Tag: ConFusion

ConFusion 2015 Attending Authors, With Links

John Winkelman

This is an expansion of the list of authors and other Guests of Honor attending and participating in ConFusion 2015 in Dearborn, Michigan. The list as it exists on the ConFusion site does not have any associated links, so I took the liberty. This is likely a work in progress.

[UPDATE 1: added Shanna Germain and Monte Cook]

[UPDATE 2: added Peter V. Brett]

[UPDATE 3: added James Frederick Leach and Annalee Flower Horne]

[UPDATE 4: added Justin Howe]

[UPDATE 5: added Jen Talley, Sarah Gibson, and Elizabeth Shack]

[UPDATE 6: added M.H. Mead, Mari Brighe, Howard Scrimgeour]

Joe Abercrombie [website, twitter, goodreads]
Saladin Ahmed [website, twitter, goodreads]
Scott H. Andrews [website, twitter, goodreads]
Bradley P. Beaulieu [website, twitter, goodreads]
Robert Bennett [website, twitter, goodreads]
Leah Bobet [website, twitter, goodreads]
Peter V. Brett [website, twitter, goodreads]
Mari Brighe [website, twitter, goodreads]
Tobias Buckell [website, twitter, goodreads]
Rowena Cherry [website, twitter, goodreads]
Cynthia Chestek [umich.edu profile]
Ted Chiang [goodreads]
Cinda Williams Chima [website, twitter, goodreads]
Wesley Chu [website, twitter, goodreads]
Myke Cole [website, twitter, goodreads]
Brigid Collins [website, twitter]
Ron Collins [website, twitter]
Monte Cook [website, twitter, goodreads]
Heather Dale [website, twitter]
J.C. Daniels [website, twitter, goodreads]
Delilah S. Dawson [website, twitter, goodreads]
Seleste deLaney [website, twitter, goodreads]
Michael J. DeLuca [website, twitter, goodreads]
Susan Dennard [website, twitter, goodreads]
Tom Doyle [website, twitter, goodreads]
Steven Erikson [website, goodreads]
Shanna Germain [website, twitter, goodreads]
Sarah Gibbons
Janet Harriett [website, twitter, goodreads]
Carrie Harris [website, twitter, goodreads]
Merrie Haskell [website, twitter, goodreads]
Jim C. Hines [website, twitter, goodreads]
Annalee Flower Horne [website, twitter, goodreads]

Justin Howe [website, twitter, goodreads]
Douglas Hulick [website, twitter, goodreads]
Kameron Hurley [website, twitter, goodreads]
Philip Kaldon [website, twitter, goodreads]
Christian Klaver [website, twitter, goodreads]
Mary Robinette Kowal [website, twitter, goodreads]
James Frederick Leach [website, goodreads]
Karen Lord [website, twitter, goodreads]
Brian McClellan [website, twitter, goodreads]
M. H. Mead [website, goodreads]
Courtney Allison Moulton [website, twitter, goodreads]
Peter Orullian [website, twitter, goodreads]
Cindy Spencer Pape [website, twitter, goodreads]
Christine Purcell [twitter, goodreads]
Cherie Priest [website, twitter, goodreads]
Laura Resnick [website, twitter, goodreads]
Diana Rowland [website, twitter, goodreads]
Jason Sanford [website, twitter, goodreads]
John Scalzi [website, twitter, goodreads]
Howard Scrimgeour [Filk Hall of Fame page]
Elizabeth Shack [website, twitter, goodreads]
Catherine Shaffer [website, twitter, goodreads]
Ferrett Steinmetz [website, twitter, goodreads]
Amy Sundberg [website, twitter, goodreads]
Michael J. Sullivan [website, twitter, goodreads]
Jen Talley [website, twitter]
Aaron Thul [twitter]
Patrick S. Tomlinson [website, twitter, goodreads]
Michael R. Underwood [website, twitter, goodreads]
Doselle Young [website, twitter, goodreads]
Lara Zielin [website, twitter, goodreads]

Geek Overload

John Winkelman

I just returned from Astronomical ConFusion. I have books, and great memories, and great stories, and I am too tired to go into detail right now. So I will leave you with a joke I heard, which is the Best Joke of the Year, right now:

“So an Irishman walks out of a bar.”

Math Anxiety

John Winkelman

After two days of being STUPID I fixed the math on the flocking experiment and now have bugs facing the direction they are flying. Aren’t they cute? When they get in formation, imagine Ride of the Valkyries playing in the background.

In two days I and a group of friends are off to the Astronomical ConFusion science fiction convention in Warren, Michigan. This will be my second Con; the first was WindyCon in Chicago in November of 2000. As we were drinking breakfast on that Sunday, the lovely and talented Christian summed up the entirety of geekdom as follows:

“You look at these people, and you see that some of them, this is the one time a year they get to cut loose and be freaks, no judgement, just a weekend of good fun. Then there are those people, you look at them and you just know, they will spend the rest of their lives pumping gas in a crushed velvet cape and pointy ears.”

Mmmmmmmyep.

I dove into the memetics book again today, discovered some interesting things, but I am too tired to think about it right now. Maybe I will post something tomorrow while I’m cleaning off my prosthetic Klingon forehead.