L.A.con IV: Confirmed Program Participants

Craig Miller, program

There will be lots of people on the program for L.A.con IV. Some on panels, some doing talks, some doing demos. This list will be growing between now and the convention, but here are the people who have agreed to be on the program so far.

Paul A. Abell: Dr. Paul Abell is a planetary scientist assigned to the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Directorate at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He has been studying potentially hazardous asteroids and near-Earth objects for over 7 years. He was a telemetry officer for the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft NIS (Near-Infrared Spectrometer) team and is a member of the science team for the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRS) on the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft. Paul, his wife Amy Sisson, and their feline friends have lived in the Houston area since December 2003.
Forrest J Ackerman: Fan since Day 1.
Andrew A. Adams: Andrew Adams is an academic who researches and teaches the Social Impact of Computer and Communication Technology. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a Masters degree in Law. He reviews books for the BSFA magazine Vector. He has been staff and committee for a number of conventions, including chairing the 2000 Eastercon 2Kon.
Warren Adler
Keith Aiken: Keith Aiken is a professional illustrator whose credits include Dark Horse Comics' Godzilla (1994) and Sony Pictures' animated program Godzilla: The Series (1998-99). He has also worked with the American Cinematheque and Bay Area Film Events on several Godzilla film festivals, and assisted Toho and Rialto with publicity for theatrical premieres of Godzilla films. In 2005, Keith contributed to the audio commentary for the British Film Institute's UK DVD of Godzilla. This year he launched the website SciFi Japan, and is currently working with Classic Media on materials and promotions for their upcoming DVDs of seven classic Godzilla film.
Alma Alexander: Alma Alexander's novels have been published in ten languages and more than 20 countries. Her international success, The Secrets of Jin Shei, was a finalist in the Endeavour Award and the Washington State Book Awards in 2005 and has been followed by a sequel, Embers of Heaven, set 400 years in the future of the same world. Alma's other works include the fantasy duology The Hidden Queen and Changer of Days, and the first book a new YA trilogy, Worldweavers, is to be released in the winter of 2006. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two cats.
Antares Alleman
Roger MacBride Allen
Mark Altman: Mark Altman is the writer and producer of Free Enterprise as well as numerous other genre films. He is also the co-publisher and editorial director of Cinefantastique magazine.
Lou Anders: Lou Anders is the editorial director of Prometheus Books' science fiction imprint Pyr , as well as the anthologies Outside the Box (Wildside Press, 2001), Live Without a Net (Roc, 2003), Projections: Science Fiction in Literature & Film (MonkeyBrain, December 2004), and FutureShocks (Roc, January 2006). He served as the senior editor for Argosy magazine's inaugural issues in 2003-04. In 2000, he served as the Executive Editor of Bookface.com, and before that he worked as the Los Angeles Liaison for Titan Publishing Group. He is the author of The Making of Star Trek: First Contact (Titan Books, 1996), and has published over 500 articles in such magazines as The Believer, Publishers Weekly, Dreamwatch, Star Trek Monthly, Star Wars Monthly, Babylon 5 Magazine, Sci Fi Universe, Doctor Who Magazine, and Manga Max. His articles and stories have been translated into Greek, German, and French, and have appeared online at SFSite.com, RevolutionSF.com and InfinityPlus.co.uk.
Janet Wilson Anderson: Janet Wilson Anderson has been costuming for more years than she will admit to. She is the co-founder of the International Costumer's Guild, founder of the Costumer's Guild West, Founding Dean of Costume College, ICG Lifetime Achievement award winner, winner of Best in Show awards in both historical and SF at the International level, a six-time Worldcon judge, and was granted the privilege of a Retrospective of her work at the 2005 Costume Con. In addition to being an award-winning costumer in SF, Historical and design competitions, she is a frequent lecturer at universities, colleges and costume interest groups. Her work was featured in the Hugo-nominated book The Costume-Maker's Art. She loves glitz and glitter, dressing funny whenever she can and running her costume business AlterYears which supplies costume patterns, books and supplies to other costumers all over the world.
Karen Anderson: Filking fanzine and SCA fan, fantasy author.
Kevin J. Anderson: Kevin J. Anderson lives in one universe and commutes to work in many others, from his own Seven Suns, to Dune, Star Wars, Star Trek, X-files, or comics. He has many bestsellers and many awards, including a Guinness World Record for "Largest Single-Author Book Signing." He has climbed all 54 of Colorado's 14,000-ft mountain peaks, often while dictating chapters in a new book into his microcassette recorder.
Richard Arnold: For 15 years, Richard worked with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry to keep his universe, in all of its versions, true to his vision, and, as a result came to be known as an ambassador to Star Trek.
Margaret Austin: Margaret started out as a media fan attending her first convention in 1974. She quickly discovered mainstream SF fandom and has been regularly attending conventions in the UK and overseas ever since. She was Deputy Chair at Intersection and headed up media programming for the 2003 UK Eastercon. Current interests include Stargate, Dr Who and Lost (and non-genre shows such as Veronica Mars and West Wing). She's been looking for a new obsession since Buffy and Angel ended but, so far, has found nothing that quite makes the grade although VM comes close. Her favourite SF writer is Larry Niven.
Fiona Avery: Fiona Avery is a writer from Los Angeles defecting to some place more romantic, since she was once an archaeologist, which entailed such Indiana Jones-like activities as prowling through pyramids in Egypt. She writes all forms, with an emphasis on historical, action, and fantasy. Her novel is a secret history of the French monarchy, called The Crown Rose. In 2004, her Marvel heroine, Ara'a, was named "Woman of the Year!" by Latina Magazine. Women who write action are a rare species. Fiona's favorite possession is a katana circa 1200. She balances her tomboyish collection of swords by wearing pink.
Paolo Bacigalupi: Paolo Bacigalupi's writing has appeared in Salon.com, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and High Country News. It has been anthologized in a number of "Year's Best" collections of short science fiction and fantasy, and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards. His novelette "The Calorie Man" won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award earlier this year.
James Bacon: James is a fan from Ireland who has gotten involved with many aspects of Fandom, from fan writing to con running. Currently living in the UK, he has gained a reputation for running fun conventions.
Chaz Boston Baden: Custodian of Fan Photo Gallery exhibit; created another adult use for Lime Jell-O using tequila, circa 1992; has been mentioned in the Playboy Advisor column twice; once organized an ice cream social with a "Hell Freezes Over" theme sponsored by "Good Intentions Paving Company" and "Handbasket Tours & Travel"; invented "blue boards" to to give fans a safe place to post signs for parties; originated the Registration Apron. His most recent major project has been to launch a new fannish animé convention, Animé Los Angeles. Takes lots of pictures by sf-fan standards, but not very many compared to animé fans.
Lenny Bailes: Lenny Bailes has been involved with science fiction for 35 years as a fanzine writer, SF critic, and online participant. He writes computer books and occasionally appears in the New York Review of Science Fiction. Lenny has been a program director and panel ringleader for Potlatch and loves discussing satirical "literary cartooning" in SF novels and short stories and graphic novels.
Robin Wayne Bailey: Robin Wayne Bailey is currently president of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. He's written professionally for 25 years and authored sixteen novels, edited two collections, and written nearly 100 short works. His novels include the Dragonkin trilogy, the Brothers of the Dragon series, the Frost novels, and Shadowdance. At the invitation of Fritz Leiber, he wrote Swords Against the Shadowland, the only Fafhrd and Gray Mouser work not done by Fritz, himself. He's a regular contributor to the Thieves World fantasy series. In 1996, he founded the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in Lawrence, Kansas and in 2002 transferred it to Paul Allen's Vulcan Enterprises in Seattle, where it became part of the Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame. He serves on the museum's Advisory Board of and continues to chair the HoF's induction committee. He lives in Kansas City, M0.
Chris M. Barkley: Chris M. Barkley celebrated his 30th year in SF Fandom at Midwestcon 57 this past June. From 1976-1983 he was one of the few fans in the country who had hosted a SF/fantasy themed radio news and talk show, Bad Moon Rising. Since 1983, he has been a regular volunteer in the Worldcon Press Relations Office, helping explain Fandom and the significance of science fiction to world culture to the press. In the past decade, he has been an infrequent contributor to the Hugo nominated fanzines File 770 and Challenger and the webzine Trufen.org. L.A.con IV marks the 21st World Science Fiction convention he has attended. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, he is currently residing 32 miles north in Middletown, Ohio.
John Barnes: John Barnes has written around 30 books, depending on what you count, and about 25 of them have been published science fiction, again depending on what you count. His most recent SF novel is The Armies of Memory. His best known seem to be Mother of Storms, A Million Open Doors, and Kaleidoscope Century. The one he liked best was One For the Morning Glory, his only fantasy.
Steven Barnes: Steven Barnes has published over two million words of fiction, including the award-winning alternate history novel Lion's Blood. He also wrote the Emmy-winning "A Stitch In Time" episode of The Outer Limits. He lives in Covina, California with his wife, novelist Tananarive Due, daughter Nicki, and son Jason. His twentieth novel, Great Sky Woman, is published by Random House/One World books.
Jean-Noel Bassior: Jean-Noel Bassior, author of Space Patrol: Missions of Daring in the Name of Early Television, is a journalist who specializes in celebrity profiles for magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. She has interviewed film stars, political figures and best-selling authors for Redbook, McCall's, Parade, AARP The Magazine, Woman's World and many other publications, and her work has been syndicated worldwide by The New York Times and Knight Features (London). Based in Los Angeles, she's a former musician who enjoys running and boxing - but her first love is the 1950s TV series Space Patrol.
Kenn S. Bates
Peter S Beagle: Peter S. Beagle was born in 1939 and raised in the Bronx. He wrote his first novel, A Fine and Private Place, when he was 19 years old. Thanks to his most famous book, The Last Unicorn, and such works as The Innkeeper's Song, Tamsin, "Two Hearts," and Summerlong, Peter is considered one of the all-time great authors of fantasy. He wrote the screenplays for the animated versions of The Lord Of The Rings and The Last Unicorn, plus the "Sarek" episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. He is also a gifted poet, lyricist, and singer/songwriter.
