Interaction, the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention, was held in Glasgow, Scotland August 4-8, 2005. The pictures below will show you how we spend our days when we're not writing, editing or reading SF. (But because I'm a nice guy, I'll spare you the photos of us eating haggis.)
 Christopher Rowe and Gwenda Bond's smiles are in a locked and upright position prior to take-off in Philadelphia |
Aynjel Kaye prepares to step inside the TARDIS to play doctor |
Mark Rich and Martha Borchardt merge their mad, melancholy monkey minds |
 Amelia Beamer strikes a superheroic pose in the Moat House bar |
 Rebecca Moesta and Kevin J. Anderson meet their fans at an intimate kaffeeklatsch |
 Stephen Baxter tries to solve the Fermi Paradox in his writing— but could find no aliens in Glasgow |
 Luckily, Ian Watson is not as camera-shy as was Stanley Kubrick, with whom he collaborated on A.I. |
 Robert Silverberg comes face to face with the past—a photo of his clean-shaven younger self at the 1957 Loncon, the very first British Worldcon |
 Jetse de Vries hopes to sell you a subscription to Interzone |
 Roy Gray, Interzone's theater reviewer, takes a bow |
 Keith Brooke, editor of infinity plus |
 Christopher Teague wants you to buy a book—especially one from Pendragon Press |
 Christopher Priest, Kim Newman and Malcolm Edwards do a rather decent job of pretending to like each other |
 Ellen Datlow and Pat Cadigan prepare to shop 'til they drop |
 Therese Littleton, spokesperson for Seattle's Science Fiction Museum |
 Scott Edelman hopes that he'll be seeing Takayuki Tatasumi at the Japanese Worldcon in 2007 |
 Greg Ketter tells tall tales at the Japanese party |
 David Hartwell shows off his drink— and his tie—at Friday night's Japanese party |
 You can tell by their accents that Sydney and Andy Duncan are from the southern part of Scotland |
 Eileen Gunn and Philip Rose exchange publishing tips |
 1979 Clarion classmates Jennifer Swift and Scott Edelman meet face-to-face for the first time since the 1995 Glasgow Worldcon |
 Michael Walsh hopes that Old Earth Books doesn't go the way of the dodo |
 Gay and Joe Haldeman prepare to board the Tall Ship to party with HarperCollins |
 Scott Edelman and Harry Harrison fly the skull and crossbones |
 Amelia Beamer shares a drink with Farah Mendelson, who will win a Hugo Award the following night |
 David Marusek shows off his pirate booty |
 Connie Willis and Peter Crowther shiver each other's timbers |
 One of the rare moments I found Jay Caselberg without a cigarette in hand |
 Brian Aldiss, voted Most Promising New Author at the 1958 Worldcon, proves why it was deserved at his kaffeeklatsch 47 years later |
 Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman explain how they wrote The Fall of the Kings |
 Andrew M. Butler, Features Editor of Vector, the critical magazine of the British Science Fiction Association |
 Editor turned agent John Jarrold prepares to defend the New Wave on our popular panel |
 Ellen Datlow and Elizabeth Hand at the pre-Hugo cocktail party thrown for the nominees |
 Genny Dazzo, Craig Miller and Robert Silverberg remember the good old days |
 Gordon van Gelder and Geoff Ryman are snapped and snap back |
 Gavin Grant, Jetse de Vries and Benjamin Rosenbaum |
 Pat Cadigan keeps Gordon van Gelder and Ellen Datlow from colliding |
 No, Ian McDonald, Suzanna Clarke and China Mieville are not doing the macarena |
 Masters of ceremonies Paul McCauley and Kim Newman prepare to host the shortest Hugo ceremony ever |
 In just a few hours, Charles Stross— seen here with Feòrag NicBhrìde— would have a Hugo trophy in hand instead of that beer |
 Asimov's editor Sheila Williams |
 David Marusek bonds with Amelia Beamer |
 George R. R. Martin schmoozes with Ann Groell and David Keck |
 This year's Hugo winners wish that the photographers would knock it off so that they could start partying |
 Craig Engler trusted me to bring his Hugo trophy home from Glasgow |