World Fantasy Convention IZ zO Progress Report Three ’93 World Fantasy Convention Bloomington, Minnesota Guests of Honor: Roger Zelazny Poul Anderson John Crowley Tom Canty Toastmaster: Neil Gaiman Brief Special Guest: Basil Copper Other Guests: Megan Lindholm n Don Maitz Patricia McKillip Tim Powers Terri Windling Jane Yolen Where: Radisson South Hotel Bloomington, Minnesota When: October 28-31, 1993 Rates: $100 — There will be a $20 charge for returned checks Address: 1993 World Fantasy Con PO Box 2128 Minneapolis, MN 55402 Sponsors: Minneapolis WFC Partnership Committee List: Steven K. Z. Brust........................................ Programming David Dyer-Bennet................................................Treasury Giovanna Fregni..................................................Art Show Lisa Freitag............................................................... Author Liaison Beth Friedman................................................. Registration Robert F. Ihinger, Jr................................................... Hotel Thomas Juntunen........................................... Publications Peg Kerr....................................................................Author Liaison Greg Ketter.......................................................... Chairman Shannon Leslie.....................................................Childcare Dave Messer......................................................Operations Victor Raymond....................................................Publisher Liaison Martin Schafer.......................................................... Parties Fred Wagener.......................................Asst. Programming From the Chairman. Welcome to the final Progress Report for the 1993 World Fantasy Convention. With less than six weeks to go, our committee is finalizing preparations for the best conven­ tion yet. Memberships are still available, but there may be none left at the door. Please register early. If you have any suggestions, problems or questions, please contact us now. If you wait any longer, we may not be able to fulfill your requests. We will be as accommodating as possible, but late requests could make things very difficult. DreamHaven Books is proud to announce it will host a reception/mass autographing on Wednesday, Oct. 27. If you will be in Minneapolis on the evening preceding the convention and would like to participate, please contact myself or Peder at the DreamHaven number. If you are a professional inter­ DreamHaven Books ested in doing a signing or a reading on any other day 1309 4th St SE you are here, we would be Minneapolis, MN 55414 quite pleased to make arrangements with you. Phone: (612) 379-8924 See you in Minneapolis. Fax: (612) 379-0861 Greg Ketter Return of the WFC All-Star Cabaret See your favorite World Fantasy Convention attendees per­ form with vaudevillian verve in an extravaganza of enter­ tainment. Saturday, 9-1 lpm Location to be announced Consult your program guide for final arrangements. Questions or Problems? Contact the Convention Office - Room 201 or dial 7201 on a hotel phone ur convention will be held at the beautiful Radisson Hotel South in Bloomington, Minnesota. This hotel has 575 guest rooms and more function space than Othis convention could use, not to mention well-stocked bars and the best hospitality space you can imagine. Only 10 miles from the airport, the Radisson South is easily acces­ sible for out of towners. Info Our room rates are: $75.00 for single or double occupan­ cy; $85.00 for triple or quad. Numerous suites are avail­ able: $150.00 for parlour and one bedroom; $225.00 for parlour and two bedrooms. There are nearby hotels with both higher and lower single room rates for those with no desire to stay at the convention hotel, but we do Travel not encourage their use and there is still plenty of space within our room block at the Radisson. Radisson Hotel South & Plaza Tower 7800 Normandale Boulevard Bloomington, Minnesota 55439 and (612) 835-7800 local (800) 333-3333 reservations worldwide specify “World Fantasy Convention 1993” emember that Northwest Airlines has granted a Hotel five percent discount from all regular and special excursion fares for convention attendees. This dis­ Rcount is available to those whose flights originate in Canada as well as the United States. Northwest has more flights to Minneapolis than any other airline, and we are sure you will find them to have a schedule to fit your needs. We encourage you to use our official airline and travel agency, since the convention receives valuable benefits based on your participation. The discount should be avail­ able through your own travel agent if we can’t lure your business away. For reservations and further information: contact Ladera Travel Service, Inc., at (800) 624-6679 from the U.S. except California, within California at (310) 640-0527, or by fax at (310) 322-9900. here will be a banquet on Sunday afternoon. The price of the banquet will be $30.00 per meal. We hope everyone will choose to attend. There will be Tseating for those who wish to come in after the meal to Banquet watch the awards