Progress Report 2

Readercon 15
July 11 - 13, 2003
Boston Marriott Burlington
Burlington, Massachusetts
PROGRESS REPORT 2
Greetings from the
Readercon Committee
Welcome to another extraordinary Readercon!
Our committee has worked hard to put together
another fine weekend that celebrates imaginative
literature of all kinds. This year we honor an
unprecedented three guests - Hal Clement, Rudy
Rucker, and Howard Waldrop; plus our memorial
Guest of Honor, R. A. Lafferty. We are taking a
rest in 2004, so this is the last Readercon fix
available in legal form until 2005!
Julianne Chatelaine & Amy West, Co-Chairs.
proven wrong, with mathematical precision? That's
not a challenge to be taken for granted, and Hal
meets it with rigorous scientific extrapolation,
closely tied to current laboratory science. Seeing
his unique skill at that is quite enough for many of
us. But even if he were writing epic fantasy, he
would be a fine writer, fluent in the use of understatement, asking his readers to think for themselves. See his recent Half Life, and think how
other writers would have presented those characters. At an age when most writers are retired, Hal
is still writing, and always improving his craft.
There's much more to say about Hal than just "hard
SF," and this year Readercon will not take any of it
for granted.
Michael Matthew
Hal Clement
Guest of Honor
Rudy Rucker
Guest of Honor
It's easy to take Hal Clement for granted. We see
him at so many conventions, where he's always
so approachable. His earliest books have been
around for a while now. He
has that greatest-generation
habit of understatement
about his accomplishments.
Perhaps we tag him "great,
hard-SF writer" and move
on. Well, Hal certainly is terrific at hard SF, among the
best of those who have
taken up that part of the
writer's trade. How many fiction writers need to consider
the possibility of being
As a writer Rudy Rucker has many dimensions.
There is no simple three-dimensional genre box
to place him neatly into. His writing is witty, weird,
brilliant and mind-dazzling all at once. You may
have been introduced to Rudy’s work at the very
beginning with his first science fiction novel,
Spacetime Donuts. Or perhaps it was not until his
cyberpunk (e. g. Wetware, Software - both of which
won the Philip K.Dick Award) or his “transreal” novels (e. g. White Light, The Sex Sphere) of the 1980’s
that you walked home from a convention or a bookstore with your first Rudy Rucker novel tucked
neatly under your arm. Maybe you’re not quite as
old (or as quick) as some of us and only stumbled
upon the author’s imaginative literature in the
1990’s (e. g. Hacker and the
Ants, Freeware) or the 21st
century (e. g. Spaceland,
Realware). As Rudy is also
a mathematician, computer
scientist, and professor, it is
entirely possible that you
may have met him through
some of his nonfiction work;
such as: The Fourth Dimension, Seek!, Infinity and the
Mind or Software Engineering and Computer Games. Whether you are already
familiar with Rudy Rucker’s extraordinary literature
or are in need of an introduction, Readercon this
July is the place to be.
Did I mention you may have run across his new
historical fiction novel about the Flemish artist Peter Bruegel if you were wandering other parts of
the bookstore?
Lois Powers
Howard Waldrop
Guest of Honor
Modern science fiction seems dominated by novels, and ever-longer ones at that. Readercon remembers that the progress
of the field was once nearly
synonymous with fiction at
shorter lengths, and that
many writers built their careers on short stories. Some
brave writers still do, and we
are delighted to have one
with us this summer. Howard
Waldrop is known for taking
years to craft his exquisite
stories. They are original to a
degree rare in his peers, and
formidably researched, with background detail
worthy of a novel. Whether tracing the alternate
history of airpower in the Civil and Indian Wars, or
the possible survival of the dodo, or the fate of one
who loves the cinema too well, Waldrop brings us
stories no one could improve upon. We're eagerly
anticipating this chance to consider the vital role
short fiction - and Howard Waldrop - play in SF
today.
Michael Matthew
R. A. Lafferty
Memorial Guest of Honor
Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1914-2002) lived
most of his life in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He didn't start
writing until he was in his 40s, producing much of
his work after he retired from his career as "a correspondence school electrical engineer." His first
published SF story was "Day of the Glacier" (1960),
and he went on to write more than 200 short stories and more than 20 novels, including Past Master (1968), Space Chantey(1968), and Okla Hannali
(1972), a non-genre novel about the Trail of Tears.
His short story "Eurema's Dam" tied for the 1973
Hugo Award. He also received the World Fantasy
Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990, and the
Cordwainer Smith Foundation "Rediscovery"
Award in 2002.
Lafferty's legendary eccentricity extended
to his personal life. He never learned to drive. He
always wrote on a manual typewriter, which wasn't
quite as unusual as it seems today since he unfortunately retired from writing in the 1980s due to his
first stroke.
