Arisia 2014

Westin Waterfront Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts writer goh artist goh fan goh January 17 – 20, 2014 Tanya Huff Lubov James Nicoll Westin Waterfront Hotel Arisia Boston, Massachusetts 2014 January 17 – 20

writer guest of honor Message from the President 2 by conor walsh Tanya Huff Message from the Con Chair 2 by lisa hertel

artist guest of honor In Memoriam 3

Lubov Convention Committee 4 – 6

'Twas the Night Before Arisia 7 fan guest of honor by donna m. dube James Nicoll Code of Conduct & Policies 8 – 9 Tanya Huff Biography 10 An Appreciation of Tanya Huff 11 by sheila gilbert “The Harder They Fall” 12 – 21 by tanya huff Tanya Huff Bibliography 22 – 23

Lubov Biography 24 An Appreciation of Lubov 24 by colette h. fozard Lubov Portfolio 25 – 31

James Nicoll Biography 34 An Appreciation of James Nicoll 34 by stephanie m. clarkson

Cover: Composition, by Lubov Exhibiting Artists 35 Inside Front Cover: Masquerade 1, by Lubov Inside Back Cover: Masquerade 2, by Lubov Program Participants 35 – 51 Message From The President by conor walsh In Memoriam welcome to our 25th arisia! A wise Arisia staffer once said, dragged me to this amazing weekend, it’s have some friends I’ve convinced to help “Arisia is an engine run by one-upman- become more and more obvious to me me, do y’all think this fits into the con?” ship,” and I’ve found this to be true in that each of us wants to make our corner We’re pretty enthusiastic about of the convention the best it can pos- the best way possible. It seems like just cramming as much fun and community Iain M. Banks, author and Guest of Honor sibly be. We get a lot of new volunteers about every repeat volunteer says that into a single weekend as we can. If that at the 2014 Worldcon in London they’re going to make things even better this way, too. We’ve gotten staffers from sounds like something you could get than they were last year. It doesn’t mat- people who gave feedback at arisia.org/ into, we’d love to have you join the team, Dom Corrado, Lunacon stalwart and ter whether we’re improving on our own feedback, and many of our current staff and our meeting schedule is always post- sometime Arisia attendee, panelist, and got involved by showing up at a Concom performance, someone else’s, or filling ed at corp.arisia.org/calendar.  staffer a position that hasn’t existed before— meeting and saying “Hi, you don’t know we are all, each of us, trying to do Even me, but I have this awesome idea, and I A. C. Crispin, Arisia attendee, writer, and Better. In the decade since a dear friend want to work to make it happen, and I champion of writers’ rights Bobbie Dufault, fan jan howard finder, known as “Wombat”, Message From The Con Chair 2001 Arisia Fan GoH by lisa hertel Marty Gear, Masquerade icon, frequent Master of Ceremonies at Arisia and many What started, for me, with a flyer at cades old. Though on the forefront of don’t miss the Carl Brandon Awards, other conventions; 1998 Arisia Fan GoH my first Worldcon, Noreascon 3, has be- innovation, Arisia holds on to core tradi- which honor diversity in science fiction come a New England phenomenon. The tions, like our 35mm film room. Some of & fantasy writing. (And if you should en- Judy Gerjuoy, known as “Jaelle,” founder largest literary science fiction convention our experiments have worked well (like joy yourself late at night in a party, please and long time chair of DarkoverCon our Student Art Contest); others have do so responsibly.) in the Northeast, Arisia has grown annu- Joe Lazarro, Arisia panelist ally (when we could) from its humble faded with time (like our video contest). If this is your first Arisia, and you beginnings. There are many memorable But we’ve always been open-minded. would like to meet people, I suggest vol- Anne McCaffrey, author of the well- moments: epic snow, a wedding, the Whether this is your first Arisia, or unteering. Eight hours will earn you a known Dragonrider series “Mini-Arisia,” and many more. There are your 25.6th (like me), I hope you enjoy free T-shirt, and the 12-hour member- reports of a number of first meetings and yourself. Take some time to see the art- ship rollover for volunteering means Fred Pohl, fan, agent, author, and editor conceptions, and one young attendee is work of Lubov, one of the finest oil paint- that I have only ever bought one Arisia whose career spanned over 75 years named “Arisia.” ers I know; go to a panel with the erudite membership. It is the easiest way to make Dave Ryan, fan And then there’s the con most James Nicoll on it; or get a book signed friends, and there are jobs for all skill don’t see: the hundreds of volunteers. by Tanya Huff, one of science fiction & levels: just ask in the volunteer lounge Elliot Kay Shorter, Lunacon and They work hard, play hard, and do it all fantasy’s most notable authors. All are (Quincy room near Starbucks on the Boskone staffer for the love of Arisia. They are driven by from different cultures (yes, Canada is lobby level). our core philosophy: that there is room different), and they all examine different Once again, enjoy the 25th in fandom for everyone who can make cultures, in various ways, in their writ- Arisia—and here’s to 25 more!  room for others. Indeed, Arisia was one ings and art. Enjoy our video gaming, of the earliest conventions to have a masquerade contest, numerous panels, Code of Conduct, now almost two de- events, dances, and board games; and Marty Gear as Uncle Vlad, 1994 photo 012294_08-25 by Sandy Middlebrooks

All bylined articles are copyright 2014 by their authors. Photos of the Guests of Honor are supplied by them and used with their permission. The Lubov art Feb 23 – 25, 1990 Feb 1 – 3, 1991 reproduced in this book is copyright 2014 by Lubov, and supplied by her and used with her permission. Photos by Daniel Dern, Sandy Middlebrooks, and Lafayette Swissôtel, Boston Vista International, Waltham Andy Steinberg are copyright 2014, supplied by them and used with permission. WGoH: Richard Bowker WGoH: Jack L. Chalker AGoH: A.C. Farley AGoH: Bob Walters Special thanks to GoH Liaison Debi Chowdhury and Editor’s Masquerade Guru Dr. Karen Purcell for assistance in obtaining material. 25 FGoH: Spike McPhee FGoH: Richard Hill & Laurel The Arisia 2014 Souvenir Book is copyright 2014 by Arisia, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Arisia, and the distinctive Arisia Lens, are service years Cunningham of Con Chair: Matthew Saroff marks of Arisia, Inc. 1 2Media GoH: Larry Ross arisia Con Chair: Matthew Saroff 2 3 Sign Shop Data Support: Michael Lee Setup/Teardown Crew Lead: Arthur Ercolini (Thumper) Food Truck Coordinator: Joanne Hunter Events: Sharon Sbarsky Setup/Teardown Crew: Rob Allison, Jeanise Bertrand, Parking: Benjamin Levy Convention Committee Ellen Blackburn, D. Cameron Calkins, Deanna Calkins, Yvonne Bridget Boyle Assistant: Samantha Dings Carts-Powell, Jen Dudley, Shirley Dulcey, Larry Dunne, Angela Member Services: Events Staff Coordinator: Sarah Goodman Ercolini, Lenny Foner, Ken London, Brianna Lueders, William Access: Tanya Washburn Staff: Andrea Carney, Masha Sten-Clanton, Rob Allison Con Chair: Lisa Hertel General Events Staff: Adina Adler, Joni Brill Dashoff Mui, Rickland Powell, Rex Powell, Dan Preston, Richard L. Arisia 25 Party Coordinator: Gay Ellen Dennett Schmeidler, Howard Simpson, Sandy Sutherland, Courtney Blood Mobile Liaison: John Hodges Assistant Chair: Benjamin Levy (Food, Hotel Liaison, Varga, Scott Varga, Michele Weinstein Exhibits, Ops, Registration) Editor Extraordinaire: Alan Wexelblat Onsite Recruitment: The Naughty Nurses Saturday Night Club Dance: DJ Johnny Zed Staff: Bonnie Atwood, Ted Atwood, Joline Desrosiers, Coat Check: Katherine E. Cunningham (Area Head), Assistant Chair: Mike Sprague (Children’s Services, Raymond Isaacs, Jenny Kraus, Alice Lu, Harvey Rubinovitz, Programming, Events, Multimedia, Tech, Zambia) Masquerade: Dr. Karen Purcell Greykell Dutton, Barb Jewell, Rachel Olsen Wertheimer, Chris Toomey, Joan Turner Maya Gounard, Shawn Johnson, Josh Sprague, Louisa Ricker TimeLord (AKA Timeline Coordinator): Susan Bingham Assistant: Deidre Purcell Surveyor: Allan R. Kent Fan Tables: Jerome & Kara Connor Management Advisor: Syd Weinstein Staff: Joni Brill Dashoff Student Art Contest: Jacob Lefton Promotions and Sponsorships: Stephanie Clarkson Convention Treasurer: Rachel Kadel-Garcia Registration: James Hinsey Dealers’ Liaison: Ed Trachtenberg Head Cashier: Kathleen Morrison MC: Richard Hill Teen Lounge: Alyssa Amidon, Carolyn Wilk Assistant Dealer Liaison: Amy Chused Treasury Staff: Naomi Moslow MC’s Assistant: Toni Lay Tiptree Bake Sale: B. Diane Martin Artist’s Alley: Christine Day Swipe Box Guru: Alex Latzko Stage Manager: Mike Rafferty Multimedia: Mary Dumas Galleria Manager: Skip Morris Presentation Judge: Jamila Sisco Assistant: Pam Larson GoH Liaison: Debi Chowdhury Tax ID Czarina: Anna Erishkigal Workmanship Judge: Michele Weinstein Media/Web: Adam Lipkin Carl Brandon Liaison: Dash Assistant Division Head—Games: Mike Dlott Film Festival Coordinator: Scott Dorsey Children’s Services: Dale Meyer-Curley Workmanship Clerk: Debi Chowdhury Table Top Games: Foambrain Games, Mike Dlott, Melissa Arisia TV: z! Assistant: Kris Pelletier Judges’ Clerk: James Hinsey Hamilton Anime: PJ Letersky Childcare/Babysitting (AKA “Turtle Track”): Green Room Manager: Byron Connell LARPs: Benjamin Thornton Ocean Thundermoon Green Room Den Moms: Stacy Mandell, Deb Coombs Masters of Jacks and Aces: Dale Farmer, Dave Cantor Art Panels: Pat Vandenberg Green Room Repair Table Manager: Tina Connell Music and Filk: Jeff Keller Fast Track: Liz Turi Food: Conor Walsh FT Front Desk: Jill Sylvester Kamikaze Kids: Dawn Albright Assistant for Music: Jude Shabry Assistant: Tom Traina Head Ninja: Ann Catelli Electronic Games: Joe Locastro Communications: Rachel Silber, Nicholas ‘phi’ Shectman Quartermaster/Bulk Purchasing: Terry Karney Backstage Pirate: Greykell Dutton Room Assistant: Alexander Dumas Website Design: Benjamin Levy Bread Fairy Liaison: Rose Regina Lawrence Video Games Provider: Game Underground Website Content: Chris Denmead Staff Photographer: Batwrangler Bread Fairy: Vicki Schnoes & the Brookline Food Co-Op Official Photographer: Sandy Middlebrooks Anna Bradley Forums Moderator: Mike Sprague Con Suite: Dylan Operations: Social Media Coordinator: Terri Ash Assistant Photographers: James Boykin, Don Gurley, Brilliant Strategist: Dale Farmer Assistants: Walter Kahn, Daniel Eareckson E. O. Kean, Derek Kouyoumjian, Julius Prince Assistant: Katie Vela A Cast of Thousands IT Support: Alex Latzko Hall Costume Awards: NoeL (Northern Lights Printers: Rick Kovalcik Requirements Analysis: Dale Meyer-Curley Costumers’ Guild) Staff Den Kung Food Masters: Kit Golan, Christina B. Diane Martin Schoenfeld OPs room IT: James Meickle Progress Reports: Masquerade House Manager: Matthew Barr Flyers: Lisa Hertel Staff Den Ninjas: Brynn, Fiona Burke-Scoville, Kethry Staff: Tim Szczesuil Assistant Masquerade House Manager: Seth Burke-Scoville, Andrea Carney, Catelynn, Elizabeth Crefin, Logistics: Lucky Souvenir Book Design & Layout: Rachel Mello Breidbart Grace Davis, Ira Donewitz, Shannon Latham, Geoff Turi Assistant and Loadmaster: Janet Stickle Souvenir Book Content Manager: MaryBeth Santarelli Masquerade Computer Guru: Michelle Wexelblat Proofreading: Stephanie Clarkson, Brenna Levitin, Chefs Behind the Green Curtain: David Shaw, Liz Staff: Jonathon Weiss Turi, Pat Vandenberg Angela Morley, and a cast of dozens Exhibits: David D’Antonio Ops Desk: Bryan Maynard Pocket Program: Paul Selkirk Assistant: Skip Morris Hotel Liaison: Kris ‘Nchanter’ Synder Staff: Arnis Kletnieks, Becky Kletnieks, Diane Rosenburg, Copy Editor: Catelyn Johnson Art Show: Jill Eastlake, Pat Vandenberg Assistant & Overflow Hotel: Amos Meeks Bill Todd, Jesse Wertheimer, Rachel Wertheimer Proofreading: Holly Nelson Assistant Director: Bridget McManus At-Con Hotel Liaisons: Warren Buff, Joel Herda, Craig Security: Adam Burdick Guidebook: James Van Zandt Automation: Jo Hogan, Nicholas ‘phi’ Shectman McDonough, Matt Ringel Assistant: Tim Yee KonOpas: Eemeli Aro Baggage Check: Richard L. Schmeidler Innkeeper: Jason Melchert Programming: Jaime Garmendia Staff: Paul Kominers, Meg Frank Newsletter: Brenna Levitin, Sara Weinstein Liaison to Programming: Pam Larson, Mary Dumas, Assistant: Micah Schneider Pat Vandenberg Copy Editor: Sarah Stauff Party Czar: Crystal Huff Diversity Coordinator: Dash Lighting Crew Chiefs: Ellen Blackburn, Lenny Foner Production: Chris Denmead Resume Wrangler: Aaron Haviland Talent Coordinator: Alex Jarvis Mail-in Art: Megan Lewis Restaurant Guide: Lia Olsborg Hotel Food (F&B) Coordinator: Gay Ellen Dennett, Comics Track: Megan Gregory, Donna Martinez Sales: Andrea Senchy Benjamin Levy

Jan 3 – 5, 1992 Jan 15 – 17, 1993 Jan 21 – 23, 1994 Jan 13 – 15, 1995 Jan 12 – 14, 1996 Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers Boston Park Plaza Boston Park Plaza Boston Park Plaza Boston Park Plaza WGoH: Craig Shaw Gardner WGoH: Ellen Kushner WGoH: Spider & Jeanne DIVERSITY—we are not one- Minneapolis Music dimensional beings! AGoH: Robin Wood AGoH: Charles Lang & Robinson WGoH: Emma Bull & Will Shetterly The Fan Guest of Honor got married in the Filk Guest: T.J. Burnside Clapp Wendy Snow-Lang AGoH: Michael Whelan WGoH: C. J. Cherryh AGoH: Lissanne Lake hotel ballroom as his “GoH Event.” Ginjer and Shoshanna were each FGoH: Monty Wells FGoH: Dave Kyle AGoH: Jael FGoH: Rob Bazemore a.k.a. Arisia ‘96 was the last year under the old Guest Editor: Ginjer Buchanan, listed as “Guest Editor” in different Shoshanna Green Con Chair: Robert Con Chair: James S. Belfiore, Jr. FGoH: Walter Kahn “Insanity*3” family owned Park Plaza management. 3 sections of the Program Book. 4 5 6 7 The hotel sale closed the Monday after the “Insanity*3” Bazemore Filk Guest: Michael Longcor Musical Guest: Boiled In Lead Media Guest: Lynne Stephens No one (including the chairman) convention. 4 Con Chair: Kimberly S. Van Auken remembers what really happened. Con Chair: Sheila Oranch Con Chair: Nicholas “phi” Shectman 5 Communities Track: Aimee Bouchard Duck Hunt: Talis Thorndike Love Costuming Track: Jennifer Old-d’Entremont, Christa Space Pilot Program: Allison Feldhusen 'Twas the Night Before Arisia Newman Staff Newsletter:Terry Holt Fan Interest Track: Shana Fuqua Training Organizer: Terry Holt Literature Track: Shira Lipkin T-Shirt & Swag Coordination: Jesi Guggenheim Conceived and written by Donna M. Dube with help from Hunter, Ann Catelli, Jim (Riker) Belfiore, Pat (Pim) Gaming Track: Andy Rosequist Volunteer Shirt Art: Cassandra Boell Newcomb, Beth Gallagher, Kim (The Con Chair) Van Auken, Heather Coon, Johnna Klukas, Pat (EI Supremo) Science Track: Mark Amidon Ribbons: Sharon Sbarsky McCormack, and the Beasts, Midnight and Sasha. Writing Track: Mike Sprague Ribbon Game: Jan Dumas David Shaw Five Minute Talks: Thursday Night Staff Dinner Coordinator: was the night before Arisia when all through Bean Town Her nose it was red, her speech was quite garbled; Program Nexus: Jeff Warner Shannon Latham 'T Not a creature was sleeping, they were up and aroun’. A look at her face revealed not a smile, Registration: Kathryn Kun Dinner Assistant: Debi Chowdhury The techies were rushing to hang all the lights, Someone yelled “Lighten up”, she replied “Not my style!” Assistant & Staff Management: Josh Rachlin Technical Services: Persis Thorndike Climbing their ladders to incredible heights; “On the street the art panels are still stacked in the vans, Assistant & Temporal Liaison: Danielle Reese Assistants: Peter Olszowka, Abby Noyce Hotel staffers were watching with awe in their eyes, Get me some help, What use are these fans?” Pre-con staff: Kat Davis, Sara Gussin, Danielle Reese, Tech Staff: Seph Aliquo, Joseph Averett, Erin Benson, While our team of professionals proved they were wise; The Gofer head popped out of the hole with a leer, Amol Vaidya Aaron Block, Heidi Clark, Will Coakley, Ed Council, With Jeff in his tech vest, with radio and hat, “Who’s the next sucker? I mean volunteer!” At-con staff: Wendee Abramo, Peter Brenton, Rob Tom Dings, Scott Dorsey, Greykell Dutton, Richard Fine, Grinning ear to ear like the Cheshire cat; Down at the pool, someone dropped in dry ice, Castiello, Gini Chadbourne, Jesse Cox, Kelly Fabijanic, Stephanie Fine, Megan Gentry, Ariela Housman, Daniel When down in Logistics there arose such a clatter, What’s the problem I thought, the fog is quite nice; Jennifer Fitzsimmons-Gauger, Shazza Gilbert, Kathy Johnson-Carter, Rick Kovalcik, Brenna Levitin, Leon Marr, He ran from the ballroom to see what was the matter; Grider, Sara Gussin, Kara Hurvitz, Megan McQueen, Noel Neil McMullen, Angela Morley, Paul Mossip, Genni Mushlin, Call Hotel Security? Police? Nine One One? Rosenberg, Josh Sheena, Skye Souter, Jana Lepon Spencer Megan Nugent, Jena O, Lia Olsborg, Mary Olszowka, Sam “The projectors don’t work,” shouted Films in frustration, No, give them to Joelll, let him have some fun; Rabinovitz, Michael Rafferty, Sparr Risher, Wrenn Simms, “The computers are down,” “There goes registration;” He said not a word, but went straight to his work, Terry Holt Staff Services: Sarah Stauff, Brian Trimmer, Kiran Wagle, Jonathon Weiss, For space they were vying, Ops and Logistics, Tracked down the offender, and strangled the jerk; Assistant: Allison Feldhusen Greg Westland, Ariela Zonderman Till Kevin made use of his store of ballistics; The move in was finished, the hour was late, Massage Den: Steve Balzac TD Minder: Erin Benson When what to my wondering eyes should appear, Anything left for tonight would just have to wait; Volunteers Area Head: Elliot Oberholtzer Events Liaison: Joel Lord It was a Checker Taxi cab, the Guest of Honor was here; As set up slowed down, the hotel became still, Volunteer Lounge Coordinator: Beck Prigot Dance Events Liaison: BDan Fairchild When the little old driver hit the curb with a thunk, We all met in the Green Room, to drink (that awful) yuppie swill; Assistants: Alden Latham, Sandry Wilkie Room Designs & Documents: David H. Silber It was good that the guest, on the plane, had got drunk; Despite all the problems, I’m willing to bet, Set-Up Room Captain: Kat Dutton Faster than lightning, the Con Chair she came, Still someone will ask, “ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?”  Pre-Con Program AV: Janet Stickle She screamed and she cursed each department by name; At-Con Program AV: Harriet Severino “Now Programming, Events, Logistics and Ops, Lighting Designer: David H. Silber It’s time to get started, you great bunch of flops!” LD Emeritus: *Hobbit* To the top of the ladder, to the top of the stair, Sound Designer: Paul Kraus Set that one up here, set this one up there; Video Designer: Syd Weinstein The hotel was engulfed in chaos and gloom, Video Gear Wranglers: Patrick Foster, Matthew Barr Programming retreated into the Green Room; Arisia TV Feed: z! Up to my hotel room I dashed for my notes, Arisia TV Programming: z! What’s the use then I thought, I’m working with goats; People mentioned: Jeff Tech Mom: Janet Stickle And then in a crackling I heard on my radio, “Hunter” Jordan, Kim Van Zambia: Peter Olszowka The ballroom was done, it was ready to go; Auken, Kevin Fallon, Joelll Zambia SysAdmin: Matthew Barr As I drew in a breath and was turning around, Herda Zambia Administrator: Dan Franklin Up the stairs came Kimberly, with a great bound; Reprinted with permission of Development: David D’Antonio  She was covered in white from her head to her toe, the author, Donna Dube. What else could go wrong, it was starting to snow; Originally published in the A box full of paperwork she flung on the floor, December 1991 edition of And screamed rather loudly, “I can’t take anymore!” Mentor, the monthly newsletter Her eyes they were glazed, her braces they sparkled, of Arisia, Inc.

Masquerade 1999; photo 010999_03-10 by Sandy Middlebrooks Donna Dube as Snow Queen, 2005; photo 012205_8638 by Sandy Middlebrooks

Jan 10 – 12, 1997 Jan 16 – 18, 1998 Jan 8 – 10, 1999 Boston Park Plaza Westin Hotel, Waltham Westin Copley Place, Boston Exploring Tyranny In Our Literature and In Our Lives Freedom: Stories of The Party Like It’s 1999 a.k.a. “The Iron Boot of Tyranny” Revolution! WGoH: Roger MacBride Allen WGoH: James P. Hogan AGoH: Gary A. Lippincott WGoH: R. A. Salvatore There was actually no external theme for AGoH: Cortney Skinner AGoH: Bob Eggleton FGoH: Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden this convention, as the Chair did not believe FGoH: The Gang of Five (Arisia’s Founders: Brian Cooper, 9FGoH: Marty Gear 10Science Guest: H. Paul Shuch a.k.a. “Dr. SETI” in them. What is listed here was the internal 8Tom Fish, Mary Robison, Matthew Saroff, Cris Shuldiner) Exec Director: Glen R. Con Chair: Cris Shuldiner theme designed for the staff to have fun with. Dictator: Pat McCormack Goodwin 7 To help ensure our members’ happiness and a successful convention, we have established a Code of Conduct and Behavior Policies for all members and staff. Code of Conduct & Behavior Policies Please read this document and help us all have a safe and welcoming convention.

costume and masquerade guidelines Laws governing illicit substances, obscenity, weapons, public Arisia reserves the right to revoke, without refund, the children as fans and companions All costumes are welcome at Arisia, whether created by the behavior, and the treatment of minors must be strictly observed. membership of anyone for just cause. This may also lead to be- Note: In this section where “Parent” is used, it can mean a wearer or not. However, purchased and rented costumes are not Remember, there may be members of the Boston Police Depart- ing banned from future Arisia conventions. Persons violating parent, guardian, or person charged with a child’s welfare. eligible for awards. Awards are made to the creator of the costume, ment on patrol at the convention. the law may be turned over to the police or the hotel security not the wearer. force. We will refund the membership fee of anyone who finds Arisia makes every effort to protect fans of all ages and pro- The list of illegal weapons in Massachusetts includes, but the policies contained herein unacceptable prior to accepting vide a healthy environment with many opportunities for fun and Costume weapons are permitted, but must be peace-bonded is not limited to: blackjacks, billy clubs, any sort of double-edged their badge. The general principles of this Code of Conduct ap- learning. Children are a valued part of our membership, and we by Arisia Security , in the Stone room, upon arrival at the conven- knife (symmetrical cross-section, even if one side is dull), shuriken ply to the Arisia convention and also to all the activities of the welcome their appropriate participation. tion, unless worn solely for the masquerade as part of an on-stage (throwing stars) and nunchucks. For further information see MA General Laws, Part 4, Title 1, Chapter 269, Section 10. convention committee, whether before or after the convention. All children aged 8 and under must be with an adult, in Tur- costume. The use of any weaponry as part of your costume, as well general demeanor tle Track (Childcare), or in Fast Track (Children’s Programming) as the use of any special effects, must first be approved by the Mas- While the hotel is private property, the hotel is still required con areas at all times. querade Director. Remember, it’s okay to surprise the audience, by the Boston Licensing Board to enforce standards of conduct and Arisia expects its members to respect each other and behave but not the staff. nudity. Accordingly, street-legal attire is required in all convention in a generally civilized fashion. Members should respect common Parents of children ages 9–12 who believe their children are spaces and hallways. sense rules for public behavior, personal interaction, common mature enough (and who have their own paid membership) may During the masquerade, flash photography and laser point- courtesy, and respect for private property. If you wouldn’t do it in choose to allow their children to freely roam the convention on ers are forbidden. If you take photos or videos during the Masquer- photography policy ade, do not obstruct the view of other audience members. All elec- public, please don’t do it here. Additionally, all Staff are representa- their own. Any child who excessively misbehaves or engages in in- This is a private event; by registering, individuals grant Ari- tronic devices (e.g., cell phones, pagers, tablet computers) must be tives of Arisia and therefore are held to a higher standard of behav- appropriate, disruptive or dangerous behavior is subject to having sia and designated photographers a non-exclusive right to photo- silenced and their screens must be dimmed. ior, even when off-duty. free-roaming privileges or their entire membership revoked. graph, videotape, otherwise record, and publish (in print or elec- Reminder: The hotel is not dedicated completely to our use Children under 12 years old may attend with either their own Participants in the masquerade must read and agree to the tronically) themselves, companions, activities, costumes, artwork, for the weekend. Members of the general public stay here or visit paid convention membership, or with a free Kids-in-Tow member- terms contained in a separate costumer release and masquerade sales goods, and other property used or displayed in their normal the hotel to dine and socialize. Please be considerate of non-con- ship (with and under the supervision of an authorized adult at all rules. participation of the convention. vention individuals at all times. times). Arisia requires that there be at least one supervising adult parties in guest rooms Photographers, ask permission before you photograph or au- with a membership accompanying every three Kids-in-Tow mem- Arisia forbids abusive, insulting, harassing or intimidating For individuals or groups wishing to host a party (Open or dio/videotape any individual or group. Anyone who does not wish bers. behavior. Closed), you must register with the convention in advance and use to be photographed or recorded should state their wishes unam- Parents should make sure to be aware of the hours of Fast a room in the “Active” room block. Parties registered in advance biguously. Please report any incidents in which a member of the conven- Track and Turtle Track. Parents who are late in picking up children with Arisia will be moved to a “Party Host Room”, which ensures tion is abusive, insulting, intimidating, bothersome, or acting in an We presume that you are acting in an amateur capacity un- may have their children barred from Babysitting and/or Fast Track that you are covered by Arisia’s corkage agreement (allowing you unsafe or illegal manner to Convention Security, an Assistant Di- less otherwise stated. If you are acting on behalf of a publication, at the current or future conventions. to serve food and non-alcoholic drinks). Party hosts can request a vision Head, a Division Head, an Assistant Con Chair, or the Con video production organization, or news medium (freelance or free ice delivery from the hotel. Chair. At con, find someone with a black ribbon, come to Opera- Any unattended children (which includes: children not employed) of any kind, you must register as a member of the press tions in the Stone room, text or call (617) 652-1785, or dial 2228 on picked up at Fast Track/Turtle Track; children who do not have Parties may be “open” (all convention members welcome, or (commercial publication, media, fanzine). Press passes may be ob- any house phone. After the con, email [email protected]. free-roaming ribbons found outside of Fast Track) will be brought with doors open or ajar, or publicly advertised) or “closed” (pri- tained by going to the Information Desk and asking to speak with to Arisia Security, who will follow procedure to ensure the safety vate, doors closed, no advertising). Serving of alcohol is not al- the press liaison to receive an orientation and press kit. Articles or Sleeping in public or convention areas of the hotel is forbid- of the child. lowed in Open Party areas. media coverage released after the convention may earn you a mem- den by the hotel management. This is private property. bership to the next Arisia, or a refund for this year. Please remember that the convention and hotel is not “child- Party hosts are responsible for adhering to convention poli- Program participants, moderators, and event coordinators proofed.” There are many items (including costumes, displays, art, cies, hotel rules, and local, state, and federal laws, including the Anyone wishing to sell photographs, audio, or video record- are responsible for the comfort and safety of convention mem- etc.) that are easily damaged. Additionally, there are things that enforcement of the drinking age. All Party Hosts must review and ings of any part of the convention (including the masquerade) must bers in their areas. Disruptive behavior by adults or children is might place a young child at potential risk. It is the parents’ respon- adhere to the separate Party Hosting Guide. read and agree to the terms contained in a separate photographers/ not acceptable. Any request to leave an area must be complied sibility to supervise their children so they do not venture anywhere videographers contract. with immediately; appeals should be brought to attention of Ari- smoking, alcohol, weapons, nudity, and or touch anything inappropriate. sia Security Staff and directed to the responsible Division Head, illegal acts Individuals or organizations violating these guidelines by the Convention Chairperson, or the Arisia Corporate Executive Participation in some regular program items by minors may selling, reproducing, broadcasting, or publishing materials ob- The Westin hotel bans smoking in all areas of the hotel, in- Board. require parental permission or the presence of a supervising adult. tained at an Arisia convention without permission may be guilty of cluding all guest rooms. Smoking is allowed outside the building, Some program items dealing with adult topics may be closed to copyright violation and/or trespass, and may be prosecuted to the Convention Badges must be worn by all attendees and vol- away from the doorways. children under 18 years of age. Although children under 18 years full extent of the law. If you have any questions as to what is appro- unteers and must be visible to access any convention area (includ- of age may register as “adults,” membership in the convention in Arisia prohibits the consumption of alcohol in all convention priate, contact the Press Liaison for further information. ing Dealers Room and Open Parties). Exceptions may be made for no way supersedes local, state, or federal laws. Some items may areas except for alcohol purchased from the hotel and consumed special cases, e.g., uniformed professionals (police or nurses) and other policies require the supervision of a child by parents. It is the parents’ re- directly in the area in which it was purchased. The legal drinking masquerade participants while on-stage (but masquerade partici- Dealers are limited to the Dealer’s Room in the Galleria sponsibility to review the schedule and decide which items they age in Massachusetts is 21. You may be asked to provide a valid ID pants do need to have memberships in any case). space. Vending from hotel rooms is not allowed. will allow their child to participate in, either with or without adult if ordering alcoholic beverages. Student Memberships for ages 13–25 require a current valid supervision. All raffles and drawings, whether for profit or charitable rea- Arisia’s corkage waiver does not apply to serving of alcohol. student ID for students aged 18 and older. sons, must comply with the City of Boston guidelines. Please review the separate Children’s Policies, available at According to hotel policy all alcoholic beverages must be pur- Fast Track or on our website, for a full description and restrictions. chased through the hotel. Attendees may only post signs on official Arisia Sign Kiosks, 8 located around the hotel, using the tape provided.  9 An appreciation of Tanya Huff Tanya Huff Biography by sheila gilbert

