Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:32:36 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] fyi: Denvention3 Announces Artist Guest of Honor
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

>Denvention3
>The 66th World Science Fiction Convention
>P.O. Box 1349
>Denver, CO 80201
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>chairman at denvention3.org=20
>http://www.denvention3.org=20
>
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
>
>Denvention3 Announces Artist Guest of Honor
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>Denvention3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, is pleased=20
>to=20
>announce that Rick Sternbach has accepted an invitationto be the=20
>Artist=20
>Guest of Honor for the convention.
>
>Rick Sternbach has been a space and science fiction artist since the=20
>early 1970s, often combining both interests in a project. His clients=20
>include NASA, Sky and Telescope, Data Products, Random House,=20
>Smithsonian, Analog, Astronomy, The Planetary Society, and Time-
>Life=20
>Books. He is a founding member and Fellow of the International=20
>Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA). Rick has written and=20
>illustrated articles on orbital transfer vehicles and interstellar=20
>flight for Science Digest. Beginning in the late 1970s Rick added film=20
>and television illustration and special effects to his background, =
with=20
>productions like Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Last Starfighter,=20
>Future Flight, and Cosmos, for which he and other members of the=20
>art=20
>team received an Emmy award, the first for visual effects. Rick also=20
>twice received the coveted Hugo award for best professional science=20
>fiction artist, in 1977 and 1978.
>
>Denvention3 is pleased to have Rick join the line up of other honored=20
>guests announced at the August 2006 business meeting of the World=20
>Science Fiction Society.   Lois McMaster Bujold will be Author Guest=20
>of=20
>Honor and Tom Whitmore will Fan Guest of Honor.  Author and=20
>scientist=20
>Wil McCarthy will be the Toastmaster for the convention.
>
>For more details on the convention, please go to the convention's=20
>website at http://www.denvention3.org .
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>Worldcon, World Science Fiction Convention, Hugos, and Hugo=20
>Awards are
>service marks of the World Science Fiction Society, an=20
>unincorporated
>literary association.