Lois Mcmaster Bujold, Darlene Coltrain, Steven Vincent Johnson, Mark Owings, Robyn Rissel, Steve Smith, Toni Weisskopf
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Disdave 1994 Disclave Committee and Staff Chairs ................................................................................................................................................. John Peacock & Paula Lewis Art Show .......................................................................................................................................................................... Beth Zipser Staff: Bonnie Atwood, Ted Atwood, Shirley Avery, Martin Deutsch, Winton Matthews, Samuel Pierce, Michelle Smith-Moore, Michael Zipser Baby-sitting...................................................................................................................................................................Joni Dashoff Dealer’s Room ........................................................................................................................................................... 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Grinner Cleveland, Kitty Jensen Program Book ....................................................................................................................................................... Perrianne Lurie Advertising: Jan Wiles, Edwin Wiles Production: Samuel Lubell Contributors: Lois McMaster Bujold, Darlene Coltrain, Steven Vincent Johnson, Mark Owings, Robyn Rissel, Steve Smith, Toni Weisskopf Programming ............................................................................................................................................................... Covert Beach Staff: Judy Kindell, John Sapienza, Mike Zipser Publicity .......................................................................................................................................................................Covert Beach Registration ......................................................................................................................................................... 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Bob Macintosh 1 Program Participants: Disclave 1994 Allen, Roger MacBride Barton, William Sheraton Premier Blanchard, N. Taylor Bosky, Bernadette Tyson’s Corner, VA Brown, Lucinda Chalker, Jack L. May 27-30, 1994 Chase, Robert R. Clement, Hal Clough, Brenda Dorris, Judy Doyle, Cathy Engel, Mary Lou Author Guest of Honor: Fratz, D. Douglas Frey, Mary K. Gear, Marty Lois McMaster Bujold Gilliland, Alexis Haldeman, Vol Heck, Peter Hlavaty, Arthur Artist Guest of Honor: Johnson, S. G. Kaye, Marvin Steven Vincent Johnson Kondo, Yoji (Eric Kotani) Lewitt, Sharianne Logue, Kathei Marshall, Deborah A. Special Guest: Mayhew, Joe Melnick, Linda Darlene Coltrain Morrow, James Rogers, Mark Schweitzer, Darrell Shapiro, Hannah M. G. Sherman, Josepha Shwartz, Susan Stevenson, Jean Swanwick, Michael Van Name, Mark L. Veal, Tom Volsky, Paula Weingart, David S. ©1994 by the Washington Science Fiction Association, Inc Weinstein, Diane and Disclave 1994. All rights reserved to contributors. 2 B A E N BOOKS MARCH 1994 Praise for the Multiple Hugo and Nebula Winning Vorkosigan Series. “The chronicles of Miles Vorkosigan are far loo witty to be literary junk food, but they rouse the kind of craving that makes popcorn magically vanish during a double feature.” —Faren Miller, Locus “Miles Vorkosigan is such a great character that I'll read anything Lois wants to write about him... a book to re-read on cold rainy days." —Comics Buyer’s Guide “Wit, style, versatility..." —Locus "High-minded adventures...” —Publishers Weekly "Thoughtful and emotionally powerful .. .compelling..." —Booklist “Fast-paced and punchy adventure.... engaging...” —San Francisco Chronicle "One of the future giants of the field...” —Chicago Sun- Times "A superb craftsman and stylist...” —Pace Reviews BOOKSELLERS & LIBRARIANS: SEND FOR YOUR FREE POSTER! Bujold’s First SF Since Winning Two Hugos! A New Vorkosigan Adventure THE CLONED STRANGER STRIKES AGAIN ... Even But there is one who does envy him, want to be him. though Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan has his own His brother Mark, his cloned stranger formed from mercenary fleet, is third in line to the Throne of tissue stolen from Miles in a plot to murder Miles and Barrayar, and personally owns a major chunk of his replace him with Mark. In Brothers in Arms that home planet, no normal person would be tempted to conspiracy was routed and Mark made more or less change places with him. Miles had a prenatal brush compliant to his new Miles-less fate. But in the inter with war-gas and grew up a pain-filled dwarf with vening years Mark has learned that without Miles he bones as weak and brittle as some malign composite is...nothing. The new and better Mark doesn’t really of chalk and glass. want to kill his brother, but still it may come to that: Mark to stay, Miles to go.... HARDCOVER • 0-671-72210-7 • 400 pages • $21.00 • Distributed by Paramount. 3 GUEST OF HONOR: Lois McMaster Bujold “I was bom in Columbus, Ohio, in 1949. I also borrowed the landscape and ecology I had graduated from Upper Arlington High School in seen for my first novel. That’s one of the nicest 1967, and attended the Ohio State University things about writing, all of a sudden, nothing is from 1968 to 1972. I have two children, Anne, wasted. Even one’s failures are reclassified as raw born in 1979, and Paul, born in 1981. We’ve re material. sided in Marion, Ohio, since 1980. After college I worked as a pharmacy tech I’ve been a voracious reader all my life, begin nician at the Ohio State University Hospitals, ning with a passion for horse stories in grade until I quit to start my family. This was a fallow school. I began reading adult science fiction time for writing, except for a Sherlock Holmes when I was nine, a taste pastiche that ran about picked up from my fa 60 pages. It was, however, ther. He was a professor a very fruitful time for of Welding Engineering reading, as my Staff card at Ohio State and an old admitted me to OSU’s 2 Cal Tech man (Ph.D.’s million volume main in physics and electrical stacks, filled with won engineering, magnum ders and obscurities. cum laude, 1944), and Then my old friend Lil used to buy the science lian, now Lillian Stewart fiction magazines and Carl, began writing again, paperback books to read making her first sales. on the plane on consult About this time it oc ing trips; these naturally curred to me that if she fell to me. My reading could do it, I could do it tastes later expanded to too. I was unemployed include history, myster with two small children ies, romance, travel, war, (note oxymoron) on a poetry, etc. very straitened budget in My early writing ef Marion, Ohio, at this forts began in junior point, but the hobby re high school. By eleventh grade I was putting out quired no initial monetary investment. I wrote a fragmentary imitations of my favorite writer- novelette for practice, then embarked on my first s-on my own time, of course, not for any class. novel with help and encouragement from Lillian My best friend,