WA 98584
Brenda Simpson Nelson
Stainless Steel Dragon
2950 Northlake Way, #21
Bremerton, WA 98312
John Volden
Starlance Publications
50 Basin Drive
Mesa, WA 99343
[redacted]
James King
Enjoy good humor? Science fiction and fantasy art? Come to our table and look at our fantasy cartoon books and other great books. Gamers, don't miss our gaming books and discounted gaming periodicals!
Steel Craft
PO Box 5264
Lynnwood, WA 98046
[redacted]
Ginger & Harry
We have many new items for 1993. Some became available so recently they do not appear in our catalog. If you don't see an item you want, please ask us. Between cons you can see our weapons at Drango's Lair in Everett [redacted] and New & Used Medieval Surplus in Puyallup [redacted].
Steelwolf Armourie
1980 Bennett Creek Road
Cottage Grove, OR 97424
[redacted]
Steelwolf
Fine handcrafted knives and swords. Time-travelling intergalactic arms merchant. You draw it, we can build it (subject to local regulations and the laws of physics).
Sterling Spectrum
PO Box 387
Stayton, OR 97383
[redacted]
Mary Ann Koch
Sterling silver and 14k custom jewelry, crystals, stones, stone beads, Native American art, natural components for costumes, animals claws, teeth, shells and fun stuff.
Terra Nova Trading Co.
1350 Chambers
Eugene, OR 98402
Leslie Newcomer
Thoughts and Images
PO Box 19419
Seattle, WA 98109
Steve Gallacci
Wizards of the Coast
PO Box 707
Renton, WA 98057
Peter Adkison
Wrigley-Cross Books
8001 S. Powell Boulevard
(82nd and Powell)
Portland, OR 97206
[redacted]
Debbie Cross
Wrigley-Cross Books carries a wide variety of general used stock. We also feature collectibles in science fiction, mystery and horror. We specialize in new books in SF, mystery and horror small press, limited editions, and British imports.
Yarf! PO Box 1299
Cupertino, CA 95015
Jeff Ferris
Ace Books: 19
Baen Books: 5, 7, 11
Joy Lee Barnhart, Attorney: 96
Capitol City Press: Inside Back Cover
Del Rey Books: 23
Expanse Magazine: 25
GDW: 92
The Game Place: 97
S.H.I.F.T.: 98
Tor Books: 15
Westercon: Inside Front Cover
What? Shop: 21
Wizards of the Coast: 65
Rob Alexander: 89
Armand Cabrera: 86
Alan Gutierrez: 91
Douglas Herring: 8
Richard Hescox: 4, 85, 96
David Mattingly: 9, 84
Don Maitz: 87
Ilene Meyer: 88
Kaja Murphy: 6, 13, 17, 18, 20, 24, 26
Margaret Organ-Kean: 3, 10, 14, 16, 22, 98
Barclay Shaw: 90
Janny Wurts: Cover, 2, 49, 50, 51, 52, 83, 95
Sixteen years of age brings many things. Along with the usual birthday presents might come a "Sweet Sixteen" party and that long-awaited rite of passage, that certificate of freedom, your first driver's license. Well, Norwescon has finally turned sixteen and we have all earned our driver's licenses even though some of us may have played in the car once or twice and gotten into trouble. Some of us have even slipped the parking brake off and rolled into the neighbor's garage. But in the end, we all got our license. We're so happy to be able to go for a spin on our own that we just felt we had to show some of them to you.
NORWESCON DRIVER’S LICENSE
NAME NUMBER
VALID MARCH 25-28, 1993
Judy Suryan 8
Michael Citrak 29
Hans P. Meier 87
Pat Oros 82
Vickie L. Blight 233
Richard A. Bligh 234
Jody Scanlon 1067
Cerie Playter 482
Lauraine Miranda 19
Katherine Howes 17
Vickey McCortney 83
Carolyn Palms 7
Paul Schaper 346
Louanna Valentine 39
Scott Anderson 31
David Valentine 40
Deb Anderson 30
Tiffany Putman 1209
Raymond Burke 203
Kathryn Smith 45
Richard Wright 13
Kimmerly Valentine 38
Bantam Books
Capitol City Press
B Dalton Bookseller, Southcenter
Coca-Cola
Vince & Shereen Collins
The Desert Peach
Designers Service Bureau
Fantastic Toys and Games
The Game Place
Garie's Games
Gasworks Kite Shop
GDW
Paul Grover - PDG Productions
King County Blood Bank
Lake City Sports Cards
Meier's House of Clocks
Alan Mullarkey
Craig Nelson
Nisfic
Northwest Harvest
Quarters
Ranier Brewing Co.
Rustycon
SCA
Show Designs Inc.
Becky Simpson
Tor Books
Velocity Development
Capitol City Press, Inc.
116 NORTH CAPITOL WAY
OLYMPIA. WA » [redacted]
Three wise women are creating a space for teens and tweens to help them find their own way at Norwescon. Participants will learn skills, attend panels, earn rewards, and help others! Think of D&D crossed with the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism). Visit our Shire webpage for more details.
Calling on elders to help with supplies! Please visit our website for a list of supplies we could use. Your donations are welcome. Contact us at teenengagement@norwescon.org.
Seattle • March 28-30, 1980
LOCUS
THE NEWSPAPER OF THE SCIENCE FICTION FIELD
12th 13th! YEAR OF PUBLICATION
FOUR TIME HUGO WINNER
In its monthly issues, LOCUS covers the science fiction field as completely as possible. For professionals, there are up-to-date market reports, news of editorial changes, stories on sales, and a column on writing by Algis Budrys. For readers there are complete lists of all the books published each month, reviews, notes on sf in the media, news on forthcoming books, a complete list of upcoming conventions, convention reports, contents of forthcoming anthologies and magazines, reader surveys, LOCUS Awards, and everything else of interest in the science fiction field.
Poul Anderson: "On principle I decline to subscribe to fan magazines—but Locus is different: a unique source of news which can often be important, and itself a thoroughly professional production."
Isaac Asimov: "There is no way, for anyone fascinated by science fiction, to get out of reading Locus. It is the Time magazine and Walter Winchell of the field. It misses nothing, tells everything, keeps you abreast and in the swim, and I wouldn't be without it.—And I won't be for I have put down the money for a lifetime subscription."
Ben Bova: "Locus is the science fiction newsletter. No one who is interested in the field should be without it."
Marion Zimmer Bradley: "Locus is where I look first for shop talk—it is the real trade paper of science fiction. There have been times when I have first heard through Locus, (not my agent) that a new book of mine is on the stands."
Algis Budrys: "Without a doubt, the single most valuable periodical within the SF community; a labor of devotion, a bulletin board, a monument."
Arthur Clarke: "Locus is the only periodical I read from cover to cover—including adverts!"
Hal Clement: "Locus has always been the thing you needed if you wanted to know what was going on in science fiction."
Samuel R. Delany: "Dozens of professional SF writers (including this one) and even more serious SF readers, on both coasts, have collated, stapled, and folded Locus for its biweekly mailings. Anyone who wants to know what has happened in modern SF over the last decade must turn to Locus, however critically, to find out."
Harlan Ellison: "For over a decade Locus has been the market-report source, back-fence gossip, obituary and accolade register of the science fiction world. It is the Delphic yenta of SF-dom, and an awesome testament to the high reportorial skills of Charlie and Dena Brown. It has been a limitless source of what's-going-on for every-
one in the genre, and now appears fated to be a goldmine of material for historians. Lord, how academic attention doth make pecksniffs of all us hobos."
Fritz Leiber: "Locus has been both a pioneering publication and a consistently high performer. This little magazine sets the standards for accuracy and scope in its reporting of the news in the science fiction and fantasy publishing fields, and for level-headed interpretation of that news. I read it regularly."
Michael Moorcock: "As one who is notorious for his dislike of the social aspects of the SF world, I can say fairly that Locus is the only journal I know which retains a clear-sighted and impartial perspective on it. It's the only SF journal I see regularly or would wish to see regularly." The New York Times: "Anyone whose interest in SF extends beyond reading it to wanting to read about it should be aware of Locus."
Frederik Pohl: "Charlie Brown has been a close friend for nearly twenty years, so anything I might say is suspect— but Locus is the most important publication in science fiction today."
Judy-Lynn del Rey: "Locus has become the Publishers Weekly of science fiction. It's must reading for anyone and everyone at all involved in the field."
Lester del Rey: "Locus is the one indispensable source of information for every reader and writer of science fiction. That's why I have a lifetime subscription."
Robert Silverberg: "Locus is indispensable."
Theodore Sturgeon: "Anyone who is remotely interested in the many aspects of SF must—I said must—be, or get, familiar with Locus."
The Wall Street Journal: ". . . the science fiction trade magazine . . ."
Roger Zelazny: "For professionals and devotees alike, Locus is the world's most important publication about science fiction."
LOCUS Publications, P.O. Box 3938, San Francisco, CA 94119
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Seattle ° March 28-30, 1980
Guest of Honor
ALFRED BESTER
Fan Guest of Honor
FRED POHL
Toastmaster
THEODORE STURGEON
THIRD ANNUAL NORTHWEST REGIONAL SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION
AIRPORT HYATT HOUSE
SPONSORED BY THE NORTHWEST SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY
P.O. BOX 24207, SEATTLE, WA. 98124
Chairman: Stephen T. Bard
Business Department: Richard Wright
Registration: Lauraine Miranda
Publications: Thomas D. Walls
Operations: FutureLove Productions
Programming: Stephen T. Bard
Film/Video Program: Gordon A. Erickson
Public Relations: Janice Murray
Treasurer: Janice Murray
Security: Pat Mallinson, Linda Hoffer
Art Show: Jane Hawkins
Huckster Room: Frank Rabinovitch
Press Relations: Janice Murray, Joe Hartman
Computer Games: Tony Pepin, Mike Freeman
Masquerade: Mary Hamburger, Richard Wright
Photo Services: Thom Walls, Dennis Pernaa
Stage Management: Shelley Dutton, FutureLove Productions
Gofers: Judy Lorent Video Program: Dennis Pernaa
Hospitality: Cliff Wind
Computer Support: Tony Pepin
Mailing Services: Cliff Wind
V.I.P. Liaison: Stephen T. Bard
Orientation: 2
Map: 2
Schedule: 3
Computer Room: 7
Wargaming: 7
Hucksters: 7
Program Tapes: 7
Masquerade: 8
Art Show: 8
Alfred Bester: 10
Frederik Pohl: 14
Theodore Sturgeon: 16
Authors: 17,25
Round Robin Chain Stories: 28
Acknowledgements: 28
Films & Video: 38
Around the Hyatt: 41
Phone Numbers: 41
Area Map: 41
Memberships: 42
Dealer Index: 44
Advertisers: 44
Copyright 1980 by Northwest Science Fiction Society for the contributors
CAUTION!!
Science Fiction Conventions can be too much fun and a word of warning is perhaps in order. Sometime during the con, you will undoubtedly see a few strange beings sitting alone in a corner somewhere amidst scraps of shredded Program Book. They will be staring fixedly ahead, with a sort-of "fragmented" expression on their faces, while quietly muttering incoherently. These are what you call "casualties." You should try not to be one.
Unable to decide which of several exciting scheduled alternatives to pursue (and being painfully shy), they experience a sensory overload and, uh ... well, they blow a fuse, to put it politely. What you are seeing is, of course, the quiescent latter phase of the malady. Heaven forbid that you should be unfortunate enough to witness the sudden spectacular onset of the syndrome — it’s ... it's ... well, let's just say that it's not for the squeamish. However, if you should hear a sort of popping/ sputtering sound, whatever you do, don't look back!
I perceive your paranoia. Let me assure you that this is not a peculiarly fannish shame. No. rest assured my friends, the "heartbreak of indecision" is even more prevalent in the mundane world. As a matter of fact, this condition, in its chronic form, generally asserts itself in a not-insignificant statistic on public-opinion polls.
In any event, should you espy one of these poor souls, have a heart. Take it by the hand to wherever you happen to be going at the time, or at the very least, nudge it in some direction. Alternatively, if it is particularly cute, pet it on the head and if it smiles take it back to your room to play with.
— Ahem. Moving right along ...
Since our programming rooms are spread over the hotel, we have provided you with a map. Should you get lost, simply look for moss on the northside of someone in the film room or follow an author and he will lead you safely back to the bar.
[Artwork] Copyright 1979 by Michael Whelan
12 noon HOSPITALITY SUITE OPENS
Governors Suite
Last minute panic by the con com. Early-bird conventiongoers summarily enlisted!
6 pm FINAL CON COM MEETING
Governors Suite
"If we’re not ready now, it is too late to worry about it ... "
8 pm PRACTICE PARTY
Governors Suite (Early registration available)
The following schedule delineates major programming items only. The film and video programs are listed separately (on page 38).
Cassette recordings of most programming will be available in the upper lobby within minutes after the end of each event.
9 am HOSPITALITY SUITE OPENS
Governors Suite
Clifford starts being hospitable.
9 am VIDEO ROOM OPENS
Continental
See schedule for 24 hour a day offerings (also available on channel 3 in your sleeping room).
10:30 am REGISTRATION OPENS
Registration Lobby
Bright, cheery, friendly faces prepare for the onslaught.
12 noon HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Phoenix E
Hugo-nominated whacky British radio show.
2 pm SO YOU WANT TO CHAIR A CONVENTION, EH?
Phoenix E
Current and former convention chairmen are let out of their padded cells long enough to talk about it.
3 pm THE EVOLUTION OF FANZINES
Phoenix E
Fanpubbing specialists discuss the history and future of the form.
4 pm THE ROLE OF CRITICISM IN SF
Phoenix E
Jayne Tannehill, Susan Wood, Mel Gilden, Richard Kearns and others attempt to discover whether SF deserves to be subjected to such close scrutiny just because it has become respectable.
5 pm THE FREEDOMS AND LIMITATIONS OF SF
Phoenix E
Michael Coney, Pat Murphy, Sydney Van Scyoc and Wilmar Shiras explore SF as an alternative to academic publishing, as a forum for new ideas, and also try to scope the genre's limiting factors.
5 pm HUCKSTER ROOMS OPEN (one hour, only)
Satellite
Conf. A
Dealers wring their hands and cackle evilly amid horde of slavering collectors.
5 pm GUEST OF HONOR AUTOGRAPHS
Upper Lobby
Alfred Bester, Fred Pohl, Theodore Stugeon and others attempt to preclude a Saturday night attack of writers-cramp.
6 pm "SCARE ME TO DEATH, CHICKEN HEART"
Phoenix E
Suzy McKee Charnes, Stephen King, and Charles L. Grant discuss the various techniques of placing you on the edge of your seat.
7 pm FILM ROOM OPENS
Flight Lounge
Celluloid addicts rejoice!
7 pm SNOBBERY AND POLITICS IN FANDOM
Phoenix E
George Guthridge, Steve Fahnestalk, Elinor Busby, Jayne Sturgeon and Greg Bennett discuss uppityness, cliquishness and brownnosing.
8 pm OPENING CEREMONIES AND GOH INTERVIEWS
Phoenix B/C
Toastmaster Theodore Sturgeon delivers your official greeting and then interviews Alfred Bester and Frederick Pohl unmercifully.
9:15 pm BABA KARIM DANCE TROUPE
Phoenix A/B/C
Exotic ethnic dance of the veil, belly, sword and snake varieties, plus ... a tantalizing male tray dancer.
10 pm NORWESCONE ICE CREAM SOCIAL AND STARDANCE
Phoenix A/B/C
All the luscious ice cream you can eat (mit sprinkles, yet!), no-host bar and dancing into the wee hours.
11 pm OFFICIAL OPENING PARTY
Governors Suite
Tasty morsels and bountiful beverages in the NORWESCON Hospitality Suite.
11:30 pm THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW SHOW
Phoenix E
"Talk show" hosted by GOH Alfie Bester. Various strange personalities interviewed.
PHONE [redacted]
BABA KARIM
8 am DAWN BREAKS, REGISTRATION DESK CROWS AND OPENS FOR BUSINESS
Lobby
HOSPITALITY SUITE OPENS AND CRASHERS WADE OUT OF THE RUBBLE
Governors
9 am HUCKSTER ROOMS OPEN IN FULL FORCE
Satellite Room
Conference A
68 tables offer an incredible variety of spiffy stuff from all over the country.
9 am THE TOO EARLY IN THE MORNING PANEL
Phoenix A/B
A panel about panels, their planning staffing, timing, care and feeding, etc. (sure to be cancelled).
10 am ART SHOW OPENS
Phoenix D
A veritable cornucopia of visual delight.
10 am AN INTRODUCTION TO SF FANDOM
Phoenix A/B
John Thomson narrates humorous slide show illustrating con events, followed by panel with Greg Bennett, Beth Finkbiner and Joyce Rubin.
10 am CREATE A RELIGION (part 2)
Phoenix C
Cliff Wind moderates Alfred Bester, Wilmar Shiras, and sociologist Dr. William S. Bainbridge as they create a few cults, fannish or otherwise.
11 am FUTURIANS AND OTHER FIRST FANS
Phoenix A/B
Fan GOH Fred Pohl, Forry Ackerman and others reflect upon those bygone days of "first fandom".
11 am THE TECHNOLOGY OF TERRORISM
Phoenix C
ANALOG's "How to Build Your Own A-Bomb..." man, George Harper, leads Dean Ing, A. Bertram Chandler, Reginald Bretnor and Rick Gauger to speculate upon some of the more sinister prospects.
11am SUZY McKEE CHARNAS READING
Phoenix E
A reading from unpublished work.
12 noon MESSIANIC PRETENTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY SF FILMS, OR, GIVE A DIRECTOR 40 MILLION AND HE THINKS HE'S GOD!
Phoenix A/B
Vancouver film critic Michael Walsh moderates L.A. reviewer Mel Gilden and FANTASTIC FILMS magazine editors Blake Mitchell and James Ferguson.
12 noon THE FUTURE OF ENERGY
Phoenix C
Presentation by Boeing solar power satellite spokesman followed by panel discussion on alternatives with fission/fusion experts and Ace editor Jim Baen.
1 pm SHORT FICTION WORKSHOP
Phoenix A/B
Judges Marta Randall, Michael Reaves, Pat Murphy, Richard Kearns and Paul Novitski critically dismember the three top stories submitted. Paltry prizes awarded.
1 pm ART: FOR LOVE OR MONEY
Phoenix C
Bill Rotsler, Alicia Austin, Jon Gustafson, Michael Goodwin, Alex Schomburg, Dale Enzenbacher and Wendy Rose discuss compromising ideals for monetary considerations.
1 pm CHICAGO IN 1982
Phoenix E
Greg Bennett examines the merits of Chicago's bid for the World Science Fiction Convention.
2 pm THE PERILS AND PITFALLS OF CREATING FANTASY WORLDS
Phoenix A/B
M.A. Foster leads Stephen R. Donaldson, Diane Duane, H. Warner Munn, Michael Reaves and Richard Purtill in a discussion of the "rules" thereto.
2 pm THE ACKERMAN COLLECTION
Phoenix C
Slide show by the inimitable Forrest J. Ackerman, depicting highlights of his multi-million dollar collection of SF books and memorabilia (which he recently donated to the city of Los Angeles).
2 pm STAR TREK: FAKE OR FAITH
Phoenix E
PSST's Kit Canterbury and others discuss the future of this cult phenomena.
3 pm FUTURE PLEASURE / FUTURE PERVERSION
Phoenix A/B
The future of fun, ala' Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester, Suzy McKee Charnas and Jesse Bone.
3 pm SPACE SHUTTLE UPDATE
Phoenix C
Slideshow and talk by our resident Johnson space center rep., Greg Bennett.
3 pm THE SWORDSWOMAN IN ART, HISTORY AND LEGEND
Phoenix E
Jessica Salmonson narrates slideshow for those interested in ethnic heroic fantasy, art and women.
4 pm ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE MODELS
Phoenix A/B
University of Washington physicist Roger Freedman, science writer George Harper and author Frederik Pohl pursue the possible permutations of beginnings, endings and the fundamental structure of our universe. . . and the consequences thereof.
4 pm THE COVERS AND BLURBS DILEMMA
Phoenix C
Bubbles Broxon attempts to moderate Stephen King, Elizabeth Lynn, Charles Grant, Kevin Johnson, David Hartwell and F. M. Busby in a quiet sharing of horror stories about the "packaging" of the product. Bill Rotsler cartoons.
4 pm DARKOVER COUNCIL MEETING
Phoenix E
Seattle area darkover fans discuss the formation of a local council.
5 pm THE FANNISH OLYMPIAD
Phoenix A/B
Teams from NWSFS, PESFA, PORSFIS, BCSFA and PSST compete in such fannish events as collating, beer guzzling, bed stuffing, filking book stacking, etc. . . .
5 pm ETHNICITY IN SF AND FANTASY
Phoenix C
Wendy Rose, Mel Gilden, Octavia Butler, Susan Wood and George Guthridge discuss ethnic characterizations and anthropological considerations.
6 pm COSTUMING IN SF FILMS
Phoenix C
Fantastic Films magazine editors Blake Mitchell and James Ferguson narrate a behind-the-scenes slideshow of studio costuming.
6 pm TRIVIA BOWL
Phoenix E
Crack teams again vie to see who's cranium contains the greatest profusion of useless information.
7 pm MEET THE PROS AUTOGRAPH PARTY
Phoenix A/B/C
All 60+ attending pros happily sign vast mounds of books as long as you continue to ply them with drinks. (Books by attending authors on sale during the party.)
7:30 SPONTANEOUS COSTUMING
Phoenix E
Those of you who didn't bring a costume have 1 1/2 hours to build one with makeup, tinfoil, glue, body paint, glitter, colored paper, and other assorted goodies provided by the convention. Spontaneous costumes will judged separately during the masquerade.
9 pm MASQUERADE AND ENTERTAINMENTS
Phoenix A/B/C
This year's masquerade begins with an elegant multi-media tribute to Jules Verne, followed by the initial parade of contestants. During the judges' deliberations, the inimitable Reverend Chumleigh of the Alligator Palace will perform with medieval magician Mazuba. Winners take a final bow and retire to Phoenix E for photography session.
11 pm FILM PREMIER: "THE CHANGELING"
Phoenix A/B/C
American premier of a new horror film starring George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere.
11 pm FILK SING
Upper Lobby
Vera Johnson, Johnathan Post and others lead you in a rousing filkfest. Bring your own instruments and join in.
11 pm SEATTLE IN 1981 BIDDING PARTY
Governors
Undaunted by recent setbacks, the Seattle committee sucumbs to nostalgia and attempts to drown its sorrows.
12 Midnight "LADIES NIGHT"
Phoenix E
Dancer from "Papa Bear's" club gives a command performance "for ladies only". . . (*by invitation only)
9 am REGISTRATION OPENS GRUMPILY
Lobby
9:30 am BREAKING INTO PRINT
Phoenix A/B
This early hour should be no impediment to those of you who are itching to know the secrets of getting published. Eileen Gunn, Susan Petrey, Robert Wilson, Bill Gibson and other "new" writers tantalize you with clues.
10:30 am CONVIVIAL COMPUTERS
Phoenix A/B
Boeing computer specialist and sf writer Johnathan Post envisions a future of friendly cybernetics with Jim Baen, Richard Purtill and others.
10:30 am ETHICS IN PUBLISHING; ARE THERE ANY?
Phoenix C
Elizabeth Lynn, Page Cuddy, Andy Porter, Vonda McIntyre and Marta Randall swap anecdotes.
11:30 am DEAD AUTHORS PANEL
Phoenix A/B
Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne and other moldy oldies are exhumed for a nice chat. (Noseplugs available upon request.)
11:30 am FIRST ART AUCTION
Phoenix C
Art show director Jane Hawkins brings her inimitable auctioneering talents to bear upon your pocketbook.
12:30 HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
Phoenix E
More of that whacko British radio humor.
1 pm BANQUET, GUEST OF HONOR SPEECHES AND AWARDS
Phoenix A/B/C
Another Hyatt incredible edible with oratory by toastmaster Theodore Sturgeon and guests of honor Alfred Bester and Frederik Pohl. Art show awards presented and the dreaded tacky awards distributed by Greg Bennett.
4 pm TRIVIA FINALS
Phoenix E
Survivors of round one match cluttered minds in a final duel to the death.
4 pm KILLER KITE WAR
Poolside
Free kites available in lobby.
4:30 pm SPACE INDUSTRIALIZATION
Phoenix A & B
Authors Mack Reynolds and A. Bertram Chandler join BOEING AEROSPACE and L-5 Society spokesmen in a discussion of the near-term opportunities for space colonization to pay its own way.
4:30 pm FINAL ART AUCTION
Phoenix C
"Your last chance to purchase fine original artwork at these bargain basement prices. Dial 1-800..." Also to be auctioned: an original 1939 issue of the Futurian fanzine "Escape".
6 pm FUTURE STANDARDS OF LIVING
Phoenix A & B
Paul Novitski leads Judith Merril, Rick Gauger, Eileen Gunn, and energy expert Rob Wilkinson in a discussion of high tech./low tech. options and a realistic assessment of where current trends are leading us.
6 pm TRILOGIES AND BEYOND; OR, THE VIRTUES AND FAILINGS OF SERIES WRITING
Phoenix C
F.M. Busby, Suzy McKee Charnas, Reginald Bretnor, Michael Coney, Sydney Van Scyoc, and Octavia Butler argue it out.
7 pm BELLY DANCE EXHIBITION AND SCA HELMET BASH
Phoenix A/B
The "Mystique" belly dancers tantalize your orbs and SCA warriors beat each other senseless.
8 pm CLOSING CEREMONIES
Phoenix A/B
A few final thoughts from guests and con-com. . . . Pro editors make tactfull comments about completed chain stories, which are then read aloud until the audience screams for mercy.
10 pm "CATTLEFARM GALACTICA" RECORDING
Phoenix A/B
Uproarious slick spoof concocted by Canadian fans. (Not to be missed!)
10 pm GRUDGE VOLLEYBALL
Somewhere outside
NWSFS and PSST in gruelling rematch.
10 pm DEAD SASQUATCH PARTY
Governors
"You are your own entertainment. . . ," if you have the energy to be.
11:30 pm DEAD SASQUATCH CEREMONIES AND ORGY
Phoenix A/B
Impromptu arcane rites involving the consumption of copious amounts of potables. . . followed by the usual midnight sacrificial rituals of the lawn of the Washington Memorial Cemetary (just north of the hotel).
10:30 am SURVIVORS BRUNCH
Coffee shop
Self-explanatory.
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The greatest science fiction record ever made! Music from Alien, Moonraker Star Wars, Superman, Close Encounters, 2001, Battlestar Galactica, Day the Earth Stood Still, Star Trek, Space 1999, Godzilla, One Step Beyond, The Outer Limits and more. 18 hits in all. Price $7.98.
Also available in 8 Tr. & cassette
Send orders to:
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By now you're probably wondering what to do with yourself--you've just staggered out of the hospitality suite, after sampling the liquid nourishment at NORWESCON's famous no-host bar, and you have your choices narrowed down to a panel on Aardvarks and Platypuses in Science Fiction, your third viewing of Flesh Gordon in the Film Room, or another visit to the Artist's Room, where-in you have already lavished $349 for all the art on your 'must' list. Why not visit the Huckster Room?? We are proud to offer this year an excellant huckster room, with booksellers, artists, publishers, and artisans from across the country and Canada. Such notable booksellers as Rik Thompson, Horizon Books, Bill Slater, Robt. Brown, Startreader, Dick Wald, Yellowstone Books, Janus Books Basement Books, & many others feature used and rare books and paperbacks, pulps, rare art, new and limited editions, and many other goodies. Artists and artisans such as Dale Enzenbacher, Daryl Murdock, Vicki Poyser, Tim Hammell, Nobu Burmer, Rae Hanscom, Janet Kramer, Marty Macklin, and others will be in the Huckster Room, to talk with you, or perhaps arrange for a specially commissioned item. Editors and Publishers include OMNI, Andy Porter (STARSHIP), Jeff Levin (PENDRAGON), Charles Brown (LOCUS), Lance Casebeer (COLLECTING PAPERBACK?), and Tim Underwood (Underwood/Miller). So break out those $$ you've been saving for your car payments, and hoof it up to the Huckster Room (right above the main restaurant, off the Lobby).
Hours: Friday 5:00 pm. to 7:30 pm.
Saturday 9:00 am. to 6:00 pm.
Sunday 9:00 am. to 6:00 pm.
This year there will be three game rooms, which individuals can sign-up for in the Directors room. Also this year NORWESCON will be holding the first annual Brass Dragon D&D Tournament, in which teams from local stores and organizations will be competing for the Brass Dragon award. Also featured this year are Traveller, Runequest, Chivalry and Sorcery and other games; check in the Directors room for details. The Brass Dragon trophy will be on display in the art room.
Our computer games and activities room for this year is located in Conference Room B, which is located directly above Conference Room A on the second floor. Radio Shack has been kind enough to provide the convention with 10 TRS-80 micro-computers. Many local hobbyists will also be bringing their own computer hardware & software.
As an additional convention service to the attendees of NORWESCON III, we have arranged for "Lackey Sound" to tape all of the major programming. They will be located in the Upper Lobby and will be providing the cassettes for $5.00 each.
NOTE: Panelists and speakers must sign waivers before the tapings can be made.
The big, new, exciting NORWESCON Masquerade will happen at 9:00 pm Saturday in the Phoenix rooms. All NORWESCON members are urged to enter, or at least come and see the fun as five noted judges rack their brains to pick the four ca$h winners. Enjoy, too, the wit of guest MC Steve Perry as he introduces the incredible contestants and keeps you feeling warm through the unintentional, but unavoidable, delays. Marvel at the magic of Mazuba the Magician and the antics of the invincible Reverend Chumleigh, both of the Alligator Palace in La Conner.
Contestants may enter the Science Fiction or Fantasy catagories, or, if you do not come with a prepared costume, you may enter the new impromtu Spontaneous Costume catagory. To build a costume for this latter category, sign up and bring your imagination to Phoenix E at 7:30 pm Saturday where we will have all sorts of stuff for you to make a costume from. Or, you may bring your own odds and ends to use.
Entry forms for all contestants will be at the Registration Desk. Fill out the form (sorry, there is no way to avoid filling out all four sections) and drop it off at the Information Table in the registration lobby. Registration forms must be in before 4:00 pm Saturday.
All contestants, prepared or impromtu, must be at Phoenix E at 6:15 pm for rehearsal. You then return to Phoenix E by 8:30 pm for the first set of pictures and the masquerade. Pictures for the public will be taken back in Phoenix E after the awards are announced. The formal award ceremony will be during the awards banquet on Sunday.
Contestant or not, the new NORWESCON Masquerade will be an enjoyable experience. Plan to attend!
— Masquerade Committee
-William Rotsler
This year's NORWESCON Art Show will be the best yet. We hope you will attend and enjoy our show. If you have any questions, or suggestions, please stop by the Art Show desk.
Some things you may need to know:
Thank you. Jane Hawkins, Art Show Director
Many of the professional and amateur artists attending NORWESCON III will be collaborating on a single large painting during the course of the convention. Be sure to stop by the Upper Lobby (near the chain stories) periodically to see how it's progressing.
At strategic locations around the hotel you will find "canvases" on which you may doodle to your hearts content. Finished "works", collaborative and otherwise, will be sold at the final art auction (if we can get anyone to take them).
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PORTLAND, OREGON 97214
PUBLICATIONS
We carry an extensive line of specialty magazines. These unique publications generally have low print runs and most never reach regular magazine stands. Here’s just a few carried on a regular basis: Elfquest, Cerebus, Andromeda, First Kingdom, Mediascene, RBCC, Starship, Star*Reach and many more.
FILM MAGAZINES
Science Fiction and Film tie-in magazines stocked include: Cinefantastique, Trek, Enterprise Incidents, Questar, Cinemagic, a full line of Starlog, Future Life, Fangoria, Cinemagic, and Starlog photoguide books.
PRINTS/PORTFOLIOS POSTERS
A complete line of Studio posters by Jeff Jones, Michael Kaluta, Berni Wrightson, and Barry Windsor-Smith. We have numerous other prints and portfolios including several by Northwest’s favorite, Victoria Poyser.
OUR CATALOG
Over 400 items are listed in our catalog. The cost of the catalog is $1.00 refundable with your first order over $5.00. We process orders promptly within four days and wrap carefully using heavy strong cardboard to protect your merchandise.
RETAIL STORE
Future Dreams at 1808 E. Burnside, Portland, Oregon carries almost a full line of our products, as well as new comics, new & used Science Fiction paperbacks, records, & art.
DISTRIBUTOR
We distribute nearly all the products we carry as well as a full line of Marvel, DC, Warren comics. Bookstores and bona fide dealers are invited to inquire about terms and discounts.
ALFRED BESTER, BURNING BRIGHT
by NORMAN SPINRAD
I knew Alfred Bester for maybe twenty years before I met the man. First in my early teenage reading of sf, as the author of THE DEMOLISHED MAN, which I was convinced was the best novel ever, until I read THE STARS MY DESTINATION, aka TIGER, TIGER. (For some reason, Alfie has this title change karma— after a two-decade hiatus, his "comeback novel" appeared under three titles in the space of a year: THE INDIAN GIVER, THE COMPUTER CONNECTION, and EXTRO.) Later as a legendary lost hero of sf during the Years of Silence. Finally as a critic, whose final farewell column did much to shape my then-future career as a writer.
I first "met" Alfie via correspondence. I had bought his brilliant novella 5, 271, 009 for MODERN SCIENCE FICTION, in 1974, twenty years after its first publication. I received this incredible, almost courtly letter of thanks. However, Alfie told me, he had never been satisfied with the title or the ending, and did I have any suggestions for a fix-up. Of a story by a master that had been a classic for two decades! Well, I was going through an ongoing title crisis on what was finally published as PASSING THROUGH THE FLAME, so I had to tell him that I could be no help there, but we did change the last few lines of the story.
I finally met Alfie in the flesh about a year later at a big party I was throwing in New York, clogged with people, booze, and smoke at the top of a six flight walk-up in the Village. The kind of scene that Attila the Hun could've walked into with Little Orphan Annie as his date and not be noticed.
But Alfred Bester stood out like a character from another cartoon as he arrived in the doorway. Elegantly dressed in a black suit, reeking of distinction, and somehow magically not even out of breath from the six flights of stairs, which usually left me gasping.
"Pardon me, my dear Mr. Spinrad," sez Alfie, "but I'm crashing your party. I hope you don't mind." And a few minutes later, it seems as if everyone has been old friends for years.
Several years later, I'm wandering the halls of a fleabag called the Hotel Taft on Times Square, the last day of one of the truly scurvy sf cons of all time, looking for Alfie. He's nowhere to be found. So I figure he must be in the "Dead Dog" party in the con suite, a foul midden reeking of old fritos, stale beer, and ancient underwear. As I approach the door to this den of iniquity, horrid shrieks emerge from inside. Uncertain as to whether to enter, I am accosted by a red-eyed shit-faced Dorsai Irregular who screams at me to either go in or leave before the hotel calls the police. Fearing for Alfie, who I figure may be trapped inside, I enter.
The Dorsal Irregulars, who have provided "security" this con, have become very irregular indeed. They're belligerently drunk out of their minds, and the con suite is crammed with their beer-sweating bodies, and what they are doing is tearing the clothes off the con committee. Not my scene, thank you. Alfie is not there.
But as I retreat into the hall, closing the door on this ghastly scene, there he is, on his way inside. "You can't go in there, Alfie!" I warn him over bloodcurdling screams. "They’re out of their minds! The cops'll be here any minute!"
Alfie just smiles benignly and saunters right in. "Just a little boistrous fun," he tells me later at a more quiet gathering. "Quite harmless."
And I guess that’s one of the things that makes Alfred Bester unique in the sf world—an absolute sense of savoire faire under any circumstances. Taste. Acquaintance with the wider world. Sophistication. Alfie is a man of the world, a true gentleman in the original meaning of the word, at home in most any situation, always in total posession of his own dignity, and yet never looking down on anyone.
As I remember his farewell epistle as an sf critic, it seems that this was what drove him out of the sf field at the time. Alfred Bester was an adult in the best sense of the word, and at that time he felt that there was no way to continue maturing as a writer within the genre. Peon wages might have had something to do with it. So the best novelist in the genre at the time spent a harsh couple of decades wandering in the wilderness as editor of Holiday, jet-setting around the globe on his expense account, waiting for the field to mature to the level of his aspirations.
Which it now has. This spring will see the publication of GOLEM100, Alfred Bester's second novel after the Great Silence, and a book which breaks new ground in many ways. A total integration of prose and illustration. Not an "illustrated novel" but a new thing under the sun, a book that moves freely back and forth between prose, illustration, and an indefinable mixture of the two. A linguistically inventive novel too.
That a major publisher is now willing and able to publish an sf novel like this is proof that the genre has matured. That Alfred Bester has produced such a work two decades after THE STARS MY DESTINATION made the first tentative moves in this new direction may also be proof that Alfie was right to lay off until the field was ready for the direction his work was taking.
Now that is savoire faire! And that is Alfred Bester.
The Demolished Man
The Stars My Destination
And now,
Alfred Bester
GOLEM100
The great Alfred Bester once again transcends the boundaries of conventional science fiction in a novel of dazzling visual and verbal intensity.
In the American megacity of the future, a group of ladies meets to raise the Devil. But their collective unconscious instead generates a monster, Golem100, which goes on a rampage of rape, torture and murder.
"An elegant and exuberant performance!" —Samuel R. Delany
"When I was in my teens and twenties, Alfred Bester was doing as much as anybody to reshape science fiction.... I speak for the whole field when I say that I'm glad he's back." —Larry Niven
"Alfred Bester's novels are a treat that comes along all too seldom, but is well worth the wait. Very few writers of any kind have anything like his inventiveness, audacity, and sparkling language. Enjoy!" —Poul Anderson
Coming in April 1980 Over 100 pages of illustrations 384 pages $11.95
Other Simon & Schuster selected science fiction novels to be published this spring and summer in cloth editions:
Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Gene Roddenberry, March. $9.95
The Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe, May, 10.95
Songs from the Stars, Norman Spinrad, June, $10.95
Timescape, Gregory Benford, July, $11.95
The Vampire Tapestry, Suzy McKee Charnas, August, $10.95
Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
In terms of action and getting and keeping the reader's attention, the simple fact is that I do not believe anyone can even come close to the quality of the work Alfred Bester has done. Whenever non-sf people have asked me to recommend the best to them, I have always said first, before any others, that they read THE STARS MY DESTINATION. This is how it is supposed to be. And if I could do it that way, I would. Others occasionally come close to the mark, but nobody sustains it the way he does throughout the entire story. The only regret I have is that he didn't write twenty novels. — M. A. Foster
There was a time when I went down to the corner candy store every day to hang around the magazine rack, flipping through everything on it in hopes that it -- the latest issue of whatever SF mag it was that was serializing a tale called TIGER, TIGER. I was desperately suspended between installments 1 and 2 of the first Bester story I'd ever read. By the time the longed-for issue had arrived, and then the one after that, I had gotten fat from drinking chocolate malteds in order to buy myself a place in that store for as long as possible, on the chance that the delivery truck would come and disgorge the nourishment I really craved (and have happily craved ever since) -- the luxuriant imagination and brilliant enery of SF at its best. The addiction to chocolate malts I could do without . . .
— Suzy McKee Charnas
"I've never met Mr. Bester; but his novel, THE STARS MY DESTINATION, nearly transformed my life. I grew up in India, and attended a small school where no science fiction and little fantasy were available. As a child, I read the OZ books; as an adolescent, the Narnia series. But after that I consumed "Hardy Boys" mysteries simply because nothing else was around. However, during my sophomore year, a boy recently out from the States loaned me an sf novel; and it electrified me. I found the whole concept of 'jaunting' a tremendous thrill. Gully Foyle's tattoo chilled me. His kinesthetic crisis boggled my mind. I was so excited that for seventeen years afterward I remembered that book more vividly than almost everything I encountered in the interim.
"Unfortunately, I did contrive to forget both title and author. Since I knew no one who could have helped me, I spent notable amounts of time during the next seventeen years on a fruitless quest for that book. Only by accident (after THE DEMOLISHED MAN convinced me that "Bester" was a name to conjure with) did I finally stumble into a copy of THE STARS MY DESTINATION. Re-reading it restored my belief that it contains more imagination per page than any other book I know.
"I say 'nearly transformed my life' because I can't really blame my subsequent career on any one book. But the Narnia series, THE STARS MY DESTINATION, Sturgeon's MORE THAN HUMAN, Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS, and Herbert's DUNE, all share a major responibility for making me whatever I am today."
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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THE DEMOLISHED MAN
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BLACK GOD’S SHADOW by C. L. Moore
Illustrated by Alicia Austin
Five novelettes of C. L. Moore’s fiery and red-haired warrior-woman Jirel of Joiry. Dating back to the 1930’s where they were first printed in the heyday of Weird Tales magazine, they are a remarkable series of word pictures — strange fantasies set in a fortressed land close to magic. Black God’s Shadow is a book of magic in time-haunted worlds that are alien to earth. Here are worlds filled with beauty and much sadness, where love and hate are sometimes indistinguishable.
With marvelous full color illustration by Alicia Austin — a monumental collector’s edition!
PRICE $15.00
ALICIA AUSTIN’S AGE OF DREAMS
More than forty pieces of color and a wealth of black and white illustrations are included in this magnificent art volume. Ms. Austin’s art has been gracing convention artshows since 1969, and in that period she has acquired a substantial following in the field of science-fantasy, along with the prized “Hugo” and “Howard” awards.
Alicia Austin’s Age of Dreams was awarded the “Balrog” award as the best publication of 1978.
PRICE $25.00
TALES OF THE WEREWOLF CLAN Volume I by H. Warner Munn
Illustrated by Jeff K. Potter
Tales of the Werewolf Clan is concerned with the vengeance of the “master” upon the descendants of Wladislaw Brenryk, the werewolf of Ponkert. This first volume chronicles seven encounters with that monstrous alien. Here are tales of horror and savagery and their strange effect on the history of the world.
With numerous fine illustrations, devices, illustrated endleaves, and full color dust wrapper by Jeff K. Potter. Limited to 1,000 copies.
PRICE $12.00
DONALD M. GRANT, PUBLISHER
WEST KINGSTON, R.I. 02892
Fireflood and Other Stories
by VONDA N. McINTYRE
Winner of both The Nebula Award and The Hugo Award
Author of Dreamsnake
“She’s one of the best already, and it’s exciting to think of the long, bright road ahead of her.” —PETER S. BEAGLE
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[Artwork] Illustration copyright 1979 by Michael Whelan
"Fred Pohl has written at least a dozen and perhaps two dozen stories that I wish I had written."
-Alfred Bester
When I think of Frederik Pohl my mind inevitably goes back to the days of the Ivory Tower, the Brooklyn flat where the lives of so many science fiction fans intermingled, and to the Futurians, those talented teenagers whose survivors include your guest. The Futurian saga has been told so often, by its charter members as well as by others who researched us later, that I plan only to pluck a vagrant flower, or the odd thorn, from my memory garden.
A lot of music surrounded us in those days. The lyrics of songs, then new, haunt some of us still--"All the Things You Are," "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," "Deep Purple." We sang a lot of Gilbert & Sullivan, and Fred and I harmonized on "From Now On." But what I remember best was our recording of the Arthur Bliss score from "Things to Come." Someone had left the 78 on a radiator at the Ivory Tower and its edges were scalloped like your grandmother's pie, but the phonograph needle followed the grooves up hill and down dale to pour out the magnificent sound.
Fred didn't live at the Ivory Tower, whose main inhabitants were Donald A. Wollheim, Dirk Wylie, Dick Wilson (DW3), Robert W. Lowndes and Chester Cohen. But Fred was a frequent visitor along with the likes of isaac Asimov, Dave Kyle, Cyril Kornbluth, Jack Gillespie, John B. Michel, Walter Kubilius and Jack Rubinson. And Fred was inextricably part of the fannish and neoprofessional things that went on there. These included publishing fan magazines, and that leads me to my fan magazine, Escape--perhaps I can mirror the mystique of that period by quoting from it here and there.
Escape had a distinguished list of contributors, resident and otherwise, including Anton E. Selkirk (Frederik), Gabriel Barclay and S. D. Gottesman (Cyril), Ivar Towers (Cyril, Dirk and Dick), and Chester Cohen. Chet did the brilliant cover drawing for Escape's December 1939 issue. (I'm sending a copy of it to NORWESCON's program chairman for whatever scholarly or profit-making purpose he sees fit to make of it. A copy of Escape sold for $7.50 in the fifties. Lord knows what it would bring now; maybe only the original price—5¢.) The cover shows the Ivory Tower serene with head in clouds while overseas the world was beginning to blow up. Another Cohen cover was a floor plan of that Camelot of ours. There were interior illustrations by Leslie Perri, who bacame Fred's wife.
Here are some glimpses of that far-off, virginal time, faithfully transcribed from the pages of Escape:
"Michel-Wollheim have evidently abandoned all plans for Flee, proposed campanion to Escape. They now plot happily about an opposition magazine to be called Grim Reality."
The same issue printed Part I of Selkirk-Pohl's "The Lives of Joe Chthulhu, or What Price Tunisia?" The following is, as far as I know, a previously unreprinted excerpt from that seminal work:
"There are dark nights afoot on Mars. The wind blows evilly, malignantly, blowing away the heat of the airless day, blowing away the hopes of the arid moons.
"And into this work-a-day world, blowing mightily, came Joe Chthulhu, Silent Joe.
"Chthulhu had every right to be silent. Conversation is boring, except where the dialetic enters and opinions are changed and exchanged. And when one knows all that can be--when one has lived again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again ..."
Fred was the first among us to become a professional editor, as Escape chronicled:
CYRIL'S VERY OWN DEPARTMENT
Fictioneers, Inc, (affiliated with Horror Stories), has made the mistake of its life. Frederik Pohl is now the editor of something to be called either Astonishing Stories, Incredible or, just possibly, Dime Fantasy. Whereto have sold Futurians much boilerplate. Raptly Donald said, "I'm a book reviewer. I shall get free books." Said Johnny: "I have an article on the music in 'Things to Come'. Without a doubt I shall get concert tickets, being a music critic." Dick looked up: "And I get cans of film!"
We were lovers of the theater, too: "We like the line Doc Lowndes quoted from a B'way theatrical production(!)--we mustn't tell anyone it was a Girlie show ... 'This gun shoots four miles, then throws bricks at you.'"
We went to some lengths to play a practical joke on Cyril, the Hot-Foot King, who was "considerably discomfited at a vari-colored supper served to him . . . with blue milk, orange-spotted butter and rainbow-hued potatoes. (Secret: Easter-egg dyes -- tasteless, harmless, but very upsetting.)"
And a vignette: "Dirk Wylie sprawled on a bed in the Ivory Tower, reading Horror Stories... and in a pocket of his trench-coat, at his feet, a volume by Ernst Haeckel."
It was at the Ivory Tower that Cyril and I collaborated on a story for one of Fred's new magazines. We wrote alternate chapters of a novelette firmly rooted in P. C. Wren's Foreign Legion novels. It was homogenized in a rewrite by Dirk Wylie, further revised by Editor Pohl and published in Astonishing Stories as "Stepsons of Mars" under the byline -- what else? -Ivar Towers.
That was the milieu in which we milled. I remember it well. What also came out of it, undimmed by the year between, are unbreakable bonds of friendship. Fred, Isaac, Don, Dave, Doc -- swifter than a winking eye, years may pass between our meetings, even a lustrum (Joe Chthulhu's word) or a decade -- but when we meet again it's as if time had frozen.
Best of all, we suspend reality. We know intellectually it's been more than 40 years since that mist-enshrouded Futurian era but in our minds' eyes we see each other still as we were then -- in our late teens.
So I raise a toast to that young friend of mind you honor here -- a Jem of a fellow -- The Early Pohl -- the eternal science fiction fan who knows The Way the Future Was. As the English say, Astonishing good luck to you, Fred!
Now some joker wants me to say some words in appreciation of Fred Pohl and I ask myself "Why?" My time is valuable and here they want to waste it just as I am getting dangerously old. After all, what has Fred Pohl ever done for me? Let's see.
I thought all this over and said to myself, "Yes, but what has he done for me lately?"
So I'm not going to waste my valuable time on it, and you can print this letter explaining why not.
BARRY R. LEVIN
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FIRST EDITIONS OF SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
17th through 20th Century Bought and Sold
An Appreciation
by Elizabeth A. Lynn
When Steve Bard wrote to me asking me to introduce Theodore Sturgeon in the program book, he pointed out that turnabout was fair play. He also said that a few paragraphs would be sufficient if I was very busy. I'm always very busy, but what Steve didn't know is that I've been wanting to write an appreciation of Ted Sturgeon for years, and I'm afraid that what I have to say can't be confined to a few paragraphs. I hope he isn't sorry he gave me the opportunity.
I met Theodore Sturgeon for the first time in Berkley, California, about 3 years ago. But my first encounter with his writing came much earlier than that. I was not quite ten years old. I picked up this paperback book; it wasn't new, it was well worn, .and it had a striking cover, of a hand with a face imprinted on it reaching upward through a gold and scarlet backround. The book was MORE THAN HUMAN, and it was the first science fiction novel I ever read. (The second and third were CHILDHOOD'S END and THE STARS MY DESTINATION.)
I can't tell you what reading that book did to my comprehension of reality, but I don't have to. You know. All science fiction readers go through it. (As Dick Lupoff would say, I lost my science fiction cherry to Ted Sturgeon.) It opened for me a universe of speculation and adventure. I walked into that universe eagerly, not knowing what it could lead to, and I have never been sorry. I count myself immeasureably lucky that I was introduced to SF by one of its masters.