ceremony. When requesting tickets, please specify your menu choice from those listed below: BEEF ENTREE Steak Frederick Broiled Filet Mignon with Green Vegetables in a Cream Sauce VEGGIE ENTREE Pasta Primavera Pasta with Peppercorn Mushroom Sauce and CHICKEN ENTREE Baked Stuffed Breast of Chicken Boneless Breast of Chicken Stuffed with Smoked Gouda and Wild Rice All Dinners are served with Salad, Fresh Vegetables, Map Potato, Rice or Pasta, Bread, Butter and Beverage. Banquet tickets will continue to be available until 15-Oct-93 (postmark deadline, strictly enforced). We do not anticipate running out of space, but if we do your check will be return­ ed. Banquet tickets probably will NOT be available at the convention. To get to the Radisson from the airport, drive west on Hwy. 494; turn north (right) at the Hwy. 100/Normandale Blvd, exit; turn west (left) at the 77 th Street exit; drive over the bridge and turn south (left) on the service road (see inset map); turn west (right) into the Radisson parking lot. Novel Kim Newman Anno Dracula Simon & Schuster UK; Carroll & Graf Tim Powers Last Call William Morrow Geoff Ryman Was HarperCollins UK; Year Knopf Steve Szilagyi Photographing Fairies Ballantine Books Jane Yolen Briar Rose Tor Books Novella Jonathan Carroll Award Uh Oh City F&SF 6/92 Charles de Lint Paperjack Cheap Street Bradley Denton The Territory F&SF 7/92 Nina Kiriki Hoffman 1992 Unmasking Pulphouse Peter Straub The Ghost Village Metahorror Short Fiction Poppy Z. Brite WFA Calcutta, Lord of Nerves Still Dead Charles de Lint Bridges F&SF Nicholas A. DiChario for The Winterberry Alternate Kennedys Lisa Goldstein Alfred IASFM 12/92 Joe Haldeman Graves F&SF Dan Simmons This Year’s Class Picture Still Dead Martha Soukup The Arbitrary Placement of Walls IASFM 4/92 Anthology Peter Crowther, Ed. Nominees Narrow Houses Little Brown UK Dennis Etchison, Ed. Metahorror Dell Abyss Gilliam, Greenberg & Kramer, Eds. Grails Unnameable Press Don Hutchison, Ed. Northern Frights Mosiac F. Paul Wilson, Ed. Freak Show Pocket Books; Final Borderlands Press Short Story Collection Greg Bear Bear’s Fantasies PSFS/Wildside Press James P. Blaylock Ballot Lord Kelvin’s Machine Arkham House Jack Cady The Sons of Noah and Other Stories Broken Moon Press Charles de Lint Spiritwalk Tor Books John Kessel Meeting in Infinity Arkham House for Norman Partridge Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales Roadkill Press Special Award - Professional WFA Jeanne Cavelos For editing at Dell Abyss James Gurney For Dinotopia Martin H. Greenberg For anthologies Grant Morrison & Klaus Janson For Batman Gothic 1992 Terri Windling For book editing Special Award - Non-Professional John & Kim Betancourt For Wildside Press Richard Chizmar For editing & for Cemetery Dance Award George Hatch For Horror’s Head Press Doug & Tomi Lewis For Roadkill Press Joe Stefko & Traci Cocoman For Charnel House Stanislaus Tai For Tai Publications Artist Year Jill Bauman James Christensen Alan Clark James Gurney Harry O. Morris embership in the World Fantasy Convention is lim­ ited to 750 paid, attending members. Because of this limit, sending in your registration does not Mguarantee membership. The rates are as follows: Attending — $100 Supporting — $40 Info Child (12 or under) — $25 Memberships are transferable with written authorization from the original membership holder. This may be done either in advance by sending the authorization to the WFC P.O. box, or at the convention. Somewhat to our surprise, we have not yet sold out our limit of 750 memberships. A precise statement of the posi­ tion at the time this report went to press can be found with the membership list, but roughly speaking we have a couple of hundred memberships left. Accordingly, we will continue to accept memberships by mail until 15-Oct-93 (postmark Hospitality deadline, strictly enforced). We will continue to send confir­ mation cards as we process memberships. If we are not sold out, we will sell memberships at the door. The advantage to you in pre-registering is that the pre-reg­ istered lines at registration always move much faster than and the at-the-door line. Also, because we pre-print name badges, you'll get a nicer badge than if you register at the door. Finally, we still expect to sell out before the con. Play it safe and pre-register. If you have questions about memberships, please contact: Beth Friedman — 874-7366 ospitality is in Mr. C’s and other rooms on the 22nd floor. We will be open from 6:00 PM Thursday until the end of the convention, and you will be able to find things to eat and drink at any time of the day or night. Membership H We will have bagels, pastries, fruit, and coffee in the morn­ ing, so stop in before your panel and fortify yourself. There will be a happy hour with mixed drinks from 6:00 to 8:00 PM and there will be hot food available at 7:30. Friday and Sunday nights we will be having a juried music circle. If you are interested in playing, please write to us, ATTN Fred Levy Haskell. (If Fred has never heard you play, please mention someone who has, that he can contact). hild pre-registration is $25.