{"id":458,"date":"2006-08-30T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2006\/08\/30\/worldcon-highlights\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:50:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:50:14","slug":"worldcon-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2006\/08\/30\/worldcon-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldcon Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(above, left to right: me, Lou Anders, Chris Roberson, Allison Baker)\n

I\u2019ve been dreading doing this wrapup since I got home from the 64th World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim. Too much good happened last week, too little time to fully relate it all. It was a dynamite show and I had a blast. Here\u2019s a word association game of a few friends from this past week\u2026<\/p>\n

Chris Roberson\u2026my homie\u2026my Worldcon roomie\u2026everyone\u2019s favorite World Fantasy-nominated barfly\u2026\u201dWhat time is it? 10am? Cool. Time to hit the bar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lou Anders\u2026my other homie\u2026Pyr\u2019s editorial director extraordinaire\u2026if you missed the Pyr panel on Friday, then you missed what would happen if P.T. Barnum sold sf\u2026dominant\u2026<\/p>\n

Alan Beatts and Jude Feldman\u2026great meal together at the White House (in Anaheim, not 1600 Penn. Ave.)\u2026a fabulous booth for Borderlands Books in the back end of the dealer\u2019s room\u2026.it felt like a home back there\u2026booksignings are always so smooth with these guys\u2026<\/p>\n

Karen Jones\u2026always there to laugh at my pain, and mock me when appropriate in the bar\u2026currently using the spare seconds of her life to learn Japanese\u2026still the Smartest Woman on the Planet\u2026<\/p>\n

Allison Baker\u2026here she is\u2026there she goes\u2026:) (see photo above)<\/p>\n

Diana Gill\u2026another Worldcon, another stylin\u2019 Eos cocktail party production\u2026fabulous as ever\u2026<\/p>\n

Irene Gallo\u2026the point person for the Hugo Artist resolution, and one of the most dedicated people I know\u2026in her spare time, she\u2019s the 2006 Chesley Award winning-Art Director\u2026she does it all, folks\u2026a pleasure, as always\u2026thanks for everything, Irene\u2026<\/p>\n

Dave Seeley\u2026one of my favorite artists, and one of my favorite people\u2026forgot to tell you congrats on your cover feature for ART SCENE INTERNATIONAL, and also congrats on your Worldcon Art Show Award\u2026<\/p>\n

Jim Minz\u2026genius Sunday excursion to Laguna Beach\u2026that was brilliant all around\u2026send those rock band photos when you can, and I\u2019ll post \u2019em.<\/p>\n

Liza Groen Trombi\u2026a con would suck without Liza\u2026no one wears expensive food on her head with such style and panache\u2026:)<\/p>\n

Amelia Beamer\u2026we trade each other\u2019s badge identities when the mood hits us\u2026just because\u2026<\/p>\n

Kirsten Gong-Wong\u2026good to see you, hubby Aaron, and the wondrous Teddy\u2026<\/p>\n

Karlyn Pratt\u2026never a dull conversation\u2026that was fun, wasn\u2019t it?\u2026see you in Austin\u2026<\/p>\n

William Lexner\u2026great seeing you, your wife, and the entire BWB crew\u2026.holy cow, you cats know how to party\u2026.THAT was impressive on Saturday night\u2026.<\/p>\n

Rani Graff\u2026too bad you live halfway around the world\u2026we\u2019ll be in touch in the coming months, I would imagine\u2026great seeing you again\u2026<\/p>\n

Sean Williams\u2026wish I would\u2019ve spent more time with this guy\u2026wish he could come to more cons over here\u2026.<\/p>\n

Garth Nix\u2026we\u2019ve gotta work on our doubles pool-playing, brother. Next time though! \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

Jonathan Strahan\u2026he flies across multiple time zones, with family in tow, and somehow makes time for everyone\u2026<\/p>\n

Deanna Hoak\u2026how many 40-year-old women get CARDED? I mean, seriously\u2026if you need evidence, here<\/a> you go.<\/p>\n

Jacob Weisman & Rina\u2026.get your copies of Tiptree\u2019s HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER<\/a> before they\u2019re all gone again\u2026congrats, Jacob\u2026:)<\/p>\n

