Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:10:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave 2006 Guests of Honor
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FYI, Stan's most recent book is _50 Degrees Below_, not _40
Signs of Rain_.  And it's not a "planned" trio of books --
the third is due to the publisher sometime later this year,
according to Stan.

--- Elspeth Kovar <EKovar at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> 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.
>

Rich Lynch
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