TRiPlANEtARY GAZEttE CONGRATUTIONS TO NIPPON! Sunday Breakfast Todays Programming Changes Art Show Updated Schedule Cancelled. Items Sunday, 5 September 2004 N oon Dialogue with Bany MaJzbeigand Iv.like Resnick 2 pm Written bidding doses 3 pm '1\.rt of Jael" 3 pm The Art Auction begins 3 pm 1'our of the Retro Art Exhibit" (The 2 pm timr mthe P°'ktt Program is t111 error) 6 pm ''Portfolio" 4 pm Sales/ Pick up and Pay begins (continues until 7:30 pm) Changed Items (time, date, or location) 10-30 am N ame Change: "How to Get a Job in Video Games" Monday, 6 September 2004 3 pm "Lonely Planet" to Hl01 from H306 10 am Sales/Pick up and Pay begins (continues until 2 pm) 3 pm Art Auction moved from 2 pm 4 pm '~ewish Tune-Based "Mitzvoth" to Hl01 from H306 Fanzine Lounge Additions The Fanzine Louoge will be open 10 am--0 pm today and 10 am-2 10am Farah Mendlesohn tp 'The Best Books of2004 (so far)" pm Monday. The Fanzine Lounge has current and historical fanzines, Noon ''Unknown Anime" in Ltl>erty A and those who love them. in the ConCowse in Hynes Hall C. 12:30 pm Joe Kesselman to 'The Microphone Is Your Friend" 1pm New Special Interest Group item "Writers of the Future" (LibertyA) The Sons of Ham Are Mustered Here 3pm Pete Grubbs to ''Filk Concert 20" The Boston 2 Meter Repeater (45,230) will not be available Sunday 4pm Peter Weston to ''Dead Fans Don't Publish 'Thier lsh" before Noon. It is being used Sunday moming for safety communica 4pm Ttm0thy Hokolmb to "Writing for Massively Multiplayer tions for the Monster Triathalon. Your cooperation is appreciated. Online Worlds" 4pm Kathleen Sloan.Dave Weingart,RobertRogow,Mary Crowell, What Could You Do With JordinlJonathan Strahan from "Books That Died Despite Eveiythiog" Denver in 2008 meeting today 11 am Lisa Bamett from "Getting Around Without A Cai'' A meeting of funs who are willing to wotk on a bid for a Denver N oon Bill Higgins from 'The Kids Next Door... in Spacef' Worldcon in 2008 will be held today at 3 pm in the Falmouth Room, 2 pm Brad Lyau from "Heinlein" located on the fourth floor of the l\IIarriott. 2 pm Chris Moriarty from ''Writer and Moral Responsibility" 2 pm Bill Todd from 'The Gaijin Menace" Westercon has table 2 pm John McDaid from ''Heinlein'sJuveniles " Westercon 2005 will have a table in the fan table area today from 2 pm MariKotani from "Gaigin Menace" Noon to 5 pm. Please stop by to coofum your status or even join! 3 pm Chris Moriarty fromAutogtaphing 3 pm Barty ~bergfromAutographing 4 pm Brad Lyau from "Philosophy" Sports in Space 4 pm Gardner Dozois from Autographing "Take me to your quartetback," a discussion of sports in SF will take 4 pm Jessica Mulligan from ''Writing for Massively Multiplayer place today at 5 pm in Liberty C. Online Worlds" 5 pm Chris Moriarty fromLiter.uy Beer Oops, we goofed! 5 pm ''Us and 'Diem" to H101 from H306 In our story on the Worldcon site selection lead time reduced to two years (Jssue8), we inconecrly reported that the '2f.Xl7 NASFiC Site Selection Courtesy (and warty) makes the world go round would be held at Interaction if Nippon won the 2007 Worldcon. Site Remember to tip your maids-daily, if poSStble, as different maids selection for the 2007 NASFiC (which will happen) will take place at woik different days. CascadiaCon in Seattle in 2005. We regret the error. Raw Hugo Lust tance speech and Bob Eggleton demonstrnting Here Be Dragons! his traditional hair-flip. Presenter Ginjer A aw, unfinished Hugo rocket will per To the kids who made Drngons-yourbeast Buchanan. after comparing book editors to the haps be the most lusted-after item in this is ready to be picked up in the Tween Lounge, herding dogs of dog shows, went on to an aftemooo's TAFF/DUFF auctioo, scheduled to Beacon E. Thank you so much for participat nounce the nominees for Best Editor as "Ellen take p1ace in room 205 of the Hynes at 2pm. ~youraoimals are fantastid Datlo~ Standan:I Poodle; Stanley Schmidt, Gi Peter Westoo, ooe of N4's Fan Guests of ant Schnauzer," and so on. Hooor. and loog-time provider of the Hugo Tolkien fans (and Peter Jackson fans) got I.DTR.Exlnl>it: a second opinion rockets aooounced duriog his ''Making of the twice the love tonight as not only The LmrJ ofthe I beg to differ with the fan who felt the Hugos'' program preseotation that the proceeds Ring.c The &tum ef the King won for Best Dra LmrJ ofthe Ring.r exbtl>it at the Museum of Sci from the mw Hugo rocket will go to TAFF. If matic Presentation- Long Form, butGolhmis ence was ofmarginal