There are things that Theodore Sturgeon does with words that few writers can do. He can make you shudder and weep in two sentences. He can lift the small hairs of your neck with horror. He can tell you about music and its making, about playing in a band, about growing bonsai, about teaching, about living in a small town, about living in a city, about working, about what it feels like to be a freak, to be scared, to be hungry, to be lonely, to want, to hate.... Harlan Ellison, in his introduction to "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" in DANGEROUS VISIONS, says that Sturgeon knows almost nothing about hate. I think Harlan was wrong. Ted Sturgeon Knows about hate: read "Die, Maestro, Die" or "A Way of Thinking". Hate is the other side of the moebius strip that is love, and Ted Sturgeon knows it, for that strip is his territory. He can tell you things about loving, about feeling, that you would have to live ten lifetimes to learn.
That's Theodore Sturgeon, the writer.
And then, there's Theodore Sturgeon, the man. This is hard to write, folks. Ted and I meet maybe 3 times a year, if I'm lucky. We don't get a lot of time to talk. When we're in the same room I watch him with other people to see how he does it, how he makes people happy. One way he does it is by saying the words that most of us never say. You’re special. You're interesting. I like you. We rarely say these things to the people we know — even to the people we love. But Sturgeon says them, because he feels them. To Theodore Sturgeon, you are special, even if he doesn't see you more than 3 times a year, even if he never sees you, doesn't know you, doesn't like you, you are still special, you are a person, you are worthy of happiness. In other words, Theodore Sturgeon truly believes what most of us only give lip service to, that other people are real. He doesn't live in the emotionally solipsistic universe, the one peopled by people who like us. I don't know how come he is this way, but I give thanks for it; I figure if I watch him closely, it may be something I can learn.
For Ted Sturgeon is a teacher. May I name you a few, a very few, of his stories I've learned from? "The World Well Lost" and "Die, Maestro, Die," "The Touch of Your Hand" and "Crate," "Granny Won't Knit," (Sturgeon out-Heinleins Heinlein), "Mr. Costello, Hero," "Slow Sculpture" and "Affair With A Green Monkey," — and those are just short fiction titles! MORE THAN HUMAN can still knock the socks off most of the novels written in the last 30 years. He's working on something new. I can't tell you about it; he may, if he decides to. I kind of hope he won't; I want to read it, I want that feel, that vibration and snap and hum of excitement that Sturgeon makes happen in my head with his prose.
Am I being a trifle fulsome, do you think? After all, Theodore Sturgeon is just a plain ol' writer. He puts his pants on one leg at a time, and types his stories
two fingers at a time, just like the rest of us. There's just a ma behind that grin, folk just a dude, just a bi of clay, like any other human being on or off the surface of the earth — but that dude writes a mean piece of fiction, and he knows a lot about the territories of the heart, and he shares. And the light in the eyes is starlight.
And that's why I love Ted Sturgeon.
(c) 1980 by Elizabeth A. Lynn
Forrest J. Ackerman
"Forry” recently donared his 1/4 million piece collection of imaginative literature and memorabilia to the city of Los Angeles, which will construct a museum to display it. He edits the Perry Rhodan paperback series and Famous Monsters magazine.
Wendayne Ackerman
A translator of German and French sf, Wendayne Ackerman is also involved with the forthcoming Carl Sagan TV series, COSMOS. Ms Ackerman lives in Hollywood with husband Forry.
Jesse Bone
A professor of veterinary medicine from Corvalis, Oregon, Jesse Bone is the author of The Lani People, the Meddlers, Legacy and Confederation Matador. He is currently working on a new book called Darktime.
Reginald Bretnor
Though probably best known for his pilanious Ferdinand Feghoot and Papa Schimmelhorn stories, Reginald Bretnor has also edited such serious genre twxts as Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow and The Craft of Science Fiction, He is currently editing a three-volume Future At War anthology for Ace.
A. Bertram Chandler
Aside from the distinction of being Norwescon’s only representative from Australia, Bertram Chandler has quite a number of novels to his credit, including 6 Ace doubles reissued by Avon in ’78 and ’79 and such recent DAW books as The Way Back, To Keep The Ship, The Far Traveller and The Broken Cycle.
Charles N. Brown
Founder and editor of Locus, THE newspaper of the science fiction field, Oakland California’s Charlie Brown is known to virtually everyone. He has four Hugos.
Mildred Downey Broxon
Our own "bubbles" Broxon of Seattle has had short fiction published in Clarion III, Universe 5, Fellowship of the Stars, Aurora, Beyond Equality, Stellar III, Vertex, Isaac Asimov's and Chrysalis 2 & 3. Her first book, a collaboration with Poul Anderson entitled The Demon of Scatterly, has recently been published and another novel, Too Long a Sacrifice, is forthcoming.
F. M. Busby
”Buz” Busby of Seattle has recently had his first two novels reissued with a new one in one volume called The Demu Trilogy. His other books are All These Earths, Rissa Kerguellen and its new spinoff, Zelde M’tana. Buz is currently working on a sequel to "Rissa,” called Alien Debt.
Octavia Butler
Los Angeles resident Octavia Butler has written the novels Mind of my Mind, Patternmaster, Survivor and Kindred. Forthcoming soon is Wild Seed.
Suzy McKee Charnas
Author of the novels Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines, Suzy Charnas is currently working the third volume to that trilogy. Her upcoming book The Vampire Tapestry is due to be published later this year. Ms. Sharnas makes her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Page Cuddy
Ms. Cuddy is the science fiction editor of Avon books and lives therefore in New York City.
Michael G. Coney
British Columbia resident Michael Coney is the author of the books Monitor Found in Orbit, Syzygy, Friends Come in Boxes Rax, The Jaws that Bite, The Hero of Downways and Charisma. In progress is a book called Cat Carina.
Ted & Julian May Dikty
This husband and wife team resides in West Linn, Oregon. During the 1950’s Ted was coeditor with E. Bleiler of the Annual Best SF Stories and novels of the year anthologies, and Julian sold several stories to the magazines. Ted currently publishes sf non-fiction.
Stephen R. Donaldson
Another emmisary to Norwescon from Albuquerque New Mexico, Stephen Donaldson won last years John W. Campbell award for best new author, presumably for his fantasy trilogy Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, The Power that Preserves and The Illearth War. Forthcoming soon is The Wounded Land, the first book of the next trilogy, and in-work is the second book, entitled The One Tree.
Diane Duane
The Door Into Fire was Diane Duane’s fine first novel. The second book in this series, entitled The Door Into Shadow should be published this year and a juvenile fantasy novel, So You Want to be a Wizard, is also forthcoming. This L.A. resident also has two hardcore sf novels in work, entitled Lifestar and Sturm.
Dale Enzenbacher
Probably the world’s best fantasy sculptor, Dale Enzenbacher shared "Best Fantasy Artist" honors with Alicia Austin at last years World Fantasy Con. His works can be viewed both in the huckster room and in the art show. Dale currently resides in North Fork, Calfornia.
James Ferguson Blake Mitchell
These two Los Angeles fans share the title "west coast editor" of Fantastic Films Magazine. They have also demonstrated considerable expertise at costume design, having won 108 costume competitions in the past 10 years, and are also working on novels, his first, her second.
M. A. Foster
Hailing from Greensboro, South Carolina, Michael Foster is the author of the novels Warriors Of Dawn, Gameplayers of Zan, The Day of the Klesh and the forthcoming, Waves. Two short novels are due out in New Voices 4 & 5.
Mel Gilden
Los Angeles newspaper writer Mel Gilden says that he writes "yid-spec-fic" stories such as the "Ice Cream Golem" and "A Lahmed Wufnick." He is also a radio buff having written, produced, directed and acted in radio dramas.
Rick Gauger
Rick Gauger has had stories published in Omni, Best SF of the Year '79, Analog and Destinies. He has recently taken up residence in Tacoma, Washington.
Michael Goodwin
Artist Michael Goodwin is currently art directing a two volume fantasy collection for Ace entitled Dragons of Light, Dragons of Dark. He is also a cartoonist, recently published in Startoons by Playboy Press. His books include Who was that Monolith I saw You With? and the forthcoming My Stars! and 101 Great Moments in Science Fiction. Goodwin resides in Roy, Utah, with his wife, Lynne Anne Goodwin, who is an accomplished fantasy artist.
Eileen Gunn
Currently a resident of Seattle, Eileen Gunn has had stories published in Amazing and Destinies. She is currently working on several stories and a novel.
George Guthridge
George Guthridge had had stories published in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galileo, Child Life, Analog, Our Future Years and No Room for Man. He is also working on westerns, a juvenile biography, and a historical trilogy. George makes his home in McLeary, Washington.
Joel Hagen
Sculptor Joel Hagen of Oakdale, California specializes in the fossilized skulls of extraterrestrial beings. He has been an award winner in 3-D art at the last two worldcons.
Dean Ing
Dean Ing’s novelette "Devil You Don’t Know" was a Hugo and Nebula finalist last year and his first novel, Soft Targets, was published as a trade paperback and is due out soon as a mass market paperback. He has two additional novels due out by the end of 1980. Dean resides in Eugene, Oregon.
Richard Kearns
Dick Kearns has sold stories to Orbit and to and to Scott Card’s forthcoming "Dragons" anthology. Before throwing hin-self into fiction he was an editor and journalist for various monthly magazines. Mr. Kearns lives in Los Angeles in the same apartment building as Michael Reaves, Theodore Sturgeon and various other writers.
Stephen King
Though he is also a fan, horror writer Stephen King is probably better known for his fabulously successful books Carrie, Salem’s Lot, The Dead Zone, Night Shift, The Stand, and The Shining, which Stanley Kubrick is currently capturing on film. A new book, Firestarter is due out late this year and he is currently at work on a nonfiction piece called Danse Macabre. He makes his home in Maine.
Elizabeth Lynn
San Franciscan "Lizzie" Lynn has written a science fiction novel entitled A Different Light, and a fantasy trilogy consisting of the books Watchtower, The Dangers of Anun and Northern Girl.
Vonda McIntyre
Seattle’s own Vonda McIntyre won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for "best novel" last year for her book Dreamsnake. Her first novel was The Exile Waiting and her first story collection has just been published under the title Fireflood and Other Stories.
Judith Merril
Though probably best known for her 12 years of editing The Year's Best SF anthologies, Judith Merril is also the author of the novels The Shadow on the Hearth and The Tomorrow People plus numerous short stories. Ms. Merril lives in Toronto, Ontario.
H. Warner Munn
Harold Warner Munn's early work was published in Weird Tales magazine in the 1920's, and he was acquainted with many of the other Weird Tales authors, including H. P. Lovecraft. His most recently published books are Tales of the Werewolf Clan, The Book of Munn (poetry), and The Lost Legion. Forthcoming is the second volume of Tales of the Werewolf Clan and the final volume of the Merlin trilogy, entitled The Sword of Merlin.
Paul Novitski
(Portrait of the artist as a young man.)
Seattle’s Paul Novitski has had stories published in Amazing, Fantasize, Isaac Asimov’s, Universe 9 and Wings.
Steve Perry
Steve Perry (aka "Jesse Peel") of Aloha, Oregon has had stories in Asimov's, Galaxy and Other Worlds. His first two novels, Seed the Magician and The Tularemia Gambit, are being marketed and he is currently at work on a new novel entitled Shadowdancer. Steve also made a valiant attempt at rewriting the Norwescon 2 "chain-story," but finally gave it up as hopeless.
Andrew Porter
New York resident Andy Porter is a former associate editor at Lancer Books and assistant editor at F&SF. He publishes Starship: the magazine about science fiction (formerly Algol) and Science Fiction Chronicle.
Jonathan Post
Seattle writer Jonathan Post has had speculative science articles published in Omni and has also sold science fiction, poetry, plays and songs elsewhere. He is currently busy advancing the state of the art in software technology with Boeing Aerospace.
Jerry Pournelle
Los Angeles resident Jerry Pournelle specializes in hard science fact & fiction. His novels include High Justice and Janissaries, and such notable collaborations with Larry Niven as The Mote in God's Eye and Lucifer's Hammer. He has also edited such books as The Endless Frontier and Black Holes.
Richard Purtill
A philosophy professor at Western Washington State College in Bellingham, Richard Purtill has written books on ethics, the philosophy of religion, logic, computers, Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. His first-novel, Golden Gryphon Feathers, was published recently and others are in work.
Marta Randall
Marta Randall of Oakland, California is the author of the novels Islands, A City in the North and Journey. Her sequel to Journey, entitled Dangerous Games will be published soon, and another novel, Priory, is in progress. Marta is also the new editor of Robert Silverberg's fine New Dimensions series of original anthologies.
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Michael Reaves
Los Angeles resident Michael Reaves is the author of the novel Dragonworld (with Byron Preiss) and has also had short fiction published in F&SF, Universe and Weird Heroes and other magazines. He has written numerous television scripts as well.
Mack Reynolds
Mack Reynolds makes his home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He is the author of many science fiction novels, some of which are: The Towers of Utopia Satellite City, After Some Tomorrow, Rolltown and Commune 2000 AD. His most recent books are Lagrange Five, Perchance to Dream and The Best Ye Breed. Forthcoming is 2084, Joshua's Tune.
Wendy Rose
Artist Wendy Rose is currently illustrating a story by Vonda McIntyre. Outside of the fantasy/science fiction field she is also an accomplished poet. Ms. Rose lives in Richmond, California.
Oscar Rossiter
Oscar Rossiter is the pseudonym of a Seattle doctor whose well-received first novel, Tetrasomy Two, was a Frederik Pohl selection in paperback. He has completed a second novel entitled The A.C. Scrolls.
Bill Rotsler
Los Angeles author, artist, cartoonist Bill Rotsler has written the books Patron of the Arts, To the land of the electronic Angel and Zandra. Forthcoming are the novels Shiva Decending (with Greg Benford) and The Far Frontiers. He will also be doing "Fumetti" photo stories for Heavy Metal.
Joanna Russ
Currently with the English department at the University of Washington Joanna Russ has written such novels as Picnic on Paradise, And Chaos Died, The Female Man, We Who Are About To, The Two of Them, and Kittatinny: A Tale of Magic. She has just recently finished a work entitled Glotology, or How to Suppress Women's Writing Without Really Trying.
Alex Schomburg
Artist Alex Schomburg did his first color magazine covers for Hugo Gernsback in 1925 and worked for him through 1965. Schomburg also illustrated sf pulp magazines and in the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s he painted covers for Amazing, Fantastic, Startling, Wonder, Galaxy, Future, F&SF, and Satellite. His work is currently appearing in Asimov’s, F&SF and Analog.
Sydney Van Scyoc
"Joyce" Van Scyoc is the author of the novels Saltflower, Assignment Nor’dyren, Starmother, and Cloudcry. Another novel, Sunwave will be published soon and a new book, called Darkchild, is in work. Ms. Van Scyoc resides in Hayward, CA.
Wilmar Shiras
Wilmar Shiras is the author of Children of the Atom, originally published by Gnome Press and currently being reprinted in deluxe illustrated editions by Pennyfarthing Press. Ms. Shiras resides in northern California.
Jayne Tannehill
Also known by her married name, Jayne Sturgeon, Jayne "Tannehill" has been published in Chrysalis and also in Hustler under the pseudonym Pepper Parrish.
John Varley
A perennial Hugo and Nebula finalist, John Varley of Eugene OR, finally got his well deserved Hugo last year for the novella, A Persistence of Vision. His collection of the same title has been called "the best collection of the decade”. "Herb’s" novels are The Ophiuchi Hotline, Titan and the forthcoming Wizard. His short story "Air Raid" is being made into a major motion picture.
Robert Wilson
Seattle resident Robert Wilson’s first book was entitled Tentacles of Dawn. Two additional novels Pyramid Moon and The Unobserved are forthcoming.
Alicia Austin
Southern California artist Alicia Austin has illustrated such books as Black Gods Shadow by C. L. Moore and The Demon of Scattery by Poul Anderson and Mildred Downey Broxon and is working on Voorloper by Andre Norton. She shared Best Fantasy Artist honors with Dale Enzenbacher at last year’s World Fantasy Con.
Jim Baen
Currently the Science Fiction Editor at Ace Books and editor of Destinies and Galaxy/If. Jim Baen is formerly the editor of Analog and Galaxy/If. He lives in New York.
Glenn Chang
Having recently added a Dr. to the front of his name, Glenn Chang has had stories published in Chrysalis and The Edge of Space and has several novels in work. Dr. Chang currently resides in northern California.
Bill Gibson
Vancouver, B.C. resident Bill Gibson has had one story published in Unearth and has sold another to Universe.
Charles L. Grant
Hailing from Budd Lake, New Jersey, Charles Grant is the author of the novels Legion and Ascension. Another novel, The Last Call of Morning is forthcoming, as are two anthologies, Nightmares and Shadow 2.
George Harper
A science writer by trade, and listed in Who’s Who in Technology Today, George Harper stirred up the Feds with his Analog article "How to Build Your Own A-Bomb and Blow Up Your Neighborhood". George is currently marketing two science fiction novels and is working on a 3-act science fiction play. He lives in Tacoma, WA.
David Hartwell
New Yorker David Hartwell is currently the Science Fiction Editor of Pocketbooks. He was formerly the Science Fiction Editor of Berkley/Putnam and he also edits the Gregg Press series of hardcover science fiction reprints.
Kevin Johnson
A resident of Olympia, WA, artist Kevin Johnson has done covers for Warner Books and Avon Books.
Pat Murphy
San Diego resident Pat Murphy has had stories published in various science fiction magazines and anthologies.
Susan Petrey
Susan’s first story was published in F&SF and others are in the mail or in work. She lives in Portland, OR.
Frank Robinson
San Franciscan Frank Robinson is the author of The Power and has recently collaborated with Thomas N. Scortia on The Prometheus Crisis.
Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Seattle’s own Jessica Salmonson is the editor of Windhaven and also edited the recently published DAW anthology and has recently finished a novel called The Tomoe Gozen Saga. She is currently working on a high fantasy trilogy.
Jody Scott
Seattle author Jody Scott has written the satirical science fiction novel Passing for Human.
Susan Wood
The recipient of several "Best Fan Writer" Hugos, Susan Wood is currently a Locus reviewer and the Starship Book Editor. She edited the recently published collection of Ursula Le Guin essays entitled The Languages of the Night and will be one of the judges for this years World Fantasy Con. Susan resides in Vancouver, B.C.
All of this festivity is brought to you by the Northwest Science Fiction Society and weeks of hard work by your convention committee. Chairman Steve Bard and the women and men of the con com have put in uncountable hours planning and arranging all the small details necessary to make NORWESCON work for the con-goer. And, if they are sucessful at their labors, the effort will be invisible, only the enjoyable results will show. Remember, and appreciate, though, their work.
The con com is listed on page 1 of this program book. It is their planning that has made this NORWESCON possible. However, the most visible members of the NORWESCON staff are the many volunteers who have given up some of their at-con time to help out hosting the doors, running errends, and making the behind-the-scenes work. Smile at them, thank them for their time. And, if you wish, join them by volunteering yourself to help out. The volunteers coordinator can be found in the Operations room.
Some special people, in addition to the con com, need also to be thanked for their efforts. This beautiful Program Book, for example, was brought to you by:
Designer - Kipy Poyser
Layout - Tami Vining
Editorial - Janice Murray, Steve Bard, Stuart DeSpain, Judy Lorent, Joe Hartwell, Gordon Erickson, and Steve
Publishers - Thom Walls and Richard Wright, NWSFS
Printers - Satellite Services, Inc.
In addition, let us thank:
Hotel signs - Jay & Shirley Palmer
Dealer room calligraphy - Gina Jonas [redacted]
Getting stuff - Doug Booze
Projectionists support - Linda Hoffer
Transportation - Janice, Gordon, Judy, Thom
Masquerade support - Kit, Jennifer, JoAnn, Curtis
Dance - Mike, Peter, Paul, Mike & Beth
The Hyatt Hotel, its management & staff
Bonnie Lackey for setting up the recordings
Awards calligraphy - Patricia Mallinson
Solutions to Time-Base Alpha Puzzle should be brought to the Norwescon Hospitality Suite. The first CORRECT solution validated will earn a EREE membership in Norwescon 4. Subsequent solvers will win the satisfaction of a job well done.
TIME BASE ALPHA
Cross-Number Puzzle
Before you begin:
This puzzle deals with the space-time traveler, Zigzag. Based on math and logic, you must deduce:
WHEN is Time-Base Alpha?
HOW MANY people are assigned to Time-Base Alpha?
What is its AREA in square meters?
ACROSS:
DOWN:
Clues to Cross-Number Puzzle (c) 1980 Jonathan V. Post
Again this year, most of the attending authors will be collaborating (so to speak) on a "round-robin” or chain story, during Saturday and Sunday of the con.
Guest of Honor Alfred Bester has written the exposition of the story prior to the con. The other authors will then attempt to finish it (to use the term loosely) during one hour shifts at a typewriter in the Upper Lobby, above Registration.
The difference this year is that there will be two stories, one Science Fiction and the other Fantasy, both to be developed from the same Bester start.
The schedule for this madness will be as follows:
Time Saturday Sunday
9 AM Michael Coney Paul Novitski
10AM A. Bertram Chandler J. F. Bone
11AM Theodore Sturgeon Suzy Charnas
12 Dean Ing Bill Rotsler
1 PM Mack Reynolds George Harper
2 PM Mel Gilden Eileen Gunn
3 PM Frederik Pohl George Guthridge
4 PM Reginald Bretnor Rick Gauger
5 PM F. M. Busby To Be Announced
6 PM Johnathon Post Editor
Time Saturday Sunday
9 AM M. A. Foster H. Warner Munn
10AM Theodore Sturgeon Pat Murphy
11AM Stephen Donaldson Richard Kearns
12 Diane Duane Steve Perry
1 PM Charles Grant Octavia Butler
2 PM Stephen King Susan Petrey
3 PM Forry Ackerman Bubbles Broxon
4 PM Marta Randall To Be Announced
5 PM Sydney Van Scyoc To Be Announced
6 PM Richard Purtill Editor
NOTE : While you are encouraged to quietly observe the authors at work, please do not attempt to converse with them while they write. Even the most domesticated of the species has been known to bite when aroused.
Even as the manuscripts of these masterpieces are exuded from the typewriters, they will be posted page by page on the bulletin boards in the Upper Lobby for all to behold and admire. The finished stories will be read aloud at 8:00p.m. Sunday evening, complete with editorial commentary.
ARTISTS PAGE
Debbie D’Amico 42
Jack Gaughan 5
Alexis Gilliland 28
Lynn Anne Goodwin 10
Steve Perry 39
Victoria Poyser Cover,1,16
William R. Warren 1
Michael Whelan 3,14
As this is, after all, early Spring in Seattle, it will undoubtedly be overcast and drizzly when you arrive at the hotel. Not to worry, though — a science fiction convention should generate sufficient localized hot air to dissipate the clouds before long. (Or, in meteoroligists jargon, "a natural high will set in”.) If not, you are well advised to carry a hat or umbrella, and a light coat, should you plan to do extensive sightseeing in Seattle or anywhere around the Puget Sound.
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BILL ROTSLER
AUTHOR OF
THE FAR FRONTIER
CHARLES L. GRANT
EDITOR OF
NIGHTMARES
TWO EXCITING NEW PAPERBACK RELEASES.
PLAYBOY PRESS PAPERBACKS, 747 THIRD AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017
CORINTH THE JEWELLER:
When you've seen your homeworld blasted to hot slag...after everything of value had been stripped...including a breath-taking collection of gems -- When you're the last survivor of that world...under sentence of immediate non-appealable death -- You learn to live in shadow. You begin a life on the run.
Corinth, heiress & figutive lashes back, devoting her life to searching out the Kossite gems...& to stealing them back!!
Badger your local editor today -- tell him that she's available from:
allied press int'l.
West Coast: [redacted] -- East Coast: [redacted]
MosCon II
September 12-14, 1980
Co-Guests of Honor:
GEORGE BARR JERRY SOHL
Fan Guest of Honor:
FRANK DENTON
MosCon II will be held at the new Moscow TraveLodge in Moscow, ID
DO IT IN A JACUZZI! Come to MosCon II and whirl your troubles away! Besides the world's first Jacuzzi party, MosCon's got people, events, and lots of fun. We don't have over 60 pros like Norwescon, but the few we've got are real winners; like last year's GOH's (they're ALL coming back), and this year's GOH's, and our favorite NW authors, and maybe a few surprises. And we've got events, like the "character panel", the big combo masquerade-cum-birthday party-cum dance, and films, and all sorts of the interesting stuff you've come to love from MosCon. We promise you a real good time, sailor. Why don'cha come up and see us, big fella? (That goes double for you femmes, whether fatale or not.) And bring your suit for the big Jacuzzi party!
MEMBERSHIPS:
$8.00 per person until September 1, 1980
$10.00 thereafter and at the door
MosCon II
P.O. Box 9141
Moscow, ID 83843
THE BEST IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY PAPERBACKS
DAW Books, publishers of the best science fiction and fantasy paperback line on the market today, presents these exciting new titles.
THE KEEPER’S PRICE
Marion Zimmer Bradley & the Friends of Darkover
Explore the remarkable world of Darkover in this volume of original stories both by talented readers of the classic Bradley series and by Marion Zimmer Bradley herself.
DAW ORIGINAL/UE1517/$2.25
ISAAC ASIMOV PRESENTS THE GREAT SF STORIES: 3 (1941)
Isaac Asimov & Martin H. Greenberg, Editors
1941—a banner year—is presented in Isaac Asimov's third volume of the great stories that made science fiction what it is today. Included are Asimov, Alfred Bester, Frank Sturgeon, A. E. van Vogt, Anthony Boucher, Henry Kuttner, Lester Del Rey, and Eric Frank Russell.
DAW ORIGINAL/UE1523/$2.25
THE MANY WORLDS OF MAGNUS RIDOLPH
Jack Vance
Here, for the first time, are all eight of the galactic cases of Magnus Ridolph, solver of crimes and riddles on alien worlds. It's vintage Vance— at his best!
UE1531/$1.75
THE 1980 ANNUAL WORLD’S BEST SF
Donald A. Wollheim, Editor
This year's ANNUAL WORLD'S BEST SF-the most esteemed anthology of its kind—presents mindtingling novelettes and short stories by such favorites as George R. R. Martin, Tanith Lee, Larry Niven, John Varley, and others.
DAW ORIGINAL/UE1535/$2.25
Other DAW Titles by
Neal Barrett, Jr., Barrington J. Bayley, A. Bertram Chandler, C. J. Cherryh, Jo Clayton, Gordon R. Dickson, M. A. Foster, Tanith Lee, John Norman, Dray Prescott Richard Purtill, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Jody Scott, E. C. Tubb, and A. E. van Vogt.
The Exclusive Science Fiction and Fantasy Line Selected by DONALD A. WOLLHEIM
For our complete Catalog listing over 200 DAW titles in print, write
DAW Books, Inc.
1633 Broadway
New York, New York 10019
Distributed by NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY
*Canadian prices slightly higher
Shadow Star
P.O. Box 6815
Bellevue WA 98007
Specializing in Traveller and other science fiction games. For more information write for mg catalog or come by and visit my table in the dealers room.
USS Enterprise Inc.
“A Universe of Games”
[redacted]
Totem Lake Shopping Center Upper Mall
THE MOST COMPLETE SELECTION OF
Dungeons & Dragons (TSR)
Eon Games
Adult Games
Avalon Hill
Backgammon
Card Games
Chess
Childrens Games
Fantasy Games
Go
Electronic Games
Backgammon
Bridge
Chess
Educational Aids
Poker
Sports Games
Video
Game Science
Grenedier-Heritage-Ral Partha Minatures
Judges Guild
Metagaming
Runequest
SPI
Task Force Games
Yaquinto
Located at Dealer overflow room during convention
AQUACON
February 12-16
1981
Disneyland Hotel
Anaheim, CA
midway between Worldcons...
THE science fiction conference
PRO GoH: Philip Jose' Farmer
FAN GoHs : Jeanne Gomoll & Janice Bogstad
TOASTMASTER: William Rotsler
REGISTER NOW! Memberships $15 until Dec. 31; Supporting: $3.00.
Memberships & inquiries: AQUACON, P.O. Box 815, Brea, CA 92621.
Please enclose an SASE. Profits will be donated to charity.
Del Rey Hardcovers
The best in science fiction and fantasy.
BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZON
Frederik Pohl
$9.95
The spectacular sequel to Gateway, the book destined to become the most talked-about science fiction novel of 1980!
Somewhere, way beyond Pluto's orbit, floated an ancient artifact which could unravel the mysteries of the Heechees—all Robinette Broodhead had to do was reach it!
"Frederik Pohl's best book yet!" —Jack Williamson, President of the Science Fiction Writers of America
SPLIT INFINITY
Piers Anthony
$9.95
SPLIT INFINITY begins a new trilogy from the science fiction/fantasy master whose MAGIC OF XANTH trilogy won him acclaim in the fantasy genre.
Being marked for death on one world wasn't enough for Stile. Hardly hod he escaped assassination on the highly technical, science-oriented world of Proton, than he found himself on Phoze, a world of sorcery and magic where yet another power was set on destroying him.
DRAGON'S EGG
Robert L. Forward
$9.95
Once in a while a novel appears that has everything unique to science fiction—a brilliant new idea, honest extrapolation of real science, a gripping story with fascinating alien characters, and on indefinable but essential sense of wonder. This is such a novel!
An incredible story of life on a neutron star—and the intelligent aliens who inhabit it—a story of sacrifice and triumph and the wonders of the universe.
"Forward’s book is a knock-out. What is amazing is that he has also managed a good story as well as a stunning new locale. In science fiction there is only a handful of books that can really stretch the mind—and this is one of them!" —Arthur C. Clarke
Available in May
THE WOUNDED LAND: Book One of The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
$12.95
It all began with The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever—LORD FOULS BANE, THE ILLEARTH WAR and THE POWER THAT PRESERVES. Now the story of Thomas Covenant continues...
Ten quiet, undisturbed years had passed for Covenant since he was last called to the Land. At that time he had used the wild magic of his white gold ring to defeat the evil plans of Lord Foul. But now Foul had returned to power, stronger and more determined than ever to destroy this world, and Covenant once again found himself in the Land.
The Washington Post said of Donaldson, "Comparable to Tolkien at his best... a true classic!"
Available in June
What happens in PORTLAND between the MOSS FESTIVAL and the SALUTE TO SLIME ?
ORYCON!
Yes, folks, it’s another November frolic that tries to answer the question: What’s the difference between water and air?
GUEST OF HONOR
FRITZ LEIBER
(Author of "A PAIL OF AIR”)
TOASTMASTER
F. M. BUSBY
november 14, 15, 16 1980
Till Sept. 1 $8
CHILD 8 or under $5
Thereafter $10
Banquet $9.50
The Hilton Hotel
PORTLAND, OR.
Room Rates $45 single & double
[redacted]
Mail to: ORYCON, P.O. Box 14727, Portland, Oregon 97214
SEND ME _____ ORYCON MEMBERSHIPS AT $_____ EACH $_____
SEND ME _____ BANQUET TICKETS (Sunday Luncheon), $9.50 EACH, $_____ # Vegetarian _____ TOTAL $ _____
NAME
ADDRESS
PHONE
Please send me info about:
reserving a dealer's table
entering the art show
day care (children 6 or under)
Make checks payable in U.S. funds to 'Oregon Science Fiction Conventions, Inc.' We cannot cash checks made out to 'OryCon' or 'OryCon 80'.
PLEASE LIST NAMES OF ALL ADDITIONAL NEW MEMBERS ON THE BACK.
visual wonder science fiction
V-CON EIGHT
GUEST OF HONOR Roger Zelazny
FAN GUEST OF HONOR
George Metzger
TOASTMASTER Ted White
SPECIAL GUEST
John Byrne
ALSO: DARREL ANDERSON, F.M. BUSBY, CRAWFORD KILLIAN, STEVE LEIALOHA, DEAN MOTTER, H. WARNER MUNN, BUD PLANT, TRINA ROBBINS, ARTIE ROMERO, JESSICA AMADA SALMONSON, JOHN SHIRLEY, KEN STEACY, TIM UNDERWOOD
$8.00 membership rate expires March 31! Contact one of our committee members at Norwescon, or send to: Box 48701, Bentall Station, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V7X 1A6.
IT’S HERE...
THE IRON LAW OF BUREAUCRACY
The first collection of cartoons from Alexis Gilliland!!!
The sophisticated and subtle humor of Alexis Gilliland has graced the pages of numerous fanzines for several years. He has been nominated for FAAN Fan Artist, Humorous, in 1977, 1978, and 1979 -- winning the award in 1978 and 1979. He placed third in the balloting for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist in both 1978 and 1979.
You have seen his clever cartoons in such magazines as ENERGUMEN, FANNY HILL, SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW, THE INVISIBLE FAN, LOCUS, ALGOL, and many others.
Now Loompanics Unlimited is proud to present his first collection, THE IRON LAW OF BUREAUCRACY, with an Introduction by William Rotsler.
Don’t miss this one — the SF humor book of the year!
1979, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 112 pp, 200 cartoons, perfect bound soft cover.
THE IRON LAW OF BUREAUCRACY: $4.95
Send $4.95 + $1.00 shipping for each copy to:
Loompanics Unlimited
PO Box 264
Mason, Ml 48854
U.S.A.
DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED
Nebula Award Winner Gregory Benford and Hugo Award Winner William Rotsler have joined forces to write this electrifying novel of Earth's most cataclysmic countdown...
SHIVA DESCENDING
AVON PAPERBACK $2.50
The Hearst Corporation
GEORGE C. SCOTT, TRISH VAN DEVERE and MELVYN DOUGLAS star in "THE CHANGELING," a suspense thriller produced by Joel B. Michaels and Garth H. Drabinsky with Peter Medak directing from a screenplay by William Gray and Diana Maddox.
The heart-stopping tale of terror focuses on a music composer and lecturer who moves to Seattle and settles in an old Victorian mansion, a house that harbors a deep, dark secret. Compelled by a strange force within the mansion to unravel its mystery and discover the solution, the musician's quest results in one of the most dramatic and electrifying motion pictures of the decade. Filmed extensively on location in Seattle, Wa. and Vancouver, B.C. Released by Associated Film Distributors .
The NORWESCON Film Program Committee would like to thank the following people and organizations for making this premiere a reality:
Don Barrett and Janet Roberts, Assoc. Film Dist.; Mike Nealy, Thunder Media; And most of all: Blake Mitchell, Fantastic Films; without whose effort this premiere would not have been possible.
This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
CHANNEL 3 FRIDAY
AM
09:00-11:30 Superman - the Movie
11:30-01:03 Day of the Triffids
PM
01:03-02:45 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
02:45-04:15 Rocky Jones: Space Ranger
04:15-05:45 Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
05:45-07:30 Dark Star
07:30-09:15 Barbarella
09:15-10:45 Empire of the Ants
10:45-11:45 Avengers: The Winged Avenger
11:45-01:00 Flesh Gordon (X)
CHANNEL 3 SATURDAY
AM
01:00-02:21 Bananas
02:21-04:05 Moon Zero Two
04:05-05:40 Our Man Flint
05:40-07:30 The Pink Panther Strikes Again
07:30-09:05 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
09:05-10:00 Space Science Slide Show - Part 1
10:00-12:15 Capricorn One
PM
12:15-01:15 The Lost World (1925)
01:15-03:00 Love At First Bite
03:00-04:45 Forbidden Planet
04:45-07:00 JAWS
07:00-09:05 The China Syndrome
09:05-11:05 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
11:05-01:30 Lord of the Rings
CHANNEL 3 SUNDAY
AM
01:30-02:45 Flesh Gordon (X)
02:45-04:45 Frau im Mond
04:45-06:30 Revenge of the Pink Panther
06:30-08:30 King Kong (1933)
08:30-09:30 Space Science Slide Show - Part 2
09:30-11:15 Valley of the Gwangi
11:15-01:10 Logan's Run
PM
01:10-02:50 President's Analyst
02:50-04:30 Day the Earth Stood Still
04:30-05:30 Space Patrol
05:30-08:00 Superman - The Movie
CHANNEL 8 FRIDAY
PM
12:00-02:00 Alexander Nevsky
02:00-04:30 Battlestar Galactica - Pilot
04:30-06:28 The Spy Who Loved Me
06:28-08:15 Salvage One - Pilot
08:15-09:25 Superman Cartoons
09:25-10:55 THX 1138
10:55-12:30 Day the Earth Stood Still
CHANNEL 8 SATURDAY
AM
12:30-02:01 Dark Star
02:15-04:30 King Kong (1976)
PM
10:30-06:30 Main Programming live
07:30-10:00 Superman - The Movie
10:00-11:00 Space Patrol
11:00-12:30 Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
CHANNEL 8 SUNDAY
AM
12:30-02:35 JAWS
02:35-04:35 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
PM
10:00-07:00 Main Programming Live
The following films will be shown in the Flight Lounge, except as noted.
FRIDAY:
5:30 pm Phase IV (in Phoenix B&C)
7:30 pm Planet of the Vampires
9:30 pm Invasion of the Body Snatchers
11:30 pm 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
SATURDAY:
10:00 am Planet of the Vampires
12:00 Phase IV
2:00 pm NORWESCON Animation Festival
4:00 pm Voyage to the End of the Universe
6:00 pm Things To Come
8:00 pm 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
9:30 pm Invasion of the Body Snatchers
11:00 pm The Changeling (Film Premier) (in Phoenix A,B&C)
1:00 am The Haunting (in Phoenix A,B&C)
SUNDAY:
10:00 am The Haunting
12:00 Fantastic Films Looks at Costumes in SF Cinema
1:00 pm Phase IV
3:00 pm Invasion of the Body Snatchers
5:00 pm 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Neptune
1303 NE 45th [redacted]
STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE
William Shatner Leonard Nimoy DeForest Kelley
OPENS MARCH 28th
NORWESCON 4
in Seattle in 1981!
SIGN UP NOW AT THE REGISTRATION DESK
Rates: $8.00 until...?
($5.00 for NWSFS members)
Make checks payable to NORWESCON 4
and
COMING THIS FALL
NORWESCON 3.5
Write: NWSFS
P.O. BOX 24207
Seattle, WA
98124
And now, a message from our sponsor...
...These conventions have been brought to you by:*
THE NORTHWEST SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY
(NWSFS)*
...Publishers of the monthly club magazine Westwind, and creators of many diverse and fascinating social activities...
...Club memberships are a steal during this limited-time, limited-supply offer. For the rock-bottom price of only $7.00 per year. To get your very own membership, just send a check or money order; along with your name and address to:
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FUTURELOVE PRODUCTIONS IS A NON-PROFIT AFFILIATE OF THE NORTHWEST SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY & THE PUGET SOUND STAR TREKKERS; AN ASSOCIATION OF SF FANS WITH INTERESTS & EXPERIENCE IN ALL ASPECTS OF EVENT PLANNING & MANAGEMENT. IF YOU ARE PLANNING A CON OR OTHER EVENT & WOULD LIKE OUR HELP, OR ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING US, WRITE FOR MORE INFORMATION:
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COLLECTION FOR SALE
SF & F 2000+ titles, 50% hdk & 60% novel, 35 antho-series 78% complete, 100+ DAW; 20+ bks re SF & SF authors; Analog 69(1)+ Extrapolation 16(4)+; Wells & Contento Indexes; author/title cardfile. Ideal library starter to sell to highest bidder by 15-IV-80. D.G. Larson, 14125 - 107th Ave N.E., Kirkland, WA 98033 (206) 821-1724.
Leave word at Registration Desk how to reach you if you want more information here at Norwescon III.
Thanks to our PROGRAM BOOK PRINTER:
Satellite Service, Inc.
COMPLETE PRINTING AND BUSINESS SERVICE
on 153rd
Seattle, Washington 98166
Phone [redacted]
Our convention hotel offers many diversions for those who may momentarily wish to get away from the excitement. Chief among the attractions is Hugo's, the hotel's awardwinning dining place. Top of the menu is their roast duck, mouth-watering, delicately sauced. Each of the other menu items is special in its own way. Hugo's is a real dining treat, though moderately high in price. Reservations are a must.
Next door is the Bistro lounge, always nice for a quiet drink with your favorite friend. Nightly you can be entertained by COLLAGE, a female quartet who perform upbeat sounds from swing to disco.
The coffee shop is open for feast or snack 24 hours a day. This is a great site for a late night SMOF session, an early breakfast, or a quick lunch. And the food is very good - especially recommended is the Kentucky Jack and the New York Steak dinner.
However, if you wish to eat on the run, the closest stop would have to be the NORWESCON Snack Bar located right in the convention lobby. Good, quick food and a price that's just right.
If you need a pack of cigs, or a nice present for a new friend, try the gift shop across from the hotel desk. Frazzled? Have your hair frizzled in the beauty/barber shop.
If you have any other needs, ask the hotel desk or a member of the convention staff.
[local business map]
King County Sheriff's Department: [redacted]
Fire Department: [redacted]
Aid Car: [redacted]
Poison Control Center: [redacted]
Crisis Clinic: [redacted]
Metro Transit Rider Information: [redacted]
Seattle Public Library Quick Information Center: [redacted]
Time: [redacted]
Pacific Science Center: [redacted]
KZOK Radio Entertainment Guideline: [redacted]
UFO Reporting Center: [redacted]
Whale Reporting Center: [redacted]
Dial a Story: [redacted]
Dial a Prayer: [redacted]
Dial a Meditation: [redacted]
"Dragon Queen" by Victoria Poyser. A limited edition of 250 prints, signed and numbered by the artist. Available in the Huckster Room ($5) or by mail ($6) from: 503 S. Sawyer, Olympia, Washington 98501.
(as of March 1, 1980)
[membership list redacted]
Dennis Pernaa Steve Bard Frank Rabinovich Gordon Erickson Thom Walls Lauraine Miranda Janice Murray Jane Hawkins Shelly Dutton Judy Lorent Cliff Wind (photo by Thom Walls)
Not Pictured: Richard Wright, Pat Mallinson, Linda Hoffer & Tony Pepin.
Ace Books 21
Allied Press International 30
Aquacon 32
Avon Books 37
Baba Karim Dance Troup 4
Ballantine/Del Rey Books 33
DAW Books, Inc. 31
DEMOLISHED MAN 13
Future Fantasy 13
FutureLove Productions 40
GNP Crescendo Records 7
Donald Grant, Publisher 13
Houghton Mifflin 13
David Larson 40
Barry Levin 15
LOCUS Inside front cover
Loompanics Unlimited 36
Melody TV 38
Moscon 30
Neptune Theater 39
NORWESCON 4 40
Northwest Science Fiction Society 40
Orycon 34
Playboy Press Paperhacks 29
Victoria Poyser 41
Satellite Services, Inc. 40
Second Genesis 9
SF Chronicle Inside back cover
Shadow Star 32
Simon & Shuster 11
USS Enterprise 32
V-Con 35
Michael Whelan Outside back cover
NORWESCON's Huckster Room features a fantastic assortment of booksellers, artists, publishers, and editors, as well as an amazing collection of bookmongers, authors, artisans, and craftspeople. You will be astonished by thrilling wonders, but they shall remain unknown to you, unless you visit our Huckster Room, directly above the main restaurant. The following is a (nearly) complete list of this year's hucksters and hucksteresses:
Larry Jezek Federal Way,WA Bookseller
Dick Wald Portland,OR Bookseller
Lance Casebeer Portland,OR Publisher
Bill Trojan Eugene,OR Bookseller
Robert Funderburk Salem,OR Bookseller
Gallery of Light Seattle,WA Artist
Dan Chow Oakland,CA Janus Books
Tim Underwood San Francisco,CA Publisher
Charles Brown Oakland,CA Publisher/editor
Lenny Compello Seattle,WA Artist/agent
Bill Slater Concorde,CA Bookseller
Donna Rankin Martinez,CA Basement Books
Dave Killian Tacoma,WA Bookseller
Wayne Greenough Bellingham,WA Bookseller
Russ Dodd Phoenix,AZ Bookseller
Jeff Levin Portland,OR Publisher
Chris Bates Seattle,WA Bookseller
Barbara Coltrein Stone Age Crafts
Daryl Murdock Kansas City,MO Artist
Escape Velocity Tacoma,WA Bookseller
Jim Cox Kirkland,WA Gameseller
Patrick Walker Elma.WA Bookseller
Nobu Burmer Olympia,WA Artist
John Palmer Bellingham,WA Postcard Palace
Frank & Anna Jo Denton Booksellers
Tim Hammell Vancouver,BC Artist
Dave Turner Seattle,WA Yellowstone Books
Les Sample Seattle,WA Sample Books
Bill Mathews Vancouver,BC Startreader Books
Vicki Poyser Olympia,WA Artist
Rae Hanscom Oakland,CA Pewter Canvas
Don Glover Seattle,WA Horizon Books
Rik Thompson Milpitas,CA Bookseller
Carolyn Whitehorn Willits,CA The Forge
Future Dreams Portland,OR Booksellers
Second Genesis Portland,OR Booksellers
Brian Barrett Hayward,CA Bookseller
Mike Acebo and Lisa Free Booksellers
Robert L. Brown Seattle,WA Bookmonger
William Hopkins Port Angeles,WA Bookseller
Frank Rabinovitch Seattle,WA Bookseller
Andrew Porter New York,NY Publisher
Terry Rutherford Vancouver,BC Bookseller
OMNI New York,NY Publisher
Paul Palmer Tacoma,WA Bookseller
Janet Kramer Bellevue,WA Artist
H Warner Munn Tacoma,WA Author
Marty Macklin Santa Cruz,CA Artisan
USS ENTERPRISE Kirkland,WA Gameseller
James L. Miller Seattle,WA NORSTAR
Dale Enzenbacher North Folk,CA Sculptor
Bobbi Fraguadas Portland,OR Bookseller
Scott Allen Renton,WA Sculptor
Steve Perry Aloha,OR Ray Guns
SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE
Do you want to know what Robert Sheckley plans to buy as Omni’s new fiction editor? What’s happened to Heritage Press? How robots are selling Coca-Cola? What publisher signed Carl Lundgren to work for them only? Information about the new Covenant trilogy? Where SF artists are showing their work? The effects of Ballantine and Warner merging their sales forces? Why F&SF is raising their price—and when? Details and covers for upcoming books from Arkham House, DAW, Doubleday, Pocket Books, Del Rey, Dell, etc? Isaac Asimov’s publishing problems? Who sold what to whom? The latest SF film and TV deals? What publishers are buying SF stories and novels, and what they pay—plus details of exactly what editors are looking for? Who’s autographing at your favorite SF store? What the critics say about that book before you buy it?
You’ll find all this—and much more—in just one issue of Science Fiction Chronicle. SFC is a monthly newsmagazine covering the entire spectrum of science fiction. Because it’s published in New York, it can keep on top of the field a lot better than any other newspaper on SF. And it’s published by Andrew Porter, whose Starship: The Magazine About SF (formerly Algol) has been around since 1963. Every issue of Science Fiction Chronicle features market reports, bookseller news, letters, reviews, convention listings, classifieds, editorials, NASA news, media columns, SFWA reports by Jack Williamson and others, new toy, model and game news, and still more. And best of all, Science Fiction Chronicle is mailed by First Class Mail to subscribers (airmail overseas), because we know you want the news while it’s still new. And yet a subscription to Science Fiction Chronicle costs only $12, $18 overseas. Take the time today to subscribe. If you’re not convinced, write today for a free sample. You can’t get a better deal than that. SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE, P.O. BOX 4175, NEW YORK, NY 10017.
