TURNABOUT INTRUDER: Paolo Baciagalupi and Irene Gallo trade places for a night; Paolo claims to have told several unsuspecting authors just how bad their covers really are, while Irene cheerfully let everyone know that their tawdry lives were nothing more than a capitalistic charade

GOOD TIMES AT THE HARPERCOLLINS/EOS PARTY (l to r): Traci Picacio; Eos executive editor and hostess supreme Diana Gill; Jude Feldman

MORE EOS GOOD TIMES (l to r): Jack Skillingstead; Nancy Kress; Ellen Datlow; Sheila Williams

PYR’S PARTY ROCKED (l to r): L.E. Modesitt, Jr. and Lou Anders at the Pyr Party celebrating Ian McDonald’s Hugo nomination for Best Novel with BRASYL

CHILLIN’ AT THE PYR PARTY (l to r): Caroline Symcox; Paul Cornell; George Mann (back); Carsten Polzin

LET THEM EAT ART: My cover illustration for the new issue of ASIMOV’S gets the chocolate treatment at the ASIMOV’S party

HUGO NIGHT: In the green room, before the Hugo Awards (l to r) — Yours truly; Traci Picacio; Hugo finalist Lou Anders; Caroline Symcox; Hugo finalist Paul Cornell

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROC: Penguin’s Ace/Roc editor supreme (and Hugo finalist) Ginjer Buchanan (far left) represents in style at the post-Hugos festivities, along with Farah Mendelsohn and Traci Picacio