It looks like both Lois Lowry and Randall Munroe will be at Vericon 2008, this next January.
You know, for a guy who spent most of his teenage years either reading or writing science fiction, I sure don’t know much about this “fandom” thing. I mean, I have some impressive stories about the Trek convention in Huntsville eleven years ago, but I seem to have missed the whole game ever since then.
There’s also Arisia ( http://2008.arisia.org/ ), the biggest New England science fiction the previous weekend. And just a few weeks later, there’s Boskone ( http://www.nesfa.org/Boskone/ ). January and February are a very sceience-fiction-fandomy time of year in the Boston area. It’s frankly a little scary when you think about it….