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Robert J. SawyerRobert J. SawyerRobert J. SawyerRobert J. SawyerRobert J. SawyerAuthor GuestAuthor GuestAuthor GuestAuthor GuestAuthor Guest

Theresa MatherTheresa MatherTheresa MatherTheresa MatherTheresa MatherArtist GuestArtist GuestArtist GuestArtist GuestArtist Guest

Capt. David West ReynoldsCapt. David West ReynoldsCapt. David West ReynoldsCapt. David West ReynoldsCapt. David West ReynoldsFan GuestFan GuestFan GuestFan GuestFan Guest

Dr. James RobinsonDr. James RobinsonDr. James RobinsonDr. James RobinsonDr. James RobinsonMusic GuestMusic GuestMusic GuestMusic GuestMusic Guest

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Anime .................................. Pg 68Art Show .............................. Pg 66Awards

Evans-Freehafer ................ Pg 56Forry ................................. Pg 57Rotsler .............................. Pg 58

Autographs .......................... Pg 73Bios

Author Guest of Honor .........Pg 8-11Artist Guest of Honor ........ Pg 12-13Music Guest of Honor ........ Pg 16-17Fan Guest of Honor ................. Pg 14Program Guests ........... Pg 30-37

Blood Drive ........................... Pg 53Chair’s Message.................. Pg 4-5Children’s Programming ........ Pg 68Committee & Staff ............. Pg 6-7Computer Lounge ................ Pg 62Con Suite ............................. Pg 62Daily Zine ............................. Pg 72Dealers’ Room ...................... Pg 61Exhibits ................................ Pg 69Fan Tables ............................ Pg 72Fanzine Lounge .................... Pg 40Filking ............................. Pg 64-65Gaming ................................. Pg 69Guide:

Advertisers ....................... Pg 80Program Book Art ............. Pg 80Convention Map .......... Pg 40-41

Hall Costume Awards ........... Pg 60History

LASFS ......................... Pg 50-55Loscon ........................ Pg 48-49

Ice Cream Social ................... Pg 58Information .......................... Pg 61

Table of ContentsTable of ContentsTable of ContentsTable of ContentsTable of Contents

Kids’ Night Out ..................... Pg 63Listening Lounge .................. Pg 71Masquerade .......................... Pg 59Members List ................. Pg 75-79Office / Lost & Found .......... Pg 71Photography/Videotape Policies .... Pg 70Programming Panels ....... Pg 38-47Regency Dancing .................. Pg 62Registration .......................... Pg 71Room Parties ........................ Pg 63Security

Rules & Regulations ..... Pg 70,73No Smoking Policy ............. Pg 73Weapons Policy ........... Pg 70,73

Special Needs ....................... Pg 60Special Stories

Peking Man .................. Pg 18-22Dr. Arizona and the:Planet of the Mummies ... Pg 24-25Quasi-Mayan Menace ... Pg 26-27Fossils of Mars ............. Pg 28-29

Teen Programming ............... Pg 66Toy Drive ............................. Pg 47Volunteers ........................... Pg 73

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A Message FromA Message FromA Message FromA Message FromA Message FromThe Expedition LeaderThe Expedition LeaderThe Expedition LeaderThe Expedition LeaderThe Expedition Leader

Excavation Report for Loscon 34: The Dig

Several years ago when I came up withthe idea of an Archaeology Theme for aLoscon convention, it was simply a pipedream and it still stuns me that it hasbecome a reality. I thank all the LASFSmembers who voted me the opportunityto share this dream with them and to allmy wonderful dedicated committeemembers who have helped me make itcome true. As always with any conven-tion chair looking back, I know that I couldhave done better in many areas but wasalso taught many things, including totrust in the people I selected. Throughall the trials and tribulations that affectedme physically, technically and financiallyover the past year, this outstanding com-mittee has picked up the slack whenneeded and showed their tremendousability to perform their volunteer jobseven in the face of their own difficulties.I especially thank my vice-chair Sherri Be-noun, my secretary Marcia Minsky, andArlene Satin for keeping me up to datewhen I had communication problems andproviding much moral support. Mean-while, I thank both Tadao Tomomatsuand Christian McGuire for sharing with metheir knowledge as well as their confi-dence that I could do this job. Above allI would like to thank my late friendMichael Mason and dedicate this exca-vation to his memory since most of myideas developed in long, often late-night,conversations with him.

Archaeology is a scientific field that hasbeen frequently overlooked or ill-used inscience fiction. Most often archaeologycan only be found as a launching pointor other plot item, usually in the form ofa discovery of a wonderful old object.Sometimes these stories decide to fol-low the “Indiana Jones” model and havethe main character as an archaeologistthat seems to spend all his/her time try-

that such characters can be found his-torically, but using them in a futuristiccontext just seems anachronistic to me.Unfortunately, most of these treat-ments do seem to see archaeologists,along with their methods and ethics, asbeing as trapped in the ancient past asits field of study is. Paleontology hasbeen a bit better treated by science fic-tion as a field of scientific study with afuture, even if a potentially disastrousone ala “Jurassic Park”. Still, unfortu-nately, most of the paleontology relatedstories have centered around not pale-ontology as a field but around the dis-covery of a live dinosaur (think “won-derful old object”). In fact, paleonto-logical science fiction has its own banein that most stories seem to be stuckin the Cretaceous. By holding a sciencefiction convention with a theme specifi-cally looking at the future of these twofields of study, I hope that I might in-spire some leaders in the field of sci-ence fiction to improve the treatmentof archaeology and paleontology in theirwork.

The Guests of Honor for Loscon 34 werespecially selected with this theme inmind. Robert J. Sawyer has exploredboth paleontology and archaeologythemes in his writing. His Quintaglioseries has shown dinosaurs as theymight have evolved if their extinctionwas avoided. One of these dinosaurs iseven shown performing standard pale-ontological/archaeological methods and

ing to find some particular treasure andfighting evil figures to do so. It is true

further explores the gray area whichmerges these two sciences (which are

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simply currently separated by the ab-sence/presence of intelligence). It stillstrikes me as fate that the logo forLoscon 34, which was developed longbefore I selected him as GOH, mirrors apicture that he already had on his web-site. My Artist Guest of Honor TheresaMather has explored a wide range of ar-tistic expression by painting on a vari-ety of materials. These works are whatshe has become well-known for withinthe science fiction convention circuit.Dragons are a common theme in her art-work and, to stretch the connection abit, dinosaur bones are considered tobe the basis of the development ofdragon mythology. Theresa also hasexplored the history of a particular modeof artistic expression by restoring car-ousels and doing the necessary histori-cal research involved. Since this workinvolves an aspect of material culture,it can be in fact categorized within thefields of historical archaeology, museumstudies, and even experimental archae-ology. I must admit that my choice ofher for Artist Guest of Honor was alsohighly influenced by our collaborativework. My Fan Guest of Honor could beconsidered to not be a “traditional”choice. David West Reynolds is an ar-chaeologist like me, but it was specifi-cally his research related to Star Warsas reported in the “Star Wars Insider”that first brought him to my attentionmany years ago. I vowed then that if Iever ran a convention he would be oneof my guests. Someone who would goto the lengths to travel to Tunisia tofind the filming locations for the origi-nal Star Wars trilogy is definitely a trueblue fan. His story since then is one ofa fan that has “made it” and now canbe considered a definite professional inhis field. It is his contribution to StarWars and Indiana Jones fandom throughhis writing and work that I am honoringby making him Fan Guest of Honor. Hehas brought to the rest of us the manyfacts and information that real fans ap-preciate, and the skills he brought tothe task he acquired due to his archaeo-

interpretation but hey ... I’m the chair ;).Dr. James Robinson came to my atten-tion many years ago as “Dr. Jane”. Ev-ery time I was introduced as an archae-ologist at a convention, it was inevitablethat the person would then respond with“Do you know Dr. Jane?”. The gift ofseveral CD’s made me determined tohave him present as a Music Guest ofHonor. The aspect of those CD’s thatimpressed me was the song writing skillinvolved in capturing the spirit of pale-ontology into song. Even if he did notcontinue as a paleontologist, I still wantedto honor that song writing ability as wellas to honor him for the contributions hehas made to the filk community at large.I hope you all get to benefit from myselections and get a feeling for the wideexpanse of expressions of our theme.

Loscon began primarily as a literary sci-ence fiction convention but has over theyears expanded to being a general sci-ence fiction convention exploring all av-enues of expression. This developmenthas mirrored the expansion of the fieldof science fiction itself. Our communitycan now be viewed as a sub-culture withits own individual sub-cultures. In thisrespect, I have always viewed a generalscience fiction convention like Loscon asan opportunity for all these sub-culturesto get together and celebrate our largercommunity. It is a time to share our in-dividual interests and enthusiasms withlike-minded people and help to inspire theacceptance of the unordinary that wecollectively ascribe to but do not alwayspractice. Here at Loscon I hope that youexplore outside your own sub-sub-cul-ture and make contact with and enjoythe wide range of opportunities availableto you here. If you leave Loscon withnothing else, I hope you leave with anunderstanding of the width of our sci-ence fiction culture and that you haveexcavated a wider amount of it than youhave ever before (even if you still didn’tquite get it).

Keep Digging,logical training. This might not be themore traditional “Fan Guest of Honor”

Dr. Susan “Arizona” Gleason, Chair

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LosCon 34 CommitteeLosCon 34 CommitteeLosCon 34 CommitteeLosCon 34 CommitteeLosCon 34 CommitteeChair Dr. Susan “Arizona” GleasonAnime Brett Achorn Staff Brad AchornArchivist Tadao Tomomatsu Staff Melina LevesqueArt Show Elizabeth Klein-Lebbink

Jerome Scott Staff Mary Jane Jewell

Charles MathenyJanet Baernstein

Sheri TaylorMarilyn “Fuzzy” Niven

Autographs Regina ReynanteBelly Jam Kristine CherryBlood Drive Dennis Cherry

Kristine CherryChildren’s Programming Alison Stern Staff Lucy Stern

JesterEvil Red

Con Suite Janet “Lt. J.G. Smoothie” Pedersen Staff Elonda Castro

Barbara NewtonThomas Bustos

Jonathan BustosCassandra Bustos

Costume Station Maria RodriguezDealers’ Room Kris Bauer Second Greg “Grunt” Bilan Third Warren “Peace” JohnsonDecorations Casey Bernay Staff Ruth JudkowitzDig Box Mike Stern

Lucy SternDig Mom Colleen SavitzkyEvents Coordinator Katt ThorntonFan Tables Greg “Grunt” BilanFilking Lee Gold Staff Barry Gold

Barney EvansGreg Gross

Gaming Terry NewtonBarry Lew

Patrick HavertVictor Bugg

Barksdale HalesDarnell Coleman

Tom SaferGuest Liaison Janis Olson Staff Wendy Newton

Vicki ShapiroAmy Dienhart

Rob “Gizmo” PowellAllie BennettAllison Stern

Hall Costumes Anne Morrel Staff “Wild Bill” EllernHotel Christian “Shovel” McGuire

Ice Cream Social Stacey HeltonInformation Cathy MullicanInternet Lounge Jim Dennis

Heather SternKids’ Night Out Heide Nichols Staff Barbara NewtonListening Lounge Greg BarrettLogistics Bob Null Staff George Mulligan

Michael “Tiny” KorpMasquerade Jess “California” Miller Staff Malcolm “Midden Heap” ScottMembership Elayne PelzMinyan Committee “Rabbi” Marcia Minsky Staff “Gabai” Michael Pell

Joe Zeff“Hazzan” Joyce Sperling

Newszine Martin Young Reporter Robert “Bob” EvansNumbers Laura Korp

Michael “Tiny” Korp Staff Hieu LeOffice Joyce Sperling Staff Michael PellOperations Bert Boden Second Melissa Campbell Staff Gina Palmer

Dorothy TruslowJonnalyhn Wolfcat Hall

Molly BooneWendy Newton

Keith KisselMartin Young

Michael SchultzSaul DudleyEvan James

Gary KephartErnie Aldama

Nick StricklandBrianna Johnson

Party Maven Selina Phanara Staff - Patrol/Ice Haulers Tom Udo

Danny FrashierPhotographer Stan BurnsPress Relations Arlene SatinProgramming Milt Stevens Staff Arlene Satin

Richard FossMarty Massoglia

Programming Ops Rainy SmythEd Hooper

Staff Heide NicholsSteve SmythScott Nichols

Richard NguyenProgress Reports Arlene SatinProgram Book Tony “Tomb Breaker” Benoun Proofreader Sherri Benoun Copy Editors Anne Morrel

“Wild Bill” Ellern Seconds Joyce “Indiana” Hooper

Kim Marks Brown Third Darnell Coleman

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Publicity Crew Eric “ Dr. Zorka” HoffmanDr. Susan “Arizona” Gleason

John DeChancieLiz MortensenMarcia Minsky

Arlene SatinLucy Stern

Regency Dance John HertzRegistration Elayne Pelz Second Tony “Tomb Breaker” Benoun Staff Marcia Minsky

Linnea CaldeenKatherine Seddon

Dave KellerDeanna Bayless

Lynn BadenKaren Connell

Restaurant Guide Joan StewardRiddle Master Ed GreenRock Dances Michael “Lynx” Molisani

Shawn Crosby

Secretary Marcia “Raider” MinskySpecial Needs Joe “Sethos” Zeff Staff Don WennerStaff Lounge Rebecca Rowan Staff Bruce RowanTech Charlie Hoff

Scott BecksteadTeen Lounge Pearl Newton Staff Amelia Horswill

Eris YoungSundance BeKinnie

Eugene HouranySpike Dodds

Toy Drive George MulliganTreasurer “Wild Bill” Ellern Staff Anne MorrelVirtual Masquerade Michael ThorsenVolunteers Kathryn “Chaos” Savitzky Second Peggy NewvineWebmaster Dr. Susan “Arizona” Gleason

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ROBERT J. SAWYERROBERT J. SAWYERROBERT J. SAWYERROBERT J. SAWYERROBERT J. SAWYER

Robert J. SawyerRobert J. SawyerRobert J. SawyerRobert J. SawyerRobert J. Sawyer is one of only sevenwriters ever to win all three of thescience-fiction field’s top awards forbest novel of the year: the HugoHugoHugoHugoHugoAwardAwardAwardAwardAward (which he won in 2003 forHominidsHominidsHominidsHominidsHominids), the Science Fiction andFantasy Writers of America’s NebulaNebulaNebulaNebulaNebulaAwardAwardAwardAwardAward (which he won in 1996 for for for for for TheTheTheTheTheTerminal ExperimentTerminal ExperimentTerminal ExperimentTerminal ExperimentTerminal Experiment), and the JohnW. Campbell Memorial Award (whichhe won in 2006 for MindscanMindscanMindscanMindscanMindscan).

Rob is the only writer in history towin the top science-fiction awards inthe United States, China, France, Ja-pan, and Spain, and he has won arecord-setting nine Canadian ScienceFiction and Fantasy Awards (“Auro-ras”). His 17 novels include two popu-lar trilogies: the “Neanderthal Paral-lax” (HominidsHominidsHominidsHominidsHominids, HumansHumansHumansHumansHumans, and Hy-Hy-Hy-Hy-Hy-bridsbridsbridsbridsbrids), about a gateway that opensto an alternate Earth where Neander-thals survived to the present day, andthe “Quintaglio Ascension” (Far-SeerFar-SeerFar-SeerFar-SeerFar-Seer,Fossil HunterFossil HunterFossil HunterFossil HunterFossil Hunter, and ForeignerForeignerForeignerForeignerForeigner), abouta world of intelligent dinosaurs.

In addition to his Hugo win for Homi-Homi-Homi-Homi-Homi-nidsnidsnidsnidsnids, he has nine other Hugo nomina-tions under his best for such novelsas StarplexStarplexStarplexStarplexStarplex, FrameshiftFrameshiftFrameshiftFrameshiftFrameshift, Factoring Hu-Factoring Hu-Factoring Hu-Factoring Hu-Factoring Hu-manitymanitymanitymanitymanity, and Calculating GodCalculating GodCalculating GodCalculating GodCalculating God.

His other awards and honors includean honorary doctorate fromLaurentian University; the $2,500Toronto Public Library CelebratesReading Award; the Ryerson Univer-

of Recognition, the Sixteenth AnnualCollectors Award for “Most Collect-able Author of the Year” presentedby Barry R. Levin Science Fiction &Fantasy Literature of Santa Monica,AnalogAnalogAnalogAnalogAnalog magazine’s “Analytical Labo-ratory Award” for best short storyof the year (for “Shed Skin”), theCrime Writers of Canada’s Arthur EllisAward for best short story of theyear (for “Just Like Old Times”), andthe Science Fiction ChronicleScience Fiction ChronicleScience Fiction ChronicleScience Fiction ChronicleScience Fiction Chronicle ReaderAward for best short story of theyear (for “The Hand You’re Dealt”).

His latest novel is RollbackRollbackRollbackRollbackRollback (whichreceived starred reviews, denotinga book of exceptional merit, in bothPublishers WeeklyPublishers WeeklyPublishers WeeklyPublishers WeeklyPublishers Weekly and Library Jour-Library Jour-Library Jour-Library Jour-Library Jour-nalnalnalnalnal); his next, WakeWakeWakeWakeWake, begins his new“WWW” trilogy about the WorldWide Web gaining consciousness.

Called “the leader of SF’s next-gen-eration pack” by Barnes and Noble,“the best science-fiction writer outthere” by the Rocky Mountain NewsRocky Mountain NewsRocky Mountain NewsRocky Mountain NewsRocky Mountain News,and “a writer of boundless confi-dence and bold scientific extrapola-tion” by The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times, Rob’snovels are top-ten national main-stream bestsellers in Canada andhave hit #1 on the bestsellers’ listpublished by LocusLocusLocusLocusLocus, the US tradejournal of the science-fiction field.

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sity Alumni Award of Distinction,the City of Mississauga Civic Award

Rob is a judge for the Writers ofthe Future contest, and is one of

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three jurors for the Cordwainer SmithRediscovery Award, given annuallyat Readercon. He’s also The Cana-The Cana-The Cana-The Cana-The Cana-dian Encyclopediadian Encyclopediadian Encyclopediadian Encyclopediadian Encyclopedia’s authority on sci-ence fiction; has taught writing atthe University of Toronto, RyersonUniversity, and the Banff Centre; andedits the Robert J. Sawyer Books im-print for Canadian publisher Fitzhenry& Whiteside.

Rob was the only writer invited tosit on the Canadian Federal Depart-ment of Justice’s advisory panel forgenetics laws. His consulting clientshave included Kodak, Motorola, andCA (Computer Associates). He hasmade over 200 TV appearances (in-cluding Rivera LiveRivera LiveRivera LiveRivera LiveRivera Live with GeraldoRivera and Canada A.M.Canada A.M.Canada A.M.Canada A.M.Canada A.M.) and doneover 200 radio interviews (includingNPR’s Talk of the Nation Talk of the Nation Talk of the Nation Talk of the Nation Talk of the Nation “Science“Science“Science“Science“ScienceFriday”Friday”Friday”Friday”Friday” and CBC’s Sounds LikeSounds LikeSounds LikeSounds LikeSounds Like

CanadaCanadaCanadaCanadaCanada). He is a frequent commen-tator on science stories for CBCNewsworld (Canada’s national cable-news channel), and has long been theon-air futurist for Discovery ChannelCanada. His nonfiction has appearedin Archaeology, Sky & TelescopeArchaeology, Sky & TelescopeArchaeology, Sky & TelescopeArchaeology, Sky & TelescopeArchaeology, Sky & Telescope, andThe New York Review of Science Fic-The New York Review of Science Fic-The New York Review of Science Fic-The New York Review of Science Fic-The New York Review of Science Fic-tiontiontiontiontion, and his commissioned op-edpieces have appeared in The OttawaThe OttawaThe OttawaThe OttawaThe OttawaCitizenCitizenCitizenCitizenCitizen, The Globe and Mail: Canada’sThe Globe and Mail: Canada’sThe Globe and Mail: Canada’sThe Globe and Mail: Canada’sThe Globe and Mail: Canada’sNational NewpaperNational NewpaperNational NewpaperNational NewpaperNational Newpaper, and Maclean’s:Maclean’s:Maclean’s:Maclean’s:Maclean’s:Canada’s Weekly NewsmagazineCanada’s Weekly NewsmagazineCanada’s Weekly NewsmagazineCanada’s Weekly NewsmagazineCanada’s Weekly Newsmagazine.

In other media, Rob wrote the origi-nal series bible for the science-fictionTV series Charlie JadeCharlie JadeCharlie JadeCharlie JadeCharlie Jade and did con-ceptual work on the revival ofRobotechRobotechRobotechRobotechRobotech. He lives just outsideToronto with his wife, Carolyn Clink.For more information, see his web-site at sfwriter.comsfwriter.comsfwriter.comsfwriter.comsfwriter.com.

NovelsNovelsNovelsNovelsNovels

The WWW Trilogy:The WWW Trilogy:The WWW Trilogy:The WWW Trilogy:The WWW Trilogy:_ WakeWakeWakeWakeWake, Penguin Canada and Ace Science

Fiction (Penguin USA), forthcoming in2008.

_ WatchWatchWatchWatchWatch, Penguin Canada and Ace, forth-coming in 2009.

_ WonderWonderWonderWonderWonder, Penguin Canada and Ace, forth-coming in 2010.

The Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy:The Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy:The Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy:The Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy:The Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy:_ HominidsHominidsHominidsHominidsHominids, Tor Books (the world’s larg-

est science-fiction publisher), New York,May 2002.

_ HumansHumansHumansHumansHumans, Tor Books, February 2003._ HybridsHybridsHybridsHybridsHybrids, Tor Books, September 2003.

The Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy:The Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy:The Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy:The Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy:The Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy:_ Far-SeerFar-SeerFar-SeerFar-SeerFar-Seer, Ace, New York, June 1992 (re-

issued by Tor, May 2004)._ Fossil HunterFossil HunterFossil HunterFossil HunterFossil Hunter, Ace, May 1993 (reissued

by Tor, January 2005)._ ForeignerForeignerForeignerForeignerForeigner, Ace, March 1994 (reissued

by Tor, August 2005).

Stand-Alone Novels:Stand-Alone Novels:Stand-Alone Novels:Stand-Alone Novels:Stand-Alone Novels:

_ Golden FleeceGolden FleeceGolden FleeceGolden FleeceGolden Fleece, Warner, New York, De-cember 1990 (reissued by Tor, Novem-ber 1999).

