Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:45:41 -0500
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From: Elspeth Kovar <EKovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Capclave 2006 Guests of Honor
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Since this news has been somewhat late gettting out, I'll post it here as well:

Our Writer GoH is Kim Stanley Robinson and Fan GoH Whitmore. Both are going
to be wonderful guests, with the added pleasure of bringing both back to a
place where they once lived.

Elspeth Kovar, Chair, Capclave 2006

It may be that neither needs an introduction but Michael Nelson has done
such a wonderful job with the bios for the flyers that I have to include
them here:

KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is widely regarded as one of the finest science fiction
writers alive today. He has been writing since 1975 but is best known for his
'Mars Trilogy' that started with Red Mars published in 1992, which won the
1993 Nebula award for best novel, continued with Green Mars (1993), which
won the 1994 Hugo Award for best novel and concluded with Blue Mars
(1995) that also won the Hugo Award for best novel in 1996. He is also well
known for his 'Orange Country Trilogy' (also known as Three California's)
which comprises of The Wild Shore (1984), The Gold Coast (1988) and Pacific
Edge (1990) with Pacific Edge winning the Campbell Memorial Award. Antarctica
(1998) dealt with many of the ecological issues surrounding Antarctica,
his concern with environmental issues is well known and he edited
Future Primitive (1994) a anthology dealing with many ecological issues.
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002) was an ambitious epic imagining a world
where the Plaque wiped out 95% of the population of Europe, leaving the
East to become the dominant force in the world. His latest book, Forty
Signs of Rain (2004) is the first part of a planned trio of books under the
title 'The Capital Code,' which tackle the issues of global warning, science
and politics. [ from KimStanleyRobinson.net ]

TOM WHITMORE has been a bookseller for over thirty years and a partner in a
bookstore for twenty-nine; The Other Change of Hobbit in Berkeley, California
(otherchangeofhobbit.com). He's been co-chair of a Worldcon (ConJosé in
2002), and implemented the first example of Elevator Party Hosts. He's
been a reviewer for LOCUS, and once made Gene Wolfe jealous by telling him
how much writing reviews for computer magazines paid. He's a massage
therapist and a student of Hakomi. He was on the founding board of the
Cohousing Association in the US, and lived for several years in Puget Ridge
Cohousing. He collected art at cons before discovering that his grandmother
had been a print dealer for most of her life. And he lived in the DC area
twice — once while working in a clerical job at the Library of Congress in
the period of Nixon's impeachment, and once while working for the Office of
Energy Information Validation in the Department of Energy. For stories of
his connection with Aleister Crowley and his peculiar ability to find books,
you'll have to ask in person.