Vernor is the author of the proto-Cyberpunk classic, True Names, one of the first stories about what we later called virtual reality, hackers, and cyberspace. He is one of those few SF writers who consistently shows himself to be genuinely ahead of the curve of technological change. One of his earliest published stories, "The Accomplice" (published in If April 1967) described a "new industry" of desktop animation. (A character was, incidentally, stealing computer time to animate The Lord of the Rings.) His The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime (both Hugo finalists, along with True Names,) showed an increasingly assured grasp of longer forms, and his Hugo and Nebula award winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep proved him a master of intellectually-complex, wide-screen space opera. A sequel, A Deepness in the Sky was a Nebula nominee this year and won the Hugo this year.
Bob is a Paleontological Life Restoration Artist. A Philadelphia local, he has gained a great deal of renown for his Dinoart. His work has appeared in more than a dozen museums, including the American Museum of Natural History and The Smithsonian, and in more than twenty books and innumerable magazines throughout the world, as well as television productions for PBS and The Discovery Channel, and electronic media such as Microsoft's Encarta™ encyclopedia. You have seen his work on book covers, and frequently in (or on the cover of) Asimov's SF. He also illustrated an issue of Weird Tales, one drawing from which won a Chesley Award for best interior illustration that year. He also Illustrated True Names by Vernor Vinge.
Poul has been publishing SF and fantasy since the late '40's, and is one of the greatest living SF writers. He has won the Hugo Award seven times and the Nebula three times. Among his genuinely classic works are Tau Zero, Three Hearts and Three Lions, The High Crusade, The Broken Sword, the Flandry of Terra series, the Time Patrol series, and such individual shorter works as "To Truce With Kings", "The Queen of Air and Darkness", and "The Longest Voyage" (all Hugo winners). Other recent works include The Boat of a Million Years, Harvest of Stars, The Stars Are Also Fire, and Starfarers.
This list is subject to change, depending upon schedule conflicts, acts of deities and whims of nature. It is by no means a guarantee of attendance.
John Ashmead, David Axler, Dan Barlow, Jennifer Barlow, Jill Bauman, Beverly Suarez-Beard, Jan Berends, Judith Berman, Ph.D., Tim Burke, Linda Bushyager, Mary Catelli, Grant Carrington, Hal Clement, Brenda W. Clough, Trisha Cummings, Robin Atkin Downes, Christopher East, Scott Edelman, Marvin Kaye, Dick Eney, Glen Engel-Cox, Craig E. Engler, Edward Einhorn, jan howard finder (Wombat), Greg Fishbone, Terry Franklin, Esther Friesner, Greg Frost, Adam Corbin Fusco, Dr. Charles E. Gannon, Laura Ann Gilman(L.A. Liverakos), Alexis Gilliland, Lee Gilliland, Eve Gordon, Harold Gross, John Hemry, David Honisberg, Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg, Steven G. Johnson, David F Keefer, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Kim Kindya, Rosemary Kirsten, John Klima, Nancy Kress, Jean Elizabeth Krevor, Ted Krulik, Paul Levinson, Tamar Lindsay, Ann Melrose, David Mack, Karen Michalson, Jim Minz, James Morrow, Jack McDevitt, John Norman, J.R. Dunn, Severna Park, John "Jack" Passarella, Misty Pendragon, Cathy Petrini, Theresa Pieczynski, John-Allen Price, Tom Purdom, Roman Ranieri, Roberta Rogow, Marguerite Rutkowski, Charlie Ryan, Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen, Dr. H. Paul Shuch, Karl Schroeder, Charles Sheffield, Hannah MG Shapero, David Sherman, Josepha Sherman, Susan Shwartz, Rosie Smith, Cecilia Tan, Patrick Thomas, Diane Turnshek, David Vierling, Diane Weinstein, Lois June Wickstrom, Jagi Lamplighter Wright, John C. Wright, Sarah Zettel
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