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• Lani Aames
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] Lani is the author of two novels and several novellas of erotic romance published by Ellora's Cave, including Desperate Hearts and the vampire romance Eternal Passion, her latest release.

• Dafydd ab Hugh
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Daffyd has written numerous published works, including the Star Trek novels Fallen Heroes and Balance of Power.

• Lynn Abbey
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Lynn is a fantasy writer who is well-known to Dragon*Con fans. Along with Bob Asprin, she was Guest of Honor at the very first Dragon*Con and has attended many since then. In addition to over two dozen novels written in her own name, she is the keeper of the Thieves' World flame

• Deborah Abbott
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Deborah's been an animator for many years and worked on Space Jam, The Prince of Egypt and Anastasia; she also does comics work and some acting.

• Abney Park
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Evocative of both old-world mystery and futuristic technology, Abney Park is a strong and original musical presence in a genre far too used to formula, creating music and lyrics both dark and mystical.

• Peter Abrahamson
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Peter has been designing, building, and puppeteering animatronics for the film, TV and theme park industries since 1989 and participating in robotic competitions since 1994.

• Pete Abrams
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Pete Abrams is the creator of the highly addictive niftiness that is Sluggy Freelance, a daily online comic strip that has been appearing at www.sluggy.com since August 25, 1997. His world with the switchblade-wielding rabbit quickly expanded into uncharted territory and grew into over a decade of alien vampire missile-launching fun.

• Aaron A. Acevedo
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] As a freelance writer and game designer, Aaron has worked for Obsidian Studios, Alderac Entertainment Group, and Wizards of the Coast.

• Justin Achilli
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Justin Achilli is a prolific game developer and writer for White Wolf Game Studios.

• Forrest J. Ackerman
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] The legendary "4e" is, among many other things, the world's leading authority on SF B-movies.

• David Acord
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] David Acord is a Lucasfilm employee, whose sound editing credits include Star Wars Episodes 2 and 3 as well as the DVD remasters of the original trilogy.

• Art Adams
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Art's the talented cartoonist who created Monkeyman & O'Brien.

• Chris Adams
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Chris Adams has been working in the gaming industry since 1987's debut of Yamara in Dragon magazine. Chris' current projects include the sequel game to Continuum, Narcissist: Crash Free.

• Mitzi Adams
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Mitzi Adams is a solar scientist for NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center's Space Sciences Laboratory in Huntsville, Alabama.

• Steven R. Addlesee
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] In 1993, Steven R. Addlesee achieved his first professional published credit; he has now accumulated over 60 credits as artist, cartoonist, columnist, illustrator, inker, letterer, and writer.

• Keith Age
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Keith Age is the star of the Sci Fi Channel's Spooked and the upcoming (October, 2007) Children of the Grave. The Technical Consultant on many paranormal shows as well as movies such as Death Tunnel, Keith is listed as one of the top ten Ghost Hunters in America.

• Jerry & Sharon Ahern
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Jerry and Sharon are co-authors of the popular Survivalist series and They Call Me Mercenary, written under the pseudonym Alex Kilgore.

• Tracy A. Akers
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Tracy A. Akers is the award-winning author of the Souls of Aredyrah Series. Active in the writing community, she is a frequent speaker at schools, conferences, and fantasy conventions. Her first novel, The Fire and the Light, has received numerous awards and is recommended by the Florida Department of Education.

• Captain Lou Albano
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Captain Lou Albano, "The Manager of Champions," transcends pro wrestling. You've seen him with trademark rubber bands on his face and beard in many films, videos, and TV programs including The Goonies video, & Cyndy Lauper's classic "Girls Just Want to Have Fun."

• Heather Alexander
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Heather Alexander is a fiery, redheaded Faerie Tale Minstrel who is known for singing the praises of the fae folk. She composes and performs original and traditional Celtic music on fiddle, guitar, bodhran, and any other instrument that the sidhe may present to her.

• Jason Alexander
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Jason entered the independent scene with his self-published anthology Section 8; his current project is Empty Zone.

• Wayne Alexander
  [**Past** Guests in 1999] Among many genre roles, Wayne is known to us best as Babylon 5's most-often-seen guest star, appearing as (among others) Lorien, the First One and Sebastian the Inquisitor.

• Steve Algieri
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Steve has had over twenty stories published in a variety of print and Net publications, and edits and publishes Pulp Eternity.

• Beth Allen
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Beth was the ripe old age of 14 when she began portraying Amber (and Eagle) in the international hit SF teen series The Tribe. Five years later, she's still going strong!

• James E. Allen
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] A comics writer and illustrator, James is releasing his prehistoric-action drama Creation this summer.

• Scott Allie
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Scott Allie writes and edits comics and prose for Dark Horse Comics, Glimmer Train Press, and other publishers. His latest work is the comics series Solomon Kane.

• Michael Allred
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Michael is writer and artist behind the Madman comic series.

• Aaron Allston
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Texan novelist Aaron Allston (Wraith Squadron, Doc Sidhe, Betrayal) is also an Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame inductee and an independent filmmaker. His upcoming work include Fury (Legacy of the Force #7) and Mongoose Among Cobras (original SF/adventure).

• Anthony Alongi
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Anthony Alongi is co-writer of Jennifer Scales and the Ancient Furnace, and Jennifer Scales and the Messenger of Light.

• Mark A. Altman
  [**Past** Guests in 1999] Mark formerly edited Sci-Fi Universe and recently co-wrote and co-produced Free Enterprise, his first feature film.

• Richard L. Altstatt
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Richard "Hawk" Altstatt produces radiation models and performs radiation effects engineering for military and civilian purposes. He has four degrees in "fire" and is widely published on radiation effects topics. He is an Eagle Claw sensei, an excellent swordsman, and one of the leading experts on catching stuff on fire.

• Yoshitaka Amano
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Yoshitaka Amano is a celebrated artist and a renowned figure in animation (Vampire Hunter D), videogame design (Final Fantasy), illustration and popular art.

• Chace Ambrose
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Chace Ambrose is an up and coming actor in the low budget film industry. He's acted in Cutting Room (by Pendulum Pictures) and Psycho Holocaust (by Lazarus Entertainment) He also plays Randall Biggens in the upcoming Super Tromette Action Movie Go!, on which he was also assistant director.

• Tony Amendola
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Among Tony's credits are such SF and related shows as Stargate SG-1, Angel, Kindred: The Embraced, The X-Files and ST: Voyager as well as film roles in Blow and Poltergeist.

• Sara Amis
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] Sara has been a professional psychic for ten years. She teaches workshops on psychic development and Tarot all over the Southeast, and also teaches introductory Wicca classes.

• Douglas Arthurs Anderson
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Douglas is a renowned Tolkien scholar whose expertise in the textual history and evolution of Tolkien's Middle-Earth has led to the inclusion of his essays in most of the English-language editions since 1987.

• James W. Anderson
  [**Past** Guests in 1999] Jim mostly writes horror and has a few SF works in progress; he also heads Baron's Haven Freehold, Inc., a planned year-round medieval community with castle, village and crafts.

• Kevin J. Anderson
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Kevin J. Anderson is the author of more than 90 novels, 43 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists.  He has over 20 million books in print in 30 languages.

• Matt Anderson
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] Matt's comic strip Lemmings has been featured for years in several newspapers in the Southeast. He is also editorial cartoonist for the Carolina Morning News.

• Melody Anderson
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Melody Anderson is best know for her role in Flash Gordon.

• Murphy Anderson
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Murphy is one of the all-time great comic artists. His career spans over 50 years, and includes characters as diverse as Hawkman, the Atomic Knights and Buck Rogers.

• Katharine Anderson-Davila
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] Katharine is now the editor-in-chief for WomenGamers.com. She's written award-winning editorials in print journalism; her work includes a PBS project for Bill Moyers.

• Vanessa Angel
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Vanessa Angel is best remembered for playing the role of Lisa on the Weird Science TV series.

• David Ankrum
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] David Ankrum was the voice of Wedge Antilles in Star Wars: A New Hope. Despite his limited screen time in the films, Wedge is one of the franchise's most popular characters among devoted fans.

• Stephen L. Antczak
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Steve Antczak sold 40+ stories, with 2 books published by Marietta Publishing: God Drug and Daydreams Undertaken. He wrote two movies: No Witness (Corey Feldman & Jeff Fahey), and Last Sunset (Corbin Bernsen & Joan Severance). He created the comic Nightwolf: the Price, optioned by Fox for a TV pilot.

• Piers Anthony
  [**Past** Guests in 1991] One of the most prolific SF and fantasy authors the 20th century will ever see, Piers has established legions of fans worldwide.

• Apollo Smile
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] A multimedia idol and pop performer (currently, with backing band Rockbot), Apollo brings many worlds together as a "Live Action Anime Girl." She's recently appeared in Law & Order and Zoolander.

• Christopher Appel
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Christopher's illustrations have appeared in numerous gaming products and magazines, and he's also well-known for his computer game designs, including Wizardry, Bane of the Cosmic Forge and the Unreal line.

• Ken Appleton
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Ken is a professional photographer and graphic designer.

• Lee Arenberg
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Lee Arenberg will star in Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie as Elwood. His TV guest appearances include several roles in the various Star Trek series.

• Carmen Argenziano
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] An award winning actor, Carmen has appeared in over 50 films. For the past six years, Carmen has portrayed Jacob Carter/Selmak in Stargate SG1 on Sci-Fi.