ollowing three years in the Canadian Na- hen I was asked if I would write an dured for more than a quarter of a century. W Appreciation for Arisia’s Guest of F val Reserve (as a cook), a year studying Tanya is a writer with great scope, imagina- Honor, Tanya Huff, I said I would be delighted to do forestry (although not very hard), a winter hanging tion, and integrity. Those of you familiar with her it. But where do you start singing the praises of a tal- around Universal Studios (on the set of Operation various fantasy series undoubtedly wish she would ent like Tanya? Petticoat), a degree in Radio and Television Arts, write new stories in each of these universes. But the and time spent managing North America’s oldest Well, if you are me you don’t sing at all be- truth is that Tanya will only write a new novel when surviving SF&F bookstore (Bakka-Phoenix when it cause, unlike Tanya who loves to sing and is often she feels she has another story to tell. That is what was only Bakka), Tanya Huff moved to rural Ontario found at filk singing sessions, I would never sing in makes her such an exceptional author—every tale with her wife, Fiona Patton, and began writing sci- public. she tells comes straight from the heart. ence fiction and fantasy full-time—or as full-time as possible around the needs of nine cats, two dogs, and Tanya is a consummate professional and a I’m sure you will be happy to know that Tan- eighty acres of land. 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originally appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Summer 1995

after they’d moved out here from the than he was, but inevitably. shade his watering eyes from the sun- addy?” Alison put her Colin found himself clutching the The dragon peered back over its “ edge of the counter so tightly it creaked shoulder, turning its head almost a com- city and it wasn’t one he was anxious to Gravity spilled him out of the light pouring in through a fissure directly Dglass in the sink and repeat. When his nose declared the hole across from him. stared out the kitchen window. “Daddy?” a protest. “Where could it have come plete one hundred and eighty degrees so cleft and into a passageway brilliantly lit from?” that its nose pointed down the valley be- unoccupied, he balanced awkwardly on by the light reflected from thousands of There was still no sign of the she repeated a little louder. “There’s a his knees, bent under the edge of the fall- dragon at the hummingbird feeder.” Just then the dragon lifted its head. tween its wings. Even almost fifteen feet pieces of embedded quartz, a bewilder- dragon, but piled against the curve of away, Colin was sure he saw its eyes wid- en tree, and squinted into the earth. ing array of tiny rainbows dancing in the the cavern wall was a curious collection “You mean a dragonfly, sweetie.” Topaz eyes stared into the kitchen while a scarlet tongue tasted the air. en. Facing front, it put on a frantic burst Was that light? A flash of green? air. A little stunned – Alice hadn’t arrived of chunks of quartz and bits of strange- of speed. “No, I don’t.” She was as certain as Inching ahead, he stretched both in Wonderland head first – he pushed ly shaped metal that could only be its only a nearly-five year old could be. “I “Where’s your mother?” Janet himself along on his elbows and toes, horde. would never believe this if she didn’t see Sneakers sinking into wet ground, arms down into the hole. It appeared mean a dragon.” brambles snagging bare flesh between to continue, with no significant change squinting against the glare. As he hadn’t Inching the rest of the way out of it for herself. landed on the dragon when he fell, Colin Ostrander put his screw- socks and shorts, Colin sprinted after in dimension, far deeper than he could the passage, Colin carefully got to his squashing it into an iridescent smear on driver down amidst the ruins of the “Mommy’s in the garage.” it. “This is amazing,” he panted, push- reach. A faint light rose up from the bot- feet. Nothing seemed to be too terribly the rock, he reasoned, somewhat muzz- toaster and stood, sternly repressing a ing through a stand of dog-willow fast tom. He could see the outlines of rock damaged. Okay, first of all, find out where With a sudden slither, the dragon illy, that he had to still be following it. preoccupied, “That’s nice, dear.” Just last dropped from the feeder, spreading its enough to raise welts. “What am I going below in spite of the fallen tree above you are. They’d been living in that house night, he and his wife had agreed that wings barely in time to avoid impact to do if I catch up to it?” blocking the sun. He’d travelled between ten and fif- for three years and none of the neigh- they had to become more involved in with the flowers below. About two feet The question seemed moot as up “Just a little farther...” teen feet when the world tilted sideways. bours had ever mentioned finding a cave their daughter’s life. Granted, Alison was long from nose to tail tip, stomach visibly ahead the dragon flashed once in the Perceptions scrambled, he threw himself in the area. Of course, they’ve never men- In the best tradition, it proved just always seeing the weird and wonderful, rounded, it flew laboriously across the sun, dove towards the ground, and disap- forward until the physical structure of tioned finding a dragon either... a little too far. but didn’t any magic his daughter could backyard. peared. the passage reformed itself around him. Shoving aside a strangely shaped find in the mess that adults had made The loosened dirt at the lip gave When his head emerged into a circular No time to get Janet, Colin decid- “Oh no you don’t!” He fought bush, Colin ducked and stepped out into of the world deserve to be investigated? way. The rock he tried to brace his hands cavern about six feet in diameter, he col- ed. “Come on, Ali. Let’s go after it!” his way past a clump of prickly ash with the open air. Besides, the toaster had, for the moment, against crumbled out of the wall. Unable lapsed, panting. Half out of the tunnel, only a minor loss of blood and came to completely defeated him. “Nah.” She shrugged and headed to prevent it, he tumbled forward – not leaning his weight on the less abraded And very nearly tripped over the for the living room. “I’m gonna play Su- the edge of a small clearing just in time of his arms, he lifted the other hand to dragon stretched out on a rock ledge, “All right, Ali, let’s see your dra…” quickly, for the space was barely wider per Mario.” to see the tip of a green tail vanish into basking in the sun. the shadowed recess below a fallen cedar. There was a dragon at the hum- Up close, it reminded Colin of No time to argue. The dragon had Sucking at a laceration on his wrist, Co- mingbird feeder. nothing so much as an elongated cat. Its almost reached the rail fence and once lin raced towards the downed tree; the expression said clearly, Oh, puh-leez, I’ve Coiled once around the neck of it got into the fields and woods beyond dragon hadn’t reappeared, it must still be just gotten comfortable. Surely you don’t the bulb, it clung to the overloaded feed- the row of neat suburban/country hous- under there. er with tiny, hand-like front claws, nose- es, he’d lose it for sure. The screen door expect me to move? When he stepped pressed tight against one of the plastic slamming shut behind him, Colin leapt “Hey, dragon. It’s okay.” He forward, it managed to look simultane- flowers. Green scales gleamed iridescent off the back porch and raced across the dropped to his knees. “I’m not going to ously disgruntled and wary, wings spread in the summer sunlight and its folded lawn. Here was actual proof of magic and hurt you. I just want to...” With no idea slightly, forked tongue flicking out to wings enclosed it in a shimmering gossa- myth still in the world and he wasn’t go- of what it was he just wanted to do, he let taste the air. Colin froze, worried that, mer tent. Its dangling tail traced lazy arcs ing to let it get away. the reassurance trail off. Bending almost frightened, it might fly away. Heart rack- of obvious contentment. double, he peered eagerly into the shad- eting about in his chest, he slowly slid his Clearly straining, the dragon man- ows. hand into the pocket of his shorts. “Oh my lord, that’s a dragon.” aged enough altitude to crest the top The dragon was nowhere in sight The dragon’s head whipped back, Alison sighed. “That’s what I said, cedar rail then it locked its wings and dropped into a long shallow glide. but the tree covered a cleft in the earth eyes locked on the movement. Daddy. Isn’t it pretty?” about thirty inches long by eighteen His fingers closed around a sticky, The wasps that perpetually Colin scrambled over the fence inches wide. plastic wrapped rectangle. Still moving plagued the hummingbirds were no- after it, sank into the weeds on the other Colin stretched out a hand then, slowly, he drew it out. Two days ago, in where in sight. Neither, for that matter, side with an audible squelch, stumbled rational again for a moment, paused and town, he’d bought Alison a large grape were the hummingbirds. sideways, and drove the thorns of a wild rose through his sock and into his ankle. sniffed the breeze. Not much, not even sucker. Six or seven licks into it, when The level of red sugar-water in Caught up in the chase, he hardly felt the the magic of an actual dragon, could the stick had snapped, she’d decided she the bulb dropped noticeably as they pain. stand against the reality of a skunk. The no longer wanted it and it had ended up watched. whole family had learned that lesson just stuffed in Daddy’s pocket for later. Spring in the Desert, by Lubov 12 13 “Well, we know you’ve got a sweet appeared grimly businesslike. The only “there’s no way he can climb up onto this inside the cave and telling it to stay put, and prejudices said adults tooth...” problem was, the mounted knight wasn’t ridge in that outfit.” Colin climbed down the ridge to the pla- were not eleven inches high. A second later, he was counting his much more than a foot high. “What ho, dragon! By the avouch- teau, Sir Jorrin continuing his challenge Colin felt heartily ashamed fingers as the dragon devoured sucker, Which explained the high-pitched ment made in the exordium of time, that in the background. of himself. All right. Lets say wrapper, and remnant of stick with obvi- voice, but not much else. which pledges the great worms to answer As Colin stepped onto the mead- he’s vertically challenged and leave it at that. ous enjoyment. Colin wiped suddenly sweaty when summoned thrice, I challenge thee ow and his size became apparent, the Which was when it hit him. palms on his shorts as he finally realized for the third and final time. Come hither knight’s horse reared and headed for the “I have never heard of that the strangely shaped bush beside the and...” trees at full gallop, reins trailing and rider giants in this place before.” His legs buckled and he sat down left lying helmless on the grass. Colin Sir Jorrin’s tone made it an suddenly, painfully, on a pointed rock. cave entrance was a full-grown tree. That “Hold it buddy!” Colin leapt to his all the bushes surrounding the meadow feet, tumbling the dragon behind him. reached down to help, but an expression accusation. He’d just fed a two-day-old sucker to a of terror stopped his hand a foot from dragon a little smaller than the family cat. were trees. There’s only one logical... No, While he had no idea what an avouch- “I’m not exactly from somehow logical wasn’t the right word. ment was, no diminutive St. George was the ground. “Are you all right?” he asked around here.” This was not the sort of thing that hap- instead. “Are you hurt?” pened to boring, thirty-something soft- ...one possible explanation. I’m definitely forcing this dragon to fight. “Just what do “Then where?” not in Kansas anymore. It didn’t seem to you think you’re doing?” Golden curls in disarray, Sir Jor- ware analysts. Why not tell him? “I matter that he’d never been to Kansas. It took Sir Jorrin a moment to re- rin pushed himself into a kneeling posi- “Maybe I slipped on my way across It had to have happened back in that tun- tion and searched frantically about in the came through a magic por- the kitchen,” he said thoughtfully to the gain control of his horse and he lost his tal in the mountain.” nel when things slipped out of whack. The lance in the process. Finally managing grass. dragon as it climbed onto his lap and be- hair on the back of his neck lifted.I went “This mountain?” gan nosing through his to draw his sword, “Sir Jorrin?” clothes, “and all this is he yanked his mount At the sound of his name, his “ Yes.” around until it faced just my subconscious His legs buckled and he sat down suddenly, painfully, search grew more frantic still. “Thy home is on the keeping me amused up the mountain on a pointed rock. He’d just fed a two-day-old again. Well, we’re not going to accomplish other side?” while I’m being rushed anything until he finds it... Colin scanned to hospital in a coma. sucker to a dragon a little smaller than the family cat. “What ho, gi- The other side the grass from his superior vantage point seemed accurate enough in Ouch! Watch those ant!” he yelled, voice and plucked the miniature sword from At the Pond, by Lubov claws!” even higher pitched the classical sense. “Yes.” out of the sod. “Here.” Carefully holding thing?” Colin asked sharply. “Fighting?” Setting the dragon aside with one through a magical portal. Somehow, he than it had been. the three-inch blade between thumb and “Hast thou come then to be the hand, he rubbed at the four bleeding, seemed to have been flung into one of “Thou art named, uh, megatherian and forefinger, he squatted and offered the dragon’s champion? To answer the chal- Sir Jorrin looked confused. “I am a parallel scratches dug into his thigh with the fairy tales he read to his daughter. I uh, most, uh, well, uh, most prodigious knight the hilt. lenge in its place?” Without turning his knight. It is what we do.” great. Come hither and fight!” back, Sir Jorrin moved to where his helm the other. This dragon, this wondrous, thought that sort of thing only happened in “Well, I am not a knight and it’s wardrobes! Still on his knees, Sir Jorrin had fallen and scooped it up. miraculous dragon, was painfully real. “I will not!” grabbed for it with both hands. not what I do.” What do I do? Got any “Maybe,” he told it, stroking the warm Although he realized that perhaps “Well...” Well, somebody had to programs you need debugged? This is ri- “What ho, giant! I, Sir Jorrin of Colin released the blade. “Now, curve of an offered belly with something he should be, he wasn’t afraid. He’d trust Barrowford, do challenge. . .” do it or the poor dragon would end up diculous. But since he’d opened his big very close to reverence, “you’re the sort the magic that had brought him through put it away before you hurt someone.” looking like those pictures of slaughtered mouth...”I, uh, negotiate.” of thing that happens to fathers of al- to get him home again. It was Alison’s “Look, you stay right there. I’m baby seals that Greenpeace had plastered Driving the point into the ground, “What means this, negotiate?” most-five year olds.” magic after all. coming down.” Shooing the dragon back Sir Jorrin used it to lever himself labori- North America with back in the seven- ties. Except of course that the dragon “It means that instead of fighting, “What ho, dragon! Thou art “What ho, drag- ously to his feet. had scales instead of fur and didn’t look we talk.” named arrant and most pernicious on!” the knight called “Well?” Colin insisted pointedly as at all like a seal and it was about to be worm. Come hither and fight!” The a second time’ rising in “Ah. If it is thy desire to talk, go the blade remained unsheathed. spitted not clubbed. Actually, he had voice, thinned by distance and strangely his stirrups. “I, Sir Jor- ahead and while thou art talking, I shall “God’s teeth, giant!” Panting to acknowledge, it wasn’t a very good high pitched, held the distinct sound of rin of Barrowford, do fight the dragon. Although,” the knight slightly, Sir Jorrin glared up at him, terror analogy. More importantly, what would threat. challenge thee to single added peevishly, taking a few practice shoved aside by indignation. “I am not a Alison say if she knew her Daddy had combat for the sake of cuts at the air, “it would be a great deal The dragon flipped back onto its child. I am an anointed knight and a man allowed the dragon to be killed? “Okay, honour and in the name easier if my niddering horse and equal- feet, scrambled over Colin’s legs, and full three and twenty years old!” what will it take for you to go away and of his most gracious ly niddering squire had remained. No dove into the cave. leave the dragon alone?” majesty, King Bryant. Somewhat taken aback, Colin doubt the two of them are back at Ki- “If that’s one of the Dushane Come hither and fight!” spread his hands in a conciliatory ges- “If it is thy desire that I leave, giant, ramar by now.” He took one final swing kids...” Colin leaned forward until he ture. “Did I say you weren’t?” thou must first defeat me in single com- then turned to faceup the mountain. Colin felt the could see off the ledge. bat.” Apparently undaunted by the pros- “What ho, dragon!” dragon’s wedge-shaped “Thou art treating me as though I pect offighting someone almost six times About twenty feet away was a sort head push under his were but moments back pulled mewling “Sir Jorrin. We have to talk about his size, Sir Jorrin cheerfully clapped his of a plateau and on that plateau was a arm and he almost from the tit!” this.” helm on his head took a deep breath meadow fifteen feet square and in that thought he heard it sigh “I am?” and bellowed, “What ho, giant! Thou “I have no time for talk, I must meadow was a knight in armour on a as it also gazed down at art named megatherian and most prodi- needs rid the land of this arrant and per- horse, also in armour. The sun gleamed the knight. “I wouldn’t “Thou art!” off polished steel and although the gious great. Come hither and fight!” nicious worm.” worry about it,” he mur- “Sorry. It’s that you’re so, so. . .” He breeze snapped the pennant on the lance “Oh.” Colin hadn’t considered mured comfortingly, was eleven inches high is what he was “Is that your answer to every- tip gaily back and forth, the weapon itself that. “Does it eat maidens then?” Artwork copyright 1995 Bob Eggleton. Used by permission. 14 15 “Maidens?” Sir Jorrin laughed. “I talk .” ••••• trefy most wondrously.” Dawngate. Surely th’art not wider than wait some more. have never found any maidens in these “Again, talk.” Sir Jorrin chopped “Perhaps,” Colin suggested after “Thank you, Sir Jorrin.” four wagons.” Under shadowed scrutiny from parts. No,” he continued, oblivious to the absently at a buttercup with his sword, he’d crossed the meadow in three long “Can’t his Majesty talk with me every window, Colin went over the argu- tatters of chivalric myth, “no maidens. With his brain attempting to oper- obviously deep in thought. After a mo- strides and then waited fifteen minutes ate on the scale it was used to, it seemed out here?” Colin wondered. ment he intended to present to the king, But it flies over the villages, affrighting ment he looked up and asked, “How can for Sir Jorrin to catch up, “I should carry wishing that he’d paid more attention persons and livestock. Oftimes in the that next to no time passed between Apparently not. I be certain thou wilt but talk?” you.” spotting Kiramar in the distance and to the boys in marketing. All he could year, it takes a sheep or calf.” He wasn’t wider than four wagons, remember was a mouthful of teeth that How indeed. I suppose a citation “Carry me?” panted Sir Jorrin. “I arriving in the cleared area outside the but it was close. While squirming, he “A sheep or calf?” That was all? from the Chamber of Commerce for civ- tell thee again, giant, I am no...uh...” He waist-high wall. It looked, Colin decided, had to have been capped and a lengthy “And you’re going to kill it for that?” tried to ignore the embarrassingly frank justification of expense accounts, neither ic responsibility won’t cut it. Then sud- wiped a sweaty brow with an equally just the way a city in a fairytale should. suggestions from the watching crowds Sir Jorrin snorted. “Not likely. His denly Colin had a truly brilliant idea. “I sweaty hand and sighed deeply. “Mayhap Kind of like Barbie and Ken do Camelot. of which would be of much use under and tried harder to ignore what he was the circumstances. Majesty has offered a Dukedom to the tell you what, Sir Jorrin, I’ll take the most thou should.” “Unless thou art impervious to knight who can best the beast.” sacred oath of my people.” Straightening Sir Jorrin’s “three hour gentle ride” arrow fire,” Sir Jorrin told him dryly, “I to his full height, he solemnly traced an “You’re going to kill the dragon took about forty minutes of steady walk- should wait here.” It looked, Colin decided, just the way a city in a fairytale for personal profit?” Like the rest of his ex across his chest. “Cross my heart and ing. They paused once, Colin regretting hope to die, stick a finger in my eye, my “For how long?” He couldn’t look should. Kind of like Barbie and Ken do Camelot. generation, Colin had no problem with the four cups of coffee he’d had that at his watch without dropping his hitch- upward mobility but, as an archetype, nose drops off if I tell a lie.” Alison had morning before leaving home. Unfor- come up with the last phrase herself and hiker, but the sun seemed nearly straight Sir Jorrin was becoming a bit of a disap- tunately, the rocky ground was unable up. It had to be close to noon. pointment. “What about honour?” been inordinately proud of it. It seemed to absorb such a quantity of liquid and squirming in. By partially dislocating one like the sort of thing that a man enam- the steaming stream washed away a sec- “Not long. Watch the Dragongate.” shoulder, he got through the gate and After what seemed like hours, the Under his armour, Sir Jorrin oured of shouting What ho! might be im- officious little man reappeared followed shrugged. “What about it?” he asked. tion of the path. I guess I should’ve aimed “The what?” standing again without doing any more pressed by. downhill. than a very minor bit of destruction. An by an anthill’s worth of servants who Colin sighed. Eleven inches of “Quite the oath, giant.” Sir Jorrin “The gate we face in the wall.” escort of mounted knights waited for swarmed over a balcony by Colin’s head “Incredible!” exclaimed Sir Jorrin laying carpet, hanging tapestries, and fi- knight braced himself against the gust. thought for a moment, seemed to settle A few moments later, the Dragon- him inside and Colin made his way care- when he was retrieved. nally setting up what had to be a small “This is getting us nowhere fast.” He an internal argument, and sheathed his gate opened just far enough for a mount- fully from gate to palace behind them, throne. checked his watch. He should be getting sword. “Very well. Let us waste no time.” During the speculation that fol- ed knight to ride out. The gleaming fig- his sense of wonder fighting for survival home, but Janet could look after Alison lowed, Colin tried not to feel smug. ure stopped about ten inches from the against the stench of open sewers. “Will it take much longer?” Colin for a little while longer. “I think I need to “How far is it?” When they reached the first of the wall and set his lance. The wall around the palace was asked. talk to someone in charge.” “A three hour gentle ride.” The farms, he became too preoccupied with knight looked disgusted. “A longer walk.” “What ho, giant! Thou art named more decorative than functional and The official didn’t even bother to “Thou art desirous of speech with finding a place to safely put his feet to pay ponderous and most minacious calum- reached only just above knee high. He look at him. “His Majesty will see thee his Majesty?” “Three hours!” Sir Jorrin much attention. Fortunately, niator! Come hither and...” The knight cautiously stepped over it and into a shortly.” there were few fences, a great deal of fal- “If he’s the one who makes things “Hast thou better things to do?” broke off, raised a gauntleted hand, and courtyard where he was, once again, told A less magical tone could not be happen, the local CEO, then yes.” low land, and most of the people either lifted his visor. “Sir Jorrin?” to wait. “I have to get home.” Colin looked barricaded themselves inside squat stone imagined. His dentist’s receptionist had “No!” back up at the dragon’s cave and caught buildings or screamed and ran for the Explanations took a while. At the Just like home. He eased down onto one just like it. request of the city council, Colin tried the cobblestones, back to the wall, in “Why not?” a glimpse of sunlight reflecting off iri- woods. The one exception raced towards Then, as suddenly as they’d ap- descent green scales. It was the colour him and jabbed a pitchfork through the not to fidget. Sir Jorrin disappeared, the one position he could manage with- peared, servants and official disap- “Thou art a giant!” of the leaves in Sherwood Forest. It was top of his running shoe. leaving him staring at the crowds who’d out crushing anything. They tell you that peared. A trumpet sounded, the balcony the colour of the Emerald City. It was the climbed to the top of the city wall to you’ve got an appointment then make you “So?” Colin resisted the urge to “A stupid man,” observed Sir Jor- doors swung open, and out throw in a Fe, Fi, Foe, Fum – which was colour of his little girl’s eyes – well, actu- stare at him. Eventually, a man no more stepped a man Sir Jorrin’s ally Alison’s eyes were more hazel, but rin, as the next step left the farmer far be- than nine inches tall and trying desper- the only giantspeak he could remember. hind. “But a brave one.” size but older, his hair and in some lights they looked sort of green. ately hard to make up for it, came out beard liberally streaked with “It is not what is done with giants!” And Alison’s daddy can’t quit now. “I “Right,” Colin agreed tightly, shak- to tell him that the king had graciously grey. Actually, he looks like “Why not?” guess I can be a little late.” ing the pitchfork loose. agreed to grant him an audience. Sean Connery in a good rug He’d have to tell Janet Tiny golden brows drew down. “If thy foot-coverings were not “As the wall is too high for thee and a crown. I hope my breath he’d got lost in the woods. “If I take thee to my King, what will stop thick enough to keep it out, thou hast to step over and climbing would dam- is okay. While she’d believe that, thee from destroying him?” better hope there was no shit on the age both it and the buildings against it, Settling himself on the she’d never believe this. prongs. Shit will cause a wound to pu- mayhap thou canst squirm though the “Destroying him? I just want to throne, King Bryant gripped Carsten Turner as Con Chair, 2004 Rick Kovalcik is calm amid the chaos, 2005.1 photo by Nicholas “phi” Shectman photo by Nicholas “phi” Shectman

Jan 16 – 18, 2004 Jan 21 – 23, 2005 Boston Park Plaza Boston Park Plaza The Future of Freedom 15.5 Through Alien Eyes 16.1 Sculptor GoH: Arthur Ganson Sep 4.5, 2004 WGoH: Barbara Hambly Jan 24, 2005 WGoH: Tim Powers Sheraton Boston AGoH: John Picacio Boston Park Plaza FGoH: Kim Van Auken Evil Overlord: The Mini-Arisia at Noreascon 4, with all of the features FGoH: Victor J. Raymond Carsten Turner A fourth day of activities, Freedom Guests: Eric S. & of Arisia presented in miniature, including flash fiction Media Guest: Harry Knowles scheduled very rapidly when 15 Official Con Book: readings, Magic: The Gathering card art in the Mini- 16 Con Chair: Buzz Harris Catherine Raymond Fannish Movie Guests: HiddenFrontier.org we discovered we were all Powers of Two, from Art Show, and mini buttons in the Mini-Dealers Room. Snowstorm shut down Boston snowed in to the hotel. 16 Filk Guest: Tom Smith NESFA Press Filk Guests: Mary Ellen Wessels & Ed Stauff 17 When he finished, King Bryant, And wait. mour and I didn’t have much time...and With his hands free of knight, Co- be some confusion, he added, “Dead.” looking much less tense, leaned forward Finally, a door opened by his left good grief, is that the time?” Carefully, lin made better time on the way up into “But why?” A fantasy land of min- and said, “If th’art saying the dragon is knee and what appeared to be the same so as not to step on the cow, Colin got to the mountains than he had on the way iature knights and dragons he could magical, th’art wrong. It is nothing more crowd of servants rolled out half of a his feet. “You’ve made the right decision, down and although people still screamed manage to cope with, but this was some- or less than a giant flying lizard.” huge wooden barrel which they then your Majesty, you’ll see.” Pins and nee- and ran, no one tried to stick a pitchfork thing else again. Kings, Colin decided, should be filled with buckets of water. As attempt- dles exploded up his right leg, a thou- in him. Humming Puff the Magic Drag- sand tiny points of pain. In the interests on as he walked, in a little under half an “Because thou art a giant.” Tone less literal. “No your Majesty, I’m saying ing to talk to them only brought pan- and manner added a clear, Why else? the dragon represents all the things that icked retreats and a damp courtyard, of diplomacy, he hid the grimace in a hour, sweating and with a stitch in his are magic and wonderful in the world Colin gave up and tried, not very suc- smile. “Thank you for your time. Now, if side, he arrived back at the meadow. “That’s hardly a good enough rea- and you shouldn’t allow people like Sir cessfully, to stretch his legs. you’ll excuse me, I’ve really got to go.” All in all, it had been the sort of son!” They weren’t actually going to Jorrin to keep trying to kill it.” “Home?” day that dreams were made of. Still favor- kill him. That sort of thing happened in With the barrel full, a bucolic look- books and movies, but not in the real “Allow?” Tiny brows rose imperi- ing young man dragged a confused and “Yes, home.” ing the pulled muscle in his left shoulder, he bent and scratched at some of the world. ously. “Giant, I did not allow Sir Jorrin to protesting cow out into the courtyard by “As thou hast carried Sir Jorrin, challenge the dragon. I encouraged him.” a rope halter and left it there. dried blood on his knee. It could have “If thou must needs have an ex- wouldst thou carry his king to the city come from the prickly ash, the shards of planation,” Sir Jorrin sighed, “know that “Encouraged him? But why?” Colin gratefully drank the water. wall on thy way out?” quartz, or the dragon’s claws – he wasn’t as thou wilt not be bound by challenge, “Because Sir Jorrin is young and After a few moments of terror, the cow Colin smiled. From playgrounds entirely certain which – but every bump, thou art dangerously unpredictable, cre- strong and ambitious and deserves a settled down and began chewing a bit of to battlefields, people didn’t change. If every bruise had been worth it. He ating a grave threat to the kingdom. This chance to win a Dukedom.” topiary. one kid had a sucker then all the kids had couldn’t wait to see Alison’s eyes light up I told my king. But of more danger is when he told her what he’d done. “But you should be protecting the There wasn’t a bush ungnawed to have a sucker. If one country had nu- the certainty that where there is one gi- dragon!” in the courtyard by the time the king clear capabilities then all the countries “What ho, giant!” ant there must be others and unless we returned. “Thou wast not hungry?” he had to have nuclear capabilities. If Sir would have the kingdom overrun, some- “From what?” asked, indicating the cow with the sweep Jorrin had been carried by a giant then “Sir Jorrin!” Colin grinned down thing must be done. When I told him of of his hand. the king had to be carried by a giant. “Of at the knight. “How did you get back up thy vow, his Majesty agreed to keep thee “Well, essentially, from everything. here so quickly?” And you should be finding a mate for it. Colin winced. He was supposed course, your Majesty.” talking – and this desire to talk is, I vow, Trying to get it to breed.” to eat the cow? Alive? “Uh, no. Thank It was much easier to squirm out “As thou was entering the Dawn- the strangest thing about thee – whilst I, Summer Dream, by Lubov you.” Whatever happened to a dozen tiny of the city than it had been to squirm in. gate, I rode from the Dragongate with with a company of archers, returned to King Bryant stared up at him in as- the city between us. His Majesty kept the place I first saw thee to wait and kill intricately carved wooden arms tightly tonishment. “Then we should have more loaves of bread; roast turkeys the size of At the king’s request, Colin carried him chickadees; great bowls of custard, sweet around the outside of Kiramar to the thee long enough for me to return to this thee before thou canst go back under the enough to turn his fingertips white. “So, than one.” place.” mountain and lead thy people through.” giant, Sir Jorrin hath told me much about and creamy and swallowed whole? Obvi- Dragonsgate and set him down on top of “And just think what that would do ously, some fairy tales had better catering the wall, the line of guards that stretched “Have you come to see me off?” “But I wouldn’t! Cross my heart thee. It is thy desire to speak with me for the tourist industry.” concerning the dragon?” than others. around a quarter curve, parting to let “In a manner of speaking,” the and hope to die!” “The what?” him in. Colin approved of his Majesty get- “I have considered your words,” knight replied. Behind him, a line of ar- “Precisely,” said Sir Jorrin. “The ting straight to the point. He’d always “People would pay to see a family King Bryant told him solemnly, “and “The giant,” the king announced, chers rose to their feet, and continued to arrows,” he added, “are poisoned. We been terrible at small talk. “Right. The of dragons in their natural habitat. You have decided that my knights will no lon- “is going home.” rise until the meadow was almost com- could, of course, have shot thee from dragon.” Fortunately, he’d just received could open a theme park. Sell t-shirts. Fi- ger hunt the dragon.” The guards cheered, waving their pletely enclosed in a circle of longbows. the city walls as thou didst leave but the quarterly package from the World nance civic improvements.” “Your Majesty! That’s wonderful!” bows over their heads. Colin smiled “I have come to see that thou that would have meant thy great corpse art stopped.” would rot before Kiramar bringing pesti- Wildlife foundation and while dragons “Thy words are strange, giant.” By God, he’d done it! The dragon was and waved back, reassuring King Bry- lence and no doubt plague as welI. Here, weren’t exactly snail darters or black Shaking his head, the king stood. “Thy safe! A traditional happy ending and he ant that he could find his way to the “What?” the dragon will devour thy carcass and footed ferrets and the destruction of the thoughts are stranger. I shall consider was responsible. Alison was going to be meadow without a guide. “I have come to kill the sun will bake thy bones clean and Brazilian rainforest certainly didn’t affect them. We will speak again when thou so proud of her daddy. The king seemed to approve. thee.” they shall be as silent witness to chal- them, the text could be adapted to fit. hast been refreshed.” Becoming increasingly impassioned, he The king regarded him specula- “Then good-bye, giant. It has “What!” lengers of the worm.” wrapped up with an emotional plea for “But...” tively. “Is it true that thou carried Sir Jor- been...” He paused, appeared to rin down the mountain?” discard several words, and final- “Kill thee,” “Challengers? Hold it right there! wonder and diversity in the universe, lift- The balcony door swung shut be- ly finished with, “...interesting.” Sir Jorrin repeated. The king promised me his knights would ed in its entirety from a classic Star Trek hind him. “Well, yes. His horse had run off Then, just in case stop hunting the dragon!” episode. and he couldn’t walk very quickly in ar- ••••• Colin could only wait. there might still Daniel Dern as Magician, 2009 photo courtesy of Daniel Dern

