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Page 1: World Fantasy Convention · Fantasy Award-winning Leviathan series and The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. A guest editor for Best American

World Fantasy Convention 2009

Thursday, Oct. 29 - Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009 San Jose, California

Progress Report 1

www.worldfantasy2009.org

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Celebrating 200 Years of PoeWe're very pleased to be hosting the World Fantasy Convention for 2009 in San Jose, California. This Progress Report contains information about our guests, our facilities, and a few other items of interest. The most current information about the convention can be found on our website at www.worldfantasy2009.org; the quickest way to get information from us is via email, and you will find a best football odds today number of addresses on the back cover of this PR. If you have questions, please check the website first.Included in the center of this PR is a sheet for you to fill out and mail back to us. It is a programming questionnaire, which will allow you to help us develop a program for the convention that will be interesting and fun for everyone.

—Dave Gallaher, Chair

ContentsGuest bios: Garth Nix / Lisa Snellings 3

Michael Swanwick / Ann VanderMeer 4

Jeff VanderMeer / Toastmaster Jay Lake 5

Special Guests: Richard A. Lupoff / Donald Sidney-Fryer 6

Dealers’ Room / Art Show 7

Banquet / Facilities 8

Membership List 9-12

Committee List / Contact Information / Website 12

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Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. A full-time writer since 2001, he has previously worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Garth’s short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies; many are collected in his book Beyond the Wall. His novels include the award-winning fantasies Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen and the cult favorite young adult SF novel Shade’s Children. His fantasy books for children include The Ragwitch, the six books of The Seventh Tower sequence, and the seven books of The Keys to the Kingdom series. His books have appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Australian, and his work has been translated into 37 languages. He lives in a Sydney beach suburb with his wife and two children.

Garth Nix

Lisa Snellings’ art tends to inspire stories. She has a knack for finding talented authors to write them. Currently, she is working on projects with Larry Niven and Neil Gaiman. Most recently her art inspired stories by Peter S. Beagle, Gene Wolfe, and Neil Gaiman, published by Dreamhaven Books. In 2000, her Strange Attraction anthology gathered stories by some of the best authors of fantasy, science fiction and horror, inspired by her kinetic Ferris Wheel. Next year, the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore will open an exhibit of her kinetic carnival, commissioned as a ten-year project by Howard and Jane Frank. Lisa’s work defies classification and utilizes a wide variety of materials and techniques, mixing two and three dimensions, kinetics and writings. Some works employ her two-inch tall “Poppets” which, on their own, are adored and collected all over the world.

Lisa Snellings

Guests of Honor

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Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed and prolific science fiction and fantasy writers of his generation. He has received a Hugo Award for fiction in an unprecedented five out of six years and his work has been honored with the Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards, as well as receiving nominations for the British Science Fiction Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. His most recent novel is The Dragons of Babel, a fantasy. Hope-in-the-Mist, a nonfiction book about the great fantasy author Hope Mirrlees, will be published in July, 2009, by Temporary Culture. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Marianne Porter.

Michael Swanwick

Ann VanderMeer is the founder of the award-winning Buzzcity Press and currently serves as the fiction editor for Weird Tales, for which she is a Hugo finalist. She is also a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for co-editing Fast Ships, Black Sails. Work from her press has won the British Fantasy Award, the International Rhysling Award, the IHG Award, and appeared in several year’s best anthologies. Ann has partnered with her husband, Jeff VanderMeer, on such editing projects as the World Fantasy Award-winning Leviathan series and The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. A guest editor for Best American Fantasy, she has also co-edited the following published or forthcoming anthologies: The New Weird and Steampunk (for Tachyon Publications), Last Drink Bird Head, and The Leonardo Variations. She and her husband live in Tallahassee, Florida.

