Loscon 34 Program Book

Loscon 34
Welcome
to the
Logbook
of the
“DIG”
LAX Marriott
November 23 - 25, 2007
Robert J. Sawyer
Author Guest
Theresa Mather
Artist Guest
Capt. David West Reynolds
Fan Guest
Dr. James Robinson
Music Guest
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Table of Contents
Anime .................................. Pg 68
Art Show .............................. Pg 66
Awards
Evans-Freehafer ................ Pg 56
Forry ................................. Pg 57
Rotsler .............................. Pg 58
Autographs .......................... Pg 73
Bios
Author Guest of Honor .........Pg 8-11
Artist Guest of Honor ........ Pg 12-13
Music Guest of Honor ........ Pg 16-17
Fan Guest of Honor ................. Pg 14
Program Guests ........... Pg 30-37
Blood Drive ........................... Pg 53
Chair’s Message .................. Pg 4-5
Children’s Programming ........ Pg 68
Committee & Staff ............. Pg 6-7
Computer Lounge ................ Pg 62
Con Suite ............................. Pg 62
Daily Zine ............................. Pg 72
Dealers’ Room ...................... Pg 61
Exhibits ................................ Pg 69
Fan Tables ............................ Pg 72
Fanzine Lounge .................... Pg 40
Filking ............................. Pg 64-65
Gaming ................................. Pg 69
Guide:
Advertisers ....................... Pg 80
Program Book Art ............. Pg 80
Convention Map .......... Pg 40-41
Hall Costume Awards ........... Pg 60
History
LASFS ......................... Pg 50-55
Loscon ........................ Pg 48-49
Ice Cream Social ................... Pg 58
Information .......................... Pg 61
Kids’ Night Out ..................... Pg 63
Listening Lounge .................. Pg 71
Masquerade .......................... Pg 59
Members List ................. Pg 75-79
Office / Lost & Found .......... Pg 71
Photography/Videotape Policies .... Pg 70
Programming Panels ....... Pg 38-47
Regency Dancing .................. Pg 62
Registration .......................... Pg 71
Room Parties ........................ Pg 63
Security
Rules & Regulations ..... Pg 70,73
No Smoking Policy ............. Pg 73
Weapons Policy ........... Pg 70,73
Special Needs ....................... Pg 60
Special Stories
Peking Man .................. Pg 18-22
Dr. Arizona and the:
Planet of the Mummies ... Pg 24-25
Quasi-Mayan Menace ... Pg 26-27
Fossils of Mars ............. Pg 28-29
Teen Programming ............... Pg 66
Toy Drive ............................. Pg 47
Volunteers ........................... Pg 73
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A Message From
The Expedition Leader
Excavation Report for Loscon 34: The Dig
Several years ago when I came up with
the idea of an Archaeology Theme for a
Loscon convention, it was simply a pipe
dream and it still stuns me that it has
become a reality. I thank all the LASFS
members who voted me the opportunity
to share this dream with them and to all
my wonderful dedicated committee
members who have helped me make it
come true. As always with any convention chair looking back, I know that I could
have done better in many areas but was
also taught many things, including to
trust in the people I selected. Through
all the trials and tribulations that affected
me physically, technically and financially
over the past year, this outstanding committee has picked up the slack when
needed and showed their tremendous
ability to perform their volunteer jobs
even in the face of their own difficulties.
I especially thank my vice-chair Sherri Benoun, my secretary Marcia Minsky, and
Arlene Satin for keeping me up to date
when I had communication problems and
providing much moral support. Meanwhile, I thank both Tadao Tomomatsu
and Christian McGuire for sharing with me
their knowledge as well as their confidence that I could do this job. Above all
I would like to thank my late friend
Michael Mason and dedicate this excavation to his memory since most of my
ideas developed in long, often late-night,
conversations with him.
that such characters can be found historically, but using them in a futuristic
context just seems anachronistic to me.
Unfortunately, most of these treatments do seem to see archaeologists,
along with their methods and ethics, as
being as trapped in the ancient past as
its field of study is. Paleontology has
been a bit better treated by science fiction as a field of scientific study with a
future, even if a potentially disastrous
one ala “Jurassic Park”. Still, unfortunately, most of the paleontology related
stories have centered around not paleontology as a field but around the discovery of a live dinosaur (think “wonderful old object”). In fact, paleontological science fiction has its own bane
in that most stories seem to be stuck
in the Cretaceous. By holding a science
fiction convention with a theme specifically looking at the future of these two
fields of study, I hope that I might inspire some leaders in the field of science fiction to improve the treatment
of archaeology and paleontology in their
work.
Archaeology is a scientific field that has
been frequently overlooked or ill-used in
science fiction. Most often archaeology
can only be found as a launching point
or other plot item, usually in the form of
a discovery of a wonderful old object.
Sometimes these stories decide to follow the “Indiana Jones” model and have
the main character as an archaeologist
that seems to spend all his/her time trying to find some particular treasure and
fighting evil figures to do so. It is true 4
The Guests of Honor for Loscon 34 were
specially selected with this theme in
mind. Robert J. Sawyer has explored
both paleontology and archaeology
themes in his writing. His Quintaglio
series has shown dinosaurs as they
might have evolved if their extinction
was avoided. One of these dinosaurs is
even shown performing standard paleontological/archaeological methods and
further explores the gray area which
merges these two sciences (which are
simply currently separated by the absence/presence of intelligence). It still
strikes me as fate that the logo for
Loscon 34, which was developed long
before I selected him as GOH, mirrors a
picture that he already had on his website. My Artist Guest of Honor Theresa
Mather has explored a wide range of artistic expression by painting on a variety of materials. These works are what
she has become well-known for within
the science fiction convention circuit.
Dragons are a common theme in her artwork and, to stretch the connection a
bit, dinosaur bones are considered to
be the basis of the development of
dragon mythology. Theresa also has
explored the history of a particular mode
of artistic expression by restoring carousels and doing the necessary historical research involved. Since this work
involves an aspect of material culture,
it can be in fact categorized within the
fields of historical archaeology, museum
studies, and even experimental archaeology. I must admit that my choice of
her for Artist Guest of Honor was also
highly influenced by our collaborative
work. My Fan Guest of Honor could be
considered to not be a “traditional”
choice. David West Reynolds is an archaeologist like me, but it was specifically his research related to Star Wars
as reported in the “Star Wars Insider”
that first brought him to my attention
many years ago. I vowed then that if I
ever ran a convention he would be one
of my guests. Someone who would go
to the lengths to travel to Tunisia to
find the filming locations for the original Star Wars trilogy is definitely a true
blue fan. His story since then is one of
a fan that has “made it” and now can
be considered a definite professional in
his field. It is his contribution to Star
Wars and Indiana Jones fandom through
his writing and work that I am honoring
by making him Fan Guest of Honor. He
has brought to the rest of us the many
facts and information that real fans appreciate, and the skills he brought to
the task he acquired due to his archaeological training. This might not be the
more traditional “Fan Guest of Honor” 5
interpretation but hey ... I’m the chair ;).
Dr. James Robinson came to my attention many years ago as “Dr. Jane”. Every time I was introduced as an archaeologist at a convention, it was inevitable
that the person would then respond with
“Do you know Dr. Jane?”. The gift of
several CD’s made me determined to
have him present as a Music Guest of
Honor. The aspect of those CD’s that
impressed me was the song writing skill
involved in capturing the spirit of paleontology into song. Even if he did not
continue as a paleontologist, I still wanted
to honor that song writing ability as well
as to honor him for the contributions he
has made to the filk community at large.
I hope you all get to benefit from my
selections and get a feeling for the wide
expanse of expressions of our theme.
Loscon began primarily as a literary science fiction convention but has over the
years expanded to being a general science fiction convention exploring all avenues of expression. This development
has mirrored the expansion of the field
of science fiction itself. Our community
can now be viewed as a sub-culture with
its own individual sub-cultures. In this
respect, I have always viewed a general
science fiction convention like Loscon as
an opportunity for all these sub-cultures
to get together and celebrate our larger
community. It is a time to share our individual interests and enthusiasms with
like-minded people and help to inspire the
acceptance of the unordinary that we
collectively ascribe to but do not always
practice. Here at Loscon I hope that you
explore outside your own sub-sub-culture and make contact with and enjoy
the wide range of opportunities available
to you here. If you leave Loscon with
nothing else, I hope you leave with an
understanding of the width of our science fiction culture and that you have
excavated a wider amount of it than you
have ever before (even if you still didn’t
quite get it).
Keep Digging,
Dr. Susan “Arizona” Gleason, Chair
LosCon 34 Committee
Dr. Susan “Arizona” Gleason
Brett Achorn
Brad Achorn
Tadao Tomomatsu
Melina Levesque
Elizabeth Klein-Lebbink
Jerome Scott
Staff
Mary Jane Jewell
Charles Matheny
Janet Baernstein
Sheri Taylor
Marilyn “Fuzzy” Niven
Autographs
Regina Reynante
Belly Jam
Kristine Cherry
Blood Drive
Dennis Cherry
Kristine Cherry
Children’s Programming
Alison Stern
Staff
Lucy Stern
Jester
Evil Red
Con Suite
Janet “Lt. J.G. Smoothie” Pedersen
Staff
Elonda Castro
Barbara Newton
Thomas Bustos
Jonathan Bustos
Cassandra Bustos
Costume Station
Maria Rodriguez
Dealers’ Room
Kris Bauer
Second
Greg “Grunt” Bilan
Third
Warren “Peace” Johnson
Decorations
Casey Bernay
Staff
Ruth Judkowitz
Dig Box
Mike Stern
Lucy Stern
Dig Mom
Colleen Savitzky
Events Coordinator
Katt Thornton
Fan Tables
Greg “Grunt” Bilan
Filking
Lee Gold
Staff
Barry Gold
Barney Evans
Greg Gross
Gaming
Terry Newton
Barry Lew
Patrick Havert
Victor Bugg
Barksdale Hales
Darnell Coleman
Tom Safer
Guest Liaison
Janis Olson
Staff
Wendy Newton
Vicki Shapiro
Amy Dienhart
Rob “Gizmo” Powell
Allie Bennett
Allison Stern
Hall Costumes
Anne Morrel
Staff
“Wild Bill” Ellern
Hotel
Christian “Shovel” McGuire
Seconds
Joyce “Indiana” Hooper
Kim Marks Brown
Third
Darnell Coleman
Ice Cream Social
Information
Internet Lounge
Chair
Anime
Staff
Archivist
Staff
Art Show
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Stacey Helton
Cathy Mullican
Jim Dennis
Heather Stern
Kids’ Night Out
Heide Nichols
Staff
Barbara Newton
Listening Lounge
Greg Barrett
Logistics
Bob Null
Staff
George Mulligan
Michael “Tiny” Korp
Masquerade
Jess “California” Miller
Staff
Malcolm “Midden Heap” Scott
Membership
Elayne Pelz
Minyan Committee “Rabbi” Marcia Minsky
Staff
“Gabai” Michael Pell
Joe Zeff
“Hazzan” Joyce Sperling
Newszine
Martin Young
Reporter
Robert “Bob” Evans
Numbers
Laura Korp
Michael “Tiny” Korp
Staff
Hieu Le
Office
Joyce Sperling
Staff
Michael Pell
Operations
Bert Boden
Second
Melissa Campbell
Staff
Gina Palmer
Dorothy Truslow
Jonnalyhn Wolfcat Hall
Molly Boone
Wendy Newton
Keith Kissel
Martin Young
Michael Schultz
Saul Dudley
Evan James
Gary Kephart
Ernie Aldama
Nick Strickland
Brianna Johnson
Party Maven
Selina Phanara
Staff - Patrol/Ice Haulers
Tom Udo
Danny Frashier
Photographer
Stan Burns
Press Relations
Arlene Satin
Programming
Milt Stevens
Staff
Arlene Satin
Richard Foss
Marty Massoglia
Programming Ops
Rainy Smyth
Ed Hooper
Staff
Heide Nichols
Steve Smyth
Scott Nichols
Richard Nguyen
Progress Reports
Arlene Satin
Program Book
Tony “Tomb Breaker” Benoun
Proofreader
Sherri Benoun
Copy Editors
Anne Morrel
“Wild Bill” Ellern
Secretary
Special Needs
Staff
Staff Lounge
Staff
Tech
Marcia “Raider” Minsky
Joe “Sethos” Zeff
Don Wenner
Rebecca Rowan
Bruce Rowan
Charlie Hoff
Scott Beckstead
Teen Lounge
Pearl Newton
Staff
Amelia Horswill
Eris Young
Sundance BeKinnie
Eugene Hourany
Spike Dodds
Toy Drive
George Mulligan
Treasurer
“Wild Bill” Ellern
Staff
Anne Morrel
Virtual Masquerade
Michael Thorsen
Volunteers
Kathryn “Chaos” Savitzky
Second
Peggy Newvine
Webmaster
Dr. Susan “Arizona” Gleason
Publicity Crew
Eric “ Dr. Zorka” Hoffman
Dr. Susan “Arizona” Gleason
John DeChancie
Liz Mortensen
Marcia Minsky
Arlene Satin
Lucy Stern
Regency Dance
John Hertz
Registration
Elayne Pelz
Second Tony “Tomb Breaker” Benoun
Staff
Marcia Minsky
Linnea Caldeen
Katherine Seddon
Dave Keller
Deanna Bayless
Lynn Baden
Karen Connell
Restaurant Guide
Joan Steward
Riddle Master
Ed Green
Rock Dances
Michael “Lynx” Molisani
Shawn Crosby
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Author Guest
Of Honor
ROBERT J. SAWYER
Robert J. Sawyer is one of only seven
writers ever to win all three of the
science-fiction field’s top awards for
best novel of the year: the Hugo
Award (which he won in 2003 for
Hominids), the Science Fiction and
Fantasy Writers of America’s Nebula
Award (which he won in 1996 for The
Terminal Experiment), and the John
W. Campbell Memorial Award (which
he won in 2006 for Mindscan).
Rob is the only writer in history to
win the top science-fiction awards in
the United States, China, France, Japan, and Spain, and he has won a
record-setting nine Canadian Science
Fiction and Fantasy Awards (“Auroras”). His 17 novels include two popular trilogies: the “Neanderthal Parallax” (Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids), about a gateway that opens
to an alternate Earth where Neanderthals survived to the present day, and
the “Quintaglio Ascension” (Far-Seer,
Fossil Hunter, and Foreigner), about
a world of intelligent dinosaurs.
In addition to his Hugo win for Hominids, he has nine other Hugo nominations under his best for such novels
as Starplex, Frameshift, Factoring Humanity, and Calculating God.
His other awards and honors include
an honorary doctorate from
Laurentian University; the $2,500
Toronto Public Library Celebrates
Reading Award; the Ryerson University Alumni Award of Distinction,
the City of Mississauga Civic Award 8
of Recognition, the Sixteenth Annual
Collectors Award for “Most Collectable Author of the Year” presented
by Barry R. Levin Science Fiction &
Fantasy Literature of Santa Monica,
Analog magazine’s “Analytical Laboratory Award” for best short story
of the year (for “Shed Skin”), the
Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis
Award for best short story of the
year (for “Just Like Old Times”), and
the Science Fiction Chronicle Reader
Award for best short story of the
year (for “The Hand You’re Dealt”).
His latest novel is Rollback (which
received starred reviews, denoting
a book of exceptional merit, in both
Publishers Weekly and Library Journal); his next, Wake, begins his new
“WWW” trilogy about the World
Wide Web gaining consciousness.
Called “the leader of SF’s next-generation pack” by Barnes and Noble,
“the best science-fiction writer out
there” by the Rocky Mountain News,
and “a writer of boundless confidence and bold scientific extrapolation” by The New York Times, Rob’s
novels are top-ten national mainstream bestsellers in Canada and
have hit #1 on the bestsellers’ list
published by Locus, the US trade
journal of the science-fiction field.
Rob is a judge for the Writers of
the Future contest, and is one of
Canada). He is a frequent commentator on science stories for CBC
Newsworld (Canada’s national cablenews channel), and has long been the
on-air futurist for Discovery Channel
Canada. His nonfiction has appeared
in Archaeology, Sky & Telescope, and
The New York Review of Science Fiction, and his commissioned op-ed
pieces have appeared in The Ottawa
Citizen, The Globe and Mail: Canada’s
National Newpaper
Newpaper, and Maclean’s:
Canada’s Weekly Newsmagazine
Newsmagazine.
three jurors for the Cordwainer Smith
Rediscovery Award, given annually
at Readercon. He’s also The Canadian Encyclopedia’s authority on science fiction; has taught writing at
the University of Toronto, Ryerson
University, and the Banff Centre; and
edits the Robert J. Sawyer Books imprint for Canadian publisher Fitzhenry
& Whiteside.
Rob was the only writer invited to
sit on the Canadian Federal Department of Justice’s advisory panel for
genetics laws. His consulting clients
have included Kodak, Motorola, and
CA (Computer Associates). He has
made over 200 TV appearances (including Rivera Live with Geraldo
Rivera and Canada A.M.) and done
over 200 radio interviews (including
NPR’s Talk of the Nation “Science
Friday” and CBC’s Sounds Like
In other media, Rob wrote the original series bible for the science-fiction
TV series Charlie Jade and did conceptual work on the revival of
Robotech. He lives just outside
Toronto with his wife, Carolyn Clink.
For more information, see his website at sfwriter.com
sfwriter.com.
_ The Terminal Experiment, HarperPrism
(now Avon Eos), New York, May 1995.
_ Starplex, Ace Books, October 1996.
_ Frameshift, Tor Books, June 1997.
_ Illegal Alien, Ace Books, December 1997.
_ Factoring Humanity, Tor Books, June
1998.
_ Flashforward, Tor Books, June 1999.
_ Calculating God, Tor Books, June 2000.
_ Mindscan, Tor Books, April 2005.
_ Rollback, Tor Books, April 2007.
Novels
The WWW Trilogy:
_ Wake, Penguin Canada and Ace Science
Fiction (Penguin USA), forthcoming in
2008.
_ Watch, Penguin Canada and Ace, forthcoming in 2009.
_ Wonder, Penguin Canada and Ace, forthcoming in 2010.
The Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy:
_ Hominids, Tor Books (the world’s largest science-fiction publisher), New York,
May 2002.
_ Humans, Tor Books, February 2003.
_ Hybrids, Tor Books, September 2003.
Collections
_ Identity Theft, a hardcover collection of
14 short stories, one novelette, and one
novella, Red Deer Press, Calgary (introduction by Robert Charles Wilson), February 2008.
The Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy:
_ Far-Seer, Ace, New York, June 1992 (reissued by Tor, May 2004).
_ Fossil Hunter, Ace, May 1993 (reissued
by Tor, January 2005).
_ Foreigner, Ace, March 1994 (reissued
by Tor, August 2005).
_ Relativity, a hardcover collection of eight
stories, four speeches, eleven articles,
and twelve essays on the craft of writing, ISFiC Press, Chicago, November
2004 (introduction by Mike Resnick).
Stand-Alone Novels:
_ Golden Fleece, Warner, New York, December 1990 (reissued by Tor, November 1999).
_ End of an Era, Ace, November 1994
(reissued by Tor, September 2001).
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_ Iterations, a hardcover collection of 22
short stories, Quarry Press, Kingston,
Ontario, January 2002 (trade paperback
reprint, Red Deer Press, March 2004;
second edition, Red Deer Press, December 2007) (introduction by James Alan
Gardner).
Short Stories
The Abdication of Pope Mary III
_ “The
III,” Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science, July 6, 2000. [included in Iterations] [available from Fictionwise.com]
_ “Above
All,” Dante’s Disciples, edited
Above It All
by Peter Crowther and Edward E. Kramer,
White Wolf, Atlanta, February 1996. [included in Iterations ] [available from
Fictionwise.com]
_ “Biding
Time,” Slipstreams, edited by
Biding Time
Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers,
DAW Books, New York, May 2006. [included in Identity Theft]
_ “Black
Reflection,” In the Shadow of the
Black Reflection
Wall: Vietnam Stories That Might Have
Been , edited by Byron R. Tetrick,
Cumberland House, 2002. Modified and
incorporated into the novel Humans
(2003) as Chapter 22.
Mars Reacts!
_ “The
Planet” as “Mars
Reacts!,” The
The Blue Planet
Globe and Mail: Canada’s National Newspaper, Saturday, December 11, 1999.
[included in Iterations] [available from
Fictionwise.com]
_ “Caught
Web,” White Wall Review
Caught in the Web
1982, edited by Denise Coney, Jennifer
Harwood, J. Craig Sandy, and Robert J.
Sawyer, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute,
Toronto, 1982.
_ “Come
Faithful,” Space Inc., edCome All Ye Faithful
ited by Julie E. Czerneda, DAW Books,
New York, July 2003. [included in Identity
Theft ]
[available
from
Fictionwise.com]
_ “The
Contest,” White Wall Review 1980,
The Contest
edited by Lisa Coleman and Ed Greenwood, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute,
Toronto, 1980; reprinted in 100 Great
Fantasy Short Short Stories, edited by
Isaac Asimov, Terry Carr, and Martin
Harry Greenberg, Doubleday, New York,
1984. [included in Iterations]
_ “Driving
Bargain,” Be VERY Afraid!:
Driving A Bargain
More Tales of Horror, edited by Edo van
Belkom, Tundra Books, Toronto, 2002.
[included in Identity Theft ] [available
from Fictionwise.com]
_ “The
Landed,” I, Alien, edited
The Eagle Has Landed
by Mike Resnick, DAW Books, New York,
April 2005. [included in Identity Theft]
_ “Fallen
Angel,” Strange Attraction, edFallen Angel
ited by Edward E. Kramer, ShadowLands
Press, Centreville, Virginia, June 2000.
