Dateline: 10-02-2007

2008 Guests of Honor

In a normal year, CONvergence will have six or seven guests of honor, with one guest slot set aside to invite back a returning guest from a previous year. For our four-day year-ten extravaganza, we are hosting an expanded slate of guests from the past decade of CONvergence. Guests scheduled to appear include:

Robert Meyer Burnett (2002 Guest of Honor)
Filmmaker, director of Free Enterprise, and producer of DVD extras.
http://www.ludovicotechnique.com/

Christian Colquhoun (2004 Guest of Honor)
rop-builder and physical effects artist whose projects include Galaxy Quest, Van Helsing, and Firefly.
http://www.convergence-con.org/guests/2004christian.php

Larry Dixon (2005 Guest of Honor)
Co-author of Mage Wars and Dariens Tale series, author of many short stories and game material and fantasy artist.
http://gryphonking.aelfhame.net/

Daren Dochterman (2002 Guest of Honor)
Designer and illustrator for over 35 feature films, including Star Trek: The Motion Picture Special Edition.
http://www.darendoc.com/darendoc/Welcome.html

Kenneth Hite (2006 Guest of Honor)
Role-playing game designer for GURPS, the Star Trek role playing game, and beyond.
http://princeofcairo.livejournal.com/

Dr. James Kakalios (2005 Guest of Honor)
U of M physics professor, author of The Physics of Superheroes.
http://www.physicsofsuperheroes.com/

Harry Knowles (1999, 2001 and 2005 Guest of Honor)
Creator of Aint-It-Cool-News.com.
http://www.aintitcool.com/

Jay Knowles (1999, 2001 and 2005 Guest of Honor)
Creator of Harry Knowles (and contributor to AICN).
http://www.aintitcool.com/

John Kovalic (2003 and 2007 Guest of Honor)
Cartoonist and Game designer: Dork Tower, Dr. Blink, Out of the Box Games.
http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/

Mercedes Lackey (2005 Guest of Honor)
Author of many popular novels, including the Valdemar and Bardic Voices series and folk music lyricist.
http://www.mercedeslackey.com/

Bridget Landry (2006 Guest of Honor)
Engineer on the teams of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Mars Pathfinder project, the Cassini Mission to Saturn, and other space missions.
http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/bios/team/landry.html

Peter Mayhew (2001 Guest of Honor)
The actor who played the beloved Chewbacca in the original Star Wars Trilogy and in Episode III.
http://www.petermayhew.com

Andrew Probert (2003 Guest of Honor)
Production Designer for Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica and Airwolf.
http://probertdesigns.com

Vincent Truitner (2004 Guest of Honor)
Animation and CGI artist.
http://www.convergence-con.org/guests/2004vintruitner.php

David Weber (2006 Guest of Honor)
Author of the Honor Harrington series and other military science-fiction
http://www.baen.com/author_catalog.asp?author=DWeber

Len Wein (2005 Guest of Honor)
Writer for comics and animation, creator of Swamp Thing, Nightcrawler & Wolverine.
http://lenwein.blogspot.com

Greg Weisman (2006 Guest of Honor)
Creator of Disney’s Gargoyles and supervising producer of The Spectacular Spider-Man for 2008.

Marv Wolfman (2005 Guest of Honor)
Writer for comics and animation, creator of Blade, Bullseye & The New Teen Titans.
http://www.marvwolfman.com