Amelia Beamer: Amelia Beamer is an independent scholar of science fiction. She is an Assistant Editor at Locus Magazine, where she also writes reviews. Her publications include an article in Foundation and a forthcoming short story in LCRW.
Elizabeth Bear: Elizabeth Bear is the author of such books as Hammered, Blood And Iron, and the forthcoming Carnival. She is the recipient of the 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She lives in Connecticut, and is afficted with a mourning dove who likes the echoes her bedroom makes when he sings outside the window.
Greg Bear: Greg Bear is the author of more than thirty books of science fiction and fantasy, including Blood Music, Eon, The Forge Of God, Queen Of Angels, and Dead Lines. He is married to Astrid Anderson Bear and is the father of Erik and Alexandra. His most recent novel is Quantico, a near-future examination of law enforcement, politics, and terror both domestic and religious. Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children (1999, 2003) form a sequence about viruses and human evolution. Together with Quantico and Vitals, these novels form the Life Science Quartet. His novels The Forge Of God and Anvil Of Stars have been optioned by Warner Bros., and Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children have been optioned by Michael DeLuca and Howard Braunstein. Winner of seven Hugos and Nebulas, the Sei-un, the Prix Apollo, and two Endeavor awards -- among others -- Bear has been called the "Best working writer of hard science fiction" by The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
Jerry Beck: Jerry Beck is a well known animation historian who has written ten books including Looney Tunes: The Ultimate Visual Guide, The 50 Greatest Cartoons and The Animated Movie Guide. Beck is also a consultant for the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series and was the co-founder of Streamline Pictures, a pioneer in bringing anime to the United States. Beck is also an animation producer and has been an executive with Nickelodeon and Disney. Beck has mounted and hosted various retrospective screenings of classic animation at festivals and museums all over the world. He is the webmaster of www.cartoonresearch.com and co-writes the popular animation blog, Cartoon Brew.
Richard Becker
Adrian Bedford: K.A. Bedford is a writer of SF living in the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. He is the author of novels Orbital Burn, Eclipse, and Hydrogen Steel, all from Edge Sf/F Publishing, of Canada. He is married to the fabulous Michelle, who makes all things possible.
Hilari Bell: Hilari calls herself the poster child for persistence -- the first novel she sold was the 5th novel she'd written, and when it sold she was working on novel #13. Since then she has sold eight more novels, she has six more under contract, and she's concluded that luck is a good thing too. She writes SF and fantasy for children and teens.
Dr. Gregory Benford: Hard SF writer, fan, physicist. Author of Timescape, In the Ocean of Night, etc. Latest book is The Sunborn.
Joe Bergeron: Artist. amateur astronomer, writer, and science fiction fan.
Jeff Berkwits: Jeff Berkwits has written about science-fiction literature, music, film and television for dozens of Internet and print periodicals including Science Fiction Weekly, Locus Online, SCI FI, Cinescape and Filmfax, among others. He most recently served as editor-in-chief of Amazing Stories magazine, and is presently researching two books focusing on the early days of science-fiction television.
Karen Black
Dr. Bob Blackwood: Dr. Bob Blackwood and Dr. John Flynn, dubbed "The Film Doctors" by fans at Torcon, conducted a survey of the members of the World Science Fiction Society to determine the top 10 SF films of the 20th century, and Galactic Books in July 2006 will publish the result as Future Prime: The Top Ten Science Fiction Films. Dr. Bob, president of the International Press Club of Chicago, is a correspondent for Fra Noi (Chicagoland's Italian American Voice) and the College Union Voice. He is also the author of From the Silent Era to The Sopranos: Italian American Gangsters in Trend-Setting Films and Television Shows, just released by PublishAmerica.
Fr. John Blaker: Fan, RC priest.
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff: Maya is addicted to speculative fiction. For this, she blames her father and Ray Bradbury. Her short fiction has appeared in Analog, Amazing Stories, Interzone, and others, and has been nominated for the Nebula and British SF awards. She has authored six fantasy novels, most recently Mr. Twilight (with Michael Reaves), an October 2006 release from Del Rey. October will also see Kino No Tabi, Volume 1, Maya's English adaptation of the anime series. Maya is half of Maya & Jeff, a musical duo that won the 2005 Pegasus Award for Best Performer. They've also collaborated on three amazing children, and live in San Jose.
Margaret Wander Bonanno: Margaret Wander Bonanno has written more than twenty novels in both mainstream and science fiction, including four Star Trek novels (Dwellers in the Crucible, Strangers from the Sky, Catalyst of Sorrows, and Burning Dreams, a novel about Christopher Pike), and two SF trilogies, The Others and Preternatural. She is the co-author, with Nichelle Nichols of Saturn's Child. Ms Bonanno has been by turns an English teacher, executive secretary, transcriptionist, proofreader and ghostwriter. She has two grown children, and lives in Southern California.
Jeff Bond
Steven R. Boyett: Steven R. Boyett is the author of Ariel, The Architect of Sleep, The Gnole (with British illustrator Alan Aldridge), the parody collection Treks Not Taken, and a draft of Toy Story 2 for Pixar/Disney. Shorter works have appeared in literary, science-fiction, and horror magazines, newspapers, and comic books. Boyett has been a professional martial-arts instructor, DJ, paper marbler, and editor, as well as a rank amateur electronic music composer. He is currently finishing a sequel to Ariel, entitled Eloi.
Ray Bradbury
Bridget Bradshaw: Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund (TAFF) winner Bridget "Bug" Bradshaw, 36, from Cambridge England, has been an active fan since 1990. A con-runner and fanzine writer (Obsessions, Squiggledy Hoy), she works for the SF Foundation and the UK's League of Fan Funds. She has spent the summer touring the USA and Canada, meeting fan friends old and new. Look for her here in the Fan Lounge. She promises a TAFF Trip Report that's imaginative, meticulous, and full of her sense of the absurd. And hamsters.
David Bratman: David Bratman has been a critic and reviewer and critic specializing in fantasy for many years. His historical and bibliographic study of the Inklings is in press in Diana Pavlac Glyer's book The Company They Keep, and his other articles on Tolkien and other fantasy writers have appeared in various publications, including the Mythopoeic Society's bulletin Mythprint which he edited for many years. He compiled Ursula K. Le Guin: A Primary Bibliography (1995) and edited The Masques of Amen House by Charles Williams (2000). In fandom, David has been a member of various apas and has worked on a few convention committees, most notably as three-time Hugo administrator. David lives in northern California with a soprano (his wife, Berni Phillips) and two cats. In his other life, he is a traveling consulting librarian.
Jon L. Breen: Jon L. Breen is the author of seven novels and more than ninety published short stories, most in the crime/mystery field, and is the winner of two Edgar Awards in the biographical/critical category. He is a longtime member of SFWA and among his science fiction credits is the short story "Parsley Sage, Rosemary, and Time" in the anthology Time Twisters, edited by Jean Rabe. His next book is the novel Eye of God, forthcoming from Perseverance Press. Retired as a librarian and Professor of English at Rio Hondo College, he lives in Fountain Valley, California, with his wife and invaluable front-line editor Rita.
David Brin: David Brin is a scientist and best-selling author of Hugo winners Startide Rising and The Uplift War. Hugo runner-ups include The Postman, Earth, Glory Season. His non-fiction book The Transparent Society won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. Kiln People explores a fictional near future when people use cheap copies of themselves to be in two places at once. The Life Eaters - a graphic novel - explores a chilling alternate World War II. Recently controversial: Star Wars On Trial. Watch for David's TV show in the fall.
Michael S. Brotherton: Mike Brotherton is a hard science fiction writer as well as a professor of astronomy at the University of Wyoming. His first novel, Star Dragon (Tor Books), was a finalist for the John Campbell Award for best science fiction novel in 2004. He knows more about quasars than you do, and gets paid to point the Hubble Space Telescope at them (he'd rather not say how much). He leads his research team to fight for truth, science, and the Milky Way. His fierce cat Sita loves him very much.
Charles N. Brown: Charles N. Brown is Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of 26-time Hugo winner Locus magazine which he founded in 1968, and has been involved in the science fiction field since the late 1940s. He was the original book reviewer for Asimov's, has edited several SF anthologies and written for numerous magazines and newspapers. Brown founded Locus in 1968 and has won more Hugos than anyone else. Also a freelance fiction editor for the past 35 years, many of the books he has edited have won awards. He travels extensively and is invited regularly to appear on writing and editing panels at the major SF conventions around the world, is a frequent Guest of Honor and speaker and judge at writers' seminars, and has been a jury member for several of the major SF awards.
Rachel Manija Brown: Rachel Manija Brown writes books, manga, television, and whatever else she feels like writing. Much of her writing is sf and fantasy. She worked in development and as a writer for the Jim Henson Company for four years and is currently developing an animated TV show for them. She used to be a staff writer for the one-hour TV horror-comedy The Fearing Mind, which played on Fox Family. Her first book, All The Fishes Come Home To Roost: an American Misfit in India, is published by Rodale. It's the true story of how her post-hippie parents raised her on a bizarre ashram in India devoted to Meher Baba, who is best known for having been Pete Townsend's guru, taking a vow of silence for most of his life, and for coining the insipid motto "Don't worry, be happy." She was the only foreign child within 100 miles of anywhere. Despite being Jewish by birth and a Baba-lover by parental decree, there was only one school in town, and so Rachel spent her formative years attending Holy Wounds of Jesus Christ the Savior Convent School. It's a dark comedy.
Ginjer Buchanan: In the early '70's, Ginjer Buchanan moved from Pittsburgh, PA. to New York City where she made her living as a social worker, while doing free-lance editorial work. In 1984, she took a job as an editor at Ace Books. She has been promoted several times. Her current title is Senior Executive Editor; Marketing Director, Ace Books/Roc Books.
Tobias S. Buckell: Tobias S. Buckell is a Caribbean born SF/F writer who grew up spending time in Grenada, the US, and British Virgin Islands. He has almost 30 short stories in various magazines and anthologies. His first novel, Crystal Rain, came out from Tor books in February 2006, his second is due out in the summer of 2007. He is a full time blogger, freelance writer, and author.
