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Guests of Honor

Writer Guest of Honor: Catherine Asaro

Catherine Asaro (Shot by David Bartell, used by permission)Catherine Asaro is a bestselling novelist of more then twenty-five books, including near future thrillers, science fiction, and fantasy. She is also a dancer, a teacher, and a musician. Her novel The Quantum Rose and her novella “The Spacetime Pool” both won the coveted the Nebula® Award. Among her many other distinctions, she is a multiple winner of the Readers Choice Award from Analog magazine and a three time recipient of the RT BOOKClub Award for “Best Science Fiction Novel.” Her most recent books are the novel Carnelians (Baen/Simon & Schuster) and the anthology of her short fiction titled Aurora in Four Voices, which is available from ISFiC Press in hardcover. All of her titles are available in audio form and her multiple award-winning novellas “The City of Cries” and “The Spacetime Pool” are available as eBooks. Her most recent eBooks are the Lightning Strike duology, based on the novel Catch the Lightning and available on Kindle, Nook, and ePub.

Catherine has two music CDs out and she is currently working on her third. Her first CD, Diamond Star, is the soundtrack for her novel of the same name, performed with the rock band Point Valid. She appears as a vocalist at cons, clubs, and other venues in the US and abroad, including as the Guest of Honor at the Denmark and New Zealand National Science Fiction Conventions. She performs selections from her work in a multimedia project that mixes literature, dance, and music, with Greg Adams as her accompanist. She is also a theoretical physicist with a PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard, and teaches part time in the physics department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Visit her at www.facebook.com/Catherine.Asaro

Web: www.catherineasaro.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Catherine.Asaro
Twitter: @Catherine_Asaro

Artist Guest of Honor: Lee Moyer

Lee MoyerLee Moyer is a Chesley Award winning Illustrator, Designer and Art Director from Portland, Oregon whose curious penchant for bizarre Kickstarter projects has, of late, been much remarked upon (and indeed featured in Forbes and elsewhere).

His work has been featured in many Spectrum annuals, A Lovecraft Retrospective – Artists inspired by H.P.L., D’Artiste – Digital Painting, Communication Arts and Design Graphics magazines, and at the Society of Illustrators, the National Zoo and the Smithsonian Institution’s Natural History Museum.

Covers: Iain M. Banks, Mary Robinette Kowal, M. K. Hobson, Philip Jose Farmer, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Michael Bishop, Mark Hodder, Edgar Pangborn, Jack McDevitt, Alan Moore, HP Lovecraft, Joe Haldeman, Tad Williams and Raymond Chandler.

Posters: The Call of Cthulhu, Tori Amos, Alfred Hitchcock, J.R.R. Tolkien, David Sedaris, Mo Willems, Athol Fugard, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andre 3000, John Mellencamp and Stephen King.

Known Associates: Inveterate cattle-rustler, Keith Baker (Eberron, Gloom, The Doom That Came to Atlantic City, The Ebon Mirror, At Your Service, En Route, Space Pirates, Power Brokers, et al.); that auteur of the unlikely, Michael Swanwick (A Geography of Unknown Lands, The Best of Michael Swanwick, Dismembrance); Annotator Horribilis, Kim Newman (Diogenes Club series); mad, bad and dangerous to know Caitlín R. Kiernan (Two Worlds and In Between, Confessions of a Five Chambered Heart, et al.); surprising little spitfire, Elaine Lee (Starstruck, Honey West Series, et al.); mentor and dementor, Michael Wm. Kaluta (Starstruck, Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales, The Abyss, et al.), Sardonic and Ironic Rob Heinsoo (Dungeons & Dragons, 13th Age, et al.); and moonstruck playwright Jeff Goode (Dracula Rides Again, Love Loves a Pornographer, and Marley’s Ghost).

Lee collaborated with Peter S. Beagle, Ray Bradbury, Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Jacqueline Carey, Neil Gaiman, Charlaine Harris, Robin Hobb, N.K. Jemisin, George R. R. Martin, Terry Pratchett, and Patrick Rothfuss for Check These Out, his 2013 Literary Pin-up Calendar.

