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Program Book Cover illustration by John Picacio. Originally appeared as the cover art for VIEWPOINTS CRITICAL by LE. Modesitt, Jr. (Tor). Art © John Picacio. Wraparound cover illustration for FAST FORWARD 1, edited by Lou Anders (Pyr). Art © John Picacio. Zombie Master: Gary McGath TREASU R E R: Decorating/Costuming: Geri Sullivan and Tim Szczesuil Gary McGath Treasury Staff: Ann Broomhead, Dave Cantor, Saturday Event MC/Coordinator: Ted Atwood David G. Grubbs Awards Ceremony: David G. Grubbs Advisors: JoAnn Cox, Priscilla Olson PROGRAM “ Ggdson”—a play by Roger Zelazny Main Program: Priscilla Olson and JoAnn Cox Music: Dave Grubbs, Jerry Sabatini, and Debra Lebrun Staff: Bob Devney, Gary McGath, Lisa Hertel, Mark Olson, William Lexner, Mary Kay Kare, Directors: Jeanne Beckwith, Ket Pfeffer, Larry Pfeffer, Liz Pfeffer David G. Grubbs Program Dps: Ruth Leibig and Ian Stockdale Actors: Larry Seiler, David G. Grubbs, Pat Lawrence, Chip Hitchcock, Tony Lewis, Program Tech: Robert Luoma Suford Lewis, Chris Kovacs, Laurie Mann Anime: Reuben Baron Producers: David G. Grubbs, Filking: Gary McGath Sharon Sbarsky, Tim Szczesuil Gaming: Bill Todd Stage Management: Tim Szczesuil, Ann Broomhead, Kelly Persons Staff: Eunice Torres Tech Crew: Deb Geisler, Geri Sullivan, DragonsLair J. Spencer Love, Seth Breidbart, Ann Catelli, At-Con: Cyd Brezinski, Lowell Gilbert, Sheila Perry Lori Meltzer Staff: Sharon Sbarsky, Ann Broomhead, Program Development and Tim Szczesuil, Deb Geisler Scheduling: Lisa Hertel Accompanist: Debra Lebrun Playbill: Alice Lewis Music Here & There: David G. Grubbs EXHIBITS Art Show: Gay Ellen Dennett Special Exhibits: Claire Anderson and LIAISONS Dave Anderson Guest Liaison: Mary Kay Kare Art Show Sales: Ted Atwood Publicity: Jo Ann Cox Staff: Joni Brill Dashoff, Shirley Avery, Martin Deutsch, Joan Turner, Harvey Rubinvitz, Bid & Club Tables: Ann Broomhead Sally Mayer, Bonnie Atwood, Andrea Senchy, Online: Laurie & Jim Mann Carol Downing, Rachel Downing, Irene Harrison, Ira Donewitz, Mark Richards, Sheila Perry Readercon Party: Gay Ellen Dennett Hucksters: Lisa Hertel Arisia Party: Sharon Sbarsky You can save a life! . even il von cannot donate. \on can spread the word! Kegisln drive for potential bone marrow/slem cell donors I (him Io Gpm. Sahirda\ 2 13/2010 Badge Design: Geri Sullivan This weekend at Boskone 47, representatives of the Caitlin Raymond International Registry and volunteers from the fannish community e-Commerce: Sharon Sbarsky will be running an information table and registry drive. Registration itself is simple and painless: all you have to do is swab At-con Registration: Larry Pfeffer, Liz Pfeffer your cheek and fill out a form. To register you must be between the ages of 16 and 60 and in general good health. I nfdrmatidn/Vdlunteers: Sharon Sbarsky and Legislators in several states have passed Lis Carey laws that make it mandatory for most insurance companies operating in these states to pay the cost of your registration. Assistants: Elaine Brennan, Seth Breidbart Please bring your health insurance card. Con Suite: Dale Fanner More than 35,000 patients per year, many of them children, are diagnosed with diseases treatable by marrow or stem cell transplant. These diseases include leukemia, lymphoma and Logistics: Rick Kovalcik, Kelly Persons other cancers and genetic diseases. Many people do not consider donating because they may not □ ffice/Services: Laurie Mann know they can help, but also because they have misconceptions about the donation process. Ribbons: Sharon Sbarsky The drive is a great venue in which to Space Allocation: Mark Olson get your questions answered. Staff Den: Debbie King Did you know? Security Liaison: Tim Szczesuil PUBLIC AT I □ N S Color Flyer: Alice N. S. Lewis Helmuth: Claire & Dave Anderson \ person looking for a match nun In id Souvenir Book: Tony Lewis one Designer: Alice N. S. Lewis potential donor in a pool of Ads: Debbie King Ad rate Sheet: Alice N. S. Lewis 20.000, Progress Report: Laurie Mann 1.000.000 . .or more. Web Site: Laurie Mann Restaurant Guide: Mary Fitzgerald When someone needs a bone marrow transplant and none of their family members are a match, the registry searches for a donor whose tissue type profile is compatible. The most likely match for someone is a person of the same or a similar ethnic background. No one is guaranteed a match, regardless of background, but ethnic minorities are especially under- -represented and patients have even less chance of finding a matching donor. Then they have to hope that person is on the registry. You might be the match necessary to save a life. NESFA POSITIONS For more information on the importance of registering and the donation process, please visit crir.org. The inspiration for this drive is the thousands of people who