The Ultimate Elric
STORMBRINGER
by MICHAEL WHELAN
LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
Signed and numbered by the artist
High quality, acid-free paper
Original size - 20" x 28"
4" x 6" postcards available too
Available at Victoria Poyser's table in the NORWESCON Dealer's Room
The Northwest Science Fiction Society proudly presents
March 29-April 1, 1990
Annual Northwest Regional Science Fiction Convention
RUSTYCON 8
Puget Sound Area Science Fiction Convention
January 18, 19 & 20, 1991
Guests of Honor
writer
Dr. Robert Forward
artist
Randall Spangler
fan
bandit
membership rates:
$18.00 until March 31, 1990
$22.00 until July 31, 1990
$25.00 until December 31, 1990
$28.00 at the door
RUSTYCON8 P.O. Box 84291
Seattle, WA 98124-5591
Art Show • Dealers Room • Hospitality • Masquerade • Casino • 2 Dances • Gaming • Video Programming • Guests • Panel Programming • Parties • Costumes
VOLUNTEER
We're Looking for a Few Good Fen
March 29-April 1, 1990
Annual Northwest Regional Science Fiction Convention
MARCH 29TH-APRIL 1ST, 1990 - TACOMA SHERATON
Twelth Annual Northwest Regional Science Fiction Convention
Sponsored by the:
Northwest Science Fiction Society
P.O. Box 24207
Seattle, WA 98124
Guest of Honor
ROGER ZELAZNY
Artist Guest of Honor
DAVID CHERRY
Science Guest of Honor
DR. JOHN G. CRAMER
Fan Guest of Honor
PAT MUELLER
Toastmaster
DAN REEDER
Program Book Production: Michael Brocha, Michael Citrak, Robert Suryan, Judy Suryan, Yvonne Richardson
Program Book Printouts: Designer Service Bureau, Olympia, WA
Chairman: Elizabeth Warren
Convention Secretary: Claudia Quale, Vicki Glover
Hospitality: Debbie Tatarek, Pait Kernovan, Matt Winkelman
Business Manager: Mary Hamburger
Treasurer: Richard Wright
Membership Services: Carolyn Palms, Diane Kuulei Villaflor, Paul Schaper
Mail Services: Lauraine Miranda
Publications: Michael Brocha
Photo Services: Peter Citrak, John Sabotta
Convention Services: Judy Suryan
Operations: Robert Suryan
Office: Beckv Simpson, Dave Sullivan
Lost & Found: Lauraine Miranda
Information: Doug Booze
Medical: Judy Suryan
Site Services: Kathy Smith
Peacebonding: Marni Smith
Rovers: Peter Horvath
Watch: Julia Mueller
Gophers: Dave Sullivan
Signs: Janis Worrell
Maintenance: Janis Worrell
Programming/Stage Services: Michael Citrak
Stage Management: Jodi Kimball, Cherie Playter
Masquerade: Hans Meier, Bob Grieve, Antony Ferruci
Stardance: Keith Johnson, Michael Citrak
Saturday Night Dance: Shawn Marier, Peter Kafka D'Anglemont
Ice Cream Social: Judy Survan, Kathy Smith
Prop Room: Pat Oros, Becky Fallis, Lou Anna Valentine
Fannish Olympics: Mark Richardson
Technical Services: Keith Johnson
Tech Gofer: Lindy Pangan
Volunteer Services: Shelia Glassburn
Staff Lounge: Toni Elton
KidKon III: Sue Bartroff, Director, Mica Hellinger, Andrew Bartroff, Susan Dahlin, Frnn Beslanowich, Andy LaPlant
Static Programming: Jodi Kimbell
Gaming: Craig Bowie, Stacie Bowie
Art Show: Katherine Howes
Dealers: Don Forbis, Holly Forbis
Fanzine Room: Mark Manning
My Science Project: Jodi Kimbell
Programming Director: Yvonne V. Richardson
Assistant Programming Director: "Jolly" Roger E. Steppe
Honorary Assistant Program Director: Keith Johnson
Programming Assistants: Steve Bard, Sue Bartroff, Linda Bray, some guy named Michael Brocha program book guy, Karen Lee Carmack, Michael Citrak, D'Artagnan, Randoph P. Filthyrich, Maura Garrett, Hank Graham, Kim Graham, Mary Hamburger, Leslie Howle, Andrea Hunt, Kendra Hunt, Lisa Marie Hunt, Tom Kennedy, Mark Laville, Casey Leichter, Jessica Maldonado, Andrew P. McQuiddy, Hans Meier, Lonnie Morford, Margaret Organ, Claudie Quate, Mark Richardson, Judy Suryan, Laura Toeepel, Elizabeth Warren, Richard Wright
Computing Services Director: Yvonne V. Richardson
Computing Services: John Brautlacht, Michael Citrak, Jim Lane, Roger E. Steppe
Quality Control: Michael Brocha the program book guy, Randolph P. Filthyrich, Yvonne V. Richardson
Green Room: Dora Shirk, Doug Shirk
Banquet Arrangements: Judy Suryan
Writers Workshops: Michael Scanlon
Media Services Director: Chris McDonell
Video Program Director: Walter Jung
Video Programming Assistants: CERTAIN Fannish Olympics Teams, Scott Anderson, Jim C. Clowers, Jim Cobb, Hank Graham, Hugh Gregory, Jeff Harris, Ryan K. Johnson, Cindy Ketterling, Chris Ketunnen, Patrick R. LaBlanc, Gary Malkasian, Paul Morris, Hilarie Morris, Jordan Orr, Mark Schellberg, Tempus, Dennis Virzi, Tim Young, Matt Zukouski
Page 3 Boy: Mgungu Yabba Mgungu
Cover: A Stitch in Time © 1990 by David A. Cherry
Programming: 2
Guest of Honor: Roger Zelazny by Fred Saberhangen: 20
Art Guest of Honor: David A. Cherry by Raymond E. Feist: 22
Fan Guest of Honor: Pat Mueller by Allen Varney: 26
Science Guest of Honor: Dr. John G. Cramer by William R. Warren Jr.: 28
Volunteer Guest of Honor: Joe Wheeler by Doug Shirk: 30
Toastmaster: Dan Reeder: 32
Gallery I: 34
Fiction: by John Cramer: 44
Guests of Norwescon: 48
Fact: Gauze Celebre by Pat Mueller: 64
Gallery II: 68
Fiction: Time Considered As a Helix of Lavender Ribbon by Deborah Wessell: 78
Volunteers: 80
Fiction: The Last Star Trek Parody by Steven Bryan Bieler: 82
Members of Norwescon: 84
Advertisers & Art Credits: 87
Acknowledgements: 88
Back Cover La Belle Dame Du Rocher © 1990 by David A. Cherry
Nametag El Paradoja © 1990 by Mark a. Skullerud
Contents Copyright © 1990 by the Northwest Science Fiction Society for the contributors.
All opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Norwescon or the Northwest Science Fiction Society
[Artwork] Sight Seer cover for the anthology Visible Light by C.J. Cherryh, published by Phantasia Press. © 1990 by David A. Cherry.
The Norwescon Program can be regarded as sort of "meta-convention"-that is, the raw materials out of which one can construct one's own convention. We hope that no one attending Norwescon will experience exactly the same con, but do hope we've provided you with the opportunity to have the convention you want.
The following schedule shows most of the programming events, but not all. Whereas much work has gone into the scheduling of events and making the listings as complete and accurate as possible, things tend to change and panelists sometimes have to drop out. Pay close attention to your Pocket Program, because time changes and additional events will appear there. For your convenience, we have compilied much of the programming into several catagories at the end of this schedule.
Some programs are marked as being of particular interest to children and teens. For the most part they are not intended solely for kids and teens and may be enjoyed by all, either by participating or observing. ¶ indicate those programs of interest to children and their parents, ¥ indicates those for teens.
Please do not leave children ages 12 and under at these events unattended to be amused. Parents are still responsible for these children and are expected to be with them at all times. The convention committee welcomes you to Norwescon 12 and hopes that you have an enjoyable convention.
ART DEMO: SCRIMSHAW
Conference Room
SUPERSCIENCE 1990 ¥
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Prominent scientists and science writers gather to tell us how much closer we've gotten to the forefront of science, and what new horizons may be in view.
SHARED WORLDS: PRO AND CON
Ballroom 3
GAMES: CREATING TALES OF 1,000 NIGHTS
Ballroom 4
PANORAMA: NORTHWEST CONVENTIONS
Pavilion F
SURPRISE PANEL #1: CRITICAL MASS Ballrooms 1 & 2
If we get enough people at this event, it will happen. How much is enough, and what will happen? Come find out!!
SACRIFICIAL READING
Ballroom 3
HIGH TECH "READING"
Ballroom 4
The written word as electrical impulse. What are the effects, benefits, and drawbacks? What about the literary, social, cultural, and economic implications?
COSTUMES FROM MATERIALS AT HAND
Conference Room
FURRY PARTY ¥
Pavilion F
BOOKS, BOOKS EVERYWHERE BUT HOW MANY ARE WORTH READING?
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Publishing houses are putting out more and more F/SF in shorter times than ever before. How much of it is any good? Are they publishing new and different things for everyone, or is it more of the same. How much is from writers that are truly producing, and how much is from the "formula" bandwagon? Whether or not they are "formula" books, do they hold your attention? Are they worth buying as well as reading?
OPENING CEREMONIES
Ballrooms 1 & 2 ¥¶
Roger Zelazny, Pat Mueller, John G. Cramer, Dan Reeder (M), Avram Davidson, David A. Cherry, Joe Wheeler, Becky Simpson, Elizabeth Warren, Judy Suryan, Yvonne V. Richardson
A glimpse of what awaits you this weekend, featuring our Guests of Honor and some of the Norwescon staff.
NORWESCON 12 WARMUP DANCE
Pavilion
FRIDAY TAI CHI ¥¶
Pavilion Prefunction Area
Steve Barnes (M)
Tai chi is neither a martial art nor is it aerobics; however, it is a wonderful method of schooling the body AND the mind. Steve Barnes will lead you through some of the disciplines of Tai Chi before you get started on your day at Norwescon.
WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR IDEAS?
Ballrooms 1 & 2
READING: STEVE BARNES
Ballroom 3
Steve Barnes (M)
CORPORATE MERGERS AND PUBLISHING TRENDS
Ballroom 4
LIVING AS A FULL-TIME PRO
Pavilion E
CANNIBALISM IN ART
Pavilion F
Margaret Organ (M), Margaret Organ
New F/SF artists 'feed' on their predecessors. This is not uncommon; almost all artists learn how to draw by copying presumably better artists. In fact, the copying of old masters in actively encouraged in traditional art schools. Unfortunately, the pool of 'old masters' in the F/SF genre is extremely limited compared to those outside the genre. So, what sources and traditions outside the genre can be drawn from as learning material?
[Artwork] Cold Cuts, cover for The Year's Best Horror Vol XV, published by DAW © 1990 by Michael Whelan
[Artwork] © 1990 by Monika Livingston
INTERVIEW: DAVID CHERRY, ART GOH
Ballrooms 1 & 2
David A. Cherry
IS LIGHT FANTASY GETTING LIGHTER?
Ballroom 3
Everyone enjoys a good fantasy novel now and then. But as fantasy becomes more popular and more formula- driven, one sometimes wonders if light fantasy is beginning to be like light beer or light margarine- all fluff and no substance. What is causing this market trend, and is there still hope for high fantasy?
CAPTURING YOUR IMAGINATION ¥
Ballroom 4
A popular program on putting depth into your art and fiction. Exactly how do you transfer a texture or a sunset from your brain to the page or canvas?
ESP AND ALL THAT JAZZ
Pavilion E ¥
Clairaudience, clairvoyance, precognition, psychometry, telekinesis and telepathy are all descriptive terms for paranormal behavior. Is extrasensory perception normal human behavior? Or is it created by a vivid imagination?
POETRY PERFORMANCE: COLLEEN ANDERSON
Pavilion F
Colleen Anderson (M)
READING: ALIS RASMUSSEN
Pavilion F
INTERVIEW: PAT MUELLER, FAN GOH
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Pat Mueller, Richard Wright (M)
IS DARK FANTASY GETTING DARKER?
Ballroom 3
Whatever happened to the lurker at the threshold, the monster under the bed, or the horror around the corner? Has our need for detail, spurred on by the special effects industry, created a market for blood and gore rather than thrills and suspense?
FEEDING, NURTURING, AND CARING FOR YOUR TALENT
Ballroom 4 ¥
There are formal and informal activities which will help sharpen your professional skills as an artist or writer. Workshopping, the "old friend" network, school, convention demonstrations, and socializing with those who share your interests are all ways to keep your talent and motivation alive. What else is there? Our panelists will share those ideas with you, as well as what has worked for them.
ANTHOLOGY READING I
Conference Room
Mario Milosevic, Kim Antieau
INVESTING IN ART: CREATING A COLLECTION
Pavilion E
COMPACTING YOUR PROSE
Pavilion F
COSTUMING: CREATING BELIEVABLE PERSONAS
Forum Room ¥
READING: DR. JOHN CRAMER
Ballrooms 1 & 2
John G. Cramer
THE USE OF REAL HISTORIES IN ALTERNATE REALITIES
Ballroom 3
GETTING YOUR FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED
Ballroom 4
THE TECH CREW IS YOUR COSTUME TOO Pavilion E
[Artwork] © 1990 by Ingrid Neilson
CROSS-CULTURAL OCCULTISM
Pavilion F
Sharon Sinclair (M)
Eastern, Western, and Native American esoteric systems have similar core elements. How do these disciplines differ from the l980's wave of New Age thought?
ART DEMO: DAVID DEITRICK
Conference Room
THE NORWESCON 12 COMIC STRIP ¥
Fanzine Room
Dresden Moss, Getsu-Shin Moss
The folks at Miscellania Unlimited have a deal for you!! Those who participate in this event will receive copies of the Norwescon 12 Comic Strip for a small fee. Of course, that means you have to help draw it. Have some fun, illustrate the con, and learn a bit about B&W comic publishing while you're at it.
URBAN FANTASIES ¥
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Urban myths and legends are an increasingly popular motif in F/SF. The Big Bad Wolf of the Forest has been replaced with The Big Bad Bum in the Alley, and the bain sidhe by the river has been elbowed aside by the pirhana in the swimming pool. Although our civilization seems to be getting farther away from nature, we still fulfill our need for its magic, both fair and foul. Was that a yellow brick I just saw? Nah, not on this road.
ASFA: ART, ANYONE?
Ballroom 3
The Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists is
TELEPRESENCE AND VIRTUAL REALITY
Ballroom 4
Robert Jacobson, Thomas A. Furness
SUPRISE PANEL #2
Conference Room
MASQUERADE: MANDATORY MEETING #1
Pavilion D
Hans Meier (M)
This is your first chance to meet with the Masquerade crew and discuss what's needed to be a Masquerade participant. Missing both this meeting and the other mandatory meeting implies that you will not be in the masquerade; however, you only need to attend one of these two meetings.
INTERVIEW: JOE WHEELER, VOLUNTEER GOH
Pavilion F
Bill Ransom (M), Joe Wheeler
FANNISH OLYMPICS: JUDGES' MEETING
Forum Room
Mark Richardson
ART SHOW TOUR: JON GUSTAFSON
Rotunda Balcony
Jon Gustafson (M)
Arkadian Bookshop
Specializing in Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror
New * Used * Rare
Generous Trade-In Policy * Free Search Service
Mail Order
Frequent Autographing Parties
5232 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
[redacted]
Kristi N. Austin, Proprietor
D.A.R.E. TO FIGHT DRUGS
Ballrooms 1 & 2 ¥¶
More and more of our youth is turning to drugs, drugs which can kill. Officer Dan Still, from the Tacoma Police D.A.R.E. program, is here to tell you how to combat this menace which can steal your will, your self-esteem, your mind, and even your life. People of ALL ages are encouraged to attend this panel; either you'll run into drugs or you'll run into someone who needs your help in the fight against the beast.
TAX LAWS AND THE ARTIST/WRITER
Ballroom 3
There have been countless changes in tax laws in the past few years, especially for those who are self-employed. This is even more true for writers, artists, composers, and others who are employed in bringing the products of creative processes to the public. Cyn Mason is here to discuss the IRS point of view, and perhaps give you some pointers to help you meet April 15 with alacrity instead of trepidation.
[Artwork] © 1990 by Margaret Organ
A COMPLETE COURSE IN WRITING IN 55 MINUTES OR LESS
Ballroom 4
Algis Budrys (M)
Everything you ever wanted to know about writing, in less time than it takes to ask (almost). Noted author/ editor (not futurist) Algis Budrys will share his insights with you, so LISTEN FAST!!
HARD SF
Conference Room
THREE FACES OF MAGIC
Pavilion F
Sharan Sinclair
Both the Old and New Worlds have produced magical systems. This panel will explore some common patterns in the areas of natural, folk, and formal magic.
OPEN FORUM: COMIC COLLECTING
Forum Room
ART SHOW TOUR: DAVID CHERRY
Rotunda Balcony
David A. Cherry (M)
CARTOONISTS' JAM: SCRAWL, SCRIBBLE AND BLOTCH
Ballrooms 1 & 2 ¥¶
Margaret Organ (M), Donna Barr, Karen Lee Carmack
See a mural(???) take shape before your eyes as a small horde of professional artists trade canvases in much the same fashion that jazz musicians trade motifs. Of course, the wild and wacky ideas that will be let loose upon an unsuspecting world may very well bring a new meaning to the phrase “performing arts" ...
INTERVIEW: AVRAM DAVIDSON, SPECIAL GUEST
Ballroom 3
Avram Davidson*
A small, quiet talk with Special Guest Avram Davidson.
WHERE'D THE TV CENSORS GO?
Ballroom 4
SUCCESSFUL MASQUERADE PRESENTATIONS
Conference Room
John Barnes (M)
[Artwork] © 1990 by Ingrid Neilson
THE TRIBAL MIND OF CYBERPUNK ¥
Pavilion E
FANNISH OLYMPICS: ORIENTATION AND PRELIMINARIES
Pavilion F
Mark Richardson (M)
USES AND ABUSES OF DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Ballroom 3
THE CHANGING FACES OF FANDOM
Ballroom 4
Yvonne V. Richardson
From the pulps of the thirties to the flicks of the eighties, multitudes have been drawn to some form of F/SF and the various factions of fandom. Let's talk about what it WAS to be a fan, what it means NOW, and whether peaceful coexistence among factions is possible.
ADVANCES IN BIOTECHNOLOGY ¥
Pavilion F
Built any new lifeforms lately? Panelists and audience together will explore the discoveries and ramifications of this hotly-debated field. Disease building and eradication, genetic adaptations, and human tissue cultures will be discussed.
SUPRISE PANEL #3
Conference Room
CONVENTIONING 101 ¥
Forum Room
Sheila Glassburn (M)
The inimitable Professor Sheila Glassburn is here to welcome newcomers to the families of fandom and give you pointers on how to make Norwescon 12 a unique and memorable experience. A quick course on convention etiquette which will make you want to come back for more—and make us want to have you back.
Poul Anderson, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Christopher Stasheff, and others in...
THE FLEET #4: SWORN ALLIES
Edited by David Drake and Bill Fawcett
The brave men and women of the Fleet have fought the most fiery battle the stars will ever witness in the remote darkness of space. They've had to ward off the ruthless Khalian horde on hellish planets with poisoned atmospheres. Now they're about to face their greatest challenge. From missiles endowed with human minds to self-replicating mechanical monsters, the war of the millennium will never be the same!
$3.95
More hilarious than a visit to Callahan's Crosstime Saloon - it's a brand-new adventure in the bestselling Callahan series!
CALLAHAN’S LADY
By Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Spider Robinson
"LARGER-THAN-LIFE FUN!"—Locus
Everyone for millions of miles around thought Callahan's Crosstime Saloon was the greatest place to visit in the galaxy. Then they discovered Lady Sally's House. Sally's a true professional,and her beautiful and dedicated staff aim to please.
So shed your inhibitions and join the fun with Callahan's Lady and her girls. Satisfaction guaranteed...
$3.95
[Artwork] © 1990 by John Alvarez
MEET THE PROS AUTOGRAPH PARTY
Ballrooms 1,2,3 & 4
Everyone's invited to this party, to meet some new people, collect a few autographs, and renew old acquaintances. Writers, artists, agents, and other guests will be in attendance; if you don't have other collectibles for them to sign, you can always have your Norwescon 12 Program Book autographed.
STARDANCE AND ICE CREAM SOCIAL ¥¶
Pavilion
Michael Citrak
The biggest dance of the convention, the largest gathering of Northwest fen, the STARDANCE and ICE CREAM SOCIAL happens again!! The Boogie Beings are back, and will transform the Pavilion into a panorama of lights, a wall of sound, and a floorful of DANCERS!! There will be a special opening number to let you know exactly what the Boogie Being means when he says “boogie". And when you don't feel like dancing, there's always ice cream . . .
FRIDAY AA GATHERING
Forum Room
CLUB ANDROMEDA
Ballrooms 1,2, & 3
Tania Opland, Rebecca Neason, Anna Peekstok, Karen Lee Carmack (M)
Ever wonder what hidden talents those mysterious beings collectively known as "the pros" might be harboring? Then join us at Club Andromeda for an interdimensional musical romp starring pro writers, artist, and big name fans in a sophisticated, intergalactic coffeehouse setting. Highlighting the evening will be the duo Telynor with their unique blend of original and traditional tunes.
MIDNIGHT HORROR READINGS
Ballroom 4
DEALER'S ASSOCIATION MEETING
Pavilion E & F
Don Forbis (M)
SATURDAY TAI CHI ¥¶
Pavilion Prefunction Area
Steve Barnes (M)
It's Saturday morning!! Wake up your body and your mind with Tai Chi. This is an exercise that is as much mental as it is physical; it will help you find your centers of balance, control, and motivation, and maybe even give you the stamina to survive the hottest day of Norweson programming.
SPECIAL ART SHOW TOUR: FOR ARTISTS ONLY
Rotunda Balcony
THE ART OF DAVID CHERRY
Ballroom 1 & 2
[Artwork] © 1990 by Margaret Organ
BALLOONING TO MARS?
Ballroom 3 ¥
Jordin Kare (M)
Livermore Labs proposes some interesting, innovative—and inexpensive technology for space stations and manned Mars missions.
MAKING ART (THAT) PRESERVES
Ballroom 4
Margaret Organ (M), William R. Warren Jr.
Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper has been falling off the wall in tiny pieces for about 450 years. Had he used more permanent materials, his fresco would be in as good shape as Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling. How can YOU be sure your art will last over the centuries? Come to this panel and uncover the mysteries of dyes vs. pigments, Ph neutral papers, buffering, and binders.
BREAKING INTO SCREENWRITING
Conference Room
So you'd like to see your work on the big silver screen, eh? You'll need to know about format, terminology, and selling your plays while keeping your rights. Listen to our attending screenwriters as they talk about the perils and pitfalls of producing plays.
MASQUERADE: MANDATORY MEETING #2
Pavilion D
Hans Meier (M)
This is your LAST chance to meet with the Masquerade crew and discuss what's needed to be a Masquerade participant. If you missed the previous meeting, you MUST attend this one or you will not be in the masquerade; if you've already attended a mandatory masquerade meeting, please ignore this reminder.
READING: DEBORAH WESSELL
Pavilion E & F
Deborah Wessel I (M)
CONVENTIONING 201
Forum Room ¥
Sheila Glassburn
Come learn the secret language of conventioneering from the inimitable Professor Sheila Glassburn, back for a second lecture. Egoboo, smoffing, and FIAWOL vs. FIJAGH are some of the terms that will be discussed, along with the everpresent "please" and "thank you". A quick orientation will make your Norwescon experience a pleasant one for all involved.
MASQUERADE TECHNICAL PRE-JUDGING
Pavilion Backstage
Hans Meier (M), Masquerade Technical judges (you know who you are).
READING: BRUCE TAYLOR
Pavilion E & F
THE PRIZE IN THE SERIAL
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Roger Zelazny
INTERVIEW: DR. JOHN G. CRAMER, SCIENCE GOH
Ballroom 3
John G. Cramer
READING: STEVEN BRYAN BIELER
Conference Room
READING: REBECCA NEASON
Pavilion E & F
TEEN ART JAM ¥
Forum Room
FILM CONTEST: PRELIMINARIES
Ballroom 4 Amateur filmmakers enter their most exciting new works in the annual Norwescon contest.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN MEMORIAL BLOOD DRIVE
Bloodmobile in Courtyard
READING: ROGER ZELAZNY
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Roger Zelazny (M)
IS SPACE OPERA A RESPECTABLE SUBGENRE?
Ballroom 3
BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE
Conference Room
FAXCON
Fanzine Room
When there are two or more notable conventions on the same weekend, many pros and fans are torn as to which one to attend. Since this is also the weekend of Readercon and I-con, we will attempt a fax hook-up to let members of all conventions get a feel for what's happening at the other cons.
ART SHOW TOUR: THE DHARMIC ENGINEERS
Rotunda Balcony
THE FALL OF THE IRON CURTAIN
Ballrooms 1 & 2
ALTERNATIVE CAREERS FOR FICTION WRITERS Ballroom 3
NANOTECHNOLOGY IN THE 90'S Ballroom 4
Elton Elliott, Grant Fjermedal
The art of creating molecular machinery has been nicknamed "the ultimate Industrial Revolution". Why? What sciences are associated with it, and how can the average person benefit from it? Need we worry about "escapees" from labs or augmented humans taking our places on the socio-economic ladder? What are benefits currently available to us from this frontier, and what might be coming up in the next decade?
HOW TO BREAK INTO PRINT Conference Room
What's the best way to prepare a manuscript? To whom should you send it, and what protocols should be observed? There's more to selling a story than just mailing it--here are some suggestions.
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Pavilion D
KIDKON: SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THE CIRCUS ¶
Pavilion E & F
GENETIC DECODING
Ballrooms 1 & 2
[Artwork] © 1990 by Alicia Austin
SF AND SELF-CENSORSHIP
Ballroom 3
More than any other genre, F/SF should be the one where any idea can be explored, whether in works of art or works of literature. But even here, there are often differences between what "should be" and what "is." Listen as writers, artists, and other professionals talk about the times they censored themselves ... even in this, the "free-est" of genres.
READING: KIM ANTIEAU
Ballroom 4
READING: MARIO MILOSEVIC
Ballroom 4
WORMHOLES AND TIME MACHINES ¥
Ballrooms 1 & 2
A discourse on the actuality of these and other time-honored means of transport. A must for those of you who wish to provide a means to get a character from here to there (and now to then) with as little fuss and as much plausibility as possible.
MORALITY & ETHICS IN F/SF
Ballroom 3
SMALL PRESS PUBLISHING
Ballroom 4
ANTHOLOGY READING II
Conference Room
Luella W. Burrows, Sara L. Stamey (M)
MASQUERADE: MANDATORY RUN-THROUGH
Pavilion D
Hans Meier (M), Steve Barnes
You miss this, you miss being in the masquerade. Costume optional, except for feet, heads, and other problem pieces.
Nebula Award-nominated author of The Tales of Nedao
Ru Emerson
“A STORYTELLING WIZARD!”
—Katherine Eliska Kimbriel, author of Fire Sanctuary
SPELL BOUND
A stunning tapestry of dark magic and dangerous romance. A brilliantly haunting fairy tale you will never forget...
Young Prince Conrad had never seen such a beautiful maiden. Her name was Sofia, and she was magic. Bewitching, beguiling, bewildering...it was as if she had cast a spell on him. But was it true love that captured his heart? Or a dark, powerful sorcery as tempting and inescapable as evil itself?
"Emerson writes delightfully clear prose, with a deft and loving touch."
—Tad Willlams, author of Tailchaser's Song
$3.95
RADIO SHOWS-OLD AND NEW
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Mark Skullerud (M)
BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR
Ballroom 3
CLARION WEST AUCTION SETUP AND VIEWING
Ballroom 4
Leslie Howie (M), Steve Barnes, Edward Bryant
Here's your last chance to view the Clarion Auction items before the auction itself. Come on, you REALLY want that galley proof, don't you? And the suspenders of disbelief-one size fits all...
ART DEMO: THE EVOLUTION OF FUNNY ANIMALS
Conference Room ¥
Steven A. Gallacci (M)
INTERVIEW: DAN REEDER, TOASTMASTER
Pavilion E & F
Dan Reeder
CLARION WEST SCHOLARSHIP AUCTION
Ballroom 4
Edward Bryant (M), Leslie Howie, Steve Barnes, Deborah Wessell
Signed books, artwork, T-shirts, and other special itemswill be auctioned to benefit the Clarion West Scholarship Fund. Auctioneers Ed Bryant and Steve Barnes will do their best to convince each and every one of you that you HAVE to have that special item more than that person over there does. GoinG. GoinG.
PNTA
Stage Lighting • Sound • Special Effects
Sales • Rentals
Event Services
Professional Design • Delivery • Set-up
Free Catalog
Same day service on orders placed by 1:00pm
PACIFIC NORTHWEST THEATRE ASSOCIATES • 333 WESTLAKE AVENUE NORTH, SEATTLE, WA, 98109
[redacted] • SEATTLE: 622-7850 • FAX [redacted]
INTERVIEW: ROGER ZELAZNY, WRITER GOH
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Roger Zelazny, Leslie Howle (M)
THE FUTURE OF ART, ANIMATION, AND SPECIAL EFFECTS ¥
Ballroom 3
Some of the area's most prominent artists in the computer art field are here to give you their opinions, a glimpse of their computer-aided creations, and a demo or two.
ZINES, ZINES, ZINES!!
Fanzine Room
A general discussion of what zines are, how they came to be, and why they diversified into news, media, personal, electronic, general, and/ or fanzines. Where are they today, and where are they headed? Do they prepare writers and artists for "the big time", or are they just letters for larger audiences?
HAS SUCCESS KILLED SF FANDOM & CONVENTIONS?
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Remember the good old days when you knew everybody at a convention AND could see them all—simultaneously? Most conventions are no longer just a quick trip across town; now they inhabit entire hotels and have official airlines, rent-a-car services, and restaurants. WHAT HAPPENED? Has the science fiction convention become such a social event that there's no room left for the science—or the fiction?
COMPUTER-ASSISTED ANARCHY
Ballroom 3
More and more people network via bulletin boards, e-mail, uplinks and downlinks. As a consequence, the world information network is growing exponentially. That which is suppressed at one source is easily obtained from another; socio-political boundaries are often ignored. When a majority of the world can network, will government as we now know it cease to exist? What might take its place?
DECREASING ILLITERACY
Conference Room
How do the literate transmit the importance of literacy to an increasingly illiterate society? How do those who are not literate become so? Is it possible to get people "turned on" to the written word before they have a chance to "turn off"?
MASQUERADE
Pavilion
Hans Meier (M), Steve Barnes
This year's Masquerade is being emceed by Steve Barnes. Come watch the fantastic panorama of glittering costumes, wonderful stage shows, and terrific half-time entertainment!
NORWESCON 12 MASQUERADE-LIVE!!
Ch 6 (North room)
For those of you who don't wish to fight the crowds, the Norwescon 12 Masquerade will be videotaped live and beamed into your hotel rooms via the Truly Mondo Channel. Or, it can be watched in the Truly Mondo Video room, also known as the North Room. Truly Mondo Video courtesy of Keith Johnson.
SATURDAY AA GATHERING
Forum Room
[Artwork] Message From A Friend © 1990 by Rob Alexander
WAVE OF THE 80'S DANCE ¥
Ballrooms 1,2,3, & 4
Well, the Oldies Dance was Thursday night, and the Stardance was last night. For those of you who just CAN'T get enough, Peter Kafka and Shawn Marier are here to offer you a new and special mix of dance tunes.
I regret that I am unable to display my work at this year’s Norwescon. I look forward to seeing you at the Portland Westercon.
Laurie Edison
Sign of the Unicorn
Box 77370
San Francisco, CA 94107
[redacted]
NORWESCON AFTER DARK
Pavilion
Karen Lee Carmack, Dennis Virzi (M)
Dennis Virzi and friends take a humorous view of the question: "What is a Trufan?"
MIDNIGHT MOVIE MADNESS
Pavilion D
DEALER'S ROOM TOUR
Dealer's Room
Richard Wright (M)
SUNDAY TAI CHI ¥¶
Pavilion Prefunction Area
Steve Barnes (M)
The final Tai Chi class of this year's Norwescon should clearyourmind, wake up your body, and get you ready for the last full day of Norwescon 12.
[Artwork] © 1990 by Ingrid Neilson
[Artwork] © 1990 by Lita Smith-Gharet
ART DEMO: THE SCREAMER INVASION
Ballrooms 1 & 2 ¥¶
Dan Reeder (M)
SURPRISE PANEL #8
Ballroom 3
BALANCING FANDOM & FAMILY
Ballroom 4
Pat Mueller
MASQUERADE DEBRIEFING SESSION
Pavilion Backstage
Hans Meier (M)
Masquerade competitors and Event Staff meet to compare notes, exchange information, and talk about what went wrong and what went right.
READING: MICHAEL CONEY
Pavilion E
Michael G. Coney
SFWA-WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT DOES
Pavilion F
Who are the Science Fiction Writers of America? What are membership requirements, duties, and responsibilities? What can SFWA do for the active writer? Is there a relationship between being in SFWA and being a pro at your average con?
READING: SF POETRY
Conference Room
TELLING YOUR KIDS ABOUT SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
Forum Room
READING: KATHLEEN ALCALA
Pavilion E
Kathleen Alcala (M)
SPECIALTY CONS
Ballrooms 1 & 2
VOLUNTEERS/GOH PARTY
Ballroom 3
Elizabeth Warren, Becky Simpson, David A. Cherry, Judy Suryan, John G. Cramer, Pat Mueller, Dan Reeder, Yvonne V. Richardson, Joe Wheeler, Roger Zelazny, Avram Davidson
This is a special hour for volunteers only. Spend some time with our Guests of Honor and other pros you didn't get to see because you were working. Those who help make a convention run sometimes DO get special rewards, and we have some for you.
FILM CONTEST: WINNERS' SHOWING
Ballroom 4
Jim Cobb (M)
Come see the film(s) judged to be the best of this year's Amateur Film Contest.
ART DEMO: COMIC CONSTRUCTION
Conference Room
Donna Barr (M)
DUCT-TAPING WITH DRAGON
Pavilion E
Dragon (M) ¥
NOW THAT I'VE SOLD, WHAT DO I DO?
Pavilion F
Congratulations--you finally have your name in print, or have begun to sell your works to that ever-elusive creature, "the buyer". What's the next step? How do you turn your work into a full-time job instead of just a fun hobby? How do you go from being "a flash in the pan" to being a steady producer-- and seller? News on markets, publishing, marketing, and promoting your work.
SURPRISE PANEL #?
Ballrooms 1 & 2
ANTHOLOGY READING III
Ballroom 3
JAPANIMATION ¥
Ballroom 4
FILM-MAKING ON A SHOESTRING
Conference Room
How do you make terrific films with little or no budget? Some of the Northwest filmmakers are here to share a few secrets with you.
BANQUET AND PHILLIP K. DICK AWARDS CEREMONY
Pavilion D ¥¶
Michael Whelan
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Ballrooms 1 & 2
Of course, this event takes place when we're at our silliest. How would YOU draw "it was a dark and stormy night"?
THE F/SF RAINBOW COALITION
Ballroom 3
Artists, editors, publishers, writers, and/or readers are invited to share viewpoints on non-white characters and illustrations. What are their associated messages, outlooks, and futures? Are they still putting aliens on the covers because non-white humans won't sell books? Worse yet, are we still blaming the artists?
LOOK WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO MY BOOK, MA!
Ballroom 4
OPEN WRITERS' WORKSHOP
Conference Room
An anonymously donated manuscript will be publicly critqued. Sit in on this event and see what REALLY happens in a writers' workshop. This is a great way to find out whether writers' workshops are really for YOU, and where to go for more information on them.
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ART AUCTION
Pavilion E & F
Katherine Howes (M)
Now's your chance to pick up the pieces you've been bidding on all weekend-assuming you can still outbid your competitors. If not, well, it's your last chance to see all that incredible artwork find new homes with OTHER PEOPLE. You don't really want to say goodbye to it, do you?
SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTIONEERS' MEETING
Ballroom 3
What was once the Science Fiction Convention League is now a more informal gathering for people who are involved in the formation and running of conventions. Bonnie Baker will be discussing the business of conventioneering—from the hotel's perspective. Other issues that conventioneers would like to address can also be aired.
READING: EILEEN GUNN
Ballroom 4
Eileen Gunn (M)
CAT PSYCHOLOGY: THE WRITER'S FAMILIAR
Conference Room
READING: DONNA BARR
Ballroom 4
Donna Barr (M)
AVON
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“Fantastic concepts and characters... Zelazny is a clear, limber stylist and a generous, thoughtful soul."
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ROGER ZELAZNY
FROST & FIRE
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author • A collection of his finest short stories and essays
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MAY 1990 FROM AVON BOOKS
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM LIBRARY
Ballrooms 1 & 2
You are aboard the S. S. Winnow when suddenly a monsoon strikes. You escape with your life and a small portion of the Winnow's cargo: BOOKS!! If you were marooned on a tropical island with nothing to do but read, what works would you choose to be marooned with you? Sit right back and choose some tales, some tales for your fateful trip . ..
FANNISH OLYMPICS: FINALS
Ballroom 4
Mark Richardson (M), Michael Bentley
BULWAR-LYTTON CONTEST
Forum Room
It was a dark and stormy night. I dropped my hat, and stooped to pick it up. Suddenly a shot rang out. It ricocheted off the lamppost behind me, exactly where my nose would have been had I not lost my hat; the sound of the bullet breaking the window of the car across the street reached my ears at the same instant that the dying scream of its unintended victim did. Can you top that for convoluted writing? Better yet, can you come up with more of the story? If you can, just put it in the "Bulwar-Lytton Box" at the Information Table, and your prose will be read Sunday morning. If you dare put your name on it, there may even be a prize or two . ..
STARGAZERS UNLIMITED
Rotunda
ONIONS AND ROSES
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Now's the time for a talk with the Convention Committee and hotel staff about this year's convention. From your viewpoint, what went wrong? What went right? What were your likes and dislikes? What would you like to see next year, other than 16 more elevators for the hotel? (Sorry folks, THAT we can't do.) Serious input from you now (which includes offers for volunteering) can be used in the planning of Norwescon '91.
CLOSING CEREMONIES
Ballrooms 1 & 2 ¥¶
Pat Mueller, Joe Wheeler, Becky Simpson, David A. Cherry, Avram Davidson, Dan Reeder (M), 'Yvonne V. Richardson, Roger Zelazny, John G. Cramer, Elizabeth Warren
It's over once again, and time to thank all those who participated in creating a wonderful weekend. Applause, awards, and appreciation all around!! But we'll keep it short, 'cuz we're tired and we want to go home too.
DEAD SASQUATCH PARTY AND SPRING RITES
Ballrooms 1,2, & 3 ¥¶
Adrian Nikolas Phoenix, Michael Citrak (M)
For those of you that 3 days of programming and 3 nights of serious partying didn't bum out, we're going to give it one last try. Mix-and-match dance cuts from the previous evenings ought to do the trick. Dare you out-boogie the Boogie Being? Come dance with the best of us— and the last of us.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
A GROSS PROPHETS PRODUCTION
with a grant from the Addams Family.
[Artwork] © 1990 by John Sabotta
Roger Zelazny by Fred Saberhagen
[Photo] Guest of Honor Roger Zelazny, photo by Nancy Ellis
I'm proud and happy to have known Roger Zelazny since some time in the early 1960s, when both of us took seriously to writing Science Fiction, and I began attending conventions. Roger was a serious writer for some years before that. He was a poet when he started, and has never stopped being one.
The finest stylist writing in our field avoids the electronic ghosts of word processing, though a few years back his fifty-mile-distant neighbors the Saberhagens talked him into getting a Macintosh—his three kids get a fair amount of use out of that computer, I understand. Roger himself still connects his awesome brain to paper through the medium of an old-fashioned typewriter cradled in his lap, and puts in an occasional correction by hand, in an inimitable script that's at once nearly microscopic and finely legible.
This act began back East somewhere, but for more than fifteen years now it's been happening on the outskirts of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristos, inside a bookwalled study containing also a great number of awards (they ought to be listed elsewhere in this book), every one of them profoundly deserved.
Some months back, when I felt the need of a collaborator capable of capturing the style as well as the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe, there was never any doubt in my mind as to whose phone I ought to ring. The same bell would have dinged had I been bent on pastiching Shakespeare, Edgar Rice (or William) Burroughs, T. S. Eliot. .. you get the idea.
(But if I ever want to duplicate Zelazny, I know I'm out of luck. You folk up there in the Northwest, enjoy him while you can!)
For of course the same call would be made—has been made—when the need is for pure originality. A few years back I was putting together an anthology of original fiction having to do with chess. Naturally I turned to Roger, and with his usual willingness to oblige he agreed to write a new chess story. What I didn't learn until a little later was that two other anthologists, hoping for original stories concerning saloons and unicorns respectively, had approached him at almost the same time. Staying in character, he obliged them too.
Would I mind, Roger asked me presently, if the story written for my book appeared in a couple of other places as well? Of course I wouldn't mind—when you get a Zelazny story, you rather expect that.
And of course what the man wrote for me—for us—was "Unicorn Variation", a story about— what else?—a unicorn who plays chess in a bar.
I'm proud to be able to report that we've worked together now on three other books. By special invitation Roger contributed "Itself Suprised", a Berserker story, to Berserker Base; a few years ago we did Coils in collaboration, and we currently have under construction that Poe tale I mentioned above, "The Black Throne". One of my brightest hopes is that the list can stretch on and on into the future.
Because, you see, this is not just a fine writer we're talking about, folks. Not just a conscientious craftsman, though that's certainly true. (I believe that the name, in the Polish of its origin, means "blacksmith". But you'll have to check with the proprietor on that.) This man is a gentleman. Easy to work with. No fits of ego here. One who listens as well as he talks, and talks, one on one or with an audience, like an old friend with something very interesting to say-informal courtesy is the watchword. You're in for a treat up there, folks!
Zelazny talks, as I say, almost as beautifully as he writes— and he never, I swear, never, forgets anything he reads, or anything interesting or pleasant or funny that's ever happened to him. Want to hear about the world? He's been to Hong Kong, Australia, Moscow, Paris—even College Station, Texas—and picked up awards in most of those places. Want to hear a crazy theory? Ask him about lucky eggs. Want to see him eat three desserts and never gain an ounce? No problem.
Just don't keep him too long up there. We want him back.
© 1990 by Fred Saberhagen
Fred Saberhagen is the author of about fifty books, among them several Science Fiction and Fantasy series, including the Berserkers, the Books of Swords, and half a dozen Dracula novels. He has lived in New Mexico since 1975.
The following is a partial bibliography and honors for Roger Zelazny
This Immortal, Ace pb, 1966
The Dream Master, Ace pb, 1966
Four for Tomorrow, Ace pb, 1967
Lord of Light, Doubleday hc, 1967; Avon pb, 1969
Nebula Award Stories Three, Ed. Doubleday hc, 1968; Pocket Books pb, 1970
Isle of the Dead, Ace pb, 1969
Creatures of Light and Darkness, Doubleday hc, 1969; Avon pb, 1970
Damnation Alley, Putman hc, 1969; Berkley pb, 1970; Tor pb, 1984
Nine Princes in Amber Doubleday hc, 1969; Avon pb, 1972
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories, collection; Doubleday hc, 1971; Avon pb, 1974
Jack of Shadows, Walker hc, 1971; Signet pb, 1972
The Guns of Avalon, Doubleday hc, 1972; Avon pb, 1974
Today We Choose Faces, Signet pb, 1973
To Die in Italbar, Doubleday hc, 1973; DAW pb, 1974
Sign of the Unicorn, Doubleday hc, 1975; Avon pb, 1976
Doorways in the Sand, Harper & Row hc, 1976; Avon pb, 1977
My Name is Legion, Ballantine pb, 1976
The Hand of Oberon, Doubleday hc, 1976; Avon pb, 1977
Bridge of Ashes, Signet pb, 1976
Deus Irea, with Philip K. Dick; Doubleday hc, 1976; Ace pb, 1979
The Courts of Chaos, Doubleday hc, 1978; Avon pb, 1979
The Chronicles of Amber, 2 vol.; Doubleday hc, 1979
Roadmarks, Del Rey/Ballantine hc, 1979; Ballantine pb, 1980
The Last Defender of Camelot, Underwood-Miller limited paperbound edition of 275, 1980
For a Breath I Tarry, Underwood-Miller, three editions, 1980
Changeling, Ace trade pb, 1980; Ace pb, 1981
When Pussywillows Last in the Catyard Bloomed, poetry; Norstrillia Press, three editions, 1980
The Last Defender of Camelot, collection; Pocket Books pb, 1980; Underwood-Miller hc, 1981
The Changing Land, Ballantine pb, 1981; Underwood-Miller hc, 1981
Madwand, Phantasia Press hc, 1981; Ace trade pb, 1981; Ace pb, 1982
A Rhaposdy in Amber, chapbook; Cheap Street, 1981
To Spin is Miracle Cat, poetry; Underwood-Miller hc, 1981
Coils, with Fred Saberhagen; Simon & Schuster Wallaby trade pb, 1982; Tor pb, 1982
Eye of Cat, Timescape, Simon & Schuster hc, 1982; Underwood-Miller hc, 1982; Timescape Pocket Books, 1982
Dilvish, the Damned, Ballantine pb, 1982; Underwood-Miller hc, 1983
Unicorn Variations, collection; Timescape, Simon & Schuster hc, 1983; Avon pb, 1987
Trumps of Doom, Arbor House hc, 1985; Underwood-Miller hc, 1985; Avon pb, 1986
Blood of Amber, Arbor House hc, 1986; Underwood-Miller hc, 1986; Avon pb, 1987
A Dark Traveling, Walker hc, 1987; Avon pb, 1989
Sign of Chaos, Arbor House hc, 1987; Avon pb, 1988
Roger Zelazny's Visual Guide to Castle Amber, with Neil Randall; Avon trade pb, 1988
Frost & Fire, collection; William Morrow hc, 1989
Knight of Shadows, William Morrow hc, 1989
Alien Speedway series, outlined by Zelazny, Clypsis by Jeffrey A. Carver, Bantam pb, 1987, Pitfall by Thomas Wylde, Bantam pb, 1988, The Web by Thomas Wylde, Bantam pb, 1988
Six time Hugo winner
Three time Nebula winner
Two time Balrog winner
Locus Award, 1986
Guest of Honor, 1974 WorldCon
Guest of Honor, 1978 Australian National SF Convention
U.S. Guest of Honor, 1984 European SF Convention (SEACON)
David Cherry by Raymond E. Feist
[Photo] Artist Guest of Honor David Cherry
When did I meet David Cherry? I know I met David Cherry at a convention, though I'm not sure which one and who introduced us. It's really not crucial, for David's one of those people that once you've met him, you fall into the habit of feeling as if you've known him all your life. He's like that, a friendly, outgoing, charming man who can make even a chance acquaintance feel like an old friend. He has the knack of making even the most self-conscious person relax and enjoy his company. He speaks easily on a wide range of topics, yet he doesn't come across as pedantic or condescending. If anything, he comes across as “just one of the guys." Nothing special. Well, that's deceiving, for there's a lot special about David Cherry.
Ah, yes, I think I first met David at a World Fantasy Convention. I'm pretty sure Don Maitz introduced us. Any way, I discovered that David was a bright fellow who had practiced law in Oklahoma before decided one fair day to chuck his law practice and become an artist. Which, in my humble opinion, is making the world a far better place, one less lawyer, one more artist. Now, before you let that pass, consider that while there are lots of lawyers and Artist Guest of Honor David Cherry not that many artists, all things being relative, there are a lot more lawyers making a decent living compared to artists making a living, again, relatively speaking. So even if he didn't work unusually hard as a lawyer, David was likely to make enough to pay the rent and put three squares on the table. But ask any artist and they'll tell you the number of painters around who can get by without a husband or wife who holds down a steady job is few and far between. I'd guess there's maybe a dozen or so. Heck of a lot more successful single lawyers running around than successful single artists, in any event. So we can agree this is what you might call a major career decision. And, probably, not a lot of people who would call it a smart career decision.
Maybe I first met David at a Boskone. And I think it was Janny Wurts who introduced us. In any event, David simply took on the task of becoming an artist in much the same way you or I might decide to take up tennis. He was never one to be intimidated by the concept of being a “born" or “natural" artist. For David is one of those impressive people who simply goes after what he wants. And with that determination in mind, he became an artist. And he did it in a very logical, very studied, very analytical way. Which is not to underplay his talent, but rather to show you what an unusual mind the man possesses. For as mentioned already, not only can he talk on a wide range of topics, he can speak on them in an informed way. Everyone's got opinions, but David usually has an informed opinion.
It could have been that David and I met at a Westercon. And it was his sister, C.J. Cherry h who introduced us. Now, most people who set about undertaking this sort of change in career might be content to paint in obscurity and someday allow a few friends to see his or her work—while not quitting his or her day job. Not David. He not only set out to be an artist, he set out to become a professional. He decided that it was not necessarily noble to suffer for art, so he decided he'd also make a living doing what he enjoyed. And he somehow managed to pull off the feat. How did he do that? By applying himself to his craft and demanding of himself the best effort possible at every step of the way. Also by applying himself to the business of being a professional, David took the skills he learned as a lawyer, using them in conjunction with his natural charm and humor and armed with a portfolio, set out to gain recognition and work. He managed to gain both. Moreover, he managed to achieve the respect of his colleagues. For the rigors of the craft never bothered David, as he is a man who deals with his choices in a rigorous manner. He doesn't dabble in anything, he does his very best or he doesn't agree to the task in the first place.
I think I know! I met David at a NASFiC. And Ken Macklin....no, I introduced Ken Macklin to David, so I must have already known David. Anyway, let me tell you about David and Ken. You might not know the work of Ken Macklin, unless you're a fan of comic books and humorous fantasy illustrations—maybe you saw his Doctor Watchstop in EPIC magazine— but Ken is considered something of a wonder at technique. At the NASFiC in question, in Phoenix in 1987, Ken was lurking in the hall outside the room where David was going to do a slide-show on technique. I had seen Ken pack a room full of artists, professional and amateur both, craning their necks to see him give his lecture "How to Paint a Rock," (which is crammed full of tips on how to get different textures and other things artists consider nifty by using all manner of odd tools, from sponges to old shoe heels) and here he was, himself sitting avidly watching David give his slide show, drinking in everything David said.
Oh, the slide show. I think I first saw it at Sci-con, after Stephen Hickman introduced David to me. David told me later that he had started out studying books on this and that, and was very disappointed that there was no single, simple, step-by-step approach to painting, one that showed everything from preparation of canvas or masonite, to final glaze and varnish, with everything in between. I'm certain David's going to be doing the slide show and if you want an one hour education in how a painting is made, go see it. It's a fascinating study in one painting, photographed every step of the way by David as he worked, as a means of self-instruction, so that he could observe just what he was doing while he was doing it.
[Artwork] His Future Awaits © 1990 by David A. Cherry
Anyway, back to Ken Macklin and David. I introduced them and discovered them to be a mutual admiration society, for David knew of and admired Ken's work as much as Ken admired David's. That's the sort of fellow David is. Not only does he demand things of himself, he measures himself against whatever else is going on out there. Given this means he's looking at everything from fan art to the works of Michael Whelan and Don Maitz, David's seen a lot of art, and has considered its merits and flaws. And he's constantly seeking to improve his own quality. It's also something he does in a non-competitive way- Da vid's not the sort of man who would say, "I want to be better than this or that artist." David's the sort of man who is constantly saying, "I want to be better than I am now." And this is said with full knowledge that he is better than he was last year and that was pretty good.
