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Guests
VERICON 12 Novelists
VERICON XII Webcomic Authors
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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