oscon XIX September 12-14, 1997 S,\\_oscow, qdafto Cactus Computer "We make Computing affordable." .. ·.·- .. · BUY ~re you paying too ~ GAMES""\ much for your -~~- ,;1~p~~~tCOST' co;::!:; '... r""~-a: ; ·:·.\ ,-~:~~ -~ • Ask your --- •A:~' I '"-. J ~ .1=------~~ . /) ·,.,._~-·\r .~- ~ ·-.·.~-:;·~~~ ' dl friends! ..... ___ They've already joined the Cactus GAME CLUB. IT's FREE! See game and other catalogs with up-to-the-minute pricing at www.TurboNet.com/Cactus MosConXIX September 12-14, 1997 Larry Niven, Author Guest Rick Sternbach, Artist Guest Poul Anderson, Science Guest David & Betty Bigelow, Fan Guests Karen Kruse Anderson, Filk Guest Co-editors Lou Ann Lomax and Phrannque Sciamanda have Table of Contents produced the progress reports and, with Keith Farmer, this Chairman's Message. ................................................ J program book. All with the assistance of Jon Gustafson and Susan Larry Niven, Author Guest ....................................... 2 Meyer. Our thanks to them all. Jon Gustafson has provided his art Rick Sternbach, Artist Guest............ ......................... 4 CDs (Atlantis to the Stars, Dragons & Dinosaurs, and Rockets & Poul Anderson, Science Guest .......................· ........... 5 Robots) which we have used for much of the art found in the PRs David & Betty Bigelow, Fan Guests. ......................... 7 and program book. The folks at Cactus Computer have been gracious enough to provide our web site once again this year, and Karen Kruse Anderson, Filk Guest••••••••...•••.••••.......• 8 again we thank them, even as we grow increasingly computer­ Filk ........................................................................ 9 literate. The PRs and Program Book were all produced on MS Biographies of Our Other Professional Guests ....... 10 Word 6.0 for Windows. Do not do this at home. Programming .......................................................... 16 The MosCon XIX Program Book is © 1997 by Moscow Gaming & Gaming Rules....................................... 21 Science Fiction Conventions, Inc. (PO Box 9622, Moscow, ID Security ................................................................... 22 83843) for the artists. Upon publication of this book, all copyrights Art Show, Print Shop, & Art Auction ..................... 23 return to the individual creators. No part of this book may be Dealers' Room ........................................................ 24 reprinted without the express written permission of the individual Ferengi Hospitality: Quirk's Bar........................... 24 creators. Masquerade & Dance ............................................. 24 Front cover art is © 1997 Rick Stembach Jlideo Room. ............................................................ 24 Badge art is © 1997 by Julia Lacquement Upcoming Conventions ........................................... 25 Button art is © 1997 by Monika Livingstone WESTERCON 52 ....................................................... 26 ConComfor MosCon XIX ...................................... 27 List ofMosCon XIX Members & Guests. ................ 28 Chairman's Message Pocket Program ................................................. insert By Susan J. Meyer Hotel M_ap .......................................................... insert Welcome to MosCon XIX. We've had fun fashioning a Moscow, Idaho ................................................... insert civilized party for you and our other great guests, and we' re confident that the benign influence of E.E. "Doc" Smith and his daughter Verna Smith Trestrail will continue to prevail, in concert with other beneficent spirits of literary and F&SF bent. Again, we offer a heart-felt "thank you" to all the people who helped put together and who supported this year's convention - particularly the Guests of Honor, who added so much to the success of the event this year. Many professionals, dealers, artists, authors, first-timers and old-hands are owed a great debt for their participation, advice, and help. · We've been particularly lucky to get two giants of science fiction, Larry Niven and Poul Anderson. here as our author and science guests of honor. Artist guest of honor Rick Stembach is a major force behind Star Trek design. David and Betty Bigelow, known to most of you (if not personally) as "the incredibly realistic 3-D Klingons," are fan guests of honor. And now, for the first time ever, MosCon has a filk guest of honor, Karen Kruse Anderson (Poul's wife). That's only the official slate -- many others, friends old and new, are showing up as well. With our guests, panels, and games, there won't be much time or reason to leave the hotel this weekend. This year, in addition to the traditional Sunday Brunch and Saturday BBQ, we've added a Friday-night lasagna dinner, to be followed by entertainments from various aspects of fannish culture. So show up early; stay· late; volunteer for what draws you; and party! 