So, don't ask David to criticize his art. There was this time in Tucson (or maybe it was Nashville), but wherever it was, it was World Fantasy (a different one than the other one I told you about) and it was just after David and I bumped into each other at the bar (no one introduced us), and David and I were talking about art. He proceeded to tell me in great detail what he didn't like about what he was doing. That's the sort of confident, knowledgeable person David is, for he is never satisfied with his current level of accomplishment, always seeking to improve. Not that he's inclined toward self-deprecation; far from it. He knows what he does well, but he's also very unforgiving toward himself for what he sees as correctable flaws. And it's this honest sort of self-appraisal that lets him judge his own work with a certain detachment rarely seen in anyone who is involved in creating something. I can speak with authority that I know only a few writers who can do it. In any event, at another World Fantasy, in Ottawa, where David and I were introduced by either Stephen King, Peter Straub, or the bartender, I forget which, I heard David give one of the most honest appraisals of the state of illustration in publishing today. It's not surprising to discover that, today, David is, and has been for the last two years, the President of ASFA, the Association of Science Fiction Artists, where his training and background as a lawyer has helped make the organization more professional in approach to the industry and has given artists everywhere an advocate. David believes in fair treatment for those who use paints and pencil to express themselves and has worked hard, behind the scenes, insuring that his fellow artists are treated as well as he demands he be treated. I would say that in many respects, this commitment to fair treatment for illustrators has put David's career on hold for that time, so much energy has he put into other people's problems, but then David's career is never really on hold, for he's always learning, and growing. That's the sort of fellow he is.
Maybe it was WorldCon in Atlanta, and the fan with all the buttons on his vest introduced us. David is very approachable, and last year in Ottawa was a fine example of just how generous he can be with his time and interest. A young artist of obvious gifts was toastmaster at a convention at which David and I were both Guests of Honor. Showing both of us his work, this young man let it be known he didn't have any idea how to launch into a professional career. The last night of the convention, I was supposed to have drinks with David, after he gave the young artist a quick course in both techniques and "how to be a pro." David, of course, never showed up, as his quick meeting turned into a multi-hour clinic. For David would never be comfortable brushing off someone with a short and simple explanation if he thinks he or she would truly benefit from a long and complex one. While he has little use for fools, David is generous to the sincere. If you come across as a ninny or buffoon, David will gracefully tell you to get lost, but if you come across as a committed "wannabe," a young artist who is determined to become a professional, David will give you whatever help time and circumstances permit. That's the sort of fellow he is, too.
Well, whenever it was I met David, and who ever introduced us, I must confess that it's been one of the better events in my experience at convention going. For David Cherry is one of those people who makes going to conventions worthwhile, and the time you spend with him is always a pleasure. Toward that end I suggest you spend some time with David, at his panels, observing his slide show, taking in his art in the Art Show, or simply sitting and talking to him at a party or in the hotel lounge. Talking to David is its own reward. And while it seems like I've known him as long as I can remember, I still consider that a privilege every chance I have to visit with him. For while there may be many artists who deserve honors for their art, David is also one who deserves it also for just being the genuine sort of person he is. While we all gather here to celebrate our love of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and while we also elect to honor certain individuals, the best honor is ours, for having people like David in our lives professionally and socially. The best thing about David is that I have the rare privilege of being able to call him my friend.
© 1990 by Raymond E. Feist
Raymond E. Feist is the author of numerous Fantasy books including Faerie Tale, Prince of the Blood, Daughter of the Empire and Silverthorn.
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Pat Mueller by Allen Varney
(From The New SMOF Times, 18 Nov 2026. Newseds note: 4STAR priority Netdist.)
NEW STOCKHOLM, EEC (API)-The 2026 Nobel Prize in Fandom was awarded today to Pat Mueller, magnate of the Pirate Jenny publishing empire and beloved “Worldwide Ambassador of Fanzines."
In this hundredth-anniversary year of modern science fiction, the Nobel Award Committee recognized Madame Mueller's pivotal role in popularizing science fiction, the major literary form of the new millennium.
“In her distinguished career Patricia Mueller has always shown the characteristic virtues of fans," read the committee's brief award announcement. “Creativity, humor, tolerance, and enthusiasm have been her bywords in setting a new standard for 21st-century fanzines."
During a childhood she once described as "Tom Sawyer as written by Joyce Carol Oates," Pat Mueller followed the traditional proto-fan behavior of reading everything she could find. “When I got a paper route that took me past the library," she wrote, "those poor people who lived on the far side of the library got their evening papers at least an hour later than the lucky ones who happened to live on the near side."
In 1977, while attending college in East Lansing, Michigan, she discovered fandom. And, again following the traditional pattern, her life changed. Meeting other fans long-distance through the Arizona Amateur Press Association (AZA PA), she soon began publishing her own fanzines (now sought-after collector's items) and, in her own words, “started enjoying life."
"Fandom, to me, is like my family and peer group, all rolled into one big unruly bundle.... I've found my niche. There aren't any of the impersonal pressures of the 'real world' here -- if things get too difficult, I know my friends will help me out. After all, I'm in this for my friends — and for myself!"
These words became Pat Mueller's unofficial credo in the decades that followed, decades that transformed sf fandom from an obscure subculture into society's organizing principle.
The first convention Mueller helped run was Iguanacon, the 1978 Phoenix Worldcon. Biographers ascribe this to her youth and inexperience, though to this day Madame Mueller defends her own small role in the otherwise igno- minious fiasco. Far more successful was her central role in the bid for the 1985 NASFiC, Lone Star Con in Austin, Texas. Mueller, who had moved to Austin in 1982, began in the following year to produce the convention's bidzine, The Texas SF Inquirer.
Under her guidance the publication soon grew beyond a simple bidzine and became an excellent genzine. She uploaded each issue to Austin's SMOF-BBS computer bulletin board, making the Inquirer one of the first online fanzines. Showcasing some of the most talented writers and cartoonists in fandom, as well as her own proficiency in layout and graphics, The Texas SF Inquirer garnered ever-greater attention, culminating in a well-deserved Hugo Award at Nolacon in 1988.
The complete run of the Inquirer has since been reprinted in slipcased hardcover and bestselling paperback editions, with a preface by longtime Inquirer reader, sf writer, and newly-elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, John Shirley.
Proving that fandom can be reconciled with a "normal" life (a point in some dispute during the 20th Century), Pat Mueller married fellow fan Dennis Virziin 1986-during the Armadillocon science fiction convention. Her wedding ensemble included a white propeller beanie. The union produced the excellent Fanthology 1986 anthology and also a daughter, Madeline Frances Virzi, born July 14,1989.
A plateau period in Madame Mueller's career followed her first Hugo victory. Preoccupied first with her mundane job and her marriage, later with full-time parenting, she managed only a few rare, much sought-after issues of Pirate Jenny in the early post-Nolacon years.
Biographers name the turning point, the catalyst, the Great Leap Forward in her publishing career, as the Norwescon 12 science fiction convention in Seattle, Washington (March 29-April 1, 1990).
Norwescon was the leading West Coast regional convention of the 20th century, reigning supreme until Seattle was submerged by greenhouse flooding in the 2020s. Though not her first Fan Guest of Honor appearance, and certainly not her last, the 1990 Norwescon convention reinvigorated Pat Mueller's love for fandom and fanac.
"I was up there all alone, worried about Dennis and Madeline back home, and I didn't know many people in Seattle. So I was nervous," she later wrote. "But everyone there treated me with perfect kindness. Strangers came up and said hello, introduced themselves, and made me feel at home. Some fans I met there became close friends. It was one of the most enjoyable weekends of my life."
Inspired by this display of all that is good in fandom, Mueller returned to Dallas and began an astounding program of fan publishing, publicity missions into the mundane community, and congressional lobbying for a network of neighborhood Free Fan Clinics. These Clinics, built nationwide starting in 1993, contained "core collection" fanzine libraries, complete desktop publishing systems for loan to qualified fans, and reams beyond counting of ditto paper. (The Mueller Clinic program is now credited with reversing America's late 20th-century trend toward illiteracy, voter apathy, and other social ills.)
During these years Pirate Jenny accumulated the first in a long sequence of awards, and shifted to monthly (1992), weekly (2002), daily (2015), twice-daily (2021), and at last hourly publication in 2024. The operation grew into a publishing empire rivalling and finally surpassing the Rupert Murdoch conglomerate, the Australia-New Zealand-America Publishing Axis (ANZAPA).
The great breakthrough in Madame Mueller's efforts came shortly after the millennium, and from an unexpected quarter. The International Scriptural Association fulfilled its stated mission of translating the Bible into all written languages. Looking for a new project to translate worldwide, they decided on the collected Pirate Jenny. Their efforts helped popularize the new "sf mentality" around the globe.
But in 2004, at the peak of her success, Madame Mueller and her husband Dennis Virzi endured a tragic accident. While attending Norwescon 26 in Seattle, the couple found time to witness the city's annual Frog Jump Jubilee. In those years the jumping contest, ordinarily the province of the common California frog, finally began permitting ringer entries of the African goliath species, Conrana goliath. One entry ("He- Frog, Croaker of the Universe") made a 40-foot leap on a stage only 35 feet deep.
The ten-pound frog overshot, striking Dennis Virzi, in the front row, headon. Pat Mueller recalled, "It was like he got hit by a cannonball. He fell down broken and bleeding. And the frog didn't look too good either."
Taken to Seattle's Joanna Russ Memorial Trauma Center & Psychiatric Clinic, Virzi recovered only slowly, and to this day he displays Aaronson-Zuckerman Amphibian-Phobic Anxiety (AZAPA) syndrome. He-Frog's fate is unknown.
But the tragedy brought the Mueller family back together after a split of some eight years.
Madeline Virzi initially flouted her parents' wishes for a fannish career, instead entering politics... and American political folklore. She served as Assistant Secretary of Transportation in the Swaggart Administration. During President Swaggart's first State of the Union Address, the entire U.S. Capitol, including Swaggart, most of the Administration and both houses of Congress, were obliterated by a lightning bolt out of a clear sky. With the deaths of all 735 people ahead of her in the chain of command, Madeline Virzi became acting President.
Virzi served the remaining three years of the term honorably, restoring what became known as "Secular Federalism." Under the Constitution she was too young to run for re-election; she ruled out any later attempt, saying, "No one but a madman would want that job."
Madeline Virzi has retired to Dallas to care for her father and supervise the new semi-hourly online edition of Pirate Jenny. She also works as a part-time administrator for the Dallas bureau of the American Zoological Association Public Affairs (AZAPA) division.
The Nobel award was presented to Madame Mueller by her friend, noted sf author and fan Wilson "Bob" Tucker. Through a regimen of Anagathic Zooplasty and Physiological Augmentation (AZAPA) treatments, Tucker (himself a Nobel Fandom laureate) remains healthy and active at 112 years old.
Speaking with his renowned grace, the tuxedo-clad Tucker said, "It was once a proud and lonely thing to be a fan, but in this new era we are all less lonely for knowing Pat Mueller. She combines the fan's adventurous intellect with an impish humor and, more importantly, a generous and kind-hearted nature.
"To meet her is to understand at once her charm, her infectious enthusiasm for all things fannish, and her wide experience in fandom. Through her tireless effort she has become a model of the fannish spirit, an inspiration to us all. Millions of fans worldwide owe their fannish initiation to her work.
"THANK YOU, PAT MUELLER! WE LOVE YOU MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF! LEAD US FORWARD INTO THIS NEW MILLENNIUM!"
© 1990 by Allen Varney
Allen Varney is a freelance writer and game designer in Austin, Texas. His fan writing appears in Pirate Jenny.
Dr. John G. Cramer by William R. Warren Jr.
[Photo] Science Guest of Honor Dr. John G. Cramer
QUESTION: How many Guests of Honor can you fit in one pair of shoes?
Well, looking at the question realistically, the obvious answer would be "Just One”, but Ted Sturgeon demands that we ask the Next Question, which is this: "Exactly whose shoes are we talking about?”
The answer isn't as simple as it would first seem if the shoes belong to Dr. John Cramer. Let me give you a f'rinstance.
John Cramer started sending short non-fiction articles to the Northwest Science Fiction Society newsletter, West- Wind, when a call went out for interesting submissions. His column, which for several years ran under the banner "Better Than Fiction", explored some of the more fascinating aspects of nuclear reactions, astrophysics, and quantum mechanics. It was great success, one of the highlights of West Wind and a major contributing factor to the acclaim and international attention the magazine still enjoys.
These columns were produced in typical Phannish Phashion ... on his own time, at his own expense, and on a completely voluntary basis. He discoursed on subject matter he is familiar with, deeply cares about, and for no other motivation than he wanted to share something fascinating with other fans.
In the same spirit, he submitted some work to the prozines. It was good enough to get his science fact articles published four times, and a Guest Editorial to boot!
Does this sound familiar to you? This is the typical pattern of the Phan Writer. And to carry the pattern on to its logical (and oft-wished-for) extension, this Phan Writer came to the attention of the editor of a prozine, who asked him to do what he was doing for his own enjoyment on a regular basis in a monthly magazine, and get paid for it!
If you don't yet know the Fan Guest of Honor John Cramer, you may not recognize that this is a capsule history of "The Alternate View", a bimonthly column appearing in alternating issues of Analog, the premiere science fiction/science fact "pulp" that you can pick up at better newsstands everywhere.
But, surprise! John Cramer is NOT the Fan Guest of Honor.
How about this, then . . . F. M. Busby states, "John Cramer's first novel has fascination extrapolation, strong characters, and accelerating suspense. Once you've read Twistor, Cramer will be on you Must-Read list.” It is rare for a hard-science novel to draw almost universal acclaim, rarer still that the novel in question is an author's first novel, and to be immediately compared with the likes of Gregory Benford, David Brin, Jim Hogan, and Poul Anderson . . . well, perhaps it isn't unprecedented, but it happens about as often as chickens with lips make the comparison.
And Twistor is an exciting read ... equally exciting is the prospect that a sequel (entitled, last I heard, Twistor Ship) is also in the works. If you haven't bought this one yet, folks, I highly recommend it. It reads with authority, a sense of easy familiarity with the subject matter, and guess what? Some of you may recognize some of the characters in the book, and they may be you!
But surprise again! John Cramer is NOT the Pro Guest of Honor, either.
He could be these. He certainly fits the requirements. His delightful wife Pauline and daughter Karen are familiar attendees at conventions, when Pauline can pry herself away from her professional duties at one of the giantest aerospace corporations in the world. His son, John, isn't frequently seen on the convention circuit... but considering the fact that he already earned an MBA in the states, moved to Tokyo to tackle entrepreneurial adventures there (and did so well he sold his return ticket) and is currently working on a second MBA from the Japanese end, who can fault him? His elder daughter Kathryn may already be well known to you ... as a freelance editor and co-editor published by Arbor House (Christmas Ghosts) and Winwood (Christmas Spirits), her anthology Architecture of Fear won a World Fantasy Award as best in its field.
If a man be judged by the company he keeps, then how much more eloquently does his family stand in evidence! Pauline and John have managed all their professional credentials, their familial responsibilities, and judging by the outcome, did so spectacularly.
He is regularly found at conventions, pacing up and down in front of overhead projector discussing Einstein- Rosen Bridges, quantum black holes, time-dilations effects, tau-factors, relativistic mass effects, mu-mesons and quarks, and other esoteric topics with a rapt audience of wide-awake fans at the Deathly Hours of nine or ten ayem Sunday morning. I have never seen less from time to time . . . and I have NEVER seen a John Cramer panel that the audience didn't file out afterward babbling excitedly about time machines, wormholes, or other topics that Freak The Mundanes.
He's lucky if they let him go to his next panel when one ends ... usually, he gets cornered trying to collect his viewfoils and has to continue the lecture in the lobby for another half-hour. Minimum.
He's exciting to listen to! (He's excited, that makes him exciting!) He's knowledgeable, and he wants to share that knowledge! He wants to stimulate you into thinking things through, on your own, for yourself. And you get swept up in his enthusiasm and start looking up you own answers on you own time, in spite of yourself.
He'd make a perfect teacher. A Teacher Guest of Honor? Well, could be. He does that for a living. As a past Director for six years and a current Professor of Physics at the Nuclear Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington, some of the rest of his qualifications become clear. He writes with authority and familiarity because he damn well knows his subject matter!
Considering his work at the University of Munich Nuclear Physics Laboratory at Garching, his work at the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin, and a benchmark paper on his own methodology ... a Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics — a paper longer than his original Doctoral thesis — which was published in the July 1986 issue of Review of Modern Physics - CONSIDERING THESE THINGS, he continued, I find it difficult to take without a grain (or lick) of sodium chloride when he modestly effaces, "The only reason they made me Director of the Lab was I was 'out of town' . . ." (read "researching in Berlin"—yrs truly)"... so I wasn't here to defend myself."
Fer cryin' out loud — how many times does he have to get hit in the face with it to recognize that he's exceptional? An award as a graduate student at Rice University for Best Thesis didn't do it. The coveted Bausch-Lomb Award as Outstanding Student at Lamar High School in Houston didn't do it? Maybe the testimony of one of his classmates (who remembers what I said about" . . . the company a person keeps..." a couple of words back) would make a difference. This guy is ALWAYS bragging up to his friends that "... I went to Edgar Allan Poe Elementary School with John Cramer."
In typical John Cramer fashion, HE always makes the same brag. "I went to elementary school with Gene Wolfe." Heavy sigh . . . they're both right. That school must have an amazing record if they produced both of these prodigies simultaneously.
To meet Dr. Cramer for the first time is to come face-to-face with the original absent-minded-professor ... until you realize that he really understands the fundamentals of the Entire Cosmos (enough that he knows how much more there is to learn and how little he really knows) and that he's a multitasking entity ... frequently working on more than one project at a time of which you are simply the newest.
Simply? No that's not fair. You are important to him, he's personable and friendly and has a sharp sense of humor. He's involved in the community at large and the phannish community in particular. He is a patron of the arts, a world traveller, a highly respected professional, an exceptional teacher, and for me at least, a deeply valued and loyal Friend.
Why did I "toss" loyal in? Did 1 fail to mention that I used to do the illustrations for the "Better Than Fiction" column? And did I further fail to mention that when Analog bought the option to do the "Alternate View" column, John asked if he could work with "... an illustrator he knew, who was local, and he could deal with face-to-face ..."? Because of John's faith in me, he gave me my big break into the prozines ... and in fact got me into the one magazine I'd always dreamed of being published in.
Well, John, I got my revenge for that act of kindness... I suggested that you get this invitation as Science Guest of Honor in the first place, and Elizabeth passed it on to the con committee.
And guess what? They all thought it was a terrific idea!
So here you are. Enjoy yourself.
So, how many Guests of Honor can you fit in one pair of shoes?
ANSWER: Just one. But if they're John Cramer's shoes, that's one helluva Guest of Honor!
© 1990 by William R. Warren Jr.
William R. Warren Jr. is an illustrator whose work appears regularly in Analog. He is also one of the judges for the L. Ron Hubbard's Illustrators of the Future Contest.
Our Friend the VGoH -or- The Life of a Humble Man by Doug Shirk
[Photo] Volunteer Guest of Honor Joe Wheeler
The task of a writer is not a simple one, especially when the writer is yours truly. Here my task is more complex because I have to be tactful and skillful, the former being more difficult for me than the later. The job at hand? Write 1000 glowing words of bio information for our hardworking Green Room volunteer, making it sound good enough to please him, yet not so great that he won't work with Dora and me again this year. Here goes.
Born in a humble log cabin in the wilds of the great Pacific Northwest, Joe Wheeler rose from these shabby beginnings to a lofty seat on the throne of power in Washington politics.
Sounds good, doesn't it? It's not true, but it sounds good.
Actually, Joe was born not too far from the Tacoma Sheraton at the then Tacoma General Hospital (note: This is now the Tacoma City Hall, so it could be said that Joe was preordained to enter public service) about 6 blocks north of our con sight. Eventually (probably using bribes—more training for public service), he graduated from Washington State University in 1982 with a psych, degree, and escaped with his law degree from the University Of Puget Sound Law School (about a block north of the Sheraton on Broadway—that's a statue of Joe kissing the pavement out front). After interning in Port Townsend, he landed his first lawyer job in Wenatchee (where we first met him—Thanks loads, Lauraine), and is currently a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney in Grays Harbor County. That's the dry stuff.
When asked the important stuff like what got you into Science Fiction, he credits Heinlein's Puppet Masters, Herbert's Dune, and an "unremembered Poul Anderson novel that impressed an impressionable 13 year old."
Some guys have all the luck. Joe grew up in Port Townsend and became friends with Frank Herbert through his father, the founder of the Centrum Arts Association. The high point of that association was weeding Frank's strawberry patch for a couple of summers. (Must be a high point. His brother Jeff got to clean the chicken coop). Other stories of the association abound. I mean, how many people could tell you what kind of a foosball player Mr. Herbert was. A poor one, by the way. Or what kind of foosball player Jack Sikma is. A pretty good one for a big man. He's played them both. Together.
For the record, Jack was on his side. They won.
Another Centrum based friend is Bill Ransom, who Joe met when Bill was an artist in residence. This is a friendship that extends to this day.
Joe also got great law school training by working for his father at the Mastero Burger Drive Inn in Port Townsend. When asked what the greatest thing he as ever accomplished was, his response was making dynamite Chocolate/Banana milk shakes.
Oh, the second biggest? Being quoted in an Associated Press filler story run on the east coast concerning a court case he worked on.
Other notes?
Interview type questions like favorite author brought up Bill Ransom and Frank Herbert as responses, although anyone who catches his interest is a candidate. For favorite publications he listed West Wind and Locus (he specifically mentioned "Reel Time" and "Other Matters" in West Wind, but we're too humble to mention that).
Favorite new author? He's currently attracted to Daniel Simmons, but again that's an open category.
Joe lists two neat things that has happened to him at a con. One was shaking David Brin's hand and doing other "groupie stuff". And the other?
Well. . . remember Alternacon? He doesn't, or at least not much of it. Probably the worst fear of a con goer is that you'll miss a panel you really wanted to see by, maybe sleeping in, or having your car break down, or any number of things. Joe, on the other hand, missed the whole weekend. He had made arrangements to take off work early, get to con early, check into the Green Room early to get his shift assignments, the whole nine yards. Early? Missed it by that much, that much being a whole week. Rolled into the Hyatt on Friday, looked around, and said "Where are the people? Where is the con?"
"Oh, that's NEXT weekend," said the desk clerk.
"Oh *&#*," said Joe.
Showed up late Saturday next weekend, and had to leave early Sunday, he did. Worked a full shift, though.
All of the above stuff is true. Also true is that our Volunteer Guest of Honor is really a quiet fellow with a gentle sense of humor who came into the Green Room and did a hell of a job. Joe worked many more hours than he had to and probably saw much less con than he wanted. Dora and I were very happy when Joe's name was drawn for VGoH, but both he and us realize that he represents all of you who give your time to make Norwescon what it is today. He's not the Green Room GoH, he's yours.
Now Joe, about that shift that has to be covered during the banquet . . .
© 1990 by Doug Shirk
Doug Shirk is co-chair of the Norwescon Green Room, a place where attending pros and panelists can rest and meet to prepare for upcoming panels, and writes a cinema review column for WestWind.
...Or Simply, "Monster Man" A Biography of Dan Reeder by an anonymous, run-a-the-mill, convention going heathen
In searching for someone to author his biography, Dan started with a list of friends. He scratched off people he offended recently, those who sign their name with an "X", and those who think that a reduction in the capital gains tax would be nice. Then he asked me. I agreed, on the condition that I remain anonymous, and that Dan drive me to church for "confession" immediately afterwards. Following is a brief, insightful interview.
Dan was thirty-five years old about five years ago. He was born in Seattle and has lived a relatively cloistered life. His exploits have been, for the most part, limited to the three western states -- Washington, Oregon, and Los Angeles. However, that does not mean that Dan is world wise. As a young child in Catholic school, he looked extensively at National Geographic magazine, especially those issues that featured aboriginal African tribes. More than anything else, Dan would rather sit in his studio and create ugly things.
Dan is a budding (not to be confused with a mid-pubescent girl) Dan "the Toastmaster Man" and unidentified friend paper and cloth mache artist. His trademark has been an ugly little beast with a gaping mouth called a "Screamer." His book The Simple Screamer: A Guide to the Art of Papier and Cloth Mache details the making of one of these critters. Dan's work has evolved over the years and now encompasses much more than Simple Screamers. He has created everything from caricatures of distasteful people—to "Alien Sperm." Perhaps his most disgusting and misunderstood piece was titled "A Hard Day at the Orifice." The piece depicted an Aliens "face hugger" leaning back on its tail enjoying a cigarette after... well, doing its job. People who understood the reference were disgusted; people who didn't, really didn't like it either. (Of course, there was that one fan who kept trying to put it on her face.) Despite the changes in the work, Dan's approach and philosophy about art remain constant. His motto: "Make something ugly—for a change."
Dan's work is not without its admirers. Three years ago he was the Artist Guest of Honor at Norwescon's Alternacon. That year he won a couple of awards for his work. (Of course he was one of the judges.) He also received the "People's Choice" award at Norwescon 10 for his piece titled "The Birth of Artificial Intelligence." Last year Dan was the Artist Guest of Honor at Montana's infamous Miscon 4. Despite having the convention thrown out of the hotel the first night, Dan enjoyed himself immensely.
Dan continues to teach school, although he has left the "dog and pony show" of high school mathematics, for the "three ring circus" of elementary school. He has welcomed the chance to get back to the basics of teaching-drillin', readin', writin', screamin'. Besides, Dan notes, "Younger minds are much easier to warp."
ME: Why do they call you Dan "the Monster Man?"
DAN: Because "man" rhymes with "Dan."
ME: Is it true that you got married recently?
DAN: Yes, I married a woman named Julie .. . now Julie "the Monster Man."
ME: But I heard you were an ardent bachelor?
DAN: Well, as those nuns used to say in school, "My opinions may change, but not the fact that I am right." Now I preach that marriage is a sacred covenant, and that everyone should try it at least once.
ME: How has your cat Butch adjusted to the change?
DAN: I haven't noticed any profound changes. He's still old. He still drools when he's happy, when he hears the can opener, and when he sees Julie naked.
ME: About your artwork... I've noticed that your Screamers don't have any "private parts."
DAN: They've been neutered.
ME: Do you have any advice for other ex-hippie, almost middle-aged artists?
DAN: Never diet. Undoubtedly there are nasty, lipidsoluble chemicals in your body that have been in hiding since the sixties. A sudden release of fat stored energy might propel you into cosmic consciousness (perhaps in the middle of your favorite T.V. show!), or worse yet, start that "Ina Godda Da Vida" tape in your head.
ME: Instead of being recognized for your art work, this year you were asked to be Toastmaster. What's your reaction to this?
DAN: I am very flattered, but a little worried that I will now be called Dan "the Toastmaster Man" . .. And, of course, then Julie would have to change her name too.
ME: On a more cosmic level, do you subscribe to a particular religion or philosophy?
DAN: I would call myself a dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac. I've spent many sleepless nights wondering if there really is a dog.
ME: With such strong philosophical anchor, do you have any fears?
DAN: Yes, my usual one. I worry that I will win the lottery, get Alzheimer's Disease, and then forget why I'm so happy.
ME: Finally, what is the meaning of life and/or why were we put on this earth?
DAN: I'm not completely sure. But I have discovered one universal truth. If after thinking about it, you decide that joining the army will make you "the best you can be," then it probably will.
ME: Thanks.
DAN: Don't mention it.
©1990
[Photo] John Carpenter’s Cookie Jar © 1990 by Dan Reeder
[Artwork] Soror Marium © 1990 by David A. Cherry
[Artwork] Born To Exile, cover for the book by Phyllis Eisenstein published by NAL. © 1990 by Richard Hescox
[Artwork] Siren's Cry © 1990 by Armand Cabrera
[Artwork] Erydice © 1990 by Barclay Shaw
[Artwork] © 1990 by Milo Duke. Member of the Dharmic Engineers
[Artwork] © 1990 by Wendy Wees. Member of the Dharmic Engineers
[Artwork] © 1990 by Rob Schouten. Member of the Dharmic Engineers
[Artwork] Accidental Tourist © 1990 by Ilene Meyer
[Artwork] © 1990 by Ray Pelley. Member of the Dharmic Engineers
[Photo] Rubbed the Wrong Way © 1990 by Dan Reeder
What follows was originally a part of my first Science Fiction novel Twistor (Wm. Morrow, 1989). Twistor is about the accidental discovery of the “twistor effect", an unusual combination of electromagnetic fields that converts normal matter (the stuff we are made of) into shadow matter," a prediction of certain superstring theories. It will expand your sense of wonder with good measures of adventure, hard science, intrigue, computer hacking, romance, and discovery.
The published version of Twistor has three parts, but in the semi-final manuscript there was an additional fourth part. In it, several characters from the main novel read from a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings that, in episodic fashion, informed use about the ongoing worldwide impacts of the twistor effect.
David Hartwell, my editor at Morrow, decided that the scrapbook episodes were" too much" and that the novel was improved by cropping the manuscript at the end of part three. David should have himself checked for psychic powers. The recent events in Eastern Europe would have propelled Twistor into an alternate history, had David's scissors not done their job. Here are two of the clipping episodes, the first of which deals with an escape from East Berlin using the twistor effect to get through the Wall:
Reuters - 10/09/95 - WEST BERLIN - A steady stream of East German scientists and engineers and their families have been arriving at this city for the past several months, literally walking through the Wall that since 1961 has isolated the German Democratic Republic from West Berlin. In an interview today one escapee described how their group, now all safely in West Berlin, used the new twistor technology. At a clandestine East Berlin location, dissident scientists had constructed a twistor unit capable of moving whole families to the “shadow Earth” made accessible with the Harrison-Gordon or twistor effect. The refugees then traveled by foot to a rendezvous point a few kilometers away. On signal they were returned to normal Earth, but now inside West Berlin. Sources suggest that the apparatus at the West Berlin terminus of the “underground railroad” may be located at the Technical University of Berlin, about 3 kilometers west of the Brandenburg Gate along the “Strasse des 17.juni”, a broad avenue commemorating the abortive East Berlin worker’s uprising of June 17,1953. East German officials declined comment.
* * *
Brandt looked around the old room in the sub-basement of the building occupied by the Institute for Fundamental Physics Research of the von Humboldt Universitat, Berlin. It had been used as a bomb shelter during the war, and few of the present occupants of the building were aware that it was here. A single dim bulb hung from the ceiling for illumination. Otherwise it was empty, although Brandt remembered that only a month ago it had been crammed with equipment and supplies. He looked at the white circle that had been drawn with chalk on the floor, then looked at his watch. They should be here soon.
There was a knock at the door, and Brandt pulled it open. On the bottom landing of the stairway stood Alois Dannhauser, an atomic physicist who worked at the Institute. He walked hesitantly into the room, followed by his blond wife and his three blond children, two boys and a little girl. He carried two battered cardboard suitcases. "Fertig?" he asked.
"Ja, Fertig," said Brandt quietly. He indicated that they should stand at the center of the circle and told them they must all sit close together on the floor. Dannhauser gathered his family around him, and Brandt joined them on the floor. He held the small twistor unit in his hand, pressed the button, and spoke into the sphere that formed at the end. In the background he heard a gasoline powered generator start.
His ears popped, and he blinked as the twistor translation was completed. There was an unmuffled gasoline engine running nearby, making a great deal of noise. Brandt looked around.
They were sitting in a grassy field on a big circle of concrete that stood a bit above the level of the ground. There were stands holding large copper coils, and with some electronics and a small control console. Klaus, the operator, motioned from the console, indication they should get off quickly. As soon as they were clear, there was an inrush of air and when Brandt looked around, he saw that as expected the concrete had been replaced by a patch of grass marked by a white circle of lime, like a football goal.
Klaus rose, killed the engine, and walked over to a tent where he seemed to have a folding chair, and bottle of beer, and a stack of textbooks. Brandt waved to him. "Only two more groups," he called to Klaus as he led the Dannhaiiser's off down the now familiar path through the field. They climbed a gentle hill.
When they were at the top, Brands stopped and allowed each of them to "peek" through the twistor sphere. The broad tree lined avenue of Unter den Linde spread in front of them, truncated at the end by the concrete and barbed wire barricades where helmeted guards with machine guns were posted near the Platz von der BrandeburgerTor.
After they had a last look, they all set out again with Brandt leading the Dannhauser family to the west, a song of freedom running through his head.
* * *
UPI - 3/18/94 - PASADENA - At a press conference at the CalTech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, spokesman revealed for the first time satellite mappings of E-3, the second and least explored of the two so-called “shadow-planet” twins of the Earth revealed by the recently discovered Harrison-Gordon or “twistor” effect. Spokesmen said that the planet has lush vegetation and that there is some evidence of large dinosaur-like animals. JPL spokesmen would not comment on whether the mapping was a prelude to manned exploration.
Roger and Denise were sitting at the big high-res monitor in the VIP briefing room when the data begin to stream in. The bird with the new twistor optics had just been launched from Vandenberg in a polar orbit. JPL was about to begin the mapping of two new planets. The work would really begin tomorrow. But already there was something to see.
The total of the scan information was going onto the triple redundant silvery laser disks that spun a the rear of the big room next door, but the bit stream was also sampled in real time and put up for display. This was partly to entertain the mapping group (and in this case an after-hours guest), and partly to make sure that the data was OK and would make sense later when the more detailed analysis was performed. It was now after 11 PM. The swing shift crew and a few reporters were clustered around the big screen next door, but here there was nobody but Roger and Denise, and the view was the same. Earlier that evening Roger had met Denise at a party. She and he seemed to hit it off well, and they had left together. On the way to her apartment he noticed they were near JPL and had the idea of showing her where he worked. He had noticed previously that certain of his lady friends seemed to be quite turned on by the flashy computer hardware and the colorful displays. Somehow it stimulated an excitement that he found very . . . interesting.
The security guard on duty was a friend of his, and he knew the routine with Roger's ladies. There had been no trouble getting her a visitor's badge.
The screen was slowly filling with a bright hued picture as the bird made its way up an unknown continent. This was the first pass of the converted surveillance satellite up the backside of E-3, the planet that, in the second shadow universe, otherwise know as U-3, occupied the same orbit as our earth, E-l. The path of the bird took it over what in our E-l was Eastern Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Indian Ocean.
"If it's orbiting in one of those shadow universes, how is it that we can receive the satellite signals?" Denise asked. She had been reading about them in the popular press, which was having a field day with various weakly grounded speculations about the 'shadow worlds' and their contents.
Roger turned to her. "Good question." he smiled, looking directly into her eyes. "The trick is that satellite isn't really in U-3 at all, it says in our universe. It's optics are enclosed in a light-tight black box, and there's a twistor field just in front of the object lens that twists light from the shadow world to ours. The bird 'sees' what's in the other universe, but it remains in ours."
"Gee, that's really neat! Is that the place where David Harrison and those two children were?" she asked, pointing at the screen. "That TV docu-drama about them was really exciting."
"No," said Roger. "There are two of the six shadow universes that have earth equivalents. This is the other one, the one Harrison didn't go to. We started with this one for technical reasons. This twistor transition puts a slightly bigger load on the birds' electrical system, so we want to do it first while the batteries are still fresh and the solar panels are still in peak condition." Roger looked at the screen. The shape of an unfamiliar coastline was emerging. There were lots of light and dark reds in the false-color display, indication the presence of abundant vegetation. "That's a coastal mountain range there with some active volcanoes," he commented, pointing at the several white splatters on the field of red.
"What's that?" she asked, pointing to a dark bluish area.
"It's a big lake," he said. "Since it's so big and almost a perfect circle, I'd guess it's a hole left from a big volcanic explosion, like Crater Lake in Oregon. Let's, have a closer look." He framed the lake with the cursor and expanded the magnification. The data stream resided temporarily in the big bulk memory of the process computer until it grew "stale" and new data from the stream was written over it. It was easy to zoom in on an area of interest, and this also showed off the superb resolution of the bird's optical system. The circular lake filled the screen in striking detail.
"I wonder what those dots in the comer are," Denise said, pointing to one yellowish area near the bottom.
"We can have an even closer look," said Roger, framing the area and zooming in again. A curving lake shore like with what were now visible as trees appeared, and along one bank were the yellowish objects, now irregular blobs.
"Does that one have a neck?" Denise pointed.
Roger zoomed again, then gasped.
The screen was filled with what looked for all the world like the top view of a brontosaurus.
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Norwescon Class of '90
LYNN S. ADAMS
Nickname Filthy stinking ninja
Credits Sumi-e paintings for title pages of the limited edition Tea with the Black Dragon (Hypatia Press, 1989), two stories published in Strained Relations, (the first issue of the Eugene Writers series), inclusion in Spicy Zeppelin Stories, an anthology edited by Orson Scott Card (1990).
Current Home Springfield, OR
Hobbies Wargaming, Egyptology, two cats, Stephen J. Cannell television, Jeopardy, creative jewelry and sculpture with crystals.
Favorite Phrase "Peace through superior firepower and absolute retaliation."
Ambition I suppose becoming a god is out of the question...
KATHLEEN ALCALA
Nickname Kathy
Credits "Sweetheart" in Asimov's (forthcoming), "The Transforming Eye," Calyx (1989), The Fire of San Marcos," Chirich (1989) among others. Clarion West 1987 graduate, winner of the Western Colorado Science Fiction Association short story contest, 1981.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Eavesdropping on conversations on buses.
Favorite Phrase "En boca cerrada no entran moscas."
Ambition To visit Machu Picchu.
ROB ALEXANDER
Credits Artwork published in magazines and fanzines.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Music, theatre, camping.
Ambition Ultimately: Gallery work and matte painting for films.
JOHN ALVAREZ
Credits John's artwork has appeared in The Horror Show and on the cover of Pulphouse. His work was also chosen as a finalist in the L. Ron Hubbard's Illustrators of the Future Contest, 4th quarter 1989.
Current Home Tigard, OR
Hobbies Hunting cat fleas with surgical tweezers (on the cat).
Favorite Phrase "But she looked 18!!!"
Ambition The greatest art legend of modern history.
ALICIA AUSTIN
Credits 1970 Hugo Award for Best New Artist, 1979 Howard Award for Best Fantasy Artist, 1979 Balrog Award for Best Professional Publication for the anthology of her work, Age of Dreams: The Illustrations of Alicia Austin.
Current Home West Hills, CA
Hobbies Interpretation of European, Russian, Oriental and other ethnic folklore and mythology through art. Special interest in Southwest and Native American culture.
COLLEEN ANDERSON
Nickname SplatterQueen (unjustly earned at Clarion West 1987).
Credits Shari Meakin Scholarship (1987). Poetry published: "Talesen's Traps: Thena" in Starline; "Parsival’s Remorse" in The Round Table (1989), "A Strange Attraction” in Amazing (1989).
Current Home Vancouver, B.C.
Hobbies Drawing, calligraphy and illumination, walking, sleeping.
Favorite Phrase "There's never enough time."
Ambition To travel the world doing photography and documentary writing.
JOHN BARNES
Credits Author of two novels, The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky and Sin of Origin, and numerous stories which have appeared in CoEvolution Quarterly, Amazing, F&SF, Analog and Asimov's.
KIM ANTIEAU
Credits Stories published in F&SF, Asimov's, Pulphouse, Shadows 8 & Shadows 9, The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 13, Twilight Zone, Final Shadows, and others. Just finished writing a SF book set in Portland titled A Vagabond for Genesis.
Current Home Columbia Gorge
Hobbies Being stressed out, worrying about the dying Earth, other similar things.
Ambition To stop being stressed out, to stop worrying about the Earth, to breathe clean air on a regular basis.
SHARON BAKER
Nickname Rose o' Shar'n
Credits Novels Burning Tears of Sassurum, Journey to Membliar, Quarrelling, They Met the Dragon (all published by Avon). This year: short story in Houses of Horror (Morrow), poem in Now We Are Sick (Dream Press).
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Skiing, Chinese brushstroke painting, sailing, horseback riding, Karate, giving away kittens, raising four children and six exchange students.
Favorite Phrase"I'm sorry I'm late, but..."
Ambition To excavate cities in Syria.
STEVE BARNES
Credits Short stories and novels including Streetlethal, The Gorgon Child, and The Kundalini Equation. Co-author of Dream Park, The Barsoom Project, and The Descent of Anansi with Larry Niven. Creative consultant for The Secret of NIMH.
Current Home CA
ED BRYANT
Credits Short storys have appeared in Trilobyte (Axolotl Press), Night Visions 4 (Dark Harvest), and Wild Cards (Bantam) shared-world anthologies. Book reviewer for Twilight Zone Mile High Futures, and Locus.
Current Home Denver, CO
Photo by Karen Coulson
DONNA BARR
Nickname The Nazi Kike Dyke Bitch from Hell
Credits Creator of The Desert Peach and Stinz comic series and The Totally Socially Unacceptable Alphabet (1986).
Current Home Bremerton, WA
Hobbies Reading and trying to get some sleep.
Favorite Phrase "The slut used duct tape."
Ambition Not to live over three-quarters of a century and to get paid.
LUELLA W. BURROWS
Nickname Varying with the speaker, either Lue, Miss Luella, or Grama.
Credits None of the writing sort, unless Clarion survival counts.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Favorite Phrase "I found it at Value Village."
Ambition To write a book that might not be interesting or well written, but would suit the publisher's needs at that time.
STEVEN BRYAN BIELER
Credits My stories have appeared in Asimov's, Clinton Street Quarterly, Full Spectrum, Heroic Visions, New Dimensions, Pacific, Pulphouse, Seattle Review, Seattle Weekly, and Unearth. In the adult world, I'm the copy editor for Seattle Weekly.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Chess club, JV Baseball, school paper, marching band (air guitar).
Ambition To see humanity back on the moon, the Democrats back in the White House, and the Mariners (finally) in the World Series.
Photo by Deborah Wessel
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ALGIS BUDRYS
Credits Editor, Clarion teacher, book reviewer and advertising consultant. Author of over 200 pieces of fiction including the novels Michaelmas, Rouge Moon, The Falling Torch, Some Will Not Die, and Who? Heavily involved with L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest. Toastmaster of Norwescon 6 and Guest of Honor of Norwescon 12.
Current Home Evanston, IL
Hobbies Bicycling.
KAREN LEE CARMACK
Nickname Greymoone (Perfect-Pitch) Harper
Credits Thousands (millions and billions!) of pieces of original art (inc. scrimshaw), prints, fanzine contributions, and various mundane publications.
Current Home Kirkland, WA, Ecotopia
Hobbies Cats, gardens, Tai Chi Ch'uan, hiking, ecodefense, music
Favorite Phrase "It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature!"
Ambition To save the world from the dominant paradigm.
AVRAM DAVIDSON
Credits The Phoenix in the Mirror, Rork!, Mutiny in Space, Rouge Dragon, Ursus of Ultima Thule. Special Guest of Norwescons 10,11, and 12.
Current Home Bremerton, WA
FRANK CATALANO
Nickname Francesco Hans Catalano
Credits Special Projects, Egghead Discount Software. Published in Omni, F&SF, Analog, Amazing, Writer's Digest, MacWeek, MacGuide, Rigel. Professional hired voice (national award-winning).
Current Home Sumner, WA (Lake Tapps)
Hobbies Chasing three year old offspring.
Favorite Phrase "You can never overestimate stupidity."
Ambition To play first-string on the SFWA basketball team.
DAVID R. DEITRICK
Credits Over 70 game and book covers.
Current Home Huntsville, AL
Hobbies Hiking and camping, canoe club, history, mountain bicycling.
Favorite Phrase "It’s never too late to start a happy childhood."
Ambition To host Saturday Night Live.
MICHAEL CONEY
Credits King of the Scepter'd Isle (NAL 1989), Fang, the Gnome (NAL 1988), Gods of the Greatway (Houghton Mifflin 1984), Celestial Steam Locomotive (Houghton Mifflin 1983).
Current Home Sidney, B.C.
Hobbies Sailing, gardening, architecture, travel, lop-eared rabbits.
Favorite Phrase Sunday brunch - all you can eat.
Ambition To receive unstinted public adulation.
WILLIAM C. DIETZ
Credits Author of War World, Freehold, Imperial Bounty, and Prison Planet. Coauthor of Cluster Command, Crises of Empire Volume II with David Drake.
Current Home Seattle, WA
DAVID DOERING
Credits Freelance journalist in the computer industry. Past employment includes actor, tour guide, literary agent and graphic artist.
RU EMERSON
Nickname Super Sparrow
Credits Princess of Flames (Ace 1986), Nedao Trilogy (Ace 1987-89), Spell Bound (Ace 1990), Night-Threads I (Ace 1990), Beauty and the Beast #2 (Avon 1990).
Current Home Dallas, OR (not The Dalles!)
Hobbies Cycling, weight training, skiing, quilting, gardening, etc., etc., etc.
Ambition To sing the lead in Cenerenterola or the gypsy in Trovatore.
Photo by David Bickford
DRAGON (MAN)
Nickname Lizard-dude
Credits Scholarship to Renaissance School of Art (age 13); Best of Show, Westercon 40; Best Nightmare, Westercon 38; Winner of Morrey Turner Amateur Film Award. Constructed fibre optic city in Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas.
Current Home Los Angeles, CA
Hobbies Fencing, sculpting, painting, collecting SF space ships, making costumes.
Favorite Phrase "Holy Sheep Dip!"
Ambition Come back home to Seattle!!! After I do a few movies ...
Photo by Jack Krolack
LYNNE TAYLOR FAHNESTALK
Credits Artwork and cartoons in F&SF, Dragon, Dungeon, Fantasy Tales (England), Space & Time, Nor'westing, and Signature. Co-owner of Northwest Fine Arts Press 1984-1989.
Current Home Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Hobbies Video movie marathons, reading Dave Barry books.
Favorite Phrase "Shut up, Chu!"
Ambition » To be Gary Larson.
ELTON T ELLIOTT
Credits Editor and publisher of Science Fiction Review. Co-author of four novels with Richard Geis (all under the pseudonym of 'Richard Elliott').
Current Home Portland, OR
Photo by Craig Peterson
STEVE FAHNESTALK
Credits Non-fiction: Amazing, Starlog Yearbook #1. Fiction: Rats Tales (anthology), Pulphouse Report, Writers of the Future Honorable Mention.
Current Home Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Hobbies Work, play, eating/drinking, sleeping.
Favorite Phrase "There are some things man was not meant to know."
Ambition To - dare I say it? - someday...rule the world!
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RAYMOND E. FEIST
Credits Author of Magician: Apprentice, Magician: Master, Silverthorn, A Darkness at Sethanon, and the Riftwar series.
Current Home San Jose, CA
STEVEN A. GALLACCI
Credits Author and illustrator of Albedo, Anthropomorphics and Zell, Sworddancer. Co-artist and sometime co-author of Fusion and Birthright. Once upon a time slave-artist for West Wind and the Norwescon Program Book.
Current Home Seattle, Wa
Hobbies Military machinery and any type of flying machine.
Favorite Phrase "He's just this guy, ya know..."
Ambition To be as rich and famous as everbody thinks he should be.
GRANT FJERMEDAL
Credits Former reporter for the Seattle Times, author of non-fiction books The Tomorrow Makers, which looks at artificial intelligence, and Magic Bullets, a behind-the-scenes view of medical research and monoclonal antibodies.
Current Home Seattle, WA
STEVE GILLETT
Credits Science writer published in Analog, Astronomy, Amazing, Asimov’s and technical journals.
Current Home Ellensberg, WA
Hobbies Active in the L-5 Society.
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LOUISE G. FOSTER
Nickname Mirendil
Credits Pioneer Memorial Theatre, 4 years; Utah Shakespearean Festival, 2 years; currently at Seattle Opera, Working on War and Peace (as a costumer, not a singer, that is ...)
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Folksinging, SCA (13 years), eclectic reading, dancing.
Favorite Phrase "si faciendo ne facio." (If I had to do it, I wouldn't).
Ambition is a good servant but a bad master.
HUGH GREGORY
Credits Voyager Neptune Flyby, video compilation. Lighting director for "1/2 Time Peaches," Donna Barr's wacky Africa Corp. show.
Current Home Vancouver, B.C.
Hobbies Space FLT videos, flying, umpiring cricket, skydiving and reading SF.
Favorite Phrase "Woftam, so moomba." (Australian Aborigine)
Ambition Canada's answer to Art Bozlee!
ROBERTA GREGORY
Credits Winging It (1988), Sheila and the Unicorn (1988), various other comics too numerous to mention.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Trying to find some "spare time".
Favorite Phrase "No kidding!"
Ambition To help bring about world peace, understanding between all people and to actually get paid for my artwork.
HAL HARGIT
Nickname Turk
Credits Regular small press columnist for Amazing Heroes, co-creator, co-editor and writer of Comics F/X, Special Hugging #1 (comic strip about childhood), article about N.W. comics published in Writer's N.W.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Nailing plastic onto people’s homes, pinball, crossword puzzles.
Favorite Phrase "Gidouddahere ya turkeyneck!"
Ambition To find a woman smarter than me who'll marry me anyway.
EILEEN GUNN
Credits Stories in Asimov's, Amazing, Tales by Moonlight, and others. Hugo nominee in 1989.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Radar angling.
Favorite Phrase "Life is too short to write so slowly."
Ambition Not to lose the Hugo.
J.C. (JONATHON) HENDEE
Credits Art/Poetry/Fantasy Editor for Figment: Digest of Fantasy, Horror & Science Fiction. Science Fiction and Fantasy short stories published in Paradise Creek Journal and Hardware, non-fiction published in Guidelines and SFFW Newsletter.
Current Home Moscow, ID
Hobbies Art, ancient handweapons, the arcane/occult, japanimation.
Favorite Phrase "If something gets in the way of your creative endeavors-kill it!"
Ambition Never to be bored—and so far, I've been overly successful.
JON GUSTAFSON
Credits Art critic and columnist for Science Fiction Review (1974), and File 770. History of SF illustration included in The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and artist's biographies in Peter Nicholl's The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Fiction in Writers of the Future, Volume II. Author of CHROMA: The Art of Alex Schomburg. Founding member of PESFA, MosCon and Writer's Bloc. Founded JMG Appraisals, the first professional SF/F art appraisal service, in 1983.