_ The Terminal ExperimentThe Terminal ExperimentThe Terminal ExperimentThe Terminal ExperimentThe Terminal Experiment, HarperPrism(now Avon Eos), New York, May 1995.

_ StarplexStarplexStarplexStarplexStarplex, Ace Books, October 1996._ FrameshiftFrameshiftFrameshiftFrameshiftFrameshift, Tor Books, June 1997._ Illegal AlienIllegal AlienIllegal AlienIllegal AlienIllegal Alien, Ace Books, December 1997._ Factoring HumanityFactoring HumanityFactoring HumanityFactoring HumanityFactoring Humanity, Tor Books, June

1998._ FlashforwardFlashforwardFlashforwardFlashforwardFlashforward, Tor Books, June 1999._ Calculating GodCalculating GodCalculating GodCalculating GodCalculating God, Tor Books, June 2000._ MindscanMindscanMindscanMindscanMindscan, Tor Books, April 2005._ RollbackRollbackRollbackRollbackRollback, Tor Books, April 2007.

CollectionsCollectionsCollectionsCollectionsCollections

_ Identity TheftIdentity TheftIdentity TheftIdentity TheftIdentity Theft, a hardcover collection of14 short stories, one novelette, and onenovella, Red Deer Press, Calgary (intro-duction by Robert Charles Wilson), Feb-ruary 2008.

_ RelativityRelativityRelativityRelativityRelativity, a hardcover collection of eightstories, four speeches, eleven articles,and twelve essays on the craft of writ-ing, ISFiC Press, Chicago, November2004 (introduction by Mike Resnick).

_ IterationsIterationsIterationsIterationsIterations, a hardcover collection of 22short stories, Quarry Press, Kingston,Ontario, January 2002 (trade paperbackreprint, Red Deer Press, March 2004;second edition, Red Deer Press, Decem-ber 2007) (introduction by James AlanGardner).

_ End of an EraEnd of an EraEnd of an EraEnd of an EraEnd of an Era, Ace, November 1994(reissued by Tor, September 2001).

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Short StoriesShort StoriesShort StoriesShort StoriesShort Stories

_ “The Abdication of Pope Mary IIIThe Abdication of Pope Mary IIIThe Abdication of Pope Mary IIIThe Abdication of Pope Mary IIIThe Abdication of Pope Mary III,” Na-ture: International Weekly Journal of Sci-ence, July 6, 2000. [included in Itera-tions] [available from Fictionwise.com]

_ “Above It AllAbove It AllAbove It AllAbove It AllAbove It All,” Dante’s Disciples, editedby Peter Crowther and Edward E. Kramer,White Wolf, Atlanta, February 1996. [in-cluded in Iterations] [available fromFictionwise.com]

_ “Biding TimeBiding TimeBiding TimeBiding TimeBiding Time,” Slipstreams, edited byMartin H. Greenberg and John Helfers,DAW Books, New York, May 2006. [in-cluded in Identity Theft]

_ “Black ReflectionBlack ReflectionBlack ReflectionBlack ReflectionBlack Reflection,” In the Shadow of theWall: Vietnam Stories That Might HaveBeen, edited by Byron R. Tetrick,Cumberland House, 2002. Modified andincorporated into the novel Humans(2003) as Chapter 22.

_ “The Blue PlanetThe Blue PlanetThe Blue PlanetThe Blue PlanetThe Blue Planet” as “Mars Reacts!Mars Reacts!Mars Reacts!Mars Reacts!Mars Reacts!,” TheGlobe and Mail: Canada’s National News-paper, Saturday, December 11, 1999.[included in Iterations] [available fromFictionwise.com]

_ “Caught in the WebCaught in the WebCaught in the WebCaught in the WebCaught in the Web,” White Wall Review1982, edited by Denise Coney, JenniferHarwood, J. Craig Sandy, and Robert J.Sawyer, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute,Toronto, 1982.

_ “Come All Ye FaithfulCome All Ye FaithfulCome All Ye FaithfulCome All Ye FaithfulCome All Ye Faithful,” Space Inc., ed-ited by Julie E. Czerneda, DAW Books,New York, July 2003. [included in Iden-tity Theft] [avai lable fromFictionwise.com]

_ “The ContestThe ContestThe ContestThe ContestThe Contest,” White Wall Review 1980,edited by Lisa Coleman and Ed Green-wood, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute,Toronto, 1980; reprinted in 100 GreatFantasy Short Short Stories, edited byIsaac Asimov, Terry Carr, and MartinHarry Greenberg, Doubleday, New York,1984. [included in Iterations]

_ “Driving A BargainDriving A BargainDriving A BargainDriving A BargainDriving A Bargain,” Be VERY Afraid!:More Tales of Horror, edited by Edo vanBelkom, Tundra Books, Toronto, 2002.[included in Identity Theft] [availablefrom Fictionwise.com]

_ “The Eagle Has LandedThe Eagle Has LandedThe Eagle Has LandedThe Eagle Has LandedThe Eagle Has Landed,” I, Alien, editedby Mike Resnick, DAW Books, New York,April 2005. [included in Identity Theft]

_ “Fallen AngelFallen AngelFallen AngelFallen AngelFallen Angel,” Strange Attraction, ed-ited by Edward E. Kramer, ShadowLandsPress, Centreville, Virginia, June 2000.

_ “FlashesFlashesFlashesFlashesFlashes,” FutureShocks, edited by LouAnders, Roc Books, New York, January2006. [included in Identity Theft]

_ “ForeverForeverForeverForeverForever,” Return of the Dinosaurs, ed-ited by Mike Resnick and Martin H.Greenberg, DAW Books, New York, May1997. [included in Iterations] [availablefrom Fictionwise.com]

_ “GatorGatorGatorGatorGator,” the lead story in Urban Night-mares, edited by Josepha Sherman andKeith R. A. DeCandido, Baen Books, NewYork, November 1997. [included in It-erations] [avai lable fromFictionwise.com]

_ “Golden FleeceGolden FleeceGolden FleeceGolden FleeceGolden Fleece,” Amazing Stories, ed-ited by Patrick Lucien Price, TSR Inc.,Lake Geneva, WI, September 1988.

_ “The Good DoctorThe Good DoctorThe Good DoctorThe Good DoctorThe Good Doctor,” Amazing Stories,edited by Patrick Lucien Price, TSR Inc.,Lake Geneva, WI, January 1989. [in-cluded in Identity Theft]

_ “The Hand You’re DealtThe Hand You’re DealtThe Hand You’re DealtThe Hand You’re DealtThe Hand You’re Dealt,” Free Space,edited by Brad Linaweaver and EdwardE. Kramer, Tor Books, New York, July1997. [included in Iterations] [includedin Identity Theft] [available fromFictionwise.com]

_ “If I’m Here, Imagine Where They SentIf I’m Here, Imagine Where They SentIf I’m Here, Imagine Where They SentIf I’m Here, Imagine Where They SentIf I’m Here, Imagine Where They SentMy LuggageMy LuggageMy LuggageMy LuggageMy Luggage,” The Village Voice: TheWeekly Newspaper of New York, 14-20January 1981; reprinted by Story Cards,Washington DC, in 1987. [included inIterations]

_ “Identity TheftIdentity TheftIdentity TheftIdentity TheftIdentity Theft,” Down These DarkSpaceways, edited by Mike Resnick, Sci-ence Fiction Book Club, New York, April2005. [included in Identity Theft]

_ “ImmortalityImmortalityImmortalityImmortalityImmortality,” Janis Ian’s Stars, editedby Janis Ian and Mike Resnick, DAWBooks, New York, August 2003. [in-cluded in Identity Theft] [included inRelativity] [avai lable fromFictionwise.com]

_ “IneluctableIneluctableIneluctableIneluctableIneluctable,” the lead story in AnalogScience Fiction and Fact, November2002. [included in Identity Theft] [in-cluded in Relativity] [available fromFictionwise.com]

_ “IterationsIterationsIterationsIterationsIterations,” the lead story inTransVersions: An Anthology of NewFantastic Literature, edited by MarcelGagné and Sally Tomasevic, Paper Or-chid Press, November 2000. [includedin Iterations] [avai lable fromFictionwise.com][included in Iterations] [available from

Fictionwise.com]_ “Just Like Old TimesJust Like Old TimesJust Like Old TimesJust Like Old TimesJust Like Old Times,” On Spec: The

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Canadian Magazine of Speculative Writ-ing, Summer 1993; commissioned forand also published as the lead story inDinosaur Fantastic, edited by MikeResnick and Martin H. Greenberg, DAWBooks, New York, July 1993. [includedin Iterations] [included in Relativity][available from Fictionwise.com]

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Artist GuestArtist GuestArtist GuestArtist GuestArtist GuestOf HonorOf HonorOf HonorOf HonorOf Honor

Jewels of PerfectionThe Art and Artist, Theresa Mather

By Sue DaweMy first introduction to TheresaMather was through her artwork, orrather, through my husband Michael,who discovered her work first. It wasin the mid-nineties, and I was in theprocess of hanging my artwork at ascience-fiction convention, when myhusband fetched me to look at someartwork by an artist we had neverseen before. We stood before thepanels, staring with delight at a se-ries of small paintings featuring di-minutive bejeweled dragons, very in-tricate, and amazingly, painted onfeathers! My husband was enamored,and looking at the minimum bids,(frightfully low considering theamount of work painstakingly ren-dered onto each feather), was prettycertain he could buy one or two. Sohe bid on several, and then watchedas they all went to auction, wherethey were bid out of our price range.No matter, we thought, we will buysome at another convention.But the conventions came and went,and every time Theresa’s work wentto auction, and every time the bid-ding was fierce and we came homeempty handed. Finally, my chancearrived. I was at the World FantasyConvention in Monterey, andTheresa’s artwork was there. It wasa small convention, and art show bid-ders were few. As the final bid time

approached, the half-dozen or so ofus were circling around Theresa’swork like vultures, trying to looksubtle, but failing miserably. Unableto restrain myself, I finally asked,“Are we all here for the same pur-pose?” Universal nods. “OK, sowhich piece do you like most? Andyou? And you?” Between the hand-ful of us, we decided who would bidon what, and feeling horribly guiltyfor what I’d done to a fellow artist, Ifinally purchased two of Theresa’sworks, in beautiful shades of bur-gundy and malachite, a perfectmatch to the colors of our bedroomset. I called home and told my hus-band the good news. We finally hada pair of the coveted dragon art! Butmy guilt at the ‘planned bids’ wouldnot subside — I was pretty certainthat karma would someday kick mein the backside for what I’d done.As time went on, Theresa’s imagescontinued to evolve, each magnifi-cently paired to its substrate, be itfeathers, polished slivers of stone orother objects that only the artistcould envision as the perfect can-vas for her dramatic creations.Wolves, unicorns, tigers, pegasi, tallships; the range was incredible andever evolving. The years went by,and I always looked to see what wasnew, and wondered what the tal-ented artist behind the vision waslike. I was about to find out.My husband and I were at Westerconin Phoenix in 2004, held in Litchfieldat the historical Wigwam Resort.Theresa’s work was in the art show,and unbeknownst to me, Theresaand her husband Barry were also

there. Among Theresa’s work wasa captivating picture, intricately

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rendered on a more traditional sup-port — illustration board. It was ared and gold dragon, its scales spar-kling like individual jewels, sitting inits office surrounded by books andindustriously writing with quill andink. Several discarded drafts laycrumpled by its feet, and it was titled“Dragon Writer.” My husband, whoteaches writing at SDSU, decidedthat this was a “must have” and hepurchased it then and there.At the same convention, a bid wasplaced on one of my originals, andmy surprise was great when I real-ized the bidder was Theresa! Shewas at the convention, and at longlast we met. This was not the karmicexperience I was expecting, forTheresa was enthusiastic, fun lov-ing, warm and generous, and pos-sessed of a wacky sense of humor.We hit it off pretty quick, and whenshe found out that I passed throughher town on my way to Starfest inDenver every other year, she imme-diately invited me to stay with her.I took her up on her offer and notonly did she put me up for the night,I came with two friends, and Theresaand her husband handled the inva-sion with aplomb. We spent anevening trading stories and laughter,and raising a few eyebrows of thelocal residents as the five of ustrooped into a local steakhouse, withmyself and my friends wearing theonly coats we had — our Jedi cloaks.This was Utah after all, and a manentering a restaurant with fourwomen, three dressed somewhatalike in rather cultic-looking cloaksmight raise an eyebrow or two. Wewere given a nice table in front ofthe fireplace, but conspicuouslyapart from the other clientele, whichwas probably a good thing, becauseour table soon erupted in loud andenthusiastic conversation punctu-ated by even louder peels of laugh-ter. Afterward, we toured the localstatuary art on the SUU campus. Our

Centrum” (yes, like the vitamin). Wefollowed this with the perusal of avery impressive statue, titled “OldSorrel”, a bronze done on a massivescale and commemorating a drafthorse that hauled timbers from themountain down to the campus dur-ing a fearsome winter. In completecontrast, our tour of art was cappedby Theresa introducing me to Cana-dian comedy in the form of a televi-sion series called “Trailer Park Boys,”something I would have found farmore hysterical if I didn’t fear realpeople like these characters exist. Idid say that Theresa has a wackysense of humor, did I not?I am proud to call this exceptionallytalented and delightful artist myfriend, and look forward to our nextvisit. My husband has since acquiredother pieces of her art, but the twosmall dragons still hang in our bed-room, and I’m still waiting for karmato kick me in the rear. So buyTheresa’s art — lots of it! Not onlywill you take home a stunning jewelof exceptional beauty, but I might beable to right the karmic scales andstop waiting for the other shoe todrop.

About the author: Sue Dawe is bestknown for her fantasy airbrushed de-signs, which have appeared in maga-zines and on back-to school products,posters, calendars, greeting cards,games, Franklin Mint plates, and inthe wacky Canadian comedy series,

first destination was a veritableStonehenge of scholars called “The

“Trailer Park Boys”.

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Fan GuestFan GuestFan GuestFan GuestFan GuestOf HonorOf HonorOf HonorOf HonorOf Honor

David West ReynoldsDavid West Reynolds has a Ph.D.in Classical Archaeology, whichhe earned at the University ofMichigan, where he specializedin Imperial Rome and ancientEgypt. His field work has takenhim to diverse places, such asAnasazi cliff cities in Utah, Incafortresses in Peru, and Swahiliruins in East Africa. In addition,he has taught college archaeol-ogy and guided internationaltours.

In 1995 Reynolds undertook anunusual quest to re-locate thesites in Tunisia where the desertscenes had been filmed for themovie Star Wars in 1976. Hesuccessfully tracked down theremote locations and found 20-year- old Star Wars props in theSahara. The project led to a jobscouting locations for Lucasfilm,and then to a full-time positionat George Lucas’ SkywalkerRanch in Marin County, where hewas involved with the market-ing team that worked on thelaunch of Star Wars, Episode I.In addition, he has written nu-merous popular magazine ar-ticles and seven Star Wars ref-erence works, including the Vi-sual Guides to the movies andIncredible Cross-Sections. Fiveof them reached the New YorkTimes bestseller list, one ofthem making it to number one.

Having learned about media andpopular communication,

writing. He founded PhaetonGroup, Inc. to support field sci-ence projects and bring themto the public.

As part of his scientific work,Reynolds has climbed moun-tains in various parts of theworld, explored unchartedcaves, unearthed dinosaur egg-shells, and carried out researchin the Vatican archives. As partof his consulting work, he hassculpted a full-size dinosaurskeleton and created museummodels of historic spacecraftdesigns. On occasion he hasacted as presenter for the se-ries Omni-bus for theBBC. In Oc-tober hewas theleader of ateam ex-ploring theNorthwestPassage.

Reynolds then returned to sci-entific work and non-fiction

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Music GuestMusic GuestMusic GuestMusic GuestMusic GuestOf HonorOf HonorOf HonorOf HonorOf Honor

“DR. JANE” ROBINSON”: An Appreciationby James D. Robinson, Ph.D.

“I’ve got the fossil fever, I’m a truebeliever, I’m a hard-core Paleo fan;If dust and grime were consideredto be time, I’d have a lot of it onmy hands.I see those teacks and traces likefamiliar faces, and I love each one Ifind.Shells and bones makin’ poetry instones — well, it’s enough to blowmy mind!’”From “Fossil Fever” by Jane A.Robinson, C 1990

Jane walked in my shoes for fifty-five years, trying her best to be thewoman she didn’t know she wasn’t.In a very real sense, I owe her mylife. Stuck in a role she didn’tchoose, knowing always that some-thing was very wrong, she made thebest of things and did reasonablywell in the world. (Heck, she evengot a Ph.D. — which has beengrandfathered along to me, and Ihave both diplomas to prove it.)But “Dr. Jane” is best known for herwickedly witty, intricately rhymedsongs, rendered in widely diversemusical styles. When I began re-hearsing for this weekend atLoscon, I felt an appreciation for hermusic that I know she didn’t have;in fact, she couldn’t bear listeningto her own CDs. Singing them inmy new (but nonetheless rusty)baritone voice I discovered three

(Jane did); I interpret the songs dif-ferently; and I’m a better guitarplayer. However, I don’t seem tobe able to write songs. The brainis a strange and wonderful thing...

Like most songwriters, “Dr. Jane”wrote about what she loved, andwhat vexed her: academia; bureau-cracy; paleontology; the Loch NessMonster; cats; evolution; and hu-man nature. She’d been writingpoetry and parodies from a veryearly age, but didn’t begin writingscience songs until high school.While struggling to memorize theperiodic table in chemistry classone day, she wrote “A Battle Withthe Elements” — which the teacherindignantly confiscated, but likedso well he published it in Chemis-try Magazine. One of her friendswas a passionate creationist, butinstead of arguing with her Janewrote “Songs of the Phyla” (backthen there were only 10, so it wasrelatively easy), “Darwin’s Story”,and several other rousing pro-evo-

things: I don’t need to refer tothe lyric sheets very much at all

lution anthems. “Muscles of theKittycat” was written in the dis-

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section lab at the University of NewHampshire; the original copy wasthrown out because it smelled offormaldehyde and had unsavorythings stuck to it.

Jane’s musical output increaseddramatically in graduate school,both because of the sheer volumeof vexation that occurs in the bu-reaucratic, heirarchical, dysfunc-tional world of formal academia(“The ‘I Don’t Know It’ Blues”) andbecause she loved everythingabout paleontology — except thedigging. (Fossils, after all, arenever found in places you’d wantto visit.) As fate would have it,one of her office mates was a sci-ence fiction fan who knew exactlythe proper venue for her music;and at the 1972 WesterCon in SanFrancisco, when none of the pan-elists showed up for their presen-tation, Jane went up onto thestage, hauled out her guitar andstarted singing. To her utteramazement, almost no-one left.There’s nothing like an enthusias-tic audience to encourage moresongwriting! However, it would be1986 before she returned to sci-ence fiction armed with lots of newmaterial, this time as “Dr. Jane”...

Just so you know, it’s all HalHeydt’s fault. He taped a museumbenefit concert Jane did at U.C.Berkeley, and many years latergave it to the folks at Off CentaurPublications. Cindy McQuillin heardit and said, “We have to record her— this stuff is great!” So theytracked her down (she lived threemiles from their studio, which

cording “Dr. Jane’s Science Notes”and sending her to conventions allover the country. Jane’s back-upband — are you ready? — consistedof Heather Alexander and KristophKlover. Nothin’ but the best!...

However, It wasn’t long before Janeand Cindy fell deeply in love andbecame partners in life as well asmusic. Cindy was a demandingmuse (“I need another cat song byThursday!” or “Do you think youcan learn to play bass byConChord?”), but it was her gentlebadgering that resulted in most ofJane’s best material. For fifteenyears, until Cindy’s health becametoo fragile, Cindy and Jane per-formed, arranged, produced andwrote songs for the most appre-ciative of all audiences, science fic-tion fans. Academics “get” all thejokes, but they seem to have a hardtime laughing about certain things...

In short, I’m honored to be here toperform Jane’s songs and tell someof her stories. You should prob-ably know, though, that I haven’tbeen involved with paleontologysince Jane’s ignominious exit fromacademia in 1981 (as I said, aca-demics have a hard time laughingabout certain things). I would behappy to talk about ergonomics,biomechanics, anatomy and body-work, since I have been treatingpeople with chronic musculoskeletalproblems for 20 years. In a way,I’m still passionately interested inold bones; they just happen to beinside living people and — best ofall —I don’t have to dig ‘em up!

helped), gave her an audition andlaunched her singing career by re-

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Peking ManPeking ManPeking ManPeking ManPeking Manby Robert J. Sawyer

“Peking Man” copyright 1996 by Robert J. Sawyer. First published as the lead story inDark Destiny III, edited by Edward E. Kramer, White Wolf, Atlanta, October 1996.

Winner of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award (“the Aurora”) for Best Short Story of the Year

The lid was attached to the woodencrate with eighteen nails. The return ad-dress, in blue ink on the blond wood, said,“Sender: Dept. of Anatomy, P.U.M.C., Pe-king, China.” The destination address, inlarger letters, was:

Dr. Roy Chapman AndrewsThe American Museum of Natural

HistoryCentral Park West at 79th Street

New York, N.Y. U.S.A.

The case was marked “Fragile!” and “REG-ISTERED” and “Par Avion.” A brand hadburned the words “Via Hongkong and byU.S. Air Service” into the wood.

Andrews had waited anxiously forthis arrival. Between 1922 and 1930, hehimself had led the now-famous GobiDesert expeditions, searching for theAsian cradle of humanity. Although he’dbrought back untold scientific riches—including the first-ever dinosaur eggs—Andrews had failed to discover a singleancient human remain.

But now a German scientist, FranzWeidenreich, had shipped to him a trea-sure trove from the Orient: the completefossil remains of Sinanthropus pekinensis.In this very crate were the bones of Pe-king Man.

Andrews was actually salivating ashe used a crowbar to pry off the lid. He’dwaited so long for these, terrified thatthey wouldn’t survive the journey, des-perate to see what humanity’s forefa-thers had looked like, anxious—

The lid came off. The contents werecarefully packed in smaller cardboardboxes. He picked one up and moved overto his cluttered desk. He swept the booksand papers to the floor, laid down thebox, and opened it. Inside was a ball ofrice paper, wrapped around a large ob-

White.White?No—no, it couldn’t be.But it was. It was a skull, certainly—

but not a fossil skull. The material wasbright white.

