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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 25, 1989 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Don Glover Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Video Language A language of the resource English NWC11 https://history.norwescon.org/files/original/e2d428642ff8436b134754cf25bb21e9.pdf c6c005dd51c29c3fed23cd34fda7c219 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Norwescon 11 Description An account of the resource Sheraton, Tacoma Chair: Elizabeth Warren Guest of Honor: Algis J. Budrys Artist Guest of Honor: David Mattingly Fan Guest of Honor: Mike Glyer Toastmaster: Steve Barnes Science Guest of Honor: Dr. Alan E. Nourse Special Guest of Honor: Avram Davidson Attendance: 2,292 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 23-26, 1989 Subject The topic of the resource Norwescon 11 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <h1>Norwescon 11 Post-Con Report</h1> <h2>Chairman's Corner</h2> by Elizabeth Warren I am hearing rumors that Norwescon 11 went pretty well. I was kind of busy, so I have to take your word for it. I really like this job better than hospitality, thank you Debbie Tutarek for taking over and doing such a great job. I want to use this opportunity to tell you the truth, the whole truth and all that. It's not my fault! Norwescon went well due to the efforts of a lot of committed people. Each Norwescon takes about 18 months worth of planning and the committee works very hard during that time. They all deserve the highest praise, they have done a wonderful job. I join you in thanking them for a wonderful weekend. Thank you all for coming and sharing the fun. Thank you especially to those of you who gave an hour or 30 in the service of Norwescon, you really are the backbone of the convention. <h2>LOCS</h2> All dear Norwescon people, Just let me send you this naive childish scrawl to thank vou for having me as Special Guest Writer-on-Wheels, 1989. I enjoyed myself and in particular appreciated the door-to-door transportation by Mr. Suryan. On being suddenly informed by the hotel at 5 after 4 that I should have left at 4, I accepted Dave Hall's ride back to Bremerton rather than interrupt the schedule(s) of the busy official con people, wasn't that considerate of me? Sorry I did not eat the Brunch Banquet food but for me to have had a heart attack on the spot would have been counter-productive and questionably attractive. Thank you again for all favors and I will recommend you - plural to all my friends. Very yoursly yours, Avram Davidson Norwescon XI Con Com: Thanks for your hard work and its good results. As Always, I wish I'd had time and energy for all the potentially interesting bits. Having hotel staff handle the elevators may have helped a little, but let's face it - that hotel is undersupplied with elevators (just imagine the hellish torments due hotel designers and builders who skimp on things like elevators. It was good to have Hospitality where elevators weren't needed to reach it, but next year could it be in a more aesthetically pleasing area? Thousands of thanks for having it non-smoking. I heard wishes expressed that the Dealers Room had more space and more/wider range of dealers. The KidCon programming was a great idea-some of it would've interested older folks too. Thanks for thinking of the under 12 people. Overall, congrats and thanks again. Elisabeth Eldred To the Norwescon 11 Convention Committee: Thanks again for a fun Norwescon. As in past years, it provided me with not only a needed break from the ordinary, but with a boost in creative energy as well. I particularly enjoyed the masquerade (of course), despite its occasional confusion, and would like to thank Keith Johnson and Michael Citrak for their incredible patience and invaluable mid-performance assistance. You can't do it without the sound and lights, folks. Special thanks go, also, to Nora Hogoboom for her quick-thinking solution to the mixup in the awards announcements. The contestants were great and put on a fine show. I thought the turtles and chickens all terrific. Best wishes to the entire convention staff. Your many hours of work are most appreciated. Aloha! Carol Severance <h2>Gaming Department</h2> by Craig Bowie This year gaming was a big success in a small place. Gaming had a 200% increase in space available and we managed to fill it quite easily. I was quite pleased to see a high level of skill in the tournament game masters and we had quite a good group of gamers as well. There will be some changes made for next year, the sign up sheets for games will go up only 1/2 day before the game is played, and there will be a registration for all game masters including the "open gaming". We had very few times the rooms were not full and there were many times they were too full. We learned some things this year that will help us more efficiently use what space we have available to us. If you are interested in running a tournament or game at Norwescon 12, contact me by February 1, 1990: Craig Bowie Norwescon 12 Gaming (redacted) Auburn, WA 98002 Many thanks are to go to Steve Jackson for running Darwinopoly (a game where the better breeder wins) and Brian Underhill for running GURPS: Clifhangers (an adventure system based in the pulp novel era). They gave us a chance to try games that hadn't been released yet. I would also like to thank the following Game Masters for getting a hold of me before Norwesoon and putting in their time and effort, I received compliments about all of them for the job they did; Guy "Battlemaster" Girone Robert Moshell Kris Gould Cecily Burke Matt "Just one more game" Hyra Todd "Gurps? Who me?" Smith Rick Bligh Here is the mt of winners and special awards: <h3>Uno</h3> 1st Mark "Madsax" DeLoura 2nd Jim Lane 3rd Robert "Nicklepede" DeLoura <h3>TOPGUN</h3> 1st Tony Burdett 2nd RayCurrie 3rd Mark "Madsax" DeLoura <h3>Diplomacy</h3> 1st (tie) Paul "Head Embezzaler" Randles 1st (tie) Coy "Solitaire" Kearney <h3>Battletech</h3> 1st James "Rambo" Wilson 2nd Joseph Imfeld 3rd Aaron "Random" Clements <h3>AD&D</h3> 1st Brian Funk 2nd John "Presto Castaspella" Jacobson 3rd Josh E. Wright <h3>Ghostbusters</h3> 1st Jeff Jorgenson 2nd Julie "Sister Chaos" Larson 3rd (tie) Keith "Chie Don Ford" Larson 3rd (tie) Damond "Ronin" Crump <h3>Traveller</h3> 1st Robert Mosbell 2nd Stephen Terrenzio 3rd Craig McKinney <h3>Gurps: Clifhangers</h3> 1st Thomas Sherer 2nd Tun "The Evil Doctor" Tozer 3rd Thane Walkup <h3>Special Awards</h3> "Going down in Flames" Brian Funk "Strongest position in 1904" Dave Lawson "Biggest Blunder" Walfei "Caz" Perera-Casainoua "Unluckiest Battletecher" Tanis Dragon "Worst Die Roll" Julie Elwick "Worst Recon" Robert Smith "John Wayne" Stephen Terrenzio "Politest Gamer" Betty "Larina" Claar "Most Helpful Volunteer" Gaetano "Guy" Girone "Kid Kon gamer" Chris Benson "Hitpoint Hitman" Mark Richardson <h2>Green Room Report</h2> by Dora Shirk The Green Room ran very well this year. We had a few small problems (emphasis small), but this year was so much smoother and 'together' than last year. I know, you're saying this sounds like a re-run of the report I gave last year (if you remember that one), and it is very similar, but there were oh, so many, differences. This year we knew who was supposed to come, even tho' many didn't (due to the combined facts that we are still in Tacoma, it was Easter, and there were four cons that weekend). The only thing that we did not have this year that we normally do have, was a bulletin board for the panel discussion sheets. We missed it at some moments and didn't miss it most of the time. I want to send out a very large "THANK YOU" to Hospitality for the way they kept us stocked. The pros were extremely happy and commented often that it was nice to be able to have this available without fighting a crowd. Thanks Debbie. If all goes as it should we will be in the same location next year. It works well. It is accessible to all panel locations and the ability to separate the pre-panels into different rooms makes it much better for avoiding two pre-panels joining together (which makes for a mess). All in all things went well, especially since it is "our" volunteer that will be next years Volunteer GoH -- Yeah Joe ! We had good volunteers and hopefully they will all be back next year. There is one out there whose initials are RB that will probably hear from us before the year is over. I will take up no more room -- end of Green Room Report. <h2>Hospitality</h2> by Debbie Tatarek, Dragonette Well we made it through another year again. Thanks for all your patience in our new location. It did pose some interesting problems and some wonderful benefits. Thanks for stopping by the hospitality suite for something to eat or drink, to meet someone or just a little conversation. For my first year solo, I think it went pretty dam good. I want to thank all of you who volunteered your time, effort, and energy to hospitality. Without your help there wouldn't have been a hospitality. Thank you! I want to make some special thanks: Matt Winkleman: for all your time and especially the mornings. Eric Jones: for time above and beyond the duty, plus Beer Roulette. Joanne Welty and Dick O'Shea: for all your years of devoted service. Brittany Bell: for volunteering her truck. C.J. Minnekin and James West: for helping to pack and set up on Wednesday night. Tom Smith and Denise Karnovan: for hours and hours of service. And thanks to all the res of you for everything: Snake, Catherine Melissa, Eric Fellows, Mike West, Sharree Sledge, Gina Disteldorf, Joanne Fry, Mike Bomber, Mona Reece, Nancy Boden, Bruce McPeek, Edward Martin, Irene Lewis, Beth Moursand, Erika Sauby, Chuch VanderLinden, Peter Horvath, Carol Zebold, Dottie nelson, Kathy Hunter, Jay Karnoven, Joe Jagar, Yvonne Stevens, Robert Grimes, John Holdrew, Herby Fairbanks, Raw, Q, Penny Lane Ruhl, Judy Wheat. I take no responsibility for any names written wrong or right. This is what you wrote on my lists or didn't write if you didn't sign up. Now for the volunteers who volunteered their souls to me for the convention, my seconds Debbie Stine and Janice Paulsen, Thank you both from the bottom of my heart. I really appreciated your help. Our donations were down and the Kitty went a little hungry. However, a special thanks to all who did donate. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! your donations helped buy the extra supplies that kept us going through the weekend. Which brings me to the annual "what did we consume at Norwescon" report. Well, let me tell you we consumed a lot! The List! 295 cases of pop 69 cases of beer 1 case of champagne 48 liters of wine 56 boxes of cookies 30 boxes of crackers 4 loafs of bread 20 dozen bagels 20 loafs of banana bread 50 pounds of vegetables 154 pounds of meat and cheese 38 bags of chips 18 pounds of coffee 20 pounds of sour cream 24 pounds of cream cheese assorted teas 2 cases of oranges 1 case of apples 30 liters of apple juice 20 liters of orange juice <h2>Masquerade</h2> by Judy Swanson Judy Swanson, Masquerade director, would like to thank all the volunteers for this year's Masquerade. The Masquerade could not function without all their time and effort. <h3>JUDGES:</h3> John Barnes Astrid Anderson Bear Kathleen Cogswell Marie Cooley Dave Maddingly Dameon Willich <h3>JUDGES ASSISTANTS:</h3> Virgil Buell Norah Hogoboom Scott Swanson <h3>STAGE MANAGER/NINJA MASTER</h3> Tony Ferucci <h3>STAGE NINJAS/SPOTTERS</h3> Ken Pippin Spike Elisabeth Eldred Payne Fifield Gail Glass Douglas Taylor <h3>DENMOMS/DEN DADS</h3> Alphonse Marni Cowen D'Artagnan Lenore Kobayashi Annette Mercier <h3>USHERS</h3> Mark Richardson Team Cyclone The Persecutors <h3>CAMERAS</h3> Thom Walls Vicki Glover Becky Sukavati Ken <h3>DISASTER CREW</h3> Marie Cooley Chris Fuhr <h3>ASSISTANTS TO THE DIRECTOR</h3> Spencer Carole Carr Keith Mears Greg Sardo Thank you to anyone whose name I forgot, or who volunteered anomynously. <h2>MASQUERADE WINNERS</h2> <h3>CHILD:</h3> Best Television Recreation - Bert Metz III - Rapheal, Mutant Teenage Ninja Turtle Best Performance - Autumn J. Grieve - Autumn, Stringer of Flux Best Comic Recreation - "Roo" Warren - Desert Peach's Foot Maiden Best Movie Recreation - "Eddie" Butler - Roger Rabbit Best Use of Materials - Heather Metz - The Latest in the Recyclo-botics Spring Fashion Line Shirley Temple Award - Angela Suryan - Fairy Princess Best Group Presentation - Lissa Fuhr, T.T. Fuhr <h3>TECHNICAL MERIT</h3> Best Multi-Media - Frank Teele - Sir Black Best Dyeing Effects - JoAnne Kirley - The Phantom's Masquerade Best Soft Sculpture - Sally Berkland, Lorne Counter Best Tailoring - Joanna McCoy - Dr. Crusher Best Millinery - JoAnne Kirley, Kathleen Greco - The Phantom's Masquerade Best Design for a Specialty Function - Julie A Zetterberg - Beneath the Opera House Honorable Mention for Mask Work - Richard Perry - Lord Sarnath <h3>COSTUME</h3> Journeyman Runner-up - Joanna McCoy - Dr. Crusher Master Runner-up- Julie A Zetterberg- Beneath the Opera House Best Novice - Darth Vagrant Best Journeyman - The Capt., Randy D. Gordon - Captain Commie and Buckinski Best Master - JoAnne Kirley, Dragon, T. Brian Wagner, Traper Graves, Wolf, Van Kirk - The Phantom's Masquerade <h3>PERFORMANCE</h3> Journeyman Runner-up - Hans Meier, Mike West Best Novice - Kirge Vestal Overton - Klingon Instructor Best Journeyman - Lisa M. Gordon - Traci, The Space Cadet <h3>JUDGES' CHOICE</h3> Integrated Presentation - Frank Teele - Sir Black Most Humorous - Aash Bazbo Best Costume in the Performance Category - Tahia Alibeck Special Thanks - Susan Taubeneck, Betty Bigelow, David Bigelow - The Awakening Best of Show - The Phantom's Masquerade <h2>SITE SERVICES</h2> <h3>SECURITY</h3> The reports from both Rover and Watch Divisions indicate a very quiet convention, with (quite literally) only one or two exceptions. One or two bad apples in a barrel of nearly 2300 is pretty good. Several people commented that they'd hardly noticed the Security volunteers. That's one of the nicest compliments we received. Security was there, doing their work so quietly and efficiently that some people didn't even notice them. That says a lot for the caliber of people who volunteered for Security this year. They did a great job! A big thank you to everyone in Security, both Rover and Watch. Our biggest problem was beer that wandered past the alcohol boundary into the lobby and ballroom areas. Security is there to remind you where the alcohol boundary is, but they depend on your cooperation. This year the hotel threatened to shut down the dance if any more beer was found in the ballroom. In the future the result could be that Hospitality willserve only soft drinks. <h3>PEACEBONDING</h3> Again, peacebonding reported no major problems. Almost everyone who came to the convention seemed to be informed about the weapons policy and knew that peacebonding was required. There were only one or two objections. (Gee, they were the same one or two exceptions that Security saw. Does that mean something?) Peacebonding was available in Operations, in the Security Office, and from all Rovers as well as the table in the Registration area. When you consider all the costumes that include weapons, it's plain that our peacebonders are truly dedicated -- and they got a real close-up view of some fantastic weapons. Thank you! <h3>MAINTENANCE</h3> No, you haven't all learned to pick up after yourselves, but the litter critters were out there, carrying their little bags. They reported that some areas, especially Hospitality, were not as messy as in past years. The improvement was mostly due to the nice big garbage cans. Other areas, notably Gaming, looked a lot like your room at home. Thanks to the Maintenance volunteers who got there before the hotel did. <h2>Technical Services</h2> Thank yous Keith Johnson Pat Oros Becky Fallis Peter Kafka D'Anglemont Paul Wocken Jesse A Welch Bob Grieve Robert Johns Mark Anaker Chad Barden Brittany Bell Chy Claton Cliff Cooper Robert Damey Dawnella Douglas Karen Downing Alisan Farrell Autmn Grieve Debbie Johns Dan Levine David Ludke L Pierce Ludke Edward Martin Hans P. Meire C.J. Minneker John Marrison Beth Moursund Lindy Pangan Claudia Quate Paul Stratton Dave Valentine John Valentine Kim Valentine LuAnn Valentine Chuck van der Linden <h2>Eighty-four Hours of Fun</h2> by Yvonne V. Richardson From Thursday noon to Sunday midnight was 84 hours. For some people, it was but a few short moments; for others it was a lifetime. For the Norwescon Programming Staff it was BOTH -- but it was worth missing the winter of 1988 (and half the summer too) to create the marathon of Norwescon fun. People still seem to think that programming is magic, that it appears at the drop of a hat and disappears with a snap of the fingers. Well, as any knowledgeable gamer could tell you, magic costs -- and the better the magic, the more it costs. Here's an estimate of how much your eighty-four hours of fun cost this shaman and cohorts: 23 gallons of Maalox 14 weeks of sleep 2.346 friendships 75 gallons of gasoline 0.287 jobs (we think) 16 medium-sized trees, only 2 of which had been previously recycled 617 brain cells 3.293 vacations 1 tax return a partridge in a pear tree What sort of spell was required, using these ingredients, to produce your 84 hours of fun? Putting together a convention as large as Norwescon is an exercise involving both halves of the brain. Looking at my own mathematical/musical background, the incantation used was the following: <ol> <li>Generate 200 equations with 200 unknowns.</li> <li>Optimize it.</li> <li>Stuff the resultant data back into your computer.