Ann VanderMeer

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World Fantasy Award winner Jeff VanderMeer grew up in the Fiji Islands and has had fiction published in over 20 countries. His books, including the bestselling City of Saints & Madmen, have made the year’s best lists of Publishers Weekly, LA Weekly, Amazon.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many more. He has worked with the rock band The Church, 30 Days of Night creator Ben Templesmith, Dark Horse Comics, and Playstation Europe on various projects, including music soundtracks and short films. He reviews books for, among others, The New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, Huffington Post, and the Barnes & Noble Review, as well as being a regular columnist for the Amazon.com book blog. With his wife Ann (they have been cited by the pop culture website Boing Boing as a literary “power couple”), he is also an award-winning editor whose books include the iconic Steampunk anthology for Tachyon Publications. Current projects include Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for Twenty-First Century Writers and the noir fantasy novel Finch. He currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife Ann, and serves as assistant director for Wofford College’s Shared Worlds writing camp for teens in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Jeff VanderMeer

Jay Lake lives in Portland, Oregon, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects. His 2009 novels are Green from Tor Books, Madness of Flowers from Night Shade Books, and Death of a Starship from MonkeyBrain Books. His short fiction appears regularly in literary and genre markets worldwide. Jay is a winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards.

Toastmaster – Jay Lake

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Richard A. Lupoff wears many different hats. He’s been an editor, a novelist, a fan, and a historian. The fanzine, Xero, that he edited in the early sixties with his wife, Pat Lupoff, was one of the major starting points of comics fandom. It featured, among others, early poetry from movie critic and SF fan, Roger Ebert. He edited a series of Edgar Rice Burroughs books for Canaveral Press, and wrote one of the first book-length criticisms of Burroughs’ work, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Master of Adventure. His SF/F novels, from One Million Centuries onward, have been quirky and individual, including the Japanese-inspired Sword of the Demon, the Buddhist The Triune Man, the psychedelic Sacred Locomotive Flies, and the Lovecraft roman a clef, Lovecraft’s Book. He’s received great acclaim for his series of mysteries featuring Hobart Lindsey and Marvia Plum. And he’s one hell of a nice guy.

Richard A. Lupoff

Donald Sidney-Fryer bills himself as “The last of the courtly poets.” His biographical and bibliographic work on Clark Ashton Smith has done a great deal to keep Smith’s name current among lovers of lapidary fantasy: his biographical book on Smith, Emperor of Dreams, was many years in the writing and was published by Donald M. Grant. His first book of poetry, Songs and Sonnets Atlantean, was published by Arkham House in 1971. His most recent publication, The Sorcerer Departs: Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961), was published by Silver Key Press in 2007.

Donald Sidney-Fryer

Special Guests

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Dealers’ RoomApplications for Dealers’ Tables at the 2009 World Fantasy Con are still being accepted. To apply for a table, download and print the application form at the website, fill it out, sign it, and, and return it by paper mail to our mailing address. Copies may be obtained by paper mail upon request.

The World Fantasy Convention uses a juried system for filling the Dealers’ Room with a strong emphasis on the bound, printed word (i.e., booksellers, specialty press, independent publishers), and applications will be juried accordingly.

WFC 2009 Dealers’ Tables are $100.00 per table, with a request limit of two tables per dealer. This fee does not include membership to the convention. A third table may be available in exceptional circumstances; contact Dealers’ Room Liaison Dave Clark for details. The first round of applications were due by April 30, 2009; some tables may still be available.

For more information, check the Dealers’ Room page on the website (under Exhibits), or contact Dave Clark at World Fantasy Convention 2009, ATTN: Dealers’ Room, PO Box 61363, Sunnyvale, CA 94088-1363; or email [email protected].

Art ShowThe Art Show is a juried show. For further information about the show or the jury procedure, check the Art Show page on the website (under Exhibits), or contact Carl Zwanzig at World Fantasy Convention 2009, ATTN Art Show, PO Box 61363, Sunnyvale, CA 94088-1363; or email [email protected]

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The banquet will be Sunday at 1:00 PM. There will be a choice of a beef, chicken or vegetarian entree. The cost is $75 per person, exclusive of beverages, or $750 for a table of 10. Reserve early – space is limited. A few tickets may be available at the convention, but not all entree choices may be available. The deadline for pre-convention purchases and any special dietary requests is Tuesday, October 13. Questions? Email [email protected] or write to: World Fantasy Convention 2009, ATTN Banquet PO Box 61363 Sunnyvale, CA 94088-1363

Banquet

The 2009 World Fantasy Convention is being held at: The Fairmont Hotel 170 South Market Street San José, CA 95113

Standard room rates begin at $130 for one or two people. See the Hotel Information Page on the website for additional rates and further details. Suites are available through the Hotel Liaison on our website. Please do not try to book a suite on your own.

