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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 ! 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! 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 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, , bid the right to are August 17-21, 2016. The , 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 . 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. 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, , Branch Cabell as well as a book-length as Time, Newsweek, Forbes, National Geographic, and of The Kanazawa Municipal College of Fine and , and . interview with . 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 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 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 , , 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 ’s Daughter, , 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 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, , 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 . 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 , 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, , 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 ’s Tamora’s fantasy novels for young pastime. She belongs to the Society for in Phoenix), served as the TransAtlantic Fan Fund , which Teresa edited, readers are noted for their strong female Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators delegates in 1985, co-founded the 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. and Teresa, won both the Nebula and Hugo awards. still greatly outnumber “girl heroes.” other animals they feed in their back yard. Beth Gwinn courtesy Photo Patrick is a senior editor at Tor and the manager of Other award-winning books edited by Patrick include been acquiring and editing original short fiction for the its fantasy and SF lines. Over the years he has worked Jo Walton’s earlier novel Tooth and Claw, winner of the Macmillan site Tor.com. editorially with authors ranging from Arthur C. Clarke, , and John Scalzi’s Redshirts, winner Teresa has been celebrated as an essayist since the David Weber, and , to Emma Bull, Ken of the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel. late 1970s when she began to write for fanzines, both MacLeod, and Charles de Lint. He has been responsible for Patrick has edited several original and reprint her own and those of others. She was a finalist for Toastmaster: Pat Cadigan publishing the first novels of many of today’s most notable anthologies. His original anthology Starlight 1 won a the Best Fan Writer Hugo in 1984 and 1991, and her writers, including Maureen F. McHugh, Susan Palwick, World Fantasy Award, and his most recent anthology is 1994 essay collection Making Book was a finalist for the AT CADIGAN WAS born in New York, grew up in festivals, and cultural gatherings around the world, Jonathan Lethem, , Jo Walton, and John the massive reprint collection Twenty-First Century Science Hugo Award for Best Nonfiction Book. Although essays P Massachusetts, and spent most of her adult life in including MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Pop!Tech Scalzi, and he has won three Hugo Awards for Best Editor Fiction (2013), co-edited with David G. Hartwell. He by Teresa have appeared in venues ranging from the the Kansas City area until she emigrated to the UK. in Camden, Maine, Utopiales in France, and Argonauts (Long Form). A one-time managing editor of Tor, Teresa and Hartwell are now at work on a companion volume, Observer to the Mississippi Review, most of her published Her first professional sale appeared in 1980, in of the Noosphere in Rimini, Italy. is now a consulting editor there, in which capacity she Twenty-First Century Fantasy. Since 2008, Patrick has also writing appears on Making Light (nielsenhayden.com/ New Dimensions 11 edited by Marta Randall and Robert Kansas City, however, has a very special place in her makinglight), founded by Teresa in 2002 and now Silverberg. After 10 years as a writer for Hallmark heart, because it was there that she first made contact The Possum Trot Le Zombie-Picayune is Progress Report Zed of MidAmeriCon II, the 74th World Science maintained by Teresa and Patrick with the help of Abi Cards (yes, she wrote the cards, in verse), she became a with . She was at the University Fiction Convention. All material is © 2014 by Mid American Science Fiction and Fantasy Conventions, Inc., Sutherland and Avram Grumer. full-time writer in 1987. She is the author of 15 books, of Kansas when she saw a flyer for MidAmeriCon (“Big and all rights are hereby returned to their holders. “Possum Trot” was one of the earliest names for the area Patrick and Teresa are both permanent faculty at including two nonfiction books on the making of Lost Mac”) in a bookstore. She wrote the committee begging that became Kansas City, Missouri. “Le Zombie” is used with the express permission of Wilson “Bob” Tucker. the SF-and-fantasy writing workshop Viable Paradise, in Space and The Mummy, one young adult novel, and to help out and ended up being the liaison between the “Picayune” is used because why not. held annually on Martha’s Vineyard. Together and two Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novels Synners and committee and GOH Robert A. Heinlein. They remained This has been yet another production of the lAST sECOND PRESS, Inc., James J. Murray, Immanent separately they have also taught at various other writing Fools. She also won the Hugo Award for her novelette, friends for the rest of his life. Editorial Avatar. workshops, inside and outside the SF world. They “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out For Sushi,” which While she was always going to be a science fiction “World Science Fiction Society,” “WSFS,” “World Science Fiction Convention,” “Worldcon,” live in Brooklyn, New York, where they pursue serves as the jumping-off point for her novelSee You writer, Big Mac changed the course of her life completely, “NASFiC,” “Hugo Award,” and the distinctive design of the Hugo Award Rocket are service marks of the obsessive historical interests, make music, spend too When You Get There. and very much for the better. She loves living in London much time on the internet, and keep hamsters (one World Science Fiction Society, an unincorporated literary society. Cadigan is a popular guest lecturer and has talked with her husband, the Original Chris Fowler, but KC is hamster at a time). on many different subjects at universities, literary also home. I want to go to Just answer a MidAmeriCon II! 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