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Context is a friendly convention focused on speculative fiction literature and related games, comics and films.

If you enjoy manga, anime, science fiction, fantasy, or horror, you'll find plenty to entertain you at this convention.

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Tanya Huff and Brian Keene are our main GoHs; there will be many other guests.

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Context will be held September 26-28, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio, at The Ramada Plaza Hotel & Conference Center.

 

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Sunday, November 7, 2004


2004 Context 17 Guests



The following people were guests at Context 17 in 2004:

Connie Willis

Connie Willis is one of the most-honored authors in the history of the genre. But don't take our word for it! You can check out her track record in the The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards. A complete bibliography of her publications may be found on The Internet
Speculative Fiction Database.

Darrell Schweitzer

A World Fantasy Award winner and multiple-time nominee, Darrell has authored more than 30 books of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He is currently co-editor of Weird Tales magazine, and has previously worked on Amazing and Asimov' s Science Fiction.

Andrea Dale

and established herself as one of the regular highlights of the Filk programming at a number of conventions. She maintains the web journal As a songwriter/performer, Andrea has created two CDs, been nominated for a Pegesus AwardZen Cappuccino when not busy in her roles as wife, mother, and freelance writer/editor.

Mike Resnick

Mike Resick has also won a few pieces of hardware, with four Hugos and a Nebula (so far!) among numerous others. When he's not busy adding to his own prodigious body of
work, or answering questions for his "Ask Bwana" columns at Speculations he has been
known to edit an anthology or two.

Nancy Kress

Nancy Kress has won awards from just about everybody, at just about every length as you can see here. When she's not writing fiction, she's writing about writing (for Writer's Digest) or teaching at at Clarion, or any number of other things. You can try to keep up with her through her home page.

Maureen McHugh

In addition to winning a few awards and building a highly literate yet extremely reader-friendly body of work, Maureen has found time to beacome a frequent attendee at Context. And we couldn't be happier!

Charles Coleman Finlay

In just a few short years since his first publication, Charles has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell Memorial awards, has had work selected for Gardner Dozois' Year' s Best anthology, and will be included in a Year's Best Fantasy anthology this year. A hardened veteran of online writing worksops, his reputation as an instructor/coach growing rapidly, and we're very pleased to have him organizing our Writer's Workshop.

Tobias Buckell

Tobias won the Writers of the Future contest and was a finalist for the Campbell Award. He has both a short story collection and a novel scheduled to appear next year. In the meantime, he is putting his experience as a college writing instructor to good use, helping Charlie run our Writer's Workshop.

Paul Melko

Tall Paul Melko had one of his first professional sales selected by Gardner Dozois for inclusion in this year's "Year's Best" anthology. He is taking time off from work on his first novel to attend Context, and we're glad he is!


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