SFWA New Yorker Reception 
11/20/2000
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Every year, like swans...or lemmings...members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America return to Manhattan to perform strange rites and rituals. Mostly around the open bar.

Our pan-galactic reporter returned from this year's bash with photos of these weird life forms and something of a hangover.  To put it mildly.

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 In Author Steve Sawicki's defense, he didn't show up looking like this, but a bit of computer photo analysis revealed the alien within. Steve's Damnaliens saga is soon to be published by Absolute Magnitude in December. 		DSCN1531.JPG
 SF perennial "Scraps" (R) and the intriguing Velma Bowen. 		DSCN1533.JPG
Cory Doctorow, Campbell winner, Wired reviewer, and e-entrepreneur shows off his latest gadget. 		DSCN1551.JPGF. Gwynplaine MacIntyre is not a number. Watch out for the Bubbles, mate.
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 Warren "The Assimilator" Lapine (R), "Even if I can't complain about being an outsider, at least I still dress like one." How very 20th cent of you. 		DSCN1540.JPG
 SFWA Prez Paul Levinson (R) and SFWA VP Terry "NFW I'm running for his office" McGarry. 		DSCN1546.JPG
 Jim "Hour of the Wolf" Freund and S.O. Barbara Krasnoff. He is looking a bit lupine these days...
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 Esther Friesner and David Hartwell discuss what to do with one's life with a newly graduated BFA. One assumes they did not whisper..."plastics". 		DSCN1542.JPG
 SFWA ladies; Natlia Lincoln and Nancy Allison. 		DSCN1544.JPG
 Michael Swanwick, Gardner Dozois, and The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit.
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 Keith DeCandido Writer and Don't Quit Your Day Job Player and Greg Cox, Star Trek and Fantasy
writer. 		DSCN1559.JPG
 Editor John Ordover of Pocket books. More Trek novels than your can shake a shtick at. 		DSCN1547.JPG
Teresa Nielsen-Hayden plays with Cory's toy. Glenn Hauman loses his head.
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 View from a spy satellite. Where's Warren? 		DSCN1569.JPG
 Tor - Past and Present 		DSCN1562.JPG
 John "Gigan-Tor" Klima
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 Gardner Dozois in his natural element. 
(SFWA Sex Kittens: Christine Cohen, Nanci McClosky) 		DSCN1553.JPG
 Ellen Datlow and Jenna Felice 		DSCN1564.JPG
 Craig Engler...another tragic victim of the SFWA Sex Kittens.
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 Ron Goulart, etc. 		DSCN1578.JPG
 Klima and company.  		DSCN1577.JPG
Rodger MacBride Allen.
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 Ian "Ion Drive" Randall Strock, Verner Vinge, and Shane Tourtellotte 		DSCN1576.JPG
 Leigh Grossman, John Douglas,  and Ginger Buchanan. 		DSCN1588.JPG
 Jean Elizabeth Krevor breaking more hearts of SFWA.
(today's victim...David Honigsberg)
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 If I'd known this was going to happen, I'd have never blown off piano lessons.  		DSCN1594.JPG
 Glam Gal Carole Buggé dukes it out with... 		DSCN1595.JPG
 ...Terry McGarry, in the SFWA Chanteuse competition.