Mosconxxi September 10-12, 1999
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@1995 BY JACQUALYNN D. DURAM NILSSON- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED MosCoNXXI September 10-12, 1999 James P. Hogan & Tara K. Harper William R. Warren, Jr. Author Guests Artist Guest Dr. Robert Ackerman Dan & Theresa Fears Scientist Guest Fan Guests Editors Phrannque Sciamanda and Lou Ann Lomax Table of Contents produced the progress reports and this program book. Jon Chairman's Message ...................................................................... ] Gustafson has provided his art CDs (Atlantis to the Stars, James P. Hogan, Author Guest ..................................................... 2 Dragons & Dinosaurs, The Stars and Beyond, and Rockets & Tara K. Harper, Author Guest ....................................................... 4 Robots) which we have used for much of the art found in the William R. Warren, Jr., Artist Guest ............................................. 5 PRs and program book. The PRs and Program Book were all Dr. Robert Ackerman, Scientist Guest ........................................... 6 produced on MS Word 95 v7 .0a for Windows. Celtic Designs Dan & Theresa Fears, Fan Guests ................................................ 7 come from CELTIC DESIGNS CD-ROM AND BOOK: 96 Biographies of Our Other Professional Guests ............................. 8 DIFFERENT COPYRIGHT-FREE DESIGNS. Programming ............................................................................... 13 The MosCoN XXI Program Book is © 1999 by Moscow Gaming & Gaming Rules ............................................................. 14 Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. (PO Box 9622, Moscow, ID Security Policies ........................................................................... 1S 83843) for the artists. Upon publication of this book, all Dealers' Room .............................................................................. 16 copyrights return to the individual creators. No part of this book Hospitality ..................................................................................... 16 may be reprinted without the express written permission of the Art at MosC0N ............................................................................. 17 individual creators. ConCom ........................................................................................ 17 weal Restaurant Guide ............................................................... 18 Front cover art is© 1999 William R. Warren, Jr. Membership List ........................................................................... 20 Badge art is© 1999 by Randy Mohr from one of Jon's CDs. Button art is by Holly Bauer worth living in. He injects a lot of optimism for the future. He Chairman's Message is fun to listen to and I encourage you to seek him out. By Mark Rounds Tara Harper speaks to another vein of fandom. She writes This is supposed to be the message from the chair. wonderful fantasy that can be read and enjoyed by many Actually it is coming from anything but a chair! This has been different folks. Indeed, my twelve-year-old daughter counts a very busy time personally and for MosCon. I Would like to her book as one of her favorites. thank the members of the ConCom for all their help and She is also a wonderful outdoors-person with many support. We truly would not have a convention if it weren't for interesting stories of the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. She them. will be the host of our Friday Game Show so come one and I am not gonna name names as I know I'll forget somebody all! as there are many good folks who helped out Thanks to you There are also many good things happening in and around one and all. the con that beg your attention; it is hard to know where to This should be a really good con! If you are reading this begin. There are some wonderful science and writing panels before the con is over (what a thought!), then I can give you a going. Don't forget the Tara Harper Show Friday night (and couple of pointers on what to go see. If you are reading this don't forget to eat the great stir-fry dinner too!). late, then I can tell you what you missed! There will be a masquerade and dance Saturday as well as We are fortunate to have two excellent authors from the workshops for artists and writers. Check out the gaming room field as our guests of honor. James P. Hogan is renowned for for both computer and miniature gaming. hard science fiction with an optimistic bend. In his GENTLE Most of all. have fun and remember to come next year GIANTS OF GANYMEDE series he writes of a future that would be too!!! 2 MosCoN XXI Program Book persuaded me to have a try at a series of competitive examinations held every year for scholarships at government research institutions around the country. Anyhow, I made it and joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough to take an intensive, broad-based five-year program covering the practical and theoretical sides of electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering. (Despite what the flap copy of some of my books