Jan 13 – 15, 2006 Jan 12 – 14, 2007 Jan 18 – 21, 2008 Jan 16 – 19, 2009 Boston Park Plaza Hyatt Regency Cambridge Hyatt Regency Cambridge Hyatt Regency Cambridge Focus Humor in Science Fiction and Pirates vs. Ninjas Fabric of Science Fiction Fantasy WGoH: Allen Steele WGoH: Laura Anne Gilman 2008 was the first WGoH: Walter H. Hunt AGoH: Frank Wu WGoH: Esther Friesner AGoH: Marrus intentional four-day AGoH: Dave Seeley FGoH: Barb Schofield AGoH: Hilary Scott Fan Performer GoH: Eric “in Arisia (the blizzard of FGoHs: Ricky and Karen Dick 17Musical Guest: Heather Dale 18Filk GoH: Luke Ski 19the Elevator” Zuckerman 2005 having made the 20Con Chair: Jill Eastlake Con Chair: Nicholas ‘phi’ Shectman Con Chair: Joel Herda Con Chair: September Isdell first four day con by a force of nature). 18 A new home for Arisia 19 “The king’s word shall stand. We to the dragon’s cave. Colin threw himself “They tried to kill me!” he told it, “Young, strong, ambitious and cushion of ground cover. pain from the scabbed over dragon bite, have no need to hunt the dragon for we through the gap, the closest archers div- still not quite believing in spite of the stupid. His Majesty probably encour- He began to itch on the way home. he got to his feet and hobbled into the know where it is.” ing away from his charge, and scrambled punctures. “Really kill me!” ages everyone he’d like to get rid of. So He’d been lying in poison ivy. kitchen. Why that royal... “So you’re going at panicked speed up the rocky slope. The dragon lowered its wedge- much for Camelot.” With one last rub of “What ho, magic!” he called softly. his aching bottom, he shuffled over to ••••• to keep trying to kill it?” Behind him, he heard Sir Jorrin shaped head and regarded him through Alison, her nose pressed against scream, “Fire!” slitted topaz eyes. the quartz passage and began working Alison stared sleepily up at him, a “It is a dragon. That is what one his way into the narrow opening, eyes battered teddy bear clutched under one the window, watched as the unicorn does with dragons. Ready the bows.” It felt like he’d been stung by “Sir Jorrin’s a bigoted thug, the squinted almost shut against the shim- chubby arm. “Why’d you stop him from moved over one row and began eating Colin stared down at the ring of wasps, a half a dozen times in each but- king makes promises like it’s an election mer of light. fighting the dragon, Daddy?” the lettuce. “What did you say, Daddy?” archers, or more specifically at the ring tock. Yelping in pain, he leapt forward year, fairytale cities stink, and I’ve got a Colin smiled down at the back of and got both hands on the lip of the dozen poisoned arrow holes in my butt.” It’ll be just my luck to get stuck here... Colin blinked. And tried not to of metal points that tipped each angled scratch. “But honey, surely you wouldn’t his daughter’s head. “I said, that’s nice, shaft, and suddenly realized that the safe- dragon’s ledge just in time to hear the He sighed and shook his head. This last But the rainbows were still danc- dear.” knight admonishing his men to fire at bit was going to need editing before he ing so they should send him home. want the dragon to be killed?” ty of the dragon had become a second- But he said it like he meant it. ary concern. “Hang on! You’re kidding, will. A few arrows thudded into the could share it with Alison. Heavy editing. The way the day’s been going, I’ll “But that’s what knights do with right?” thick, ridged rubber sole of his shoe, but “I’m sorry, dragon. I tried to save probably find out this was a side effect from dragons.” Her voice held the same mat- Picking up the bottle of calamine the rest fell short as, with strength he you, but nothing’s changed. Any day underground testing and I’ll end up glowing ter-of-fact protest Sir Jorrin’s had. lotion, he went back to the living room. “Thou art a giant,” Sir Jorrin point- never knew he had, he dragged himself ed out reasonably. “This is what one does now, some knight, maybe even Sir Jorrin, in the dark. ••••• Because it was nice. with giants. Aim.” His lower legs were still in the “Daddy!” Alison called from the Wincing only slightly, he settled Apparently, he wasn’t kidding. The lying in the curve of the dragon’s emerald green tail dragon’s cave when he heard it slither kitchen. “Guess what?” back into his chair. arrows were three, maybe four inches was a tiny human skull with the top bitten off. off its hoard and across the floor. He couldn’t stop himself from chuckling Colin glanced up from his maga- And this time, it was going to stay long. Not really very threatening except zine. The poison ivy blisters had nearly that way.  that Colin had recently seen a National as its forked tongue danced over the inside of one ankle and he felt himself healed, the swelling from the arrows had Geographic special about some tribe in will challenge you and you’ll have to an- gone down enough so that he up onto the ledge and out of immediate relax as the feathery touch continued. the Amazon basin that used poison darts swer and...” could sit comfortably again, danger. Maybe things weren’t so bad. At least I half that size to kill people. Or maybe and the new medicine had he’d seen it in a television adaptation of And all at once, Colin realized that can tell Alison there’s a little magic left. He Inching towards the cave mouth the bits of metal scattered throughout held perfectly still so as not to scare the pretty much taken care of the an old Indiana Jones movie. He’d worry on his stomach, he paused a moment be- nasty intestinal parasite he’d about sourcing it later. If he had a later. the horde were actually bits of minia- dragon away and got his reward when a fore entering to reach around and pluck ture armour and that lying in the curve soft, warm nose lightly pressed against picked up from drinking that He was big enough that stomp- out the arrows still quivering in his flesh. of the dragon’s emerald green tail was a his skin. half barrel of water. “What?” ing the archers into the ground became They hurt more coming out than they did he asked, making the effort tiny human skull with the top bitten off. Then it bit him on the calf. a viable option if he could just overcome going in, but he supposed that if he had “And you’ll eat him,” he finished. Some- to sound interested and in- a lifetime of conditioning. He lifted his to be shot with poisoned arrows then he how, after everything he’d been through, His head jerked up, slamming volved. couldn’t think of a place more insulated foot and it didn’t even surprise him much. painfully into the top of the passage. “There’s a unicom in from anything vital. The pounding of his with “Pick Whimpering, he scuttled forward, the garden eating the tops off heart, the multiple trickles of sweat, and “You never needed my help, did on someone through the moment of vertigo, thinking the carrots.” your own his ragged breathing were probably the you? You probably think the challenge of nothing but getting home. The walls size,” ringing result of adrenaline. Probably. is a call for dinner.” It was definitely time crumbled behind him during the vertical A unicorn in the gar- to go home. “Oh well, at least you act in den. His mouth went dry. in his ears, Down in the meadow, Sir Jorrin scrabble up the rock chimney, but he ig- self-defence which is more than can be Easy to believe she saw a put it down ordered the archers to storm the cave. nored them as he struggled towards the said for Sir Jorrin and company.” deer, or a goat, but he knew again. From the sound of it, the archers had ob- smell of rotting vegetation wafting down better. For ob- jections. He remembered the king telling from the forest floor above. him that he had encouraged Sir Jorrin to In spite of everything, vious rea- Tossing aside his handful of ar- Finally, his head emerged into the challenge the dragon. there was still magic in the sons, no one rows, Colin crawled into the mountain shadows of dusk and he managed to drag world. Still wonderful, mys- stood direct- and rose to his knees, breath hissing “Because Sir Jorrin is young and his body out after it. Without the energy tical, mythical things. ly in front through his teeth at the movement. strong and ambitious and deserves a chance remaining for contortions, he rolled out of the ridge Curled up on its hoard, the dragon to win a Dukedom.” from under the fallen tree and lay for His heart began to leading up hissed back. a moment breathing heavily on a leafy pound. Ignoring a sharp Red Swings, by Lubov Masquerade 2010; photo 011610_0012M by Sandy Middlebrooks

Jan 15 – 18, 2010 Jan 14 – 17, 2011 Jan 13 – 16, 2012 Jan 18 – 21, 2013 Hyatt Regency Cambridge Westin Boston Waterfront Westin Boston Waterfront Westin Boston Waterfront SF—Old and New Mad Science Where Science and Adventure WGoHs: Tananarive Due and AGoH: Sarah Clemens AGoH: Josh Simpson Come Together! Steven Barnes FGoHs: Kevin Roche and Andy Trembley FGoH: René Walling GoHs: Phil and Kaja Foglio, AGoH: Roger Dean Musical GoH: SJ Tucker—Skinny White Chick Webcomic GoH: Shaenon Garrity Gareth Hinds Music GoH: Emerald Rose 21Writer / Editor GoH: Gardner Dozois 22WGoH: Kelley Armstrong 23Con Chair: Cris Shuldiner 24Con Chair: Rachel Silber Con Chair: Rick Kovalcik Special Guest: Seanan McGuire 20 Con Chair: Crystal Huff 21 Tanya Huff Bibliography

Fiction Series Someone to Share the Night (2001) The Last Lesson (1989) Playing the Game (2002) Confederation Novels/Torin Kerr Another Fine Nest (2002) Be It Ever So Humble (1991) When the Student Is Ready (2002) Valor’s Choice (2000) Scleratus (2003) Nothing Up Her Sleeve (1993) Succession (2002) The Better Part of Valor (2002) Smoke and Shadows (2004) Mirror, Mirror, on the Lam (1997) I Knew a Guy Once (2003) The Heart of Valor (2007) Smoke and Mirrors (2005) We Two May Meet (2002) He Said, Sidhe Said (2004) Valor’s Trial (2008) Smoke and Ashes (2006) Terazin Finding Marcus (2004) The Truth of Valor (2010) After School Specials (2006) Swan’s Braid (1996) Jack and the B.S. (2004) Not That Kind of War (2005) Blood Bank (2006) In Mysterious Ways (1997) Slow Poison (2005) A Confederation of Valor (2006) So This is Christmas (2006) The Lions of al’Kalamir (1999) Tuesday Evenings, Six Thirty to Seven (2006) You Do What You Do (2012) Critical Analysis (2006) Sometimes, Just Because (2003) Smoke and Shadows (Excerpt) (2006) Gale Family The Blood Books, Volume 1(2006) The Things Everyone Knows(2007) Smoke and Mirrors (Excerpt) (2006) The Enchantment Emporium (2009) The Blood Books, Volume 2 (2006) Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar A Woman’s Work . . . (2007) The Wild Ways (2011) The Blood Books, Volume 3(2006) The Demon’s Den (1997) Blood in the Water (2007) Keeper Chronicles Blood Wrapped (2007) Brock (2003) Exactly (2007) Summon the Keeper (1998) Writing “Stone Cold” (2008) All the Ages of Man (2005) Valor’s Trial (excerpt) (2008) The Second Summoning (2001) “Stone Cold” Screenplay (2008) Live On (2008) Music Hath Charms (2008) Long Hot Summoning (2003) See Me (2011) Nothing Better to Do(2009) No Matter Where You Go (2010) February Thaw(1998) Wizard Crystal/Wizard of the Grove The Time We Have (2010) Quid Pro Quo (2010) Under Summons (2006) Child of the Grove (1988) Family Matters(2011) Songs Sung Red (2011) The Complete Keeper Chronicles (2012) The Last Wizard (1989) Ithkar Oh Glorious Sight (2013) Quarters Wizard of the Grove (1999) What Little Girls Are Made Of(1986) Essays Sing the Four Quarters (1994) Novels Mercedes Lackey’s Elemental “Just keep thinking it’s a happy ending and Fifth Quarter(1995) The Fire’s Stone (1990) Masters we’ll be all right...” (1997) Tha Thu Ann (2012) No Quarter (1996) The Silvered (2012) Author’s Afterword (Stealing Magic: The The Quartered Sea(1999) Short Fiction Complete Adventures of Magdelene and Collections Terazin) (1999) Death Rites (2001) The Chase Is On (1989) What Ho, Magic! (1999) Letter (Locus #474) (2000) The Quarters Novels: Vol I (2007) Underground (1992) Stealing Magic: The Complete Adventures of Introduction to “Third Time Lucky” (2003) The Quarters Novels: Vol II (2007) Magdelene and Terazin (1999) Shing Li-ung (1992) Introduction (Speaking With Angels) (2003) Quartered (2012) Relative Magic (2003) I’ll Be Home for Christmas (1992) A Special Introduction (Summoned To Ravenloft First Love, Last Love (1993) Stealing Magic (2005) Destiny) (2004) Scholar of Decay (1995) The Harder They Fall (1995) Finding Magic (2007) Introduction (Women of War) (2005) Tanya Huff’s Quatro Goddess Word of Honor (1995) Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Introduction (The Blood Books, Volume 2) Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light (1989) Heroic Fantasy (2011) A Debt Unpaid (1995) (2006) Choice of Ending (2005) February Thaw and Other Stories of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Team (1997) Introduction (The Blood Books, Volume 3) Henry Fitzroy Contemporary Fantasy (2011) Symbols Are a Percussion Instrument (1997) (2006) Blood Price (1991) Omnibus Now Entering the Ring (1999) Introduction (Blood Bank) (2008) Blood Trail (1992) Of Darkness, Light, and Fire (2001) Burning Bright (1999) Reviews Blood Lines (1992) Anthologies Valor’s Choice (excerpt) (1999) Tesseracts 7 (1999) by Jean-Louis Trudel and Blood Pact (1993) Oh, Glorious Sight (2001) Paula Johanson Women of War (2005) with Alexander Potter This Town Ain’t Big Enough (1995) All Things Being Relative(2001) Beholder’s Eye (1999) by Julie E. Czerneda What Manner of Man (1996) Short Fiction Series Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice (2001) Interviews Magdelene The Cards Also Say (1997) To Each His Own Kind (2001) Tanya Huff: Builder(2013)  Blood Debt (1997) Third Time Lucky (1986) Nights of the Round Table (2002) The Vengeful Spirit of Lake Nepeakea(1999) And Who is Joah? (1987) Nanite, Star Bright (2002)

This bibliography is derived from the Internet Science Fiction Database Book covers used by permission of DAW books. under Creative Commons license creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 22 23 that draws Lubov’s imagination and manner, it Lubov Lubov Biography her skills as an artist. She studied art might be portfolio at the Chicago Art Institute, but she simplest to maintains that her true knowledge think of her ubov was born in St. Petersburg, of art—her sense and sensibility— as a classi- LRussia. Anxious for cultural and comes via her own studies. She considers cal painter political freedom, Lubov immigrated her art to be a return to the pre-Rapha- exploring to the United States. This move caused elites’ storied imagination, a thesis of the human her to adapt to a culture very different art that resonates for her, and lists her condition than the one she had known. Although as her artistic inspirations Adolphe-Wil- through the she has very few good memories of her liam Bouguerau, John W. Waterhouse, scrim of the youth while in Russia and of her move Maxfield Parrish, Sir Lawrence Alma- fantastic. to the US, her early adversities forged Tadema, Victor Mikailovich Vasnetsov, Enjoy, her character in a manner that she says Arkhip Kuinji, Alphonse Mucha, and appreciate, has benefited her throughout her life and Rembrandt. and perhaps abounds in her art. Lubov paints with oils, a medium even collect Lubov photo by Alan White Perhaps oddly, it is the art of the that she reminds us is over six hundred Lubov’s work fantastic—fantasy, phantasmagoric— years old. To view her work in the proper here at Arisia. 

An Appreciation of Lubov if they knew any- in “Royal Procession”, a delightfully in- by colette fozard thing about her as tricate piece with incredible detail. My an artist, was she favorite work of Lubov’s, “Metamorpho- nice, would she sis”, I feel represents the many changes be a good guest of one can go through in life, and how we hen I was asked to write an honor. Martin’s first response was “She’s all want to reach for something new. I appreciation of Lubov for W smaller than you!” After getting that out have always felt drawn in to her paint- the Arisia program book, I was thrilled. of the way, they agreed she would be an ings, wondering what her subjects are I don’t even think the Publications Staff excellent choice. I hung around Arisia’s thinking, and that has contributed great- knew I have a “Lubov Living Room”, Art Show a lot that year and when I fi- ly to my enduring enjoyment of them. where five of the eight paintings hanging nally had a chance to bump into her, I are hers, or realized that it had slipped While I have always enjoyed at- invited her as my Guest of Honor and my mind that I have three more in a row tending and staffing Arisia, this year I will always remember the look of sheer in my bedroom. Come to the Art Show asked early on if I could work as Lubov’s delight and surprise on her face when this year and you’ll see a wider collection Guest Liaison; doing everything I can to I did. She happily accepted. She was a of her work with much better lighting! ensure she has a wonderful time here at wonderful Guest of Honor, and I trea- Arisia. I am delighted to see her back at I first saw Lubov’s work at Arisia sure the memories of her participation at an East Coast science fiction convention in 1995, and instantly loved it. Being that Balticon XXX. and her beautiful works on display again I was getting my Guest of Honor lineup As I look over Lubov’s artwork for all to see, enjoy, and purchase for dis- set for Balticon XXX in 1996, I asked my in my house, the detail and beauty of play in their homes. friends Martin Deutsch and Shirley Av- her paintings are what caught my eye. I ery, who worked many Art Shows on the Colette Fozard will be the Fan Guest always seem to notice something new East Coast and ran Balticon’s Art Show, of Honor for Arisia 2015. 

Lubov Portfolio: Scarf (pg 27) Gypsy in Motion (pg 25) Green Water (pg 27) Baba Yaga’s House (pg 30) Winter (pg 26) Royal Procession (pg 28 ‑ 29) Dreamscape (pg 30)

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James was born in Canada, whore. We don’t just borrow words; on learned English in the UK, learned Eng- occasion, English has pursued other lan- Abrihette Vicka Corey Lisa Hertel Richard Man Marianne Plumridge lish again in Canada, and aside from vari- guages down alleyways to beat them un- Dawn and Alice Albright Daniel Cortopassi Richard Hescox Theresa Mather Samantha Rabbitt ous trips abroad, has spent most of his Christina Albritton Laurel Cunningham-Hill Butch Honeck Diane M. Mathieson Aedan C. Roberts conscious and rifle their pockets for new R. L. Allison Cyd Briana Humble Becky Maung Kim Rudeen adult life in Kitchener, Ontario. He ran vocabulary. Joshua D. Altobelli Charlene Taylor D’Alessio Jim Humble Mike Maung Carol Salemi a hobby shop for 17 years and now is a Or, he is known for being acci- Kimm Antell Loren Damewood Jen Hunter Sally Mayer Michael Sharrow freelance book reviewer and game edi- dent-prone (a partial list of related anec- Julia Austein Janelle L. Downey Catelyn Johnson Meerwyn Wendy Snow-Lang tor—occupations that have taught him dotes can be found at http://dd-b.net/ E. J. Barnes Jill Eastlake Andrew Kaufman Rachel Mello Andrew Sprague how to budget. NicollEvents/); or how he accidentally Alan F. Beck Bob Eggleton Johnna Klukas Wanda Metcalf Donna Lynne M. Stevenson He is probably best known for the designed a laser able to evaporate Earth- Jim Belfiore Kyrith Evans Bettina M. Kurkoski Sarah “Tashari” Morrison Jess Steytler following quotation: sized planets at a million light years Joe Bellofatto Alana Farley Charles Lang Matthew Mrowka Jeff Sturgeon might belong on that list. Bishonen Judge Sara Felix Kimberly Leach Emma Nackid Corey Tevan The problem with defending the Janet Bruesselbach Casanova Frankenstein David J. Leblanc Thomas Nackid Kendra Tornheim purity of the English language is that He also owns cats.  Michela Carlson MK Frisby Scott Lefton Laurel Nelson Joan Turner English is about as pure as a cribhouse Andrew Cefalu Grant Fuhst Sunshine Levy Anne Nydam Andy Volpe James Nicoll photo by Michael L. Davenport Peri Charlifu Handmade Bronze Lubov David Lee Pancake Weegoddess Jason Cheeseman-Meyer Carol Hanson Jackie Luckner Misty Pendragon Raelinda Woad  Clarissa Cupcake Margery Harrison Lux Faros Chiara Pieri An Appreciation of James Nicoll by stephanie clarkson

