[Board] SF Author GOH?

[john guest]

Thanks, Matt!

On 7/13/06, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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