We're in the final few weeks before Context 22 begins, and there's been a lot of activity!
Nebula Award-winning author Catherine Asaro will be a special guest along with our other guests of honor, James P. Hogan, Jason Sizemore, Christoper Golden, Tom Smith, and Michael "Moonwulf" Longcor.
We've sold out of dealer's tables; if you are an attending author, please know that Context will be happy to sell your books on your behalf at our convention table; just bring your copies (up to 10 or so to start) with you to the dealer's room the first day of the convention along with an invoice so we can keep track of how much of your stock has sold. Please send an email to
dealers@contextsf.org if you have a question.
The deadline to register for a hotel room at the discounted convention rate is August 10th; if you have used Expedia or Hotwire or a similar agency to book a room at the Doubletree, please email us at
hotel@contextsf.org and let us know so we can add you to our room block information to show the hotel that we've been bringing them customers.
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Nick Winks is genuinely lazy, but also inefficient, so he ends up working hard anyway. He volunteers for several conventions in Central Ohio, now that his kids are grown and he can play the games HE wants to play. His website is
http://www.bluesass.com where he provides support for Electronic Commerce for Department of Defense business.
Linda Winks is a seamstress and she runs SF conventions and is the permanent chair of
DeCONpression, and is the reason for Rule 13.
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Jackie is co-founder and Executive Editor of Meadowhawk Press, a speculative fiction small press based in Memphis. Their novel
Terminal Mind by David Walton won this year's Philip K. Dick Memorial Award.
As an author, Jackie's stories range from ultra-short to novel-length, varieties of which have appeared (or are due to appear) in anthologies such as
Dragons Composed by Kerlak and
Beauty and Dynamite by Apex Books, as well as several publications, including
The Binnalce, Mindflights Magazine, and
Necrotic Tissue. Her SF novella appears in
Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medecine Show in spring 2009, and a short dark tale soon to be in
Shroud Magazine. She was named honorable mention in L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Award, and received a 2008 Darrell Award for best short story by a MidSouth author. Her fantasy novel
Redheart premiered in October.
For more about Jackie, please visit
www.jackiegamber.com/ or
www.meadowhawkpress.com.
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The business card for Samuel Travis Clemmons lists him as an Author - Lecturer - Philosopher - Time Traveler - Public Nuisance - Sometime Ne'er Do Well. The man claims to be an "Alternate Reality Counterpart" of the man that everyone knows as Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Yes, this is all a load of bullfeathers ... But you've got to start a biography somewhere.
The man who created the character of Samuel Travis Clemmons was born and raised in Central Kentucky. Being someone who loves an intricately woven tall tale (the more absurd the better) he wrote and began performing a comedy routine called "Marc Twain: The Time Traveler". In order to keep his storytelling from being railroaded into following the actual events of Mark Twain's life, he decided it would be best to create a fictional Marc Twain who had been born in an alternate realm of existence.
So if a friend tells you that he's headed to a science fiction convention to meet Marc Twain ... Ask him to spell the first name before you call him a liar.
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Dr. Karen Nagel is an associate professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Midwestern University in the Chicago suburbs. She teaches classes in biotechnology, dosage form design, and pharmaceutical compounding and has research interests that include natural product analysis. In her spare time, she teaches yoga, reads anything she can get her hands on, runs marathons (very slowly) and hangs out at conventions.
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