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Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently New York 2140, Aurora, Shaman, Green Earth, and 2312, which was a New York Times bestseller nominated for all seven of the major science fiction awards—a first for…
Holly Black is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over thirty fantasy novels for kids and teens, including Tithe, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Doll Bones, and The Cruel Prince. She has been a finalist for an Eisner Award, and the recipient of the Andre Norton Award, the Mythopoeic Award and a Newbery…
Eric Wilkerson has had an unhealthy addiction to science fiction since 1987. The genre is something he’s been passionate about ever since being introduced to Star Trek as a child. He was captivated by the franchise’s message of unity between diverse groups of people; different races, different species, all working together for a common goal.…
The Cheshire Moon rises over the landscape, smiling down as only a trickster the size of a planet could smile. Caught in that sliver of moonlight, a guitar string, a swath of blue hair, a bow. A guitar melody drifts across the evening, along with the sweetly sinister counter melody of a careworn fiddle mingling…
Jon Singer has been attending Boskone (albeit somewhat irregularly) since at least 1975. He is passionate about tweaking and fixing and upcycling and making things, and he takes particular delight in combining ingredients or techniques from disparate realms. When he heard about the YInMn blue pigment and wanted to see what it looked like, he…
Due to an unforeseen emergency, Jim Burns was not able to attend Boskone 56 as our Official Artist. We are delighted to have him join us in 2020 for Boskone 57 as our NESFA Press Guest. Jim Burns was born in 1948 in Cardiff, South Wales. Among his earliest influences, like so many of his…