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OryCon
Orycon is Portland, Oregon's annual science fiction/fantasy convention, held in November since 1979. Event history {, class="wikitable" width="100%" , - ! Event !! Dates !! Guests !! Attendance !! Notes , - , OryCon 0 , Nov 11, 1978 , No GOHs , align=~125 , The Symposium , - , OryCon , Nov 9-11, 1979 , John Varley (Pro), Steve Perry (TM) & Richard Geis (Fan) , align=525 , , - , OryCon '80 , Nov 14-16, 1980 , Fritz Leiber (Pro), Steve Perry (TM) & Elton Elliott (Fan) , align=1,010 , , - , OryCon '81 , Oct 30-Nov 1, 1981 , Frederik Pohl (Pro), Steve Fahnestalk (TM) & Kennedy Poyser (Fan) , align=965 , , - , OryCon '82 , Nov 12-14, 1982 , Robert Silverberg (Pro) & Jeff Frane (Fan) , align=979 , , - , OryCon 5 , Nov 11-13, 1983 , Octavia Butler (Pro), Terry Carr (TM) & Wilson Tucker (Fan) , align=937 , , - , OryCon '84 , Nov 9-11, 1984 , Reginald Bretnor (Pro) & Steve Perry (TM) , align=424 , "The Relaxicon" , - , OryCon '85 , Nov 8-10, 1985 , Somtow Suchar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginjer Buchanan
Ginjer Buchanan (born in Pittsburgh, December 12, 1944) was Editor-in-Chief at Ace Books and Roc Books, the two science-fiction and fantasy imprints of Penguin Group (USA). Background Buchanan worked at Ace since 1984, was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award, and won a Hugo Award in 2014 for her editing. She was a Guest of Honor at OryCon in 2008, Foolscap in 2000, and ArmadilloCon in 1988, and was Toastmaster at the World Fantasy Convention in 1989. Buchanan retired in March 2014, after 30 years with Ace.io9.gizmodo.com/the-end-of-an-era-ginjer-buchanan-is-retiring-from-ace-1531969953 She is also occasionally a fiction writer. Her published work includes three short stories in the anthologies ''Alternate Kennedys'' (her story "The End of the Summer by the Great Sea" was included in the anthology), ''Whatdunnits II'', and ''By Any Other Fame'', all edited by Mike Resnick, and also the novel ''White Silence'' (1999), a '' Highlander'' tie-in. Prio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland, Oregon
Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the list of cities in Oregon, largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, Oregon, Multnomah County, the most populous county in Oregon. Portland had a population of 652,503, making it the List of United States cities by population, 26th-most populated city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast of the United States, West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan area, Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 25th most populous in the United States. About half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area. Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter S
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather Animals * Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chief Mouser between 1929 and 1946 * Peter II (cat), Chief Mouser between 1946 and 1947 * Peter III (cat), Chief Mouser between 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tempest (Celtic Rock Band)
Tempest is an American Celtic rock band from the San Francisco Bay Area, based in Oakland, California. They fuse the traditional Celtic music with Norwegian and European folk, American folk, and progressive rock. History The band formed in 1988 with Lief Sorbye ( mandolin, vocals), Adolfo Lazo (drums), Rob Wullenjohn (guitar), and Mark Showalter (bass). The band has seen a changing cast of musicians, with Sorbye and Lazo being the only two constant members throughout the duration of the band's existence. The current lineup consists of Lief Sorbye ( mandolin, vocals), Adolfo Lazo (percussion), Kathy Buys ( fiddle), Ab Menon (guitar), and Josh Fosgreen ( bass), with members from around the world: Lief from Oslo, Norway, Adolfo from Havana, Cuba, Kathy from San Francisco, California, and Josh from Santa Rosa, California. In 2010, Tempest released ''Another Dawn'' - it was Tempest's 11th full-length studio album. In 2006, Tempest released their 10th full-length studio album, enti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Pavelec
James Pavelec is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games. Career His ''Dungeons & Dragons'' work includes interior art for '' Races of Faerûn'' (2003), '' Unapproachable East'' (2003), ''Underdark'' (2003), ''Unearthed Arcana'' (2004), ''Planar Handbook'' (2004), '' Expanded Psionics Handbook'' (2004), '' Player's Guide to Faerûn'' (2004), ''Complete Divine'' (2004), ''Serpent Kingdoms'' (2004), '' Lost Empires of Faerûn'' (2005), ''Rules Compendium'' (2007), ''Thunderspire Labyrinth'' (2008), '' King of the Trollhaunt Warrens'' (2008), and ''Martial Power'' (2008). He is known for his work on the ''Magic: The Gathering ''Magic: The Gathering'' (colloquially known as ''Magic'' or ''MTG'') is a Tabletop game, tabletop and Digital collectible card game, digital Collectible card game, collectable card game created by Richard Garfield. Released in 1993 by Wizards ...'' collectible card game.http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Allie
