Posts Tagged ‘Jo Walton’

Library Additions: 5 Tachyon TPO Firsts, 3 Signed

Friday, August 24th, 2018

More Armadillocon purchases, all picked up at the usual dealer discount:

  • Beagle, Peter S. The Overneath. Tachyon, 2017. First edition trade paperback original, Fine. Signed by Beagle. Short story collection.

  • Beagle, Peter S. Summerlong. Tachyon, 2016. First edition trade paperback original, Fine. Signed by Beagle. Novel.
  • Beagle, Peter S. and Jacob Weisman, editor. The New Voices of Fantasy. Tachyon, 2017. First edition trade paperback original, Fine. Anthology. Signed by Beagle and Weisman.
  • Walton, Jo. Starlings. Tachyon, 2018. First edition trade paperback original, Fine. Short story collection.
  • Watts, Peter. The Freeze-Frame Revolution. Tachyon, 2018. First edition trade paperback original, Fine. New novel. “How do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what best for you?” Looks interesting.
  • Note that most of these will be available in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.

    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.”

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

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

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

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    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?

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

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    John Kessel.

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    John Kessel in jacket.

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

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    Michael Bulmlein.

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

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    Your Humble Narrator and Ian McDonald.

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

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

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

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    Just ask George Locke!

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

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    Ben Bova.

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    Ben Bova and Your Humble Narrator.

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    Lawrence Watt-Evans.

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    Lawrence Watt-Evans and company.

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    Lawrence and Lawrence, coming this fall to Fox!

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    Matthew Hughes

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    Ann VanderMeer

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    Jeff and Ann VanderMeer.

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    Stephen Jones.

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    Joe Haldeman, Gay Haldeman and Jim Burns.

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    John Douglas.

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    Michael Swanwick, yet again.

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    “Come, Mrs. Peel, we’re needed!”

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    Henry Wessels, rocking the seersucker.

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    John Clute and company.

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

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

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    Andrew Porter.

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    Scott Edelman.

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    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.

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

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

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    Janeen Webb.

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    Betsy Mitchell.