Robert Burnett: Robert Burnett is the writer and director of Free Enterprise as well as numerous other genre films.
Bob Burns: Standing on both sides of the camera, Bob has developed an appreciation of the efforts required to bring images from the imagination to the screen, be it movies or television. He has encouraged, consoled, supported and assisted in those endeavors. Bob's acting career has been mainly behind a mask, mostly that of a gorilla, including starring in the TV series Ghostbusters as Tracy, The Gorilla. He produced several videos, among them The Time Machine - A Journey Back and The Further Adventures of Major Mars" based on a character that Bob created. The film incorporated the flavor of the serials and early B-movies like The She Creature on which Bob worked with pioneer monster maker, Paul Blaisdell. To showcase the talents of his friends and to just plain have fun, Bob began "Bob Burns and Friends Halloween Extravaganzas". Each year, an SF or horror film was selected and a scary scene chosen to recreate. The challenge was to do it live, without the luxury of multiple takes or computers. It was this that drew artists like Dennis Muren, Rick Baker, Mike Minor, Tom Scherman, Walter Koenig, Doug Beswick, the Skotak brothers, D.C. Fontana, Greg Nicotereo, Bill Malone, among others, to participate.
Brian J. Burns: Brian Burns is a PhD student at The George Washington University. He has a diverse range of interests from literature and film to history and critcal theory. Brian enjoys finding and/or forging links between areas of study often thought of as disparate such as canoncial literature and popular culture. Along with Kimberly Knight he is one of the co-directors for the academic track of L.A.con IV.
James M. Busby: James Busby created the Organization to Support Space Exploration (O.S.S.E.) to heighten public awareness about space. In 1979 he became Rockwell International's master of ceremonies for the open house visits to the plant until it closed in 1999. James was hired in 1984 at the California Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles CA as a museum assistant and was employed there for 18 years. The museum awarded James with an Honorary Doctorate degree of Space Science Information. In 1997, Tom Hanks asked him to become the technical advisor for his Emmy award winning HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon. He appeared as one of the designers of the Lunar module in the Apollo 9 episode Spider. Busby has also assisted with other films and TV productions such as Apollo 13, Race into Space, Salvage One, and Lord of War. James was employed by the Space Frontier Foundation as Director for its International Lunar Conferences for two years. He is on the History Committee for the American Astronautics Society, and is a frequent contributor to Apogee Books. In April 2006 he joined XCOR Aerospace in Mojave, Ca, in media relations.
Pat Cadigan: Pat Cadigan, two-time winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, lives in North London with the Original Chris Fowler. She awaits the return of The Sultan's Elephant.
David Cake: David is a long time fan and gamer, chair of the Australian National Science Fiction convention standing committee, an editor of Borderlands magazine, and a board member of Electronic Frontiers Austalia, Australia's electronic civil liberties organization.
Scott Campbell: Game designer/producer for Sony Playstation.
Peggy Carlisle
Michael Carniello: Michael Carniello likes to paraphrase Oscar Wilde: "I have put no genius into my life; all I've put into my works is a few minor gaming industry publications." He's a statistician by training and a programmer by occupation, and enjoys writing embarassing life blurbs.
Amy Sterling Casil: Amy Sterling Casil is a 5th generation Southern Californian and a science fiction writer. Her short fiction can be found in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction among other publications. A 2002 Nebula Award nominee, she has authored three novels and more than a dozen nonfiction books for young adults and children. She also writes poetry and children's fiction, and has painted about 100 bookcovers as well as other commercial art. She is the Director of Development for the Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization Beyond Shelter, and lives in Redlands, California with her daughter Meredith and dog Badger.
Bob Caso
Susan Casper: Fantasy/horror author of about 10 or 12 ebooks, available from www.fictionwise.com. Susan Casper spent years listening to her writer/editor husband Gardner Dozois and her writer friends chatter about the craft. Hopelessly out of the loop, there was only one way to fit in. She began to write stories, and discovered, to her surprise, that after working at it for a while, she could actually sell them.
Michael Cassutt: Michael Cassutt is best known for writing scripts for such SF and fantasy television series as The Twilight Zone, Max Headroom, Eerie,Indiana, Farscape, and The Dead Zone. He has also published two dozen short stories and is the author of five novels, including the space thrillers Missing Man, Red Moon and Tango Midnight. His monthly column, "The Cassutt Files", appears on Sci-Fi.com.
Adam-Troy Castro: Adam-Troy Castro's short fiction has received two Hugo nominations, one Stoker nomination, and five Nebula nominations. His most recent book, non-fiction, is My Ox is Broken: Detours, Roadblocks, and Other Great Moments from TV's The Amazing Race (Ben Bella Books). He lives in Miami with his long-suffering wife Judi and a rotating collection of cats that includes Meow Farrow and Uma Furman.
Rob Caves: Rob Caves is the Executive Producer of Star Trek: Hidden Frontier. He also played Ensign Mark Abney in several episodes. The Hidden Frontier project grew out of video production efforts he started with the fan club, USS Angeles. Caves has worked as production assistant, post production assistant, and junior editor in in corporate video production; currently he's a staff editor at a major production company.
James Cawley: Elvis impersonator; co-creator of Star Trek: New Voyages; plays the part of Kirk in the fan-created "4th season of Star Trek."
Robert J. Cesarone: Robert Cesarone is currently involved in program management, strategy development and long range planning at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His activities specifically involve telecommunications and mission operations, including the development of architectural options for the Deep Space Network, NASA's network for tracking interplanetary spacecraft. He has held his present position since September 1991 and has been employed at JPL since 1977. Prior to his current assignment he has held a number of positions within the Voyager Navigation Team, in particular that of lead trajectory and maneuver engineer for the Voyager 2 flybys of Uranus and Neptune. Mr. Cesarone has authored 24 technical and popular articles covering the Voyager Mission, trajectory design, gravity-assist and space navigation and telecommunications. He is an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a member of the World Space Foundation and a recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal. When he can find any leisure time, he devotes it to his many hobbies. These include amateur astronomy, collecting classic editions of science-fiction and space exploration books, building his model train collection and, most recently, writing songs and playing the five-string banjo in a local band.
Jay Chattaway
Robin Chin: Robin Chin is a doctoral student in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her scholarly interests include modernism, histories of mundane technology, conceptions of the body, and new media. Beginning this September, she will serve as Research Assistant for the UCSB Transcriptions studio.
Richard Chwedyk: Richard Chwedyk's novella, "Bronte's Egg," won the Nebula Award in 2003, was nominated for a Hugo, and was the 2nd runner up for the Sturgeon Award. You can read it in its "definitive" version in the Nebula Awards Showcase 2004, edited by Vonda N. McIntyre and published by Roc Books. His novelette "The Measure of All Things" was also considered for the Sturgeon and Nebula, fell a few votes short for the Hugo and was included in the Hartwell/Cramer anthology Year's Best SF 7. "The Measure of All Things" has been translated into Italian. His three published "saur" stories have all been translated into Hebrew for the Israeli sf magazine The Tenth Dimension. His short fiction has appeared in Amazing Stories, Space and Time, F&SF and in the Twilight Tales anthology Cthulhu And The Coeds, Or Kids And Squids. His poetry has most recently appeared in the Rhysling Anthology 2004, the Hartwell/Cramer anthology Year's Best SF 8, Strange Horizons, Snow Monkey and in the chapbook anthology Tales From The Red Lion. His latest "saur" novelette, "In Tibor's Cardboard Castle" appeared in the Oct./Nov. 2004 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction. More stories are on the way.
Georgeanne Cifarelli
Randall Clague: Randall Clague works for XCOR Aerospace as the Government Liaison, Safety Officer, and Flight Operations Officer. Randall did the bulk of the heavy lifting for XCOR's launch license in 2004, and helped write the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004 (CSLAA). Randall writes XCOR's comments to FAA proposed rules. NewSpace executives say Randall's comments make their job easy; they just tell FAA, "What he said." As Flight Ops, Randall coordinated the successful requalification of the EZ-Rocket in 2005, which led to back to back flights at the X Prize Cup in Las Cruces in October 2005, and a world record for pilot Dick Rutan in December 2005. A veteran U.S. Marine artilleryman and amateur rocketeer, Randall brings a healthy dose of common sense to NewSpace.
Dave Clements: Dave Clements is a professional astrophysicist working on preparations for the Herschel and Planck satellites, and using data from HST, Chandra, Spitzer and Akari as well as ground based telescopes. He is also trying to write SF, but not published yet.
Brian Coghill
Jack Cohen: Jack Cohen is an internationally-known reproductive biologist who consults for test-tube baby and other infertility laboratories. He acts as consultant to SF writers on questions of scientific authenticity, especially in the design of alien creatures and ecologies, and has been called the UK's leading xenobiologist.
Lara Collins
Steve Collins: Steve Collins is an Attitude Control System engineer for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Currently working on the Mars Science Laboratory project, Steve has been a flight team member on Mars Observer, Galileo, Deep Space One, MER and last summer's Deep Impact project. In flight, he is responsible for keeping the spacecraft pointed in the right direction, performing trajectory corrections and figuring out "what the heck just happened??" When he's not flying spacecraft around the solar system, he can be found playing soccer, jamming on the Theremin, or acting in local Shakespeare productions.
Melissa Conway, Ph.D.: Dr. Melissa Conway is Head of Special Collections at the University of California, Riverside, home of the Eaton Collections of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Utopian Literature, the world's largest collection of Science Fiction.
Glen Cook: Author. Latest books are Whispering Nickel Idols; The Tyranny of the Night; and Cruel Wind, an omnibus edition of the first three books in the Dread Empire series.
Brenda Jean Cooper: Author. Latest book is Building Harlequin's Moon, written with Larry Niven.
Paul Cornell: Paul Cornell is a British SF novelist and a comics and television writer, notably on the new series of Doctor Who, for which he wrote "Father's Day." His two novels are Something More and British Summertime. He's currently developing his own SF TV series, working for Marvel Comics and writing a new novel.
