{"id":1950,"date":"2007-11-10T10:20:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T10:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/10\/world-fantasy-convention-the-v\/"},"modified":"2007-11-10T10:20:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T10:20:36","slug":"world-fantasy-convention-the-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/10\/world-fantasy-convention-the-v\/","title":{"rendered":"World Fantasy Convention: The &#8220;Vos&#8221; Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kate and I had dinner with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahmonette.com\/\">Sarah Monette<\/a> Thursday night.<\/li>\n<li>I chatted briefly with <a href=\"http:\/\/scottwesterfeld.com\/blog\/\">Scott Westerfeld<\/a> at the Australian party Thursday night.<\/li>\n<li>Kate and I went to the Zombies Need Brains party Friday, hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/jpsorrow.livejournal.com\/\">Joshua Palmatier<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pbray.livejournal.com\/\">Patricia Bray<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/valingstoneways.com\/\">S.C. Butler<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbara-campbell.com\/\">Barbara Campbell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com\/\">Jennifer Dunne<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cemurphy.net\/\">C.E. Murphy<\/a>. I helped hand out door prize tickets briefly, and picked up a spiffy lizard bottle opener that came in handy later.<\/li>\n<li>We had an excellent dinner of Indian food Saturday night with Victoria McManus, Ted Chiang, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbrettcox.com\/\">F. Brett Cox<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/members\/emshwiller\/\">Carol Emshwiller<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithberman.net\/\">Judith Berman<\/a> and Patrick O&#8217;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&#8217;s good enough for a Vos Posting&#8230;.)<\/li>\n<li>We talked to <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/\">Patrick Nielsen Hayden<\/a>, of course, and David Hartwell, and helped mind the door at the Tor party on Saturday night.<\/li>\n<li>I talked to <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/\">Teresa Nielsen Hayden<\/a> at the Tor party about the new Steven Brust book.<\/li>\n<li>We talked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewjarpe.com\/\">Matthew Jarpe<\/a> at the Tor party, and some other people whose names I&#8217;ve forgotten.<\/li>\n<li>After the <a href=\"http:\/\/kate-nepveu.livejournal.com\/265977.html\">urban fantasy panel<\/a> we (mostly Kate) talked to Ekaterina Sedia and Marie Brennan for a while in the Dealer&#8217;s Room.<\/li>\n<li>I bought a book from <a href=http:\/\/www.lcrw.net\/wordpress\/\">Gavin Grant<\/a> and his fabulous accent. That counts, right? (As an aside, I went to Hal Duncan&#8217;s reading, and his accent makes Gavin Grant sound like he&#8217;s from Iowa&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>I talked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathryncramer.com\/\">Kathryn Cramer<\/a> about Mathematica<\/li>\n<li>I said hi to <a href=\"http:\/\/paulcornell.blogspot.com\/\">Paul Cornell<\/a>, who I was on a panel with at Worldcon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think that pretty well covers it. You may all collapse in a fit of jealousy now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;m a bad person, there follows a list of all the notable people I talked to at the World Fantasy Convention. 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