are waiting on any given day for a donor. Boskone Book: Ann Broomhead One of them was Emru Townsend, a fan and critic. Instead of writing about animation, comics, and technology, he spent his last year writing about how people could save his life, or that of someone Sales: Rick Katze just like him at www.healemm.com. Assistant: Kelly Persons Hotel Liaison: Ben Yalow Staff: Stephen Boucher, Jim Mann Please enjoy this Debriefing: David G. Grubbs Skylark: Chip Hitchcock year’s Boskone! Fellowship: Lisa Hertel We hope you like it so much that you join us again next year! Buy your membership for next year at Registration or the NESFA Sales table in the Hucksters’ Room. Knowing space: AN APPRECIATION OF Alastair Reynolds BY KEN MACLEOD Alastair Reynolds is a major science fiction writer who has played an important part in two moments in recent SF: the British boom, and New Space Op­ era. Born in Wales in 1966, he grew up in Cornwall, studied in England and Scotland, and worked for sixteen years in the Netherlands as an astrophysi­ cist, mostly for the European Space Agency (ESA). Introduced to science fiction at an early age through children’s magazines, he wrote two (unpublished) SF novels in his teens, has read widely in the field, and is a long-time science fiction fan. As writer Guest of Honour at many conven­ tions, Alastair Reynolds has given well-received, dil­ igently-prepared talks and interviews on science and science fiction. He always takes the job seriously, whether he’s talking about the problems and pos­ sibilities of writing SF sincerely set 500 years in the future or explaining how astronomers wrung every its sequels, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap, the last drop of information about an extrasolar planet related (and BSFA Award-winning) work Chasm out of a 5-by-5 array of pixels (of which three didn’t City, The Prefect (2007); and a cluster of loosely work, leaving them with 22)—at least, that’s how I linked short stories collected in Galactic North. remember it. As a fan among fans, he has remained Pushing Ice, Century Rain and House of Suns are as modest and friendly as he’s always been. His wife, set in other imagined futures. In 2009, Reynolds Josette, is another former ESA worker and also a secured a ten-year, million-pound advance from fan—Al has said that they knew their relationship his British publisher, Gollancz. His projected ten was becoming serious when they merged their book books for the coming decade are interestingly vari­ collections. They now live in Wales, and Reynolds ous (starting with Terminal World, a steampunk- has been a full-time writer since 2004. influenced planetary romance’ due in March 2010) From his first published short stories in the early and eagerly awaited. 1990s in the influential British SF magazine Inter­ In all his work, the combination of a space-op­ zone, he has imagined in increasing depth and de­ eratic sense of wonder, scale and colour with hard- tail a number of complex future histories, notably SF rigour, drawing on years of professional work in that associated with his first novel, Revelation Space-, astronomy and space science, is evident. Respecting Einstein’s constraints can stimulate rather than limit people, in space. And not only are the people dif­ the science-fictional imagination of interstellar ad­ ferent—space itself is different. The galaxy is vaster, venture. Larry Niven’s ‘Known Space’ was for Reyn­ older, stranger, more dangerous and more various olds an early inspiration, and he has created his own than it seemed as recently as the 1970s, when (as ‘known space’ through knowing space. Also charac­ one reviewer wittily put it) Asimov could get away teristic of his work is a dark sensibility that shades with writing stories set in the good old Foundation from noir through gothic to horror without losing series galaxy with the addition of ‘a token black a grip on humour and humanity—a feature which hole’. No more. We’re in a time when science fic­ Reynolds attributes to his reading of crime fiction, tion has to run hard to keep up with the weirdness but which may also derive from a vivid awareness of and wonder provided by astronomy, astrophysics the smallness of our endeavours, however great they and cosmology. may become, against the dark background of a piti­ Alastair Reynolds remains open to new ideas and lessly hostile universe where the last word is always information. A small anecdote: In the hot June of a cold equation. 2009 a series of workshops took place at Imperial Another happily-acknowledged influence on College, London: ‘Physics for Fiction’, in which Reynolds’ writing is Bruce Sterling’s Schismatrix astronomers, astrophysicists and space researchers and his related Mechanist/Shaper stories. Like Ster­ gave lectures on
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