It turns out I definitely will not be able to post the World Fantasy Award winners as they happen: there is no internet connectivity in the ballroom where the awards will be happening Sunday during the World Fantasy Convention. Sorry, folks. But I will be posting the list of winners as soon as possible after the ceremony.
On the positive side, I’m here at the convention, having a very good time, mostly standing behind the Fantastic Books table.
Yesterday was arrival and get set up, which went as expected, and then see and talk with people, many of whom I haven’t seen in a long time. This is by no means a complete trip report, but rather a list of some of the people I conversed with, in an open-to-the-general-con-public atmosphere (meaning if you were here, you, too, could have been talking with these people): Joe and Gay Haldeman, Rusty Hevelin, Gene and Rosemary Wolfe, Gardner Dozois, Walter Jon Williams, John Kessel, Bud Sparhawk, Beth Meachem, Sean and Jennifer Wallace (and Natalie and Cordelia), Neil Clarke, Joe Berlant, Larry Smith, Sally Kobee, Jason Sizemore, John Joseph Adams, Christopher Cevasco, John Scalzi, Liz Gorinsky, Holly Black, Alaya Dawn Johnson, K. Tempest Bradford, Steve Haffner, Travis Heermann, Alastair Mayer, Jaym Gates, Deanna Hoak, Jim Minz, Jane Jewell, Peter Heck, Irene Gallo, and many many more whose names I can’t remember at this hour of the morning.
The point is, if you’ve heard of these people and are interested in finding out just who they are and what they’re up to (for instance, John Scalzi was showing off the cover of his forthcoming reboot of H. Beam Piper’s Little Fuzzy series, which Tor will be publishing in May), an in-the-flesh sf convention is a really great way to do it.
Hope your day is as much fun, and productive, as mine should be. More later,
—Ian