He plays a mean game of Anagrams.

Web: www.leemoyer.com
Blog: leemoyer.wordpress.com
Twitter: @LccMoyer
Facebook: facebook.com/leemoyer

Science Guest of Honor: Edward Tenner

Edward Tenner

Edward Tenner, © Denise Applewhite

Edward Tenner was originally a specialist in modern German history, earning a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and being chosen for membership in the Harvard Society of Fellows. After a research associate position at the University of Chicago helping his former teacher William H. McNeill with the bibliography of the future bestseller Plagues and Peoples on disease in history, he chose scientific publishing instead of teaching. He was a science editor and an executive editor at Princeton University Press from 1975 to 1991, where he published everything from mathematical monographs to bird field guides, and best selling popular science books including Richard Feynman’s QED.

When he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991 he decided to become a full-time writer, and the resulting book, Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences has been one of the most widely discussed and translated books in the history of technology, going beyond cornucopianism and neo-Luddism to consider innovation’s real paradoxes, from invasive species to the disappointing results of productivity gains, which remain with us today. In Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity, he showed how invention changes human behavior and vice versa, looking at everyday objects from running shoes to keyboards and eyeglasses in a new way. Professor Howard Segal, reviewing the book in Nature, called the author “a worthy successor to such luminaries as business philosopher Peter Drucker, social critic Lewis Mumford and historian Lynn White in connecting technology’s past, present and future.”

Edward Tenner has spoken at leading colleges and professional, corporate, and government meetings, including Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Caltech, USNA Annapolis (Highlands Forum), the Air Force Research Laboratory, Microsoft and Intel Research, IDEO, Design for User Experience (DUX), AAAS, the American Physical Society, the American Society of Safety Engineers, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Warburg Pincus, In-Q-Tel, and TED. He has been a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers. He is now a senior research associate of the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center and an affiliated scholar of Princeton’s Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies.

His current research is on the paradoxically positive consequences of negative events, technological and otherwise.

Web: www.edwardtenner.com

Special Guest of Honor: Gardner Dozois

Gardner Dozos

Gardner Raymond Dozois (born July 23, 1947) is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004. He has won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, both as an editor and a writer of short fiction.

Dozois is perhaps best known as an editor, winning a record 15 Hugo Awards for Best Professional Editor (having won nearly every year between 1988 and his retirement from Asimov’s in 2004). In addition to his work with Asimov’s (which he also co-founded in 1976), he also worked in the 1970s with magazines such as Galaxy Science Fiction, If, Worlds of Fantasy, and Worlds of Tomorrow.

Dozois is a well-known short fiction anthologist. After resigning from his Asimov’s position, he remained the editor of the anthology series The Year’s Best Science Fiction, published annually since 1984. And, with Jack Dann, he has edited a long series of themed anthologies, each with a self-explanatory title such as Cats, Dinosaurs, Seaserpents, or Hackers.

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Norwescon Grand Master: Terry Brooks

Terry BrooksA writer since the age of ten, Terry Brooks published his first novel, The Sword of Shannara, in 1977. It became the first work of fiction ever to appear on the New York Times Trade Paperback Bestseller List, where it remained for over five months. He has written twenty-six bestselling novels, movie adaptations of Hook and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and a memoir on his writing life, Sometimes the Magic Works. He has sold over thirty million copies of his books domestically and is published worldwide. His Magic Kingdom series is currently under option at Warner Brothers. His Shannara series is being adapted by Sonar Entertainment. His latest novel, Wards of Faerie, was published in August 2012. His next book, Bloodfire Quest, will be published in mid-March 2013. The author lives with his wife Judine in the Pacific Northwest.

Spotlight Publisher: Baen Books

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Baen Books is an American publishing company established in 1983 by long time science fiction publisher and editor Jim Baen. It is a science fiction and fantasy publishing house that emphasizes space opera, hard science fiction, military science fiction, and fantasy.”

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Baen Books will be represented by Tony Daniel.

Web: www.baen.com
Twitter: @baenbooks
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BaenBooks