LibertyCon 24

The South's Friendliest Science Fiction Convention
July 15 - 17, 2011

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LibertyCon 24
will be held at the
Comfort Inn & Suites, East Ridge, TN

LibertyCon 24 Guests

S. M. Stirling

(From Locus Online Interview)

S. M. Stirling was born in Metz, France, and traveled extensively with his family as a child, living in France and Kenya before returning to Canada as a teenager. He earned a law degree at Osgood Hall in Toronto, and worked numerous odd jobs before settling down to write full time in 1988.

Stirling is best known for his alternate histories, notably the four-book Draka series that began with Marching Through Georgia (1988). Conquistador (2003) is both an alternate-history and an alternate-world novel, and The Peshawar Lancers (2002) is an alternate history of arrested technology. His "Island in the Sea of Time" trilogy transported modern-day Nantucket back to the Bronze age, beginning with Island in the Sea of Time (1998). Change World novels Dies the Fire (2003) and The Protector's War are set in a modern world where technology has stopped working.

A frequent collaborator, Stirling has written books with Holly Lisle, David Drake, Jerry Pournelle, Anne McCaffrey, Raymond E. Feist, and James Doohan. He's also written Babylon 5 and Terminator 2 media tie-ins, and edited Drakas! (2000), an anthology of work by other authors set in the Draka universe. Stirling lives with his wife in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Theresa Mather

(From Theresa Mather's Official Page)

A professional artist since 1989, Theresa Mather creates fantasy works featuring a variety of unusual creatures. Best known for her pieces painted on feathers and stone, integrating her paintings with the natural colors and textures of the surface, Theresa draws much of her inspiration from the world around her.

“When I need inspiration, I go hiking somewhere,” is what Theresa tells those who inquire. Theresa and her husband Barry Short reside in Cedar City, Utah, where the many nearby national parks – Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capital Reef, Arches, Canyonlands, and Grand Canyon - give her plenty of opportunity to find inspiration.

Theresa is an artist who chooses to work outside of gaming and publication, exhibiting and selling her work at science fiction convention art shows across the country. She enjoys the freedom this gives her to paint whatever she desires, allowing her paintings to be truly her creations. She was active in the field of antique carousel restoration from 1989 through 1999, painting suites of large scale paintings for the crestings of 5 antique carousels and decorative paintwork for a sixth.

While Theresa does have some formal art training, she suggests that those curious about this aspect of her background simply rent and watch the movie Art School Confidential, which parallels her experience quite well. She's learned that when it comes to creating art, classrooms are no substitute for simply doing the work.

Theresa exhibits at over 70 shows each year and is the recipient of numerous awards, including Popular Choice Best of Show at ConJose, the 2002 Worldcon.

Stephanie Osborn

(From Stephanie Osborn's Official Page)

Stephanie Osborn is a former payload flight controller, a veteran of over twenty years of working in the civilian space program, as well as various military space defense programs. She has worked on numerous Space Shuttle flights and the International Space Station, and counts the training of astronauts on her resumé. Of those astronauts she trained, one was Kalpana Chawla, a member of the crew lost in the Columbia disaster.

She holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in four sciences: Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, and she is “fluent” in several more, including Geology and Anatomy. She obtained her various degrees from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

Stephanie is currently retired from space work. She now happily “passes it forward, ” tutoring math and science to students in the Huntsville area, elementary through college, while writing science fiction mysteries based on her knowledge, experience, and travels.

Julie Cochrane

(From Julie Cochrane's DragonCon Page)

Julie Cochrane is a New York Times best-selling author, with John Ringo, of Cally's War, Sister Time, and Honor of the Clan, from Baen Books. She wrote her first stories at age five and holds a degree in Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Her hobbies include martial arts, shooting, swimming, reading, and fanatical consumption of large amounts of coffee. She lives in Marietta, Georgia, with her daughter Katie, Polly the dog, and Katie's persistent, purring, fuzzy little monster, Amy.

Allen Steele

(From Allen Steele's FictionWise Page)

Allen Steele became a full-time science fiction writer in 1988, following publication of his first short story, "Live From The Mars Hotel" (Asimov's, mid-Dec. `88). Since then he has become a prolific author of novels, short stories, and essays, with his work appearing in England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Russia, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Japan.

Steele was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his B.A. in Communications from New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire, and his M.A. in Journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. Before turning to SF, he worked for as a staff writer for daily and weekly newspapers in Tennessee, Missouri, and Massachusetts, freelanced for business and general-interest magazines in the Northeast, and spent a short tenure as a Washington correspondent, covering politics on Capitol Hill.

His novels include Orbital Decay, Clarke County, Space, Lunar Descent, Labyrinth of Night, The Jericho Iteration, The Tranquillity Alternative, and A King of Infinite Space. He has also published three collections of short fiction, Rude Astronauts, All-American Alien Boy, and Sex and Violence in Zero-G . His work has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Omni, Science Fiction Age, Absolute Magnitude, Journal Wired, Pirate Writngs, and The New York Review of Science Fiction, as well as in many anthologies.

His novella "The Death Of Captain Future" (Asimov's, Oct.`95; The Year's Best Science Fiction, 13th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois) received the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Novella, won a 1996 Science Fiction Weekly Reader Appreciation Award, and was nominated for a 1997 Nebula Award by the Science Fiction Writers of America. His novelette "The Good Rat" (Analog, mid-Dec.`95) was nominated for a Hugo in 1996. Orbital Decay received the 1990 Locus Award for Best First Novel, and Clarke County, Space was nominated for the 1991 Philip K. Dick Award. Steele was First Runner-Up for the 1990 John W. Campbell Award, and received the Donald A. Wollheim Award in 1993.

His novella "...Where Angels Fear to Tread" was nominated for the Nebula award and won the Hugo and the annual Reader's Poll of Asimov's Science Fiction as Best Novella of the Year. His next book, OceanSpace will be published in February, 2000. He now lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and three dogs. He is currently writing a new novel.

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