Scott Allie is an American comics writer and editor, best known as an editor and executive at Dark Horse Comics from 1994 to 2017. Early life Allie grew up in Massachusetts. Career Allie joined Dark Horse Comics as an editor in September 1994. He began editing Mike Mignola's ''Hellboy'' a month after joining the publisher's Editorial department. He was promoted to editor-in-chief in October 2012, and named executive senior editor in September 2015. As a writer, Allie wrote the four-issue miniseries ''The Devil's Footprints'' in 2003. In 2008, he started writing the miniseries ''Solomon Kane'', the first two-story arcs of which were expansions of the Robert E. Howard stories "The Castle of the Devil" and "Death's Black Riders." In 2012, he wrote stories for ''BPRD'', on which he collaborated with Mike Mignola, and began writing stories for '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 9''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire (pronounced SHAWN-in; born January 5, 1978 in Martinez, California) is an American author and filker. McGuire is known for her urban fantasy novels. She uses the pseudonym Mira Grant to write science fiction/ horror and the pseudonym A. Deborah Baker to write the "Up-and-Under" children's portal fantasy series. In 2010, she was awarded the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer by the World Science Fiction Convention. Her 2016 novella '' Every Heart a Doorway'' received a Nebula Award, Hugo Award, Locus Award, and Alex Award. In 2013, McGuire received a record five Hugo nominations in total, two for works as Grant and three under her own name. Biography McGuire was born in California and attended University of California, Berkeley. She currently lives in Washington State. She has described her interests as including "swamps, long walks, long walks ''in'' swamps, things that live in swamps, horror movies, strange noises, musical theater, reality TV, comi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chad Savage
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon to the southwest, Nigeria to the southwest (at Lake Chad), and Niger to the west. Chad has a population of 16 million, of which 1.6 million live in the capital and largest city of N'Djamena. Chad has several regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile Sudanian Savanna zone in the south. Lake Chad, after which the country is named, is the second-largest wetland in Africa. Chad's official languages are Arabic and French. It is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups. Islam (55.1%) and Christianity (41.1%) are the main religions practiced in Chad. Beginning in the 7th millennium BC, human populations moved into the Chadian basin in great numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharyn November
Sharyn November is an American writer and an editor of books for children and teenagers. Until March 2016 she was Senior Editor for Viking Children's Books and Editorial Director of Firebird Books, which is a mainly paperback (reprint) imprint publishing fantasy and science fiction for teenagers and adults. Biography November was born in New York. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College after studying poetry; at 21 she was awarded a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She has been published in several magazines. After working as a secretary, she became an editor, starting her career at Penguin in 1990 at Puffin Books as an associate editor. She became Senior Editor there, responsible for acquiring reprint rights, as well as Senior Editor at Viking Children's Books, responsible for editing hardcover fiction and non-fiction. She is one of the few children's book editors who works directly with teenagers; their love of speculative fiction was the seed of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lubov (painter)
Lubov (real name unknown) is the pseudonym of a painter (born in St. Petersburg) specializing in science fiction and fantasy art. General information A Chesley Award nominee, Lubov's work has appeared internationally in numerous print publications and galleries, on multiple cards for the games ''Magic: The Gathering'' and ''Galactic Empires'', and on the covers of various books, comics, event programs, and magazines. She is also a regular guest artist and speaker at numerous science-fiction and fantasy conventions, worldwide. Her ''Dungeons & Dragons'' work includes ''On Hallowed Ground''. Education Lubov claims to have trained at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts in Russia, where her focus was on the classical application of oils. Seeking (she says) political and cultural freedom, she claims to have emigrated from Russia to the United States, where she says she studied at School of the Art Institute of Chicago on a four-year scholarship. Science fiction and fantasy conv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Anders
Lou Anders is the author of the ''Thrones & Bones'' series of middle grade fantasy novels. Anders is a Hugo Award-winning American editor, a Chesley Award-winning art director, an author and a journalist. Early life Lou Anders is originally from Birmingham, Alabama, but has lived in multiple cities in several states. In 2003, he returned to Birmingham, Alabama having moved there from Los Angeles via San Francisco. He describes his route through the science fiction and writings businesses as broadly beginning with "theatre in college lead ngto a partial scholarship to study acting in Oxford and London".Rick Kleffel interview with Lou Anders April 18, 2004. Accessed January 28, 2008 This in turn got him into directing plays in Chicago, which lead to working on sets in Los Angeles, which lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Briggs
Patricia Briggs (born 1965) is an American writer of fantasy since 1993, and author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. Biography Patricia Briggs was born in 1965 in Butte, Montana, United States. She now resides in Benton City, WA Briggs began writing in 1990 and published her first novel ''Masques'' in 1993. She wrote primarily in the fantasy genre until her editor asked her to write an urban fantasy, since the genre was showing promising growth. Briggs wrote ''Moon Called'', which was published in 2006 and made it to the ''USA Today ''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virgi ...'' bestseller lists. The second book in the series, ''Blood Bound'', hit ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. The third book, ''Iron Kissed'', was a number one ''New York Times'' bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