Andrew Wheeler\u2026great seeing you at the Eos party\u2026been reading your Hornswoggler blog for a while\u2026we\u2019ll be in touch soon\u2026<\/p>\n

Paul Cornell, and wife Caroline\u2026good to see both of you, and thanks for the wisdom re: BRITISH SUMMERTIME (more soon, re: your followup emails, which were much appreciated)\u2026 <\/p>\n

Jetse De Vries\u2026great(!) INTERZONE party\u2026I\u2019m convinced he\u2019s conquered the need to sleep\u2026how does this man do it?<\/p>\n

Cheryl Morgan\u2026from FinnCon to Worldcon, and she doesn\u2019t skip a beat\u2026.clearly, sleight-of-hand that I\u2019ve yet to master\u2026thanks for all the wisdom, Cheryl\u2026<\/p>\n

Kevin Standlee\u2026speaking of wisdom\u2026presiding over a successful WSFS meeting must be like simultaneously tracking the paths of 400 airplanes in your head\u2026mad skills\u2026also thanks to Deb Geisler, Pat McMurray, and Donald Eastlake\u2026<\/p>\n

Tom Kidd\u2026I love Tom\u2019s paintings and it was very cool that he was the one who introduced the Artistic Achievement Chesley, and handed me the plaque\u2026<\/p>\n

Bob Eggleton\u2026I enjoyed that impromptu talk we had on Sunday\u2026I really appreciated that.<\/p>\n

Kenn Brown\u2026glad we finally met\u2026very good to see you and Chris Wren\u2026<\/p>\n

Greg Ketter\u2026DreamHaven rocks\u2026thanks for the COVER STORY signing\u2026<\/p>\n

Alan Dean Foster\u2026I\u2019ll Google \u201cIvan Aivazovsky\u201d later today, and thanks for the kind words re: the SAGRAMANDA cover\u2026<\/p>\n

Bill Christ\u2026by chance, started the show hanging out with you, and by chance, ended the trip crossing paths with you at the airport\u2026.see you in Minneapolis sometime down the road, hopefully\u2026<\/p>\n

Andrea Senchy, Jannie Shea, Mike Willmoth\u2026and all with ASFA\u2026it\u2019s an honor to be this year\u2019s Artistic Achievement winner, and I\u2019m very grateful for the consideration\u2026another great ASFA suite, and thanks for everyone\u2019s hard work for me and all of the other artists\u2026<\/p>\n

All Art Show staff\u2026Joni Dashoff, Laura Domitz, Jerome Scott, Elizabeth Klein-Lebbink, Ted and Bonnie Atwood, and all who made this beast run smoothly for the artists\u2026thank you!!<\/p>\n

Good to see folks like James & Jeanette Gurney (absolutely loved seeing your paintings, Jim), Mark Kelly of LOCUS ONLINE, Charles Brown, Karen Haber, Cory Doctorow, Robert Silverberg, Deborah Layne, Paula Guran, Jeremy & Jason, Jim Lively, Ian McDonald, Paolo Bacigalupi, George Mann of Solaris, Kay Kenyon, Mike Resnick, Fiona Avery, John Scalzi (glad we finally met), David Louis Edelman (ditto the previous), Liz Gorinsky, Jim Frenkel, John Joseph Adams (the Metal God himself), Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden, David Hartwell (congrats and long-overdue Hugo), Jaime Levine, Jane Frank, Alan Beck, Erik Gist, Ben Yalow, Betsy Mitchell, Betty Ballantine, Marty Halpern, Edward Morris, Samantha Ling, Lisa Rogers Lowrance, Jae Brim, John Lorentz, Jill Eastlake, Craig Miller, and I-know-I\u2019m-forgetting-people-but-it\u2019s-time-to-draw. It was a dynamite show.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(above, left to right: me, Lou Anders, Chris Roberson, Allison Baker) I\u2019ve been dreading doing this wrapup since I got home from the 64th World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim. Too much good happened last week, too little time to fully relate it all. It was a dynamite show and I had a blast. Here\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/WC20061.jpg?fit=794%2C535","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-7o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}