</li> <li>Produce a musical score for a 175-piece orchestra. Instrumentation includes bagpipes, synthesizers, fish, gumi bears and Neanderthal trombones as well as the standard 20th century instruments.</li> <li>Hand out the parts to the various attending pros, panel participants, and assorted fans.</li> <li>Give the command to start the musical piece: EVERYBODY JAM!</li> </ol> And jam we did! Once again, about 150 pros arrived to do approximately 200 panels, despite the fact that this year's Norwescon had to compete with Easter and four other conventions that weekend. Of course, I'm not mentioning conflicts such as the Florida convention the previous weekend and World Fantasy Con in the fall. I'm not saying anything aboutthe race with time either -- would the Pavilion renovation be completed before we moved in? In one of my last few coherent moments before THE WEEKEND, I dimly remember getting the news and my response was, "ALRIGHT! The airwalls are in...OH NO! The airwalls are in!" Somewhere between March 3rd and March 23rd commenced the final struggle to get everyone and everything back in order without trashing the previous six months' work. It isn't easy to work 12 to 16 hours a day and retain the mental/physical/emotional facilities necessary to do the job, regardless of rain, snow, gloom of night, hotel remodeling, stuff like that. Nevertheless, fans, pros, and staff alike got together on the last weekend of March to do All That Jazz, scifi style. People were searching all over the hotel for fun, each other, fun, Easter Eggs, and still more fun. Since I worked all through the convention and followed that up with a month's worth of overtime, I have to rely on YOU to let me know how much fun you found -- please drop a note to the P. 0. Box to let me know what you thought was terrific, what you thought was not so terrific, what you saw this year that you particularly enjoyed, and what you didn't see that you would like to see next year. Despite the fog that descended upon me in October and did not lift until nearly May, I do have a few impressions of my own. As usual, the convention was well attended. This year's auctions, both the Clarion West auction and the Art Show, beat the records they set last year. For that matter, the Art Show sold works before the auction, during the auction, and even after the auction. Of course, in order to buy anything after the auction, you would have had to have been in the hotel at 2:00 a.m. Monday morning when we were told that the NCAA Championship folks were to move into the hotel by 8:00 a.m. -- which meant we had to be out. Did we panic? No! We were too busy having fun! What kind of fun? Be an emergency volunteer next year and find out!. (Sneak preview [? postview?] of some of the emergency fun in the Rumor column ...) People approved of the dance-every-night format, and the few panels we repeated from last year. Some new panels, such as After Challenger and Build a Better Mouse, packed some rooms to bursting; other panels fizzed (they held them in the bar) due to lack of PR and/or being scheduled opposite other fantastic events. Decisions, decisions -- by trying to offer something for everyone, we ended up with nine solid tracks of programming, not including gaming, the Art Show, the Dealers' Room, and the programming I wasn't supposed to put in the Fanzine Room. Needless to say, that's a bit much. Some panels may not have gotten the expected amount of attendance because there was too much to do. But as for lack of PR, you didn't read your program book! It's full of lots of important information -- it's not just another pretty face! As always, attendees have last-minute changes in plans, and many were kind enough to inform me beforehand of cancellations. We missed you this year, and hope things will work out such that you will be able to appear next year. Speaking of next year, I have <del>been blackmailed into being</del> volunteered to be next year's Program Director, and I will try to take some of the wishful thinking I've heard into consideration for Norwescon 12 programming. However, be forewarned: as with all other magics, sometimes getting what you wish for can be a dangerous thing. I've heard there should be both more and less gaming, filking, science, business, writing and costuming panels, and that there should be more quality and less quantity. Your wish is my command! Which wish? You figure it out. <h3>Special thanks to:</h3> Assistant Program Director: Marybeth Zele. The Norwescon Programming Staff: Kristi Austin, Doug Booze, Jeannine Gray, Karen Hill, Andrea Hunt, Jerry "I said I wasn't going to do this" Kaufman, Casey Leichter, and Marci Malinowycz. Computing Services: James Lane, Richard Wright. Fannish Olympics: Mark Richardson. Larer Tag: Alan Smith. Media Crew: Walter Jung, Chris McDonnell. Counted Others: John Brautlacht, Bruce and Trish Byfield, John G. Cramer, Russell Galen, A.P. McQuiddy. Countless Others: all you folks who had fun! Dr. Grant D. Callin. Even though the SF community likes to think of itself as a family, it doesn't compete with quality time with one's "real-time" family -- especially on holidays and other special occasions. Special thanks for coming all the way to Norwescon on Thursday evening to say that you couldn't attend due to family commitments. Thanks also to David Deitrick, Ru Emerson, Lita Smith-Gharett, and others who were kind enough to call as soon as they knew they could not attend. <h3>Apologies to:</h3> Avram Davidson: I don't know how our little secret got out. I'll make sure no signs are put up next year. Several friends: I didn't realize just how stressed out I was until someone mentioned that I seemed to still have my composure and I replied, "I keep it in a jar on my desk." The Society for Creative Anachronism: I'm sorry I hadn't seen the room before I scheduled you in it -- my apologies for providing ten times the audience you expected. I'll try to do better next time. <h2>YOU JUST HAD TO BE THERE</h2> by Snebl Bebletz And now for all those situations where You Just Had to Be There. If you weren't, but you know people who were, have them explain it to you -- or better yet, make up your own explanations -- they may be far more fun. Rumor: The Blood Drive was cancelled because Bram Stoker couldn't make it to the convention this year. Fact: The Blood Drive was cancelled because Blood Bank volunteers don't work on Saturdays. Rumor: I'm taking program suggestions, panel ideas, and names & addresses of prospective panelists for next year. Fact: I'm not taking program suggestions, etc., for next year. Send them to the Norwescon P. O. Box, PLEASE -- when it comes to sorting through Norwescon mail, it's far more efficient than I am. (Sorry for calling you an "it", Lauraine, but I'm making a point.) A good portion of the mail that eventually winds up in Programming's hands goes to other departments as well; it's far wiser for YOU to send it to our distribution point and avoid any delays I may cause by having too much to do and not enough time in which to do it. Rumor: Wesley Crusher was going to be at Norwescon this year. Fact: His mother said no. Rumor: Norwescon employs a full-time staff year round in order to put on the March convention. The salary and fringe benefits are incredible -- which allows Norwescon staff to devote 40 hours a week to convention planning, and even more for "that personal touch". Fact: I, like all the rest of the Norwescon staff, only work on Norwescon in my spare time. Even though I quadrupled my Norwescon salary, four times nothing is still nothing, so I have a real job to pay all those real bills. The "personal touches" which make Norwescon programming an intricate fugue are supplied by the panelists, my staff, and some really crazy senses of humor. Working until 3 or 4 in the morning doesn't hurt, either. Rumor: Somewhere in the hotel, a pair of Middle-aged Mutant Sumo Somethings are still waltzing away, while one of the Norwescon Crisis Crews congas off into the sunrise, singing Day-o! Day-o! Daylight comin' and me wanna go home..." Fact: ??? <h3>Personal Notes:</h3> Max, the Dendarii mercenary: Thanks for the on-the-spot volunteering. It was help I sorely needed -- as well as a reminder that fans out front DO remember that there are real people behind the curtains trying to make things work. Now if only Toto and the howling dogs would leave the curtain alone... Karen Hill: The howling dogs were discovered in an enclosed location from which they could not have escaped. They have since been rescued and returned to their rightful owners. No, they didn't go to Kansas with Toto. Bob, Jim, and Kristi: I ate the steak without anyone having to cut it up for me. It was far easier to finish it without the vulture impressions. The Fan from Hell: Thank you very much for buying your membership this year. There's hope for you yet. Casey Leichter: You have our deepest sympathies. Your new cat is in the mail. Judy Suryan: You have your wish. I don't know how you managed it, but my room at V-Con was the light sweatbox. Where did you find the magician who did that? We may need him next year if my own spells run out. <h2>NORWESCON 11'S VOLUNTEERS</h2> We, the Norwescon committee, have always said that the convention we all love so dearly would never have gone beyond a twinkle in a few eyes if it were not for the hard work done by the volunteer staff of each one of the Norwescons. So we list below the names of those hardy souls who bravely put their bodies on the line to make Norwescon run better for everyone. As usual this list is not only incomplete but is probably rife with misspellings. So, if we missed or misspelled your name here or elsewhere in this issue, feel free to drop us a note and we will certainly give credit where credit is due. We also hope that you will all return next year (same Bat time, same Bat Channel) to do it all again. And if your not one of the people on this list take a chance. We think you'll enjoy it. A lot of new things were put in place at Norwescon 11 for the enjoyment of our volunteer staff and since they worked out so well this time we will be doing it all again even better next year. All the volunteer staff hope that you will join the team. Last but definitely not least, we want to give a very special thanks to Bonnie Baker and the whole staff at the Shearton Tacoma Hotel for helping to make our 5 day stay there a very enjoyable one. Working with a hotel staff that has it's clients needs in mind at the same time as meeting it's own interests and then working to see that BOTH needs are met is very refreshing and makes things a whole lot easier. We haven't got all the bugs worked out yet but with this kind of teamwork I'm sure we will. AGAIN...THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! [Volunteer list not transcribed here.] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Norwescon 11 Post-Con Report Subject The topic of the resource Norwescon 11 Description An account of the resource The post-con report for Norwescon 11, excerpted from Westwind 140 (May/June 1989). Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available NWSFS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource May/June 1989 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Mark Ogilvie Language A language of the resource English Accessible NWC11 PostCon Report https://history.norwescon.org/files/original/83e7422d8f3c8dfd7102f2025b39a42b.pdf 6d1fd7b4f0494a380a3640d1e9a24089 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Norwescon 11 Description An account of the resource Sheraton, Tacoma Chair: Elizabeth Warren Guest of Honor: Algis J. Budrys Artist Guest of Honor: David Mattingly Fan Guest of Honor: Mike Glyer Toastmaster: Steve Barnes Science Guest of Honor: Dr. Alan E. Nourse Special Guest of Honor: Avram Davidson Attendance: 2,292 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 23-26, 1989 Subject The topic of the resource Norwescon 11 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <h1 id="norwescon-11">NORWESCON 11</h1> <h2 id="chairman-s-corner">Chairman's Corner</h2> by Elizabeth Warren Greetings! For those of you who haven't heard, I have been promoted from Hospitality to the top of the heap. This means that Hospitality will now be run by our capable Dragonette, Debbie Tatarek. She has been running the day shift of Hospitality for many years and now gets to run the whole thing. I get to prove that I really do have legs -- you've only seen the upper half of me over the bar for a few years now. Norwescon is coming along just fine. The move to a new hotel in a new city was a bit rough, but we identified a few snags and we are working on them. Hospitality has moved and so has Registration. We also will have a place for all you late night talkers to meet. The hotel will be staffing the elevators, so hopefully your trip to the upper floors will be a little faster. Be sure to read this Progress Report carefully, as we have implemented a lot of changes and some or all of them may be important to you. We are all looking forward to a safe and happy experience, meeting friends, old and new, and learning together. See you there! <h2 id="guest-of-honor-algis-budrys">Guest of Honor - Algis Budrys</h2> by Jon Gustafson Algis Budrys was born in Konigsberg, East Prussia, on the 9th of January, 1931; he remained a Lithuanian citizen, under diplomatic passport, until 1987. He married Edna, his charming (and patient) wife, in 1954 and has four children. They've recently moved to Los Angeles, which makes it a wonder that he makes it to Norwescon at all, let alone almost every year. Not content (apparently) to contain his considerable talents to science fiction, he has been involved in advertising and public relations since the mid-1960s. Some of his clients have included Rand McNally, International Harvester, U.S. Gypsum, and Colt Industries. Budrys has been writer, editor, and critic for almost 35 years. His first short story was published in October, 1952, and he has had about 200 more published since then. They have appeared in all the major sf magazines, plus The Saturday Evening Post and Playboy. He has also written 120 articles for magazines such as Esquire, Popular Electronics, Bike World, and The New Republic. He has been an assistant editor for Venture SF Magazine, F&SF, Galaxy, and Gnome Press. He has been an editor for Regency Books, and is currently editing the Writers of the Future anthologies from Bridge Publications. Algis Budrys is one of the foremost critics in the field. His book reviews have appeared in Galaxy, Analog, F&SF, Science Fiction Review, Books West, The Washington Post, and The Chicago Sun-Times, to name but a few. He has also had a book of his Galaxy reviews published (Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf, Southern Illinois University Press, 1985). While not terribly prolific as a novelist, he is unique in that, of the eight novels he has had published, fully half are recognized as true classics. His novels are: False Night, Man of Earth, Who?, The Falling Torch, Rogue Moon, Some Will Not Die, The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn, and Michaelmas. He has also had three short story collections published: The Unexpected Dimmsion, Budrys' Inferno, and Blood & Burning. Budrys, like many SF writers, has long been interested in seeing the knowledge of writing pass on from his generation to others. He has taught at the famous Clarion SF Writing Workshop for almost a decade and has been a visiting writer or a writer-in-residence at a number of other workshops. He recently directed the Taos Writers of the Future Experimental Workshop, taught a six-day intensive workshop for the Moscow Moffia Writers' Program, and takes part in convention writers' workshops just about everywhere he goes. Such hard work does not go unrewarded (or unpunished...it depends on your point of view); Algis Budrys is a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and a member of the Mark Twain Society. He won an "Edgar" award from the Mystery Writers of America, and numerous other awards. He is a member of SFWA, SFRA, and MENSA. And others. He was Moscon V's special Guest of Honor when Fritz Leiber had to cancel due to health problems. Budrys is currently working on a science fiction novel, a book on bicycling, an sf teaching text, an sf writing text, a collection of F&SF book reviews, and a short story collection. In his spare time, Budrys also is coordinating editor for the Writers of the Future Contest and anthologies, both started by the late L. Ron Hubbard. Budrys bas been a friend and supporter of Norwescon for some time. As Toastmaster of Norwescon 6, as coordinator and presenter for the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, as panelist, workshop member, and party person, and, now, as Guest of Honor. Welcome, Algis Budrys, friend. Welcome! [Portions originally published in MosCon X Program Book (c) 1988, 1989.] <h2 id="art-guest-of-honor-david-mattingly">Art Guest of Honor - David Mattingly</h2> by Yvonne V. Richardson David Mattingly has graciously accepted our invitation to be Artist Guest of Honor at Norwescon 11. To say that he is prolific is a gross understatement; after having done his first SF cover for A Wizard in Bedlam ten years ago, he has gone on to create over 200 more covers since then. His works have graced books by authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert E. Vardeman, Lester Del Rey, A Bertram Chandler, Frank Herbert, Fred Saberhagen and many others. Paperback publishers such as Ace, Baen, and DAW have proffered his work to the public; in fact, be has been published by most of the major paperback houses. David studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and worked for 3 years as a matte painter for Disney Studios. He