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Conrad: May the Forum be with you...always.

Here's the most recent news I've received about I-CON 13

(from Mike Dauenheimer):

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To: M***********t@q*****.****.*******l.edu

From: PMRJ96A

Subject: I-CON 13 INFO

Date: 02/06/94 10:30 PM

Here is an update on "the East Coast's Largest Convention of Science

Fiction, Fact and Fantasy"

I-CON 13 will be held on April 15-17, 1994 on the campus of the State

University of New York at Stony Brook, 50 miles east of NYC on Long Island.

Author guests include: Harlan Ellison (Guest of Honor), Gregory Benford,

Constance Ash, Stanley Asimov, Margaret Wander Bonanno, Helen Collins,

Stephen C. Fisher, Susan Ellison, Melissa Crandall Everett, Raymond Z.

Gallun, Charles Gannon, Mark Garland, Michael Kandel, JK Klein, Nancy

Kress, David Kyle, Warren Lapike, John Lee, Charles McGraw, Barry Malzberg,

James Morrow, Sam Moskowitz, Peggy Nadramia, John Norman, Dennis Pautz,

John Peel, Dan Persons, Rachel Pollack, Chuck Rothman, Pamela Sargent,

Josepha Sherman, John "Bud" Sparhawk, Devon Tavern, Joan Vanderputten,

Scott Welch, Janny Wurts, and George Zebrowski.

Media Guests: George Takei, Mr. Sulu from the original "Star Trek"; from

the new and innovative TV series" Babylon 5", Michael O'Hare, Commander

Jeffrey Sinclair and J. Michael Straczynski the shows creator/producer and

chief writer. Ronald D. Moore (tentative), writer/producer on "Star

Trek:The Next Generation" and co-writer of the upcoming Trek feature film.

Lolita Fatjo, script consultant on both "ST:TNG" and "Deep Space Nine".

Artist Guest of Honor: Don Maitz

Comics Guests: Peter David writer for Marvel and DC Comics and also known

for the Star Trek novels he has penned; Julie Schwartz helped create

"Superman" and has worked in comics for 50 years; Bob Rozakis-"the DC

answer man"; Arne Starr -inker of DC's "Star Trek" series; Marc

McClaurin-editor of Marvel's "Clive Barker" series; Dan Slott-editor of

Marvel's "Ren and Stimpy"; Steve Saffel, editor of "Marvel Age"; Ray Lago,

artist of Marvel's "Open Space" series; Jordan Raskin, artist of

Darkhorse's "Predator" series; Mike Ling, artist of Eternity's "ROBOTECH

II: The Malcontent Uprising" Series; Don Heck, golden age artist currently

working for Topps Comics Co.; Al Milgrom, inker for Marvel's "X-Factor"

series, and Rick Bryant, inker of Marvel's "Hokum and Hex" series.

Anime Guests: representatives from AD Visions who produced "Guy: Awakening

of the Devil" and "Battle Angel"; from the Bay Area Animation Society:

Mickey Dair and Rob Miles III; professional translator Neil Nadelman who

worked on "Dominion 2-4", "Gail Force", "Area 88 1-3", "Urotsukidoji", and

"Legend of Overfiend 1-5"; Richard Uyeyama, who worked on "Bubblegum Crash

2", "Vampire Princess Miyu 1", and "Ten Little Gal Force"; from Vanguard

Media, Brian Cirulnick, and Michael Pinto who worked on Ninja High School.

and (tentative) reps from AnimEigo who's releases include: "Kimagure Orange

Road" series, "Bubblegum Crisis and Crash" series and "Oh! My Goddess".

Gaming guests: Gary Gygax (tentative) creator of D & D, Greg Costikyan, Ken

Rolston, Tom Dowd and the New England Role Playing Organization (NERO)

which will be running a live role playing game.

I-Con's broad range of guests and programming includes: writer panels,

comics panels, Anime videos, Role Playing-gaming, Sci-Tech speakers, movie

previews, autograph sessions, writer's workshops, art show, filking, awards

banquet and of course an INCREDIBLE dealers' room with over 150 tables full

of great stuff.

For more info on I-Con call (516) 632-6045 or write to: I-Con, PO Box 550,

Stony Brook, NY 11790-0550. I-Con is run by ICON Science Fiction Inc, a

not-for-profit corporation. Discount 3 Day Memberships are available in

advance send and SASE for info.

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Anyone know how I can sleaze a "Program Participant" pass, by getting myself

onto a sci-'n'-tech panel?

--K