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Barbara Hambly is the Author Guest of Honor
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Barbara Hambly is a renowned author of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Historical Mysteries and more.
Since her first novel for Del Rey in 1982, Time of the Dark, she has had published over three
dozen books spanning many genres. Her fantasy novels have dealt with dragons, wizards, vampires,
witches and her Star Trek, Star Wars and Beauty of the Beast books have been popular with fans.
She also has a very successful historical mystery series about Benjamin January, a free man of
color in 1830 New Orleans. Her most recent works include Magic Time, a collaboration with Marc
Scott Zicree, Dragonstar, Wet Grave (the latest Benjamin January novel) and Sisters
of the Raven (a new fantasy novel due for release in August). She is currently working on a
historical novel about Mary Todd Lincoln, The Emanicipator's Wife.
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Mojo is the Special Effects Guest of Honor
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Mojo is one of the pioneers of CGI special effects for television. He worked with Ron Thornton
and his fledgling Foundation Imaging to create the pioneering visual effects for Babylon 5, for
which they were awarded a visual effects emmy. He continued to create groundbreaking and
breathtaking images for Babylon 5 and then for Star Trek: Voyager. He also worked on the
Special Edition DVD for Star Trek: The Motion Picture and was a producer on the recently released
Buckaroo Banzai DVD. He started the popular Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendars and has
published Starship Spotter, a guide to ships in the Star Trek universe, and is hard at work on
the upcoming Star Trek: The Unseen Frontier art book. He enjoys going to conventions and talking
about his work and showing the fans how things are done.
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Lubov is the Artist Guest of Honor
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Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, she took her first steps in art while studying
techniques of Russian and European painters in the Nevsky School of Art. In
1980 she emigrated to the U.S.A. where she continued her education,
accepted at The School of Art Institute of Chicago with a full four-year
scholarship. Since she became involved with science fiction, fantasy and horror
fandom, she has won widespread acclaim for her richly colorful pieces. She has
won Art Show awards at the 1992, 93, 95 and 96 World Science Fiction Conventions and won
the Best Professional Artist Award at the 1997 World Horror Convention. She was Artist Guest
of Honor at LepreCon 26 and has since moved to the Phoenix area. Some of her artwork can
be seen online at http://www.hollywoodcomics.com/lubov.html
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Jordin Kare is the Music Guest
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Jordin T. Kare was born in Ithaca N.Y. in 1956. He was a Graduate of Cornell (Nursery School).
He Filked as early as elementary school. In 1975 at his first Con, the Boskone Science
Convention, Jordin discovered that others also Filked.
In 1978 he moved to California and quickly established himself in local Fandom. He published
"The Westerfilk Collection" in 1981 and founded Off Centaur Publications in 1982. He got his
Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 1984. In 1991 he married Mary Kay, the same day as the great Oakland
Fire (not his fault or so he claims). He and Mary Kay have no children, but two cats honor
them with their presence.
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