[included in Iterations] [available from
Fictionwise.com]
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Flashes
_ “Flashes
Flashes,” FutureShocks, edited by Lou
Anders, Roc Books, New York, January
2006. [included in Identity Theft]
_ “Forever
Forever,” Return of the Dinosaurs, edForever
ited by Mike Resnick and Martin H.
Greenberg, DAW Books, New York, May
1997. [included in Iterations] [available
from Fictionwise.com]
_ “Gator
Gator,” the lead story in Urban NightGator
mares, edited by Josepha Sherman and
Keith R. A. DeCandido, Baen Books, New
York, November 1997. [included in Iterations ]
[available
from
Fictionwise.com]
_ “Golden
Fleece,” Amazing Stories, edGolden Fleece
ited by Patrick Lucien Price, TSR Inc.,
Lake Geneva, WI, September 1988.
_ “The
Doctor,” Amazing Stories,
The Good Doctor
edited by Patrick Lucien Price, TSR Inc.,
Lake Geneva, WI, January 1989. [included in Identity Theft]
_ “The
Dealt,” Free Space,
The Hand You’re Dealt
edited by Brad Linaweaver and Edward
E. Kramer, Tor Books, New York, July
1997. [included in Iterations] [included
in Identity Theft ] [available from
Fictionwise.com]
_ “If
If I’m Here, Imagine Where They Sent
My Luggage
Luggage,” The Village Voice: The
Weekly Newspaper of New York, 14-20
January 1981; reprinted by Story Cards,
Washington DC, in 1987. [included in
Iterations]
Identity Theft
_ “Identity
Theft,” Down These Dark
Spaceways, edited by Mike Resnick, Science Fiction Book Club, New York, April
2005. [included in Identity Theft]
_ “Immortality
Immortality,” Janis Ian’s Stars, edited
Immortality
by Janis Ian and Mike Resnick, DAW
Books, New York, August 2003. [included in Identity Theft] [included in
Relativity ]
[available
from
Fictionwise.com]
_ “Ineluctable
Ineluctable,” the lead story in Analog
Ineluctable
Science Fiction and Fact , November
2002. [included in Identity Theft] [included in Relativity] [available from
Fictionwise.com]
terations
_ “ IIterations,”
the lead story in
TransVersions: An Anthology of New
Fantastic Literature, edited by Marcel
Gagné and Sally Tomasevic, Paper Orchid Press, November 2000. [included
in Iterations ] [available from
Fictionwise.com]
_ “Just
Times,” On Spec: The
Just Like Old Times
Canadian Magazine of Speculative Writing, Summer 1993; commissioned for
and also published as the lead story in
Dinosaur Fantastic , edited by Mike
Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW
Books, New York, July 1993. [included
in Iterations ] [included in Relativity]
[available from Fictionwise.com]
The Shoulders of Giants
_ “The
Giants,” as the lead
story in Star Colonies edited by Martin
H. Greenberg and John Helfers, DAW
Books, New York, June 2000. [included
in Iterations ] [included in Relativity ]
[available from Fictionwise.com]
_ “The
Caper,” The Toronto
The Stanley Cup Caper
Star, Sunday, August 24, 2003, page
M1. [included in Identity Theft] [included
in Relativity]
_ “Kata
Bindu,” Microcosms, edited by
Kata Bindu
Gregory Benford, DAW Books, New York,
January 2004. [included in Identity
Theft] [available from Fictionwise.com]
_ “Star
Bright,” Far Frontiers,
Star Light, Star Bright
edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry
Segriff, DAW Books, New York, September 2000. [included in Iterations] [included in Relativity ] [available from
Fictionwise.com]
_ “Last
Least,” Be Afraid!: Tales
Last But Not Least
of Horror, edited by Edo van Belkom,
Tundra Books, Toronto, September
2000. [included in Iterations] [available
from Fictionwise.com]
_ “Stream
Consciousness,” No Limits:
Stream of Consciousness
Developing Scientific Literacy Using Science Fiction and Packing Fraction and
Other Tales of Science and Imagination,
both edited by Julie E. Czerneda, Trifolium Books, Toronto, 1999. [included in
Iterations ]
[available
from
Fictionwise.com]
_ “Lost
Mail,” TransVersions 3,
Lost in the Mail
October 1995. [included in Iterations]
[available from Fictionwise.com]
Mikeys
_ “Mikeys
Mikeys,” Space Stations , edited by
Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers,
DAW Books, New York, March 2004. [included in Identity Theft]
_ “Uphill
Climb,” Amazing Stories, edited
Uphill Climb
by Patrick Lucien Price, TSR Inc., Lake
Geneva, WI, March 1987. [included in Iterations ]
[available
from
Fictionwise.com]
_ “Motive
Motive,” FutureScapes, Strasenburgh
Motive
Planetarium, Rochester NY, Summer
1980.
_ “On
Surface,” Future Wars, edited
On The Surface
by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry
Segriff, DAW Books, New York, April
2003. [included in Identity Theft] [available from Fictionwise.com]
_ “Where
Is,” Ark of Ice: CanaWhere the Heart Is
dian Futurefiction , edited by Lesley
Choyce, Pottersfield Press, Nova Scotia,
1992. [included in Iterations]
_ “Ours
Discover,” LeisureWays, NoOurs to Discover
vember 1982. [included in Iterations]
_ “Wiping
Out,” Guardsmen of Tomorrow,
Wiping Out
edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry
Segriff, DAW Books, New York, November 2000. [included in Iterations] [available from Fictionwise.com]
_ “Peking
Man,” the lead story in Dark
Peking Man
Destiny III, edited by Edward E. Kramer,
White Wolf, Atlanta, October 1996. [included in Iterations ] [available from
Fictionwise.com]
_ “You
Observe,”
You See But You Do Not Observe
Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, edited by Mike
Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg, DAW
Books, New York, February 1995. Authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle. [included in Iterations ] [available from
Fictionwise.com]
_ “Relativity
Relativity,” Men Writing Science Fiction
Relativity
as Women, edited by Mike Resnick, DAW
Books, New York, November 2003. [included in Identity Theft] [included in
Relativity ]
[available
from
Fictionwise.com]
_ “The
Tough,” Visions of Liberty,
The Right’s Tough
edited by Mark Tier and Martin H.
Greenberg, DAW Books, New York, July
2004. [included in Identity Theft]
_ “Shed
Skin,” The Bakka Anthology, edShed Skin
ited by Kristen Pederson Chew, The
Bakka Collection, Toronto, December
2002, and Analog Science Fiction and
Fact , January-February 2004. [included in Identity Theft] [available
from Fictionwise.com]
11
Artist Guest
Of Honor
Jewels of Perfection
The Art and Artist, Theresa Mather
By Sue Dawe
My first introduction to Theresa
Mather was through her artwork, or
rather, through my husband Michael,
who discovered her work first. It was
in the mid-nineties, and I was in the
process of hanging my artwork at a
science-fiction convention, when my
husband fetched me to look at some
artwork by an artist we had never
seen before. We stood before the
panels, staring with delight at a series of small paintings featuring diminutive bejeweled dragons, very intricate, and amazingly, painted on
feathers! My husband was enamored,
and looking at the minimum bids,
(frightfully low considering the
amount of work painstakingly rendered onto each feather), was pretty
certain he could buy one or two. So
he bid on several, and then watched
as they all went to auction, where
they were bid out of our price range.
No matter, we thought, we will buy
some at another convention.
But the conventions came and went,
and every time Theresa’s work went
to auction, and every time the bidding was fierce and we came home
empty handed. Finally, my chance
arrived. I was at the World Fantasy
Convention in Monterey, and
Theresa’s artwork was there. It was
a small convention, and art show bidders were few. As the final bid time
approached, the half-dozen or so of
us were circling around Theresa’s
work like vultures, trying to look
subtle, but failing miserably. Unable
to restrain myself, I finally asked,
“Are we all here for the same purpose?” Universal nods. “OK, so
which piece do you like most? And
you? And you?” Between the handful of us, we decided who would bid
on what, and feeling horribly guilty
for what I’d done to a fellow artist, I
finally purchased two of Theresa’s
works, in beautiful shades of burgundy and malachite, a perfect
match to the colors of our bedroom
set. I called home and told my husband the good news. We finally had
a pair of the coveted dragon art! But
my guilt at the ‘planned bids’ would
not subside — I was pretty certain
that karma would someday kick me
in the backside for what I’d done.
As time went on, Theresa’s images
continued to evolve, each magnificently paired to its substrate, be it
feathers, polished slivers of stone or
other objects that only the artist
could envision as the perfect canvas for her dramatic creations.
Wolves, unicorns, tigers, pegasi, tall
ships; the range was incredible and
ever evolving. The years went by,
and I always looked to see what was
new, and wondered what the talented artist behind the vision was
like. I was about to find out.
My husband and I were at Westercon
in Phoenix in 2004, held in Litchfield
at the historical Wigwam Resort.
Theresa’s work was in the art show,
and unbeknownst to me, Theresa
and her husband Barry were also
12 there. Among Theresa’s work was
a captivating picture, intricately
rendered on a more traditional support — illustration board. It was a
red and gold dragon, its scales sparkling like individual jewels, sitting in
its office surrounded by books and
industriously writing with quill and
ink. Several discarded drafts lay
crumpled by its feet, and it was titled
“Dragon Writer.” My husband, who
teaches writing at SDSU, decided
that this was a “must have” and he
purchased it then and there.
At the same convention, a bid was
Centrum” (yes, like the vitamin). We
placed on one of my originals, and
followed this with the perusal of a
my surprise was great when I realvery impressive statue, titled “Old
ized the bidder was Theresa! She
Sorrel”, a bronze done on a massive
was at the convention, and at long
scale and commemorating a draft
last we met. This was not the karmic
horse that hauled timbers from the
experience I was expecting, for
mountain down to the campus durTheresa was enthusiastic, fun loving a fearsome winter. In complete
ing, warm and generous, and poscontrast, our tour of art was capped
sessed of a wacky sense of humor.
by Theresa introducing me to CanaWe hit it off pretty quick, and when
dian comedy in the form of a televishe found out that I passed through
sion series called “Trailer Park Boys,”
her town on my way to Starfest in
something I would have found far
Denver every other year, she immemore hysterical if I didn’t fear real
diately invited me to stay with her.
people like these characters exist. I
I took her up on her offer and not
did say that Theresa has a wacky
only did she put me up for the night,
sense of humor, did I not?
I came with two friends, and Theresa
I am proud to call this exceptionally
and her husband handled the invatalented and delightful artist my
sion with aplomb. We spent an
friend, and look forward to our next
evening trading stories and laughter,
visit. My husband has since acquired
and raising a few eyebrows of the
other pieces of her art, but the two
local residents as the five of us
small dragons still hang in our bedtrooped into a local steakhouse, with
room, and I’m still waiting for karma
myself and my friends wearing the
to kick me in the rear. So buy
only coats we had — our Jedi cloaks.
Theresa’s art — lots of it! Not only
This was Utah after all, and a man
will you take home a stunning jewel
entering a restaurant with four
of exceptional beauty, but I might be
women, three dressed somewhat
able to right the karmic scales and
alike in rather cultic-looking cloaks
stop waiting for the other shoe to
might raise an eyebrow or two. We
drop.
were given a nice table in front of
the fireplace, but conspicuously
About the author: Sue Dawe is best
apart from the other clientele, which
known for her fantasy airbrushed dewas probably a good thing, because
signs, which have appeared in magaour table soon erupted in loud and
zines and on back-to school products,
enthusiastic conversation punctuposters, calendars, greeting cards,
ated by even louder peels of laughgames, Franklin Mint plates, and in
ter. Afterward, we toured the local
the wacky Canadian comedy series,
statuary art on the SUU campus. Our
“Trailer Park Boys”.
first destination was a veritable
13
Stonehenge of scholars called “The
Fan Guest
Of Honor
David West Reynolds
David West Reynolds has a Ph.D.
in Classical Archaeology, which
he earned at the University of
Michigan, where he specialized
in Imperial Rome and ancient
Egypt. His field work has taken
him to diverse places, such as
Anasazi cliff cities in Utah, Inca
fortresses in Peru, and Swahili
ruins in East Africa. In addition,
he has taught college archaeology and guided international
tours.
In 1995 Reynolds undertook an
unusual quest to re-locate the
sites in Tunisia where the desert
scenes had been filmed for the
movie Star Wars in 1976. He
successfully tracked down the
remote locations and found 20year- old Star Wars props in the
Sahara. The project led to a job
scouting locations for Lucasfilm,
and then to a full-time position
at George Lucas’ Skywalker
Ranch in Marin County, where he
was involved with the marketing team that worked on the
launch of Star Wars, Episode I.
In addition, he has written numerous popular magazine articles and seven Star Wars reference works, including the Visual Guides to the movies and
Incredible Cross-Sections. Five
of them reached the New York
Times bestseller list, one of
them making it to number one.
Having learned about media and
popular
communication,
Reynolds then returned to sci14
entific work and non-fiction
writing. He founded Phaeton
Group, Inc. to support field science projects and bring them
to the public.
As part of his scientific work,
Reynolds has climbed mountains in various parts of the
world, explored uncharted
caves, unearthed dinosaur eggshells, and carried out research
in the Vatican archives. As part
of his consulting work, he has
sculpted a full-size dinosaur
skeleton and created museum
models of historic spacecraft
designs. On occasion he has
acted as presenter for the series Omnibus for the
BBC. In October he
was the
leader of a
team exploring the
Northwest
Passage.
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Music Guest
Of Honor
“DR. JANE” ROBINSON”: An Appreciation
by James D. Robinson, Ph.D.
“I’ve got the fossil fever, I’m a true
believer, I’m a hard-core Paleo fan;
If dust and grime were considered
to be time, I’d have a lot of it on
my hands.
I see those teacks and traces like
familiar faces, and I love each one I
find.
Shells and bones makin’ poetry in
stones — well, it’s enough to blow
my mind!’”
From “Fossil Fever” by Jane A.
Robinson, C 1990
Jane walked in my shoes for fiftyfive years, trying her best to be the
woman she didn’t know she wasn’t.
In a very real sense, I owe her my
life. Stuck in a role she didn’t
choose, knowing always that something was very wrong, she made the
best of things and did reasonably
well in the world. (Heck, she even
got a Ph.D. — which has been
grandfathered along to me, and I
have both diplomas to prove it.)
But “Dr. Jane” is best known for her
wickedly witty, intricately rhymed
songs, rendered in widely diverse
musical styles. When I began rehearsing for this weekend at
Loscon, I felt an appreciation for her
music that I know she didn’t have;
in fact, she couldn’t bear listening
to her own CDs. Singing them in
my new (but nonetheless rusty)
baritone voice I discovered three
things: I don’t need to refer to
the lyric sheets very much at all 16
(Jane did); I interpret the songs differently; and I’m a better guitar
player. However, I don’t seem to
be able to write songs. The brain
is a strange and wonderful thing...
Like most songwriters, “Dr. Jane”
wrote about what she loved, and
what vexed her: academia; bureaucracy; paleontology; the Loch Ness
Monster; cats; evolution; and human nature. She’d been writing
poetry and parodies from a very
early age, but didn’t begin writing
science songs until high school.
While struggling to memorize the
periodic table in chemistry class
one day, she wrote “A Battle With
the Elements” — which the teacher
indignantly confiscated, but liked
so well he published it in Chemistry Magazine. One of her friends
was a passionate creationist, but
instead of arguing with her Jane
wrote “Songs of the Phyla” (back
then there were only 10, so it was
relatively easy), “Darwin’s Story”,
and several other rousing pro-evolution anthems. “Muscles of the
Kittycat” was written in the dis-
section lab at the University of New
Hampshire; the original copy was
thrown out because it smelled of
formaldehyde and had unsavory
things stuck to it.
Jane’s musical output increased
dramatically in graduate school,
both because of the sheer volume
of vexation that occurs in the bureaucratic, heirarchical, dysfunctional world of formal academia
(“The ‘I Don’t Know It’ Blues”) and
because she loved everything
about paleontology — except the
digging. (Fossils, after all, are
never found in places you’d want
to visit.) As fate would have it,
one of her office mates was a science fiction fan who knew exactly
the proper venue for her music;
and at the 1972 WesterCon in San
Francisco, when none of the panelists showed up for their presentation, Jane went up onto the
stage, hauled out her guitar and
started singing. To her utter
amazement, almost no-one left.
There’s nothing like an enthusiastic audience to encourage more
songwriting! However, it would be
1986 before she returned to science fiction armed with lots of new
material, this time as “Dr. Jane”...
Just so you know, it’s all Hal
Heydt’s fault. He taped a museum
benefit concert Jane did at U.C.
Berkeley, and many years later
gave it to the folks at Off Centaur
Publications. Cindy McQuillin heard
it and said, “We have to record her
— this stuff is great!” So they
tracked her down (she lived three
miles from their studio, which
helped), gave her an audition and
launched her singing career by re- 17
cording “Dr. Jane’s Science Notes”
and sending her to conventions all
over the country. Jane’s back-up
band — are you ready? — consisted
of Heather Alexander and Kristoph
Klover. Nothin’ but the best!...
However, It wasn’t long before Jane
and Cindy fell deeply in love and
became partners in life as well as
music. Cindy was a demanding
muse (“I need another cat song by
Thursday!” or “Do you think you
can learn to play bass by
ConChord?”), but it was her gentle
badgering that resulted in most of
Jane’s best material. For fifteen
years, until Cindy’s health became
too fragile, Cindy and Jane performed, arranged, produced and
wrote songs for the most appreciative of all audiences, science fiction fans. Academics “get” all the
jokes, but they seem to have a hard
time laughing about certain things...
In short, I’m honored to be here to
perform Jane’s songs and tell some
of her stories. You should probably know, though, that I haven’t
been involved with paleontology
since Jane’s ignominious exit from
academia in 1981 (as I said, academics have a hard time laughing
about certain things). I would be
happy to talk about ergonomics,
biomechanics, anatomy and bodywork, since I have been treating
people with chronic musculoskeletal
problems for 20 years. In a way,
I’m still passionately interested in
old bones; they just happen to be
inside living people and — best of
all —I don’t have to dig ‘em up!
Peking Man
by Robert J. Sawyer
“Peking Man” copyright 1996 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published as the lead story in
Dark Destiny III, edited by Edward E. Kramer, White Wolf, Atlanta, October 1996.
Winner of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award (“the Aurora”) for Best Short Story of the Year
White.
White?
No—no, it couldn’t be.
But it was. It was a skull, certainly—
but not a fossil skull. The material was
bright white.
And it didn’t weigh nearly enough.
A plaster cast. Not the original at
Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews
The American Museum of Natural
all.
History
Andrews opened every box inside
Central Park West at 79th Street
the wooden crate, his heart sinking as
each new one yielded its contents. In
New York, N.Y. U.S.A.
total, there were fourteen skulls and
eleven jawbones. The skulls were subThe case was marked “Fragile!” and “REGhuman, with low foreheads, prominent
ISTERED” and “Par Avion.” A brand had
burned the words “Via Hongkong and by
brow ridges, flat faces, and the most
unlikely looking perfect square teeth.
U.S. Air Service” into the wood.
Andrews had waited anxiously for
Amazingly, each of the skull casts also
showed clear artificial damage to the fothis arrival. Between 1922 and 1930, he
ramen magnum.
himself had led the now-famous Gobi
Oh, some work could indeed be
Desert expeditions, searching for the
done on these casts, no doubt. But
Asian cradle of humanity. Although he’d
where were the original fossils? With the
brought back untold scientific riches—
Japanese having invaded China, surely
including the first-ever dinosaur eggs—
Andrews had failed to discover a single
they were too precious to be left in the
Far East. What was Weidenreich up to?
ancient human remain.
But now a German scientist, Franz
#
Fire.
Weidenreich, had shipped to him a treaIt was like a piece of the sun,
sure trove from the Orient: the complete
fossil remains of Sinanthropus pekinensis.
brought down to earth. It kept the tribe
In this very crate were the bones of Pewarm at night, kept the saber-toothed
king Man.
cats away—and it did something wonderful to meat, making it softer and
Andrews was actually salivating as
he used a crowbar to pry off the lid. He’d
easier to chew, while at the same time
waited so long for these, terrified that
restoring the warmth the flesh had had
they wouldn’t survive the journey, deswhen still part of the prey.
Fire was the most precious thing the
perate to see what humanity’s forefathers had looked like, anxious—
tribe owned. They’d had it for eleven
The lid came off. The contents were
summers now, ever since Bok the brave
carefully packed in smaller cardboard
had brought out a burning stick from
boxes. He picked one up and moved over
the burning forest. The glowing coals
to his cluttered desk. He swept the books
were always fanned, always kept alive.
and papers to the floor, laid down the
And then, one night, the Stranger
box, and opened it. Inside was a ball of
came—tall, thin, pale, with red-rimmed
rice paper, wrapped around a large obeyes that somehow seemed to glow
ject. Andrews carefully unwrapped the
from beneath his brow ridge.
18
sheets, and—
The Stranger did the unthinkable,
The lid was attached to the wooden
crate with eighteen nails. The return address, in blue ink on the blond wood, said,
“Sender: Dept. of Anatomy, P.U.M.C., Peking, China.” The destination address, in
larger letters, was:
the unforgivable.
limestone cave. Without the fire to keep
He doused the flames, throwing a
animals away, someone had to stand
gourd full of water on to the fire. The
watch each night, armed with a large
logs hissed, and steam rose up into the
branch and a pile of rocks for throwing.
blackness. The children of the tribe beLast night, it had been Kart’s turn. Evgan to cry; the adults quaked with fury.
eryone had slept well, for Kart was the
The Stranger turned and walked into the
strongest member of the tribe. They
darkness. Two of the strongest huntknew they were safe from whatever
lurked in the darkness.
ers ran after him, but his long legs had
apparently carried him quickly away.
