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6EHEML IHFORMTIOH ity to remain in character, and other highly subjec­ There’s a fairly complete Events Schedule inside tive criteria. this program book, but it doesn’t include everything. The Masque will be held on Saturday night, from To find out who’ll be signing books when, or to learn 10:00 to midnight, in Ballroom A. about schedule changes, look on the chalkboard near the Armadi1loCon Registration table, We’ll post IHE PIG-OUTS everything there, as soon as we know it, Yet again, ArmadilloCon presents its traditional excuse for a banquet -- the highly informal Friday and STUFFY IM OFFICIAL - NECESSARY -- Saturday night "Pig-Outs". Admission to these func­ fiRHOILLOCOH RULES AHD POLICIES tions (where the only scheduled events are Eating and We don’t have an actual "weapons policy" -- what Partying) are separate from your ArmadilloCon member­ we have is an "idiots policy". Waving around a big ship. stick or sharp object in a crowded area is definitely Each Pig-Out begins at 6:00 pm in the con suite the act of an idiot. Please respect the rights of (room 102) — don’t be late nr you might go hungry! your fellow fans and convention attendees, or you r.ay Friday’s Pig-Out features subaarine sandwiches; on be asked to leave the convention. Saturday, we’ll have a variety of pizzas. Remember, the legal drinking age in Texas is 21. Tickets for each Pig-Out are $5, and are avail­ We cannot serve liquor to anyone who is underage. In able at the convention registration desk. Only 60 addition, you cannot leave the convention hospitality tickets to each Pig-Out will be sold, so buy yours suite ("con suite") carrying any alcoholic beverages. early! Parents oust keep track of their children. Arma- dilloCon is not responsible for unattended children. IHE ARI SHOR He have once again assembled a fine collection of IHE MSQUE BALL art for you to view — and to buy — in Southpark B, The masquerade at ArmadilloCon is a party and a the Art Show. dance, not just a parade past a panel of judges. If If you wish to bid on a piece of art, write your you attend the Masque as a "spectator", you’ll have to name on the bid sheet attached to it. Bidding closes wear a simple domino or mask (available at the door). at 6:00 p.m. Saturday. The highest bid at that time If you’re a participant, we suggest you wear something gets the piece (so don’t bid on something if you don’t you’ll feel comfortable dancing and partying in. If a intend to buy it!) -- unless there are four or more weapon (real or otherwise) is a part of your costume, bids. ‘In that case, the piece goes to the Art Auc­ you must keep that weapon sheathed, bolstered, or tion, at 7:00 Saturday evening (Southpark A). If your otherwise secured at all times. favorite piece goes to auction, make sure to be there Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes. and protect your interests! If you are the highest The judges will be secretly appointed and their iden­ bidder on a piece that doss not go to auction, you tities will not be revealed until after the judging mst pick it up by noon on Sunday. (if ever). Judging will be based on ingenuity, abil­ If you wish to buy something that has no bid yet,

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JMLERS’ ROOH Those of you who are new to science fiction conventions will ask, “Okay, what’s a Dealers’ Room?" No problem! The dealers’ room is where you go to buy new and used books, comics, stationery, games, jewelry, buttons, trinkets and knick-knacks! Look around, and talk to people — it’s a great place to Orlando! Where Utyfc spend your time (and your money!) The Armadi11oCon dealers’ room is located in Ballroom D; hours are 4pm to 8pm Friday, llara to Bps Meets Techhologh Saturday, and 11am to 6pm Sunday. Don’t be shy -- come on in!

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JHE EM L0UME So what do you do during the day when you want to Come Share The Magic take it easy for a few minutes? If you want to meet other fans, grab a cup of coffee, leaf through some fanzines, or whatever? If this is your first conven­ tion and you want someone to explain it all to you, what do you do? MagiCon / Orlando in ’92 You go to the Fan Lounge (room 104)! It’s open P.O. Box 5904 on Saturday from 10am to 8pm, and on Sunday from 10 Orlando, Florida 32855 to 2:30. See you there! ARMADILLOCON MOVIES:

Fine Cinema vs. The Smog Monster

by Eric Truax

You wouldn’t believe how much money it costs MACBETH these days to book a movie like attack of the Nushrooa (1971; 140 minutes; directed by Roman Polanski; People or Brain Pros Planet krous for a convention. starring Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw) Lots. It seems they’re very much in demand -- and in "All hail Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter." America, where there’s demand there are greedy film A startlingly graphic version of Shakespeare’s distributors demanding high dollars for low trash. most violent and brutal play, it ranks with Kurosawa’s So, you aren’t going to see any of those movies here. Throne of Blood and Ran as the best film adaptations After all, repeated viewings of Plan Hine froi of Shakespeare in existence. With an accessible Outer Space have been known to have deleterious ef­ screenplay and Polanski’s unique direction, this film fects on the brain cells of laboratory mice and SF has it all -- ambition, power, murder, revenge, fans (these findings were despite the fact that in the witches. See it. experiments the scientists kept getting the brains "For none of woman born shall harm Macbeth." mixed up due to the similarity in size and appear­ ance)... Since regeneration of brain cells is not NOROHS ERON OUTER SPOOL easily accomplished even through repeated viewings of (1985; 105 minutes; directed by Mike Hodges; Masterpiece Theatre and The Life and fidventures of written by and starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Nicholas Nickleby, we can only hope for the arrest of Jones) further descent into that condition known as “Roger With a title like this, do I need to explain Corman’s Syndrome" with the viewing of this weekend’s further? Some not-so-bright guys from the planet Blob films. just happen to be cruising around space, when — uh oh! — they end up on Earth. So what do you do when BLDBERt/HHER you become a celebrity because you’re an alien? Become (1982; 124 minutes; directed by Ridley Scott; a rock star and go on the chat show circuit, what starring Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer) else. The stars of this hilariously inane movie are Arguably the best science fiction film ever made, the comedy writers/actors of the British comedy show this is a stunningly bleak look at our future and the "Alas Smith and Jones" which you might have seen on people who inhabit it -- peopple who have perhaps cable. As the poster for this movie puts it -- “They become less human than the replicants built to serve came, they saw, they did a little shopping." them. Rutger Hauer is exceptional as Roy Batty, a replicant seeking to extend his very short life by SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION searching for his creator. Host of you have probably (1976; 113 minutes; directed by Herbert Ross; already seen this movie several times on the tube, but starring Alan Arkin, Nicol Williamson, Vanessa Red­ it’s worth watching again on the big (well, almost grave, Robert Duvall) big) screen in Cinemascope (widescreen). Wonderfully written by Nicholas Meyer, Sherlock -

