There was no Instagram back in 2004—but I wasn’t going to let that stop me from Instagramming the 2004 Nebula Awards weekend!

Early tomorrow morning, I leave for San Jose to attend the 2014 Nebula Awards weekend. So what better time than now to take a few peeks at the same event held a decade ago in Seattle.

Slightly younger Robert Silverberg meets much younger Robert Silverberg

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As you may have already heard, the hirsute Jay Lake today became the … well … the not so hirsute Jay Lake.

And looking at Jay’s newly shaven dome brought to mind another rather determined individual with whom he shares the same initials and even an almost identical last name.

Suddenly, a very confusing TV series is starting to make a heck of a lot more sense.

After all—have you ever seen Jay Lake and John Locke together?

I had a dream this morning (as I so often do) in which I was attending a science-fiction convention. It started out with me sitting in a room which was decorated more like a Victorian parlor than a hotel meeting room. It was like something out of a Sherlock Holmes story. A group of us sat watching slides being projected on one wall. While I remember it as being entertaining, I can unfortunately no longer recall what we were watching or who was with me in the room.

But then I got up and wandered. I saw that there were many people standing immediately outside the hotel entrance in the dark night. I was about to step out to join them when a hotel employee warned me that the doors would lock once I left and that I wouldn’t be able to get back in. I stepped out anyway and stood chatting with Jay Lake, Walter Jon Williams, and Lucius Shepard.

The only part of the conversation I can still remember is when I was speaking to Walter about “the dog Snoopy,” and then I stopped and commented on what I’d just said, finding it silly. Because when mentioning Snoopy, isn’t the fact that he’s a dog a given, and so saying “the dog Snoopy” is redundant? (more…)