When daybreak came, the members
The sounds of the forest grew
of the tribe were astounded. Kart had
closer—the chirps of insects, the rusfallen asleep. They found him lying in the
dirt, next to the cold, black pit where
tling of small animals in the vegetation,
their fire had once been. And on Kart’s
and—
neck there were two small red-rimmed
A flapping sound.
holes, staring up at them like the eyes
The Stranger was gone.
of the Stranger ...
And the silhouette of a bat fluttered
briefly in front of the waning moon.
#
#
During his work on hematology,
Franz Weidenreich had been born
Weidenreich had met a remarkable man
in Germany in 1873. A completely bald,
named Brancusi—gaunt, pale, with disthickset man, he had made a name for
concertingly sharp canine teeth. Brancusi
himself as an expert in hematology and
suffered from a peculiar anemia, which
osteology. He was currently Visiting ProWeidenreich had been unable to cure, and
fessor at the University of Chicago, but
an almost pathological photophobia. Still,
that was coming to an end, and now he
the gentleman was cultured and widely
was faced with the uncomfortable prosread, and Weidenreich had ever since
pect of having to return to Nazi Germaintained a correspondence with him.
many—something, as a Jew, he desperWhen Weidenreich arrived in Peking,
ately wanted to avoid.
work was still continuing at the quarry.
And then word came of the sudden
So far, only teeth and fragments of skull
death of the Canadian paleontologist
had been found. Davidson Black had done
Davidson Black. Black had been at the
a good job of cataloging and describing
Peking Union Medical College, studying
some of the material, but as Weidenreich
the fragmentary remains of early man
went through the specimens he was surbeing recovered from the limestone
prised to discover a small collection of
quarry at Chou Kou Tien. Weidenreich,
sharp, pointed fossil teeth.
who once made a study of Neanderthal
Black had evidently assumed they
bones found in Germany, had read
weren’t part of the Sinanthropus mateBlack’s papers in Nature and Science derial, as he hadn’t included them in his
scribing Sinanthropus.
descriptions. And, at first glance, Black’s
But now, at fifty, Black was as dead
assessment seemed correct—they were
as his fossil charges—an unexpected
far longer than normal human canines,
heart attack. And, to Weidenreich’s deand much more sharply pointed. But, to
light, the China Medical Board of the
Weidenreich’s eye, the root pattern was
Rockefeller Foundation wanted him to
possibly hominid. He dropped a letter to
fill Black’s post. China was a strange,
his friend Brancusi, half-joking that he’d
foreboding place—and tensions befound Brancusi’s great-to-the-nth grandtween the Chinese and the Japanese
father in China.
were high—but it beat all hell out of reTo Weidenreich’s infinite surprise,
turning to Hitler’s Germany ...
within weeks Brancusi had arrived in Pe#
king.
At night, most of the tribe huddled
#
under the rocky overhang or crawled
Each night, another member of the
into the damp, smelly recesses of the 19 tribe stood watch—and each morning,
that member was found unconscious,
with a pair of tiny wounds to his neck.
The tribe members were terrified.
Soon multiple guards were posted each
night, and, for a time, the happenings
ceased.
But then something even more unusual happened ...
They were hunting deer. It would not
be the same, not without fire to cook
the meat, but, still, the tribe needed to
eat. Four men, Kart included, led the assault. They moved stealthily amongst the
tall grasses, tracking a large buck with a
giant rack of antlers. The hunters communicated by sign language, carefully coordinating their movements, closing in
on the animal from both sides.
Kart raised his right arm, preparing
to signal the final attack, when—
—a streak of light brown, slicing
through the grass—
—fangs flashing, the roar of the giant cat, the stag bolting away, and
then—
—Kart’s own scream as the sabertooth grabbed hold of his thigh and shook
him viciously.
The other three hunters ran as fast
as they could, desperate to get away.
They didn’t stop to look back, even when
the cat let out the strangest yelp ...
That night, the tribe huddled together and sang songs urging Kart’s soul
a safe trip to heaven.
#
One of the Chinese laborers found
the first skull. Weidenreich was summoned at once. Brancusi still suffered
from his photophobia, and apparently had
never adjusted to the shift in time
zones—he slept during the day.
Weidenreich thought about waking him
to see this great discovery, but decided
against it.
The skull was still partially encased
in the limestone muck at the bottom of
the cave. It had a thick cranial wall and a
beetle brow—definitely a more primitive
creature than Neanderthal, probably akin
to Solo Man or Java Man ...
It took careful work to remove the
skull from the ground, but, when it did
come free, two astonishing things became apparent.
20
The loose teeth Davidson Black had
set aside had indeed come from the
hominids here: this skull still had all its
upper teeth intact, and the canines were
long and pointed.
Second, and even more astonishing, was the foramen magnum—the
large opening in the base of the skull
through which the spinal cord passes. It
was clear from its chipped, frayed margin that this individual’s foramen magnum had been artificially widened—
—meaning he’d been decapitated,
and then had something shoved up into
his brain through the bottom of his skull.
#
Five hunters stood guard that night.
The moon had set, and the great sky
river arched high over head. The
Stranger returned—but this time, he
was not alone. The tribesmen couldn’t
believe their eyes. In the darkness, it
looked like—
It was. Kart.
But—but Kart was dead. They’d
seen the saber-tooth take him.
The Stranger came closer. One of
the men lifted a rock, as if to throw it at
him, but soon he let the rock drop from
his hand. It fell to the ground with a dull
thud.
The Stranger continued to approach, and so did Kart.
And then Kart opened his mouth,
and in the faint light they saw his teeth—
long and pointed, like the Stranger’s.
The men were unable to run, unable to move. They seemed transfixed,
either by the Stranger’s gaze, or by
Kart’s, both of whom continued to approach.
And soon, in the dark, chill night,
the Stranger’s fangs fell upon one of
the guard’s necks, and Kart’s fell upon
another ...
#
Eventually, thirteen more skulls
were found, all of which had the strange
elongated canine teeth, and all of which
had their foramen magnums artificially
widened. Also found were some mandibles and skull fragments from other
individuals—but there was almost no
post-cranial material. Someone in dim
prehistory had discarded here the de-
capitated heads of a group of protohudied of old age. But all of them rose again.
mans.
And so it came to pass, just as it
Brancusi sat in Weidenreich’s lab
had for the Stranger all those years belate at night, looking at the skulls. He
fore, that the tribe had to look elsewhere
ran his tongue over his own sharp teeth,
to slake its thirst.
contemplating. These subhumans
But they had not counted on the
Others.
doubtless had no concept of mathematics beyond perhaps adding and subtract#
ing on their fingers. How would they
Weidenreich and Brancusi sat in
possibly know of the problem that
Weidenreich’s lab late at night. Things
plagued the Family, the problem that
had been getting very tense—the Japaevery one of the Kindred knew to avoid?
nese occupation was becoming intolerable. “I’m going to return to the States,”
If all those who feel the bite of the
vampire themselves become vampires
said Weidenreich. “Andrews at the Ameriwhen they die, and all of those new vamcan Museum is offering me space to conpires also turn those they feed from into
tinue work on the fossils.”
vampires, soon, unless care is exercised,
“No,” said Brancusi. “No, you can’t
the whole population will be undead. A
take the fossils.”
simple geometric progression.
Weidenreich’s bushy eyebrows
Brancusi had long wondered how far
climbed up toward his bald pate. “But
back the Family went. It wasn’t like tracwe can’t let them fall into Japanese
ing a normal family tree—oh, yes, the
hands.”
lines were bloodlines, but not as passed
“That is true,” said Brancusi.
on from father to son. He knew his own
“They belong somewhere safe.
Somewhere where they can be studied.”
lineage—a servant at Castle Dracula before the Count had taken to living all
“No,” said Brancusi. His red-rimmed
alone, a servant whose loyalty to his
gaze fell on Weidenreich in a way it never
master extended even to letting him
had before. “No—no one may see these
drink from his neck.
fossils.”
Brancusi himself had succumbed to
“But Andrews is expecting them.
He’s dying to see them. I’ve been delibpneumonia, not an uncommon ailment
in the dank Carpathians. He had no famerately vague in my letters to him—I want
ily, and no one mourned his passing.
to be there to see his face when he sees
But soon he rose again—and now
the dentition.”
he did have Family.
“No one can know about the teeth,”
An Englishman and an American had
said Brancusi.
killed the Count, removing his head with
“But he’s expecting the fossils. And
a kukri knife and driving a bowie knife
I have to publish descriptions of them.”
through his heart. When news of this
“The teeth must be filed flat.”
reached Brancusi from the gypsies, he
Weidenreich’s eyes went wide. “I
traveled back to Transylvania. Dracula’s
can’t do that.”
attackers had simply abandoned the cof“You can, and you will.”
fin, with its native soil and the dust that
“But—”
the Count’s body had crumbled into.
“You can and you will.”
Brancusi dug a grave on the desolate,
“I—I can, but—”
wind-swept grounds of the Castle, and
“No buts.”
placed the Count’s coffin within.
“No, no, there is a but. Andrews will
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never be fooled by filed teeth; the strucEventually, over a long period, the
ture of teeth varies as you go into them.
entire tribe had felt the Stranger’s bite
Andrews will realize at once that the
directly or indirectly.
teeth have been reduced from their origiA few of the tribefolk lost their lives
nal size.” Weidenreich looked at Brancusi.
to ravenous bloodthirst, drained dry.
“I’m sorry, but there’s no way to hide
Others succumbed to disease or githe truth.”
ant cats or falls from cliffs. One even 21
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The Others lived in the next valley.
They proved tough and resourceful—and
they could make fire whenever they
needed it. When the tribefolk arrived it
became apparent that there was never
a time of darkness for the Others. Large
fires were constantly burning.
The tribe had to feed, but the Others defended themselves, trying to kill
them with rock knives.
But that didn’t work. The tribefolk
were undeterred.
They tried to kill them with spears.
But that did not work, either. The
tribefolk came back.
They tried strangling the attackers
with pieces of animal hide.
But that failed, too. The tribefolk returned again.
And finally the Others decided to try
everything they could think of simultaneously.
They drove wooden spears into the
hearts of the tribefolk.
The used stone knives to carve off
the heads of the tribefolk.
And then they jammed spears up
into the severed heads, forcing the shafts
up through the holes at the bases of the
skulls.
The hunters marched far away from
their camp, each carrying a spear thrust
vertically toward the summer sun, each
one crowned by a severed, pointedtoothed head. When, at last, they found
a suitable hole in the ground, they
dumped the heads in, far, far away from
their bodies.
The Others waited for the tribefolk
to return.
But they never did.
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“Do not send the originals,” said
Brancusi.
“But—”
“The originals are mine, do you understand? I will ensure their safe passage
out of China.”
It looked for a moment like
Weidenreich’s will was going to reassert
itself, but then his expression grew blank
again. “All right.”
“I’ve seen you make casts of bones
before.”
“With plaster of Paris, yes.”
22
“Make casts of these skulls—and
then file the teeth on the casts.”
“But—”
“You said Andrews and others
would be able to tell if the original fossils were altered. But there’s no way
they could tell that the casts had been
modified, correct?”
“Not if it’s done skillfully, I suppose,
but-”
“Do it.”
“What about the foramen magnums?”
“What would you conclude if you
saw fossils with such widened openings?”
“I don’t know—possibly that ritual
cannibalism had been practiced.”
“Ritual?”
“Well, if the only purpose was to
get at the brain, so you could eat it, it’s
easier just to smash the cranium, and-”
“Good. Good. Leave the damage to
the skull bases intact. Let your Andrews
have that puzzle to keep him occupied.”
#
The casts were crated up and sent
to the States first. Then Weidenreich
himself headed for New York, leaving,
he said, instructions for the actual fossils to be shipped aboard the
S.S. President Harrison. But the fossils
never arrived in America, and
Weidenreich, the one man who might
have clues to their whereabouts, died
shortly thereafter.
Despite the raging war, Brancusi returned to Europe, returned to
Transylvania, returned to Castle Dracula.
It took him a while in the darkness
of night to find the right spot—the scar
left by his earlier digging was just one
of many on the desolate landscape. But
at last he located it. He prepared a series of smaller holes in the ground, and
into each of them he laid one of the
grinning skulls. He then covered the
holes over with dark soil.
Brancusi hoped never to fall himself, but, if he did, he hoped one of his
own converts would do the same thing
for him, bringing his remains home to
the Family plot.
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Dr. Arizona
and the
Planet of the
Mummies
by John DeChancie
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“Parallel development of culture,” said
Dr. Arizona, her saurian head turned
to the far desert horizon, “is a hard
concept to absorb, but when the archeological evidence is clear, it must
be accepted as fact.”
Her expedition had confined its investigations inside the shadow of the
Great Tetrahedron-the local “pyramids” were really more generally polygonal than strictly pyramidal.
Nearby stood an oasis of tall plants
that could have passed for palm
trees. The fierce ultraviolet radiation
of the blue-tinged star Zeta Crucis-A
baked the desert all around the site.
Nonetheless, despite the heat, the
expedition’s members worked
steadily to pack up all the equipment
and make the site secure until the
next digging season. The planet had
a nasty axial tilt, and summers here
were unbearable. A shuttle would be
along in only a few days to pick them
up.
“I’m hardly contesting the fact of parallel cultural development,” said Dr.
Phineas Phlogbotham of the Federation Institute of Xenocultural Studies. “This culture has many analogues
to Earth’s ancient Egypt, sure
enough. I’m simply having trouble
with your translation of the last line
on this stele. Hardly appropriate,
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don’t you think?”
Dr. Arizona tossed her trowel to an
assistant, who caught it gingerly and
dropped it into the doctor’s personal
knapsack-the doctor was very zealous for the maintenance of the tools
of her trade. “Clean it well before
you pack it, Susan.”
Susan, a young Ph.D. just out from
Earth, gave her boss and post-doctoral advisor a mock salute. “Haven’t
packed away a dirty tool yet, Doc.”
Arizona and Dr. Phlogbotham
watched her walk away with the
knapsack.
“Charming young woman,”
Phlogbotham commented.
“Bright, too,” Dr. Arizona said. “So,
you have a problem with the last
line? This stele is the most complete
version we have of the Krutonian
mummification ritual prayer. The last
line is missing from every other
source. I dug up this stele.” She
pointed to the huge slab of stone
before them. “I get to do the translation.”
Phlogbotham took out his pocket
viewer. “Oh, it’s top notch work all
around,” he said. “No argument. It’s
just that last line.” He shook his head
disapprovingly as looked over
Arizona’s notes on the translation.
“The choice of words. I mean, really,
do you think those glyphs can be
interpreted that way?”
“Exactly!” Dr. Arizona said, a grin
splitting her attractively reptilian
face.
“Notwithstanding your race’s penchant for humor,” Phlogbotham went
on, “-and don’t think that wasn’t a
pleasant surprise for us humans; we
don’t ordinarily associate humor with
reptiloids, our native species hardly
being laugh riots-don’t you think
your rendering of the phrase has
some rather odd cross-cultural overtones?”
“Possibly,” Arizona said. “but Egypt
isn’t the only analogue Earth culture
appropriate to invoke here.”
“Hollywood?”
“Of course! The Krutonians were obsessed with two things. Drama and
death. The Krutonians didn’t do
much else but construct mortuary
structures and produce plays!”
“Quite true. I’ve never seen such a
single-minded-rather double-minded,
I should say-obsession. Drama and
death, indeed. You’re quite right.”
Phlogbotham stroked his six-day
growth of gray beard. “Still, when
all’s said and done, it strikes me as a
trifle inappropriate.”
“A free translation, granted,” Arizona
admitted. “Perhaps too free for most
academics. But inappropriate? Hardly.
In fact, both cultural analogues come
together in that one last line. The
Krutonians swaddled their dead in thin
strips of cloth, just like their earthly
counterparts, and they made a huge
production out of it. It was theater!
So the parting line is all the more apt.
It’s even appropriate to our immediate situation!”
“Well, you’re right, of course. I didn’t
even think of that.”
“So it was triply significant when the
high priest recited the last line of the
prayer, after getting done with the
laborious process of mummification,
turning to the assembled loved ones
and funeral attendees and chanting”
“Oh, dear, you don’t really have to
say it!” Phlogbotham said, flinching
and waving both arms in a fendingoff gesture.
“‘That’s a wrap!’”
(c)2007 by John DeChancie
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Dr. Arizona
and the
Quasi-Mayan Menace
by John DeChancie
All rights reserved. No part of this story may be reproduced or transmitted
in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the author.
“All cultures seem to be variations on
“Not any I’ve visited,” Arizona said,
a few themes,” said Dr. Phineas
“but I’d be extra careful going down
Phlogbotham as he stepped cautiously
this passageway. It’s starting to slant
through the dusty passageway. “I could
down, and I don’t like it.”
swear this temple was in Ur. It reminds
The Earth archeologist took out his
me of a ziggurat.”
DioFlash and sent the intense beam
Dr. Arizona walked behind him, watchdown the dark, narrow corridor. “I say,
ing carefully where she put her feet.
it does go on a bit. I can’t see the
She had done her homework. The anend.”
cient rulers of this planet did not like
“Watch yourself. I really should be in
intruders in their tombs and temples;
the lead, Floggy. I’m the one who disthey liked to set nasty man-traps. . .in
covered this pyramid.”
her case, female traps. . .traps for any
“Ziggurat.”
species of tomb robber. “The overall
“Whatever, I found it.”
culture more resembles the Maya than
“That may be true, my dear saurian
any other.”
female, but you lack the analytical ex“I’d take issue with that,” Phlogbotham
pertise. . .oops!”
said evenly, arching a leg cautiously
The flagstone on which the archeoloover a suspicious depression in the
gist had stepped sank about two cenfloor, “and of course I will in the next
timeters. Loud rumblings immediately
issue of Xenocultural Studies. I say the
sounded deep within the structure,
analogs to Mesopotamia are overridbehind the massive stone walls.
ing.”
“Don’t like that much,” Phlogbotham
“Floggy, you need ocular transplants.
said uneasily.
Look at those glyphs. Tell me they
“Uh-oh!” Arizona whipped out her
couldn’t have been carved at Palenque
flash and sent the light back whence
or Uxmal.”
they had come. The massive overPhlogbotham’s tone turned rather
head cylinder was moving. Then, sudsnooty. “I do think I’ve already acknowldenly, it dropped with a crash and
edged a superficial correspondence.
began to roll forward down the slope.
This is an alien planet, you know, and
“Run, Floggy!”
an alien culture. So in strictest terms,
They ran, but the cylinder inexorably
it’s neither a Mayan analog or a
gained speed and the passageway
Mesopotamian one. It is unto itself. And
showed no end in sight. There was
please don’t call me ‘Floggy.’”
no way around the huge steamrolling
“Phineas, you’re such a pill.”
stone and no way over it except for
“Here’s a feature common to neither
about a meter of clearance between
Earthian architecture,” Phlogbotham
the top of the cylinder and the ceilsaid as he angled the diodes on his hat
ing, but it was too high to jump.
to play their light along the ceiling.
Arizona stopped and rummaged
“What is this curious massive lateral cythrough her backpack. “Floggy, we
lindrical structure? Ever seen one of 26 can’t outrun it!”
those on a Mayan temple?”
Phlogbotham doubled back. Arizona
“Don’t fret, Floggy, dear. Do sit.” Arifound what she was rooting for, a
zona patted beside her on the cot.
gunlike mechanism with an unusual
“Thank you. You know, I did rather cock
grip. She immediately aimed at the
up the whole day. So sorry.”
ceiling. There was a sharp report and
“Never you mind. We’ve just begun the
a line shot out of the end of the barexpedition.”
rel. Something splatted against the
“Yes, rather. I say, this cot of yours is
ceiling, an adhesive mass that hardcomfortable. And. . . .” Phlogbotham’s
ened instantly, bonding its molecules
gaze drifted to Arizona’s outstretched
with the stone. The powerful minialeg. He had never noticed how shapely
ture winch inside the gun began to lift
it was. “I, uh. . .never realized how atArizona off the flagstones. “Floggy,
tractive webbed toes can be.”
quick!”
Arizona giggled. “Floggy, you say the
Phlogbotham jumped and Arizona
cutest things sometimes.”
caught him with one arm and the two
“I know I don’t cut the kind of figure
rose on the retracting line. When they
that. . .er, well. A man of my age. .
reached the ceiling, both lifted their
.what I mean is, I’ve never been one
legs and let the cylinder roll underfor ‘dig romances,’ and of course
neath after brushing roughly against
there’s the question of our being of
their backsides.
different species-”
As the massive intruder-crusher
“Nothing wrong with a little Ritharsha,”
rumbled off, Arizona pulled the gunArizona said. “Why, Floggy. I had no
winch’s trigger again and the line
idea you regarded me that way.”
played back out. Phlogbotham
“Uh. . .I’m not. . .well, that is. . .”
dropped and ended up a heap on the
“Floggy, don’t be coy. Say what you
floor. Landing on her feet, Arizona let
want to say. I know we haven’t exactly
go the line and helped him up.
hit it off on this dig.”
“I say!” Phlogbotham said with a groan.
“Well, it’s those egregious puns, really,”
“Rather dicey, what?. Thanks, old girl.”
Phlogbotham said. “I mean, really.
“No problem. You really should be
That’s why I stalked off and got lost.
more careful where you’re stepping in
Then I fell down a shaft, like a fool.”
a Mayan ziggurat.”
“You’re not a fool, Floggy, just brash.
“There are no ziggurats in the AmeriBut that’s what I like about you.”
cas, Meso- or any other.”