works mostly in acrylics and guacbe; his art bas been displayed at Worldcons, Boskones, World Fantasy Cons, and of course, Norwescons. He keeps his favorite works, as most artists do, but has also sold many to private collectors. David's work depicts mostly fantasy and "soft" science fiction, and often uses the stars as background; view the cover for Richard Paul Russo's Inner Eclipse in the Norwescon 10 Program Book Art Gallery. David Mattingly lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, and is owned by a cat named Orson. <h2 id="science-guest-of-honor-dr-alan-e-nourse">Science Guest of Honor - Dr. Alan E. Nourse</h2> by Andy P. McQuiddy Alan E. Nourse's writing career has had an almost symbiotic relationship with his training in the medical profession. Since his birth in Des Moines, Iowa in 1928, Dr. Nourse (pronounced "nurse") has paid some of his way through medical education with his writing, garnering a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Rutgers in 1951 and his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine fours years later. His fiction, in tum, has owed some of its elements to his medical background, especially in such works as A Man Obsessed (expanded as The Mercy Men), Star Surgeon, and the story collection Rx For Tomorrow. Aside from the many novels and collections of science fiction and fantasy he's written (frequently regarded as juveniles, because oftheir straightforward themes and the ages of their protagonists), Dr. Nourse has also published a So You Want To Be... series exploring the professions of doctor, physicist, scientist, etc. He was vice-president ofthe Chamberlain Press, and has had fiction and non-fiction printed in magazines as disparate as Playboy and Better Homes and Gardens. His current writing emphasis is combined with his medical background; he is heavily involved in terminal disease research, including AIDS and cancer. Space opera pervades much of Dr. Nourse's fiction, but his writing talents go beyond the limits of that structure, as evidenced by his diverse bibliography. He's been writing full-time since 1963, and lives in Thorp, Washington. <h2 id="fan-guest-of-honor-mike-glyer">Fan Guest of Honor - Mike Glyer</h2> by Yvonne V. Richardson This man's attitude could probably be described as "humour uber alles". He is responsible for the Hogus, hoax awards that are given at ranquets at various Worldcons. (Yes, the words you just saw are "hogu" and "ranquet".) These awards are given for virtually every silly reason you can think of, and then some. After all, an IRS agent has to find a way to relax SOMEHOW. Mike Glyer relaxes by attending and/or running conventions, writing columns for various APAs and publishing File 770, one of the leading SF newzines in the country. Mike has at1ended many Worldcons; he also attends Westercons, LOSCON, and the occasional CORFLU, including the one in Seattle in 1988. Not only that, but be has been Fan GOH at Ad Astra in Toronto. Mike has been the fanzine reviewer for Holier than Thou since issue #10, and also occasionally does a fanzine named Scientifriction. He is also the recording secretary for LASFS, a position he may keep forever as long as his monthly minutes, published in De_Profundis, continue to be funny. He still has the occasional article published somewhere in fandom other than the above mentioned sources. For someone with such a prominent funnybone, Mike Glyer is quite serious about fandom. The 1986 Fanthology used a good portion of his material, and he co-edited The Neofan's Guide to Scrence Fiction Fandom, 6th edition, with Marty Cantor. He is also working with Marty on a general history of fandom, Fancyclopedia, 3rd edition. He goes to conventions to socialize, to work, and to catch up with friends and his worldwide network of correspondents. He's connected with enough sub genres of F&SF to be a popular guy at any convention, even the ones he's working (he's helped run LOSCON, LACON II, co-chaired an LA Westercon, and was Program Coordinator for NOLACON...). Keeping in such close contact with as many aspects of fandom is just a small part of what has made Mike Glyer and File 770 repeat Hugo Fan award winners. File 770 has won the Hugo (not the hogu) for Best Fanzine in 1984 and 1985; it was also nominated for the same award in 1987 and is a contender for the 1988 award. Mike Glyer himself has won the Hugo for Best Fan Writer in 1984 and 1986, and was nominated in 1985 and 1987. He is in the running for the 1988 Hugo for Best Fan Writer as well. He is also a member of SCIFI, the Southern California Institute for Fan Interests. Since we have dragged the man away from his typewriter, his mimeo machines, and the daily newzines he does at most large conventions so that he can enjoy all of Norwescon 11, you'll probably run into him sometime. But watch out for that sense of humor, or you'll be the recipient of a Hogu at OUR ranquet!! <h2 id="toastmaster-steven-barnes">Toastmaster - Steven Barnes</h2> by Yvonne V. Richardson We are happy to welcome Steven Barnes to Norwescon 11 as Toastmaster. Born in Los Angeles in 1952, he is a dedicated writer and an all-around good guy. He has gone so far as to change the name he published under when he was told that his legal name was already in use -- as someone else's pseudonym! Steve was nominated for a Hugo in 1980 for the short story, Locusts. Shortly thereafter he decided novels were more fun, so he co-authored Dream Park with Larry Niven in 1981 and collaborated with him again on The Descent of Anansi in 1982. The Legacy of Heorot, with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, is his latest collaborative effort. Barnes also has two solo novels to his credit: Streetlethal, published in 1982, and The Kundalini Equation, which came out in 1986. As if that weren't prolific enough, he has written screenplays for The Twilighl Zone, been a creative consultant for The Secret of NIMH and is a contributing editor to Black Belt Magazine. His qualifications for that position include taking second place in the National Korean Karate Championships in 1972. He also has two more books forthcoming in 1989, a sequel to Dream Park and a sequel to Streetlethal. Strangely enough, Steve doesn't spend all his time behind a typewriter or in the gym; some of his primary interests are human mental and physical development -- finding the proper balance between Mind, Body, and Spirit. I'm sure he'll find the proper balance at several of our dances. They say that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy; that's definitely not true of Steve. He's kind, he's witty, he's entertaining, he's friendly, and he can out-boogie just about anybody. We're pleased to have Steve Barnes back in the Northwest, as Toastmaster of Norwescon 11. He's pleased to be coming -- he has said that "Norwescon is my very favorite convention of the year." <h2 id="attending-pros">Attending Pros</h2> As ofDecember 31, 1988: Kathleen Alcala Kevin J. Anderson Alicia Austin Gordon Baker Sharon Baker Bill Baldwin Damon Bard Steve Bard STEVEN BARNES Donna Barr Astrid Anderson Bear Greg Bear Clare Louise Bell Steven Bryan Bieler Marion Zimmer Bradley Ginjer Buchanan ALGIS BUDRYS Elinor Busby F. M. Busby Grant D. Callin Mary Caraker Karen Lee Carmack Frank Catalano Michael Coney Debra Gray Cook John G. Cramer Julie Cummings John Dalmas Lonnie Davis John De Camp David R. Deitrick William C. Dietz Ted Dikty David Doering Rich Dutcher M. Coleman Easton Laurie Edison Elton Elliott L. Rodayne Esmay Gregory Feeley James Fiscus Rod Garcia Stephen L. Gillett Alexis Gilliland MIKE GLYER Parke Godwin Eileen Gunn Jon Gustafson George Guthridge Richard Hallock M. Elayn Harvey Nina Kiriki Hoffman Bob Howe Steve Jackson Eileen Kemaghan James Killus T. Jackson King Greg Kusnick Julia Lacquement Megan Lindholm Monika Livingston Mark Manning Diane Mapes Stephen Marcellino Cyn Mason DAVID MATTINGLY Julian May Catherine McGuire Bridget McKenna Carl Miller Vicki Mitchell Janet Morris Kirn Nelson Sharan Newman ALAN E. NOURSE Steven G. Oliver Jerry Oltion Tanya Opland Ted Pedersen Ray Pelley Steve Perry Charles Platt Teresa Plowright D. A Quackenbush Rob Quigley Alis Rasmussen Rhea Rose Kristine Kathryn Rusch Paul Sammon Michael Scanlon Stanley Schmidt Rob Schouten Carol Severance Jay Silverstein Sharon Sinclair Mark Skullerud Dave Smeds Dean Wesley Smith Leta Smith-Gharret Sara L Stamey John Stith Scott Stolnack Bruce Taylor Lynne Taylor Amy Thomson Brian Tillotson William R. Warren, Jr. Don Webb Simone Welch Deborah Wessell Richard Wright <h2 id="the-transmigration-of-the-philip-k-dick-award">The Transmigration Of The Philip K. Dick Award</h2> by Andy P. McQuiddy A few weeks after Philip K. Dick died, Thomas M. Disch found himself writing a Guest Of Honor speech for his appearance at Norwescon. In it, he proposed that an award for Best Original F/SF Paperback (as so many of Dick's books were published in that form) be created in the late author's name as a lasting tribute to Dick's contribution to the field. Thus, the Philip K. Dick Award was born. The following year, the first one was sponsored by the Philadelphia SF Society (who continues to sponsor the award), and presented at Philcon. The next year, 1984, the ceremony was held at Norwescon, which has been the sponsoring convention ever since. Each PKD Award is voted upon by a panel of five judges, who both narrow the selection to a handful of finalists and vote on the winners. The judges then choose a successor to themselves. Disch was one of the judges for the first year, as well as Administrative Chairman for the award, which be remained until handing over the reins to Algis Budrys in the mid-eighties. The other current Administrators are David G. Hartwell, Russell Galen (who is also the Treasurer), and Paul Williams, the Executor ofthe Dick estate. Hartwell and Budrys usually hand out the award, but twice it has been presented by Dick's children -- once each by Laura and Christopher. Three of the awards have been won by Tim Powers (2) and James P. Blaylock (1), who both knew Philip. First Place receives a plaque and a check for $1000. Second Place, or Runner-up, receives $500 and a plaque. The Award presented in 1983 went to Software byRudy Rucker, and The Prometheus Man by Ray Faraday Nelson, respectively. Next came The Anubis Gates by Powers (1st) and Tea With The Black Dragon by R.A MacAvoy (2nd), followed by Neuromancer (William Gibson) and The Wild Shore (Kim Stanley Robinson), then Dinner At Deviant's Palace (Powers, again) and Saraband Of Lost Time (Richard Grant). At the '87 Norwescon it was Homunculus (Blaylock) and The Hercules Text (Jack McDevitt), and last year's $1000 check went to Patricia Geary for Strange Toys, withthe $500 going to Memories by Mike McQuay. The next Philip K. Dick Memorial Award will be presented at Norwescon 11 over the weekend of March 23-26, 1989 in Tacoma, Washington. The judges are Olarles Platt, Kim Stanley Robinson, Eleanor Amason, Michael Levy, and Mike McQuay. <h3 id="the-1989-phillip-k-dick-memorial-award">The 1989 Phillip K. Dick Memorial Award</h3> This year our talented group of nominees are: Roger McBride Allen Orphans of Creations (Baen Books) Mark Laidlaw Neon Loris (Bantam Books) Paul McAuley 400 Billion Stars (Del Ray Books) Rebecca Ore Becoming Alien (Tor Books) Rudy Rucker Wetware (Avon Books) D. Alexander Smith Rendezvous (Ace Books) <h2 id="renunciate-guild-house-meeting">RENUNCIATE GUILD HOUSE MEETING</h2> TO BE HELD AT NORWESCON Time And Place Posted At Con For more information contact Carol Teguns <h2 id="green-room">Green Room</h2> The Green Room, hosted by Doug and Dora Shirk, is in the same place as last year. What was our main room will be our secondary room this year. Our main room is the suite next door. We will have only the two rooms instead of three, but we will have more space -- you figure it out. For those of you who aren't familiar with the functions of a Green Room: <ol> <li>It is where the program participants register.</li> <li>The pre-panel meetings are held there.</li> <li>Questions are answered and program changes are given to the appropriate people.</li> <li>It is a place where pros can come to have a quiet cup of coffee/tea/pop and meet with other panelists.</li> </ol> The Green Room is open from noon on Thursday till about 9 p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we open at about 8:30a.m., and close whenever the paneling slows down in the evening (usually between 7-9). We shut down during the Autograph Party and the Banquet (although this may change if the staff increases). If you think you would like to work with us, drop us a line or give us a call (we're in the Green Book). Now for a short lecture on what we don't want. Don't call us if you think this is where you can volunteer for an hour and call it quits -- our volunteers usually sign up for several "tours of duty" throughout the weekend, and believe me, it is WORK. Droolers need not apply, and autograph hunting is not allowed. Well, that's enough negativism for now. Come join us if you want to work hard and not have to stay out there in those noisy halls!! Volunteer now and avoid the rush -- we need to know if you're interested before March 1st. <h2 id="nwc-11-programming">NWC 11 Programming</h2> Something old, something new, Something borrowed, something blue, Something alien, something fun, There's something here for everyone! Meet the Pros or eat up hearty At banquet, lunch, or Sasquatch Party; Watch the films or Masquerade Dance until your feet are flayed Writers' Workshops, fanzines too And Hospitality for you! Kibbitz, SMOF 'til con is o'er That's all there is, and still there's more-- From Thursday 'til Sunday we'll run 'Til finally the con is done. There's more that won't fit in these rhymes but you'll find them and have good times!!! Ok, ok, so it's corny. What do you expect people to come up with at 3:00 in the morning? But it's a reasonable description of Norwescon 11 programming. Extensive research is being done to bring you the best of previous conventions, as well as new and current topics. I'm sure there will be aliens, both in hall costumes and in the Masquerade. I'm still looking for blue things -- if you have any ideas (and dare to admit that you read that poem) you could let me know via the P.O. Box. We're trying for the smorgasbord effect this year; we do not expect to be all things to all people (that's the buffet version), but we do hope that all attendees will find an event or six that they particularly enjoy. There will also be the usual and traditional events: the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, the Banquet, Writers' Workshops, the Meet-the-Pros Autograph party, Dances, Art Show and Dealers room. There will be an emphasis on science and literature this year, featuring topics of interest to the F/SF community. Some of these include: After Challenger: Is the Dream Still Alive? The Future of Art, Animation, and Special Effects Robert A Heinlein Memorial Blood Drive Destroying the World for Fun and Profit How to Survive Waiting for Fame and Fortune How to Survive Fame and Fortune The Death of the SF Con New Developments·in Superconducting Technology The Philip K. Dick Award for best original paperback of the previous year will be presented at Norwescon again this year; the SAM room (Science, Art, and Mind) will also be back. There will also be children's programming and three channel video; in addition to the two small viewing rooms on the 4th floor of the Sheraton, the North Room will be available for truly pseudo-mondo video viewing. Static Programming will include a gaming room and a fanzine room, and Lazer Tag and the Fannish Olympics will be back, although not necessarily resembling previous incarnations. And, by popular request, there will be a dance EVERY evening. There's far more planned than can be mentioned here; to find out everything that's happening, you'll just have to attend the convention. If there's something special that you'd like to see, or if you have some terrific new ideas for Norwescon events, drop me a line at the P.O. Box and we'll see what happens. One of the BESTways to help make Norwescon a convention you can't afford to miss is to let us know what you'd like to see -- it's your convention too!!! <h2 id="kid-kon-progress-report">Kid Kon Progress Report</h2> Once again, things are changing. This year, in addition to our regular childcare facility where you leave your kids and go out to enjoy the convention, we are offering some main track programming for kids and parents to enjoy together. We are also offering some programming events where parents can sign up and leave their children with Sue Bartroff for one or two hours to see or do something very special for kids only at no extra cost. Some of the child/parent activities we have in mind are to indicate in your pocket program what panels, movies, etc., are especially good bets for you to enjoy together. We are hoping to have a child/parent panel about aspects of science fiction (like Saturday morning cartooning) that kids might particularly enjoy. Some of the "for kids only" programming events will be our famous hotel tour, a visit to the art show with one of the guest artists, and a chance to produce and hang art of your own. ("For kids only" programming is on a check-in basis, and for limited time periods.) Some really special gaming programming for preteens and teens only will include a TOP GUN tournament and an introduction to -- and chance to play -- other favorite games. There will also be a dance with music programmed by some of your peers. Just perhaps, the Easter Bunny may pay a visit. Stay tuned for further information. <h3 id="young-and-future-fans">Young and Future