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RavenCon Gaming-JM200204
RavenCon is an annual American science fiction convention founded in 2006 and held in Richmond, Virginia. The name "RavenCon" was chosen as a tribute to author Edgar Allan Poe, who lived in Richmond for a time. The convention runs over 300 hours of programming and activities featuring authors and panelists across genres, including horror, sci-fi, fantasy, military fiction, and other areas of fan cultures. RavenCon 17 will be held April 26-28, 2024 at Virginia Crossings with editor guest of honor Ellen Datlow and author guest of honor Ursula Vernon, Ursula Vernon, aka T. Kingfisher. The Webster Award In 2018, RavenCon launched The Clarence Howard “Bud” Webster Award in memory of friend of the convention, Bud Webster, who passed away in 2016. The award is to recognize outstanding achievements in writing by Virginia writers. Past Winners * 2022 R.R. Virdi for The First Binding * 2021 R.S. Belcher for The Ghost Dance Judgement * 2019 Cass Morris for From Unseen Fire * 2018 Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JM200609 , a religious denomination
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JM may refer to: Places * Jamaica (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code JM) * Jay Em, Wyoming, a community in the United States Businesses and organizations * Jack's Mannequin, a piano rock band * Jama'at al-Jihad al-Islami, an Islamic terrorist group active in Central Asia * Air Jamaica (IATA code JM) * Jaysh Muhammad, an Iraqi insurgency group * Jerónimo Martins, a Portuguese company * Johnson Matthey, a British chemicals and metals company * Joseph Magnin Co. Other uses * A shortened form of James * Fender Jazzmaster, an American guitar model * ''Juris Master'', a degree similar to the Master of Laws * Just Muslim Non-denominational Muslims () are Muslims who do not belong to, do not self-identify with, or cannot be readily classified under one of the identifiable Islamic schools and branches. Non-denominational Muslims are found primarily in Central Asi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Cook
Glen Charles Cook (born July 9, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, known for ''The Black Company'' and ''Garrett P.I.'' fantasy series. Biography Cook was born in New York City."Glen Cook – Summary Bibliography" . Retrieved August 2, 2014. Cook served in the United States Navy from 1962 to 1972 and specifically was attached, for a time, to a Marine Force Recon unit, the 3rd Marine Battalion. During his time attached to the Force Recon Unit, Cook participated in what he called "practice combat", and left active duty, "a month before shipped out to Viet Nam". He later w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Miller (artist)
Kurt Everett Miller (born August 24, 1972) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played parts of five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), between 1994 and 1999, for the Chicago Cubs and Florida Marlins. He also played in two seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), in 1999 and 2000, for the Hanshin Tigers. Playing career Early career Miller was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates out of West High School in Bakersfield, California, with the 5th overall pick in the 1990 MLB Draft. A little over a year later, he was traded to the Texas Rangers with fellow pitching prospect Héctor Fajardo for third baseman Steve Buechele. He spent nearly two seasons in the Rangers organization before being traded again, this time to the expansion Marlins, again with another pitching prospect, this time Robb Nen, for pitcher Cris Carpenter. Marlins Miller finished the 1993 season with the Edmonton Trappers, the Marlins' Triple-A farm team. He began the 1994 season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ringo
John Ringo (born March 22, 1963) is an American science fiction and military fiction author. He has had several ''New York Times'' best sellers. His books range from straightforward science fiction to a mix of military and political thrillers. He has over seven million copies of his books in print, and his works have been translated into seven different languages. Life and career Ringo's father "was a civil engineer with an international firm"; before Ringo graduated in 1981 from Winter Park High School in Winter Park, Florida, he had spent time in 23 foreign countries, attending classes at fourteen schools. Among the countries he spent the most time in were Greece, Iran and Switzerland before he settled with his parents and six siblings in Alabama. This amount of travel brought what he refers to as a "wonderful appreciation of the oneness of humanity and a permanent aversion to foreign food." After graduation, Ringo joined the United States Army and rose to the rank of Spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Long (game Designer)
Steven S. Long is a role-playing game author and one of the owners of Hero Games. Career Long started playing Champions in 1982. He began writing for the game ten years later, starting with articles in the Hero Games house magazine, ''Adventurers Club''. He began working in the RPG industry in 1992 as a freelancer for Hero Games. Long wrote the subgenre book ''Dark Champions'' in 1993, as well as several additional ''Champions'' sourcebooks to support it. Long authored ''The Ultimate Martial Artist'' (1994) and ''The Ultimate Mentalist'' (1996) as the first two books in a line conceived of by Steve Peterson as sourcebooks that could be used with all of the genres of the ''Hero System''. Other works included '' Justice Not Law'', ''An Eye for an Eye'', '' Watchers of the Dragon'', and articles for ''Adventurers Club'', ''The HERO System Almanacs'', and similar publications. He soon branched out into working for other game companies, such as White Wolf Publishing. In 1997, Long q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Caine
