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AUTHOR GUEST OF HONOR |
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Rudy Rucker
Rudy's latest books:
Gnarl!
Realware
Saucer Wisdom Page
Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician and a computer scientist. Rucker spent
the early part of his life on the East coast, and moved to Silicon Valley when
he turned 40. Since then he's worked as a programmer, co-edited the cyberdelic
Mondo 2000 magazine, and become a professor of computer science. Rucker
is the author of twenty-two books of science-fiction and popular science. His
SF style might be characterized as transreal or cyberpunk, or both. Recent
books include the story anthology Gnarl!, the speculative novel Saucer
Wisdom, and Realware, the fourth novel in his award- winning *Ware
series (Software--winner of the 1st Phillip K. Dick Award in 1983,
Wetware--winner of the 1989 Phillip K. Dick Award, Freeware, and
Realware).
The Secret of Life,
Rucker's SF novel of the Sixties, was recently republished in electronic form on www.electricstory.com. He is also the
author of a number of software programs relating to chaos, artificial life,
cellular automata, and higher dimensions. Free copies of Rucker's software can
be downloaded from his home page, www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker.
A professor of computer science at San Jose State University in California,
Rucker teaches such courses as Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence,
in C++ or Java. As a palliative against incipient bit-rot, in 2000 he wrote a
historical novel about the painter Peter Bruegel the Elder. His most recently
completed work is a novel called Spaceland. Spaceland is a kind of
variation on the theme of Edwin Abbott's classic Flatland, which was an
1888 novel about a two-dimensional being who learns of the third dimension. In
Rucker's Spaceland a Silicon Valley middle manager meets creatures from
hyperspace--and they're not just here to say hello. Publication dates for
Bruegel and Spaceland have not yet been set.
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FAN GUESTS OF HONOR |
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Kathryn and James Stanley Daugherty
James Stanley Daugherty gofered at the first BayCon, then ran the masquerade at the second,
and was in charge of programming for the next two. At other conventions, he has worked in finance
where he experienced the convention from a small locked room. He knew all the arcane secrets of the money aspects of the convention, but all he knew about the rest of the con was based on rumors, reports, and random comments from people questioned in elevators.
James has also run con newsletters where he was the one who circulated those rumors, reports, and innuendos so that others could live their own Vicarious Convention. He has nothing against reality,
he's just not sure he's ever seen it. This may be why he loves fandom so much.
(Kathryn has held even more positions at past BayCons, WorldCons, and
other conventions, but as of this writing has not had the opportunity to
summarize them for us.)
BayCon was James and Kathryn's first convention and holds a special
place for them.
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SPECIAL GUEST |
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Poppy Z. Brite
Poppy Z. Brite is the author of five novels, Lost Souls, Drawing
Blood, Exquisite Corpse, The Lazarus Heart, and Plastic Jesus;
two short story collections, Wormwood and Are You Loathsome
Tonight?; and a collection of nonfiction, Guilty But Insane.
She lives in New Orleans with her husband Christopher. Find out more
about her at www.poppyzbrite.com.
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TOASTMISTRESS |
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Amy-Elyse Patterson
Amy-Elyse Patterson Has been attending and working conventions since she
was 12 and went with her sister to the very first BayCon. She is an artist
specializing in portraiture (for money), and whatever takes her fancy (for
personal fulfilment). She has chaired BayCon twice so far and will most likely
do it again. Her hobbies include making lace, being sarcastic, learning new
things, collecting fairytales, giraffes, and shiny things. Most of the time she lives
in San Jose with her husband, Ken. The rest of the time she lives in Disneyland.
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Click here to see a list of past Guests of Honor
For further information, e-mail programming@baycon.org
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