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60th World Science Fiction Convention
The 60th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as ConJose, was held on 29 August–2 September 2002 at the McEnery Convention Center, the Fairmont San Jose, and the Hilton San Jose & Towers in San Jose, California, United States. The convention was co-chaired by Tom Whitmore and Kevin Standlee and organized under the auspices of San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions. Participants Guests of Honor * Vernor Vinge (writer) * David Cherry (artist) * Jan and Bjo Trimble (fans) * Ferdinand Feghoot (imaginary) * Tad Williams (toastmaster) Other program participants Special appearance Patrick Stewart made a special appearance at ConJose. He talked about upcoming films ''Star Trek Nemesis'' and '' X-Men 2'', as well as his experiences on '' Star Trek: The Next Generation''. Awards 2002 Hugo Awards * Best Novel: ''American Gods'' by Neil Gaiman * Best Novella: "Fast Times at Fairmont High" by Vernor Vinge (''The Collected Stories of Vernor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Kage Baker
Kage Baker (June 10, 1952 – January 31, 2010Obituary: Kage Baker " SF Site, January 31, 2010) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Biography Baker was born and raised in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, Hollywood, California, and lived in Pismo Beach, California, Pismo Beach later in life. Before becoming a professional writer she spent many years in theater, including teaching Elizabethan English as a second language. Her unusual first name (pronounced like the word ''cage'') is a combination of the names of her two grandmothers, Kate and Genevieve. She is best known for her "Dr. Zeus Inc., Company" series of historical time travel science fiction. Her first stories were published in ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' in 1997, and her first novel, ''In the Garden of Iden'', by H ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold ( ; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She is an acclaimed writer, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Her novella "The Mountains of Mourning" won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In the fantasy genre, ''The Curse of Chalion'' won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for ''Paladin of Souls''. In 2011 she was awarded the Edward E. Smith Memorial Award, Skylark Award. She has won two Hugo Award for Best Series, Hugo Awards for Best Series, in 2017 for the Vorkosigan Saga and in 2018 for the World of the Five Gods. The Science Fiction Writers of America named her its 36th SFWA Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Grand Master in 2019. The bulk of Bujold's works comprises three series: the Vorkosigan Saga, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobias Buckell
Tobias S. Buckell (born 1979) is a New York Times Bestselling author and World Fantasy Award winner born in the Caribbean. He grew up in Grenada and spent time in the British and US Virgin Islands, which influence much of his work. His novels and almost one hundred stories have been translated into nineteen different languages. His work has been nominated for awards like the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and the Astounding Award for Best New Science Fiction Author. His 2008 novel, '' Halo: The Cole Protocol'', made ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. He currently lives in Bluffton, Ohio, where he works as an instructor at the Stonecoast MFA in the Creative Writing program. Biography Buckell was born in 1979 in Grenada in the Caribbean, where he was raised on a boat. In 1999, he attended Clarion Workshop. Not long after that, he made his first sale, "Fish Merchant", to Scott Edelman at ''Science Fiction Age''. The story appeared in the March, 2000 issue. About the time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginjer Buchanan
Ginjer Buchanan (born in Pittsburgh, December 12, 1944) was Editor-in-Chief at Ace Books and Roc Books, the two science-fiction and fantasy imprints of Penguin Group (USA). Background Buchanan worked at Ace since 1984, was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award, and won a Hugo Award in 2014 for her editing. She was a Guest of Honor at OryCon in 2008, Foolscap in 2000, and ArmadilloCon in 1988, and was Toastmaster at the World Fantasy Convention in 1989. Buchanan retired in March 2014, after 30 years with Ace.io9.gizmodo.com/the-end-of-an-era-ginjer-buchanan-is-retiring-from-ace-1531969953 She is also occasionally a fiction writer. Her published work includes three short stories in the anthologies ''Alternate Kennedys'' (her story "The End of the Summer by the Great Sea" was included in the anthology), ''Whatdunnits II'', and ''By Any Other Fame'', all edited by Mike Resnick, and also the novel ''White Silence'' (1999), a '' Highlander'' tie-in. Prior to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles N
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Brooks