She extended her leg. It was not a hu“Floggy, really, everyone knows that
man leg, but had an undeniable femimost people prefer American
nine quality, curvaceous and lithe. Her
ziggurats!”
robe fell open a bit, revealing more
#
thigh, and her shoulder pressed proArizona was in her tent, sitting on her
vocatively against his.
cot and filing her talons, when
Phlogbotham swallowed hard. “I. . .oh,
Phlogbotham coughed discreetly bemy.”
hind the entrance flap.
She smiled demurely and said, “Some“May I come in?” he called politely.
thing on your mind, Floggy?”
“Floggy! You got out!”
Phlogbotham grinned and his eyes
The Earth archeologist entered the
glazed over. “I suppose you’re even
tent. He looked dusty and bedraggled
right about the predominating Mayan
and his expression was rather sheepanalogs.”
ish.
“Oh, Floggy, I didn’t mean to imply you
“I found an escape shaft, probably cut
were entirely wrong. Let’s say this.
by ancient tomb raiders.”
Let’s just agree that what’s Mayan is
“I searched for hours before giving up,”
Mayan, and what’s Ur’s is negotiable.”
Arizona told him.
-End
“I don’t blame you. You were right. I
should have deferred to your superior
field experience. I’ve been a bit of
(c)2007 by John DeChancie
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an ass, I must admit.”
Dr. Arizona
and the
Fossils of Mars
by John DeChancie
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in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the author.
“There are no fossils on Mars!” Dr.
Phineas Phlogbotham stated in no uncertain terms. “But I am not dogmatic
about that.”
Dr. Arizona, the prominent alien archeologist, gave her saurian head an ironic
shake. “Dogmatic? Oh, no, not you,
Floggy. Never.”
“I am never dogmatic,” Phlogbotham
stated categorically.
“I’m sure,” Arizona said as she tossed
Phlogbotham a small, flat piece of rock
with the imprint of something bifurcated.
“Here, have a fossil.”
Phlogbotham caught it clumsily. “Huh? I
say, what’s this?”
“Fossil,” Arizona said. “They’re lying all
over. You just have to look. Of course, I
like exopaleontology, but it’s not my
field.”
“Nor mine. What the devil? What is this
thing on the rock?”
“Looks like a crinoid to me,” Arizona said.
“This one looks like some kind of trilobite. In fact, it looks just like a trilobite.
That’s, what, Devonian Period?”
“Trilobite?” Phlogbotham examined the
piece of rock. “Why, no telling what that
is. That’s just a. . .well, a random. . .”
“This was a sea bottom, for sure,” Arizona said, scanning the Martian plain surrounding them and their little planet-hopper vehicle, parked in an arroyo not far
off. The salmon-pink surface of Mars, littered with rocky debris, swept out to a
pale blue sky.
“Sea bottom?” her human colleague
scoffed, “with Terrestrial life forms, yet.
Why, this planet is as lifeless as a dusty
cue ball.” He underscored his point by
kicking at a half-hidden stone. When 28
the stone flipped, it showed a curious
whitish underside, looking for all the
world like a scallop shell.
“Why, Floggy,” Arizona said. “you’ve
willy-nilly discovered a new species!”
“Nonsense! That’s an aeolian rock. Windcarved. There are many such specimens
on the planet. No need to leap to exobiological conclusions, my dear.”
“Floggy, dear, we just got done touring
a Martian pyramid.”
Phlogbotham turned his head toward the
huge triangular stone butte lying about
half a kilometer away. “Natural formation. The caves in it-”
“Passageways!” Arizona said.
“The eroded strata are unusual, but not
of artificial origin.”
“There was a door in the thing!”
“Another natural —”
“It was locked, Floggy! A metal door with
a lock!”
“Masses of pure metal are not unknown
in nature, my dear Arizona.”
“Floggy, when are you and your Earthling colleagues going to acknowledge
that Mars was not only a living planet
once, but still is!”
“Next you’ll be talking about Martians
with antennae and bug-eyes,”
Phlogbotham snickered. “Little Green
Men. Or. . .” he glanced around. “Huge
life forms in the sand. Did you ever read
Earth science fiction? As I remember,
Frank Herbert —”
It was at that precise instant when the
giant sand worm struck, in defiance of
all the rules of dramatic suspense in fiction, snaking from the russet sands,
ensnaring Phlogbotham’s left leg, and
attempting to drag him away. The Earth
archeologist yelped, fell on his stomach and clawed at the ground.
get harassed by ones that officially don’t
“Help me!” he wailed, his fingers makexist!” He whirled in the direction of the
ing tracks in the soil as he was hauled
sand worm’s lair. “In the interest of dioff.
plomacy, I shouldn’t do this. But since
Arizona dove and grabbed both his arms,
you are officially a non-existent entity,
but she couldn’t halt him. The worm
and probably not very sentient. . .THIS
wasn’t as big as the Dune variety, but
TO YOU!”
was rather large, about twice the size
Phlogbotham flipped both middle fingers
of a giant anaconda. The skin of the
at the now-hidden wormhole.
thing was pink and smooth and the en“Besides,” Phlogbotham went on in a
tire length of its body swelled with
milder voice, “way I heard, it’s too early
Freudian purport.
in the day for worms. Rumors are they
“It’s got me,” Phlogbotham screamed.
pop out when the sun warms the ground
“It’s got me!”
a bit.”
“I’ve got you, too!” Arizona shouted as
“Well, Floggy,” Arizona said, her foot still
she paradoxically let go, rolled, and
tapping. “You’ve proved one thing to
sprang to her taloned feet.
me.”
The worm began pulling in earnest.
Phlogbotham’s shoulders slumped.
Phlogbotham cried hopelessly, “Help,
“What’s that?” he said suspiciously.
help, oh dear!”
“You’ve proved that on Mars, the early
Her gleaming knife was quick, flashing
worm gets the bird.”
out and slicing into the pinkish skin of
the sand worm. The worm ceased reNote: Atmospheric conditions on the real
tracting and recoiled from the bladeMars would not permit the action deedge, a curious purplish ichor oozing
scribed in this story. The author doesn’t
from the slash.
really give a Donald Duck about that, but
“I wonder why alien body fluids are aldoes like fiction with footnotes. It’s so
ways referred to as ‘ichor,’” Arizona
post-modern, you know, like Borges or
mused as the worm let go of
someone. By the way, these ridiculous
Phlogbotham and retreated back into
pun stories weren’t his idea in the first
its barely-visible hole in the sand. When
place, so don’t blame him.
it had fully retracted and disappeared,
-End
the hole disappeared, too.
Phlogbotham lay still a moment, face
(c)2007 by John DeChancie
down, silently. Then he lifted his head
and yelled, “Because it’s ICKY!”
He got up and dusted himself off.
“You’re welcome,” Arizona said, shrugging.
“I am not ungrateful,” Phlogbotham said,
mustering as much dignity as he could.
“But you could have acted a little
quicker.”
“Again, you’re quite welcome. No problem.”
“All right, all right, I should say thank
you!” he blurted with some irritation.
“Thank you, thank you! There. Satisfied?”
“Floggy, sometimes!” Arizona folded her
arms and looked off, left toe tapping
the sand.
“Everything happens to me,”
Phlogbotham said miserably. “Not only
do I get harassed by alien life forms, I 29
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and concept art by day for a large
computer gaming company.
Lynn Flewelling is the author of the
Nightrunner and Tamir Triad Series.
She has published short fiction and
several popular articles on writing
and publishing. She also teaches
writing workshops.
Dorothy Fontana was associated
with Star Trek TOS as the story
editor. She also wrote Vulcan’s
Glory for the series of novelizations.
She was involved with two other
series, Fantastic Journey and
Logan’s Run.
Richard Foss is a journalist, critic,
restaurant reviewer, theater director, and recreational historian
whose stories have appeared in
Analog and several anthologies.
Laura Frankos has written fantasy,
both adult and YA, and mysteries.
Laura Brodian Freas is a radio host
of classical music programs in Los
Angeles. While married to artist
Frank Kelly Freas, she had created
illustrations for books and magazines such as The Easton Press,
Analog, Weird Tales, and TSR Inc.
A recipient of the Chesley Award
(with Frank Kelly Freas) from the
Association of Science Fiction and
Fantasy Artists, she is a quarterly
judge for the L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest.
Christopher J. Garcia is a writer, historian, and film maker from Santa
Clara, CA.
David Gerrold returns to Loscon every year. It’s a necessary feeding
stop on his annual migratory flight.
As soon as he fills up on chocolate,
he leaves.
Jan Howard Finder,
Finder aka The
Wombat, has chaired two Tolkien
conferences. In 1999 he attended
Zelda Gilbert first discovered SF/
Aussiecon3. Afterwards he drove
fantasy costuming at the 1984
about Oz for a total of 174 days
Worldcon. She is a successful Maslooking for wombats. He puts out
ter Class Costumer.
an irregular fanzine on Arthur
Upfield, an Australian mystery
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writer.
Mel Gilden is the author of many
original children’s books as well as
novelizations of Star Trek and
Beverly Hills, 90210. Adult books
include the three Zoot Marlowe novels.
Gail Glass is a retired recreation and
dance therapist.
Dr. James Glass read and wrote science fiction as a kid. But the fiction writing bug bit hard again when
Jim was well into his forties. His first
published story was in Aboriginal
S.F. and soon after he won the
1990 grand prize in the Writers of
the Future contest. He retired from
his academic job in 1999 and now
writes full time.
Diana Glyer chaired the 1998 C. S.
Lewis Centenary Conference in
Wheaton, IL. She has published numerous articles and contributed to
the C. S. Lewis Reader’s Encyclopedia.
Mike Glyer publishes the fan
newszine File 770, winner of five
Hugos as best fanzine. He also has
won three Hugos as best fan writer.
Mike chaired L.A.Con III, the 1996
Worldcon.
Barry Gold was named to the Filk
Hall of Fame in 1997.
Lee Gold was named to the Filk Hall
of Fame in 1997. Her best known
filksong is “You Bash the Balrog.”
Bob Gounley is a Systems Engineer
for the Dawn Mission to Vesta/
Ceres at NASA’s Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL). A lifelong space
enthusiast, he’s been a board member on the National Space Society
and currently serves on the board
of its Los Angeles chapter — OASIS.
LASFS. He also does stuff around
Loscons. Last year, he even did
stuff around the Worldcon.
Jude-Marie (Kelly) Green writes science fiction.She has sold fiction to
Say, Ideomancer, Abyss & Apex,
and Aoife’s Kiss.
Barbara Hambly has touched
pretty much all of the bases in
genre fiction, including historical
murder mysteries, fantasy, science
fiction, comic books, and scripts
for Saturday morning cartoon
shows.
Jim Harmon is a SF writer and longtime fan. He began publishing SF
with “The Smuggler” for Spaceway
in 1954. His nonfiction book, The
Great Radio Heroes (1967), discusses Superman and other characters of scientifictional interest.
Greg Hemsath earned his degree
in Biology at NAU in Flagstaff, Arizona—where any which way you
turn you trip over archaeology. He
is a past Guildmaster of the
Crafters’ Guild of Saint Greggory
the Wonderworker.
John Hertz is probably best known
for infecting fandom with English
Regency dancing. In 2006 and
2007, he was a Hugo nominee for
best fan writer. By profession, he
is a lawyer.
Eric Hoffman was born in the darkest reaches of Brooklyn. He has
given presentations or been involved in panels at Loscon for the
last several years. He has written
articles on the horror and science
fiction genres.
Louise Hitchcock has extensive archaeological experience in the east
Mediterranean.
Ed Green has been a fan for 35
Robert Hole is a biologist, artist
years. He does stuff around 33 and fan. He has written a small
book on Dinosaurs (Dinosaurs and
Other Ancient Animals).
Geordie Howe is a professional archaeologist. His major professional
areas of interest include the prehistory of the Pacific Northwest
Coast and Interior Plateau. During
his career he has directed archaeological surveys and excavations
throughout the wilds of British Columbia. Combining his professional
career with his abiding love of science fiction, fantasy, and horror,
Geordie is constantly exploring and
researching the uses and abuses
of archaeology in genre fiction and
media.
Berry Kercherval is a Bay Area
computer nerd and newly minted
fiction writer.
James Killus has been appearing in
various SF and fantasy magazines
for over 20 years. He has also published two novels, The Book of
Shadows and Sunsmoke.
Sharon King (Ph.D. Comparative
Lit., UCLA) is an Associate at the
UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Dani Kollin has sold his first novel,
The Unincorporated Man, which is
a collaboration with his brother
Eytan. He also is an advertising
copywriter currently living in Los
Angeles.
Eytan Kollin has sold his first novel,
The Unincorporated Man, which is
a collaboration with his brother
Dani. He is also a teacher of history and economics who is currently living in Pasadena.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg wrote the
Molt Brothers series and the
Dushau trilogy.
Patricia MacEwen is a physical anthropologist who works on mu-
seum collections and archaeological digs in central and northern California. Her short stories have appeared in Aeon, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and various
anthologies.
Todd McCaffrey wrote his first science fiction story when he was 12
and has been writing on and off ever
since. His books include the Pern
book Dragonsblood, and the nonfiction work, Dragonholder. You can
visit his website at http://
www.toddmccaffrey.org.
Christian McGuire is past Loscon
chairman, past Westercon chairman, past NASFIC chairman, and
past Worldcon chairman. He has
many other bad habits as well.
Dennis Mallonee is the president of
Heroic Publishing, Inc., and the past
publisher/editor of the illustrated
fantasy/sf magazine, Fantasy Book.
Craig Miller is a well-known writer/
producer and consultant in the animation and games industry.
Jess Miller has been involved in costuming for about 30 years. She
started by being involved with the
Society for Creative Anachronism
and the Northern Renaissance Faire.
She has a BA in art with an emphasis on textiles and further
coursework in anthropology. She is
Dean Emeritus of Costume College.
June Moffatt bitten by the publishing bug at an early age. She and
Len published MOONSHINE for
FAPA. She has written and published De Jueves for APA-L, the unofficial apa of LASFS, for more than
2200 weeks. She and Len were
given a Lifetime Achievement
Award at the 1999 BoucherCon,
the World Mystery Convention,
which they helped start (with Bruce
Pelz) thirty-seven years ago.
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since the 1940s as members, procedural officers and board members and have worked on several
local, regional and world s-f conventions over the years.
Len Moffatt is a writer of prose,
poetry, parody, and personal publications for more than sixty five
years; his first professional sales
were to the latter day pulps. His
short stories (s-f and fantasy)
were reprinted in Australia, France
and Mexico. He has been active in
s-f fandom since the 1930s, and
in mystery fiction fandom since the
1960s.
Leslie Ann Moore is practicing veterinarian in the Los Angeles area.
For as long as she can remember,
she’s been a storyteller. Her recently published novel of romantic fantasy, ‘Griffin’s Daughter’,
first of a trilogy, is her debut.
Lynn Maudlin found fandom in
1982 at Mythcon XIII. Lynn spent
ten years on the Mythopoeic Society board of directors. Lynn is a
singer/songwriter, an artist, a
writer, an editor, and a film producer. She is easily pulled into conversations about God and the Bible,
and appreciates the obsession that
is costuming.
Vera Nazarian is a writer, artist,
and now publisher of Norilana
Books. Ancient myth, moral fables,
eclectic philosophy, and her Armenian and Russian ethnic heritage all
play a strong part in her work. Her
website is www.veranazarian.com.
Larry Niven is a science fiction
writer with a whole bunch of accomplishments. He has won Hugo
awards for “Neutron Star”
(1966), Ringworld (1970), “Inconstant Moon” (1971), “The
Hole Man” (1974), and “The Borderland of Sol (1975). He has
also won some Nebulas, Ditmars, 36
and other awards.
Fred Patten joined LASFS in 1960.
He has attended most Worldcons
and Westercons since then and
was chairman of the of the 1974
Westercon and the 1987 Loscon.
He was co-founder of the first
Japanese animation fan club in
1977. He is one of the world’s
leading authorities on anime.
Dr. Jerry Pournelle is one of the
leading writers of military SF. He
has a number of successful collaborations with Larry Niven. He also
has written about computers and
science.
Tim Powers is the author of a
dozen SF and fantasy novels, including The Anubis Gate, Dinner at
Deviant’s Palace (both winners of
the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award),
Last Call and Declare (both winners
of the World Fantasy Award). Powers lives with his wife, Serena, in
San Bernardino, CA.
Tom Safer is a self taught expert
on animated cartoons. He has a
collection of over 4000 theatrical
cartoons and animated feature
films.
Steve Savitzky is a songwriter who
discovered organized fandom and
filkdom in 1978, and wrote his first
“real’’ filksong shortly thereafter.
Sharon Sheffield has a degree in
linguistics and anthropology with
an emphasis on how language
shapes culture and vice versa.
Stu Shepherd first displayed artwork in the Loscon art show in
1989 and has been a regular participant in recent years. Stu is a
traditional painter though much of
his work is created digitally.
Jill Sherwin is the author of
“Quotable Star Trek”, “The De-
Vanessa Van Wagner is the LASFS
librarian. She is a former adult basic education teacher and literacy
program manager. Though no
longer in the classroom - she’s now
a technical copyeditor - she maintains a commitment to promoting
reading to disadvantaged families.
finitive Star Trek Trivia Book, Volume I and II” and “Sailing the Slipstream: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Gene Roddenberry’s
Andromeda”.
Curt Steindler lives in West Los Angeles with his wife and four lizards.
He is an attorney specializing in
Internet and New Media law.
Bill Warren has been writing about
SF and other movies for over 40
years. His writing includes the two
volume series Keep Watching The
Skies!: American Science Fiction
Movies of the Fifties.
Moira Stern sings and accompanies
herself on the pedal harp. She
earned a Bachelor of Music Performance degree at the University of
Redlands.
Michael Z. Williamson is an immigrant from the UK and Canada, a
veteran of the US Army and US Air
Force, a bladesmith, and a writer.
Tony N. Todaro is vice-president
of the Greater Los Angeles Writers Society.
Tadao Tomomatsu Jack-of-mosttrades, entertainer, actor, A former
Loscon chair. A longtime Mid-West
fan, he moved to Los Angeles to
further his acting career. He has
worked on such projects as
Friends, Babylon 5, JAG, Inspector
Gadget, Charlie’s Angels, Full
Throttle, and on the NBC series Heroes. He is also well known internationally for his role on Banzai as
Mr. Shake Hands Man. He is currently behind the camera on NBC’s
The Singing Bee.
Harry Turtledove is an escaped
Byzantine historian who writes alternate history, other SF, fantasy,
and historical fiction. His recent
books include Fort Pillow,
Crosstime Traffic: The Disunited
States of America and Settling
Accounts: The Grapple.
George Van Wagner is a freelance
writer, musician, and recording engineer who is cursed with being interested in almost everything. He
is past president and current member of the Board of Directors of
the LASFS.
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Program Panels
Archaeology
Archaeologists Have Problems (You’ve
just dug-up what?)
(M) Robert Sawyer, Maya Bohnhoff,
Louise Hitchcock, Geordie Howe
Aliens in Archaeology: Von Danniken and
other such ideas
(M) James Glass, Robert Hole,
Geordie Howe
Extraterrestrial Archaeology: What Do
We Do When We Find Something?
(M) Robert Sawyer, Berry Kercheval,
Louise Hitchcock, Geordie Howe,
Larry Niven
Historical Linguistics: What Can Language Change Tell Us?
(M) Laura Frankos, Lynn Flewelling,
Sharon King, Vera Nazarian, Sharon
Sheffield
Present and Future Ethics in Archaeology
(M) James Daugherty, Gregg Castro,
Louise Hitchcock, Sharon Sheffield
Archaeoastronomy, The Effect of the Sky
on Ancient Cultures
(M) Vanessa Van Wagner, James
Glass, Harry Turtledove
Lost Worlds: How Do You Go About Losing A World These Days?
(M) Vanessa Van Wagner, James
Daugherty, John DeChancie, Robert
Hole, Geordie Howe
Who Owns The Past?
(M) Harry Turtledove, Lynn
Flewelling, Barbara Hambly, Sharon
Sheffield
Archaeology of Indiana Jones [Presentation]
David West Reynolds
Archaeology of Land of the Lost [Presentation]
David West Reynolds
What Is The Future Of Archaeology and
Paleontology?
(M) Louise Hitchcock, Gregg Castro,
Greg Hensath, Robert Hole
Archaeology of the Future [Presentation]
David West Reynolds
Can You Dig It, Excavating Our Civilization
(M) James Daugherty, Gregg Castro,
Robert Hole, Patricia MacEwen
Art
Realistic World Building: Why the Past is
Important to the Present [A]
(M) Robert Sawyer, Barbara Hambly,
Vera Nazarian, Larry Niven,
Michael Z. Williamson
Designing Alien Cities
(M) Buzz Dixon, James Daugherty,
John DeChancie, Stu Shepherd
SF & Fantasy Cover Art
(M) Laura Brodian Freas, Buzz
Dixon, James Killus, Vera Nazarian,
Stu Shepherd
Realistic World Building: Why the Past is
Important to the Present [B]
(M) Harry Turtledove, Lynn
Flewelling, David Gerrold, Jerry
Pournelle
(Same topic as A but with different
people)
SF Art, the Best and the Worst
(M) Mark Ferrari, Robert Gounley,
Stu Shepherd
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The Other Map Room Of Loscon
(Hotel Floor Plan)
Room
Function
Denver .................................................... Filk Room
Dallas ................................... Riddle Quest Archives
Chicago ........................................................ Anime
Boston/Atlanta ................................ Programming
Scottsdale ........................ Children’s Programming
New York .......................................... Programming
St. Louis ........................................... Programming
Houston ............................................ Programming
Washington ................................. Costume Station
New Orleans ....................................... Photo Room
Saddle Brook .................................... Programming
Philadelphia ....................................... Programming
Boardroom ................................... Office / Con Ops
Satellite Registration .......................... Registration
Imperial Ballroom D,E,F ..................... Programming
Imperial Ballroom C ........................... Programming
Imperial Ballroom B ........................... Programming
Imperial Ballroom A .......................... Programming
Marquis Ballroom .............. Dealers Room/ArtShow
Century Pavillon ........ Demonstrations & Dig Boxes
Additional Programming Rooms on the 1st Floor
Warner Center ............. Listing Lounge
Torrance ....................... BOF Meetpoint
Palm Desert ................ Writers Lounge
La Jolla ........................ Artists Lounge
Irvine ............................. Computer Bay
Monterey ................... NewsZine Office
The Con Suite is on the 18th Floor in
the Executive II Room near the elevators, end of the hallway.