-5- Holiaes gets very Freudian in this decidedly different this film did not get all the attention it deserved. and witty mystery. Together with Sigmund Freud, Sound films were just coming out at the time of the Hollies delves into the disappearance of a popular release; in fact, Lang filmed this at 22 frames per actress while Freud is more interested in Holmes’ drug second rather than the slower silent speeds anticipat­ addiction and his obsession with Professor Moriarty. ing the addition of a music track. Supposedly, this While controversial among avid Holmes fans, it works film was also withdrawn from circulation later by the very well and is certainly one of the best mystery German government since they were working on the se­ movies around. cret V-l rocket and didn’t want to give anyone else any ideas. 5000 FIHGERS (If OR. 1 (1953; 88 minutes; directed by Roy Rowland; QUEST starring Hans Conreid) (1983; 28 minutes; produced and directed by Saul Let’s see, 5,000 fingers divided by ten fingers Bass) per humanoid child is 500 kids reluctantly practicing You’ll never see this movie anywhere else. Mot their lessons on the world’s largest piano, presided on prime-time TV, not on cable TV, and you certainly, over by the mad Dr. Terwilliger. The sets on this won’t find it at your corner video store. Just at film are truly fantastic and the over-acting is hilar­ ArmadilloCon or some other convention that books it. ious. While it defies coherent explanation, particu­ Which is a shame, because it is a genuinely wonderful larly since it’s been a while since I last saw it, it film which deserves to be seen by all. It is an really is a lot of fun. Trust me. allegory based on a story of one man who must find and open the gate to the outside of his FRN HI KONO world before it is too late. The effects are strik­ (Woman in the Moon; Germany, 1929; directed by ing, the dialog minimal. called it Ba Fritz Lang) small miracle of cinematic wisdom and beauty." One of the last of Lang’s silent films and a The screenings of Quest are being sponsored by classic of science fiction, this is a story of a trip Michael and Iris Wright. Thank them. Without them, to the moon with fairly accurate predictions of what you wouldn’t be seeing it, since these movies cost big space travel would be like. Unfortunately for Lang, dollars to show.

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by

Okay, let’s roll ’era. pretty good, actually kind of refreshing somehow, so Guy in front of a rack of paperbacks, University maybe I could... of British Caluabia bookstore, circa ’78 or so but the But on the other hand, I thought, look at the date’s worn off, but yeah, that’s me. introduction he’d been saddled with, and wasn’t that Match, he’s going for it: buys sf secondhand if somehow the trouble with sf, how even the fresh stuff at all, but he’s eyehooked by this peculiar packaging got slathered with a kind of tackiness that seemed job, ELLISON DISCOW SERIES: #14, because native to the genre... somehow it manages to look like the cover of a re­ I i i maindered rock album. Might be weird. Better check Scroll forward a couple of years. it out. It’s midnight in Alphabet City and a decidedly Opens Involution Ocean. nervous Gibson is sticking close to the side of one Re all have sone emptiness in our lives, an John Shirley as they plow their way through ankle-high emptiness that sone fill nith art, sone Kith 6od, sone drifts of East Village xerox art and ripe garbage. »ith learning. I have al nays filled the emptiness Shirley, you see, has moved here, from Portland, and nith drugs. has found, in the pre-gentrified intensity of the Sold American. One dollar fifty. alphabet zone, a place that looks approximately like Took it home. Read it on the rickety back steps the inside of his onn head. of 3180 West Third. I remember the lawn needed mow­ Even Shirley isn’t certain that this is entirely ing. I remember enjoying the book. I even remember a good thing, and the visiting Gibson, truth to tell, -- though this may be stretching it a little -- feel­ is scared quietly shitless by the extremity of it all. ing vaguely encouraged in some way. Not so much by "Johnny Mnemonic" had sold to Osni a few weeks what the book was but all the dire and dumbshit things earlier. it Hasn’t ... "I’ve been corresponding with a new writer," At this point in my career, you see, I was the Shirley says, stepping over prone figures like cheap author of one and a half works of short fiction and props from a horror film, except they’re people. several thousand variants on an opening sentence in­ "He’s brilliant. He’s written a book called Ihe Arti­ tended to sound as much as possible like J.6. Ballard. ficial Kid. You have to read it..." This was the sentence, of course, which did not become t i t the opening sentence of Neuronancer: "Seated each Denvention. Denver ’81. First contact. afternoon in the darkened screening room, Tarrant came I have an early memory of Sterling in a de­ to view the targeted numerals of the academy leader as sleeved karate jacket with an Apollo-Soyuz patch the hypnagogic sigils preceding the dreaastate of film." size of a dinner plate sewn on the front, but this may I’d worked on that sentence for about a year and date from one of my early Armadillocons. In Denver, was starting to admit certain things to myself. I though, what struck me first was the hair. The author didn’t know who Tarrant was, for instance, or why he of Involution Ocean and Ihe Artificial Kid, the man was in the screening room, and I still couldn’t decide behind the letters that already promised the pedal-to- if acadesy leader should have caps or not. In other the-metal polemic of big Vincent 0., sported a lank words, 1 knew that writing a whole book was probably a fourteen-inch psychobilly forelock narrow as a folding lot of work. Florida fruitknife and twice as nasty. The blatant But this guy Sterling — this kid, as Ellison singularity of that haircut encouraged me as few other insisted on calling him — had written one, and it was things in the world of sci-fi have done.