And it didn’t weigh nearly enough.A plaster cast. Not the original at

all.Andrews opened every box inside

the wooden crate, his heart sinking aseach new one yielded its contents. Intotal, there were fourteen skulls andeleven jawbones. The skulls were sub-human, with low foreheads, prominentbrow ridges, flat faces, and the mostunlikely looking perfect square teeth.Amazingly, each of the skull casts alsoshowed clear artificial damage to the fo-ramen magnum.

Oh, some work could indeed bedone on these casts, no doubt. Butwhere were the original fossils? With theJapanese having invaded China, surelythey were too precious to be left in theFar East. What was Weidenreich up to?

#Fire.It was like a piece of the sun,

brought down to earth. It kept the tribewarm at night, kept the saber-toothedcats away—and it did something won-derful to meat, making it softer andeasier to chew, while at the same timerestoring the warmth the flesh had hadwhen still part of the prey.

Fire was the most precious thing thetribe owned. They’d had it for elevensummers now, ever since Bok the bravehad brought out a burning stick fromthe burning forest. The glowing coalswere always fanned, always kept alive.

And then, one night, the Strangercame—tall, thin, pale, with red-rimmedeyes that somehow seemed to glow

ject. Andrews carefully unwrapped thesheets, and—

from beneath his brow ridge.The Stranger did the unthinkable,

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the unforgivable.He doused the flames, throwing a

gourd full of water on to the fire. Thelogs hissed, and steam rose up into theblackness. The children of the tribe be-gan to cry; the adults quaked with fury.The Stranger turned and walked into thedarkness. Two of the strongest hunt-ers ran after him, but his long legs hadapparently carried him quickly away.

The sounds of the forest grewcloser—the chirps of insects, the rus-tling of small animals in the vegetation,and—

A flapping sound.The Stranger was gone.And the silhouette of a bat fluttered

briefly in front of the waning moon.#

Franz Weidenreich had been bornin Germany in 1873. A completely bald,thickset man, he had made a name forhimself as an expert in hematology andosteology. He was currently Visiting Pro-fessor at the University of Chicago, butthat was coming to an end, and now hewas faced with the uncomfortable pros-pect of having to return to Nazi Ger-many—something, as a Jew, he desper-ately wanted to avoid.

And then word came of the suddendeath of the Canadian paleontologistDavidson Black. Black had been at thePeking Union Medical College, studyingthe fragmentary remains of early manbeing recovered from the limestonequarry at Chou Kou Tien. Weidenreich,who once made a study of Neanderthalbones found in Germany, had readBlack’s papers in Nature and Science de-scribing Sinanthropus.

But now, at fifty, Black was as deadas his fossil charges—an unexpectedheart attack. And, to Weidenreich’s de-light, the China Medical Board of theRockefeller Foundation wanted him tofill Black’s post. China was a strange,foreboding place—and tensions be-tween the Chinese and the Japanesewere high—but it beat all hell out of re-turning to Hitler’s Germany ...

#At night, most of the tribe huddled

limestone cave. Without the fire to keepanimals away, someone had to standwatch each night, armed with a largebranch and a pile of rocks for throwing.Last night, it had been Kart’s turn. Ev-eryone had slept well, for Kart was thestrongest member of the tribe. Theyknew they were safe from whateverlurked in the darkness.

When daybreak came, the membersof the tribe were astounded. Kart hadfallen asleep. They found him lying in thedirt, next to the cold, black pit wheretheir fire had once been. And on Kart’sneck there were two small red-rimmedholes, staring up at them like the eyesof the Stranger ...

#During his work on hematology,

Weidenreich had met a remarkable mannamed Brancusi—gaunt, pale, with dis-concertingly sharp canine teeth. Brancusisuffered from a peculiar anemia, whichWeidenreich had been unable to cure, andan almost pathological photophobia. Still,the gentleman was cultured and widelyread, and Weidenreich had ever sincemaintained a correspondence with him.

When Weidenreich arrived in Peking,work was still continuing at the quarry.So far, only teeth and fragments of skullhad been found. Davidson Black had donea good job of cataloging and describingsome of the material, but as Weidenreichwent through the specimens he was sur-prised to discover a small collection ofsharp, pointed fossil teeth.

Black had evidently assumed theyweren’t part of the Sinanthropus mate-rial, as he hadn’t included them in hisdescriptions. And, at first glance, Black’sassessment seemed correct—they werefar longer than normal human canines,and much more sharply pointed. But, toWeidenreich’s eye, the root pattern waspossibly hominid. He dropped a letter tohis friend Brancusi, half-joking that he’dfound Brancusi’s great-to-the-nth grand-father in China.

To Weidenreich’s infinite surprise,within weeks Brancusi had arrived in Pe-king.

#under the rocky overhang or crawledinto the damp, smelly recesses of the

Each night, another member of thetribe stood watch—and each morning,

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that member was found unconscious,with a pair of tiny wounds to his neck.

The tribe members were terrified.Soon multiple guards were posted eachnight, and, for a time, the happeningsceased.

But then something even more un-usual happened ...

They were hunting deer. It would notbe the same, not without fire to cookthe meat, but, still, the tribe needed toeat. Four men, Kart included, led the as-sault. They moved stealthily amongst thetall grasses, tracking a large buck with agiant rack of antlers. The hunters com-municated by sign language, carefully co-ordinating their movements, closing inon the animal from both sides.

Kart raised his right arm, preparingto signal the final attack, when—

—a streak of light brown, slicingthrough the grass—

—fangs flashing, the roar of the gi-ant cat, the stag bolting away, andthen—

—Kart’s own scream as the saber-tooth grabbed hold of his thigh and shookhim viciously.

The other three hunters ran as fastas they could, desperate to get away.They didn’t stop to look back, even whenthe cat let out the strangest yelp ...

That night, the tribe huddled to-gether and sang songs urging Kart’s soula safe trip to heaven.

#One of the Chinese laborers found

the first skull. Weidenreich was sum-moned at once. Brancusi still sufferedfrom his photophobia, and apparently hadnever adjusted to the shift in timezones—he slept during the day.Weidenreich thought about waking himto see this great discovery, but decidedagainst it.

The skull was still partially encasedin the limestone muck at the bottom ofthe cave. It had a thick cranial wall and abeetle brow—definitely a more primitivecreature than Neanderthal, probably akinto Solo Man or Java Man ...

It took careful work to remove theskull from the ground, but, when it did

The loose teeth Davidson Black hadset aside had indeed come from thehominids here: this skull still had all itsupper teeth intact, and the canines werelong and pointed.

Second, and even more astonish-ing, was the foramen magnum—thelarge opening in the base of the skullthrough which the spinal cord passes. Itwas clear from its chipped, frayed mar-gin that this individual’s foramen mag-num had been artificially widened—

—meaning he’d been decapitated,and then had something shoved up intohis brain through the bottom of his skull.

#Five hunters stood guard that night.

The moon had set, and the great skyriver arched high over head. TheStranger returned—but this time, hewas not alone. The tribesmen couldn’tbelieve their eyes. In the darkness, itlooked like—

It was. Kart.But—but Kart was dead. They’d

seen the saber-tooth take him.The Stranger came closer. One of

the men lifted a rock, as if to throw it athim, but soon he let the rock drop fromhis hand. It fell to the ground with a dullthud.

The Stranger continued to ap-proach, and so did Kart.

And then Kart opened his mouth,and in the faint light they saw his teeth—long and pointed, like the Stranger’s.

The men were unable to run, un-able to move. They seemed transfixed,either by the Stranger’s gaze, or byKart’s, both of whom continued to ap-proach.

And soon, in the dark, chill night,the Stranger’s fangs fell upon one ofthe guard’s necks, and Kart’s fell uponanother ...

#Eventually, thirteen more skulls

were found, all of which had the strangeelongated canine teeth, and all of whichhad their foramen magnums artificiallywidened. Also found were some man-dibles and skull fragments from otherindividuals—but there was almost no

come free, two astonishing things be-came apparent.

post-cranial material. Someone in dimprehistory had discarded here the de-

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capitated heads of a group of protohu-mans.

Brancusi sat in Weidenreich’s lablate at night, looking at the skulls. Heran his tongue over his own sharp teeth,contemplating. These subhumansdoubtless had no concept of mathemat-ics beyond perhaps adding and subtract-ing on their fingers. How would theypossibly know of the problem thatplagued the Family, the problem thatevery one of the Kindred knew to avoid?

If all those who feel the bite of thevampire themselves become vampireswhen they die, and all of those new vam-pires also turn those they feed from intovampires, soon, unless care is exercised,the whole population will be undead. Asimple geometric progression.

Brancusi had long wondered how farback the Family went. It wasn’t like trac-ing a normal family tree—oh, yes, thelines were bloodlines, but not as passedon from father to son. He knew his ownlineage—a servant at Castle Dracula be-fore the Count had taken to living allalone, a servant whose loyalty to hismaster extended even to letting himdrink from his neck.

Brancusi himself had succumbed topneumonia, not an uncommon ailmentin the dank Carpathians. He had no fam-ily, and no one mourned his passing.

But soon he rose again—and nowhe did have Family.

An Englishman and an American hadkilled the Count, removing his head witha kukri knife and driving a bowie knifethrough his heart. When news of thisreached Brancusi from the gypsies, hetraveled back to Transylvania. Dracula’sattackers had simply abandoned the cof-fin, with its native soil and the dust thatthe Count’s body had crumbled into.Brancusi dug a grave on the desolate,wind-swept grounds of the Castle, andplaced the Count’s coffin within.

#Eventually, over a long period, the

entire tribe had felt the Stranger’s bitedirectly or indirectly.

A few of the tribefolk lost their livesto ravenous bloodthirst, drained dry.

died of old age. But all of them rose again.And so it came to pass, just as it

had for the Stranger all those years be-fore, that the tribe had to look elsewhereto slake its thirst.

But they had not counted on theOthers.

#Weidenreich and Brancusi sat in

Weidenreich’s lab late at night. Thingshad been getting very tense—the Japa-nese occupation was becoming intoler-able. “I’m going to return to the States,”said Weidenreich. “Andrews at the Ameri-can Museum is offering me space to con-tinue work on the fossils.”

“No,” said Brancusi. “No, you can’ttake the fossils.”

Weidenreich’s bushy eyebrowsclimbed up toward his bald pate. “Butwe can’t let them fall into Japanesehands.”

“That is true,” said Brancusi.“They belong somewhere safe.

Somewhere where they can be studied.”“No,” said Brancusi. His red-rimmed

gaze fell on Weidenreich in a way it neverhad before. “No—no one may see thesefossils.”

“But Andrews is expecting them.He’s dying to see them. I’ve been delib-erately vague in my letters to him—I wantto be there to see his face when he seesthe dentition.”

“No one can know about the teeth,”said Brancusi.

“But he’s expecting the fossils. AndI have to publish descriptions of them.”

“The teeth must be filed flat.”Weidenreich’s eyes went wide. “I

can’t do that.”“You can, and you will.”“But—”“You can and you will.”“I—I can, but—”“No buts.”“No, no, there is a but. Andrews will

never be fooled by filed teeth; the struc-ture of teeth varies as you go into them.Andrews will realize at once that theteeth have been reduced from their origi-nal size.” Weidenreich looked at Brancusi.“I’m sorry, but there’s no way to hide

Others succumbed to disease or gi-ant cats or falls from cliffs. One even

the truth.”#

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The Others lived in the next valley.They proved tough and resourceful—andthey could make fire whenever theyneeded it. When the tribefolk arrived itbecame apparent that there was nevera time of darkness for the Others. Largefires were constantly burning.

The tribe had to feed, but the Oth-ers defended themselves, trying to killthem with rock knives.

But that didn’t work. The tribefolkwere undeterred.

They tried to kill them with spears.But that did not work, either. The

tribefolk came back.They tried strangling the attackers

with pieces of animal hide.But that failed, too. The tribefolk re-

turned again.And finally the Others decided to try

everything they could think of simulta-neously.

They drove wooden spears into thehearts of the tribefolk.

The used stone knives to carve offthe heads of the tribefolk.

And then they jammed spears upinto the severed heads, forcing the shaftsup through the holes at the bases of theskulls.

The hunters marched far away fromtheir camp, each carrying a spear thrustvertically toward the summer sun, eachone crowned by a severed, pointed-toothed head. When, at last, they founda suitable hole in the ground, theydumped the heads in, far, far away fromtheir bodies.

The Others waited for the tribefolkto return.

But they never did.#

“Do not send the originals,” saidBrancusi.

“But—”“The originals are mine, do you un-

derstand? I will ensure their safe passageout of China.”

It looked for a moment likeWeidenreich’s will was going to reassertitself, but then his expression grew blankagain. “All right.”

“I’ve seen you make casts of bonesbefore.”

“With plaster of Paris, yes.”

“Make casts of these skulls—andthen file the teeth on the casts.”

“But—”“You said Andrews and others

would be able to tell if the original fos-sils were altered. But there’s no waythey could tell that the casts had beenmodified, correct?”

“Not if it’s done skillfully, I suppose,but-”

“Do it.”“What about the foramen mag-

nums?”“What would you conclude if you

saw fossils with such widened open-ings?”

“I don’t know—possibly that ritualcannibalism had been practiced.”

“Ritual?”“Well, if the only purpose was to

get at the brain, so you could eat it, it’seasier just to smash the cranium, and-”

“Good. Good. Leave the damage tothe skull bases intact. Let your Andrewshave that puzzle to keep him occupied.”

#The casts were crated up and sent

to the States first. Then Weidenreichhimself headed for New York, leaving,he said, instructions for the actual fos-sils to be shipped aboard theS.S. President Harrison. But the fossilsnever arrived in America, andWeidenreich, the one man who mighthave clues to their whereabouts, diedshortly thereafter.

Despite the raging war, Brancusi re-turned to Europe, returned toTransylvania, returned to Castle Dracula.

It took him a while in the darknessof night to find the right spot—the scarleft by his earlier digging was just oneof many on the desolate landscape. Butat last he located it. He prepared a se-ries of smaller holes in the ground, andinto each of them he laid one of thegrinning skulls. He then covered theholes over with dark soil.

Brancusi hoped never to fall him-self, but, if he did, he hoped one of hisown converts would do the same thingfor him, bringing his remains home tothe Family plot.

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Planet of thePlanet of thePlanet of thePlanet of thePlanet of theMummiesMummiesMummiesMummiesMummies

by John DeChancie

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“Parallel development of culture,” saidDr. Arizona, her saurian head turnedto the far desert horizon, “is a hardconcept to absorb, but when the ar-cheological evidence is clear, it mustbe accepted as fact.”Her expedition had confined its inves-tigations inside the shadow of theGreat Tetrahedron-the local “pyra-mids” were really more generally po-lygonal than strictly pyramidal.Nearby stood an oasis of tall plantsthat could have passed for palmtrees. The fierce ultraviolet radiationof the blue-tinged star Zeta Crucis-Abaked the desert all around the site.Nonetheless, despite the heat, theexpedition’s members workedsteadily to pack up all the equipmentand make the site secure until thenext digging season. The planet hada nasty axial tilt, and summers herewere unbearable. A shuttle would bealong in only a few days to pick themup.“I’m hardly contesting the fact of par-allel cultural development,” said Dr.Phineas Phlogbotham of the Federa-tion Institute of Xenocultural Stud-ies. “This culture has many analoguesto Earth’s ancient Egypt, sureenough. I’m simply having troublewith your translation of the last line

Dr. Arizona tossed her trowel to anassistant, who caught it gingerly anddropped it into the doctor’s personalknapsack-the doctor was very zeal-ous for the maintenance of the toolsof her trade. “Clean it well beforeyou pack it, Susan.”Susan, a young Ph.D. just out fromEarth, gave her boss and post-doc-toral advisor a mock salute. “Haven’tpacked away a dirty tool yet, Doc.”Arizona and Dr. Phlogbothamwatched her walk away with theknapsack.“Charming young woman,”Phlogbotham commented.“Bright, too,” Dr. Arizona said. “So,you have a problem with the lastline? This stele is the most completeversion we have of the Krutonianmummification ritual prayer. The lastline is missing from every othersource. I dug up this stele.” Shepointed to the huge slab of stonebefore them. “I get to do the trans-lation.”Phlogbotham took out his pocketviewer. “Oh, it’s top notch work allaround,” he said. “No argument. It’sjust that last line.” He shook his headdisapprovingly as looked overArizona’s notes on the translation.“The choice of words. I mean, really,

on this stele. Hardly appropriate,don’t you think?”

do you think those glyphs can beinterpreted that way?”

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“Exactly!” Dr. Arizona said, a grinsplitting her attractively reptilianface.“Notwithstanding your race’s pen-chant for humor,” Phlogbotham wenton, “-and don’t think that wasn’t apleasant surprise for us humans; wedon’t ordinarily associate humor withreptiloids, our native species hardlybeing laugh riots-don’t you thinkyour rendering of the phrase hassome rather odd cross-cultural over-tones?”“Possibly,” Arizona said. “but Egyptisn’t the only analogue Earth cultureappropriate to invoke here.”“Hollywood?”“Of course! The Krutonians were ob-sessed with two things. Drama anddeath. The Krutonians didn’t domuch else but construct mortuarystructures and produce plays!”“Quite true. I’ve never seen such asingle-minded-rather double-minded,I should say-obsession. Drama anddeath, indeed. You’re quite right.”Phlogbotham stroked his six-daygrowth of gray beard. “Still, whenall’s said and done, it strikes me as a

trifle inappropriate.”“A free translation, granted,” Arizonaadmitted. “Perhaps too free for mostacademics. But inappropriate? Hardly.In fact, both cultural analogues cometogether in that one last line. TheKrutonians swaddled their dead in thinstrips of cloth, just like their earthlycounterparts, and they made a hugeproduction out of it. It was theater!So the parting line is all the more apt.It’s even appropriate to our immedi-ate situation!”“Well, you’re right, of course. I didn’teven think of that.”“So it was triply significant when thehigh priest recited the last line of theprayer, after getting done with thelaborious process of mummification,turning to the assembled loved onesand funeral attendees and chanting-”“Oh, dear, you don’t really have tosay it!” Phlogbotham said, flinchingand waving both arms in a fending-off gesture.“‘That’s a wrap!’”

(c)2007 by John DeChancie

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Quasi-Mayan MenaceQuasi-Mayan MenaceQuasi-Mayan MenaceQuasi-Mayan MenaceQuasi-Mayan Menaceby John DeChancie

All rights reserved. No part of this story may be reproduced or transmittedin any form or by any means without permission in writing from the author.“All cultures seem to be variations ona few themes,” said Dr. PhineasPhlogbotham as he stepped cautiouslythrough the dusty passageway. “I couldswear this temple was in Ur. It remindsme of a ziggurat.”Dr. Arizona walked behind him, watch-ing carefully where she put her feet.She had done her homework. The an-cient rulers of this planet did not likeintruders in their tombs and temples;they liked to set nasty man-traps. . .inher case, female traps. . .traps for anyspecies of tomb robber. “The overallculture more resembles the Maya thanany other.”“I’d take issue with that,” Phlogbothamsaid evenly, arching a leg cautiouslyover a suspicious depression in thefloor, “and of course I will in the nextissue of Xenocultural Studies. I say theanalogs to Mesopotamia are overrid-ing.”“Floggy, you need ocular transplants.Look at those glyphs. Tell me theycouldn’t have been carved at Palenqueor Uxmal.”Phlogbotham’s tone turned rathersnooty. “I do think I’ve already acknowl-edged a superficial correspondence.This is an alien planet, you know, andan alien culture. So in strictest terms,it’s neither a Mayan analog or aMesopotamian one. It is unto itself. Andplease don’t call me ‘Floggy.’”“Phineas, you’re such a pill.”“Here’s a feature common to neitherEarthian architecture,” Phlogbothamsaid as he angled the diodes on his hatto play their light along the ceiling.“What is this curious massive lateral cy-

“Not any I’ve visited,” Arizona said,“but I’d be extra careful going downthis passageway. It’s starting to slantdown, and I don’t like it.”The Earth archeologist took out hisDioFlash and sent the intense beamdown the dark, narrow corridor. “I say,it does go on a bit. I can’t see theend.”“Watch yourself. I really should be inthe lead, Floggy. I’m the one who dis-covered this pyramid.”“Ziggurat.”“Whatever, I found it.”“That may be true, my dear saurianfemale, but you lack the analytical ex-pertise. . .oops!”The flagstone on which the archeolo-gist had stepped sank about two cen-timeters. Loud rumblings immediatelysounded deep within the structure,behind the massive stone walls.“Don’t like that much,” Phlogbothamsaid uneasily.“Uh-oh!” Arizona whipped out herflash and sent the light back whencethey had come. The massive over-head cylinder was moving. Then, sud-denly, it dropped with a crash andbegan to roll forward down the slope.“Run, Floggy!”They ran, but the cylinder inexorablygained speed and the passagewayshowed no end in sight. There wasno way around the huge steamrollingstone and no way over it except forabout a meter of clearance betweenthe top of the cylinder and the ceil-ing, but it was too high to jump.Arizona stopped and rummagedthrough her backpack. “Floggy, wecan’t outrun it!”Phlogbotham doubled back. Arizona

lindrical structure? Ever seen one ofthose on a Mayan temple?”