Current Home Moscow, ID
Hobbies Art, art, books, bookshelves.
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RICHARD HESCOX
Credits 15 years as paperback cover artist for DAW, Ace, Bantam, Del Rey, Avon, Signet, Baen, Questar Books and Marvel Comics. Production illustrator for The Philadelphia Experiment, The Howling, House, and others. Advertising Illustrator for E.T., The Dark Crystal, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Fly, The Thing, and Swamp Thing.
Current Home Pasadena, CA
BARB HENDEE
Credits Horror editor for Figment: Digest of Fantasy, Horror & Science Fiction. Short stories published in Richard Chizmar's Cemetery Dance and William Raley’s After Hours.
Current Home Moscow, ID
Hobbies Monty Python films and dusty old books.
Favorite Phrase "Life's too short for cheap wine."
Ambition To complete an M.F.A. in creative writing and my novel.
JORDIN T. KARE
Credits Ph. D. in Generic Hand waving Physics, 1984.
Current Home Pleasanton, CA
Hobbies Cybernetic necromancy.
Favorite Phrase "Legalize Updoc!"
Ambition Invent teleportation (but will settle for cheap spaceflight).
MARILYN J. HOLT
Credits Ventura: The Complete Reference (Osborne/McGraw Hill 1989), NWVG Newsletter (Month Desktop Pub), Cofounder/ Director of Clarion West.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Favorite Phrase Whatever.
Ambition Have fun and be amused - and amusing.
JULIA LACQUEMENT-KERR
Credits Color artist for various posters comics and graphic novels including Green Arrow, Sable, Butcher, Longbow Hunters, James Bond and Peter Pan.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Making jewelry, beading anything, collecting black cats and triceratops.
Favorite Phrase "It's due when?!!!"
Ambition To get off deadline twice a year.
PHILLIP C. JENNINGS
Nickname Phil
Credits The Bug Life Chronicles (Baen 1989), Tower to the Sky (Baen 1988), short stories in Asimov’s, Aboriginal SF, Amazing, and F&SF.
Current Home St. Cloud, MN
Hobbies Singing in church choir.
Favorite Phrase Whatever.
Ambition To sneak into the really great Norwescon party that only insiders know about.
MEGAN LINDHOLM
Credits Wizard of the Pigeons (Ace), Reindeer People (Ace 1988), Luck of the Wheels (Ace 1989), Cloven Hooves (Bantam, forthcoming).
Current Home Roy, WA
Ambition Survival. Finding time to read.
CATHERINE McGUIRE
Nickname Mickey, Cathy Pumpkin
Credits Raid on Nightmare Castle (TSR 1983), Trouble on Artule (TSR 1984), numerous non-fiction articles and poems.
Current Home Portland, OR
Hobbies Miniatures, fibre art, singing, gardening.
Favorite Phrase "Wherever you go - there you are."
Ambition To become ambitionless.
J.P. McLaughlin
Nickname Moose
Credits SF Editor and Business Manager for Figment: Digest of Fantasy, Horror & Science Fiction.
Current Home Moscow, ID
Hobbies Amateur astonomer, bad c programmer, voracious reader.
Favorite Phrase "Remember, you can't take it with you when you go."
Ambition To see every schlock "B" movie ever made.
BRIDGET McKENNA
Credits Numerous short stories.
Current Home Nipinnawasee, CA
Hobbies Reading, movies, eating raw fish.
Favorite Phrase (Unprintable)
Ambition Live long enough to speak fluent Japanese.
MARK MANNING
Credits Host of Fast Forward, a SF radio talk show, in 1987-88.1986 Clarion West graduate. Editor: Tand, various apazines. Reviewer of fanzines for WestWind. Member: NWSFS, N3F, FAPA, SAPS, SF Poetry Association.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Fanzines, wine tasting, reading, philosophy, and Jack Vance.
Favorite Phrase "Today is very as-is."
Ambition To dance "Honor to Finuka" perfectly.
BARBARA McLAUGHLIN
Credits Production assistant for *Figment: Digest of Fantasy, Horror & Science Fiction.
Current Home Moscow, ID
Hobbies Antiquarian bookhunting, kitty torture, wine tasting and expensive meals.
Favorite Phrase "I want it done yesterday!"
Ambition Find a way to have a career and still get some sleep.
CYN MASON
Credits Published in Asimov's, SF Chronicle, and Analog. Editor of Wet Visions, an anthology of Pacific Norwest Science Fiction.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Photo © 1990 by Nina K. Hoffman
CARL MILLER
Credits The Warrior and the Witch (Ace 1990), Dragonbound (Ace 1988).
Current Home A deep forest near Redway, California
Hobbies Drawing and painting, folk guitar.
Favorite Phrase "Listen to the water, listen to the wind."
Ambition Second printing, third printing, eleventh printing, etc.
Photo by T.J. Jennings
NANCY C. MORRIS
Credits Feature screenwriter and short film director. Her short film, The Invitation, was an award winner in Starlog's Cinemagic Magazine Short Film Search.
Current Home Seattle, WA
MARIO MILOSEVIC
Credits Inclusion in The Clarion Awards, Space and Time and Pulphouse Report.
Current Home White Salmon, WA
DRESDEN MOSS
Credits Co-creator, illustrator, and publisher of Rhaj, voted Top Small Press Comic for 1989 by Amazing Heroes. Illustrations published in Argos. Rhaj is now published by Miscellania Unlimited.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Japanimation, Asian culture, small press, getting a date with Isis.
Favorite Phrase "In Gold We Trust."
Ambition To be the cosmic bus driver instead of a passenger.
VICKI MITCHELL
Credits Founding member of MosCon and Writer's Bloc. Award-winning costumer. Mainstream and SF/F short story writer, winner of the 1986 Amazing Stories Calendar Story Contest.
Current Home Moscow, ID
GETSU-SHIN MOSS
Credits Co-creator, illustrator, and publisher of Rhaj, voted Top Small Press Comic for 1989 by Amazing Heroes. Comic book reviewer for Comics FX.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Asian culture, small press, Ikebana, reading, cooking.
Favorite Phrase "I don't need to make a lot of money, but then, I like to sleep nights.”
Ambition Drink cheap champagne at the Autograph Party.
DAVID E. MYERS
Credits B.S. from UW, Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Purdue University, 1987 Clarion West graduate, short stories published in Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock’s.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Favorite Phrase "Quayle is a weasel."
Ambition Dinner with former Vice President J. Danforth Quayle.
MARGARET A. ORGAN
Credits Mom - photo. Dad - Hay bill. Smokey - Horse. Italian Renaissance - Major influence.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Nordstrom's.
Favorite Phrase "The bone I have is not the bone I want."
Ambition Rule China.
REBECCA V. NEASON
Credits Poetry and non-fiction published both locally and nationally. 1988 Certificate of Recognition for Outstanding Literary Merit for the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. Co-founder of the Enumclaw Writers Workshop. Currently working on the first book of a Science Fantasy trilogy. Professional vocalist and musician.
Current Home Enumclaw, WA
Hobbies British history, folkmusic, needlework, art, dance, ornithology, cats (11) and dogs (2).
Ambition Have you got five minutes?
JOHN and ANNA PEEKSTOK
Credits Six years performing as Telynor, a musical duo specializing in music from the Middle Agesand Renaissance, France and Eastern Europe and original pieces. Performances in the Downtown Seattle Association's Out to Lunch series, Northwest Folklife Festival, the Heritage Festival at Marymoor Park and Bumbershoot.
Current Home Seattle, WA
SHARAN NEWMAN
Credits The Dragon’s Harp (1977), Guinevere (1981), Chessboard Queen (1983), Guinevere Evermore (1985). All published by St. Martins.
Current Home The sunniest part of la-la land.
Hobbies Intense escapist sleeping.
Favorite Phrase "Don't tell me these aren't the Middle-Ages."
Ambition To dance Giselle at Lincoln Center.
Photo by J. Black
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JONATHAN V. POST
Credits Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Poetry, Master of Science in Computers, and Ph. D. (all but Thesis) in Molecular Cybernetics. Working at Rockwell's International Space Division with software engineering, artificial intelligence, and manned lunar and planetary mission planning. Writer, editor and publisher of Science, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Futurology, Poetry, Criticism, Music and Drama. Listed in numerous Who’s Whos including Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders in America.
Current Home Altadena, CA
ADRIAN NIKOLAS PHOENIX
Nickname Nikki or Yo, Phoenix!
Credits Short fiction included in Rat Tales (Hypatia Press 1987), and Strained Relations (Hypatia Press 1989). "Sacrament" appeared in Amazing, Jan. 1990.
Current Home Eugene, OR
Hobbies Gaming, raising rats, people watching, heavy metal, Celtic history
Favorite Phrase "Wha . . . what are you doing?"
Ambition To communicate on a gut and spiritual level; to achieve immortality and embarrassing wealth wouldn't be bad either.
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ALIS A. RASMUSSEN
Credits The Labyrinth Gate, (Baen Books, 1988), Highroad Trilogy, Vol. 1: A Passage of Stars, (Bantam, Jan 1990), Vol. 2: Revolution's Shore, (Bantam, June 1990), Vol. 3: The Price of Ransom, (Bantam, Sept. 1990).
Current Home San Jose, CA
Hobbies I have a husband, a 2 1/2 year old daughter, and 8 month old twin boys. I don’t have time for hobbies.
Favorite Phrase "Challenge assumptions."
Ambition More time to write. Also, I'd still like to be crew on an interstellar exploratory vessel, if I ever get the chance.
BILL RANSOM
Nickname Word man
Credits Jaguar (Ace, July 1990), The Ascension Factor with Frank Herbert (Ace 1988), The Lazarus Effect with Frank Herbert (Ace 1983), The Jesus Incident with Frank Herbert (Ace 1979).
Current Home Port Townsend, WA
Hobbies Running, travel, Spanish, fishing.
Favorite Phrase "Mankind will not be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Diderot
Ambition To see a world without borders.
Photo by M.C. Valada
JANET RHODES
Credits "The Plague" in Domains of Darkover (1990), "If Only Banshees Could See" to be included in a forthcoming Darkover anthology.
Current Home Olympia, WA
Hobbies Making pine needle baskets, "camping" (in our motorhome).
Favorite Phrase "I'm sure there’s a way to do this ..."
MICHAEL REAVES
Credits Short stories published in F&SF, Twilight Zone, and Universe and others. Novels include Dragonworld, The Shattered World, The Burning Realm and seven others. Co-author of Dome and The Omega Cage with Steve Perry. Writer of comic books, over two hundred teleplays (Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Power and Monsters), and animation scripts (The Real Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Superman).
Current Home Woodlawn Hills, CA
JESSICA AMANDA SALMONSON
Credits Tomoe Gozen, The Golden Naginata, The Swordsman and Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman. Editor of Amazons!, Amazons II, Heroic Visions and Tales by Moonlight. Short stories of Heroic Fantasy and Horror published in magazines and anthologies.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Promoting classic and classic-style Fantasy and Horror.
Photo by Ileen Weber
MICHAEL L. SCANLON
Credits "Treed" (Argos, Winter 1988), book reviews (Argos, Summer 1988), "Kansa City Kitty" to be published in L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future 6th Annual Anthology (forthcoming).
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Reading, collecting sunsets, watching penguin migration.
Ambition To support myself with something resembling writing.
LITA R. SMITH-GHARET
Credits Stone and scrimshaw artist, her work has won over 70 awards nationwide and has been published in Lapidary Journal, Rock and Gem, and Rose Aris. Author of The Artistry in Scrimshaw, Finding Quartz Crystals, and The Petrified Forest.
Current Home Tigard, OR
Hobbies Hand beading evening gowns, working leather.
Favorite Phrase "Adequite."
Ambition Carving fire opals and writing more how-to books.
SHARON SINCLAIR
Credits Historian , researcher, and bibliographer. Coordinator for The Olympic View SF Writers' Conference; Fan Guest of Honor for Dreamcon 5 (Fall 1990).
Current Home Edmonds, WA
Hobbies Making teddy bears and porcelain dolls, cruising Puget Sound waters with her husband.
Favorite Phrase "When doing research, start with an Oxford Dictionary."
SARA STAMEY
Credits Her SF series published by Ace, featuring a far-future gambler/turned spy/turned resistance agent against a repressive cybernetic network, includes Wild Card Run and Win, Lose, Draw. The third in the series, Double Blind, is scheduled to appear in May. She is currently completing a near-future novel set in the Greek islands.
Current Home Bellingham, WA
Hobbies Scuba, classical piano, mineral prospecting, hiking.
Favorite Phrase "The expedition goes on."
Ambition Take a freefall space walk.
MARK A. SKULLERUD
Credits Science Fiction and Fantasy artist currently showing at the Kirstan Gallery in Seattle. Art show awards include Best of Show (Norwescon 6 and 9) and First Place (Boskone 1989).
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Telescopy, collecting radio shows.
Favorite Phrase "You must be thinking of my cousin..."
Ambition X-ray vision.
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KATHLYN S. STARBUCK
Nickname Kathy, Bucksnort, Hey You.
Credits Time in Mimi (forthcoming from Grafton, U.K. in 1991).
Current Home San Diego, CA
Hobbies Embroidery, skiing, torture of horses and cats.
Favorite Phrase "Oh, swell."
Ambition To become as "famous" as my husband, Ray Feist.
D.T. STEINER
Credits Short story "The Being Game" included in Strained Relations (Hypatia Press 1989).
Current Home Springfield, OR
Hobbies Gaming, reading, collecting castles.
Ambition” To live in England at least a year.
EDD VICK
Nickname The Dr. Pepper Kid
Credits Publisher and co-publisher of small press magazines and fanzines, writer for Blackbird Comics, columnist for Amazing Heroes, member of Rowbrazzle and Cartoonists Northwest.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Collecting animation, drawing for fanzines.
Ambition Raising Dachsunds in Peru (I was a weird teenager!)
BRYNNE STEPHENS
Credits Scripts for animated television shows including He-Man, Dungeons and Dragons, Teenage Muntant Ninja Turtles, and Beany and Cecil. Also written comic books, computer games and novels.
Current Home Woodlawn Hills, CA
BRUCE TAYLOR
Nickname The Magic Realist
Credits New Dimensions 9 and 10, Seattle P.I., Kopernikus 14, Science Fiction Jahrbuch, Twilight Zone, Pulphouse, Nebula nomination, Bram Stoker award, Member, Board of Directors, Clarion West. Will have a story included in the anthology October Dreams.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Hiking and puttering around the condo, talking with friends far, far, into the night.
Favorite Phrase "Far f***ing out!"
Ambition To turn reality into Magic Realism.
SCOTT STOLNACK
Credits Fiction published in Asimov's, Sky Views, Copula, and others.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Mountain climbing, bicycling in Europe.
Favorite Phrase "I’ll buy it."
Ambition » To see the earth from space first hand.
Photo by David Cortesi
DENNIS VIRZI Nickname Ever Ready
Credits Noted fan personality and convention organizer. Bubonicon 8, Lone Star Con, Idicon Towel Party. A founding director of FACT (Fandom Association of Central Texas).
Current Home Duncanville, TX
Hobbies Star Trek fans.
Favorite Phrase "What do you mean, ’Not tonight?’"
Ambition Four.
ELISABETH WATERS
Nickname Lisa
Credits Short stories in The Keeper’s Price, Greyhaven, Magic in Ithkar, Free Amazons of Darkover, Sword and Sorceress III, Red Sun of Darkover, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Four Moons of Darkover, Things That Go Bump in the Night, and the forthcoming Domains of Darkover, Sword and Sorceress VI, and Tales of Witch World IV. Gryphon Award winner (1989).
Current Home Berkeley, CA
Hobbies Needlework, reading, ice skating.
RICHARD WRIGHT
Credits Fan Guest of Honor: Moscon, Leprecon, Rustycon. Ex-chair: Norwescon, NWSFS. Masquerade Best of Show: PSST III, SF Expo 8. Member of programming department for Austin and Phoenix NASFiCs. Author of two textbooks and numerous articles on computers.
Current Home Tukwila, WA
Hobbies Computers, bulletin boards, fantasy role playing, reading.
Favorite Phrase "It's not in the budget!"
Photo by N. Shehnerdine
DEBORAH WESSELL
Nickname Wes
Credits Stories in (or slated for) Asimov's, Universe, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Pulphouse, Seattle Review.
Current Home Seattle, WA
Hobbies Procrastination, angst, rock & roll.
Favorite Phrase "Lower your standards and keep going."
Ambition To cover my refrigerator with photos of my refrigerator covered with photos of...
Photo by Steven Bryan Bieler
LANCE ZIELINSKI
Nickname Sir Lancelot
Credits Various poetry published in World of Poetry. Inclusions in Megan Lindholm's Luck of the Wheels.
Current Home Roy, WA
Hobbies Music, music, music, writing, art, horseback riding, astral projection, cars.
Favorite Phrase "Damn! Hate when that happens..."
Ambition Become more famous than the Beatles, and be richer than Michael Jackson.
WILLIAM R. WARREN JR.
Credits Artwork published in the Ballantine Star Trek Concordance, Minus 10 and Counting and Analog. Cover illustration for Analog for the beginning of the serialization of Fred Pohl's The Coming of the Quantum Cats. Another cover for Analog is in the works.
Current Home Tacoma, WA
Photo by Michael Citrak
You're right! We did cheat a lot with the alphbetizing.
[Photo] Principal Warren presides over pep rally.
[Photo] Chess Club
[Photo] Mr. Citrak the shop teacher, comes to work again with a snoot-full.
[Photo] Our beloved football team prepares before a big game.
Originally Published in Pirate Jenny, Spring 1988
I have lived with a long, wild and varied series of roommates in my time. We've done strange things together, I've done some strange things myself—and sometimes my roommates have done strange things on their own.
Once, a roommate ran amuck with her airbrush and painted a long white stripe down the back of a neighbor's black cat. After that, we airbrushed our hair white, to see what we'd look like in fifty years or so.
Another time, a roommate had a neurotic part-Siamese cat named Magnolia Thunderpussy (the name was lifted directly from an entry in the Los Angeles Phonebook). Magnolia had the disturbing habit to peeing on our phone jacks, which caused all the telephones in the house to act as thought they were possessed, ringing intermittently at odd hours.
Another roommate in the same household decided to “surprise" a friend who lived next door when he came home from work—so this roommate and about four of his friend draped towels over their heads, grabbed their machetes and plastic tommyguns and whatnot, and laid in wait on our neighbor's rooftop, planning to ambush him with a fake terrorist attack. Unfortunately, at least one apartment- dweller from just across the parking lost spotted them, and phoned the police, evidently babbling, "Terrorists! Arabs! Knives! Guns!" incoherently and at the top of their lungs. Helicopters and sniper squads and an entire battalion of police cars swarmed to the scene, just as our neighbor pulled into the driveway. And said neighbor was not terribly amused, as he had just moved in next door, hadn't gotten his address changed on his driver's license yet, and couldn't prove he actually lived there and wasn't part of the terrorist attack... It was all terribly exciting.
Oh, and let's not forget the time I'd been awake about forty eight hours straight and one of my roommates gave me a left-handed can-opener to use... the roommate who decided to use the mimeograph just outside my bedroom door at two o'clock a.m. on a weeknight... or the roommate who would stoop down to light his cigarettes off the gas burner on the stove (phew!)...
Now, don't get me wrong. I did my share of weird, and silly, and stupid things, too. And I'm sure my roommates have just as many stories about me, as I have about them.
But there's one roommate story that tops them all.
I was living in a two-bedroom house on Kumquat Court in Austin, Texas at the time. The rent was rather exorbitant for one person, but when split with a roommate it become more or less affordable. I had moved into the house with a friend who was an artist, and we signed a year's lease.
Well, about halfway though the lease, the artist (who is still a good friend, by the way) couldn't stand the summertime weather in Texas any longer "Too Hot," she said. "Too muggy. Too humid. Too bright."
"I'm moving to Seattle," she said.
"Um," I said. "Okay."
I was setting type part-time at a local printer, and making ends meet by doing freelance graphics work and keyboarding for various companies. I had been commissioning artwork from an out-oftown artist, though, who had expressed an interest in moving to Austin.
I called him up. "Hey, I know someone who needs a roommate," I said.
"Great," he said. He packed his car up about five minutes later, drove twelve hundred miles, and arrived about a day and a half later.
"Hi!" he said when he arrived on our doorstep.
"I'm not going to leave for Seattle for another two weeks," my first roommate said.
"That's okay, I'll sleep on the couch," the newly-arrived artist replied.
We both looked at him, and then looked at each other. "How old are you?" we asked.
"Nineteen," he replied.
Oh my, we thought.
So, the young artist camped out on my couch while my roommate cleared up some loose ends before leaving for Seattle. He got a job (her old job, in fact), and then quit after a few days.
Money was tight. I started worrying about having enough to pay all the bills.
"I really think you should get a job," I said.
"I tried," he said. "Nobody will hire me to do artwork. I'm too young."
Now, I'll have to admit one thing. This fellow was one Talented Artist, though a bit limited in repertoire. He seemed to have been drawing continually for all nineteen years of his life -- and his metier was the Comic Book Style. This fit in rather well with several of my freelance graphics clients, so I kept feeding him work so I could pay him and then he could give the money back to me for the rent he owed me...
The kid was also unfamiliar with various drawing material and techniques, so I started showing him new things, when I had a chance. Coquille board for a texturing effect, for instance. Felttipped "brush pens", for an easy and cheap way to vary line widths. Scraps of sponge, for applying watercolors in wide swatches.
The kid was fast, too. I'd give him an assignment you'd expect to be finished in a week — and he'd have it finished in a day and a half, maybe less. And it'd be good, too. It was disgusting.
"When are you going to buy some more groceries," he'd complain.
"Get some steady work," I'd say, and go back to pounding on a keyboard for a buck a thousand characters.
I couldn't kick him out -- what little money he brought in was better than nothing at all. Besides, how do you throw out a kid like that, and tell him to go live with his parents again? I was nineteen once, and am still glad nobody had done anything like that to me...
Meanwhile, Lone Star Con was fast approaching, and in addition to free-lancing and typesetting parttime, I was supposedly in charge of their Publications Division. Life started getting hairy.
The kid's work sources dried up. He got bored. He played the stereo real loud, and watched a lot of television, real loud. Soon, he was very bored.
I had just picked up a new keyboarding assignment the previous day, and figured that if I finished it the next day, I'd have enough money to buy groceries and pay my car insurance. The material was deadly dull, though — nothing by hundreds of pages of the Texas County Codes.
"Oh boy," I said. "Fingers, do your stuff.
I was about third of the way though the manuscript - just starting on a meaty section about the Texas Hide and Animal Inspectors. I could hardly tear myself away from it, and there were about two hundred more page to go.
It was three o'clock in the morning, and the house was suspiciously quiet.
"It's quiet," I said to myself. "Too quiet." I looked up from my computer screen.
Kid Artist was standing in my doorway. He's wearing a pair of Khaki cutoffs, no shirt, and no shoes. Somehow he didn't look bored any more.
"Do you have any gauze?" he asked.
Gauze? Gauze? Here I was, immersed in the fascination world of the Texas County Hide and Animal Inspector, and he wanted gauze.
Well, gosh, maybe he wanted to do something artistic with it. Experiment with new techniques, or something.
"I might have some in the medicine cabinet," I said. "Did you look there?"
"I couldn't find any."
Sighing heavily, I went to search for some gauze. I scrabbled around in the medicine cabinet, and then the hall closet. No luck.
"What do you need gauze for?" I ask.
Foolish me.
"I cut myself," he said.
I could see no evidence of cuts or wounds. Maybe he backed into an Xacto blade or something. "Here, put this on it," I said, hauling out a quart bottle of hydrogen peroxide. He disappeared into the bathroom and closed the door.
Moments later, I heard a loud, long hissing noise. The sort of noise a wounded teakettle would make, if you poured a quart of hydrogen peroxide all over it.
After about three minutes, the bathroom door open. Kid Artist emerged and handed me the bottle of peroxide. He as about twenty shades paler, and the bottle was almost empty.
I could still see no sign of injury. No gory wounds, no makeshift bandages. Anywhere.
My curiosity was piqued. The Texas County Hide and Animal Inspectors could wait a few more minutes — I wanted to know what the hell was going on.
"I cut myself," he said. A bit sheepishly.
"I figured that," I said. A bit perturbedly, "Where? How? With What?"
"I, uh, cut myself," he said again.
I was becoming more than a bit exasperated by the whole nonsense.
"It's kind of, uh, embarrassing," he said.
Oh, really.
I managed to pry the story out of him, between much stammer- ing and many "Uh"s, and before he bled to death on the carpet. It seems that when he was originally, uh, circumcised, the doctor kind of, uh, missed a piece, and like it was kind of annoying and painful...
...and like he was pretty bored, and thought he might take care of it himself, just snip and --
"With my embroidery scissors?” I was aghast.
"Um... yeah," he said. "I didn't think it would hurt as much as it does."
I made a sarcastic comment about the number of nerve endings in that particular portion of his anatomy. "Do you want me to take you to the emergency room?"
"I don't have any money," he said. "Besides, this is too embarrassing."
I bit back a number of sarcastic comments about gangrene.
"And it's bleeding an awful lot," he added. (I valiantly suppressed yet another sarcastic comment about the number of blood vessels in that area of his anatomy, as well.)
"I can't get it to stop bleeding," he said. "That's what I need the gauze for. I've already ruined two pairs of underwear."
Suddenly, I had a brainstorm. It hit me like a bolt out of the blue -- a moment of satori. Women prevent biology from ruining their underwear all the time!
"Hey, I've got a box of sanitary napkins —
"No, that would be stupid,” he said. And he had the effrontery to sneer when he said it.
Well, what can I say... I went out and bought a roll of gauze for the poor kid, and some Neosporin ointment, and then went back to the world of the Texas County Hide and Animal Inspectors.
He lived. It didn't fall off. About a month and a half later, he moved back to where he came from, back to live with his parents again. I haven't seen or heard from him since.
Thank goodness for small favors.
© 1990 by Pat Muelle
[Artwork] Sacred Herd © 1990 by Ilene Meyer
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods...
~ Lord Byron
A GROSS PROPHETS PRDGUCTION
with a grant from the Addams Family.
[Artwork] Quitting Time at Station Core © 1990 by David A. Cherry
[Artwork] The Voice of Cepheus, cover for the book by Kenneth P. Appleby published by Del Rey. © 1990 by David Mattingly.
[Artwork] Rimrunners, cover for the book by C.J. Cherryh published by Warner Books. © 1990 by Don Maitz
[Artwork] Far Horizons, Cover for the book The Heroes by Joel Rosenberg published by Science Fiction Book Club. © 1990 by Janny Wurts
[Artwork] © 1990 by Alicia Austin
[Artwork] Rude Awakening © 1990 by Lynne Taylor Fahnestalk
[Artwork] Detail from Foreign Language Editions © 1990 by William R. Warren jr. Published in Analog, for Michael F. Flynn's "Go Astounding Years." Dedicated to Frank, Polly, & Laura Brodian Kelly-Freas - with love.
[Artwork] Aspect © 1990 by Mark a. Skullerud
[Artwork] © 1990 by Ken Kelly
[Artwork] Dragon Lake © 1990 by Michael Whelan. Cover for The Star Scroll by Melanie Rawn published by DAW.
Esmerelda Burnchurch, wealthy, willowy, and brimful of champagne, is not nearly as tipsy as she was an hour ago. An hour ago, the recentlysacked Time Czar Maxfield Singh broke the laws of God and man by sneaking her into Temp Central at two in the morning, without a plan or a permit or even a chauffeur.
Now, wavering at her own doorstep at dawn, feverish even in her gossamer gown, Esmerelda is very near to fainting daintily away beneath the boxwood hedge.
But not from champagne. From shock.
Because Maxie has actually done it: he's Tripped her to the precise moment she described to him, weeping pearly tears onto the lapels of his tuxedo at that revolting Inaugural Ball. There's the door of her old townhouse in New Francisco, there's the six-years ago sun about to come up, there's the coffee boy floating along the avenue on his magbike, slinging sacks of espresso onto the porches of the rich and famous.
And here on Esmerelda's porch, in all their delicate extravagance, are the roses which will convince her sixyears- ago self, any moment now, to elope with Nicholas Carletta instead of merging fortunes with his rival, Charles Devereaux-Brown.
Esmerelda sways against the iron filigree railing and tries to think. A breeze stirs the lavender ribbon in her waterfall hair and she yawns, inflating herself with morning to chase the champagne fumes away. Perhaps she's dreaming?
No. It's all too prosaic, and too precise. Door, sun, roses. An opportunity to repair the past. Just what she told Maxie she wanted, and just what he drunkenly vowed to give her. She has four minutes to undo the dreadful error of throwing over Charles, her ambitious, industrious, soon-to-be-senior-senator suitor, in favor of erratic, eccentric, never-to-be-anybody-but-a-saxophone player Nick. Now Charles is going to be President, Nick still isn't anybody, and Esmerelda wants to be First Spouse so much she can taste it.
"But I never expected to make it happen."
Her voice, too, sounds strangely mundane. Of course: no force field echo. Esmerelda has gone Tripping before, naturally. Everyone in her set has. The usual round, Columbus rowing ashore, Stonehenge at some ancient solstice, the Sermon on the Mount. But what with the roaring distortion of the force field, which keeps the tourists from mucking up destiny, and the five-centuries-andearlier rule, and the vast expense and the vaster paperwork, and the stingy little snippet of time that you're actually Back Then, surrounded by extremely tall and tedious guards -- it isn't really all that much fun. Pharaohs, triceratops, Big Bang, ho hum.
But this. This is her own destiny, and nothing to stop her tampering, not for two or three more minutes. Esmerelda is abruptly queasy. She lifts the exquisite porcelain vase, hauls out the bouquet - pink sweetheart roses, a special favorite that Nick somehow remembered and Charles always forgot -- and heroically tips a cascade of icy water down the cleavage of her gown.
The shock sets her gasping but clears her mind. Time for business. Nick is wrong for her, it's too bad, but there it is. His eccentric charm is wearing thin, even though they still have fun in bed. (Or did, until Charles' nomination underscored her second thoughts.) Life isn't just saxophones and sex, after all, and to reign in the White House with a strong, compelling man like Charles -- well, that will be a life. And surely she and Nick can manage an affair, very discreetly. No, Nicky wouldn't, he's idiotically ethical.
And romantic, in his own glib way. (Esmerelda cradles the roses in one arm.) But she's still going to thumbprint her wristband -- Max's contraband wristband -- and she and the flowers will flicker straight back to Temp Central and a life with the world's elite. (Rather trite, really, setting flowers at the doorway in the dead of night.) No bouquet in the morning will mean no fond thoughts of Nick uppermost in her six-years-ago mind. (The roses gleam like damask in the dawn.) No fond thoughts, no argument with Charles when she finds out he's had his secretary select their wedding rings. (She brushes her lips across the furled petals.) No argument, no impetuous telepix call to Nick. (The roses smell like raspberries, like wine.) No call, no golden afternoon on the cliffs above the sea, making love and gazing into his sea-green eyes. (The roses—
WHAP! An espresso sack sails over the hedge and smacks the steps at Esmerelda's feet. She jumps, heart slamming, and the empty vase cartwheels to the ground and cracks in two like a porcelain egg. The coffee boy floats off without a glance, but a light appears in the casement window overhead. Esmerelda can hear footsteps on the oak staircase inside. She remembers now, a sudden noise woke her that morning and she came down to discover—
Nick's ridiculous roses. The vase lies in pieces at Esmerelda's feet, the roses are loose in the crook of her arm. She slips the lavender ribbon from her hair and binds it around the stems, remembering as she does so that she's always kept that ribbon because Nick gave it to her, tied around an armful of pink sweetheart roses ...
The spiraling thought make Esmerelda dizzy, and the Trip make her dizzier still, as she sets down the roses and gathers up the vase and flickers into her future with the broken pieces in her hands.
© 1990 by Deborah Wessell
[Artwork] Tokens of a Gentleman © 1990 by Julia Lacquement-Kerr
On February 24th there was a Sneak Preview of Norwescon 12 at the Tacoma Sheraton. Everyone who was registered to attend the convention was invited to get a peek at some of the special events happening at Norwescon 12 and to find out what other programming events were scheduled.
The theme of the day was The Circus, highlighting the circus scheduled as a KidKon event on Saturday. In keeping with the circus theme, staff members were dressed for the part, and pop, popcorn and hot dogs were served (at no charge, unlike a real circus).
The main thrust of the day was to recruit those much-needed people that fill the positions and do the work that is a part of any convention. The jobs that need to be filled range from door-watching for a few hours, or making sure that panels run on time and have the equipment that they need, or helping setup and tear-down the art show, to Ringmaster & Animal Trainer Pat Oros being the second-in-command of a department that may have lost that person due to unforseen circumstances.
Volunteers that work a certain number of hours receive a token that represents the department they helped in and every volunteer has their name put into a drawing to choose the next Volunteer Guest of Honor, who receives noteriety and a paid hotel room. Tokens this year represent that department's animal designation. l.E. Tech Crew Pack Rats, Security Rovers or Art Show Flamingos. Volunteers also have access to the Staff Lounge where they can sit down for awhile, get a tired but sincere smile and a foot massage.
If you wish to volunteer, go to the volunteer's room and let them know that you have some time you wish to give to the convention. Its never too late to volunteer.
[Photo] Ringmaster & Animal Trainer Pat Oros
[Photo] The crowd waits to be thrilled and amazed.
[Photo] A short but inspiring performance.
[Photo] Michael Citrak reads his palm.
[Photo] Norwescon TV - All Day, All Night.
[Photo] Everybody waves goodbye after spending an exciting day at the circus.
Photos by John Sabotta and Peter Citrak
Originally published in Pacific Magazine
Capt. Kirk, Science Officer Spock, Chief Medical Officer "Bones" McCoy, and a geologist named Johnson, Jackson, or Chang beam down to an uncharted planet with breathable atmosphere, understandable natives, and a society resembling feudal Europe under the rule of Charlemagne. Despite their superior weaponry, the landing party is quickly captured by sword-swinging illiterates acting as agents of the insidious emperor who has eradicated any semblance of freedom from the planet. Johnson, Jackson, or Chang is killed. Kirk's shirt is ripped. Dr. McCoy is forced to provide medical care for the emperor's beautiful daughter, who has been stricken with terminal eyeliner, and from her learns that galactic war is imminent.
Meanwhile, Romulan starships have crossed the Neutral Zone and are attacking the Enterprise. Engineer Scott is in command and having a bad day: No. 4 shield has buckled, the warp engines are running amok, and he forgot his accent at home with his lunch. He decides that the ship can't take the pounding. He orders Lt. Uhura to contact Star Fleet Command, but the line is busy. Scotty pops the top off another beer and waits for the commercial to bail him out.
Down on the planet, Kirk seduces the emperor's daughter and learns the whereabouts of the rebel underground. The rebels are betrayed by spies and everyone is captured by the Klingons. Kirk challenges the head Klingon to a duel, first delivering a speech on universal peace. Spock computes the odds and McCoy holds the bets. The smart money is on the Klingon. He's twice Kirk's size and armed with a bazooka. Kirk only has his good looks and the Klingons have tied his shoelaces together. McCoy tells Spock to do something. Spock constructs a primitive molecular dehumidifier from old chicken bones and plugs the device into a convenient wall outlet. It works. Everyone escapes.
The emperor's daughter begs Kirk to stay with her, because she is in love with him and likes to have a man around the house. Kirk declines the offer. He is responsible for the lives of 400 crew members, and anyway he is already in love with the Enterprise. He feels guilty when he fools around. The emperor arrives on the scene in time for another speech by Kirk on the brotherhood of all living things, is swiftly humbled and promises a new way.
Spock constructs a primitive communicator from a pop-up toaster and contacts the ship. Scotty beams them aboard, but the transporter malfunctions and deposits Spock inside the Romulan flagship's video arcade. Now the Enterprise can't defend itself for fear of killing Spock. McCoy demands they do something. Kirk pounds his chair with his fist and punches buttons but can't find a station he likes. Scotty says the ship can't take the pounding. Kirk orders Uhura to call the Romulans and is angered when they refuse to accept the charges. He has Uhura open the "hailing frequency," which permits him to make calls without paying for them, and lets the Romulans know he is through being Mr. Nice Guy. He threatens to activate the recently installed bilateral hemostat. The Romulans have never heard of a bilateral hemostat. They panic and head for home. They have been duped by a clever bluff, and Kirk will be expecting a little extra something in his next paycheck from Star Fleet Command.
Scotty succeeds in overhauling the transporter. He wipes the windshield and turns it on. Spock is returned to the Enterprise, where he describes his experience as fascinating. He scored 5 million points on Galactic Planet-Eater. Time again to enjoy the fruits of liberty. McCoy insults Spock. Spock insults McCoy. Kirk doesn't get the joke but chuckles anyway. He orders Sulu to get them out of this episode.
But somebody plugged in a hair dryer while the bilateral hemostat was running, and the engines run amok, rocketing everyone backward through time at Warp Eleventeen. Sulu hits the brakes and stops the ship in the 20th century. They are orbiting a primitive planet whose only economic and cultural activity is the production of an endless series of Star Trek movies. Hollywood agents start calling, and Kirk and company realize that they have, at last, come home.
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PARTRIDGE FAMILY TO PERFORM AGAIN!
Degenerates ruin family name!
The New Partridge Family has issued a statement that they are once again going to reunite for a new album and world-wide tour. The announcement came as a shock to Shirley Partridge and the rest of the original Partridge Family who protested the forming of the group over twelve years ago. The new group became the defendents in a heated court battle over the Partridge family name when the New Partridge Family was formed by various blood relatives, inlaws and ex-spouses of the originals. The court found for the defendents in the suit stating that since the names of most of the New Partridges were legally “Partridge”, they were entitled to use their name if they differentiated themselves in some manner. At that time they chose to call themselves The New Partridge Family and perform in skin-tight gold lame costumes. Despite the recognition of the family name [some text lost in the scan here]
[...] ences. There was much talk about various legal problems and moral scandals involving the members of the group both seperatly and as a whole. The original members asked that the court revoke the rights to the name, but the decision stood firm. Finally it was the lack of sales and the disappearance of their leader, Salman Partridge, that broke the group up.
When the New Partridges were to reform and record three years ago, the originals tried to keep them from the name again but failed. No reunion happened at that time but they still retained the rights to the name. “I really can't believe that the court is willing to let these black sheep free to roam [some text lost in the scan here]
[...] tridge name,” said Shirley at the time. “I've a good mind to go out and reunite the original Partridge Family” she said.
New leader of the New Partridges, Manuel “just call me Sparky” Noriega-Partridge speaking from his jail cell yesterday said “When I get out of here there is going to be a great Partridge force on this earth, the like of which has never been seen before. If you thought Nazgul was something else, wait till you get a load of us. That Shirley-babe is going to learn a thing or two about
Cont. on page 5
[Photo] The New Partridge Family today: Sue Bartoff Partridge, Judy Suryan Partridge, Debbie Partridge Tatarek, Richard Wright Partridge, Don Forbis-Partridge, Chris McDonell Partridge (retired), Uncle Keith (honorary Partridge) Johnson, Cladia Quate Partridge, Yvonne Partridge Richardson, Elizabeth “Dragon Partridge” Warren, Hans Meier Partridge, Kathy “Little Partridge" Warren, Holly Partridge-Forbis, Lauraine Partridge Miranda, Sheila Glassburn Partridge, Walter Jung Partridge, Mary Partridge (nee Hamburger), Becky Partridge Simpson, Michael Citrak Partridge, Beth Dockins Partridge, and Kathy Smith-Partridge. Not Pictured: “Nose" Prartridge, Carolyn Partridge Palms, Michael "Hoops" Brocha-Partridge, Doug Booze Partridge, Peter Horvath Partridge, Julia Partridge-Mueller, Janis Worrell Partridge, Marnie Smith-Partridge, Pat Oros Partridge (original member), Jodi Kimbell Partridge, Katherine Howes Partridge (Portland), Craig Partridge Bowie, Mark Manning Partridge (Honorary), Michael Scanlon Partridge, Doug and Dora Shirk (Partridge on her side), Manuel Noriega-Partridge, [some text lost in the scan here]
CONVENTION CHAIRMAN: READ MY LIPS!
Norwescon Chairman Elizabeth “The Dragon Lady” Warren says that everybody at Norwescon 12 owe a big thank you to the Tacoma Sheraton Hotel, PNTA, Cheryl Cleaveland and the Tacoma-Pierce County Blood Bank, Safeway Stores Inc., Event Rental, Ram Paging System, H.D. Baker Co., Aberg's, Tom and all the goood people at Capitol City Press, David Olson and Designers Service Bureau, Kristi Austin and Arkadian Bookshop, Toni Weisskopf and Baen Books, Leslie Howie and Clarion West, Lisa Feerick and Joel Davis Pubs., Terry Erdmann, Jeff Walker, Elisabeth Waters and MZB Ltd., Stacy Kentop and NW Aids Foundation, Scott Merritt and Pegasus Music, Eileen Deutscher and the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, Officer Daniel Stills and Tacoma Police D.A.R.E. Program, Dr. Thomas A. Furness III and Dr. Robert Jacobson of WA Technical Center UW, Rustycon, SchmarrMostafavinassab, Norah Hogoboom, Doug Booze and staff, Lauraine Miranda and staff, Dave Sullivan, Michael for chocolate and kisses and patience and shoulders, Bonnie Baker, Greg Bennett, Steve Bard, and all of the convention committee and volunteers that make all of this possible.
What Else? She tells everybody to have fun . . . or else! This spunky lass isn’t called “The Dragon Lady” for nothing!
NOW IN THE NATIONAL MIDNIGHT TWADDLE
THE GREAT NEW SENSATION FROM ACROSS THE OCEAN
JIGGLE-VISION!
FRANK FURY:
A GUN IN EVERY POCKET TO KEEP AMERICA SAFE!
IS YOUR HYPNOTIST TAKING ADVANTAGE OF YOU?
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Daily Zine #4 - 04-09-2023
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The 2023 Speculative Film Festival happened Thursday and Friday Nights. We showed 37 short films from 13 countries over two nights. The film quality was so good the judges had a hard time selecting the winners, so this year we are giving…
2 Judges Choices awards:
Fetch, directed by Sam Gill, New Zealand.
La Nueva (The Newcomer), directed by Ivan Villamel, Spain.
The judges would also like to give an Honorable Mention to
All is Well, directed by Elaine del Valle, United States
The Audience choice was also split between two films
The Post, directed by Antonio Souto Fraguas, United States
The Operator, directed by Matt Riley, United Kingdoms
Congratulations to our winners, and a huge thank you to all the filmmakers who submitted their films!
Secret QR Code to the left.
Is it an Easter Surprise?
Or, simply something you can look at for your memories!
The Norwescon Art Show is proud to announce this year’s Art Show Award winners. We would like to thank our artists for their outstanding contributions to this year’s show.
Judges Choices:
Best in Show Alan M. Clark Mr. Macklin, the Bonehill Ghost 1st place Grace P. Fong The River That Walks 2nd Place Jeff Sturgeon Unbelievable 3rd place Kayla Klassy Voodoo Cauldron Best Color Theresa Mather Treasure Hunters Best Black & White The Creeping Moon Map of White Hollow Best Mixed Media Sarah Clemens Sam Best 3D Lisa Snellings Apocalypse Horsemen Set of Four Best Textile Cleothyla Keeper of the Keys Best Jewelry Victoria Shaffer Over the Rainbow Artist GoH Pick Theresa Mather Valkyries' Ride
People’s Choice Awards:
Best Humor Sarah Clemens Magnus & Loki: Tuna Cookies Best Horror Alan M. Clark Mr. Macklin, the Bonehill Ghost Best Sci-Fi Michael Brugger Payment Due Best 3-D/Jewelry Victoria Shaffer Frozen Waterfall Best Fantasy Brittany Torres The Watch of Hades Best Show Brittany Torres The Watch of Hades
Lobby Photo Area
Sunday, noon–1 p.m.
Howdy partners welcome to the Hoedown Superheroes photoshoot event!
There will be superheroes Wild West style for you to photograph—or you’re welcome to participate! Choose a superhero and create them as if they were in the Wild West (roughly 1865-1895). Anything is fair game, Steampunk, fantasy, Westworld, or whatever makes you happy. It doesn’t need to be period but should be recognizable as the Wild West.
Daily Zine #3 - 04-08-2023
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The Philip K. Dick Award for 2023 goes to Kimberly Unger, for The Extractionist. The Special Citation goes to Tade Thompson, for The Legacy of Molly Southbourne.
Rotunda 2 11 a.m.-6 p.m. (stay for a little, or a while!)
Artemis is a spaceship bridge simulator in which players assume the jobs of captain, helm, science, communication, engineering, and weapons and work together to defeat alien enemies.
Grand 2 & 3 - 7-8:30 p.m.
We invite everyone to attend the annual presentation of the finest creations Norwescon costumers and cosplayers have to offer at the Norwescon 45 Masquerade. Join us in cheering on this year's crew of creatives as they share their hard-wrought handiwork. Be a part of the oo-ing and ah-ing at the pageantry and presentation of these amazing makers.
Lobby Photo Area 7-9 p.m.
Bummed that you can't take flash photos in the masquerade? Want to take pictures of the masquerade contestants? This is your chance. Most contestants will come to the lobby photo area after they exit the stage to pose for pictures with the staff photographers. This is your chance to get some too! Please be polite and listen to those directing the event and the masquerade contestants. If you want photos but aren't in the masquerade, you can get in a queue to get a chance for photos, but the contestants have priority.
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Philip K. Dick Awards Grand 2 7-8:30 p.m.
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The Philip K. Dick Award for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States is presented annually at Norwescon with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust. The award is sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and the Philip K. Dick Trust, and the award ceremony is sponsored by Norwescon. Come hear readings from the nominated works and find out the winners!
Michael Hanscom (M), Gordon Van Gelder, Kimberly Unger, Rachel Swirsky
Located in the hallway in front of the Dealer's Room, you'll find an amazing collection of book author booths waiting to be discovered! AUTHOR'S ROW!
The energy in the air is electric as people flock to these booths, eager to discover new authors, books, and stories. Whether you're a fan of science fiction or any other genre, you're sure to find something that will capture your imagination.
So what are you waiting for? Head to the hallway right in front of the Dealer's Room and explore the amazing world of books! It's an experience that will stay with you long after the convention is over.
Maxi's Ballroom
10 a.m.-midnight
Come check out games from our lending libraries. We have role-playing games, card games, board games, and so much more! An official state license or state ID is needed to check out games. There will be tables to play the games you bring or the ones you borrow. Do you need accommodation related to a disability? Please speak to our staff so we can be sure to meet your needs.
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Norwescon 45 officially kicks off at Opening Ceremonies. Enjoy interviews with our guests of honor, get a preview of events, and find essential information to maximize your fun this weekend.
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We are thrilled to announce our guest of honor lineup for Norwescon 45!
Writer Guest of Honor - P. Djèlí Clark
Artist Guest of Honor - Grace P. Fong
Science Guest of Honor - Dr. Greg Dubos
Spotlight Publisher - Uncanny Magazine
Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
The little gnome with the glowing guts sitting under the bridge with his quill is, of course, Norwescon's guest of honor, Theodore Sturgeon. The fellow to the left with the staff is toastmaster Ray Bradbury.
Bill had the artwork done before he learned who the toastmaster was. Upon hearing the news, he replaced the face of the original wizardy guy with a sketch of Bradbury. The patch is still there on the original art.
Once upon a time, Theodore Sturgeon wrote a passage about a little gnome sitting under a bridge, this guts a-glow as he penned some tome. Bill based this scene on that passage. And now, dang it, I cannot find the original quote.
All the other characters in the scene are from Sturgeon stories.
The "Q" with an arrow through it is Sturgeon's personal symbol. It means, "Ask the next question."
He advocated that we keep asking questions about the why and the how of it, expanding our knowledge throughout our lives.
You might also be familiar with Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crud." It came from a time a fan complained to him that 90% of science fiction was crud. Sturgeon replied, "Of course it is! But then, 90% of everything is crud!"
He was quite adamant in saying that the word was "crud," not "crap." However, whether it's 90% or 95% is of no significance. The important thing is to seek out the good stuff.
(Text by Gregory Bennett)
]]>This is a scan of the original art for the Norwescon 1 program book cover. The cover is by Bill Warren (William R. Warren, Jr.), 1978; India ink on vellum.
The little gnome with the glowing guts sitting under the bridge with his quill is, of course, Norwescon's guest of honor, Theodore Sturgeon. The fellow to the left with the staff is toastmaster Ray Bradbury.
Bill had the artwork done before he learned who the toastmaster was. Upon hearing the news, he replaced the face of the original wizardy guy with a sketch of Bradbury. The patch is still there on the original art.
Once upon a time, Theodore Sturgeon wrote a passage about a little gnome sitting under a bridge, this guts a-glow as he penned some tome. Bill based this scene on that passage. And now, dang it, I cannot find the original quote.
All the other characters in the scene are from Sturgeon stories.
The "Q" with an arrow through it is Sturgeon's personal symbol. It means, "Ask the next question."
He advocated that we keep asking questions about the why and the how of it, expanding our knowledge throughout our lives.
You might also be familiar with Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crud." It came from a time a fan complained to him that 90% of science fiction was crud. Sturgeon replied, "Of course it is! But then, 90% of everything is crud!"
He was quite adamant in saying that the word was "crud," not "crap." However, whether it's 90% or 95% is of no significance. The important thing is to seek out the good stuff.
(Text by Gregory Bennett)
RUSTYCON 7
at the SeaTac Hyatt Hotel
17001 Pacific Hwy South • [REDACTED]
Rooms $60.00 per night + tax (single-double-triple)
January 19, 20 & 21, 1990
Guests of Honor
writer
Ben Bova
artist
Mike Grell
fan
Frank Denton
membership rates:
$15.00 at Rustycon 6
$18.00 until March 31, 1989
New P.O. Box!