-8- I met Nancy Sterling, as it happens, some few waiting for the coffee to boil, of Nancy’s collection oinutes before I met Bruce; following pre-con tele­ of severely deranged china salt-’n’-pepper sets... phone instructions, I’d made my way to the Dealers Serious discussions of the value of watching MTV Room and sought out a woman behind a table of ceramic while writing, the television positioned above the reptile figurines. Slow study that I sometimes am, I screen of the word processor. But it only worked, didn’t at first notice that her humor and charm co­ Bruce maintained, if you listened to different music. existed with a critical intelligence sharp as her Very loud. On headphones. husband’s forelock... ! t t What I remember thinking, though, minutes into Constellation, Baltimore ’83. the first "live” segment of ay friendship with the After the con, the Sterlings-’n’-Shiners headed Sterlings: "Hey, this could be interesting..." I’d for home via New Orleans, in their rented Olds, taking had the same feeling once before, meeting Shirley for me as far as the town in southwestern Virginia where the first tiie. I’d spent the bulk of my typically geeky science • Of such perceptions are so-called movements soae- fiction writer’s boyhood. I hadn’t been back there tiaes born, I think, though the now all to ubiquitous for a decade, I was making the detour now to see an C-word was already present at Denvention, if only as a ailing friend in her late seventies, and the prospect twinkle in ’ eye. He chaired a panel of return filled me with claustrophobic horror. We entitled "Beyond the Punk Nebula." Bruce was on it, broke the journey in Charlottesville and checked into and quoted my favorite lyrics from Bowie’s Diatond a motel, where post-worldcon psychosis and ancient Dogs. From aemory. luilight lone paranoia (all those plots about Small I was scheduled to do a reading. I was nervous Towns) kept me awake and sweating for most of the about it. I read a new story called "Burning Chrome" night. to an audience consisting of Bruce, Nancy, two friends Hhen we arrived the next evening and I was de­ of mine from the west coast, and thirty chairs. posited on a relative’s porch, I felt somewhat vindi­ The SFWA suite as a wonderful place, at Denven­ cated to see that my Austinites found the town about tion. (And isn’t that a profound, not to say surreal, as attractive as I had when I was sixteen; they quick­ signifier of Change?) But perhaps it really was; ly cut out for New Orleans, but only after inviting me stranger things have happened. Up on the top floor of to go with them. the Denver Hilton a tall man could see past the heads Once I was there, of course, I felt relatively to a vista of dusty-1ooking mountains, one of which okay. In a Rod Sterling segment, you go back and it’s boasted a big electric cross. People were milling all just the way it was... That wasn’t happening. around and drinking and making deals. Or I made one, The recession had taken care of that, and some of the anyway. With . For a book I wanted to call biggest of the big white houses looked shabby, as Jacked In. though the trees, which were ten years taller, had Terry said that sounded too much like Jacked Off. sucked the juice out of them with vampire roots. Hain t t t Street, which I remembered as a Bradbury set, was a Later, I went to Austin. decaying Springsteenian drag where dope-smoking red­ The Sterlings lived in bohemian splendor in a neck kids in survivalist camo cruised back and forth small flat filled with books, totems to Bruce’s mantid in customized jeeps. fetish, a relentlessly with-it stack of new vinyl, a One of the things I did while I was in town was monstrous Indo-Victori an brass-and-mirror bedstead out to begin to admit to myself how badly I’d wanted to be of H. Rider Haggard, and a filing cabinet crammed with a science fiction writer when I was fourteen years the complete Sterling juvenalia (anything written more old. than six months prior to the given date). In the course of doing that, I found myself Montage sequence, please, assembled from a number thinking about Bruce — who has, more than anyone else of visits... I know, that absolute sense of vocation that I, in the Bruce on their second-floor veranda, demonstrat­ sublimity of my ignorance, assumed, at age fourteen, ing the cringe-reflex of the "sensitive" plants he’d would be standard equipment for any science fiction cultivated, revealing a fondness for lifeforms that do writer worthy of the name. I knew nothing, in those things they aren’t supposed to; plants with articulate days, of the two-bit advances, the relative obscurity, leaves, blind mole-rats engaged in furtive antlike and the proto-Malzbergian angst no doubt endured by pheromonal interface, lonesome adolescent monsters the majority of the writers I most admired. I just mutating into science fiction writers... thought that, well, to be a writer like Cottonwood fluff drifting into the flaking azure would just be such a totally fucking neat thing, and voids of the Villa Capri’s Ballardian swimming what more could anybody possibly want? pools... So while I tried to finally come to terms with Bruce holding forth on his early theory of the sf having somehow, almost by accident, become the thing writer as Paranoid Pervert Saint of modern I’d most wanted to be at age fourteen, a situation I literature... still regard as fairly grotesque, I kept remembering Horning’s bloodshot post-Tecate perusal, while Bruce’s story of how he’d watched the dust shift on the floor of an airport in Madras. He was seventeen. the tiae. Sterling, however, probably thinks sf in Involution dcean. his sleep. I once heard Brian Aldiss explain to a I happened to enter science fiction, or re-enter journalist who had complained of Brian’s cigar that it, if you want to count ay fannish teens, during a he, Brian Aldiss, was that uhich stokes cigars. period in which the field was manifesting a new Bruce Sterling is that vhich urites sf. careerism. That is, becoming a science fiction writer He would do it if it were illegal. was something a sane person might actually decide to He would do it if there was no money involved. do. A career option, albeit a slightly peculiar one. He sight, in fact, do it with even uore gusto if In retrospect, I can see that this happened because it were illegal and little or no money were involved. the field was already an industry. A growing in­ I’ve sometiaes felt that he’s vaguely disappoint­ dustry. It still is. ed that it isn’t illegal, as though this suggests to The trouble with that, as far as I was concerned, him that somehow we’re not getting it quite right, not was all those Normal Persons and the books they fully doing our job... And if there were little or no wrote... money involved, well, the field would narrow down to In this regard, I’m happy to say, Bruce Sterling your basic core of driven souls and aossy-toothed has never caused oe the least flicker of concern. fanatics, their collective thumb firmly on the fast- t t i forward button... "He looks as though he eats in his sleep," I i t I recently heard one Englishwoaan say to another, in the But check it out yourself. lobby of the Brighton Metropole. Not that she was It’s your con, he’s the Guest of Honor. referring to Bruce, who was thousands of siles away at And he’s the real thing.

The Fandom Association of Central Texas

congratulates Brad Foster

for winning the

1986 Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist

awarded at this year's WorldCon!

-10- MARK O 5 .... - Fan Guest of Honor

by Leslie Turek and Priscilla Pollner Olson

Hari; may be relatively new tn convention-running experience in his other local fan organization, the fandom, but he has been an sf reader and -fan for most New England Science Fiction Association. He has of his life. And in the convention-running area, he served as NESFA Treasurer, and is one of the people has made up in breadth of experience what he might that the club tends to rely on when it is attempting lack in longevity. Mark’s hallmark is energy — he to analyze the financial of an activity. He enjoys working on conventions and usually manages to has run various areas at Boskone, such as the Huck­ still be going strong after handling responsibilities sters’ Room, Program, and Services (a name that re­ that would make lesser fans quail. flects a significant philosophical change in function Mark’s first convention was Minicon I, which he of the traditional operations area). attended while he was an undergraduate at the Univer­ Host recently, Hark was chairman of the success­ sity of Minnesota. In 1969, he moved to Binghamton MY ful 3600-person convention, Boskone 23.. If that isn’t to attend graduate school at SUNY Binghamtom. As well excellent preparation for the chairman of the 47th as being one of the meanest chemistry TA’s in the World Science Fiction Convention, Noreascon III, I history of Binghamton, he gained the distinction of don’t know what is. being one of the early members of Bingy fandom. He In the real world, Mark is an engineer at Digi- wrote for Son of a Beach, the fanzine of the Terminal lab, a division of BioRad, which builds Fourier trans­ Beach Club, and later became Official Editor of APA: form infrared spectrometers. Bingy, a post he still occupies. His interests are wide-ranging. From a childhood In 1976, he moved back to the “wimpy zone" and spent attempting to blow things up, he has progressed spent a few years doing post-doc work in Iowa and to hiking, camping, and a fascination for building Ohio. He then moved to Boston via the first World fires. He is a voracious reader, with a special Fantasy Con, held in Providence RI. The first Boskone fondness for the works of Poul Anderson and H. Beam he worked on was Boskone 17, just prior to Noreascon Piper. He also studies history and is an amateur II. At this point, all was lost. astronomer. He likes to cook and adores licorice. HCFI (Massachusetts Convention Fandom, Inc.) Along with a number of other Boston fans, Hark has first encountered Mark at Noreascon II, where he recently taken up the sport of orienteering, where his assisted in the People Mover area. After the conven­ long legs give him an undeniable advantage in running tion, as the higher-level committee members dropped by through underbrush and bounding up hills. the wayside, Mark took over more and more tasks, starting with sales and moving on to areas that re­ (reprinted fro% Ihe Sad 3 Part'/, Jone 19'36) quired even more organizational and coordinating skills. Sddendosi Please note that there have been some He was a leader in the successful effort to buy changes since the previous report was written. Mark out the Constellation debt (a project that required has acquired a house (full of unpacked boxes at this liaisoning with a number of fan organizations on a time) and (by the time you read this) a wife. He is very sensitive topic). He was also HCFI’s strong still stubborn and opinionated, but (generally) one of right arm in running the Lone Star Con art show two the Good Guys. years ago, a job which won him the title "Speaker to Priscilla (Pollner) Olson Armadillos". September 16, 1987 Mark has also picked up a lot of relevant fannish

