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Photos from Worldcon Part 2 (The 2014 London Worldcon, That Is)

Wednesday, August 19th, 2015

And here’s Part 2 of those London Worldcon pics.

Note that some pictures are labeled “…and company.” This is code for “I’m slightly less embarrassed about not remembering your name a year later than I would be about getting it wrong.”

The lovely and talented Gail Garriger contemplates her next cup of tea.

It’s only a matter of time until leopard-skin gloves are all the rage…

Tobias Buckell, straight from his performance in Hipsters of the Caribbean.

I’m 99% sure this is Martin Hoare with David Langford. After all, it’s Worldcon. How many bearded, gray-haired men with glasses could there be?

Apropos of nothing in particular, here’s Mike Walsh.

John Kessel.

John Kessel in jacket.

John Kessel in jacket and the shoes he stole from Lew Shiner.

Michael Bulmlein.

Jo Walton contemplates the five kilometer hike to her next panel.

Your Humble Narrator and Ian McDonald.

Stephen Baxter, taking a short break from 100,000 words of galaxy smashing.

The ageless Ben Yalow. He stays the same while the original painting for Confessions of a Crap Artist gets older.

Signs of the horrific mental degeneration that comes from being a science fiction bookseller…

Just ask George Locke!

Charlie Stross, caught in the middle of a very geeky plan for world domination.

Ben Bova.

Ben Bova and Your Humble Narrator.

Lawrence Watt-Evans.

Lawrence Watt-Evans and company.

Lawrence and Lawrence, coming this fall to Fox!

Matthew Hughes

Ann VanderMeer

Jeff and Ann VanderMeer.

Stephen Jones.

Joe Haldeman, Gay Haldeman and Jim Burns.

John Douglas.

Michael Swanwick, yet again.

“Come, Mrs. Peel, we’re needed!”

Henry Wessels, rocking the seersucker.

John Clute and company.

Teddy Harvia fooling around with a married woman known only as “Mrs. Thayer.”

Robert Jackson Bennett, who I somehow had to travel 5,000 miles to see.

Andrew Porter.

Scott Edelman.

Jeff Orth, one of the three chairs of the 2016 Kansas City Worldcon. Expect him to look approximately 30 years older 380 days from now.

James Patrick Kelly, of the Gets-photographed-a-lot-at-Worldcons Patrick Kellys.

Has anyone seen Jack Dann and Russell Blackford in the same room at the same time?

Janeen Webb.

Betsy Mitchell.

Tags:Ben Bova, Ben Yalow, Charles Stross, David Langford, Gail Carriger, George Locke, Henry Wessells, Horror, James Patrick Kelly, Jo Walton, Joe Haldeman, John Kessel, Lawrence Watt-Evans, London, Matthew Hughes, Michael Bulmlein, Michael Swanwick, Michael Walsh, Science Fiction, Stephen Baxter, Stephen Jones, Tobias Buckell, Worldcon
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Photos from the 2013 San Antonio Worldcon

Monday, December 9th, 2013

I knew that dealing books at Worldcon would eat up a lot of time, but I had no idea just how much time it would take me to not only get all the books back on the shelf, but to catch up on everything I set aside while getting ready for, then recovering from, Worldcon.

Which explains why I’m just now putting up the pictures I took there. Here are the handful of pictures I took at Worldcon that came out decent.

Clotheshorse that she is, the lovely and talented Gail Carriger kicks off our review with the first of three outfits I managed to photograph.

A second.

And a third.

And here’s the same outfit she insisted I snap with her own camera. “You’ve got to include the shoes!”

Stina Leicht, sitting next to me at the Rayguns Over Texas event at the San Antonio Library.

Scott Cupp and Josh Rountree at the same event. The other photos I took there came out crappy.

Bookseller and con chair Mike Walsh.

Lou Antonelli channels Flavor-Flav.

Howard Waldrop and Eileen Gunn, just before Howard went three rounds with a concrete step.

And here’s Howard just after that bout.

Andrew Porter, now free of the terrible burden of publishing a semi-prozine.

Pat Murphy, back again.

Ex-NASA employee Al Jackson.

Ex-Austinite Maureen McHugh.

Kim Stanley Robinson, back from whatever frozen locale he’s visiting this time. Possibly Iapetus.

Gardner Dozois at full rant.

Gardner Dozois at full rest. The two modes are deceptively similar.

In 2012, Pat Cadigan asked me to take down one of her pictures. So this year I made sure that this picture with Robert Silverberg was 100% flattering.

I think this is a very good picture of Dwight Brown.

Rich Simental, who spent much of the con in his room working on a completely different con.

Ben Yalow. Or possibly one of those hundreds of Ben Yalow impersonators you hear so much about.

Max Merriwell, in a very clever diusguise.

David Kyle, who I think has passed the late Forrest J. Ackerman for Most Worldcons Attended.

I’m sorry that I didn’t get pictures of Alastair Reynolds, David Brin, Jack McDevitt, Joe and Joy Haldeman, and Lois McMaster Bujold (among others I missed), who were all kind enough to come by the Lame Excuse Books booth.

Tags:Al Jackson, Andrew Porter, Ben Yalow, Eileen Gunn, Gail Carriger, Gardner Dozois, Howard Waldrop, Josh Rountree, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lou Antonelli, Maureen McHugh, Michael Walsh, Pat Cadigan, Pat Murphy, pics, Rich Simental, San Antonio, Science Fiction, Stina Leicht, Worldcon
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Pictures from the 2012 Chicago Worldcon: Sunday

Sunday, September 16th, 2012

Yes, more Worldcon photos. I’ve broken them up across multiple posts so the page didn’t load so slowly readers would think they were back in the Geocities era.

Dantzel Cherry and her friends charge up their eye lasers.

Legendary fan David Kyle, who attended the first Worldcon in New York City in 1939!

How many legends can you spot in this photo? David Hartwell, Robert Silverberg, and Joe and Gay Haldeman all talk to David Kyle.

Connie Willis, enjoying the first Worldcon where she wasn’t required to present an award since she was six years old.

With Mary Robinette Kowal, who survived the ordeal of being a SFWA officer.

Michael Cassutt, just minutes before he was tragically bored to death at the Robert A. Heinlein Society annual meeting.

Adam-Troy Castro. “I said sell Greek bonds! SELL!”

Steve Jackson, who was there with his Chaos Machine setup. “What’s that? I can’t hear you over the sound of all that money my Ogre Kickstarter made.”

Not-so-secret master of Fandom Ben Yalow.

John Picacio, in the last known photo of him before he won the freaking Hugo Award.

James Patrick Kelly and Robert Silverberg.

Saturday night I dined with Scott Bobo, Kurt Baty, Sarah Felix, Ed Scarborough, and Spike and Tom at Everest, a 7 course meal that took three and a half hours and cost $200. Sunday, before the Hugos? I ate at Chipolte with Dantzel and some of her friends.