May 24-27, 2019 • San Mateo Marriott San Francisco Airport
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May 24-27, 2019 • San Mateo Marriott San Francisco Airport Contents Welcome to BayCon 2019 ..............................................................2 BayCon Harassment Policy ......................................................... 19 David Brin • Writer Guest of Honor .............................................3 BayCon Accessibility .................................................................... 19 Gary Villarreal • Artist Guest of Honor .......................................4 BayCon 2019 Blood Drive ........................................................... 19 Wanda KurtÇu • Fan Guest of Honor ...........................................6 Convention Hospitality ............................................................... 20 JC Arkham • Toastmaster ...............................................................8 BayCon Registration .................................................................... 21 Brianna and Frank Wu ................................................................ 10 Maker's Workshop ....................................................................... 22 BayCon 2019 Charity: Computer History Museum ................ 12 Birds of a Feather (BoF) ............................................................... 22 BayCon Staff .................................................................................. 13 Family Friendly ............................................................................. 23 Hotel Map ...................................................................................... 14 Art Show ........................................................................................ 24 Hotel Information ........................................................................ 15 Youth Ombudsman ...................................................................... 24 Party Rules ..................................................................................... 16 Dealers Room ............................................................................... 25 Convention Operations ............................................................... 17 Gaming .......................................................................................... 26 Info Desk ....................................................................................... 17 Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator ......................................... 27 Fanzine Lounge ............................................................................. 17 Oasis ............................................................................................... 27 Fan Tables • Convene Lobby ...................................................... 17 Program Schedule ........................................................................ 29 Gofers • Convention Volunteers ................................................. 18 Program Participants ................................................................... 44 Teen Lounge .................................................................................. 18 In Memoriam ................................................................................ 56 Credits: This Program Book is published by BayCon 2019 and is copyright © 2019 Artistic Solutions, Inc. “BayCon” is a service mark of Artistic Solutions, Inc. Many thanks to all of the program participants who graciously provided biographies and photographs for inclusion in this Program Book. No artwork or photos may be reproduced without permission from BayCon, Artistic Solutions, Inc. and/or their respective owners. BayCon logo design by JC Arkham. Program Book Layout: Chris Castro. Unless otherwise credited, all artwork courtesy of Gary Villarreal. Program Book Cover artwork "Seal-Eyed Woman" and "Mermay" by Gary Villarreal. Welcome to BayCon 2019 Welcome Players of BayCon 2019, Toastmaster for this year is JC Arkham. If you've seen any of the marketing material for BayCon this year, this Your quarter has been accepted and the Master dude's the one responsible. He was also the art director for Programmer would like to take a moment of your time Worldcon 76 last year in San Jose. You're going to hear a and welcome you to the extravaganza. lot from this guy over the course of the convention, so I'm This year's theme, Insert Coin to Continue, takes us not going to spoil any more for you. on a romp through the experiences of my youth, and the I am pleased to welcome all of our usual suspects back foundation upon which I built my personal love of science for another year. I would also like to welcome the Royal fiction—the same time period Mantacoran Navy, making its in which a great number usual docking inside of our of our guests and fans have space. Please feel free to stop grown up, and can remember by and say "Hi." with a rose-colored fondness. I hope that you have brought This year we have also a lot of quarters to line up on partnered with the local the glass. gaming convention KublaCon to provide additional value for This weekend we have our members, and the ability invited several amazing to enjoy both conventions Guests of Honor to join during the weekend. Our our celebration. David Brin partnership with the San graciously accepted our Mateo Marriott is as good as invitation as Writer Guest of ever. Fresh off their recent Honor. His accomplishments remodel, the open bar area as a futurist and science and resturant are great places fiction writer speak for to meet with new friends and themselves. We are truly to catch up with old ones. pleased to have him. Our Charity this year Our Artist Guest of is the Computer History Honor, Gary Villarreal, works Musuem, which is obviously as a concept artist with the a perfect fit for our theme. game developer Super Bit Attend our Charity Casino Machine. In the words of on Friday to help raise money former BayCon Guest of towards protecting our digital Honor John Picacio, Gary's heritage, or stop by one of artwork will be sure to "melt your faces" (in a good way). our Charity Auctions to bid on some really cool donated Please stop by the Art Show to get a glimpse for yourself. swag to benefit the charity. To find out more about the He'll also be doing a live drawing during the convention, Computer History Museum, skip forward a few pages in which I strongly encourage you to attend. You won't be this book. disappointed. Before I bore you to death, I will end this letter. I hope Wanda Kurtçu joins us as Fan Guest of Honor. What that you enjoy this year and look forward to meeting and can I say? I've known Wanda for years and cannot be more talking with all of you. Please feel free to catch me in the excited to have her onboard as a celebrated member of hall. fandom. She has been a regular BayCon guest for years, and has also been a panelist and guest at several other local Robert Toland conventions. Her contributions to local fandom speak BayCon 2019 Chair volumes. If you run into Dr. Wanda (that's right, she's got a PhD!), strike up a conversation. Ask her about the Star Trek episode she wrote, or the screenplay she's working on, or Taiko drumming. She's a great, inspiring person. 2 BayCon 2019 • Insert Coin to Continue Writer Guest of Honor • David Brin David Brin is a scientist, inventor, and New York Brin also received the California Library Times bestselling author. With books translated into Association's Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award, 25 languages, he has won multiple Hugo, Nebula, The Potomac Institute's 2015 Navigator Award and other awards. A film directed by Kevin Costner for public service, and the first annual National was based on David’s novel The Postman, with other Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt works under option. In Earth and Existence he Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Bard College. explores near future trends that may transform our 2015. Brin's scientific work covers an eclectic range world. of topics, from astronautics, astronomy, and optics to alternative dispute As a scientist/futurist, resolution and the role David is seen frequently of neoteny in human on television shows such as evolution. His Ph.D in The ArchiTechs Universe , , Physics from UCSD—the Life After People and , with University of California frequent appearances on at San Diego (the lab of PBS, BBC and NPR. He has nobelist Hannes Alfven)— consulted for original shows followed a masters in optics Ascension Seven Days like , , and an undergraduate Century City and . degree in astrophysics Brin is in-demand to from Caltech. He was a speak about future trends, postdoctoral fellow at the keynoting for IBM, GE, California Space Institute Google, Microsoft, Procter and the Jet Propulsion & Gamble, SAP, Microsoft, Laboratory. His patents Qualcomm, the Mauldin directly confront some of Group, and Mitre Research, the faults of old-fashioned all the way to think tanks, screen-based interaction, public agencies, intelligence aiming to improve the way services and the White human beings converse House. (http://www. online. davidbrin.com/speaker. David's science fictional html) Uplift Universe explores With degrees from Caltech and the University a future when humans of California-San Diego, Dr. Brin serves on genetically engineer higher animals like dolphins to advisory panels ranging from astronomy and become equal members of our civilization. He also NASA's Innovative & Advanced Concepts program recently tied up the loose ends left behind by the late (NIAC) to others dealing with artificial intelligence, Isaac Asimov. Foundation's Triumph brings to a grand nanotech,