lined up, and I remember James looking I met James Nicoll in May of 1985, there was a world out there she’d fit into. at it very intently, and suddenly saying, Program Participants when I was 14 years old. He and his busi- He introduced me to members of the “I’m sure there’s a fascinating story about ness partner, Brian Dorion, ran the local University of Waterloo’s Science Fiction that.” Sometimes you can’t explain why a gaming store, Imperiums to Order. I had Club (WATSFiC), and was responsible relatively mundane moment stays with started playing roleplaying games the for the recruitment of many (includ- you so clearly. We spent a few minutes, Marc Abrahams is the founder of the Ig Nobel Prize dollmaker and costumer. Her most recent proj- to do is direct. All other aspects of science are just as previous fall, and while there were other ing me) to theatre and comedy writing ceremony. The prizes, awarded each year since 1991, ect is a web journal called Polu Texni which fascinating, and he’s fully prepared to expound on for the rest of the walk, talking about honor achievements that make people laugh, then can be found at http://www.polutexni.com. the scientific method, the uses and limits of statistics, hobby places that carried things, if you through FASS, the annual revue show at possible science fictiony reasons for the think. He is also editor and co-founder of the science Her dollmaking site is www.dollmaking.org. and why most people aren’t able to adequately judge wanted to drink from the firehose, you University. I’m not entirely certain the humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research, a scientific issues, even though it just isn’t that hard. shoe’s presence and location. I was 16, As a SFWA member, Ken Altabef’s short fiction has had to go to their store. and something about James’ offhand weekly columnist for The Guardian newspaper, and the author of several books. His web site and blog are appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fic- Taken broadly, Erik Amundsen has had an interest- It was in what had been comment taught me more about creating at www.improbable.com. tion as well as Interzone, Abyss & Apex, BuzzyMag, ing life; he’s been a baker, an itinerant schoolteacher, the living room of a something about James’ offhand comment stories than years of high school English Stupefying Stories, Unsettling Wonder and various worked for two governments, and gotten in bar fights Yitzy Abramowitz comes from a family that is four- anthologies. He was an editor on the mixed-genre overseas. He now lives at the foot of a cemetery in Victorian house that taught me more about creating stories than classes had. fifths nerd and married into a family that is two-thirds short story anthology Drastic Measures and its sequel central Connecticut where he writes nasty little sto- had the misfortune years of high school English classes had. nerd. He is the kind of person who will watch a show Wash the Spider Out. His novels include Touching the ries and poems that shuffle around in the night when of being too close to My mother said, a few years back, or read a manga obsessively until the bitter end, even Mystery, Discovering the Way and The Hidden World as he’s not looking. Or at least he hopes it’s them; some- Kitchener’s very tiny that she thinks I was raised as much by if it begins to turn sour *coughHEROEScough*. part of Way Of The Shaman, his 5-part series of epic thing’s got to be making those noises and it’s not the He is currently hooked on The Walking Dead, My fantasy novels published by Blueberry Lane Books. furnace. A few of them have made it to Weird Tales, downtown commercial district, and had latter was intentional; I just remember James as I was by her—if not more so, because I would actually listen to James. Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, and Doctor Who You can preview this work and others at the author’s Fantasy Magazine, Goblin Fruit, Three Crow Press, and been chopped up into several retail es- being in his store when he asked several among other things. Yitzy doesn’t have a blog, but his website www.wayoftheshamanONLINE.com Cabinet des Fees. tablishments that probably violated ev- of us who were hanging out if we had I’m sure this makes James quite proud. brother has a pretty swell one where he semi-reviews Regardless how he feels about our the first volumes of popular and unpopular manga at Mark L Amidon first read Isaac Asimov’s “Nightfall” Andrew Anselmo has been creating and folding ery firecode known to man. seen the recent show. When we all said themangaconnoisseur.blogspot.com. in 1971 and has been heavily involved in science fic- origami for over 20 years, and has been a street per- no, he said, “Well, that’s a shame. You’re friendship of nearly 30 years, the things tion ever since. He has been attending Arisia since former for over 10 years at Waterfire (Providence, I’m not entirely sure that James, 1991, and with his wife since 1992. He lives in the RI) as well as at Faneuil Hall, Boston Common, and not going to get any of my jokes for the he introduced me to—hard science fic- Heather Albano (www.heatheralbano.com) is the who was 24 at the time, really wanted tion, theatre, comedy, role playing games author of the steampunk novels Timepiece and Time- future, right now. Both of his daughters read genre many other venues. He also has taught origami at lo- next year.” keeper, co-author of five text-based multiple-choice fiction. His cats remain aloof. cal libraries and museums throughout New England. a rather young teenage girl to become and the sheer pleasure one can some- games released by Choice of Games, lead writer www.flappingbird.com. He is a member of Artisan’s a fixture in Imperiums, but he never A few years later, I was hanging out times take in being a geek, have become for the first mission of the interactive radio drama Thomas A. Amoroso, MD, MPH is a practicing Asylum, a large maker space in Somerville, MA. Codename Cygnus, and creator of assorted short fic- emergency physician, health policy analyst, and has kicked me out. More than that, at a time in the store and James said he was clos- the mainstays of my life, and in many been a fan of fantasy and science fiction since his ju- Inanna Arthen is an artist, speaker and author of when I was trying to figure out if it was ing a few minutes early to catch the early tion and poetry. She is a member of the Cambridge ways are why I’m involved with fandom Science Fiction Workshop, a member of Women in nior high librarian pointed him to Harry Harrison The Vampires of New England Series (http://vam- even possible for me to make friends, he show of a new movie, The Princess Bride, and Arisia at all. So now you know who Games (Boston), and a graduate of the Clarion Writ- after he found Andre Norton on his own. After that, piresofnewengland.com): Mortal Touch (2007), became mine. James delighted in word- and asked if I wanted to come along. I ers’ Workshop. She’s particularly interested in artifi- he devoured everything he could find in the limited The Longer the Fall (2010) and All the Shadows of to blame.  libraries available in Europe for English language SF. the Rainbow (2013). Inanna is a lifelong scholar play and sarcasm and the geek communi- did, and it was amazing, but that’s not cial intelligence and natural language processing at Stephanie Clarkson is a web devel- the moment, and would love to talk to any experts in Despite all of that, it took him way too many years to of vampire folklore, fiction and fact, and runs By ty his store helped foster in the area, and really the thing about this story. During the field who might be at Arisia! find the rest of organized fandom. He firmly believes Light Unseen Media (http://bylightunseenmedia. he helped a young girl who was drawn the walk over to the theatre, we passed a oper and semi-pro writer who makes pup- in the power of human thinking to get us through com), an independent press dedicated to publishing to the subversive (but had to deal with shoe in the middle of King St. The shoe pets and bartends. She has attended Arisia Dawn Albright is involved in many different ar- crises; he just wishes we’d use some of it to *avoid* vampire fiction and nonfiction. She is a member of for 21 years. eas of fandom. She’s a short story writer, editor crises instead. He cannot wait for the autodoc so he Broad Universe, New England Horror Writers, Inde- a very mundane high school) see that was sitting on the median line, perfectly of anthologies (New Altars and Vision Quest), a can stop being a doctor because what he really wants pendent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) and 34 35 Independent Publishers of New England (IPNE). dependent comic-book conventions, and her comic ness! She has been doing panels at cons for too many Terri Bruce has been making up adventure stories community since the early 1980’s. He has been cre- allowed people to jack their nerve endings directly She holds an M.Div degree from Harvard and is an books (self-published under Drowned Town Press) years now, and you would find her on pretty much for as long as she can remember and won her first ating art in the genre and displaying it at conven- into the internet and download dreams. Songs deal outspoken advocate for the Pagan and LGBTQ com- are sold across the country. She teaches cartooning at every Joss Whedon panel! Currently she works in writing award when she was twelve. Like Anne Shir- tions since Noreascon 3. He has won numerous in dystopian themes as well as the surreal psycho- munities. She is the minister of the Unitarian Univer- the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. the real life as a Tech Support rep for the area’s largest ley, she prefers to make people cry rather than laugh, awards, and been published from time to time. His logical landscapes of sleeping minds. The musical salist Church of Winchendon, MA. cable company. Current favorite quote is, “We have but is happy if she can do either. She produces fantasy art appeared most recently on the cover of Roberta style spans genres; a recent song has mixed tribal Howard Beatman has been interested in comic done the impossible, and that makes us mighty,” by and adventure stories from a haunted house in New Rogow’s 1800’s murder mysteries. Cameron speaks singing with classical piano while embedding polio- Lisa A Ashton is a Master-level costumer from books since 1959, science fiction since 1966, and Joss Whedon. England where she lives with her husband and three on a variety of topics and is frequently in the com- virus DNA into its percussion. Psyche Chimère Maryland. She has won Best In Show in the Arisia has been going to conventions since 1974. He has cats. Visit her on the web at www.terribruce.net. pany of Dagnir, his dragon. (founder of Psyche Corp.) does work in the study of Masquerade in the past with “Home Improvement”, attended all the Arisias, brought two friends, and A native of Phoenix, AZ who long ago decided he pre- brains. “The Standing Stone” (with Diane Seiler), and brought his nephew to Arisia for four consecutive ferred living somewhere with actual seasons (namely Nat Budin plays guitar, cello, and sings with the band James L. Cambias is a science fiction writer and game “Mary Gothins-Perfectly Evil”, and “Victorian Tiki years—the next generation of nerds is well in hand! Boston), W. “Ian” Blanton has been spending Stranger Ways. He has also written and run over a designer based in western Massachusetts. His fiction Bob Chipman is creator, producer and host of Escape Calypso”, which almost caused her to fall over, upon the last decade or so focusing on homeschooling his dozen LARPs, has served as con chair of Intercon has appeared in F&SF, Shimmer, Nature, and vari- to The Movies and The Big Picture on escapistmaga- wining Best In Show. She enjoys costuming, beads, Jim Belfiore is a leader of pioneers. He is a Certified daughter while being gainfully employed as a Mac I in 2009 and the first three Festival of the LARPs ous original anthologies. He has written more than zine.com; and The Game OverThinker on screwat- and hunting, and has been an Emergency PA for over Innovation Master, a TRIZ Associate and Managing consultant. His previous life interests include west- conventions at Brandeis University, and writes open a dozen game books for Steve Jackson Games and tack.com 25 years. Passionate interests include collecting Vic- Director of Client Innovation for IHS. Jim’s industry ern/eastern martial arts, LARPs, costuming, Gaming source software in the Ruby on Rails community. Ba- HERO Games. In 2004 he became a partner in Zy- torian photo cards and extant clothing of the period, expertise includes: medical devices, pharmaceuti- (Video & RPG), historical re-enactment, and flinch- sically, Nat does all the things. gote Games, a small game company which produces John Chu is a singing, juggling, improvising, translat- as well asvintage beadwork. She is a contributor to cals, sustainable and conventional energy, defense, ing whenever a “re-imagined” movie/TV show is an- science and nature based card and board games. His ing microprocessor designer. His short fiction has Known on the internet as Ryoko-Dono, Beth Burg- “The Virtual Costumer” with articles about Victo- aerospace, commercial space flight, food & beverage, nounced. His current project is putting the finishing novel A Darkling Sea has just come out from Tor appeared in Bloody Fabulous (Sedia, ed.), Boston er has been cosplaying since 2001. Inspired by rian clothing research. Currently she is engrossed in consumer products, supply chain risk analysis, chem- touches on his handmade 18’ folding sea kayak, and Books. Review, Asimov’s, and Tor.com and is forthcom- her love of creating costumes, she pursued a B.S. in traditional crazy quilts, and did the best she has ever icals, chemical process manufacturing, automotive trying to decide whether or not to actually open his ing in Apex. His podcast narrations can be heard at Fashion Design. Having taken classes in draping, flat done with quilts in the Montgomery County Fair and green technologies. Jim facilitates break-through OGRE board game box. D. L. Carter was decanted from her incubation pod Pseudopod, EscapePod and Lightspeed. He also pattern and basic garment construction, Beth still this past summer. innovation at many Fortune 500 product R&D cen- in the outback of Australia many decades ago. This translates fiction from Chinese into English. He is an ters, and is a featured speaker at innovation confer- Aurora Celeste is a costume dabbler with more enjoys learning new techniques through her differ- terrifying event was closely followed by shrieks of alumnus of the 2010 Clarion Writers Workshop and Software engineer, maker, and technology enthusiast: ences around the world. He has been a long-time than 10 years of experience. Her costuming interests ent costumes. Cosplay and costuming is just another “there, there it goes. Hit it with a brick!” These valiant a current member of the BRAWL writers’ group. at the moment Robert Jack Babb is working on member of SF fandom (and a former Arisia Con are all over, but her passion is reproducing costumes; great way to continue expanding her skill-sets and attempts to correct the existence of D.L. were, unfor- a variety of microcontroller projects and blogging at Chair) with a special passion for Japanese Tokusatsu. mostly sci-fi and fantasy movies, tv shows, anime, talents. While not at her job as an Assistant Fashion tunately, unsuccessful and she now resides in New Dr. Amy Chused is a physician at Weill Cornell Medi- www.dragonflythingworks.com. Jim is a published writer (his science and innovation and manga. She gives panels and enters masquerades Designer, Beth also enjoys reading fantasy novels, go- Jersey, US., in a box with her toys, two human beings cal Center in the Division of Hospital Medicine. articles have appeared in NASA Tech Briefs and De- all over the country, has won Best in Show at Cos- ing to rock concerts and relaxing on the couch with and three cats. She also works in data mining to evaluate efficiency James Bacon is an Irishman living in London who sign News) and dabbles professionally in retro CG tume Cons 24 and 30 as well as Chicon and Lone Netflix and her evil cat. and quality measures for the her division. In her free drives trains for a living. A Hugo winner for his Fan- artwork. Follow Jim at: http://twitter.com/jsbelfiore StarCon and is currently serving as Vice President of Hugh Casey is a writer, actor, filmmaker, photogra- time, she raises her toddler twins, reads SF & F and zine work, he writes for various fanzines and reviews the International Costumers’ Guild Board of Direc- 2nd gen geek born Hoosier, raised Minnesotan, con- pher, and event promoter living in King of Prussia, fanfic, plays boardgames and computer games, de- comics for Forbidden Planet Blog, he also likes help- Adrianne Brennan stumbled into her love of writ- tors. Outside of costuming, Aurora can often be seen verted Bostonian, Kethry Burke-Scovill is a PA. He’s the founder of Parents Basement Produc- bates medical ethics, and waves vaguely at the Arisia ing with conventions, growing a moustache and is an ing by accident at the age of ten with a creative writ- running conventions. She has served as staff on many 19 year old genre lover and SuperWhoLockian in tions and has produced, directed, written, and per- Dealers Room. avid reader of Comics, SF Books, Irish Military His- ing assignment for her science class. The end result Women and Gender Studies and English at Sim- formed in short films, which can be found on You- conventions, including DragonCon in Atlanta and a Vikki Ciaffone is a senior editor for Spencer Hill tory and Alternative History. was a science fiction comedy featuring numerous con head at Naka-Kon Anime Convention in Kan- mons; who dabbles in acting, cannot stop dancing, Tube.com. Hugh is a longtime fan of science fiction puns regarding vegetables. Adrianne’s works were and desperately wants more sleep or more hours in and fantasy, and has been part of fandom for many Press and the Editor-in-Chief of Spence City. She has Meguey Baker is a game designer and sex ed teacher sas City. Visit her costuming blog at www.dramatic- been reading and writing since she was tall enough previously published through Aphrodite’s Apples threads.com. the day. Maybe both. years. He has been the president and vice-president living in western MA. Highlights: designed games Press and are now published through Freya’s Bower, of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society (PSFS), to see over the coffee table. Now that she can see Hanna “Gale” Burnett has been costuming at for teenage girls in Ethiopia with The Girl Effect; Love You Divine, Running Press/Constable & Rob- Bridget Joyce Boyle has held many positions from as well as on the board of directors. He was chairman over the kitchen counters, she still loves both, and conventions since 2003. A few years ago she noticed published Valiant Girls, PsiRun, and the critically ac- inson, and Torquere Press. In addition, she is a mem- gopher to div. head at many types of cons. As a trans- of the Society’s annual conference, Philcon, in 2003, now edits as well. She is personally responsible that in all the discussions going on throughout the claimed 1001 Nights; writes for the award-winning ber of EPIC, Infinite Worlds of Fantasy Authors, the planted Philadelphian, she makes her home in Mer- and vice-chairman in 2002. He is currently the head for the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (she cosplay community one major topic seemed to be game blog Gaming As Women. Meg’s game designs Midnight Seductions Authors group, and an alum- rimack, NH. A mother of 3 geek girls, an Artist and of programming for Philcon, as well as head of pro- apologizes, but all the salacious gossip was untrue, missing: safety. It was then that she created the Co- focus on creating compelling stories that fit in small nus member of Kappa Gamma Psi, a co-ed national a dreamer, she has instructed Computer Literacy and gramming for Storykeeper Events and the director and the populace was obsessed with Pictionary and splay Safety Project (cosplaysafety.tumblr.com/): a social footprints in terms of time and resources. Her professional performing arts fraternity. The author Graphics Programs for years. She avidly supports of Dorian’s Parlor. He attends, and is often a panel- Charades, two games Vikki abhors). She then turned series of articles and panels about how to maintain work as a counselor for women navigating postpar- resides in Boston, Massachusetts with two cats and sexual orientation equality for all people and firmly ist at, many cons and events, such as Arisia, Balti- her attention to Troy and, once again, engineered safe habits while creating and wearing costumes and tum stress and depression contributes to her sense a car she has aptly named “the TARDIS.” She assures believes all citizens deserve equal rights. She enjoys con, and Wicked Faire. In 2010 he was the “Guest its downfall in her quest to burn out the Pictionary attending conventions. The project covers every- that everyone has a story worth telling and a story her readers that people tell her it looks bigger on the her first Life and Second Life, and SF across the me- of Awesome” at 5 Pi-Con. You can find him online Plague. She claims no responsibility for Pompeii or thing from what to keep in mind when designing a worth hearing, and providing a space for people to inside. diascape. This year she returns to servicing the SF at http://www.hughcasey.com, or on Facebook at the Fall of Rome, though she might possibly have costume (size, scale, comfort, temperature, etc.) to tell those stories is a progressive act. As a mother of community as the Member Services division head in https://www.facebook.com/Hugh.A.Casey. had something to do with the sun setting on the Brit- teenage boys, she is increasingly convinced that fact- Elizabeth Birdsall is a longtime fan and occa- Arisia 2014. how to avoid becoming the victim of harassment, ish Empire. In her spare time, Vikki has been known based and non-judgmental sex education is a key to sional author. She has had short stories published in and many topics in between. When she is not work- Monica Castillo is a freelance film critic and writer to shoot craps with the Fates and the Valkyries for healthy and self-directed sexual expression. Pretty the anthology “SteamPowered II: More Lesbian Ste- Anna R Bradley is a gamer, LARPer, costumer, and ing on costumes, Hanna performs as an actor with based in Boston. She spends a good portion of her shiny trinkets. much everything in Meg’s life relates directly to lis- ampunk Stories” and in Penumbra eZine. She lives volunteering junkie. This year she is also the Div- local theater companies in her home state of Con- time reviewing films forDigBoston , WBUR, Paste tening and making heard the voices of people and in the Boston area with two excellently geeky house- Head for Ops here at Arisia. necticut, writes and presents for AnimeCons.com/ Magazine, Bitch Magazine, Movie Mezzanine, serv- Stephanie Clarkson (smc@stephanieclarkson. populations often disregarded. mates and two extremely inept cats. AnimeCons TV, and works as the Director of Guest ing as co-host for the “Cinema Fix” podcast, and co- com), sometimes called thespian, has been at- , Ph.D., CFA, is a portfolio man- David E. Brahm Relations at the Hartford, CT based pop-culture managing the Boston Online Film Critics Associa- tending Arisia since 1992. Though she has lived in ager at Geode Capital Management in Boston. Dr. Stephen R Balzac is the author of “The 36-Hour Trish Wilson publishes with the pen names Eliza- convention ConnectiCon. tion. Monica has traveled to a few film festivals, met Toronto; Rockville, MD; Arlington, VA; Raleigh, Brahm holds an S.B. in physics and math from MIT, Course in Organizational Development,” published beth Black and E. A. Black. Her erotic fiction has a couple of living legends, and has some great stories NC; and Atlanta, GA; she always feels compelled and a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from U.C. Liz Cademy is a Professional Polymath, specializing in by McGraw-Hill. He has also been published in nu- been published by Xcite Books, Circlet Press, House about hitch-hiking to red carpet premieres. You can to get to Arisia. Fortunately, she now lives in the Berkeley. Following six years of postdoctoral physics nothing at all. In a previous life, Liz sat in a small, pad- merous magazines, including Analog Science Fiction. Of Erotica, Scarlet Magazine, and other publishers. usually find her outside any of the area’s movie the- Boston area. A web developer, puppeteer & creator, research at Caltech and Carnegie Mellon, he joined ded cubicle under a nameplate that read “Financial When he’s not writing, Steve is a management con- Her dark fiction and horror has been appeared in aters excitedly talking about the film she just saw or journalist/copywriter, writer for JaneX0, and most Fidelity Investments in 1996, and became one of the Analyst”. Now, she is designated driver to two teens, sultant, speaker, and psychology professor. He is the Stupefying Stories magazine, Kizuna: Fiction For on Twitter @mcastimovies. recently a bartender, she is free to hire or flirt with. president of 7 Steps Ahead (www.7stepsahead.com) Japan, Zippered Flesh 2: More Tales Of Body En- founders of Geode in 2001. runs a web and graphic design business, Polymath http://stephanieclarkson.com and the founder of the MIT Assassins’ Guild and SIL hancements Gone Bad, Midnight Movie Creature Solution, writes ebooks, designs and sells t-shirts (as Jeanne Cavelos began her professional career as an was one of two technical founders of Z West. He uses LARPs as a tool for training business Feature, and Mirages: Tales From Authors Of The James Bredt Cartesian Bear Industries), sews, knits (and designs astrophysicist at NASA. Her love of SF led her to Zachary Clemente is an aspiring comic writer, Corporation, which makes 3D printers, and holds leaders in negotiation and leadership skills. Macabre. She writes paranormal erotic romance, patterns for both), makes chain mail, and works at earn her MFA in creative writing and move into pub- semi-producing interactive installation maker, and over 20 issued patents in 3DP technology. He has erotica, and horror. On a fun note, she has also science fiction cons. Sometimes she sleeps. She lives lishing. She was a senior editor at Bantam Doubleday heartfelt devotee to the gravity of narrative. A gradu- taught numerous courses at MIT, from freshman Bonnie Barlow has a Master’s degree in Counseling worked as a gaffer (lighting), scenic artist, and make- in the woods with her two kids, a silly lizard, and a cat Dell, where she ran the SF/F/H programs and won ate of Hampshire College, Zach now lives in Boston, chemistry to capstone lab classes in materials sci- and in Experimental Psychology. She is currently do- up artist (including prosthetics) for movies, televi- who hasn’t chosen itself yet. the World Fantasy Award. Jeanne left publishing to MA. You can find him writing the bi-weekly comics ence. Presently he works for Viridis3D developing ing research psychology in personality and teaching sion, stage, and concerts. She worked as a gaffer for write. Her seven books include the best-selling Pass- column “Cross-Canon” for Multiversity and oc- engineering ceramic materials for 3D printing. He Kevin Cafferty is a documentary filmmaker from psychology. Bonnie has worked in biotech and tu- Die Hard with a Vengeance and 12 Monkeys. She did ing of the Techno-Mages trilogy, The Science of Star casionally the column “Title Bump” for Amazing published a cartoon introduction to classical ther- Massachusetts. His most recent film, “It’s a Bash!”, tored ESOL students. She is a certified high school make-up, including prosthetics, for Homicide: Life Wars, and The Science of the X-Files. Her work has Stories about film and media culture. He has inter- modynamics, and he is presently working on a sequel was given four stars by The Providence Journal, aired biology teacher. She met James Turner at Arisia 1 On The Street. She is especially proud of the gunshot twice been nominated for the Stoker Award. Jeanne viewed some cool folks and enjoys discussing the covering introductory quantum mechanics. on New England PBS affiliates, and is currently and has been married to him for 21 years. wound to the head she had created with makeup for is director of the Odyssey Writing Workshops Chari- climate of media on many fronts. available on DVD from Midway Pictures. He has that particular episode. Katherine Brick is a fan with a fan husband and table Trust, which offers a highly regarded summer , a longtime SF and costuming E. J. Barnes is a cartoonist and comic-book artist, hav- been nominated for four Emmy awards, can be fol- Byron P Connell three fan kids. They all like to costume, do crafts, and in-person workshop in NH and winter online classes fan, is a historian by training. He likes to help at mas- ing seen publication in Fortean Times, Funny Times, As Misty Pendragon, Gayle Blake is a published lowed on Twitter at @kcafferty, and writes terrible read books. In her professional life she is a metaphor- for writers of SF/F/H. (www.jeannecavelos.com) querades rather than entering them—entering once The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and Gauntlet. writer, editor, and jewelry maker. Currently she fan fiction about immersive theater in his spare time. ical cat herder. In Fastrack that counts for something, a decade is about right! However, since being part She has been published in several Boston Comics writes for the website, www.goodtobeageek.com, http://midway-pictures.com/ Psyche Corp. is named after a dream manufacture group right? Roundtable-related anthologies. She exhibits at in- Carpe Nocturne Magazine and This Is Awesome- from a future where widespread neural implants have of the Torcon III best-in-show entry, when he does D. Cameron Calkins has been active in the SF/F enter, he does so in the Master division. Byron has 36 37 run masquerades at the 2002 Arisia, several Cos- Loren Damewood has been creating intricate deco- cartwheels, dances with hula hoops, geeks out about Doyle and Macdonald left the Navy and Panama in showdowns and epic battles—including the dreaded Isaac Everett equally serious about his faith, his mu- tume-Cons and Philcons, as well as Anticipation and rative knots in precious metal for over 30 years, and the benefits of chia v flax seeds, and is in perpetual 1988 in order to write full-time. Since then they have incarnation of both: fightsex. As Kierstin Cherry, she sic, and his nerdery. He is the Minister for Liturgical Chicon 7. He is a member of the Sick Pups (New recently retired from a career in the aerospace indus- search of a functional time-turner. She currently lives lived in Colebrook, New Hampshire, where they puts the romance back into necromancy with erotic Arts at The Crossing, an emergent church in down- Jersey-New York Costumers’ Guild), the SLUTs (St. try (“Not exactly rocket science... more like rocket in State College, PA with her spouse Jonathan but write science fiction and fantasy for children, teenag- vampire stories such as “Graced,” from the Lambda- town Boston, and is the author of The Emergent Louis Ubiquitous Tailoring Society), and the Armed tech.”) to teach workshops on his methods full time. insists on lurking around Bostonia for her requisite ers, and adults. nominated Women of the Bite from Circlet Press eb- Psalter, a musical translation and commentary on the Costumers’ Guild; that makes him an Armed SLUT He taught himself the techniques he uses, by trial and dose of Normality. ooks and in print from Alyson Books. Her first full- book of Psalms. He has been published in Psalms for Matthew Ebel is a piano rocker from the Boston area Puppy! Byron is a past President of the International error, and delights in helping others to bypass the length erotic romance, Blood Bound & Beautiful, All Seasons (Brazos Press, 2012), Worship and Song runs a horror-themed radio show on who has been playing geek conventions of all sorts Costumers’ Guild, which honored him with its Life- painful and tedious stages and go right to the shiny Chris Denmead was released last November from Loose Id. for United Methodists (Abingdon Press, 2011), WCUW 91.3 FM called the Dr.Chris Radio of Hor- for nearly a decade. He draws his influence from all time Achievement Award. He likes hard SF, alternate stuff. Music by Heart: Paperless Songs for Evening Wor- ror program. He has broadcast over 325 episodes as over the spectrum: the offbeat comedy of Jonathan history, alternate worlds, and fantasy (not necessar- Anna Erishkigal is an attorney who writes fantasy ship (Church Publishing, 2008), Rising From the of Arisia 2013, covering horror and sci-fi films and Coulton, the rock edge of the Foo Fighters, the cere- ily in that order). He was one of the founders of the Gillian Daniels lives in Somerville, MA and is a fiction under a pen-name so her colleagues don’t Ashes: Rethinking Church (Seabury Books, 2007), interviews of various stars of genre fiction. Some of bral quirkiness of Ben Folds— yet his sound is unde- Latham, Albany, Schenectady, Troy Science Fiction local theater critic with The New England Theatre question whether her legal pleadings are fantasy and Liturgy: the Journal of the Liturgical Conference his past guests include Malcolm McDowell, Doug niably unique. His songs walk the fine line between Association and one of its former presidents.. Geek (netheatregeek.com). As a prose and poetry fiction as well. Much of law, it turns out,is fantasy (2011 and 2012). Additionally, he is an avid gamer, writer, she has work published and upcoming in Jones, Dee Wallace Stone, Steve Niles, Doug Bradley, raw emotional content and fantastical escapism. On fiction. Lawyers just prefer to call it ‘zealously rep- being especially committed to the World of Dark- A life-long fan of science fiction and fantasy literature, Electric Velocipede, PodCastle, Andromeda Spaceways and Adam Green. He just published his first book, stage he takes on the role of a starship captain travel- resenting your client.’ Seeing the dark underbelly ness (both new and classic versions), Dungeons and Morgan Crooks writes speculative fiction and Inflight Magazine, Flying Higher: An Anthology of Su- a children’s Halloween picture book Give Me Some- ing from planet to planet and bringing his piano rock of life makes for some interesting fictional charac- Dragons, EVE online, and the Civilization series. He teaches ancient history. Morgan has stories appear- perhero Poetry, Flash Fiction Online, and, memorably, thing Good to Eat. show to the locals wherever he lands… or crashes. ters. The kind you either want to incarcerate, or run hosts a monthly vampire LARP in the Boston Ca- ing in the recently released Dark Hall Press Ghost Kazka Press’s Bronies: For the Love of Ponies. She’s also With robot shipmates, alien antagonists, and a ship home and write about. In fiction, you can fudge facts (www.dern.com) is a freelance tech- thedral, and is known to get unreasonably upset by Anthology, the Daily Science Fiction site, and sam- a contributor to the entertainment blog, The Analyti- Daniel P Dern perpetually on the brink of flying apart, Ebel keeps without worrying too much about the truth. In legal nology writer, and a very amateur magician. His liturgical mistakes and historical inaccuracies when ples of his work are also available on his blog (an- cal Couch Potato (theanalyticalcouchpotato.org), audiences entertained while he keeps his crew from pleadings, if your client lies to you, you look stupid science fiction stories have appeared in magazines watching films and TV shows. cientlogic.blogspot.com). where she writes about novels, movies, and cartoons. being blown to space dust. Ebel’s been writing and in front of the judge. At least in fiction, if a charac- and anthologies including Analog, F&SF, World of performing music his entire life, earning a degree in ter becomes troublesome, you can always kill them Dr. Alexander Feinman hacks hackers for a living: Susan Hanniford Crowley, science fiction, fan- An attorney, editor, linguist, and social justice activist, If, and New Dimensions. Having finished his first sci- Music from Whitworth University and playing stag- off. Anna is creator of the ‘Divorce Bootcamp’ legal he designs software that helps other programmers ence fiction novel, , which tasy, and paranormal romance author, is a member of Dash is the founder and editor-in-chief of Expanded Dragons Don’t Eat Jesters es like the Grand Ole Opry and Boston’s own Roxy self-help lecture series and book under her real name, develop, build, and test MATLAB. His hobbies in- SFWA and RWA, and an associate editor with Space Horizons, an online speculative fiction magazine includes a minimum of “one dragon, two princesses, theater. He’s also produced sci-fi music shows like which Shalt-Not-Be-Named lest the judge question clude all but one of the following: audio production, and Time Magazine. Susan’s fantasy work appeared whose mission is to increase diversity in speculative four dogs, a lot of riddles, some explosions, and a lot the High Orbit podcast and Live at the Coffee Bun- whether that colorful legal pleading is the manuscript carpentry, glass-blowing, leather-working, painting in Sword and Sorceress anthologies, and her science fiction and to create a venue for the authentic expres- of really weird stuff,” he’s written over 60 short/flash ker, and has recently voiced the Phoenix Conspiracy for her latest fantasy novel. She is also founder of miniatures, music, role-playing, sociology, and writ- fiction story “She Came to Sing” appeared in (Jan. sion of under-represented voices in the genre. stories—Dern Grim Children’s Short Bedtime Stories audiobooks by sci-fi author Richard L. Sanders. You Seraphim Press. ing science fiction. His novel “Duplicate” is available 2009) Beyond Centauri Magazine. In addition, Susan (Few of Which End Well), intended to be Morally In- A.L. Davroe writes both YA and adult speculative fic- can hear Ebel’s music and even download a free al- for sale online and at Arisia; he is currently finishing is the founder of the Nights of Passion blog, the au- structive to the Listener and Cathartically Therapeutic bum at www.matthewebel.com Deb Eskie is a resident of Massachusetts and has an up “We Were Gods”, his next science fiction novel. thor of theVampires in Manhattan series and the Arn- tion. Her City Steam collection and her debut YA for the Reader (www.DernGrim.com) If you have at M.Ed in creative arts education. With a background hem Knights of New York series. Her current releases paranormal romance novel, For Your Heart are avail- least 45 seconds to spare, ask to hear one if you see Nine time Hugo Winner Bob Eggleton has worked in women’s studies, her focus as a writer is to expose Stuart Ferguson is a math teacher at a school for are Vampire King of New York available on Kindle, able on Amazon. By day, she lives in Connecticut her him and he’s not otherwise busy! More recently, on the films: Sphere (1997), Jimmy Neutron Boy the woman’s experience through unsettling tales that students with above average intelligence and emo- Nook & Kobo, When Love Survives, and The Stormy two feline hench-creatures. he’s been working on longer Jewish-themed YA ur- Genius (2001), The Ant Bully (2006), and the inde- highlight the dilemma of sexual repression and op- tional differences. He is also a youth sword instruc- Love Life of Laura Cordelais. A Vampire for Christmas Christopher K. Davis has been reading science fic- ban fantasies and other children’s stories, including pendent film, The iDol (2007), and designed visual pression. By combining the genres of feminist and tor, so please ask him if you want your children and Mrs. Bright’s Tea Room will come out before the tion for longer than he can remember, and going to “The Tashlich Fish” and “A Child’s Yom Kippur In effects for Star Trek in 1996. He is the author or co- horror fiction she aims to not only disturb readers, to learn the knightly art of the sword, AND he is a end of 2013. Her website is http://www.susanhan- conventions for longer than he wants to think about. Whales.” author of eight books, the most current of which is but deliver a message that is informative and thought storyteller with over 20 years’ experience, although nifordcrowley.com, her Twitter name is SHCrowley, If Dinosaurs Lived In My Town with his wife Mari- provoking. In 2005 Deb’s play, Tell Me About Love, some would say the first ten years don’t count be- He’s worked as a sysadmin for both the Electronic Alexa Dickman is a blogger who runs the Ladies and her Facebook name is Susan Hanniford Crowley. Frontier Foundation and part of the Human Ge- anne Plumridge, for Sky Pony Children’s Books. He was featured in the Provincetown Playwright Fes- cause he wasn’t over 18 yet. Making Comics tumblr (http://www.ladiesmaking- was AGOH at the 2000 World SF Con in Chicago tival. She has been featured in various online maga- Ctein is a professional photographer and writer, best nome Project, and feels fortunate to have arrived at comics.com). She is a member of the Boston Comics Allison Fin is a scarred veteran of many a decade just the right time for such opportunities. He’s given and, was a 1997 AGOH at Arisia, among many con- zines such as Deadman’s Tome, Bad Moon Rising, known in the SF community for his photographs of Roundtable and an avid comics historian who runs ventions all over the world. He has done covers to and 69 Flavors of Paranoia. Deb has a number of of con running, An avid film and media collector eclipses, aurora, natural and unnatural scenics, and up on looking for technological predictions from SF; the Women in Comics Wiki (http://womenincom- specializing in Asian and British science fiction and too many lunar bases, not enough globe-spanning hundreds of books and, does private and personal short stories published by Pill Hill Press, Post Mor- space launches, and for his hand-printed fine art ics.wikia.com). She’s also a former law student and IP commissions. His work has hung in The Allentown tem Press, Cruentus Libri Press, and other publish- horror. When not in meatspace, preparing for the books. His work can be seen at http://ctein.com and computer networks. (He’s still glad food pills never nerd. Her other interests include fanfiction, buying oncoming necro-apocalypse, she is often found in came along, though.) Art Museum, and The Providence Art Club (Love- ers. photo-repair.com. He’s a columnist for The Online books she has no time to read, making her own tea craft show). He is also involved in illustrating HP Second Life, role-playing and DJing. Photographer and the author of Digital Restoration blends, and Bond villains. Paul Estin (a.k.a. “Happy Fun Paul”) is a longtime An avid gamer (role-playing and miniatures) and reader Lovecraft, and has done covers to Famous Monsters has been sewing and costuming from Start to Finish. He’s been an industrial consul- SF fan with a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and Kristina Finan (Sci-Fi and fantasy, mainly) since early adolescence, works in computer security, network and of Filmland, and Godzilla comics for IDW. He has tant on computer displays, a technical writer of com- Jack Dietz an affinity for silly music. Becoming a filker was in- since 1982, a Doctor Who fan since 1979, and a Sci- T Christopher Davis is now an amateur game operating system research. His interests include his- an asteroid named for him—13562bobeggleton by puter manuals, has degrees in English and Physics evitable—he sings and plays guitar and other instru- ence Fiction fan since she saw the first man walk on designer and writer, as the love for the written word tory, science, technology, language, cognition, space, Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. from Caltech, and has engaged in pollution research, ments; sometimes solo and sometimes in the bands the moon, live. Now she attempts to write about it. has grabbed hold and taken control of his soul. Now travel and many combinations of those words. Don’t get her wrong, she still sews, keeps a full-time astronomy, photocopy research, world designing for Gaia Eirich is a Master costumer and has been at- “Dr. Snark” and “Don’t Fret the Small Stuff”. Among he only hopes to find a buyer for what he loves to job as a Custom Framer, and a part-time job keeping Contact, and radical feminist queer activism. If he tending and costuming at conventions for 13 years. Paul’s other interests (in alphabetical order) are write so that he may do much more of it. Mario Di Giacomo has been studying the weird and a husband. grows up, he wants to be a dilettante. Ctein lives in the fantastic (or, to use the term he coined, “Memetic For the last 16 years she has been sewing and creat- 80’s music, Andrew Sullivan, astronomy, bicycling, Daly City with technical writer Paula Butler, four de- Susan de Guardiola (http://www.blank.org/ Archaeology”) for nearly four decades, and enjoys ing costumes in a wide variety of forms including fan- books, cats, cognitive science, comics, complexity, Carl Fink is the Chair of LI-CON, a brand new con- mented psittacines, a half dozen more-or-less normal susan) is best-known for her role as a masquerade speaking about his studies at conventions across tasy, historical, and anime costumes for conventions dynamism, folk music, freedom, maps, market solu- vention that will be held March 29 and 30, 2014 computers, and twenty kilobooks. He reports that emcee at the 1997 and 2004 Worldcons as well as Southern New England. and commissions, belly dance costumes for a studio, tions, modern fairy tales, movies, mu*ing, natural on Long Island. Taking Heinlein’s comment about the house seems to be shrinking... numerous east coast local and regional conventions wedding dresses, accessories, and also basic quilt history, Neil Gaiman, non-fiction, nonstandard cate- specialization to heart, he has in his life worked on a and recently as director of the 2012 Hugo Award Samantha Dings is assistant Division Head for making. She has also worked as a costume manager gories, reading, rock music, RPGs, science, surreality, loading dock, managed a store, been a schoolteacher, Garen Daly has been in the dark for more years than Ceremony. Susan is a social dance historian who may Events for Arisia ‘14, past President of Arisia Corpo- in a theater and is currently working on belly dance Unitarian Universalism, and xenobiology. Ingredi- acceptable. He is an award winning film programmer. worked as a technical trainer, managed corporate In- often be found in musty library stacks researching ration, fan of Doctor Who, enjoys online Who fan- costume alterations for a studio. She loves and greatly ents of Happy Fun Paul include an unknown glowing formation Technology, and is an occasional freelance He is a movie commentator for WGBH, NE Cable dance from the 16th to the early 20th century, which dom, and a fan of Star Trek, original and Next Gen, enjoys taking part in convention masquerades and substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer News, NH Public Radio and several other media writer, appearing in Smart Computing and Linux she teaches at workshops and dance events across attending her 24th Arisia. recently had the honor of judging the Balticon mas- space. DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY FUN PAUL!!! Journal. A member of the James Randi Foundation outlets. Perhaps he is best known as the producer of the United States and in Russia. Susan also makes querade. She is also an active member of the Greater The Boston Science Fiction Film Festival, the oldest Sean Dixon-Gumm is a former-current-quasi profes- Like Goodgulf the Wizard, this individual has many and the Skeptics Society, Carl is particularly likely to costumes and blogs about social dance history (at Columbia Fantasy Costumer’s Guild (GCFCG), the challenge pseudoscience and superstition. He lives genre film festival in the world (we think). Now in its Capering and Kickery, http://www.kickery.com). In sional historian with a penchant for homebrew, Irish names: the one on her passport and her scholarly music, punk rock, and living history. If it goes boom local chapter of the International Costumer’s Guild and works on Long Island, New York. 39th year, the sci-fi fest runs Feb. 7-17, 2013 at the her spare time, she plays high-speed online Scrabble (ICG). writings on early textiles (Lisa Evans); the one on Somerville Theatre. It’s 9 days of films curated and and is teaching herself Russian. in the night, or if it was commonplace over 100 years her popular Saturday night “Books So Bad They’re Kate Fractal is an analytically geek, with a day job submitted from around the world. It ends with a 24 ago, chances are he either knows about it, wants to Genevieve Iseult Eldredge used to keep her fan- Good” diary for Daily Kos (Ellid); and the one on teaching mathematics and computer science. By hour film marathon on Feb 16. Visit the web site, Lori Del Genis (weegoddess on LJ) spends her time know about it, or has tried to make it work. Oh, and tasies to herself until they grew wings (and swords, the erotica she’s been writing and selling for the last night, she hosts song circles filled with weird music, BostonSci-fi.com for ticket and submission info. Be- saving the world through creating eco-friendly wed- he likes sewing things. spears, and other medieval weaponry) and broke couple of years (Sarah Ellis). Among her accom- plays board games and LARPs, dabbles in game de- cause he’s lazy and needs to stay out of bars, Garen is ding dresses and teaching injured people to swallow free. Now, she balances the romantic with the per- plishments are founding the Smith College Science sign, and tries to understand dynamic systems. safely again. She runs a business designing custom- Debra Doyle was born in Florida and educated in spending his free time making a movie. It’s a docu- Florida, Texas, Arkansas, and Pennsylvania—the last ilous in real life and in her writing. In real life, she Fiction & Fantasy Society, which is still going strong mentary on the legendary Orson Welles Cinema made gowns out of hemp and unwanted vintage silk dropped out of med school, married the girl of her and slaughtering marshmallow peeps 34 years later, Terry Franklin is a writer of science fiction and fact. and she can often be found prowling around thrift at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned Living in Western Mass, he also gets himself caught Complex. For those who don’t know, it was indeed her doctorate in English, concentrating on Old Eng- dreams, and dedicated herself to writing epic fan- writing the first work in English on medieval Euro- famous. The first manager, in his first gig in the busi- stores, living the Lifestyle of the Frugal and Adven- tasy. She has a BA in English Lit, an MFA in Writ- pean patchwork, and acquiring degrees from Smith up in Libertarian politics from time to time. turous. When she’s not designing dresses she works lish poetry. While in Philadelphia, she met and mar- ness, was some dude named Tommy Lee Jones. If ried James D. Macdonald, who was then serving in ing Popular Fiction, and a black belt in karate. In her College and Hartford Seminary. She also owns a William Freedman, author of Land That I Love, you have an OWC story and want to be in the film, in hospitals and nursing homes, helping patients re- writing, GIE tortures her characters with all manner photo of Adolf Hitler’s bathtub. And no, it’s not for gain some lost function. In her spare time she turns the US Navy, and subsequently traveled with him Mighty Mighty and the screenplay Errant Order, is a track him down and chat him up. to Virginia, California, and the Republic of Panama. of romantic peril—from desire to unrequited love, to the reasons you might think. satirist who uses science fiction, fantasy and horror 38 39 tropes. His novelette “Forever and Ever, Amen” ap- Lila Garrott is a founding member of the a cappella worked with many aspiring authors to help them ficers. Since Oxford, she has done research on sleep, EPIC’s EBook Awards Finalist. Kirkus Reviews said 2013 she was nominated for the Rhysling poetry peared in the 2006 Spirit House chapbook and he group Sassafrass, and a staff reviewer at Strange Hori- develop their talents. He has authored a number of circadian rhythms, and respiratory physiology. She it is a “suspenseful, sci-fi–tinged thriller and produces award in the short form category. She works in pub- spent two years as a slush editor for Abyss & Apex. zons. She has published short fiction, criticism, and short stories and one novel, Lockdown which came now works at Curry College where she teaches Hu- a welcome variation on the classic marriage drama.” lishing and IT, and occasionally produces albums He is also the editor of the Age of Certainty anthol- poetry, and been nominated for the BSFA and the out in 2013. man Anatomy & Physiology. She enjoys outdoor Kourtney has been featured in the Republican Amer- and DVDs for her various musical projects. In what- ogy, in which 10 speculative fiction authors (includ- Rhysling. Her hair is blue. sports and has traveled widely, including recent trips ican, on WTNH’s CT Style, and Everything Internet ever time she has left over, she crochets an insane began performing as a teenager in ing James Morrow) present God as their stories’ Anabel Graetz to Transylvania, Alaska, China, and the Grand Can- on the radio. As K.C. Tansley, she writes YA con- amount and runs local music events. Omaha, NE. She is half of the Victorian duo, The speculative element. Bill holds degrees in journalism Melissa Gavazzi (Little Mel) is a feminist, activist, yon. In her spare time, she gives public lectures that temporary fantasy. She resides in Connecticut with Proper Ladies; the creator and director of The Festi- and international business and his non-fiction work politico, writer, psychology nerd (she holds a Mas- debunk Intelligent Design and Creationism, and has her Shih-Tzu Lhasa Apso warrior lapdog, her sup- Melissa Honig maintains a calendar of sci-fi and val of Light & Song; and founded and directed the fantasy events in New England on her blog, http:// has appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Euromoney ter’s of Science in the subject), and a podcast host. written a book on that subject which will be pub- portive parents and three quirky golden retrievers. all-woman ensemble Laduvane in the 70’s. She has nescifievents.org/. She is also the list administrator Books, Global Finance magazine, Treasury & Risk On her Podcast, “No Boundaries,” she discusses lished sometime in the next year. She is married, has Years of working on Wall Street provided the perfect appeared off off Broadway in The Drunkard and for the New England Browncoats. She enjoys steam- Management magazine, and many other business and topics such as; LGBTIQ, BDSM, body image, rela- two children, and lives in Bedford, Massachusetts. backdrop for her imagination to run amuck at night, on several Boston stages; studied vocal folk styles financial news outlets both in print and online. tionships, sex, self-esteem, rape culture, women’s is- dreaming up a world where out-of-control telepathy punk, costuming, weird crafts, and watching old TV Andrea Hairston is author of Redwood and Wild- sues, and she interviews some pretty groovy people extensively; was a Fulbright Scholar in 1987-88; de- and buried secrets collide. shows from her childhood via Netflix. David J. Friedman is a practicing attorney and free- (Mondays at 9:00pm on ipmNation.com/nobound- veloped and taught the perennially popular course fire, winner of the 2011 Tiptree Award and Mind- lance co-author of multiple Thompson Reuters/ aries). She is also the author of the sci-fi/YA novella “Song for Non-Singers” at the Cambridge Center for scape, shortlisted for the Phillip K Dick and Tiptree An avid reader of science fiction and fantasy since the Wil Howitt is a doctor of computer science and elec- WestLaw publications discussing intellectual prop- “Absorb,” and a non-fiction book of articles and blogs Adult Education. Anabel currently teaches at the Lau Awards, and winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax age of 7 and a rabid gamer since the age of 10, James trical engineering, specializing in physical acoustics erty, cyberspace, free speech, and privacy law issues. she has written. Aside from all of this, she is a Who- Lapides Studio in Wellesley, MA. She can be seen Award. A performer, playwright, and artistic director T Henderson Jr has been a gamer and fan for and psychoacoustics. He has worked at MIT and David’s experience includes a wide range of transac- vian, hula-hooper, kinkster, and Jelly Belly bean afi- in “Spirit of Salem,” now showing in Salem, MA, in of Chrysalis Theatre, her plays have been produced most of his life. As an adult, Jimmy pursued a career BU, developing human auditory system models and tional and litigation work, including helping artists cionado. “Stand Back” on YouTube and has a small role in the at Yale Rep, Rites and Reason, the Kennedy Center, in Mechanical and Structural Engineering, but is speech recognition systems. He also enjoys drum- and entrepreneurs resolve business and intellectual upcoming HBO mini-series based on “Olive Kitter- StageWest, and on Public Radio and Television. In dedicated to the upbringing of the next generation ming, dancing, and playing didjeridu and other property law challenges, internships at the U.S. Pat- Greer Gilman’s latest novella Cry Murder! In a Small idge,” the novel by Elizabeth Strout, a must read! her spare time she is the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 of Fan (his daughter). He remains a Wargamer, cos- rhythmic instruments. He teaches Taoist martial arts, ent & Trademark Office, and pro bono work with Voice is a Jacobean noir detective story. Someone is Professor of Theatre and Afro-American Studies at tumer, modeler, roleplayer, LARPer, and most of all a rides a black BMW motorcycle, fences with a Ger- lives in Boston. She has published po- the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. Outside the legal murdering boy players; Ben Jonson investigates. Her April Grant Smith College. She has received the International As- reader. He attempts to divide his time to enjoy both man longsword, and looks around a lot. etry in and . Her field, David has over a decade of professional experi- Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales won the 2010 Strange Horizons Mythic Delirium sociation of the Fantastic in the Arts Distinguished Parenthood and the insanity called Fandom, and resume includes work as a public historian, librarian’s Crystal Huff spends her time saving the world and ence teaching art and working as a performing and Tiptree Award. Like her earlier novel Moonwise, it’s Scholarship Award for outstanding contributions to mostly succeeds. assistant, used-clothes salesperson, and bus driver. chasing down conventioneers. She was convention visual artist at festivals, corporate events, and on set in a Northern mythscape, in a world where wom- the criticism of the fantastic. She bikes at night year She enjoys singing and reciting poetry and telling chair of Arisia 2011, Relaxacon 2011, Readercon broadcast media. David is proud to argue, play with en turn the sky. Her Cloudish tales have also won a round, meeting bears, multi-legged creatures of light Lisa Hertel is an amateur artist from a long line of World Fantasy Award, a Crawford Award, and have ghost stories. artists. She usually works in clay and watercolors. In 23, Readercon 24, and will be convention chair for toys, and throw things for a living. He plans to dedi- and breath, and the occasional shooting star. Readercon 25 and co-chair of JOFcon I. Crystal’s cate his life to helping people mind their own busi- been shortlisted for the Nebula and Mythopoeic her spare time, she helps run literary science fiction Justine Graykin is a freelance philosopher sustained Communities of all kinds are important to Steven also heavily involved in trying to bring Worldcon nesses. Fantasy awards. Besides her two books, she has pub- conventions. Visit her at Western Avenue Studios in lished other short work, poetry, and criticism. Her by her deep and abiding faith in Science and Human- Hammond, from the patients at patientslikeme. Lowell, MA studio #311. to Helsinki in 2017, which will highlight the joys of ity (well, Science, anyway) and the belief that humor Ed Fuqua is a Young Adult Librarian as well as being essay on “The Languages of the Fantastic” appears in com, where Steve is the Director of Engineering, Finnish fandom to the international community. is the best anti-gravity device. Her new novel, a writer, poet and swordsman. He has spent many The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature. She Archi- to the Town of Holden, where Steve serves on the Andy Hicks is a Boston-based musician, director, ac- Alignment: Chaotic Good. (Double Dragon Publishing, 2013) years running comic book stores and has qualified likes to say she does everything James Joyce ever did, medes Nesselrode School Board and volunteers as a space educator tor, and radio producer. He co-wrote and composed was written for adults who are weary of adult books. Walter H. Hunt has been writing for most of his life for the National Poetry Slam Championships four only backward and in high heels. in local schools. Steve supports community, open the music for 2010: Our Hideous Future—The Mu- She produces the BroadPod podcast for Broad Uni- and was Arisia Author GoH in 2009. His first four times. His short story “Familiar Places” appears in source software development, and patronizesKobold sical!, a cyberpunk satire/romantic comedy which verse, and disappears into the mountains occasion- Dark Wing novels were published by Tor Books and the anthology Bites of Passion and his latest book is Laura Anne Gilman is the author of ten Cosa Nos- Quarterly’s community game development. Steve has recently toured the New England and NYC area, and tradamus novels, including (most recently) Dragon ally with a backpack. Find her at justinegraykin.com. which you might have seen a couple of years ago at are now available from Baen as e-books. His novel The Viscountess Investigates being published by Circlet years of game mastering experience and was recently A Song In Stone deals with Rosslyn Chapel and the Press under his pen name Cameron Quintain. He is Justice and the Nebula award-nominated Vineart War a top 10 finalist inKobold Quarterly’s “King of the this very con. He’s a former WBCN DJ, currently fantasy trilogy, which concluded with The Shattered Erica Greenwold, also known as Kairi G, has been works as a Radio Producer for WGBH radio, and Templars. Current projects include 1632 novels a performer and director at King Richard’s Faire in costuming and designing for 12 years. She graduated Monster” contest. with Eric Flint, an 18th century alternate history Carver, MA. Vine. Her new fantasy duology, Heart Of Briar and may or may not have recently been seen in a Down- Soul Of Fire, will be out Fall/Winter 2013. She also from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2009 Forest Handford is a fire artist from Newport, ton Abbey spot on WGBH 2. Andy’s also a theatri- novel, and the forthcoming Elements of Mind from and has worked as a Bridal and Costume Designer Shana Fuqua has a BA in music. She is an twelve-year writes mysteries as L.A. Kornetsky. A member of the Rhode Island. Forest works as a supervisor at a medi- cal sound designer, and a total and complete Doctor Spencer Hill Press. He has a background in history, for theater and private clients in NYC. She is an avid veteran of King Richard’s Faire where she spent one online writers’ consortium BookVew Cafe, she writes cal software company. While not at work, he’s bring- Who geek. Seriously. Old and new series. Ask him with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bowdoin Col- Sci-fi/Fantasy fan who has been active in the cosplay year as assistant apprentice music director and four the “Practical Meerkat” advice-to-writers column on ing his family to corn mazes, conventions, and Burn- anything. lege in Brunswick, Maine, and he speaks two other scene since 2003, having judged for masquerades, years as an administrative assistant to the apprentice their blog. Learn more at www.lauraanegilman.net or ing Man events. His website is EastCoastGames.com languages (German and Spanish). A member of the hosted workshops and panels, and organized co- program. She has been involved in the BDSM scene follow her on Twitter: @LAGilman. where he publishes video and writing about various Woodrow Hill is one the few male Raqs Sharqi Masonic Fraternity, Walter H. Hunt has served as splay events such as the Upstate NY Cosplay picnic for roughly twenty years. She is an experienced gam- topics. He is the Director of Organizational Develop- artists—better known as “belly” dancers—in the Master of two different Lodges in Massachusetts. which celebrated its 10th year in 2013! Today she er, both video games and tabletop RPGs. Her many Max Gladstone’s first novel,Three Parts Dead, was ment for Firefly Arts Collective, Inc. He is also on the world, having started over 20 years ago. His day job He is a devoted baseball fan and board gamer; his lives in New York City and also works as a nutrition skills include knitting, crocheting, spinning, candle- named a Massachusetts Must Read Book of 2012. board of the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Minis- as a programmer with a focus on security issues first published game was published in 2011 by Rio counselor and Weight Watchers leader. In addition making, and balancing a stick on her head. This year He was shortlisted for the 2013 John W. Campbell try of Rhode Island. gives him a oddly optimistic view of the future, one Grande Games. He has been married for more than to costuming and fashion, Erica loves science, par- she joins the Arisia staff. Best New Writer Award, and longlisted for the 2008 fueled by his very first memory; watchingStar Trek half of his life, and he and his wife have one daughter Writers of the Future award. Two Serpents Rise, the ticularly biology, and she is now pursuing a Masters Kelly Hashway is the author of the Touch of Death on a black-and-white TV set. This reality-beaten op- who is a product of their affection and unusual joint Ken Gale’s writing career started with sales to DC second book in the series, was published in October degree in Nutrition. Some of the many fandoms she series published by Spencer Hill Press, the Birth of timism also leaks into his strong political activism, sense of humor. Comics and Warren Publishing in the 70’s. He’s 2013, and a third, Full Fathom Five, is forthcoming in claims membership to include, The X-files, Lord of the Phoenix series coming in 2014 through Mon- having been invested in Civil Rights, Feminist, and , 42, is a professional organizer editor and co-publisher of Dangerous Times and New July 2014. the Rings, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Anime, th9Books, and The Monster Within also coming related issues as well as working for politicians as Jennifer Hunter in Medford, Massachusetts. Once a writer and edi- Frontiers for Evolution Comics, a producer and host Star Trek, Star Wars (Yes! She likes both!), Firefly, in 2014 through Spencer Hill Press. Kelly loves all varied as Strom Thurmond and Barack Obama (the tor, with four books on NeoPaganism to her credit, for two radio shows on WBAI-FM in NYC; one on Jamie Nesbitt Golden is a freelance writer, co- and Parks and Recreation. things related to paranormal, fantasy, and sci-fi. latter of which he liked significantly more!). He also the environment and one on comic books. He does founder of Hood Feminism, and co-host of Nerd- looks back into the past as a member of the Society she decided to make a career out of what she did for is an expert on comics from the miscellaneous arts and public affairs shows at many gasm Noire Network. Megan Gregory Jeff Hecht is a freelance science and technology of Creative Anachronism, specializing on research- fun on her writing breaks. She specializes in work- Golden Age to present, and an expert on the his- different time slots. He is a member of the Board of writer, a correspondent for the weekly New Scientist ing Medieval Era “belly dance” and 15th Century ing with unconventional people, helping them learn Hayley “Shenanigans” Goldstein is a recent tory and literature of the industry. She worked at the the Celtic League American Branch and a former and a contributing editor to Laser Focus World. His Ottoman culture, and into the future via interests in that creative does not have to mean disorganized. Jen high school graduate hailing from Newton, MA. Ms. Comic Store from 2000-2003 and she has worked at math textbook writer. He wrote an environmen- short fiction has appeared inAnalog , Asimov’s, Inter- broader layperson science activities, focusing on is- is also a collage artist using found/recycled objects, Shenanigans is passionate beyond belief about Doc- Collectibles Unlimited in Concord, NH since 2007. and has exhibited in several shows (including this tal horror comic book story for Psychosis! #2 and is zone, Odyssey, Nature, Twilight Zone, Daily Science sues around Evolution. tor Who, Sherlock, the works of Neil Gaiman, fanfic- She is the Executive Director of the Comic Archives a long-time environmental activist. www.comic- Fiction and several anthologies including Year’s Best year’s Arisia Art Show). She lives with her daughter, tion, cosplay, filking, steampunk, various nerdy TV Project, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving comics bookradioshow.com Horror Stories and Great American Ghost Stories. His James Hinsey is a lifelong lover of Science Fiction, partner, housemates, and two cats. Her website is at and film series, and collecting books. At Arisia you for future fans and scholars. She is Staff for Boston non-fiction has appeared in many other magazines, Fantasy, books, movies, tv-shows, anime, 80’s music, www.jenniferhunter.com. will most likely be able to find her cosplaying as a Craig Shaw Gardner is the author of a bunch of Comic Con and has handled VIPs like Scott Synder, including Optics & Photonics News, Omni, Earth, women, root beer, chocolate, Hawaii, Japan, and fam- Doctor Who character or as her steampunk alter ego, Elaine Isaak is the author of The Singer’s Crown books and short stories, many of which are now be- Jim Lee and Joe Kubert. She has a MEd in Heritage Analog, Cosmos, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and ily. He is half-Japanese, a reader, Potterhead, Trekker, Dahlia Larke. (Filker Paul Estin taught her history (Eos, 2005), and its sequels, as well as the “Tales of ing released as e-books. His latest novel, Temporary Studies & Historic Preservation and in her secret Technology Review. His books include Understanding Browncoat, Costumer, book-collector, model-maker, during her freshman year of high school and intro- Bladesend” epic novella series. As E. C. Ambrose, she Monsters, features an unemployment agency that se- identity, she works as a high school teacher. Fiber Optics (Pearson/Prentice Hall), Understanding videographer, publicator, con-goer, RISFC mem- duced her to the wonders of conventions and filk.) also writes “The Dark Apostle” series of dark histori- cretly controls the world. Lasers (IEEE Press/Wiley), Beam: the Race to Make ber, Sci-Fi Journal co-host, Psi Upsilon brother, RPI You can find her online at stuff-and-shenanigans. Dr. Abby Hafer was born at Cape Canaveral, where cal fantasy novels about medieval medicine. The Dark the Laser and City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics alum, former naval officer, brother, son, uncle, hus- her father was part of the U.S. space program. She Apostle started with Elisha Barber (DAW, 2013), de- Jaime Garmendia is a member of the Boston Comics tumblr.com or on Fanfiction.net under the pen name (both Oxford University Press). He holds a B.S. in band, and father of two girls. He is SamuraiX47. grew up living lots of places in the U.S. She graduated scribed in a starred Library Journal review as, “pain- Roundtable where he writes, produces, publicizes, “The Impossible Slashtronaut.” electronic engineering from the California Institute in