RUSTYCON 7
P.O. Box 84291
Seattle, WA 98124–5591
(Artwork) James Bond by Mike Grell
VOLUNTEER
We’re Looking for a Few Good Fen
Art Show • Dealers Room • Masquerade • Casino • 2 Dances • Gaming • Truly Mondo VideoTM • Guests • Parties • Costumes • And More!
Program Book Production:
Michael Brocha, Robert Suryan, Sue Bartroff, David Ludke, Pierce Ludke, Becky Simpson, Judy Suryan
Program Book Typesetting:
Datatype and Graphics. Seattle, Washington
Designer Service Bureau, Olympia. Washington
Chairman: Elizabeth Warren
Convention Secretary: Sue Bartroff
Photo Services: Peter Citrak, John Sabota
Hospitality: Debbie Tatarck, Janice Paulsen, Debbie Stine
Business Manager: Becky Simpson
Treasurer: Richard Wright
Treasury: Tim Walker, Beth Moursund, Lori Ritchins
Membership Services: Carolyn Palms, Diane Kuulei Villaflor, Paul Schaper
Information: Vicki Glover
Mail Services: Lauraine Miranda
Publications: Michael Brocha
Convention Services: Judy Suryan
Operations: Mary Hamburger
Office: Becky Simpson
Child Care: Sue Bartroff, Andrew Bartroff, Susan Dahlin, Mica Hellinger
Lost & Found: Lauraine Miranda
Medical: Judy Suryan
Site Services: Kathy Smith
Communications: Terry Primrose
Peacebonding: Carl Schultz
Rovers: Peter Horvath
Watchers: Kathy Smith
Signs: Toni Elton
Maintenance: Robin Smith
Programming/Stage Services: Michael Citrak
Stage Management: Beth Dockins
Masquerade: Nora Hogoboom, Judy Swanson, Keith Johnson, Michael Citrak
Stardance: Michael Citrak, Keith Johnson, Beth Dockins, Paul Wocken, Lindy Pangan, Pat Oros, Peter Kafka D’Anglemont, Peter Citrak
Ice Cream Social: Judy Suryan, Kathy Smith
Prop Room: Pat Oros
Fannish Olympics: Mark Richardson
Technical Services: Keith Johnson
Tech Gofer: Lindy Pangan
Volunteer Services: Kathy McLean
Staff Lounge: Kathy McLean
Static Programming: Melanie Bennett
Art Show: Katherine Howes
Dealers: Bruce Thompson
Gaming: Craig Bowie
Fanzine Room: Mark Manning
Science, Art and Mind: Brian Sullivan, Sky Andrews
Programming: Yvonne Richardson
Assistant Programming Director: Marybeth Zele
Programming Assistants: Kristi Austin, Doug Booze, Jeanine Gray, Andrea Hunt, Jerry Kaufman, Casey Leichter, Marci Malinowycz
Computing Services: Jim Lane
Green Room: Dora Shirk, Doug Booze, Doug Shirk
Banquet Arrangements: Judy Suryan
Writers Workshops: Michael Scanlon
Media Services: Chris McDonell
Media Tech: Robert Jung
Cameraman: Gary Malkasian
Film Contest: Mark Schellberg
Video Programming: Chris McDonell
Still Missing: Mgungu Yabba Mgungu
The Northwest Science Fiction Society proudly presents
March 23–26, 1989
Annual Northwest Regional Science Fiction Convention
TACOMA - MARCH 23RD-26TH, 1989 - TACOMA SHERATON
Eleventh Annual Northwest Regional Science Fiction Convention
Sponsored by the:
Northwest Science Fiction Society
P.O. Box 24207
Seattle, WA 98124
Guest of Honor
ALGIS J. BUDRYS
Artist Guest of Honor
DAVID MATTINGLY
Science Guest of Honor
DR. ALAN E. NOURSE
Fan Guest of Honor
MIKE GLYER
Toastmaster
STEVEN BARNES
Writer on Wheels Guest of Honor
AVRAM DAVIDSON
Table of Contents
Cover Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly: Cover
Programming: 2
Guest of Honor: Algis J. Budrys by Frank Catalano: 20
Art Guest of Honor: David Mattingly by Richard Hescox and Joe Clifford Faust: 22
Fan Guest of Honor: Mike Glyer by Rick Katze: 26
Science Guest of Honor: Dr. Alan E. Nourse by Avram Davidson: 28
Writer on Wheels Guest of Honor: Avram Davidson by Dr. Alan E. Nourse: 30
Toastmaster: Steve Barnes by Larry Niven and William Rotsler: 32
Gallery 1: 34
Guests of Norwescon: 46
Gallery 2: 68
Volunteers: 80
Members of Norwescon: 82
Acknowledgements: 88
Advertisers & Art Credits: Inside Back Cover
Contents Copyright 1989 by the Northwest Science Fiction Society for the contributors
All opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Norwescon or the Northwest Science Fiction Society
(Artwork) A Death of Honor Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Joe Clifford Faust, published by Del Rey.
SLIDE SHOW: THE BEST OF NORWESCON MASQUERADES
Ballroom 3
READING: GREG COX
South Center Room
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN: AN APPRECIATION
Ballroom 3
Rod Garcia, Shelly Clift, Steve Barnes, John Barnes
The Grand Master was and is many things to many people. He was selfless friend, mentor, and helping hand to more people than he knew. Even those who disagreed with some of his characterizations had affection and reverence for him. Surely. SF would not be what it is without him. Guests of Norwescon who had the opportunity to work with Heinlein during his final years gather on this panel to pay their respects - and to remind the rest of us that what makes the world go 'round is not what we pay back, but what we pay forward.
THE FUTILE QUEST FOR PERSONAL POWER: SWORDS & SORCERY
Ballroom 4
Carl Miller, M. Elayn Harvey, Megan Lindholm, Ginjer Buchanan, Dave Smeds
Crom! these damned wizards and their plots of power. Give me a full belly and a warm fire. A discussion of how to waste your time (fictionally, of course) in reaching for that elusive omnipotence.
BOOKS, BOOKS EVERYWHERE - BUT HOW MANY ARE WORTH READING?
Ballroom 3
Amy Thomson, Shelly Clift
Never have so many publishing houses put out so much SF in so short a time. Are mediocre," popular mass-market" writers driving out the good, less easily marketed authors?
HIGH TECH “READING”
Ballroom 4
Gregory Kusnick, Rich Dutcher, Kathaine Eliska Kimbriel, David Doering, Patrick Price
Heard any good books lately? Books on cassettes… e-mail… bulletin boards… the written word as electrical impulse. Exactly what are the effects, benefits, and/or drawbacks?
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: POLARIS
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
READING: EDWARD BRYANT
South Center Room
RESEARCHING ALTERNATE WORLDS
Ballroom 4
John E Stith, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Alis Rasmussen, Bill Ransom, David R. Deitrick, Carol Severance
How do you research something that doesn’t yet exist? Good methods for taking a bit of this n' that and turning it all into a plausible world.
READING: RU EMERSON
Reading Room
OPENING CEREMONIES
Ballroom 4
Algis Budrys, David B. Mattingly, Mike Glyer, Alan E. Nourse, Steve Barnes, Avram Davidson, Elizabeth Warren, Richard Wright, Yvonne V. Richardson, Robert Suryan
A glimpse of what awaits you this weekend, featuring our Guests of Honor and Norwescon staff.
BEST FILMS OF 1988
South Center Room
Mark Schellberg, Doug Shirk, Bridget McKenna, Nancy Morri
NORWESCON WARMUP DANCE
Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
All Boogie Beings, Michael Citrak, Keith Johnson
Taped music centering around 50s, 60s, and 70s favorites to get your feet moving. It was on a night like this forty million years ago…
SCIENCE FOR THE MASSES
Ballroom 4
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, David R. Deitrick, Teresa Plowright, John G. Cramer, Rob Quigley, Grant D. Callin
How can we make decisions about “appropriate technology” when we’re ignorant not only of how the technology works, but know even less about social implications? How not knowing means abdicating our part in the decision making process…and who will make those decisions for us if we don’t or can’t.
STRANGE FANNISH TALES AND JOKES
Reading Room
Mike Glyer, Loren McGregor, Jerry Kaufmann
Reminiscence of the undying legends of fannish foolishness, feuds, gags and guffaws.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: PROCYON
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
FRIDAY TAI CHI
Pavilion
Steve Barnes (M)
Tai Chi is neither a martial art nor is it aerobics, however it is a wonderful method of exercising the mind and the body. Our Toastmaster leads us through some of the disiplines of Tai Chi before turning us loose on the madness that is the first full day of Norwescon.
ART WORKSHOP: CARTOONING FOR THE MASSES
Pavilion Programming Rm
Donna Barr (M)
COSTUMING: CREATING BELIEVABLE PERSONAS
South Center Room
Dragon, Betty Bigelow, Lita Smith-Gharet, Astrid Anderson Bear
LIVE LONGER, THINK BETTER
Ballroom 4
Alan E. Nourse, Steve Barnes, Steve Perry, Gordon Baker, Steve Bard
Never mind panaceas of the future - what can we do NOW to extend our lives, improve our health, and expand our mental capacity? Megavitamins, enzyme therapy, and other holding actions will be discussed.
READING: MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY
Ballroom 3
THE SHARED WORLD OF SEATTLE
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Megan Lindholm, Bill Ransom, Stanley Schmidt, Kathleen Alcala, Terry Allen Scott
Panelists and audience both learn how to develop a shared world background - by doing it. Come create believable worlds-that-never-were, characters in them, and learn to pass them back and forth. I’ll let you use Fafhrd and Bilbo if I can borrow Pyanfar and Conan…
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: VEGA
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
ART DEMO: AIRBRUSH TECHNIQUES
Art Demo Room
Monika Livingston
HOW TO SURVIVE WAITING FOR FAME AND FORTUNE
Ballrooms 1 & 2
M. Elayn Harvey, Bridget McKenna, John Alvarez, Kevin J. Anderson, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Bruce Taylor
There are ways of making a living, as a writer or artist, which will help sharpen your skills - not to mention keep you fed - until that magnum opus sells. Come hear how to keep yourself and your craft alive until your craft becomes your livelihood.
PROFESSIONAL SECRETS FROM THE ARTISTS
Ballroom 4
Paul S. Clift, William R. Warren Jr., Donna Barr, Stephen Marcellino, David B. Mattingly
How to organize yourself and your working environment. What sorts of reference files you might need, and what are good sources for reference materials. Learn a few creative shortcuts - tracing, projecting images, photocopies, and other “magic tricks”.
PUBLISHING IN AMERICA
Ballroom 3
Patrick Price, David Doering, Greg Cox, Dave Smeds, Ginjer Buchanan
Who decides which books make it to the shelf? As fewer people read, and bookstores are reduced to a few nationwide chains selling identical titles, can only sure-fire mass market sellers “make it”? What about small press or small press runs?
WRITERS OF THE FUTURE
South Center Room
Algis Budrys (M), Scott Welch
Algis Budrys and others talk about the current status of the contest, the books, and whether the Writers of the Future concept has truly given a boost to the struggling writers of the present.
READING: BILL RANSOM
Reading Room
AIDS: AN UPDATE
Ballroom 4
Alan E. Nourse
Our Science Guest of Honor, Dr. Alan E. Nourse, has devoted a good portion of his recent medical career to the study of AIDS. Here he brings us news from the forefront of medicine concerning the battle against this dreaded killer.
ANTHOLOGY READING I
South Center Room
Eileen Kernaghan, Rhea Rose, Michael Coney, Carol Severance. Teresa Plowright (M)
ART DEMO: OTHER AIRBRUSH TECHNIQUES
Art Demo Room
Paul S Clift (M)
COSTUME WORKSHOP: TECHNICAL ASPECTS
Pavilion Programming Rm
Betty Bigelow, Joanne Kirley
Dedicated costumers will show you some of their favorite techniques for creating special costume effects.
HOW TO MAKE A LIVING AS AN ARTIST
Ballroom 3
Loren McGregor, Alicia Austin, Karen Lee Carmack, David B. Mattingly (M), Julia Lacquement, Stephen MarceUino, Monika Livingston
Discussion of new media and markets. How to sell and promote your art. Learn more about networking - finding a network or setting one up. What are the new trends? Should you follow them? Come find out about the domestic and overseas opportunities too.
OBSERVING YOUR IMAGINATION: CAPTURING SENSORY DETAIL
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Megan Lindholm, Alls Rasmussen, Carol Severance, John Alvarez
A popular program on putting depth into your art and fiction.
READING: JERRY OLTION
Reading Room
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: SOL
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
READING: BRIDGET MCKENNA
Reading Room
ADVANCES IN LIFE EXTENSION TECHNOLOGY
Ballroom 4 Sharon Baker, Mary Caraker, Alan E. Nourse, Steve Bard Two hundred years ago. a person reaching the age of 50 was considered quite old: today. 50 is middle-aged. Advances in health care, nutrition, genetics, and geriatrics may very soon result in an average life expectancy of 100 years. How will that affect lifestyles, living standards, politics, or culture?
Will we live long, but not prosper?
ART SHOW OPEN FORUM
Art Demo Room
Bob Doyle, Katherine Howes, Dresden Moss, Jon Gustafson (M)
A behind-the-scenes look at the perils and rewards of organizing convention art shows. Learn about quick sales, bid sheets, and why they exist.
ART WORKSHOP: HANDS-ON AIRBRUSHING
Pavilion Programming Rm
Paul S Clift (M)
INTERVIEW: MIKE GLYER
Ballroom 3
Mike Glyer, Jerry Kaufmann (M)
READING: KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH
Reading Room
READING: STEVE PERRY
South Center Room
SFWA-WHAI IT IS, WHAT IT DOES
Ballrooms 1 & 2
D. Alexander Smith, Greg Bear, Bruce Taylor
Who are the Science Fiction Writers of America? What are the membership requirements, privileges and responsibilities? Greg Bear, current SFWA president. and others explain what SFWA can do for the active SF writer.
READING: DEAN WESLEY SMITH
Reading Room
ART SHOW TOUR: JON GUSTAFSON
Rotunda Balcony
FANNISH OLMPICS: JUDGES' MEETING
Pavilion Programming Rm
Mark Richardson (M), Fannish Olympics Judges
INTERVIEW: ALGIS BUDRYS
Ballroom 3
Mike Glyer (M), Algis Budrys
KIDKON II: GAMING, ROUND 1
Gaming (Room 504)
Craig Bowie (M), Sue Bartroff (M)
LAGOON SEATTLE: THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
Ballrooms 1 & 2
George Harper, James P. Killas, Brian Tillotson, John Dalmas, Karen Lee Carmack
It’s official: even if we never drive our cars again, it’s loo late to stop Earth’s average temperature from rising 2 to 8 degrees over the next 50 years. What can we do. besides move to higher ground further north?
MONARCH MYSTIQUE
Ballroom 4
Sharon Baker, Bill Baldwin, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Elinor Busby (M)
Why are there so many hereditary rulers in the SF tradition? Is it laziness, perception. or are there solid rules to this tradition?
PULPHOUSE MAGAZINE: READING & DISCUSSION
South Center Room
Alan Bard Newcomer. Debra Gray Cook, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Dean Wesley Smith (M)
Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine is published in the Northwest. Hear how the concept was developed and produced and listen as authors read brief passages of their work.
SF RADIO
Reading Room
Mark a. Skullerud (M)
VAMPIRES, COMPUTERS, ET AL.
Fanzine Room
Joyce Cowan, Greg Cox, Kim Antieau
Is there anything new to say? Exploring the ever-fertile field of SF cliche - vampires. computers, etc., to see if the vein’s tapped out.
From
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and
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THE ASCENSION FACTOR
The triumphant conclusion to THE JESUS INCIDENT and THE LAZARUS EFFECT
“A worthy sequel… the thematic richness one associates with Herbert is again present!” —Publishers Weekly
On the sea-world of Pandora, global harmony would seem little more than a dream. Mercilessly ruled by dictator Raja Flattery and his sadistic security force, freedom appears light years away. The only glimmer of hope lies in the legendary Crista Galli—the planet’s promised savior. Everyone accepts her as the link between the different factions, but no one’s sure if she actually exists…
“FANS OF THE LATE FRANK HERBERT WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.” -Booklist
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WRITERS' WORKSHOP: SIRIUS
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
ART DEMO: IVORY/GEMSTONE CARVING
Art Demo Room
Lita Smith-Gharet (M)
ART SHOW TOUR: DAVID MATTINGLY
Rotunda Balcony
COSTUMING: CLOSE UP AND FAR OUT
Pavilion Programming Rm
Astrid Anderson Bear, Joanne Kirley (M), Vicki Mitchell
Masquerade presentations call for dramatic flair and exaggeration or success. Hall costumes are designed for an “audience” which is close enough to notice fine details. Some of our favorite costumers discuss which techniques work best for which viewing distance.
READING: MICHAEL SCANLON
Reading Room
READING: STEVE BARNES
Ballroom 3
TAX LAWS AND THE ARTIST/WRITER
Ballrooms 1 & 2 Cyn Mason. Lonnie Davis, David R. Deitrick. Michael P. Kuhe-McDowell There have been many important changes in tax laws for writers, artists and composers. There have even been changes to the changes. Most, if not all, seems to be anti-artist. Perhaps this discussion will help clarify some issues.
THE ART OF ALICIA AUSTIN Ballroom 4
READING: LOREN MCGREGOR
Reading Room
CARTOONISTS' JAM: SCRAWL, SCRIBBLE AND BLOTCH
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Donna Barr, L. Rodayne Esmay, Monika Livingston, Julia Lacquement, Loren McGregor, Alexis A. Gilliland, John Alvarez
See a mural take shape before your very eyes as professional artists fill our “canvas” with whatever doodles andgraffiti their crazed minds can imagine. The final products of this kludge will be sold at the Art Auction to benefit Seattle’s homeless.
FANNISH OLYMPICS: ORIENTATION AND PRELIMINARIES
South Center Room
Fannish Olympics Judges, Mark Richardson (M)
READING: ALGIS BUDRYS
Ballroom 3
SUPERSCIENCE '89
Reading Room
Grant Fjermedal, John G. Cramer (M), Greg Bear, Grant D. Callin, Steven G. Oliver Prominent scientists and science writers gather to tell us how much closer we’ve gotten to the final frontiers.
THE CHANGING FACE OF THE SF CON
Ballroom 4
Sue Bartroff, Yvonne V. Richardson, Judy Suryan, Keith Johnson, Paul S. Clift, Dave Meyer (M)
Although more people than ever attend conventions, the focus - and ethics - seem to be changing. For many, the enjoyment of conventions is decreasing. What are some of the reasons for this? Too much SF? Not enough Fantasy? Too much video? Not enough literature? Whatever happened to the conventions where you could find your friends without searching through 1900 other people?
WHAT’S AHEAD IN THE GAME UNIVERSE
Fanzine Room
Steve Jackson, Brian Underhill (M), Terry Allen Scott
What are some of the new trends and developments in gaming? Is there anything out there other than roleplaying games and computer simulations? If you think the answer is yes, turn to page 12. If no, thumb on through 'til you hit page 26.
READING: CAROL SEVERANCE
Reading Room
READING: KEVIN J. ANDERSON
South Center Room
THE ALIEN AS MESSIAH
Ballroom 3
Marion Zimmer Bradley. M. Elayn Harvey, Carl Miller
We used to worry about aliens “taking over” and enslaving us; now we’re ready to worship the first BEM or little green person who gets here. Is this an enlightened attitude, or just another way of escaping responsibility for ourselves?
WHEN BOOKS ARE OUTLAWED, ONLY OUTLAWS WILL HAVE BOOKS
Ballroom 4
Bob Howe (M), John De Camp, Sara L. Stamey, James W. Fiscus, Charles Platt, Shelly Clift
Another chapter in the ongoing discussion of XXXXXXX, XXXXXXX, and censorship. Is censorship ever “good”? Are there ideas which deserve suppression? A heated discussion about what we don’t know can hurt us.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: MERAK
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
BIOTECHNOLOGY - BUILT A BETTER MOUSE LATELY?
Reading Room
Steven G. Oliver, Lori Ann White, Elton Elliott (M), Loren McGregor
Built any new life forms lately? Or bought stock in companies that do? Exploring the possibilities, and moral/ ethical implications, from anti-viral agents to genetic adaptations for life in space, from disease control and the conquest of death to overpopulation and an out-of- control gene pool.
READING: KATHLEEN ALCALA
Fanzine Room
TRAGEDY OF THE WEEK - FILM AT SIX
South Center Room
Bob Howe, George Harper, Shelly Clift, Sara L. Stamey, Gordon Baker, William C. Dietz
We depend on the mass media to keep us informed, but must depcndon ourselves to solve the problems the media informs us of. This task is not easy - in fact, may not be possible - if our society is scientifically illiterate and dependent on news that entertains rather than informs. A discussion about the responsibilities and obligations on both sides of the TV set.
CHILD CARE FRIDAY PAJAMA PARTY
Child Care (rm 510/514)
AN EVENING OF MUSIC
South Center Room Karen Lee Carmack (M), Megan Lindholm, Ru Emerson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Alan Bard Newcomer, Tania Opland Hosted by Karen Lee Carmack, this Norwescon tradition continues. Listen to your favorite pros perform their favorite songs, from yesteryear to the song that was penned last night. There may even be a sing-along or two.
MEET THE PROS AUTOGRAPH PARTY
Ballrooms 1, 2, 3 & 4
Everyone’s invited to this party, to meet some new people, collect a few autographs, and renew old acquaintances. Writers, artists, agents, and other guests will be in attendancetif you don’t have other collectibles for them to sign, you can always have your program book autographed.
FRIDAY AA GATHERING
Reading Room
THE NAMELESS: 40TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY
Fanzine Room
Michael Scanlon, Mark Manning, Elinor Busby, F. M. Busby
The Nameless Ones began their monthly gatherings in 1949. Come and help them celebrate 40 years of Worldcon hosting, fanzine publishing and all-around fannishness as Seattle’s oldest club.
STARDANCE AND ICE CREAM SOCIAL
Pavilion
All Boogie Beings, Keith Johnson (M), Michael Citrak
The biggest dance of the convention, the largest gathering of Northwest fen, the most INCREDIBLE gathering of happy feet takes place at - you got it - the STARDANCE and ICE CREAM SOCIAL. Boogie Beings Mike Citrak and Keith Johnson transform the Pavilion into a panorama of lights, a wall of sound, and floor full of DANCERS!!! And when you don’t feel like dancing, there’s always ice cream - including the special flavor picked out by Norwescon volunteers at the Sneak Preview. It was on a night like this forty million years ago…
HORROR READINGS
Kim Andean, Joyce Cowan (M), Edward Bryant, Roberta Lannes
Edward Bryant and others read their most chilling stories - at midnight.
DESTROYING THE WORLD FOR FUN AND PROFIT
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Stanley Schmidt
Getting tired of laboriously building plots, characters, believable backgrounds? Fine! Trash it all! Only…do THAT plausibly, too. How DO you believably make a whole world go *poof*? World-destroying, after all, can be just as difficult to do well as building the thing in the first place! Comets; invading aliens; A- and H-bombs; biochemical warfare; just a few of the Ultimate Fates writers past and present use. How to keep a reader on seat’s edge, even knowing the world is going to die, but still hoping against hope. How to handle the math as well as the aftermath.
MAINSTREAM VS. SF PUBLISHING
Ballroom 4
Julian May
What is important in mainstream publishing that SF publishing ignores? What will make a book a great SF title, but a mainstream ho-hum? Take a closer look at what each looks for. and how to adjust your offerings with its destination in mind. What NOT to say in your cover letter!
SATURDAY TAI CHI
Pavilion
Steve Barnes (M)
Once again. Steve Barnes makes us wake up our body and mind with an exercise that is as much mental as it is physical. Tai Chi will help you find your centers of balance and control and keep you going for the rest of the day.
SPECIAL ARI SHOW TOUR: FOR ARTISTS ONLY
Rotunda Balcony
David B. Mattingly (M)
Artist Guest of Honor David Mattingly conducts a guided tour of the Art Show for artists only.
WHAT IS CLARION WEST?
Reading Room
Scott Stolnack (M)
Every year. Clarion West expands to bring us more than just your , six-week, grueling workshop. Come hear about this year’s program: summer readings, weekend workshops, and more!!
ART SHOW TOUR: PAUL CLIFT
Rotunda Balcony
EDUCATING EDUCATORS
Fanzine Room
George Guthridge (M)
Professor George Guthridge is a motivating force behind Gamble High School’s three national championships in academics, won by “children who couldn’t learn”. Listen as he explains some of the major changes in teaching methods which might allow us to teach anything to anybody.
FILM CONTEST: PRELIMINARIES
South Center Room
Mark Schellberg (M)
Amateur filmmakers enter their most exciting new works in the annual Norwescon contest.
KIDKON II: THE SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONISTS
Pavilion Programming Rm
Sue Barrtoff (M), Michael Reaves, Brynne Stephens
KIDKON II: GAMING, ROUND 2
Gaming (Room 504)
Sue Bartroff, Craig Bowie (M)
MASQUERADE: MANDATORY MEETING
Pavilion
Judy Swanson, Norah Hogoboom (M)
All Masquerade participants are required to attend this meeting. Missing this Ballroom 3 meeting means missing the masquerade.
READING: GEORGIA “SASHA” MILLER
Reading Room
RUDYARD KIPLING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Bill Baldwin, Teresa Plowright (M), Gordon Baker, James W. Fiscus, John Barnes, Alan Bard Newcomer
The industrialized West got rich by trashing the world. Now we know we must stop - but the Third World is still impoverished. This discussion will address our responsibilities - if any - to give the Third World non-polluting industrial Reading Room techniques and to help them achieve environmentally safe economic parity.
THE EVOLUTION OF EDITING
Ballroom 4
Charles Platt, David Doering (M), Stanley Schmidt (M), Ginjer Buchanan, Patrick Price
There was a time when an editor was a writer’s best friend. They nurtured the writer as well as the writer’s work. Time passed, however, and more and more of the editor’s functions have passed to publishers, angents, and word processors; the editor no longer has the same kind of relationship to the writer.
W. A. LAW
Ballroom 3
Washington Art Law - A professional seminar brought to us by Washington Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. Current legal information concerning contracts, etc., which may be of interest to writers and artists will be presented. A short Q&A period will follow.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: KLAATU
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
READING: KATHARINE ELISKA KIMBRIEL
Reading Room
FANNISH ART
Fanzine Room
Alexis A. Gilliland, Mark Manning (M)
INTERVIEW: DR. ALAN E. NOURSE
Ballroom 4
Alan E. Nourse, Richard Wright (M)
Find out more about what makes our Science Guest of Honor tick.
SHIPPING FOR CYNICS
Pavilion Programming Rm
Bob Howe, Shelly Clift, Lonnie Davis, Hank Graham, Lynne Taylor, Elliott Swanson
Books, art, and costumes often get mangled in the mail. Three-dimensional items seem to fare worst of all, and “fragile” slickers just don’t seem to do any good. Come to this discussion and learn some secrets about how to get your stuff there and back again in one piece.
SOVIETS IN SPACE
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Art Bozlee
READING: CHARLES PLATT
Reading Room
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by John Sabotta
“A GRAND STORY TOLD WITH A SLY WIT”
— Raymond E. Feist
Teresa Edgerton
CHILD OF SATURN
Fantasy adventure for fans of Raymond E. Feist and Mary Stewart
The dark powers are gathering…
The Kingdom of Celydonn has been tranquil tor fifty years, since the great wizard Glastyn conquered the Wild Magic and drove its monsters underground. But Glastyn has disappeared. His apprentice Teleri is a young, inexperienced sorceress, but even she can sense the presence of a strange new evil. Only her untested magic and the sword of the brave knight Ceilyn stand between the peaceful kingdom and the powers of the Dark. $3.50
“CHILD OF SATURN marks the appearance of a new and exciting talent.”
— Tad Williams
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ART DEMO: QUICK ACRYLIC TRICKS
ArtDemo Room
DavidR Deitrick (M)
ART SHOW TOUR: THE DHARMIC ENGINEERS
Rotunda Balcony
Mark a. Skullerud, Milo Duke. Ray Pelley, Rob Schouten
BREAKING INTO SCREENWRITING
Pavilion Programming Rm
Mark Schellberg, Steve Perry, Ted A. Pedersen, Nancy Morris, Brynne Stephens, Michael Reaves
So you’d like to sec your work on the big silver screen, eh? You’ll need to know about contracts, formal, terminology, and selling existing screenplays. Listen to a few folks who’ve done so tell you how to get into the business.
BUY ART; BUY SMART
Ballroom 3
Donna Barr, Jon Gustafson, John Alvarez, Alicia Austin, L. Rodayne Esmay, Stephen Marcellino
Find out what to look for in the different artistic media. Learn the ins and outs of auctions, originals vs. reproductions, how to care for your new pieces of art.
LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND STEVE BARNES Ballrooms 1 & 2
Steve Barnes
An hour of Q&A with our Toastmaster, Steve Barnes. There’s more to his philosophy of life than “dance all night” - although he does that too.
MINICON CONFERENCE
Fanzine Room
Jerry Kaufman
When there arc two or more notable conventions on the same weekend, many fans are torn as to which one to attend. Since this is also the weekend of Minicon. we will attempt a phone hook-up to let members of both conventions get a feel for what is happening al the other con.
NANOTECHNOLOGY: SMALLER THAN YOU’LL EVER BE
South Center Room
Jordin Kare, John G. Cramer, Elton Elliott, Stephen L. Gillett, Grant Fjermedal, James W. Fiscus
Nanotechnology - molecular machines - has been called “the ultimate Industrial Revolution”. Why? What is it? What are its benefits, drawbacks, appropriate applications?
OPEN WRITERS' WORKSHOP
Ballroom 4
D. Alexander Smith, Diane Mapes, Kathleen Alcala, Rhea Rose, Michael Scanlon (M), William C. Dietz
An anonymously donated manuscript will be publicly critiqued. Sit in on this event and sec what REALLY happens in a writers' workshop. This is a great way to get your feet wet without jumping off the high dive.
THE ART OF LYNNE TAYLOR
Reading Room
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: BARADA
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
AFTER CHALLENGER: IS THE DREAM STILL ALIVE?
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Bill Baldwin, David Doering, Rob Quigley, Jordin Kare, Art Bozlee, Grant D. Callin
It has been said that the space shuttle is a camel; the original designers wanted a horse. Due to changes in specifications and minimizations of safety features we lost the Challenger January 28, 1986. Did the space-going dreams of a nation go up in smoke on that fateful day, or will we continue to voyage into space in ships such as the Discovery and its decendants. After that, what next? Although many of the players have changed, are management styles and cost-cutting measures still the same? Hear our esteemed panelists' views on these and other space-going issues such as a orbiting telescope and the future of the space station.
ART WORKSHOP: DRAGONDRAWING
Pavilion Programming Rm
Karen Lee Carmack (M)
HOW TO BREAK INTO PRINT
Ballroom 3
Dean Wesley Smith, Ginjer Buchanan, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Debra Gray Cook (M), Stanley Schmidt, Catherine McGuire
Editors tell how, and maybe more importantly how not, to prepare and submit your manuscripts, and the proper decorum in dealing with publishers and editors.
ILLUSTRATORS OF THE FUTURE
South Center Room
William R. Warren Jr. (M), Scott Welch
An exciting new contest from Bridge Publications that will further the careers of beginning artists.
READING: STEVEN BRYAN BIELER
Reading Room
ZINE PUBLICATION: ORDEAL BY ENTHUSIASM
Fanzine Room
P_atrick Price (M), Richard Hallock, Elinor Busby, Mark Manning_
A general discussion of where fanzines are today, and where they’re headed. Has electronic communications replaced the fanzine? Or augmented it?
KIDKON II: PROP ROOM TOUR - AGES 12–16
Prop Room
Pat Oros, Sue Bartroff (M) It’s funny, people keep saying that conventions are magic, that they just happen; with no effort from anybody, they just come to exist. Well, the kids in KIDKON II get to see the REAL magic - in a behind-the-scenes tour of the Prop Room - and they get to meet the magicians that cause conventions as large as Norwescon to “just happen”.
ART DEMO: CHAINMAIL MAKING
Art Demo Room
ART WORKSHOP: DRAGONS AND OTHER SCULPTURES
Pavilion Programming Rm
Kim Graham (M)
EROS IN ORBIT, REVISITED
Ballroom 4
Roberta Lannes, Loren McGregor, Michael Coney (M), Steve Perry, Sara L. Stamey, Carl Miller
Sex and Aliens, always a favorite.
HOW TO SURVIVE FAME AND FORTUNE
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Bruce Taylor, Steve Barnes, Greg Bear, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Now that you’ve got a name in the field, what do you do with it? Can this truly be a job? If so, what do you sell, and where? This discussion may enlighten you about new markets and media: taped books, role-playing lie-ins, computer games, and covers for all those new boxes. News on copyrights, publishing, marketing and/or promoting your work.
NORTHWEST WRITERS' GROUPS
South Center Room
Steve York (M)
If you’ve seen the Open Writers' Workshop, and decided you want more, this is the panel for you. Listen as representatives from various writers' groups describe who they are, what they do, and whether their workshop is one that fits your needs.
READING: JESSICA AMANDA SALMONSON
Reading Room
THE ART OF DAVID MATTINGLY
Ballroom 3
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: NIKTO
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
A COMPLETE COURSE IN WRITING IN 55 MINUTES OR LESS
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Algis Budrys
Everything you ever wanted to know, in less time than it takes to ask (almost). Don’t sneeze: you’ll miss something!
ART DEMO: THE DAMON AND DAN SHOW
Pavilion Programming Rm
Damon Bard (M), Dan Reeder
That’s right, this year Damon Bard gels top billing, and HIS assistant is Dan Reeder. Damon will show you all the latest tricks in papier and cloth mache; Dan’s just here for laughs. Usually they just put the hecklers in the audience, don’t they?
(Artwork) The Burnt Lands Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Richard Elliott, published by Fawcett.
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ARTISTS
Ballroom 3
Lonnie Davis, Julia Lacquement, John Alvarez, L. Rodayne Esmay, Donna Barr
Book covers can make or break a book - and the artists who do them. Book illustrations are an artist’s bread and butter. They should also be the best road to recognition - but often the cover artist is uncredited. An action-oriented panel to discuss the things book cover artists can do to get the recognition they deserve.
GODS IN SPACE: TOMORROW’S RELIGIONS
Ballroom 4
Bill Ransom, James W. Fiscus, John Barnes, Alis Rasmussen, Leo Daugherty.
Religion was invented by humankind to help us understand the and our place in it. The future may bring space colonies, eternal youth, and sex changes as simple as switching socks…and these are just the obvious predictions!! What kind(s) of species will we be, and what kinds of religious concepts might we invent?
KIDKON II: SAM ROOM SPECIAL VISIT
SAM Room
MASQUERADE TECHNICAL PREJUDGING
Pavilion Backstage
Judy Swanson. Masquerade Judges, Norah Hogoboom
THE ART OF DAVID DEITRICK
Reading Room
THE WAKE OF ARGOS
South Center Room
Kristi Austin, Bruce Chandler Fergusson, Michael Scanlon, M. Elayn Harvey, Diane Mapes (M), Rhea Rose, Amy Thomson, Jerry Kaufman, Edward Bryant
Live at last!! The fourth issue of Argos Fantasy and Science Fiction, not published. but public! With readings by Bruce Fergusson, M. Elayn Harvey, Rhea Rose, R. Garcia y Robertson, and many more. Plus editorials, book reviews by Amy Thomson, and a “letters to the editor” forum. Don’t miss out on this final issue. Once it’s passed, all that’s left is the wake!
A MILLION LIVES IN ONE LIFETIME - GAMES!!!
Fanzine Room
Brian Underhill, Terry Allen Scott, Steve Jackson
Roleplaying gaming provides a chance to explore other selves, lifestyles, fantasies… How does this aspect of gaming benefit one’s creativity and self-understanding?
ART PRINTS: THE REAL STORY
Pavilion Programming Rm
Lynne Taylor (M). Jon Gustafson, Cheri Streimikes
Many different kinds of prints are found today in the Convention Art Show world. We will describe techniques used in their production, discuss their strengths and problems, and weigh their relative values to collectors.
INTERVIEW: DAVID MATTINGLY
Ballroom 3
William R. Warren Jr.(M), David B. Mattingly
READING: CARL MILLER
Reading Room
REGIONAL STAR TREK CONFERENCE
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Kate Gale (M)
The Northwest Starfleet Sector is proud to host the first annual Starfleet Sector Conference. This sector consists of Regions V, VI, and X; it corresponds to the states of Washington. Oregon. Idaho. Colorado. Wisconsin. Minnesota, Iowa, both Dakotas, Nebraska and Alaska, as well as Western Canada. The conference will provide information to the general Starfleet membership and facilitate communications between regions. This is also a unique opportunity for the general membership to ask questions of various Starfleet ship crew leaders, exchange ideas, establish regional and sector goals, and for non-members to familiarize themselves with the local and national organizations. More information can be obtained at the Starfleet Registration Desk, in the Norwescon Club Table section.
WORMHOLES AND TIME MACHINES
Ballroom 4
John G. Cramer (M)
A discourse on the actuality of these and other time-honored means of transport. A must for those of you who wish to provide a means to get you or a character from here to there with as little fuss and as much plausibility as possible.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: ALIOTH
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWERS: URBAN FANTASIES
Ballroom 3
Ginjer Buchanan, Michael Coney (M), Patrick Price, James P. Kilins, Sharon Baker, Megan Lindholm
Urban legends will slowly start to show up in the F&SF genre, even as Jack the Ripper and Burke & Hare did in the literature of their time. Whether or not they’re true, they make great copy - I wonder if I could use “big rat mistaken for dog” in a story? The choking Doberman, the caimans in Greenlake, and other “myths of the city” will be aired and perhaps even laid to rest.
ARE THESE THE CRAZY YEARS?
South Center Room
Michael P. Kube-McDowell (M)
A review of recent, silly, and cautionary events and news. Did you know it’s possible to get a ticket for having an elephant sit on your car?
THE ART OF MARK A. SKULLERUD
Reading Room
CLARION WEST PRE-AUCTION RECEPTION
Ballroom 4
Steven Bryan Bieler, Dave Myers (M)
Here’s your last chance to view the Clarion Auction items before the auction itself. Come on, you really want that signed T-shirt, don’t you? Have another look - I’ll bet it fits…
AMATEUR PRESS ASSOCIATIONS
Fanzine Room
Lita Smith-Gharel, Mark Manning, Elinor Busby, F. M. Busby
What arc APAs? What topics do they cover? How do you find them, get in - or out! - of them? A discussion of this, plus information about special APAs: A Women’s APA, Military APA, CRAPA/ pi, SAPS, et al.
CLARION WEST SCHOLARSHIP AUCTION Ballroom 4 Deborah Wessell, Dave Myers (M), Edward Bryant, Steven Bryan Bieler Signed books. T-shirts, artwork, and other special items will be auctioned to benefit the Clarion West Scholarship Fund. Auctioneers Ed Bryant and Steven Bryan Bieler will try to top last year’s record sale. Going…going…
READING: .JAMES KILLUS
Reading Room
READING: KIM ANTIEAU
Conference Room
SF AND SELF-CENSORSHIP
South Center Room
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel (M). John Alvarez, Sharan Newman, John Dahnas, Loren McGregor
What if we gave a con and nobody came? More than any other genre, SF should be the one where any idea can be explored, where nothing is sacred. SF should be. but isn’t always. Listen as writers, artists, and other professionals talk about the times they censored themselves.
READING: BILL BALDWIN
Reading Room
CHILD CARE SATURDAY PAJAMA PARTY
Child Care (rm 510/514)
CONTRA DANCE!!!
Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
A long time ago, in a ballroom far, far away, there were dances and there were dances. English royalty danced Regency dances in exquisite costumes and with aristocratic flair. The English folk danced Old Country dances, which were based on Regency dancing, but had less flair and more fun. Time passed, the English crossed the ocean, and brought with them the traditions of the folk. Old Country dance evolved into Contradancing, which is Norwescon’s first dance of the evening. Come join in this trip to the not-so-distant past, to a different kind of dancing. Roger Peacock will “call” the dance (i.e.. tell you what to do), and those of you who would like to try a new (or an old) style of dancing will trip the light fantastic to the tunes of the Dancer’s Delight String Band.
DON’T MYTH OUT: THE MYTHADVENTURES FAN CLUB
Fanzine Room
Kevin Standlee. Erlinda Siller. Richard Hallock, Brin-Marie Landerman
The Board of Directors from the Myth- Adventures Fan Club arc here to fill you in on its latest happenings.
SF’S NEW R&R
South Center Room
People have always put talcs to music, from time immemorial. The oratorio, the ballad, and the opera arc forms that still remain today. What happens when you cross an age-old art form with brand new SF and incredibly talented, hard rock musicians?
Intergalactic adventure from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of STAR TREK III and ENTERPRISE: THE FIRST ADVENTURE
STARFARERS
Vonda N. McIntyre
Hugo and Nebula Award winner
With America’s second attempt at interstellar exploration, the U.S. government decides to scrap the Starfarer’s scientific objectives and place the vessel in the hands of the military.
But Captain Victoria MacKenzie has other ideas. She plans to uphold the Starfarer’s original purpose—the exploration of space and the search for intelligent life—even if it means hijacking the ship…
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MASQUERADE
Pavilion
Norah Hogoboom, Masquerade Judges, Judy Swanson (M), Carol Severance (M)
The fabulous Norwescon Masquerade is being emceed by a wonderful, lovable, funny, emcee!! Join them as they usher many-legged beasties, sex goddesses, and things that go bump in the night through this spectacular event. Come and root for your favorite alien-ambassador-barbarian-princess-assassin-thief-ninja!
KID KIDKON II: WHAT DO KIDS WANT FROM CONS?
Sue Bartroff, Yvonne V. Richardson
Older people have plenty of opportunity to have some input into the conventionplanning process. Unfortunately there arc stilltimes when children arc seen and not heard - until now. Program Directors from various conventions in the area take the lime to hear what the younger set would like to see at conventions.
VIDEO: NORWESCON 11 MASQUERADE - LIVE!!
Ch 6 (North room)
For those of you who don’t wish to fight the crowds, the Norwescon 11 Masquerade will be videotaped live and beamed into your hotel rooms on Channel 6. Or. it can be watched in our Truly Mondo Video (TM) room, otherwise known as the North Room. Truly Mondo Video presented by Rustycon.
LAZER TAG
Alan Smith (M)
Lazer Tag, anyone? This is not a competition, or even tournament play - just a chance for folks who love the game to get together. Bring your own equipment and register at the Information table. First come, first serve - maximum 60 players.
NEW MUSIC DANCE
Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
All Boogie Beings, Shawn Marier (M)
Attention: all of you out there with Happy Feet - a dance floor is calling you!! This is the we-can’t-stop-dancing dance. A new and different music mix will be provided by guest DJ Shawn Marier. He’ll keep you dancing all night long - and then some. Requests will be taken. No-host, Non-alcoholic bar.
SATURDAY AA GATHERING
Reading Room
THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD
South Center Room
Mike Glyer, Amy Thomson, Edward Bryant, Doug Shirk (M), William R. Warren Jr.
This is a serious subject that we all seem to be shirking; it is an unpleasant reality that we may have to face sooner than we think. Like Abraham. Martin, and John, our leaders Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein won’t always be here - Heinlein has already departed. Who will be our next Grand Masters when the last of our current Grand Masters is gone? In what direction(s) might our field go in another twenty years or so? Will it wander, or will it be led? If so. by whom?
MASQUERADE: WINNERS' RECEPTION
Pavilion Backstage
Judy Swanson, Norah Hogoboom (M), the winners of the Norwescon 11 Masquerade
Now’s your chance to congratulate the winners of the Norwescon 11 Masquerade - and get a better look at their award-winning costumes.
THE EMPIRE OF ELAN: IMPERIAL COURT
South Center Room
Michael Kenmir (M)
The Empire of Elan, a live role-playing group, presents its royal court.
RENAISSANCE/FANTASY BETROTHAL CEREMONY
Reading Room
This betrothal is an re-enactment of a renaissance ritual for members of nobility. During this era. more significance was attached to the betrothal ceremony rather than the actual marriage rites. Often, the rituals were a show of pageantry and wealth. The betrothal was not of religious significance but rather one of politics and the ceremonies conducted not by clergy, but with an envoy from the royal court. The betrothed are observing the spirit of these ancient ceremonies; however, the costumes reflect their personal visions of these archaic times.
SUNDAY TAI CHI
Pavilion
Steve Barnes (M)
If you’re one of those folks who insist on a morning stretch, no matter how late you stayed up last night, you might want to spend an hour with Steve Barnes doing still more Tai Chi. Wake up your muscles, clear out your mind, and prepare to dive into the last full day of the con. The con, the con, not your pillow…zzzzzzz
VIDEO: GOOD MORNING NORWESCON - LIVE!!
Ch 6 (North room)
What other way to end a convention than with a morning talk-show? A set of interviews with fans who have distinguished themselves at this convention is always terrific entertainment this late in the con. Of course, there’s no way of knowing who those distinguished fans guests might be… anybody walking by in search of morning coffee may be considered distinguished. Of course, if you can run faster than the interviewers can. you may still have a chance…
WRITING COLLABORATIONS
Ballroom 4
INTERVIEW: AVRAM DAVIDSON
South Center Room
Dennis Ahrens (M), Avram Davidson
A small, quiet talk with our WOW (Writer on Wheels) Guest of Honor, Avram Davidson.
MASQUERADE DEBRIEFING SESSION Pavilion Backstage
Judy Swanson (M), Norah Hogoboom
Masquerade competitors and Event Staff meet to compare notes, exchange information. and talk about what went wrong and what went right.
(Artwork) Sketching Copyright 1989 by Don Maitz Originally published in First Maitz, a Collection of Paintings by Don Main, by Ursus Imprints, 5539 Jackson, Kansas City, MO 64130.
READING: SF POETRY
Reading Room
Mark Manning, Colleen Anderson, J. T. Stewart, John Dalmas
Short, sweet prose from several pros.
THE FUTURE OF ART, ANIMATION, AND SPECIAL EFFECTS
Ballroom 3
William R. Warren Jr. (M), Zach Pahl Are computers and art on a collision course? Does their usage equate to the visual equivalent of handing a non-musician a boombox and saying he now plays the radio? Or is it like giving Moogs to Mozart? Some of the area’s most prominent artists in the computer art field are here to give you their opinions - and a glimpse of their computer-aided creations.
PHILIP K. DICK AWARD RETROSPECTIVE
Ballroom 4
Algis Budrys The Philadelphia SF Society sponsors the award that’s given annually at Norwescon. Come hear a little more about how the award got started, how Norwescon came to be its home, and more about the man who inspired it.
BANQUET AND PHILIP K. DICK AWARD CEREMONY
Ballrooms 1 & 2
Algis Budrys, David B. Mattingly, Mike Glyer, Alan E. Nourse, Steve Barnes, Charles Platt, Elizabeth Warren, Yvonne V. Richardson, Richard Wright, Judy Suryan, D. Alexander Smith, Becky Simpson.
Steve Barnes is our host and Toastmaster at this gathering of hungry people. Feast upon wonderful food prepared for us by the chefs at the Sheraton; feast your ears on speeches prepared for us by our Guests of Honor. And. feast your eyes upon this year’s winner of the Philip K. Dick award. The envelope please… and a roll while you’re al it.
EASTER EGG HUNT
Pavilion
Shawn Marier, The Easter Bunny, Sue Bartroff
Did the Easter Bunny leave YOU something? If you want to find out, have your mom and/or dad bring you to the Pavilion to see. Maybe you can catch the Easter Bunny before he leaves.
FAT, FEMINISM, AND FANDOM - THE NEXT STEP
Ballroom 3
Laurie Edison (M), Nancy Marmol, Rich Dutcher
As an outgrowth of discussions at SF conventions, we have decided to show as well as tell what we see when we look at fat women.
HOMEMADE WHO: “THE ZOMBIE LEGIONS” South Center Room Erlinda Siller, Richard Hallock, Kevin Standlee, Brin-Marie Landerman
READING: M.J. ENGH
Reading Room
ANTHOLOGY READING II
Ballroom 3
Eileen Kernaghan, Rhea Rose, Mary Choo, Teresa Plowright, Carol Severance
This is a special reading, combining the talents of up to six Northwest writers. Come hear them read their own stories - and each others'. If you didn’t catch the first half of this event, now’s your last chance to hear this novel form of reading.
(Artwork) The Company Man Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Joe Clifford Faust, published by Del Rey.
(Artwork) Imagination Copyright 1989 by Carl Lundgren.
FANDOM IN 31 FLAVORS
Fanzine Room
Jerry Kaufman What IS fandom in the Pacific Northwest? Come hear about Northwest fan clubs, non-clubs, conventions, and gatherings.
FILM CONTEST: WINNERS' SHOWING
Ballroom 4
Mark Schellberg (M)
Come sec the film judged to be the best of this year’s Amateur Film Contest.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: ALCOR
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
BULWAR-LYTTON BULLPEN: HEAR IT & WEEP
South Center Room
Brian Tillotson (M), Cyn Mason, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Erlinda Siller, Greg Cox
The Bulwar-Lytton contests are famous for proving that writing Pure Trash can be just as much a creative challenge as writing High Art. Entries for this contest can be turned in at the information table, and will be read at this panel. Come and listen to the panelists read the ghastliest prose you ever heard. Was it really a dark and stormy night?
DO ROBOT FANS ATTEND DATALINE CONS?
Fanzine Room
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Georgia “Sasha” Miller, Michael P. Kube-McDowell
E-mail and bulletin boards - will they replace conventions? Will real live contact become obsolete as everyone turns on, tunes in and phospordots out?