Terence Dean Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two film novelizations. He has written 23 ''New York Times'' bestsellers during his writing career, and has sold over 25 million copies of his books in print. He is one of the biggest-selling living fantasy writers. Early life Brooks was born in the rural Midwestern town of Sterling, Illinois, and spent a large part of his life living there. He is an alumnus of Hamilton College, earning his B.A. in English literature in 1966. He later obtained a J.D. degree from Washington and Lee University. He was a practising attorney before becoming a full-time author. Career Brooks had been a writer since high school, writing mainly in the genres of science fiction, western, fiction, and non-fiction. One day, in his early college life, he was given a copy of J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings'', which inspired him to write in one genre. While To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Brin
Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and author of science fiction. He has won the Hugo,Who's Getting Your Vote? , October 29, 2008, '''' , and s. His novel '' |
Kent Brewster
Kent Brewster (born 1961) is a writer, editor, and publisher. He was the publisher and frequent editor of the Hugo Award-nominated '' Speculations'', a magazine of science fiction and other speculative fiction, from its inception in 1994 until it ceased operating in 2008. Brewster's short story, "“In the Pound, Near Breaktime," was a finalist for the 1996 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Brewster was born in the UK but lives and works in Silicon Valley, as an engineer for Pinterest Pinterest is an American image sharing and social media service designed to enable saving and discovery of information (specifically "ideas") on the internet using images, and on a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos, in the form of pinboard .... His web-based prototypes and demonstrations include Badge Any Feed with Pipes, Blog Juice and Netflix Widgets. References External links Kent’s home page.Blog JuiceBadge Any Feed with PipesIn the Pound, Near BreaktimeReturn of Netflix Widget ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff (born 1954) is an American sci-fi and fantasy author. Personal life Bohnhoff, mother of three, has been married since 1981 to Jeff Bohnhoff. The couple and their children are members of the Baháʼí Faith. She began her interest in science fiction after watching ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' as a child. the 'top 40' club act". Along with such struggles is the spiritual one of purity of motive — "I, too, love applause, and to me the act of sharing music is more rewarding than writing it" and which genre of music was spiritual? She writes that at one point, eight months pregnant, she had an opportunity to work at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley for "fifteen hour days" but learned that "…I was a musician and a writer by natural inclination, not a celebrity" and "found a deeper understanding of Baháʼu'lláh's admonition to be independent of all save God." She resolves the conflict noting "Any musician who has heard a song come to life out of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Bisson
Terry is a unisex given name, derived from French Thierry and Theodoric. It can also be used as a diminutive nickname for the names Teresa or Theresa (feminine) or Terence or Terrier (masculine). People Male * Terry Albritton (1955–2005), American shot putter, world record holder in 1976 * Terry Antonis (born 1993), Australian association football player * Terry A. Davis, (1969–2018), American programmer * Terry Baddoo, CNN journalist * Terry Balsamo (born 1972), American lead guitarist for the rock band Evanescence * Terry Beckner (born 1997), American football player * Terry Bollea (born 1953), professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan * Terry Bowden (born 1956), American football coach and former player * Terry Bradshaw (born 1948), American former National Football League quarterback * Terry Branstad (born 1946), American politician * Terry Brooks (born 1944), American fantasy writer * Terry Brooks (basketball) (born c. 1968), American college baske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Berg
Carol Berg (born 1948) is the author of fantasy novels, including the books from the ''Rai-Kirah'' series, ''Song of the Beast'', the books from ''The Bridge of D'Arnath'' series, the ''Lighthouse'' novels, and ''Collegia Magica''. She also writes the Chimera series under the pen name Cate Glass. Berg holds a degree in mathematics from Rice University, and a degree in computer science from the University of Colorado. Before writing full-time, she designed software. She lives in Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the wes ..., and is the mother of three boys. Bibliography The Rai-Kirah series # ''Transformation'' () (2000) # ''Revelation'' () (2001) # ''Restoration'' () (2002) The Bridge of D'Arnath series # ''Son of Avonar'' () (2004) # ''Guardians of the Keep' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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