biology at Swarthmore College and got a D.Phil. fully elegant”. Elaine lives in New Hampshire with and markets independent comics of all genres. His of Technology. Merav Hoffman is a New York-based singer/song- first published game, the Wuxing Empire expansion Timothy O. Goyette was raised in and is a resident in zoology from Oxford University. She briefly writer and performer. She is a founding member of her family where she works part-time as an adventure of New Hampshire. He is the editor at Quantum for Your Move Games’ Battleground, is scheduled for worked for the National Marine Fisheries Service on Kourtney Heintz writes speculative fiction for the band Lady Mondegreen along with Seanan Mc- guide. In addition to writing and teaching, Elaine en- release in 2014. He is also the Programming Division Muse, a webzine and online writing group that has a Japanese fishing ship in the Bering Sea. While on adults. Her debut novel, The Six Train to Wisconsin, Guire and Batya Wittenberg. She also edits books, joys taiko drumming, kayaking, rock climbing, and all Head this year. been around since 1999. In this capacity he has board, she won a push-ups contest with the ship’s of- is a 2013 USA Best Book Awards Finalist and 2014 musicals and poetry, as well as writing her own. In manner of fiber arts. www.thedarkapostle.com 40 41 Felicitas Ivey is the pen name of a very frazzled help- as a panelist are restricted to love of sci-fi/fantasy and Girl no matter where she is living, she can be found Ken Kingsgrave-Ernstein is absolutely not the Su- A dedicated fan of Duran Duran, as seen in the docu- Following brief adventures with the circus, he spent desk drone at a Boston area University. She’s an eter- her ability to ramble semi-intelligently about geeky on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/ per Hero Common Sense Man. He does not spend his mentary There’s Something You Should Know, avid six months in Europe as a journeyman blacksmith. nal student even with a BA in Anthropology, Clas- topics on command. Melissa is co-chair for the 2014 Rachel-Kenley/43491347339, on Amazon at www. days saving various portions of Corporate America cosplayer, and Neil Gaiman Fangirl, Pam Larson Since then he has been supporting himself with ar- sical Studies and History, since free classes are part Transcending Boundaries Conference and commit- amazon.com/author/rachelkenley and at her web- from itself. He also does not recover data structures has dedicated what little free time she has from her tisan metalwork. Visit www.jacoblefton.com to see of the benefits. Felicitas writes Urban Fantasy and ted to making the fandom community safe and com- site www.rachelkenley.com in need. He does, however, enjoy reading Science television directing job to becoming the best fan she more of his work. Horror of a Lovecraftian nature—monsters beyond fortable for anyone who wants to participate. Fiction and the occasional foray into Fantasy. He also can be. Helping out her fellow fans by staffing and began historic costuming and space and time that think humans are the tastiest Paul Kenworthy enjoys speculating on how to survive the Zombie volunteering at many cons, she makes sure a good Scott Lefton makes and sells artwork in media making armour and swords in 1974 while he was things in the multiverse—that is passing as Malex- A longtime GM, participating and running games since Apocalypse with skills he learned surviving the Cold time is had by all. Her Personal Motto is, “All Nite including metal, wood, glass, and Photoshop, is oc- getting his bachelor’s degree in history and working Male Romance. She divides her free time between 1978, including long-running games, David C War. He also spends spare time (ha, what’s that?) Parties, Cocktail Bars and Smiles... It’s more than a casionally serious about photography, and works as part-time as a shipsmith at Mystic Seaport. He is an writing and slowly working her way through her yarn Kaplowitz has worked with many table-top and with his camera and playing with rope, often at the lyric, it’s a way of life.” a freelance mechanical design consultant and patent avid re-enactor and belongs to a number of groups stash, even as she adds more to it periodically. LARP systems over the years. On the cutting edge same time. agent. He lives in a big old Victorian house in Mel- of computer research, he has been involved with the that recreate various periods. He is the command- Toni Lay is a member of the New Jersey-New York rose, MA with his wife Rachel, whichever of their 3 The Comiku Girls, Akiko Meigetsu andLi Izumi, development of computers from the old Mainframe ing officer of the New England Brigade, an umbrella Ellen Kranzer has been attending science fiction Costumers Guild (aka The Sick Pups) and a Deputy kids happen to be in residence, and a cat. has had a pencil (or brush) in their hand since they days through the micro-embedded systems of today. organization for Union re-enactors in New England, conventions for over 30 years and making music Chatelaine for the Crown Province of Ostgardr in could hold one, and have been telling stories since He is also a longtime presenter and kinkster; prac- Captain of the Salem Trayned Band, a group that rec- even longer. Filk lets her mix the two hobbies. El- the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), which Elizabeth O’Malley is part of FanCons.com/ they could talk. At conventions, they are artists, co- ticing for almost 40 years and teaching for almost a reates the first militia company in the Massachusetts len is a founding member of M.A.S.S. F.I.L.C. and gives her plenty of opportunity to costume. Toni was AnimeCons.com, the leading web site dedicated splayers, and Japanese cultural panelists. In 2004, we quarter century, both nationally and internation- Bay Colony, and a member of the Company of the the club’s current treasurer. She has been involved in Program Director for Costume Con 5, a Histori- to news and information about conventions, con- debuted our popular Japanese Tea Ceremony Panel, ally. He is involved in the local BDSM group NELA Wolfe Argent, a group that recreates a Burgundian planning numerous conventions both in and out of cal Masquerade Director for Costume Cons 16 and tributing to both their website and weekly podcast, and have continued to create unique panel options in (http://www.nelaonline.org) as Program and Edu- ordinance company of the 1470s. He is one of the fandom. 22, a Historical Judge for Costume Con 28, and a AnimeCons TV. She is also the Vice President of the the decade since. Akiko is an artist, working in both cation Director. Want to learn more? Ask him. co-founders of the Higgins Armory Sword Guild, a Presentation Judge at Renovation, the Reno World- Northern Lights chapter of the International Cos- Bettina M. Kurkoski is the creator/writer/art- digital and traditional media (watercolor and Asian group based in Worcester that studies and interprets con. Her other fannish interests include Torchwood, tumers Guild. ist of My Cat Loki, published by TOKYOPOP Inc. Brushpainting). Li has studied Japanese language Faith Karklin was introduced to Arisia five years Renaissance fencing manuals. He is also a performer Merlin, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Britcoms, alternate In 2003 she entered TOKYOPOP’s Rising Stars of PJ Letersky has been cosplaying for decades and has and culture for over a decade, including a semester in ago and has found herself returning every year since. and director of the Commonwealth Vintage Danc- history novels, Harry Potter, Dragonriders of Pern, Manga Vol. 2 competition, placing as a runner-up, been a fixture at the FUNimation booths in New Akita, Japan. Apparently she can’t resist a weekend spent dancing ers, a performance dance company that specializes in Marcus Didius Falco, and Roma Sub Rosa mysteries. her work “Axis Lumen” published in the winners’ York and Boston for the past 5 years. He is both a and discussing books. 19th and early 20th century social dance. When she is not watching DVDs, reading, or making compilation. My Cat Loki—volumes 1 & 2 now professional actor and musician, having been the mu- Alexander Jablokov’s most recent published novel costumes, Toni is a secretary for the New York City Kate Kaynak was born in New Jersey but was able available from TOKYOPOP—is Bettina’s first pro- sic instructor on the first season of Fox TV’s “Fringe”, is “Brain Thief”, a fast-paced AI-hunting adventure, Angela Kessler’s longstanding interests include Department of Design and Construction. now out in paperback. His most recent story, “The to escape. Her degree from Yale says she was a psych morris dance, Kalevala, cheesemaking, singing and fessionally published series. She has also contributed and acting in numerous television shows and movies. Instructive Tale of the Archeologist and His Wife” major, but her true senior project was a bawdy song- other enjoyment of trad music, sewing (esp. histori- the Star Trek 40th Anniversary Convention exclusive Once a mixed class programmer-bard time traveler, Being based out of Connecticut makes it very easy will appear in Asimov’s. He is the author of five other book for the Marching Band. After serving a 5-year cal and wedding gowns), crochet, and learning about cover for Star Trek: TOS Manga Vol. 1, cover and Vanessa Layne, MEd, LMHC, tumbled through to get to all the location shoots across New York and novels, including Carve The Sky, Nimbus, and Deep- sentence in graduate school, she started teaching how the world works. Passing whims include can- story art for Star Trek: TOS Manga Vol. 2, story art a portal labeled “grad school” to find herself prac- New England. With the wealth of tv and filming in drive, and a number of short stories. He recently psychology around the world for the University of ning, gardening, soapmaking, and food sculpture. for Star Trek: The Next Generation Vol. 1, story and ticing psychotherapy in a gritty Damon-Affleck ve- the area, he is more than willing to give out the in- completed a YA alternate history adventure novel, Maryland. While in Turkey, she started up a conver- Someday there will be goats. art for the Princess Ai/My Cat Loki crossover story hicle, treating bank robbers and math prodigies. In formation he has learned over the years to folks who “Door of Worlds”. He lives in Cambridge, Massachu- sation with a handsome stranger in an airport—and in Princess Ai: Encounters, and cover and story art this continuum, she can be found in Cambridge at want to get into acting and cosplaying. His “alter-ego” lives in Greater Boston where setts. ended up marrying him. Kaynak now lives in New Jeremy H. Kessler for Warriors: Rise of Scourge and Seekers manga Integration by Parts where she makes her livelihood is Nauticon’s “Jack” who he has been portraying and Hampshire, where she enjoys reading, writing, and he is an instigator. He is also a singer, morris dancer, series based on the best-selling novel series; all avail- providing culturally sensitive therapy to scientists, corrupting innocent con-goers for the past 2 years in Alex Jarvis has written forWired ’s “Geekdad,” is a fighting crime with her amazing superpowers. Her musician, cheesemaker, drinker, and co-developer able from TOKYOPOP and Harper Collins. You can technologists, engineers and mathematicians. She the process. (Soon to be a 3rd year this May!) He has former editor for The Consumerist, and writes for YA paranormal series—the Ganzfield books— of the only known kosher boar’s head anywhere. As see more of her artwork and full bio at www.dream- has points in 16th century popular music, applied also been stage managing off-Broadway shows as well the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “ProfHacker.” He start with MINDER and tell the story of Maddie, a a singer, he has been deeply involved in local sings worldstudio.net. anthropology, the psychology of morality, hand- as designing and running lights and sound for those is currently the Editor in Chief of Spandexless.com, 16-year-old telepath training at a secret facility. She is of various traditional sorts, including chantey sings to-hand politics, Darmok, I didn’t know it could be productions. Alisa Kwitney is the multi-published author of adult and the author of several comic books that you can one of the founders of Spencer Hill Press, a publish- and pub sings. As a morris dancer, he dances with made to do that, dynamically generated code, the and YA novels, graphic novels and non-fiction. She Benjamin Levy has been a science fiction fan for most read if you ask him really, really nicely. He wants to ing house with a mission to discover and launch the the Newtowne Morris Men, is the musician for Pipe history and politics of the DSM, and practical sur- also writes SF/fantasy as Alisa Sheckley. A former of his life. He went to his first science fiction conven- write comics and graphic novels professionally one careers of talented new authors. www.SpencerHill- Dream Morris, and is the squire of the only Greater realism. day and hates vowels. Press.com Boston morris team to dance the AntiMorris. He has editor at Vertigo/DC Comics, Alisa has an MFA tion when he was 10 years old. He has been involved danced the AntiMorris for Terry Pratchett himself, in Fiction Writing from Columbia and has taught Cassandra Lease is a lifelong resident of Boston and with Arisia since its inception. In the past he has Rachel Kadel-Garcia is a bookbinder and book Jeff Keller is a Boston-area song session leader and and is quite proud that said author described it—in graphic novel writing at Fordham University. Her lat- a second-generation fan who was introduced to Star worked for Arisia as a gopher, Dealers Liaison, Fixed and paper conservator in private practice in Med- occasional filker. He’s run the Arisia chantey sing Wintersmith’s author’s note—as “a bit creepy”. est novel is The New Avengers: Breakout, based on Trek while she was still learning to talk. As a neo- Functions (Exhibits) Division Head, and Assistant ford, MA. She holds an MA in Conservation Studies from its inception and various one-off sessions. He’s the Brian Bendis comic series. You can visit her web- pagan trans lesbian feminist, she’s an outspoken ad- Con Chair. Currently, he is the Arisia Corporate from the University of Sussex and a postgraduate di- also a vintage dancer, the founder of the local vintage A freelance writer and web producer for such enter- site at www.alisakwitney.com. vocate for religious tolerance, LGBT rights, and so- Treasurer and an Assistant Con Chair for A14. ploma in Conservation of Books and Library Materi- dance band (the Ad Hoc Waltz and Quadrille Band), tainment publications as Today.com, Variety, The cial equality. Prior to her transition, she worked as a David Larochelle grew up in the D.C. area but Emily Lewis is a Latin Teacher with lots of art his- als from West Dean College. and a sometime member of the Arisia technical crew Los Angeles Times, and Emmy Magazine, Randee freelance writer in the tabletop game industry; more moved up to Cambridge in 2004 where he currently tory, archaeology, and singing experience. She’s also and Music Track head. Dawn Kestenbaum is also a fiction writer, with a recently, she’s gone digital, working for five years test- A recent transplant to the Boston area, Juliet Kahn resides. His involvement with fandom began when a history geek, especially for ancient history. She self-published volume of speculative fiction, Home ing games for Turbine and Irrational Games before was doomed to nerdhood from the moment she Leigh Perry is Toni L.P. Kelner in disguise, or he joined the William & Mary Science Fiction and loves anything education and is very, very interested for the Holidays. The collection—which runs the finding a new day job in mobile software. She is still found her father’s Bronze Age Marvel stash. She is maybe vice versa. As Leigh, she writes the Family Fantasy Club (SKIFFY). He served as Vice President in gaming and education. In her copious spare time, gamut from speculative fiction to memoir—includes an active GM, an avid reader of comic books and ur- particularly interested in shoujo manga, the history Skeleton mysteries. A Skeleton in the Family, the first, and was named Senator for Life upon gradation. He’s she works with a group called The Pericles Group a first-person zombie story originally podcast by ban fantasy literature, and a massive Power Rangers of superhero comics, the future of fandom and co- came out in September 2013. As Toni, she’s the au- worked extensively in information security and is the (www.practomime.com) to develop a game called “Well-Told Tales.” She is also a co-author (with Su- fan. Cassandra is currently hard at work on her first splaying. She writes for Comics Alliance. thor of the “Where Are They Now?” mysteries and san Green) of co-author of Splint, an Open Source tool for detect- Operation LAPIS. The game objectives are the same The Law & Order: SVU Unofficial Com- novel, a queer supernatural romance entitled Fall, as the Laura Fleming series (all of which are available as ing security vulnerabilities in C programs. However, as the learning objectives, and students have had lots Catherine Kane is a professional psychic, published panion, which published in September 2009. She has well as numerous fanfics and small-scale indie games. ebooks and audiobooks); an Agatha Award winner a first novel of urban fantasy recently completed, and more recently he’s focused on understanding and of success with it. When she is not teaching or help- author, Reiki master/teacher, bard, artist, enthusias- for short fiction; and the co-editor ofNew York Times ing build Operation LAPIS, she is a singer, specifi- tic student of the Universe, maker of very bad puns, renews her offer to write in exchange for sugar-cured building the Internet rather than attacking and de- Gregory Lee is a practicing lawyer focusing on family bestselling fantasy/mystery anthologies with Char- bacon. fending it. He currently works for the Berkman Cen- law matters. He is also the proprietor of his own min- cally with the group Sassafrass, a dancer of all styles, songwriter and overachiever, amongst other things... laine Harris. Games Creatures Play will be released in and an ice hockey player. Her musical background, She loves empowering people to have their best lives ter for Internet & Society. iscule press (smaller than a small press), Greylock April. Leigh/Toni lives just north of Boston, on the Daniel M Kimmel is a Hugo-nominated film critic Publishing Lines. He has written three novels in The as well as her history background, also allows her possible. Visit Catherine and her husband, Starwolf, Ellen Larson’s first published story appeared in Yan- Orange Line, with her husband and fellow author and author of Jar Jar Binks Must Die. His reviews and Laughing Lip series, published through his imprint, to find fantastic historical songs to use with her stu- at Foresight on Facebook, www.ForesightYourPsy- kee Magazine in 1971. She has sold stories to Alfred Stephen P. Kelner, Jr., their two daughters, and two essays can be found at NorthShoreMovies.net, the proving that he is ambitious, impatient, and clueless dents. chic.com, and www.ForesightYourCtPsychic.word- Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (Barry Award final- guinea pigs. Jewish Advocate, the Sci-Fi Movie Page, Clarkes- about finding a decent agent. The novels themselves press.com. world and Space and Time Magazine. His most recent ist) and Big Pulp Magazine and is the author of the Megan Lewis is a librarian at a research library and prove that he is a lousy proofreader. For the last year, archives located in a museum, dealing with research- Mikki Kendall is also known as Karnythia or that book is his first novelShh! It’s a Secret: a novel about NJ Mysteries, The Hatch and Brood of Time and Witch, Shaman, Professional Psychic, Metaphysical En- he has let himself be sidetracked into working on as- ers from all over the world and all levels of education. broad that curses out the internet. Aliens, Hollywood and the Bartender’s Guide which Unfold the Evil (to be reprinted by Poisoned Pen gineer, Rune Valder Master, and Reiki Master, Sean pects of Marc Miller’s Traveller5, and the extended She has a great fondness for biographical dictionar- launched at Arisia 2013. Press in 2014). Her current book is In Retrospect, Kane (Starwolf) posseses a vast, ecclectic store of Rachel Kenley is a novelist, workshop leader, and sourcebook “Cirque.” He has an agreement to novel- ies. Megan’s attended Arisia for over a decade and a science-fiction mystery (“Carefully crafted who- knowledge, both Esoteric and Exoteric. coach on sexual empowerment. She is the multi- Born in 1967, Catt Kingsgrave-Ernstein has not ize this as well. On a more positive note, he is serious has previously worked Art Show. This is her first year dunit” -PW starred “A cleverly structured mix of sci- published author of several erotic romance novels yet managed to shuffle off the mortal coil, though about some things, including the need for mankind doing a panel (but is still working Art Show—come Melissa Kaplan is a longtime attendee of cons, gam- ence fiction and mystery” -Booklist). Larson lived and anthologies and is currently working on a non- not for want of trying, apparently. She writes (fiction, to alter its ways. Note: Whenever the supposedly buy some art!). She possesses interests in a diverse er, watcher and reader of sci-fi/fantasy, and general and worked as an editor for seventeen years in Egypt, fiction book on embracing your sexual power. When music, poetry, recipes, and the occasional political dead monster turns up less dead, he remembers his number including modern architecture preservation, geek. Past endeavors include two blogathons, one where she developed a love of different cultures. Af- she is not writing she is spending time with her fam- rant), draws, paints, sings, dances, cooks, builds and father’s words: “That’ll teach the smartasses.” crocheting and genealogists. nanowrimo, and participating in panels at Pi-con ter returning to the US in 2006, she became the edi- ily including homeschooling her sons, and laughing repairs houses, and occasionally makes an outright and Arisia. She spends far too much of her dispos- tor of the Poisoned Pencil, the YA mystery imprint. Jacob Lefton is an artist blacksmith currently liv- as much as possible. She loves reading, chocolate, fool of herself when confronted with her intellectual Suford Lewis is a longtime fan and a longer-time able income on costume pieces, wirework jewelry, She lives in an off-grid cabin in upstate New York, ing in Amherst, Massachusetts. He studied creative her morning cup of coffee and retail therapy. A Jersey heroes. She also has Opinions. No, wait! Don’t run! reader. She has been a member of LASFS and MITS- and books. She freely admits that her qualifications enjoying the solitude. writing, art, and education at Hampshire College. FS, and a founding member of NESFA and Regency 42 43 fandom. She is a Master Costumer; an inveterate con James Douglas Macdonald was born in White night. Yes, Shelley Marsh sleeps; she just has a Donna Martinez is a freelance artist originally from reviews for Publishers Weekly. Find out more at of social justice and civil liberties. Despite being a com member, having been part of the committees Plains, New York, the second of three children of W. messy house. New Mexico and has been a resident of Boston for 15 http://www.victoriajanssen.com. student of world religions and active in a UU congre- of all the Boston worldcons, many Boskones, two Douglas Macdonald, a chemical engineer, and Mar- years. Donna is also a member of the Boston Comics gation, Mijan is a scientist, skeptic, and social secular- has been making, researching and Costumecons, a few others, and even an Arisia or garet E. Macdonald, a professional artist. After leav- David Marshall Roundtable contributing stories to Inbound, Hell- James Meickle has a degree in political science and ist who feels that this is an essential perspective too teaching comics for more than 20 years. He’s been so; and in 2008 was given the Big Heart Award. She ing the University of Rochester, where he majored in bound, The Greatest Comics Anthology of All time psychology, and obtaining it required more elec- often ignored in the political arena. In real life (what’s published by Fantagraphics Books, SpiderBaby also finds time to play a little Dominion, see some Medieval Studies, he served in the U. S. Navy. Mac- and issues #1 and #3 of In A Single Bound respective- trodes than you might expect. When he wasn’t wir- real?), Mijan is an EMT with a background in biol- Graphix, FantaCo Enterprises, The Boston Comics anime, and, with luck, even filk a bit. Mostly retired donald left the Navy in 1988 in order to pursue writ- ly. Presently she’s illustrating a bi-weekly webcomic ing up test subjects, he was involved in Connecticut’s ogy, and writes queer fiction on the side. Roundtable and Riverbird Studios. Check out his from software system building, she still occasionally ing full-time. Since then he has lived with his wife and for SALT by American Student Assistance, an edu- criminal justice policy on topics like prisoner reentry free web comics on Inky Stories (www.inkystories. helps some people out with computers. She is the co-author, Debra Doyle, in a big 19th-Century house cation debt management company based in Boston. and marijuana decriminalization. After graduation, Daniel Miller is a local attorney, gamer, comics com). Short, self-contained stories include whole- Bujold editor for NESFA Press, having completed in Colebrook, New Hampshire, where they write sci- Donna is also happily married to fellow Round Table he began a Ph.D. in political psychology and earned aficionado, and SF/F fan (not necessarily in that some memoir “Six-Year-Old Horse Thief”, raunchy nine books. She is married to Tony Lewis, is owned ence fiction and fantasy for children, teenagers, and writer/cartoonist Joey Peters. the distinction of getting kicked out in record time. A order) who keeps coming back to Arisia because comedy “Window of Opportunity”, science fic- currently by 2 cats, and is the proud mother of Alice. adults. From 1991 through 1993, as Yog Sysop, he few months later and he was in Boston running the he enjoys it. He has been “living this lifestyle” since is a semi-professional costumer ran the Science Fiction and Fantasy RoundTable on tion action “The Null Device”, neurotic horror “The Milo Martinez Romney campaign’s website (where he had the lon- high school, and lives it in eastern Massachusetts. He living in Cambridge. His interests include leather Gordon Linzner is founder and editor emeritus of the GEnie computer network; after the death of GE- Bleeding Mirror” and Boston murder mystery “Zip’s gest hair). Nowadays, James is the developer evange- recently completed his first manuscript, even if it is working, costuming technology, craftwork (armor, Space and Time Magazine; author of several novels nie, he was the managing sysop for SFF-Net. These Last Day”. Art of the Comic Book (www.artofthe- list at AppNeta, a local startup focusing on applica- utterly unpublishable at the moment, and is working casting, etc), and villainy. An avid maker since child- and scores of short stories; freelance editor; licensed days, when not writing novels or running as an EMT comicbook.com) is David’s college-level studio tion performance management. In his spare time he on another one . . . as soon as his writer’s block sub- hood, he uses mixed medias and unconventional ap- New York City tour guide; and front man for Sabo- with the local ambulance squad, he blogs at Absolute workshop for making comics with traditional ink-on- makes questionable contributions to the roguelike sides. He continues to like alternate histories, humor- proaches to solve costuming challenges. teur Tiger blues band. Write.com and Making Light. paper media. He frequently participates in 24-Hour development community, like coding the Octopode ous SF/F, and rollicking good adventures with good Comics Day, Free Comic Book Day, Arisia, Mas- race in Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. worldbuilding. He once tickled a man in Reno just to Michael McAfee is an actor, writer, director and Adam Lipkin is a reviewer for Publishers Weekly, cov- Rose Mambert occasionally teaches Italian and is sachusetts Independent Comics Expo and Boston watch him laugh, turned the tap dance into his cru- managing director for the Post Meridian Radio ering science fiction, fantasy, horror, and young Editor-in-Chief of Pink Narcissus Press. She has co- ComicCon. The Comiku Girls,Akiko Meigetsu and Li Izumi, sade, and is always looking to proselytize the uniniti- Players. His poetry has appeared in adult books. He has written reviews for a number of edited various anthologies such as “Elf Love”, “Queer Space and Time are celebrating their 10-year anniversary attending ated into the worlds of assorted geekery. (Or, at least . He has been on panels dealing with a va- publications, including The Green Man Review and Fish”, and “WTF?!”. She is also the author of the B. Diane Martin began reading science fiction at age Magazine the convention circuit along the eastern seaboard get them to come to a team trivia event. Either way.) riety of topics at Arisia and other conventions since Rambles. He wrote the horror column, “Fear Factor,” rock-and-roll vampire novel “The Muses: The Blood nine, and later that same year she asked for her first and beyond. Each has had a pencil (or brush) in their the mid-1990s. He has been active in all aspects of for Bookslut, and was also the animation columnist Tour” (2012, Damnation Books.). telescope. She has a law degree, is a founder of sev- hand since they could hold one, and have been tell- Mark Millman is a member of the Salem Zouaves/ for SMRT-TV.com. He has published hundreds of eral companies, and has advised start-ups in software, fandom since 1990, particularly in the SCA, LARP- ing stories since they could talk. At conventions, they Salem Trayned Band military re-enactment unit, horror movie reviews at his own blog, http://yendi. James Mandeville is EMT, Founder and Chairman gaming, holography, and other technology areas. Di- ing and filking. Feel free to talk with him about future are artists, cosplayers, and Japanese cultural panel- which portrays citizen militias of the 1630s and the livejournal.com, and has also published essays in of Operation Hammond. He has spent the past 5 ane is extremely honored to be a 2009 World Fantasy projects. ists. In 2004, they debuted their popular Japanese early 1860s, and of the Commonwealth Vintage Salem Press’s Critical Survey of Graphic Novels. By years as an EMT in the UK and USA. He is an avid finalist (Special Award—Non-Professional) for her Tea Ceremony Panel, and have continued to create Dancers, New England’s premier vintage-dance Alan McAvinney was born and raised in Cambridge day, he works as an Associate Director of Academic safety advocate for the convention, pop culture and work with Readercon. Diane (a/k/a She Who Must unique panel options in the decade since. Akiko is an company, which performs the social dances of the by poly parents. He now lives and works as a com- Technology at a top-35 university. Adam lives in the fan community. He founded Operation Hammond, Be Obeyed) lives with her husband, David G. Shaw, artist, working in both digital and traditional media Regency, Civil War, Gilded Age, Ragtime, and Roar- puter programer in Somerville with his fiancee and suburbs of Boston with his wife, daughter, and two the only non-profit organization dedicated to the and their son Miles (He Who Will Not Be Ignored) (watercolor and Asian Brushpainting). Li has stud- ing Twenties eras. Both groups’ members make their metamour. moderately psychotic felines. unique medical and safety needs of pop culture con- in a Somerville, MA, Victorian home filled with ied Japanese language and culture for over a decade, own historically accurate clothing and study and ventions and events. Over the past 10 years he has books, games, music, anime, and cookware. Elizabeth McCoy has been an editor and writer for including a semester in Akita, Japan. She has a B.A. in perform period movement disciplines. He is also Shira Lipkin has managed to convince Apex Maga- been a frequent staff member of many anime and Steve Jackson Games, and has recently branched out East Asian Studies and a Master’s degree in Classical the former demonstration co-ordinator and head of zine, Stone Telling, Clockwork Phoenix 4, Interfic- Brennan Martin has painted miniatures since a pop culture conventions around the world, and has into original fiction—mostly self-published. Her Japanese Language and Literature from University of historical-combat instruction at the Higgins Armory tions 2, Mythic Delirium, and other otherwise-sen- teen and after a college/life hiatus has jumped back fulfilled many roles ranging from security, medical most recent work is “Blackest Before the Dawn,” a Massachusetts, Amherst. Museum, and the Steward and a founding member sible magazines and anthologies to publish her work; into miniatures even to the extent of even playing a care, operations and public relations. To date he has story about First Contact between alien races, in the of the Higgins Armory Sword Guild. In addition, he two of her stories have been recognized as Million few games with the little things. Also, in the last few Self acknowledged geek and couch potato Penelope staffed over 60 conventions in the UK, Japan and What Happens Next anthology published by Fur- is an experienced fight choreographer, both for the Writers Award Notable Stories, and she has won years he was a game rep for Z-Man until last Summer Messier never seems to find enough time in the day USA. He has been an operations, emergency man- planet Productions. She has also written a fantasy theater and for historical martial-arts demonstra- the Rhysling Award for best short poem. She credits when he had less time after the arrival of his daughter for the latter. Between work, hanging with friends, agement and safety adviser to many other pop cul- duology with a romance plot, Herb-Witch and Herb- tions, and a long-time modern fencer and practitio- luck, glitter eyeliner, and tenacity. She lives in Boston (his favorite miniature!). He has kept bees for several drumming, kite flying, movie going and other vari- ture conventions in the UK and USA. Wife. She is working with a layout person for her sci- ner of Asian martial arts. with her family and the requisite cats, most of whom years and loves talking about beekeeping to all that ous activities, Penny’s couch is extremely lonely. In ence fiction. She still lives in the Frozen Wastelands also write. She also fights crime with the Boston Area As an artist herself, Nicole Mann, Esq. places a high will listen. an exclusive interview with said couch, “Arisia bio” Troy Minkowsky is a published comicbook writer, of NH, with a spouse, a kid, and various cats. Rape Crisis Center, does six impossible things before value on client education as to their rights when it found a very disgruntled sofa: she’s always gone! She stand up comedian, and director. His current project is the author of Ice Forged in The As- breakfast, and would like a nap now. comes to federal Copyright and Trademark law, as Gail Z Martin used to spend all day with me but now it’s an hour is a web-series “Super Life” for which he is a writer, cendant Kingdoms Saga and the upcoming Reign Dennis McCunney is a longtime SF fan, and has well as the business of making a client’s art more than been helping to run cons like Arisia since the 1970’s. to work and back, and the same to see friends on the director, and producer for Rhino Crate productions. Lubov is a Russian-born fine art artist who does not of Ash (Orbit Books, 2014), plus The Chronicles a private passion. She is an advocate for encouraging For the past twelve years he’s been a member of Ari- weekend, her driver’s seat gets more attention then paint commercially. Her works, generally in oils, of The Necromancer series (The Summoner, The James Mobius is a multimedia artist and multi-in- artists to making that great next step into commerce, sia’s