Index slightly amended from the ISFDB listing:
4 • The Committee (World Fantasy Convention 2007) • essay by uncreditedabout Carol Emshwiller:7 • Dancing with Carol • essay by Gavin J. Grant7 • A Conversation with Carol Emshwiller • interview of Carol Emshwiller • interview by Liz Holliday11 • Carol Emshwiller Bibliography • essay by uncreditedabout Lisa Tuttle:13 • Looking for Lisa • essay by George R. R. Martin16 • Lisa Tuttle Bibliography • essay by uncreditedabout Kim Newman:19 • 20 Years Ago • essay by Paul J. McAuley21 • Kim Newman Bibliography • essay by uncreditedabout "Moebius"/Jean Henri Gaston Giraud:23 • Moebius: The Art of the Numinous • essay by Stephen Hickman25 • Moebius & Gir • essay by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.25 • Moebius & Gir • interior artwork by "Moebius"/Jean Henri Gaston Giraud27 • From the Book "Le Chasseur Déprime" • (2007) • interior artwork by "Moebius"/Jean Henri Gaston Giraud28 • "Manipulation" • (2003) • interior artwork by "Moebius"/Jean Henri Gaston Giraud29 • "Arzach" • interior artwork by "Moebius"/Jean Henri Gaston Giraud30 • From the Book "Inside Moebius Tome 3" • (2007) • interior artwork by "Moebius"/Jean Henri Gaston Giraud31 • Study form the Animated Film "Little Nemo" • interior artwork by "Moebius"/Jean Henri Gaston Giraud32 • "Les Maîtres Du Temps" • interior artwork by "Moebius"/Jean Henri Gaston Giraud33 • From the Book "40 Days Dans Le Désert B" • (1999) • interior artwork by "Moebius"/Jean Henri Gaston Giraud34 • "L'Homme À L'Étoile D'Argent" • (1967) • interior artwork by "Moebius"/Jean Henri Gaston Giraudabout Joseph Bruchac:37 • Joseph Bruchac — Storyteller • essay by uncredited38 • Joseph Bruchac Bibliography • essay by uncreditedabout Barbara and Christopher Roden, of Ash-Tree Press (among other work):41 • Dig Us No Grave • (1986) • essay by Ramsey Campbell • Fantasy Review, March 198644 • Ash-Tree Press Titles • essay by uncredited44 • The World, the Flesh, & the Devil (cover) • interior artwork by Jason Van Hollander (variant of cover art for The World, the Flesh, & the Devil 2006)44 • Shadows and Silence (cover) • (2000) • interior artwork by Jason Van Hollander (variant of cover art for Shadows and Silence)44 • The Attic Express and Other Macabre Stories (cover) • (2007) • interior artwork by Keith Minnion (variant of cover art for The Attic Express and Other Macabre Stories)44 • The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction (cover) • (2004) • interior artwork by Paul Lowe (variant of cover art for The Captain of the 'Pole-Star': Weird and Imaginative Fiction)45 • The Undying Monster (cover) • (2006) • interior artwork by Jason Van Hollander (variant of cover art for The Undying Monster)45 • Nightmare Jack and Other Stories (cover) • interior artwork by Douglas Walters (variant of cover art for Nightmare Jack and Other Stories 1998)45 • The Passion Play and Other Ghost Stories (cover) • (2006) • interior artwork by Keith Minnion (variant of cover art for The Passion Play and Other Ghost Stories)45 • A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings (cover) • interior artwork by Paul Lowe (variant of cover art for A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings 2001)46 • Hauntings: The Supernatural Stories (cover) • (2002) • interior artwork by John Singer Sargent (variant of cover art for Portrait of Vernon Lee 1881)46 • The Executor And Other Ghost Stories (cover) • (1996) • interior artwork by Douglas Walters (variant of cover art for The Executor And Other Ghost Stories)46 • Mr Justice Harbottle and Others: Ghost Stories 1870–73 (cover) • (2005) • interior artwork by Douglas Walters (variant of cover art for Mr Justice Harbottle and Others: Ghost Stories 1870–73)46 • Conference with the Dead (cover) • (2000) • interior artwork by Douglas Walters (variant of cover art for Conference with the Dead 1996)47 • Acquainted with the Night (cover) • (2004) • interior artwork by Jason Van Hollander (variant of