-11- Toastmaster

fry Lewis Shiner

Okay, let’s get the professional credit stuff out prime quality fiction every year, how auch else could of the way first. I became a Pat Cadigan fan way back there be? Well, there’s her secret marriage to one of in 1977 when I read "Last Chance for Angina Pectoris ’s cats, and the unnatural practices that at Miss Sadie’s Saloon, Dry Gulch” in Cbacal #2. As it seem to bind her to my wife, and her uncanny imperson­ happened that was her first published story, so I feel ation of Gardner Dozois — but you don’t want to hear kind of privileged to have gotten in on the ground about any of that. floor. Since then, to nobody’s surprise, she’s gone Just last month Pat aade a career move, maybe the on to appear in places like flsitov’s, Inilight Zone, biggest she’ll ever make. She’s given up her day job FiSf, Osni, Mild Cards II, and Light 'fears And Bark. to write full time (well, however much time Bobby Mike Just to name a few. She’s been reprinted in Mirror­ allows her). I for one am delighted, because it means shades as well as Best of the fear collections edited more Pat Cadigan stories. Those of you who didn’t get by Carr, Hollheim, and Dozois. Once upon a time she to meet her at last year’s ArmadilloCon will soon know was the editor of Shayol, probably the best sagazine, her for yourselves, and you’ll be grateful too. semi-pro or otherwise, ever to grace this field. This year her short story “Pretty Boy Crossover" was a top contender for all the awards. Watch for the same thing to be true next year about her first novel, Nindplayers, just out from Banta®. She’s carried to designer/editor/publisher Arnie Fenner (who gave us Haldrop’s fill About Strange Mon­ sters); together they produced one Robert Michael ROBERT DANIELS, JR. (“Bobby Mike" "Bobzilla") Fenner, scourge of the western world, now age two. ArmadilloCon 9 Official Artist She’s gorgeous, sexy, funny, and no longer (to ay knowledge) smokes cigars. She brings new life to the tired phrase "party animal." Does she ever. Pat by Fran Booth Cadigan would make Spuds Mackenzie roll over and play dead. But wait. All this has been pretty superficial. What about the real Pat Cadigan? What’s she really Robert Daniels, Jr., also known as “J.R.", is our like, under that wild, curly black hair? What are the special convention artist guest this year. thoughts driving that slightly hoarse, slightly I met J.R. two years ago at AggieCon -- and knew eastern-seaboard voice? What is the truth behind the at once that I had met a party animal and a really fun go-anywhere, boogie-your-brains-out attitude? person. Since then I have seen him get involved at Hell, it’s difficult to actually come out and say many conventions as auctioneer, doing art demo panels, it. People will accuse me of heaping on more cliches. and many other things. But the truth is Fat Cadigan is the ultimate tough guy J.R. began airbrush painting about three years (er, gal) with a heart of . Hake that platinum. ago, with almost little or no formal instruction. He She’s devoted to her friends, and makes new ones definitely has a talent for it. His artwork is remi­ everywhere she goes. She’s probably as close to a niscent of Chelsey Bonestall. I qualify his style as selfless person as I’ve ever met. "astro-technical" and I love it! He is a really And folks, there’s not a lot more to tell. Be­ talented artist and has accomplished a lot in the last tween a full-time job, raising a Japanese movie mon­ three years. ster (albeit an incredibly good-looking one) for a Come by the art show and see some of his newest son, and cranking out tens of thousands of words of pieces!

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C. DEAN ftNDERSSON is the author of Torture Toib, a Barrett’s short story, "Sallie C.," which ap­ contemporary horror novel published in May of this peared in Joe Lansdale’s Doubleday anthology, Best of year and set in part of the Dallas/Fort Worth metro- the Rest, was chosen for Asiiov editor Gardner Dozois’ plex. As “Asa Drake" Dean has written a sword-and- Best of the Tear anthology, published this spring. sorcery Hei trilogy about the warrior woman, Blood­ Early in the summer, Barrett completed an off- song: Rarrior Hitch of Hei Death Riders of Hei, and the-wall mainstream novel, and is currently at work on Rerebeasts of Hei. Also as Asa Drake he co-authored another.. Criison Hisses (a Dracula tale) and The Layer of Ancient Dreats (a Lovecraftian horror fantasy). He is has one of the finest ears for language currently at work on a new Asa Drake fantasy, The in contemporary fiction. His novels include The Dig­ St/ord of Dost and Tears, an sf novel, All oor Dead the ging Leviathan (Ace), Land of Dreass (Arbor House), Stars, and a new contemporary horror novel (also set and The Thirteen (forthcoming from Ace). His short in the Dallas area), Ran Pain Max. fiction has appeared in Asiiov’s, Unearth, Triquar­ terly, and several anthologies. His brilliant story NEAL BARRETT, JR. has written thirty-three books, "Paper Dragons" won the Norid Fantasy Award last year; including works in the science fiction, western and his hilarious and well-crafted Hotunculus (Ace) won historical fields; he has also contributed short this year’s Philip K. Dick Award. (LS) stories and novelettes to science fiction magazines since 1959. His latest novel, Through Darkest EDWARD BRYANT is renowned throughout the field as one Aterica, appeared this spring in a hardcover edition of the finest short story writers currently active. from Congden & Heed, under the " Presents" Winner of two Nebulas (for "Stone" and "giANTS"), and title. The book will appear in both British and a steady contributor to the Mild Cards alternate­ Italian editions, and in paperback early in 1988. history SF series, Ed has been published in virtually Current short stories and novelettes include every magazine and anthology market (large and small) "Trading Post," "Perpetuity Blues," and "Highbrow" in as well as having his fiction collected in book form. Asiiov’s Science Fiction Magazine (10/86; 5/87; 7/87). Ubiquitous as his talented stories seem to be, those "Class of ’61" is scheduled to appear in Asiiov’s this who seek them out are richly rewarded. (APM) October. Other Asiiov’s stories that will appear in the future include "Stairs" and "Ginny Sweethips’ 61NJER BUCHANAN is one of those interesting persons Flying Circus". who has managed to maintain (if not embellish) a "Diner" should appear this year in Owi. genuine warmth and sense of humor far above the norm