Hotel Liaison Staff, and for six of those years he I do! Then she takes time out of work and heads show a pre-Raphaelite influence. She paints land- Blood King, Dark Haven & Dark Lady’s Chosen) strumental musician. A licensed Tattoo artist and including content licensing and the incorporation of edited and designed the Arisia Souvenir Book. He’s to Arisia while I languish here alone. That’s it, the scapes, fantasies, and horror equally as the mood from Solaris Books and The Fallen Kings Cycle (The published comic book artist/writer/colourist/inker, small business ventures. been involved on one level or another with Arisia, waterbed and I are going on strike. Hi, my name is moves her, generally on large canvases with fine de- Sworn and The Dread) from Orbit Books. In 2014, he has degrees in music and electronics; so he fixes Capclave, Lunacon, Philcon, WorldCon, and World Penny and I would like to apologize for my couch; it’s tails and luminous colors. Peter Maranci is founder and editor of the Inter- Gail launches a new urban fantasy novel, Deadly Cu- houses for a living. He plays 6 string bass and Chap- Fantasy, and in the process has come to know a lot normally a very nice sofa but lately it gone a bit flat. I regnum RPG APA (RIP). Winner of several amateur riosities, from Solaris Books. She is also the author man Stick with Mojoceratops, is a former choco- of the folks working professionally in SF. When he think I need to buy some new foam for it. Anyways Catherine Lundoff is the award-winning author video prizes at Arisia. Publisher of “Pete’s RuneQuest of two series of ebook short stories: The Jonmarc latier, a Luthier, has lived in Japan and currently has isn’t working on cons he has variously been a graphic this is me quirky but fun!!! of Silver Moon: A Women of Wolf’s Point Novel & Roleplaying!” (www.runequest.org/rq.htm), one Vahanian Adventures and the Deadly Curiosities 0.2 cats. Oh, he also does theatrical lighting for Rocky designer, iron worker, museum exhibit builder, al- (Lethe Press, 2012) as well as the short story collec- of the oldest RPG sites online. Longtime Arisia pan- Adventures. Gail’s work will appear in four new an- Katrina Meyer has been involved in fandom since Horror and more. If you need a handyman, a tattoo, ternative energy analyst, system/network/telecom tions Night’s Kiss (Lethe Press, 2009), Crave (Lethe elist. Sold a story to a semi-pro mag long ago, but it thologies in 2014: “Clockwork Universe Steampunk her dad started taking her to sci-fi cons while she murals, portraits or progressive music, please visit his administrator, and web journalist and moderator. He Press, 2007) and A Day at the Inn, A Night at the folded before publishing it (or paying for it, unfor- vs. Aliens”, “Athena’s Daughters”, the British Fantasy was still in diapers. She is an artist, a belly dancer, a site (he made that too, from scratch) mobiusband- currently spends too much time on Google+. Palace and Other Stories (Lethe Press, 2011). She is tunately). Once boasted that he could do a panel on Society’s “Unexpected Journeys” and “With Great massage therapist, and the unwitting founder of the width.com. the editor of Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: ear wax and make it interesting. Luckily Arisia hasn’t Power”. Find her at www.ChroniclesOfTheNecro- John G. McDaid’s fiction has appeared inAsimov’s geeky belly dance show. And if you stay still too long, Lesbian Ghost Stories (Lethe Press, 2008) and the Gann Monroe’s varied areas of interest and knowl- tested that. :D mancer.com, on Twitter @GailZMartin, on Face- and F&SF, where his most recent work, “Umbrella she will likely try to engage your interest in any of the co-editor, with JoSelle Vanderhooft, of the anthol- edge include costuming, brewing, special educa- book.com/WinterKingdoms, at DisquietingVisions. Men,” was the January 2012 cover story. He attended above, with gesticulation bordering on interpretive ogy Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Daniel Marsh is a member of the Society of Creative tion, and dance. She studied food microbiology and com blog and GhostInTheMachinePodcast.com. Clarion in 1993 and sold his first story, the Sturgeon dance. Magic (Lethe Press, 2011). Website: www.catherin- Anarchism (as Grim the Skald); even his wife calls brewing science at Hampshire College, and she is Award-winning “Jigoku no mokushiroku”, in 1995. A elundoff.com him “Grim,” so there’s that. He considers himself In real life Samara Martin is a tribal fusion belly- Erik J Meyer-Curley is Erik all the time. He is Erik currently seeking special ed teacher certification at webmaster by day, he lives in Portsmouth, RI where knowledgeable in the following things, in order of dancer, living statue and consummate theatre geek everywhere he goes. Whether or not he is the Erik Georgia State University. When she’s not studying, he juggles writing, work, and citizen journalism. For Alan M is a poly activist who has run the Polyamory how much he knows: Norse Poetry, Norse Culture, (primarily acting, directing, and costuming), and is you are looking for is to be determined. He has been Gann sews lots of costumes and practices ballet and downloads and blog visit http://harddeadlines.com. in the News site for the last eight years, reporting on Alliterative Poetry in general (particularly Old Eng- currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Theatre Edu- attending cons in Boston environs since about 1980. Irish dance. more than 1,500 media treatments of the subject. He lish and 14th Century), Medieval costuming, Me- cation. Her “geek cred” includes ten years of tabletop Victoria McManus (Janssen) can frequently be His interests are varied and his affiliations numerous. has given keynote speeches at Loving More’s Poly Dan Morris was born June 3rd, 1982. He grew up dieval combat, and Victorian costuming. Seriously, gaming (mainly Dungeons and Dragons), five years found blogging about romance at Heroes & Heart- Living and Atlanta Poly Weekend conventions, spo- Mijan has been active as a fan writer, costumer, and in Charlotte, NC on a steady diet of comic books, if you want to know about alliterative poetry, he’ll of LARPing including two and counting on staff at breakers and mysteries at The Criminal Element. ken at Poly Pride in NYC and Transcending Bound- convention geek since 2003. Primary fandoms in- loud music, and Legend of Zelda games. He earned talk your ear off. He also has been gaming off and on the New Hampshire chapter of Alliance, minor ob- Her novel-length erotica includes The Duke and the aries, and is a founding member of the Polyamory clude Star Trek, Harry Potter, and Star Wars. As a a degree from Savannah College of Art and Design. since his parents gave him something called “Dun- sessions with Doctor Who and Neil Gaiman and a Pirate Queen; The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom Leadership Network. His goal is to make the world self-identified queer person, Mijan has a particular It was there that he met his future wife Christa New- geons and Dragons” in a bright red-pink-purple box blossoming interest in steampunk under the alter and Their Lover; and The Moonlight Mistress, set dur- aware that polyamory can be an ethical, happy op- interest in GLBTQ issues as they relate to fan activi- man who continues to encourage him to just be him. when he was ten. ago Abigail Mycroft of the Wandering Legion of the ing her favorite historical time period, World War tion for some people. Alan has lived happily in both ties, particularly issues of gender identity and gender Today, he continues to enjoy comics, loud music, Thomas Tew. For more information, find her online One; its electronic-only sequel is titled “Under Her poly and mono relationships for long stretches of his Rocket scientist by day; cook, knitter, spinner, seam- expression in social structures, writing, and fandom and Legend of Zelda games. To date he’s made sever- at http://www.facebook.com/samara.dancing.fro- Uniform.” Her erotic short stories are available in life since 1968. stress, actress, model, singer, runner, and weaver by zen/. itself. Serving seven years in the Army under DADT al self-published mini comics and continues to make numerous anthologies and as e-books. She also has given Mijan a unique insight into certain aspects comics in his spare time. 44 45 Having barely escaped with her sanity questionably the parallel Himalayas. Not ours. There he was taught vard University. You can find her online at ajodasso. Suzanne Palmer is an SF/F author whose work has various fan-related and culture panels. He is the New Julia Rios writes all sorts of things, hosts the Outer intact after more than 8 years as owner of NERO the secret of clouding men’s minds by monks. Paral- livejournal.com (and on Twitter under the same appeared in Asimov’s and Interzone, and an artist of York Delegate to the American Association of Na- Alliance Podcast (celebrating QUILTBAG specula- Mass/Ravenholt, the founding chapter of NERO lel monks. Stop laughing. He fought crime for many name). She is an editor in the Poetry Department at occasional, impractically large sculpture. turopathic Physicians, and spent 6 years as a board tive fiction), and is one of the three fiction editors at International LARP, Rachel Morris is finally years until a group of his arch enemies (can you have Strange Horizons (www.strangehorizons.com). member of the NY association of Naturopathic Phy- Strange Horizons. Her fiction, articles, interviews, Jennifer Pelland is a Boston-area science fiction able to enjoy PCing again. She’s been LARPing for a “group” of arch enemies?) banded together in a sicians. Dr. Prego has given talks, written articles, and and essays have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, is an hobbyist cos- writer, bellydancer, and occasional radio theater per- 15 years—a natural extension of her theater back- sinister plot to bounce him into a parallel universe. Jennifer Old-d’Entremont been a guest on radio and television shows, discuss- Apex Magazine, Stone Telling, Queers Dig Time tumer with a taste for recreating both sci-fi/fantasy former. She’s a two-time Nebula finalist for her short ground—and has been a science fiction fan since That is, parallel to that one, which they thought of as ing naturopathic medicine, children’s health, detoxifi- Lords, and several other places. She’s half-Mexican, characters as well as historical and ethnic dress. A fiction, and her collectionUnwelcome Bodies and childhood, thanks to her father introducing her the real universe but which you think of as a paral- cation, and other health-related topics. To learn more but her (fairly dreadful) French is better than her medical technologist by day, it’s the fannish endeav- novel Machine are available from Apex Publications. to Analog at an early age. She makes her living as a lel universe. Unless you’re also from there, in which about Dr. Prego and naturopathic medicine, visit Spanish. ors that make life more fun. She’s never read the in- To learn more about her writing: www.jenniferpel- productivity consultant, doing data analysis, train- case you think of this one as the parallel... Oh, screw www.doctorprego.com struction manual that came with the sewing machine land.com, and keep track of her bellydance perfor- ing, and custom software development. She writes it. Alex Newman is the founder of The Boston Baby- Clarence “Sparr” Risher is at Arisia in order to and can’t make herself follow a the instructions of a mances at www.facebook.com/ziadances. when inspiration strikes and both creates jewelry and dolls (www.BostonBabydolls.com), a former comic Julia Pugliese is a college sophomore who sews and feed his girlfriends’ mad scientist fetish. pattern or recipe to save her life. There’s also a very blogs. Her costumes range from geeky to elegant. She teaches silversmithing in her (imagined) spare time. book writer and capo comico of i Sebastiani (the Kris Pelletier is a mechanical engineer who got unhealthy obsession with puff paint, but we don’t was part of the Birds of Prey group that won best pre- Santiago Rivas is currently celebrating 30 years as a Greatest commedia dell’arte troupe on Earth), gamer into college with an essay about how she wanted to Sarah “Tashari” Morrison is an aspiring fantasy talk about that. Jennifer lives in Kansas City with her sentation in last year’s Arisia Masquerade. sci-fi enthusiast, ever since his exposure to works like and LARP author (he was one of the play-testers for be B’Elanna Torres and now designs helicopters— and children’s book illustrator, currently building spousal unit and furry, four-legged children. Tron, Empire Strikes Back, and Star Trek II: The Wrath Advanced Dungeons and Dragons). He has been in- not quite a starship, but we’re working on it. Her up her portfolio. In her “spare time” she sews gowns Most commonly known in fandom and elsewhere as of Khan. However, it was his time at MIT that he be- volved in Arisia in various aspects for many years. is a Brooklyn-based writer, edi- fandom experience spans the gamut from skulking with hoop skirts. Find her work at Tashari.Org. Daniel José Older Dr. Karen, Karen Purcell DVM has been active came an avid film, theatre, and gamer geek. He has around on Livejournal, attending/volunteering at Benjamin Newman has been filking since his college tor and composer. Following the release of his ghost in veterinary medicine since her early teens. Some- been involved with the Theatre@First acting troupe cons, and being a lead staff member and editor for a John Murphy is a short fiction writer and engineer friends dragged him to his first convention his fresh- noir collection, Salsa Nocturna, Publisher’s Weekly time during her unending college years, she went for over seven years and the Heinlein Society Naugh- multi-fandom podcast. She loves to work with kids, living in southern New Hampshire. He has a PhD in man year at Swarthmore. Since then, he has written declared Daniel a rising star of the genre. He has fa- to her first convention and her spare time became ty Nurses for five years. In his copious spare time, especially when it comes to fostering an appreciation robotics and currently works in the field of network over 200 songs on a wide range of topics, including cilitated workshops on storytelling, music and anti- non-existent. Busy in past years with Masquerade, when he’s not blogging, acting, writing short stories, for the STEM disciplines (which is convenient, since security. His fiction has appeared in markets includ- SF and fantasy, science, computers, and religion, oppression organizing at public schools, religious Costuming, and the Art Show, she’s now back lead- writing one-act plays involving lightsabers, spend- she’s the A’14 Asst. Division Head for Children’s Ser- ing Nature, Crossed Genres, and the Drabblecast. both singly and in various whimsical juxtapositions. houses, universities, and prisons. His short stories ing the Masquerade for her last year with Arisia. Un- ing time with his Fabulous Redheaded wife, raising vices). Ben has also organized filk programming for Philcon, and essays have appeared in The New Haven Review, fortunately, in future years she will be back to mini- their advanced male prototype, and going out with Maddy Myers is a freelance video game critic. She TOR.com, PANK, Strange Horizons, and Crossed mal volunteering, as her household moves to North hot Goths, he takes every opportunity to indulge in Concertino, and Pi-con. Israel Peskowitz (Izzy) is a professional photogra- currently writes a biweekly column as well as game Genres among other publications. He’s co-editing Carolina. RPGs, Steve Jackson/Rio Grande games, and any- pher, dabbling plumber, and amateur fan. reviews for Paste Magazine. She previously worked Christa Newman received a Bachelors in Fine Arts the anthology, Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction thing related to Star Wars, Star Trek or Final Fantasy. as a games columnist, features writer, and web pro- Richard Ralston has been a fan of science fiction for Animation from Savannah College of Art and De- From The Margins Of History and his forthcoming Joey Peters is a writer, cartoonist and beauty contest ducer for the Boston Phoenix, and her writing about and anime since the late 60’s. Rick has been staffing Nicole Robinson has been awarded the title of Mega sign in 2009. Along with her love of animation, she urban fantasy novel The Half Resurrection Blues, the champion from Boston. His work has appeared in video games has also appeared at re/Action, Gamer- conventions the past 10 years on the local and re- Awesome Super Mom by a group of local burn- has been a member for the costuming community first of a trilogy, will be released by Penguin’s Ace im- “In a Single Bound”, the Boston Phoenix, Leftovers anx.com, the Border House, and Kill Screen. She also gional level. Rick is also the organizer of the local an- ers. While mothering three fabulous young people, since 2002 as Sweet-Pea. Completing over 100 cos- print. You can find his thoughts on writing, read his of the Living Dead, Inbound: Comics from Boston plays keytar and sings in a nerdcore pop rock band ime group in Albany, NY. Rick brings a unique point she provides incredible massage therapy services, tumes for herself and others in her 9 years of partici- ridiculous ambulance adventures and hear his music and all across the internet. Visit his website at tacoli- called the Robot Knights. of view to the fandom community. bakes and cooks divinely, preserves the local harvest, pating in the hobby, she has also judged craftsman- at ghoststar.net/ and @djolder. cious.net dances, hula hoops, sings like an angel, sews, reads Lawrence (Larry) Nelson, known as LORDL- ship for local conventions in the past few years. After Victor Raymond PhD is a longtime SF&F reader David Olsen is an all-around geek who will happily Marlie Philiossaint (Twisting Star) has been a an abundant amount of sci-fi, fantasy, and cooking NYC online, is a long time member of the leather/ graduation she has become a professional catalog and fan, and currently serves as a board member of talk your ear off about stories and games. As such, he voracious reader since before she can actively re- books, and has even won a fake beard contest. Nicole queer/poly communities as well as a longtime photographer and also branched out into costume the Carl Brandon Society and the Tekumel Founda- fell in love with RPGs upon receiving the Dungeons member. She relies on a constant stream of fantasy, is happily married to the equally awesome Forest queer/kinky/poly rights activist. He attended his photography using her film degree to create images tion. In the past, he has served as President of the & Dragons red box for Christmas at the age of nine. science fiction, and comic books of all kinds to keep Handford, winner of the Mr. BeardFly contest and in first science fiction convention (Lunacon) in 1984 with narrative depth. Interstitial Arts Foundation, Chair of WisCon 28, Since then, he’s campaigned in dozens of worlds and herself sane. With that said, she has exactly zero con- the running for the Best Dad Ever award. where he went on to help run gaming from 1991- Co-Chair of WisCon 33, and Executive Committee James Nicoll was born in Canada, learned English in systems, including GMing a few LARPs over the past nections to the professional side of fandom, but she 2003. In 2006 he attended his first Arisia where he member of Minicon 28 and 33. A professional soci- Margaret Ronald is the author of Spiral Hunt, Wild the UK, learned English again in Canada and aside 15 years. He’s done game testing for various inde- babbles with the best of them. She came to her first put in over 30 hours helping out in the con suite. In ologist, he is a member of the Arts & Sciences faculty Hunt, and Soul Hunt, as well as a number of short from various trips abroad have spent most of my pendent companies, including Firehose Games and Arisia when she was far too small, and the hotel far 2007 he put his longtime activism to good use and of Madison College in Madison, Wisconsin. stories. Originally from rural Indiana, she now lives adult life in Kitchener, Ontario. I ran a hobby shop Choice Of Games and even voice acting work for too large. started doing panels at Arisia, Lunacon, and The outside Boston. for 17 years and now am a free-lance book reviewer Reactive Studios. You can catch him as a background Suzanne Reynolds-Alpert writes speculative fic- Eulenspiegel Society (TES) [a major leather group Jessa Phillips is Editor-in-Chief of Goodtobeageek. and game editor, occupations that have taught me actor in various feature films or as the fourth season tion from her little corner of Massachusetts. Her A Joseph Ross has been in fandom since the 1960’s. in NYC]. He lives in Queens, NYC where he runs com, a website which indulges in all manner of geek. how to budget. winner of “Beauty and the Geek.” poetry has been published in The Wayfarer: A Journal In 1964, he founded the University of Massachusetts the Queens BDSM group and, when he can, their Articles penned by Ms. Phillips have been featured of Contemplative Literature, Tales of the Zombie War, (Amherst) Science Fiction Society, then later be- munch (which he started). Abby Noyce is a doctoral student in cognitive neuro- Peter Olszowka is an assistant division head for the on Rocket Llama, Game Tyrant, Geek Girls Net- Strong Verse, Eternal Haunted Summer and Pagan came a member of MITSFS and NESFA, serving as science, a knitter, and a theatre geek. technical services division this year. He is also the work, Action Flick Chick, Hour 42 and SciFi Mafia. Resa Nelson’s newest novel is All Of Us Were Sophie, Edge. Her first published short story “Essie” appeared Vice President of NESFA from 1970-72. He edited architect of Zambia, the scheduling software used by In addition to her editorial duties, Ms. Phillips is also a science fiction murder mystery. She is the author of David Nurenberg, Ph.D. just does too much stuff. in Luna Station Quarterly, and her chapbook of poet- Volume I of the NESFA Hymnal in the late 1970’s. Arisia, Lunacon, and more cons, he hopes. a producer with a number of podcasts to her credit, the Dragonslayer series, a 4-book series based on two He’s a freelance writer for White Wolf, a self-pub- ry will be published in November 2013. Her current He was Clerk of Arisia, Incorporated from 1990-92 including Good To Be A Gamer, a video game news short stories published in Science Fiction Age, the first lished novelist, a high school English teacher and an Ken Olum is a research professor in the Tufts Institute WIP is a novel about the teenage embodiment of the and President from 1992-94. He is a practicing attor- show which she also co-hosts. She has also been a of which ranked 2nd in that magazine’s first Readers occasional adjunct professor. That explains all the of Cosmology, where he studies cosmic strings, the Goddess Kwan Yin. She’s the Program Coordinator ney and figures that if he practices long enough, he guest on many other podcasts, including The Earth Top Ten Poll. The Dragonslayer’s Sword (Book 1) was twitching. He’s been a GM for 24 years, which ex- possibility of time travel in general relativity, and for Open Spirit, a multi-faith healing center. Suzanne may get good at it. Station One podcast and RevolutionSF RevCast. Nominated for the Nebula Award and was an EPPIE plains the severe twitching. He has traveled to over philosophical issues in cosmology. He lives in Sha- is blessed with a tolerant husband, two mischievous Ms. Phillips has also appeared on panels at other sci- Award Finalist for Best Fantasy Novel. Nelson also 30 countries and runs two international exchange ron, MA with his partners, Valerie White and Judy black cats, and two amazing kids. She has degrees in Hanna Lee Rubin Abramowitz, or H-chan for ence fiction and gaming conventions, lending her ex- has a standalone novel about a modern-day society programs, which explains how he can twitch in Anderson, and his children, Jocelyn and Perry. Communication and Sociology, and is a lifelong scifi short, is what you might call a Jack-of-all-things- pertise in a myriad of topics from B movies to video based on ancient Egypt called Our Lady of the Abso- several languages. Do not stare directly at David, as fan and science geek. Find her online: http://suzan- geeky. She is an avid reader of YA fantasy, a video Lee Orlando has been involved in organized fandom games to web entertainment. lute. Her short fiction has been published inFantasy contents are under pressure and may detonate, caus- nereynoldsalpert.blogspot.com/ game player, a sci-fi TV show fan, a costumer and for almost 40 years. Most recently, she is one of the Magazine, Paradox, Brutarian Quarterly, Science Fic- ing minor to moderate injuries. But David comes in crafter and most of all an artist. Her dream is to one founders and Administrators for TheHob.org, one Winner of the 2013 Dare to be Different award,KT tion Age, Aboriginal SF, and many anthologies. Nel- peace, really—at least, that’s what he’ll insist in court. A triple threat (at least to himself), as a fan, sometime day become a published writer and cartoonist but of the largest fansites sanctioned by Lionsgate Films Pinto writes about vampyres, mutants, witches, son is a graduate of the Clarion Workshop. She has smof, and kinkster, Mark W. Richards got start- right now is happy with writing fan-fics, working for The Hunger Games trilogy. Prior TheHob.org, merfolk, werebeasts, deities, courtesans, criminals, also sold over 200 magazine articles. She was the Adrienne J. Odasso’s poetry has appeared in a ed early, reading SF and fantasy as soon as he could on her online manga and being your not so average she was the Technical Media Representative for Twi- and pop stars... sometimes all in the same story. For TV/movie columnist for Realms of Fantasy for 13 wide variety of strange and wonderful publications, reach the bookshelf (which admittedly wasn’t very house-wife. At cons you can find her in costume lightMoms.org, one of the largest Twilight related more information, go to http://www.ktpinto.com/ years. Visit her website at http://www.resanelson. including Sybil’s Garage, Mythic Delirium, Jabber- high). He started going to cons as soon as he was wandering the halls, sitting in panels that interest her, sites in the world, supporting Red Carpet events, com and follow her on Twitter @ResaNelson.. wocky, Cabinet des Fées, Midnight Echo, Not One Steve E Popkes, his wife, son, dog and cat breed tur- able (1978), after hearing of them, and way too soon participating in panels that she has knowledge in or of Us, Dreams & Nightmares, Goblin Fruit, Strange large media events, media relations, and website / fo- tles on two acres in Massachusetts. found himself working on them as well. Some years in the artist alley oggling things she would like to buy. Kate Nepveu was born in South Korea and raised in Horizons, and Stone Telling. Her début collec- rum activities on a daily basis. She has run small and later (early 90s), he discovered kinkdom, both by So if you see her say a friendly “How do you do?” I New England. She now lives in upstate New York tion, Lost Books (Flipped Eye Publishing, 2010), large Media related conventions, and has supported Dr. James Prego, ND practices on L. I., NY. Dr. itself and where it crossed over with fandom. He’s promise she does not bite. where she is practicing law, raising a family, and (in was nominated for the 2010 LNPA Best New Poet WorldCon as Deputy Director of the MagiCon mas- Prego is a recipient of the NYANP’s Physician of been on the committees for both conventions and her copious free time) writing at her Dreamwidth Award and for the 2011 Forward Prize, and was also querade. She was one of the original team of fans the Year award. He is also a professor of Biology at kink events, as well as served on the boards of organi- Don Sakers was launched the same month as Sput- account (kate_nepveu), a booklog (steelypips.org/ a finalist for the 2011 People’s Book Prize. Her two called TechnoFandom, and she’s sure she can find Molly College and Touro College School of Health zations in both milieus. He’s equally comfortable dis- nik One, so it was perhaps inevitable that he should weblog), and at Tor.com, where she has returned to chapbooks, Devil’s Road Down and Wanderlust, are someone who remembers back that far :) Sciences. Dr. Prego is a longtime fan of science fic- cussing literary science fiction and fantasy, the clas- become a science fiction writer. A Navy brat by birth, re-reading Tolkien one chapter at a time, this time available from Maverick Duck Press. She attended tion and has been a guest at various conventions, sics of the field, fanzines, kink activism, and sexual he spent his childhood in such far-off lands as Japan, has fostered a love of dressing up with The Hobbit. Wellesley College as an undergraduate, the Universi- Bethany S. Padron where he has been on panels discussing xenobiology, politics ... preferably over a couple of pints or some Scotland, Hawaii, and California. In California, rath- with a degree in Costume Technology from UNCSA ty of York (UK) as a postgraduate, and currently lives health in space, life extension, fusions of biology and good single malt. Doing it in front of an audience will er like a latter-day Mowgli, he was raised by dogs. As and is currently the Costume Studio Manager for the The legendaryAlex Newman was raised on a parallel in Boston, Massachusetts, where she works for Har- technology, and how natural ways of healing fit in a be a new and interesting experience, which he’s look- a writer and editor, he has explored the thoughts of University of South Dakota. Earth where his plane crashed in the Himalayas—er, sci-fi/high-tech world. Dr. Prego has also been on ing forward to. sapient trees, brought ghosts to life, and beaten the 46 47 “Cold Equations” scenario. In 2009, Don took up the Ken Schneyer forgot that he wanted to be writer for Clarion West Writers Workshop Board of Directors . in Jesus Christ Superstar and Jake in Evil Dead: The Press, and more. Outside of SF, he’s been a tour guide Accessibility Services at the past 3 Worldcons and position of book reviewer for Analog Science Fiction twenty-five years, until a six-month home renovation Musical, both with the MIT Musical Theater Guild. at Niagara Falls, worked on Wall Street and at several is now starting his tenure as Accessibility Services Nicholas ‘phi’ Shectman has held every executive & Fact, where he writes the “Reference Library” col- forced him to take desperate measures to save his He is the technical producer of and principle voice start-up companies, and started four businesses him- manager for Sasquan, the 2015 Worldcon. He espe- position, most management positions, and many umn in every issue. sanity. His stories, which include both science fiction cast in the online audio theater podcast, Second Shift self. cially loves being on panels that give him a chance to and fantasy and which often employ weird narrative area positions in Arisia, and also occasionally volun- (http://www.secondshiftpodcast.com). Occasion- speculate about the future. Kiini Ibura Salaam is an award-winning writer, devices, appear in Analog, Strange Horizons, Beneath teers for other conventions. ally, he sleeps. Sonya Taaffe’s short stories and poems have ap- painter, and traveler from New Orleans, Louisiana. Ceaseless Skies, Clockwork Phoenix 3 & 4, Daily Science peared in such venues as Beyond Binary: Gender- Alexandra Thorn is a postdoctoral research associ- Hillary Sherwood is a filker, harper, knitter, and Sarah Smith’s first YA,The Other Side of Dark Kiini’s work is rooted in eroticism, speculative events, Fiction, Bull Spec, Ideomancer, Escape Pod, Podcastle, queer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction; The ate at UNH, working on a scenario project on land bookworm. She has been reading Science Fiction (ghosts, interracial romance, and a secret from slav- and women’s perspectives. Co-winner of the 2012 and elsewhere. By day, he teaches legal studies and Moment of Change: An Anthology of Feminist use change in New Hampshire. She received a PhD and Fantasy for as long as she can remember, and ery times) won the Agatha (for best mystery) and James Tiptree Jr. Award, her book Ancient, Ancient science fiction literature to college students, and has Speculative Poetry; Here, We Cross: A Collection in Biology from Tufts University in 2012, and she has watching it for nearly as long. She currently lives in the Massachusetts Book Award. She has also written collects sensual tales of the fantastic, the dark, and published articles on the constitutive rhetoric of le- of Queer and Genderfluid Poetry from Stone Tell- an informal affiliation with the Harvard Program on the western suburbs of Philadelphia. , and the magical. Her short fiction has been anthologized gal texts. He could accurately be described as an ac- Chasing Shakespeares The Vanished Child The ing; People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Science Technology and Society (STS). Her general (both Notable in such collections as Dark Matter, Mojo: Conjure tor, lawyer, teacher, archer, fencer, cyclist, amateur Cynthia A Shettle-Meleedy plays Kingdom of Knowledge of Water New York Times Fiction & Fantasy; Last Drink Bird Head; The Year’s interests include civil liberties, agricultural sustain- Books), , and horror, SF, and Stories, and Dark Eros. Her nonfiction has been pub- astronomer, programmer, project manager, Human- Loathing daily. Old favorite shows include Heroes, A Citizen of the Country Best Fantasy and Horror; The Alchemy of Stars: ability, urban planning, societal resilience, and how hypertext short stories. “The Boys Go Fishing” ap- lished in Ms. Magazine, Essence magazine, and Utne istic Jew, feminist, Democrat, and Pawsox fan. Born Angel, Highlander, and Misfits of Science. She roleplays Rhysling Award Winners Showcase; and The Best of a sense of awe and wonder in shapes our values. She pears in best-selling Reader. She’s the author of two ebooks (“On the in Detroit, he now lives in Rhode Island with one with the Western Avenue Irregulars. NY Times Death’s Excellent Vaca- Not One of Us. Her work can be found in the collec- hosts two monthly events at her house: “Reading (ed. Charlaine Harris and Toni Kelner). Two of Psychology of Writing” and “On the Struggle to Self- spouse, two children, and something with fangs. You tion tions Postcards from the Province of Hyphens and Nights” where people take turns reading aloud from Although no longer Con Chair, Rachel Silber con- her books are being made into plays. She is still work- Promote”) that chronicle the ups and downs of the can find him on Twitter, on Facebook, and at http:// Singing Innocence and Experience (Prime Books) pieces of their own choosing; and “Big Ideas” gather- tinues to volunteer on Arisia. ing on that Titanic book, and has recently published writing life. You can learn more about her at www. ken-schneyer.livejournal.com. and A Mayse-Bikhl (Papaveria Press). She is cur- ings focused on bringing together people interested kiiniibura.com. Richard A Silva has been involved in small press the nonfictionalA New Shakespeare Poem? Visit her rently senior poetry editor at Strange Horizons; she in discussing a variety of topics including politics, Danielle Schulman is a storyteller for family au- publishing since his college days. He published and at www.sarahsmith.com, Facebook, Twitter, and holds master’s degrees in Classics from Brandeis and science, communication, and philosophy. She has Carol Salemi costumes at the Master level and has diences. She performs in venues such as libraries, www.bookviewcafe.com, where a lot of her stories Yale and once named a Kuiper belt object. She lives extensive martial arts experience (most recently Jujit- been involved in all aspects of costuming for over edited Kinships Magazine. Along with his wife Gynn, schools, playgrounds, toy stores, and of course, Ari- Rick is a partner in Dandelion Studios (www.dan- are free for the reading. in Somerville with her husband and their potential su), and has some training in survivalism and primi- 30 years, trying her hand at everything from teach- sia. She is also a children’s