Jeffrey A. Ca’ver. author of the widely praised THE INFINITY "The premier horror writer of his or any generation." I INK. has ■flun'cd ■•••• th a stunning new novel set at the un’ikely — Stephen King crossroads of dance. mus'C. and interstellar war. F ' J 4 0-312-93587 0/S15.95/352 pages 0-312 94381-4/S18-95/384 pages Nationally distributed by St. Martin's Press TOR Nationally distributed by St. Martin's Press TOR AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK IN MAY 1987 HORROR iW.'. "Tough and sensitive, comical ana evocative. ’ This may well be a book that today's readers will pass along ‘o JLDiTHlAPP JUDITH TAPP their children in 20 years' time." —NEWS DAY "Fantasy in the grand tradition*" 3®' — ’HE DENVER POST Till' IKXSP* Illi. lAkkA nn iiecKDOTiE mtcos i dilogy "This whole series is highly recommended.' -SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW COMING IN MAY— THE HOUNDS OFGOD Judith Tarr Volume Three of THE HOUND AND THE FALCON TRILOGY 54937-6/S2.95/304 pages 55605 4/53.50/352 pages Naticrol'y disk outed by Warner Publisher Sc-vces and St. Martin’s Press Nationally distributed by Warner Publisher TOR Ser vices and St. Marlin's Press Boskone XXIV February 13-15, 1987 Guest of Honor: C.J. Cherryh Official Artist: Barclay Shaw Special Guest: Tom Clareson Contents A Note From the Editor_____________ _2 Art Show____________________ ______ 31 Chairman’s Greetings______________ _2 Hucksters’ Room______________ ______ 32 Boskone XXIV Committee List_______ _2 Games_____________________________ 33 Our Weapons Policy_________________6 Dragonslair__________________ ______ 33 Official Notices___________________ _6 Babysitting__________________ ______ 33 Guest of Honor - C.J. Cherryh_______ _8 Filks________________________ ______ 33 C.J. Cherryh Bibliography__________ — 12 Story Contest_________________ ______ 34 Official Artist - Barclay Shaw_______ _16 The Boskone One-shot_________ ______ 34 Special Guest - Tom Clareson_______ _20 Registration________________________ 34 Jack Gaughan Memorial Award_____ _22 The Regency Dance__________________ 35 NESFA Sales Table_________________26 Scavenger Hunt______________ ______ 35 Information Desk 28 A Neo’s Guide to Boskone 35 Newsletter_______________________ _28 Don’t Get Sick at the Con_______ ______ 36 People Mover_____________________ _28 Hotel Information_____________ ______ 36 Program_________________________ _28 Guards______________________ ______ 37 Friday Night Festivities____________ — 29 Theft Prevention____________________ 37 Discussion and Special Interest Groups _29 Advertisers’ Index____________ ______ 37 Author’s Readings_________________ — 29 Skylark_____________________ ______ 37 Films___________________________ _29 NESFA_____________________ ______ 37 Con Suite________________________ __ 29 Honorary Members___________ ______ 38 Parties__________________________ __ 29 The Fellowship of NESFA______ ______ 38 Worldcon Bids____________________ __30 Boskone Life Members_______________ 40 Special Event - Boxboro____________ _30 History of Boskone____________ ______ 41 Northeast SF Clubs_______________ — 30 History of Lexicon ____________ _______44 Mural_____________________________ 31 History of Codclave___________ _______44 Page 1 Boskone XXIV Program Book A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR BOSKONE 24 COMMITTEE LIST The Boskone Program Book represents the work of Chairman: Chip Hitchcock many people, from the area heads who write the Treasurer: Deborah King descriptions of their departments to the Last-minute Head Cashier; helpers who do paste-up. It has been my pleasure to Dave Cantor work with them. A special thanks to David Cherry, Bob Assistants: Eggleton, Paul Chadwick, and Jack Williamson, who Mike DiGenio, Mark Olson, GregThokar agreed on very short notice to do essays on our guests. Staff: Also, a very special blessing on George Flynn, who Shirley Avery, Margret Collins, swore up and down that he wouldn't get stuck doing the Joni Brill Dashoff, Martin Deutsch, guest of honor bibliography this year, and then placed it Charles King. Bill Lehrman, Dave LeVine, in my lap well before the deadline. And, of course, to Bill Powers, $haron Sbarsky, Joe Siclari, Barclay Shaw for his outstanding cover and interior art. Wil! Strang, James Turner I hope we can do it justice. INTERNAL Thanks to Xerox Artificial Intelligence Systems, and the Xerox Corporation in general, for the use of Den: Mike DiGenio typesetting and reprographic equipment. This program Assistant: book was created using Viewpointr“ on a Xerox 6085 Selina Lovett, Leslie Turek Document Processing Workstation. Staff: Thanks to Tom Hayes and his coworkers at Eusey Press Karen Traite in Leominster, for working with a real tyro who asked GoH Liason: Kris Brown all sorts of stupid questions: and to Bruce Beane at