• Angelique Armae
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Angelique Armae's writings have garnered numerous awards and nominations. Her first book, Come the Night, made Fictionwise's Best of the Best list, rounding out the top five best selling dark fantasy books of the year.

• Ben Armstrong
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Twisted horror show host Ben Armstrong has an Emmy nomination for Tales from 6 Feet Under and a Telly Award for The True NETHERWORLD Story of the Harvestman. In recent years, he has hosted many events and spent his spare time creating evil scenarios and vile experiences for NETHERWORLD Haunted House.

• Dave Arneson
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] Dave Arneson is a legendary figure in the gaming world, ranging back to the earliest days of Dungeons and Dragons. He received a Special Origins Award as a Father of Roleplaying Games in 1983.

• Douglas Arthurs
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Fans of Stargate SG-1 know Douglas best as the powerful System Lord, Heru?ur. Besides Stargate, he has acted in television episodes of Cold Squad, Harsh Realm, The X-Files, and Highlander. Recent film credits include The Chronicles of Riddick and The Butterfly Effect.

• Robert Asprin
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Robert Asprin is best known for the Mythadventures of Aahz and Skeeve, the Phule novels, and editing the groundbreaking Thieves World anthology series with Lynn Abbey.

• Sean Astin
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Sean Astin is most famous for his film roles as Mikey in The Goonies, the title character of Rudy, Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Drew Barrymore's steroid-juiced brother in 50 First Dates.

• David Atchison
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Comic book writer David Atchison co-authors the Occult Crimes Taskforce with actor Rosario Dawson.

• William Atherton
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] William Atherton has starred in motion pictures, on Broadway, and on television. He first achieved international prominence starring in Steven Spielberg's directorial debut, The Sugarland Express, followed by John Schlesinger's classic, The Day of the Locust.

• Peter Atkins
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Peter wrote three of the Hellraiser movies and also created Wishmaster for Wes Craven. In addition, Peter is an author and musician and gigs regularly with his band in LA.

• Tom Atkins
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Veteran stage and screen actor Tom Atkins has been in The Fog, Escape From New York, Halloween III, Creepshow, and Two Evil Eyes. Some of his many television appearances include a recurring role on HBO's Oz, Rockford Files, Xena, The Heist, Serpico, and Lou Grant.

• Atlanta Radio Theatre Company
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Atlanta Radio Theatre Company (ARTC) has been adapting great stories for audio (live and radio performances) since 1984, and has been a popular mainstay at Dragon*Con for many great years.

• Johnny Atomic
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] Johnny just finished the pulp crime thriller Temple & Nash (with Ron Fortier, and Matt Ryan) and is the art director (and lead artist) of the successful and controversial RipperOpoly�.

• Stella Atrium
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Stella Atrium offers her debut science fiction story The Goulep; the sequel, Heartstone will be out in Spring, 1999.

• Joellyn Auklandus
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Joellyn has been part of WaRP Graphics since 1983; since then, she has added Kahvi and The Wild Hunt to her roster.

• Jeff Austin
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Jeff Austin has worked in the comics field for thirteen years. His inks appear in Faust, Nightvision, The Renegade, Big Bang Comics, and Cuda. His pencils appear in FemForce, Whiz Kids, and more. Lately, he has produced artwork for several movies, mocking-up comic covers to be used as props and promotional posters.

• Stephen Austin
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Stephen Austin is a professional comedian and actor best remembered by fans of sci-fi as the "Pak'Ma'Ra Ambassador" on the hit series, Babylon 5.

• Erick Avari
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Erick Avari's credits include leading roles in films from Kevin Reynold's cult classic The Beast of War, as well as commercial megahits such as Planet of the Apes, Stargate SG-1, Independence Day, and The Mummy. His comedic skills have landed him starring roles in For Love or Money and Woody Allen's only TV film, Don't Drink The Water.

• Chris Avellone
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• Brian Avenet-Bradley
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Brian is a director/writer/producer at a major production company whose research into comets and asteroids resulted in the documentary Fire from the Sky.

• Jared Axelrod
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Jared Axelrod is a frequently published short story author, puppeteer, and circus performer, as well as the creator of popular Voice of Free Planet X and Aliens You Will Meet podcasts. Recently, Jared has been using his costume and sculptural expertise designing and building puppets for live shows of AYWM.

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• E.T. Babinski
  [**Past** Guests in 1996] Editor of Cretinism or Evilution. Author of Leaving The Fold: Testimonies of Former Fundamentalists.

• Morena Baccarin
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Morena Baccarin starred in the Firefly television show and Serenity film. She has also provided the voice for Black Canary in multiple episodes of the animated series Justice League Unlimited.

• Bach on a Hook
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] Bach on a Hook's Marty Matteson has a Bachelors and a Masters in Viola Performance, and has played in orchestras and chamber groups. With his accompanying musicians, he creates a fusion of classical music and modern sounds.

• Dian Bachar
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Dian played the horny, flesh-eating George Noon in Cannibal: The Musical and also stars as Squeak Scolari in BASEketball.

• Steve Bacic
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Steve is best known as Telemachus Rhade on the series Andromeda.

• Peter Bagge
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Peter Bagge is artist and writer on Hate, one of the most popular alternative comics. His chronicle of the Bradley family has won wide acclaim, and his smooth linework has graced the covers of numerous CDs and magazines. Peter got his start editing Weirdo magazine for the legendary Robert Crumb in the 1980s, and Crumb will illustrate Peter's satire of the "Cathy" comic strip in Hate #27. Between Weirdo and Hate, Peter wrote and drew Neat Stuff for Fantagraphics (who also publish Hate).

• Laura Bailey
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Laura Bailey has been active in the Dallas theater community for over three years, and has voiceover credits in Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball, Blue Gender and the upcoming Yu Yu Hakusho.

• Brian Bailie
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Brian Bailie is a senior illustrator for the Defense Dept. and former illustrator for NASA at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. He is involved with the animated segments of the Emmy-winning show, The SCI Files, as well as other freelance credits.

• Bob Baker
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Bob Baker is the creator of Of Mind and Soul and the creator/writer/artist of the hit new series Wynd from Rage Comics.

• Danhiel Baker
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Danhiel Baker is an expert on Usenet with a particular focus on spam and the DMCA.  He has worked in the industry for over 10 years and is currently the Chief Usenet Administrator for Supernews.com.

• Kenny Baker
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] Kenny portrays Star Wars' R2D2 in the first and second trilogies, plus many other roles (remember Willow, or Fidget in Time Bandits?)

• Linda P. Baker
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Linda is the author of The Irda and, with Nancy Varian Berberick, Tears of the Night Sky, both set in the Dragonlance fantasy world, and has had numerous shorter fiction pieces published.

• Sala Baker
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] Sala Baker is known to most Lord of the Ring fans as Sauron from The Fellowship of the Ring.

• Shannon Baksa
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Shannon Baksa portrays Mara Jade, probably the most popular character to be developed from the "alternate universe" of Star Wars.

• Rob Balder
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Rob Balder first gained notoriety as the creator of the comic strip PartiallyClips (then later as author of the webcomic Erfworld). But he is also a fabulously funny and talented filk singer.

• Adam Baldwin
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] "He robbed from the rich, and he gave to the poor. Stood up to the man and gave him what for. Our love for him now ain't hard to explain. The hero of Canton the man they call Jayne." Yes, for all Firefly fans, we've got "Jayne Cobb." Adam Baldwin also portrayed the powerful, demonic "lawyer/liaison" in season 5 of Angel.

• James Baldwin
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] A working artist since 1978, James has painted designs for t-shirts and printed sportswear as well as comics.

• Jim Balent
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Jim's the talented artist on DC Comics' monthly Catwoman series, noted for his beautiful and graceful figure work.

• Melissa Balin
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Melissa holds several feature-film and numerous segment production credits, and produced The Attic Expeditions, which will be screened at Dragon*Con 2001.

• Betty Ballantine
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Together with her late husband Ian, Betty Ballantine helped form Bantam Books in 1945 and Ballantine Books in 1952, becoming one of the world's first publishers of new science-fiction.

• Arthur Baltasar
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Art is a Chicago artist and has been self-publishing comics (as Electric Milk Comics) since 1994.

• Jamie Bamber
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Jamie Bamber has since worked steadily as an actor in TV, film, and radio in Europe and the United States. His recent credits include Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks's HBO miniseries, Band of Brothers, Daniel Deronda for the BBC, and he currently stars as Major Lee "Apollo" Adama on the Sci Fi Channel television program, Battlestar Galactica.

• Charles Band
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Founder of Full Moon Features and the most important figure in independent video distribution, Charles Band is the producer of over 250 films and the director of 25, including the B-movie classic, Trancers.

• L.A. Banks
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] L.A. Banks is a NY Times and USA Today best-selling author with over 30 novels to her credit and several film/TV to novel projects under her belt.

• Kevin Bankston
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Kevin Bankston is a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org), the nation's premiere digital civil liberties organization. 

• Adrienne Barbeau
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Film, television, and Broadway star, concert stage and recording artist, Adrienne Barbeau's career spans 40 years and is still evolving.

• Christina Barber
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Christina Barber is an award-winning author of speculative fiction works noted for their dark tones. Recently published books include Seely's Pond (March 2008), Greystone (paranormal romance), Ghosts of Southern Crescent, Georgia (nonfiction, Summer 2008). Christina read her story "Redemption" at Dragon*Con 2007 with Eugie Foster (see Daily Dragon).

