The usual gang of idiots descended on Toronto for the 61st World Science Fiction Convention. Here are some of those who were willing to be photographed.
(In the interest of fairness, I've withheld the images of all those with outstanding warrants against them.)
 Pat Cadigan prepares to give a warm welcone to Guy Gavriel Kay, whom she has just dubbed "the sexiest man in Canada" |
Ellen Datlow, Sheila Williams and Brooks Peck endure the wandering fingers of Craig Engler |
My first meeting with Jerry Robinette, Clarion class of 1979, since the 1980 Worldcon |
 Jennifer "the Hustler" Hall sizes up her next shot at the Avon party |
Karen Haber feels the wind beneath her wings |
I steal Karen Haber from Bob Silverberg |
 Craig Engler, already a shark at pool, pretends to be a shark at snooker |
Since Nanci McCloskey is an agent, she only has to make 10% of her shots—or is that 15%? |
The Clarion Musketeers: Lister Matheson, Amelia Beamer and Mary Sheridan |
Adam-Troy Castro, caught in a rare moment of existential angst |
 Jay Lake demonstrates his Napoleon complex |
Wife Judi gets the best of Adam-Troy Castro |
Edo von Belkom shows off his son, while his son shows off a DVD of the never-released Fantastic Four movie |
Astrid and Josef Julian wear white |
Mary Turzillo and Geoffrey Landis at the pre-Hugo nominees cocktail party—a few hours later, he was holding a trophy |
The Locus gang—Marina Fitch, Mark Kelly, Jennifer Hall and Charles N. Brown—rides again |
Frank Wu steps outside the box |
Perrianne Lurie is back in black |
Newlyweds Charles Stross and Feòrag NicBride |
Cover your eyes! Here comes David Hartwell |
You can put the sunglasses away— there goes David Hartwell |
David Kyle has been attending Worldcons since before there were Worldcons |
James Patrick Kelly is strange (but not a stranger) |
Walter Jon Williams (hard)wired at the pre-Hugo nominees cocktail party |
Pat Cadigan is given some pointers by "Commander" Rick Green star of Prisoners of Gravity |
Chris Cohen and Nanci McCloskey of the Virginia Kidd Agency look for winners at the Hugo Losers Party |
Don't mess with Craig Engler and Brooks Peck |
Josepha Sherman beams at the Science Fiction Book Club 50th anniversary party |
Marina Fitch instructs Gardner Dozois in the proper way of eating frosting |
Rosemary Kirstein, former Kirk Poland Memorial Bad Prose Competition champion |
Allan and Linda Steele steel themselves for a long night in the SFWA suite |
Samantha Ling is behind Toby Buckell 100% |
Connie Willis prepares to enthrall the crowd in the SFWA suite with her famous chocolate story |
Martha Soukup toasts the social contracts |
Mandy Slater beds John Douglas— or is it the other way around? |
Proof that Ellen Datlow does not shop 100% of the time |
Yves Meynard prepares to deconstruct the dealers' room |
Popular autographer Terry Pratchett signs what has to be his 1,000,000th book |
Jessie Renee Reed brings parents Bob and Leslie to yet another Worldcon |