2 MosCon XIX Program Book people at the cutting edge of the sciences; comics; filksinging; yoga and other approaches to longevity; saving civilization and making a little money; moving h~d into space by any means, but particularly by making space endeavors attractive to commercial interests. In ~982, Jerry Pournelle talked Larry and Marilyn ~to hostmg a gathering of top minds in the space industry ~ an attempt to write a space program with goals, tunetables, and costs. The CACNSP (Citizens Advisory Council for a National Space Policy) has met five times (over a span of five years) for harrowing three-day weekends. Those in attendance include spacecraft designers, businessmen, NASA personnel, astronauts, and lawyers. Adding science fiction writers to these guys turns out to be stunningly effective. In his words: ''We can translate: we can force these guys to speak English -- ordinary English, that is. We've had some effect on the space program ... not enough, but some. In 1993, we watched McDonnell-Douglas's DC-XI fly. It's a toy version of a single-stage ground-to-orbit spacecraft, Larry Niven and the Council generated it. It now appears likely that Author Guest of Honor the full-sized version will be built under the name X-33 and flown by NASA." Larry Niven is a California boy. He was born in While most of Niven's works can best be described 1938, raised in Beverly Hills, and attended schools in as hard science fiction, they are given emotional and Beverly Hills and Carpinteria. He first attended college in imaginative cogency by his outstanding depiction of alien 1956, at the California Institute of Technology, and psychol~gies and societies. These, albeit entirely flunked out in February 1958, after discovering a speculative, have roots not only in academia, but also in bookstore jammed with science fiction magazines which personal observation. "I grew up with dogs, Keeshonds, were far more interesting. He graduated from Washburn the show dogs my mother has raised for fifty years. I live U in Kansas in June 1962, with a BA in mathematics and with cats. I have a passing acquaintance with raccoons a minor in psychology - interesting combo, that. and ferrets. Associating with nonhumans surely has He met his future wife, Marilyn Joyce Wisowaty, at given me insight into alien intelligence." NYCon in 1967. They married September 6, 1969 (no The category of "nonhumans" does not necessarilv children) and now reside in Tarzana, California. include computers. "I've used computers since 1978. His first story publication was "The Coldest Place" Currently, I use an IBM-compatible with Q&A Write and in Worlds of If, December 1964. He has since written Word for Windows, a laser-printer, and a Flexscan speculative fiction at every length and of all sorts: terminal with an enormous screen, set for white-on-blue. I speculative fiction; speeches for high schools and colleges; don't know anything else about computers. What I do is, I television scripts; political action in support of the space buy what Jerry tells me to (he's the User's Columnist for program; a total revision of the background universe for BYTE magazine)." DC Comics' Green Lantern and (with eight others) the He quit smoking on August 11, 1987, about 6:30 Malibu Graphic Multiverse. He has collaborated with a PM. At this point, he is a near tee-totaler. He has taken variety of writers, and has become one of the best-known regular yoga lessons for three years. He had to give up of the greats in the field: his RINGWORLD and SMOKE autographs a few years ago, due to back problems, but RING series are classics, as are many of his smaller works they are now cleared up, so he is back to signing - The Flying Sorcerers (with David Gerrald), and autog~phs. Marilyn has joined him in his yoga Lucifer 's Hammer (with Jerry Poumelle). enthusiasm. His interests are: science fiction conventions Awards include a Nebula -- best novel, Ringwor/d computerized games, American Association for th; Advancement of Science meetings, and other gatherings of (1970) - and five Hugos - ''Neutron Star" ( 1966); MosCon XIX Program Book 3 Ringworld (1970); "Inconstant Moon" (1971); "The Hole Man" (1974); ''The Borderland of Sol" (1975). Latest works include: Crashlander (Del Rey 1994 ), the collected Beowulf Schaeffer stories, six plus a framing story; Beowulfs Children (with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes; Tor 1996), a sequel to The Legacy of Heorot (Pocket 1989); Ringworld Throne (Del Rey 1997); Welcome to Moscow! Destiny's Road (Tor 1997); Three Books of Known Space Large New Science (Del Rey 1996); Footfall (Ballantine 1996); Man-Kzin