cover art for Acquainted with the Night)47 • The Five Jars (cover) • (1995) • interior artwork by Antony Maitland (variant of cover art for The Five Jars)47 • At Ease with the Dead (cover) • (2007) • interior artwork by Jason Van Hollander (variant of cover art for At Ease with the Dead)47 • Cold Harbour (cover) • (2007) • interior artwork by Jason Van Hollander (variant of cover art for Cold Harbour)about George Scithers (editor/publisher of Amra and Owlslick Press, founding editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine [now Asimov's Science Fiction], later editor of Amazing Stories and the revived Weird Tales magazine, among other work):49 • Even More About George Scithers (Beyond His Innate Wickedness) • essay by Darrell Schweitzer53 • Profile • essay by Holly Ordway54 • Bibliography • essay by Guy Gavriel Kayabout Betty Ballantine (cofounder of Ballantine Books, among other work): 57 • Tribute to Betty • essay by Frederik Pohl57 • Profile • essay by Charles N. Brown58 • Starchild (cover) • (1965) • interior artwork by Bill Edwards (variant of cover art for Starchild)59 • The Secret Oceans (cover) • interior artwork by Jeffrey Mangiat (variant of cover art for The Secret Oceans 1994)about Diana Wynne Jones:61 • On Discovering Diana Wynne Jones • essay by Neil Gaiman (slightly revised from its appearance in the Boskone 32 Program Book, 1995)64 • Gone ... But Not Forgotten: 2005—2007 • short obituaries by Stephen Jones67 • A Wrinkle in Time (cover) • (1983) • interior artwork by Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon (variant of cover art for A Wrinkle in Time)--see below.78 • World Fantasy Award Nominees: 2007 • essay by uncredited80 • International Horror Guild Award Nominees: 2007 • essay by uncredited82 • Past World Fantasy Convention Award Winners & Nominees (World Fantasy Convention 2007) • essay by uncredited105 • History of the World Fantasy Conventions (World Fantasy Convention 2007) • essay by uncredited109 • Membership List (World Fantasy Convention 2007) • essay by uncreditedback cover • "Arzach" [2] • interior artwork by "Moebius"/Jean Henri Gaston Giraud the Diane and Leo Dillon new-edition cover for the L'Engle: The Awards and Shortlists (courtesy SFADB): Where and When: World Fantasy Convention, Saratoga Springs, NY : November 4, 2007
Life Achievement
Novella
- Winner: “Botch Town”, Jeffrey Ford (The Empire of Ice Cream)
- Dark Harvest, Norman Partridge (Cemetery Dance)
- “The Lineaments of Gratified Desire”, Ysabeau S. Wilce (F&SF Jul 2006)
- “The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train”, Kim Newman (The Man from the Diogenes Club MonkeyBrain)
- “Map of Dreams”, M. Rickert (Map of Dreams Golden Gryphon)
Short Fiction
- Winner: “Journey Into the Kingdom”, M. Rickert (F&SF May 2006)
- “Another Word for Map is Faith”, Christopher Rowe (F&SF Aug 2006)
- “Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)”, Geoff Ryman (F&SF Oct/Nov 2006)
- “A Siege of Cranes”, Benjamin Rosenbaum (Twenty Epics All-Star Stories)
- “The Way He Does It”, Jeffrey Ford (Electric Velocipede #10, Spr 2006)
Anthology
- Winner: Salon Fantastique, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds. (Thunder's Mouth Press)
- Cross Plains Universe: Texans Celebrate Robert E. Howard., Scott A. Cupp & Joe R. Lansdale, eds. (MonkeyBrain and the Fandom Association of Central Texas)
- Firebirds Rising, Sharyn November, ed. (Firebird)
- Retro Pulp Tales, Joe R. Lansdale, ed. (Subterranean Press)
- Twenty Epics, David Moles & Susan Marie Groppi, eds. (All-Star Stories)
Special Award, Professional
Special Award, Non-professional
- Winner: Gary K. Wolfe, for reviews and criticism in Locus and elsewhere
- Leslie Howle, for her work at Clarion West
- Leo Grin, for The Cimmerian
- Susan Marie Groppi, for Strange Horizons
- John Klima, for Electric Velocipede
- below, a 1990 World Fantasy Award trophy, for Jack Vance, in the Gahan Wilson-designed H. P. Lovecraft statue format in use from 1975 till 2015:
The purpose of a convention souvenir book is more a matter of a token of appreciation, usually, rather than a lasting monument. Even one, such as this one, with some full-color panels of Moebius's comics work, on heavy, slick paper (as opposed to the rather good if stiff non-clay-coated pages of the rest of the large-format booklet)...something to read while, if waiting alone for a panel or ceremony or speech or reading to start, one sits in audience chairs or otherwise has a downtime moment. Also, to give those who don't know why this person or that one might be speaking or performing, some information...even if the good Ramsey Campbell essay, from his long-running "Ramsey Campbell, Probably" column, barely mentions the Rodens' Ash-Tree Press, at the very end of a survey of 20th Century, including then-recent, attempts to praise the ghost-story tradition, while prematurely burying it...Ash-Tree and the Rodens being singled out as a shining example of those not doing so (though illustrated, as noted above by ISFDB, with a number of Ash-Tree edition covers, in black and white photos). The Campbell column is the best piece of prose in the book, but this doesn't make the heartfelt, if at times insufficiently copy-edited, other short essays and interviews unworthy nor inutile, but someone certainly should've corrected Carol Emshwiller's memory-slip, in a valuable late interview with her, that had her most supportive early editor Robert A. W. Lowndes taking her stories for Thrilling Wonder Stories, a science-fiction magazine with a pulp-legacy title that was also featuring rather sophisticated fiction in the early 1950s...as then edited by Samuel Merwin, then Samuel Mines, while Lowndes was editing rather lower-budget magazines for Louis Silberkleit's Columbia Publications, such as Science Fiction Stories and Double-Action Detective and several western titles. The interviewer overconfidently refers to them as pulps, when the vast majority of her early sales were to digest-sized magazines, which proliferated in the '50s as the pulp format was being phased out. |
A not-unique example of an issue with a Carol Emshwiller story within, and with a cover by Edmund Emshwiller (for the Scortia story) with the married couple as the models.
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The other essays in the booklet tend to be more or less good brief introductions to the works of the convention guests highlighted, including Neil Gaiman's slightly updated appreciation of Diana Wynne Jones (originally written for her 1995 appearance at the Boston annual convention Boskone), and certainly Darrell Schweitzer's, about his long-term work colleague and friend George Scithers, is easily among the most fully-informed about its subject, though several others (such as Stephen Hickman on "Moebius"/Giraud and Locus co-founder Charles Brown on the hugely innovative and accomplished Betty Ballantine) provide some data-points that were new to me (I've never been the biggest fan of Heavy Metal magazine, the US version of Moebius's most prominent market, Metal Hurlant, but he has been among the most influential artists of theirs, if not the single most influential comics artist of his generation). George R. R. Martin on Lisa Tuttle was more in the nostalgic, jokey mode of much fannish writing; Paul J. McAuley just a bit more formal, not too much, in his piece on Kim Newman; the anonymous profile on Joseph Bruchac more briskly professional, though touching rather well on the variegated nature of his career.
As a further reminder of how ephemeral this was meant to be, the glue holding the cover onto the spine completely gave way as I finished reading it this morning, though I think it can be reapplied carefully. I didn't attend this convention (I managed to drop in on one earlier WFC), but was kindly given this volume. along with others, some years back by Kate Laity, who was lightening her load.
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