interest. I agree that there Terry Prntchettgetswon:I that this rocket is fur acceptance speech from the 2003 MIV Movie could have been more printed iofonnation. and sale, the bidding may get nasty. Awanls won for the Short Form category. I truly wish there had been a better program G.Uman enco\Dltered one problem with bis book or catalog. but I found the video presenta Tolkien sweeps Best Dramatic speeches of the evening: while he had written tions and interactive displays very iofonnative. PresentationHugos down everything else be was going to say, the And the chance to see the details of the cos Best Short Story award for "A Study in Emer tumes, weapons, and props op dose was wcll Proftssional Editor H~ ps to the dogs ald" caught him by surprise and left him worth the price of admission. That admission The Hugo Awards ceremony started off unscripted. Cheers for Palodin of S011u, the win also includes the rest of the Museum ofScience with the to switch off phones. usual wamings ner for Best Novel, ended the~ ifyou have the time. I believe that any fan of etc., and not to use Bash photography~ the LOTR. films should take the time to see this these wamings, ofcourse, were inteuupted by Autographing ex.bil>it because there won't be many other the first Bash of the night. chances to do so. The amount of detail is in Joe Haldeman will sign at Larry Smith's Master ofCeremonies Neil Gaimao, after credible and just cannot be seen on the DVD. a mild injunction against profanity, descnbed table io the Dealers Room today at 11 am. how at one poiot he defined the Hugo Award LOTR Exhibit Revisited as the best thing io the universe, ever. While Fans Save Panel Tma Iijama-Kmtyczweotwith three other definitions of SF vary, to say the least-there are Harvanl Prof Paul Hoffinan is the origi Grey Fans (been doing this a long time) and we roughly 6,000 funs here, and at least that many nator of the Snowball Earth theory, and 85 ea thought the Lord of the Rings exhibit at the definitioos-«what we choose tonight is SF." ger fans were assembled Saturday aftemoon to Museum ofSciencewas magni.ficent, breathtak And that is part of what makes the Hugo listen to bis preseotation on the subject. Teo ing and otherwise a 1111ISI see for any fan. Just Awards important; that they continually rede minutes into the time slot, when Hoffinan bad don't follow MoS staff directions to wait for fioe and change the meaning of SF. making it failed to appear.Janine Allen Young took the the shuttle bus back to the trnio station. It is something new every year. The strnnge ioflo mike to suggest that the panel should be held illusory. eoce ofDavid langfon:I everywhere. though. is anyway, with whatever experts could be as -Tina Jijamo-Kurtycz still lDlexpJained. sembled &om the audience. She herself was Erwin "Filthy Pierre" Strnuss won two writing a novel based on an ice-age Earth, and well-deserved awards for his contnl>urions to she was joined by geologist Jen Reynolds (a Unconventional Convention fandom, and eveo played the fanfure for one former student of Hoffi:nan's) and science writer Compliments before presenter David Kyle revealed thatFilthy Richanl A. Lovett (columnist for~- TScience Fiction that All Knowledge Is Contained In Fandom. (SPA1H-ic)-a geological term meaning having Convention, and presented winners with beau good cleavage.and CAUJPVGF.OUS or CALUPVGIAN tiful paper lantems as well. io the hopes that Harry Potter VI sneakpreview haviog shapely buttocks. Ted Chiang and David Brin will continue to On her website (www.jk.rowling.co.uk) eolighteo us. Harry Poller author JK Rowling. bas revealed Robert Silveibergregaled the audience with Conventio~eCompliments two sentences from the ne.-a book, Harry Potter a retrospective on51 years ofHogos. from Rob Want to pay a wombat a compliment, but and the Ha!fB/aod Prim:t. ert Heinlein desceoding io his white clinoer jacket oeed more original words? Try these: "He looked rnther like an old lion" to Asimov "showering imprecations" on the FLOPWRIDOR'.J'H (FLOP-wi-dorth)-a geological ''There were streaks ofgrey in his mane of winners as they came up to receive theiraw:uds teun complementing the Jandscape on its good tawny hair and bis bushy eyebrows; be had keen theo receiving one himself and slinkiogoffthe hygiene, and ru\NFLYDIAN (plan-FLl.n Conven the Best Artist awards, with Frank Wu bound tion at the Hynes C-Onvenlk>n Genier in Bosbl, Massa ing up onto the stage to give a four-wonl accep- chusells 2 - 6 Sepenber" 2004