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found what she was rooting for, agunlike mechanism with an unusualgrip. She immediately aimed at theceiling. There was a sharp report anda line shot out of the end of the bar-rel. Something splatted against theceiling, an adhesive mass that hard-ened instantly, bonding its moleculeswith the stone. The powerful minia-ture winch inside the gun began to liftArizona off the flagstones. “Floggy,quick!”Phlogbotham jumped and Arizonacaught him with one arm and the tworose on the retracting line. When theyreached the ceiling, both lifted theirlegs and let the cylinder roll under-neath after brushing roughly againsttheir backsides.As the massive intruder-crusherrumbled off, Arizona pulled the gun-winch’s trigger again and the lineplayed back out. Phlogbothamdropped and ended up a heap on thefloor. Landing on her feet, Arizona letgo the line and helped him up.“I say!” Phlogbotham said with a groan.“Rather dicey, what?. Thanks, old girl.”“No problem. You really should bemore careful where you’re stepping ina Mayan ziggurat.”“There are no ziggurats in the Ameri-cas, Meso- or any other.”“Floggy, really, everyone knows thatmost people prefer Americanziggurats!”#Arizona was in her tent, sitting on hercot and fi l ing her talons, whenPhlogbotham coughed discreetly be-hind the entrance flap.“May I come in?” he called politely.“Floggy! You got out!”The Earth archeologist entered thetent. He looked dusty and bedraggledand his expression was rather sheep-ish.“I found an escape shaft, probably cutby ancient tomb raiders.”“I searched for hours before giving up,”Arizona told him.“I don’t blame you. You were right. Ishould have deferred to your superior

“Don’t fret, Floggy, dear. Do sit.” Ari-zona patted beside her on the cot.“Thank you. You know, I did rather cockup the whole day. So sorry.”“Never you mind. We’ve just begun theexpedition.”“Yes, rather. I say, this cot of yours iscomfortable. And. . . .” Phlogbotham’sgaze drifted to Arizona’s outstretchedleg. He had never noticed how shapelyit was. “I, uh. . .never realized how at-tractive webbed toes can be.”Arizona giggled. “Floggy, you say thecutest things sometimes.”“I know I don’t cut the kind of figurethat. . .er, well. A man of my age. ..what I mean is, I’ve never been onefor ‘dig romances,’ and of coursethere’s the question of our being ofdifferent species-”“Nothing wrong with a little Ritharsha,”Arizona said. “Why, Floggy. I had noidea you regarded me that way.”“Uh. . .I’m not. . .well, that is. . .”“Floggy, don’t be coy. Say what youwant to say. I know we haven’t exactlyhit it off on this dig.”“Well, it’s those egregious puns, really,”Phlogbotham said. “I mean, really.That’s why I stalked off and got lost.Then I fell down a shaft, like a fool.”“You’re not a fool, Floggy, just brash.But that’s what I like about you.”She extended her leg. It was not a hu-man leg, but had an undeniable femi-nine quality, curvaceous and lithe. Herrobe fell open a bit, revealing morethigh, and her shoulder pressed pro-vocatively against his.Phlogbotham swallowed hard. “I. . .oh,my.”She smiled demurely and said, “Some-thing on your mind, Floggy?”Phlogbotham grinned and his eyesglazed over. “I suppose you’re evenright about the predominating Mayananalogs.”“Oh, Floggy, I didn’t mean to imply youwere entirely wrong. Let’s say this.Let’s just agree that what’s Mayan isMayan, and what’s Ur’s is negotiable.”-End

field experience. I’ve been a bit ofan ass, I must admit.”


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Fossils of MarsFossils of MarsFossils of MarsFossils of MarsFossils of Marsby John DeChancie

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“There are no fossils on Mars!” Dr.Phineas Phlogbotham stated in no un-certain terms. “But I am not dogmaticabout that.”Dr. Arizona, the prominent alien arche-ologist, gave her saurian head an ironicshake. “Dogmatic? Oh, no, not you,Floggy. Never.”“I am never dogmatic,” Phlogbothamstated categorically.“I’m sure,” Arizona said as she tossedPhlogbotham a small, flat piece of rockwith the imprint of something bifurcated.“Here, have a fossil.”Phlogbotham caught it clumsily. “Huh? Isay, what’s this?”“Fossil,” Arizona said. “They’re lying allover. You just have to look. Of course, Ilike exopaleontology, but it’s not myfield.”“Nor mine. What the devil? What is thisthing on the rock?”“Looks like a crinoid to me,” Arizona said.“This one looks like some kind of trilo-bite. In fact, it looks just like a trilobite.That’s, what, Devonian Period?”“Trilobite?” Phlogbotham examined thepiece of rock. “Why, no telling what thatis. That’s just a. . .well, a random. . .”“This was a sea bottom, for sure,” Ari-zona said, scanning the Martian plain sur-rounding them and their little planet-hop-per vehicle, parked in an arroyo not faroff. The salmon-pink surface of Mars, lit-tered with rocky debris, swept out to apale blue sky.“Sea bottom?” her human colleaguescoffed, “with Terrestrial life forms, yet.Why, this planet is as lifeless as a dusty

whitish underside, looking for all theworld like a scallop shell.“Why, Floggy,” Arizona said. “you’vewilly-nilly discovered a new species!”“Nonsense! That’s an aeolian rock. Wind-carved. There are many such specimenson the planet. No need to leap to exo-biological conclusions, my dear.”“Floggy, dear, we just got done touringa Martian pyramid.”Phlogbotham turned his head toward thehuge triangular stone butte lying abouthalf a kilometer away. “Natural forma-tion. The caves in it-”“Passageways!” Arizona said.“The eroded strata are unusual, but notof artificial origin.”“There was a door in the thing!”“Another natural —”“It was locked, Floggy! A metal door witha lock!”“Masses of pure metal are not unknownin nature, my dear Arizona.”“Floggy, when are you and your Earth-ling colleagues going to acknowledgethat Mars was not only a living planetonce, but still is!”“Next you’ll be talking about Martianswith antennae and bug-eyes,”Phlogbotham snickered. “Little GreenMen. Or. . .” he glanced around. “Hugelife forms in the sand. Did you ever readEarth science fiction? As I remember,Frank Herbert —”It was at that precise instant when thegiant sand worm struck, in defiance ofall the rules of dramatic suspense in fic-tion, snaking from the russet sands,ensnaring Phlogbotham’s left leg, andattempting to drag him away. The Earthcue ball.” He underscored his point by

kicking at a half-hidden stone. Whenthe stone flipped, it showed a curious

archeologist yelped, fell on his stom-ach and clawed at the ground.

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“Help me!” he wailed, his fingers mak-ing tracks in the soil as he was hauledoff.Arizona dove and grabbed both his arms,but she couldn’t halt him. The wormwasn’t as big as the Dune variety, butwas rather large, about twice the sizeof a giant anaconda. The skin of thething was pink and smooth and the en-tire length of its body swelled withFreudian purport.“It’s got me,” Phlogbotham screamed.“It’s got me!”“I’ve got you, too!” Arizona shouted asshe paradoxically let go, rolled, andsprang to her taloned feet.The worm began pulling in earnest.Phlogbotham cried hopelessly, “Help,help, oh dear!”Her gleaming knife was quick, flashingout and slicing into the pinkish skin ofthe sand worm. The worm ceased re-tracting and recoiled from the blade-edge, a curious purplish ichor oozingfrom the slash.“I wonder why alien body fluids are al-ways referred to as ‘ichor,’” Arizonamused as the worm let go ofPhlogbotham and retreated back intoits barely-visible hole in the sand. Whenit had fully retracted and disappeared,the hole disappeared, too.Phlogbotham lay still a moment, facedown, silently. Then he lifted his headand yelled, “Because it’s ICKY!”He got up and dusted himself off.“You’re welcome,” Arizona said, shrug-ging.“I am not ungrateful,” Phlogbotham said,mustering as much dignity as he could.“But you could have acted a littlequicker.”“Again, you’re quite welcome. No prob-lem.”“All right, all right, I should say thankyou!” he blurted with some irritation.“Thank you, thank you! There. Satis-fied?”“Floggy, sometimes!” Arizona folded herarms and looked off, left toe tappingthe sand.“Everything happens to me,”

get harassed by ones that officially don’texist!” He whirled in the direction of thesand worm’s lair. “In the interest of di-plomacy, I shouldn’t do this. But sinceyou are officially a non-existent entity,and probably not very sentient. . .THISTO YOU!”Phlogbotham flipped both middle fingersat the now-hidden wormhole.“Besides,” Phlogbotham went on in amilder voice, “way I heard, it’s too earlyin the day for worms. Rumors are theypop out when the sun warms the grounda bit.”“Well, Floggy,” Arizona said, her foot stilltapping. “You’ve proved one thing tome.”Phlogbotham’s shoulders slumped.“What’s that?” he said suspiciously.“You’ve proved that on Mars, the earlyworm gets the bird.”

Note: Atmospheric conditions on the realMars would not permit the action de-scribed in this story. The author doesn’treally give a Donald Duck about that, butdoes like fiction with footnotes. It’s sopost-modern, you know, like Borges orsomeone. By the way, these ridiculouspun stories weren’t his idea in the firstplace, so don’t blame him.-End


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Laura Brodian FreasLaura Brodian FreasLaura Brodian FreasLaura Brodian FreasLaura Brodian Freas is a radio hostof classical music programs in LosAngeles. While married to artistFrank Kelly Freas, she had createdillustrations for books and maga-zines such as The Easton Press,Analog, Weird Tales, and TSR Inc.A recipient of the Chesley Award(with Frank Kelly Freas) from theAssociation of Science Fiction andFantasy Artists, she is a quarterlyjudge for the L. Ron Hubbard Illus-trators of the Future Contest.

Christopher J. GarciaChristopher J. GarciaChristopher J. GarciaChristopher J. GarciaChristopher J. Garcia is a writer, his-torian, and film maker from SantaClara, CA.

David GerroldDavid GerroldDavid GerroldDavid GerroldDavid Gerrold returns to Loscon ev-ery year. It’s a necessary feedingstop on his annual migratory flight.As soon as he fills up on chocolate,he leaves.

Zelda GilbertZelda GilbertZelda GilbertZelda GilbertZelda Gilbert first discovered SF/fantasy costuming at the 1984Worldcon. She is a successful Mas-

Upfield, an Australian mysterywriter.

ter Class Costumer.

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Mel GildenMel GildenMel GildenMel GildenMel Gilden is the author of manyoriginal children’s books as well asnovelizations of Star Trek andBeverly Hills, 90210. Adult booksinclude the three Zoot Marlowe nov-els.

Gail Glass Gail Glass Gail Glass Gail Glass Gail Glass is a retired recreation anddance therapist.

Dr. James GlassDr. James GlassDr. James GlassDr. James GlassDr. James Glass read and wrote sci-ence fiction as a kid. But the fic-tion writing bug bit hard again whenJim was well into his forties. His firstpublished story was in AboriginalS.F. and soon after he won the1990 grand prize in the Writers ofthe Future contest. He retired fromhis academic job in 1999 and nowwrites full time.

Diana GlyerDiana GlyerDiana GlyerDiana GlyerDiana Glyer chaired the 1998 C. S.Lewis Centenary Conference inWheaton, IL. She has published nu-merous articles and contributed tothe C. S. Lewis Reader’s Encyclo-pedia.

Mike GlyerMike GlyerMike GlyerMike GlyerMike Glyer publishes the fannewszine File 770, winner of fiveHugos as best fanzine. He also haswon three Hugos as best fan writer.Mike chaired L.A.Con III, the 1996Worldcon.

Barry GoldBarry GoldBarry GoldBarry GoldBarry Gold was named to the FilkHall of Fame in 1997.

Lee GoldLee GoldLee GoldLee GoldLee Gold was named to the Filk Hallof Fame in 1997. Her best knownfilksong is “You Bash the Balrog.”

Bob GounleyBob GounleyBob GounleyBob GounleyBob Gounley is a Systems Engineerfor the Dawn Mission to Vesta/Ceres at NASA’s Jet PropulsionLaboratory (JPL). A lifelong spaceenthusiast, he’s been a board mem-ber on the National Space Societyand currently serves on the boardof its Los Angeles chapter — OA-SIS.

LASFS. He also does stuff aroundLoscons. Last year, he even didstuff around the Worldcon.

Jude-Marie (Kelly) GreenJude-Marie (Kelly) GreenJude-Marie (Kelly) GreenJude-Marie (Kelly) GreenJude-Marie (Kelly) Green writes sci-ence fiction.She has sold fiction toSay, Ideomancer, Abyss & Apex,and Aoife’s Kiss.

Barbara HamblyBarbara HamblyBarbara HamblyBarbara HamblyBarbara Hambly has touchedpretty much all of the bases ingenre fiction, including historicalmurder mysteries, fantasy, sciencefiction, comic books, and scriptsfor Saturday morning cartoonshows.

Jim HarmonJim HarmonJim HarmonJim HarmonJim Harmon is a SF writer and long-time fan. He began publishing SFwith “The Smuggler” for Spacewayin 1954. His nonfiction book, TheGreat Radio Heroes (1967), dis-cusses Superman and other char-acters of scientifictional interest.

Greg HemsathGreg HemsathGreg HemsathGreg HemsathGreg Hemsath earned his degreein Biology at NAU in Flagstaff, Ari-zona—where any which way youturn you trip over archaeology. Heis a past Guildmaster of theCrafters’ Guild of Saint Greggorythe Wonderworker.

John HertzJohn HertzJohn HertzJohn HertzJohn Hertz is probably best knownfor infecting fandom with EnglishRegency dancing. In 2006 and2007, he was a Hugo nominee forbest fan writer. By profession, heis a lawyer.

Eric HoffmanEric HoffmanEric HoffmanEric HoffmanEric Hoffman was born in the dark-est reaches of Brooklyn. He hasgiven presentations or been in-volved in panels at Loscon for thelast several years. He has writtenarticles on the horror and sciencefiction genres.

Louise HitchcockLouise HitchcockLouise HitchcockLouise HitchcockLouise Hitchcock has extensive ar-chaeological experience in the eastMediterranean.

Ed GreenEd GreenEd GreenEd GreenEd Green has been a fan for 35years. He does stuff around

Robert HoleRobert HoleRobert HoleRobert HoleRobert Hole is a biologist, artistand fan. He has written a small

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book on Dinosaurs (Dinosaurs andOther Ancient Animals).

Geordie HoweGeordie HoweGeordie HoweGeordie HoweGeordie Howe is a professional ar-chaeologist. His major professionalareas of interest include the pre-history of the Pacific NorthwestCoast and Interior Plateau. Duringhis career he has directed archaeo-logical surveys and excavationsthroughout the wilds of British Co-lumbia. Combining his professionalcareer with his abiding love of sci-ence fiction, fantasy, and horror,Geordie is constantly exploring andresearching the uses and abusesof archaeology in genre fiction andmedia.

Berry KerchervalBerry KerchervalBerry KerchervalBerry KerchervalBerry Kercherval is a Bay Areacomputer nerd and newly mintedfiction writer.

James KillusJames KillusJames KillusJames KillusJames Killus has been appearing invarious SF and fantasy magazinesfor over 20 years. He has also pub-lished two novels, The Book ofShadows and Sunsmoke.

Sharon KingSharon KingSharon KingSharon KingSharon King (Ph.D. ComparativeLit., UCLA) is an Associate at theUCLA Center for Medieval and Re-naissance Studies.

Dani KollinDani KollinDani KollinDani KollinDani Kollin has sold his first novel,The Unincorporated Man, which isa collaboration with his brotherEytan. He also is an advertisingcopywriter currently living in LosAngeles.

Eytan KollinEytan KollinEytan KollinEytan KollinEytan Kollin has sold his first novel,The Unincorporated Man, which isa collaboration with his brotherDani. He is also a teacher of his-tory and economics who is cur-rently living in Pasadena.

Jacqueline LichtenbergJacqueline LichtenbergJacqueline LichtenbergJacqueline LichtenbergJacqueline Lichtenberg wrote theMolt Brothers series and theDushau trilogy.

seum collections and archaeologi-cal digs in central and northern Cali-fornia. Her short stories have ap-peared in Aeon, Magazine of Fan-tasy & Science Fiction, and variousanthologies.

Todd McCaffreyTodd McCaffreyTodd McCaffreyTodd McCaffreyTodd McCaffrey wrote his first sci-ence fiction story when he was 12and has been writing on and off eversince. His books include the Pernbook Dragonsblood, and the non-fiction work, Dragonholder. You canvisit his website at http://www.toddmccaffrey.org.

Christian McGuireChristian McGuireChristian McGuireChristian McGuireChristian McGuire is past Losconchairman, past Westercon chair-man, past NASFIC chairman, andpast Worldcon chairman. He hasmany other bad habits as well.

Dennis MalloneeDennis MalloneeDennis MalloneeDennis MalloneeDennis Mallonee is the president ofHeroic Publishing, Inc., and the pastpublisher/editor of the illustratedfantasy/sf magazine, Fantasy Book.

Craig MillerCraig MillerCraig MillerCraig MillerCraig Miller is a well-known writer/producer and consultant in the ani-mation and games industry.

Jess MillerJess MillerJess MillerJess MillerJess Miller has been involved in cos-tuming for about 30 years. Shestarted by being involved with theSociety for Creative Anachronismand the Northern Renaissance Faire.She has a BA in art with an empha-sis on textiles and furthercoursework in anthropology. She isDean Emeritus of Costume College.

June MoffattJune MoffattJune MoffattJune MoffattJune Moffatt bitten by the publish-ing bug at an early age. She andLen published MOONSHINE forFAPA. She has written and pub-lished De Jueves for APA-L, the un-official apa of LASFS, for more than2200 weeks. She and Len weregiven a Lifetime AchievementAward at the 1999 BoucherCon,the World Mystery Convention,which they helped start (with Bruce

Patricia MacEwenPatricia MacEwenPatricia MacEwenPatricia MacEwenPatricia MacEwen is a physical an-thropologist who works on mu-

Pelz) thirty-seven years ago.They have been active in LASFS

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since the 1940s as members, pro-cedural officers and board mem-bers and have worked on severallocal, regional and world s-f con-ventions over the years.

Len MoffattLen MoffattLen MoffattLen MoffattLen Moffatt is a writer of prose,poetry, parody, and personal pub-lications for more than sixty fiveyears; his first professional saleswere to the latter day pulps. Hisshort stories (s-f and fantasy)were reprinted in Australia, Franceand Mexico. He has been active ins-f fandom since the 1930s, andin mystery fiction fandom since the1960s.

Leslie Ann MooreLeslie Ann MooreLeslie Ann MooreLeslie Ann MooreLeslie Ann Moore is practicing vet-erinarian in the Los Angeles area.For as long as she can remember,she’s been a storyteller. Her re-cently published novel of roman-tic fantasy, ‘Griffin’s Daughter’,first of a trilogy, is her debut.

Lynn Maudlin Lynn Maudlin Lynn Maudlin Lynn Maudlin Lynn Maudlin found fandom in1982 at Mythcon XIII. Lynn spentten years on the Mythopoeic Soci-ety board of directors. Lynn is asinger/songwriter, an artist, awriter, an editor, and a film pro-ducer. She is easily pulled into con-versations about God and the Bible,and appreciates the obsession thatis costuming.

Vera NazarianVera NazarianVera NazarianVera NazarianVera Nazarian is a writer, artist,and now publisher of NorilanaBooks. Ancient myth, moral fables,eclectic philosophy, and her Arme-nian and Russian ethnic heritage allplay a strong part in her work. Herwebsite is www.veranazarian.com.

Larry NivenLarry NivenLarry NivenLarry NivenLarry Niven is a science fictionwriter with a whole bunch of ac-complishments. He has won Hugoawards for “Neutron Star”(1966), Ringworld (1970), “In-constant Moon” (1971), “TheHole Man” (1974), and “The Bor-

and other awards.

Fred PattenFred PattenFred PattenFred PattenFred Patten joined LASFS in 1960.He has attended most Worldconsand Westercons since then andwas chairman of the of the 1974Westercon and the 1987 Loscon.He was co-founder of the firstJapanese animation fan club in1977. He is one of the world’sleading authorities on anime.

Dr. Jerry PournelleDr. Jerry PournelleDr. Jerry PournelleDr. Jerry PournelleDr. Jerry Pournelle is one of theleading writers of military SF. Hehas a number of successful collabo-rations with Larry Niven. He alsohas written about computers andscience.

Tim PowersTim PowersTim PowersTim PowersTim Powers is the author of adozen SF and fantasy novels, in-cluding The Anubis Gate, Dinner atDeviant’s Palace (both winners ofthe Philip K. Dick Memorial Award),Last Call and Declare (both winnersof the World Fantasy Award). Pow-ers lives with his wife, Serena, inSan Bernardino, CA.

Tom SaferTom SaferTom SaferTom SaferTom Safer is a self taught experton animated cartoons. He has acollection of over 4000 theatricalcartoons and animated featurefilms.

Steve SavitzkySteve SavitzkySteve SavitzkySteve SavitzkySteve Savitzky is a songwriter whodiscovered organized fandom andfilkdom in 1978, and wrote his first“real’’ filksong shortly thereafter.

Sharon SheffieldSharon SheffieldSharon SheffieldSharon SheffieldSharon Sheffield has a degree inlinguistics and anthropology withan emphasis on how languageshapes culture and vice versa.

Stu ShepherdStu ShepherdStu ShepherdStu ShepherdStu Shepherd first displayed art-work in the Loscon art show in1989 and has been a regular par-ticipant in recent years. Stu is atraditional painter though much ofhis work is created digitally.

derland of Sol (1975). He hasalso won some Nebulas, Ditmars,

Jill SherwinJill SherwinJill SherwinJill SherwinJill Sherwin is the author of“Quotable Star Trek”, “The De-

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finitive Star Trek Trivia Book, Vol-ume I and II” and “Sailing the Slip-stream: An Unofficial and Unautho-rized Guide to Gene Roddenberry’sAndromeda”.

Curt SteindlerCurt SteindlerCurt SteindlerCurt SteindlerCurt Steindler lives in West Los An-geles with his wife and four lizards.He is an attorney specializing inInternet and New Media law.

Moira SternMoira SternMoira SternMoira SternMoira Stern sings and accompaniesherself on the pedal harp. Sheearned a Bachelor of Music Perfor-mance degree at the University ofRedlands.

Tony N. TodaroTony N. TodaroTony N. TodaroTony N. TodaroTony N. Todaro is vice-presidentof the Greater Los Angeles Writ-ers Society.

Tadao TomomatsuTadao TomomatsuTadao TomomatsuTadao TomomatsuTadao Tomomatsu Jack-of-most-trades, entertainer, actor, A formerLoscon chair. A longtime Mid-Westfan, he moved to Los Angeles tofurther his acting career. He hasworked on such projects asFriends, Babylon 5, JAG, InspectorGadget, Charlie’s Angels, FullThrottle, and on the NBC series He-roes. He is also well known inter-nationally for his role on Banzai asMr. Shake Hands Man. He is cur-rently behind the camera on NBC’sThe Singing Bee.

Harry TurtledoveHarry TurtledoveHarry TurtledoveHarry TurtledoveHarry Turtledove is an escapedByzantine historian who writes al-ternate history, other SF, fantasy,and historical fiction. His recentbooks include Fort Pil low,Crosstime Traffic: The DisunitedStates of America and SettlingAccounts: The Grapple.

George Van WagnerGeorge Van WagnerGeorge Van WagnerGeorge Van WagnerGeorge Van Wagner is a freelancewriter, musician, and recording en-gineer who is cursed with being in-terested in almost everything. Heis past president and current mem-ber of the Board of Directors ofthe LASFS.

Vanessa Van WagnerVanessa Van WagnerVanessa Van WagnerVanessa Van WagnerVanessa Van Wagner is the LASFSlibrarian. She is a former adult ba-sic education teacher and literacyprogram manager. Though nolonger in the classroom - she’s nowa technical copyeditor - she main-tains a commitment to promotingreading to disadvantaged families.

