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Guests

VERICON 12 Novelists

Vernor Vinge (Guest of Honor)
Lev Grossman
Thomas Sniegoski
R.L. Stine

VERICON XII Webcomic Authors

Christopher Hastings
Michael "Mookie" Terracciano

VERNOR VINGE
Guest of Honor

Vernor Vinge's science fiction novels and stories have won five Hugo awards, most recently for Rainbows End, which considers the implications of smart environments on issues of libraries, privacy, and terror. His newest novel is The Children of the Sky, a direct sequel to the Hugo-winning A Fire Upon the Deep.

Vinge is a science fiction writer and retired professor of mathematics and computer science. In 1982, at a panel for AAAI-82, he proposed that in the near future, technology would result in superhuman intelligence, a "singularity" beyond which human extrapolation is essentially impossible.

LEV GROSSMAN

Lev Grossman is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Magicians and The Magician King. He is also the book critic at Time magazine. He's 42, slightly built and probably wouldn't last long in a post-apocalyptic, eye-for-an-eye world.

THOMAS SNIEGOSKI

Thomas E. Sniegoski is the author of more than two dozen novels for adults, teens, and children. His teen fantasy YA series Fallen was adapted into a trilogy of successful TV movies by ABC Family Channel. His other books include Sleeper Code, Legacy, Force Majeure, and A Kiss Before the Apocalypse, the first in his series of novels about the angelic PI Remy Chandler.

As a comic book writer, Sniegoski's work includes Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails, a prequel miniseries to the to the international hit Bone. He also wrote the graphic novel BPRD: Hollow Earth, a spinoff from Hellboy, with Christopher Golden.

R.L. STINE

R.L. Stine is the author of hundreds of horror fiction novels, including the books in the Fear Street, Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, and The Nightmare Room series. His books are read all over the world. So far, he has sold over 350 million books, making him one of the best-selling children's authors in history, sometimes called the "Stephen King of children's literature."

R.L. lives in New York City with his wife Jane and his dog Minnie. If you need other info about R.L. Stine, check out his autobiography-- It Came From Ohio-- published by Scholastic.

CHRISTOPHER HASTINGS

Christopher Hastings is the author of "The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, an absurdist action comic that is syndicated online with trade collections from TopatoCo and Dark Horse. Hastings also wrote the Fear Itself: Deadpool miniseries for Marvel, and has contributed illustrations to the bestselling books, Machine of Death and You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News.

He lives in New York with his wife, Carly, and dog, Commissioner Gordon.

MICHAEL TERRACCIANO

Michael "Mookie" Terracciano is the author and artist of the fantasy manga webcomic, "Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire." Since its humble beginnings a decade ago it has received acclaim for its unique characters, addictive storylines, painful puns, awful alliteration and (gasp!) reliable update schedule. Want to know what's so interesting about a grumpy seer, his deformed girlfriend, his angelic little brother, his talking cat, his archmage mother and rock-star father? See for yourself at www.dominic-deegan.com.