LOOK WHAT THEY’VE DONE TO MY BOOK, MA!
Ballroom 4
Loren McGregor, John Barnes, George Harper (M), Ginjer Buchanan Writers and artists talk about personal experiences with censorship by editors, publishers, booksellers, special interest groups, and the general public.
READING: JOHN DALMAS
Ballroom 3
ART AUCTION
Pavilion
Katherine Howes (M)
Here’s your chance to pick up the pieces you’ve been bidding on all weekend - if you outbid all your competitors. It may also be your last chance to see all the wonderful artwork that’s going to other people. Arm-twisting services arc available (within the limits of responsible conventioncering) for those who have a little difficulty reaching their wallets; credit cards are also accepted.
READING: F. M. BUSBY
Reading Room
APOCALYPSE NOW: WARGAMES AND OTHER STRATEGIES
Jay Silverstein, Steve Jackson, Rod Garcia, Rich Dutcher
A discussion of the role of war and strategy games in society and what their popularity signifies. Do they encourage the warrior mentality or are they a harmless way to work out aggression?
READING: JOHN STITH
South Center Room
READING: MARY CARAKER
Ballroom 4
SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION LEAGUE MEETING
Reading Room
Chuck Manson (M)
Science Fiction Convention League members only. Agenda for meeting will have been sent to you beforehand or can be picked up at the door.
From the author of Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon and Callahan’s Secret!
CALLAHAN’S LADY
by Spider Robinson
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Time Pressure
“If I didn’t think it understated his achievement, I’d nominate Spider Robinson…as the new Robert Heinlein.” -New York Times
Spider Robinson’s famous Callahan stories-Callahan s Crosslime Saloon and Callahan’s Secret-are delightful tales about the galaxy’s most outrageously bizarre saloon and its hilariously diverse patrons. There wasn’t an establishment for millions of miles around that was as much fun as Callahan’s…until Callahan’s girlfriend opened a bordello…and Spider Robinson wrote a novel about it…
$16.95 An Ace Hardcover
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VOLUNTEERS'/GOH PARTY
Ballroom 3
Algis Budrys, David B. Mattingly, Alan E. Nourse, Steve Barnes, Richard Wright, Becky Simpson, Yvonne V. Richardson, Judy Suryan, William R. Warren Jr., Elizabeth Warren, Mike Glyer, Paul S. Clift, Alis Rasmussen, and all of the people who really made Norwescon 11 a success
A special hour for volunteers only. Spend some time with our Guests of Honor and other pros you didn’t get to see because you were working.
WRITERS' WORKSHOP: KOCAB
Conference Room
Michael Scanlon (M)
By invitation only.
READING: BRUCE TAYLOR
Ballroom 4
SCA FIGHT SIMULATION AND TECHNIQUE
Ballrooms 1 & 2
The Society for Creative Anachronism recreates the stirring days of brave knights, fair maidens, minstrels, and the rest of the Midieval era. Come see brave knights simulate a fair fight - and learn about the techniques of doing it without actually hurting each other.
ABUSE THEMES IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
Ballroom 3
Lyn Paleo, Loren McGregor. Laurie Edison (M), Rich Dutcher
A third of the women and a fifth of the men in the U. S. were abused in some manner as children. How are these realities reflected in what we read?
BIBLIOPHILIA ULTIMA: A BOOKLOVER’S DREAM LIBRARY
Ballroom 4
Amy Thomson, Alan Bard Newcomer, John De Camp, John E. Stith, Ginjer Buchanan It’s ok - we couldn’t pronounce it either. A participatory panel in which panelists and audience compile a “dream library”. What do YOU think is the basic and best of SF, Fantasy and Horror?
DREAM INTERPRETATION
South Center Room
Ruth Coates (M)
Where do my dreams go? Find out what tools are used to tap dreams for their creative potential.
RUNNING A “PROFESSIONAL” FAN CLUB
Fanzine Room
Kevin Standlee, Erlinda Siller, Richard Hallock, Brin-Marie Landerman
What are the differences between local SF groups and licensed national organizations? Can you get by with just weekly get-togethers, or do you feel you have to incorporate? The Board of Directors from the MythAdventures Fan Club has a few ideas on this subject they’d like to share with you.
MY LIFE AS A TOXIC WASTE DUMP
South Center Room
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Gordon Baker, Grant Fjermedal (M), Lori Ann White, Steve Bard
Besides polluting the environment, we pollute ourselves with everything from recreational drugs (legal and otherwise) to chemical-saturated food and drink. We breathe asbestos from the insulation in our walls, and are surrounded by possibly toxic chemicals in our workplaces. What are the side effects of being a toxic waste dump?
(Artwork) Idle Pleasures Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Coverfor the book by George Alec Effinger, published by Berkley.
OCCULT ARCHETYPES IN SCIENCE FICTION
Ballroom 4
Alis Rasmussen, Dameon Willich, Kim Antieau, Sharon Sinclair, Patrick Price, Julian May
ONIONS AND ROSES
Ballroom 3
Yvonne V. Richardson, Richard Wright, Judy Suryan, Becky Simpson, Elizabeth Warren (M)
Now’s the time for a talk with the Convention Committee about this year’s convention. What did you like? What did you not like? Are they things we can fix, or do you want us to order 16 more elevators for the hotel? Why did we do some of the things we did? Which events do you want to see next year? Serious input from you now can be used in the planning of Norwescon 12.
FANNISH OLYMPICS: FINALS
Mark Richardson (M), Fannish Olympics Judges
The finals of this marathon event, wherein the top teams compete for the lop prizes. Do I hear fanfares in the background?
CLOSING CEREMONIES
Ballroom 3
Algis Budrys, David B. Mattingly, Mike Glyer, Alan E. Nourse, Steve Barnes, Yvonne V. Richardson, Judy Suryan, Richard Wright, Elizabeth Warren (M), Becky Simpson
Well, it’s over, one more time, I think. Join the Convention Committee and our Guests of Honor in one last round of applause, awards, appreciations, and one very special thing. So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye - and we’ll see you next week.
PICTIONARY
Ballroom 4
Dragon, Donna Barr (M), William R. Warren Jr., Steven A. Gallacci, Dameon Willich, Diana Gallagher Wu, Monika Livingston
Of course, this event takes place when we’re at our silliest. Bring your most confounding ideas and try to stump the artists - or be stumped.
DEAD SASQUATCH PARTY AND SPRING RITES
Ballrooms 1, 2 & 3
Keith Johnson, The Sasquatch, All Boogie Beings, Michael Citrak (M)
For those of you that 3 days of programming and 3 nights of dancing didn’t burn out, we’re going to give it one last try. Mix and match dance cuts from the previous days ought to do the trick. Come boogie with the best of us - and the last of us.
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(Photo) Copyright 1989 by Jay Kay Klien
He shifted in his chair. Not nervously; that wasn’t his style.
“What in your professional science fiction career is the most satisfying thing you’ve ever done?”
“Writing what I think are some very good stories. I’ve written some stuff that I thought was almost totally successful in temis of my original intentions, and that’s a kick. That’s something you can take to the internal bank.”
We were talking casually, though the comm unit between us was set to Transmit. Editor, writer and critic for nearly four decades. Algis Budrys was an imposing figure, but friendly. Not unlike, as he had described himself to me before the interview, a good old boy with wrinkles around the corners of his eyes. He’d mentioned that he liked to think people meeting him for the first time have the impression he’s a retired airline captain who’s gone to fat.
While he spoke, Domino fed me some more information on his professional background. Over 200 short stories published since 1952, including science fiction, contemporary, suspense and crime fiction. Science fiction was the core of his work, including some classic novels. I turned my full attention to his answer.
“There’s Rogue Moon, there’s Who?, which I could still re-read with pleasure. Michaelmas. And there arc some short stories that I like very much, probably not the same ones that most people like. ‘The Man Who Tasted Ashes’ feels good whenever I think about it. A story that hasn’t been published yet. called ‘What Befell Mairiam’ which is, of all things, a sword-and-sorcery short story.”
That needed a follow-up. “Where will that be appearing?”
“F&SF. It’s intended for the Budrys issue of F&SF, but it might sneak out in the anniversary issue he has for this year.”
“And when is the Budrys issue coming out?”
"When I finish the novel I’m working on now. so that Ed can start it as a serial in that issue.
“I’m a technically dedicated artist: I want a story to give somebody a precisely measured feeling, and I want to do it very well technically. Two things have to happen in order for me to be happy about the story; the two 1 mentioned are like that. Some of the ones that people sometimes mention are less successful than those two. There’s another one, ‘The Distant Sound of Engines,’ which is very short and I think, very good, even though it’s got a factual Haw in it. There’s a spot in there in which is mis-describe how morphine works on a hospital patient.”
“I assume many people have taken glee in pointing that out to you?”
“One. One nurse wrote me a letter about it a long time ago.”
Domino spoke again through the conductor in my mastoid. “Personal background; he was born in 1931 in Konigsberg, East Prussia, a free Lithuanian citizen from birth. He has lived in the U.S. since 1936. He is married and has four children, and lives in Evanston, Illinois. He is in Seattle to be Guest of Honor al a science fiction convention. Here’s another item of professional interest: he’s written about 120 articles, mainly about science, technology, cars, and bicycling.”
I changed the subject. “Let’s talk about you. personally. You’ve always been interested in bicycles. Would you ever consider that as a convention programming topic?”
He considered the question. A change of direction in questioning tends to bring out the best in an interview, the unexpected answer.
“Maybe not for 90 minutes. There are some things about bicycles I think everybody should know.” he replied. “How to gel the seat height right and the handlebar angle correct. Lots of people arc floundering around with their legs aching and their wrists aching and their behinds aching, wondering why that is. and you can fix it very readily.”
"Would you be willing to offer a clinic at the convention?'
“Yes, if there’s a whole mob of people who feel they want to know this… why not.”
Back to personal. “Do you still rebuild bicycles?”
“I’m never home anymore. The answer is no, but I could. I’ve built my wile’s bike, which she rides every week, weather permitting. and she hasn’t complained about anything about it in years.”
“How fancy of a bike is it?”
“It’s rather fancy, by 1960s standards. It’s got racing alloy frame, which is unusual in a woman’s bicycle, and it’s got ten speeds and high pressure tiresand all that other good stuff, and she just pumps around on it like crazy.”
“What about you?”
“Mine’s kind of tricky that way too. It’s got a very early Japanese zero dynamic frame that 1 restored and rebuilt. Although it looks like a ten speed, more or less, it’s actually a four speed. For most of the riding 1 do. four speeds is plenty, and it’s a lot less complication than with a derailleur.”
I turned the conversation back to his professional career, as Domino reminded me that he was a driving force behind the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future anthology and awards, and that he had written a number of reviews and critical articles for everyone from Galaxy to current columns for The Chicago Sun-Times and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
“You’re considered one of the grand masters of literary criticism. Does that ever get old? Do you still find things to get excited about?”
“I keep changing the way I go about to keep it from getting old. With the kind of reviews I’m doing for F&SF now. because fortunately Ed Ferman has backed me up with Orson Scott Card, I’ve got a lot of freedom to do wild and crazy things like review a book that’s been out of print a long time, or review something that’s from an unusual source. I just published a column in which I reviewed a program book, for heaven’s sake. It’s fun, and I keep it new.”
“His awards you may find impressive,” Domino said. “He’s a member by invitation of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and The Mark Twain Society. He’s won a special Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America, and been given the ‘99’ Badge by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He’s a Locus Poll winner for best non-fiction book on SF in 1985, and in 1984, was given the Invisible Little Man award for service to the SF community. And he has several other honors.”
I returned to the interview. “What do you hope to be remembered for?”
“I think what I expect to be remembered for is a couple of pieces of fiction, but mostly for editorial-type functions, like teaching novices, helping them turn out better work. Hopefully, before I’ve run my course. I’ll actually be able to lay my hands on a magazine and pretend to be John Campbell for a while. That’s about it.”
I switched off the comm unit. “That docs it.” 1 said. “Have a good convention. But I’m curious about one other thing. You’ve done a lot of public relations from the late 1960s onward. Have you ever wanted to be a reporter?”
“Yes, in the sense that any job that I think I could do, I would like to have tried at some point. I’ve got mixed opinions about the state of the art of reporting these days, but I think it’s among the cleaner jobs there are.”
He smiled. “Thanks for your time. Larry.”
Copyright 1989 by Frank Catalano
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly
If there is one thing that a Science Fiction artist is known for, it is his hardware. Look at a spaceship by Kelly Freas. Robert McCall, or John Berkey and you can immediately identify the artist.
The same holds true for the work of David Mattingly. He has developed a style of technological design that is both rich in detail and complex in structure. Silver ships glow under airtight domes, and astronauts wear spacesuits that twinkle like highly polished armor.
Even a cursory glance, though, will show that hardware is not all there is to David’s work. His landscapes have a naturalistic believability and an almost cinema- scopic grandeur. This, combined with his adventurous use of color, creates a setting against which his ships soar and swoop, alternately like sparkling jewels, or dark, evil birds of prey. The aliens with which his covers abound are diverse and surprising.
David grew up reading and collecting comics, and this is probably where his work gets its flamboyance and sense of hard- edged drama. Later, he was influenced by Fantasy illustrators like Frank Frazetta and - probably more than any of his comtemporaries - the great NASA artist Robert McCall. Today he is likely to draw influence from nearly anywhere, as the motifs from African and Pacific Island art in his covers to Janet Morris Heros in Hell series attest.
Typical of a Mattingly painting is tremendous scale; he is a master of the megaship. and there are miles of visual space in his landscapes. (This is only appropriate, since early in his career he was a matte painter for Disney Studios, responsible for making modest sets on a soundstage into the huge spaceship interiors central to the film The Black Hole.) Even a close-up character study is likely to have perspective cues implying a vast area visible over the figure’s shoulder. For that matter, many of David’s covers have outrageous numbers of figures, often complicat- cdly costumed - the kind of thing that makes a fellow illustrator groan at the work involved.
But painstaking dedication comes naturally to David, and shows itself in every step of his work. For each painting he does dozens of thumbnail and color sketches, always working until he has a satisfying solution - and then doing a few more. Then, after an idea is approved, he has appropriate models professionally photographed for painting reference. Sometimes he shoots models himself in a lavishly equipped photo studio next to his painting room. Friends, family and casual visitors have wound up there, perhaps outfitted in plastic Roman armor or aiming one of David’s small arsenal of toy ray-guns. David sometimes builds models forreference as well, such as the helicopter used for Martin Caidin’s The Messiah Stone, and the spider for Robert Vardeman’s Cenotaph Road series.
When the working drawing is complete, figures and costumes meticulously drawn in, perspective accurately plotted, he transfers it to canvas and begins painting. This is done in acrylic (for broader tones and glazes) and gouache (fordetails), one layer upon the other, punctuated by the roar of a paint-encrusted hair dryer to speed the process. Airbrush is used for soft forms such as clouds and smoke and glows.
David can be wildly experimental. He loves the latitude Science Fiction allows for this, enabling him to drop in a swollen moon or ringed planet for its abstract impact, or utilize innovative color schemes (see The Messiah Stone for a purple-and-gold knockout). He enthusiastically embraces paperback packaging embellishments such as die cuts, embossing and reflective inks. For Exit Earth by Martin Caidin. he used computer-generated imagery as a base which he then modified with paint. The process became more time-consuming than it was worth, but was a noble experiment. After a mind-broadening stint at the Illustrator’s Workshop, he submitted a cover done in pastel. He has utilized the solarized chiariscuro effect, pioneered by Janies Barna and Peter Caras, for the Time Wars series by Simon Hawke (he also worked this effect into an early cover for Savage Sword of Conan). When another artist was assigned a Time Wars book, he was asked to follow Mattingly’s lead.
David is always seeking to learn, and speaks with analytical insight about his predecessors and contemporaries in the Science Fiction field. He also pursues knowledge outside the field. In addition to the Illustrator’s Workshop mentioned above, David has lately studied anatomy with Elliot Goldfin- gcr, including sculpting a figure from the skeleton up and dissecting cadavers.
With his always-growing body of covers (now numbering in the low hundreds), David has staked out a territory unmistakably his own; a galaxy populated by heroic figures as well as horrific alien monsters, a place of both high-tech, and primitive savagery. Knowing David’s drive, always to improve on his previous cover, there is no telling where his work will lead him next.
Copyright 1989 by Richard Hexcox
As I write these words, I am looking at a slide that David Mattingly has sent me of the finished cover art for my forthcoming novel Desperate Measures. It’s an amazing piece of work; 1 don’t know how he did it. but the painting looks three dimensional - the bright reds and greens he’s used in the illustration jump out and grab you. The scene itself is highly detailed; you can almost read the labels on the bottles behind the bar, and a man with a Mohawk haircut casually examines the goings-on. which includes some interesting naughtiness. The characters whose friendly round of drinks has been interrupted look as if they’ve stepped directly off of a photograph. The man interrupting them is a trademark of David’s - I call them “Mattingly Men”. He’s a muscular, broad-shouldered, threatening type who appears to be a fiesh- and-blood incarnation of someone you might find in an issue of Marvel Comics.
In one paragraph 1 have managed to cover all of what I like about David Mattingly’s paintings. His eye for color is second to none; you can tell his paintings just from his use of them alone. He has a wonderful sense of detail. His style is immaculate and at the same lime strangely surreal. He has an immense amount of fun with what he’s doing, which is very important in this business (if you don’t believe that David has fun in his work, check out his tongue-in-cheek cover for the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book Space Vampire). Most importantly, David is good at what he does. Very good.
Consider this story. In August of 1987 I was at a Waldenbooks in an Akron. Ohio mall. I was sitting at a card table piled high with copies of my first novel, A Death of Honor, mentally cataloging the myriad of ways that people were using to ignore me as they walked past. Some seventy-five feet away, from one of the stores opposite my position, came a woman toting several bags full of her day’s shopping. She locked eyes with me. and in conveying the nonverbal message of unavailability, she dropped her eyes.
That was her mistake.
Her eyes dropped to my book which I had conveniently stood cover-out to the passing crowds. The effect was magic. She stopped for a moment, squinted at David’s painting, then made a beeline to my table. We had a nice chat. She didn’t read "that Stuff' (read: Science Fiction), but she knew a couple of people who did. and picked up two copies. Then, because she was so thrilled to meet a “real author”, she broke down and bought a third copy for herself.
That is David Mattingly’s job. That is what he is so amazingly good at. The hard work I put in on my opening sentence, the editor’s sweat over the lurid back-cover copy, all of that is worthless unless someone like David is there to get Mr. and Mrs. Bookbuyer to pick it up to begin with. And let’s face it, if you’ve been lucky enough to sec the cover art for cither of my novels, you know what I’m talking about. They’re irresistible. Neither cover is easily described, but I think my editor at Del Rey did the best that anyone ever will when she said this while trying to describe David’s work on A Death of Honor, “The damn thing looks like it’s on fire”.
Of course, these comments don’t just apply to David’s work for my novels. Take a look at any of the covers he’s done. Besides what I’ve already mentioned, you’ll note right away that his covers are busy. There’s stuff going on everywhere, as if David has taken the essence of the novel and distilled it into one gloriously cinematic moment.
Shall I get specific? For starters there’s the stop-action cinematics of The Company Man, where the omnipotent hunter watches his quarry’s futile attempts to run. In Revenge ofthe Damned, the glow from a blue laser-knife heightens the tension on the faces of two Mattingly Men about to escape from an intergalactic prison. Or how about Zoboa, where his skewed point-of-view puts you right in the middle of the dizzying action. You can almost feel the heal from the ascending space shuttle and hear the roar from the P- 38 as it flies toward you. It’s a moment that Spielberg would love to capture on film. Likewise The Messiah Stone, which has the quality of a lost moment from the life of Indiana Jones (David has done some Indiana Jones covers, but that’s another story….). Need a dark mood? If you’re not careful, David can give it to you subtly, as with The Land of Laughs. Or he can let you have it with both barrels as he did with Yard’s Children (one of my all-time favorite Mattingly paintings and the only cover that has ever made me say “Wow! I wish I’d written that book!”).
Of course, all of this tells you what you already know, which is that David Mattingly is a dedicated professional who happens to be extremely good at what he does. He wouldn’t be here this weekend and I wouldn’t be writing about him if he wasn’t. But what about David Mattingly the man?
Well….
OF Dave and I, we grew up practically being neighbors. 1 was raised for the most part in Wyoming, he in Colorado. He grew up in Fort Collins, where his father invented a device that some of you might have in your homes - it’s called the Waterpik. His early influences include those wonderful early Marvel Comics, in the days before their problem plagued super-heroes discovered what real angst was. His training in art continued at Colorado State University, The Colorado Institute of Art and the Art Center of Design in Pasadena, California. From there he found his way into films, and by the age of 25 was the head of the Matte Department at Disney Studios, where he worked on such films as The Cat from Outer Space, The Black Hole and Tron.
Science Fiction as written word remained his first love, however, and before long he found himself in New York, lugging battered manuscripts to his brownstone in Hoboken, New Jersey. Once he has read the novel-to- be. he produces a series of roughs - paper- back-sized paintings that show the composition. mood, and colors to be used in the final painting. Once the art department has made their choice, it’s onto the final painting. The production of a cover may find him researching historical architecture, building a model of an interstellar craft, or shooting photographs (his victims have included professional models, bodybuilders, industry insiders, family members and himself). He has even been known to call up the author of the book he is working on in order to discuss different aspects of the characters and their playthings. The effects of this tireless effort speak for themselves in his work.
As if all of this wasn’t enough, this consummate professional also happens to be a really nice guy. No kidding. 1 could write pages about his wry sense of humor, but that’s something best experienced in person. Suffice it to say that anyone who names his cat Orson Welles is okay in my book. He’s also got a very generous spirit, which I would humbly submit came from breathing all of that pure Rocky Mountain air when he was a child.
Case in point, my very first trip to Manhattan in April of 1988. Having met David face-to-face at a convention the year before, I decided it was time to do the same with my editor and agent. 1 flew in early in the morning, gathered everyone up, and met David for lunch at the Society of Illustrators (you have to be really hot stuff to get into this one, folks - and yes. David is a member).
As we got ready to go our separate ways that afternoon, I suddenly found David had taken it upon himself to make sure that I would get around Manhattan with no problems. He made sure 1 had something to cat on the trip back to the airport, lent me his map of the subway, gave me a crash course in which museums to sec and which streets to avoid, and advised me not to talk to strangers or start a conversation with someone already talking to him- or herself. I figured this was his way of sympathizing with the kid from Out West’s first day in The City. On the other hand, maybe it was the fact that when the light hits me right 1 look about half my real age. Whatever the reason, I appreciated it. A guy like me needs friends like him.
Looking back at these words I have just written, they strike me as being somewhat anemic. After all. here I am. trying to describe in words a series of visual works. To gain a real appreciation for David’s work, you have to do what I did once I found out he was doing a cover for my first novel; I started looking at every Science Fiction book cover I could find in search of his stuff. In just a short matter of time, you’ll discoverthat everything I’ve told you in the previous thousand-odd words about style and color and detail is true.
You’ll also find something else. There’s an uncompromising honesty to David’s work. He gives his best to each and every painting. Part of this is his love for his chosen profession. and part is because, like the best artists and w riters, he’s not afraid to let his personal life show through in his work. The best example of this is his series of covers for Poul and Karen Anderson’s King of Ys scries, which in symbolic terms tell of the end of his marriage. The story is continued on the cover of A Death of Honor, where David’s anxieties over returning to the single’s scene is used with spectacular effect.
So check his stuff out. Comb the book stores and go to his slide show this weekend. You may even find yourself buying books for their covers, something that is not entirely unheard-of in the Science Fiction line of work, and something which makes both artist and author happy.
Enjoy.
Copyright 1989 by Joe Clifford Faust
(Artwork) The Little Helliad Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the hook by Janet & Chris Morris, published by Baen Books.
August 3–6 1989
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When I was asked to write a pieee about Mike Glyer for the Norwescon Program Book. I wasn’t sure what to do. Mike is a fan in the best sense of the word. For those people who do not know him, I have included some biographical material. How to illustrate his true nature remained a problem. Rather than write a testimonial about him. I decided to include various pieces about him drawn from a few of his close friends to illustrate the breadth and scope of someone who I not only consider a good friend but also respect for the amount of good he has done in fandom. There is only one Mike Glyer and I suggest that you take this weekend to meet the guy.
Mike Glyer. the editor of File 770, is a man of many qualities including a well developed sense of humor. To have published File 770 for as long as he has and he surely hasn’t been doing it for the money, one needs a sense of humor. He has won 5 Hugos (two for File 770 and 3 for Best Fan Writer). Several years ago at the Hugo ceremony at a Worldcon, he wore a T-shirt underneath his regular shirt proclaiming himself a Hugo winner which he revealed on-stage while accepting the Hugo. What a ceremony it would have been if he had lost. And yet after winning consecutive Hugos for Best Fanzine, he was big enough to announce that he would take himself out of the running for the following year.
In 1969 he started editing New Eliptic which he published thru 1972. From 1972 thru 1976 Scientifiction was produced. File 770 began about 11 years ago. He attended LACon and has been a member of LASFAS since 1972 holding various procedural and corporate offices. He is currently the Chief Executive Office of The Southern California Institute for Fannish Interests (SCIFI) and would have been chairman of the 1990 Worldcon if they had won the bid. Mike stated that his main ambitions in life were to get married, have children, and become a big- time writer. When he isn’t reading or writing about SF and fandom, he reads Raymond Chandler and Mark Twain.
This mild mannered man received a degree in history from (JSC and a Masters in Popular Culture from Bowling Green University. After acquiring these valuable degrees he then spent the next 15 months working in women’s underwear until he found his true calling: the IRS. Beginning in May, 1979. he was employed as a tax auditor, worked his way up the bureaucracy to group manager where he was in charge ol other tax auditors, and currently is an appeals officer where he tries to settle cases the government may lose before they go to trial.
One might wonder how editing a fanzine and working for the IRS complement each other. In the course of preparing this article about Mike, he admitted that his college education trained him to properly analyze and evaluate information. In other words being nosy works wonder in both jobs.
In 1979 at Boskone 16 George Flynn first introduced me to Mike. We had spent the past two years having a running commentary with each other thru the newszines we were editing. He was never satisfied. When 1 used first names of people, he complained that NESFA might know who 1 was talking about but he didn’t and demanded I use last names. To please him 1 only used last names in the next issue and with the number of married couples in the organization, he was complaining again that he still couldn’t figure out who I was talking about. This pursuit of one upmanship continued until I stopped editing the newsletter. Sometimes friendships spring from strange and unpredictable actions.
For many years at Worldcons Mike ran the newsletter. With the help of a few roving reporters, he would prepare the daily newszine and then usually print it himself. In his leisure time he would distribute copies of it to the people working on the convention so that they had some idea of what was going on. Many people did not truly appreciate the job that he was doing, often with minimal equipment. Fortunately while he has not been active in the editing of the Worldcon newsletters, we can still admire his handiwork in the parodies of them that sometimes appear near the end of the convention. They are often more informative, almost always funnier, and usually more accurate than the real newsletters.
Looking for a more difficult challenge lead him to accept the job of co-head of programming at Nolacon several months before the con was scheduled to run. Many jokes and asperionscan be made about the final results, but in this writer’s opinion (and I was there in the backroom watching it happen) he performed both miracle and ledgerdermain second to none. Programming was running in two hotels from a location distant from the program rooms. Communications were a nightmare. Many people were accommodated al the last minute. Il was a difficult situation which would have been impossible without his calming influence. The complete story will probably never be told simply because nobody who was not there can truly appreciate how difficult the situation really was.
Having spent enough time on my soapbox. we shall now delve into the less serious side of Mike Glyer.
He once described the participants of a typical fannish dinner. They almost always include people who are strictly vegetarian, who will only eat meal, who are kosher, who happen to be on a strict diet, and the couple who think that $25.00 apiece for a meal is inexpensive. Unfortunately they spend so much time arguing about where to eat that they never go anywhere.
At a Los Angeles convention Mike was on a couch with Craig Miller and an unnamed individual who was even larger. Two people started staring at them perhaps wondering if the couch would survive. Il is reported that Mike apparently said in a voice loud enough to carry, “I wonder who made the couch. If it can support the three of us, it must be quite sturdy.” Unfortunately the reaction of the two onlookers has been lost to history. And while on the subject of couches it would be remiss of me not to mention the couch which resides at Mike’s place. It has been reported that many a fan coming to LA and in need of a place to sleep has made use of it. So well-known is his hospitality that a certain East Coast Fan (who will remain anonymous) decided to fly to LA to see friends and assumed that she could call him from the airport to arrange for crash space. While the phone was ringing Mike was at the airport to meet another friend. The fan saw Mike, hung up. and yelled out to him that she was very happy to see him and could she have crash space. Naturally Mike agreed.
At the Worldcon each year there is a Hogu Banquet often held at the nearest McDonald’s. Mike was one of the founders of this tradition which began at LACon when certain people did not wish to pay the inflated banquet price. And just like the Hugos, the fans get to vote in certain categories for the winners. Mike then totals the votes and selects the winners based on who should have won. It is rumored that Mike has occasionally even chosen the winner of the popular vole for this honor.
Unfortunately a list of the conventions which Mike Glyer has attended and engaged in a tryst has been deleted from this article. It would have made for a more informative piece on Mike but…
No article about Mike would be complete without a reference to John Brazerman. Be it noted that a certain west coast fan once reported a local California convention to the Labor Board for using gophers who were underage and for not paying them the minimum wage. The same person entered into a contract for the function space with the hotel that an LA bid, who had just won a Wester,on. was planning to use. Suffice it to say that he was not a pleasant person. He ran his own conventions and issued a list banning certain people, including Mike, from attending them since they competed with him. Mike not only attended the convention under the name of John Brazerman but proceeded to rent one of the smaller function rooms that had not been rented by the convention and used it to advertise fandom and otherwise annoy this person. For all of the details that just can’t be printed, ask Mike about John Brazerman. The whole story is fantastic.
Copyright 1989 by Rick Katze
(Artwork) Fleet of the Damned Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Allan Cole and Chris Bunch, published by Del Rey.
Photo by the American Cancer Society
Alan E. Nourse did not write Nerdsmen of Gronk, and for a complete list of what he did write I refer you to a bibliography- it will be a pretty hefty biblio, heftier than mine, and I am no chicken. Besides having authored 12 books of fiction. Dr. Nourse has the advantage over me in having also issued c.45 books of non-fiction, compared to my merely* one (count them) one. Stories, articles, columns, who counts? He has. to be sure, other advantages over me - many inches, fewer years, four children (mine: again: one) and a promising start with a grandchild; also he has shot an elk. Sec his haunting book The Elk Hunt - you won’t see a thing in there about the elk, which he encountered a few years later (he assures me there was nothing personal in the encounter. “One of us had to go.” he says. “Please pass the venison.”) And. of course, he has the advantage of his great wife. Ann. (“What have you and Avram been doing?” she asked once. Alan: “We’ve been working, dear.” Ann: “Yes, I can smell it;” with quiet amusement and perfect acceptance.)
Nice Ann is a practising physical therapist; she once announced she was “going to give Avram some exercises for his arms.” “That’s right, dear,” said Alan; “put the whiskey on a higher shelf.”
I first met them in or about 1952, when we were living in the Atlantic Northeast, now we are all living in the Pacific Northwest. I had of course read his Rocket to Limbo, Star Surgeon, and Riders From the Rings, so we did not meet as strangers. Since first I made their vital acquaintance, generosities, and benefits, literary and otherwise, have flowed my way without ceasing: pass the venison, please. I was once even his employee, and those who recall any of my Limekiller short novels are now advised they came from notes I made many years ago in the tropical nation of Belize in Central America. when/where I should have been looking out for his interests. When I say that we have sailed the Spanish Main together, I ain’t just a-woofin'. Unfortunately the boat (which I bought with his money) began to blow great bubbles; clearly an act of great decision was needed. Alan’s orders to me were, “Lay it on the Bishop - and run!” The boatman replied to my crisp directive with the niggling comment, “Sir, the boawt is sinkking!” I said, “Quickly moor it in front of the Bishop’s house, so he can see where it sinks.” They may still mention us in their prayers down there; then again, maybe not. If they do, who knows what they say. Or to what effect. 1 don’t have this limp from being kicked by a mule at Gettysburg.
Alan Nourse’s literary career crossed mine in many ways. For instance when I was helping to spend part of the income from his best-seller Intern, by Dr. X, in trying to move mangoes from a place where they did not grow to a place where they did not sell, I received the galleys for my nonseller The Phoenix and the Mirror, with the usual instructions, “We need them yesterday.” I jumped ship (or boat), promptly had a vigorous domestic disagreement, and thus was obliged to find another place to correct the proofs - one where the lady would not be able to follow me - which I did. What Dr. Nourse thought on hearing that his Field Manager was holed up in a whorehouse with many odd long pieces of printed paper. 1 do not know. Gentleman that he is, he never mentioned it. and I have never asked…. Er… Alan…?
My, it is a long way from that coast of coral to this snowy clime. Alan E. Nourse and I are still writing: Mine is another Vergil Magus, and his latest work is a book on AIDS for high school students and older. Go thou and read.
Copyright 1989 by Avram Davidson
* I stole this from the conversation of Phil Klass, alias William Tenn. If you’re going to steal, steal nothing but the best. kids.
(Artwork) Code Blue - Emergency Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by James White, published by Del Rey.
AVRAM DAVIDSON REVISITED
Our special guest for the second year running is a very peculiar person. He is not tall, handsome, and dashing, like some celebrities in our field, nor is he totally revolting, like some others. To my knowledge he has never written a Star Trek novel, nor a hit play, nor a monthly column, nor a best-selling novel, nor a screenplay, nor even so much as a knockout TV commercial. All this may help explain why he is frequently under-funded and tends to cadge cigarettes. What he has written is dozens upon dozens of stories which have kept us entertained and bedazzled ever since 1952 or thereabouts, when his first published story, “My Boyfriend’s Name is Jello”, appeared in Anthony Bouchers’s Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. These stories have embraced Science Fiction, Fantasy. Mystery, and men’s adventure, along with quite a number of completely unclassi- fiablc gems of the sort that make you wake up at two in the morning and say, “Hey. now…”
Avram is something that few of us can ever lay claim to: a genuine, bonafide original in all dimensions. Like any other writer, he employs his own unique peculiarities in his approach to his craft. He will muddle and nudge a story idea for fifteen years without actually writing it. but he will also write three beauties off the top of his head on three successive days and sell all three. Scorning revision, he regards whatever words have come out of his “tripewriter” as chiselled in granite: if you don’t see them that way. that’s your problem. His manuscripts, typed on hideous pink or blue second sheet (sometimes intermixed) (the while hurts his eyes, he says) look like the writer’s equivalent of an unmade bed. and he doggedly employs curiosities of language that nobody else would ever dare to use. But the stories flow. Editors may shrink in horror at the sight of a Davidson manuscript, but the stories still flow.
Ann and I first met Avram sometime in 1953 or 1954 in New York at an evening gathering at the home of Harry Altshuler, my (then) agent. Avram arrived wearing hisyar- mulka and carrying his own teacup and spoon. As a midwesterner quite untutored in the rites and rituals of Jewish Orthodoxy, this struck me as exceedingly odd. I was to learn, of course, that this was by no means the only odd thing about Avram Davidson.
We lost contact for several years, then reconnected in New York in 1964, as he was returning from a sojourn in Mexico. It was a time of trial for both of us, and we bought each other lunches, each deducting the other. Later, in San Francisco. Avram was the only person I ever knew who actually lived on Haight street, a block from Ashbury; one day he took me on a guided tour of the area in its heyday, wearing his Egyptian fez. Still later we spent much time together exploring the weird waterways and byways of the Central American country of Belize, then known as British Honduras, where a mutual friend maintained a Hotel of Convenience in the city to accommodate the British soldiers stationed there. (That friend had a lady of fierce and determined temperament. He appeared one morning with a broken elbow. The lady had hurled a full Coke bottle - a one quart Coke bottle - al him from across the room in a fit of pique. Bad luck for him, you say? Hah! Damned good luck that he had such keen reflexes. He raised his arm just in time to deflect the missle from his head. But I digress…) It was the Belize adventures that led Avram to write his splendid “Limekiller” novellas that embody so beautifully the outer strangeness of the Central American country. One day, one may hope… one must hope… some editor somewhere will have wit enough to collect the stories of the Limekiller Saga into a single volume that we all may hold and treasure them.
One cannot pretend that Avram is always smiling and of constantly sunny disposition - could anyone with those qualities write those stories? Perhaps not. Nor can one say that he is always an old grump; he often becomes quite convivial when suitably primed. It must be said that The Master is not always necessarily perhaps the easiest person in the world to get along with - if you doubt this, just ask some of his ex-agents - and when he gets mad at you. man. you’d damned well better believe you’ve been gotten mad at by an expert. Ah, well, each to his own little cross. There are some people around that I don’t care for that much, either. On the other hand, at Norwescons he tends to he docile as a lamb, so don’t be afraid of him. And he is the only Honorary Uncle 1 know who distributes genuine cherry whips to his honorary nephews and nieces.
After the Belize adventure there was California for Avram, and then the Northwest, and some times spent at High Place.and then some times spent at Thorp, and then later some illness, and recovery, and more illness and recovery - illness doesn’t shake loose easily for geriatric cases. He has come through it all. Deo gracia.s, and after writing fiercely for three and one half decades, Avram continues to write and write and write. Of his hundreds of published stories, at least 50 per cent have been good. Another 35 per cent have been extremely good. And some 15 per cent have been real stunners, the kind of stories that leave your jaw sagging and your mind altered. If he has ever published a bad story, I haven’t run across it. The most encouraging thing about this man is that the really great stories keep turning up now, not just at the beginning of his career. Three years ago I thought “The Slovo Stove” was the greatest story he’d ever written. Then last year I read “El Vilvoy de Las Islas”. Enough said. A writer in decline? Ho, ho. Grab his beard and talk to him this weekend and see what you think. He’s an original like you’ll never see again. If he complains, tell him I sent you.
Copyright 1989 by Alan E. Nourse
(Artwork) You Are A Monster Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Edward Packard, published by Bantam Books.
Steven Barnes stands about five eight or nine. He’s black. He’s in perfect physical condition. He’s smiling. He’s probably talking (though he listens good too) and as he talks, he bounces around like he really ought to be tied to a railing, just in case.
Tony Barnes is a bit shorter, Caucasian brunette, with long, lean muscles. She may be with Lauren Nicole, who is maybe two feet tall by now. Nicky has a great smile, and the muscles aren’t showing you though she exercises with her parents.
Steve isn’t exactly your typical fan. Then again, he is.
Kids picked on him in high school for an intellectual bookworm. They wouldn’t let him be nice. He took up martial arts. He teaches several varieties. Now they let him be nice whenever he wants to.
But… he’s fannish. He didn’t stop with learning how to survive Conan the Cimmerian. He wants to know everything that the human body can be made to do.
He wants his friends to be healthy and safe. He teaches self-defense classes at LASFS. He tries out exercise modes, and when he knows something works, he passes it on to his friends.
Writing? Oh, writing! Jerry Pournelle and I think we’re pretty good. We could have made The Legacy of Heorot a fine tale of interstellar colonization; but we don’t have the right mind-set for the Horror novel. What it took was the guy who wants me to see The Texas Chain-Saw Massacre for its artistic merit.
Steven has always been ambitious. Our first novel was a detective story wrapped in a Fantasy wrapped in Science Fiction. That was fun. Everyone wants to go back to Dream Park. We finally did.
His first solo novel (Street Lethal) was based on a working love potion, for God’s sake! A monogamy treatment. I wouldn’t have had the nerve.
Now he’s married his childhood sweetheart, Tony, and they’ve born me a girl-child. That is. I’m Nicole’s godfather.
The television industry loves him too. Remember a show called The Wizard? They were about to drop it. Then they saw Steven’s script. It involved a robot suspected of murder.
Suddenly they were talking about this one saving the show! They swapped scripts around to put his in the right place: they found enough money somehow: and when the producer made script changes, the director changed it back and swore it was already perfect. They think he’s pretty good.
Our latest novel was just as much fun as we expected and deserved. Everyone want to go back to Dream Park. The Barsoom Project is even more complicated. We’ve turned it in. and we’re plotting out a third.
Copyright 1989 by Larry Niven
(Comic) Copyright 1989 by William Rotsler
(Artwork) The Aquiliad Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by S.P. Somtow, published by Del Rey.
(Artwork) Shockwave Rider Copyright 1989 by Barclay Shaw. Cover for the book by John Brunner, published by Ballantine Books.
(Artwork) Space War Blues Copyright 1989 by George Barr. Cover for the hook hy Richard A. Lupoff.
(Artwork) No Shirt. No Shoes. No Service Copyright 1989 by Carl Lundgren.
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Ilene Meyer
(Artwork) Unaccompanied Sonata Copyright 1989 by Mark a. Skullerud.
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Wendy Wees
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Ray Pelley
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Rob Schouten
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Milo Duke
(Artwork) The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley Copyright 1989 by Richard Hescox. Cover for the collection by Marion Zimmer Bradley, published by DAW Books.
(Artwork) Exiles' Gate. Copyright 1989 by Michael Whelan. Cover for the book by C. J. Cherryh. published by DAW.
KATHLEEN ALCALA is a Seattle writer who has had Magic Realism and Science Fiction published in literary magazines such as The Seattle Review, Calyx, The Ohio Renaissance Review, and Black Ice. She won the Western Colorado Science Fiction Association short story contest in 1981 and completed the Clarion West Science Fiction workshop in 1987. Kathleen has degrees from Stanford and the University of Washington, and is Assistant Editor of The Seattle Review. She was guest editor of a special Science Fiction issue of The Seattle Review in 1986.
Photo by Jaquelin McBride
KEVIN J. ANDERSON’s first novel, Resurrection, Inc. - a cross between Science Fiction, Murder Mystery and Gothic Horror - was published in July 1988 from Signet books (New American Library). Gamearth, the first book in a new Fantasy trilogy, was just released in March 1989, also from Signet. He is currently working on Gameplayers, the second novel in the series. Kevin is also engaged in a novel collaboration, titled Lagrange, with physicist and author Doug Beason. Bantam Books will publish Lagrange and two other unrelated collaborative novels.
Kevin has sold over 140 short stories, articles, and reviews to various magazines, including Fantasy & Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 13 (DAW), New Destinies (Baen), Full Spectrum (Bantam), Astronomy, Dragon, The Horror Show, and many others. He has a degree with Honors in physics/astronomy and has been a full-time technical writer/ editor at a large research laboratory for the past five years.
At seven years of age JOHN ALVAREZ asked his mother how much money artists make. She informed him that some an sells for millions of dollars and some art is priceless. From that moment on John has walked that great mystical path of becoming a truly God-like being known to all as an artist.
John maintains the philosophy that all artists should be worshiped as gods (since there are few other rewards). John is a self- taught god with the addition of two years study at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. John’s work has appeared in The Horror Show Magazine and Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine.
KIM ANTIEAU has had work published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Fantasy Book, Twilight Zone Magazine, Shadows 8, Shadows 9, Doom City, Pulphouse, and The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories. She is currently working on a mainstream novel, Bridges, with her husband. Mario Milosevic. She is also at work on a SF Horror novel, When The Moon Was Blood.
ALICIA AUSTIN is a reknowned SF and F artist whose bibliography of book and magazine illustrations would fill two pages of text.
In 1970 she was awarded the Hugo Award for Best New Artist and in 1979 received both the Balrog Award for best Professional Publication (for the anthology of her work, Age of Dreams: The Illustrations of Alicia Austin) and the Howard Award for best Fantasy Artist.
Over the years Alicia has interpreted European, Russian, Oriental and other ethnic folklore and mythology. But she has always had a love of the Southwest and Native American culture. The last few years she has been interpreting Native American folklore and mythology and expanding her techniques by working with printmaking, graphite and Prismacolor, frequently combining one or more ofthese with watercolor.
DR. GORDON BAKER allergist,graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University and received his M.D. from George Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Baker was recently involved in the investigations of chemical allergies at Boeing.
SHARON BAKER is a Seattle Science Fantasy writer. Avon has published Quarrelling, They Met The Dragon and a long novel divided into two books: Journey To Memhliar and Burning Tears Of Sassurum. She has contributed articles and reviews to small magazines, a chapter to Writer’s Digest Books' How To Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction, and a disgusting poem to a children’s Horror anthology, Now We Are Sick, which she has been assured is coming out Any Year Now. She also teaches writing: this spring, it’s kids at Cedarhurst Elementary School, and adults at the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. In real life she’s been an aeronautical history librarian, physician’s assistant, music librarian, public relations writer, college recruiter… In her spare time she raises four sons, a series of exchange students, assorted newts, lizards and fish, and five cats (want one?)
BILL BALDWIN is the author of The Helmsman and Galactic Convoy. In addition to his books, he has worked in the military in support of Project Mercury, managed the writing group for public relations and technical presentations during the Gemini and Apollo programs, and is currently the Manager of Advanced Software Technology for Xerox in Dallas, Texas.
JOHN BARNES has not been a boxer, sailor, smuggler, spy or gigolo, but he is the author of numerous stories which have appeared in CoEvolution Quarterly, Amazing, F&SF, Analog and Asimov’s. Two novels, The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky and Sin of Origin, were both published by Congdon and Weed and are currently available in paperback by Worldwide Library.
John is currently working on a book of nonfiction, a novel and a short story collection.
DONNA BARR is a native of Washington State. She is waterproof and not inclined to (genuine) panic, though she has been known to swear.
She has displayed artwork at convention and public galleries all across the United States and Canada, and is presently working for a number of gaming and comic-book publishers, as a freelance artist/writer. She owns all her own characters and stories, and does everything from roughs to lettering. Her two full-length comics include The Desert Peach and Stinz. She has finished a musical, “The Desert Peach,”' in collaboration with the excellent T. Brian Wagner, and if all goes well, they hope to present it sometime in 1989.
Donna is also involved with numerous smaller fanzines and APAs and “Barr Wars,” an artists' war that has been going on over a year and now includes some 18 to 20 furiously insulted artists. Part of it should be available as a large fanzine in early 1989.
There’s more, but you’ll have to ask her about it. Space precludes prolixity (obs.).
GREG BEAR, formerly known as an SF illustrator, is the author of Hegira, Psychlone, Beyond Heaven’s River, Strength of Stones, The Wind From a Burning Woman, Corona, The Infinity Concerto, Eon, Blood Music, The Forge of God, and The Serpent Mage.
The Twilight Zone episode, “Dead Run,” was adapted from a short story by Greg.
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STEVEN BRYAN BIELER’s stories and satires have appeared in Asimov’s, Clinton Street Quarterly, Pulphouse, Seattle Review, The Seattle Times, and Unearth, and in the anthologies Full Spectrum, Heroic Visions, and New Dimensions. In an alternate universe, he is the copy editor of the Seattle Weekly.
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY has been a Science Fiction fan since her middle teens, and made her first sale as an adjunct to an amateur fiction contest in Fantastic/Amazing Stories in 1949. She has been writing since she can remember, but wrote only for school magazines and fanzines until 1952, when she sold her first professional short story to Vortex Science Fiction. She has written everything from Science Fiction to Gothics, but is probably best known for her Darkover novels. The Darkover series also includes several anthologies of fiction.
In addition to editing the Darkover anthologies, Mrs. Bradley has also edited many magazines, amateur and professional, including a year-long stretch as editor of Sybil Leek’s Astrology Journal, and Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, which she started in 1988. She also edits an annual anthology called Swords and Sorceress for DAW.
In recent years she has turned more to Fantasy; a release from Doubleday, The House Between the Worlds, although a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club, was “Fantasy undiluted” and was issued by Ballantine Books as a Del Rey paperback. Another non-SF effort is a novel about a three-generation circus family of trapeze flyers, The Catch Trap. She has written a novel of the women in the Arthurian legends - Morgan Le Fay. the Lady of the Lake, and others - entitled Mists of Avalon, which remained four months on the NY Times best seller list and was optioned by a major film producer. And she has also written The Firebrand, a novel about the women of the Trojan War.
She currently lives in Berkely. Her hobbies are opera (including “lightwalking” at the S.F. Opera), reading, and collecting Cabbage Patch and similar dolls as well as Teddy bears.
GINJER BUCHANAN was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania long enough ago to remember the invention of television. In the late 1960s, having survived higher education, she discovered Fandom, (she had discovered Science Fiction and Fantasy al a very early age. thanks to the guilty conscience of robber baron Andrew Carnegie, who endowed Pittsburgh with the best free library system in the country.) She became one of the Founding Mothers of The Western Pennsylvania Science Fiction Society, and helped run Pgh- lange, Pittsburgh’s regional SF convention, for several years. She then moved to New York City where she made her living for over a dozen years as a social worker in the area of foster care and adoption, (you can imagine what fun that was…)
During those years she had done a bunch of freelance work for various SF publishers, many of whom were friends and neighbors (and one of them she happened to be married to.) Thus, she was prepared for a Mid-Life Career Change when, in 1984, Susan Allison offered her a job as an editor al Ace Books. After hesitating a nanosecond, she said YES. She was promoted to Senior Editor in 1987. All things considered, she is currently a happy unit…
ELINOR BUSBY has credits both as a fan and pro. but considerably more of the former. She was one of the editors when Cry won the Hugo Award for 1959. and was on the 1961 Worldcon Committee. She has been a Fan Guest of Honor at two Westercons and a Noncon. and was a Party Guest al a Rain Convention. She is a member of six apas.
F. M. BUSBY lives in Seattle with his wife Elinor and their cat Ms. His SF novels include eight in the universe of Rissa Kerguelen and Bran Tregare, the Demu Trilogy in Barton’s universe, All These Earths in the multiple universes revealed by the story’s “Skip Drive”, and The Breeds of Man in a possible near-future variant of our very own cosmos. His three dozen or so shorter works, twenty of which appear in his story collection Getting Home, arc not readily classifiable. His current work in progress, Slow Freight to Forever, is behind schedule due to flat wheels on his disk drives.
