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Pictures from the 2012 Chicago Worldcon: Saturday

Saturday, September 8th, 2012

Dantzel Cherry, show us your buffalo!

As long as you’re not using it to flack for another science fiction writer named Lawrence…damnit!

Part of a big crowd (along with Beth Mechem and Willie Siros) in the Tor Party:

David Brin, caught mid-laugh:

A very sleepy Lawrence Watt-Evans:

One spins, one measures, one cuts.

I attended the Worldcon SFWA Business meeting at 9 AM that morning, which included a “breakfast” of fruit and bagels. For San Antonio, may I suggest breakfast tacos?

Joe Haldeman also attended.

As did Eileen Gunn.

Gardner Dozois and Eileen.

Elizabeth Bear. If Elizabeth Bear and Greg Bear ever meet, they have the power to transform into a giant grizzly.

A crappy picture from the totally awesome “Secret History of Worldcon” panel. George R. R. Martin (who I was finally able to get my Hugo Loser ribbon from), Mike Resnick, Joe Haldeman, Robert Silverberg. Gardner Dozois, who spaced on the time, joined later. I hope someone recorded that panel. It was epic!

Paolo Bacigalupi and his crying/vomiting cat t-short.

Night Shade Press publisher and infamous clothes horse Jeremy Lassen.

And I never knew he was a Texas Longhorns fan!

John Two-Time Hugo NomineeOne-Time Hugo WINNER DeNardo of SF Signal.

Sue Burke and hubby. I wanted to get pictures to remember them by after the Iberian cannibalism breaks out.

Scott Lynch, with nifty Lovecraft & Tesla T-shirt.

Up close and personal.

James Patrick Kelly must be going.

Gardner Dozois and Amy Sisson:

Janis Ian. Yes, that Janis Ian.

Worldcon 2011 Photos for Wednesday, August 17

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

After a few technical difficulties, I think I have this sussed out…


Scott Edelman, Cory Doctorow, John Scalzi, Ian MacDonald


Alastair “Ten Book Contract” Reynolds


Lou Anders


Ellen Datlow and Susan Casper, counting up the money from the marks


Gardner Dozois and Joe Haldeman


The one only Pat Cadigan, shortly after she drank Andre the Giant under the table.


Joe Haldeman and Robert Silverberg, getting together to see if either of them could actually remember the 60s.


Martha Wells


David Hartwell looms large in science fiction.


Copy-editing Goddess Deanna Hoak


John Scalzi, displaying the horrific befuddlement and inevitable mental degeneration that comes with being SFWA President.


Right before I snapped this picture, Ian McDonald said he always photographs horribly, then went out of his way to demonstrate the accuracy of the statement.

My apologies if I’ve misspelled anyone’s name, but I haven’t had breakfast yet. More later…

Your Blood is Too Rich for My Blood

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Least people think I’m the craziest bibliophile in the world, The Wall Street Journal brings us word of a $75,000 limited edition of ten books about an Indian cricket star, the signature pages of which actually incorporate his blood. Think I’m going to pass on that one. I’m also going to pass on the $50,000 Christo book mentioned in the same article.

I have been known to pick up the occasional ultra-limited (in fact, I just got one of 26 lettered copies of John Berylane’s massive Tim Powers bibliography from PS Publishing, the edition that includes the a volume replicating the original holographic manuscript for The Anubis Gates in full color), but it’s not the focus of my collecting. I generally only pick them up if they have material not in any other edition, they’re by an author I’m interested in, and I can get them at a decent pre-publication price. So I don’t have that many in my collection. I do, however, regret not picking up the famous Charnel House lettered edition of Powers’ Last Call (though I’m pretty sure I couldn’t have afforded it, and it was probably sold out pre-publication by the time I heard about it…)

On the other hand, I don’t regret passing on the $1,000 Joe Haldeman poetry chapbook Henry Wessells published. You’ve got to draw the line somewhere…

(Hat tip: Mike Berro.)