Upstairs, back by the Lobby/Resturant
area are the Meridian Rooms.
Meridian A ....................... Teen Lounge
Meridian B ................................ Gaming
The Masquerade will be held in the Imperial Ballroom D,E,F on Saturday.
The Blood Drive will be held in the Imperial Ballroom C on Saturday.
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Spacescapes
(M) John Hertz, Robert Gounley,
Aleta Jackson, Stu Shepherd
Prize Winning Costumes
(M) Rebecca Foss, John Blaker, Barbara Hambly
Art of Theresa Mather [Presentation]
Theresa Mather
Dream Costumes
(M) Steve Bartlett, Jan Howard
Finder, Zelda Gilbert, Jess Miller
Comics
Discussions
(These are not panels. They are
discussions with a leader)
American Manga
(M) Buzz Dixon, Fred Patten, Tadao
Tomomatsu, Marv Wolfman
Past Masters: Murray Leinster
Todd McCaffrey
Comics to Movies
(M) Eric Hoffman, Bill Warren, Marv
Wolfman
Past Masters: Henry Kuttner/C. L. Moore
Eric Hoffman
Who Wants To Be A Superhero Writer?
(M) Marv Wolfman, Buzz Dixon,
Dennis Mallonee, Tadao Tomomatsu
Past Masters: Theodore Sturgeon
Harry Turtledove
SF Classics: Lord of Light by Roger
Zelazny
David Bratman
But I Look Terrible In Tights!! Superheroes Without Underwear!!!
(M) Christopher Garcia, Kelly Green,
Dennis Mallonee, Marv Wolfman
SF Classics: Man in the High Castle by
Philip K. Dick
Ed Green
Department of Costuming
So You Want To Get Into Costuming
(M)John Blaker, Jan Howard Finder,
Gail Glass
SF Classics: Rendezvous With Rama by
Arthur C. Clarke
Robert Sawyer
Costuming on a Budget
(M) Zelda Gilbert, Steve Bartlett,
Gail Glass, Jess Miller
SF Classics: Gateway by Frederik Pohl
John Hertz
Hall Costumes: The Good, The Bad, and
The Ugly
(M) Laura Brodian Freas, Tina
Beychok, Gail Glass
Historical Costumes
(M) Jess Miller, John Blaker, Greg
Hemsath
Presenting Costumes
(M) John Hertz, Tina Beychok, John
Blaker
When they tell you not to open
a book and read it aloud in another language, next time listen!
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For Locations and Times of panels, Please refer to the Pocket Program.
Filk
Crawling Out Of The Grave
(M) Marty Massoglia, Len Moffatt,
Vanessa Van Wagner
Concert 1
Alexander Adams
Future Horror
(M) Sharon King, Michael
D’Ambrosio, John D. Eggett, James
Killus
Concert 2
Alexander Adams
Concert
Maya and James Bohnhoff
Fear vs Suspense
(M) James Glass, Toni Blair, Michael
D’Ambrosio, Vera Nazarian
Concert
Dr. James Robinson
Midnight Monster Panel
(M) Michael D’Ambrosio, Toni Blair,
Darnell Coleman, Leslie Ann Moore
ConcertConcert
Lynn Maudlin
Horror and Religion
(M) David Bratman, Darnell
Coleman, Mark Ferrari, Jason
Henninger
Concert
Steve Savitzky
Concert
Moira Stern
Movies/TV
Banned From Argo
led by Barry Gold
The Virtues of Being Borg
(M) Larry Niven, Steve Bartlett,
John D. Eggett, Jill Sherwin
Dr. James Explains It All
Dr. James Robinson
Horror
The Best SF Film Ever
(M) John DeChancie, Kenneth Estes,
Len Moffatt, Bill Warren
Bite Me, The Continuing Popularity of Vampires
(M) Tim Powers, Kelly Green,
Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Leslie Ann
Moore, Jill Sherwin
2007, the Year in SF Movies
(M) Bill Warren, Toni Blair, Kenneth
Estes, Craig Miller
Horror Should Be Musty and Old. How
Do You Do Something New?
(M) Tim Powers, Michael D’Ambroso,
James Glass, Jason Henninger,
Patricia MacEwen
Horror For People With Weak Stomachs
(M) George Van Wagner, Sharon
King, Tim Powers, Curt Steindler
Weird Tales, The Magazine That Keeps
2007, the Year in SF TV
(M) Craig Miller, Michael Cassutt,
Dorothy Fontana, Jacqueline
Lichtenberg, Leslie Ann Moore
Heroes Trivia for Chocolate
Christian McGuire, Joyce Sperling
What Males Like In a Female Leading
Character?
(M) Craig Miller, Michael D’Ambrosio,
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SF/Fantasy
Richard Foss, James Glass, Michael
Z. Williamson
Does Organic Life Have A Future? Do
We Kill Ourselves Or Do The AIs Do It
For Us?
(M) Robert Sawyer, James Glass,
Robert Gounley, Dani Kollin, Eytan
Kollin, Karl Lembke
What Females Like in a Male Leading
Character?
(M) Dorothy Fontana, Aleta Jackson, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Deirdre
Moen, Jill Sherwin
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
(M) Joyce Sperling, Jan Howard
Finder, Rebecca Foss, Laura Frankos,
Jill Sherwin
The Purpose of Life, What If It Was Chosen By Election?
(M) Mike Glyer, Davin Gerrold, Barbara Hambly, Larry Niven, Vera
Nazarian
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
(M) Joyce Sperling, Jan Howard
Finder, Rebecca Foss, Dennis
Mallonee
2008 Hugo Nominees
(M) John Hertz, Kathryn Daugherty,
Christopher Garcia, George Van
Wagner
Flash Gordon, Then and Now
(M) Barbara Hambly, Dorothy
Fontana, Jim Harmon
Should Insanity Be Illegal?
(M) Jason Henninger, Todd
McCaffrey, Patricia MacEwen, Jerry
Pournelle
Sci Fi vs. SF in Media. The Real Difference
(M) Bill Warren, Carol Ann Alves,
Machael Cassutt, Tadao Tomomatsu
Is Too Much SF Being Published?
(M) David Gerrold, Michael Cassutt,
Kelly Green, Berry Kercheval, George
Van Wagner
Back to the Days of Radio [Presentation]
Jim Harmon
The SF Canon, Essential SF
(M) Kathryn Daugherty, David
Bratman, Berry Kercheval, Tim Powers, Harry Turtledove
Cartoons from the Silent Era [Presentation]
Tom Safer
Cartoons and Classical Music [Presentation]
Tom Safer
Mutate Now, Avoid The Rush (Heroes Do
It, X-Men Do It, Maybe Even You Can
Do It)
(M) Tadao Tomomatsu, Richard
Foss, Karl Lembke, Larry Niven
Mummy Movies [Presentation]
Eric Hoffman
The Day After The Day The Aliens Arrived
(M) Richard Foss, Darnell Coleman,
Ed Green, Tod McCaffrey
Dr. Terror’s House of Pilots [Presentation]
Eric Hoffman
Serials Based on Comics [Presentation]
Eric Hoffman
Pulp Fiction
(M) Marty Massoglia, Jim Harmon,
James Killus, Len Moffatt, Fred Patten
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The Inklings and Their Influence
(M) Diana Glyer, David Bratman, Mark
Ferrari, Laura Frankos, Tim Powers
Writing Your First Novel
(M) Mark Ferrari, Carol Ann Alves,
Michael D’Ambrosio, Lynn Flewelling,
Tony Todaro
Great Literature Writers Should Read
(M) Diana Glyer, Lynn Flewelling,
Laura Frankos, Jason Henninger
SF Magazines, Paper vs. On-line
(M) James Killus, Tina Beychok,
Laura Brodian Freas, Kelly Green,
Berry Kercheval
Other Stuff
Logged on at Birth
(M) Curt Steindler, Dani Kollin, Eytan
Kollin, Deirdre Moen
Aids Project Los Angeles Charity
Auction
David Gerrold
I Need As Much Regeneration As I Can
Get (Making You As Good As New)
(M) John DeChancie, John D. Eggett,
Greg Hemsath, Karl Lembke
Hour 25
Fan Funds, What Are They?
(M)John Hertz, Christopher Garcia,
Christian McGuire, June Moffatt
Mainstream Literature vs. SF
(M) John Hertz, Kenneth Estes, Mark
Ferrari, Dani Kollin, Eytan Kollin
Fanzine in an Hour
(M) Christopher Garcia, Mike Glyer,
Ed Green, June Moffatt
Galactic Consumer Co-ops (Empires are
just soooo imperialistic)
(M) Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Carol
Ann Alves, Laura Frankos, Fred Patten
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Blue,
Programming Your Own SF Con
(M) Milt Stevens, Toni Blair, James
Daugherty, Cristopher Garcia, Mike
Glyer, Craig Miller
What is the Worst SF Novel Ever Written?
(M) David Gerrold, Kathryn
Daugherty, Fred Patten, George Van
Wagner
Spam as Poetry
(M) Vanessa Van Wagner, Sharon
King, Curt Steindler
Reading
Robert Sawyer
Writing Stuff
Creating Interesting Characters
(M) David Gerrold, John DeChancie,
Lynn Flewelling, James Killus, Vera
Nazarian
Plotting and Pacing
(M) John DeChancie, Maya Bohnhoff,
David Gerrold, Jacqueline Lichtenberg,
Michael Z. Williamson
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Brief History
Of Loscon
LA 2000
December 5-7, 1975,
GoH: None.
Chair: Milt Stevens.
Loscon 2
October 15-17, 1976,
GoH: None.
Chair: Ron Bounds.
The following is a guide to the history of Loscon, the
Los Angeles Regional science fiction and fantasy convention. The numbers in parentheses indicate total members and actual attending members. Naming conventions
and themes are also noted on each convention.
Loscon 12
November 29-December 1, 1985,Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena
GoH: Robert Silverberg. Fan GoH: Terry Carr.
In Absentia GoH: Daniel Pinkwater.
Chair: Craig Miller.
(1387 / 1318)
International Hotel, Los Angeles
(199 / 196)
Loscon the 13th
November 28-30, 1986, Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena
GoH: John Brunner. Fan GoH: Bruce & Elayne Pelz.
Chair: Danise Deckert.
(1343 / 1282)
Pacifica Hotel, Culver City
(??? / 175)
Loscon 3
April 1-3, 1977,
Airport Sheraton, Los Angeles
GoH: None.
Chairs: Ed Finkelstein, Mike Glyer.
(163 / 149)
Loscon 4
November 4-6, 1977,
GoH: Jerry Pournelle.
Chair: Marty Massoglia.
Loscon 5
November 3-5, 1978,
GoH: Robert Bloch.
Chair: Susan Fox.
Loscon 6
November 10-12, 1979,
GoH: A.E. van Vogt.
Chair: Alan P. Winston.
Loscon XIV
November 27-29, 1987,
Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena
“Galactic Empires”
GoH: C.J. Cherryh. Fan GoH: Tom Whitmore.
Chair: Fred Patten.
(1359 / 1330)
Quality Inn Airport, Los Angeles
Loscon Fifteen
November 25-27, 1988,
Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena
“Southgate in Eighty-eight”
GoH: Vonda McIntyre. Fan GoH: Stan Woolston.
Artist GoH: Patricia Davis.
Chair: Rick Young.
(1250 / 1000)
(279 / 253)
Huntington Sheraton, Pasadena
Loscon Sixteen
November 24-26, 1989,
Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena
“Where Anything Can Happen...”
GoH: Spider & Jeanne Robinson. Fan GoH: John & Bjo
Trimble.
Artist GoH: Erin McKee.
Chair: Richard Foss.
(1221 / 1098)
(383 / 347)
Airport Park Hotel, Inglewood
(732 / 691)
Loscon 7
November 28-30, 1980,
Anaheim Sheraton, Anaheim
GoH: Larry Niven. Fan GoH: Alva Rogers.Media GoH: Jack
Arnold.
Chair: Mike Shupp.
(1120 / 1055)
Loscon 17
November 23-25, 1990,
Buena Park Hotel, Buena Park
“Moving”
GoH: Barry B. Longyear. Fan GoH: Ben Yalow.
Artist GoH: Reed Waller & Kate Worley.
LASFS Guest: George Alec Effinger.
Chair: Robbie Cantor.
(1107 / 1040)
Loscon 8
November 6-8, 1981,
Huntington Sheraton, Pasadena
GoH: Bill Rotsler. Fan GoH: Len & June Moffatt.
Chair: George Jumper.
(1016 / 968)
Loscon 18
November 29-December 1, 1991, Hyatt Regency, Long Beach
“Robotics & Computers in SF / Fantasy”
GoH: Mike Resnick. Fan GoH: Allan Rothstein.
Artist GoH: Brad Foster.
Chair: Rick Young.
(1064 / 1019)
Loscon 9
November 26-28, 1982, Universal Sheraton, Universal City
GoH: Poul Anderson. Fan GoH: Milt Stevens.
Chair: Dan Deckert.
(1390 / 1345)
Loscon 19
November 27-29, 1992,
Airport Marriott, Los Angeles
“Into the 21st Century on a Sturdy Broom”
GoH: Barbara Hambly. Fan GoH: Mike Glyer.
Artist GoH: Don Maitz. Editor GoH: David Hartwell.
Chairs: Christian McGuire, Shaun Lyon.
(1285 / 1241)
Loscon 10
November 25-27, 1983,
Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena
GoH: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Fan GoH: Fuzzy Niven.
Spec. GoH: John Myers Myers.
Chair: Bruce Pelz.
(1048 / 1009)
Loscon 20
November 26-28, 1993,
Airport Hilton, Burbank
“Take This Con and Stuffie It!”
GoH: Roger Zelazny. Fan GoH: Paul Turner.
Artist GoH: Rick Sternbach.
Chair: Chocolate Moose (with Elayne Pelz). (1204 / 1187)
Loscon Eleven
November 23-25, 1984,
Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena
GoH: Curt Siodmak. Fan GoH: Forrest J. Ackerman.
LASFS Guest: Bill Warren.
Chair: Charles Lee Jackson II.
(1002 / 959)
48
Loscon 21
November 25-27, 1994,
Airport Hilton, Burbank
“The Changing Face of Science Fiction”
GoH: Lois McMaster Bujold. Fan GoH: Robbie Cantor.
Artist GoH: Alicia Austin. Editor GoH: Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Special GoH (“Superguest”): Julius Schwartz.
Chairs: Shaun Lyon, Christian McGuire.
(1173 / 1155)
Loscon 29
November 29-December 1, 2002,
Airport Hilton, Burbank
“Planet Loscon”
GoH: David Weber. Artist GoH: Nene Thomas.
Fan GoH: Patty Wells.
Chair: Tadao Tomomatsu.
(1383/ 1308)
Loscon 30
November 28-30, 2003,
Airport Hilton, Burbank
“Navigating the WORLDS of Science Fiction”
Author GoH: Fred Saberhagen. Fan GoH:Jack L. Chalker.
Artist GoH:Teddy Harvia.
Chair: Michael Mason.
(1229 / 1177)
Loscon 22
November 24-26, 1995,
Airport Hilton, Burbank
“The World of SF”
GoH: Bob Shaw. Artist GoH: Lubov. Fan GoH: Larry Stewart.
Chair: Robbie Cantor.
(1124 / 1098)
Loscon XXIII
November 29-December 1, 1996,
Airport Hilton, Burbank
“Relax in the Company of Friends”
GoH: Harry Turtledove. Fan GoH: Bob Null.
Artist GoH: Vincent DiFate.
Chair: Christian McGuire.
(1127 / 1117)
Loscon 31
November 26-29, 2004,
loscon xxiv
November 28-30, 1997,
Airport Hilton, Burbank
GoH: S.M. Stirling. Fan GoH: Geri Sullivan. Artist GoH: Mitchell
Davidson Bentley.
Media GoH: J. Michael Straczynski.
Chair: Ed Green.
(1376 / 1296)
Loscon 32
November 25-27, 2005,
LAX Marriott, Los Angeles
“2005: A Space Operetta”
Author GoH: Steven Brust. Artist GoH:Rowena Morrill.
Fan GoH:Bruce Farr.
Chair: Karl Lembke.
(1222 / 1183)
Loscon 25
November 27-29, 1998,
Airport Hilton, Burbank
“Twenty Five Years Of a Good Thing”
GoH: David Brin. Fan GoH: Marjii Ellers. Artist GoH: Sue Dawe.
Chair: Kimberlee Marks Brown.
(1206 / 1141)
Loscon 33
November 26-29, 2006,
LAX Marriott, Los Angeles
“Exploring the Golden Ages of Science Fiction”
Author GoH: William Tenn. Artist GoH:Bernie Wrightson.
Fan GoH:Fred Patten.
Chair: Scott Beckstead.
(1146 / 1084)
LAX Marriott, Los Angeles
“Escape To LA”
Author GoH: Tim Powers. Artist GoH:Wendy Pini.
LASFS GoH:David Gerrold.
Chair: Ed Green.
(1265 / 1197)
Loscon XXVI
November 26-28, 1999,
Airport Hilton, Burbank
“It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and We Feel Fine.”
GoH: Connie Willis. AGoH: Alex Ross. FanGoH: Joe Siclari.
Chair: Liz Mortensen
(1386 / 1204)
Loscon 34
November 23-25, 2007,
LAX Marriott, Los Angeles
“The Dig: Excavating the Worlds of Science Fiction”
Author GoH: Robert J. Sawyer. Artist GoH:Theresa Mather.
Fan GoH: Capt. David West Reynolds.
Music GoH Dr. James Robinson (aka Dr. Jane)
Chair: Dr. Susan “Arizona” Gleason.
(? / ?)
Loscon 27
November 25-27, 2000,
Airport Hilton, Burbank
“The Dawn of a New Millennium”
GoH: Orson Scott Card. Artist GoH: Bob Eggleton.
Special GoHs: Harry Knowles, Robert Hewitt, Frank Kelly
Freas
Fan GoH: Craig Miller & Genny Dazzo.
Chair: Shaun Lyon & Christian B. McGuire. (1375 / 1317)
Loscon 35
November 27-30, 2008,
LAX Marriott, Los Angeles
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Loscon”
Author GoH: John Scalzi. Artist GoH:Gary Lippincott.
Fan GoH:Michael Siladi.
Chair: Cathy Beckstead & Joyce Hooper.
(? / ?)
Loscon 28
November 23-25, 2001,
Airport Hilton, Burbank
“Education - Building the future one mind at a time”
GoH: Patricia C. Wrede. ArtistGoH: Chris Butler.
FanGoH: Lynn Gold.
Chair: Chaz Boston Baden.
(1187 / 1128)
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A Brief History Of LASFS
This year, as always,
Loscon is brought to
you by the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. Celebrating its 73rd
anniversary this
October 27th, it
is the world’s oldest living science
fiction club. However, the LASFS did not
form spontaneously from a vacuum. It
required the support of an organized
science fiction fandom.
Current
LASFS Elected
Officers
President: Marcia Minsky
Vice-Presidents: Mike Thorsen
Tadao Tomomatsu
Joan Steward
Treasurer: Elayne Pelz
Scribe: Joe Zeff
Registrars: Joyce Hooper
Michelle Pinkus
Arlene Satin
Loscon 34 Chair:
Dr. Susan “Arizona” Gleason
Loscon 35 Chair:
Cathy Beckstead & Joyce Hooper
Board of Directors
(Expiration of Terms in parentheses)
Chairman: Karl Lembke (2009)
Vice-Chair: Mike Thorsen (2007)
Comptroller: Brett Achorn (2008)
Secretary: George Van Wagner (2008)
Other Members of the Board:
Cathy Beckstead (2007)
Bill Ellern (2008)
Ed Green (2009)
Liz Mortensen (2007)
Merlin R. "Bob" Null (2009)
Elayne Pelz (2008)
Tadao Tomomatsu (2009)
Special Advisor:
Charles L. Jackson II
Advisors:
Forrest J. Ackerman
Len & June Moffatt
Fred Patten
The pioneering science fiction magazine,
Amazing Stories, began monthly publication in April 1926. It printed opinions
and criticisms from its readers, along
with their full addresses, in a “Discussions” column. Rejoicing in their
newfound kindred, many early fans,
most of high school and college age,
began writing to each other. Within a
few years, a group of two or three hundred of these pen pals around North
America and Britain had formed a loose
social association. Some organized
more formally. A Science Correspondence Club was started during 1928,
and began publishing a club magazine,
The Comet, in May 1930. By the early
1930s several of the more literate fans,
individually or in collaboration, started
their own amateur magazines in emulation of the professional SF magazines.
The prevailing attitude and sense of purpose of these early fans and fanzines
was the serious advancement of science
fiction.