Ctein: Ctein is best known in the SF community for his photographs of eclipses, aurora, natural and unnatural scenics, space launches and his hand-printed books. He's a contributing editor to Photo Techniques, author of Post Exposure -- Advanced Techniques for the Photographic Printer, computer display consultant, technical writer, with degrees in English and Physics from Caltech. Other activities- pollution research, astronomy, world designing for CONTACT, and radical feminist queer activism. If he grows up, he wants to be a dilettante. Ctein lives in Daly City CA with technical writer Paula Butler, two demented psittacines, a half dozen more-or-less normal computers, and twenty kilobooks. He reports his house seems to be shrinking...
George Cusack: George Cusack is (in order of importance) a lifelong science fiction fan and an Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery. His publications include articles on modern Irish literature for Modern Drama, New Hibernia Review, and The Literary Encyclopedia, as well as editorial duties for the scholarly anthology Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon.
R.S. Daley
Tad Daley: Tad Daley is a political author, an international policy analyst, and an activist for enduring world peace. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science, a master's degree in international studies, a Ph.D. in public policy analysis ... and a law degree to fall back on if neocon Republicans stay in power forever. He's served as a political advisor to Congresswoman Diane Watson (D-Cal, 2001-Present), the late U.S. Senator Alan Cranston (D-Cal, 1969-1993), and Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio, 1997-Present). He ran for U.S. Congress himself in a 2001 special election to represent mid-city Los Angeles. He spent many years at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, the world's oldest and largest think tank. He focuses his research, writing, and advocacy on abolishing nuclear weapons, ending genocide forever, and reinventing the United Nations. He's published more than 75 newspaper, magazine, and journal articles on positive future visions and the politics of hope. He's presently serving as Peace and Disarmament Fellow in the Los Angeles Office of Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Noble Laureate anti-nuclear organization. Personal Page
Ellen Datlow: Ellen Datlow was editor of Sci Fiction, the multi award-winning fiction area of SCIFI.COM, for almost six years. She was fiction editor of Omni for over seventeen years and has worked with an array of writers including Susanna Clarke, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. LeGuin, Bruce Sterling, Peter Straub, Jonathan Carroll, George R. R. Martin, William Gibson, Joyce Carol Oates, William Burroughs, and others. Her most recent anthologies include The Dark, The Green Man, and The Faery Reel (the latter two with Terri Windling). She's been co-editing The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror for twenty years. Datlow has won the World Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Awards, the International Horror Guild Award, the Hugo Award, and the Locus Award for her editing.
James Stanley Daugherty: Internationally known for his distinctive figurative work, this award winning artist continually pushes the boundaries of reality with his camera. James has also worked as an archaeologist, postman, technical writer, lab technician, librarian, photo journalist, cat breeder, and international investor. He enjoys excursions into ruined abbeys, ancient temples, and Tiki bars. He holds a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and a Master of Fine Arts from the Art Academy of San Francisco. His current photography project involves chronicling the mud cults of naked women in the jungle. He also addicted to running SF conventions and his current fannish crusade is to hold a Westercon in the fabulous city of Las Vegas.
Kathryn Daugherty
Sheryl Jean Davis: Head of Preservation at University of California at Riverside since 1986 and Assistant Head of Special Collections since 1999. Main responsibility is the proper storage, handling and preservation of materials in Special Collections.
Joy Day: A professional artist and costume designer, Joy has been attending conventions for 25 years. Her astronomy paintings have been featured on magazines, posters, cards, and even billboards, while her blown glass sculptures, created with partner BJ Johnson, are in the collections of the largest aerospace companies and museums. Specializing in reverse glass painting and glass blowing, Joy and BJ are currently doing commissions creating the solar system and the universe out of glass.
Genevieve Dazzo: Genevieve Dazzo holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry and is well versed in many different scientific disciplines. She is currently a computer consultant and also does corporate training in a variety of advanced computer and management skills. During her career she has held senior positions at Software, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications, and Aerospace companies. She has been active in science fiction fandom in both New York and Los Angeles since the mid 1970s and has worked on many Worldcons and regional conventions. She is currently on the Board of the Southern California Institute for Fan Interests (SCIFI).
Keith R.A. DeCandido: Keith R.A. DeCandido is the author of over 30 novels, as well as dozens of short stories, comic books, eBooks, essays, and nonfiction books, many of them in various media universes: Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, Farscape, Andromeda, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Spider-Man, and much much more. His original novel Dragon Precinct was published in 2004, and his most recent work is the Buffy novel Blackout, which focuses on one of the previous Slayers, Nikki Wood.
John DeChancie: John DeChancie is the author of over two dozen books, fiction and non-fiction, and has written for periodicals as widely varied as Penthouse and Cult Movies. Many of his novels have recently been published in Russian translation. His humorous fantasy series, beginning with Castle Perilous, became a best seller for Berkley/Ace. William Morrow published Magicnet, which Booklist said was "a welcome sigh of comic relief ... shamelessly droll, literate, and thoroughly entertaining. Magicnet is the fantasy genre's whimsical answer to Neuromancer." He has also written in the horror genre. His short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and in numerous original anthologies, the latest of which is I, Alien, edited by Mike Resnick. He currently lives in the Los Angeles area and is at work writing screenplays. His most recent book, Witchblade: Talons is an original novel based on the Witchblade comics series.
Mike DeMeritt: Michael DeMeritt served eleven seasons as an Assistant Director for Star Trek, through all of Voyager and all of Enterprise. You can find his audio commentary track on the Enterprise Third Season DVD set for the episode "Northstar." He is a published writer whose most recent work, Poetry and Prose from the Director's Ass., explores the ups and downs of life "in the business". He currently works on NBC's Las Vegas.
Linda Deneroff: Linda Deneroff has been reading SF since she was 12 (the golden age!) and watched Star Trek from its inception in 1966. After discovering fandom in 1971, she became a Lunarian and worked on Lunacon. In 1987, she relocated to Seattle and became active in fandom there as well. There, she currently helps run Foolscap, a small literary-and-art-oriented convention.
Juls Denton: Juls is an avid sewing hobbyist who has created everything from court dresses to peasant wear for rennaissance and historical reenactments.
Cat Devereaux: Cat Devereaux has been into costuming forever. That path has included costuming in TV, film, and theatre. Much of her earlier work was the slash and burn style of construction required for the jobs. Today she prefers insanely detailed workmanship and recreation as well as teaching others the same. This obsession created the website "Alley Cat Scratch Costume" which includes "Lord of the Rings Costume" where folks gather for costume study and to share sewing techniques. She is a recipient of the International Costumer's Guild's Lifetime Achievement and co-author of The Masquerade Handbook.
Jetse de Vries
Nick DiChario: Nick DiChario has been nominated for two Hugo Awards and a World Fantasy Award. His short fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies in the United States and abroad. His first novel, A Small and Remarkable Life, was published this summer by Robert J. Sawyer Books.
Buzz Dixon: Buzz Dixon is the co-founder and president of Realbuzz Studios, creators of Serenity, America's premiere inspirational manga, as well as three new upcoming manga series for the inspirational/Christian market. Prior to this, Buzz Dixon had an extensive career writing for TV animation, feature films, comics, video and RPG games.
Daren Dochterman
Cory Doctorow: Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing, and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. In that capacity, he worked to balance international treaties, polices and standards on copyright and related rights, advocating in the halls of governments, the United Nations, standards bodies, corporations, universities and non-profits. His novels are published by Tor Books and simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their re-use and sharing, a move that increases his sales by enlisting his readers to help promote his work.
John R. Douglas: John R. Douglas has worked as an editor for Berkley, Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, Avon Books and HarperCollins, and was once editor of the science fiction news magazine Chronicle.
Gardner Dozois: Gardner Dozois was the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine for twenty years, and is still the editor of the annual anthology series The Year's Best Science Fiction, from St. Martin's Press, now up to its Twenty-Third Annual Collection. He has won fifteen Hugo Awards as the Year's Best Editor, thirty Locus Awards, and two Nebula Awards for his own short fiction. He is the author or editor of more than a hundred books, the most recent of which are the anthologies One Million A.D., Escape From Earth: New Adventures In Space (with Jack Dann), Beyond Singularity (with Jack Dann), a reissue of his novel Strangers, and a new collection of his own work, Morning Child And Other Stories. He lives in Philadelphia.
Kevin Drum: Kevin Drum is a contributing writer for the Washington Monthly and has authored their blog, Political Animal, since March 2004. Prior to that he wrote Calpundit, an independent liberal political blog. During the '90s he was vice president of marketing for a software company in Irvine, California. He lives with his wife and two cats in Irvine, California.
Diane Duane: Novelist, screenwriter, absolute mistress of a vast online web empire (okay, she made that up about the empire), Diane Duane has been writing science fiction and fantasy in various media for the last twenty-five years. She runs the "Young Wizards" universe, and has written for characters as various as Spider-Man, Siegfried the Volsung, Jean-Luc Picard, and Scooby-Doo. Her sign is "Runway 24 Left: Hold for Clearance."
Martin Easterbrook: British convention fan.
Scott Edelman: Scott Edelman (the editor) currently edits both Science Fiction Weekly, the internet magazine of news, reviews and interviews, with more than 635,000 registered readers; and Sci Fi, the official print magazine of the Sci Fi Channel. He was the founding editor of Science Fiction Age, which he edited during its entire eight-year run from 1992 through 2000. He also edited Sci-Fi Entertainment for almost four years, as well as two other sf media magazines, Sci-Fi Universe and Sci-Fi Flix. He has been a four-time Hugo Award finalist for Best Editor. Scott Edelman (the writer) has published more than 50 short stories in magazines such as The Twilight Zone, Absolute Magnitude, The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives, Science Fiction Review and Fantasy Book, and anthologies such as Crossroads: Southern Tales of the Fantastic, Men Writing SF as Women, MetaHorror, Once Upon a Galaxy, Moon Shots and Mars Probes. He has twice been a Stoker Award finalist in the category of Short Story.
