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Luton Napalmed! Today’s Winning Numbers: Piranha Brothers 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34, Suspected 55,89,144,233,477 The Possum Trot Le Zombie-Picayune Extra Edition MidAmeriCon II Progress Report Zed* August 17, 2014 *(Because Sometimes, the Last Shall Be First) You Really Like Us! Finally! Kansas City Wins 2016 Worldcon! Headlines of Unusual Size Deployed! Save the dates: August 17-21, 2016 A Message From the Chairs We finally really did it! You During the bid process, we maniacs! <Charlton Heston were regularly told by people dragged offstage> that the previous Kansas City Worldcon, MidAmeriCon, was It has been an incredible their first Worldcon, or even journey from standing up at the their first con of any kind. Raleigh NASFiC to announce MidAmeriCon introduced a Kansas City’s intention to bid for number of innovations to the a Worldcon to this moment. The Worldcon, and helped create support and encouragement we an explosion of fan groups and have received from fans across conventions throughout the the United States and around Midwest. It is our hope that the world has been nothing MidAmeriCon II will serve to short of breathtaking. energize people in the same way. The bid committee has put Now that the bid is over, the in incredible amounts of work real work begins. If you want on the bid, attending countless to help make MidAmeriCon conventions, sitting bid tables II the best convention it can Xerps, Peggy Rae’s Lawn demand recount. all day and throwing parties be, please go to our website, (almost) all night, then repeating midamericon2.org, and sign London, England, UK the convention will be called Also announced were weekend after weekend. We up on the volunteer page. (Intergalactic Press Association) MidAmeriCon II, in honor of the the Guests of Honor for would not be here today without We couldn’t have gotten here The membership of Loncon 3 previous Kansas City Worldcon, MidAmeriCon II. They are your sacrifices and efforts. without you, and we’ll need your has voted to award the Kansas held in 1976. Convention dates Kinuko Y. Craft, Patrick and We also want to thank the help to put on the Worldcon. We City, Missouri, bid the right to are August 17-21, 2016. The Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Tamora membership of Loncon 3 for look forward to seeing you in hold the 74th World Science convention will be based in the Pierce, and Michael Swanwick. voting to allow us the privilege Kansas City! Fiction Convention in 2016. Kansas City Convention Center The Toastmaster will be Pat of hosting the 74th World Bid and convention chairs and Bartle Hall. The anchor Cadigan. Science Fiction Convention, Team LOL Ruth Lichtwardt, Jeff Orth, hotel is the Downtown Marriott For more information, MidAmeriCon II. Thank you for Ruth Lichtwardt, Jeff Orth, and Diane Lacey (known as and attached Muehlebach Hotel, see the convention website, your trust; we will work hard to Diane Lacey Team LOL), announced that home of the first MidAmeriCon. midamericon2.org. live up to it. Our Guests of Honor A Brief Introduction Kinuko Y. Craft Tamora Pierce Michael Swanwick INUKO Y. CRAFT IS one of the most widely books have been distributed in the US, other ICHAEL SWANWICK published A prolific writer of non-fiction, K respected and versatile woman artists in the English-language countries, Europe, Greece, M his first story in 1980, making him Swanwick has published book-length United States. Her past commissions have included China, and Korea. one of a generation of new writers that studies of Hope Mirrlees and James editorial art for major national magazines such Ms. Craft was born in Japan and is a graduate included Pat Cadigan, William Gibson, Branch Cabell as well as a book-length as Time, Newsweek, Forbes, National Geographic, and of The Kanazawa Municipal College of Fine and Connie Willis, and Kim Stanley Robinson. interview with Gardner Dozois. He has many others; book jacket art for many well-known Industrial Art (presently known in Japan as In the third of a century since, he has taught at Clarion, Clarion West, and authors; opera poster designs; and illustrated the Kanazawa College of Art). She came to the been honored with the Nebula, Theodore Clarion South. picture books. During her career she has become United States in the early 1960s as a graduate Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards and Swanwick is the author of eight novels, known for meticulous attention to detail, a student where she continued studies in design received a Hugo Award for fiction in an including In the Drift (an Ace Special), passionate love of fine art and a deep knowledge and illustration at the School of the Art Institute unprecedented five out of six years. He Vacuum Flowers, Stations of the Tide, The of art history. Craft’s work has been widely of Chicago. Subsequently, she worked for several also has the pleasant distinction of having Iron Dragon’s