says, although the curriculum included some basic aerodynamics, I wasn't an aeronautical engineer. Once these things are inside somebody's computer, you can never get them out. I finally specialized in electronics.) The course at Farnborough was thorough and the standards high, and I enjoyed it. However, I didn't complete the full five years, although I did graduate later. I married very young and at twenty found myself the proud father of twins. That was the first marriage of three - and the twins were the first of what became six. "Intelligent" systems can be defined as ones that can learn from experience and modify their behavior accordingly. I suppose that puts me in the intermediate category of learning all right, but not changing anything very much as a consequence. To begin with, I worked as a design engineer for several companies, involved mainly with digital control and instrumentation for scientific and industrial applications - data collection and analysis in industrial and academic labs; control and monitoring in paper, glass, and steel-making, manufacturing, defense-related research. Our sins eventually catch up with us, and eventually I moved into sales. That was in the sixties. On-line, realtime computers were rapidly taking over from hard-wired electronics, and it was probably inevitable that anyone working in those areas would gravitate James P. Hogan into the computer industry. I traveled around Europe as a sales Author Guest of Honor engineer for Honeywell, and in the seventies joined Digital Equipment Corporation's Laboratory Data Processing Group, I was born in London in 1941, my father Irish, my mother which in 1977 shipped me over to Massachusetts to run the German. She'd crossed Europe on foot at the age of 19 to find sales training program for salespeople specializing in scientific England and a soldier that she had met in the British applications. occupying forces stationed in Silesia, nowadays a part of I'd been writing science-fiction as a hobby for some Poland, after World War I. She found him, and they married, years, having begun, as I recollect, for an office bet - which I and had three children. He, however, had been gassed in the won by getting my first novel, Inherit the Stars, published in trenches and died from the effects during the thirties. She 1977. By 1979 I had written four novels, well received among remarried the Hogan who was my father. A lot of people have professional scientists as well as the regular SF community. I said that story should be written as a book. Maybe, one day. was among the romantically unemployed at the time, having So I grew up in the Portobello Road area on the west side just sold the house in Massachusetts that marked the high point of London, very down-to-earth and working class. I'd arrived of my second marriage. So I quit DEC too for good measure in the world with quite severe deformities to both feet, which to write full-time, and left Boston in the fall of '79 with a car, took many years of surgery to correct. But the doctors did a two suitcases, a portable Japanese typewriter, and a contract good job, and by the time I was a teenager I was able to go for another book with Del Rey. hiking and camping around the mountains in Wales and I wound up in Orlando, Florida, spent a year there, and Scotland. Those early years got me into reading books - an met Jackie, from California. We moved to Sonora, a former interest that has obviously persisted. gold-mining town in the Sierrra Nevada foothills. I didn't care much for school, though, which was too One of the most predictable things in life is that the classically-oriented for my tastes, and left at sixteen to embark unpredictable will happen. One of the things that my idyllic on a miscellany of jobs leading nowhere until my mother MosCoN XXI Program Book 3 visions of a carefree writer's life hadn' t taken into account on more chapters to go yet before that becomes too much of a the day I drove south from Massachusetts was acquiring pressing issue. another three sons tb go with the three daughters I already had. (To date, James Hogan has published twenty two novels: But we managed to muddle through, so I suppose the survival Inherit the Stars; The Genesis Machine: The Gentle Giants of plan passed its big test. Ganymede; The Two Faces of Tomorrow; Thrice Upon a In the end, it seems that the Irish side of me finally Time; Giants' Star; Voyage from Yesteryear; Code of the prevailed, and we crossed back over the Atlantic in the late Lifemaker; The Proteus Operation, Endgame Enigma, The eighties, coming to rest eventually in a town called Bray in Mirror Maze, The Infinity Gambit, Entoverse,._ The Multiplex northern Wicklow, on the coast about twelve miles south of Man,_ Rea/time Interrupt, Paths to Otherwhere, Bug Park, Star Dublin. I still keep a place in the U.S., however, in Pensacola, Child, Outward Bound, Out of Time, Immortality Option and northwest Florida,, and I spend part of most years there, which Cradle of Saturn; a nonfiction work on Artificial Intelligence: enables me to stay in touch and show my face at some of the Mind Matters; two mixed collections of short fiction, conventions.