L.A. Con IV, the 64th World Science Fiction Convention, was held in Anaheim, California August 23-27, 2005.
I attended the second and third Anaheim WorldCons in 1984 and 1996, so I found myself looking forward and
backward at the same time. Here are the faces of both my future and my past.
 Robert Reed auditions for the cover of Sports Illustrated |
Vivian Perry and Ed Bryant stop by my Kaffeeklatsch |
 I head to the Anaheim Hilton for an early breakfast with Robert Silverberg |
 Bill Shunn and Laura Chavoen grab a bite before his reading |
 Any spare change for Peter Heck? |
 First Fandom signs in |
 Sandy and Risa Stewart stand ready to roam the dealers room |
 Connie Willis, Benjamin Rosenbaum and Susan Yi wander the plaza between the hotels and the convention center |
Amy Sterling Casil is joined by Alan Rodgers at her autographing session |
 Garth Nix signs for his fans ... |
 ... as does Steve Jackson ... |
... and Howard Hendrix |
 Connie Willis meets and greets |
 Rick Wilber and Nick DiChario, both of whom I published back in Science Fiction Age |
Pat Cadigan rules the Interzone party |
 Ellen Datlow, queen of the night |
 Adam-Troy Castro gets ready to leaf |
 Rhondi Salsitz, who went to Clarion with me in 1979, joins me after one of panels |
 Emily and Ernest Hogan cuddle and collaborate |
 Paolo and Anjula Bacigalupi |
 James Patrick Kelly, Lisa Goldstein and John Kessel prepare to prowl the parties |
 Princess Juliet may edit Asimov's someday— |
 —if mom Sheila Williams ever lets go of the reins |
 Leslie Howle and Gordon van Gelder party in the SFWA suite |
 Back when I worked at Marvel Comics (and dinosaurs walked the Earth), Len Wein was my boss |
 Jenn Reese and Vera Nazarian chat about recent sales |
 Publishers Mike Walsh and Sean Wallace push paper |
 Joseph Berlant rushes off to get more books signed |
 Gardner Dozois tells Daniel Abraham the facts of life |
 Wil McCarthy calculates orbital decay |
 Julie Philips, author of the brilliant Tiptree biography, with her editor Gordon van Gelder |
 John Joseph Adams sniffs out WorldCon news for SCIFI.COM |
 Clarion alum Michael Canfield |
 I explored the future of cities on a panel with Kay Kenyon... |
 ... as well as Louise Marley and Brenda Cooper |
 Hugo nominee Paolo Bacigalupi flanked by wife Anjula and Pat Cadigan |
 Pat Cadigan gives Connie Willis the support she'll need to survive toastmastering the Hugo ceremony |
 Chaz Baden and Andy Porter remember what they think of as the good old days |
 Keith Stokes snaps away |
 John Joseph Adams, the power behind the F&SF throne, with throne Gordon van Gelder |
 Kim Stanley Robinson, Jim Kelly, and John Kessel—the Three Stooges? Or the Marx Brothers? |
 Nancy Kress and Karen Haber at the pre-Hugo cocktail party |
 Liza Groen Trombi and Kirsten Gong-Wong make the Locus train run on time |
 Publisher Tom Doherty stands firmly behind editor Ellen Datlow |
 Takayuki Tatasumi with Catherine and Sean McMullen |
 David Levine holds the Hugo trophy he's just won for his short story "Tk'Tk'Tk" |
 A chocolate Godzilla tempts guests at the nominees' after-party hosted by the Japan Worldcon committee |
 David Kyle seems all set to go to Japan |
 Connie Willis and Ellen Klages chat as the con winds down |
 Frequent SCI FI magazine contributor Melissa J. Perenson |
 John L. Coker III takes notes on his convention memories |