Daughter, Jack Faust, Bones exhibited in the US as well as in Europe and Japan. years in well-known Chicago art studios. Her first lost more major awards than any other of the Earth, The Dragons of Babel, and Her work is in private collections in several major commission was for Playboy Magazine while still science fiction writer. Dancing With Bears. His short fiction US cities and in Italy, The Netherlands, Japan, and a studio artist. By the late 1960s, her work was Well over a hundred stories have has been collected in Gravity’s Angels, A Greece. It can also be found public collections at in wide demand and she had begun a long and AMORA PIERCE SPENT most of Although she has nothing against males appeared in Amazing, Analog, Asimov’s, Geography of Imaginary Lands, Moon Dogs, The National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, successful career that continues to this day. Her T her childhood in Pennsylvania. Her and boys often play strong, positive roles Clarkesworld, High Times, New Dimensions, Tales of Old Earth, Cigar Box Faust and The Museum of American Illustration in New original art can be seen at Borsini-Burr Gallery in father introduced her to writing. science in her books. she wants girls know that Eclipse, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone, Other Miniatures, The Dog Said Bow Wow, York City, The National Geographic Society, Montara, CA. fiction, and adventure fiction. By the time they “too can get out there and DO things Omni, Penthouse, Postscripts, Realms of and The Best of Michael Swanwick. Chasing and other corporate collections. Her illustrated she was in the seventh grade, she was right along with guys.” Fantasy, Tor.com, Triquarterly, Universe, and the Phoenix, a novel chronicling the Photo courtesy Sabine Vollmer Von-Falken Photography writing her own fiction. She attended A woman with wide-ranging elsewhere. Many have been reprinted in adventures of confidence artists Darger the University of Pennsylvania and interests, Tamora continues to focus her Best of theYear anthologies, and translated and Surplus in post-Utopian China, graduated with a BA in liberal arts research in specific areas, many of which into Japanese, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, is forthcoming from Tor Books. He is in 1977. In her junior year of college, eventually become incorporated into her German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, currently at work on a third and final Tamora published her first short story. fantasy novels for teens. For instance, she Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, Czech, and novel set in Industrialized Faerie. Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden After college she worked at various jobs, is interested in medieval customs and French. Several hundred works of flash He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, including as a housemother in a group she studies Japanese, Central Asian, and fiction have been published as well. Marianne Porter. S FANS AND PROFESSIONALS, Patrick and has edited books by authors home for teenaged girls, before she moved Arabic history and culture, the American A Teresa Nielsen Hayden have been involved in the including Avram Davidson, to Manhattan to pursue a publishing Civil War, the Middle Ages, and the science fiction world for nearly 40 years. Together, they Harry Turtledove, Jane career. There her agent convinced her to Renaissance. She visits schools as often edited and published many fanzines (including the Hugo- Lindskold, Poul Anderson, turn a novel she had written into four as she can in order to meet her readers, nominated Izzard), helped organize many conventions and Steven Brust. In 2006, books for teenagers. and reading remains her own favorite (including the legendary Iguanacon, the 1978 Worldcon Robert Charles Wilson’s Tamora’s fantasy novels for young pastime. She belongs to the Society for in Phoenix), served as the TransAtlantic Fan Fund Spin, which Teresa edited, readers are noted for their strong female Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators delegates in 1985, co-founded the New York Review of won the Hugo Award for protagonists and their imaginative, well- and the Authors Guild. At the present Science Fiction in 1989, and in 2003 were awarded the Best Novel. And in 2012, drawn plots. She actively tries to create time she has 29 published books. Edward E. Smith Memorial Award (the “Skylark”) by the Jo Walton’s novel Among more and varied female role models Tamora and her husband Tim live New England Science Fiction and Fantasy Association Others, acquired by Patrick through her works. She points out that with their (at present) nine rescued for service to fantasy and SF. They have also both been and edited by both him Photo courtesy Erika Barber research has shown that “guy heroes” indoor cats as well as the feral cats and associated with Tor Books for over a quarter of a century.

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