Fans</h3> IMPORTANT NEW INFORMATION Norwescon welcomes its young and future fans. We will have programming throughout the convention geared for different age groups. Also, for a nominal fee, we will have daytime programming for children under 12 in our Childcare Room for those times when Mom and Dad want to go off on their own. Starting this year, Norwescon will provide a quiet room for the purpose of feeding, changing, or resting a child. Children 12 and under must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian at all times, unless in the Childcare Room; children 10 and under are not allowed in any after-midnight programming room or Hospitality. Children found unattended in public areas of the hotel will be taken to Childcare until picked up by their parents, who will be charged for the time Childcare has watched their children for them. Teens 13 to 17 years of age must have a parent or adult guardian who is a Norwescon 11 member; said guardian must be on the premises at all times, and parents must sign a permission slip for minors to attend the convention. Permission slips can be obtained via the Norwescon P.O. Box beforehand, and will be available at Registration. You may also return the slips to us before the convention if you like, or turn them in at Registration when you arrive. Remember, parents are responsible for the safety and actions of their children at all times. These programs are here to foster enjoyment for all Norwescon members, but primarily for the safety and well-being of the children. Young fans are welcome at Norwescon but are expected to behave or be cared for in a responsible manner. If parents believe that their convention activities will be constrained by these responsibilities, then Norwescon encourages the children be left at home under proper care. <h3 id="child-care">Child Care</h3> Child Care will once again be open for children from three to twelve years ofage. The younger ones must be potty-trained and have had pre-school or nursery school experience (your child needs to know how to play with others and be able to separate from you with a minimum of shrieking). This facility is a place where you can leave your children (for a fee) and go off and enjoy the convention. Because of the large number of small children we serve, we have to close occasionally to revive the staff and clean up the room. Therefore, it is expected that you will return every two to four hours, pick up your children, and feed them something nutritious. We have several tracks of programming that run constantly in these rooms, including video programming for separate age groups, crafts, special projects, and visits by our Guests of Honor. We hope to have a magician or storyteller to entertain our small guests this year, and have our annual costume parade and dance. Once again, parents who participate will receive care at a lesser cost than parents who don't participate. If you provide goods or services to our group, it will cost less to leave your children with us. Since there are so many new babies and toddlers in our group this year, we are opening an unsupervised room, near Childcare, where you must stay with your child. This room can be used for a changing, napping, get-away-from-thecrowd room. This year the daycare staff will NOT be finding babysitters for children that do not meet our age and other requirements. There are just too few of us to help you out. If at all possible, find a sitter for that wee one, and leave him or her at home. You will both be happier. <h2 id="dealers-room">Dealers Room</h2> The Dealers Room at this years convention has already recieved enough requests to fill to capacity and it looks like another great year with something for everyone. There is still CLUB TABLE space availible on a first come first serve basis. If you would like to be put on the mailing list for next year just drop us a line at the Norwescon P.O. Box. Please include your name (and the name of your company if any) address and phone number. If you move between now and then, don't forget to send in a COA. <h2 id="hospitality">Hospitality</h2> Great news! Hospitality has moved! This year we will be located in the Board Room on the third floor lobby where registration was last year. Also, we are under new management. Ma, the Dragonlady has gone on to bigger and better things and has left this glorious kingdom to me, the Dragonette. Hospitality is your place. It is what you make it. It is a place for you to come and relax, to meet new friends and greet your old friends. We will be serving beer and wine along with our special punches. There will be coffee, tea, and pop along with tons of munchies. We may even have a few new surprises. Remember, the hospitality suite runs on your generous donations. So don't be shy, donate! Hospitality Hours: Thursday 6:00 pm to 2:00 am; Friday 9:00 am to 2:00 am Saturday 9:00 am to 2:00 am; Sunday 9:00 am to 12:00am Beer and wine served from 7:00 pm to 1:00 or 1:30 am, at the Dragonette's whim. <h2 id="easter-events">Easter Events</h2> A few people have asked (complained) why we moved to Easter weekend. At this point I quickly correct them: Norwescon did not move to Easter weekend...Easter moved to Norwescon. We're still in the same place we've always been. And to celebrate Easter coming to Norwescon we will be presenting some special events. <h3 id="easter-egg-hunts">Easter Egg Hunts</h3> Throughout the weekend we will be having hunts for all age groups: walking to 3 years, 4-7 years, 8-12 years, 13-17 years, and 18 and up. Candy, toys and special prizes will be found in eggs for all ages. See your pocket program for times. <h3 id="easter-parade">Easter Parade</h3> In your Easter Bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you could be the grand prize winner in our Easter parade. What kind of head dress can you create? Old fashioned, modern, futuristic, alien? Whatever it is, put it on and join our Easter Parade through the lobby on Sunday. Full costumes are not required but are invited. Judging will be done on "bonnets" only. First, second and third place awards will be given. Just how bizarre, wild, silly, elaborate or beautiful can a bonnet be? With our group I'm sure we'll find out. <h3 id="easter-service">Easter Service</h3> For those ofyou who would like to celebrate the Easter holiday in a more traditional manner, we will be listing churches in the area and the times of their services. Also, Sue Bartroff is inviting all who wish to join her early Sunday morning at the local mission to help serve Easter breakfast to the poor and homeless. Call Sue for details at (redacted). <h2 id="norwescon-11-banquet">Norwescon 11 Banquet</h2> This year's banquet promises to be a gala affair with an Easter flair. Our Sunday banquet will include speeches from our Guests of Honor, and the presentation of some special awards and entertainments that are sure to enjoy. We might even have a surprise or two. The menu and price are listed on the flyer accompaning this Progress Report. On that flyer is a coupon to fill out and mail with your check. The banquet is limited. Get a jump on thecrowd and get the bonus of spending less time in the registration line and more time partying. See you at the banquet. <h2 id="film-contest">Film Contest</h2> A Norwescon-style media program would not be complete without its annual film contest. Those of you filmmakers out there willing to enter your works are welcome to try for the coveted cash prize and praise which comes from winning such a respected contest. Entries may be Super 8, 16mm, or video. Contestants should call Mark Schellburg at(redacted) or Jim Cobb at (redacted) for more information. <h2 id="norwescon-11-phone-list">Norwescon 11 Phone List</h2> Hotline: (redacted) Chairman: Elizabeth Warren: (redacted) Art Show: Kathryn Howes (redacted) Dealers: Bruce Thompson: (redacted) Convention Services: Judy Suryan: (redacted) Volunteers: Kathy McLean: (redacted) Office (Gofers, Info): Becky Simpson: (redacted) Child Care/Kid Kon: Sue Bartroff: (redacted) Site Services: Kathy Smith: (redacted) Programming/Stage Services: Michael Citrak: (redacted) Masquerade: Norah Hogoboom: (redacted) Stage Management: Beth Dockins: (redacted) Gaming: Craig Bowie: (redacted) S.A.M.: Sky Andrews & Brian Sullivan: (redacted) Registration: Carolyn Palms: (redacted) Publications: Michael Brocha: (redacted) Programming: Yvonne V. Richardson: (redacted) Green Room: Doug and Dora Shirk: (redacted) Writers Workshop: Michael Scanlon: (redacted) <h2 id="writing-workshops">Writing Workshops</h2> There are some small changes and additions over last years' workshops. There will be sections for short stories, as usual, and limited section(s) for novel excerpts and novellas. In addition, poetry section(s) and non-fiction science writing sections will be organized if demand is present. The guidelines are as follows: All manuscripts except science articles must be fantasy or science fiction. Length of short story/non-fiction articles manuscripts will be limited to five thousand (5,000) words. Poetry is limited to twenty (20) pages of verse, which can be one or more poems. Novel manuscript submissions will consist of the first three or four chapters (no more than seventy five (75) pages of manuscript). With each novel excerpt, an outline/synopsis of the entire novel should be included, not more than 10-12 double-spaced pages. Novella submissions are limited to twenty thousand (20,000) words. All manuscripts will be double-spaced, with margins at least one inch on all sides, typed or computer-printed on one side of the paper. Justify computer printing only on the left hand side. Start the manuscript halfway down the first page, and put your name, address and phone numberon the upper left hand corner of the first page. Put your last name, one or two words from the title, and the page number on the upper right hand corner of each page after the first page. Send seven copies of short stories, five of novella or novel mss. for submission for the workshop to the Norwescon PO box, marked "ATTN: Writing Workshops". The postmark deadline for submissions will be 24 February 1989. <h2 id="program-book-ad-rates">Program Book Ad Rates</h2> Full Page (81/2 x 11) $115 Half Page $60 Fourth Page $35 Eighth Page $25 Rates do not include agency fees. ($10 discount for ads from clubs, conventions & fan publications) All ads must be camera ready unless prior arrangements have been made. Closing date for reserving ad space is February 10th. <h2 id="lazer-tag">Lazer Tag</h2> The most significant change in Lazer Tag this year is that the event will NOT be a formal competition. The new format, is a supervised free-style playing arena, hosted by the Cascade Rangers Team Banzai. The emphasis will be on fun, fair play, sportsmanship and playing frequently. Participation will be limited to the first 60 players to show up. Players under 18 years old must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian at the event. I.D. required. Also, all players must sign a release waiver before playing. Another change in the Lazer Tag program is NO rental equipment available, so players must supply their own. Basic kits (chest sensor and pistol) are preferred, but rifles and head sensors will be allowed. It is recommended that players provide their own knee/elbow pads and eye protection (goggles or safety glasses). Basic rules are: No running, stay 5 feet away from opponents at all times, expose your sensor to the player you are shooting at, and, no matter where you go, there you are! <h2 id="clarion-west-s-fifth-annual-scholarship-auction">Clarion West's Fifth Annual Scholarship Auction</h2> Norwescon will host Clarion West's Fifth Annual Scholarship Auction, early Saturday evening on March 25. Auctioneers Ed Bryant and Steven Bryan Bieler promise to generate spirited bidding. It's always fun, and for a good cause -- to help students attend the Clarion West SF and F Writers' Workshop. Whether you're a dealer, a fan, or a writer, you'll find something you want at the auction. There will be autographed books, manuscripts, art, food, and folly. Greg Bear will autograph limited edition Clarion West T-shirts bearing his artwork, and we anticipate offering unpublished works by Ursula K. LeGuin, Vonda McIntyre, and others. A catalogue and auction items may be previewed at the Clarion West's club table, where you may learn about Clarion West's workshop and other programs. We will offer refreshments at an open reception an hour prior to the Auction. For more info, contact Clarion West at (redacted). <h2 id="robert-a-heinlein-memorial-blood-drive">Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Blood Drive</h2> Robert Anson Heinlein was always fiercely devoted to science fiction and its people. He was also a strong believer in the maxim "you don't pay back -- you pay forward." He nurtured the people around him, giving of his time, his money, his story ideas and his love. If they felt the need to repay him, he would often ask them to donate blood; a pint was once the "price" of his autograph. The Convention Committee of Norwescon 11 asks that you pay homage to the memory of this Grand Master of F&SF by giving blood to the Pierce County Blood Bank. There will be a Bloodmobile at the convention; pay Robert Heinlein forward by giving the gift of life on Saturday, March 25. <h2 id="fannish-olympics">Fannish Olympics</h2> The Fannish Olympics department head is Mark Richardson. He plans for this year's event to be the best yet. Teams are composed of members of other convention staffs or club members (i.e., Moscon, Team Tug, Orycon, Hogan's Goat) and ALL are invited to participate. If your group or convention staff has not yet received an invitation and you wish to participate, please contact Mark via the Norwescon P.O. Box, marked "ATTN: Fannish Olympics". We have room for a limited number of teams and are accepting teams on a first-come, first-served basis. Sign up at the convention at the Information table. There will be a quick orientation meeting at the conventionon Friday evening. See your Program Book for more information. If you have never seen the Fannish Olympics, come on down and see the fun!! This may be even more fun if you've never been to a convention before, since the events are supposed to imitate skills needed for convention survival. This year's events will include the Scavenger Hunt, the Elevator Stuff, the (non-alcoholic) Bheer Ghuzzle, and the Gossamer Mailing. If you need more information, call Mark Richardson at (redacted). <h2 id="art-show">Art Show</h2> This years' Art Show is again in the Rotunda, with a few changes. The natural lighting in the Rotunda is good enough that artificial lighting will not be needed. However the Art Show must close when all that wonderful natural light goes away. Yes, that's right, the Art Show will be closing at dusk Instead we will be opening at approximately 9 a.m. Friday through Sunday. Art Show information can be obtained by writing to the Norwescon P.O. Box. There will be over 130 4'-by-4' panels as well as space for three-dimensional art. Requests are being processed shortly after they're received so get yours in ASAP. <h2 id="programming-and-stage-services">Programming and Stage Services</h2> Programming and Stage Services have some of the more visible departments at Norwescon: The volunteers that make up these departments are dedicated to helping produce a great convention and helping to keep events running on time, as much as possible. These people work well as a team. Experience is not necessary for you get the best and silliest on-the-job training that friendship can buy. Stage Management is one of the keys to how we keep up the caliber of our panels. This group acts as host(ess) as well as a time keeper. They see that panelists are all there and any equipment that is needed is present. Communication of any problems to the Con Services is easy via a telephone. If you've enjoyed the panels in the past contact the Stage Management Department Head, Beth Dockins, at the Norewscon P.O. Box and give your support this year by volunteering. You can also help out by being responsible for two or three panels at the same time. I know one man who did that last year and found it to be a breeze. This is a fun job and it highly recommended. The Technical Department has a team that transports, sets up, and operates the audio-visual equipment for all the panels and events. (NOTE: The Media Department has its own tech dept. and these two groups collaborate on some events.) This job offers a view of the con few get a chance to see and it is (surprisingly) more fun than you'd expect. For further information or to volunteer, call the Department Head, Keith Johnson at (redacted). Experience is NOT necessary as you will be trained on the equipment. If you like to Dance continue reading: At Norwescon 1 (NWC), there were no dances. At NWC 2 there were two, a live Punk Rock Band followed by a Disco. We have grown from a 2 1/4 day con to an almost 4 full days...along with this the need to boogie has grown to a dance each night. Though we can not please everyone's musical tastes most will be happy with the following format; Thursday night, Oldies 50s, 60s, 70s, Friday night; The Stardance with current music plus some weird stuff plus lights plus the Legendary Ice Cream Social plus the Opening Number. Saturday Night; Teen Dance with Guest DJ. (This is more than what it sounds like and I don't know if this is a good name for it or not. The plan is for the early part of the event to be geared towards the young members of fandom...but if I know the people who have 'Happy Feet' age has nothing to do with dancing.) Sunday Night, this is the time for the Dead Sasquatch Party, Pajama Party, and Spring Rites. This last part is not to be confused with the Richard Wrights. The music will be Potpourri. We will take all of our tapes and shuffle them, then play them until our feet fall off, or until 1 am, whichever occurs first. Monday Night, Muzak. As always if you have music suggestions please send them to the P.O. Box, Attention: Dances. Thank you. The Property room is headed by Pat Oros. This unseen section stores, handles, controls and helps distribute most of the audio-visual equipment that supports programming and the special functions. Properties interfaces closely with the Technical Services Volunteers who distribute and set-up most of the equipment in the programming rooms. This job is anything but boring and working with Pat is lots of fun. <h3 id="special-function-free-masquerade-taping-service">Special Function Free Masquerade Taping Service</h3> As with last year, there is a free taping service for those who want a top-quality audio presentation to complete that special costume. If you remember Godzilla, Doctor Whoopee or Phoenix you know what a good tape can do for a costume. The service is FREE, and you get to keep the tape. If you have a costume that deserves that special touch, call Keith Johnson at (redacted). <h2 id="masquerade">Masquerade</h2> The Masquerade will occupy its usual place of honor on Saturday night. Once again Judy Swanson is Director and Norah Hogoboom is Secretary/Assistant Director. The Masquerade is in the same facility as last year and we will continue to have use of the dressing rooms and showers (remember to bring your own towels, shampoo, and soap). If you participated in last year's Masquerade, you will recieve a Norwescon 11 Masquerader's packet. If you have moved, did not receive one by the end of January, or did not participate last year and would like to now, please contact us. There will be a few changes in rules and procedures: <ol> <li>Participants in the Children's Division (age 12 and under) must have a responsible adult present at the Mandatory Masquerader's Meeting at 10 a.m. on Saturday.