If you plan to host a gathering, be it a book launch, a publisher’s party, or similar function in your room or in a suite, please let us know in advance so that we can put your room or suite in the appropriate area so we can buffer any noise. Even if you plan to host your event in a regular sleeping room rather than a suite, we need you to email us at [email protected] so that we can book your room in the correct area. Help us make it a pleasant and fun experience for everyone.

If you don’t mind having your sleeping room near an evening event, and particularly if you are helping out with organizing one, we’d like to hear from you. We need volunteers we can put between those talking and those trying to sleep. If you’re willing to have us book your room near the rooms/suites with parties and events, please email ASAP to our hotel/facilities liaison at [email protected].

Facilities

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MembersJustin Ackroyd 107AJohn Adams 113AMykia Adams 64ACamille Alexa 239AAncilla Allsman 248ACharlie Jane Anders 492ANadine Armstrong 54ADavid Arnold 355AScott Baker 95AAlan Beatts 404AMichael Bellomo 172ARobert Bennett 488ACarol Berg 271AJoseph T Berlant 76ABeth Bernobich 320AHeidi Berthiaume 251ADeborah Biancotti 153AHolly Black 154ATheo Black 155AJenny Blackford 58ARussell Blackford 229AMaya Bohnhoff 340AJim Frenkel--Tor Books 383ATofa Borregaard 122AKeyan Bowes 235ASteven Boyett 363AMelissa Bramwell 202ABerni Phillips Bratman 63ADavid Bratman 48ASeth Breidbart 1AMarie Brennan 419AJim Breyfogle 323ABob Brown 231ADenis Brown 215ASharon Brown 232AGinjer Buchanan 73AMark Buckmaster 375AJan Burke 332AColleen R. Cahill 17AKristin Calhoun 197AIsobelle Carmody 174ABrenda Carre 352AErin Cashier 182AKelley Caspari 423AAshlee Castetter 489ADiana Challis 179ABlake Charlton 428ASuzy Charnas 343ACatherine Cheek 277ACurtis Chen 169AWalter Chisholm 38ADavid Clark 447ASimon Clark 308AJaleta Clegg 161ANancy Cobb 356ADavid Coe 230ACynthia Cofer 374AShayne Collins 393AChris Colvin 110AScott Connors 438ADorothy Cordochorea 246S

Martin Cox 82AKathryn Cramer 89ASandra Cuddy 238ACatelynn Cunningham 4AChris Cunnington 83ADavid Curtis 221Aandrew dangelas 367AEllen Datlow 94AAnna Davidson 344AAngela Davis 121AGrania Davis 349AStephen Davis 350AAnna B. Decker 66ASasha Decker 329AJon DeCles 466AStephen Donaldson 482ALaura Donitz 13AJohn Douglas 72ADavid Drake 90AIan Drury 270AFred Duarte 69AAlia Duffy 330AJennifer Dunstan 483AAlistair Durie 47AJohn Eccker 7AAlessa Ellefson 291AKenne Estes 186ADarrel L. Exline 55AJennie Faries 41AJude Feldman 451AMargaret Fisk 473AJo Fletcher 269AAdrienne Foster 335AAmanda Foubister 358AValerie Frankel 43ALisa C. Freitag 79ARobert Fry 42ABethany Fuller 305AKathy Fulton 30AJohn Fultz 413ALeigh Galbreath 67ADavid Gallaher 18ABarbara Galler-Smith 391AFriend of Gordon Garb 26AGordon Garb 25AChris Garcia 21SChristopher Garcia 296AJoshua Garcia 123ARogelio Garcia 267AJoanna Gardner 371AGordon Van Gelder 87APaul Genesse 331AChe Gilson 420AErik M. Gist 39ALeslie Glasser 119AGlenn Glazer 158AJean Goddin 34AMarian Goldeen 204APaul Goodman 183ASarah Goodman 440ABarbara Gordon 351ALucas Graciano 262ARani Graff 151A

