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Radcon Cosplayers Alaire Bowen Victoria Suebsanh And Dani February 2012
Created as the brain child of Edgar Lincoln and his wife Norma Barret-Lincoln with the help of friends, some of whom are still involved today, RadCon is a not-for-profit organization that promotes education in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Every February during President's Day weekend, RadCon hosts a weekend long convention at the Red Lion Hotel in Pasco, Washington. Highlights RadCon hosts many events during the convention and promotes all aspects of science-fiction, including gaming, art, literature, films and science. Programming and panels consists of topics including art, writing, science, films, anime, costuming, and gaming. Events include an anime room, art show, general gaming, LAN gaming, a masquerade and room parties. The Region 5 summit is also held in conjunction with RadCon. The 2009 guests of honor included artist Sarah Clemens, Joe Kucan (Kane), and Alma Alexander. Past guests from other years include Nene Thomas, Alexander James Adams, Alan Marshall Clark, Jef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasco, Washington
Pasco ( ) is a city in, and the county seat of, Franklin County, Washington, United States. It had a population of 59,781 at the 2010 census, and 75,432 as of the July 1, 2019 Census Bureau estimate. Pasco is one of three cities (the others being Kennewick and Richland) that make up Washington state's Tri-Cities region, a mid-sized metropolitan area of approximately 296,224 people. History On October 16, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped in the Pasco area, at a site now commemorated by Sacajawea State Park. The area was frequented by fur trappers and gold traders. In the 1880s, the Northern Pacific Railway was built near the Columbia River, bringing many settlers to the area. Pasco was officially incorporated on September 3, 1891. It was named by Virgil Bogue, a construction engineer for the Northern Pacific Railway after Cerro de Pasco, a city in the Peruvian Andes, where he had helped build a railroad. In its early years Pasco was a small railroad town, but th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radcon Cosplayers Alaire Bowen Victoria Suebsanh And Dani February 2012
Created as the brain child of Edgar Lincoln and his wife Norma Barret-Lincoln with the help of friends, some of whom are still involved today, RadCon is a not-for-profit organization that promotes education in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Every February during President's Day weekend, RadCon hosts a weekend long convention at the Red Lion Hotel in Pasco, Washington. Highlights RadCon hosts many events during the convention and promotes all aspects of science-fiction, including gaming, art, literature, films and science. Programming and panels consists of topics including art, writing, science, films, anime, costuming, and gaming. Events include an anime room, art show, general gaming, LAN gaming, a masquerade and room parties. The Region 5 summit is also held in conjunction with RadCon. The 2009 guests of honor included artist Sarah Clemens, Joe Kucan (Kane), and Alma Alexander. Past guests from other years include Nene Thomas, Alexander James Adams, Alan Marshall Clark, Jef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Command Conquer
''Command & Conquer'' (''C&C'') is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game franchise, first developed by Westwood Studios. The first game was one of the earliest of the RTS genre, itself based on Westwood Studios' influential strategy game ''Dune II'' and introducing trademarks followed in the rest of the series. This includes full-motion video cutscenes with an ensemble cast to progress the story, as opposed to digitally in-game rendered cutscenes. Westwood Studios was taken over by Electronic Arts in 1998 and closed down in 2003. The studio and some of its members were absorbed into EA Los Angeles, which continued development on the series. History After Westwood Studios developed the critically acclaimed ''Dune II'', ''Computer Gaming World'' reported in 1993 that the company would not use the ''Dune'' license for Westwood's next strategy game "mostly because the programmers are tired of sand". The magazine stated that it would have "new terrain and enemies", and that "the des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Alexander