• Dave Barclay
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] David Barclay's puppeteer work in The Empire Strikes Back led to further collaboration with Frank Oz in Return of the Jedi (Jabba the Hutt), Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, and Little Shop of Horrors.

• Bardiva
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] Bardiva is a web-cam girl who uses her free site to share her adventures with the world.

• Clive Barker
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Film-wise, he recently directed his own screenplay called The Lord of Illusions. Hellraiser IV has also just recently completed production.

• Lawrence Edward Barker
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Lawrence Barker is a member of Dark River Writers. He has published 3 novels, ~200 short stories, and ~50 poems in the genres of horror and dark fantasy.

• Steven Barnes
  [**Past** Guests in 1992] Steven is a noted author, both on his own (Street Lethal, etc.) and with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

• David G. Barnett
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Dave Barnett runs Necro Publications and Design, and also heads up the fiction editing for Bloodsongs magazine.

• Keith Barnett
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] A comics inker, Keith Barnett has worked with companies like Dark Horse and Caliber Comics. His most recent published work is Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Lover's Walk."

• Mike Baron
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Mike Baron has written numerous mainstream comics, including Marvel's The Punisher and DC's The Flash. He is also the co-creator of Badger, Feud, Spyke, and a number of other renowned titles.

• C. Kevin Barrett
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] C. Kevin Barrett is a Biological Anthropologist and writer. He teaches Cultural and Forensic Anthropology and has assisted law enforcement on a number of cases. His speculative fiction has won numerous contests, most recently the Paradox 2006 Flash Short Fiction and the Eurocon 2007 Short Story contests.

• Eric Basaldua
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Eric Basaldua has worked on high-profile Top Cow projects like Magdalena, Witchblade/Wolverine, Tomb Raider, and Hunter-Killer. His most recent work can be seen in the Top Cow/Virgin Comics crossover, Witchblade/Devi #1.

• James Bassett
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Jim Bassett is the author of Living Real (HarperPrism), a hard-SF look at virtual reality. He has also written various screenplays, edited three small press magazines, and serves as the editor of SFWA's Forum.

• Wolfgang Baur
  [**Past** Guests in 1996] Wolfgang Baur is, without a doubt, the most Teutonic game designer at Wizards of the Coast.

• Peter S. Beagle
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Peter S. Beagle was born in 1939 and raised in the Bronx. Thanks to classic works such as The Last Unicorn, A Fine and Private Place, and Tamsin, he is acknowledged as America's greatest living fantasy author. He won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for his novelette, "Two Hearts."

• Davey Beauchamp
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Davey Beauchamp is the editor of the Writers for Relief  anthologies, a charity project featuring the works of top science fiction and fantasy authors. He has also written a YA novel, The Amazing Pulp Adventures Radio Show Starring Mister Adventure, which has been turned into an award nominated podcast.

• Frederick Beaudoin
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Frederick is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he studied fiction writing with Harry Crews, Nelson Algren and other writers. His current novel is The Gender Wars: Cloned to Perfection.

• Trace Beaulieu
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Trace Beaulieu was a founding writer/performer on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K), playing Dr. Forrester and Crow for the show's first seven seasons as well as the feature film version of MST.

• Doug Beekman
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Artist and cover Illustrator.

• Cari Begle
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Cari Begle is Stardock Entertainment's senior game developer. Over the past ten years, she has worked on eight games or expansion packs. She was the lead developer on the acclaimed Galactic Civilizations series and is one of the few female lead developers in the game industry.

• Brendan Beiser
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Brendan Beiser portrayed Agent Pendrall on The X-Files.

• Michelle Belanger
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] An expert on vampires in myth and pop culture, Michelle Belanger has appeared on the History Channel, A&E, and numerous documentaries and radio shows. She is the author of half a dozen books on the paranormal and occult, and she lectures at colleges on topics from vampires to Lovecraft.

• Bella Morte
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Bella Morte recently had their second CD re-released by the world-renowned goth label, Cleopatra, and their third is on the way.

• Tory Belleci
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Tory Belleci is a member of the Mythbuster build team.

• Belljar
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Belljar, the Atlanta based progressive/alternative band, employs a combination of acoustic guitar, fretless bass, tribal rhythms, electric guitar and powerful vocals.

• Joel Laurent Bellucci
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] A card-carrying jack-of-all-trades, Joel Laurent Bellucci is a marine scientist, actor, and visual effects artist. He's the visual effects supervisor for Star Trek: New Voyages and has a leading role in its soon-to-be-released spin-off, Star Trek: First Voyages.

• The Belmont Playboys
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] The Belmont Playboys are an Atlanta-based rockabilly band who play frequent shows in the Atlanta area, often at the fabled Star Community Bar in Little Five Points.

• Dirk Benedict
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Dirk Benedict is best-known for his roles on Battlestar Galactica and The A-Team, but he's also acted on Broadway, written two books and written/directed a feature film.

• Erik J Benner
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Eric J. Benner is the Science Track solar scope "guy," has worked as a professional telescope operator, owns an observatory, and has done rocket talks at Dragon*Con in previous years.

• Steve Bennett
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Coming Soon
  

• Julie Benz
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] The beautiful and versatile actress is best known as the powerful and sexy vampire Darla on both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

• Christian Alexander Beranek
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Christian Beranek is a best-selling graphic novelist, screenwriter, actor, and producer. His first major success was Dracula vs. King Arthur, soon to be a major motion picture featuring his screenplay. He also wrote the origin of John Doe for the Zenescope/New Line Cinema series, Se7en.

• Elaine Bergstrom
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Elaine Bergstrom has written a number of gothic horror books including, Shattered Glass, the first in a series of vampire novels for Berkley/Jove to be followed by Blood Alone, Blood Rites, and Daughter of the Night.

• Steve Berman
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Steve once bought books professionally, and is now the author of the acclaimed Trysts: A Triskaidecollection of Queer and Weird Stories, a collection of quirky gay dark fantasy stories.

• Pierre Bernard, Jr.
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Pierre Bernard, Jr., is the graphic artist from Late Night with Conan O'Brien, known for the Recliner of Rage. He was invited and appeared in two episodes of Stargate as well as a special in which he got to interview all the cast members of both Stargate SG1 and Atlantis.

• Mark F. Berry
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Mark F. Berry is a writer and researcher on the subject of classic creature features and the people who made them. Author of The Dinosaur Filmography, the definitive history of dinosaurs in film, his "monster" retrospectives and personality interviews have been featured in Video Watchdog, Filmfax, HorrorShow, Prehistoric Times, Horror Biz, and CreatureScape.

• Michael Berryman
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Late 1970s horror genre icon whose best known for his creepy performance as "Pluto" in the uncompromising Wes Craven horror film The Hills Have Eyes.

• Laura Bertram
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Laura's credits include the TV series Ready or Not, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Seasons of Love, and Andromeda as Trance Gemini, and the movies Night of the Twisters, and Dear America: So Far From Home. She is now a series regular on Robson Arms.

• James Bickert
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] James and his partner Randy Hill wrote, produced, directed, and edited the 16mm cult feature Dumpster Baby.

• Paul Bielaczyc
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Paul Bielaczyc is a fantasy artist/illustrator working for such companies as Dragonlance, White Wolf, and Apex Digest.  Last year his work, Nightmare, won the Chesley Award for Best Monochrome Unpublished.

• Cliff Biggers
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] While Cliff has written comics professionally for Dark Horse, Tekno, and other companies, he has written about comics for most of his professional career.

• Gina Biggs
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Gina Biggs is the creator of the romance webcomic, Red String, a full color series adapting lesser known fairy tales to comic form, published by Dark Horse Comics and Erstwhile. She has been creating comics for over ten years and runs the all-female comic group, Strawberry Comics. Her latest work is the fairy-tale series, Erstwhile.

• Richard Biggs
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] Richard is best-known to SF audiences as Dr. Steven Franklin on Babylon 5. He trained with the distinguished John Houseman and has numerous theatrical credits.

• Aaron Bilodeau
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Aaron Bilodeau is one of the Midwest's rising stars in the filk (fannish folk singing) community.

• Tom Biondolillo
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] A fantasy digital painter/illustrator, Tom Biondolillo has worked for companies such as WOTC, FASA, AEG, Steve Jackson Games, GT Interactive, Dark Horse, and Caliber where he's painted, illustrated, inked, penciled, written, and designed. He is currently working on White Wolf's many lines, including Vampire V:TES cards,  Mage, and Scion.

• Dee Bitner
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Dee Bitner is a certified hypnotist, a HypnoBirthing practitioner, an NLP pratictitioner, and a geek from a long line of geeks. She has explored the place hypnosis enjoys in roleplay and loves to explain and demonstrate the fun hypnosis can be to new audiences.

• Kenn Bivins
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Kenn began in 1993 working with Marvel, DC, White Wolf Games and Brainstorm Comics, and has found a calling illustrating children's books.

• Claudia Black
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Claudia Black is best known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun and Vala Mal Doran in the science fiction television series Farscape and Stargate SG-1 respectively.

• Forrest Black
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Internationally renowned fetish rock photographer Forrest Black has recently been shooting for Skin Two, Fetish, Secret, Juggernaut and others.