All good writers have distinct voices, but
Lafferty was unique. In an obituary for the Washington Post, Neil Gaiman said that Lafferty "was
undoubtedly the finest writer of whatever it was that
he did that ever there was." And he was probably
the best at what he did that ever will be.
Ellen Brody
Tentative Schedule
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Registration
2 pm - 9 pm
9 am - 6 pm
9 am - 1 pm
Program
3 pm to mid
10 am - mid
10 am - 4 pm
Bookshop
4 pm -7 pm
10 am - 6 pm 10 am - 2 pm
Con Suite
3 pm - 9 pm
9 am - mid
9 am - 2 pm
Special Events
Tiptree Bake Sale
Schmooze with your favorite authors, editors,
critics and other pros AND create recombinant
literature at our Meet the Pros(e) Party on
Friday night.
Much of the money funding the Tiptree award is
raised at bake sales at conventions around the
country, and for the past few years we have had
one of the most productive. Come prepared with
baked goods and/or healthy appetites! This year
look for the bake sale in the Bookshop.
On Saturday night experience the latest edition
of the wild, witty and renowned Kirk Poland
Memorial Bad Prose Competition. Who can
forget such past gems as “Bambi pranced...”
This year be part of the audience that will beat
the pros!
About the Program
The heart of Readercon is the program. Watch
our Web site, http://www.readercon.org/ for
updates to our “Who’s Coming” list and descriptions of program items. A complete schedule
will be posted in the week before the convention.
The program consists of 2 main tracks of
panels, a couple of mini-tracks, readings,
kaffeeklatsches, Chautauquas, and interviews
with the Guests of Honor. We plan to start
programming around 4pm on Friday, and end
at midnight. Our annual Meet the Pros(e) party
will start around 9pm.
On Saturday, we'll start around 10am and run
two main tracks, two discussion tracks, and two
tracks of readings until mid-afternoon. Then we
will hold our Guest of Honor interviews and
have a break for dinner. We’ll finish Saturday
with the Kirk Poland Memorial Bad Prose
Competition.
Sunday will start at around 10am, and have two
tracks of programming, two tracks of discussions, and two tracks of readings until we shut
things down at 3pm. Come to the gripe session
at 4pm and let us know what you thought of
Readercon.
Books pictured on pages 1 & 2 are: Noise by Hal
Clement (Tor, forthcoming Fall 2003); Spaceland by
Rudy Rucker (Tor, 2002) and Custer’s Last Jump
and Other Collaborations by Howard Waldrop
(Golden Gryphon, 2003).
Writers' Workshop
David Alexander Smith will once again lead a
writers' workshop for amateurs and new pros on
Sunday morning. To enroll, submit up to 7,500
words of fiction (a self-contained short story,
chapters from a novel, or an outline) by June 27
directly to David at: 112 Avon Hill St., Cambridge,
MA 02140 (USA). For more information, call
David at 617-338-9484 x215, e-mail him at
<[email protected]>, or write to him at
the above address.
Bookshop
The Bookshop is our dealers' room. Expect a
intoxicating selection of literature - new and
used books and magazines from small and large
publishers. Help jumpstart the economy; buy at
the Readercon bookshop! The autographing
sessions will be held here and we'll also have a
Readercon Café set up in the Bookshop for the
Tiptree Bake Sale.
Policies
* No smoking in programming areas or the
Bookshop.
* Only service animals in convention areas.
* No weapons in convention areas.
* Young children who are always with an adult
are admitted free; young adults attending programming on their own need a membership.
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Who Else is Coming
Lisa A. Barnett, Jeanne Beckwith, Judith Berman, Mark Bernstein, Richard Bowes, Michael A.
Burstein, James L. Cambias, Jeffrey A. Carver, Jeanne M. Cavelos, Michael Cisco, John
Clute,Glen Cook, John Costello, F. Brett Cox, Don D'Ammassa, Ellen Datlow, Paul Di Filippo,
Debra Doyle,Thomas A. Easton,Scott Edelman, Kurt Engfehr, Gregory Feeley, Heinz Insu Fenkl,
Carl Frederick,Jim Freund, Craig Shaw Gardner, James Alan Gardner, Greer Gilman, Adam
Golaski, Glenn Grant, Geary Gravel, Leigh Grossman, Andrea Hairston, Elizabeth Hand, Nancy
C. Hanger, David G. Hartwell, Daniel Hatch, Jeff Hecht, Connie Hirsch, James J. Hughes, Aline
Boucher Kaplan, Diane A. Kelly, John Kessel, Rosemary Kirstein, John Klima, Lissanne Lake,
John Langan, Fred Lerner, Paul Levinson, Ernest Lilley, Barry B. Longyear, James D.
