Diana Gabaldon

Guest of Honor
www.dianagabaldon.com

Diana Gabaldon holds a master’s degree in marine biology and a Ph.D. in ecology, and spent a dozen years as a university professor before turning to write fiction full-time. Her previous publishing history includes scholarly articles and comic book stories for Walt Disney, as well as the award-winning novels Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, and Voyager. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband, three children, and a large number of animals.

Stephen Hickman

Artist Guest of Honor
www.stephenhickman.com

Stephen Hickman has been illustrating science fiction and fantasy for three decades. His work is inspired by the masters of fantasy and science fiction writing — J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, A. Merritt, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Clark Ashton Smith.

His illustrations have been used as cover work for many contemporary writers: Stephen Brust, Hal Colbatch, Tom Cool, Gordon Dickson, David Drake, Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, Jerry Pournelle, and Steve Stirling among others.

Hickman’s work has earned him critical acclaim, including a World Science Fiction Convention’s Hugo Award and 5 Chesley Awards from the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists.

Since 1976 Hickman has illustrated over 400 covers for Ace, Baen, Ballantine, Bantam, Berkeley, Dell, Del Rey, Doubleday, Phage Press, Tor, Warren Publications and others.

Gordon Van Gelder

Toast Master
www.sfsite.com

Gordon Van Gelder has been the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction since the beginning of 1997. He became the magazine’s publisher in 2000. Through the 1990s, he worked as an editor for St. Martin’s Press, where he worked on a variety of fiction and nonfiction titles (including mysteries, sf, fantasy, nonfiction, and unclassifiable books). He was an editor (and occasional reviewer) for the New York Review of Science Fiction from 1988 to 1994. He lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. F&SF has a web site at www.fsfmag.com.

Books as editor: (with Edward L. Ferman) The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology (New York: Tor Books, 1999), One Lamp: Alternate History Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003), In Lands That Never Were: Tales of Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2004), Fourth Planet from the Sun: Tales of Mars from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2005).

Tim Miller

Fan Guest of Honor
www.fencom.org
Tim Miller is one of the founders of Dallas Con FenCon. Now in it’s 5th year, Fen Con is scheduled for October 3-5th, 2008 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel near the Galleria.