• Holly Black
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Holly Black is the author of the bestselling Modern Faerie Tale series, which includes Tithe, Valiant, and Ironside, as well as the middle grade series, The Spiderwick Chronicles, an adaptation of which will be released as a major motion picture in February of 2008.

• Jaid Black
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] In addition to writing erotic paranormal romances, Jaid also collaborates on horror novels and screenplays with author Claudia Rose. Their joint pen name is Millar Black.

• Karen Black
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Karen is famous for her roles in a wide range of films - over 100 of 'em! - including the Great Gatsby, Easy Rider and Trilogy of Terror.

• Rod Black
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Rod is the editor and publisher of Son of Spamm! magazine (formerly S.P.A.M.M.).

• Richie Blackmon
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] Richie Blackmon is a young artist from Mississippi, whose titles (through Across the Pond Comics) include Government Bodies and Necro-City.

• The Blacktop Rockets
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] The Blacktop Rockets are an Atlanta-based rockabilly band who play frequent shows in the Atlanta area, notably at the Star Community Bar in Little Five Points.

• Dr. Bob Blackwood
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Dr. Bob Blackwood is the co-author of Future Prime: The Top Ten Science Fiction Films and author of From the Silent Era to The Sopranos: Italian American Gangsters in Trend-Setting Films and Television Shows. He is also writer and web manager for the Cook County College Teachers Union.

• Linda Blair
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Linda Blair became a household name after her portrayal of the 14-year-old girl in The Exorcist, but her career has also extended to many other roles, including humor and stage plays.

• Elliot Blake
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Elliot Blake is the Emmy-winning animation writer/producer of ReVisioned: Tomb Raider and the upcoming ReVisioned: Activision 2600 for GameTap.com.

• Jerome Blake
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] Born in the UK, Jerome portrayed six different characters in Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace and reprised two of the roles in Attack of the Clones. He's also appeared in, e.g., The Fifth Element.

• Paul Blake
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Paul Blake is one of two actors who portrayed the ruthless but incompetent lackey of Jabba The Hutt named Greedo. Paul has also toured with stage companies in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Jakarta, Oman and Europe.

• Winston Blakely
  [**Past** Guests in 1996] Penciller, inker, colorist, painter, and writer for Rich Buckler's Visage Studios in New York.

• Blondie
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Blondie is beyond question the most famous strip - ahem, exotic dancer/poet in Atlanta.

• Bloodhound Gang
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Geffen recording artists Bloodhound Gang played their wild and racy live set right before the Masquerade at Dragon*Con '97.

• Bloody Mary
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Bloody Mary is a professional make-up artist, one of Hollywood's true stars, with credits ranging from Titanic and Renegade to WCW.

• Don Bluth
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] A true legend in the world of animated film, Dragon*Con is proud to welcome Don for his first-ever visit.

• Mark Bode
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] Graphic artist whose work has appeared in his own Cobalt 60 and underground comic Miami Mice.

• Darlene Bolesny
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] Darlene's first novel Trail of Darkness was released in September, 1996 and she is currently working on a sequel and a mainstream novel with fantasy elements.

• Brian Bolland
  [**Past** Guests in 1991] Brian Bolland is the accomplished artist on such projects as The Killing Joke, Camelot 3000 and the Judge Dredd series.

• David Boller
  [**Past** Guests in 1999] David worked for Marvel, DC, Acclaim and Warp Graphics before the publication of his Kaos Moon by Caliber Comics in 1996.

• Larry Bond
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] The best-selling author of Red Phoenix, Cauldron and Vortex, Larry also co-wrote Red Storm Rising with his good friend Tom Clancy and helped design the Harpoon war gaming series and sequels.

• Sara Bong
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Originally trained as a classical pianist, Sara has been producing classical concerts and other events for the past 12 years.

• M H Bonham
  [**Past** Guests in 0] M. H. Bonham is the award-winning author of 28 books, including five novels published by Yard Dog Press, Dragon Moon Press, and WolfSinger Pubs, and a podcaster with Podiobooks.com and the slightly podfaded SciFi Traveling Road Show.

• Kammy Bonias
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Kammy is a net-published gaming and fiction writer who has been nominated for several online awards.

• Rick Bonilla
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Rick is an illustrator and comic book artist currently working primarily for Femme Fatale Studios and Across the Pond Comics.

• Boogie Knights
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] The Boogie Knights?performing as part of our filk track?have been entertaining audiences at sci-fi conventions and renaissance faires for many years.

• Ted Boonthanakit
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Ted is one of Atlanta's premier art talents.

• Autumn-Skye Boothe
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Autumn-Skye Boothe is a seven-year veteran judge for the Miss Klingon Empire pageant with over 20 years of pageant experience, including certification as a Miss America preliminary judge and the coaching of five national pageant winners since starting her business in 2000. She is also the reigning Mrs. Queen City (NC) United States 2009.

• Jackson Bostwick
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] Jackson Bostwick is best known for his six-season portrayal of Captain Marvel on that #1-rated Saturday morning show; he also appeared in Tron, Gus and My Science Project.

• Tye Bourdony
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] A comics colorist and lifelong SF fan, Tye Bourdony's satires, The Lighter Side of Sci-Fi, have been seen in the pages of Starlog and Parsec magazines as well as the Celestial Toybox.

• Michonne Bourriague
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] A model from California, Michonne portrayed Aurra Sing, the alluring female bounty-hunter in Star Wars: Episode 1.

• Bruce Boxleitner
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] Among Bruce's many roles are the one he will be forever and fondly remembered amongst SF fandom: Captain Sheridan on Babylon 5.

• Donna Boyd
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Donna is the author of one hundred novels. Her latest, The Passion, is a wonderfully new look at werewolves.

• Paul Boyer
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Paul Boyer, known online as Mormegil, is a graphic designer with over 17 years of experience. He is currently a full-time video game artist/designer.

• Berl Boykin
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Berl is a playwright, radio producer and actor, especially known for his nationally-broadcast Horror House radio series.

• Ray Bradbury
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] The legendary Ray Bradbury is among the finest SF, fantasy and horror writers this world will ever know.

• Dr. John E. Bradford
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Dr. John E. Bradford is President of SpaceWorks Engineering, an aerospace engineering services firm that is a world leader in concept development and systems analysis for future space systems. Dr. Bradford has served as Project Manager for numerous government sponsored programs with NASA, the Air Force Research Labs, and DARPA.

• Doug Bradley
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Doug Bradley portrayed "Pinhead" in Clive Barker's Hellraiser. Ouch!

• Tim Bradstreet
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Timothy Bradstreet has been illustrating role-playing games, comics, cards, and books for well over ten years now, and is still going strong!

• Michael Brady
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Michael Brady is an anime voice actor, having appeared in Crusher Joe, Elf Princess Raine, and Blue Submarine No. 6, and most recently, the latest Lone Wolf and Cub feature.

• Tom Braidwood
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Tom Braidwood is best known for his role of lone gunman Melvin Frohike on The X-Files.

• Jennie Breeden
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Jennnie Breeden is the creator of the autobiographical webcomic TheDevilsPanties.com which chronicles her adventures in clubbing, conventions, and pirates.

• Nicholas Brendon
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Nicholas is best known for his portrayal of sensitive, wisecracking Xander Harris on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

• Dan Brereton
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Dan Brereton is an award-winning and widely acclaimed painter, illustrator, and comics writer, best known for Nocturnals. He's painted hundreds of covers and over 1,000 pages, a Rob Zombie album cover, and more.

• Heather Brewer
  [**Past** Guests in 0] Heather Brewer is the author of The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod (Duton/Penguin), a series of books about a teenage vampire struggling to keep his bloodthirst a secret while dealing with the woes of adolescence, including such fangtastic titles as Eighth Grade Bites, Ninth Grade Slays, and Tenth Grade Bleeds.

• Beau Bridges
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Beau Bridges is an award-winning actor who has portrayed a myriad of characters during his successful career, spanning more than four decades. Part of a preeminent Hollywood acting dynasty, he started at a young age and has worked virtually nonstop in his profession ever since.

• Bill Bridges
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Bill Bridges is a game designer at CCP/White Wolf. He is the co-creator of Holistic Design's Fading Suns science fiction game universe and was the lead designer of the award-winning Storytelling system rules for White Wolf's World of Darkness games.

• John Bridges
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] John Bridges is an illustrator and designer with many years of experience. He is currently creating concept art for White Wolf's World of Darkness Massive Multiplayer Online game.

• Rik Briscoe
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Rik's an aerospace materials tester, writer and comics writer from South Carolina.

• Poppy Z. Brite
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Poppy has written the novels Lost Souls and Drawing Blood and editor of the anthology Love In Vein.

• Clifford Broadway
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Cliff and his writing partner Carlene Cordova conceived and wrote Ringers: Lord of the Fans, in which he also supplies several character voices.

• Brobdingnagian Bards
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] The Brobdingnagian Bards are the original Celtic Renaissance duo, with unique instrumentation (autoharp, recorder, and mandolin) and great sound. Voted the #1 Best Performing Novelty Band in the 2004-5 Austin Music Awards, they are the "Godfathers of Celtic MP3s."

• Brom
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Brom's fantastic artwork has graced book-covers, games and film production designs (like Sleepy Hollow, Galaxy Quest and Scooby Doo. He's now entering the 3-D realm as well.

• Darwin Bromley
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Darwin is the co-founder of Mayfair Games and was the President of Mayfair from its founding until his departure in 1997.

