I love to time travel, but since I can’t do it in real life, I have to fake it. Which is why each year, when the Nebula Awards weekend rolls around, I take a look back at the one that occurred exactly ten years earlier, to see who we used to be back then.

So in 2013 I travelled to 2003, and last year, I relived 2004.

This year, with the Nebulas being held in Chicago, let’s take a look back at 2005, when the Nebulas were held in … Chicago. (And, as you’ll see, there was more of me than there is now.)

Joe Haldeman and I smooch that year’s SFWA Grand Master, Anne McCaffrey

Nebula nominee Andy Duncan would like you to have a cookie

Todd McCaffrey with his mother’s Grand Master trophy—and Silly String!

Looking down on Connie Willis, Mike Resnick, and Gardner Dozois

A much puffier me kneels at the banquet beside Mary Turzillo and Geoff Landis

Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and their trophies …

… followed by Eileen and Ellen showing how winners celebrate

Me and Janis Ian

If you want to see what the 2015 Nebula Awards weekend is like … just wait a couple of days.