C.W. Insurance: Pat Vandenberg Beane Printing for doing the stats on 1 hour’s notice Logistics: Sheila Oranch, LuAnn Vitalis sometimes. Staff: Kris Brown, Lars Colson, Nigel Conliffe, Finally, thanks to Chip, for putting up with me as I Donald Eastlake, Marty Gentry, Peter Grace, learned how hard things had been for him. Sandy Ilankin, Nelson Holt, Mark Partridge, Debra Spencer James Turner Mailroom: Sharon Sbarsky Andover, MA People Mover: Tony Lewis, Sue Lichauco January 1987 Assistant: Chet Dobro Gopher Hole Manager: CHAIRMAN’S GREETINGS Shira Ordower Welcome to Boskone XXIV The many fans who help pul Gopher Hole Staff: on Boskone each year are please to present for your Mike MacIntyre edification and enjoyment one of the finest and most Gopher T-shirt: popular current SF writers, an excellent artist who has Meric Insinga illustrated several of her works, a fan-turned-academic Photography: Mike Bergman, James Turner who shows us that being serious about SF doesn't have Plaques: Mark Olson to mean being stuffy, and the multifaceted convention Resident Electrician: Frank Richards that past Boskone attendees have come to expect. Ribbons: Susan Hammond Calligraphy; My first Boskone was fourteen years ago (several Carol Hammond committee members have been going to SF cons even Roving Repairs: Monty Wells longer) and about a tenth the size we expect this one to Services: Jim Mann, Jane Wagner be. The growth has been interesting to watch, from a Staff: ceonvention using only the small function rooms (this Carl Brandon, Seth Breidbart, Andy Cowan, year’s con suite was for two years our main program Gary Feldbaum, Peter Grace, Bill Jensen, room) and sharing the hotel with an assortment of Joanne Lawlor, Beth MacLellan, Joe Rico, mundanes (in 1975 the hotel’s major tenant our John Sapienza, Andi Shechter weekend was a convention of high-school football Signs: Michael Bergman coaches) to one which some misguided souls now call Assistant: "the winter Worldcon". Along the way we’ve tried to Carl West keep both the emphasis on written SF and SF art, and the sense of fannishness which makes cons fun; we hope you enjoy attending Boskone as much as we enjoy putting it on. Boskone XXIV Program Book Page 2 i r i a v BAEN BOOKS Distributed by Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas ★ Mew York, \ Y. 10020 PHOGRAM Badges: James Turner Con Suite: Cindy Gold, Theresa Renner Main Program: Laurie Mann, Priscilla Pollner Staff: Staff: Jeff Broido, Andy Cowan, Larry DeLuca, Pam Fremon, Merle Insinga, Janet Johnston, Eric Guy, Dan Hoey, Charles McGrew, Sue Lichauco, Bob Matthews, Ron Robinson, Ginnie Patton, Eric Petersen, Naomi Ronis, L. Ruth Sachter, Dalroy Ward, Ben Yalow Jim Scheleich Headings and Discussion Groups: Dave Salter PUBLICATIONS Writers* Workshops: Diane Duane Newsletter: Pam Fremon Costume W’orkshops: Mimeo: Claire Anderson jan howard finder Assistant: Autographs: Susan Hammond Sharon Sbarsky Pocket Program: Alexis Layton Friday Night Festivities: Suford Lewis Proforeader: George Flynn Meet the Program Participants: Flyers: James Turner Sue Lichauco Immobile One-Shot: Laurie Mann Chief Cameraman: Progress Repork James Turner Phillip M. Nathanson Program Book: James Turner Films: Richard and Bird Moore Ad Solicitation: Assistants: Rick Katze Bill Carton, Nina Quinn, Kim Van Auken Staff: Dale Farmer EXHIBITS Trivia Bowl: Joe Rico Dragonslain Lois Hecht Art Show: Ann Broomhead Filksings: J. Spencer Love, Lois Mangan Assistants: Games: Marty Gentry Tim Szczesuil Mural: Monty Wells Staff: Punday: Mark Norton Claire Anderson, Dave Anderson, Jill Eastlake, Kegency Dance: Peter Neilson George Flynn, Helen Hower, Aron Insinga. Sound: Rick Katze Bill Hammond Auction: Staff: Tony Lewis Pamela Mailory-Ricker, Debra Spencer Hangings: Scavenger Hunt: Janice Eisen, MITSFS Al Kent Worldcon Liaison: Jim Hudson Staff: Aron Insinga, Steve Lee, Monty Wells, FAN RELATIONS Harold Zitzow, Virginia Zitzow Sales: Babysitting: Amy Sue Chase Gay Ellen Dennett Hotel Liaison: Bill Perkins, Anton Chernoff Hucksters’ Room: Kenneth Knabbe Suite Allocation: Kurt Baty Assistant: Information: Elizabeth Carey Davey Ferree Assistants: Staff: Lynda Careym Carol Botteron Bob Lidral Staff: Diana Glass, Paula Lieberman, Rosemary Murphy, Charles Seelig, Mike Taylor PRE-CON HELPERS Press Relations: Sue Lichauco Mike DiGenio, Pam Fremon, George Flynn, Restaurant Guide: Cynthia Hanley, Aron Insinga, Rick Katze, Mark Olson Paula Lieberman, Tony Lewis, Laurie Mann, Pocket Video: Marty Gentry Peter Neilson, Mark Olson, Bill Perkins, Registration Kelly Persons, Theresa Renner, Mark Trumpler, Pre-Con: Andy Cowan Jane Wagner, Monty Wells, and several others Hotel Card: not recorded. James Turner At-Con: Rich Ferree Boskone XXIV Program Book Page 4 BAEN BOOKS WATCH IN WONDER AS C.J. CHERRYH AND JANET MORRIS TURN