# Gene Wolfe at Balticon

*The Urth list — 5 messages, 3 voices, 19 May 2006*

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### Rob Davies
*19 May 2006, 19:53*

Is anyone planning on going to Balticon next week? Gene Wolfe and Neil Gaiman are GOHs. I'm trying to figure out how many of his books I can carry on the plane to get signed. :)

Rob

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### Transentient
*20 May 2006, 12:45 · in reply to Rob Davies*

 From the program on the website www.balticon.org it looks as though  
Mr. Wolfe is only scheduled for a panel on sunday morning at 11am. My  
guess is he doesn't do much milling around and hanging out at cons  
these days, so that's probably the time to see him.

I guess he'll be going to saturday morning mass that weekend...

> On May 19, 2006, at 3:53 PM, Rob Davies wrote:
> Is anyone planning on going to Balticon next week? Gene Wolfe and  
> Neil Gaiman are GOHs. I'm trying to figure out how many of his  
> books I can carry on the plane to get signed. :)
> 
> Rob
> _______________________________________________

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### peter heyneman
*22 May 2006, 13:21 · in reply to Transentient*

Actually, it looks to I like Mr. Wolfe will be at three seperate events, and 
may even be around for annoying questions all weekend.

SATURDAY:
3:30 pm
Special GoH: Gene Wolfe (introduced by Lisa Snellings-Clark)
SUNDAY:
11:00 am
Neil Gaiman/Gene Wolfe Panel
MONDAY:
1:00 pm
Gene Wolfe Kaffeklatsch (??? Some kind of of coffehour? Hopefully!)


I live in the area, so if any participants want info about lovely suburban 
B-more, want to send me annoying questions to pose to the man, or just want 
to say hi to other list lurkers give me a holler.

Best,

--peter

> From: Transentient <transentient at gmail.com>
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> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 08:45:14 -0400
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> 
>  From the program on the website www.balticon.org it looks as though
> Mr. Wolfe is only scheduled for a panel on sunday morning at 11am. My
> guess is he doesn't do much milling around and hanging out at cons
> these days, so that's probably the time to see him.
> 
> I guess he'll be going to saturday morning mass that weekend...
> 
> On May 19, 2006, at 3:53 PM, Rob Davies wrote:

>> Is anyone planning on going to Balticon next week? Gene Wolfe and
>> Neil Gaiman are GOHs. I'm trying to figure out how many of his
>> books I can carry on the plane to get signed. :)
>> 
>> Rob
>> _______________________________________________

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### Transentient
*22 May 2006, 15:15 · in reply to peter heyneman*

> On May 22, 2006, at 9:21 AM, peter heyneman wrote:
> Actually, it looks to I like Mr. Wolfe will be at three seperate  
> events, and
> may even be around for annoying questions all weekend.
> 
> SATURDAY:
> 3:30 pm
> Special GoH: Gene Wolfe (introduced by Lisa Snellings-Clark)
> SUNDAY:
> 11:00 am
> Neil Gaiman/Gene Wolfe Panel
> MONDAY:
> 1:00 pm
> Gene Wolfe Kaffeklatsch (??? Some kind of of coffehour? Hopefully!)
> 
> 
> I live in the area, so if any participants want info about lovely  
> suburban
> B-more, want to send me annoying questions to pose to the man, or  
> just want
> to say hi to other list lurkers give me a holler.
> 
> Best,
> 
> --peter

Sweet! Looks like new stuff has been added.

I expect I am going to basically wander up to Mr Wolfe and kind of  
stammer until someone more lugubrious steps in and starts talking to  
him, because that's always how I am when I meet people I idolize.

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### Rob Davies
*22 May 2006, 15:32 · follows Transentient*

I did that when Mr. Wolfe was at Readercon a few years ago. I asked him to sign a few books and then completely blanked, ears ringings, mouth dry. My wife confirmed I looked like a slack-jawed idiot.

Hopefully, I will do better this time around.

Rob

> Sweet! Looks like new stuff has been added.
> 
> I expect I am going to basically wander up to Mr Wolfe and kind of  
> stammer until someone more lugubrious steps in and starts talking to  
> him, because that's always how I am when I meet people I idolize.
> 
> _______________________________________________

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