OMG I GET TO GO TO WISCON!!!!
I've been kicking myself repeatedly for missing my chance to get tickets, but a friend of mine works for TOR publishing and she scored me a pass through them! Wheee!

Jane Yolen and Kate Wilhelm are guests of honor this year, and because it's the 30th anniversary, they invited all of the previous GoH's, and the following authors will be in attendance:

• Eleanor A. Arnason (GoH at WisCon 28)
• Amanda Bankier (GoH at WisCon 1)
• Lois McMaster Bujold (GoH at WisCon 17)
• Emma Bull (GoH at WisCon 14)
• Pat Cadigan (GoH at WisCon 13)
• Avedon Carol (GoH at WisCon 11)
• Suzy McKee Charnas (GoH at WisCon 3)
• Samuel R. Delany (GoH at WisCon 11)
• Beverly J. DeWeese (GoH at WisCon 4)
• Suzette Haden Elgin (GoH at WisCon 6 & 10)
• Carol Emshwiller (GoH at WisCon 27)
• Karen Joy Fowler (GoH at WisCon 18)
• James Frenkel (Special Guest at WisCon 18)
• Jeanne Gomoll (GoH at WisCon 24)
• Nicola Griffith, if health allows (Special Guest at WisCon 19)
• Nina Kiriki Hoffman (GoH at WisCon 26)
• Nalo Hopkinson (GoH at WisCon 26)
• Steven Vincent Johnson (GoH at WisCon 5)
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Ellen Kushner (GoH at WisCon 22)
• Ursula K. Le Guin (GoH at WisCon 20)
• Katherine MacLean, if health allows (GoH at WisCon 1)
• Vonda N. McIntyre (GoH at WisCon 2)
• Pat Murphy (GoH at WisCon 15)
• Trina Robbins (GoH at WisCon 16)
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Mary Doria Russell (GoH at WisCon 23)
• Jessica Amanda Salmonson (GoH at WisCon 8)
• Pamela Sargent (GoH at WisCon 15)
• Melissa Scott (GoH at WisCon 21)
• Delia Sherman (GoH at WisCon 22)
• Stu Shiffman (GoH at WisCon 12)
• Susanna J. Sturgis (GoH at WisCon 21)
• Lisa Tuttle (GoH at WisCon 9)
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Joan D. Vinge (GoH at WisCon 4)
• Élisabeth Vonarburg (GoH at WisCon 25)
• Terri Windling, if health allows (GoH at WisCon 23)

Oh My God. I might get to meet Ursula LeGuin, Mary Doria Russell, Nicola Griffith (whose book I'm reading right now and totally digging), Samuel Delaney!!! I am like, totally freaking out about this.

OMG, ps, there's an entire panel about the Chris Eccleston doctor's queering of the new Doctor Who!!!:
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The 2005 season of the British tv series Doctor Who, starring Christopher Eccleston and produced by British Queer As Folk creator Russel T. Davies, included several alterations of the show's extensive mythology. Notably, the 9th Doctor flirts with both his female and male companions, establishing hints of his possible sexual self. At the same time, his character has been "humanized"—made less of an all–powerful alien—through trauma, similar to the so–called "feminization of the male" described by an analyst of post–WWI England. These changes appear to be good for drama, at least in most of the episodes. Is this humanization notably different from what came before, or is it part of a slow trend? Will it continue? And what are the ramifications of a romantic relationship with a character who's over 900 years old and from a technologically superior species? By the time of WisCon 30, episodes will have aired featuring a new actor in the role of the Doctor, and it will be interesting to see how he carries on from where Eccleston left off.

M: Kathryn Ann Sullivan, Rob Gates, Penny Hill, Jennifer Lackey, Jennifer Pelland