Macdonald, Barry N. Malzberg, Laurie J. Marks, Terry McGarry, Farah Mendlesohn, Ed Yves
Meynard, Thomas Monteleone, James Morrow, Resa Nelson, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Teresa
Nielsen Hayden, Patrick O'Leary, Gene O'Neill, Jeff Paris, Daniel Pearlman, Lawrence Person,
Ursula Pflug, Andrew I. Porter, Elspeth Potter, Kit Reed, Katya Reimann, Faye Ringel, Steven
Sawicki, Darrell Schweitzer, Delia Sherman,William Shunn, Diana Reed Slattery, David
Alexander Smith, Sarah Smith, Wen Spencer, Allen Steele, Ian Randal Strock, Cecilia Tan,
Shane Tourtellotte, Gordon Van Gelder, Peter Watts, Andrew Weiner, Robert Wexler, Gene
Wolfe, Ann Tonsor Zeddies, Joey Zone...and more!
Readerkids!
convention prior to the first ReaderKids program.
Children at Readercon
Supervising the children will be two adults, both
experienced childcare providers, who have cared
for children, preschool through 6th grade, for
over ten years.
Welcome to returning and first time ReaderKids!
We will be offering our children's program again
this year! Thank you for all your suggestions and
feedback.
ReaderKids will offer boring-panel-free, supervised playtime for kids ages 4 to 10 during which
their parents can enjoy their panels. The children
will entertain themselves with various activities
including games, construction toys, drawing and
coloring, making crafts, and socializing.
The program will run two sessions on Saturday
only. Each session will last about two hours, one
from 9:45am until 12:00pm, the other from
1:45pm until 4:00pm. (Yes, we know you would
like more coverage, but we were unable to
extend the hours this year. Rest assured, it is
high on our priority list!) Cost is $10 per session
per child.
Bathroom-independent children ages 4 through
12 years may participate. Parents of children on
the borders of age, or bathroom independence,
or with other special circumstances, who are
interested in our program may contact Louise
Waugh at <[email protected]>, or at the
To participate:
* Go to Registration to buy a one-session coupon
($10) for each session that each child will attend.
You will also receive a colorful wristband.
* Write your name (and/or the name of whoever
will be responsible for this child during the con)
on the wristband.
* Bring the registered, wristband-wearing child to
the room number listed on the coupon.
* Check in with the adults in the room and leave
your contact information (pager, cell phone, etc.)
* Say good-bye, enjoy your panels, and return on
time to pick up your ReaderKid.
For reasons of safety, children participating in
ReaderKids:
* Must be delivered by a parent or other adult
(age 18 and up)
* May not leave ReaderKids unless accompanied
by an authorized adult
Hotel
The Boston Marriott Burlington will be hosting us for the
fourth time this year. Guest rooms are $97 per night (plus
tax) for single to quad. Call 781-229-6565 by June 19 to
reserve your room. Be sure to mention Readercon so that
you get the discounted rate. Act soon - June 19 is the
cutoff date!
How to Get There
The Burlington Marriott is northwest of Boston, at the intersection of Route 3A and Burlington Mall Road, right off
of I-95/128 at exit 33B (Route 3A North). With over 15
restaurants of all kinds and the Burlington Mall within a
mile, you don't need a car in order to get decent food or
meet random personal needs. The Marriott has plenty of
free parking.
By Car, from the South or West:
Take the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90) east towards Boston. Take exit 14 and follow the signs for I-95/128 North.
Continue with the "Northbound on I-95/128" directions below.
By Car, from the North:
Take Route 3 South towards Boston. At the junction of
Route 3 and I-95/128, take I-95/128 North. Follow the
"Northbound on I-95/128" directions below.
OR take I-93 South to the I-95/128 South exit (Exit 37A).
Follow the "Southbound on I-95/128" directions below.
By Car, from Boston:
Take I-90 (the Massachusetts Turnpike) West towards
Newton/Waltham to exit 15. Take I-95/128 North. Continue
with the "Northbound on I-95/128" directions below.
OR for the scenic route, take either Route 2 or 2A to Route
3 North to Burlington. After passing under I-95, turn left at
the traffic light. The hotel will be on your left.
Northbound on I-95/128:
Take exit 33B (for Route 3A North), which is the second
exit past the compound exit for the Lowell Connector and
Middlesex Turnpike, where the traffic from Rte. 3 South
merges in.
At the end of the ramp, merge quickly across to the far
left, and make a left onto Burlington Mall Road at the first
traffic light. Turn left at the first traffic light to enter the
Marriott's parking lot.
Southbound on I-95/128:
Take exit 33B (for Route 3A North). Go straight through
the light at the end of the exit ramp, onto Burlington Mall
Road. Turn left at the first traffic light to enter the Marriott's
parking lot.