Bill WarrenBill WarrenBill WarrenBill WarrenBill Warren has been writing aboutSF and other movies for over 40years. His writing includes the twovolume series Keep Watching TheSkies!: American Science FictionMovies of the Fifties.

Michael Z. WilliamsonMichael Z. WilliamsonMichael Z. WilliamsonMichael Z. WilliamsonMichael Z. Williamson is an immi-grant from the UK and Canada, aveteran of the US Army and US AirForce, a bladesmith, and a writer.

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For Locations and Times of panels, Please refer to the Pocket Program.

Program PanelsProgram PanelsProgram PanelsProgram PanelsProgram PanelsArchaeology

Extraterrestrial Archaeology: What DoWe Do When We Find Something?(M) Robert Sawyer, Berry Kercheval,

Louise Hitchcock, Geordie Howe,Larry Niven

Present and Future Ethics in Archaeol-ogy(M) James Daugherty, Gregg Castro,

Louise Hitchcock, Sharon Sheffield

Archaeoastronomy, The Effect of the Skyon Ancient Cultures(M) Vanessa Van Wagner, James

Glass, Harry Turtledove

Who Owns The Past?(M) Harry Turtledove, Lynn

Flewelling, Barbara Hambly, SharonSheffield

What Is The Future Of Archaeology andPaleontology?(M) Louise Hitchcock, Gregg Castro,

Greg Hensath, Robert Hole

Can You Dig It, Excavating Our Civiliza-tion(M) James Daugherty, Gregg Castro,

Robert Hole, Patricia MacEwen

Realistic World Building: Why the Past isImportant to the Present [A](M) Robert Sawyer, Barbara Hambly,

Vera Nazarian, Larry Niven,Michael Z. Williamson

Realistic World Building: Why the Past isImportant to the Present [B](M) Harry Turtledove, Lynn

Flewelling, David Gerrold, JerryPournelle

(Same topic as A but with differentpeople)

Archaeologists Have Problems (You’vejust dug-up what?)(M) Robert Sawyer, Maya Bohnhoff,

Louise Hitchcock, Geordie Howe

Aliens in Archaeology: Von Danniken andother such ideas(M) James Glass, Robert Hole,

Geordie Howe

Historical Linguistics: What Can Lan-guage Change Tell Us?(M) Laura Frankos, Lynn Flewelling,

Sharon King, Vera Nazarian, SharonSheffield

Lost Worlds: How Do You Go About Los-ing A World These Days?(M) Vanessa Van Wagner, James

Daugherty, John DeChancie, RobertHole, Geordie Howe

Archaeology of Indiana Jones [Presen-tation]David West Reynolds

Archaeology of Land of the Lost [Pre-sentation]David West Reynolds

Archaeology of the Future [Presenta-tion]David West Reynolds

Art

Designing Alien Cities(M) Buzz Dixon, James Daugherty,

John DeChancie, Stu Shepherd

SF & Fantasy Cover Art(M) Laura Brodian Freas, Buzz

Dixon, James Killus, Vera Nazarian,Stu Shepherd

SF Art, the Best and the Worst(M) Mark Ferrari, Robert Gounley,

Stu Shepherd

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The Other Map Room Of LosconThe Other Map Room Of LosconThe Other Map Room Of LosconThe Other Map Room Of LosconThe Other Map Room Of Loscon(Hotel Floor Plan)

Room FunctionDenver .................................................... Filk RoomDallas ................................... Riddle Quest ArchivesChicago ........................................................ AnimeBoston/Atlanta ................................ ProgrammingScottsdale ........................ Children’s ProgrammingNew York .......................................... ProgrammingSt. Louis ........................................... ProgrammingHouston ............................................ ProgrammingWashington ................................. Costume StationNew Orleans ....................................... Photo RoomSaddle Brook .................................... ProgrammingPhiladelphia ....................................... ProgrammingBoardroom ...................................Office / Con OpsSatellite Registration .......................... RegistrationImperial Ballroom D,E,F ..................... ProgrammingImperial Ballroom C ........................... ProgrammingImperial Ballroom B ........................... ProgrammingImperial Ballroom A .......................... ProgrammingMarquis Ballroom .............. Dealers Room/ArtShowCentury Pavillon........ Demonstrations & Dig Boxes

Additional Programming Rooms on the 1st Floor

Warner Center .............Listing LoungeTorrance.......................BOF MeetpointPalm Desert ................Writers LoungeLa Jolla ........................ Artists LoungeIrvine .............................Computer BayMonterey ................... NewsZine Office

The Con Suite is on the 18th Floor inthe Executive II Room near the eleva-tors, end of the hallway.

Upstairs, back by the Lobby/Resturantarea are the Meridian Rooms.Meridian A .......................Teen LoungeMeridian B ................................ Gaming

The Masquerade will be held in the Im-perial Ballroom D,E,F on Saturday.

The Blood Drive will be held in the Im-perial Ballroom C on Saturday.

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Spacescapes(M) John Hertz, Robert Gounley,

Aleta Jackson, Stu Shepherd

Art of Theresa Mather [Presentation]Theresa Mather

Comics

American Manga(M) Buzz Dixon, Fred Patten, Tadao

Tomomatsu, Marv Wolfman

Comics to Movies(M) Eric Hoffman, Bill Warren, Marv

Wolfman

Who Wants To Be A Superhero Writer?(M) Marv Wolfman, Buzz Dixon,

Dennis Mallonee, Tadao Tomomatsu

But I Look Terrible In Tights!! Superhe-roes Without Underwear!!!(M) Christopher Garcia, Kelly Green,

Dennis Mallonee, Marv Wolfman

Department of CostumingSo You Want To Get Into Costuming

(M)John Blaker, Jan Howard Finder,Gail Glass

Costuming on a Budget(M) Zelda Gilbert, Steve Bartlett,

Gail Glass, Jess Miller

Hall Costumes: The Good, The Bad, andThe Ugly(M) Laura Brodian Freas, Tina

Beychok, Gail Glass

Historical Costumes(M) Jess Miller, John Blaker, Greg

Hemsath

Presenting Costumes(M) John Hertz, Tina Beychok, John

Blaker

Prize Winning Costumes(M) Rebecca Foss, John Blaker, Bar-

bara Hambly

Dream Costumes(M) Steve Bartlett, Jan Howard

Finder, Zelda Gilbert, Jess Miller

Discussions(These are not panels. They are

discussions with a leader)

Past Masters: Murray LeinsterTodd McCaffrey

Past Masters: Henry Kuttner/C. L. MooreEric Hoffman

Past Masters: Theodore SturgeonHarry Turtledove

SF Classics: Lord of Light by RogerZelaznyDavid Bratman

SF Classics: Man in the High Castle byPhilip K. DickEd Green

SF Classics: Rendezvous With Rama byArthur C. ClarkeRobert Sawyer

SF Classics: Gateway by Frederik PohlJohn Hertz

When they tell you not to opena book and read it aloud in an-other language, next time listen!

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Filk

Concert 1Alexander Adams

Concert 2Alexander Adams

ConcertMaya and James Bohnhoff

ConcertDr. James Robinson

ConcertConcert Lynn Maudlin

ConcertSteve Savitzky

ConcertMoira Stern

Banned From Argoled by Barry Gold

Dr. James Explains It AllDr. James Robinson

Horror

Bite Me, The Continuing Popularity of Vampires(M) Tim Powers, Kelly Green,

Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Leslie AnnMoore, Jill Sherwin

Horror Should Be Musty and Old. HowDo You Do Something New?(M) Tim Powers, Michael D’Ambroso,

James Glass, Jason Henninger,Patricia MacEwen

Horror For People With Weak Stomachs(M) George Van Wagner, Sharon

King, Tim Powers, Curt Steindler

Weird Tales, The Magazine That Keeps

Crawling Out Of The Grave(M) Marty Massoglia, Len Moffatt,

Vanessa Van Wagner

Future Horror(M) Sharon King, Michael

D’Ambrosio, John D. Eggett, JamesKillus

Fear vs Suspense(M) James Glass, Toni Blair, Michael

D’Ambrosio, Vera Nazarian

Midnight Monster Panel(M) Michael D’Ambrosio, Toni Blair,

Darnell Coleman, Leslie Ann Moore

Horror and Religion(M) David Bratman, Darnell

Coleman, Mark Ferrari, JasonHenninger

Movies/TV

The Virtues of Being Borg(M) Larry Niven, Steve Bartlett,

John D. Eggett, Jill Sherwin

The Best SF Film Ever(M) John DeChancie, Kenneth Estes,

Len Moffatt, Bill Warren

2007, the Year in SF Movies(M) Bill Warren, Toni Blair, Kenneth

Estes, Craig Miller

2007, the Year in SF TV(M) Craig Miller, Michael Cassutt,

Dorothy Fontana, JacquelineLichtenberg, Leslie Ann Moore

Heroes Trivia for ChocolateChristian McGuire, Joyce Sperling

What Males Like In a Female LeadingCharacter?(M) Craig Miller, Michael D’Ambrosio,

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Richard Foss, James Glass, MichaelZ. Williamson

What Females Like in a Male LeadingCharacter?(M) Dorothy Fontana, Aleta Jack-

son, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, DeirdreMoen, Jill Sherwin

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix(M) Joyce Sperling, Jan Howard

Finder, Rebecca Foss, Laura Frankos,Jill Sherwin

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows(M) Joyce Sperling, Jan Howard

Finder, Rebecca Foss, DennisMallonee

Flash Gordon, Then and Now(M) Barbara Hambly, Dorothy

Fontana, Jim Harmon

Sci Fi vs. SF in Media. The Real Difference(M) Bill Warren, Carol Ann Alves,

Machael Cassutt, Tadao Tomomatsu

Back to the Days of Radio [Presenta-tion]Jim Harmon

Cartoons from the Silent Era [Presentation]Tom Safer

Cartoons and Classical Music [Presen-tation]Tom Safer

Mummy Movies [Presentation]Eric Hoffman

Dr. Terror’s House of Pilots [Presentation]Eric Hoffman

Serials Based on Comics [Presentation]Eric Hoffman

SF/FantasyDoes Organic Life Have A Future? Do

We Kill Ourselves Or Do The AIs Do ItFor Us?(M) Robert Sawyer, James Glass,

Robert Gounley, Dani Kollin, EytanKollin, Karl Lembke

The Purpose of Life, What If It Was Cho-sen By Election?(M) Mike Glyer, Davin Gerrold, Bar-

bara Hambly, Larry Niven, VeraNazarian

2008 Hugo Nominees(M) John Hertz, Kathryn Daugherty,

Christopher Garcia, George VanWagner

Should Insanity Be Illegal?(M) Jason Henninger, Todd

McCaffrey, Patricia MacEwen, JerryPournelle

Is Too Much SF Being Published?(M) David Gerrold, Michael Cassutt,

Kelly Green, Berry Kercheval, GeorgeVan Wagner

The SF Canon, Essential SF(M) Kathryn Daugherty, David

Bratman, Berry Kercheval, Tim Pow-ers, Harry Turtledove

Mutate Now, Avoid The Rush (Heroes DoIt, X-Men Do It, Maybe Even You CanDo It)(M) Tadao Tomomatsu, Richard

Foss, Karl Lembke, Larry Niven

The Day After The Day The Aliens Arrived(M) Richard Foss, Darnell Coleman,

Ed Green, Tod McCaffrey

Pulp Fiction(M) Marty Massoglia, Jim Harmon,

James Killus, Len Moffatt, Fred Patten

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The Inklings and Their Influence(M) Diana Glyer, David Bratman, Mark

Ferrari, Laura Frankos, Tim Powers

SF Magazines, Paper vs. On-line(M) James Killus, Tina Beychok,

Laura Brodian Freas, Kelly Green,Berry Kercheval

Logged on at Birth(M) Curt Steindler, Dani Kollin, Eytan

Kollin, Deirdre Moen

I Need As Much Regeneration As I CanGet (Making You As Good As New)(M) John DeChancie, John D. Eggett,

Greg Hemsath, Karl Lembke

Mainstream Literature vs. SF(M) John Hertz, Kenneth Estes, Mark

Ferrari, Dani Kollin, Eytan Kollin

Galactic Consumer Co-ops (Empires arejust soooo imperialistic)(M) Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Carol

Ann Alves, Laura Frankos, Fred Patten

What is the Worst SF Novel Ever Written?(M) David Gerrold, Kathryn

Daugherty, Fred Patten, George VanWagner

ReadingRobert Sawyer

Writing Stuff

Creating Interesting Characters(M) David Gerrold, John DeChancie,

Lynn Flewelling, James Killus, VeraNazarian

Plotting and Pacing(M) John DeChancie, Maya Bohnhoff,

David Gerrold, Jacqueline Lichtenberg,Michael Z. Williamson

Writing Your First Novel(M) Mark Ferrari, Carol Ann Alves,

Michael D’Ambrosio, Lynn Flewelling,Tony Todaro

Great Literature Writers Should Read(M) Diana Glyer, Lynn Flewelling,

Laura Frankos, Jason Henninger

Other Stuff

Aids Project Los Angeles CharityAuctionDavid Gerrold

Hour 25

Fan Funds, What Are They?(M)John Hertz, Christopher Garcia,

Christian McGuire, June Moffatt

Fanzine in an Hour(M) Christopher Garcia, Mike Glyer,

Ed Green, June Moffatt

Something Old, Something New, Some-thing Borrowed, and Something Blue,Programming Your Own SF Con(M) Milt Stevens, Toni Blair, James

Daugherty, Cristopher Garcia, MikeGlyer, Craig Miller

Spam as Poetry(M) Vanessa Van Wagner, Sharon

King, Curt Steindler

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Brief HistoryBrief HistoryBrief HistoryBrief HistoryBrief HistoryOf LosconOf LosconOf LosconOf LosconOf Loscon

The following is a guide to the history of Loscon, theLos Angeles Regional science fiction and fantasy con-vention. The numbers in parentheses indicate total mem-bers and actual attending members. Naming conventionsand themes are also noted on each convention.

LA 2000December 5-7, 1975, International Hotel, Los Angeles

GoH: None.Chair: Milt Stevens. (199 / 196)

Loscon 2October 15-17, 1976, Pacifica Hotel, Culver City

GoH: None.Chair: Ron Bounds. (??? / 175)

Loscon 3April 1-3, 1977, Airport Sheraton, Los Angeles

GoH: None.Chairs: Ed Finkelstein, Mike Glyer. (163 / 149)

Loscon 4November 4-6, 1977, Quality Inn Airport, Los Angeles

GoH: Jerry Pournelle.Chair: Marty Massoglia. (279 / 253)

Loscon 5November 3-5, 1978, Huntington Sheraton, Pasadena

GoH: Robert Bloch.Chair: Susan Fox. (383 / 347)

Loscon 6November 10-12, 1979, Airport Park Hotel, Inglewood

GoH: A.E. van Vogt.Chair: Alan P. Winston. (732 / 691)

Loscon 7November 28-30, 1980, Anaheim Sheraton, Anaheim

GoH: Larry Niven. Fan GoH: Alva Rogers.Media GoH: JackArnold.

Chair: Mike Shupp. (1120 / 1055)

Loscon 8November 6-8, 1981, Huntington Sheraton, Pasadena

GoH: Bill Rotsler. Fan GoH: Len & June Moffatt.Chair: George Jumper. (1016 / 968)

Loscon 9November 26-28, 1982, Universal Sheraton, Universal City

GoH: Poul Anderson. Fan GoH: Milt Stevens.Chair: Dan Deckert. (1390 / 1345)

Loscon 10November 25-27, 1983, Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena

GoH: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Fan GoH: Fuzzy Niven.Spec. GoH: John Myers Myers.Chair: Bruce Pelz. (1048 / 1009)

Loscon ElevenNovember 23-25, 1984, Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena

GoH: Curt Siodmak. Fan GoH: Forrest J. Ackerman.LASFS Guest: Bill Warren.Chair: Charles Lee Jackson II. (1002 / 959)

Loscon 12November 29-December 1, 1985,Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena

GoH: Robert Silverberg. Fan GoH: Terry Carr.In Absentia GoH: Daniel Pinkwater.Chair: Craig Miller. (1387 / 1318)

Loscon the 13thNovember 28-30, 1986, Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena

GoH: John Brunner. Fan GoH: Bruce & Elayne Pelz.Chair: Danise Deckert. (1343 / 1282)

Loscon XIVNovember 27-29, 1987, Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena

“Galactic Empires”GoH: C.J. Cherryh. Fan GoH: Tom Whitmore.Chair: Fred Patten. (1359 / 1330)

Loscon FifteenNovember 25-27, 1988, Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena

“Southgate in Eighty-eight”GoH: Vonda McIntyre. Fan GoH: Stan Woolston.Artist GoH: Patricia Davis.Chair: Rick Young. (1250 / 1000)

Loscon SixteenNovember 24-26, 1989, Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena

“Where Anything Can Happen...”GoH: Spider & Jeanne Robinson. Fan GoH: John & Bjo

Trimble.Artist GoH: Erin McKee.

Chair: Richard Foss. (1221 / 1098)

Loscon 17November 23-25, 1990, Buena Park Hotel, Buena Park

“Moving”GoH: Barry B. Longyear. Fan GoH: Ben Yalow.Artist GoH: Reed Waller & Kate Worley.LASFS Guest: George Alec Effinger.Chair: Robbie Cantor. (1107 / 1040)

Loscon 18November 29-December 1, 1991, Hyatt Regency, Long Beach

“Robotics & Computers in SF / Fantasy”GoH: Mike Resnick. Fan GoH: Allan Rothstein.Artist GoH: Brad Foster.Chair: Rick Young. (1064 / 1019)

Loscon 19November 27-29, 1992, Airport Marriott, Los Angeles

“Into the 21st Century on a Sturdy Broom”GoH: Barbara Hambly. Fan GoH: Mike Glyer.Artist GoH: Don Maitz. Editor GoH: David Hartwell.Chairs: Christian McGuire, Shaun Lyon. (1285 / 1241)

Loscon 20November 26-28, 1993, Airport Hilton, Burbank

“Take This Con and Stuffie It!”GoH: Roger Zelazny. Fan GoH: Paul Turner.Artist GoH: Rick Sternbach.Chair: Chocolate Moose (with Elayne Pelz). (1204 / 1187)

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“The Changing Face of Science Fiction”GoH: Lois McMaster Bujold. Fan GoH: Robbie Cantor.Artist GoH: Alicia Austin. Editor GoH: Kristine Kathryn Rusch.Special GoH (“Superguest”): Julius Schwartz.Chairs: Shaun Lyon, Christian McGuire. (1173 / 1155)


“The World of SF”GoH: Bob Shaw. Artist GoH: Lubov. Fan GoH: Larry Stewart.Chair: Robbie Cantor. (1124 / 1098)

Loscon XXIIINovember 29-December 1, 1996, Airport Hilton, Burbank

“Relax in the Company of Friends”GoH: Harry Turtledove. Fan GoH: Bob Null.Artist GoH: Vincent DiFate.Chair: Christian McGuire. (1127 / 1117)

loscon xxivNovember 28-30, 1997, Airport Hilton, Burbank

GoH: S.M. Stirling. Fan GoH: Geri Sullivan. Artist GoH: MitchellDavidson Bentley.

Media GoH: J. Michael Straczynski.Chair: Ed Green. (1376 / 1296)


“Twenty Five Years Of a Good Thing”GoH: David Brin. Fan GoH: Marjii Ellers. Artist GoH: Sue Dawe.Chair: Kimberlee Marks Brown. (1206 / 1141)

Loscon XXVINovember 26-28, 1999, Airport Hilton, Burbank

“It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and We Feel Fine.”GoH: Connie Willis. AGoH: Alex Ross. FanGoH: Joe Siclari.Chair: Liz Mortensen (1386 / 1204)


“The Dawn of a New Millennium”GoH: Orson Scott Card. Artist GoH: Bob Eggleton.Special GoHs: Harry Knowles, Robert Hewitt, Frank Kelly

FreasFan GoH: Craig Miller & Genny Dazzo.Chair: Shaun Lyon & Christian B. McGuire. (1375 / 1317)


“Education - Building the future one mind at a time”GoH: Patricia C. Wrede. ArtistGoH: Chris Butler.FanGoH: Lynn Gold.Chair: Chaz Boston Baden. (1187 / 1128)

Loscon 29November 29-December 1, 2002, Airport Hilton, Burbank

“Planet Loscon”GoH: David Weber. Artist GoH: Nene Thomas.Fan GoH: Patty Wells.Chair: Tadao Tomomatsu. (1383/ 1308)


“Navigating the WORLDS of Science Fiction”Author GoH: Fred Saberhagen. Fan GoH:Jack L. Chalker.Artist GoH:Teddy Harvia.Chair: Michael Mason. (1229 / 1177)

Loscon 31November 26-29, 2004, LAX Marriott, Los Angeles

“Escape To LA”Author GoH: Tim Powers. Artist GoH:Wendy Pini.LASFS GoH:David Gerrold.Chair: Ed Green. (1265 / 1197)


“2005: A Space Operetta”Author GoH: Steven Brust. Artist GoH:Rowena Morrill.Fan GoH:Bruce Farr.Chair: Karl Lembke. (1222 / 1183)


“Exploring the Golden Ages of Science Fiction”Author GoH: William Tenn. Artist GoH:Bernie Wrightson.Fan GoH:Fred Patten.Chair: Scott Beckstead. (1146 / 1084)


“The Dig: Excavating the Worlds of Science Fiction”Author GoH: Robert J. Sawyer. Artist GoH:Theresa Mather.Fan GoH: Capt. David West Reynolds.Music GoH Dr. James Robinson (aka Dr. Jane)Chair: Dr. Susan “Arizona” Gleason. (? / ?)


“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Loscon”Author GoH: John Scalzi. Artist GoH:Gary Lippincott.Fan GoH:Michael Siladi.Chair: Cathy Beckstead & Joyce Hooper. (? / ?)

