On Jul 20, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > I also hosted a series of events at LANL during the 1998 Nebula awards... At > that event I even met a woman (SF/F Author who claimed to have accidentally > started the Society for Creative Anachronism when she invited all of her > friends and aquaintences and colleagues to her house in Berkeley to celebrate > her recent Masters in Medieval Studies and they all showed up in period > costume and weaponry.... I can't remember her name now and could not > corroborate her story.
Marion Zimmer Bradley - and, yes, she did start the SCA. I've got a scanned image of that event announcement. > Steve (S.M.) Stirling is another prolific Santa Fe author. My personal favourite of his is "The Peshawar Lancers". > Walter Jon Williamson is another of my favorites... His work touches on > Cyberpunk (HardWired in particular) but manages to be very highbrow > technically despite the lowbrow tropes such as "Space Opera". I haven't > seen anything from him lately, but I'm sure he's still working… He used to play in the SCA - he was a founding member of the Barony of al-Barran. He also runs great RPGs according to those who played (not me) in them. > Other SF names from the immediate are that might also be recognized include: > Fred Saberhagen, Sage Walker, Patty Nagel, Sally Gwylan … I almost bought Stephen Donaldson's (Chronicles of Thomas Covenant) house when I first moved here in 1987. Great passive solar but it had a tiny kitchen - the trend back then was for outdoor cooking, causing my wife to complain, "How do I bake a cake on a barbecue grill?" Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: [email protected] SIPR: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder)
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