</li> <li>Judging for the Construction Category will commence approximately two hours before the Masquerade. The specific time will be determined by the number of participants registered in this category.</li> <li>Stage conduct rules will be enforced. Enforcement may include disqualification under certain circumstances.</li> <li>Participants may compete in either the Costume or Performance categories, but not both, and may optionally compete in the Construction category.</li> <li>We cannot guarantee that you will be able to view the Masquerade if you are a participant.</li> </ol> Keith Johnson has once again generously offered his time and expertise to help contestants with their tapes. He was the sound wizard responsible for tapes accompanying some award-winning costumes. Call him at the number above. We're looking forward to a fabulous Masquerade and hope to see you there! Although we have a lineup of enthusiastic volunteers, we're always looking for more; positions include Stage Ninjas, Den Moms, Ushers, and Assistants for various project heads. The Masquerade is a popular volunteer event, so sign up early! Call Judy Swanson at (redacted) or Norah Hogoboom at (redacted) for more info. <h2 id="site-services">Site Services</h2> Site Services includes those departments that are concerned with the safety, security, and cleanliness of the convention. We're among the most noticable of the convention staff. If you like being noticed, call Kathy Smith at (redacted). SECURITY ROVERS are those people with radios that seem to be everywhere at once. This team can move fast -- preventing problems from developing, assisting the fans and helping everything move a little smoother. SECURITY WATCH is there to help you get where you thought you wanted to go or maybe want to be where you landed. The Watch checks badges, handles crowd control, and answers some of the geographical questions the con-goer has (Where is the Hospitality?). If you can carry the floor plans of seventeen different floors in your head, get a con-goer to produce a badge by lifting your eyebrow, and stand your ground when 1000 fans are rushing the door you're blocking, we have a job for you. MAINTENANCE When you're walking down a stair or crowded hall, clean is safe and that's the job of our Maintenance department. You can help by using the nearest garbage can for your throw-aways. This is a job for younger con-goers (no one under 13, please), so if you like leaving a clean sweep behind you, call Robin Smith at (redacted) (but not during school hours). <h2 id="peace-bonding">Peace bonding</h2> Let's talk about -- Weapons Policy. First. Weapons not allowed: crossbows, slingshots, pellet guns, bows and arrows, water pistols, blowguns, catapults or any type of functioning projectile weapon. This includes any device that could be construed as a projectile weapon, loaded or unloaded (please, no real guns), or any extension of the human hand. The only exceptions are non-functioning replicas that are kept in their holsters, or daggers, knives and swords that are kept in their sheaths. All spears and staves must be no longer than six feet and the end of said devices must never project more than 12 inches from the bearer's body. This policy is in direct line with the rules of the Sheraton Hotel and their security department. There will be no appeal to a violation of these rules. Hotel Security will ask you to leave the Hotel, and Norwescon will ask you to leave the Convention. Remember, if it's drawn...your gone! The only type of peacebonding allowed is that provided by the convention. Fashion coordinated substitutes will not be allowed and do not forget, all allowable weapons must still be peacebonded. The only exceptions to this policy are weapons in conjunction with costumes to be displayed during the masquerade, and during programming specifically designed for weapons display. Bonding ties will be removed for such an event and replaced immediately afterward. If you remove the bonding tie in a private room to display your weapon, please return to have the bonding tie replaced. Basic policy will remain the same. All blades must have protective covering in all public areas and function spaces. Please remember to keep your polearms and staves upright at all times. Peacebonding will be available in the registration area, in the Security office, and from the Rovers. If you have any questions about this policy, write to Peacebonding, c/o Norwescon, (redacted), Seattle, WA 98124. As always, bonding is always looking for a few good beings. <h2 id="room-party-policy">Room Party Policy</h2> IMPORTANT NOTICE!! Your room party and party host or hostess must be registered with the Convention Office. The host or hostess of your room party must stay sober. You are responsible for the good health and safety of your party attendees. <h2 id="cloak-room-lost-found">Cloak Room/Lost & Found</h2> Once again we'll provide a no-charge Cloak Rooms for our members. Yes, as with last year, we have two rooms. The Main Cloak Room is on the Ballroom level. It opens early and closes late (with a few closures during the day) Thursday through Sunday. The Upper Room, beween the Boardroom and the SouthCenter room, is open during the day on Saturday and Sunday. Check your Pocket Program or the signs outside the rooms for the hours. BE SURE the room you wish to use will be Open when you want to put something in AND WHEN YOU WANT TO TAKE IT OUT! We are Not open 24 hours a day. As always, use is at your own risk, and we do reserve the right to say "You're Not Bringing THAT In Here!" The Lost and Found is located in the Main Cloak Room and shares the same hours. Remember to check with us if you lose an item during the Con. Items not claimed by closing Sunday night will be held until June 1, 1989. <h2 id="hotel-accommodations">Hotel Accommodations</h2> Hotel room reservations should be made early!! The Tacoma Sheraton is full up as you read this, To check if there is a waiting list or cancelations have been made, phone the hotel, at (redacted), Other hotels in the area at which Norwescon members can get rooms are the La Quinta (formerly the Holiday Inn) and the Quality Inn (once known as the Tacoma Dome Hotel). Room rates for the LaQuinta only are: $45 for singles, $50 for doubles and double/doubles. Rooms at the Quality Inn only are: $50 for singles, $56 for doubles and double/doubles. Room rates for the Sheraton only are as $60/night for Single or Double. Triples and quads are $66/night. Call the hotels for suite prices. <h2 id="suggestions-wanted">Suggestions Wanted</h2> Your questions, suggestions, ideas, art, etc. are welcome and wanted for NORWESCON. Please write to us at: N0RWESCON 11, (redacted), Seattle, Washington 98124. Or, you can call the 24-hour Hotline at (redacted). <h2 id="new-registration-policy">New Registration Policy</h2> In order to be sure that all people under 18 have parent permission to be at the convention and to also insure that said minor has a guardian accompanying them to Norwescon, we will be asking some of you to show proof of age. We also are requesting that you purchase your membership using your REAL name. (Of course, you can still have your fannish name on your badge, with or without your real name.) Please bring ID with you and keep it with you at all times. If you do not have a driver's license, learner's permit, passport, military ID, or other identification, now's the time to get one! If ID is requested of you and you do not have any, you will be considered a minor by Norwescon and the hotel. The Washington State Department of Motor Vehicles issues I.D. cards; other states may do so also. (For the complete list of rules for people under 21 please see the Young and Future Fans colume on page 21.) The Hospitality Suite cards people at the door; private parties often do the same thing, due to liability laws. In the interests of responsible conventioneering, and keeping the convention fun for EVERYONE, please do us all this favor and BRING I.D!! Registration will be located in the second floor main lobby. We will be open on Thursday from 2:00pm to 10:00pm, Friday, 9:00am-10:00pm, Saturday, 9:00am-7:00pm and Sunday, 10:00am-2:00pm. Carolyn Palms is still in need of volunteers to help our members get their badges and packets quickly and speed them on their way to a fun weekend. The following is a list of our current membership as of Jan. 1. (Membership list not transcribed here.) <h2 id="norwescon-needs-you-">NORWESCON NEEDS YOU!!!!</h2> And not just as an attendee (although we are very happy that your coming.) Norwescon, like all other science fiction cons, run on one main ingredient...FAN POWER; you, me, and everyone of us who want good, safe and enjoyable weekends with our families and friends. Just paying your membership fees all the time is NOT enough. Volunteers area special group of fans. Wecome in all shapes, sizes, colors and life forms. We do everything from quietly guarding props to managing whole staffs of volunteers. We work anywhere from a few hours to all year around. We are a Team. This year some really neat items just for the Norwescon Volunteer Team are coming our way. Each team has it's very own tokens of identification. (ie; dice for the gamers, a security blanket for Security and Binkies for the Child Care crew). They will be yours to keep as a gift for helping. Our staff lounge will be stocked with munchies and drinks as well as things like a foot massage and back roller and lots of T.L C. administered by our volunteer department head, Kathy McLean. You'll have a chance to receive part of our can of Cogs and meet tbe GoH's close up at the Volunteers gathering on Sunday of the con. We will also receive original prints designed just for the volunteer staff as a "Thank You" to us a1l. There are also some events in the planning for us before and after the con including the SNEAK PREVIEW on Sat Feb 25 (see details about this event on the back page) where we will have our photo taken for the Program Book. There will also be a very special announcement made at the Sneak Preview of interest to all volunteers. Come and find out! Come and join the Team. Call Kathy at (redacted) and volunteer today. <h2 id="nwc-11-sneak-preview">NWC 11 Sneak Preview</h2> You are cordially invited to the attend the NWC 11 Sneak Preview Saturday, February 25 at 2:00 p.m.at the Sheraton Tacoma Hotel Ballroom 1320 Broadway Plaza, Tacoma Admission is free. Refreshments served. An afternoon full of fun and silliness and some interesting snippets of what's coming up at Norwescon. You can find out: what the Program Book cover will look like, the NWC schedule revealed, what ice cream flavors will be served at the ice cream social, this year you decide, the latest on attending pros, what is a "COG" anyway? and more Featuring the Norwescon 11 Players Special note: To all ofyou who have signed up to volunteer or are planning to at this event. This is a little pre con party hosted for you by the Norwescon Committee and the staff of the Sheraton Hotel. It's their way to say thank you in advance of the convention. Our picture will be taken for inclusion in the NWC Program Book. Also discover the gifts you'll receive for joining the volunteer Team(s) including poster art designed just for NWC volunteers only. You will also be taken on a tour of the hotel. Please call of you have any questions. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Norwescon 11 Description An account of the resource Sheraton, Tacoma Chair: Elizabeth Warren Guest of Honor: Algis J. Budrys Artist Guest of Honor: David Mattingly Fan Guest of Honor: Mike Glyer Toastmaster: Steve Barnes Science Guest of Honor: Dr. Alan E. Nourse Special Guest of Honor: Avram Davidson Attendance: 2,292 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 23-26, 1989 Subject The topic of the resource Norwescon 11 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <h1 id="norwesconxi">Norwescon XI</h1> <h2 id="adrustycon7">(AD) Rustycon 7</h2> 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! <hr /> 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 <h2 id="norwescon11conventioncommittee">NORWESCON 11 CONVENTION COMMITTEE</h2> 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 <h2 id="norwescon11">Norwescon 11</h2> 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 <h2 id="programming">Programming</h2> (Artwork) A Death of Honor Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Joe Clifford Faust, published by Del Rey. <h3 id="thursdaymarch23">THURSDAY, MARCH 23</h3> <h4 id="3:00pm">3:00 PM</h4> SLIDE SHOW: THE BEST OF NORWESCON MASQUERADES Ballroom 3 <h4 id="4:00pm">4:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="5:00pm">5:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="6:00pm">6:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="7:00pm">7:00 PM</h4> READING: RU EMERSON Reading Room <h4 id="8:00pm">8:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="9:00pm">9:00 PM</h4> 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. <h3 id="fridaymarch24">FRIDAY, MARCH 24</h3> <h4 id="9:00am">9:00 AM</h4> 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. <h4 id="10:00am">10:00 AM</h4> 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. <h4 id="11:00am">11:00 AM</h4> 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. <h4 id="11:30am">11:30 AM</h4> READING: BILL RANSOM Reading Room <h4 id="12noon">12 NOON</h4> 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. <h4 id="12:30pm">12:30 PM</h4> READING: BRIDGET MCKENNA Reading Room <h4 id="1:00pm">1:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="1:30pm">1:30 PM</h4> READING: DEAN WESLEY SMITH Reading Room <h4 id="2:00pm">2:00 PM</h4> 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. <h5 id="adacebooks">(AD) Ace Books</h5> From FRANK HERBERT and BILL RANSOM 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 $4.50 ACE FEBRUARY THE #1 PUBLISHER OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY <h4 id="2:00pmcontinued">2:00 PM (continued)</h4> WRITERS' WORKSHOP: SIRIUS Conference Room Michael Scanlon (M) By invitation only. <h4 id="3:00pm">3:00 PM</h4> 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 <h4 id="3:30pm">3:30 PM</h4> READING: LOREN MCGREGOR Reading Room <h4 id="4:00pm">4:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="5:00pm">5:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="6:00pm">6:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="7:00pm">7:00 PM</h4> CHILD CARE FRIDAY PAJAMA PARTY Child Care (rm 510/514) <h4 id="7:30pm">7:30 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="8:00pm">8:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="9:00pm">9:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="9:30pm">9:30 PM</h4> 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… <h4 id="12midnight">12 MIDNIGHT</h4> HORROR READINGS Kim Andean, Joyce Cowan (M), Edward Bryant, Roberta Lannes Edward Bryant and others read their most chilling stories - at midnight. <h3 id="saturdaymarch25">SATURDAY, MARCH 25</h3> <h4 id="9:00am">9:00 AM</h4> 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!! <h4 id="10:00am">10:00 AM</h4> 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. <h4 id="10:30am">10:30 AM</h4> READING: KATHARINE ELISKA KIMBRIEL Reading Room <h4 id="11:00am">11:00 AM</h4> 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 <h3 id="11:30am">11:30 AM</h3> READING: CHARLES PLATT Reading Room (Artwork) Copyright 1989 by John Sabotta <h4 id="adacebooks">(AD) Ace Books</h4> “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 ACE MARCH THE #1 PUBLISHER OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY <h3 id="saturdaymarch25continued">SATURDAY, MARCH 25 (continued)</h3> <h4 id="12noon">12 NOON</h4> 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. <h4 id="1:00pm">1:00 PM</h4> 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? <h4 id="1:30pm">1:30 PM</h4> 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”. <h4 id="2:00pm">2:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="3:00pm">3:00 PM</h4> 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! <h4 id="4:00pm">4:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="5:00pm">5:00 PM</h4> 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 <h4 id="5:30pm">5:30 PM</h4> 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… <h4 id="6:00pm">6:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="6:30pm">6:30 PM</h4> READING: BILL BALDWIN Reading Room <h4 id="7:00pm">7:00 PM</h4> 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? <h5 id="adacebooks">(AD) Ace Books</h5> 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… S3.95 ACE APRIL THE #1 PUBLISHER OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY <h3 id="saturdaymarch25continued">SATURDAY, MARCH 25 (continued)</h3> <h4 id="8:00pm">8:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="8:10pm">8:10 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="9:00pm">9:00 PM</h4> 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 <h4 id="10:00pm">10:00 PM</h4> 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? <h4 id="11:00pm">11:00 PM</h4> 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. <h3 id="sundaymarch26">SUNDAY, MARCH 26</h3> <h4 id="9:00am">9:00 AM</h4> 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… <h4 id="9:30am">9:30 AM</h4> WRITING COLLABORATIONS Ballroom 4 <h4 id="10:00am">10:00 AM</h4> 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. <h4 id="10:30am">10:30 AM</h4> 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. <h4 id="11:00am">11:00 AM</h4> 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 <h4 id="12noon">12 NOON</h4> 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. <h4 id="1:00pm">1:00 PM</h4> 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 <h4 id="1:30pm">1:30 PM</h4> 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 <h4 id="2:00pm">2:00 PM</h4> 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. <h5 id="adacebooks">(AD) Ace Books</h5> 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 ACE MAY THE #1 PUBLISHER OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY <h4 id="2:00pmcontinued">2:00 PM (continued)</h4> 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. <h4 id="2:30pm">2:30 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="3:00pm">3:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="4:00pm">4:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="5:00pm">5:00 PM</h4> 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? <h4 id="6:00pm">6:00 PM</h4> 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. <h4 id="9:00pm">9:00 PM</h4> 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. <h5 id="adasfa">(AD) ASFA</h5> JOIN ASFA Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists “IMAGINE THE FUTURE…WHERE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY CONVERGE…THAT FUTURE IS HERE TODAY - IN ASFA” MEMBERSHIP in ASFA is open to: <ul> <li>ARTISTS</li> <li>ART COLLECTORS</li> <li>ART SHOW DIRECTORS</li> <li>EDITORS</li> <li>AGENTS</li> <li>ANYONE INTERESTED IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY ART</li> </ul> MEMBERS BENEFIT BECAUSE THEY: <ul> <li>Receive the informative, fascinating ASFA QUARTERLY - a magazine featuring art show reviews, artist portfolios, how-to articles!</li> <li>Nominate and vote on the CHELSEY AWARDS, the only comprehensive art awards in the science fiction and fantasy field today!</li> <li>Art in touch with the most active and innovative people in the field - people who are both valuable resources & exciting to know!</li> </ul> Annual FULL MEMBERSHIP dues: United States - $18 Canada - $18 U.S. funds/$24 Canadian * * inquire for other foreign rates Make check/money order payable to ASFA. Send with completed form below to: ASFA Membership c/o Matt Fertig, Secretary P.O. Box 55188 Indianapolis, IN 46205 U.S.A. NAME DATE ADDRESS CITY STATE/PROVINCE ZIP CODE TELEPHONE Please check any of the following that apply to you: ___ ARTIST (___ Fan ___ Pro) Genre (SF, fantasy, etc) _________ ___ AGENT ___ ART DIRECTOR ___ ART SHOW MANAGEMENT ___ EDITOR ___ ART COLLECTOR ___ OTHER (Specify) _________ <h2 id="guestsofhonor">Guests of Honor</h2> <h3 id="algisbudrys">ALGIS BUDRYS</h3> (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 <h3 id="artgohdavidmattingly">Art GoH DAVID MATTINGLY</h3> 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. <h4 id="adsandiegocomicon">(AD) San Diego ComiCon</h4> August 3–6 1989 San Diego Convention and Performing Arts Center Downtown San Diego Omni San Diego Hotel _Comics, science fiction, and a whole lot more! _ Greg Bear Charles Schulz Frank Thomas Ollie Johnston Forrest J. Ackerman Jerry Robinson Ron Goulart Gahan Wilson Gilbert Hernandez Jaime Hernandez Jack Kirby Bill Sienkiewicz Selby Kelly Featuring: <ul> <li> Hundreds of your favorite comics, sf and media professionals </li> <li> Programs, Readings, and Signings </li> <li> 400 Dealers Tables: 50,000-square feet of dealers and Exhibit Halls </li> <li> 24 hour Film rooms </li> <li> Masquerade </li> <li> Parties and dances </li> <li> Art Show and Auction </li> <li> Seminars with professional artists and writers </li> <li> Awards Banquet </li> <li> Con Suite </li> <li> Robert A. Heinlein Blood Drive </li> <li> Japanese Animation </li> <li> Gaming Rooms and Programs </li> <li> Special video programs on hotel cable </li> <li> Special 20th Anniversary Programming </li> <li> Four Day Memberships $25 until April 15, 1989 $30 until June 30, 1989 $40 at the door </li> <li> One Day Memberships $14 by mail or at the Door </li> <li> Ages 7–16 half price Under 7 free with paying adult No mail-in registration after June 30, 1989 </li> </ul> For more information: San Diego Comic Convention Dept. NWC P.O. Box 17066 San Diego, CA 92117 Phone [REDACTED] <h3 id="fangohmikeglyer">Fan GoH MIKE GLYER</h3> 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. <h3 id="sciencegohdr.nourse">Science GoH DR. NOURSE</h3> 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. <h3 id="wowgohavramdavidson">WoW GoH AVRAM DAVIDSON</h3> 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. <h3 id="toastmasterstevebarnes">Toastmaster STEVE BARNES</h3> 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 <h4 id="stevebarnes">STEVE BARNES</h4> (Comic) Copyright 1989 by William Rotsler <h2 id="gallery1">Gallery 1</h2> <h3 id="davidmattingly">DAVID MATTINGLY</h3> (Artwork) The Aquiliad Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by S.P. Somtow, published by Del Rey. <h3 id="barclayshaw">BARCLAY SHAW</h3> (Artwork) Shockwave Rider Copyright 1989 by Barclay Shaw. Cover for the book by John Brunner, published by Ballantine Books. <h3 id="georgebarr">GEORGE BARR</h3> (Artwork) Space War Blues Copyright 1989 by George Barr. Cover for the hook hy Richard A. Lupoff. <h3 id="carllundgren">CARL LUNDGREN</h3> (Artwork) No Shirt. No Shoes. No Service Copyright 1989 by Carl Lundgren. <h3 id="ilenemeyer">ILENE MEYER</h3> (Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Ilene Meyer <h3 id="marka.skullurud">MARK a. SKULLURUD</h3> (Artwork) Unaccompanied Sonata Copyright 1989 by Mark a. Skullerud. <h3 id="wendywees">WENDY WEES</h3> (Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Wendy Wees <h3 id="raypelley">RAY PELLEY</h3> (Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Ray Pelley <h3 id="robschouten">ROB SCHOUTEN</h3> (Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Rob Schouten <h3 id="miloduke">MILO DUKE</h3> (Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Milo Duke <h3 id="richardhescox">RICHARD HESCOX</h3> (Artwork) The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley Copyright 1989 by Richard Hescox. Cover for the collection by Marion Zimmer Bradley, published by DAW Books. <h3 id="michaelwhelan">MICHAEL WHELAN</h3> (Artwork) Exiles' Gate. Copyright 1989 by Michael Whelan. Cover for the book by C. J. Cherryh. published by DAW. <h2 id="guests">Guests</h2> 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. Photo by Deborah Wessell 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. Photo by Frank Garcia 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. Photo by Rick Hawes 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. Photo by J. Lindner 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. Photo by S.L.G. 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. Photo by Dolly Gilliland 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. Photo by Michael Wirtz 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….) Photo by B. Saro 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. 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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. <h2 id="gallery2">Gallery 2</h2> <h3 id="donmaitz">DON MAITZ</h3> (Artwork) Cyteen III Copyright 1989 by Don Maitz. Cover for the book by C. J. Cherryh, published by Warner Books. <h3 id="jannywurts">JANNY WURTS</h3> (Artwork) Taken to Task Copyright 1989 by Janny Wurts. Cover for the book Dragon’s Knight by Carol L. Denis, published by Popular Library. <h3 id="kenmacklin">KEN MACKLIN</h3> (Artwork) No Aliens Copyright 1989 by Ken Macklin. Cover for Fusion #8 published by Eclipse. <h3 id="vincentdifate">VINCENT DI FATE</h3> (Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Vincent DiFate <h3 id="tarkas">TARKAS</h3> (Artwork) Pterodactyl Copyright 1989 by Randy “Tarkas” Hoar. <h3 id="kenkelly">KEN KELLY</h3> (Artwork) GhostHunt Copyright 1989 by Ken Kelly. Cover for the book by Jo Clayton, published by DAW Books. <h3 id="cheristreimikes">CHERI STREIMIKES</h3> (Artowrk) Copyright 1989 by Cheri Streiniikes. <h3 id="lynnetaylor">LYNNE TAYLOR</h3> (Artwork) Robot Geisha Copyright 1989 by Lynne Taylor <h3 id="johnalvarez">JOHN ALVAREZ</h3> (Artwork) Copyright 1989 by John Alvarez. <h3 id="armandcabrera">ARMAND CABRERA</h3> (Artwork) Apprentices Copyright 1989 by Armand Cabrera <h3 id="kellyfreas">KELLY FREAS</h3> (Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Frank Kelly Freas <h3 id="williamr.warrenjr">WILLIAM R. WARREN JR</h3> (Artwork) The Generic Rejuvination of Milo Ardry Copyright 1989 by William R. Warren, Jr. Originally published in Analog. <h2 id="volunteers">Volunteers</h2> (Photo) Some of the volunteers who attended the Norwescon 11 Sneak Preview. <h3 id="adgrossprophets">(AD) Gross Prophets</h3> TIME the devourer of all things. -Ovid A GROSS PROPHETS PRODUCTION with a grant from the Addams Family. <h2 id="members">Members</h2> (Artwork) Shadow Climber Copyright 1989 by Richard Hescox. Cover for the book by Mickey Zucker Reichert, published by DAW Books. [Member list omitted] (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 <h3 id="adgalleryofillustrationandfineart">(AD) Gallery of Illustration and Fine Art</h3> ANNOUNCING Carl Lundgren THE PRINT CATALOG $3 Postpaid (Refundable with First Order) GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION and FINE ART 252 S ALDER STREET • PHILADELPHIA. PA 19107 <h2 id="ack">Ack</h2> Pictured: Elizabeth Warren, Debbie Stine, Debbie Tatarek, Janice Paulson, Richard Wright, Becky Simpson, Judy Suryan, Sue Bartroff, Peter Suryan, Craig Bowie, Mary Hamburger, Lauraine Miranda, Walter Jung, Chris McDonell, Kathy Smith, Kathy McLean, Carolyn Palms, Diane Villaflor, Michael Citrak, Keith Johnson, Pat Oros, Beth Dockins, Yvonne Richardson, Karen Hill, Mary Beth Zele, The Nose. Our apologies to those who did not get their photo included on these two pages due to various reasons. A listing of those people who have worked for many months on the convention can be found on page 1. There are even more who sign on in the last month and at the convention who cannot be listed here. They are hard workers all and deserve everyone’s gratitude. <h3 id="wewouldliketothank:">WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK:</h3> Safeway Ice Cream Dept. PNTA Daniel Handa, City of Tacoma Fannish Oympics Sponsors; Fantastic Fantasy Games and Toys Software Pipeline The Federal Building Cafeteria Don’s Dungeon Suspended Elevations Gasworks Kite Shop Ross Oneill Sun Trophy Great Winds Kite Shop Dameon Dragon Copier and typewriters provided by H.D. Baker Co. 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. <h3 id="advertisers">ADVERTISERS</h3> ASFA: 19 Berkley/Ace: 5, 9, 13, 17 Discon III: 56, 57 Rustycon: Inside Front Cover San Diego Comic-Con: 25 <h3 id="artcredits">ART CREDITS</h3> 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 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Norwescon 11 Program Book Subject The topic of the resource Norwescon 11 Description An account of the resource The souvenir program book for Norwescon 11. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Northwest Science Fiction Society (NWSFS) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 23-26, 1989 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <a href="https://fanac.org/conpubs/Norwescon/Norwescon%20XI/index.html">FANAC: Norwescon 11</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Contents Copyright 1989 by the Northwest Science Fiction Society for the contributors Language A language of the resource English Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Michael Brocha Accessible Alan E Nourse Algis J Budrys Avram Davidson David Mattingly Mike Glyer NWC11 Program Book Steven Barnes https://history.norwescon.org/files/original/bd6efe1189232576af66dd82b37b4229.pdf 0ea584f88833bf1548102aa63e5ccfe9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Norwescon 11 Description An account of the resource Sheraton, Tacoma Chair: Elizabeth Warren Guest of Honor: Algis J. Budrys Artist Guest of Honor: David Mattingly Fan Guest of Honor: Mike Glyer Toastmaster: Steve Barnes Science Guest of Honor: Dr. Alan E. Nourse Special Guest of Honor: Avram Davidson Attendance: 2,292 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 23-26, 1989 Subject The topic of the resource Norwescon 11 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <h1 id="thenorthwestsciencefictionsocietyproudlypresentsnorwescon11">The Northwest Science Fiction Society proudly presents Norwescon 11</h1> March 23–26, 1989 Annual Northwest Regional Science Fiction Convention (Artwork) The Wizard of 4th Street Copyright 1989 by David Mattingly. Cover for the book by Simon Hawke, published by Questar. <h2 id="drinking">DRINKING</h2> You have no doubt heard all the talk in the news media about drinking and driving. We hope that this public awareness has reached the members of SF fan conventions. If you plan to drink, PLEASE, PLEASE, do not drive. At the bar in Hospitality and in the Con Services Office there will be tags that say “PM DRIVING” at no charge. If you must leave the hotel, please wear one. This way we can all help you stay away from the bubbly (whatever for it takes). There is another topic under the heading of responsible drinking which is a sometimes touchy subject…persons under 21 indulging in alcohol and other drugs. We, the NWC Con Committee, arc realistic enough to know that if a young adult is determined to drink, we will not always be able to stop them. Responsible imbibing (not getting falling down drunk - becoming a menace to yourself and everyone else in the hotel and on the highways) will not be noticed as much, and the heavy hand of the hotel detective and/or our Site Services head will not be felt. The ID required rule at NWC Hospitality Room will be strictly enforced. We have a Washington State Banquet License and this is to protect us from legal hassles. We want all of our members to have a good time at NWC, and we want you all to return home safely. <h2 id="parties">PARTIES</h2> Room and Hall parties are a very important part of Fan Conventions. A few things to know to help make them more enjoyable and safe for everyone: Persons planning a room party must register said party with the Convention Services office in room 503. You must also list who the host/hostess is. Any open party not registered can be closed. Room and Hall parties arc restricted to the party floors. (No alcohol is allowed beyond these wings as well). If you are planning to have a room party, request lodging in one of the party floors. If you do not want to be anywhere near the parties, request quiet floors. A warning to room part hosts: We suggest you keep watch on who is grabbing a drink off the table or a beer from the tub. Ilie laws in Washington State say that if you were the supplier of alcohol to minors or to someone who is already drunk and they in turn go and hurt themselves or others, YOU TOO are responsible for THEIR actions. You can also be fined for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. <h2 id="weehoursroom">WEE HOURS ROOM</h2> For those fans who just can’t get enough we have late night room(s) set up with you in mind. Talking, filking, gaming… it’s up to you. If you want to gather with other fans the Wee Hours Room is the place to do it. Late night activities arc located in the South Center room(s) after the end of programming. (This room will close from 7am-10am for cleaning and reset.) These rooms are not for sleeping. <h2 id="sleepinginhalls">SLEEPING IN HALLS</h2> One word to say on this subject… Don’t. <h2 id="youngandfuturefans">YOUNG AND FUTURE FANS</h2> Norwescon welcomes its young and future fans. We will have programming throughout the convention geared for different age groups. Also, for