-13- found in the publishing industry. Editor for both Tira Fresh from winning the John N. Campbell Award for Best Powers and James P. Blaylock at Ace, Ginjer (that’s New Writer (another unusual event for souieone still G-i-n-j-e-r) is a long-tirae fan and big con-goer, and writing her first novel) six weeks ago at HorldCon, gosh, darn, just nice folks besides! (APH) she will be reading a new story at this — her’second — ’DilloCon. No doubt it will be as insightful and ORSON SCOTT CARD has cut himself a rather controver­ beautiful as all her other pieces, and is, not to be sial figure in SF. Known for his "Secular Humanism missed. (APH) Revivals" (currently, iji hiatus), Brother Orson has never shied from frankly expressing his opinions. He RICHARD GARRIOTT, also known as "Lord British," is the recently secured his popularity with fans when awarded man behind the Ultiaa computer game. The Ultisa a Hugo this year for his novel Speaker for the Dead. series is so popular among adventure gamers that it (Speaker is also the first sequel to a previous Hugo- has spawned a rash of sequels, each of which its fans winning novel — Ender’s Sase — to win the award as anxiously await. Aside from his accomplishments in well, thus assuring Scott Card of a berth on the train the computer field, Richard is also the son of astro­ to posterity.) His most recent books include Hyrss naut Owen Garriott -- a distinction that’s welcome at (Arbor House) and Seventh Son (Tor — first volume of any science fiction convention. (APH) five), and a paperback re-issue of Songsaster. (APH) HILLIAM GIBSON, our GoH last year, returns to Austin ELLEN DATLOH, fiction editor at C‘sni magazine, and the again with the intention of becoming one of the Arma- Queen of Punk SF, is also the winner of ArmadilloCon’s dilloCon Irregulars, a group of pros that is expanding unofficial "Miss Congeniality” award for the seventh at an amazing rate. Author of Heuroaancer and Count year running. Practically an ArmadilloCon institu­ lero, which have been embraced enthusastically by tion, Ellen was honored last year as our Special critics and readers alike, Bill recently completed the (Editor) GoH, for her years of shrewd editing and screenplay for the movie Aliens 111. His collection, promotion of excellent new and veteran talents in Otni Burning Chrose, just came out in paperback from Ace, and the various anthologies she’s helmed. Hatch for and he’s wrapping up work on Kona Lisa Overdrive, the one of the latter about vampires, forthcoming. (APH) third and final "Sprawl" novel. Look for an interview with him in issue #22 of FACT’S fanzine, The Texas SF CAROLE NELSON DOUGLAS is a "retired" journalist and Inquirer, which will be published by Armadi1loCon or multi-genre novelist whose third fantasy novel, shortly thereafter. (APH) Keepers of Edanvant, debuted in hardcover from Tor last May. STEVE GOULD is one of the liveliest, silliest and Heir of Rengarth, the fourth novel in a fantasy bounciest of SF writers around: a guy who resembles pentalogy begun with Six of Snords and Exiles of the A.A. Milne’s Tigger more than a freelance computer Rynth, will be a spring hardcover, with Keepers’ consultant. The Central Region’s representative of paperback edition scheduled for April. SFHA, Steve’s fiction appears much too infrequently Tor will publish Counterprobe, the sequel to for most readers’ tastes, and he garnered a Nebula Douglas’ mainstream SF novel, Probe, in trade paper­ nomination for his story “Rory." A character in his back next June. own right, Steve has also been immortalized in comic Her mainstream women’s novel, The Exclusive, was form in Martin Wagner’s "Hepcats." (APH) a finalist in the 1987 Romance Writers of America Single Title Release category, and she has a four-book DR. VERNON HYLES primarily has to attend "those dull contemporary romance "miniseries" with mystery and academic conferences", but enjoys SF and Fantasy meet­ occult elements waiting in the wings. ings much more. He has made presentations or served on panels at last year’s Uorldcon, Aasfic, and Boskone, GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER, earnestly campaigning to alter the last five International Conferences on the Fan­ his nickname to “Buck" from that other epithet, is tastic, Popular Culture Meetings (both regional and currently working on A Eire in the Sun, the sequel to national), and the Mythopoeic Conferences. In addi­ his highly-acclaimed novel, Hhen gravity Fails (Arbor tion, he coordinated the academic track programming at House). Although he has written his plethora of short the Atlanta worldcon, served as area chairman for the stories for many different genres, Buck is perhaps SF and Fantasy section of Popular Culture, and was best known for his humorous tales (such as those recently elected president of the SF and Fantasy area featuring Maureen Birnbauhm) and the stylistic experi­ of the South Central Modern Language Association. His ments written under his 0. Niemund pseudonymn. (APH) primary areas of interest are the Inklings, George Alec Effinger (he has just completed a book on his KAREN JOY FOULER’s first published book was Artificial work for Starmont), the Gothic and supernatural, Things. Quite an achievement, considering most pub­ horror, and the Golden Age of John Campbell and lishers will not risk a collection until an author has Astounding. He has taught a course on SF and Fantasy established herself with at least a couple successful for the last seven years, both at the University of novels. But then, Karen isn’t your average writer. Arkansas at Pine Bluff and at L.S.U.

