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Diversicon 17
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Dates |
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July 31-August 2, 2009
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Guest of Honor |
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We are delighted to announce that Kay Kenyon has accepted our invitation to be Diversicon 17's Guest of Honor. Ms. Kenyon is the author of numerous novels and short stories. Her work, which features strong female characters and strongly rendered beings of all kinds, often focuses on environmental and genetic doom, humanity's efforts to save itself, and the surprises and consequences that result. Her six stand-alone science fiction novels include Seeds of Time (Bantam, 1997); Maximum Ice (Bantam, 2002), a Phillip K. Dick Finalist; and Braided World (Spectra, 2003), a John W. Campbell Award Finalist. The second book in a science fiction series with fantasy trappings just appeared in hardcover: A World Too Near (Pyr/Prometheus Books, March 2008); the first book in the series, Bright of the Sky, just came out in paperback. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous print anthologies and online venues, most recently in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction (ed. George Mann, Solaris, 2007). She, her husband, and a large orange cat split their time between eastern Washington state and southern California.
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Posthumous Guests of Honor |
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Diversicon continues its tradition of inviting the Ghosts of Speculations Past, this time in the persons of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) and Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). It will be Poe's 200th birthday and Conan Doyle's 150th birthday.
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Location |
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We will again be in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The hotel will be announced later in 2008, probably August/September.
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For Further Information . . . |
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Contact either Scott or Paula below:
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