a nominal fee, we will have daytime programming for children under 12 in our Child Care Room for those times Mom and Dad want to go off on their own. Starting this year, Norwescon will provide a quiet room for the purpose of feeding, changing or resting a child. Children 12 and under must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian at all times, unless in the Child Care Room; children 10 and under are not allowed in any after-midnight programming or Hospital ity. Children found unattended in public areas of the hotel will be taken to Child Care until picked up by their parents, who will be charged for the time Child Care has watched their children for them. Teens 13 to 17 years of age must have an adult or adult guardian who is a Norwescon 11 member; said guardian must be on the premises at all times, and parents must sign a permission slip for minor to attend the convention. Permission slips can be obtained at the Registration tables. Remember, parents are responsible for the safety and actions of their children at all times. These programs arc here to foster enjoyment for all Norwescon members, but primarily for the safety and well-being of the children. Young fans are welcome at Norwescon but are expected to behave or be cared for in a responsible manner. If parents believe that their convention activities will be constrained by these responsibilities, Then Norwescon encourages the chidren be left at home under proper care. <h2 id="childcare">CHILD CARE</h2> Child Care will once again be open for children from three to twelve years of age. The younger ones must be potty-trained and have had pre-school or nursery school experience (your child needs to know how to play with others and be able to separate from you with a minimum of shrieking). This facility is a place where you can leave your children (for a fee) and go off and enjoy the convention. Because of the large number of small children we serve, we have to close occasionally to revive the staff and to clean up the room. There fore, it is expected that you will return every two to four hours, pick up your children, and feed them something nutritious. We have several tracks of programming that run constantly in these rooms, including video programming for separate age groups, crafts, special projects, and visits by our Guests of Honor. We hope to have a magician or storyteller to entertain our small guests, and have our annual costume parade and dance. Once again, parents who participate will receive care at a lesser cost than parents who don’t participate. If you provide goods or service to our group, it will cost less to leave your children with us. <h3 id="quietroom">QUIET ROOM</h3> Since there are so many new babies and toddlers in our group this year, we arc opening an unsupervised room, near Child Care, where you must stay with your child. This room can be used for changing, napping, get-away-from-the-crowd room. This year the daycare staff will NOT be finding baby-sitters for children that do not meet our age requirements. There are just too few of us to help you out. If at all possible, find a sitter for that wee one, and leave him or her at home. You will both be happier. <h2 id="kidkon">KIDKON</h2> During the convention there is another convention going on for the younger crowd: KIDKON. It is designed for children 12 and under and intended to be informative as well as entertaining. Events include: Kids dance, Masquerade, Tours of behind the scenes activities, Costume making and Art Gallery. KIDKON is a part of Child Care and there is no extra fee beyond the child care fees. More information can be obtained at the Information Table. <h2 id="restaurants">RESTAURANTS</h2> There are two restaurants within the hotel. The coffee shop is open from 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., during the convention except Sunday. The Rose Garden hours are Mon-Sat; lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Dinner 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. Elliot’s Bar has a soup and sandwich buffet 11:30 - 2:00 p.m. Warning: There is a dress code for the Rose Garden. Cotumes are not allowed. There will be a snack bar provided in the Bicetennial Pavilion Rotunda. The Sheraton will now be providing PIZZA via Room Service that can be delivered to any location within the hotel. The Pizza hours will be posted at the information table and in each sleeping room in the Sheraton. <h2 id="cloakroomlostfound">CLOAK ROOM/LOST & FOUND</h2> The Cloak Room is a free service provided by the convention for the use of convention attendees. It is meant to be used for temporary storage of parcels, coats and bags, not as a substitute room or food locker. Please make other arrangements for these. We reserve the right to refuse any article. NWC is not responsible for items left in the Cloak Room: use of the room is at your own risk. Be sure the room will be open during the hours you wish to retrieve your belongings BEFORE you leave them. The Lost and Found hours are the same as the Cloak Room. During the time the Room is closed, lost items should be taken to the Convetion Office in Rooms 503/505 or to the Sheraton front desk. Lost ID badges should go to the Registration table or to rooms 503/505. After the convention, inquires about lost items can be made to P.O. Box 24207, Seattle, WA 98124 or call [REDACTED]. Lost items will be kept until June 1, 1989. <h2 id="parkingshuttles">PARKING & SHUTTLES</h2> As you probably already know, parking at this hotel is quite a problem. For those of you staying at the other convention hotels we have arranged for a shuttle service from these to the Sheraton. See schedule times below. In the meantime, park only in designated parking places. Check for a flyer in your program packet for any updates. There are several pay parking lots within a few blocks of the Sheraton. Anyone found double parking or blocking fire lanes will be subject to towing without notice. <h3 id="shuttleschedule">Shuttle Schedule</h3> Thursday 4–7pm / 10pm-2am Friday 9am-12 Noon / 3–7pm / 10pm-2am Saturday 9am-12 Noon / 3–7pm / 10pm-2am Sunday 9am-12 Noon / 3–7pm <h2 id="staticprogramming">STATIC PROGRAMMING</h2> <h3 id="artshow">ART SHOW</h3> Pavilion Rotunda Friday 9am-6pm Saturday 9am-6pm Sunday 9am-12 Noon, l:30–5pm <h3 id="dealers">DEALERS</h3> Pavilion Friday llam-6pm Saturday 10am-6pm Sunday 10am-5pm <h3 id="scienceartmind">SCIENCE, ART & MIND</h3> 600, 602 Friday 10am-6pm Saturday 10am-6pm Sunday 10am-4pm <h3 id="registration">REGISTRATION</h3> Main Lobby Thursday 2–10pm Friday 10am- Saturday 9am- Sunday 10am- <h3 id="maincloakroomlostfound">MAIN CLOAK ROOM/LOST & FOUND</h3> Lower Lobby Thursday 2–6pm, 7pm-Midnight Friday 9:30am-3pm, 4–7pm, 8pm-lam Saturday 9:30am-3pm, 4–7:45pm, 10:30pm-lam Sunday llam-5pm, 6–10pm <h3 id="uppercloakroom">UPPER CLOAK ROOM</h3> 3rd Floor Saturday llam-6pm Sunday llam-6pm <h3 id="hospitality">HOSPITALITY</h3> (ID Required) Executive Board Room, 3rd Floor Thursday 5pm-2am Friday 9am-2am Saturday 9am-2am Sunday 9am-Midnight <h3 id="childcare">CHILD CARE</h3> (see Child Care for prices) 510,514 Thursday By appointment Friday l-5pm, 7–11pm (Pajama Party) Saturday 9am-12 Noon, l-5pm, 7–11pm (Pajama Party) Sunday 9am-5pm <h3 id="quietroom">QUIET ROOM</h3> 509 Thursday 6pm-Midnight Friday 12 Noon-Midnight Saturday 10am-Midnight Sunday 10am-8pm <h3 id="fanzinelounge">FANZINE LOUNGE</h3> 604 Friday 10am-7pm Saturday 10am-7pm Sunday 10am-6pm <h3 id="gaming">GAMING</h3> 504,506,508 (Artwork) Copyright 1989 by Frank Kelly Freas <h2 id="norwescon11videoschedule">NORWESCON 11 VIDEO SCHEDULE</h2> Titles followed by (K) are those that parents may find more suitable for younger children. Parents are encouraged to view any videos with their children to determine if the program is too intense. Not all programs are marked. (JA) stands for Japanese Animation. Viewing rooms are listed here. Hotel rooms receive the same channels. Hotel personnel are to clean each viewing room in the morning, please leave the room so that they may do their work. <h3 id="channelsix6viewingroom-northroom">CHANNEL SIX (6) Viewing Room - North Room</h3> <h4 id="thursdayafternoon">Thursday Afternoon</h4> Starting time 3:00 pm Orange Road Kimagure: 1A (JA) 3:55 Buckaroo Banzai 5:40 Akira (JA) 7:45 Big Trouble in Little China 9:30 Innerspace (K) 11:35 RoboCop <h4 id="fridaymorning">Friday Morning</h4> 1:30am The Lost Boys 3:10 Starman (K) 5:10 The Fly 6:50 Spaceballs 8:30 2001 10:55: 2010 <h4 id="fridayafternoon">Friday Afternoon</h4> 12:55pm Bubblegum Crisis (JA) 1:50 Time Bandits (K) 3:50 Orange Road Kimagure:lB (JA) 4:45 Lilly C.A.T. (JA) 5:50 Gremlins (K) 7:40 Back to the Future (K) 10:00 Late Night Norwescon (K) 11:00 Aliens <h4 id="saturdaymorning">Saturday Morning</h4> 1:30am Highlander 3:25 The Running Man 5:10 Howard the Duck (K) 7:05 Explorers (K) 8:55 Dragonslayer (K) 10:50 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (K) <h4 id="saturdayafternoon">Saturday Afternoon</h4> 12:45pm Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (K) 2:50 Gall Force (JA) 4:20 Macross: Do You Remember Love (JA) 6:25 Ghostbusters (K) 8:10 Live Showing of the Masquerade (K) 11:00 “Elvira” presents Son of Hercules meets Venus <h4 id="sundaymorning">Sunday Morning</h4> 1:15am Little Shop of Horrors 2:40 Mad Max 4:15 The Road Warrior 5:55 Beyond Thunderdome 7:45 DynaMan (K) 9:00 Live Good Morning Norwescon (K) 10:00 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (K) <h4 id="sundayafternoon">Sunday Afternoon</h4> 12:05pm Star Wars (K) 2:00 Star Wars II: The Empire Strikes Back (K) 4:05 Star Wars III: Return of the Jedi (K) 6:20 Blade Runner 8:20 Raiders of the Lost Ark (K) 10:50 Alien 12:15am Aliens (Artwork) Copyright 1989 by William Roister <h3 id="channeleight8viewingroom-407">CHANNEL EIGHT (8) Viewing Room - 407</h3> <h4 id="thursdayafternoon">Thursday Afternoon</h4> Starting Time 3:00pm The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 5:30 Urusei Yatsura: I (JA) 6:30 Max Headroom: Blipverts 7:20 The Prisoner: Episodes 1 & 2 9:05 The Prisoner: Episodes 3 & 4 10:50 The Prisoner Episodes 5 & 6 <h4 id="fridaymorning">Friday Morning</h4> 12:40am In the Company of Wolves 2:20 Dune 4:40 The Day of the Triffids 6:2 Octopussy 8:30 Kimagure Orange Road: IIB (JA) 9:20 The Prisoner Episodes 7 & 8 11:05 Urusei Yatsura: Only You (JA) <h4 id="fridayafternoon">Friday Afternoon</h4> 12:40pm The Prisoner Episodes 9 & 10 2:25 Dirty Pair: Affair of Nolandia (JA) 3:25 The Prisoner Episodes 11 & 12 5:10 The Prisoner: Episodes 13 & 14 6:55 Max Headroom: Rake Boarding 7:45 The Right Stuff 11:05 The Andromeda Strain <h4 id="saturdaymorning">Saturday Morning</h4> 1:30am Fantastic Planet 2:50 Enemy Mine 3:40 The Terminator 5:30 Little Shop of Horrors 6:55 Innerspace (K) 9:00 Kimagure Orange Road: IIB (JA) 9:55 The Prisoner: Episodes 1 & 2 11:40 The Prisoner Episodes 3 & 4 <h4 id="saturdayafternoon">Saturday Afternoon</h4> 1:25pm The Prisoner: Episodes 5 & 6 3:10 The Prisoner Episodes 7 & 8 5:00 Kimagure Orange Road: IIIA (JA) 5:50 The Prisoner: Episodes 9 & 10 7:35 Grey: Digital Target (JA) 9:05 The Prisoner: Episodes 11 & 12 10:50 The Prisoner Episodes 13 & 14 <h4 id="sundaymorning">Sunday Morning</h4> 12:50am The Prisoner Episodes 15 & 16 2:35 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 5:10 Big Trouble in Little China 6:50 Starman (K) 8:50 Altered States 10:35 Tron <h4 id="sundayafternoon">Sunday Afternoon</h4> 12:15pm Quest for Fire 2:00 The Day the Earth Stood Still 3:35 Forbidden Planet 5:20 Legend 6:50 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (K) 9:10 Silent Running (K) 10:40 Dark Star 12:10am The Shining <h3 id="channelten10viewingroom-409">CHANNEL TEN (10) Viewing Room - 409</h3> <h4 id="thursdayafternoon">Thursday Afternoon</h4> Starting time 3:00pm Labyrinth (K) 4:45 Ladyhawke (K) 6:50 Masters of the Universe (K) 8:35 The Princess Bride (K) 10:15 Time Bandits (K) <h4 id="fridaymorning">Friday Morning</h4> 12:30am The Great Space Race (Science fact) 4:30 Buckaroo Banzai 6:15 Doctor Doolittle (K) 8:40 Urusei Yatsura: II (JA) 9:40 The Ewok Adventure (K) 12:00pm Batman <h4 id="fridayafternoon">Friday Afternoon</h4> 1:50 E.T. (K) 3:50 Star Trek Cartoons (K) 4:40 Dot and the Whale (K) 6:00 Jack and the Beanstalk (K) 7:35 Robot Carnival (JA) 9:20 Space Flight (Science Fact) 12:30am Space Flight: Part IV <h4 id="saturdaymorning">Saturday Morning</h4> 1:30 Innerspace (K) 3:35 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (K) 5:55 Peewee’s Playhouse: Door (K) 6:20 Pinnochio (K) 7:25 Peewee’s Playhouse: Fun (K) 7:50 Peewee’s Big Adventure (K) 9:25 Urusei Yatsura: Lum the Forever 11:05 The Neverending Story (K) 12:50pm The Princess Bride (K) <h4 id="saturdayafternoon">Saturday Afternoon</h4> 2:30 In Search of the Wow Wow Wibble Wobble Wozzy Woodie Woo (K) 3:25 Labyrinth (K) 5:10 Computer Animation (Science Fact) 6:10 Joseph Cambell’s The Power of Myth: I 7:15 Joseph Cambell’s The power of Myth: II 8:20 The Great Space Race (K) 12:35am Cosmos: A Special Edition <h4 id="sundaymorning">Sunday Morning</h4> 5:10 Peewee’s Playhouse: Day (K) 5:35 Peewee’s Playhouse: Look (K) 6:00 Dynaman (K) 7:20 Peewee’s Playhouse: Okay & This (K) 8:10 Batteries Not Included (K) 10:00 Time Bandits (K) 12:00pm Ladyhawke <h4 id="sundayafternoon">Sunday Afternoon</h4> 2:05 Masters of the Universe (K) 3:50 Joseph Cambell’s The Power of Myth: III 4:50 Back to the Future (K) 6:50 Buckaroo Banzai 8:35 Explorers (K) 10:25 Nova: The Brain 11:25 Nova: Test Tube Babies (Artwork) Catspaw Copyright 1989 by Michael Whelan. Cover for the book by Joan Vinge, published by Warner Books. <h2 id="fridaymarch24">FRIDAY MARCH 24</h2> <table> <thead> <tr> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">9</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">10</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">11</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">12</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">1</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">2</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">3</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">4</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">5</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">6</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">7</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">8</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">9</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">10</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">11</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">12</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">1</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">2</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilion Front</th> <td colspan="2">Tai Chi</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td rowspan="2" colspan="9">Stardance and Ice Cream Social</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilion Back</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilion Backstage</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilon Programming</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Cartooning</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Costuming Tech Aspects</td> <td colspan="2">Hands-On Airbrushing</td> <td colspan="2">Fannish Olympics Judges Meeting</td> <td colspan="2">Costume: Close Up and Far Out</td> <td colspan="2">Sharon Sinclair Show</td> <td colspan="2">Worldcon News & Views</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td rowspan="4" colspan="3">Meet the Pros Autograph Party</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Ballroom 1 & 2</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">The Shared World of Seattle</td> <td colspan="2">Waiting for Fame and Fortune</td> <td colspan="2">Observing Your Imagination</td> <td colspan="2">SFWA: What it Is, What it Does</td> <td colspan="2">Lagoon Seattle: Greenhouse Effect</td> <td colspan="2">Tax Laws and the Artist/Writer</td> <td colspan="2">Cartoonists' Jam</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Ballroom 3</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Bradley</td> <td colspan="2">Publishing in America</td> <td colspan="2">Make a Living as an Artist</td> <td colspan="2">Interview: Mike Glyer</td> <td colspan="2">Interview: Algis Budrys</td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Steve Barnes</td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Algis Budrys</td> <td colspan="2">The Alien as Messiah</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Ballroom 4</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Live Longer, Think Better</td> <td colspan="2">Pro Secrets From the Artists</td> <td colspan="2">AIDS: An Update</td> <td colspan="2">Advances in Life Extension</td> <td colspan="2">Monarch Mystics</td> <td colspan="2">The Art of Alicia Austin</td> <td colspan="2">Changing Face of the SF Con</td> <td colspan="2">When Books are Outlawed…</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">South Center</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Costuming: Creating Personas</td> <td colspan="2">Writers of the Future</td> <td colspan="2">Anthology Reading I</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">Pulphouse Magazine</td> <td colspan="2">Fannish Olympics: Orient & Prelims</td> <td colspan="2">Reading: K. Anderson</td> <td colspan="2">Tragedy of the Week</td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">An Evening of Music</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Horror Readings</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Reading</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Scarborough</td> <td>Reading: Alcala</td> <td>Reading: Ransom</td> <td>Reading: Oltion</td> <td>Reading: McKenna</td> <td>Reading: Rusch</td> <td>Reading: D. Smith</td> <td colspan="2">SF Radio</td> <td>Reading: Scanlon</td> <td>Reading: McGregor</td> <td colspan="2">Superscience '89</td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Severance</td> <td colspan="2">Biotechnology</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">AA Gathering</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Fanzine</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Vampires, Computers, Et Al.