-14- RICHARD KADREY’s short fiction is endemic of the re-: The Falling Honan, was just published in paperback cent influx of talented writers entering the field by Tor, and she is currently finishing Drt in the upon high critical praise. Like his peer group, the Manzone, which is forthcoming (also from Tor). tales that spring from Richard’s mind (such as "Fire- "," which recently appeared in ftsinov’s catcher" in the August 1986 Omi) often feature the is being touted by many pros as the major contendor wild concepts and points of view for which new SF for a Nebula this spring. (APM) writers are treasured, overshadowed by an ’80s. sensi­ bility and an ’80s tone. When he’s not creating sur­ ’ On Stranger Udes was just released in realist collages, Richard brings a fresh attitude to a hardcover from Ace/Putnam. The only author ever to win genre that’s been faltering, and his first novel, two Phillip K. Dick awards, for dnubis Sates and Metrophage, will be published in the spring of ’88 as Dinner at Deviant's Palace, Tim is best known for the the final "New Ace SF Special" edited by the late skillful blending of science, literary history, and Terry Carr. ' (ARM) fantasy inherent in those two volumes. Aside frori more heady concepts such as researching obscure Vic­ JAMES PATRICK KELLY keeps defying all critics’ torian poets like William Ashbless, Lewis Shiner has attempts to stereotype hits. As soon as he was lumped quoted Tim on loving "gunfights, car chases, and Coors into the Humanist camp, he turned around and wrote the beer." (APM) definitively Cyberpunk stories "Solstice," "Rat," and "Prisoner of Chilion." So much for labels. Look Into NINA ROMBERG is the co-author of the first two Asa The San is the title of Jim’s forthcoming novel, an Drake fantasy novels, Crinson Hisses (a Dracula tale) excerpt of which appeared in the June Rsitov's as and The Layer of Undent Dneans (a Lovecraftian horror "Glass Cloud." He has collaborated on several occa­ fantasy). Nina also writes "Jane Archer" historicals. sions with , one such long-tern) project Five have been published to date, the most recent in resulting in the well-crafted, varigated novel freedom September of this year. She is currently at work on Beach, (cf John Kessel) (APM) an upcoming sf novel, Striker 323, a contemporary horror novel set in East Texas, Black Blood, and a new JOHN KESSEL is an English professor at North Carolina "Jane Archer" historical. State University, and the co-founder of the annual Sycamore Hill Writers’ Conference (cf Mark Van Name). is one of the gradually increasing Unlike the impotent prose of the current right-wing number of Science Fiction stylists attracting atten­ militaristic writers in vogue, John’s mastery of style tion for his work in the non-genre critical press. shines through every story he’s written. From the Many have hailed him as the best of the lot, citing in Melville tributes, to the fast-moving "Pure Product" particular his frank telling of such stories as (considered by many to be the best story of 1986), "Salvador" and "R&R" — which are set in an only John dazzles and titillates the intellect. Currently slightly fictionalized war-torn Central America. Some working on a new solo novel, Confidence, his collabo­ of these tales (the Nebula-winning "R&R," and "Fire- rations with James Patrick Kelly yielded a grand cul­ Zone Emerald") are the pivotal hub around which his mination in the provocative, literate novel Freedot new novel, Life During Martine (just out from Bantam), Beach, (cf J. P. Kelly) (APM) is built. A very large 400-page collection of his short fiction, called The Jaguar Hunter, was recently TOM MADDOX invented the viral computer concept I.C.E published by . Lucius is currently work­ (Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics) for William ing on three novels at once, spreading his time be­ Gibson’s Meuronancer, but is rapidly gaining recog­ tween them on a rotational schedule. (APM) nition for his own fiction. "Snake Eyes," one of the most cogent Cyberpunk stories ever written, was re­ printed in Mirrorshades: Jhe Cyberpunk anthology, LEWIS SHINER is one of the most well-connected authors which was edited by our Guest of Honor, Bruce Sterl­ in the southwest, if not in the industry at large. He ing. Tom’s a brilliant stylist, and the hard-hitting writes clear, stripped-down prose, straightforward in yet almost lyric style he brings to Cyberpunk is but its objective, which is to provide a vehicle to tell one of the many voices he commands. (APM) one helluva good story. Developing a reputation as one of the greatest stylists now rising to prominence, PAT MURPHY has what one might call a "global" perspec­ with a sharp critical eye for fine writing, Lew has tive on things. The locales of her stories vary more than three dozen stories in print. His first dramatically, from the lush and dense ghost-riddled novel, Frontera, was nominated for both the Nebula and jungle of the Yucatan (The Falling Honan), to the Philip K. Dick Awards, and Deserted Cities of the frozen peaks of Nepal ("The Abode Of Snows"). The Heart, his second, should appear in 1988. Lew’s most stories’ colorful mosaics of detail bespeak painstak­ recently published story (with Edith Shiner) is "Six ing research, sometimes (if not always) supplemented Flags Over Jesus," in the November issue of fisinov's. by first-hand experience via expeditions to the (Many Thanks to Lew for his instrumental help in regions in which the tales develop. Her second novel, compiling some of these bios. --APM)

-15- HALTON SIMONS launched his reputation in SF with the MARK VAN NAME is the co-founding father of the Syca­ twisted little tale “String Of Dead Babies," which more Hill Writers’ Conference. When he’s not offering appeared in Modern Stories, a small press fiction shrewd critical advice to S.H.W.C. participants, or magazine published by Lew Shiner in the early ’80s. writing articles about computers, Mark edits the Bud also wrote two scripts for DC Comics, "The Blade Nebula Awards Report. (APM) of Death" World's finest #268) and "The King and The Dragon" (Hoose of Mystery #284). Since, he’s been is of that rarest of breeds, a writer contributing regularly to the Mild Cards series from who truly deserves the much-overused adjective Bantam-Spectra, the third volume of which is Jokers “unique." His speculative writings often feature Mild, just released. (APM) skewed or fondly nostalgic visions of history, some­ times history that never was, with a perspective that MELINDA M, SNODGRASS is an attorney by training, and alternately tickles the funnybone and boggles the has served as legal council for the Mild Card consor­ mind. Famed for his fishing expeditions, often accom­ tium. She is a contributor to the Mild Card anthology panied by Chad Oliver, Howard’s latest book is the (edited by George R.R. Martin) and currently has three limited edition collection All About Strange Monsters books on the stands: Circuit, Circuit Breaker and The of the Recent Past, from Ursus Imprints. Look for his Runespear (with Vic Milan). She is known primarily as new story, a romp across ancient Greece called “Wild, a hard sf writer, but The Runespear is her first Wild Horses," in Unni next year. (APM) fantasy (albeit a somewhat unusual one). WALTER JON WILLIAMS writes tightly-plotted thrillers MARTHA SOUKUP only had a couple of sales to her name that have been gaining him attention from far and when she dropped in unannounced on ArmadilloCon last wide. His two related books, Hardwired and Voice of year — the story in Universe 26 and the first-prize the Mhirluind, are very popular among fans, and he’s winner, now in print, in Writers of the future, Vol.3. begun a new trilogy of paperback originals, the first Since then, she has sold some stories to f&Sf, some of which (Cronn Jewels) appeared on the racks from Tor poetry to Asinov's, and another story to Aboriginal last month. Walter’s previous novels include Knight Sf. She has been a con fan in the Midwest since 1976, Hoves and Ambassador of Progress. (APM) serving many varied concoa jobs, and was a member of Moebius Theatre. She graduated from Clarion in 1985.

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-IS- ARMADILLOCON 9 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS amiLLOCOH REGISWIOR COWENHM MSPHRLHf SUITE...... tom 102 Friday...... 2:00 p.a. - 10:00 p.m. Friday & Saturday ...... 3:00 p.n. - ?? Saturday ...... 10:00 a.a. - 8:00p.i. Sunday (Dead Dog Party) ...... i.... 7:00 p.fr. - ?? Sunday ...... 10:00 a.ci. - 4:00 p.a, FRII L00H6E ...... P.ncs 104 &R1 SHOU ...... Scuthpark B Saturday ...... 10:00 a,n. - 8:00 p.m. Friday ...... 4:00 p.u. - 8:00 p.m. Sunday ...... 10:90 a.m. - 2:30 c.s. Saturday...... /. 10:00 a.s. - 6:00 p.p. Sunday ...... 10:00 a.a. - 4:00 p.m. VIDEO MOR ...... Roon 104 DPT RUCH (III .... Saturday, 7:00 p.s...... Southpark B Saturday ...... 9:00 p.a. - S:CO a.a.