Alma A. Hromic (born July 5, 1963), known by her pen name Alma Alexander, is a fantasy writer whose novels include the "Worldweavers" young adult series, ''The Secrets of Jin-Shei'' and its sequel ''The Embers of Heaven'', ''The Hidden Queen,'' and ''Changer of Days.'' She is a native of Yugoslavia and grew up in various African countries, including Zambia, Eswatini, and South Africa, also spending time in England and New Zealand before moving to the United States. She lives in Bellingham, Washington with her husband. In addition to her fantasy novels, Alexander has published a memoir about growing up in Africa and an epistolary novel (written with her husband, then an acquaintance from a Usenet newsgroup) about the NATO war in Yugoslavia. She has also published numerous book reviews, travelogues, essays, poetry, and other articles in various magazines (e.g., Swans (magazine), Swans) around the world. Her story "The Painting" won the 2000 BBC Short Story Contest. In 2009, she do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nene Thomas
Nene Tina Thomas (born August 31, 1968) is an artist living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She specialises in fantasy art, particularly faeries. Career Her first professional job was in 1994 when, according to her website, the publisher Wizards of the Coast approached her to contribute art work to ''Magic: The Gathering''. ''Parting the Veil: The Art of Nene Thomas'' was published by Chimera Publishing in 2010. She partnered with fantasy artist Cindy McClure to create the ''Emerald Enticement'' fantasy doll, which is part of her Enchanted Maidens of Dragon Lore collection.Miazga, Mike (August–September 2010)"Perfect Pairing: Fantasy artist Nene Thomas and doll artist Cindy McClure team up". ''Doll Reader'' 38 (6): 34. Her husband Steven Plagman designs and cuts mats for her, and she provided chapter illustrations for a high fantasy novel that he wrote. She creates resin fairies with translucent wings, including one called "Prelude in Blue". She illustrated the card "Faerie Drag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander James Adams
Alexander James Adams (born November 8, 1962) is an American singer, musician and songwriter in the Celtic and World music genres. He blends mythical, fantasy, and traditional themes in performances, switching between instrumental fiddle and songs accompanied by guitar, bodhrán, and fiddle playing. He has also been an artist in the field of filk music and won multiple Pegasus awards. Adams performed as Heather Alexander for 25 years before beginning to tour as Alexander James Adams. Adams discusses his transition and career in this interview. His website refers to him as the "heir" to Heather Alexander, and continues to credit songs originally released as Heather Alexander under that name. The last public performance under the name Heather was at OryCon 2006. His debut as Alexander James Adams was at Seattle's Norwescon 30, on April 6, 2007. Career Mid 1980s - 2006 A native of California, Alexander began performing original music in the mid-eighties for friends, Renaissance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Marshall Clark
Alan Marshall Clark is an author and an artist who is best known as the illustrator and book cover painter of many pieces of horror fiction. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for his 2005 book ''Siren Promised'' (co-written by Jeremy Robert Johnson). He has won the World Fantasy Award for his illustrations ("Best Artist 1994"), and he has won many Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists' Chesley Awards. His book ''The Paint in My Blood'' was nominated for the "Best Art Book" for the 2005 Locus Awards. It was also nominated for the 2005 International Horror Guild Award for their "Non-fiction" category. His artwork has been featured on many signed limited editions from Cemetery Dance Publications, Lonely Road Books, Subterranean Press, Earthling Publications, and many other publishers of hardcovers as well as illustrations on the covers and interiors of textbooks, children's books, paperbacks, magazines and CDs. He received his Bachel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Briggs
Patricia Briggs (born 1965) is an American writer of Fantasy novel, fantasy since 1993, and author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. Biography Patricia Briggs was born in 1965 in Butte, Montana, United States. She now resides in Benton City, WA Briggs began writing in 1990 and published her first novel ''Masques'' in 1993. She wrote primarily in the fantasy genre until her editor asked her to write an urban fantasy, since the genre was showing promising growth. Briggs wrote ''Moon Called'', which was published in 2006 and made it to the ''USA Today'' bestseller lists. The second book in the series, ''Blood Bound'', hit The New York Times Best Seller list, ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. The third book, ''Iron Kissed'', was a number one ''New York Times'' bestseller and subsequent novels have continued to perform similarly in sales. Published works Sianim series #''Masques'' (1993) also in Shifter's Wolf #''Wolfsbane'' (2010) also in Shifter's Wolf #''Steal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Resnick