GRANT CALLIN has a BS from the Air Force Academy, and advanced degrees in Space Physics. Physiology & Biophysics; it isn’t surprising that his hard Science Fiction stories require minimum suspension of disbelief. He currently works for Boeing Aerospace. and has been heavily involved in their Space Station role; his knowledge and background are evident in his portrayal of the SpaceHome colonies in his two novels Saturnalia and A Lion on Tharthee. He appreciates wellrounded words like ‘callipgyan.’ He eschews tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, and vegetables of the human kind.
MARY CARAKER’s newest Science Fiction novel, The Snows Of Jaspre, should be out from Houghton Mifflin by the time of this convention. She is also the author of Seven Worlds and Watersong. Her short fiction has appeared in Analog and Fantasy and Science Fiction, as well as in juvenile and mainstream periodicals. She was born and reared on a farm in northwestern Oregon, but now lives in San Francisco in a family building with her husband and three adult children.
KAREN LEE CARMACK has been earning her living with her art since the tender age of 19, when, shortly after her arrival in Seattle, she hastened to join the ranks of the wonderfully exotic and eccentric craftspeople she found at the Pike Place Market. In 1977 she discovered the art of scrimshaw, which is still her main medium. She also does custom graphic work and has recently illustrated a book on British Bed-and-Breakfast houses. Her Fantasy drawings and prints have appeared in Westwind and other fanzines.
Karen recently retired from active partnership in Camlann Enterprises, where she served as art director and crafts coordinator, in order to further her own art and pursue a musical career with the early musical group Distant Mirror, as well as playing Celtic music as often as possible. She now lives in Kirkland with three cats and two lady goats.
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MARY CHOO’s Science Fiction and Fantasy poetry has appeared in a number of publications. including the Methuen children’s anthology The Window of Dreams, Scrivener, Amelia and Star*Line, and some of her speculative poems will be included in an anthology of five B.C. women poets, Light Like a Summons. She has had stories either published in or accepted by Warm Times, The Twilight Kingdom, and the Marion Zimmer Bradley anthology Sword and Sorceress VI. She is currently working on a poetry collection, short stories, and a Fantasy novel.
MICHAEL CONEY of Sidney, B.C. has had forty short SF stories and sixteen novels published, the most recent being The Celestial Steam Locomotive, Gods of the Greataway, and Fang, the Gnome. Coming from NAL in the fall is King of the Scepter’d Isle, a humorous Fantasy, like Fang, about gnomes and King Arthur. Mike has recently completed a mainstream novel, No Place for a Sealion and is currently working on another, A Tomcat Called Sabrina. He is managing director of Porthole Press Ltd. publishers of local history and child safety books.
DEBRA GRAY COOK is the Managing Editor of Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine. She is also the Editor of Letters to Pulphouse and Associate Editor to The Report magazine.
She lives in Eugene. Oregon with her two cats.
GREG COX is the author of The Transylvanian Library: A Consumer’s Guide to Vampire Fiction, forthcoming this spring from Borgo Press. His short fiction has appeared in Amazing, Argos, Aboriginal SF and other magazines. Formerly a student at Clarion West, Greg now works as an Assistant Editor at William Morrow and Co. in New York.
JOHN G. CRAMER’s first foray into SF writing is Twister, a near-future hard SF novel published in hardcover by Arbor House in 1988. Since 1984 he has written the bimonthly science column, “The Alternative View” for Analog. John is Professor of Physics and Director of the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he has been involved in building a new superconducting linear accelerator for the past four years. In addition to teaching, nuclear physics research, and science writing, he has contributed to the interpretation of quantum mechanics and in 1987 had a major review article published in Reviews of Modern Physics which described his “Transactional Interpretation.” He was born in Houston, Texas and received his physics Ph.D. from Rice University.
JOHN DALMAS broke into SF with a novel, The Yngling (Analog, 1969; Pyramid, 1971, 1977; and Tor. 1984). From 1971 to 1982 he wrote little fiction and sold none of it. Since 1983 he’s had more novels published: The Varkaus Conspiracy, Homecoming, Scroll of Man, Fanglith, The Reality Matrix, and with Carl Martin, Touch the Stars: Emergence. His short fiction has appeared in Analog, The Saint, F&SF, Far Frontiers, 1985 Annual World’s Best SF, The Science Fiction Yearbook, and War World.
LEO DAUGHERTY began writing fiction is his mid-forties. He has had stories and poems published in Omni, Exquisite Corpse, and several other magazines in the last couple of years. Leo has also done a fair amount of scholarly publishing in such areas as Elizabethan literature, Shakespeare, and linguistics as well as two or three critical articles on Science Fiction and Literary Theory. He is Professor of Literature and Linguistics at The Evergreen State College, from which he is currently on leave to write an SF novel about a female rock star named Street Viable.
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JOHN DE CAMP, alias the Wizard of Beans Hill, is a one-time Portland, Oregon poet. He’s now writing Science Fiction.
He has had a story published in Cyn Mason’s Wet Visions anthology, a poem published in Isaac Asimov’s, and published a book, In the Shadow of Atlantis. The latter is a poetic Fantasy. As usual, he is working on a book and trying to sell another.
DAVID R. DEITRICK, after a bewildering combination of college, military service, oil field work and part-time illustration, launched a successful freelance illustration and design career. The bulk of his work has been in the adventure-gaming market, with over 50 game and supplement covers to his credit, primarily for FASA Corporation’s Star Trek line and GDW’s Traveller role-playing system.
In 1977 he defied a fate worse than death and married another artist, Lori Howell. They share a studio with their two sons (both budding designers,) a cat, a husky, and an Atari 520 ST computer.
WILLIAM C. DIETZ lives with his wife, daughters, cats and a hamster in Seattle where he does PR work for a large corporation. He is the author of War World, Freehold, Imperial Bounty, and due out this spring, Prison Planet. He has also co-authored Cluster Command, Crisis of Empire Volume II with David Drake. Over the years Bill has worked as a Surgical Technician, a News Writer, a Television Director, a College Instructor and other things he’d rather forget.
DAVE DOERING is a freelance journalist in the computer industry. He’s also fascinated by space law and is preparing a beginners guide to the subject.
Having instigated all sort of fan activity in the Provo, Utah area, Dave has worked as an actor, tour guide, graphic artist, literary agent, and chauffer to earn money for his fan- nishness.
RICH DUTCHER’s Science Fiction life began at around age 5 with reading pre-code comics. His Fannish life began with the original Baycon in 1968. He attended a good postSputnik high school followed by certification in history and anthropology at Stanford, and management and finance at Wharton. He currently works as a consultant for research and management planning.
TED DIKTY began reading SF in 1929, published his first fanzine in 1939 and was co-editor of the first “Best SF of the Year” scries, starting in 1949. He was a pioneer specialist book publisher, being co-founder of Carcosa House. Shasta Publishers and FAX Collectors editions, Inc. Since 1977, he has published dozens of titles under his Star- mont House imprint.
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LAURIE GOTTLIEB EDISON is a noted 3-D artist (jewelry and sculpture) who works in the medium of precious metals and stones. Laurie is also a knowledgeable SF and Mystery fan with a wealth of interesting insights.
ELTON ELLIOTT has co-authored four novels. The latest, The Einstein Legacy, was published December 1987 by Fawcett Gold Medal Books. He has over 100 articles, reviews and poems published, has just completed a short story, “Run Through Jungle”, and is currently working on a solo novel, Worlds Without End. He lives near Salem, Oregon with his computer.
RU EMERSON is a Northwest writer from Dallas, Oregon, where she lives with several cats, dogs, ducks and geese and Doug - her multi-year roommate. Her Nedao Trilogy is now fully published with the recent release of On the Seas of Destiny. Her first novel, The Princess of Flames (Ace Fantasy, 1985). recently sold world Spanish rights. She has completed another Fantasy - a different slant on Cinderella, and is presently working on. in turn, a Science Fiction novel and a Suspense Thriller. When not actively writing, she seems to spend an inordinate amount of time mumbling to herself about works in progress, or reading other peoples' novels and cursing imaginatively - or reducing firewood to col- lops with a 9-pound maul as an antidote to both aforementioned frustrations.
RODAYNE ESMAY decided he wanted to be an illustrator at the age of five when he discovered a neat way to paint on pile carpet. His parents appreciated this early goal-setting attitude. They disapproved, however, of the eight foot cowboy that adorned their living room.
At the age of eleven he fell in love with Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe and has been hooked on Medieval Fact and Fantasy ever since. After high school he studied art at the University of Northern Colorado before transferring to BYU where he graduated in 1986.
Rodayne made his professional debut at the 1986 Norwescon, a month before graduation. His work has since graced the cover of Dragon Magazine. He is currently employed by Signetics, an integrated circuit manufacturer, as an illustrator. Besides the eight hour a day job he also teaches Graphic Design and Illustration at a community college and is midway through a M.F.A. program at Syracuse University. In his spare time, between catnaps, he is working on a 16 piece Celtic Fantasy scries.
He is married and he and his wife Kelly have a six year old daughter named Shannon. As of yet he has not taken time to teach Shannon the pile carpet painting technique that so warmed the hearts of his family and friends years ago.
BRUCE FERGUSSON’s second novel, The Mace of Souls will be published by William Morrow in June, 1989. His previous novel, The Shadow of His Wings, is also set in the Six Kingdoms Fantasy world, and was a finalist for the 1987 Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy Novel. He is presently working on a third novel.
A 1984 graduate of Clarion West, he lives in Seattle with his wife Patrice McSh- erry and son Patrick, who was born during Norwescon in 1987.
JIM FISCUS worked for ten years as a photographer and photojoumalist in Portland between periods of academic work. His main professional areas of interest arc international relations, military affairs and intelligence, with a regional emphasis on Asia and the Middle East. He taught military history for two years at Portland State University, concentrating on the relationship between tactics and changing technology, and has recently completed an MA in Middle East history. Islam, and its role in the Iran-Iraq war, is at the center of his SF story “A Time of Martyrs” in the anthology There Will Be War, Volume V. He is currently working to inject the political and religious aspects of Islam into additional fiction.
GRANT FJERMEDAL is a Seattle-based author of nonfiction books that take the reader on excursions into the realm of science. The Tomorrow Makers, which looksat the ragged leading edge of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the future of humankind, was published by Macmillan in hardback (1986), by Microsoft Tempus in paperback (1987), has been published in Japanese and is currently being translated into Italian. The American Library Association named the book in its annual list of the year’s 10 outstanding nonfiction books. (The book is also considered a great source for the science behind the worlds of Cyberpunk.) Grant’s first book. Magic Bullets, (Macmillan, 1984) explores the behind-the-scenes world of medical research and monoclonal antibodies. His books have been praised in publications ranging from The New Yorker and The Bloomsbury Review to Science News and the Wall Street Journal. A former reporter for the Seattle Times and the Associated Press. Fjermedal’s writing has also appeared in Omni and The New York Times. His first fiction, a Horror story, will be published in Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s Tales By Moonlight II, forthcoming from Tor.
ROD GARCIA has written Science Fiction, Fantasy, History of Technology and History of Science. His most recent work includes contributions to Amazing Stories, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, and Writers of the Future, writing under the name R. Garcia y Robertson. An upcoming story will appear in Weird Tales and another is the cover story of the current (April) issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Before going into writing full time he taught History of Technology. History of Science, and History oi the Future at UCLA and Villanova University. He has a Ph.D. in History from UCLA and his doctoral dissertation was on the impact of industrialization on weapons and arms control. He lives in the woods with his wife Michelle, and two daughters. Anneke and Erin.
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STEVE GILLETT is a consulting geologist and sometime science writer who has published articles in Analog. Astronomy. Amazing. Asimov’s and a number of technical journals. He now lives in Ellensbcrg and is active in the L-5 Society.
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ALEXIS A. GILLILAND, Hugo-winning fan artist, is also the author of Revolution from Rosinante, The Pirates of Rosinante, Long Shot for Rosinante and The End of the Empire.
JON GUSTAFSON has been active in fandom for thirteen years, primarily in the Northwest. He attended his first con in 1975 (the Oakland Westercon) and has been a member of sixty more since then. He entered fan publishing by writing a column of art criticism for Dick Geis' SFR in 1974 and soon after was co-editing a fanzine (New Venture). He also wrote a column on SF art for Mike Glyer’s File 770. In 1977. he wrote a history of Science Fiction illustration which appeared in Brian Ash’s The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. That led to doing over 50 artists' biographies for Peter Nicholl’s The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and two articles on SF/Fantasy art for the Starlog Science Fiction Yearbook, edited by David Gcrrold and David Truesdale. In 1981, he began writing a monthly book review column for NWSFS' clubzine, Westwind, which continues to the present. Along with being a Guest of Honor and Toastmaster at various conventions (including Fan Guest of Honor at Norwescon 10) and working on various conventions (including producing the impressive MosCon 10 program book) he was one of the founding members of PESFA, MosCon, and Writer’s Bloc (the Moscow Moffia). In 1983 he started J MG Appraisals, the first professional SF/Fantasy art appraisal service.
Jon’s first fiction work appeared in the Writers of the Future, Volume II anthology and his first book, CHROMA: The Art of Alex Schomburg, is currently on the stands. He is currently writing articles for James Gunn’s new SF encyclopedia, working on a book on the life and art of Jack Gaughan, writing fiction, and involved with the Moscow Moffia writer’s group.
GEORGE GUTHRIDGE lives in an isolated Eskimo village in Alaska. His stories have appeared in F&SF, Asimov’s, Analog, Galileo, Year’s Best, and many other places. He has been a Nebula and Hugo finalist, and has also twice been nationally honored as a teacher. Manifesto, a 200,00 word mainstream novel co-authored by Janet Gluck- man, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s.
RICHARD HALLOCK is currently the President of Chico State WHOniversity (the Doctor Who club at CSU Chico), and also the current editor of the club’s newsletter An Unearthly Newsletter, and is formerly the publisher of Sandman Sentinel (a Logan’s Run 'zine). Richard spends most of his spare time producing amateur films; his most recent production is an amateur Doctor Who episode entitled “Those Darn Daleks”. Richard lives in Chico. California, with Erlinda Siller and his two lovely goldfish. Weasel and Irving.
M. ELAYN HARVEY lives in Enumclaw, Washington, to be near one of her favorite things: mountains. Her writings include: songs, poems, articles, short stories, novellas and novels: ranging from Spirituals, to Fantasy. to Science Fiction. Her first SF novel, Warhaven, won second place in the PNWC contest in 1986 and went on to be published in hardcover in 1987.
She is currently awaiting paperback release for a trilogy which will include an expanded version of Warhaven, Tide of Souls, and an untitled third volume in progress.
A member of NWSFS. and a frequent contributor to Westwind, she credits her fledgling career in SF to her first rejection slip: an encouraging personal letter from Gene Roddenberry.
Photo copyright 1989 by Nina K. Hoffman
NINA KIRIKI HOFFMAN’s short fiction has appeared in anthologies which include: Algis Budrys' Writers of the Future Volume I, Damon Knight’s Clarion Awards, Charles L. Grant’s Shadows 8, Shadows 9, Greystone Bay and Doom City, and Jessica Amanda Salmonson’s Tales By Moonlight.
She has also had stories in Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Asimov’s and Pulphouse.
Nina spent many formative years in California, seven informative years in Idaho and has now achieved the state of Oregon, where she lives near several other assorted Pulp Punks in Eugene. She lives alone aside from two cats, one mannequin, and uncounted spectres of the imagination.
ROBERT J. HOWE, a columnist for Pulphouse Report, has had book reviews published in Fantasy Review and will have a short story forthcoming in Fantasy Macabre.
He is currently working towards a degree in journalism and history at Brooklyn College where he is also a columnist and staff reporter for the Brooklyn Paper. Last year he won The New York Press Association’s Howard W. Palmer Scholarship Award.
Bob attended Clarion (East) in 1985 where he says that they learned almost as much about writing as they did about watergun ambushes.
STEVE JACKSON, founder and editor-in-chief of Steve Jackson Games, has been playing games for over 20 years, and professionally designing for twelve. Born in Tulsa, he went to high school, and then to Rice University. in Houston. His classroom work was mediocre: he gave most of his attention to the school paper (he was editor for two years) and to late-night wargame sessions - both of which proved far more valuable than the school work!
Steve’s first professional design work was for Metagaming, which published his Ogre, G.E.V., Melee, Wizard, and several other games. In 1980, Steve bought The Space Gamer magazine from Metagaming and started his own company. Success was immediate, with his Raid on Iran game. The next year. Steve Jackson Games released Car Wars…followed shortly by Illuminati, and later by GURPS, the “Generic Universal Roleplaying System.” In 1983, he was elected to the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame - the youngest person ever so honored. In addition to gaming, Steve is also a dedicated SF reader and fan. He is active in FACT, the Texas fan club, and enjoys attending both gaming and SF conventions. He writes filk (adequately) and sings (very badly).
EILEEN KERNAGHAN has had three prehistoric Fantasy novels published by Ace Books: Journey to Aprilioth (1980); Songs from the Drowned Lands, which won the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award (CASPER) for 1983–84; and The Sarsen Witch, scheduled for release in April 1989. The Sarsen Witch, which completes the Grey Isles trilogy, is a story of “earth-magic and megaliths, and high adventure in the bronzeage world of the Wessex Warrior-chieftains”. Kernaghan’s poetry and short fiction have appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies, including PRISM international. Room of One’s Own, The Magazine of Speculative Poetry (forthcoming), The Window of Dreams (Methuen) and Tesseracts (Press Porcepic).
She is also co-author of the Upper Left-Hand Corner: A Writer’s Guide for the Northwest (International Self-Counsel Press), and is currently working on a young adult Fantasy novel. She lives in Burnaby, B.C.. where she and husband Patrick operate Neville Books.
JAMES KILLUS is an atmospheric scientist whose primary research interests are the analysis and simulation of tropospheric photochemistry.He is the author of such fascinating papers as “Isoprene: A Photochemical Kinetic Mechanism.” He has also, alone or in collaboration, had about a dozen SF stories published, and is the author of the novels Book of Shadows, and SunSmoke, the latter being the first (and let’s hope only,) computer simulation voodoo smog Science Fantasy.
He is currently working on a historical Fantasy involving Bat Masterson and Damon Runyon in 1911 New York.
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KATHARINE ELISKA KIMBRIEL is a Texas southpaw born in the heart of the Moon. This arrival happened in Indiana, however, which means she traveled a bit before reaching her true home. Living a variety of places - from Ohio to the Pacific, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico - Ms. Kimbriel followed a career path which encompassed everything from janitor to screenwriter. She’s currently trying to make a living writing fiction, so she’d appreciate it if you’d check out her most recent novel, Fires of Nuala, just released at Christmas. A John W. Campbell nominee for her first published novel. Fire Sanctuary, Ms. Kimbriel started her first novel at nine. (This effort is deeply buried, and with luck will never come to light!) Other interests have intruded upon the dream of writing, but the work has never stopped flowing. She’s always ready to talk about writing or reading (hcr favorite pastimes) and has the seal of approval from several cats, all who walk upon her with impunity*.
(*usually….)
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T. JACKSON KING is a full-time writer and former archaeologist now living in the woods with his wife, fellow SF writer Paula Downing, and two cat-people named Phillip and Ophelia. His novel, Retread Ship was published by Questar in 1988.
MICHAEL P. KUBE-McDOWELL has been called “the finest new writer of cosmic Science Fiction in twenty years” (Orson Scott Card), and his writing praised as “reminiscent of Arthur C. Clarke al his best” (Newsday). Though occasionally accused of being a Hard SF writer, as far as he knows he does not belong to any identifiable clique, movement. or school.
Emprise (1985). Kuhe-McDowell’s first novel, launched the thousand-year “Trigon Disunity” future history: it was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. The series continued with Enigma (1986) and concluded with Empery (1987). Other novels include the juveniles Thieves of Light (1987. writing as Michael Hudson) and Odyssey (1987), the first book in the pioneering project Isaac Asimov’s Robot City.
Kube-McDowell’s latest work is the highly-praised novel Alternatives, a “cross- time revisionist-science altemate-present- political-thriller love story.”
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A transplanted Easterner, GREGORY KUSNICK was born in New York State, studied computer science at Columbia and Harvard, and spent ten years as a designer of word processing and electronic publishing software in California’s Silicon Valley. Since 1983 he has worked freelance, commuting by modem from his home in the Gold Rush town of Sonora. California, 120 miles east of San Francisco in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
As a Science Fiction writer, Kusnick is fairly new on the scene: his stories have appeared sporadically in Analog since 1986, to favorable reviews from Locus and Fantasy Review. His main interest, as a writer and reader, is in realistic SF that combines the strong literary values of modern fiction with the scientific rigor of traditional hard SF.
BRIN-MARIE LANDERMAN is one really groovy chick. People who know her know that she is the hard-working Secretary of the MythAdventures Fan Club, as well as the assistant editor of its clubzine, MythInformation. And eccentric recluse. Brin spends most of her time catching up on Days of Our Lives when she isn’t huckstering her live away on the convention train, writing articles for MythInformation. or otherwise pursuing fannish interests.
JULIA LAQUEMENT lives and works in Seattle as a French-Canadian in exile. Intending to work in Science Fiction and Fantasy illustration someday, she earns her bread- and-butter in comics. Hercredits include The Longbow Hunters graphic novels, Green Arrow, Maze Agency, Sable, Jon Sable, Freelance and others. She is currently working on the James Bond and the Peter Pan graphic novels. Her own work is mainly Fantasy watercolors and Drinking Dragon nametags. Her major work this year is marrying the Desert Peach in August.
MEGAN LINDHOLM lives in Roy, Washington with her three children and her husband Fred. Her writings include the books The Reindeer People and Wolf’s Brother, a two-part novel which came out from Ace in 1988, and The Luck of the Wheels, another book in the continuing story of Ki and Vandien. When she is not writing, she enjoys working in her garden and on her small farm.
MARK MANNING lives in Seattle, where he publishes fanzines named Tand and Vergerider. He frequently contributes copy to other people’s fanzines, and then nepotistically reviews these self-same fanzines for Westwind. A music reviewer and published poet who attended Clarion West SF writer’s workshop in 1986, he hosted a SF radio talk show (Fast Forward) on KBCS-FM in 1987/ 88. This is the only B&W photo of Mark available; he’s the one on the rightjudging a Masquerade entry at a con in 1956.
DIANE MAPES is a Seattle writer currently working at the University of Washington. Her work has appeared in several magazines, including Northwest Writers and Argos Fantasy and Science Fiction. She is a graduate of Clarion West and for the past few months has been serving as the new editor of Argos.
Photo Copyright 1989 by Nina K. Hoffman
Published in Isaac Asimov’s SF magazine, SF Chronicle, and Analog, CYN MASON edited the infamous anthology of Pacific Northwest Science Fiction, Wet Visions. She’s living happily ever after in West Seattle with her husband Dave Meyer, morning host on KPLU-FM and their cat. Ms. “Refridgerator door opening.” (She’s named for what she responds to.)
JULIAN MAY' latest books are Surveillance and Metaconcert, paperback versions of a bisected meganovel, Intervention. She is at work on Jack the Bodiless and collaborating with Andre Norton and Marion Zimmer Bradley on a Fantasy, Black Trillium. May lives in the state of Washington.
BRIDGET MCKENNA is a copywriter and technical writer for Sierra Online, a software developer specializing in computer games. She also designs computer games. Her fiction has appeared in Writers of the Future, Volume II and Pulphouse Report. Her Science Fiction shared world, Roadhouse, will be edited by Michael A. Banks sometime in 1989. She is married to artist and game designer Douglas Herring, with whom she shares a house in Oakhurst, California and an exponentially increasing numberofcats. She has recently completed a young-adult Science Fiction novel, and is currently at work on a Mystery.
Though primarily a scrimshaw artist, KATHERINE L. MCLEAN also works with a wide variety of illustration and painting techniques and materials. As a professional artist her work has mainly been in the engineering field where she has illustrated proposed dams and other projects.
Katherine currently works for The Washington State Department of Transportation.
Photo by T. J. Jennings
CARL MILLER’s education, regular and irregular, includes biology, geology, paleontology. anthropology, poetry, art. and alchemical hypnosis. His occupations and preoccupations include writing Fantasy novels, playing acoustic guitar, camping in the Cascades. reading Fantasy novels, petting cats, and occasional socializing at events like this one. His first novel. Dragonbound, is now available at bookstores everywhere, or if not, maybe you could protest and get them to special order it for you. His second, The Warrior and the Witch, should appear in early 1990.
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Frank Kelly Freas
GEORGIA MILLER (also known as Sasha) is the author of Three Ships and Three Kings, Priam’s Daughter, The Last Herales (all under the name of Georgia Sallaska), The Quest (under the name of G.S. Madden), and The Little White Dress. Her short fiction has appeared in Magic in Ithkar III, Tales From Witch World I, and F&SF (all under Sasha Miller). Her novel Three Ships and Three Kings was given the Best Novel of the Year Award (by an Oklahoman writer) by the Oklahoma Writer’s Federation and the Award of Merit from the Friends of American Writers. She has currently written a novel for Andre Norton’s Chronicles of Lormt Witch World series which will be published in 1989.
Georgia is a Clarion 1984 survivor and currently lives in San Jose, California, with her husband Ben and their feline children, Pandora Miller and Natasha Tiliana Irene Benova JenniferGrayCat Miller.
VICKI MITCHELL has been involved in Science Fiction for eleven years. She joined PESFA (Palouse Empire Science Fiction Association) in 1977 and soon became one the core members of the group. She is one of the founding members of MosCon and Writer’s Bloc (the Moscow Moffia.) She has been Treasurer of MosCons 1,2,5,6 and 7. the Art Show Director for MosCon 4. Membership Chair of MosCon 3, and Assistant Art Show Director at the 1984 Portland Westercon. Well-known in costuming circles, she has won prizes al many Northwest conventions for her costumes. In 1986. she won the Amazing Stories Calendar Story Contest and sold a short story to a mainstream anthology. She is currently working on short stories and her second novel. Vicki is married to Jon Gustafson, and is owned by a large, rather silly dog.
NANCY MORRIS is a feature screenwriter living in Seattle. She is co-author of the screenplay. Pursuit into Darkness, a thriller which is currently under option and scheduled to enter production sometime in late spring or summer. Besides writing. Nancy has directed short films. Her short film. The invitation was an award winner in Starlog’s Cinemagic Magazine Short Film Search. The film still makes the rounds on cable tv in New York City.
Photo by J. Black
SHARAN NEWMAN has finally decided to let you see what she looks like grown up. She has written one Irish and three Arthurian novels with a codicil. She had a fling on a book that is almost Science Fiction and is now working back somewhere in the Middle Ages. Europe’s, not her own. She is an Oregonian currently in exile in Southern California and thinks typical Seattle weather is beautiful. Otherwise, she is a fairly normal person.
STEVEN B. OLIVER is an accomplished public speaker and Science Fiction short story author. His latest. “The Waters of Time”, appeared in Amazing Stories.
Steven can be found near the smoking Pervish Punch Bowl of any Myth Adventures! party.
JERRY OLTION’s short stories appear frequently in Analog. He has published one novel. Frame of Reference, and has just completed book 10 in the Issac Asimov’s Robot City series. Jerry and his wife, Kathy, recently moved to Story. Wyoming, an idyllic little mountain town with an auspicious name.
“Modern-day minstrel” is a phrase often used to describe TANIA OPLAND. Her storytelling style of singing and melting-pot repertoire are trademarks of this versatile vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who draws on ballads. blues, work songs, modern songs of social commentary and personal growth, and songs that arc just for fun. In addition to her excellent Hat picking and finger picking on guitar, her performances can include mandolin, fiddle, madeocello, and recorder on dance lunes from Ireland, Scotland. America. Scandinavia. and Renaissance France.
RAY PELLEY is a full-time artist and screen printer living in Seattle. Ray is a Dharmic Engineer.
TED PEDERSON is Story Editor/Associate Producer on the animated Science Fiction series, Centurions, and has written over 100 TV scripts for such classics as The Bionic Woman, Flash Gordon, Spiderman, G.I. Joe, and The Smurfs. He has completed two computer books (non-fiction) and is currently working on a computer thriller (fiction). He lives in Venice, California with an assortment of computers, cats and (one) wife.
STEVE PERRY has had stories published in Omni, F&SF, Galaxy, Pulpsmith, Wings, Stardate, Other Worlds I, Weird Tales, Publisher’s Weekly and many others. His novels include The Tularemia Gambit, Civil War Secret Agent, The Man Who Never Missed, Matadora, The Machiavelli Interface, Conan the Fearless, and Conan the Defiant. He has also co-authored Sword of the Samurai, Hellstar, Dome, and The Omega Cage with Michael Reaves.
Perry and Reaves have also written screenplays for the animated series Centurions, The Real Ghostbusters, Chuck Norris - Karate Commandoes, The Spril Zone and U.S. Starcom.
This year will see the publication of Steve’s The Ninty-Seventh Step and Conan the Indomitable.
CHARLES PLATT is author of 32 books, some of them Science Fiction. 1989 titles include Free Zone (Avon) and Soma (New American Library). He is Science Fiction editor for Franklin Watts, a New York hardcover publisher, and teaches Science Fiction writing at UCLA in Los Angeles. He is a regular columnist for Fantasy and Science Fiction and Interzone magazines, and writes reviews intermittently for The Washington Post. His own little magazine, Science Fiction Guide, appears on an irregular basis.
TERESA PLOWRIGHT is the author of Dreams of an Unseen Planet, a first novel published by Arbor House. She lives in Vancouver and Corfu, and is finishing a second novel titled Into That Good Night. She was too creative to get much writing done last year.
PATRICK LUCIEN PRICE has been editor of Amazing Stories for the past three years and worked as managing editor of the magazine for four years prior to taking over its editorship. Until October 1988, Patrick was also the director of periodicals for TSR. Inc., and fiction editor of Dragon Magazine.
His nonfiction articles about Fantasy role-playing have appeared in Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home and Dragon. He recently co-edited with Martin H. Greenberg a collection of stories reprinted from the old Fantastic Stories magazines
When not busy editing Amazing Stories, Patrick devotes his time to researching and writing about his Ojibwa heritage.
ROB QUIGLEY majored in physics at Caltech and received his Ph.D from the University of California at Riverside. He worked at Illinois Tech and the University of Frankfurt (West Germany) before joining Western Washington University’s physics department in 1970. Since then his research has been in observational astronomy, making extensive observing runs at observatories in the Southwest and in Chile. He has organized astronomy summer workshops which drew high school students to W.W.U. from all over North America. In 1983 he was the organizer of the Northwest Astronomy Conference. He created the Stars and Planets board game produced by Yotta. Inc. He was the Scientist Guest of Honor at Moscon 8.
Rob’s primary astronomical research interests have been cataclysmic variables, binary stars, flare stars, and lunar occultations.
Photo Copyright 1989 by Paul Boyet
BILL RANSOM collaborated with Frank Herbert on the novels The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect, and The Ascension Factor (Ace/Putnam). He has also had many books of his poetry published and draws on his years working in Central America for his short stories. His new novel Rafferty will be published by Berkley this year.
Bill is the co-founder of Centrum, an arts foundation, In Port Townsend where he resides and is currently writing full-time.
ALIS RASMUSSEN is the author of The Labyrinth Gate, a Fantasy novel published by Baen Books. She is now working on the third book of a Science Fiction trilogy, which she really truly did not mean to be a trilogy when she started. It will be published by Bantam Spectra throughout 1990.
Although raised in Oregon, she currently has the dubious honor of living in San Jose. California, a circumstance which she hopes to remedy in the fairly near future if she can get her husband’s attention away from his new wargame long enough to get him into the car. She also has an 18-month old daughter, who thankfully is not yet old enough to play World in Flames (although she does roll the dice for her father).
MICHAEL REAVES is the author of ten novels, including Dragonworld, The Shattered World and its sequel, The Burning Realm. He has also written Dome and The Omega Cage with Steve Perry. He has had short stories published in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Twilight Zone and Universe, among others. He has written several comic books and over two hundred teleplays for such live-action shows as Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Power and Monsters. His animation work includes The Real Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Superman. He lives in Woodlawn Hills with his wife, Brynne Stephens, their daughter Mallory, and occasionally Diane Duane and Peter Morwood.
Photo by Frank Garcia
RHEA ROSE, resident of Vancouver, B.C., and a 1984 Clarion West graduate has had a short story selected by Judith Merril, for the first Tesseracts anthology, and a second one selected for the Tesseracts 2 anthology (both are collections of Canadian Science Fiction). She swears that she is hard at work on her novel.
Photo copyright 1989 by Nina K. Hoffman
KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH is a writer of short fiction whose work has or will appear in The World’s Best Science Fiction 1989, Amazing Stories, Boy’s Life, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Aboriginal SF, and a few mainstream publications. She is also editor of Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine. For the past two years, she has lived in Eugene, Oregon, with three very mischievous cats.
Photo by Dale W. Blindheim
After living in Alaska for 15 years, ELIZABETH SCRABOROUGH decided to get away from the snow. Little did she know. Her 8th novel, The Healer’s War, is a serious religous realistic Fantasy loosely based on her experiences as an Army nurse in Viet Nam. This novel is receiving much applause from the critics and even more from Viet vets, and some have found that this book is helping to exorcise their own personal demons.
Elizabeth is currently working on a Fantasy Trilogy called The Songkiller Saga.
Photo by Roy Schneider
STANLEY SCHMIDT, bom in Cincinnati and graduated from the University of Cincinnati. began selling stories while a graduate student at Case Western Reserve University, where he completed his Ph.D. in physics in 1969. He continued freelancing while an assistant professor al Heidelberg College in Ohio, teaching physics, astronomy. Science Fiction, and other oddities. (He was introduced to his wife. Joyce, by a serpent while teaching field biology in a place vaguely resembling that well-known garden). He has contributed numerous stories and articles to magazines and original anthologies including Analog, Asimov’s, F&SF, Rigel, Habitats, American Journal of Physics, and Writer’s Digest.
Since 1978, as editor of Analog, he has been nominated nine limes for the Hugo award for Best Professional Editor. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the National Space Society, and has been an invited speaker at national meetings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Association of Physics Teachers. In his writing and editing, he draws on a varied background including extensive experience as a musician, photographer, traveler, naturalist, outdoorsman. pilot, and student of languages. Most of these influences have left traces in his fourth novel, Tweedlioop, first published by TOR in 1986 and released in 1988 as a mass market paperback. (The other three are The Sins of the Fathers, Newton and the Quasi-Apple, and Lifeboard Earth. Baen Books last fall released an anthology of Fantasy stories from Unknown which he naively hopes will lead to a revival of that unique Fantasy magazine, and an article, “The Ideas That Wouldn’t Die,” is scheduled for the February Writer’s Digest. He is presently attempting to learn Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian in preparation for a forthcoming concert tour of Eastern Europe with the Danbury (Connecticut) Symphony Orchestra.
ROB SCHOUTEN is a visionary painter from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, who lives and works on Whidbey Island. With fellow artists Ray Pclley and Milo Duke is he part of the Dharmic Engineers and dedicated to consciousness-raising art. expressing the oneness and interconnectedness of all life. His work has been exhibited at SF conventions and in various galleries on the West Coast.
T.A. SCOTT is a writer of Fantasy and Science Fiction short stories and screenplays for independently produced videos. He is also involved in Fantasy game design and created the Environlords Game Systems, and is a performing magician and Tarot reader. He lives in Salem. Oregon with his wife and three children.
CAROL SEVERANCE has had stories published in Tales of the Witch World, Volume I, Magic in Ithkar, Volume 4 and Dragon Magazine. Stories are also scheduled for Tales of the Witch World, Volume 4 and The Twilight Kingdom. Her Fantasy play, Sail to the Edge of the Moon will be produced by the University of Hawaii at Hilo Theatre next spring. Currently, Carol is working on her third Science Fiction novel. She shares her Hilo, Hawaii home with a surfer, an anthropologist, and an undetermined number of geckos.
ERLINDA SILLER is a disciple and founder of the Edward Luena’s church of perpetual art work. An artist in her own right, she’s founded the church in order to keep a promise to a friend not to let people on the convention circuit forget him while he’s in Japan for four years. Her motto is: I don’t kiss ass. but I do suck toes. She’s also the treasurer of the MythAdventures Fan Club, and has played in the Amateur Doctor Who movie “The Zombie Legions”, and also in its sequel “Those Darn Daleks”. She loves creating things, from drawing to making clay faces for latex masks, to sculpy statues.
SHARON SINCLAIR is an historian whose research has ranged from the sacred snake of Asclepius to NASA’s space medicine program. She has a specialized interest in the history of astrology and enjoys compiling bibliographies. She is a poet whose current projects also include historical novels, classical space operas and futuristic police procedures.
A Seattle native, MARK a. SKULLERUD has studied art at Seattle Community College and WWU and has had private instruction under Gene Connelly. As an illustrator/de- signer for a nation-wide design firm, he has done domestic and commercial architectural illustration and illustrations for layouts ofjet interiors.
Recipient of many convention art show awards, including Best of Show and best body of SF work, Mark has had his work shown on KING-TV’s Good Company as part of a presentation of Science Fiction in the Northwest, featuring Frank Herbert.
DAVID SMEDS is the author of two novels. The Sorcery Within (Ace Books), and its sequel, The Schemes of Dragons (March, 1989). He has sold short fiction to anthologies such as In the Field of Fire, Far Frontiers, Volume 6, Dragons of Light, Sword & Sorceress 4 & 5; to such magazines as Isaac Asimov’s, Inside Karate, Genesis, Lui, Mayfair, and Club; and to Faeron Education’s series of booklets for remedial reading classes. He is currently the English-language rewriter for Justy, a Japanese SF graphic story miniseries being released in the U.S. by VIZ Comics.
D. ALEXANDER SMITH, Senior Vice President of The Boston Financial Group Incorporated and nationally known writer and lecturer on real estate finance, is the author of the novels Marathon (Ace 1982), and Homecoming (forthcoming from Ace), and has also had articles published on wargame strategy.
Rendezvous is a nominee for this year’s Philip K. Dick Award.
David and his wife Nancy reside in Cambridge, Ma.
Photo copyright 1989 by Nina K. Hoffman
DEAN WESLEY SMITH has sold over two dozen professional level short stories to such places as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Oui Magazine, Gem Magazine, Writers of the Future Volume I), Clarion Awards, The Horror Show, Night Cry, and Amazing.
His first novel, Laying the Music to Rest, will appear this next year from Warner Books and he is now madly working on two more.
Dean is the publisher of (and sometimes slush reader for) Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine and the new owner and publisher of Axolotl Press books. He also edits and publishes The Report, a writer’s magazine.
LITA R. SMITH-GHARET has been working with fossilized Ivory for over thirteen years and her work as appeared in several world trade magazines such as The Lapidary Journal and Rock and Gem. Lita’s work has also been featured in over 50 newspapers across the country. She has received numerous awards for her artwork from local, national and international shows.
Lita has owned and operated several fine art galleries and is the owner of the Steel Eagle Agency.
As a costumer, Lita has won many Best of Show awards and has sold her work to muzzle loaders. Indian dancers, equestrian shows, bikers, dancers and Science Fiction fans since 1975. She is the founder of The Northwest Customers Guild, and a past seneschal in the Society for Creative Anachronism. Photos of her costumes have appeared in Locus.
This year SARA STAMEY closely encountered Sasquatch while roaming her native Northwest mountains. Among other recent highlights was the publication of her latest SF novel, Win, Lose, Draw by Ace, sequel to Wild Card Run. Doubles Blind, the third book in the series (not a trilogy!) - featuring a future gambler/tumed spy/tumed resistance agent against a repressive cybernetic network - will be out soon. A former nuclear reactor control operator, Sara now teaches Scuba when she can escape to the Caribbean. She is currently at work on a near-future novel set in Greece.
KEVIN STANDLEE is President of the MythAdventures Fan Club, and directed and played the lead in the amateur Doctor Who movie “The Zombie Legions”, and directed its sequel, “Those Darn Daleks”. Currently, Kevin is attending conventions around the U.S. promoting the MythAdventures Fan Club Kevin lives in Chico, California, where he has completed his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from California State University, Chico. He helped found and is former Secretary of the SCUC Doctor Who Fan Club and Science Fiction Association.
J.T. STEWART is an accomplished poetess. She has been a panel participant at the various cons taking place in the upper left-hand corner of the map (Orycon, V-Con and Norwescon.)
BRYNNE STEPHENS is best known for her work in television, having written for shows such as He-Man, Dungeons and Dragons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the new Beany and Cecil. She was the story editor on the animated Science Fiction scries Starcom, and co-editor, with Diane Duane, of Dinosaucers. She has also written comic books, computer games and two novels. She is currently working on a mainstream Horror novel entitled Private Demons. She lives quite happily, thank you, in Woodlawn Hills with her husband, Michael Reaves, her daughter, Mallory, and a rotating stream of peripatetic writers.
JOHN E. STITH is the author of Scapescope, Memory Blank, Death Tolls, and the February Ace release, Deep Quarry, which features a wise-cracking private detective, archaeology, and alien artifacts.
He writes a review and comment column on Science Fiction Mysteries for Mystery Scene magazine: “Mean Streets. Mad Scientists.” In 1987, he appeared on Science Fiction * Science Fact: [SF], a one-hour live PBS telecast.
Redshift Rendezvous due in 1990 from Ace is a mix of hard Science Fiction and Suspense, set primarily on a hyperspace craft voyage. It relies heavily on relativity. Aboard the Redshift, light travels so slowly you can see its passage, and relativistic phenomena occur at walking and running speeds.
He lives in Colorado Springs.
SCOTT STOLNACK’s fiction and poetry has been published in Issac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and a number of regional literary magazines, including Sky Views and Copula. He is vice-chair and membership director of Clarion West, Inc., and in 1987 served as committee chairperson for the Clarion West Writers' Workshop. He’s never worked a shrimp boat in theTexas Gulf but he has taught karate, served time as a sergeant in the Marines, and traveled around Britain and Ireland by bicycle. He lives in Seattle.
CHERI STREIMIKES has been an artist as a personality trait the way some people are nervous, or some people like sweet things, for as long as she can remember. Sometimes she paints, sometimes she sews strange things, sometimes she sculpts, sometimes she makes videos, sometimes she plays the synthesizer and sometimes she just looks at things in associative ways.
Her work has been seen at conventions up and down the coast and in galleries that accept the odd piece, the image bizzare.
BRUCE TAYLOR has had stories published in New Dimensions 9 and 10 edited by Robert Silverberg, the Seattle Post Intelligencer, and was featured reader in 1981 Bumbershoot festival in Seattle. His material has been translated into German by UTOPROP Literary Art Agency.
Bruce spent the summer of 1986 traveling in Europe and was writer in residence and Shakespeare and Company. Paris where he got in numerous verbal altercations with intellectual wierdos and third-rate midget Hemingways. While there, he was filmed by NBC as he gave a reading of his short stories and managed to get censored (but that’s another story. Film at eleven).
A story of his, (“Popcorn”) published in Pulphouse (Fall edition, 1988) was nominated for the Nebula Ward. Another story was published in Twilight Zone. He is also on the board for Clarion West. When no writing, Bruce pays the rent by working on the inpatient psych unit at Harborview as a Tour Guide Through Existential Nightmares and tries to tell the difference between patients and government officials.
Bruce is a surrealist writer and regards his work as the written form of Dal i paintings. Melted watches, anyone?
LYNNE TAYLOR has been participating in SF conventions for over 8 years and her humorous pen-and-ink drawings have attracted enthusiastic response. Her artwork has appeared in F&SF and Space and Time, Fantasy Tales (England), Westwind and will soon be appearing in Dungeon. Lynne has also been featured on the covers of Signature and Nor’Westing magazines. In 1986, her penguin cartoons were published as a calender. She has served as Art Director for a printing firm and two national outdoor magazines and is currently co-owner of Norwc.st Fine Art Press, a company specializing in printing limited edition fine art prints.
Please note: the above photograph was taken before Lynne’s facelifts.
AMY THOMSON is a freelance writer who reviews books for The Seattle Times, and is currently at work on a novel. With any luck at all. it will be finished before the year 2000.
BRIAN TILLOTSON helped start Space Research Associates, Inc., where he designs space propulsion systems and solar power satellites. He has degrees in physics (minor in biology) and electrical engineering, and is finishing a doctoral thesis on making robots that learn from experience. To see whether it’s finished yet. call him Dr. Tillotson. If he screams, cries or attacks you, then it’s not.
Brian has publ ished technical articles on spaceflight and artificial intelligence, plus a piece of nonfiction Fantasy in Dragon Magazine. When he grows up, Brian wants to found a republic in outer space.
Photo by Michael Citrak
WILLIAM R. WARREN JR. has had his art published in the Ballantine Star Trek Concordance, Minus 10 and Counting, and Analog. William did the cover illustration for Analog that inaugurated the serialization of Fredrik Pohl’s The Coming of the Quantum Cats.
Photo by Steven Bryan Bieler
DEBORAH WESSELL writes speeches, grants, business articles, and the odd short story. Some of the latter appeared in Seattle Review and the Seattle Weekly, and two more are slated for Asimov’s. She is a graduate of Clarion West in '88. and her dust jacket jobs include washing frogs for Science, splitting dewey decimals for Microsoft, and playing Darth Vanna for the Clarion Auction.
Photo copyright 1989 by Nina K. Hoffman
LORI ANN WHITE was born and raised in the Northwest, and received her BA in Eng- lish/Creative Writing from the University of Idaho in 1985. Currently, she is living in Sunnyvale, California, the heart of Silicon Valley, and soaking up Tech-Speak with fellow SF writer Gary W, Shockley. She attended Clarion in 1983. and workshops sponsored by the Writers of the Future in 1986 and 1987. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Writers of the Future, Volume III, Pulphouse, Pulphouse Reports, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Z Miscellaneous. Forthcoming are poetry and fiction in Narcopolis and Other Poems, and Full Spectrum, Volume II.
Photo by Thom Walls
RICHARD WRIGHT is a former Chairman of Norwescon and the Northwest Science Fiction Society, and has worked on programming for the Austin and Phoenix NASFiCs. He has been an award-winning costumer, and now judges masquerades (when he doesn’t MC them). Richard has also become known as an SF&F art buyer, and often participates in convention programming. During the week, he is a computer consultant for a major company, and has written two textbooks and numerous articles in that field. Richard has been known to visit a parly or two, too.
(Artwork) The Burning Realm Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Michael Reaves, published by Baen Books.
(Artwork) Cyteen III Copyright 1989 by Don Maitz. Cover for the book by C. J. Cherryh, published by Warner Books.
(Artwork) Taken to Task Copyright 1989 by Janny Wurts. Cover for the book Dragon’s Knight by Carol L. Denis, published by Popular Library.
(Artwork) No Aliens Copyright 1989 by Ken Macklin. Cover for Fusion #8 published by Eclipse.
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Vincent DiFate
(Artwork) Pterodactyl Copyright 1989 by Randy “Tarkas” Hoar.
(Artwork) GhostHunt Copyright 1989 by Ken Kelly. Cover for the book by Jo Clayton, published by DAW Books.
(Artowrk) Copyright 1989 by Cheri Streiniikes.
(Artwork) Robot Geisha Copyright 1989 by Lynne Taylor
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by John Alvarez.
(Artwork) Apprentices Copyright 1989 by Armand Cabrera
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Frank Kelly Freas
(Artwork) The Generic Rejuvination of Milo Ardry Copyright 1989 by William R. Warren, Jr. Originally published in Analog.
(Photo) Some of the volunteers who attended the Norwescon 11 Sneak Preview.
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(Artwork) Shadow Climber Copyright 1989 by Richard Hescox. Cover for the book by Mickey Zucker Reichert, published by DAW Books.
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(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by William Rotsler
(Artwork) Fairie Tail?!! Copyright 1989 by Laura Brodian KeUy-Freas_
(Artwork) Orion Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Ben Bova, published by Simon & Schuster.
(Artwork) Copyright 1989 by William Rotsler
(Artwork) Sun Dragon Copyright 1989 by Getsu-shin
(Artwork) Creation Copyright 1989 by Dresden Moss
ANNOUNCING
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Special thanks for programming help: Arkadian Bookshop, Steve Bard, Dr. John G. Cramer, Kim Graham, Peter Henry, Karen Hill, Kendra Hunt, Mr. & Mrs. Charley C. Richardson, Becky Simpson, Bob & Judy Suryan, Amy Thomson, Shanonne Vaughn, Bill & Elizabeth Warren, Richard Wright.
ASFA: 19
Berkley/Ace: 5, 9, 13, 17
Discon III: 56, 57
Rustycon: Inside Front Cover
San Diego Comic-Con: 25
John Alvarez: 76
George Barr: 36
Armand Cabrera: 77
Vincent Di Fate: 71
Milo Duke: 43
Kelly Freas: 78
Richard Hescox: 44, 82
Ken Kelly: 73
Laura Brodian Kelly-Freas: 83
Carl Lundgren: 16, 37
Ken Macklin: 70
Don Maitz: 14, 68
David Mattingly: Cover, 2, 11, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 29, 31, 34, 67, 84
Ilene Meyer: 38
Getsu-shin Moss: 86
Dresden Moss: 86
Ray Pelley: 41
William Rotsler: 33, 83, 85
John Sabotta: 8, 87
Rob Schouten: 42
Barclay Shaw: 35
Mark a. Skullerud: 39
Cheri Streimikes: 74
Randy “Tarkas” Hoar: 72
Lynne Taylor: 6, 75
William R. Warren Jr.: 79
Wendy Wees: 40
Michael Whelan: 45
Janny Wurts: 69
NORWESCON 11
MARCH 23–26, 1989
Algis Budrys
David Mattingly
Mike Glyer
Alan E. Nourse
Avram Davidson
Steve Barnes