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Neile Graham 317ARain Graves 315ACathy Green 31ADaryl Gregory 171AIan Grey 467AGigi Gridley 56APaula Guran 338ABeth Gwinn 3AHeather Hacock 234AWiliam Hacock 233APeter Halasz 68AGay Haldeman 97AJoe Haldeman 96ADiane Halpern 443AMarty Halpern 442ARachel Hanley 368AMargaret Hannatt 216AGabrielle Harbowy 388AMatthew Harbowy 389AJanice Hardy 272ACharlene Harmon 114ASteven Harmon 115ALisa Deutsch Harrigan 24AMaryelizabeth Hart 430AJay Hartlove 294AJed Hartman 318ADavid Hartwell 88AEric Haury 292AJ. C. Hay 372AMichael Hayes 316ADorothy Hearst 414APeter Heck 59AJohn Helfers 379AAlice Henderson 436AAllison Hershey 159AGlorianne Hesse 395ALeanna Hieber 365SNancy Hightower 408ARonald Hilger 406SDavid Hill 300ALaurel Hill 299AChip Hitchcock 15AM. K. Hobsom 36AM. Hobson 214ARosamund Hodge 327ANina Hoffman 297ARobert Hole 27Acecelia holland 361AErika Holt 334AAndrea Howe 206ACarol Hubbell 189AWilliam Hubbell 188AKerrie Hughes 378AEric Hunter 210AC Inman 337ALouis Irmo 444SSue Irmo 445SElaine Isaak 245ATicia Isom 468AGeoffrey Jacoby 178AKristin Janz 211AEmily Jiang 369AAlaya Johnson 301AVylar Kaftan 226A

Michele Kahn-Landan 218APaul Kane 382ABeth Karpas 485APeter Karpas 486AChristopher Kastensmidt 288AGreg Ketter 78ATrina King 84AVal King 100AEllen Klages 60AMarian Klatt 303AKate Kligman 341AJohn Klima 472AMichelle Knowlden 412ASally Kobee 243AWes Kobernick 207SRick Kovalcik 32AMary Kowal 464ABruce Krawetz 46ABeth Krippel 98AMelissa Kuhl 265ATessa Kum 392AEllen Kushner 470AJoseph E Lake 6AClaude Lalumière 163AAlexander Lamb 253AHeidi Lampietti 313AMarguerite Lance 396AStephen Landan 217AKate Larking 125ADee Larsen 259ARonald Larson 409AJeremy Lassen 102APamela Latham 360AA.M. Lau 471AWilliam Laubenheimer 249AErin Lauchli 162ADeborah Layne 108AStephanie Leary 166ADebbie Ledesma 306ADavid D. Levine 85AAllen Lewis 273ABrenda Lewis 274ADavid Lewis 431ARobert D. Lewis 380ARobert D. Lewis 484AJane Lindskold 241AGrá Linnaea 260AJennifer Linnaea 261AMarjorie Liu 353ARoss Lockhart 103AWill Ludwigsen 346AKathryn Luke 117ARichard Luke 116ABrian Malone 373AJeffrey Mariotte 429ASean Markey 479AMichael Mathews 157ALinda McAllister 70ARich McAllister 71ARandy McCharles 99AKirstyn McDermott 376ASeanan McGuire 345AKate McKean 456AMichelle Melendez 44A

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Farah Mendleson 101AKatie Menick 455ACary Meriwether 57ACatherine Modesitt 328AL.E. Modesitt, Jr. 293ANayad Monroe 403AJim Moore 242ANancy Jane Moore 319AHoward Morhaim 454ARobert Morrish 422AFred Moulton 28AGuest of Fred Moulton 124AMichelle Muenzler 192Ajason nahrung 339AMark L. Van Name 40AIngrid Neilson 240AAdam Niswander 37ANancy Nivling 126Adavid noceti 302AMarie O'Regan 381AGrace Ogawa 205ARon Ontel 12AVal Ontel 11ACarole Parker 250ARobert Parrish 402ARobin Parrish 401ABruce Passey 160ALaurien Patten 209AAmy Paul 282AVince Paul 283ADiana Paxson 465AAimee Payne 347ACamille Picott 359AJohn Pitts 236ASerena Powers 433ATim Powers 434ATim Pratt 321ACharles Prepolec 184AKristen Prepolec 185AShannon Prickett 227AErica Procopio 266AKevin Przybylowski 279AAlice Pullin 370AKevin Radthorne 254ALise Radthorne 255AThomas Rafalski 228AAlis Rasmussen 289ARhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein 390ACaroline Ratajski 435ABrian Rathbone 324ATracey Rathbone 325AJames Rawlins 477AJenna Rawlins 476AMark Rayner 460AChristopher Reynaga 258ALoren Rhoads 394AMark Richards 5ATony Richards 417AKayleena "Aneeka" Richins 156ACarl Rigney 295AChris Roberson 61AJill Roberts 405AAndrew Robins 441S