Scott Edgington: Scott Edgington (Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Space Science - University of Michigan; B.S.E. in Engineering Physics - University of Michigan) is currently working for the Cassini Project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). On the project, he serves as the CIRS Investigation Scientist, in which he acts as a liaison between the Cassini Program Office and the CIRS instrument. He also serves as a Science Planning Engineer and is involved with the planning and implementation of science activities on board the spacecraft. Previous to this, Scott held a N.R.C. Post Doctoral Fellowship position at JPL, and a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan. In these positions, he has conducted research in the areas of Jovian photochemistry, ultraviolet spectroscopy, radiative transfer with emphasis on Rayleigh and Raman scattering, meridional dynamics, and condensation processes. While a graduate student at the University of Michigan, he has interpreted ultraviolet spectra associated with Jupiter, Saturn, and Shoemaker-Levy 9 and developed several photochemical models. He has published several refereed publications and has contributed to professional conferences.
Bob Eggleton: Bob Eggleton is a successful science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 9 Hugo Awards, 12 Chesley Awards, The 1999 Skylark Award and 2 Locus Awards. His art can be seen on many magazines and books. His latest book is The Stardragons with John Grant, from Chrysalis Books. Of late, Bob has worked doing animated movie concept work, commissions, and illustrated books. He also appeared as a "fleeing" extra in the 2002 film Godzilla against Mechagodzilla.
Lise Eisenberg
Alex Eisenstein: I'm a collector of vintage SF art and have mounted retrospective exhibits at a number of conventions, including Chicon 2000. I'm also a writer of fiction (in collaboration with my wife Phyllis) and nonfiction (film criticism and SF scholarship).
Phyllis Eisenstein: I've been a writer for 35 years, both on my own and in collaboration with my husband Alex, with half a dozen SF and fantasy novels and a few dozen stories published, plus one nonfiction book on arthritis. For the last 16 years, I've been adjunct faculty at Columbia College Chicago, teaching SF writing, and half a dozen years ago I was talked into adding a class in fantasy writing to the schedule. In 2000, I decided to try out the advertising world, and currently I am Senior Copy Editor at the largest advertising agency in Chicago.
Elvis Elder
Stephen Eley: Stephen Eley is the editor and host of Escape Pod, a science fiction magazine in podcast form. Each week Escape Pod narrates and delivers SF and fantasy short stories in audio form. It's also the first paying content market in podcasting. Stephen is also also the publisher of Pseudopod, a horror fiction podcast, and provides podcast-related products and services through his company, Escape Artists, Inc. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and their one-year-old son.
Kate Elliott: Kate Elliott is the author of the Crown of Stars - fantasy series, the Novels of the Jaran, and the forthcoming Spirit Gate (October '06). In addition, she has written a half dozen short stories and a collaboration with Melanie Rawn and Jennifer Roberson, The Golden Key. She lives in Hawaii with her family and their neurotic miniature schnauzer, aka the Schnazghul.
Doug Ellis: Collector and dealer in SF original art and pulps for 20 years. Co-organizer of the annual Windy City Pulp & Paperback Convention, which has become a leading venue for the sale of pulps and the sale and display of vintage SF art. Author of one book devoted to pulp art (Uncovered) and author/editor of several books on the pulps. Recipient of the Lamont Award, pulp fandom's lifetime achievement award.
Harlan Ellison: Harlan Ellison is an author who needs no introduction.
Kent Elofson: Kent began his costuming career at the age of eight when he draped an exquisite bustle gown onto a styrofoam cone. Since then he has costumed over 50 stage shows and spent 22 years working for the Walt Disney Company.
Edward Richard Endres: Edward Endres (along with Robert Vailliencourt) established Fyberdyne laboratories in 1989. Fyberdyne is widely regarded as one of the best fiberglass costuming organizations in fandom. Edward has had the recent honor of working with comic book painter Alex Ross on a definitive full size version of Iron Man's Helmet for Dynamic Forces. He is also known for the unique way he has for inlaid color in his fiberglass. He lives in South bend Indiana with his wife Debra and children.
Michael Engelberg: LA area physician, very long time fan, sf movie producer
Steve Englehart: Steve Englehart has written pretty much every comic you've ever heard of. All Batman films and animation for the last 30 years comes from his conception, but there's also the Green Lantern Corps, Silver Surfer, Doctor Strange, and Coyote. He created the Night Man comic and wrote for its television incarnation. He wrote the story for the Tron 2.0 video game and worked on Bard's Tale IV. NASA chose his biography of the Wright Brothers for their school curricula. Currently, he's writing The Long Man, a sequel to his novel The Point Man, about the reality of magick.
Jane Espenson: Jane Espenson is best known for her five years as a writer-producer for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her episodes include "Band Candy," "Earshot," "Harsh Light of Day," "Storyteller," "After Life," and others. She shared writing credit on the episode "Conversations with Dead People," which won a Hugo award. Since Buffy, she has been on the writing staffs of Gilmore Girls, Tru Calling, Tim Minear's The Inside, and she has written a freelance episode of Battlestar Galactica.
Scott Essman
Lawrence Evans
William B. Fawcett: Author of The Fleet series of books.
Moshe Feder: Moshe Feder has been an SF/Fantasy reader since the late '50s, an active fan since 1970 and a pro since 1972 when he started working part time as Assistant Editor for Amazing and Fantastic. Later he was a reviewer for Publishers Weekly and SF Chronicle, Assistant Editor of the SF Book Club, Editor of the Military Book Club, and a reviewer for _Asimov�s_. He has been a judge for the World Fantasy Awards and the Sidewise Awards. His first, and so far only, short story appeared in Orbit 16 in 1975. He�s currently a Consulting Editor for Tor Books and a private investigator�s assistant.
Cynthia Felice: You can find Cynthia Felice's most recent publication, Promised Land, (a collaboration with Connie Willis) in both hardback and paperback. Iceman, an Ace/Berkley paperback novel, is the most recent full-length solo work. "Track of a Legend" is anthologized in David Hartwell's Christmas Stars, a Tor paperback, and "Second Cousin, Twice Removed" is in Isaac Asimov's Christmas, edited by Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams, an Ace/Berkley paperback.
Sheila Finch: Sheila was born in England but has lived in Long Beach, CA for the past 40 years. She is best known for the Guild of Xenolinguist series of stories and novels about the adventures of the lingsters as they travel the Orion Arm making first contact and communicating with aliens. One of these stories ("Reading the Bones") won a Nebula Award and was later expanded into a novel of the same name. She has also alternate history and historical fantasy, and a young adult novel. She shares her home with a furry cat and two retired racing greyhounds.
Paul Fischer: Paul Fischer is a life long Sci-Fi and Fantasy fan. He created and hosts the podcasts: The Balticon Podcast and The ADD Cast. The Balticon Podcast is the first podcast dedicated to Sci-Fi conventions. In his day job he is a Network Architect for a wireless data group in a large company.
James W. Fiscus: Jim Fiscus is a Portland, Oregon writer. He is chairman of two non-profit organizations that work to help science fiction and fantasy writers, The Endeavour Award and the Clayton Memorial Medical Fund. He is a former columnist for the SFWA Bulletin, the journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, writing about legal and business issues. After years as a medical writer he has returned to writing about history, publishing books for high school students. His fiction often draws on his master's degree in Middle East and Asian History, including recent stories in Alternate Generals II and III.
Dr. John L. Flynn: Dr. John L. Flynn is a three-time Hugo-nominated author and long-time science fiction fan and critic who has written eight books, hundreds of short stories and articles, reviews, and a screenplay. He is an active member of the Science Fiction Writers of America. As a professor at Towson University in Maryland, he teaches graduate and undergraduate writing courses, including "Writing Science Fiction" that has produced several science fiction writers. With fellow academic Bob Blackwood, he formed "the Film Doctors," a group which studies and promotes science fiction films, and produced the top ten list of SF films of the twentieth century.
Michael F. Flynn: A native and resident of Easton, PA, Michael Flynn took his degrees in mathematics and so far they haven't made him give them back. He works as a consultant in statistical methods and quality management. His books include the Firestar series, (with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle) Fallen Angels, and the critically well-received The Wreck of the River of Stars. He has received four Hugo nominations, the Sturgeon prize, and the Heinlein Award. Coming soon is a novel, Eifelheim (Tor, Oct.) and two stories: "Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth" (Asimov's) and "Probably Murder" (Analog).
Phil Foglio
Dorothy C. Fontana: Star Trek, Star Trek, Star Trek -- as Bill Rotsler put it in a cartoon for me, "It follows me everywhere." Not that I mind, but it is the thing I'm most associated with. However, there are other credits over the years that I am also proud of -- Bonanza, Dallas, Streets Of San Francisco, Babylon 5, Six Million Dollar Man, Logan's Run, Fantastic Journey, Lonesome Dove, Earth-Final Conflict and so on. I'm an instructor at the American Film Institute, I'm married to Dennis Skotak (see elsewhere in the program book) and still active writing, including Star Trek games.
Richard Foss: Richard Foss is an author, editor, restaurant critic, and reviewer who has dircted theatrical productions, produced concerts, run a travel agency, managed the construction of a luxury hotel, and lectured on Elizabethan history, among other pastimes. His fiction has appeared in Analog and various short story collections.
Alan Dean Foster: Alan Dean Foster is the author of more than 100 books, over a hundred short stories, numerous articles and film reviews, radio plays, and the story for the first Star Trek movie. His novel Cyber Way was the first work of science fiction to win the Southwest Book Award for fiction. His work has been published in more than 50 languages. A world traveler, he has spent time in more than 80 countries. His film footage of great white sharks feeding off South Australia has appeared on the BBC and American television. He lives in Prescott, Arizona, with his wife JoAnn, 3 dogs, 7 cats, a pair of red-tailed hawks, assorted coyotes, road-runners, and the ensorceled chair of the nefarious Dr. John Dee.
Rudy Franchi
Jane Frank: Jane Frank is a collector, author, and private art dealer who established Worlds of Wonder in 1991 to represent the kind of artists and art that you'll enjoy in the L.A.con IV art show. Avid collectors, Jane and her husband Howard have a more than 35-year long history of support for the genre, and two Paper Tiger books on their art collection: The Frank Collection: A Showcase of the World's Finest Fantastic Art (1999), and Great Fantasy Art Themes from the Frank Collection (2003). Beginning Sept 10th works from the collection will again be exhibited at The Science Fiction Museum, Seattle. Jane wrote the illustrated biographies The Art of Richard Powers (Hugo Nominee, 2001), and The Art of John Berkey (2003), and many articles on art and collecting; she writes as The Artful Collector for the e-zine Estronomicon. She edited two books on the author William Hope Hodgson (PS Publishing/Tartarus Press 2005), and is working hard on two projects: A Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (McFarland, 2008) and Pixel or Paint? The Digital Divide in Illustration Art (Nonstop, 2007).