</td> <td colspan="2">What's Ahead in the Game Universe</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">The Nameless: 40th Anniversary Party</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Art Demo</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Airbrush Techniques</td> <td colspan="2">Art Show Open Forum</td> <td colspan="2">More Airbrush Techniques</td> <td colspan="2">Art Demo: Sneak Preview</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Conference</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">Writers' Workshop Vega</td> <td colspan="4">Writers' Workshop Sol</td> <td colspan="4">Writers' Workshop Sirius</td> <td colspan="4">Writers' Workshop Merak</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Gaming 1</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="6">Top Gun Tournament</td> <td colspan="2">Lunch</td> <td colspan="4">KidKon II Gaming Round I</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="6">Steve Jackson Games / GURPS / Cliffhangers Tournament</td> <td colspan="10">Steve Jackson Games / GURPS / Cliffhangers Tournament</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Gaming 2</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="6">Uno Tournament Prelim</td> <td colspan="6">Diplomacy Tournament / Uno Tournament Prelim</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="8">Steve Jackson Games / GURPS / Cliffhangers Tournament</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Gaming 3</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="6">Top Gun Tournament</td> <td colspan="6">Open Gaming</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Other</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Art Show Tour: Gustafson</td> <td colspan="2">Art Show Tour: David Mattingly</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">KidKon II Hotel Tour</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h2 id="saturdaymarch25">SATURDAY MARCH 25</h2> <table> <thead> <tr> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">9</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">10</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">11</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">12</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">1</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">2</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">3</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">4</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">5</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">6</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">7</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">8</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">9</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">10</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">11</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">12</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">1</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">2</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilion Front</th> <td colspan="2">Tai Chi</td> <td rowspan="2" colspan="4">Masquerade Mandatory Meeting</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td rowspan="2" colspan="6">Masquerade</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilion Back</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilion Backstage</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="9">Masquerade Technical Pre-Judging</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Masquerade Winners' Reception</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilon Programming</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">KidKon II: Sat Morn Cartoonists</td> <td colspan="2">Shipping for Cynics</td> <td colspan="2">Breaking Into Screenwriting</td> <td colspan="2">Dragondrawing</td> <td colspan="2">Dragons and Other Sculptures</td> <td colspan="2">The Damon and Dan Show</td> <td colspan="2">Art Prints: The Real Story</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Ballroom 1 & 2</th> <td colspan="2">Destroying the World</td> <td colspan="2">Kipling in the 21st Century</td> <td colspan="2">Soviets in Space</td> <td colspan="2">Life, the Universe and Steve Barnes</td> <td colspan="2">After Challenger: Is the Dream Alive?</td> <td colspan="2">How to Survive Fame and Fortune</td> <td colspan="2">Writing Course in 55 Minutes</td> <td colspan="4">Regional Star Trek Conference</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td rowspan="2" colspan="6">Contradance!!!</td> <td rowspan="2" colspan="8">New Music Dance</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Ballroom 3</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">WA Law</td> <td colspan="2">Buy Art, Buy Smart</td> <td colspan="2">How to Break Into Print</td> <td colspan="2">The Art of David Mattingly</td> <td colspan="2">Equal Rights for Artists</td> <td colspan="2">Interview: David Mattingly</td> <td colspan="2">Alligators in the Sewers</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Ballroom 4</th> <td colspan="2">Mainstream vs. SF Publishing</td> <td colspan="2">The Evolution of Editing</td> <td colspan="2">Interview: Dr. Alan E. Nourse</td> <td colspan="4">Open Writers' Workshop</td> <td colspan="2">Eros in Orbit, Revisited</td> <td colspan="2">Gods in Space</td> <td colspan="2">Wormholes and Time Machines</td> <td></td> <td>Clarion West Reception</td> <td colspan="5">Clarion West Scholarship Auction</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">South Center</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">Film Contest Prelims</td> <td colspan="2">Nanotechnology</td> <td colspan="2">Illustrators of the Future</td> <td colspan="2">Northwest Writers' Group</td> <td colspan="4">The Wake of Argos</td> <td colspan="2">Interview: Avram Davidson</td> <td colspan="2">SF and Self-Censorship</td> <td colspan="2">KidKon II: What do Kids Want?</td> <td colspan="4">SF's New Rock and Roll</td> <td colspan="2">The Changing of the Guard</td> <td colspan="2">The Empire of Elan Imperial Court</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Reading</th> <td colspan="2">What is Clarion West?</td> <td>Reading: G. Miller</td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Kimbriel</td> <td>Reading: Platt</td> <td colspan="2">The Art of Lynne Taylor</td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Bieler</td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Salmonson</td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Beagle</td> <td colspan="2">Reading: C. Miller</td> <td colspan="2">The Art of Mark Skullerud</td> <td>Reading: Killus</td> <td>Reading: Baldwin</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">AA Gathering</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Fanzine</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Educating Educators</td> <td colspan="2">Fannish Art</td> <td colspan="2">Minicon Conference</td> <td colspan="2">Zine Publication</td> <td colspan="2">Green Politics</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Million Lives in One Lifetime</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Amateur Press Associations</td> <td colspan="2">Mythadventures Fan Club</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Art Demo</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">Chainmail Making</td> <td colspan="2">The Evolution fo Funny Animals</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Conference</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">Writers' Workshop Klaatu</td> <td colspan="4">Writers' Workshop Barada</td> <td colspan="4">Writers' Workshop Nikto</td> <td colspan="4">Writers' Workshop Alioth</td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Antieau</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Gaming 1</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="6">KidKon II Gaming Round II</td> <td colspan="2">Lunch</td> <td colspan="6">Battletech Tournament / Dungeons and Dragons Tournament</td> <td colspan="6">Traveller Tournament</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Gaming 2</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="6">Uno Tournament Final</td> <td colspan="2">Lunch</td> <td colspan="6">Ghostbusters Tournament</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Gaming 3</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="30">Steve Jackson Darwinopoly Tournament</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Other</th> <td colspan="2">Art Show Tour: For Artists Only</td> <td colspan="2">Art Show Tour: P. Clift</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Art Show Tour: Dharmic Engineers</td> <td colspan="2">KidKon II: Prop Room Tour (Ages 12-16)</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="3">KidKon II Art Show Tour</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h2 id="sundaymarch26">SUNDAY MARCH 26</h2> <table> <thead> <tr> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">9</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">10</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">11</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">12</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">1</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">2</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">3</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">4</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">5</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">6</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">7</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">8</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">9</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">10</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">11</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">12</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">1</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">2</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilion Front</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">Lazer Tag</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="6">Art Auction</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">Fannish Olympics: Finals</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilion Back</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="5">Banquest and Philip K. Dick Award Ceremony</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">SCA Fight Simulation</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilion Backstage</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Masquerade Debriefing</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilon Programming</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Ballroom 1 & 2</th> <td colspan="2">Tai Chi</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">Easter Egg Hunt</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Film Contest Winners</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td rowspan="2" colspan="8">Dead Sasquatch Party and Spring Rites</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Ballroom 3</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Future of Art, Animation & FX</td> <td colspan="2">Fat, Feminism and Fandom - Next Step</td> <td colspan="2">Anthology Reading II</td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Dalmas</td> <td colspan="2">Volunteers'/GOH Party</td> <td colspan="2">Abuse Themes in SF & F</td> <td colspan="4">Onions and Roses</td> <td colspan="2">Closing Ceremonies</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Ballroom 4</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>P.K. Dick Award Retrospec</td> <td colspan="2">Writing Collaborations</td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Perry</td> <td colspan="2">Look What They've Done to My Book, Ma</td> <td>Reading: Caraker</td> <td>Reading: B. Taylor</td> <td colspan="2">Bibliophlila Ultima</td> <td colspan="2">Occult Archetypes</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">Pictionary</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">South Center</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Film-Making on a Shoestring</td> <td colspan="4">Homemade Who: "The Zombie Legions"</td> <td colspan="2">Bulway-Lytton Bullpen</td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Stith</td> <td colspan="2">Dream Interpretation</td> <td colspan="2">My Life as a Toxic Waste Dump</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Reading</th> <td colspan="2">Renaissance/Fantasy Betrothal</td> <td colspan="2">Reading: SF Poetry</td> <td colspan="2">Reading: M.J. Engh</td> <td colspan="2">The Alaskan Perspective</td> <td></td> <td>Reading: F.M. Busby</td> <td colspan="4">Science Fiction Convention League Meeting</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Fanzine</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Fandom in 31 Flavors</td> <td colspan="2">Do Robots Attend Dataline Cons?</td> <td colspan="2">Wargames and Other Strategies</td> <td colspan="2">Running a "Pro" Fan Club</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Art Demo</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Conference</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">Writers' Workshop Polaris</td> <td colspan="4">Writers' Workshop Alcor</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Gaming 1</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Awards Presentation</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Gaming 2</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="14">Open Gaming</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Gaming 3</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="14">Open Gaming</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Other</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>Easter Bonnet Parade - Lobby</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h2 id="thursdaymarch23">THURSDAY MARCH 23</h2> <table> <thead> <tr> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">3</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">4</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">5</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">6</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">7</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">8</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">9</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">10</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">11</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">12</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">1</th> <th scope="col"></th> <th scope="col">2</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilion Front</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilion Back</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilion Backstage</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Pavilon Programming</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Ballroom 1 & 2</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td rowspan="2" colspan="8">Norwescon Warmup Dance</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Ballroom 3</th> <td colspan="2">Masquerade Slide Show</td> <td colspan="2">Robert A. Heinlein Appreciation</td> <td colspan="2">Books, Books Everywhere</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Ballroom 4</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Personal Power: Swords & Sorcery</td> <td colspan="2">High Tech "Reading"</td> <td colspan="2">Researching Alternate Worlds</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Opening Ceremonies</td> <td colspan="2">Science for the Masses</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">South Center</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Cox</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Bryant</td> <td colspan="4">Hitchhiker's Guide Birthday Party</td> <td colspan="2">Best Films of 1988</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Reading</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Intro to Con Fandom</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Reading: Emerson</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="2">Strange Fannish Tales and Jokes</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Fanzine</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Art Demo</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Conference</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="4">Writers' Workshop Procyon</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Gaming 1</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="16">Uno Tournament Prelim / Open Gaming</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Gaming 2</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="16">Open Gaming</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Gaming 3</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td colspan="16">Open Gaming If Needed</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Other</th> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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