[Board] SF Author GOH?

[Matt Arnold]

Wonderful!

The bad news is, his homepage at www.geocities.com/canadian_sf/wilson/
has just fallen off of Geocities since the last time we talked about
this.

The good news is, thank goodness for Google Cache. His email is:
mcwilson at interlog.com

Please remember to CC Anne Murphy on all GoH decisions and communications.

-Matt

On 7/13/06, john guest <phecda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Matt --
>
> Do we have contact information for RCF?  Let's invite him, in addition
> to Tamora Pierce, and if things fall through with her, then we have an
> author GoH by default.  If we get both, then great.
>
> --John
>
> On 7/5/06, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Last year we had seven GoHs, the year before that, six. Can we afford
> > six GoHs again this year? Sorry, I've really got my heart set on
> > having a science fiction author GoH. We've had Fantasy GoHs three out
> > of four years and are sending out another invite to one this year, and
> > fantasy fans still feel overlooked. But we only ever had one SF author
> > GoH. I understand if we can't, but I would dearly love to have a Hugo
> > finalist. They are Scazi, Charlie Stross, Ken MacLeod, and Robert
> > Charles Wilson.
> >
> > There is also George R.R. Martin but he's a fantasy author and we're
> > already inviting Tamora Pierce.
> >
> > Scalzi, Charlie Stross, and Robert Charles Wilson decided to create an
> > ebook package of their novels which are competing for the Hugo award
> > this year, and made it available for free to Hugo voters. I think
> > that's a very Penguicon-like thing to do. Scalzi's already coming to
> > Penguicon, of course. I understand why you had to decline the idea of
> > Charlie Stross (the ultimate Penguicon GoH) because of his
> > business-class trans-atlantic airfare. Of course I guess the same
> > would apply to the other Hugo finalist, Ken MacLeod.
> >
> > Robert Charles Wilson lives just north of Toronto (affordable for
> > travel!), and his novels are mind-boggling hard SF. Scalzi says he's
> > an excellent choice, great at conventions, a multiple Hugo nominee and
> > all-around nice guy. Two finalists for the 2006 attending Penguicon
> > would be fantastic. I suggest RCW!
> >
> > -Matt
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