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A Brief History Of LASFSA Brief History Of LASFSA Brief History Of LASFSA Brief History Of LASFSA Brief History Of LASFS

President: Marcia MinskyVice-Presidents: Mike Thorsen

Tadao TomomatsuJoan Steward

Treasurer: Elayne PelzScribe: Joe Zeff

Registrars: Joyce HooperMichelle Pinkus

Arlene Satin

Loscon 34 Chair:Dr. Susan “Arizona” Gleason

Loscon 35 Chair:Cathy Beckstead & Joyce Hooper

Board of Directors(Expiration of Terms in parentheses)

Chairman: Karl Lembke (2009)Vice-Chair: Mike Thorsen (2007)Comptroller: Brett Achorn (2008)

Secretary: George Van Wagner (2008)

Other Members of the Board:Cathy Beckstead (2007)

Bill Ellern (2008)Ed Green (2009)

Liz Mortensen (2007)Merlin R. "Bob" Null (2009)

Elayne Pelz (2008) Tadao Tomomatsu (2009)

Special Advisor:Charles L. Jackson II

Advisors:Forrest J. AckermanLen & June Moffatt

Fred Patten

CurrentLASFS Elected

Officers

This year, as always,Loscon is brought toyou by the Los An-geles Science Fan-tasy Society. Cel-ebrating its 73rdanniversary thisOctober 27th, itis the world’s old-est living science

fiction club. However, the LASFS did notform spontaneously from a vacuum. Itrequired the support of an organizedscience fiction fandom.

The pioneering science fiction magazine,Amazing Stories, began monthly publi-cation in April 1926. It printed opinionsand criticisms from its readers, alongwith their full addresses, in a “Discus-sions” column. Rejoicing in theirnewfound kindred, many early fans,most of high school and college age,began writing to each other. Within afew years, a group of two or three hun-dred of these pen pals around NorthAmerica and Britain had formed a loosesocial association. Some organizedmore formally. A Science Correspon-dence Club was started during 1928,and began publishing a club magazine,The Comet, in May 1930. By the early1930s several of the more literate fans,individually or in collaboration, startedtheir own amateur magazines in emula-tion of the professional SF magazines.The prevailing attitude and sense of pur-pose of these early fans and fanzineswas the serious advancement of sciencefiction.

The earliest localized SF club was TheScienceers in New York City, which firstmet on December 11, 1929. Its fanzine,The Planet, began in July 1930. In ad-dition to amateur fiction and popular sci-ence articles, it reported on the meet-ings and social activities of the club.Copies of The Planet were mailedthroughout the fledgling SF fandom, andencouraged many fans to start similarclubs in their cities. These clubs usuallydrifted apart after a few months or yearsas their adolescent members developedother interests, but there were alwayssome SF clubs to inspire new fans tocreate or join local clubs.

In May 1934, Wonder Stories announcedthe creation of the Science FictionLeague, an international SF club which

was to be coordinated through a col-umn in the magazine. Members livingin the same city were encouraged to

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get together and start a local SFL chap-ter. The first SFL chapters were on theEast Coast, but on Saturday, October27, 1934, seven Los Angeles SFL mem-bers and two guests met in the garageof member E. C. Reynolds. These ninefans sent a letter to Wonder Stories ask-ing to become an SFL chapter. The LosAngeles Science Fiction League (LASFL)was granted a charter dated November13, 1934 as the club’s fourth chapter.

The LASFL met irregularly during its firstyear. This changed when Forrest JAckerman, a hyper-enthusiastic L.A. fanwho was in college in San Francisco atthe time, returned home at the begin-ning of 1936 and quickly became theclub’s most active member. Bolsteredby Forry’s efforts, LASFL began meet-ing regularly every other Thursday inFebruary 1936, increasing to the firstfour Thursdays of the month in January1939 and every Thursday in July 1942.He became the nucleus of a group ofsimilarly enthusiastic young fans suchas Walter Daugherty, T. Bruce Yerke,Paul Freehafer, Ray Bradbury, and RayHarryhausen who transformed theLASFL from a tiny literary discussionclub into a lively social group. They in-vited all SF authors visiting or living inLos Angeles to come to the LASFL.Arthur J. Burks, Robert A. Heinlein, JackWilliamson, Henry Kuttner, and other ce-lebrities accepted the invitation.

Ackerman was particularly active in help-ing the LASFL publish its own mimeo-graphed fanzines. They were full of hu-morous, pun-filled reviews and parodiesof current SF, as well as discussions ofthe LASFL’s picnics, holiday parties andgroup outings to scientific lectures atCal Tech or the local planetarium in ad-dition to the club meetings. These soonestablished the LASFL’s reputationthroughout budding SF fandom as“Shangri-L.A.”; a paradise for young SFfans. This reputation helped L.A. fan-

til 1946 due to World War II).

When the parent Science Fiction Leaguebegan to fall apart in the late 1930s,Forry aided the club in staying alive bydeclaring its independence on March 27,1940 as the Los Angeles Science Fan-tasy Society. Forry remained active inthe club for the next two decades. Heseldom held a formal club office, but hewas always there to keep things movingwhile others came and went. ForrestAckerman was Mr. LASFS for thirty years.By the time he stopped participatingregularly in the mid-1960s, he left afirmly established club behind him.

The LASFS went through some drasticpersonality changes before settling downinto its current self. SF fandom in theThirties was dominated by intellectualyoung men who gave the original LASFLthe atmosphere of a college fraternity.During the early Forties, the club almostself-destructed due to fannish politics.Cliques and factions battled, attemptingto impeach club officers, arguing end-lessly over trivial differences of opinion,and setting up rival local SF clubs. Atthe same time, with World War II inprogress and most SF fans over 18 inthe Armed Services, the LASFS took onthe atmosphere of a fannish USO. LosAngeles was a major embarkation cen-ter for soldiers and sailors shipping outinto the Pacific, and LASFS memberswere always ready to stop fighting longenough to greet and play host to fans inuniform passing through L.A. to the front.

Perhaps in reaction, as soon as the warended the club swung to the oppositeextreme, shunning most fannish activi-ties as irresponsible. The attitude wasencouraged that fans should aspire tobecome professional SF authors, andseveral local writers including A. E. vanVogt, Ross Rocklynne and L. Ron Hubbardbecame regular participants. The LASFSinstituted a “Fanquet”, an annual ban-

dom win the World Science FictionConvention for 1942 (postponed un-

quet honoring those members whomade their first professional SF sale.

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Several members did sell one or two shortstories, and one, E. Everett Evans (forwhom the Evans-Freehafer Award is co-named, with Paul Freehafer; see sepa-rate section), became a minor popularauthor during the 1950s until his deathin 1958.

A major accomplishment of the LASFSin the late 1940s was the creation ofthe annual West Coast Science FantasyConference (Westercon). At this timethe only SF conventions were in the NewYork/Pennsylvania/New Jersey area, plusthe annual World Science Fiction Conven-tion which had come to Los Angeles in1946 but was usually held in a city Eastof the Mississippi. Two LASFS members,Walter Daugherty and Dave Fox, felt thatthe fans in Western cities deserved theirown annual convention. In 1948 theLASFS started the Westercon in emula-tion of the Worldcon. Los Angeles-areafans held the first three Westercons un-til the convention was well-enough es-tablished that fan clubs in such cities asSan Diego and San Francisco were readyto host it. Today the Westercon is sixtyyears old, and has met in cities rangingfrom Vancouver, BC to Honolulu, HI toBoise, ID to El Paso, TX. The Westercon’sBylaws specify the LASFS as the archiveof Westercon business and the defaultadministrator in the case of the failureof any individual Westercon (which hasnever happened). Westercon 55 in 2002returned to Los Angeles for the first timein eight years. The 2004 Westercon wasin Phoenix, 2005 was in Calgary, 2006was in San Diego, 2007 was in San Mateo,and Westercon 61 in 2008 will be in LasVegas.

By the early 1960s the LASFS hadworked through its extremes to becomethe casual, open-to-all interests club thatit is today. There are always some SFauthors and artists in residence, fromFritz Leiber in the late Fifties to Larry

Foster, Stephen Goldin, David Gerrold,Steven Barnes, John Dalmas, WilliamRotsler, and George Barr among others.Some were well-established when theymoved to Los Angeles and others be-came authors while they were fans inthe club. But there is no longer pres-sure for members to write if they pre-fer to remain fans.

In the Sixties the LASFS regained thelively spirit of its beginnings, with theadditional benefit of a growing femalepresence in SF fandom. The club be-came more family oriented, with sev-eral marriages between members dur-ing the Sixties and Seventies includingBjo & John Trimble, Len & June Moffatt,and Bruce & Elayne Pelz. Fans began tospecialize into sub-groups, devotingthemselves to hard-science SF,Tolkienish high fantasy, SF movies,comic books, specific movie and TV se-ries including Star Trek and Dr. Who,roleplaying games, mystery/detectivefiction, computer groups, evencliffhanger serials and old Westernsthrough the efforts of Charles Lee Jack-son II. The Cartoon/Fantasy Organiza-tion, the first Japanese anime fan club,held its first meeting at the LASFS inMay 1977. Despite this fragmentation,the LASFS counted them all as part ofAll Things Fannish, encouraging a strongspirit of camaraderie and family. TheLASFS began to build this spirit duringthe 1960s, incorporating in 1968 as anon-profit educational organization andbuying its own property in 1973. In1977 the LASFS replaced it with a largerclubhouse at the current location inNorth Hollywood. The club acquired itsfirst computer, an Altair, that year as adonation by Larry & Fuzzy (Marilyn)Niven; it was made a member as AltairNiven. In 1993 the club completed reno-vations to its front building, remodelingand doubling the size of its SF librarywhich now contains well over 10,000

Niven, Jerry Pournelle and JohnDeChancie today, including Alan Dean

volumes. The LASFS went online withits own website in 1997.

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In December 1975, the Society pre-pared LA 2000, a special convention tocelebrate the club’s 2,000th meeting.More a relaxicon than a convention inthe traditional sense (such as featuringguests of honor or holding a formal pro-gram), the event was so enjoyable that

sary and calling itself Loscon for the firsttime. The Loscon was held twice in1977, the second that year being thefirst with an official guest of honor, JerryPournelle. By 1978 it had settled intoan annual November affair, the Los An-geles Regional Science Fiction and Fan-

it was repeated in 1976, moving toOctober to honor the club’s anniver-

tasy Convention, and starting withLoscon 9 in 1982 the Thanksgiving

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weekend has become traditional. Loscon7 in 1980 was the first to top 1,000members, and attendance has notdropped below a thousand since 1984.The Loscon was held in Pasadena from1983 through 1989, in Burbank from1993 through 2003, and in 2004 it re-turned to Los Angeles itself.

In the last quarter of the 20th centurythe LASFS began to blend and expandits social and literary activities. The an-nual Fanquet metamorphed through aLASFS Showcase into the LaLaCon be-ginning in 1995; a two-day “Spring Flingrelaxicon, social gathering and openhouse” held at Freehafer Hall. Atten-dance is limited to 150; the venue’s maxi-mum capacity. Traditional LaLaConevents include a Plutonium Chili Cookoffon Saturday at noon; an Intergalactic IceCream Social on Saturday evening; anda Banquet on Sunday. In 1964 the LASFSbegan APA-L, an unofficial weekly fanzineassembled at each club meeting consist-ing of individual contributions by mem-bers who find it convenient to communi-cate through “paper conversations” ofusually two to four pages; some contrib-uting by mail who cannot attend theclub’s meetings. APA-L has had contribu-tors from throughout North America andEurope. In 1976 the similar monthlyLASFAPA was started. During 2006APA-L has averaged about thirty pagesfrom fifteen contributors per week. Sev-eral of the unofficial sub-groups havegrown into technically independent clubswhich traditionally meet at Freehafer Hallon an established weekend each month,including the Cartoon/Fantasy Organiza-tion and Cinema Anime (anime clubs),the Time Meddlers (Dr. Who), and TRIPE,FWEMS and the Estrogen Zone (movie-watching clubs). Members of these clubsare also the organizers of the annual LosAngeles-area Gallifrey One (Dr. Who) con-vention, and the new Animé L.A. con-vention beginning in 2005.

profit organization in 1982, the South-ern California Institute for Fan Interests,Inc. (SCIFI), to be the sponsor and or-ganizer of Worldcons, Westercons, andsimilar major events within the science-fiction community that are not a partof the LASFS. SCIFI organized the 1984,1996, and recent 2006 Los AngelesWorldcons, the 1999 North AmericanScience Fiction Convention (NASFiC)and the 1989, 1994 and 2002Westercons. In 1997 SCIFI created theFan Gallery, a growing gallery of portraitphotographs of prominent SF authorsand fans funded from the “Benefit toFandom” money left over from the 1996Worldcon surplus. The Fan Gallery wasfirst exhibited at Loscon in 1997 andhas become a regular display atWorldcons, Loscons and other conven-tions since then.

The LASFS has survived some traumaticshocks. The April 1992 Los AngelesRiots occurred on a Thursday, which al-most caused the club to cancel itsweekly meeting for the first time sincethe early 1940s. (That meeting wasattended by only a few fans who ad-journed early to get home before themartial-law curfew.) After the January1994 6.7 Richter Northridge Earth-quake, and again during the October-November 2003 Southern Californiawildfires, the LASFS became an infor-mation center for fans to keep in touchwith each other and offer help. A smallertragedy has become common due to the“graying” of fandom; LASFS regular at-tendees for decades have started dy-ing or becoming confined to their homesdue to the infirmities of old age. InMarch 2002 Bruce Pelz proposed theestablishment of a status known as ‘Pil-lar of the LASFS.’ In order to qualify asa Pillar, the member must be dead. Themember’s estate, or friends, would thenmake a large, lump-sum donation to theLASFS, in an amount to be determinedby the club. The proposal was being

For legal reasons, LASFS members in-corporated a separate California non-

discussed when Pelz unexpectedlydied in May of a pulmonary embolism.

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The creation of the Pillar of the LASFSAward was approved in June with thedonation set at $4,000, and donationsto make Pelz himself the first Pillar ofthe LASFS were raised within twomonths at the 2002 Westercon andWorldcon.

Fortunately, the LASFS is constantlyadding young and enthusiastic SF fansto replace the departed. Some majorLASFS events during 2004 included theclub’s 70th anniversary meeting and the40th anniversary distribution of APA-L(#2058), both in October. The partici-pants of both ranged from theirfounders to newcomers who only joinedduring 2004. The 2006 Worldcon,L.A.con IV, was held in Los Angeles(Anaheim), and many newcomers dis-covered the club through that World-con.

LASFS’s regular Thursday night meet-ings, starting around 8:00 p.m., usuallyboast sixty to one hundred fans of allages. About half the attendees partici-pate in the formal meeting and program,which may include a speaker, an SFmovie, a panel, or auctions of SF items.The rest are present to use the club’slibrary (a trove of SF books, magazines,audio and video tapes, available to allmembers), or to gather in informalgroups in various spots around the club-house to socialize, pursue their specialinterests, or work on individual clubprojects. (The LASFS has organized SFexhibits for local public and universitylibraries, and a committee has been pub-lishing an annually updated “LASFS Rec-ommended Reading List for Young Read-ers” since 1997, which has been re-quested by librarians across the coun-try. The LASFS maintains social con-tact with other major SF clubs through-out America.) The clubhouse is alsoopen every Friday night for more infor-mal socializing and open gaming. Inaddition, on the Second Sunday of each

L.A.S.F.S.The Los Angeles Science

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L.A.S.F.S. clubhouse:11513 Burbank Blvd.

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ran a SF exhibition booth at the annualUCLA Book Fair for many years, and itstill holds its annual “LaLaCon” two-dayrelaxicon each Spring.

There is something for every SF enthu-siast at the LASFS! For more informa-tion call us on Thursday nights (or leavea message) at (818) 760-9234; or stopby the clubhouse at 11513 Burbank Bou-levard, North Hollywood on Thursday orFriday evenings. Or check out the LASFS’website: http://www.lasfs.org/lasfs/

month the LASFS hosts an openhouse for gaming fans. The LASFS

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The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society began to honor its own in 1959 with thecreation of the Evans-Freehafer Award, named after two of the club’s most influen-tial and popular members, E. Everett Evans and Paul Freehafer.

E. Everett (“Triple E”) Evans was one of the first LASFSians to become a successfulpro, with over a dozen short stories and novels published during the 1950s beforehis death in 1958.

Paul Freehafer was only 27 when he died of a rheumatic heart in 1944, but it was hischeerful enthusiasm for carrying club projects to completion that made the LASFSone of the leading sf clubs of the late 1930s and early 1940s.

The Evans-Freehafer Award is presented at each Loscon to that year’s recipient.The award is decided by a special committee made up of the three previous years’recipients, and the winner is a closely guarded secret until the announcement. Theaward is presented for service to the LASFS, recognizing hard work and dedicationto the club. Only four people (Bruce Pelz, Bob Null, Mike Donahue and Elayne Pelz)have received this award more than once.

In 1972, rather than present the award to a current member, the decision was madeto give the award to Forrest J. Ackerman, retroactively all the way back to 1942, forhis years of service to the club.

The year 2004 is the most unusual and perhaps the saddest year in this history.Michael Mason, club librarian, died unexpectedly quite soon after that year’s Loscon.The voting committee honored Michael with the first posthumous award, and itbecame a shared award with Christian McGuire.

1959: Al Lewis1960: Rick Sneary1961: John Trimble1962: Virginia Mill1963: Leland Sapiro1964: Paul Turner1965: Fred Patten1966: Bruce Pelz1967: (no award)1968: Charles Crayne1969: Bruce Pelz1970: Don Fitch1971: Milt Stevens1972: Forrest J. Ackerman (Retroactive to ’42)1973: Bill Warren1974: Lee Gold1975: Tom Digby1976: Craig Miller1977: Jerry Pournelle1978: Jim Glass1979: Louis E.W. Gray1980: Elayne F. Pelz1981: Merlin R. Null1982: Fuzzy Pink Niven1983: Marjii Ellers

1984: Gavin Claypool1985: Susan Hazeltine1986: Galen Tripp1987: Mike Frank1988: Charles Lee Jackson II1989: Robbie Cantor1990: Gary Louie1991: George Mulligan1992: Merlin R. Null1993: Michael Donahue1994: Len & June Moffatt1995: Ed Green1996: Leigh Strother-Vien1997: Tim Merrigan1998: Liz Mortensen1999: Greg Bilan2000: Mike Thorsen2001: Tadao Tomomatsu2002: Mike Donahue2003: Merlin R. Null2004: Christian McGuire / Michael Mason2005: Bill Ellern2006: Elayne Pelz2007:

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Award for service to thescience fiction community

Each year since 1966, the Los Angeles Science Fan-tasy Society has presented the Forry Award for Life-time Achievement in the field of Science Fiction.Named after long-time fan and “Mr. LASFS,” Forrest J.Ackerman, the award is chosen by members of theclub during a meeting usually in the mid to late fall ofeach year, and announced at Loscon. In 2002, overthirty-five years after the award’s establishment, theclub felt that it was high time that Forry himself re-ceived the award with his name.

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1966: Ray Bradbury1967: Fritz Leiber1968: Poul Anderson1969: Larry Niven1970: Harlan Ellison1971: Theodore Sturgeon1972: A.E. van Vogt1973: C.L. Moore1974: Robert Bloch1975: Kris Neville1976: Marion Zimmer Bradley1977: L. Sprague de Camp1978: Leigh Brackett1979: Jerry Pournelle1980: Robert A. Heinlein1981: Horace Gold1982: Arthur C. Clarke1983: Frank Kelly Freas1984: Julius Schwartz1985: Robert Silverberg1986: Jack Williamson

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1987: Donald A. Wollheim1988: Ursula K. LeGuin1989: Andre Norton1990: Isaac Asimov1991: Curt Siodmak1992: Hal Clement1993: Roger Zelazny1994: Frederick Pohl1995: Harry Turtledove1996: Chuck Jones1997: Jack Vance1998: David Brin1999: Connie Willis2000: Anne McCaffrey2001: Ray Harryhausen2002: Forrest J. Ackerman2003: Philip Jose Farmer2004: Len Moffatt2005: John DeChancie2006: William Tenn2007: David Gerrold

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The Rotsler Award judges are pleased to name TerryJeeves as the winner of the 2007 Rotsler Award.

Terry Jeeves, of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England,is a member of First Fandom, that happy band of folkarriving no later than the first Worldcon (1939). Foryears his fanzine Erg was known around the world. Heis deft with creatures human and otherwise, strangemachines, and possibly intelligent beings called Soggies.

The Rotsler Award was created by the Southern California Institutefor Fan Interests, Inc. (SCIFI, Inc.) in his memory in 1997, to honorthe lifetime work of outstanding fanzine artists. It is awarded yearlyby a specially appointed panel and, by arrangement with the LASFS,it is presented at the Loscon. Its recipients receive a $300 hono-rarium and a plaque. Traditionally there is an exhibit of the currentrecipient’s work in the Loscon Art Show. There is a website atwww.scifiinc.org/rotsler.

Bill Rotsler (1926-1997) knew everyone and did everything. Helocated the fossils, crystals, and stones for the Nebula Award tro-phies of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA). He wenthouse-hunting with Marilyn Monroe. He wrote science fiction. Hesculpted with welded steel rods. He celebrated the West CoastScience Fantasy Conference (Westercon) as his birthday

In the s-f community, he was best known for graphic art. As afanartist his cartoons were deft, his serious drawing fine, his flu-ency downright breathtaking. He won four Hugo Awards, twentyyears apart, in 1975 and 1979, 1996 (when he also won the Retro-Hugo for 1946) and 1997; a remarkable span.

The Rotsler AwardThe Rotsler AwardThe Rotsler AwardThe Rotsler AwardThe Rotsler Award

Rotsler Award Recipients1998 Steve Stiles1999 Grant Canfield2000 Arthur Thomson (ATom)2001 Brad Foster2002 Kurt Erichsen

2003 Ray Nelson2004 Harry Bell2005 Marc Schirmeister2006 Alexis Gilliland2007 Terry Jeeves

Ice Cream ExcavationIce Cream ExcavationIce Cream ExcavationIce Cream ExcavationIce Cream ExcavationTreecat crunchies, candy bones, ribbons of goldcaramel... just a few of the toppings that youmay see at this year’s Ice Cream Social.

Come join us on Friday night and be surprised (andpossibly even shocked and amazed) by the toppingsoffered by party hostsand fan groups.

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The Loscon 34 Masquerade will takeplace on Saturday, November 24,2007, at 8:00 PM, in the Ballroom.Once more, we are pleased to beoffering to the winner of Best inShow for the Loscon Masqueradeone membership to Costume Col-lege, courtesy of Costumer’s GuildWest, and a special award for BestCostume related to the con themeof “Digging up the Past”.

Here are the rules for this year’sshow. Please remember that therules for the masquerade are for thesafety of the participants and theaudience, not the whim of the direc-tor. If you have any questions re-garding the rules or the masquerade,please see the Director, Jess Miller,at the signup table in the lobby. Yourquestions will be answered.