librarian. Find her at www. cat. tive skills. She has participated in demonstrations by delionstudios.com), a small press comic book com- is the creator and writer of the ste ing, creating, and competing to judging and mas- danielletales.com. Everett Soares - the Higgins Armory Museum. querade directing. Each competition costume usu- pany. Rick co-writes the Dandelion Studios comics ampunk comic book series, Sky Pirates of Valendor. Cecilia Tan is “science fiction’s premiere pornogra- ally involves some new, fun, or challenging technique Meredith Schwartz’s short fiction appeared in Zephyr & Reginald: Minions for Hire, Stone, Kaeli & Publishing his first mini-series within the world of pher,” according to Walter Jon Williams, and “one of Dan Toland is a writer and podcaster with Earth-2. that keeps it fresh. While best known for Media Strange Horizons, Reflection’s Edge, and Sleeping Rebecca, and Perils of Picorna. He publishes his own Valendor through Free Lunch Comics, Everett has the most important writers, editors, and innovators net, specializing in comics, genre television, and clas- recreations and Native American clothing, her most Beauty, Indeed. She edited Alleys & Doorways, an an- ‘zine, Caravan, and he was a featured contributor traveled the country promoting his series for the last in contemporary American erotic literature” accord- sic SF literature. His strength is as the strength of ten, recent work can be seen on “My Big Fat American thology of homoerotic urban fantasy, available from for six years at the fiction webzineThe Edge of Pro- four years. Beginning in 2011, Everett has taken on ing to Susie Bright. She is the author of many books because his heart is pure; knows he is the World’s Gypsy Wedding”. Carol has enjoyed working as a Lethe Press. She has committed both screen writing pinquity (www.edgeofpropinquity.net). Rick’s prose publishing duties of Sky Pirates of Valendor under the that combine the erotic with the fantastic, includ- Greatest Whovian because he has a mug that says so; medical massage therapist for 24 years, works part and conrunning, but she is much better now. short stories have appeared in the anthologies Close Jolly Rogue Studios label. Everett is also a staff writer ing the novels of the Magic University series, Mind and understands that Marvel Two-In-One is the pin- time for Regal Cinemas, Disney/Mosaic and Sondra Encounters of the Urban Kind from Apex Books and for DarkBrain.com. Games, and The Velderet, the collections of short sto- nacle of Western civilization, and will fight any man Celli Designs with seasonal jobs in the Haunt Indus- Frances Kirk Selkirk has written several published Space Tramps from Flying Pen Press. Rick Silva grew ries Edge Plays,White Flames, Black Feathers, and Tele- who disagrees. An inveterate Tom Baker man, he has try. She now has a growing interest in Steampunk ac- fantasy erotica stories, several unpublished fantasy up in Boston, Massachusetts, attended Cornell Uni- SJS Comic Promotions is owned and operated by Pro- paths Don’t Need Safewords, and the web serial The had his previously unshakable Bakerism tested by cessories and fashion...so check out her jewelry in the novels, and rather a lot of fanfic inRobin of Sherwood versity, and currently teaches chemistry at a high motions Consultant, Susan Soares. Opening Prince’s Boy. She is the founder and editor of Circlet Matt Smith. He once believed that Eric Allan Kramer art show! and Harry Potter fandoms. She enjoys carpentry, school on Cape Cod, where he resides with his wife its doors officially in 2009, Soares has been work- Press, erotic science fiction and fantasy, and has ed- was the best Thor the world would ever see, and has cooking, keeping pretty chickens, and climbing walls. and son, and three cats. ing in the comic book industry since 2007 as a part ited anthologies for Alyson Books, Thunder’s Mouth since repented. He lives in Boston with a woman of Writer and screenwriter, Steve Sawicki’s short fiction of Jolly Rogue Studios. The purpose of SJS Comic Press, Carroll & Graf, Ravenous Romance, Masquer- near limitless patience, a dog of nigh-infinite derpi- has been featured in Future Washington, Transversions, Jude Shabry (aka peacefrog) found Arisia in 1994 Hildy Silverman is the publisher of Space and Time, Promotions is to provide support and guidance to and hasn’t been able to stay away since. She has at- a four-decade-old magazine featuring fantasy, horror, ade Books, and others. Her short stories have ap- tude, and also there is a cat. and Electric Velocipide, and a novella in Absolute Mag- comic book creators in the areas of marketing and peared everywhere from Asimov’s to Ms. Magazine. nitude. Reviewer of books, movies, and small press, tended as an artist, vendor, techie, panelist, yoga and science fiction. She is also the author of several promotions of their properties. Currently SJS Comic Michael Toole writes about anime all the time. He’s teacher, climbing guide, bride, and more. Last year works of short fiction, including “The Vampire Esca- Follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or http://blog. and the Creator of the Damn Aliens, Steve currently Promotions represents Dandelion Studios, Fallen- ceciliatan.com. written for the likes of Anime Insider, Sci-Fi Maga- has two screenplays under option and negotiating a she was thrilled to add mama to the list. lator of the Passaic Promenade” (2010, New Blood, mage Productions, Big Bone Studios, Mustard Seed zine, Otaku USA, and URB Magazine. Currently, he’s reality television series with production companies. David G. Shaw was a World Fantasy Award finalist Thomas, ed.), “The Darren” (2009,Witch Way to Comics, Dark Brain Comics, Jolly Rogue Studios Timothy J Tero has been attending Arisia cons for a biweekly columnist and occasional onscreen host His reviews appear in SFRevu and Gumshoe. (Special Award—Non-Professional) for 2009, for the Mall?, Friesner, ed), “Sappy Meals” (2010, Fangs and Three J Productions LLC. Soares is also a novice about 11 years now. He’s a painter and photographer, for Anime News Network, and a regular contributor his two decades of work with Readercon. In his non- for the Mammaries, Friesner, ed), and “Black Market comic book writer. and has traveled extensively; he have been to Europe to geek humor blog Toplessrobot.com. Isabel Schechter has been active in fandom, in- Magic” (2012, Apocalypse 13, Raetz, ed.). In 2013, about a dozen times and Japan 3 times. He’s an as- cluding WisCon, Think Galacticon, and Capricon, Readercon life he has managed to change careers Michael Sprague is the Assistant Con Chair in Thomas Traina is an attorney who specializes in from research biochemist, to founder of Belm De- she was a finalist for the WSFA Small Press Award sistant organizer for an international arthouse film for more than a decade. As an event planner, Isa- for her story, “The Six Million Dollar Mermaid” Charge of Events, Multimedia, Programming, and meetup group in the Boston area. He would say his consulting with law firms on issues of electronic data bel specializes in sustainable events for non-profits sign (a graphic and web design company), to CTO Tech for Arisia 2014. He’s been reading SF/F since and evidence, computer forensics, and related tech- of Blopboard, a social media startup. Somehow he (Mermaids 13, French, ed). In the “real” world, she special interest would be the culture of Japan (old working on environmental and social justice issues, is a Digital Marketing Communications Specialist at he was the size of a Jawa and has been involved with and new)—Japanese Sci-fi/horror films and some nological issues in litigation. Academically, he also as well as local and food justice issues. Isabel has a found the time to marry She Who Must Be Obeyed Arisia since before he could purchase alcohol legally. focuses on civil liberties, constitutional law, specu- (B. Diane Martin) and have a son, He Who Will Siemens Hearing Instruments. anime (especially old Anime). Also, he has a keen in- master’s degree in Divinity from the University of After having so much fun being Assistant Con Chair terest in European Sci-fi films. lative bioethics, and comparative law and govern- Chicago Divinity School. She is Latina by birth, Jew- Not Be Ignored (Miles). His scientific research has Jamila Sisco is an award-winning costumer with a for Arisia 2013, he decided to have another go at it ment in science fiction. Tom got into science fiction ish by choice, and uppity by necessity. been published in various academic journals, while specialization in Anime costumes. She has worked for 2014. Along with being the Managing Editor of the Hugo- through Star Wars, then Star Trek TNG, and snow- his articles about interactive gaming have appeared on costumes for over 6 years and is a member of the nominated Apex Magazine, Michael Damian balled from there. He is also an avid roleplayer and Ian Keville Schleifer is a systems integration en- in The Whole Earth Review and the proceedings Northern Lights chapter of the International Cos- After teaching literature, philosophy, history, and re- Thomas co-edited Queers Dig Time Lords (Mad theatre-style LARP writer. When he can afford it, he gineer at Rethink Robotics and a space geek. His of the Computer Game Developer’s Conference. In tumers’ Guild. ligion for more than a decade, Brian Staveley Norwegian Press) with Sigrid Ellis, Flying Higher: also enjoys wargames. professional experience has involved a broad range his spare time he cooks and blogs (blog.belm.com) began writing epic fantasy. His first book, “The Em- An Anthology of Superhero Poetry (Meatball Trou- of technologies and sciences. He is a bachelor of the about cooking. He lives and works in Somerville, Glenn Slate is currently the managing partner of a peror’s Blades” (forthcoming from Tor on January Born in a log cabin he built with his own hands, multiple attorney firm with offices in Washington ble Productions) with Shira Lipkin, and Glitter & sciences with a major in computer science and a mi- MA. 14, 2014), is the start of his series, “Chronicle of the Mayhem (Apex Publications), with John Klima and Carsten Turner expects to have it finished any nor in mathematics. Ian has a passion for figuring out and Idaho. He is also licensed in Oregon and Mas- Unhewn Throne.” He lives on a steep dirt road in the day now; certainly by the time he’s finished reinvent- Nisi Shawl’s story collection Filter House won the sachusetts. In his twenty year career as an attorney, Lynne M. Thomas. He also has worked as an Asso- how things work and he loves to share it. mountains of southern Vermont, where he divides ciate Editor on numerous books at Mad Norwegian ing himself (again). In 2004, he chaired Arisia, and 2009 James Tiptree, Jr. Award. It was praised by Ursu- he has performed civil and criminal trials, and spent his time between fathering, writing, husbanding, then went on to serve as president. He has been, and Mike Schneider (Micah) joined the Programming la K. Le Guin as “superbly written” and by Samuel R. several years as in-house counsel for one of Oregon’s Press, including the Hugo Award-winning Chicks splitting wood, skiing, and adventuring, not nec- Dig Time Lords (edited by Lynne M. Thomas and remains, an EMT, teacher, artist, hacker, and student. Staff for Arisia six years ago. This is his second year Delany as “amazing.” She co-edited Strange Matings: fastest growing high tech companies. He has also essarily in that order. He can be found on twitter Tara O’Shea) and Hugo Award-nominated Chicks , contributing edi- as the Assistant Programming Division Head. He is Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voic- represented almost every type of alternative lifestyle at @brianstaveley, facebook as brianstaveley, and James “Coder Brony” Turner Dig Comics (edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Sigrid tor for oreilly.com, is a freelance journalist who has also one of the co-chairs for Transcending Bound- es, and Octavia E. Butler. Her stories have appeared or associated business. Glenn was president and vice Google+ as Brian Staveley. aries 2014, a regional GLBTQ conference. Micah in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Asimov’s SF president of the UMASS Science Fiction Society in Ellis). written for publications as diverse as theChristian Sci- completed his Masters degree in history and public Magazine, and the groundbreaking Dark Matter an- the 1980s at UMASS Amherst. In his free time, he Ian Randal Strock is the editor and publisher of W. A. (Bill) Thomasson is 77 years old and a bio- ence Monitor, IEEE Spectrum and WIRED Magazine. history from UMass Amherst in 2011, and works as thologies, among many other publications. She was has been a professional psychic, a sworn police offi- SFScope.com and the publisher and owner of Fan- chemist by training. After a fairly varied earlier ca- In addition to his shorter writing, he has also written a middle school math tutor. In his free time, Micah WisCon 35’s Guest of Honor. Shawl edits reviews for cer and business entrepreneur. He was also once bit- tastic Books (www.FantasticBooks.biz), which pub- reer, including a stint in science/medical PR, he is three books on Software DevelopmentDeveloping enjoys yoga, highpointing, all kinds of gaming and The Cascadia Subduction Zone, a three-year-old lit- ten by a tiger. lishes new and reprint SF in both print and electronic currently helping biomedical researchers write their Enterprise iOS Applications, (MySQL & JSP Web Ap- being polyamorous as often as possible. He lives in erary quarterly. Her own reviews appear there and in editions. Random House published his first book, journal articles and grant applications. He’s been le- plications and Struts: Kick Start). In addition, he has Western Massachusetts with his family of choice and the Seattle Times. She is the coauthor of Writing the Brad Smith is a professional Linux nerd by day, and The Presidential Book of Lists, in 2008, and his short spent more than 30 years as a software engineer, and does musical theater, voice acting, LARP, drum- gally blind—meaning with glasses he can just make a small coterie of animal companions. If you enjoyed Other, a guide to developing characters of varying fiction has appeared in Nature and Analog (from out the second line on the eye chart—since 2000. currently works as the Mobile Architect for a com- the panel programming this weekend, Micah thanks racial, religious, and sexual backgrounds. A founding ming, and just about any other kind of performance which he won two AnLabs). Previous publishing po- pany in the Boston area. He lives in a 200-year-old he can get involved with by night. He currently does Self-identifying as disabled (an inconvenience, not a you on behalf of the entire staff. If you didn’t, it was member of the Carl Brandon Society and an officer sitions have included stints at Analog, Asimov’s, Sci- handicap) he has become treasurer of Chicago’s an- Colonial farmhouse in Derry, NH along with his probably someone else’s fault. of its Steering Committee, Shawl also serves on the vocals and percussion in the folk group Stranger ence Fiction Chronicle, Baen Books, The Daily Free wife and son. As Coder Brony, he is the President Ways, and has recently performed on stage as Pilate nual Disability Pride Parade. He’s also been part of 48 49 and Chairman of the Board of the Brony Thank You Mark “Justin du Coeur” Waks is a rapidly moving Susan Weiner is a professor of physiology, a social for lost time by dressing anyone and anything that collection Women of the Bite edited by Cecilia Tan, almost 3,000 miles per year. She is married to four- Fund, the only 501(c)(3) public Brony charity. He particle. If one pins down his position enough (and insect researcher, a LARP writer with Alleged En- comes within her reach. She’s worked for several and Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes, a collec- time Hugo-award-winner Frank Wu. also organizes and published the annual Brony Herd doesn’t worry about his velocity), one finds him fo- tertainment, a fiddle player and songwriter who has theaters, dressed some stars, done some teaching, tion of zombie poetry edited by A.P. Fuchs. She is an Census. He is an open water diver and instrument- cusing on programming, SCA, fandom, LARP, and played with Stranger Ways and Cheshire Moon, and and has her own business designing and creating cos- active member of the New England Horror Writers Frank Wu is an award-winning artist, writer, and rated private pilot. Freemasonry. He is currently working on building somehow also manages to date far too many people. tumes for life. Association and a staff writer for Blogcritics.org. animator. He’s married to fellow artist/costumer/ Querki, a new system for Keeping Track of Your She’s not exactly sure how she does all that either. gamer Brianna Spacekat Wu. Frank’s art has mate- has been attending conventions for Heather Urbanski holds a Master of Arts in Writing Stuff, and is likely to burble at you about it if you give Doug Wilder W. B. J. Williams holds advanced degrees in an- rialized in many magazines and books. Frank won over a decade, hosting panels for nearly as long, and a Ph.D. in English, specializing in Composition him even the slightest opening—be warned. Michele Weinstein has been involved with hall cos- thropology and archeology and is an avid historian, the Illustrators of the Future Grand Prize and four and Rhetoric. Her first book, Plagues, Apocalypses, tuming and prop making since the 1970’s. Masquer- and watching anime for more years than he should mystic, poet, and author who manages an informa- Hugo Awards. He also has four scientific papers to and Bug-Eyed Monsters: How Speculative Fiction William C. Walker III is an inveterate gamer in ade competition has been a more recent activity. She probably admit openly. As the resident mecha fan tion security program at a prominent New England his credit, along with humor published in The Journal Shows Us Our Nightmares (McFarland 2007), a bib- multiple media, lover of sci-fi and fantasy, and vet- has won several awards (for workmanship and pre- of AnimeCons.com’s podcast, AnimeCons TV, he start-up. He is noted for his bad puns, and willing- of Irreproducible Results and The Annals of Improbable liographic survey of the genre, combines her passion eran gm/dm/storyteller with nearly twenty years of sentation) at both regional and Worldcon levels—of- can often be found talking about giant robot shows ness to argue from any perspective. He is endured Research. He is also chief spaceship designer for the for SF as a fan with her academic career. Her second experience running at least one game, and as many ten working with her daughter, Sara. to anyone who will listen. On the rare occasions that by his beloved wife and two daughters, and lives in videogame “Revolution 60” being developed by Gi- book, the edited collection Writing and the Digital as three concurrently. He is currently studying for his he does shut up about his mechanical friends, Doug Sharon, Massachusetts. When he is not at home or ant Spacekat, as led by Brianna Wu. Rev60 is set for is a second generation fan whose Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric (Mc- PhD in Law and Public Policy at Northeastern Uni- Sara Weinstein has run other panels such as “The Aging Otaku” and at his computer, he can often be found haunting the released on iOS devices (iPad, iPad mini, iPhone, first convention was at age seven and has been seeing Farland 2010), focuses on the intersections of rheto- versity, with a focus in renewable energy policy. He “The Changing Face of Anime Conventions”, as well various used bookstores of Boston. etc.) in March this year. conventions as a second home ever since. Being in- ric, popular culture, fandom, and digital media. Her works as a policy research assistant for the Center for a variety of other geeky topics. volved in cons has always been a family affair, wheth- third book, The Science Fiction Reboot, a narrative High-rate Nanomanufacturing. Attorney, occasional writer, and all around fan, James Tom Wysmuller forecasted weather at Amsterdam’s er it be tech crew with dad, costuming with mom, or Penelope Wilhelm is a professional musician and analysis of reimagined works such as Star Trek and A. Wolf was known as Dungeon Master Jim on The Royal Dutch Weather Bureau after studying meteo- simply making a family amongst her friends. Other music teacher, a lay Emergent Church leader at The Battlestar Galactica, was released in early 2013. She A native of MA, Cheryl Wallace has been attending Toucher and Rich Show on WBCN, when there was rology at NYU and Stanford. Selected for a NASA than sci-fi and fantasy, her main interest has been Crossing, nascent game master, cisgender trans- is currently an Assistant Professor of English Studies cons for 30+ years in multiple states and countries. a WBCN. He is presently shopping novels and plot- internship, he worked throughout NASA before, music. She plays a plethora of instruments ranging sexual, camp counselor, an accidental political activ- at Fitchburg State University. Her next project is a She’s also been involved with The Rocky Horror Pic- ting trouble. during, and after the moon landings. He worked at from the harp to the trombone, and has now taken ist, and an intentional life-long sci-fi fan. She began second edited collection, this time on social memory ture Show for as many years, experiencing it not only Pratt and Whitney and held insurance industry ex- music to be her career studying music therapy. She drumming when she was three, began teaching Barbara A Woodward (Bey) is part of the Boston and popular culture, that will be accepting proposals from an audience member’s perspective, but also as a ecutive positions. The Polynomial Regression math- recently made a life-long friend in her Lyon & Healy drums when she was sixteen, and went on to major area Poly and Kink communities. She was member of until May 2015. participant; most recently as a member of the RHIS ematics, algorithms, or code he personally produced (Rocky Horror Internet Show). She has interests in Style 100 pedal harp in mahogany that she named in composition at Berklee College of Music. Penny’s the Heinlein Society Naughty Nurses for 9 years and after leaving NASA is used by almost every climate Mercy E Van Vlack has been a comics pro since cult movies, trivia, gaming, crafts and improv com- Effie (short for Flora & Fauna). Ask her about her fandom started early watching Dr. Who with her still encourages everyone eligible to donate blood. scientist on the planet for modeling and analysis. 1980, including working as a writer for Richie Rich; edy. She can be seen around Arisia volunteering as a harp! Go cons! grandmother. She grew up watching Space: 1999, Bey is married to gaming book author, Jonathan L. He lectures worldwide on the SCIENCE needed an artist on Green Ghost & Lotus (set in Boston), cre- Heinlein Society “Naughty Nurse.” Star Blazers, Battlestar Galactica, the Star Wars Woodward, and together with their partner Zeph to understand Global Warming, and his “Toucan Syd Weinstein was a mentor at the American Film ator of Miranda for Leg Show and Puritan magazines; trilogies, Star Trek (all of them), and several others. are raising their daughter “Roo.” Go to her website, Equations” for predicting Sea-Level rise/fall are still Institute Digital Content Lab and is video designer inker for DC, Malibu, and others; illustrator for nu- Kit Walsh teaches intellectual property and civil Penny was instrumental in organizing her church’s TasksAtBey.com, to see what else she does. within range. In 2012, Tom (as a Meteorologist, was for Arisia and many Worldcons. He has more than merous fanzines, APAs, anthropomorphics, and SF liberties advocacy at Harvard Law School, focusing efforts to help pass transgender civil rights legisla- asked to be among those who) joined the “NASA 15 years’ experience teaching television production Jonathan Woodward is the author or co-author of cons; and artist of many Celtic Calendars and the on free speech and privacy issues. Kit has testified tion in Massachusetts. She works with transgender 49,” a group of Astronauts, Scientists, Engineers, techniques to both children and adults. He has di- over a dozen role-playing game books, including the Celtic Coloring Book. She also draws for private col- before the Massachusetts state legislature on bills and gender variant youth as a counselor and activity and NASA Field Center Directors publicly request- rected countless productions and produced several Hellboy RPG, Trinity, and GURPS Banestorm. He lections, bakes Gluten-Free cookies and cakes that concerning government surveillance, privacy, cam- leader at Camp Aranu’tiq. She has also lead and been ing improvement in NASA’s handling of climate paign finance, transparency, and corporate account- documentaries. He has been part of Techno-Fandom has been an Arisia panelist for over 20 years. He lives taste good, and makes Celtic jewelry. a member of several panels speaking to groups of par- near Boston with his wife and daughter. pronouncements. His http://www.colderside.com/ ability. Kit holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and since 2001. He has been involved in Costuming since ents, trans kids, and the public about issues faced by Colderside/Temp_%26_CO2.html has gone viral. Andrew Van Zandt is an engineer, roboticist, and a B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT, 2004 and has been a presentation judge. trans individuals. Trisha J. Wooldridge of Auburn, MA is the cur- general geek. He’s also the Electronics & Robotics where research projects included seeking a cure for Dr. Willie Yee is President of the Mid-Hudson Astro- is a licensed psycholo- rent president of Broad Universe (www.broaduni- Craft Lead at the Artisan’s Asylum, a hacker/maker- Alzheimer’s, genetically engineering artistic bacteria, Ruth Wejksnora-Garrott Scott Wilhelm is a licensed biology, physics, and nomical Association, Executive Officer of the USS gist and psychotherapist working in Somerville, verse.org), as well as a member of New England space in Somerville, MA. Drew is happiest when he’s and building cyborg frogbots. general science teacher with more than 10 years of Abraham Lincoln Ncc-71809, Contributing Produc- specializing in working with people from various Horror Writers, the Horror Writers Association, and teaching you to make something or making things experience, mostly with high-school-aged learners er and member of the Grip and Electric Team of Star Jeff Warner is: a professor of autodidactism, a not- counterculture groups—geeks and goths and pa- the Worcester Writers Collaborative. She has co- himself. with learning disabilities and severe behavioral prob- produced the Spencer Hill Press UnCONventional Trek Phase II, and creator of the Prius-class shuttlec- recently-published writer, an associate member of gans, otaku and kinksters and poly folk and anyone lems. He combines deeply analytical lessons with fun raft Zhang Heng. He is a retired psychiatrist. JoSelle Vanderhooft is a poet, author, and editor first fandom, a 7th level ninja-smof with a lawful/ else who’s looking for a therapist who will work with (January 2012) and Doorways to Extra Time (Au- activities to meet high expectations with no tears for gust 2013) anthologies. Her writing can be found in of several anthologies of fantasy stories—most of good alignment, available for cheap dates, a co- them on the problems actually bothering them, and a very wide range of ages and abilities. Bill “Dr. Crash” Yerazunis is a professional mad them having to do with lesbians. These include the founder of 3 sf conventions and a utility infielder for won’t look askance at all these perfectly reasonable the EPIC award-winning Bad-Ass Faeries antholo- scientist, working on things like virtual reality, LEDs, well-received Steam-Powered series (lesbian steam- others, a freelance blurb-ologist and a philosophical aspects of their lives. She’s been singing with Sassa- After the failure of his LED Light Sabre,Stephen R gies; Journal of New England Horror Writer’s Epi- spam filters, reversible fuel cells, wireless power, punk) as well as Bitten by Moonlight, Sleeping Beauty, entertainer. “Geek, Nerd, AND Dork? I’m a Triple frass for the past four years, and is greatly looking for- Wilk was reduced to selling flashlights on street cor- taphs (2011) and Wicked Seasons (2013) antholo- 3D printers, and sharks with frickin’ lasers on their Indeed, (with Catherine Lundoff)Hellebore & Rue, Threat!” ward to the upcoming release of their CD Sundown: ners. He did find time to persuade Oxford University gies; Corrupts Absolutely? from Damnation Press; heads. In his spare time, he performs secretive clon- and (with Steve Berman) Heiresses of Russ I, a col- Whispers of Ragnarok. Press to publish his collection of articles on weird Once Upon an Apocalypse anthology (2013); and ing experiments, tries to learn Kung Fu by chewing lection of the best lesbian spec fic published in 2010. Tanya Washburn (Selkiechick) has been lurking optics, “How the Ray Gun Got Its Zap!” He also Poetry Locksmith. She also gets paid to review food, on floppy disks, and plays “Toccata and Fugue in D Alan Wexelblat is a poly parent, an amateur pho- Her second novel, Ebenezer, a lesbian re-telling of A around the edges of fandom and the SCA for just had fictional pieces appearing in Analog and Tales play with horses, and interview chefs, bands and Minor” on a huge synthesizer while he laughs like a... tographer, a long-time tabletop RPG and online Christmas Carol, was released from Zumaya Publi- over 20 years, dabbling in costuming and cooking of the Undead, as well as several online publications. people who make movies. Her first novel, The Kelpie well, like a mad scientist. MMO gamer, and a writer on intellectual property cations in 2013. She lives in South Florida with her and fanfiction, among many other things. Her day Against everyone’s expectations, he continues to be a (as T. J. Wooldridge), is available from Spencer Hill issues. partner and two lovely kitties. job is create accessible electronic texts for college stu- Contributing Editor for the OSA. Press. She also has a very patient Husband-of-Awe- A child of the space race, Guillermo Zeballos dents with disabilities. She is also currently an active some, a calico horse, a tabby cat, and two Giant Baby has always been fascinated by fantastic vehicles and If Michelle Wexelblat began her life with the Carolyn VanEseltine has been fascinated by inter- advocate for better access services at conventions. Connie Wilkins began with Marion Zimmer Brad- Bunnies. www.anovelfriend.com stories of space, real and fictional. He is active in date she started going to conventions, she’d be old active narrative since playing Colossal Cave Adventure ley’s Fantasy Magazine, several of Bruce Coville’s designing and building spaceships out of paper and enough to vote and drink. Given that she started at- at age six, which helps explain why she now works Ket Waters is a Scottish, jazz, and Cape Breton fid- anthologies for kids, Strange Horizons, and various Phoebe Wray has a futurist novel in print JEM- researching their designs. He is also a great fan of tending them when she was old enough to drive.... professionally in the video games industry and still dler, but may be better known as a costumer, jewel- similar publications. Then she was seduced into writ- MA7729, and the sequel J2, will be released in early spaceship and futuristic art and illustration, as well as Besides attending cons, Michelle is a mother, wife, finds time to write text adventures on the side. In her ler, or simply “that blue-haired girl”. In the past she ing and editing erotica as her alter-ego Sacchi Green. 2012. A third volume is in the works. She also has those of the more familiar hero ships of film and tele- friend, extrovert, clinical social worker, poi spinner, spare time, she reads voraciously and pursues a long has been a volunteer, truck-unloader, writer, artist, That resulted in publishing scores of erotic stories, published stories in Farthing, Andromeda Spaceways, vision. He loves to see how these “futuristic” designs and has the ability to see any problem from all sides, list of kaleidoscopically changing hobbies. and maker-of-another-convention’s-badges (she did some of them also crossing into science fiction and and the anthologies No Man’s Land, All About Eve, over the last 100 years ties in with what he knows not, however, add a scratch and sniff). She released all at once. Her brain is a very busy place, and she’s fantasy, and editing seven anthologies including a and Backless, Strapless & Slit to the Throat, online at from real hardware and his background in computer- Thomas P. Vitale was named Syfy’s Executive Vice her first EP last year, and has stopped thinking you happy for distractions, so talk to her. Lambda Literary Award winner. Now she’s getting Fables.org and ChiZine. She serves on the Advisory human interaction. President, Programming and Original Movies in should ask about it since the sound quality is awful. Board of Broad Universe and lives in Massachusetts. A Vermont-licensed lawyer, is a sexu- back to her roots by editing Time Well Bent: Queer May 2008. Vitale has been with Syfy since its first She may also be available to play fiddle tunes for your Valerie White Eric Zuckerman is not a real talk show host, but he al freedom activist and practicing polyamorist. She’s Alternative Histories, co-editing Heiresses of Russ year. A fan of science fiction, fantasy and horror, event, and does think you should ask her about this. Brianna Spacekat Wu is head of development at played one on TV. His fannish semi-improv com- executive director of the Sexual Freedom Legal De- 2012: the Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction, he has become a favorite voice among genre fans At Arisia, she teaches chainmail classes, makes cos- Giant Spacekat Productions, where she is writing edy project, “Eric in the Elevator” has screened at re- fense and Education Fund, on the advisory council both for Lethe Press, and writing erotic sf/f for Cir- through his monthly “TV on TV” column in SCI FI tumes on a budget, and drinks too much coffee. and directing the upcoming videogame “Revolu- gional West Coast conventions, several WorldCons, of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, on the co- clet Press. Magazine. He has reached out to fans through online tion 60”. This game, which will be released for iOS Arisia (where he was 2008 Fan Performer GoH), A longtime fan of SF/F, John C. Watson was infected ordinating council of Family Tree, and on the board chats on SYFY.COM and has spoken at science fic- Jennifer Williams is an author, editor, and crazy next year, is a fully 3D-animated game about girls in and LunaCon (where he was 2011 Special Guest). with the anime and manga bug in the early 1990s, of Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness. tion conventions. He is recognized throughout the cat lady. Her most recent work is the anthology Like space who kick ass, and features professional voice Among his many other nerdly pursuits, he’s a geo- and remains a virulent carrier of all three. She speaks nationally on sex and the law. company as a walking encyclopedia of television and a Sacred Desire: Tales of Sex Magick published by actors such as Amanda Winn-Lee. Brianna is also a cacher, a gamer, an armchair “fanthropologist”, and a frequent contributor to science fiction fanzines. She’s movie facts and trivia. (Rather than lullabies, Vitale was born in 1958. The Circlet Press and featuring stories by Raven Kaldera, compulsive ribbon collector/trader.  Abigail Weiner has many pseudonyms, most of Nightwing Whitehead known for her high-energy art style featuring tall, regularly rocks his newborn baby to sleep by singing Barbie doll was “born” in 1959; so for a year she D.L. King, and David Sklar. She has also recently been which start with M. skinny women. Wu is six foot two, and a dedicated television theme songs to her.) had nothing to do. Since then, she’s been making up published in the Lambda Literary Award nominated marathoner. She runs over 55 miles every week, and

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