Among other business taking place at Anticipation, the recently concluded World Science Fiction Convention was voting on the 2011 WorldCon and the 2010 North American Science Fiction Convention. The latter is necessitated by the fact that the 2010 WorldCon, Aussiecon 4, will be in Melbourne, Australia, 2-6 September 2010. The Reno in 2011 bid won the right to host the 2011 World Science Fiction Convention, while ReConStruction won the bid for the NASFiC (which is held in North America in years when the WorldCon is outside North America). Both bids were unopposed (although there is always a “write-in” option).
ReConStruction’s web site reconstructionsf.org, notes that the convention will be 5-8 August 2010 at the new Raleigh Convention Center. Attending registration is currently US$95/C$105/£60/€70, while supporting membership is US$30/C$35/£20/€25 (discounts, as always, for presupporters and voters; see this page). Guests of Honor will be Eric Flint (GoH), Brad Foster (Artist GoH), Juanita Coulson (Fan GoH), and Toni Weisskopf (Toastmaster). Bios of the GoHs are below.
Renovation will be the 2011 WorldCon. The con’s web site, www.renovationsf.org, is already up and running. The convention will be 17-21 August 2011 at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center, in Reno, Nevada. The Atlantis Hotel will be the main/party hotel, with additional rooms at the Peppermill and Courtyard by Marriott. Registration rates are currently $140 (attending), $50 (supporting), $75 (children); full details on this page. Guests of Honor at the 2011 WorldCon will include Tim Powers, Ellen Asher, Boris Vallejo, and the late Charles N. Brown (bios below).

ReConStruction (NASFiC 2010) Guest of Honor bios:
Eric Flint is one of the hardest working writers in science fiction. After a quarter century of political activism, he finally turned his attention to his writing, winning the Writers of the Future contest in 1993 with his short story, “Entropy, and the Strangler” and publishing his first novel, Mother of Demons, in 1997. Since then, he’s been working at top speed, publishing dozens of novels, notably the Belisarius and 1632 series, editing reissues of many classic SF authors, as well as the Baen Free Library and Jim Baen’s Universe. He has collaborated with many other authors and editors, including David Drake, Dave Freer, Mercedes Lackey, Mike Resnick, and David Weber. He has been a vocal advocate of online publishing and a critic of Digital Rights Management, releasing all of his own works online with no DRM.
Brad Foster straddles the line between fan and pro in the art world. He founded his small press publishing company, Jabberwocky Graphix, in 1976, and has published the work of over 300 artists from around the world. In the 1980s and ’90s, he worked in comics and as an illustrator, but is probably best known for his prolific work as a fan artist, for which he has been nominated for the Best Fan Artist Hugo an amazing 21 times, racking up a record 6 wins. His work has been found on the covers and interior pages of fanzines and convention program books, notably the ApolloCon 2008 program book, Askance, The FACT Sheet, and File 770. Recently, his carpetbag characters have been all over the place in support of the Reno in 2011 Worldcon bid.
Juanita Coulson has distinguished herself in many areas of SF Fandom, from fanzines to filk. She won the Best Fanzine Hugo for Yandro, which she published along with her husband, Buck, in 1965, with nominations for a 10-year run from 1958-1967. In filk circles, she has been a frequent nominee the Pegasus Award in just about every category. She has been filking since the 1950s, when she set several Heinlein lyrics to music and began writing original pieces. She has worked hard to introduce new fans to filk circles, and is recognized as a Den Mother and Ohio Valley Filk Festival Grandmistress. In 1996, she was inducted into the Filk Hall of Fame.
Toni Weisskopf is the publisher of Baen Books, and was the first winner of the Triple Crown of Southern Fandom’s awards the Rebel, the Phoenix, and the Rubble. She is notable as the editor of such SF anthologies as Cosmic Stories: Adventures in Sol System and Transhuman (with Mark L. Van Name) as well as the mammoth 1997 Southern Fandom Confederation Handbook. Recently, she edited her late husband, Hank Reinhardt’s The Book of Swords.

Renovation (WorldCon 2011) Guest of Honor bios:
Tim Powers is a leading speculative novelist, whose books include The Drawing of the Dark (Del Rey, 1979), The Anubis Gates (Ace, 1983, winner of the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award and the Prix Apollo), Dinner at Deviant’s Palace (Ace, 1985, winner of the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award), On Stranger Tides (Ace, 1987), The Stress of Her Regard (Ace, 1989, winner of the Mythopoeic Award), Last Call (Morrow, 1992, winner of the World Fantasy Award), and Declare (Morrow, 2001, winner of the World Fantasy Award). Tim has frequently taught at the Clarion science fiction writer’s workshop.
Ellen Asher was the editor of the Science Fiction Book Club for thirty-four years and three months, thereby fulfilling her life’s ambition of beating John W. Campbell’s record as the person with the longest tenure in the same science fiction job. Ellen is a winner of the New England Science Fiction Association’s Edward E. Smith Memorial Award for Imaginative Fiction (the Skylark) and in 2007 received a World Fantasy Award in the category Special Award: Professional.
A native of Peru, Boris Vallejo has created a great volume of work for the Fantasy field, having worked for virtually every major publishing house with a science fiction/fantasy line. Boris has also illustrated for album covers, video box art, and motion picture advertising. His mastery of oil painting is immediately and abundantly clear to anyone who looks at his work, and his classic sense is as much an homage to the old masters as it is to anyone contemporaneously working in the Fantasy genre.
Charles N. Brown was Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of 29-time Hugo-winner Locus magazine, which he founded in 1968. Charles had been involved in the science fiction field since the late 1940s. He was the original book reviewer for Asimov’s, edited several SF anthologies, and wrote for numerous magazines and newspapers. Charles died unexpectedly on 12 July 2009, while flying home from Readercon. To acknowledge Charles’ lasting impact on our field, he remains a Renovation Guest of Honor.