• Avery Brooks
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Avery Brooks is an accomplished stage, television, and film actor best known for his role as Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.  He is the only actor to appear in all 173 episodes of the series and has also directed several episodes.  In addition, he played Benny Russell in the episodes "Far Beyond the Stars" and "Shadows and Symbols."  He also voiced Sisko in the games Star Trek: Deep Space Nine � Harbinger and Star Trek: Legacy.

• Brett Brooks
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Co-publisher of Comics Debut with both Ward Batty and Cliff Biggers.

• David Allen Brooks
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] David has appeared in a number of films and television series, including Babylon 5: Crusade, The Young and the Restless and The Kindred.

• Mark Brooks
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Mark Brooks has been a contracted artist for Marvel Comics for the last four years, working on such titles as Marvel Age, Spider-man, Amazing Spider-man, Ultimate Spider-man, Cable and Deadpool, Uncanny X-men, and New X-Men.

• Terry Brooks
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Terry Brooks's first fantasy novel, The Sword of Shannara, became a publishing industry legend. His latest work is the Star Wars: Phantom Menace novelization.

• Traci Brooks
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Looking for athletic ability, beauty, ring smarts, and sex appeal all rolled up into one dynamite package? Look no further than Traci Brooks! Traci, the original Knockout in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, is a gorgeous brunette grappler who has captured the attention of wrestling fans all over North America. Of course, it's Traci's glowing good looks and sexy figure that first capture the eye. But when she steps into the ring to display her wrestling skills, that's when heads really start to turn.
  

• Michael Broom
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] Michael's lavish use of pencils, garish layout style and use of lines brings a truly singular sense of mayhem to each new project he does, from comic penciling to haunted-house prop design.

• Fiona Broome
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Author Fiona Broome is the founder of one of the oldest and most respected ghost-related websites, Hollow Hill.  When she's not investigating ghosts or writing books (Weird Hauntings in 2006, Ghosts of Austin, Texas in 2007, and Weird Encounters in 2008), she's podcasting (about ghosts and faeries) and creating art.

• Anne Brown
  [**Past** Guests in 1996] Anne Brown has designed half a dozen game products including "Ship of Horror" (an adventure for the Ravenloft setting), written several articles, co-authored two novels, and written the Endless Quest novel Bigby's Curse.

• Julie Caitlin Brown
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Julie portrayed Na'Toth on the legendary SF TV series Babylon 5 but also has numerous other TV, film, and stage acting credits as well as a continuing musical career.

• Lori Lipman Brown
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Lori Lipman Brown is a lawyer, an educator, and a former Nevada State Senator who now directs The Secular Coalition for America. In this position, she is the first congressional lobbyist explicitly representing nontheistic Americans (atheists, humanists, naturalists, skeptics, agnostics, etc.)

• Matthew J Brown
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Matthew J. Brown is a philosopher and professional comics scholar, with a chapter forthcoming in Watchmen and Philosophy, who has presented at the Comic Arts Conference at San Diego Comic-Con, and is interested in something similar at Dragon*Con. He has written about retcons, Crisis on Infinite Earth, Watchmen, and vigilantism.

• Phil Brown
  [**Past** Guests in 1999] Phil has appeared in numerous films and TV series including The Martian Chronicles, Superman: The Movie and Star Wars: A New Hope.

• Steven Brown
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Steve has owned his own comic book and game store for seventeen years and has worked on movies as a locations manager and script writer. He has been a writer and game designer for over twelve years.

• Phil Brucato
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] A professional scribe since 1989, Phil's credits include fiction in various magazines and anthologies and more than 60 projects for White Wolf.

• Sandra Bruckner
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Sandra is Editor/Publisher of The Zocalo Today and has other writing credits in the Babylon 5 and Crusade pantheon.

• Robert Brun
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Robert Brun has been a professional illustrator since 1981, producing commercial illustrations as the owner of Independent Pencil Company.

• Frank Brunner
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] A legendary artist and illustrator, Frank Brunner's career started at age 20 in 1969, and he's been drawing, writing, and painting ever since.

• Stan Bruns
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Stan Bruns is founder of the Dreamsmiths Artist Guild and a frequent lecturer and instructor in graphic illustration at the Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

• Ginjer Buchanan
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Ginjer is Senior Executive Editor over many projects at Ace Books, including tie-ins for Quantum Leap, Forever Knight, Young Jedi Knights, Xena and Poltergeist.

• Douglas Buck
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Douglas produced the short film Cutting Moments, is continuing in the same vein with Home, and is also working with Lloyd Kaufman on Terror Firma.

• Tobias S. Buckell
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Tobias S. Buckell is a Caribbean-born speculative fiction writer. He has published over 30 short stories in various magazines and anthologies. His first two novels, Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin, were published by Tor Books, his third is coming summer, 2008.

• Rich Buckler
  [**Past** Guests in 1996] Rich Buckler has drawn every major character in the Marvel and DC universes and he created Deathlok, the first cyborg in comics. Rich is also the author of two books, How to Become a Comic Book Artist and How to Draw Superheroes.

• Rich Buckler, Jr.
  [**Past** Guests in 1996] Rich Buckler, Jr. has worked as a penciller, inker and writer.

• M.M. Buckner
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] M.M. Buckner is the author of Hyperthought, a work of speculative science fiction about a future Earth devastated by global warming. Her next two SF novels will be published by Penguin Putnam/Ace in 2004 and 2005.

• Robert Buettner
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Robert Buettner's bestselling Orphanage was nominated for the Quill Award as best SF/Fantasy/Horror novel of 2004. Critics called it Heinlein's Starship Troopers for the post-9/11 generation. Little Brown Orbit releases book 3 of the series, Orphan's Journey, in April, 2008. The former military intelligence officer lives in Georgia.

• Jeremy Bulloch
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Jeremy Bulloch portrays the bounty hunter Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and has also appeared in everything from Doctor Who to James Bond films.

• Roger Bumpass
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Roger Bumpass is an talented voice actor with credits in cartoons and video games stretching back to 1962.

• Bob Burden
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Bob Burden is an American comic book artist and writer, best known as the creator of Flaming Carrot Comics and the Mysterymen.

• Chesya Burke
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Chesya?s work has appeared in AANB, published by Harvard University and Oxford University Press, and in a variety of distinguished magazines and anthologies.

• Robert Meyer Burnett
  [**Past** Guests in 1999] Robert Meyer Burnett is a director, writer and editor with several varied industry credits, including Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton.

• Erik S Burnham
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] The short and varied career of writer/artist Erik S. Burnham has seen his Nick Landime stories published by Shooting Star Comics, work with the Gene Simmons line at IDW, adaptation work through Elfin Kids (a division of Kalyani Publishing), and various small-time projects in other media.

• Alex Burns
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Alex is the Publisher Emeritus of Drawl, Atlanta's comics newspaper; he also draws "Access Atlanta" for Creative Loafing.

• James Burns
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Illustrator/graphic designer James Burns has drawn the Grumbles comic strip (seen in Atlanta's Sunday Paper) for nearly four years, as well as working on comics such as Detached and Daemon Process and has also been a frequent contributor to the Not My Small Diary 'zines.

• Laura A Burns
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Laura A. Burns has been an engineer on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope project since 1998, most recently for the Space Telescope Science Institute. She spent the summer of 2007 in Beijing, China, at the International Space University. She is an avid science fiction and fantasy fan and has contributed to several podcasts.

• Patrick Burns
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Patrick Burns is one of the most respected names in paranormal research today, starring in Tru TV's (formerly Court TV) Haunting Evidence, and the founder of Ghost Hounds, the largest paranormal network in the South.

• LeVar Burton
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] LeVar Burton is and actor and director.  He is well known to most, as Geordi La Forge in the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series.

• Kurt Busiek
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Kurt Busiek is currently writing his own series, Astro City, two Marvel series, Iron Man and Avengers, and Thunderbolts.

• David Bussey
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] David is currently working on the Red Hot Chili Peppers comic as well as Adventures of Blondie Strange Comix.

• Jim Butcher
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Jim Butcher is the author of the Dresden Files series of wizard-detective novels set in contemporary Chicago; the first book is titled Storm Front, and there are five so far.

• Jim Butler
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Appearing as part of our Electronic Frontiers Forum, Jim is a partner of Wellborn & Butler, L.L.C., with experience in hi-tech issues. He represents a wide variety of clients such as ISPs, content providers, etc.

• Yancy Butler
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Yancy Butler is best known for her starring role on the television series Witchblade.

• Butterfly Messiah
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] Butterfly Messiah, performing on the Concourse, is poetry set to music; haunting, operatic, blissful female vocals and mystical, poetic male chants entwined with industrial dance, classical and dark wave synthetics.

• Richard Lee Byers
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Richard's the author of over fifteen novels, the most recent of which are Soul Killer, Dark Kingdoms and The Shattered Mask.

• John Byrne
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] John is a legendary comics illustrator, with credits ranging from Captain America and Superman to his own Next Men and Danger Unlimited.

• Kari Byron
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Kari Byron is a member of the Mythbuster build team and one awesome chick!

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• Rachel Caine
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Rachel Caine is the author of the bestselling Weather Warden series and Morganville Vampires series. Her first YA novel, Glass Houses, was recently named to the prestigious 2008/2009 Tayshas Reading List by the Texas Library Association, and she has been nominated for two RT Booklovers awards.