The earliest localized SF club was The
Scienceers in New York City, which first
met on December 11, 1929. Its fanzine,
The Planet, began in July 1930. In addition to amateur fiction and popular science articles, it reported on the meetings and social activities of the club.
Copies of The Planet were mailed
throughout the fledgling SF fandom, and
encouraged many fans to start similar
clubs in their cities. These clubs usually
drifted apart after a few months or years
as their adolescent members developed
other interests, but there were always
some SF clubs to inspire new fans to
create or join local clubs.
In May 1934, Wonder Stories announced
the creation of the Science Fiction
League, an international SF club which
was to be coordinated through a col50 umn in the magazine. Members living
in the same city were encouraged to
get together and start a local SFL chapter. The first SFL chapters were on the
East Coast, but on Saturday, October
27, 1934, seven Los Angeles SFL members and two guests met in the garage
of member E. C. Reynolds. These nine
fans sent a letter to Wonder Stories asking to become an SFL chapter. The Los
Angeles Science Fiction League (LASFL)
was granted a charter dated November
13, 1934 as the club’s fourth chapter.
The LASFL met irregularly during its first
year. This changed when Forrest J
Ackerman, a hyper-enthusiastic L.A. fan
who was in college in San Francisco at
the time, returned home at the beginning of 1936 and quickly became the
club’s most active member. Bolstered
by Forry’s efforts, LASFL began meeting regularly every other Thursday in
February 1936, increasing to the first
four Thursdays of the month in January
1939 and every Thursday in July 1942.
He became the nucleus of a group of
similarly enthusiastic young fans such
as Walter Daugherty, T. Bruce Yerke,
Paul Freehafer, Ray Bradbury, and Ray
Harryhausen who transformed the
LASFL from a tiny literary discussion
club into a lively social group. They invited all SF authors visiting or living in
Los Angeles to come to the LASFL.
Arthur J. Burks, Robert A. Heinlein, Jack
Williamson, Henry Kuttner, and other celebrities accepted the invitation.
til 1946 due to World War II).
When the parent Science Fiction League
began to fall apart in the late 1930s,
Forry aided the club in staying alive by
declaring its independence on March 27,
1940 as the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. Forry remained active in
the club for the next two decades. He
seldom held a formal club office, but he
was always there to keep things moving
while others came and went. Forrest
Ackerman was Mr. LASFS for thirty years.
By the time he stopped participating
regularly in the mid-1960s, he left a
firmly established club behind him.
The LASFS went through some drastic
personality changes before settling down
into its current self. SF fandom in the
Thirties was dominated by intellectual
young men who gave the original LASFL
the atmosphere of a college fraternity.
During the early Forties, the club almost
self-destructed due to fannish politics.
Cliques and factions battled, attempting
to impeach club officers, arguing endlessly over trivial differences of opinion,
and setting up rival local SF clubs. At
the same time, with World War II in
progress and most SF fans over 18 in
the Armed Services, the LASFS took on
the atmosphere of a fannish USO. Los
Angeles was a major embarkation center for soldiers and sailors shipping out
into the Pacific, and LASFS members
were always ready to stop fighting long
enough to greet and play host to fans in
uniform passing through L.A. to the front.
Ackerman was particularly active in helping the LASFL publish its own mimeographed fanzines. They were full of huPerhaps in reaction, as soon as the war
morous, pun-filled reviews and parodies
ended the club swung to the opposite
of current SF, as well as discussions of
extreme, shunning most fannish activithe LASFL’s picnics, holiday parties and
ties as irresponsible. The attitude was
group outings to scientific lectures at
encouraged that fans should aspire to
Cal Tech or the local planetarium in adbecome professional SF authors, and
dition to the club meetings. These soon
several local writers including A. E. van
established the LASFL’s reputation
Vogt, Ross Rocklynne and L. Ron Hubbard
throughout budding SF fandom as
became regular participants. The LASFS
“Shangri-L.A.”; a paradise for young SF
instituted a “Fanquet”, an annual banfans. This reputation helped L.A. fandom win the World Science Fiction
quet honoring those members who
Convention for 1942 (postponed un- 51 made their first professional SF sale.
Several members did sell one or two short
stories, and one, E. Everett Evans (for
whom the Evans-Freehafer Award is conamed, with Paul Freehafer; see separate section), became a minor popular
author during the 1950s until his death
in 1958.
A major accomplishment of the LASFS
in the late 1940s was the creation of
the annual West Coast Science Fantasy
Conference (Westercon). At this time
the only SF conventions were in the New
York/Pennsylvania/New Jersey area, plus
the annual World Science Fiction Convention which had come to Los Angeles in
1946 but was usually held in a city East
of the Mississippi. Two LASFS members,
Walter Daugherty and Dave Fox, felt that
the fans in Western cities deserved their
own annual convention. In 1948 the
LASFS started the Westercon in emulation of the Worldcon. Los Angeles-area
fans held the first three Westercons until the convention was well-enough established that fan clubs in such cities as
San Diego and San Francisco were ready
to host it. Today the Westercon is sixty
years old, and has met in cities ranging
from Vancouver, BC to Honolulu, HI to
Boise, ID to El Paso, TX. The Westercon’s
Bylaws specify the LASFS as the archive
of Westercon business and the default
administrator in the case of the failure
of any individual Westercon (which has
never happened). Westercon 55 in 2002
returned to Los Angeles for the first time
in eight years. The 2004 Westercon was
in Phoenix, 2005 was in Calgary, 2006
was in San Diego, 2007 was in San Mateo,
and Westercon 61 in 2008 will be in Las
Vegas.
Foster, Stephen Goldin, David Gerrold,
Steven Barnes, John Dalmas, William
Rotsler, and George Barr among others.
Some were well-established when they
moved to Los Angeles and others became authors while they were fans in
the club. But there is no longer pressure for members to write if they prefer to remain fans.
In the Sixties the LASFS regained the
lively spirit of its beginnings, with the
additional benefit of a growing female
presence in SF fandom. The club became more family oriented, with several marriages between members during the Sixties and Seventies including
Bjo & John Trimble, Len & June Moffatt,
and Bruce & Elayne Pelz. Fans began to
specialize into sub-groups, devoting
themselves to hard-science SF,
Tolkienish high fantasy, SF movies,
comic books, specific movie and TV series including Star Trek and Dr. Who,
roleplaying games, mystery/detective
fiction, computer groups, even
cliffhanger serials and old Westerns
through the efforts of Charles Lee Jackson II. The Cartoon/Fantasy Organization, the first Japanese anime fan club,
held its first meeting at the LASFS in
May 1977. Despite this fragmentation,
the LASFS counted them all as part of
All Things Fannish, encouraging a strong
spirit of camaraderie and family. The
LASFS began to build this spirit during
the 1960s, incorporating in 1968 as a
non-profit educational organization and
buying its own property in 1973. In
1977 the LASFS replaced it with a larger
clubhouse at the current location in
North Hollywood. The club acquired its
first computer, an Altair, that year as a
By the early 1960s the LASFS had
donation by Larry & Fuzzy (Marilyn)
worked through its extremes to become
Niven; it was made a member as Altair
the casual, open-to-all interests club that
Niven. In 1993 the club completed renoit is today. There are always some SF
vations to its front building, remodeling
authors and artists in residence, from
and doubling the size of its SF library
Fritz Leiber in the late Fifties to Larry
which now contains well over 10,000
Niven, Jerry Pournelle and John
volumes. The LASFS went online with
DeChancie today, including Alan Dean 52 its own website in 1997.
sary and calling itself Loscon for the first
In December 1975, the Society pretime. The Loscon was held twice in
pared LA 2000, a special convention to
1977, the second that year being the
celebrate the club’s 2,000th meeting.
first with an official guest of honor, Jerry
More a relaxicon than a convention in
Pournelle. By 1978 it had settled into
the traditional sense (such as featuring
an annual November affair, the Los Anguests of honor or holding a formal progeles Regional Science Fiction and Fangram), the event was so enjoyable that
tasy Convention, and starting with
it was repeated in 1976, moving to
October to honor the club’s anniver- 53 Loscon 9 in 1982 the Thanksgiving
weekend has become traditional. Loscon
7 in 1980 was the first to top 1,000
members, and attendance has not
dropped below a thousand since 1984.
The Loscon was held in Pasadena from
1983 through 1989, in Burbank from
1993 through 2003, and in 2004 it returned to Los Angeles itself.
In the last quarter of the 20th century
the LASFS began to blend and expand
its social and literary activities. The annual Fanquet metamorphed through a
LASFS Showcase into the LaLaCon beginning in 1995; a two-day “Spring Fling
relaxicon, social gathering and open
house” held at Freehafer Hall. Attendance is limited to 150; the venue’s maximum capacity. Traditional LaLaCon
events include a Plutonium Chili Cookoff
on Saturday at noon; an Intergalactic Ice
Cream Social on Saturday evening; and
a Banquet on Sunday. In 1964 the LASFS
began APA-L, an unofficial weekly fanzine
assembled at each club meeting consisting of individual contributions by members who find it convenient to communicate through “paper conversations” of
usually two to four pages; some contributing by mail who cannot attend the
club’s meetings. APA-L has had contributors from throughout North America and
Europe. In 1976 the similar monthly
LASFAPA was started. During 2006
APA-L has averaged about thirty pages
from fifteen contributors per week. Several of the unofficial sub-groups have
grown into technically independent clubs
which traditionally meet at Freehafer Hall
on an established weekend each month,
including the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization and Cinema Anime (anime clubs),
the Time Meddlers (Dr. Who), and TRIPE,
FWEMS and the Estrogen Zone (moviewatching clubs). Members of these clubs
are also the organizers of the annual Los
Angeles-area Gallifrey One (Dr. Who) convention, and the new Animé L.A. convention beginning in 2005.
profit organization in 1982, the Southern California Institute for Fan Interests,
Inc. (SCIFI), to be the sponsor and organizer of Worldcons, Westercons, and
similar major events within the sciencefiction community that are not a part
of the LASFS. SCIFI organized the 1984,
1996, and recent 2006 Los Angeles
Worldcons, the 1999 North American
Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC)
and the 1989, 1994 and 2002
Westercons. In 1997 SCIFI created the
Fan Gallery, a growing gallery of portrait
photographs of prominent SF authors
and fans funded from the “Benefit to
Fandom” money left over from the 1996
Worldcon surplus. The Fan Gallery was
first exhibited at Loscon in 1997 and
has become a regular display at
Worldcons, Loscons and other conventions since then.
The LASFS has survived some traumatic
shocks. The April 1992 Los Angeles
Riots occurred on a Thursday, which almost caused the club to cancel its
weekly meeting for the first time since
the early 1940s. (That meeting was
attended by only a few fans who adjourned early to get home before the
martial-law curfew.) After the January
1994 6.7 Richter Northridge Earthquake, and again during the OctoberNovember 2003 Southern California
wildfires, the LASFS became an information center for fans to keep in touch
with each other and offer help. A smaller
tragedy has become common due to the
“graying” of fandom; LASFS regular attendees for decades have started dying or becoming confined to their homes
due to the infirmities of old age. In
March 2002 Bruce Pelz proposed the
establishment of a status known as ‘Pillar of the LASFS.’ In order to qualify as
a Pillar, the member must be dead. The
member’s estate, or friends, would then
make a large, lump-sum donation to the
LASFS, in an amount to be determined
by the club. The proposal was being
For legal reasons, LASFS members indiscussed when Pelz unexpectedly
corporated a separate California non- 54 died in May of a pulmonary embolism.
The creation of the Pillar of the LASFS
Award was approved in June with the
donation set at $4,000, and donations
to make Pelz himself the first Pillar of
the LASFS were raised within two
months at the 2002 Westercon and
Worldcon.
Fortunately, the LASFS is constantly
adding young and enthusiastic SF fans
to replace the departed. Some major
LASFS events during 2004 included the
club’s 70th anniversary meeting and the
40th anniversary distribution of APA-L
(#2058), both in October. The participants of both ranged from their
founders to newcomers who only joined
during 2004. The 2006 Worldcon,
L.A.con IV, was held in Los Angeles
(Anaheim), and many newcomers discovered the club through that Worldcon.
LASFS’s regular Thursday night meetings, starting around 8:00 p.m., usually
boast sixty to one hundred fans of all
ages. About half the attendees participate in the formal meeting and program,
which may include a speaker, an SF
movie, a panel, or auctions of SF items.
The rest are present to use the club’s
library (a trove of SF books, magazines,
audio and video tapes, available to all
members), or to gather in informal
groups in various spots around the clubhouse to socialize, pursue their special
interests, or work on individual club
projects. (The LASFS has organized SF
exhibits for local public and university
libraries, and a committee has been publishing an annually updated “LASFS Recommended Reading List for Young Readers” since 1997, which has been requested by librarians across the country. The LASFS maintains social contact with other major SF clubs throughout America.) The clubhouse is also
open every Friday night for more informal socializing and open gaming. In
addition, on the Second Sunday of each
month the LASFS hosts an open
house for gaming fans. The LASFS 55
ran a SF exhibition booth at the annual
UCLA Book Fair for many years, and it
still holds its annual “LaLaCon” two-day
relaxicon each Spring.
There is something for every SF enthusiast at the LASFS! For more information call us on Thursday nights (or leave
a message) at (818) 760-9234; or stop
by the clubhouse at 11513 Burbank Boulevard, North Hollywood on Thursday or
Friday evenings. Or check out the LASFS’
website: http://www.lasfs.org/lasfs/
L.A.S.F.S.
The Los Angeles Science
Fantasy Society, Inc.
This world’s oldest
science fiction club
World’s largest dedicated
science fiction library
Meetings are every
Thursday at 8pm
Visitors Are Welcome!
(First three visits free)
L.A.S.F.S. clubhouse:
11513 Burbank Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Phone: (818) 760-9234
Visit Us On The Web at
http:\\www.lasfs.org
The “Evans-Freehafer” Award
The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society began to honor its own in 1959 with the
creation of the Evans-Freehafer Award, named after two of the club’s most influential and popular members, E. Everett Evans and Paul Freehafer.
E. Everett (“Triple E”) Evans was one of the first LASFSians to become a successful
pro, with over a dozen short stories and novels published during the 1950s before
his death in 1958.
Paul Freehafer was only 27 when he died of a rheumatic heart in 1944, but it was his
cheerful enthusiasm for carrying club projects to completion that made the LASFS
one of the leading sf clubs of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
The Evans-Freehafer Award is presented at each Loscon to that year’s recipient.
The award is decided by a special committee made up of the three previous years’
recipients, and the winner is a closely guarded secret until the announcement. The
award is presented for service to the LASFS, recognizing hard work and dedication
to the club. Only four people (Bruce Pelz, Bob Null, Mike Donahue and Elayne Pelz)
have received this award more than once.
In 1972, rather than present the award to a current member, the decision was made
to give the award to Forrest J. Ackerman, retroactively all the way back to 1942, for
his years of service to the club.
The year 2004 is the most unusual and perhaps the saddest year in this history.
Michael Mason, club librarian, died unexpectedly quite soon after that year’s Loscon.
The voting committee honored Michael with the first posthumous award, and it
became a shared award with Christian McGuire.
List of Evans-Freehafer Award Recipients
1984:
1985:
1986:
1987:
1988:
1989:
1990:
1991:
1992:
1993:
1994:
1995:
1996:
1997:
1998:
1999:
2000:
2001:
2002:
2003:
2004:
2005:
2006:
2007:
1959: Al Lewis
1960: Rick Sneary
1961: John Trimble
1962: Virginia Mill
1963: Leland Sapiro
1964: Paul Turner
1965: Fred Patten
1966: Bruce Pelz
1967: (no award)
1968: Charles Crayne
1969: Bruce Pelz
1970: Don Fitch
1971: Milt Stevens
1972: Forrest J. Ackerman (Retroactive to ’42)
1973: Bill Warren
1974: Lee Gold
1975: Tom Digby
1976: Craig Miller
1977: Jerry Pournelle
1978: Jim Glass
1979: Louis E.W. Gray
1980: Elayne F. Pelz
1981: Merlin R. Null
1982: Fuzzy Pink Niven
1983: Marjii Ellers
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Gavin Claypool
Susan Hazeltine
Galen Tripp
Mike Frank
Charles Lee Jackson II
Robbie Cantor
Gary Louie
George Mulligan
Merlin R. Null
Michael Donahue
Len & June Moffatt
Ed Green
Leigh Strother-Vien
Tim Merrigan
Liz Mortensen
Greg Bilan
Mike Thorsen
Tadao Tomomatsu
Mike Donahue
Merlin R. Null
Christian McGuire / Michael Mason
Bill Ellern
Elayne Pelz
The Forry Award
Award for service to the
science fiction community
Each year since 1966, the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society has presented the Forry Award for Lifetime Achievement in the field of Science Fiction.
Named after long-time fan and “Mr. LASFS,” Forrest J.
Ackerman, the award is chosen by members of the
club during a meeting usually in the mid to late fall of
each year, and announced at Loscon. In 2002, over
thirty-five years after the award’s establishment, the
club felt that it was high time that Forry himself received the award with his name.
Forry Award Recipients
1966:
1967:
1968:
1969:
1970:
1971:
1972:
1973:
1974:
1975:
1976:
1977:
1978:
1979:
1980:
1981:
1982:
1983:
1984:
1985:
1986:
Ray Bradbury
Fritz Leiber
Poul Anderson
Larry Niven
Harlan Ellison
Theodore Sturgeon
A.E. van Vogt
C.L. Moore
Robert Bloch
Kris Neville
Marion Zimmer Bradley
L. Sprague de Camp
Leigh Brackett
Jerry Pournelle
Robert A. Heinlein
Horace Gold
Arthur C. Clarke
Frank Kelly Freas
Julius Schwartz
Robert Silverberg
Jack Williamson
1987:
1988:
1989:
1990:
1991:
1992:
1993:
1994:
1995:
1996:
1997:
1998:
1999:
2000:
2001:
2002:
2003:
2004:
2005:
2006:
2007:
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Donald A. Wollheim
Ursula K. LeGuin
Andre Norton
Isaac Asimov
Curt Siodmak
Hal Clement
Roger Zelazny
Frederick Pohl
Harry Turtledove
Chuck Jones
Jack Vance
David Brin
Connie Willis
Anne McCaffrey
Ray Harryhausen
Forrest J. Ackerman
Philip Jose Farmer
Len Moffatt
John DeChancie
William Tenn
David Gerrold
The Rotsler Award
The Rotsler Award judges are pleased to name Terry
Jeeves as the winner of the 2007 Rotsler Award.
Terry Jeeves, of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England,
is a member of First Fandom, that happy band of folk
arriving no later than the first Worldcon (1939). For
years his fanzine Erg was known around the world. He
is deft with creatures human and otherwise, strange
machines, and possibly intelligent beings called Soggies.
The Rotsler Award was created by the Southern California Institute
for Fan Interests, Inc. (SCIFI, Inc.) in his memory in 1997, to honor
the lifetime work of outstanding fanzine artists. It is awarded yearly
by a specially appointed panel and, by arrangement with the LASFS,
it is presented at the Loscon. Its recipients receive a $300 honorarium and a plaque. Traditionally there is an exhibit of the current
recipient’s work in the Loscon Art Show. There is a website at
www.scifiinc.org/rotsler.
Bill Rotsler (1926-1997) knew everyone and did everything. He
located the fossils, crystals, and stones for the Nebula Award trophies of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA). He went
house-hunting with Marilyn Monroe. He wrote science fiction. He
sculpted with welded steel rods. He celebrated the West Coast
Science Fantasy Conference (Westercon) as his birthday
In the s-f community, he was best known for graphic art. As a
fanartist his cartoons were deft, his serious drawing fine, his fluency downright breathtaking. He won four Hugo Awards, twenty
years apart, in 1975 and 1979, 1996 (when he also won the RetroHugo for 1946) and 1997; a remarkable span.
Rotsler Award Recipients
1998
Steve Stiles
1999
Grant Canfield
2000 Arthur Thomson (ATom)
2001
Brad Foster
2002
Kurt Erichsen
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
Ray Nelson
Harry Bell
Marc Schirmeister
Alexis Gilliland
Terry Jeeves
Ice Cream Excavation
Treecat crunchies, candy bones, ribbons of gold
caramel... just a few of the toppings that you
may see at this year’s Ice Cream Social.
Come join us on Friday night and be surprised (and
possibly even shocked and amazed) by the toppings
offered by party hosts
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and fan groups.
Loscon Masquerade
The Loscon 34 Masquerade will take
place on Saturday, November 24,
2007, at 8:00 PM, in the Ballroom.
Once more, we are pleased to be
offering to the winner of Best in
Show for the Loscon Masquerade
one membership to Costume College, courtesy of Costumer’s Guild
West, and a special award for Best
Costume related to the con theme
of “Digging up the Past”.
No projectiles of any sort. If you need
to throw something during your presentation, clear it with the director.
No Costume Is Still No Costume.
If you have any questions, ask the
director; surprise the audience, NOT
the director.
If you have any doubts, ask the director. See above.
Presentations are 30 seconds to 1
minute for one or two entrants, 1 to
2 minutes for groups of three or
more. Keep it simple is the best
policy.
Here are the rules for this year’s
show. Please remember that the
rules for the masquerade are for the
safety of the participants and the
audience, not the whim of the director. If you have any questions regarding the rules or the masquerade,
please see the Director, Jess Miller,
at the signup table in the lobby. Your
questions will be answered.
The Masquerade Green Room, located
in the Washington room, opens at 6
PM. Please be there and checked in
by 7:30 PM. This means either in costume or you have your costume ready
to put on in the Green Room. Please
do not check in and then leave.
Your must read the rules before entering.
Please get the signed entry form to
the masquerade sign-up by 4:00PM.
No signed entry form, no entry.
