Posts Tagged ‘Henry Wessells’

Library Addition: Avram Davidson’s Chance Meeting

Wednesday, September 19th, 2018

Another odd, interesting chapbook from Henry Wessells:

Davidson, Avram (Philip K. Dick). Chance Meeting. The Nutmeg Point District Mail, 2018. First edition chapbook original, one of 150 copies thus, a Fine copy. 16-page chapbook (plus burgundy wrappers) featuring Avram Davidson’s review of Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, plus a letter from Davidson about Dick, as well as additional material from Wessells and Grania Davis. The fifth in the Davidson chapbook series, and one of three non-fiction books by Davidson in my library, in addition to Adventures in Unhistory and Crimes & Chaos.

I’ll have a copy for sale in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog.

Photos from Worldcon Part 2 (The 2014 London Worldcon, That Is)

Wednesday, August 19th, 2015

And here’s Part 2 of those London Worldcon pics.

Note that some pictures are labeled “…and company.” This is code for “I’m slightly less embarrassed about not remembering your name a year later than I would be about getting it wrong.”

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The lovely and talented Gail Garriger contemplates her next cup of tea.

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It’s only a matter of time until leopard-skin gloves are all the rage…

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Tobias Buckell, straight from his performance in Hipsters of the Caribbean.

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I’m 99% sure this is Martin Hoare with David Langford. After all, it’s Worldcon. How many bearded, gray-haired men with glasses could there be?

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Apropos of nothing in particular, here’s Mike Walsh.

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John Kessel.

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John Kessel in jacket.

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John Kessel in jacket and the shoes he stole from Lew Shiner.

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Michael Bulmlein.

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Jo Walton contemplates the five kilometer hike to her next panel.

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Your Humble Narrator and Ian McDonald.

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Stephen Baxter, taking a short break from 100,000 words of galaxy smashing.

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The ageless Ben Yalow. He stays the same while the original painting for Confessions of a Crap Artist gets older.

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Signs of the horrific mental degeneration that comes from being a science fiction bookseller…

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Just ask George Locke!

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Charlie Stross, caught in the middle of a very geeky plan for world domination.

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Ben Bova.

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Ben Bova and Your Humble Narrator.

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Lawrence Watt-Evans.

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Lawrence Watt-Evans and company.

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Lawrence and Lawrence, coming this fall to Fox!

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Matthew Hughes

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Ann VanderMeer

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Jeff and Ann VanderMeer.

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Stephen Jones.

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Joe Haldeman, Gay Haldeman and Jim Burns.

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John Douglas.

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Michael Swanwick, yet again.

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“Come, Mrs. Peel, we’re needed!”

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Henry Wessels, rocking the seersucker.

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John Clute and company.

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Teddy Harvia fooling around with a married woman known only as “Mrs. Thayer.”

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Robert Jackson Bennett, who I somehow had to travel 5,000 miles to see.

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Andrew Porter.

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Scott Edelman.

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Jeff Orth, one of the three chairs of the 2016 Kansas City Worldcon. Expect him to look approximately 30 years older 380 days from now.

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James Patrick Kelly, of the Gets-photographed-a-lot-at-Worldcons Patrick Kellys.

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Has anyone seen Jack Dann and Russell Blackford in the same room at the same time?

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Janeen Webb.

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Betsy Mitchell.