• Leah Cairns
  [**Past** Guests in 0] In the critically acclaimed Battlestar Galactica, Leah is the bitter raptor pilot Racetrack.

• Calabrese
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Formed in 2003, the brothers Calabrese have come a long way in four short years. Fueled by the cult success of 13 Halloweens, Calabrese has recorded a follow-up CD, The Traveling Vampire Show.

• Clyde Caldwell
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Clyde's artwork has graced Heavy Metal, The Savage Sword of Conan, Epic Illustrated, Dragon, and Dungeon magazines.

• Talent Caldwell
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Talent Caldwell is an artist/writer currently working as a penciler for comic books. He is most noted for his work on the popular Superman: Godfall storyline as well as Michael Turner's Fathom: Dawn Of War. Other works of his include Wildcats: Nemesis and Gen13, both for Wildstorm/DC comics.

• Dennis Calero
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] Dennis has been illustrating book covers, comic books and role-playing games for ten years for companies such as Marvel, DC, White Wolf and Wizards of the Coast.

• James Callis
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] James Callis has acted in many productions in movies, TV, and theater. His most recent role is Dr. Gaius Baltar in The Sci-Fi Channel's new version of Battlestar Galactica.

• Vince Caluori
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Vince Caluori is president and chief operating officer of Wizards of the Coast and considered a major contributor to the success of the company.

• Ginger Campbell, MD
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Dr. Ginger Campbell has been practicing emergency medicine since 1992. In 2006, she began sharing her passion for neuroscience with a worldwide audience via the Brain Science Podcast. Her highly regarded podcast shares how recent discoveries are unraveling how our brains make us who we are.

• Michael Capps
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Dr. Michael Capps is the president of Epic Games, the studio behind the award-winning Unreal series and 2006 Game of the Year, Gears of War. He shares his experiences on how games are made and getting into the games industry, and he might do a demonstration of the upcoming Gears of War 2.

• Nick Cardy
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] Nick Cardy has been both a creative and dynamic artistic force within the comic book industry for over 60 years, from the Golden Age to the present. The Art of Nick Cardy has been nominated for an Eisner Award.

• Jacqueline Carey
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] Jacqueline Carey is the author of the critically acclaimed Kushiel's Legacy, a trilogy of historical fantasy novels concluding with the New York Times bestseller, Kushiel's Avatar.

• Mike Carlin
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Mike is the Executive Editor at DC Comics, and hence "the man who changed Superman's costume." He is one of the most respected editors and writers in the field.

• Pat Carlucci
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Pat Carlucci is a comic book artist whose recent projects include cards for Marvel Masterpieces 2007 and 2008, Series 1 and 2, work on Image Comic's WildGuard No. 1, coming out in May, 2008. Other projects have included cover and interior art for Trailer Park of Terror from Imperium Comics.

• Shawn F. Carnes
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• John Carpenter
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Films like Dark Star, Halloween and Escape From New York, are just a few of the films that make John Carpenter's contributions to SF and horror film legendary.

• David Carradine
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] David is best-known the world over for his legendary role in the TV series Kung Fu but lately his name is being mentioned more often for his connection to Bill, the title character of the Kill Bill films.

• Manny Carrasco
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Manny was an animator on Space Jam, Anastasia, Quest for Camelot, Prince of Egypt, Rugrats, Aladdin's Magic Carpet and Tiny Toons. He is currently working on the comic Code Tango.

• Greg Carter
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Greg Carter is the creator of the epic action-romance-horror online graphic novel series, Abandon, which began in 2003. The origin story, Abandon: Borrowed Tale, is currently being serialized online.
  

• Jason Carter
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Among Jason's many roles on stage and screen is his portrayal of Marcus Cole on the much-missed series Babylon 5.

• Melissa Carter
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Melissa Carter is Co-Host of The Bert Show on All The Hits Q100 radio in Atlanta.  She is also Co-Host of Twist radio, a nationally-syndicated show that is broadcast in 14 major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and Las Vegas.

• Angela Cartwright
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Recognized at an early age and a working actress since age 3 or 4, Angela is best-known to SF audiences as Penny Robinson from Lost In Space.

• Joe Casey
  [**Past** Guests in 1999] Joe has written Cable and The Incredible Hulk for Marvel Comics, as well as Hellcop for Image Comics; he has numerous current projects.

• Jackie Cassada
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Jackie has been a freelance game designer since 1993, when she joined the design team for Wraith: the Oblivion; she is now co-writing the LARP book for Deliria, a new role-playing game from Laughing Pan Productions.

• Meryl Cassie
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] A member of The Tribe's core cast since the very beginning, Meryl portrays the pivotal character Ebony on the show and sings the show's theme song!

• P.C. Cast
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] P.C. Cast is a dynamic, entertaining professional speaker and teacher whose first novel, Goddess by Mistake, will be released in the summer of 2001.

• Corey Castellano
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Corey Castellano is a professional makeup artist whose credits include 8 Legged Freaks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, War of the Worlds, Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Prestige, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and the upcoming Quarantine and GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

• Tommy Castillo
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Tommy Castillo is a master artist of the twisted and the macabre. He has put paint and pencil to such titles as Batman Detective; Legends of the Dark Knight; Toetags, with Horror legend George Romero; Evil Ernie; Tales From the Crypt; Alice in Wonderland; King Kong; Dragons, Myths, and Mayhem; various storyboards and designs for films; and many more of the macabre based literature.

• Cats From Saturn
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] One part orchestra, one part shoegazer indierock, Cats From Saturn is an evolving project which brings together members of The Changelings, Myssouri, Diana Obscura and Aphelion with smoldering strings, drums, bass and guitar.

• Catt Ninetails
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] DJ Catt Ninetails has spun at The Labyrinth Ball, Mobicon, Frolicon, The NOBLE New Years Fetish ball, and several other southern events.

• James Cawley
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] James Cawley is an executive producer and actor, known for his role as Captain Kirk in the fan series Star Trek: New Voyages—now Star Trek: Phase II. He worked with Costume Designer William Ware Theiss on Star Trek: TNG and appears in J.J. Abrams's upcoming Star Trek XI.

• C.B. Cebulski
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Mr. Cebulski, a Japanese manga expert, currently serves as Editor-in-Chief at Central Park Media, publishing, e.g., Chirality and Plastic Little.

• Cemetery Surfers
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Formed by a group of parapsychologists and ghost hunters, the Cemetery Surfers spend as much time in haunted locations as they do onstage.

• Meloney Crawford Chadwick
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Meloney is the Editorial Director of Dark Horse Comics, handling the Blanc Noir imprint by Gaijin Studios and the upcoming MYST comic.

• Doug Chaffee
  [**Past** Guests in 1990] Doug Chaffee's photo realistic artwork, especially his depictions of military action, have made him a modern art legend.

• Erica Challis
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] One of the original founders of TheOneRing.net and a citizen of New Zealand, Erica's photos of the movie sets were many fans' first clues as to the visual magic that would soon follow.

• Jamie Chambers
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Jamie Chambers created and wrote the Serenity role playing game and was the lead designer for the Dragonlance game line, the Battlestar Galactica RPG, and the Supernatural RPG. He has been published in fiction anthologies and game industry magazines. Jamie currently serves as Vice President of Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd.

• Kee Chan
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Kee Chan's acting career has taken him all around the world to film in locations that most of us can only dream of visiting. He was in Australia when he got cast in Star Swar Episode 3 as Senator Male Dee.

• The Changelings
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] The Changelings are an eclectic Atlanta ensemble influenced by baroque composers as well as Middle-Eastern and tribal music and Dead Can Dance.

• Veronica Chapman
  [**Past** Guests in 1996] Veronica rose from the entry level position of editorial assistant to her current status as one of the premier fantasy editors in the field.

• A. C. Charania
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] A.C. Charania is President of SpaceWorks Commercial. He is a strategist and technical analyst in space systems design, commercialization, planetary defense issues, and far-term technology assessment. He holds an M.S. and B.S. in Aerospace Engineering (Georgia Tech) and a B.A. in Economics/Mathematics (Emory University).

• Robert Charrette
  [**Past** Guests in 1990] Robert is the author of several well-received games, and has gone on to write several novels based on those realms.

• Bailey Chase
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Bailey's TV credits include guest spots on BayWatch, Undressed, Charmed and JAG, and a recurring guest spot on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Graham Miller.

• Sandra Anglin Chastain
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Sandra Anglin Chastain is the author of more than 47 novels plus six collective novels, three novella anthologies, and three short story anthologies.

• Howard Chaykin
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Howard Chaykin pioneered the graphic novel form in the United States with Empire, The Stars My Destination, and the Swords of Heaven, Flowers of Hell.

• Iris Chen
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Iris Chen, an anime/manga illustrator specializing in a fantasy, is currently working on an Alice in Wonderland themed work. She works with Heavy Red Clothing and Purple Sky Magazine.

• Stephen K. Chenault
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] Stephen K. Chenault is the managing partner of Troll Lord Games. The company was founded in the latter part of 1999.

• David Cherry
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] An accomplished SF and fantasy artist, David got his start in art from visiting the 1976 Worldcon in Kansas City, and never looked back.

• C. J. Cherryh
  [**Past** Guests in 1996] Winner of the Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1977, C.J. has gone on to win a Locus Award, a Nebula, and several Hugos for her outstanding SF and fantasy fiction.