Peg Robinson 190AKevin Roche 23ABarbara Roden 263AChristopher Roden 264AJim Rondeau 180AMelody Rondeau 181AJulie Rose 213ADeborah Ross 491AShirl Roth 45AJoan Saberhagen 118ARichard Sandler 244APeggy Rae Sapienza 16AChristian Sauve 268AWilliam Schafer 65ACatherine Schaff-Stump 298AKaren Schaffer 168AKen Scholes 398ADarrell Schweitzer 80ABryan Scott 222ACindy Scott 19AHeather Shaw 322AJannie Shea 187ATimothy Sherburn 51ADelia Sherman 62ADonald Sidney-Fryer 407AKurt Siegel 357AStan Sieler 29AKaren Silverberg 225ARobert Silverberg 223AAdrian Simmons 421ATerese Sinclair 212ADave Smeds 201ALaurence C. Smith 74ALinn Smith 307SRandy Smith 278ASally Smith 75ADavey Snyder 14ADon Snyder 432AJeff Soesbe 257ADeeAnn Sole 170AKatie Sparrow 475AAaron Spielman 304ADoug Stambaugh 312AKevin Standlee 20AFreda Stearns 281ARobert Stearns, Jr. 280AGlynn Stewart 364AJanet Stirling 93AS. M. Stirling 92APeter Straub 457AKathryn Sullivan 219APatrick Swenson 439AMichael Tallan 10AAnna Tambour 474AMark Teppo 198AByron Tetrick 387AMelinda Thielbar 224ANaamen G. Tilahun 52AJohn Tomaszewski 309AJames Treadwell 176AJames Treadwell 177AAndy Trembly 22AEvonne Tsang 9A

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Barbara Tull 418ARodger Turner 77ALisa Tveit 193AKathy Tyers 247ARyan Uselmann 120Aita Vandenbroek 152AChristopher Vardeman 112ARobert Vardeman 111AJoseph Vasicek 173AJohn Vise 459AJetse De Vries 81AJuliette Wade 208AGeorge Van Wagner 196AVanessa Van Wagner 195AJerad Walters 220AMichael Ward 167ADaniel Waters 415AJacob Weisman 105ARina Weisman 106AMichelle Welch 446ADan Wells 199ALinda Wenzelburger 377A

The best way to reach us is via our website, www.worldfantasy2009.org, or by email. For specific areas, see our contact list below. For areas not listed there, or for general information, email [email protected], or write to World Fantasy Convention 2009, PO Box 61363, Sunnyvale, CA 94088-1363.

Our current staff list is as follows:

* Chair: David Gallaher ([email protected])* Programming: Alan Beatts ([email protected])* Dealers Room: David W. Clark ([email protected])* Hotel/Facilities: Elspeth Kovar ([email protected])* Art Show: Carl Zwanzig ([email protected])* Membership/Registration: Glenn Glazer ([email protected])* Progress Reports: Tom Whitmore ([email protected])* Hospitality: Kevin Roche/Andrew Trembley ([email protected])* Website: Cheryl Morgan & Kevin Standlee ([email protected])* Autograph Session: Gigi Gridley ([email protected])* Publisher Liaison: Rina Weisman ([email protected])* Program Book: Patrick Swenson/Eleanor Farrell ([email protected])* Media Relations: ([email protected])

The 2009 World Fantasy Convention is a production of San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions, Inc., a nonprofit corporation dedicated to

the promotion of science fiction and fantastical literature.

Committee and Contacts

Robert Wexler 109ALee Whiteside 53AAnn Wilkes 333AJuson Williams 104AKaren Williams 237ABill Willingham 348AMike Willmoth 33ADave Willoughby 2ACliff Winnig 366ALaurel Winter 8ABeth Wodzinski 478ADavid Wood 165AJonathan Wood 480AMackay Wood 164ACindy Yan 191AChristie Yant 469AYoana Yotova 203ADebra Young 314ADoselle Young 284AJanine Young 285AKate Yule 86AKaren Zimmerman 91A