Rachel Caine was the pen name of Roxanne Longstreet Conrad (April 27, 1962 – November 1, 2020) who was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, suspense, and horror novels. Personal life Conrad grew up in West Texas and graduated from Socorro High School in El Paso, Texas, in 1980. She earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University in 1985, with minor in music. Caine wrote and published novels and short stories since 1990. She was a professional musician who played with notable musicians including Henry Mancini, Peter Nero, and John Williams. From 1999, Conrad was employed in corporate communications as a web designer, editor, corporate communications manager, and finally as director of corporate communications for a large multinational company. She took an eight-month hiatus for most of 2008 to meet pressing deadlines, and retired from her position to write full-time in 2010. She lived in north Texas wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack McDevitt
Jack McDevitt (born April 14, 1935) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology. Most of his books follow either superluminal pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins or galactic relic hunters Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath. McDevitt has received numerous nominations for Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell awards. '' Seeker'' won the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novel. McDevitt's first published story was "The Emerson Effect" in ''The Twilight Zone Magazine'' in 1981. Biography McDevitt went to La Salle University, where a short story of his won the annual ''Freshman Short Story Contest'' and was published in the school's literary magazine, ''Four Quarters''. As McDevitt explained in an interview: McDevitt received a master's degree in literature from Wesleyan University in 1971. He returned to writing when his wife, Maureen, encouraged him to try his hand at it in 1980. , McDe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Hickman
Stephen Hickman (April 9, 1949 – July 16, 2021) was an American artist, illustrator, sculptor, and author. Biography Hickman's professional career was launched in 1972 when he got a job creating T-shirt designs for Shirt Explosion in Lanham, Maryland. Hickman was given virtually unlimited artistic freedom. His entry into book illustration came in 1974, when Neal Adams of Continuity Studios introduced Hickman to Charles Volpe, art editor at Ace Books. Volpe bought the printing rights of items from Hickman's portfolio, and later commissioned paintings which were used for reprints of Ace Doubles in the ''Classics of Science-Fiction'' series. Hickman then became a full-time artist. His most prominent work is Space Fantasy Stamps, a series of science fiction and fantasy postage stamps made for the United States Postal Service. These stamps are a series of five scenes that depict space travel. Awards * 1994 Hugo Award, for Best Original Art Work * Six Chesley Awards The Chesley A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Stiles
Stephen Willis Stiles (July 16, 1943 – January 11, 2020) was an American cartoonist and writer, coming out of the science fiction fanzine tradition. He won the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist. Early life and education Steven Willis Stiles was born to Norma and Irvin Stiles. He had two brothers, Randy and Jeff. Stiles studied at The High School of Music & Art and the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and later wrote about this in his essay, "Art School": Illustration and design His first cartoon for a fanzine appeared in ''Cry of the Nameless'', edited by F.M. Busby and Elinor Busby. A fanzine interlineation he coined ("Death is nature's way of telling you when to stop") became a national catchphrase after it was reprinted in ''Pageant'' in 1962. His work (art and text) has since appeared in leading fanzines ('' Xero'', ''Void'', ''Mimosa'', ''Trap Door'') as well as the more obscure (''Vojo de Vivo''). He publishes his own fanzine, ''SAM''. There were nine years bet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert J
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandston, Virginia
Sandston is a census-designated place (CDP) in Henrico County, Virginia, Henrico County, Virginia, United States, just outside the state capital of Richmond, Virginia, Richmond. The population as of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 Census was 7,571. It was designated a Historic District by Henrico County, Virginia, Henrico County in 2021. The Battle of Seven Pines took place nearby in 1862. It was second only to the Battle of Shiloh in its number of casualties up to that time. The battle was brutally fought and inconclusive, but had a profound impact on the trajectory of the war. After General Johnston's injury, President Jefferson Davis appointed Robert E. Lee as Commander of the Confederate Armies. Lee then initiated the Seven Days Battles, which drove the Northern forces into a retreat in late June. This was the closest the North had come to Richmond, Virginia in this offensive. During World War I, a number of homes were built in the area for both non-commissioned officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