Your must read the rules before en-tering.

The categories will be children 13and under, Novice, Journeyman andMaster. Only one costume can beworn by each person, but there isno limit to the number of costumesyou can make and have your friendswear!

No unsheathed, edged weapons onstage. All edged weapons must bepeace bonded. There will be a weap-ons master to check them if thereare any questions.

No food product-based costumes ormessy substances allowed on stageor in the backstage area.

No outside food in the backstagearea. You may be careful about theburger, but your neighbor may not.

No fire allowed on stage.

No projectiles of any sort. If you needto throw something during your pre-sentation, clear it with the director.

No Costume Is Still No Costume.

If you have any questions, ask thedirector; surprise the audience, NOTthe director.

If you have any doubts, ask the di-rector. See above.

Presentations are 30 seconds to 1minute for one or two entrants, 1 to2 minutes for groups of three ormore. Keep it simple is the bestpolicy.

The Masquerade Green Room, locatedin the Washington room, opens at 6PM. Please be there and checked inby 7:30 PM. This means either in cos-tume or you have your costume readyto put on in the Green Room. Pleasedo not check in and then leave.

Please get the signed entry form tothe masquerade sign-up by 4:00PM.No signed entry form, no entry.

Please, NO LATE ENTRIES. If you haveany questions, ask the director.

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Special Needs is at the convention to help any member with vision, hearing,mobility or other medical conditions that might affect their enjoyment ofLoscon, all of which apply to the department head. We’re here to help you

get the special seating you need, the mobility cart to helpyou move around, or whatever else you need. One thingthough: we can’t help you if you don’t ask, so please, don’tbe shy!

Special NeedsSpecial NeedsSpecial NeedsSpecial NeedsSpecial Needs

Hall CostumeHall CostumeHall CostumeHall CostumeHall CostumeAwardsAwardsAwardsAwardsAwards

Costumes have been a part of sci-ence fiction conventions sinceForrest J Ackerman attended thefirst Worldcon wearing a costumefrom the movie “Things To Come”.Looking around a Loscon about 10years ago, and seeing that therewere only 3 or 4 costumes, AnneMorrel, an occasional costumer,commented “This has become adull place. We need to encouragefans to get back to wearing cos-tumes again.” Costumes are oneof the hallmarks of a Science Fic-tion Convention. They’re fun tocreate and wear, and fun for oth-ers to look at. She took charge

of the Hall Costume Awards.A hall costume is clothing pat-terned after, copied from, or in-spired by a science fiction or fan-tasy source.It must be capable of ordinarywear and not fall apart at inap-propriate moments. It can beremoved without (much) outsideaid or risk of being destroyed.One old definition is that if youcan go to the bathroom withouthelp, it’s a hall costume.Every item of the costume shouldlook appropriate to the outfit.This means no pirates or elveswith tennis shoes.The over-all effect should be vi-sually pleasant.The outfit should be a completecostume. Just an exotic hat orfancy cloak does not constitutea costume.Every time a person shows upwearing a different costume, theycan get another award. It’s theperson wearing the costume, notthe one who actually made (orbought) it, who gets the award.It’s important that the costumewearer spend some time in thehalls or the Dealers’ Room or ConSuite or other similar place. Oth-erwise, there’s a very goodchance the award staff will neverbe able to find them.

We’re looking forward to giving YOUWe’re looking forward to giving YOUWe’re looking forward to giving YOUWe’re looking forward to giving YOUWe’re looking forward to giving YOUa Hall Costume Award ! !a Hall Costume Award ! !a Hall Costume Award ! !a Hall Costume Award ! !a Hall Costume Award ! !

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Dealers’ RoomDealers’ RoomDealers’ RoomDealers’ RoomDealers’ RoomWelcome to LosCon 34! Our Dealers’ Room is full of excellentvendors ready to tempt you with lots of fascinating and delight-ful treasures. You’ll be happy to see a number of our most popu-lar dealers back again and a few new finds as well. Exhibiting thisyear are:

Angelwear Creations ...................................................... Jewelry and gemstonesBaron’s Beauties ...................................................................................................Bedazzled by Design ............................................................................. CostumesBobcat Publishing ........................................................ Books, Original Art, PrintsBook Universe ..................................................... New books, t-shirts and gamesBrick by Brick Design ....................................................................................... ArtBuy Soundtrax ............................................................... Film and TV soundtracksCargo Cult Books & Notions ...................................... New books, CDs and DVDsDAG Productions ........................................................... Filk CDs, note cards, etc.Dark Gift ....................................................... Items of leather, candles and fangsDragonmarsh Apothecary .................................Oils, herbs, gifts and much moreFM Designs ............................................................................................................Fo’ Paws Productions .......................................... T-shirts, other shirts and totesGray / Guardians ........................................................................................ AuthorThe Hornsmythe ......................................... Horn, bone, & leather and costumesHouse of Artemas ................................................... Canvas, fleece and knit giftsThe Lillian Todaro Collection ..................... Butterfly Fairy Jewelry and beadworkLyzard 13 ............................................ Action figures, toys, blinkies & treasuresMassoglia Books ............................................... Used books and bumper stickersMichael D’Ambrosio .................................................................................... AuthorMoney-Changers ........................................................................ Coins and medalsNova Science Fiction Science ................................................... fiction magazinesQR Zed Engraving ............... Knives, miscellaneous engraved items and crossbowsRealm of Regalia ................................................................... Trims and costumesSoundtrack ................................................................ Vintage movie memorabiliaSea Fire Productions ................................... CD’s, DVD’s, books, jewelry, comicsSundreams and Myths ........................ Original design soft sculptures and artwork

As you can see, we have a wide variety of dealers offering aneven wider spectrum of merchandise. Come, join us. Browse,visit, chat and shop. You’ll be glad you did!

Kris BauerDealers’ RoomLOSCON 34

Dealers’ Room Hours:Friday: 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.Saturday: 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.Sunday: 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Come to the Information table (across from Registration)to get the latest data on program changes, neat thingsto do and to find the locations of the restrooms!Pick up your “No Photo” Buttons here.

InformationInformationInformationInformationInformation

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Silicate Lifeform Research Bay

Welcome, carbon based life, to theopportunity to share some time withyour nearby neighborly silicate life.An active uplink to the LCARS infor-mation retrieval system (local ter-minology: world wide web) will bemaintained, provided we don’t needthe power for warpspeed.

Our starship’s entire scientific re-search team (including a few of ourcarbon based crew) will be here toenhance your studies. Of course, wewill welcome the chance to study the

Computer LoungeComputer LoungeComputer LoungeComputer LoungeComputer Loungepeoples of the early 21st century aswell.

Food and liquid refreshment shouldbe kept at a minimum. Please do notrisk our desk controls or the nearbysilicates. Thanks in advance.

We will have the bay doors open 10am to 10 pm localtime, with the pos-sible exception of a dinner break. Thesilicates have determined that 20thcentury doors don’t respond to thewhoosh signal. Some effort will bemade to improve this during theevent; feel welcome to check by atany time just in case.

The English Regency period (about the year 1800)? At a science fictionconvention?We’ve had Regency Dancing at s-f cons for years. Usually there’s a mix ofpeople who don’t know how but think it might be fun; who’ve tried itbefore but can’t quite remember; who are actually quite good at it; andwho only come to watch.People come in historical costumes, or in hall costumes – s-f costumesome folks wear for strolling round the halls; the late great Marjii Ellerscalled this “ordinary wear from alternative worlds” – or you can come asyou are.

Regency DancingRegency DancingRegency DancingRegency DancingRegency Dancing

Con SuiteCon SuiteCon SuiteCon SuiteCon Suite

Loscon Base CampAs you go through your day digging up

Hours:Friday .......................... 9am-8pmSaturday ..................... 8am-8pmSunday ........................ 9am-8pm

panels and workshops, sifting your wallet in the dealers’ room, and discover-ing the treasures of art show - take a break and stop by “Base Camp” torefuel and recharge so you may have the energy to continue your quest. Wehave crate loads of rations to satisfy your cravings, to quench your thirst,and stimulate your creative spirit.

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Loscon 34, like most fan-run conventions, doesn’t end when the sungoes down and the Dealers’ Room closes. Besides the various eveningactivities (Masquerade, Ice Cream Social, various dances), we expect anumber of fan groups to be hosting open room parties on our partyfloors. We have had record number of parties in the past. This year wedon’t expect to be outdone. The LAX Marriott has a designated partyfloor.

There will be lots of signs posted for the parties (and in the daily zine),so you can watch for them and write down room numbers. Or you canjust go to one of the party floors and work your way up and down thehall and stairs to the other floors, looking for open doors.

“But I didn’t get an invitation! I’m not going to go where I’m not in-vited.”

On the party floors, the open door constitutes an invitation, especiallyif you hear conversation inside. Mostof the parties are an excuse to hangout and talk, or drink strange and ex-otic beverages and nibble on unidenti-fiable delicacies.

The parties don’t usually get too loud,although twenty fans talking in a hallhaving a conversation can make a bitof noise. If you’re concerned about late-night conversations outside your door,please check with the front desk andhave them put you on a“quiet floor.” Trust me,you’ll be happier that way.

What to do after that last panel: An introduction to room partiesWhat to do after that last panel: An introduction to room partiesWhat to do after that last panel: An introduction to room partiesWhat to do after that last panel: An introduction to room partiesWhat to do after that last panel: An introduction to room parties

Room PartiesRoom PartiesRoom PartiesRoom PartiesRoom Parties

Join us Saturday night from 7-11PM for a pajama party with games,stories, and lots of fun surprises! There will be “napspace” for those who nod off early.Kids are welcome from potty trained to 12 years ofage. This is not your usual kids programming! It isnot babysitting, either. It is a party and parents arewelcome and encouraged to stay. However, weknow some of them will need to sneak off to theMasquerade or parties upstairs, too.

Kids’ Night OutKids’ Night OutKids’ Night OutKids’ Night OutKids’ Night Out

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FILKING AT LOSCONby Lee Gold

Science fiction fans have been sharingoriginal songs and music at conventionsfor over sixty years (as chronicled inHarry Warner, Jr.’s All Our Yesterdays).You’ll be able to buy filk tapes and CDsin the Loscon Dealers’ Room. But thereal filk experience is face-to-face timeat concerts and in the filk circle.

This year Loscon is going to have an es-pecially wonderful filk program, startingwith Music Guest of Honor Dr. JamesRobinson, who will not only have a con-cert but also appear at a “Dr. Jim Ex-plains It All” hour to introduce his songsin more detail than usual.

For 55 years, “Dr. James” Robinson layburied deep within the mind of his fe-male-bodied alter ego, “Dr. Jane”Robinson. Patient and skillful therapeu-tic excavation of long-buried memoriesrevealed... well, a bearded baritone.

“Dr. Jane” was a talented lyricist,songwriter and performer who left alegacy of wonderful music about cats,academia and especially dinosaurs. “Dr.James” doesn’t write songs, but he willdo his best to perform Jane’s — at least

those his newly minted vocal cords canmanage.

James’ performances at Loscon arededicated to the memory of his andJane’s beloved friend and partner,Cynthia McQuillin, who upon meetingJames for the first time exclaimed, “Atlast I get to meet the man I fell in lovewith!”

In addition to Dr. James. we’ll also behaving concerts by: • Jeff and Maya Bohnhoff, who startedas members of a rock band but eventu-ally switched to filk. They often per-form at science fiction conventions allover the country, sometimes as guestsof honor. They are two time Pegasusaward winners for excellence in filk mu-sic. They currently have three CDs avail-able.• Lynn Maudlin, Mythopoeic Societymember.• Steve Savitzky, whose muse leads himto the world inside the crystal (in backof the computer monitor) and otherwonderful places• Moira Stern, harpist, whose repertoireincludes folksongs from many differentcultures.• And finally, last but by no means last,Alexander James Adams - Faerie TaleMinstrel.

Filking Events At Losconby Lee Gold

Filk events will take place in the Denver Roomunless otherwise noted.

Friday afternoon: 4-6 PM Boston-AtlantaRooms

Alexander James - Faerie-Tale Minstrel Un-leashed from the land of Fae comes theheir to Heather Alexander’s music andmagic. AJ Adams is a fiery Celtic fiddlerwith a compelling voice to enchant audi-ences of all ages. With songs and storiesof the otherworld, Alexander James in-

spires his audiences to make theirdreams come true and look for the won-ders within. From tender love songs torowdy brawls, gentle Irish airs to rockin’reels, AJ brings ancient legends to themortal world in true bardic style, prov-ing once and for all, the magic never dies!

Friday evening: 8:00 PM: Open Filking

Saturday afternoon: 2:30 PM: SteveSavitzky: hacker and songwriter, whosefirst CD is finally out

Saturday afternoon: 3:15 PM: Moira Stern:singing harpist

Saturday afternoon: 3:45 PM: Banned fromArgo (led by Barry Gold)

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FILK: The Music of SFby Lee Gold

Yes there is music at this convention - andnot just at the dances.

Come join us at the Filksing.

You don’t know what filksinging is? Join usand learn.

You think you know what filksinging is? Joinus and find out what we think it is.

Hint #1: A lot of filksong is to original tunes.Hint #2: Some of the filkers you’ll hear have

commercially recorded tapes and CDs.

You don’t know any filksongs? Join us andborrow a filksong book. Or buy some inthe Dealers’ Room.

Looking for late night entertainment? Join us.

Forgot to pack the bucket you carry a tune in?

Join us (but don’t sing louder than whoever’sleading the song).

Wow, that’s a Rule. Here are a few other,usually unwritten Filksong Circle Rules(adapted from Melinda Hunter’s Rules).

Rule #0: Everyone who wants to participategets a turn. Eventually.

Rule #1: No apologies before performing!Rule #2: Wait 3D6 seconds after the last

performer is done and then loudly strum

your guitar or other instrument and startto play and/or sing.

If you sing a capella, STAND UP and start tosing. (You can sit down once the otherpeople are quietly listening to you.)

If you don’t feel up to singing, you may re-quest that someone else sing. Pick a sub-ject and see if anyone’s written a songabout it.

Rule #3: PLEASE, take conversation into thehall if someone is performing.

Rule #4: No apologies after performing!!Rule #5: If you do NOT want accompani-

ment, say so.Otherwise we will join in at the darnedest

times and in the darnedest keys.Rule #7: Bawdy songs are traditionally sung

after midnight.Rule #8: Traditional folksongs are welcome.

So are pop songs that seem to havesomething to do with science fiction, fan-tasy, and high tech, Or cats, roleplaying,or Neopaganism, Or other stuff.

Rule #9: No apologies in the middle of per-forming.

Rule #10: If someone asks people to turnoff their recorders, please do so.

Otherwise, feel free to record whatever you like.Rule #11: No apologies instead of perform-

ing.

Come to the Filksing and hear our fabuloussongs.

Saturday afternoon: 4:00 PM: Dr. Jim Ex-plains It All: Dr. James Robinson, Loscon’sMusic Guest of Honor, explains the back-ground of his favorite songs and re-sponds to audience requests to explainand perform their favorite songs.

Saturday evening: 7:30 PM: Lynn MaudlinConcert: singer, songwriter, Mythopeist,artist, fan

Saturday evening: 8:00 PM: Maya & JeffBohnhoff Concert: beautiful singing andintricate guitarwork, blending rockrhythms and fannish perspective

Saturday evening: 9:00 Dr. James Concert:Loscon’s Music Guest of Honor

Saturday evening: 10:00: open filking

Sunday morning: 11 AM: Critters (Extant &Extinct), a theme circle interested in any-thing from cats to scientists, hosted byDr. James Robinson 11:00 AM (atleast an hour long)

Sunday afternoon: 1 PM: Boston-AtlantaRooms

Alexander Adams returns from the Land ofthe Fae for another two-hour concert

Sunday afternoon: 3:00 PM: Endangered Ar-chaeologist Filk: open filking

Sunday evening: 7:00 PM: Dead Dinosaur Filk:open filking

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Teen ProgrammingTeen ProgrammingTeen ProgrammingTeen ProgrammingTeen ProgrammingHear Ye! Hear Ye! Calling allyoung conquerors! The Con-querors of the Ancient World(teenagers) are meeting to playvideo games, do crafts andother fun stuff like playing “Areyou a werewolf?”There will be some Competi-tions to see who is the great-

est Conqueror of video gameslike Guitar Hero, Halo 2, SmashBrothers and many more.

Come as you please!

We will be meetingFriday: 4:00 pm.-1:00 a.m.Saturday: 12:00 noon-6:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.Sunday: 12:00 noon- Close of Con

Come to the Art Show and seeall the beautiful and fun art-works on exhibit. Many itemsin the Art Show are for sale bywritten or voice auction. We willaccept checks, Visa, Mastercardand the ever-popular cash. Youneed a bidder number to bid onand to purchase items. Ourfriendly staff will be happy toprovide you with a bidder num-ber and explain the rules for bid-ding.

Art ShowArt ShowArt ShowArt ShowArt ShowArt Show Hours:

Friday - Noon to 6 pmSaturday - 10 am to 6 pmCloseout of written bids at 6 pmSunday -10 am to 12:00 noon,

Noon to 2 pm, Auction2 pm to 6 pm, Pickup of sold

artwork and after closeoutsales.

Theresa MatherRotsler Award WinnerJohn EricksonYvonne EricksonSarah Lee ClemensRichard ManDenise GarnerJohn A. Garner

Some of our displaying artists:Betsy MottVicki King

Daniel CortopassiPeri Charlifu

Robert Hole, Jr.Bic Pham-Le

Thomas Rucktenwald

Alan BeckEspaña SheriffMark CorrinetDawn Mullan

Charlene D’AlessioStu ShephardMaia Sanders

Artists and Illustrators of the Future

Docent Tours of the Art Show. This is a practice we borrowed frommuseums, where informed guides lead round small groups pointingout things that help people appreciate what they see. Talking aboutart is itself an art. The late Bill Rotsler, among his uncountabletalents, was so fascinating as an Art Show docent that tours he ledtended to accumulate fans along the way, by the end resembling arehearsal for grapes or bison. Try a tour at Loscon 34! Look forthe schedule near the Art Show entrance.

Art Show Docent ToursArt Show Docent ToursArt Show Docent ToursArt Show Docent ToursArt Show Docent Tours

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Children’s ProgrammingChildren’s ProgrammingChildren’s ProgrammingChildren’s ProgrammingChildren’s ProgrammingCome join us in the l ittleZiggurat!If you are between 3 years oldand 12 years old, potty trainedand have a paid membershipwhether children’s or full, pleasejoin us! There will be playingwith Bones, Reading of Books,Leather work, and sand art.Some special Items of Interestare: Dr. Destructo teachingabout the parts of the com-puter. Dr. Susan “Arizona”Gleason showing how to makearrowheads. The Kids’ Choice

awards are Saturday at 11 AM.Join us earlier at the Ziggurat orjoin us at the art show. TheMoney Changers are allowing usa special treat on Saturday in theafternoon. Also, at pointsthroughout the con we can visitthe dig boxes. See the pocketprogram and board for moredetails.

Hours:Friday: 1:00 pm.-6:00 p.m.Saturday:10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.Sunday: 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

AnimeAnimeAnimeAnimeAnimeThe anime room will be bringing you tales from the past, future,and slightly sideways to the present from 10am-2am Friday,10am-2am Saturday, and 10am - 3pm Sunday. And earn fabu-lous volunteer hours sitting around watching anime! Ask Volun-teers how you can sign up for a shift operating our advancedtechnology.

Friday, November 2310 am El Hazard11am King of Bandit Jing12 noon Dual1 pm Ah! My Goddess2 pm The Third3 pm Trigun4 pm Planetes5 pm Ghost in the Shell: SAC6 pm Noein7 pm Genshiken8 pm Escaflowne9 pm Tenchi Muyo GXP10 pm Ruin Explorers11 pm “mid Licensed by Royalty1 am Witch Hunter Robin

Saturday, November 2410 am El Hazard11 am Mythical Detective Loki12 noon Master of Moquiton1 pm School Rumble2 pm The Third3 pm D.N.Angel4 pm Full Metal Alchemist5 pm ova Hina6 pm Master Keaton7 pm Pumpkin Scissors8 pm Kurau Phantom Memory9 pm Ergo Proxy10 pm Spriggan11 pm “mid Elf Princess Rane1 am Eureka Seven

Sunday, November 2510 am El Hazard11 am Ranma 1/212 noonMartian Successor Nadesico

1 pm Moon Phase2 pm The Third3 pm Rune Soldier Louie

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Explore the The Lost Citiesfor more adventures andcontests of skill. Games likeexpedition based Lost Cit-ies and the archaeologicaldigs of Thebes will add athematic touch to thisyear’s Loscon Game Room.Other new games and many

The Lost Cities of GamingThe Lost Cities of GamingThe Lost Cities of GamingThe Lost Cities of GamingThe Lost Cities of Gamingold favorites: war games, railgames, card games, LARP,and the like will be played,too. There are fr iendlygames and a few tourna-ments with prizes. Be sureto check the schedule on thedoor and the daily program!

This year at Loscon, thanks to the efforts ofDr Emmett Brown,

we are pleased to present exhibits from“The Museum of the Future”.

ExhibitsExhibitsExhibitsExhibitsExhibits

Please enjoy, and wonder at these rare artifactsfrom futures past.

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Please leave your real weapons athome. Remember that we are lo-cated extremely close to a majorinternational airport and really donot want to draw the unwarrantedattention of Homeland Security. Allweapons that are even remotelyidentifiable as such must bechecked with convention operationsand peace-bound if necessary. Ifyou are uncertain about the statusof your costume prop, please checkwith our operations crew (locatedin the Convention Office to the sideof the elevators opposite of Regis-tration). If you are not willing to

WEAPONS POLICYWEAPONS POLICYWEAPONS POLICYWEAPONS POLICYWEAPONS POLICYhave your item peace-bound (usu-ally by a zip-tie), please leave yourprop in your room. If you purchasesuch an item in the dealers room,please leave it within the wrappinguntil you get back to your room.No brandishing of prop weapons(even for photographs) in the hall-ways. There will be a room avail-able for Photographs on Saturdaywhere you can do your weaponposes. Check with the Masquer-ade Director about specific Mas-querade related weapon policies.Thank you and have a safe conven-tion experience.

(Yep, that includes your whip Indiana.)

Loscon likes to be proud of its mem-bers, but there may be one or two thatjust get out of hand. If you find or no-tice a member of this convention inneed of assitance or our “special con-sideration,” let us know in Con Ops /Office and we’ll handle it right away.We are located on the main floor inthe Boardroom.