The categories will be children 13
and under, Novice, Journeyman and
Master. Only one costume can be
worn by each person, but there is
no limit to the number of costumes
you can make and have your friends
wear!
Please, NO LATE ENTRIES. If you have
any questions, ask the director.
No unsheathed, edged weapons on
stage. All edged weapons must be
peace bonded. There will be a weapons master to check them if there
are any questions.
No food product-based costumes or
messy substances allowed on stage
or in the backstage area.
No outside food in the backstage
area. You may be careful about the
burger, but your neighbor may not.
No fire allowed on stage.
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Hall Costume
Awards
Costumes have been a part of science fiction conventions since
Forrest J Ackerman attended the
first Worldcon wearing a costume
from the movie “Things To Come”.
Looking around a Loscon about 10
years ago, and seeing that there
were only 3 or 4 costumes, Anne
Morrel, an occasional costumer,
commented “This has become a
dull place. We need to encourage
fans to get back to wearing costumes again.” Costumes are one
of the hallmarks of a Science Fiction Convention. They’re fun to
create and wear, and fun for others to look at. She took charge
of the Hall Costume Awards.
A hall costume is clothing patterned after, copied from, or inspired by a science fiction or fantasy source.
It must be capable of ordinary
wear and not fall apart at inappropriate moments. It can be
removed without (much) outside
aid or risk of being destroyed.
One old definition is that if you
can go to the bathroom without
help, it’s a hall costume.
Every item of the costume should
look appropriate to the outfit.
This means no pirates or elves
with tennis shoes.
The over-all effect should be visually pleasant.
The outfit should be a complete
costume. Just an exotic hat or
fancy cloak does not constitute
a costume.
Every time a person shows up
wearing a different costume, they
can get another award. It’s the
person wearing the costume, not
the one who actually made (or
bought) it, who gets the award.
It’s important that the costume
wearer spend some time in the
halls or the Dealers’ Room or Con
Suite or other similar place. Otherwise, there’s a very good
chance the award staff will never
be able to find them.
We’re looking forward to giving YOU
a Hall Costume Award ! !
Special Needs
Special Needs is at the convention to help any member with vision, hearing,
mobility or other medical conditions that might affect their enjoyment of
Loscon, all of which apply to the department head. We’re here to help you
get the special seating you need, the mobility cart to help
you move around, or whatever else you need. One thing
though: we can’t help you if you don’t ask, so please, don’t
be shy!
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Dealers’ Room
Welcome to LosCon 34! Our Dealers’ Room is full of excellent
vendors ready to tempt you with lots of fascinating and delightful treasures. You’ll be happy to see a number of our most popular dealers back again and a few new finds as well. Exhibiting this
year are:
Angelwear Creations ...................................................... Jewelry and gemstones
Baron’s Beauties ...................................................................................................
Bedazzled by Design ............................................................................. Costumes
Bobcat Publishing ........................................................ Books, Original Art, Prints
Book Universe ..................................................... New books, t-shirts and games
Brick by Brick Design ....................................................................................... Art
Buy Soundtrax ............................................................... Film and TV soundtracks
Cargo Cult Books & Notions ...................................... New books, CDs and DVDs
DAG Productions ........................................................... Filk CDs, note cards, etc.
Dark Gift ....................................................... Items of leather, candles and fangs
Dragonmarsh Apothecary ................................. Oils, herbs, gifts and much more
FM Designs ............................................................................................................
Fo’ Paws Productions .......................................... T-shirts, other shirts and totes
Gray / Guardians ........................................................................................ Author
The Hornsmythe ......................................... Horn, bone, & leather and costumes
House of Artemas ................................................... Canvas, fleece and knit gifts
The Lillian Todaro Collection ..................... Butterfly Fairy Jewelry and beadwork
Lyzard 13 ............................................ Action figures, toys, blinkies & treasures
Massoglia Books ............................................... Used books and bumper stickers
Michael D’Ambrosio .................................................................................... Author
Money-Changers ........................................................................ Coins and medals
Nova Science Fiction Science ................................................... fiction magazines
QR Zed Engraving ............... Knives, miscellaneous engraved items and crossbows
Realm of Regalia ................................................................... Trims and costumes
Soundtrack ................................................................ Vintage movie memorabilia
Sea Fire Productions ................................... CD’s, DVD’s, books, jewelry, comics
Sundreams and Myths ........................ Original design soft sculptures and artwork
As you can see, we have a wide variety of dealers offering an
even wider spectrum of merchandise. Come, join us. Browse,
visit, chat and shop. You’ll be glad you did!
Kris Bauer
Dealers’ Room
LOSCON 34
Dealers’ Room Hours:
Friday:
10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Saturday: 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Sunday: 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Information
Come to the Information table (across from Registration)
to get the latest data on program changes, neat things
to do and to find the locations of the restrooms!
Pick up your “No Photo” Buttons here.
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Hours:
Friday .......................... 9am-8pm
Saturday ..................... 8am-8pm
Sunday ........................ 9am-8pm
Con Suite
Loscon Base Camp
As you go through your day digging up
panels and workshops, sifting your wallet in the dealers’ room, and discovering the treasures of art show - take a break and stop by “Base Camp” to
refuel and recharge so you may have the energy to continue your quest. We
have crate loads of rations to satisfy your cravings, to quench your thirst,
and stimulate your creative spirit.
Regency Dancing
The English Regency period (about the year 1800)? At a science fiction
convention?
We’ve had Regency Dancing at s-f cons for years. Usually there’s a mix of
people who don’t know how but think it might be fun; who’ve tried it
before but can’t quite remember; who are actually quite good at it; and
who only come to watch.
People come in historical costumes, or in hall costumes – s-f costume
some folks wear for strolling round the halls; the late great Marjii Ellers
called this “ordinary wear from alternative worlds” – or you can come as
you are.
Computer Lounge
peoples of the early 21st century as
well.
Silicate Lifeform Research Bay
Welcome, carbon based life, to the
opportunity to share some time with
your nearby neighborly silicate life.
An active uplink to the LCARS information retrieval system (local terminology: world wide web) will be
maintained, provided we don’t need
the power for warpspeed.
Food and liquid refreshment should
be kept at a minimum. Please do not
risk our desk controls or the nearby
silicates. Thanks in advance.
We will have the bay doors open 10
am to 10 pm localtime, with the possible exception of a dinner break. The
silicates have determined that 20th
century doors don’t respond to the
whoosh signal. Some effort will be
made to improve this during the
event; feel welcome to check by at
any time just in case.
Our starship’s entire scientific research team (including a few of our
carbon based crew) will be here to
enhance your studies. Of course, we
will welcome the chance to study the
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Kids’ Night Out
Join us Saturday night from 7-11PM for a pajama party with games,
stories, and lots of fun surprises! There will be “nap
space” for those who nod off early.
Kids are welcome from potty trained to 12 years of
age. This is not your usual kids programming! It is
not babysitting, either. It is a party and parents are
welcome and encouraged to stay. However, we
know some of them will need to sneak off to the
Masquerade or parties upstairs, too.
Room Parties
What to do after that last panel: An introduction to room parties
Loscon 34, like most fan-run conventions, doesn’t end when the sun
goes down and the Dealers’ Room closes. Besides the various evening
activities (Masquerade, Ice Cream Social, various dances), we expect a
number of fan groups to be hosting open room parties on our party
floors. We have had record number of parties in the past. This year we
don’t expect to be outdone. The LAX Marriott has a designated party
floor.
There will be lots of signs posted for the parties (and in the daily zine),
so you can watch for them and write down room numbers. Or you can
just go to one of the party floors and work your way up and down the
hall and stairs to the other floors, looking for open doors.
“But I didn’t get an invitation! I’m not going to go where I’m not invited.”
On the party floors, the open door constitutes an invitation, especially
if you hear conversation inside. Most
of the parties are an excuse to hang
out and talk, or drink strange and exotic beverages and nibble on unidentifiable delicacies.
The parties don’t usually get too loud,
although twenty fans talking in a hall
having a conversation can make a bit
of noise. If you’re concerned about latenight conversations outside your door,
please check with the front desk and
have them put you on a
“quiet floor.” Trust me,
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you’ll be happier that way.
Filking
those his newly minted vocal cords can
manage.
FILKING AT LOSCON
by Lee Gold
James’ performances at Loscon are
dedicated to the memory of his and
Jane’s beloved friend and partner,
Cynthia McQuillin, who upon meeting
James for the first time exclaimed, “At
last I get to meet the man I fell in love
with!”
Science fiction fans have been sharing
original songs and music at conventions
for over sixty years (as chronicled in
Harry Warner, Jr.’s All Our Yesterdays).
You’ll be able to buy filk tapes and CDs
in the Loscon Dealers’ Room. But the
real filk experience is face-to-face time
at concerts and in the filk circle.
In addition to Dr. James. we’ll also be
having concerts by:
• Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff, who started
as members of a rock band but eventually switched to filk. They often perform at science fiction conventions all
over the country, sometimes as guests
of honor. They are two time Pegasus
award winners for excellence in filk music. They currently have three CDs available.
• Lynn Maudlin, Mythopoeic Society
member.
• Steve Savitzky, whose muse leads him
to the world inside the crystal (in back
of the computer monitor) and other
wonderful places
• Moira Stern, harpist, whose repertoire
includes folksongs from many different
cultures.
• And finally, last but by no means last,
Alexander James Adams - Faerie Tale
Minstrel.
This year Loscon is going to have an especially wonderful filk program, starting
with Music Guest of Honor Dr. James
Robinson, who will not only have a concert but also appear at a “Dr. Jim Explains It All” hour to introduce his songs
in more detail than usual.
For 55 years, “Dr. James” Robinson lay
buried deep within the mind of his female-bodied alter ego, “Dr. Jane”
Robinson. Patient and skillful therapeutic excavation of long-buried memories
revealed... well, a bearded baritone.
“Dr. Jane” was a talented lyricist,
songwriter and performer who left a
legacy of wonderful music about cats,
academia and especially dinosaurs. “Dr.
James” doesn’t write songs, but he will
do his best to perform Jane’s — at least
Filk Schedule
spires his audiences to make their
dreams come true and look for the wonders within. From tender love songs to
rowdy brawls, gentle Irish airs to rockin’
reels, AJ brings ancient legends to the
mortal world in true bardic style, proving once and for all, the magic never dies!
Filking Events At Loscon
by Lee Gold
Filk events will take place in the Denver Room
unless otherwise noted.
Friday evening: 8:00 PM: Open Filking
Friday afternoon: 4-6 PM Boston-Atlanta
Rooms
Alexander James - Faerie-Tale Minstrel Unleashed from the land of Fae comes the
heir to Heather Alexander’s music and
magic. AJ Adams is a fiery Celtic fiddler
with a compelling voice to enchant audiences of all ages. With songs and stories
of the otherworld, Alexander James in-
Saturday afternoon: 2:30 PM: Steve
Savitzky: hacker and songwriter, whose
first CD is finally out
Saturday afternoon: 3:15 PM: Moira Stern:
singing harpist
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Saturday afternoon: 3:45 PM: Banned from
Argo (led by Barry Gold)
your guitar or other instrument and start
to play and/or sing.
If you sing a capella, STAND UP and start to
sing. (You can sit down once the other
people are quietly listening to you.)
If you don’t feel up to singing, you may request that someone else sing. Pick a subject and see if anyone’s written a song
about it.
Rule #3: PLEASE, take conversation into the
hall if someone is performing.
Rule #4: No apologies after performing!!
Rule #5: If you do NOT want accompaniment, say so.
Otherwise we will join in at the darnedest
times and in the darnedest keys.
Rule #7: Bawdy songs are traditionally sung
after midnight.
Rule #8: Traditional folksongs are welcome.
So are pop songs that seem to have
something to do with science fiction, fantasy, and high tech, Or cats, roleplaying,
or Neopaganism, Or other stuff.
Rule #9: No apologies in the middle of performing.
Rule #10: If someone asks people to turn
off their recorders, please do so.
Otherwise, feel free to record whatever you like.
Rule #11: No apologies instead of performing.
FILK: The Music of SF
by Lee Gold
Yes there is music at this convention - and
not just at the dances.
Come join us at the Filksing.
You don’t know what filksinging is? Join us
and learn.
You think you know what filksinging is? Join
us and find out what we think it is.
Hint #1: A lot of filksong is to original tunes.
Hint #2: Some of the filkers you’ll hear have
commercially recorded tapes and CDs.
You don’t know any filksongs? Join us and
borrow a filksong book. Or buy some in
the Dealers’ Room.
Looking for late night entertainment? Join us.
Forgot to pack the bucket you carry a tune in?
Join us (but don’t sing louder than whoever’s
leading the song).
Wow, that’s a Rule. Here are a few other,
usually unwritten Filksong Circle Rules
(adapted from Melinda Hunter’s Rules).
Rule #0: Everyone who wants to participate
gets a turn. Eventually.
Rule #1: No apologies before performing!
Rule #2: Wait 3D6 seconds after the last
performer is done and then loudly strum
Come to the Filksing and hear our fabulous
songs.
Saturday afternoon: 4:00 PM: Dr. Jim Explains It All: Dr. James Robinson, Loscon’s
Music Guest of Honor, explains the background of his favorite songs and responds to audience requests to explain
and perform their favorite songs.
Sunday morning: 11 AM: Critters (Extant &
Extinct), a theme circle interested in anything from cats to scientists, hosted by
Dr. James Robinson
11:00 AM (at
least an hour long)
Saturday evening: 7:30 PM: Lynn Maudlin
Concert: singer, songwriter, Mythopeist,
artist, fan
Sunday afternoon: 1 PM: Boston-Atlanta
Rooms
Alexander Adams returns from the Land of
the Fae for another two-hour concert
Saturday evening: 8:00 PM: Maya & Jeff
Bohnhoff Concert: beautiful singing and
intricate guitarwork, blending rock
rhythms and fannish perspective
Sunday afternoon: 3:00 PM: Endangered Archaeologist Filk: open filking
Sunday evening: 7:00 PM: Dead Dinosaur Filk:
open filking
Saturday evening: 9:00 Dr. James Concert:
Loscon’s Music Guest of Honor
Saturday evening: 10:00: open filking
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Teen Programming
Friday:
Saturday:
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Calling all
young conquerors! The Conquerors of the Ancient World
(teenagers) are meeting to play
video games, do crafts and
other fun stuff like playing “Are
you a werewolf?”
There will be some Competitions to see who is the great-
Sunday:
We will be meeting
4:00 pm.-1:00 a.m.
12:00 noon-6:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.
12:00 noon- Close of Con
est Conqueror of video games
like Guitar Hero, Halo 2, Smash
Brothers and many more.
Come as you please!
Art Show
Come to the Art Show and see
all the beautiful and fun artworks on exhibit. Many items
in the Art Show are for sale by
written or voice auction. We will
accept checks, Visa, Mastercard
and the ever-popular cash. You
need a bidder number to bid on
and to purchase items. Our
friendly staff will be happy to
provide you with a bidder number and explain the rules for bidding.
Art Show Hours:
Friday Noon to 6 pm
Saturday 10 am to 6 pm
Closeout of written bids at 6 pm
Sunday -10 am to 12:00 noon,
Noon to 2 pm, Auction
2 pm to 6 pm, Pickup of sold
artwork and after closeout
sales.
Some of our displaying artists:
Theresa Mather
Betsy Mott
Alan Beck
Rotsler Award Winner
Vicki King
España Sheriff
John Erickson
Daniel Cortopassi
Mark Corrinet
Yvonne Erickson
Peri Charlifu
Dawn Mullan
Sarah Lee Clemens
Robert Hole, Jr.
Charlene D’Alessio
Richard Man
Bic Pham-Le
Stu Shephard
Denise Garner
Thomas Rucktenwald
Maia Sanders
Artists and Illustrators of the Future
John A. Garner
Art Show Docent Tours
Docent Tours of the Art Show. This is a practice we borrowed from
museums, where informed guides lead round small groups pointing
out things that help people appreciate what they see. Talking about
art is itself an art. The late Bill Rotsler, among his uncountable
talents, was so fascinating as an Art Show docent that tours he led
tended to accumulate fans along the way, by the end resembling a
rehearsal for grapes or bison. Try a tour at Loscon 34! Look for
the schedule near the Art Show entrance.
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Children’s Programming
Hours:
Friday:
1:00 pm.-6:00 p.m.
Saturday:10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Sunday: 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Come join us in the little
Ziggurat!
If you are between 3 years old
and 12 years old, potty trained
and have a paid membership
whether children’s or full, please
join us! There will be playing
with Bones, Reading of Books,
Leather work, and sand art.
Some special Items of Interest
are: Dr. Destructo teaching
about the parts of the computer. Dr. Susan “Arizona”
Gleason showing how to make
arrowheads. The Kids’ Choice
awards are Saturday at 11 AM.
Join us earlier at the Ziggurat or
join us at the art show. The
Money Changers are allowing us
a special treat on Saturday in the
afternoon. Also, at points
throughout the con we can visit
the dig boxes. See the pocket
program and board for more
details.
Anime
The anime room will be bringing you tales from the past, future,
and slightly sideways to the present from 10am-2am Friday,
10am-2am Saturday, and 10am - 3pm Sunday. And earn fabulous volunteer hours sitting around watching anime! Ask Volunteers how you can sign up for a shift operating our advanced
technology.
Friday, November 23
10 am
El Hazard
11am
King of Bandit Jing
12 noon
Dual
1 pm
Ah! My Goddess
2 pm
The Third
3 pm
Trigun
4 pm
Planetes
5 pm
Ghost in the Shell: SAC
6 pm
Noein
7 pm
Genshiken
8 pm
Escaflowne
9 pm
Tenchi Muyo GXP
10 pm
Ruin Explorers
11 pm
“
mid
Licensed by Royalty
1 am
Witch Hunter Robin
Saturday, November 24
10 am
El Hazard
11 am Mythical Detective Loki
12 noon Master of Moquiton
1 pm
School Rumble
2 pm
The Third
3 pm
D.N.Angel
4 pm
Full Metal Alchemist
5 pm
ova Hina
6 pm
Master Keaton
7 pm
Pumpkin Scissors
8 pm Kurau Phantom Memory
9 pm
Ergo Proxy
10 pm
Spriggan
11 pm
“
mid
Elf Princess Rane
1 am
Eureka Seven
Sunday, November 25
10 am
El Hazard
11 am
Ranma 1/2
12 noonMartian Successor Nadesico
1 pm
2 pm
3 pm
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Moon Phase
The Third
Rune Soldier Louie
The Lost Cities of Gaming
Explore the The Lost Cities
for more adventures and
contests of skill. Games like
expedition based Lost Cities and the archaeological
digs of Thebes will add a
thematic touch to this
year’s Loscon Game Room.
Other new games and many
old favorites: war games, rail
games, card games, LARP,
and the like will be played,
too. There are friendly
games and a few tournaments with prizes. Be sure
to check the schedule on the
door and the daily program!
Exhibits
This year at Loscon, thanks to the efforts of
Dr Emmett Brown,
we are pleased to present exhibits from
“The Museum of the Future”.
Please enjoy, and wonder at these rare artifacts
from futures past.
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Security/ Con Ops
Loscon likes to be proud of its members, but there may be one or two that
just get out of hand. If you find or notice a member of this convention in
need of assitance or our “special consideration,” let us know in Con Ops /
Office and we’ll handle it right away.
We are located on the main floor in
the Boardroom.
WEAPONS POLICY
Please leave your real weapons at
home. Remember that we are located extremely close to a major
international airport and really do
not want to draw the unwarranted
attention of Homeland Security. All
weapons that are even remotely
identifiable as such must be
checked with convention operations
and peace-bound if necessary. If
you are uncertain about the status
of your costume prop, please check
with our operations crew (located
in the Convention Office to the side
of the elevators opposite of Registration). If you are not willing to
(Yep, that includes your whip Indiana.)
have your item peace-bound (usually by a zip-tie), please leave your
prop in your room. If you purchase
such an item in the dealers room,
please leave it within the wrapping
until you get back to your room.
No brandishing of prop weapons
(even for photographs) in the hallways. There will be a room available for Photographs on Saturday
where you can do your weapon
poses. Check with the Masquerade Director about specific Masquerade related weapon policies.
Thank you and have a safe convention experience.
Photography / Videotape Policies
It is permissible to videotape at
at the LASFS table. Once regisLoscon as long as you respect
tered you will receive a press
people’s requests not to and as
badge and your intentions may
long as you are polite and unbe posted in the newszine so
obtrusive. We will be handing
that people will know. There will
out “no photo” buttons that
be Official Loscon Videographers
people can pick up at the inforand Photographers roaming the
mation desk to indicate to both
hallways of the convention evour official and unofficial
ery day. All attendees should
videographers/photographers
be aware that unless they pick
that they wish not to be picup the “no photo” button they
tured. If you are intending the
might be included in such picfootage to be sold and/or
tures or tapes that Loscon will
shown in a non-private forum
be using for future publicity.
we desire for you to register
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yourself with our Press Liaison
Registration
Hours:
(Pre-Reg Only)
Evening
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday:
9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 6:01 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday: 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 6:01 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Sunday: 9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Thursday
Listening Lounge
Audio entertainment for
your listening pleasure will
once again be featured in
the Listening Lounge. We
are preparing another program of Old Radio, Readings
& other tidbits. Come on by
the Warner Center room on
the first floor and join us.
Rest your feet for a little
while and enjoy a journey
through the wide-ranging
landscape of the theater of
the ear.
Office
Lost & Found
Have you lost something?
(Your Mind? Sorry, we can’t
help you there - try the con
suite, they can help you get
it back.) Lost & Found is with
the Office, in the Boardroom.
Come in and see if we have
what you’ve misplaced.
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Neophyte Newsie Needs Nerds !