• Hollywood Art Chick
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] The career of Sue Bielenberg, The Hollywood Art Chick, began with seven seasons of The Simpsons. She directed Virtual Springfield, storyboarded Rugrats, assistant directed Dilbert, and did boards/ layout for King of the Hill, Mission Hill, The Oblongs, Duckman, Dragon Tales, and Mr. Show, Acceptable TV.
  

• Scott Childers
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Scott's involvement in comics began in 1986 with Swashbucklers and has worked on various other titles for Now Comics, Marvel and DC.

• Kariann Childs
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Kariann Childs is the illustrator for the bizarre, brutal, taboo-crossing novella Graven Images, and the gruesome Sinister Purposes.

• Claude Chmiel
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Claude Chmiel is the publisher of The Comics Buyer's Guide; his career has spanned from sports writing to crime reporting, advertising sales to management.

• Frank Cho
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] A popular illustrator, Frank has been nominated for the National Cartoonist Society Award and has won the Ignatz, Scripps Howard and Charles Schultz awards.

• MC Chris
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] MC Chris is an associate producer in the on-air department of Adult Swim. He also voices several characters in the block for the shows Sealab and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

• R.J. Christensen
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] R.J. Christensen is an internationally-known X-files fan writer.

• Claudia Christian
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Claudia Christian is most famous for her role as Commander Susan Ivanova on the science fiction television series, Babylon 5.

• Roger Christian
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Most recently, Roger directed Battlefield Earth; he was also set decorator on Star Wars: A New Hope and Art Director for Alien and Life of Brian.

• Gerard Christopher
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Gerard is best-known to us for his starring role in The Adventures of Superboy, has also appeared in, e.g., Murphy's Law and Melrose Place.

• John Christopher
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] John Christopher has worked as a commercial artist over the past several years. He has worked in a variety of mediums, including print, multimedia, broadcast, and video games. He recently became the newest member at Studio Revolver.

• Sam Chupp
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] Sam got his start with White Wolf Game Studio as a principal designer on Changeling: The Dreaming and Wraith: The Oblivion; he also wrote Sins of the Fathers.

• Jeff Cioletti
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Jeff Cioletti is the producer/director of the award-winning documentary, Millennium's End: The Fandom Menace, which chronicles Star Wars fans' anticipation for Episode I, as well as Chronotrip and Unwound.

• Anthony Cistaro
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Anthony Cistaro has had roles on Angel and Charmed but may best be known for his role as Kenneth Irons on Witchblade.
  

• Tom Clancy
  [**Past** Guests in 1990] Tom Clancy, author of The Hunt For Red October and several other bestsellers, is among the late 20th-century's most influential writers.

• Cassandra Clare
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Cassandra Clare is the author of the New York Times bestselling young adult fantasy series, The Mortal Instruments. The first in the series, City of Bones, was her debut novel.

• Chris Claremont
  [**Past** Guests in 1999] Chris was writer for The Uncanny X-Men for seventeen years, and co-creator of Excalibur, Wolverine and The New Mutants.

• Andrew W. Clark
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Andrew W. Clark has been active in all aspects of space flight for over 35 years, working on everything from submarine launched ballistic missiles to the international space station. He is now CEO of Space Frontier Operations, Inc. and Chief Engineer of Orbital Commerce Project, Inc.

• Josh Clark
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Josh Clark is best known in the sci-fi world as Lt. Carey from Star Trek Voyager, and also played General Kulomani of the Brakiri army in Babylon 5.

• Rik Cleary
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Rik is the bassist for the Don't Quit Your Day Job Players; since everyone else in the band is an SF pro, he's re-evaluating his current career in biotech.

• Douglas Clegg
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Douglas is an ward-winning horror writer with several novels and numerous short stories to his credit.

• James Clemens
  [**Past** Guests in 1999] James' first novel, Wit'ch Fire, was published in summer, 1998; the sequel, Wit'ch Storm, came out in May 1999.

• Freddy Clements
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Freddy Clements is currently a Professor of Drama/Faculty Costume Designer at Jacksonville State University. He has designed in theaters all over America. At the university level, he has taught courses in costume design, costume construction, stage make-up, and advanced stage make-up.

• John Clements
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Having studied the craft since 1980, John Clements has taught seminars on historical swordsmanship in 10 countries and is the author of the groundbreaking books: Renaissance Swordsmanship and Medieval Swordsmanship.

• Ken Cliffe
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Ken is White Wolf Game Studio's director of development and editing.

• Carolyn Clink
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Carolyn's genre poems have also appeared in Analog, Weird Tales, On-Spec, TransVersions, Star*Line, and Tales of the Unanticipated.<

• Cloei
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Cloei has been a camgirl for nearly 4 years, and spends most of her time redesigning websites, and thinking up new projects to throw herself into.

• Brenda Clough
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Brenda has written several novels including The Dragon of Mishbil, The Realm Beneath, The Name of the Sun and How Like A God.

• Clutch
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Originally from Germantown, Maryland, Atlantic Records recording artists Clutch will celebrate ten years of pure rock fury in August, 2001, with us at Dragon*Con.

• John Cmar
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] John Cmar, MD, is an Instructor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and an Infectious Diseases specialist at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, where he helps direct the Internal Medicine residency program and teaches evidence-based medicine. He also contributes to several podcast projects, including Mur Lafferty's The Takeover.

• Stephen Euin Cobb
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Stephen Euin Cobb is a Hard SF author, futurist and the host of the award-winning podcast The Future And You. He writes a regular column in Jim Baen's Universe, the popular SF&F online magazine from Baen Books; and for his game Death Stacks, there?s an annual tournament in Charlotte, NC.

• Rudy Coby
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Fox's Rudy Coby: The Coolest Magician on Earth fooled viewers who tuned in expecting a "normal" magic show. Magic + comics = fun. :)

• Julie Cochrane
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Julie Cochrane has written Cally's War and Sister Time with John Ringo in his popular Aldenata Universe. The third and final book in the sub-series, Honor of the Clan, is forthcoming from Baen Books.

• David B. Coe
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] A freelance writer, David's Children of Amarid, recently released by Tor Books, is his first novel; The Outlanders is the sequel.

• Chip Coffey
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Chip Coffey is a psychic medium, spiritual counselor, and renowned writer.  He has made many television and radio appearances and is revered within the paranormal community.  His writings have been published in many magazines and newspapers worldwide.

• Ivan Cohen
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Ivan is editor of DC's Secret Files and Wonder Woman titles, and is responsible for assembling WW's new creative team: Greg Rucka, Drew Johnson and Ray Snyder, all of whom are scheduled to attend D*C 2003.

• Gary Cohn
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Gary Cohn has been a professional writer since his first sale in 1974. He has also written the Senryaku miniseries and co-written the Shi/Cyblade team

• Eric Coker
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Eric Coker is a multimedia producer working under the name Retro Rocket Multimedia who develops computer-based presentations, promotional materials, and Web games for entertainment, educational, and corporate clients.

• Gene Colan
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Not only is Gene closely associated with characters like Daredevil, Batman, Captain America, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, Sub-Mariner and many others, he's also worked about every genre comics have ever touched on: Romance, War, Sci-Fi, Horror, Humor, and of course Superheroes.

• Kathleen Coleman
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Kathleen Coleman portrayed Holly Marshall on Land of the Lost for the entire run of the show. Her plaid shirt and pigtails became her trademark, and she was the first love for many who grew up watching the Land of the Lost.

• Terry Collins
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Terry is currently writing Looney Tunes for DC and Explorers for Caliber Press. He's also written for Elfquest and The Tick.

• Combichrist
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Combichrist brings noisy dance-floor grooves and distorted beats, combined with scathing vocals and electro arrangements, to produce a full-tilt dance-floor onslaught.

• Jeffrey Combs
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Jeffrey has appeared in, e.g., Re-Animator, Bride of Re-Animator, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Frighteners, The Guyver, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and House on Haunted Hill.

• Stephen B. Combs
  [**Past** Guests in 2003] Stephen Combs is a senior associate at Morris, Manning & Martin in the Corporate Technology Law Group. He specializes in commercializing technology in various sectors with an emphasis on Web-based technology and services.

• Jeff Conaway
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Jeff is best-known to the world at large for his role in television's legendary Taxi; more recently he has starred as Zack Allan on Babylon 5.

• Amanda Conner
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Amanda gained wide acclaim for her work on Vampirella. Her current work includes Mad Magazine and covers for Claypool's Soulsearchers.

• Frank Conniff
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Frank Conniff is a comedy writer and performer who began his TV career writing for the Peabody Award-winning Comedy Central series, Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K), where he also played TV's Frank, the bumbling yet lovable mad scientist.

• The Consortium of Genius
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Lights, chaos, action! More than just virtuosity of musicianship, unforgettable visual effects, or sex symbols of mad science, The Consortium of Genius is an industrial-strength powerhouse of three cerebral miscreants who rock their audience into submission.

• Storm Constantine
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] From England, Storm has written the Wraeththu trilogy, Hermetech, Monstrous Regiment, Stalking Tender Prey, etc.; she played a seminal role in the goth movement.

• Sky D Conway
  [**Past** Guests in 0] Sky D. Conway produced and co-write the much acclaimed hit film, Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, directed by Tim Russ and starring Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, Alan Ruck, and a dozen other Star Trek stars. Sky also produced Walter Koenig's film, InAlienable, starring Richard Hatch.

