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Join David Ebenbach, Sam J. Miller, Patrick O’Leary, and Kimberly Unger for Awesome Con 2022
Tachyon authors David Ebenbach (HOW TO MARS), Sam J. Miller (BOYS, BEASTS & MEN), Patrick O’Leary (51), and Kimberly Unger (THE EXTRACTIONIST, NUCLEATION) are all attending this years Awesome Con, June 3-5 at Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
Awesome Con is Washington DC’s Comic Con! We’re a star-studded celebration of geek culture, bringing over 70,000 fans together with their favorite stars from across comics, movies, television, toys, games, and more! And just like DC, we’re smart, family-friendly, and inclusive – as Awesome Con is home to:
Awesome Con
Science Fair, an area of Awesome Con exploring where science and science fiction meet!
Book Fair, THE area of Awesome Con for passionate book dragons, dewy-eyed indie authors, casual readers, and lit lovers of all ages!
Awesome Con Jr, an all-ages destination for the next generation of fans
Pride Alley, a celebration of queer creators and fans curated by GeeksOUT
Destination Cosplay, an area of Awesome Con for cosplay fanatics with photo opportunities, Cosplay Meetups, and much much more!
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David Ebenbach, Sam J. Miller, Patrick O’Leary, and Kimberly Unger are all participating in the varied and extensive Awesome Con programming.
Friday June 3
3:30 PM
Creative Worldbuilding in Fiction
Building a fully fleshed out world is the first step in making your creation real to the reader. Unless you can fully understand the world in which your characters live, you won’t be able to effectively write about their experiences. Another incredible part of worldbuilding in fiction is taking your readers into a completely fantasical and magical place. Let’s explore how a fictitious world can seem completely real while overwhelmingly magical through excellent writing.
Panelists: Sam J. Miller (Boys, Beasts & Men), Patrick O’Leary (51), Kami Garcia (Beautiful Creatures), E.J. Wenstrom (Rain – Chronicles of the Third Realm War), Megan Lynch (moderator)
Saturday June 4
12:30 PM
Writing the Tech of the Future
No one knows what the future holds, but it’s exciting to imagine what technology can be and then see it imagined as reality through writing. Join Kimberly Unger, author of the virtual reality science-fiction thriller Nucleation and game designer, Patrick O’Leary, science fiction author of Fifty One and Door Number Three, Dr. Timothy Brown, author of Black Panther and Philosophy: What Can Wakanda Offer the World, and David Ebenbach, science fiction author of How to Mars, for this conversation about writing the what-ifs and the realities of the world of tech and science fiction.
Panelists: Patrick O’Leary (51), Kimberly Unger (The Extractionist), Dr. Timothy Brown (Black Panther and Philosophy), David Ebenbach (How to Mars), Jonathan Williams (moderator)
Sunday June 5
11 AM
SFF Author and Real World Ideas
How do real world religious beliefs, political doctrines, and views on society impact science fiction/fantasy writers, and the direction they take in their novels? This panel will explore how personal beliefs and reality can become subtly infused into science fiction/fantasy works. Explore how the lines between SFF and reality become blurred in this can’t miss conversation among well-known authors.
Panelists: Sam J. Miller (Boys, Beasts & Men), Patrick O’Leary (51), Kimberly Unger (The Extractionist), David Ebenbach (How to Mars), Emily Whitten (moderator)
2 PM
Ask an Author
Interested in becoming an author? Curious what it takes to go the distance as a writer? Your burning and bookish questions will be answered during this Q&A session with a variety of established authors across various genres including fiction, fantasy, science fiction, technology, and more.
Panelists: Sam J. Miller (Boys, Beasts & Men), Patrick O’Leary (51), Kimberly Unger (The Extractionist), David Ebenbach (How to Mars), Emily Whitten (moderator)
Are you a bookseller attending New Voices, New Rooms? Pick up arcs of forthcoming Tachyon titles from Naseem Jamnia, Sam J. Miller, and Lavie Tidhar
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For attendees of New Voices, New Rooms (May 17-18), Tachyon is offering digital arcs of Lavie Tidhar’s NEOM, Sam J. Miller’s BOYS, BEASTS & MEN, and Naseem Jaminia’s THE BRUISING OF QILWA.
Fresh and innovative virtual trade show and programming created by NAIBA and SIBA for booksellers and industry.
New Voices, New Rooms
Happy birthday to the award-winning Sam J. Miller
Sam J. Miller’s books have been called “must reads” and “bests of the year” by USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, and O: The Oprah Magazine, among others. His works have won the Shirley Jackson Award, Andre Norton Award for Best Young Adult Novel. and John W. Campbell Memorial Award and nominated for the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, Crawford Award, Locus Award, Theodore Sturgeon Award, John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Premio Italia, the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book. Miller’s novels include The Art of Starving (2017; Andre Norton Award winner), Blackfish City (2018; John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner), Destroy All Monsters (2019), and The Blade Between (2020).
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Beginning with “Haunting Your House” (2008), he has produced numerous acclaimed and award-winning short stories including “57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides” (2013; Shirley Jackson Award winner), “We Are the Cloud” (2014; nominated for both Nebula and Sturgeon); “The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History” (2015; nominated for World Fantasy), “When Your Child Strays from God” (2015; nominated for Nebula), “Angel, Monster, Man” (2016; nominated for Shirley Jackson), and “Things with Beards” (2016; nominated for Sturgeon, Nebula, and Shirley Jackson). Miller’s first short story collection BOYS, BEASTS & MEN comes this summer from Tachyon. Among his other books are a pair of Tor.com chapbooks (The Future of Hunger in the Age of Programmable Matter [2017] and Let All the Children Boogie [2021]) and the anthology Horror After 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror (2001 co-edited with Aviva Briefel).
A graduate of the 2012 Clarion’s Workshop and a member of the SFF writers group Altered Fluid, Miller’s fiction has been translated into Croatian, Czech, French, Hebrew, Italian, Hungarian, Japanese, Mandarin, Polish, and Russian. He spent fifteen years as a community organizer for Picture the Homeless.
All of us a Tachyon wish the sensational Sam, a happy birthday.