World Fantasy Convention: The “Vos” Post

Because I’m a bad person, there follows a list of all the notable people I talked to at the World Fantasy Convention. You can feel free to assume that they all thought that I was brilliant, and offered to co-author important publications with me.

  • Kate and I had dinner with Sarah Monette Thursday night.
  • I chatted briefly with Scott Westerfeld at the Australian party Thursday night.
  • Kate and I went to the Zombies Need Brains party Friday, hosted by Joshua Palmatier, Patricia Bray, S.C. Butler, Barbara Campbell, Jennifer Dunne, and C.E. Murphy. I helped hand out door prize tickets briefly, and picked up a spiffy lizard bottle opener that came in handy later.
  • We had an excellent dinner of Indian food Saturday night with Victoria McManus, Ted Chiang, F. Brett Cox, Carol Emshwiller, Judith Berman and Patrick O’Leary. Michael Dirda stopped by to say hi (ok, technically, he stopped to talk to Carol Emshwiller, not me, but I was at the table, and that’s good enough for a Vos Posting….)
  • We talked to Patrick Nielsen Hayden, of course, and David Hartwell, and helped mind the door at the Tor party on Saturday night.
  • I talked to Teresa Nielsen Hayden at the Tor party about the new Steven Brust book.
  • We talked to Matthew Jarpe at the Tor party, and some other people whose names I’ve forgotten.
  • After the urban fantasy panel we (mostly Kate) talked to Ekaterina Sedia and Marie Brennan for a while in the Dealer’s Room.
  • I bought a book from Gavin Grant and his fabulous accent. That counts, right? (As an aside, I went to Hal Duncan’s reading, and his accent makes Gavin Grant sound like he’s from Iowa…)
  • I talked to Kathryn Cramer about Mathematica
  • I said hi to Paul Cornell, who I was on a panel with at Worldcon.

I think that pretty well covers it. You may all collapse in a fit of jealousy now.