Security/ Con OpsSecurity/ Con OpsSecurity/ Con OpsSecurity/ Con OpsSecurity/ Con Ops

It is permissible to videotape atLoscon as long as you respectpeople’s requests not to and aslong as you are polite and un-obtrusive. We will be handingout “no photo” buttons thatpeople can pick up at the infor-mation desk to indicate to bothour official and unofficialvideographers/photographersthat they wish not to be pic-tured. If you are intending thefootage to be sold and/orshown in a non-private forum

Photography / Videotape PoliciesPhotography / Videotape PoliciesPhotography / Videotape PoliciesPhotography / Videotape PoliciesPhotography / Videotape Policiesat the LASFS table. Once regis-tered you will receive a pressbadge and your intentions maybe posted in the newszine sothat people will know. There willbe Official Loscon Videographersand Photographers roaming thehallways of the convention ev-ery day. All attendees shouldbe aware that unless they pickup the “no photo” button theymight be included in such pic-tures or tapes that Loscon willbe using for future publicity.

we desire for you to registeryourself with our Press Liaison

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OfficeOfficeOfficeOfficeOfficeLost & FoundLost & FoundLost & FoundLost & FoundLost & Found

Have you lost something?(Your Mind? Sorry, we can’thelp you there - try the consuite, they can help you getit back.) Lost & Found is withthe Office, in the Boardroom.Come in and see if we havewhat you’ve misplaced.

Hours:Thursday (Pre-Reg Only) Evening

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.Friday: 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 6:01 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Saturday: 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 6:01 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Sunday: 9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

RegistrationRegistrationRegistrationRegistrationRegistration

Audio entertainment foryour listening pleasure willonce again be featured inthe Listening Lounge. Weare preparing another pro-gram of Old Radio, Readings& other tidbits. Come on by

Listening LoungeListening LoungeListening LoungeListening LoungeListening Loungethe Warner Center room onthe first floor and join us.Rest your feet for a littlewhile and enjoy a journeythrough the wide-ranginglandscape of the theater ofthe ear.

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Daily ZineDaily ZineDaily ZineDaily ZineDaily ZineNeophyte Newsie Needs Nerds !

The dashing and colorful Martin Young has been selected to editLoscon 34’s Journal of RKOlogy. His only problem: he has no idea

what he’s doing. His solution: get other people to dothings for him. True, he has the handsome and talentedRobert Evans as chief reporter, but he needs people to

carry completed newsletters to wherever they’resupposed to go, and to do other stuff he hasn’t eventhought of yet. Please volunteer! Report to theMonterey Room, 1st floor for your assignments. Itemsof interest will be gratefully accepted. Some of themmight even be used in the newsletter! (Possibly ed-ited for space.) Others will be used for purposes youprobably don’t want to know about.

No one fandom or group can claim to be the only player in town.It’s a big universe out there, with many different special interestsgroups.

Fan tables are a collection of informational presentations from vari-ous other groups, clubs, and conventions.

Fan Tables are offered free of charge to these groups and mannedby their respective staff keep the information flowing.

Be sure to visit the Fan Tables in the Ballroom Entrance area tomeet someone with the following groups:

Fan TablesFan TablesFan TablesFan TablesFan Tables

InformationSpecial NeedsVolunteersMasquerade

LASFSTime MeddlersBrowncoatsCostumers Guild WestSoulGeeks.comBrewster RockitOASISScience Fiction Poetry AssociationSCA

Loscon 35Gallifrey OneLepreConConDorConjecture

Denver WorldconMontreal Worldcon

Westercon 61 Las Vegas, NvWestercon 62 Tempe, AZ

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Weapons Policy: All Weapons forCostumes and otherwise, regard-less of being “letter openers” orreplica weapons, MUST BE PEACEBONDED. Zip Ties are available inthe Convention Operations(ConOps). NO projectile weapons ofany sort, nor realistic or real weap-ons, edged or otherwise.

The only place during the conven-tion where weapons maybe utilizedis during the MASQUERADE on Sat-urday. And only then, subject to theapproval of the Masquerade direc-tor.

PEACE BONDING: Tied Shut, Tapedclosed and Unavailable by accidentor design.Anyone found with unbonded weap-ons will be asked to return saidweapons back to their room, con-veyance / vehicle / transportationand or kept in Operations until theend of the convention. Bearer’sFlap-covered pistol holsters may beasked to be open them.

IDENTIFICATION: To attend any ofthe convention events you need“those stinkin’ badges”. Any timeyou are in a convention area, pleasewear your badge visibly. If you mis-place you badge, please report itto the Registration Desk. There maybe a replacement fee. If you findsomeone else’s badge, please re-

Security RulesSecurity RulesSecurity RulesSecurity RulesSecurity RulesCourtesy of the depart-ment of redundancy de-

partment (For Those Whodidn’t read them earlier)

turn it to Office and or Registra-tion.

Kids In Tow must be in the com-pany of a paid adult at all times.

Children’s Programming is NOTChild Care.

Smoking is permitted ONLY in des-ignated OUTDOOR areas.

California State Laws apply to le-gal ages in imbibing of Alcohol, etc.Please have your ID handy.

We consider it our Phannish andLegal Duty to refuse service toanyone acting irresponsibly.

IF you have a complaint concern-ing the convention or the hotel(other than problems with yourpersonal room), please contactConvention Operations or any ofour Helpful Loscon Staff Membersfirst.

No costume is still no costume.Also, costumes that are edible andor leave trails... Well, you do it, youclean it up.

Please Follow Hotel Guidelines forproper adhesion devices for post-ing messages, etc.

Consuite consumables are to bekept in the consuite area please.

Volunteer? You want to volunteer? Great! Access tofood, a chance to step up the chain of command, orjust to meet all kinds of interesting people. We willhold raffles for awesome prizes. You might even earna membership to Loscon 35! Become a member ofthe Dig Crew now!

VolunteersVolunteersVolunteersVolunteersVolunteers

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Visit the Pharaoh, George Mulligan, inVisit the Pharaoh, George Mulligan, inVisit the Pharaoh, George Mulligan, inVisit the Pharaoh, George Mulligan, inVisit the Pharaoh, George Mulligan, inthe Con Suite to place a gift in the Vault.the Con Suite to place a gift in the Vault.the Con Suite to place a gift in the Vault.the Con Suite to place a gift in the Vault.the Con Suite to place a gift in the Vault.

.... Hey mister, you wanna buy anautograph?AutographsAutographsAutographsAutographsAutographs

At Loscon 34, you can have your books signed for free! Unbe-lievable, but true!

Just drop by the autograph table, inside the Dealers’ Room, andhave them signed by your favorite authors. Be sure to check theschedule board next to the table for any changes. The auto-graph sessions will be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from12noon to 5pm.Friday12noon Marv Wolfman12noon Tim Powers1 pm David Gerrold2 pm Jacqueline Lichtenberg3 pm James Glass4 pm Mark Ferrari4 pm Maya Bohnhoff

Saturday12noon Michael D’Ambrosio

1 pm Barbara Hambly1 pm Mel Gilden

2 pm Dorothy Fontana2 pm Larry Niven

3 pm Robert Sawyer4 pm Jerry Pournelle

Sunday12noon Harry Turtledove

12noon Jim Harmon1 pm Lynn Flewelling1 pm Vera Nazarian

2 pm Deirdre Saoirse Moen3 pm Todd McCaffrey

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Expedition MembersExpedition MembersExpedition MembersExpedition MembersExpedition MembersBrad AchornBrett AchornKore B. AdamsStephen AldersonAlegriaTodd AllisJanet M. AlvarezCarol Ann AlvesErik AndersonKaren AndersonMelissa AndersonDoug AndrewsNadine ArmstrongCraig ArnushJacob ArnushMiranda ArnushRene ArnushJohn AttwoodHammond B. AtwellPriscilla AtwellRex B. AtwellChaz BadenJocelyn BadenLynn Boston BadenWil BadenJanet BaernsteinMark BanningAmy BarerDanny BarerKathryn BaronSteve BartlettKenn BatesKris BauerDeanna BaylessSundance BeKinnieCathy BecksteadPatrick BecksteadScott BecksteadRuth BehlingAlex BellangerSherri BenounTony BenounBelle BensonThomas BensonElizabeth BerrienHenry BestwickTina Beychok

Greg BilanToni Blair

Sheila M. BlaiseJohn R. Blaker

BlarsDavid BlissDave BloomKent Bloom

Michael BloomStella BloomRobert BlumBert Boden

Jeff BohnhoffMaya Kaathryn BohnhoffMargaret Wander Bonano

Molly BooneLynn Bougher

Robbie BourgetDavid Bratman

Michael BrennanNancy Brennan

Alexandra BrownGrant BrownJordan Brown

Kim Marks BrownDennis Buckley

Bucky Entourage #1Bucky Entourage #2Bucky Entourage #3Bucky Entourage #4Timothy A. Burdick

Michael BurlakeStan Burns

Colleen BurrowsShirley Bushnell

Cassandra BustosJonathan BustosThomas Bustos

David ByrdJennifer Byrd

Chet CadyChuck CadyTasha Cady

Linnea CaldeenMelissa H. Campbell

Mary Ann CanfieldDiane Capewell

Stuart CapewellDora Carder

Kathy CarderAmy Carpenter

Cathy CarrollSuzi Casement

Jamie Cassidy-CurtisTim Cassidy-Curtis

Michael CassuitElonda CastroGregg Castro

Wing ChanYates ChandlerJohn Chapman

Judith A. ChapmanKristin Chernoff

Dennis CherryKristine Cherry

Eric CheungJennifer ChouAlan ChudnowAaron Cistrelli

David ClarkFiona Cleary

Heather ClearySt. Sean Cleary

Jud CohanAaron Groff Cohen

Sandy CohenJennifer Cole

Darnell ColemanKaren Connell

Robin E. CooksonKevin CooperNorm Cooper

Kendal CopperbergAaron Cornelius

Alan CorneliusDian Cornelius

Jessica CorneliusSara CorneliusJ. Corsentino

Guest of J. CorsentinoRichard Costas

David Cotelessa

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Cal CottonRichard CreaseyDoug CrepeauSamuel CrosbieShawn CrosbyCatherine CruzanBill CurryS.L. CurtisMichael D’AmbrosioJames Stanley DaughertyKathryn DaughertyPatricia DavisWalt DavisGenny DazzoJohn DeChancieJane DennisScott DennisElena DentGreg DienhartLiane DienhartBuzz DixonAlbert DobrovitzKevin DoddsAndrew Dolan Jr.DragonMarshieDeborah DrakePamela Du PuyEric Du’ MarnSaul DudleyLinda DunlapT.A. Dunn Jr.Brandon EadsSerenity EbertJohn D. EggettBill EllernDan EricksonGuest #1 of Dan EricksonGuest #2 of Dan EricksonGuest #3 of Dan EricksonSteffany ErnstKen EstesBarney EvansBob EvansJohn EvansKate EvansKathy EvansDarrel L. ExlineJade FalconJade Falcon

Mark FerrariWayne Fiebick

Jan Howard FinderDennis Fischer

Guest of D. FischerGlen FisherDon Fitch

Lynn FlewellingDorothy Fontana

Rebecca FossRichard FossAshton Fox

Shawnna FoxNola Frame-GrayJoyce FranciscoMichael FrankRebecca FrankLaura FrankosDanny Frashier

Laura Brodian FreasH. Denise Freeman

Stanley FriesenGreg Funke

Sharon GaffneyDavid Gallaher

Michael GallowayChristopher J. Garcia

Ed GarciaKaren Garcia

Steve GattusoFlavius George IIIElizabeth Gerds

Eric GerdsDavid GerroldLester S. GiboZelda GilbertMel Gilden

Gerard GillesspieDana Ginsberg

Brian GittGail Glass

James C GlassSusan GleasonLarry Glidden

Ron GluckDiana GlyerMike Glyer

Jerry GoblerJean Goddin

Barry GoldLee Gold

Harold GoldsteinJohn Goodwin

Bino GopalVanessa Gopnzales

Varoujan GorjianZareh Gorjian

Robert GounleyEdwin Grace

Eleanor GraceJoyce C. Grace

Peter GraceMark Graves

Louis E W GrayBill GreenEd Green

Kelly GreenHugh S. Gregory

Dave GuonMichael Hale

Barksdale HalesJonnalyhn Wolfcat Hall

Barbara HamblyT. Hanley

Brenda HanrahanLarry Hansen

Barbara HarmonJim Harmon

Harold HarriganLisa Deutsch Harrigan

Harold Harrigan IIISusan Haseltine

Patrick HavertSteffani Hawk

Bill HayesThury Hayes

Thomas HegdahlStacey HeltonGreg Hemsath

Rita HendersonSamantha Henderson

Jason HenningerJohn Hertz

Debra HicksGuest of D. HicksLouise Hitchcock

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Charles HoffEric HoffmanFrederick HoldermanRobert Hole Jr.Jonathan HoltLew HolzmanFrank HoodEd HooperJoyce HooperHans HornsteinAmelia M. HorswillGeri HowardGeordie HoweRichard HubbardKen HughesSandra HuibersJeffrey HultenCat HuntDennis HuntLaura HuntRobin HuntGordon HuxfordJohn InnisPaul JacksonCharles Lee Jackson IIRichard JamesEvan James IVRobert JansenBill JettMary Jane JewellJames JiraBrianna JohnsonWarren JohnsonAngela JonesPatrick JoyceKagomeVanessa KamWesley KawatoDavid KellerRobert KennedyGary KephartBerry KerchevalArthur KienleKathryn KienleMegan KienleSusan KienleJames KillusAbby KimForrest Kim

Patty KimSharon KingVicki King

Keith KisselMichelle Klein-Hass

Elizabeth Klein-LebbinkSteve Klingler

Bill KnightGary KodelDani KollinEytan Kollin

Deborah KolodjiHiroshi Konoya

Laura KorpMike Korp

Marian KravitzJim Krenz

Gordon KuistGordon Kuist

Jolie LaChanceLidra Lasby

Fred D. LazzelleHieu Le

Mary LeeKarl Lembke

Melina LevesqueDavid LevineSheila Levine

Barry LewSteven Libis

Jacquelline LichtenbergRachael LinkerRebecca LinkerShannah LinkerSheldon Linker

John LipskiTeresa LipskiSteve Loeb

Edward LopezJesus Lopez

LupinPeter S. LustBradford Lyau

Patricia MacEwenAlasdair Mackintosh

Ines MadisonPaul Magwood

Dennis MalloneeRichard Man

Ari Man-WillrichSilvi Man-Willrich

Jon MannBeth MarbleChris Marble

Judy MargolisAlice Massoglia

Marty MassogliaCharles K. Matheny

Theresa MatherLynn Maudlin

Sergio Mc LaufinKevin McAlonanTodd McCaffrey

Dave McCartyMichael McConnell

Raymond McDermottBruce McDonaldKada McDonald

Christian B. McGuireMac McMahon

Marcia McMahonKevin McNuttKevin McRae

Dawn MeisterCary Meriwether

Jason MerselJonathan MerselMarjorie MerselHarry R. Meyer

Stephanie MeyerDavid Milano

Craig MillerJess Miller

Marcia MinskyG. Ann MitschekG. Ann Mitschek

Deirdre Saoirse MoenRick Moen

June M. MoffattLen Moffatt

Aimee MoisaMichelle Monagin

David MontagHelen Montgomery

Leslie Ann MooreVictor Moray

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Mary MormanAnne MorrelAndrea MorrisLiz MortensenWill MortonYvonne Fay MortonSteve MossRobert MuellerCathy MullicanGeorge MulliganVera NazarianSasa NeumanGuest of S. NeumanSoraya NewellPearl NewtonTerry NewtonWendy NewtonHeide NicholsLarry NivenDick NordrumGuest of D. NordrumMarcella NorlingBob NullDave O’BrienChris O’HalloranJohn O’HalloranMargaret ObergDavid T. OkamuraStephen OkayJanis OlsonPhil OsbornAdela PaigeChris PaigeGina PalmerPatrick PalmerWalter ParkerFred PattenGuest of F. PattenJanet PedersonStephanie PedersonMichael PellElayne F. PelzL. A. PerrySelina PhanaraKenneth PhilliponiJ. Girard PinardJuanita L. PinardMichelle PincusAnna Poliner

Eylat PolinerMark PolinerLarry PollackVena PontiacToni M. Poper

Ken PorterJerry PournelleDavid PowellTim PowersCarol Purcell

Adam RakunasAnne Rakunas

Suzanne RaymondEvelyn ReedRobin Reed

Regina ReynanteCarla Reynolds

David West ReynoldsJoe Rhett

Barbara RingBrenna Ring

Katherine RingShauna RobertsLinda Robinett

Dr. James RobinsonLinda RobisonKevin Roche

Maria RodriguezDave Rood

Bruce RowanRebecca Rowan

Arthur RubinRonni Rubin

Douglas RuddKrystal RuinsKit Russell

Paulette RussellBrian SackTom SaferPaula Salo

Stephen Saracco IIArlene Satin

Gordon SaundersColleen SavitzkyEmerald Savitzky

Kat SavitzkySteve Savitzky

Carolyn SawyerRobert J. Sawyer

Sharon SbarskyGene Schneider

Spring SchoenhuthCaitlin Schuette

Crystal SchuetteKevin Schuette

Michael Paul SchultzEric P. Scott

Jerome ScottMalcolm Scott

Taylor ScottGuest of T. Scott

William ScottKatherine Seddon

Kay ShaperoJerry Shaw

Mike SheffieldSharon Sheffield

Stu ShepherdJill SherwinBarry Short

Don SimpsonCheryl Simshauser

Steven SimshauserNick Smith

Terrie SmithVicki Smith

Rainy SmythSteve Smyth

Thomas SnyderCathy Soper

Mary SorensenChristopher Spano

J’nae Rae SpanoCarol A. Sperling

Joyce SperlingSally Spero

Steve SperoDon Standefer

Margie StandeferJeri Standfield

Curt S. SteindlerOkay Stephen

Alison SternMike Stern

Moira SternMilt Stevens

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Joan StewardWillard StoneAndrea StrassleNicholas StricklandPaula StubblefieldLinda SubiasMarco SubiasJan SuzukawaAnders SwansonGuest of A. SwansonIra TabornKym TabornMichael TallanSheri TaylorSherilynn ThagardFord ThaxtonCarolyn ThompsonGreg ThompsonJames ThompsonKeith ThompsonKatt ThorntonKaty ThorpSteve ThorpMichael ThorsenVernon TiceLillian TodaroT. N. TodaroMichael TomanTadao TomomatsuAndrew TrembleyTeresa TrousdaleDorothy TruslowHarry TurtledoveR-Laurraine TutihasiBrad TylerRochelle UhlenkottJim UnderwoodJ. Yochanan UriasVeda UriasBrian Van De WalkerKaren Van De WalkerKirk Van De WalkerRay Van De WalkerRoxanne Van De WalkerJames Van LydegrafGeorge Van WagnerVanessa Van WagnerJP VanGordanLinda VonBraskat-Crowe

Bob WadeyKate Wadey

Miriam WadeyEvelyn WaltonMonalisa Ward

Bill WarrenChester P Wasko Jr

Mike WeasnerJim Webbert

Carole WeinsteinElliot Weinstein

Steven WeinsteinRichard Weiss

John WennDonald Wenner

Linda WenzelburgerAlan White

Brenda WhiteLee Whiteside

Lynda WiesmeierArlo WilliamsMike Willmoth

Dave Willoughby

Christina WillrichMarie Ellen Wilson

Marv WolfmanNoel Wolfman

David WongDon Wong

Glen WootenLinda Wright

Frank WuPeggy Wu

William G. WuKathryn A. Yeager

Roy YeakeyGordon Yee

Guest of G. YeeKenrick Yoshida

Guest #1 YoshidaGuest #2 Yoshida

Martin YoungTony Zbaraschuk

Joe ZeffBeth ZuckermanEric Zuckerman

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Cover Art Theresa Mather .................................... Cover Front & BackAccess Fan Tony Benoun............................................................. Pg 61Alien Reader Larry Stewart ............................................................ Pg 72Blood Drive Dennis Cherry ........................................................... Pg 53The Boys Steve Leialoha .......................................................... Pg 59Closed Door Party Jay Kinney ................................................................ Pg 63“Dino Drift David T. Okamura ....................................................... Pg 3“Dino End of The World” David T. Okamura ..................................................... Pg 71Dr. Arizona Mario D’Anno .............................................................. Pg 1Exhibits Tony Benoun............................................................. Pg 69“Fish Inheritance” David T. Okamura ..................................................... Pg 79Grimoire Larry Stewart ............................................................ Pg 42Judge Tadao Tomomatsu .................................................... Pg 60Loscon 34 Logo Tony Benoun.................................................... Cover Front“Lost Cities” Tony Benoun............................................................. Pg 69Miscellaneous Artwork William R. Rotsler ...................... Pg 56, 57, 58, 61, 70, 65“Mummy Chase” España Sheriff ........................................................... Pg 25“Mummy Tag” España Sheriff ........................................................... Pg 37Oops Larry Stewart ............................................................ Pg 58Panelist Linda Miller ................................................................ Pg 46“Piltdown Fan” David T. Okamura ..................................................... Pg 29Registration Line (Short) Larry Stewart ............................................................ Pg 71ToyDrive Tony Benoun............................................................. Pg 47Volunteer Larry Stewart ............................................................ Pg 73Theresa Mather Photo Courtesy of Theresa Mather ........................................ Pg 12, 13Dr James Robinson Photo Courtesy of Dr James Robinson ............................................ Pg 16Robert Sawyer Photo Courtesy of Robert Sawyer ......................................... Pg 8David West Reynolds Photos Courtesy of David West Reynolds ......................................... Pg 14Chair Photo Courtesy of Dr. Susan Gleason .................................... Pg 4

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Anticipation - 67th Worldcon......................... Inside Cover - FrontWestercon 61 Las Vegas .....................................................Pg 59Westercon 62 Tempe........................................................... Pg 39AnimeLA ............................................................................... Pg 35BayCon 2008 ....................................................................... Pg 66ConDor XV ............................................................................ Pg 46Conjecture 2008 .................................................................. Pg 44Discworld, North American ..................................................... Pg 2LepreCon 34......................................................................... Pg 47Loscon 35 ....................................................... Inside Cover - BackGallifrey One-19th Symphony .............................................. Pg 23Fractured Time ....................................................................... Pg 7Blood Drive ........................................................................... Pg 53Toy Drive .............................................................................. Pg 67

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