Valerie Estelle Frankel: Valerie Frankel was born at an early age. She teaches creative writing for children and teens, along with teaching Composition at San Jose State University. Her many short stories appeared in the anthologies Legends of the Pendragon and In the Outposts of Beyond. She's also been published in Rosebud Magazine, The Oklahoma Review, and seventy other magazines. Valerie would have gone crazy long ago, except for her collection of singing potatoes. She's very excited about her first book, Henry Potty and the Pet Rock: An Unauthorized Harry Potter Parody, published through Wingspan Press.
Laura Frankos: Laura Frankos has written a mystery novel (St. Oswald's Niche), as well as short stories for Analog, the Chicks In Chainmail series, and numerous fantasy and science fiction anthologies. She spends entirely too much time listening to Broadway musicals and is compiling a quiz book based on trivia of the Great White Way.
James Frenkel: James Frenkel's career in book publishing began in 1971. Since then he has edited science fiction and fantasy for Dell Books, Bluejay Books (of which he was Publisher), and Macmillan Publishing, where he edited the Collier Nucleus classic reprint line. Since 1986 he has worked for Tor Books, where he is now a Senior Editor. Born and raised in New York City, he now lives in Madison, Wisconsin. He enjoys working with many fine SF and fantasy authors, ranging from Daniel Abraham to Timothy Zahn, and many other outstanding authors in between.
David Friedman: I majored in Chemistry and physics, got a PhD in theoretical physics and proceeded to make a career as an academic economist, most recently specializing in law. My first book, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, was published in 1973. My most absorbing hobby has been the Society for Creative Anachronism, with interests ranging from medieval cooking and storytelling to hitting people with swords, my most recent interest writing my first novel (Harald from Baen) and working on more. I am currently a law professor at Santa Clara University.
David Fury
Tom Galloway: Tom Galloway lives in Silicon Valley. His adventures include winning on a game show, Neil Gaiman telling an audience "You should all get together and burn [Tom] as a witch", Harlan Ellison trying to get him dates via public radio, raising $10,000 for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund via conceiving a single item, being a Starfleet Admiral in a Trek comic book, organizing an MIT hack on the Harvard-Yale football game, and being a practice dummy for teaching Nobel Prize winners the Macarena.
Christopher J. Garcia: Christopher J. Garcia is a writer, producer, historian, and zine-publisher from Santa Clara, CA. He has been the Assistant Curator at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA for the last seven years. He has produced four films, including The Chick Magnet (winner Best Science Fiction Film: Conestoga Film Festival 2005) and The Last Woman on Earth. He publishes The Drink Tank on eFanzines.com, Claims Department for FAPA, and Science Fiction/San Francisco with Jean Martin. He is currently the Vice-President of the Bay Area Science Fiction Association and President of the National Fantasy Fan Federation (N3F). He's also Co-Chair of the Hollister in 2008 Casa de Worldcon Bid.
David Gerrold: Please do not ask David Gerrold about the fifth book in the Chtorran series. He has promised to be on his best behavior, but your cooperation is urgently requested.
Nat Gertler: Inventer of "Mister U.S." (along with Mark Lewis). Created the comic book Licensable Bear^TM.
GG Theatre: See Plays and Performances.
Sheila Gilbert
Zelda Gilbert: Zelda saw her first costume competition at the 1984 Los Angeles World Science Fiction Convention. She said, "I can do that," and has been doing so ever since. Zelda successfully competes at the master's level in international venues and specializes in the strange, the humorous, and the tacky. Additionally, Zelda served for many years on the boards for both the CGW and ICG, as well as being a veteran Costume College teacher.
Mel Gilden: Mel Gilden is the author of many children's books, some of which received rave reviews in such places as School Library Journal and Booklist. His multi-part stories for children appear frequently in the Los Angeles Times. His popular novels and short stories for grown-ups have also received good reviews in the Washington Post and other publications. Licensed properties include adaptations of feature films, and video games, and he has written original stories based in the Star Trek universe. He has written cartoons for TV, has developed new shows, and was assistant story editor for the DIC television production of The Real Ghostbusters. He consulted at Disney and Universal, helping develop theme park attractions. Gilden spent five years as co-host of the science-fiction interview show, Hour-25, on KPFK radio in Los Angeles. Gilden lectures to school and library groups, and has been known to teach fiction writing. He lives in Los Angeles, California, where the debris meets the sea, and still hopes to be an astronaut when he grows up.
ElizaBeth "Lace" Gilligan: ElizaBeth "Lace" Gilligan lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Doug, and their adult children. As a self-described literary opportunist, ElizaBeth has been writing since earliest memory. DAW books has released the first novels in the "Silken Magic" series -- Magic's Silken Snare and The Silken Shroud -- Alternate Histories about Romani silk merchants set in 17th century Sicily. Within the tapestry of the Baroque court, in a land of contradictions, the Romani have found a home in the gadj.'s world. Havensgate (working title) is the current project on ElizaBeth's desk -- the first of a new series focusing upon a woman leading her people through the inner turmoil of a world with magical mutations and strict social caste structures. ElizaBeth also writes the occasional short story, formed and manages the noteworthy research list for genre writers (JoysOfResearch@YahooGroups.com), is an herbalist, ardent historian, researcher, philosopher, who dabbles in the fiber arts and home-schooled her children. In her copious free time, ElizaBeth has served as Secretary to the Board of Directors for SFWA after nearly a decade serving in SFWA Convention Relations.
Laura Anne Gilman: The former Executive Editor of Roc/NAL, Laura Anne left her day job at the end of 2003, in order to put more energy into her own writing. Her first original novel, the fantasy/caper Staying Dead, came out in 2004, followed by Curse The Dark in 2005 and Bring It On in July 2006, with the next scheduled for 2007. Her YA trilogy, Grail Quest, came out from HarperCollins this year. She is also the author of several non-fiction books for teenagers, and co-edited the anthologies OtherWere: Stories of Transformation and Treachery & Treason.
Dana Ginsberg
Diana Glyer: Diana Pavlac Glyer is a professor of English at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California. She has chaired conferences, published articles, and tried in vain to fix the comma errors in File 770. Her most recent book is The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community.
Mike Glyer
Lynn Gold: Lynn has been an on-air presence on the San Francisco Bay area airwaves for over 15 years. She has thrown many a party at a convention, often on an amazingly small budget. She has also been performing at conventions for 15 years, and does standup comedy in her copious spare time. During the day she works at ZipLip Incorporated in San Jose, CA as a Technical Writer; on weekends and occasional evenings she anchors the news at KLIV-AM in San Jose, CA and reports news, traffic, and weather at Traffic.com in Emeryville, CA. She has also been on the Internet continuously since 1980, back when it was the ARPAnet. She was part of one of the earliest Net.romances -- and Net.divorces. She has worked at NASA, Oracle, PayPal, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Netscape as a Technical Writer. Lynn lives in Mountain View, CA, with her pet Bichon Frise, "Lady," who has attended several conventions.
Lisa Goldstein: Lisa Goldstein has published eleven novels, the latest being The Divided Crown (as by Isabel Glass) from Tor Books. Her novel The Red Magician won the American Book Award for Best Paperback. She has also published a short story collection, Travellers In Magic, and numerous short stories. Her novels and short stories have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. She has worked as a proofreader, library aide, bookseller, and reviewer, and she lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and their cute dog Spark.
John Goodwin
Kathleen Goonan: Kathleen Ann Goonan has published five novels and over twenty-five short works. Two of her novels, Crescent City Rhapsody and Light Music, were Nebula finalists and are part of her Nanotech Quartet, which also includes Queen City Jazz and Mississippi Blues. War Stories, her next novel, will be out from Tor some time in 2007.
Robert Gordon: Robert Gordon's screenwriting credits include Galaxy Quest and Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events. His producing credits include Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow. He earned a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from UCLA before pursuing his masters degree in film at the California Institute of Arts. A Disneyland geek, Gordon hopes someday to achieve his original goal of working as an Imagineer.
Chris Gossett
Bob Gounley: Bob Gounley is an Instrument Systems Engineer for the Space Interferometer Mission (SIM) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He's served interplanetary science missions in many roles including Engineering Team Lead for Mars Exploration Rover, Flight Director for the Deep Space 1 mission (testing ion propulsion), and Deputy Engineering Team Chief for the Galileo mission to Jupiter. NASA awarded Bob its Exceptional Service and Exceptional Achievement medals. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master's Degree in Aeronautics/Astronautics from M.I.T.
Lorien Gray: After graduating with a degree in Linguistics, Lorien Gray decided to waste her education and go into show business. She started as a Script Supervisor in Texas, but soon fled to Los Angeles to pursue the big time. She's worked as an assistant director on a variety of televison shows and feature films, such as ER, Star Trek: Voyager, The Pretender, Anywhere But Here, and How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Lorien is currently working at Regent Entertainment, which acquires, produces, and distributes episodic television, TV movies, and feature films.
Ashley Darlington Grayson: Literary agent. Agent for John Barnes, Jack Cohen, Bruce Coville, Christopher Pike, and various others.
Kevin R. Grazier: Dr. Kevin Grazier is a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and holds the duel titles of Investigation Scientist and Science Planning Engineer for the Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan. His research also includes large-scale, long-term computer modeling of Solar System evolution/dynamics/chaos. Kevin is also currently the Science Advisor for the PBS animated series The Zula Patrol, as well as the SCI FI Channel series Eureka and Battlestar Galactica. He writes the monthly Battlestar Galactica TECH Blog on www.hollywoodnorthreport.com.