The dashing and colorful Martin Young has been selected to edit
Loscon 34’s Journal of RKOlogy. His only problem: he has no idea
what he’s doing. His solution: get other people to do
things for him. True, he has the handsome and talented
Robert Evans as chief reporter, but he needs people to
carry completed newsletters to wherever they’re
supposed to go, and to do other stuff he hasn’t even
thought of yet. Please volunteer! Report to the
Monterey Room, 1st floor for your assignments. Items
of interest will be gratefully accepted. Some of them
might even be used in the newsletter! (Possibly edited for space.) Others will be used for purposes you
probably don’t want to know about.
Fan Tables
No one fandom or group can claim to be the only player in town.
It’s a big universe out there, with many different special interests
groups.
Fan tables are a collection of informational presentations from various other groups, clubs, and conventions.
Fan Tables are offered free of charge to these groups and manned
by their respective staff keep the information flowing.
Be sure to visit the Fan Tables in the Ballroom Entrance area to
meet someone with the following groups:
Information
Special Needs
Volunteers
Masquerade
LASFS
Time Meddlers
Browncoats
Costumers Guild West
SoulGeeks.com
Brewster Rockit
OASIS
Science Fiction Poetry Association
SCA
Loscon 35
Gallifrey One
LepreCon
ConDor
Conjecture
Denver Worldcon
Montreal Worldcon
Westercon 61 Las Vegas, Nv
Westercon 62 Tempe, AZ
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Courtesy of the department of redundancy department (For Those Who
didn’t read them earlier)
Security Rules
Weapons Policy: All Weapons for
Costumes and otherwise, regardless of being “letter openers” or
replica weapons, MUST BE PEACE
BONDED. Zip Ties are available in
the Convention Operations
(ConOps). NO projectile weapons of
any sort, nor realistic or real weapons, edged or otherwise.
The only place during the convention where weapons maybe utilized
is during the MASQUERADE on Saturday. And only then, subject to the
approval of the Masquerade director.
PEACE BONDING: Tied Shut, Taped
closed and Unavailable by accident
or design.
Anyone found with unbonded weapons will be asked to return said
weapons back to their room, conveyance / vehicle / transportation
and or kept in Operations until the
end of the convention. Bearer’s
Flap-covered pistol holsters may be
asked to be open them.
IDENTIFICATION: To attend any of
the convention events you need
“those stinkin’ badges”. Any time
you are in a convention area, please
wear your badge visibly. If you misplace you badge, please report it
to the Registration Desk. There may
be a replacement fee. If you find
someone else’s badge, please re-
turn it to Office and or Registration.
Kids In Tow must be in the company of a paid adult at all times.
Children’s Programming is NOT
Child Care.
Smoking is permitted ONLY in designated OUTDOOR areas.
California State Laws apply to legal ages in imbibing of Alcohol, etc.
Please have your ID handy.
We consider it our Phannish and
Legal Duty to refuse service to
anyone acting irresponsibly.
IF you have a complaint concerning the convention or the hotel
(other than problems with your
personal room), please contact
Convention Operations or any of
our Helpful Loscon Staff Members
first.
No costume is still no costume.
Also, costumes that are edible and
or leave trails... Well, you do it, you
clean it up.
Please Follow Hotel Guidelines for
proper adhesion devices for posting messages, etc.
Consuite consumables are to be
kept in the consuite area please.
Volunteers
Volunteer? You want to volunteer? Great! Access to
food, a chance to step up the chain of command, or
just to meet all kinds of interesting people. We will
hold raffles for awesome prizes. You might even earn
a membership to Loscon 35! Become a member of
the Dig Crew now!
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Visit the Pharaoh, George Mulligan, in
the Con Suite to place a gift in the Vault.
.... Hey mister, you wanna buy an
autograph?
At Loscon 34, you can have your books signed for free! Unbelievable, but true!
Autographs
Just drop by the autograph table, inside the Dealers’ Room, and
have them signed by your favorite authors. Be sure to check the
schedule board next to the table for any changes. The autograph sessions will be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from
12noon to 5pm.
Friday
12noon Marv Wolfman
Saturday
12noon Tim Powers
12noon
Michael
D’Ambrosio
1 pm David Gerrold
Sunday
2 pm Jacqueline Lichtenberg 1 pm Barbara Hambly
1 pm Mel Gilden
12noon Harry Turtledove
3 pm James Glass
2 pm Dorothy Fontana
12noon Jim Harmon
4 pm Mark Ferrari
2 pm Larry Niven
1 pm Lynn Flewelling
4 pm Maya Bohnhoff
3 pm Robert Sawyer
1 pm Vera Nazarian
4 pm Jerry Pournelle
2 pm Deirdre Saoirse Moen
3 pm Todd McCaffrey
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Expedition Members
Brad Achorn
Brett Achorn
Kore B. Adams
Stephen Alderson
Alegria
Todd Allis
Janet M. Alvarez
Carol Ann Alves
Erik Anderson
Karen Anderson
Melissa Anderson
Doug Andrews
Nadine Armstrong
Craig Arnush
Jacob Arnush
Miranda Arnush
Rene Arnush
John Attwood
Hammond B. Atwell
Priscilla Atwell
Rex B. Atwell
Chaz Baden
Jocelyn Baden
Lynn Boston Baden
Wil Baden
Janet Baernstein
Mark Banning
Amy Barer
Danny Barer
Kathryn Baron
Steve Bartlett
Kenn Bates
Kris Bauer
Deanna Bayless
Sundance BeKinnie
Cathy Beckstead
Patrick Beckstead
Scott Beckstead
Ruth Behling
Alex Bellanger
Sherri Benoun
Tony Benoun
Belle Benson
Thomas Benson
Elizabeth Berrien
Henry Bestwick
Tina Beychok
Greg Bilan
Mary Ann Canfield
Toni Blair
Diane Capewell
Sheila M. Blaise
Stuart Capewell
John R. Blaker
Dora Carder
Blars
Kathy Carder
David Bliss
Amy Carpenter
Dave Bloom
Cathy Carroll
Kent Bloom
Suzi Casement
Michael Bloom
Jamie Cassidy-Curtis
Stella Bloom
Tim Cassidy-Curtis
Robert Blum
Michael Cassuit
Bert Boden
Elonda Castro
Jeff Bohnhoff
Gregg Castro
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
Wing Chan
Margaret Wander Bonano
Yates Chandler
Molly Boone
John Chapman
Lynn Bougher
Judith A. Chapman
Robbie Bourget
Kristin Chernoff
David Bratman
Dennis Cherry
Michael Brennan
Kristine Cherry
Nancy Brennan
Eric Cheung
Alexandra Brown
Jennifer Chou
Grant Brown
Alan Chudnow
Jordan Brown
Aaron Cistrelli
Kim Marks Brown
David Clark
Dennis Buckley
Fiona Cleary
Bucky Entourage #1
Heather Cleary
Bucky Entourage #2
St. Sean Cleary
Bucky Entourage #3
Jud Cohan
Bucky Entourage #4
Aaron Groff Cohen
Timothy A. Burdick
Sandy Cohen
Michael Burlake
Jennifer Cole
Stan Burns
Darnell Coleman
Colleen Burrows
Karen Connell
Shirley Bushnell
Robin E. Cookson
Cassandra Bustos
Kevin Cooper
Jonathan Bustos
Norm Cooper
Thomas Bustos
Kendal Copperberg
David Byrd
Aaron Cornelius
Jennifer Byrd
Alan Cornelius
Chet Cady
Dian Cornelius
Chuck Cady
Jessica Cornelius
Tasha Cady
Sara Cornelius
Linnea Caldeen
J. Corsentino
Melissa H. Campbell
Guest of J. Corsentino
Richard Costas
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David Cotelessa
Cal Cotton
Richard Creasey
Doug Crepeau
Samuel Crosbie
Shawn Crosby
Catherine Cruzan
Bill Curry
S.L. Curtis
Michael D’Ambrosio
James Stanley Daugherty
Kathryn Daugherty
Patricia Davis
Walt Davis
Genny Dazzo
John DeChancie
Jane Dennis
Scott Dennis
Elena Dent
Greg Dienhart
Liane Dienhart
Buzz Dixon
Albert Dobrovitz
Kevin Dodds
Andrew Dolan Jr.
DragonMarshie
Deborah Drake
Pamela Du Puy
Eric Du’ Marn
Saul Dudley
Linda Dunlap
T.A. Dunn Jr.
Brandon Eads
Serenity Ebert
John D. Eggett
Bill Ellern
Dan Erickson
Guest #1 of Dan Erickson
Guest #2 of Dan Erickson
Guest #3 of Dan Erickson
Steffany Ernst
Ken Estes
Barney Evans
Bob Evans
John Evans
Kate Evans
Kathy Evans
Darrel L. Exline
Jade Falcon
Jade Falcon
Mark Ferrari
Wayne Fiebick
Jan Howard Finder
Dennis Fischer
Guest of D. Fischer
Glen Fisher
Don Fitch
Lynn Flewelling
Dorothy Fontana
Rebecca Foss
Richard Foss
Ashton Fox
Shawnna Fox
Nola Frame-Gray
Joyce Francisco
Michael Frank
Rebecca Frank
Laura Frankos
Danny Frashier
Laura Brodian Freas
H. Denise Freeman
Stanley Friesen
Greg Funke
Sharon Gaffney
David Gallaher
Michael Galloway
Christopher J. Garcia
Ed Garcia
Karen Garcia
Steve Gattuso
Flavius George III
Elizabeth Gerds
Eric Gerds
David Gerrold
Lester S. Gibo
Zelda Gilbert
Mel Gilden
Gerard Gillesspie
Dana Ginsberg
Brian Gitt
Gail Glass
James C Glass
Susan Gleason
Larry Glidden
Ron Gluck
Diana Glyer
Mike Glyer
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Jerry Gobler
Jean Goddin
Barry Gold
Lee Gold
Harold Goldstein
John Goodwin
Bino Gopal
Vanessa Gopnzales
Varoujan Gorjian
Zareh Gorjian
Robert Gounley
Edwin Grace
Eleanor Grace
Joyce C. Grace
Peter Grace
Mark Graves
Louis E W Gray
Bill Green
Ed Green
Kelly Green
Hugh S. Gregory
Dave Guon
Michael Hale
Barksdale Hales
Jonnalyhn Wolfcat Hall
Barbara Hambly
T. Hanley
Brenda Hanrahan
Larry Hansen
Barbara Harmon
Jim Harmon
Harold Harrigan
Lisa Deutsch Harrigan
Harold Harrigan III
Susan Haseltine
Patrick Havert
Steffani Hawk
Bill Hayes
Thury Hayes
Thomas Hegdahl
Stacey Helton
Greg Hemsath
Rita Henderson
Samantha Henderson
Jason Henninger
John Hertz
Debra Hicks
Guest of D. Hicks
Louise Hitchcock
Charles Hoff
Patty Kim
Eric Hoffman
Sharon King
Frederick Holderman
Vicki King
Robert Hole Jr.
Keith Kissel
Jonathan Holt
Michelle Klein-Hass
Lew Holzman
Elizabeth Klein-Lebbink
Frank Hood
Steve Klingler
Ed Hooper
Bill Knight
Joyce Hooper
Gary Kodel
Hans Hornstein
Dani Kollin
Amelia M. Horswill
Eytan Kollin
Geri Howard
Deborah Kolodji
Geordie Howe
Hiroshi Konoya
Richard Hubbard
Laura Korp
Ken Hughes
Mike Korp
Sandra Huibers
Marian Kravitz
Jeffrey Hulten
Jim Krenz
Cat Hunt
Gordon Kuist
Dennis Hunt
Gordon Kuist
Laura Hunt
Jolie LaChance
Robin Hunt
Lidra Lasby
Gordon Huxford
Fred D. Lazzelle
John Innis
Hieu Le
Paul Jackson
Mary Lee
Charles Lee Jackson II
Karl Lembke
Richard James
Melina Levesque
Evan James IV
David Levine
Robert Jansen
Sheila Levine
Bill Jett
Barry Lew
Mary Jane Jewell
Steven Libis
James Jira
Jacquelline Lichtenberg
Brianna Johnson
Rachael Linker
Warren Johnson
Rebecca Linker
Angela Jones
Shannah Linker
Patrick Joyce
Sheldon Linker
Kagome
John Lipski
Vanessa Kam
Teresa Lipski
Wesley Kawato
Steve Loeb
David Keller
Edward Lopez
Robert Kennedy
Jesus Lopez
Gary Kephart
Lupin
Berry Kercheval
Peter S. Lust
Arthur Kienle
Bradford Lyau
Kathryn Kienle
Patricia MacEwen
Megan Kienle
Alasdair Mackintosh
Susan Kienle
Ines Madison
James Killus
Paul Magwood
Abby Kim
Forrest Kim
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Dennis Mallonee
Richard Man
Ari Man-Willrich
Silvi Man-Willrich
Jon Mann
Beth Marble
Chris Marble
Judy Margolis
Alice Massoglia
Marty Massoglia
Charles K. Matheny
Theresa Mather
Lynn Maudlin
Sergio Mc Laufin
Kevin McAlonan
Todd McCaffrey
Dave McCarty
Michael McConnell
Raymond McDermott
Bruce McDonald
Kada McDonald
Christian B. McGuire
Mac McMahon
Marcia McMahon
Kevin McNutt
Kevin McRae
Dawn Meister
Cary Meriwether
Jason Mersel
Jonathan Mersel
Marjorie Mersel
Harry R. Meyer
Stephanie Meyer
David Milano
Craig Miller
Jess Miller
Marcia Minsky
G. Ann Mitschek
G. Ann Mitschek
Deirdre Saoirse Moen
Rick Moen
June M. Moffatt
Len Moffatt
Aimee Moisa
Michelle Monagin
David Montag
Helen Montgomery
Leslie Ann Moore
Victor Moray
Mary Morman
Anne Morrel
Andrea Morris
Liz Mortensen
Will Morton
Yvonne Fay Morton
Steve Moss
Robert Mueller
Cathy Mullican
George Mulligan
Vera Nazarian
Sasa Neuman
Guest of S. Neuman
Soraya Newell
Pearl Newton
Terry Newton
Wendy Newton
Heide Nichols
Larry Niven
Dick Nordrum
Guest of D. Nordrum
Marcella Norling
Bob Null
Dave O’Brien
Chris O’Halloran
John O’Halloran
Margaret Oberg
David T. Okamura
Stephen Okay
Janis Olson
Phil Osborn
Adela Paige
Chris Paige
Gina Palmer
Patrick Palmer
Walter Parker
Fred Patten
Guest of F. Patten
Janet Pederson
Stephanie Pederson
Michael Pell
Elayne F. Pelz
L. A. Perry
Selina Phanara
Kenneth Philliponi
J. Girard Pinard
Juanita L. Pinard
Michelle Pincus
Anna Poliner
Eylat Poliner
Mark Poliner
Larry Pollack
Vena Pontiac
Toni M. Poper
Ken Porter
Jerry Pournelle
David Powell
Tim Powers
Carol Purcell
Adam Rakunas
Anne Rakunas
Suzanne Raymond
Evelyn Reed
Robin Reed
Regina Reynante
Carla Reynolds
David West Reynolds
Joe Rhett
Barbara Ring
Brenna Ring
Katherine Ring
Shauna Roberts
Linda Robinett
Dr. James Robinson
Linda Robison
Kevin Roche
Maria Rodriguez
Dave Rood
Bruce Rowan
Rebecca Rowan
Arthur Rubin
Ronni Rubin
Douglas Rudd
Krystal Ruins
Kit Russell
Paulette Russell
Brian Sack
Tom Safer
Paula Salo
Stephen Saracco II
Arlene Satin
Gordon Saunders
Colleen Savitzky
Emerald Savitzky
Kat Savitzky
Steve Savitzky
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Carolyn Sawyer
Robert J. Sawyer
Sharon Sbarsky
Gene Schneider
Spring Schoenhuth
Caitlin Schuette
Crystal Schuette
Kevin Schuette
Michael Paul Schultz
Eric P. Scott
Jerome Scott
Malcolm Scott
Taylor Scott
Guest of T. Scott
William Scott
Katherine Seddon
Kay Shapero
Jerry Shaw
Mike Sheffield
Sharon Sheffield
Stu Shepherd
Jill Sherwin
Barry Short
Don Simpson
Cheryl Simshauser
Steven Simshauser
Nick Smith
Terrie Smith
Vicki Smith
Rainy Smyth
Steve Smyth
Thomas Snyder
Cathy Soper
Mary Sorensen
Christopher Spano
J’nae Rae Spano
Carol A. Sperling
Joyce Sperling
Sally Spero
Steve Spero
Don Standefer
Margie Standefer
Jeri Standfield
Curt S. Steindler
Okay Stephen
Alison Stern
Mike Stern
Moira Stern
Milt Stevens
Joan Steward
Bob Wadey
Willard Stone
Kate Wadey
Andrea Strassle
Miriam Wadey
Nicholas Strickland
Evelyn Walton
Paula Stubblefield
Monalisa Ward
Linda Subias
Bill Warren
Marco Subias
Chester P Wasko Jr
Jan Suzukawa
Mike Weasner
Anders Swanson
Jim Webbert
Guest of A. Swanson
Carole Weinstein
Ira Taborn
Elliot Weinstein
Kym Taborn
Steven Weinstein
Michael Tallan
Richard Weiss
Sheri Taylor
John Wenn
Sherilynn Thagard
Donald Wenner
Ford Thaxton
Linda Wenzelburger
Carolyn Thompson
Alan White
Greg Thompson
Brenda White
James Thompson
Lee Whiteside
Keith Thompson
Lynda Wiesmeier
Katt Thornton
Arlo Williams
Katy Thorp
Mike Willmoth
Steve Thorp
Dave Willoughby
Michael Thorsen
Vernon Tice
Lillian Todaro
T. N. Todaro
Michael Toman
Tadao Tomomatsu
Andrew Trembley
Teresa Trousdale
Dorothy Truslow
Harry Turtledove
R-Laurraine Tutihasi
Brad Tyler
Rochelle Uhlenkott
Jim Underwood
J. Yochanan Urias
Veda Urias
Brian Van De Walker
Karen Van De Walker
Kirk Van De Walker
Ray Van De Walker
Roxanne Van De Walker
James Van Lydegraf
George Van Wagner
Vanessa Van Wagner
JP VanGordan
Linda VonBraskat-Crowe
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Christina Willrich
Marie Ellen Wilson
Marv Wolfman
Noel Wolfman
David Wong
Don Wong
Glen Wooten
Linda Wright
Frank Wu
Peggy Wu
William G. Wu
Kathryn A. Yeager
Roy Yeakey
Gordon Yee
Guest of G. Yee
Kenrick Yoshida
Guest #1 Yoshida
Guest #2 Yoshida
Martin Young
Tony Zbaraschuk
Joe Zeff
Beth Zuckerman
Eric Zuckerman
Guide to Advertisers
Anticipation - 67th Worldcon ......................... Inside Cover - Front
Westercon 61 Las Vegas ..................................................... Pg 59
Westercon 62 Tempe ........................................................... Pg 39
AnimeLA ............................................................................... Pg 35
BayCon 2008 ....................................................................... Pg 66
ConDor XV ............................................................................ Pg 46
Conjecture 2008 .................................................................. Pg 44
Discworld, North American ..................................................... Pg 2
LepreCon 34 ......................................................................... Pg 47
Loscon 35 ....................................................... Inside Cover - Back
Gallifrey One-19th Symphony .............................................. Pg 23
Fractured Time ....................................................................... Pg 7
Blood Drive ........................................................................... Pg 53
Toy Drive .............................................................................. Pg 67
Guide to Program Book Art
Cover Art
Access Fan
Alien Reader
Blood Drive
The Boys
Closed Door Party
“Dino Drift
“Dino End of The World”
Dr. Arizona
Exhibits
“Fish Inheritance”
Grimoire
Judge
Loscon 34 Logo
“Lost Cities”
Miscellaneous Artwork
“Mummy Chase”
“Mummy Tag”
Oops
Panelist
“Piltdown Fan”
Registration Line (Short)
ToyDrive
Volunteer
Theresa Mather Photo
Dr James Robinson Photo
Robert Sawyer Photo
Theresa Mather .................................... Cover Front & Back
Tony Benoun............................................................. Pg 61
Larry Stewart ............................................................ Pg 72
Dennis Cherry ........................................................... Pg 53
Steve Leialoha .......................................................... Pg 59
Jay Kinney ................................................................ Pg 63
David T. Okamura ....................................................... Pg 3
David T. Okamura ..................................................... Pg 71
Mario D’Anno .............................................................. Pg 1
Tony Benoun............................................................. Pg 69
David T. Okamura ..................................................... Pg 79
Larry Stewart ............................................................ Pg 42
Tadao Tomomatsu .................................................... Pg 60
Tony Benoun.................................................... Cover Front
Tony Benoun............................................................. Pg 69
William R. Rotsler ...................... Pg 56, 57, 58, 61, 70, 65
España Sheriff ........................................................... Pg 25
España Sheriff ........................................................... Pg 37
Larry Stewart ............................................................ Pg 58
Linda Miller ................................................................ Pg 46
David T. Okamura ..................................................... Pg 29
Larry Stewart ............................................................ Pg 71
Tony Benoun ............................................................. Pg 47
Larry Stewart ............................................................ Pg 73
Courtesy of Theresa Mather ........................................ Pg 12, 13
Courtesy of Dr James Robinson ............................................ Pg 16
Courtesy of Robert Sawyer ......................................... Pg 8
David West Reynolds Photos Courtesy of David West Reynolds ......................................... Pg 14
Chair Photo
Courtesy of Dr. Susan Gleason .................................... Pg 4
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