DERLERS MM ...... Ballrooa D S RR 1116 ...... Ballrooa E-F Friday ...... 4:00 p.ci. - 8:00 p.n. Open gaaing and tournaaent schedule tta Saturday ...... 11:00 a.a. - 8:00 p.o. Sunday ...... 11:00 a.G. - 6:00 p.o. BPdEII MM (for prograa participants) ...... Roon 102 Friday...... 2:00 p.Q. to 5:00 p.a. mmms...... Dealers’ Roon (Ballroco D) Saturday ...... 10:00 a.a. to 5:00 p.m. Schedule to be announced Sunday ...... 10:00 a.a. to 6:00 p.a.

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2:00 Registration Opens 9:00 PANEL: Writers of the Future (Baliroum B) 3:00 MOVIE: Korons Eros Deter Space (Amphitheatre) Algis Budrys 4:00 Dealers’ Rooe Opens PANEL: Differences in Regional Ferdon (Ballrooa Art_Show Opens ______A) Dennis, Olson, Tatsumi, Mueller /Opening Cereschics (Ballroom C)7 9:30 MOVIE: Bladerunner (Amphitheatre) 5:00 READING: Ssrtba Soukup (JalI room 0) 10:00 PANEL: Ro.v The Philip H. Cid: buri Changed, Hy I10VIE: Uacbetb (Amphitheatre) Life (Ballrooo C) AllisonS, Gibson, 5:30 READ1N5: E, Dean Rndersson (Dallroca C) Powers, Bkylock 6:00 READING: Eileen Senn (Ballrooa Cl READING: Haren Joy Fouler (Ballroti D) SUBMARINE PIb-C'JT (Con Suite). Dy ticket only. PANEL: Fanzines, CP Rs, BBSs, aid Other Strange 7:00 - 9:00 Meet Ibe Pros (Ballrooa C to 8:00, Rays Fans CosBunicate (Ballranm A). Pool area from 8;0D to 9:00) Mueller, Brandt, Cooley, uuerternan 7:30 MOVIE: Seven Percent Solution (Amphitheatre) Registration Closes 8:00 PANEL: Hriter’s Block Uorkshup (Ballroom B) l?:00 READING: John Hessel (Ballrcos E) Suzanne Terrell, Chris Kelly (Austin SliCF PANEL: Inpro'.'ing teest Relations (Dallrcon Writers’ League) 0. Explains how a convention cnMittc-e Dealers’ Room Closes should treat their guests '••.fid pros at Art Show Closes their sf conventions. Gould:;, Sir os, Con Suite Opens Olson, Shiner. ARTISTS’ RECEPTION (Southpark A). For artists 12:00 PANEL: Horror Stories: Editors 6 Polishers and their guests; by invitation only. (Ballroom B) Meachaa, Kiri, felan, 9:00 PANEL: Generational Change: C-rnrc, Steanpunk, Dat low, AH i son Uuianists, or just ten?. fine xrithg? MOVIE: Cuest (Amphitheatre) (Ballroom C) Kessel*, Datlos, Shepard, 12:45 MOVIE: lie 5000 Fingers of Dr. f lAfiphithcatre) Cadigan, Sterling

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10:00 Registration Opens 2:30 MOVIE: Seven Percent Solution (Ballroom B) Art Shou Opens 3:00 GAME: Easily feud (Ballroom 0 Fan Lounge Opens CLUB PRESENTATION: SASFA Hour (Southpark A) MOVIE: The 5,000 fingers of fir. T (Ballroom B) READING: Don Hebb (Ballroom A) 11:00 PANEL: The SF Short Story: The easiest nay to 3:30 READING: Pat Hurphy (Ballroom A) break in? (Ballroom C) Cadiqanl, Fouler, 4:00 GUEST OF HONOR PRESENTATION: Tin interview nith Shepard, Bryant, Cupp, Gould THE Bruce Sterling (Ballroom 0 Conducted READING: Jases Blayloc.t (Ballrooai A) by Kessel and Kelley PANEL: The Bidding, Buying, and Collecting of 4:30 MOVIE: Hacbeth (Ballroom B) Ort (Southpark A) This panel will help 5:00 READING: Bruce Sterling (Ballroom C) those who want to collect art, or want PANEL: Uncovering forgotten Realns (Southpark A) some tips to help them gain that one work Michael Dodson and Barren Spector (TSR), of art that "you just HAVE to have". Rembert Parker Daniels!, Harris, tba 6:00 READING: Richard Kadrey (Ballroom A) Dealers Room Opens PANEL: Real Unisals in a fantasy Horld (Ballroom 12:00 PANEL: If This Heeps Bp: Hhich way to the C) Elizabeth Hoont, Max Engle, Melinda future? (Ballroom 0 Shinert, Barrett, Snodgrass Powers, Williams, Sterling Art Show Closes READING: George 01 ec Effinger (Ballroom A) PIZZA PI6-0UT (Con Suite). By ticket only. ART DEMONSTRATION; JX Daniels (Southpark A) 6:30 READING: John Shirley (Ballroom A) J.R. will demonstrate the use of the 7:00 ART AUCTION (Southpark A) airbrush. The completed piece will be PANEL: Acey Deucey and Other Bild Cards auctioned off at the Art Auction. (Ballroom 0 Shineri, Hiller, Williams, MOVIE: Bladerunner (Ballroom B) Snodgrass, Bryant, and other Mild Card 1:00 FAN GUEST OF HONOR PRESENTATION: finding the authors IIESfR Clubhouse (Ballroom C) Hark Olson SMOF WORKSHOP: Cossunications (Ballroom A). PANEL: Snail Is Beautiful : The snail regional Improving communications on your presses vs. Hen fork (Ballroom A) convention committee. Siros, Yalow. Rettert, Fenner, Telan, Allison, Meacham MOVIE: Frau in Bond (Ballroom B) PANEL: Exquisite Ort (Southpark A) Four or more 9:00 READING: Pat Cadigan (Ballroom 0 artists will each contribute to a piece GROUP PRESENTATION: Rustin Writers’ League Hour of art -- but the key is, they will NOT (Ballroom A) know what the others have sketched! This Dealers’ Room Closes will be an exciting panel to watch, and Registration Closes the completed work will be auctioned off Fan Lounge Closes on Saturday night. Con Suite Opens 2:00 PANEL: So He Have To Do A Cyberpunk Panel... 9:00 READING: Lucius Shepard (Ballroom A) (Ballroom C) Sterling?, Shirley, Gibson, CLUB PRESENTATION: Contex/friends of fandon Hour Kelley, Maddox. (Southpark A) READING: Carole llelson Douglas (Ballroom A) Video Room Opens (to 8:00 a.m. Sunday) PANEL: Ui tine: Isproveeent on a these (Southpark 10:00 to Midnight HRSQUE BOLL (Ballroom 0 A) Garriott and the staff of 0SI 12:00 PANEL: Horror Stories: Hr iters (Ballroom A) GAME: Science fiction Trivial Pursuit (Fan Bryant, Cupp, Card, Murphy, Shiner, Lounge). Sign up your teams at Hal drop Registration. Developed by El Paso’s MOVIE: Borons Eros Outer Space (Ballroom B) AmigoCon; run by Richard Brandt.