Ed Green: Ed Green has been a member of Fandom since 1971. He's a retired NCO from the US Army, where he spent 13 years working as an Intelligence Analyst. He's done fanwriting for File 770, No Award and other zines. He's been President of the LASFS and Chairman of the LASFS Board of Directors. He is currently Chairman of the Board of SCIFI INC, the sponsoring group of this year's Worldcon.
Scott E. Green: Writer, editor and poet. Has been nominated for the Kelly award in non-fiction writing and the Rhysling, Isaac Asimov Readers Award and the Balrog for short poetry. Most recent book is Isaac Asimov: An Annotated Bibliography of the Asimov Collection at Boston University.
Simon R Green: Long ago and far away, Simon R Green was born in the small English town of Bradford-on-Avon, the last Celtic town to fall to the invading Saxons in 504 AD, and it's all been downhill ever since. He's published more than thirty novels, all of them different, including many international best-sellers. Best known for the Deathstalker novels, a trilogy in eight parts. Currently writing the Nightside series, about a private eye who operates in the Twilight Zone, solving cases of the weird and uncanny. Simon is also, secretly, Superman. Don't tell anyone.
Hugh S. Gregory: Hugh S. Gregory is an avid Spaceflight Historian based in Vancouver Canada. He lectures occasionally in local schools on spaceflight history and astronomy. His latest research includes the conceptual design theory work on the E.L.D.S.R.R. space reactor (which he gifted to JPL back in July of 2002), Project M.O.S.S. (Musk Observatory Supernova Search) for the Musk Mars Desert Observatory in Hanksville, Utah and Project M.A.S.T. (Mars Analogue Simulation Trainer), a VR simulator for the Mars Society to help train and prepare crews for their simulations of Mars surface exploration at the Mars Desert Research Station. Since December 2004 he has been the Mars Society's Chief Documents Editor for the M.D.R.S. and F.M.A.R.S. research stations, correlating and maintaining the operations manuals and training materials relative to each facility. He was selected for and led M.D.R.S. Crew 35 (February-March 2005) as Mission Commander and Crew Astronomer (to set up Project MOSS). He's produced and sold videos on Voyager 2 at Neptune, The Gas Planets, and others. On weekends he's a private pilot, amateur astronomer (Member RASC), cricket umpire, and enjoys hiking in the Rockies with his wife Anne.
Paula Guran: Paula Guran is currently the editor of Juno, a new fantasy imprint and its Best New Paranormal Romance anthology series. She reviews regularly for Publishers Weekly, is review editor for Fantasy Magazine, and a columnist for Cemetery Dance. Until earlier she contributed SF/F reviews and interviews to CFQ magazine. In an earlier life she produced the weekly email newsletter DarkEcho (winning two Stokers, an IHG award, and a World Fantasy nomination) and edited Horror Garage (earning another IHG and second a World Fantasy nomination.) She's a publisher [Infrapress], teaches SF/F/H writing, and has been author John Shirley's literary agent for nearly a decade.
James Gurney: Our Artist Guest of Honor.
Karen Haber: Karen Haber is the author of nine novels including Star Trek Voyager Bless the Beasts, co-author of Science of the X-Men, and editor of the Hugo-nominated essay collection celebrating J.R.R. Tolkien, Meditations on Middle Earth. With Jonathan Strahan she edited the popular Year's Best SF and Year's Best Fantasy series through 2005. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many anthologies. She reviews art books for Locus magazine and profiles artists for various publications including Realms of Fantasy. Her newest science fiction novel, Crossing Infinity, a YA tale of gender confusions between worlds, was published by ibooks in November.
Gay Haldeman: Gay Haldeman (Mary Gay Potter Haldeman) has a Master's degree in Spanish Literature from the U. of Maryland and another in Linguistics, from the U. of Iowa. She teaches in the Writing Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology every fall, specializing in English as a second language. The rest of the year she resides in Florida, where she manages writer Joe Haldeman's career, dealing with editors, answering correspondence (in Spanish and French as well as English; isn't e-mail wonderful?), etc. She's a correspondent for the on-line Spanish magazine BEMonline. She's been going to SF conventions since 1963 (so has Joe) and loves to meet new people. After 41 years of marriage, she still thinks Joe's the best thing that ever happened to her.
Joe W. Haldeman: Joe Haldeman sold his first story in 1969, while he was still in the army, post-Vietnam, and has been a constant writer ever since, with a little time off for teaching. He's written about two dozen novels and five collections of short stories and poetry, and appears in about twenty languages. His best-known novels are The Forever War and Forever Peace. Since 1983, he and his wife Gay have spent the fall semester in Cambridge, MA, teaching at MIT. His latest novel is Old Twentieth, and it was joined in 2005 by War Stories, a collection of fiction about Vietnam.
Barbara Hambly: Author of The Emancipator's Wife (about Mary Todd Lincoln), The Windrose Chronicles, The Darwatch Trilogy, etc. Has written stories for Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina; Tales from Jabba's Palace; War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches; Gaslight and Ghosts; and others. Most recent books are Dead Water and Circle of the Moon; Renfield will be out in September.
Lisa Deutsch Harrigan: Treasurer of The Mythopoeic Society, Chairman of Westercon 40, Chairman of Mythcon 10, treasurer to more Mythcons, treasurer to CostumeCon 26, good costumer too (mostly hall costumes). Been in fandom for, well, more years than I want to imagine. A well-rounded fan into Costuming, JRR Tolkien, LotR the Movie, Fantasy, Asimov, Bradbury, SF, Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Farscape. Mother to Jenevieve Paurel Davis and Harold Harrigan III; grandma to Christopher, Matthew, and Jonathan; all fans, too. All in all, it's been a good full fannish life, and there are still more years to enjoy!
Charlaine Harris
Harry Harrison: Author of Deathworld, The Stainless Steel Rat, Make Room! Make Room!, West of Eden, Bill the Galactic Hero etc. Latest book is Stars and Stripes Triumphant.
Jay C. Hartlove: Jay has been competing his costumes at conventions since 1976. He is known for adapting unusual materials and developing new techniques in costuming. His inspirations are anime, history and horror, not necessarily in that order. He also teaches workshops and designs events for the Bay Area costumers guild. He has scaled back his competition entries while raising his two beautiful daughters Katherine and Abigail with his wife Denisen. One exception was working with a team that won Best in Show at ConJose (WorldCon 2002). Jay also writes extensively on religion and neuroscience, which he insists, are not very far apart.
David Hartwell: David Hartwell edited The Science Fiction Gallery, Visions of Wonder, Northern Stars, Northern Suns, Centaurus, etc. Collects interesting neckties. Compiler of Gregg Press Science Fiction Series 1975-1985 Complete: a Preliminary Annotated Checklist. Proprietor of Dragon Press, publisher & bookseller; publishes The New York Review of Science Fiction.
Teddy Harvia: Teddy Harvia is an anagram of David Thayer. Teddy is a cartoonist who has contributed to hundreds of amateur publications since 1977 and received much appreciated recogniton over the years for such characters as the WingNuts[TM], the Goddess Opuntia, and Chat. David was cochair of the Cancun WorldCon bid and is currently attempting to translate the skills he has gained as a technical writer and editor into a career as a science fiction novelist. Both are married to Diana Thayer, also an aspiring writer.
James Hay: James Hay lives in San Diego, enjoys creating and wearing hall costumes, and has a keen interest in sf trivia.
John G. Hemry: John G. Hemry is a retired US Navy officer and the author of the JAG in space series, the latest of under the name Jack Campbell (The Lost Fleet). He had a story in the latest Chicks in Chainmail anthology and also has essays in BenBella books on Charmed, Star Wars, Superman, and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. John's also a SFWA musketeer. He lives in Maryland with his wife (the incomparable S) and three kids.
Howard V. Hendrix
Brian P. Herbert
Richard Herd: Artist, poet, and actor in many genre shows and movies, including Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Planes Trains & Automobiles, SeaQuest DSV, Seinfeld, Star Trek, and T.J. Hooker.
John Hertz: Hugo nominee for Best Fanwriter. Infected fandom with English Regency ballroom dancing. At cons, moderator of panels, leader of Art Show tours, judge or M.C. of Masquerades; host of Fanzine Lounge at 2004 Worldcon. Big Heart Award, 2003. Fan Guest of Honor, Con-Version (Calgary, '06), Westercon (Phoenix, '04), Lunacon (New York, '01), Incon (Spokane, '00). Anthologies, Dancing and Joking ('05), West of the Moon ('02). Fanzine, Vanamonde. Favorite non-SF writers, Chuang Tzu, Maimonides, Nabokov, Sayers. Drink, Talisker.
J.G. Hertzler: Actor who played General Martok, a frequently recurring Klingon in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as well as roles in ST: Voyager and Enterprise and several of the Star Trek games.
Rusty Hevelin
P C. Hodgell: P.C. Hodgell is the author of three fantasy novels, God Stalk, Dark of the Moon, and Seeker's Mask, with a fourth up-coming. She also knits, does stained glass, chases cats, and falls off horses.
Eric L. Hoffman: Born in 1944 in Brooklyn, New York (there is no truth to the rumor that Martians gave up invading as a bad idea due to that), Eric Hoffman became a movie buff thanks to the early days of Television. He's also a Doctor Who fan. Eric has written articles for various magazines. He also collects movies. He enjoys movies, reading, music (sometimes playing the piano when he can get at one), Doctor Who, singing and meeting people. His other interests fit into the category of "some things that man was not meant to know!"
James P. Hogan: James P. Hogan was born in London in 1941. After studying general electrical and mechanical engineering, he graduated as an electronics engineer specializing in digital systems. Later he became a sales executive in the electronics and computer industries with such companies as ITT, Honeywell, and Digital Equipment Corporation, and eventually a Sales Training Consultant with DEC's scientific computing group at Marlborough, Massachusetts. He produced his first novel as the result of an office bet in the mid 70s and continued writing subsequently as a hobby, his works being well received within the professional scientific community as well as among regular science-fiction readers. In 1979 he left DEC to become a full-time writer, moving to Florida and later, California. He now lives in the Republic of Ireland. To date he has written around 30 novels and other full-length works, including three mixed collections of short fiction and nonfiction, and two nonfiction books, one on Artificial Intelligence, the other on scientific heresies.