By Air, via Logan Airport:
Shared van services from Logan are available from
Airporter (877-899-6161, $28 for 1 passenger, $8 each
additional) and Flightline (800-245-2525, $32 for 1 passenger, $44 for 2 or 3, $58 for 4). It is a good idea to
contact them in advance and make a reservation.
Taxi fare from Logan to the hotel is $50 to $60. You'll
find the taxi stands on the Baggage Claim level.
You can take mass transit from the airport all the way
to the Marriott, but you'll have to take a combination of
buses and subway trains. This will cost you less than
$7, but may take as long as 2 hours. Take the #22 or
#33 free Massport shuttle bus to the T station. For the
fastest connections, take the subway Blue Line inbound
to Government Center and change to the Green Line.
Go one stop on the Green Line to Park Street and then
change to the Red Line outbound to Alewife station.
Continue with the "By Mass Transit" directions below.
If you decide to rent a car, ask for directions to the Massachusetts Turnpike from your rental pickup spot. (This
will probably involve a tunnel of some sort, but which
one may vary based on location, time of day, and status
of the Big Dig.) Then follow the "By car, from Boston"
directions above.
Directions to and from Logan and information about
shuttles, taxis, and rental cars can be found at Logan's
Web site or by phone at 800-23-LOGAN.
By Air, via Hanscom Field:
Shuttle America and US Airways have commercial flights
to and from Bedford's Hanscom, a small regional airport
not far from the hotel. We recommend using a taxi to get
between Hanscom and the hotel. You will most likely
have to call for a taxi upon arrival. More info is found at
Hanscom's Web site:
http://www.massport.com/airports/hansc.html.
By Train and Bus, via South Station:
Amtrak trains and Peter Pan and Greyhound buses come
into South Station in Boston, which is also a T station on
the Red Line. Take the T outbound to Alewife. Continue
with the mass transit directions below.
By Mass Transit:
Take the Red Line to the end at Alewife station. Change
to the #350 bus, which runs hourly (or a little better) every day during the con, from about 7am to about 10pm.
Tell the driver that you want to get off at the Marriott,
since the hotel may not be visible from the bus. Most
runs will drop you off in front of the hotel. You can pick
up a bus schedule and route map at Alewife or on the
MBTA's Web site. The pick-up spot is on Route 3A, on
the far side of Burlington Mall Road from the Marriott.
Useful Web Sites: http://www.massport.com/logan/
http://www.mbta.com/
Parties
If you are planning to host a party at Readercon,
first reserve your room with the hotel, and then you
must contact us at <[email protected]> so that
we can release a room on the party floor to you.
Please ask about Parlor Suites and Executive
Kings, which are larger than the other guestrooms.
Parties held in non-party-floor rooms will be shut
down by the hotel. Open parties (parties with an
open invitation to all attendees and with an open
door) may not serve alcohol. Closed parties (parties by invitation only and with a closed door) must
make corkage arrangements with the hotel.
one who works over 8 hours gets a free membership to next year's con.
Let us know you're interested by sending email to
<[email protected]>, or check the relevant
line on the membership reply form. There will be
an informational meeting for all interested volunteers at the con Friday evening.
How to Contact Us
You can e-mail us at <[email protected]> or write to
us at PO Box 38-1246, Cambridge, MA 02238-1246.
For updates and more details, such as past programs,
check our Web site: http://www.readercon.org.
Volunteers
Readercon is run entirely by volunteers. We always
need lots of help to keep things running smoothly.
If you're new to conventions, volunteering is a great
way to meet people and have fun.
Besides the warm fuzzy feeling that comes from
being useful, volunteers who work between one and
six hours are rewarded with special Readercon
souvenirs not available to the general public! Any-
In Memoriam
Robert J. P. Ingria
1952 - 2003
You will be missed.
The Readercon Committee
READERCON 14 MEMBERSHIP/INFO REPLY FORM
Enclosed is $_____ for the following:
___ Attending membership(s) @ $35 (until the end of June).
___ Supporting membership(s) @ $10, includes all publications [this is an alternative to an Attending membership,
and is simply a way you can express support and obtain all the publications while not actually attending the convention]
( ) I'm planning to host a party. Please let me know what's available for me.
( ) I'm interested in volunteering.
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but fully transferable. CANADIANS please note: a Canada Post money order in US$ is optimal: we can cash those
for no fee, so your membership rate is the same as in the USA. If you instead send a check or money order drawn
on a Canadian bank, add US$5 to the rate above. Our bank charges us that to collect such items even though
they're denominated in US$.
Please don't send cash through the mail. Unfortunately we are not able to accept credit cards or to process payments by e-mail at this time.
Mail this to: READERCON PO BOX 38-1246 CAMBRIDGE, MA 02238-1246 USA