• Dave Cook
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Dave Cook is a local artist, illustrator, and graphic designer. He is also the creator of Splatter Comix, a retro horror magazine featuring gory thrills, sly humor, and “a bucket of blood in every issue—guaranteed.” Splatter Comix has been picked up by Diamond Distributors, and the first brain-crushing issue will be splattering stores in early October.
  

• Julia Coombs
  [**Past** Guests in 1999] A twelve-year vet of the UK computer gaming industry, Julia handles the European Marketing and Public Relations for Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight game.

• Alice Cooper
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] A legend as both a band and a solo performer, Alice has forever established himself as a pivotal, influential figure on the horror, rock and metal communities.

• Carlene Cordova
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Carlene is the co-writer, producer, and director of the award-winning feature documentary RINGERS: LORD OF THE FANS.

• Chick Corea
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] Legendary jazz pianist, Chick Corea, has been one of the most innovative and influential musicians of the past 40 years, and has won 12 Grammy awards.

• Christopher Cornell
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] Christopher is co-author and co-maintainer of Satellite News (at mst3kinfo.com) which, since 1997, has been the official Mystery Science Theater 3000 Information Club web site.<

• Lydia Cornell
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Lydia Cornell is an award-winning comedienne, writer and actress. Winning the People's Choice Award, Lydia starred as "Sara" in Too Close For Comfort

• Joe Corroney
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Joe has been providing Lucasfilm with official Star Wars artwork since 1997. Currently, he's creating Star Wars art for Wizards of the Coast.

• Matthew J. Costello
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Matt is a well-known and prolific gaming, science fiction, fantasy and radio-comedy author.

• Greg Costikyan
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Greg Costikyan designs games, writes, and consults on game industry business issues. His 4th novel First Contact is scheduled for June; he can claim 27 games to his credit.

• Robert Costner
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Robert is a Cyberliberties activist currently and programmer.

• Bob Coughlin
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Bob Coughlin is currently working on two projects: a graphic novel of D. Scott Schmid's sci-fi thriller, Fractions of Being, and a series of articles chronicling the Hearst syndicate's Puck Sunday funnies in the '40s, '50s, and '60s. Bob spent 2007 working behind-the-scenes on an unannounced film project.

• Ed Cox
  [**Past** Guests in 2000] Ed has painted over 50 box tops for Ertl's Star Wars and Star Trek scale models. He was Artist GoH at Visions '97 in Chicago.

• F. Brett Cox
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] F. Brett Cox's novelette "The Light of the Ideal" is forthcoming in Century; he has also published fiction in Forbidden Lines.

• Yvonne Craig
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Yvonne Craig will always be best-known (and much-loved) as the one, true, original Batgirl.

• The Creeps
  [**Past** Guests in 2002] The Creeps are a Social Distortion-inspired, Atlanta-based rock band that includes Jay Bakker (yes, Jim and Tammy Faye's son) as frontman.

• Hunter Cressall
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Best known for his Mac switch parody video, Crash Different, Hunter Cressall is an HD filmmaker. Hunter spent nine years in LA as a Prop Master and Production Designer working for such giants as Charles Band, Roger Corman, and David DeCoteau. Hunter currently owns an HD Video and Post company in Birmingham, Alabama.

• Ann C. Crispin
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Ann C. Crispin is the bestselling author of books ranging from V and Trek adaptations to Andre Norton's Witch World.  She's also an accomplished writing instructor, as numerous writers workshop attendees can attest.

• Marie Croall
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Starting off her career as sales manager of Chaos! Comics, Marie Croall transited into the creative side by co-writing the story "Magic Words" in 9-11: Artists Respond with Dan Jolley.

• C. Martin Croker
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] C. Martin Croker (aka Clay Croker) has been in the animation field for over 22 years now, working with Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block for much of that time. He helped create Cartoon Network's Space Ghost Coast to Coast, as well as supplying numerous voices, including regulars Zorak and Moltar.

• Jeff Cromer
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Jeff is a professional in the field of sequential art and a 1994 graduate of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art.

• Denise Crosby
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Denise Crosby is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Security Chief Tasha Yar on the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

• Crossed Swords
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Longtime friends and guests of Dragon*Con, Crossed Swords, the swashbuckling duo of Mike Sakuta and Nicole Harsch, bring hand-to-hand combat back to the noble era of the sword.

• Joe Crowe
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Joe Crowe is writer and editor for the online science fiction magazine, RevolutionSF.com. He hosts and writes RevolutionSF Newsblast, a Daily Show-style look at science fiction news. He is one of the writers of Assembled: Five Decades of Earth's Mightiest, a history of Marvel Comics superheroes the Avengers.

• Dermot Crowley
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Dermot Crowley plays the noble General Crix Madine in Return of the Jedi, as well as the villainous Major Kamp in Octopussy.

• Cruxshadows
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] From humble origins in a Northern Florida town, the Cruxshadows have risen to become internationally recognized as one of the most popular darkwave bands of all time.

• Alexis Cruz
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Alexis Cruz achieved international fame after starring in Roland Emmerich's box-office hit, Stargate, in which he played the young Egyptian rebel leader, Skaara.

• Leslie Culton
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Veteran B-Movie actress, starred in many projects. The latest being Wildcats starring Playboy Playmate Rebecca Ferratti. Starship 2:Rendevous at Ramses along with John Astin, Richard Biggs and Jason Carter.

• Cynthia Cummens
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Cynthia Cummens is a freelance illustrator and approved Lucasfilm artist, and sketch card artist for Topps on such licensed properties as Lord of the Rings and Star Wars. She was a guest at The One Ring Celebration, where she participated in the Iron Artist.

• Carl Cunningham
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Carl Cunningham is a published writer who has been particularly involved with covering the Star Wars saga for several years. He is also the co-author of two soon-to-be published travel guides and has various potential film, TV, and graphic novel projects in the works.

• Lowell Cunningham
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Lowell is co-writing a book about the new Babylon 5 collectible card game. He also created the comic book Men In Black, which became a certain hit movie...

• Drew Curtis
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] Drew Curtis is the founder of Fark.com, the largest humor news aggregator on the Internet. He is also the author of the best-selling It's Not News It's Fark, How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap as News.

• Larry D. Curtis
  [**Past** Guests in 2008] Larry D. Curtis, known as MrCere at TheOneRing.net, is an organizer and advocate for fans of books, film, and games, especially those involved in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

• Robin Curtis
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Among many other roles, Robin portrayed Lt. Saavik in Star Trek: The Search For Spock. She has also guest-starred on the Trek series and Babylon 5.

• Leah R. Cutter
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Leah is the author of three historical fantasy novels as well as several fantasy, science fiction and horror short stories. Her most recent novel, The Jaguar and the Wolf is about what happens when a group of Vikings encounter the Mayans.

• Charles Cyphers
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Charles Cyphers's career has spanned almost five decades with roles in The Six Million Dollar Man, The Fog, Halloween I & II and Escape From New York, Murder She Wrote, Seinfeild, ER, Murder One, The George Carlin Show, Lois & Clark, Seaquest, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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• Michael D'Ambrosio
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Michael is currently working on a new series of books entitled Space Frontiers. The first book in the series is entitled The Eye of Icarus.

• Jehan Snyers D'Attenhoven
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] Jehan is the Creator and General Manager of the Star Wars Combine online role-playing simulation game.

• D.C. Moon
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] D.C. Moon's success seems imminent with their second CD The Uncertainty Principle, featuring songs penned by author/screenwriter John Shirley.

• D?rker
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] D?rker creates a new style of metal that combines the best from old and new school rock, with flavors of seventies funk, thirties swing jazz and blues, and a nineties edge.

• Dad's Garage
  [**Past** Guests in 1998] Dad's Garage is a 3-year old non-profit theatre company; they will be presenting Trey Parker and Matt Stone's Cannibal! The Musical at Dragon*Con '98.

• Carrie Dahlby
  [**Past** Guests in 2007] A long time participant in shadow-casts of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Shock Treatment", "Buffy: The Musical", and "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", classically trained opera vocalist Carrie Dahlby made her first contributions to the world of comedy music on the albums of 'the great Luke Ski', most notably on his 2005 Dr. Demento Show hit "Vader Boy" (an Avril Lavigne parody).

• Daikaiju
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] The music of Daikaiju is the alarm of a Japanese school girl's watch strapped to Dick Dale's wrist?the soundtrack of the greatest giant monster movie never made.

• R.F. Daley
  [**Past** Guests in 2004] R.F. has lent his voice to numerous commercial voiceovers and audio books, including L. Ron Hubbard's Kingslayer and To the Stars.

• Blackie Dammett
  [**Past** Guests in 1997] Blackie is Editor 'n' Chief Potentate of the new Red Hot Chili Peppers comic book and lead singer Anthony Kiedis' father; he also heads the band's fan club.

• Rick Danford
  [**Past** Guests in 2001] Rick has written several short film screenplays as well as the feature film scripts The Web of Darkness, Death Island and Lycanthrope for Renegade Films.

• Elizabeth Danforth
  [**Past** Guests in 1996] Graphic designer whose gaming illustrations have appeared in products from companies such as Wizards of the Coast, FASA, TSR, and Flying Buffalo.

• Anthony Daniels
  [**Past** Guests in 2006] Anthony Daniels portrays C3PO in the Star Wars movie saga. As our guest in past years, he's been among the best masquerade emcees we've ever had!

• Jack Dann
  [**Past** Guests in 2005] Jack Dann is a multiple award winning author who