Nancy Holder: USA-Today Bestselling author Nancy Holder has written approximately 80 novels and 200 short stories, essays and articles. She has received four Bram Stoker Awards, and she has written tie-ins for Buffy, Angel, Smallville, Highlander, Sabrina, and other 'verses. Her first Silhouette Bombshell in The Gifted Trilogy, Daughter Of The Flames, is out now. Daughter is a fantasy trilogy about conflicts among The Gifted -- people with magical powers. With Nancy Kilpatrick, she co-edited the anthology Outsiders. She teaches creative writing at UC San Diego Extension.
Robert B Hole, Jr.: Bob is a life-long itinerant biologist, teacher, artist and speculative fiction fan. He's been developing websites since 1995, writing and publishing mostly non-fiction since 1976 (coincidentally the year he attended his first SF convention) and was brought up in a science fiction loving household. He was very upset when Star Trek moved to Friday nights because it was after his bedtime. Currently he divides his time between writing, artwork, and exhibit consulting and a few hundred other things.
John-Henri Holmberg: Long-time Swedish fan. GoH at Norwegian national convention Intercon in 2005.
Gillian Horvath: Gillian Horvath was on staff at Highlander: The Series for four seasons. She is the creator of Highlander: An Evening at Joe's, an anthology of short fiction written by cast and crew, and the keeper of the "Lost Footage" on the series DVD's. Gillian's other TV credits range from Baywatch and Beverly Hills 90210 to Quantum Leap, Queen of Swords, and Xena: Warrior Princess. She was the writer of 6 episodes of the vampire cop series, Forever Knight, and two episodes for the final season of Andromeda. Most recently, Gillian has been working on PAX's Musketeer series, Young Blades, and on the supernatural soap opera Dante's Cove for here! TV.
Leslie Howle
Elizabeth Anne Hull: Elizabeth Anne Hull is a past president of the Science Fiction Research Association and has taught creative writing and sf at the college level for over 30 years. She ran for Congress on the Democratic ticket in 1996 and has lectured and led writing workshops around the world, as well as published numerous scholarly articles and several short stories and, with her husband Frederik Pohl, co-edited Tales from the Planet Earth.
Bill Hunt
Walter H. Hunt: Walter H. Hunt is the author of four science-fiction novels published by Tor Books, most recently The Dark Crusade. He is an avid student of history, a devoted baseball fan, an active Freemason and a happy husband and father. Walter H. Hunt spent eighteen years in hi-tech before becoming a full time professional writer in 2001.
Sara Hyman
Hiroaki Inoue
Sam Irvin
Aleta Jackson: Aleta Jackson is one of the founders of XCOR Aerospace, located in Mojave, CA. XCOR designs, builds, tests and flys rockets and rocket powered vehicles. She has over 30 years experience in research and development, starting with the Gemini program. XCOR built the recently retired EZ-Rocket, and is building X-Racers for the Rocket Racing League. Her goal is to build safe, reusable, reliable, maintainable rocket engines that will take people and cargo to space. She has over ten years experience as a professional editor and writer, and has been published in the Washington Post, Analog, and other magazines.
Charles Lee Jackson II: Artist, author, film historian, and now teacher, publisher of Extra Added Attractions, Amazing Adventures, and CLiffhanger magazines, Charles Lee Jackson, II, otherwise known as "The Emperor", has been a member of LASFS since 1967, is currently a superannuated college student, and teaches the class, "Ephemeral Cinema".
Steve Jackson: Steve Jackson is a longtime SF fan. He writes filk (adequately) and sings (very badly). His other hobbies include gardening, dinosaurs, Lego and tropical fish. In his copious free time, he reads, eats and sleeps. Since starting Steve Jackson Games in 1980, he has created a number of hits, starting with Car Wars -- followed shortly by Illuminati, and later by GURPS, the "Generic Universal Roleplaying System." His latest big hit is Munchkin, a very silly card game about killing monsters and taking their stuff. His current projects include the quest to get his games translated into digital form.
MaryAnn Johanson: "One of online's finest" film critics (Variety), MaryAnn Johanson is a New York City-based freelance writer who loves movies but hates what Hollywood sometimes does to them. Her FlickFilosopher.com is one of the most popular movie sites on the Internet; at GeekPhilosophy.com, she explores the rise of geek attitudes in popular culture. Johanson is the only major film critic who is a member of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (the Webby organization), an invitation-only, 500-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities. She is also an award-winning screenwriter.
Meredith Kadlec
Bob Kanefsky: Bob Kanefsky writes filk parody songs.
Takayuki Karahashi
Jordin T. Kare: Jordin Kare is an ex-astrophysicist and freelance Rocket Scientist -- really; he designs satellite systems as an independent consultant to aerospace companies large and small, and has published two different concepts for interstellar propulsion systems. He's also a long-time fan, a congoer since 1975, and a well-known, though semiretired, filker. He lives in Seattle with his wife Mary Kay, two cats, and lots of obsolete electronics.
Mary Kay Kare: L.A.con IV marks Mary Kay's 30th anniversary in fandom. She's been involved in many aspects of that wonderful wacky world and mostly enjoyed it all. She has recently re-discovered the delights of actually attending programming.
Keith G. Kato: Keith G. Kato has been attending Worldcons since 1972, and is known in fandom for the "Keith Kato Chili Party." He is a charter member of The Heinlein Society, and is also on the concom of the 2007 Heinlein Centennial. In the mundane world, he holds a Ph.D. in plasma physics (SF author Gregory Benford was his dissertation advisor), and performs R&D on high power microwaves at Raytheon Company. He is also a martial artist of 42 years standing, and was Head Instructor of the Orange County Karate Club.
Jerry Kaufman: Jerry Kaufman has been an active fan since 1966. He has published fanzines, run conventions, served as the Down Under Fan Fund delegate and administrator, auctioneered, judged literary awards, and run a semi-successful small press specializing in science fiction criticism. He recently served on the Board of Directors for the Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle, Washington and, with Suzanne Tompkins, publishes Littlebrook, a fanzine.
David Keck: David Keck is a New York based writer and teacher from Winnipeg, Canada. He has managed to collect degrees in English Literature/History, Education, and Creative Writing. He likes nothing better than clambering around castles, cathedrals, and bits of Neolithic stonework. His first novel, In the Eye of Heaven, was published by Tor this year.
James Patrick Kelly: James Patrick Kelly has written novels, short stories, essays, reviews, poetry, plays and planetarium shows. His fiction has been translated into twenty-one languages. He has won the World Science Fiction Society's Hugo Award twice: in 1996 and again in 2000. He writes a column on the internet for Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. In 2004 he was appointed by the Governor of New Hampshire to be the Chair of the State Council on the Arts.
Kay Kenyon: Kay Kenyon's science fiction novels include The Seeds of Time, Maximum Ice and The Braided World. The latter two were short-listed for the Philip K. Dick and John W. Campbell award, respectively. She has recently completed Bright of the Sky, the first in a science fiction series. You'll find some of her short stories in ReVisions; I, Alien; Live Without a Net; and Stars: Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian. Also, watch for the Worldcon signing of the Space Cadets anthology, in which Kay is a contributor.
John Kessel: John Kessel directs the creative writing program at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. A winner of the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the Locus Poll, and the Tiptree Award, his books include Good News From Outer Space, Corrupting Dr. Nice, and The Pure Product. With James Patrick Kelly, he recently co-edited Feeling Very Stranve: The Slipstream Anthology. Sci-Fi Weekly has called him "quite possibly the best short story writer working in science fiction today."
Thomas Kidd: Tom Kidd has worked for a number of publishers: Baen Books, Random House, DAW Books, Warner Books, Doubleday, Ballantine Books, Marvel Comics and Tor Books. He has illustrated two books: The Three Musketeers (1998 - William Morrow) and The War of the Worlds (2001 - Harper Collins), and there are two books of his art: The Tom Kidd Sketchbook (1990 - Tundra) and Kiddography: The Art & Life of Tom Kidd (2005 - Paper Tiger). A gallery featuring this book just appeared in the April '06 issue of Realms of Fantasy. His art has won him a World Fantasy Award (Best Artist 2004) and six Chesley Awards. Kidd has also done design work for film, theme parks, entertainment products, and all types of conceptual design work for such clients as Walt Disney, Rhythm & Hues, and Universal Studios. His work has been displayed in a wide array of venues, including The Delaware Art Museum, The Society of Illustrators and the Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame. His favorite and most time-consuming obsession is a unpublished book called Gnemo: Airships, Adventure, Exploration. This is the sort of stuff that makes him happy.
James P. Killus: James Killus is a scientist (atmospheric) and writer (fiction, non-fiction, and technical). He lives in Pinole, CA with his wife Amy.
Rosemary Kimble: New Orleans designer of fantasy costume accessories, including masquerade masks, body art, and fairy, dragonly and butterfly wings. Proprietor of EnRapturing ReVisions Costumes.
Sharon King: Sharon D. King, scholar, translator, writer, and actress, holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and is an Associate at the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Recent publications include a scholarly book, City Tragedy on the Renaissance Stage in France, Spain, and England (Mellen Press, 2003), an academic article, "Early Modern Theatre for a Postmodern Audience" (in Drama Translation and Theatre Practice, Peter Lang, 2005), and a science fiction story, "Quiescent" (FEMSPEC, Spring 2006). She has numerous translations to her credit, including J. Prevost's 1584 Clever and Pleasant Inventions, Part One, the first book on sleight-of-hand magic in French (Hermetic Press, 1998), and The Phantom Church and Other Stories from Romania, an anthology of 20th-century fiction (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996). She has translated and performed early modern comedies with her own acting troupe, Les Enfans Sans Abri, for the past 18 years. Her original play Pale Pink Punch won performance in the Los Angeles-based Can Play Festival (September-November, 2005). Dr. King also serves as researcher for the Getty Research Institute. She is working on her second short film, Plant Life.
Tim Kirk
Ellen Klages: Ellen Klages divides her time between Cleveland, Ohio, and anywhere else. She has written four books of hands-on science activities for children (with Pat Murphy et al.) for the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco. She also serves on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and is somewhat notorious as the auctioneer/entertainment for the Tiptree