Michael Diamond Resnick (; March 5, 1942 – January 9, 2020) was an American science fiction writer and editor. He won five Hugo awards and a Nebula award, and was the guest of honor at Chicon 7. He was the executive editor of the defunct magazine ''Jim Baen's Universe,'' and the creator and editor of ''Galaxy's Edge'' magazine. Biography Resnick was born in Chicago on March 5, 1942. He was a 1959 graduate of Highland Park High School in Highland Park, Illinois. He sold his first piece of writing in 1957, while still in high school. He attended the University of Chicago from 1959 to 1961 and met his future wife, Carol L. Cain, there. The couple began dating in mid-December 1960 and were engaged by the end of the month. They were married in 1961. In the 1960s and early 1970s, Resnick wrote over 200 erotic adult novels under various pseudonyms and edited three men's magazines and seven tabloid newspapers. For over a decade he wrote a weekly column about horse racing and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Tayler
Howard V. Tayler (born February 29, 1968 in Florida) is the creator of the webcomic ''Schlock Mercenary''. He worked as a volunteer missionary for the LDS Church, then graduated from Brigham Young University. Using his degree in music composition, he started an independent record label. While working at Novell, Tayler began online publication of ''Schlock Mercenary''. He quit his job at Novell several years later in order to work on the webcomic full-time. ''Schlock Mercenary'' has been nominated multiple times and won the Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards in two different categories, and the webcomic has been nominated four times for a Hugo Award. Tayler spends time regularly during the week drawing at a local comic book and gaming store, as well as producing a weekly writing tips podcast called ''Writing Excuses'' with fellow authors Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, and producer Jordan Sanderson. The podcast has been nominated for a Hugo Award in 2011, 2012 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Ski
Luke Collis Sienkowski (born January 14, 1974), better known as the great Luke Ski or simply as Luke Ski, is an American parody, filk, and rap artist, who writes, records and performs comedy music. The decapitalization of "the great" in Sienkowski's stage name is his own preferred spelling, and the title has appeared as such on all of his albums to date. The name was partially inspired by the Muppets character Gonzo, who often proclaimed himself "The Great Gonzo". Sienkowski had the most requested song on the Dr. Demento radio show in 2002, 2003, 2011, and 2014 with his songs "Peter Parker" featuring Sudden Death, "Stealing Like a Hobbit", "Snoopy the Dogg", and "Fake Adult" respectively. Topics of his parodies have included ''The Lord of the Rings'', ''Star Wars'', ''Spider-Man'', Keanu Reeves and Hamlet. Sienkowski is best known for bringing parodies of rap and hip-hop to Science Fiction conventions. He sings to pre-recorded music, often in costume or with props. Much of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dalmas
John Robert Jones ( – ) wrote science fiction as John Dalmas. He wrote many books based on military and governmental themes throughout his career. His first published novel was ''The Yngling'', serialized beginning in the October–November 1969 issue of ''Analog''. Bibliography Collection of short stories * ''Otherwhens, Otherwheres: Favorite Tales'' (2002) Fanglith * ''Fanglith'', Baen Books, 1985, 1987 * ''Return to Fanglith'', Baen Books, 1987 Lion of Farside * ''The Lion of Farside'', Baen Books, 1995: a simple American farmer marries a beautiful redhead with green eyes. When she is kidnapped by her family and taken back to the magical world she was born in, he buys a revolver and rifle and follows to rescue her. Complications occur. His guns do not work, magic abounds, and he is captured by slavers the moment he crosses into the new world. * ''The Bavarian Gate'', Baen Books, 1997 * ''The Lion Returns'', Baen Books, 1999 Lizard War * ''The Lizard War'', Baen Books, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