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10:00 Registration Opens Art Show Opens Fan Lounge Opens MOVIE: Korons Pros Outer Space (Ballroom B) 11:00 PANEL: dueling Genres: Writing in multiple genres (Ballroom 0) Simonst, Douglas, Snodgrass, Andersson, Oliver, Barrett, Romberg READING: Walter Jon Killians (Ballroom A) SMOF PANEL: Talking Io Hotels (Southpark A) Improving communications between conven­ tion committees and their convention sites. Vi'aloH, Olson, Stormy Hall (Acting Director of Sales, Wyndham South) Dealers Room Opens DEMONSTRATION: The Inky Innards of the Mysterious Niseograph (Fan Lounge) Pat Mueller, others. 12:00 PANEL: So It Didn't Happen, It Should Have: Scientific romances or excuses for gonzo writing (Ballroom C) Haldropl, Effinger, Card, Powers, Blaylock, Murphy READING: Lexis Shiner (Ballroom A) PANEL: Ihe Computer’s Future in Hole Flaying Gases (Southpark A) barriott, Jackson, Dodson, Spector MOVIE: Macbeth (Ballroom B) 12:30 READING: Eduard Bryant (Ballroom A) 1:00 READING: Willias Gibson (Ballroom 0 DEALERS’ ROOM PANEL: OK, Ihe fear Is Nearly Over Ond What Should I Have Read By Maw? (Southpark A) Olsoni, Card, Buchanan, Blaylock, Siros Centex k Jabberwocky Graphix SMOF PANEL: Probless With Stall Conventions Friends of Fandom Brad H. Foster (Ballroom A) Taken from the convention P.O. Box 266996 P.O. Box 166255 planner’s point of view. Dennis Virzit, Houston, TX 77207 Irving, TX 75016 Ed Graham, Scott Dennis, Fran Booth 2:00 EDITORIAL GUEST PRESENTATION: On interview uith Cupp & Siros JoAllen’s Beth Neachas. (Ballroom 0. Conducted by 2309-A Hontdaire c/o 1716 Valeria Pat Murphy. Austin, TX 78704 Austin, TX 78704 PANEL: Steve Jackson and Car Wars: Ihe tan behind the nheel. (Southpark A). Scott Dreamhaven Books Joe’s Comics Haring, Steve Jackson 1300 4th St. S.E. 109 Nest Main 2:30 MOVIE: frau it Mond (Ballroom B) Minneapolis, MN 55414 Round Rock, TX 78664 Fan Lounge Closes 3:00 READING: Howard Waldrop (Ballroom 0 Joe Fleischmann LSH Distributors 4:00 READING: Orson Scott Card (Ballroom 0 3685 Park Ave. 1307 Seaboard Ave. PRESENTATION: Steve Gould Hour (Ballroom A) Elicott City, MD 21043 Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Registration Closes Art Show Closes Future Visions Books Pegasus Music 4:30 MOVIE: Ihe 5,000 Fingers of Or. I (Ballroom B) 10630 Northwest Freeway P.O. Box 150471 5:00 MiWUM. BOOK MICTION (Ballroom 0 Houston, TX 77092 Arlington, TX 76015 6:00 Dealers Room Closes 7:00 Deceased Canine Party (Con Suite) Sleepy Lion Graphics 347 H. 2nd St. NOTE: * denotes soderator Paris, KY 40361

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TOR Welcome There’s a lot to get excited about this to our season, with some major novels by long-time masters, big books by young writers deserving of notice, fall list and plenty of great entertainment.

SEPTEMBER: If you’ve read ’s breathtaking alternate prehistory West of Eden, Winter in Eden needs no introduction. This highly-acclaimed sequel is now available in paperback. Chernobyl by Frederik Pohl is one of the most important novels of the year, a stunning speculation on what it must have been like to be present during the most dangerous nuclear accident in our history. Undersea by Paul Hazel is the second novel in the brilliant high fantasy saga, the Finnbranch Trilogy (which began with Yearwood and concludes in December with Wintering). And Sheila Finch, who has received raves for her first two novels, Infinity’s Web and Triad, presents her third, a tale of struggle between races of gene-manipulated humans entitled The Garden of the Shaped.

OCTOBER: The Rat is back. The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted by Harry Harrison chronicles the further adventures of the infamous “Slippery Jim” diGriz. It’s wonderful, non-stop fun. Dover Beach by Richard Bowker is a moving novel about America after a “limited” nuclear war and the search for a missing scientist. Bowker is a very gifted writer who has won praise for his recent novels, Replica and Marlborough Street. Speaking of gifted writers, Pamela Sargent’s far-future novel The Shore of Women is quite an accomplishment. It was called “one of the great novels of science fiction” by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. And Clypsis by Jeffrey A. Carver is the first novel in Roger Zelazny’s Alien Speedway, a hot new space opera series designed by one of the most imaginative minds in the business. NOVEMBER: The Universe edited by Byron Preiss is simply incredible. This tour of the galaxy and beyond includes award-caliber short fiction by the likes of Poul Anderson, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Robert Silverberg, and others, mind­ stretching essays by some of the leading astronomers in the world, and over 40 gorgeous full-color illustrations and photographs. American Book Award winner Lisa Goldstein, who writes like a dream, will publish A Mask for the General, a near-future novel about power and responsibility. The Goldcamp Vampire is Elizabeth Scarborough’s latest, a high- spirited fantasy with Alaskan gold, vampires, were-mooses and a young journalist up to her neck (you’ll pardon the expression) in trouble. (We’ll be reissuing Scarborough’s The Harem of Aman Akbar in September and the omnibus Songs from the Seashell Archives, Volume One [which contains Song of Sorcery and The Unicorn Creed] in October.) The totally outrageous series edited by George R.R. Martin is back with Jokers Wild—the latest chapter in the secret history of our times. Jonathan Wylie begins a bold new fantasy trilogy, Servants of Ark, with The First Named. And we’ll be reissuing Ursula K. Le Guin’s unforgettable short story collection, The Compass Rose.

DECEMBER: As good as the fall list is, the absolute highlight is Gregory Benford’s new novel, Great Sky River. Suffice it to say that it’s the best novel he’s written yet—which is another way of saying it’s one of the best hard sf novels ever. There’s another terrific sf novel in December, After Long Silence by Sheri Tepper. It’s a big, absorbing tale of alien contact that Anne McCaffrey called “magnificent.” Rose Estes launches a powerful prehistoric fantasy trilogy this month, Saga of the Lost Lands, with Blood of the Tiger. And we’ll reissue Star Rebel and Rebel’s Quest, two novels in EM. Busby’s Hulzein Dynasty saga, in one big volume entitled The Rebel Dynasty, Volume One. We’re quite proud of this list. And wait until you hear about what we have coming this winter. We think you’ll be very pleased. With warmest regards for the future, BANTAMS Publisher, Bantam Spectra