I spent much of my time at the 2004 Boston Worldcon working on getting the latest issue of SCI FI ready for the printer—yet somehow, I still managed to get out and about to snap embarrassing photos of my friends.
 Ellen Datlow and Jack Dann channel Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy at the Union Oyster House, JFK's favorite restaurant |
Jim Kelly takes takes it on his newly-exposed chin— have any of us ever seen it before? |
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, International Woman of Mystery, remains at large |
 Not even Craig Engler can keep his hands off the irresistable Jack Dann |
David and Alexandra Honigsberg wander the mall |
Marina Fitch has found her true love at the Avon party—she's trading in husband Mark Budz for a jellyfish |
 SCIFI.COM General Manager (and my boss) Craig Engler continues to show me his love |
Deborah Newton manages to keep smiling, even though she's stuck standing next to Paul Di Filippo |
Ellen Datlow and I bask in the glow of the neon signs at Avon's party at the New England Aquarium |
 Jack Womack displays the true Best Editor trophy |
Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt, co-editors of Flytrap |
Walter Jon Williams pretends not to recognize Kelly Link |
 Locus Online's Mark Kelly, temporarily offline |
John Joseph Adams prepares for the Neal Stephenson look-alike competition |
Eileen Gunn explains her stable strategies to David Marusek |
 Ellen Datlow wigs out |
Kelly Link offers her tea-kettle purse to the penguin gods |
Bill Shunn is typecast |
 Feòrag NicBride shares a beer with Cthulu |
Mandy Slater and Andy Porter drink up |
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 Robert Silverberg risks carpal tunnel syndrome signing books for a long line of fans |
I meet with Li Ke Qin and Yao Hai Jun, representatives from Chengdu's SF World magazine |
Bob and Leslie Reed attend the Hugo nominees' party |
 David Kyle escorts daughter Kerry to the pre-Hugo party |
Phil Klass, aka William Tenn, keeps one eye on the hors d'oeuvres |
Tony Lewis is captivated by SFWA president and lady in red, Catherine Asaro |
 John Joseph Adams stays in the background, exactly as boss Gordon van Gelder requires |
Hugo nominee Jeffrey Ford wrote about "The Empire of Ice Cream," but went for a beverage instead |
Ellen Datlow goes undercover at the Hugo Losers' Party |
 Michael Swanwick crosses his own Hugo with that of Gardner Dozois— will Gardner ever get his back? |
Steven desJardins at the Readercon party |
Terry McGarry illuminates the room |
 David Lubkin has a moment of Clarity |
Rick Wilber hopes to get a baseball game going |
Nick DiChario looks on warily as Martha Soukup threatens to deck him |
 Geoffrey Landis and Mary Turzillo sign at the Dell Magazines booth |
Gavin Grant and Kelly Link want your business |
Stephen Dedman pushes Coke |
 Perhaps you didn't know this, but Mark Stafford, Clarion class of '99— |
—is really a Jedi Knight! |
Toby Buckell and I look down on bad writing during the "This Books Sucks" panel |
 Greg Benford and John Cramer visit an alien world— or maybe it's just the Japanese party |
A Rosie Smith is a Rosie Smith is a Rosie Smith |
It's high noon for me, with Jane Jewell at 3:00, Robert Reed at 6:00 and Jim Kelly at 9:00 |
 And now it's midnight for me, with Paul Levinson at 3:00, Will Strang at 6:00 and Rosie Smith at 9:00 |
Karen Jordan Allen, Greer Gilman and Connie Hirsch avoid getting arrested for shoplifting at the mall |
My role as the moderator of the all-star panel of Neil Gaiman, Uncle River, Terry Pratchett, Connie Willis and Larry Niven was entirely superfluous |
 My wife, Irene Vartanoff, tries to puzzle it all out |
Leslie Choras and I hold court at the food court |
Standing in front of a photo of me from 1994, I wonder where all the time went |