Program Participant Biographies, Continued

Delphyne Joan Hanke-Woods

Delphyne Joan Hanke-Woods was taught to read by her grandfather in 1949 using his son's 1930s science fiction and fantasy pulp magazines stored in the attic of the family's rambling bungalow in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood. However, she remained innocent of science fiction fandom until 1975's Star Trek Chicago, then was assaulted by Windycon in 1976.

Delphyne has received numerous convention art awards and won the annual FAAN award for fanzine artwork three consecutive times. Nominated for the Best Fan Artist Hugo award seven times consecutively, she won in 1984. She subsequently sidled out of fandom, attending night school to study computer art techniques and generally fool around. Currently, with the help of friends, she is re-discovering fandom.
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Deb Rule

Deb Houdek Rule has written science fiction short stories under the name D. A. Houdek, and non-fiction articles on Confederate secret service operations in the U.S. Civil War under the name D. H. Rule. Her research and article on the sabotage of the steamer Sultana led to an appearance in a History Channel documentary last year. Deb is also webmaster for the Heinlein Prize Trust and for the Heinlein Archives. As well as writing and webbing, Deb works in television as a broadcast engineer at an NBC affiliate. Deb met husband and fellow Heinleiner Geo Rule online 15 years ago on the Heinlein Forum.
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Eric T. Reynolds

Eric T. Reynolds is editor/publisher of Hadley Rille Books, a small press he founded in 2005. His first four anthologies received great reviews, including the much praised Visual Journeys and Ruins Extraterrestrialanthologies, and all have had stories reprinted in Best Of anthologies or have been recognized as honorable mentions. Recent title releases for 2008 include the anthologies Desolate Places, Ruins Metropolis, and Barren Worlds. The quality of stories he publishes have been recognized by many, and his book cover designs are receiving much attention.

Current projects include a collaboration with the National Space Society for the Return to Luna anthology that he will edit, which will contain the Return to Luna contest winning stories (to be announced at Denvention3). He will soon release the Global Warming Aftermaths anthology and later this year will collaborate with Jay Lake on the new anthology, Footprints. Future collaborations also include an upcoming project with Abyss & Apex. Next year with Hadley Rille Books he will launch a new series of "archaeology" novels, realistic fictional accounts of ancient times written by professionals in the field.

He graduated from the University of Kansas and is currently a Master of Science candidate in the Space Studies department, founded by Buzz Aldrin, at the University of North Dakota's distance program. Several of his non-fiction articles will appear in the Forthcoming Space Exploration and Humanity: A Historical Encyclopedia. He has appeared in Science and various small press publications.

Eric was born in the Flint Hills region of Kansas, and has also lived on the East Coast of the US. He currently lives in the Kansas City area with his family. Any time the weather permits he can be found with his wife and kids out hiking the trails -- sometimes when he should be working at the computer, so he has found a compromise: take a book and find a secluded shady area at a park. One day, he hopes to be as smart as his kids.

Visit his LiveJournal or website.
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Gerald "G. David" Nordley

Gerald was born in Minneapolis MN in 1947 and was raised in suburban Golden Valley, MN attending Golden Valley High School. He originally intended to be an astronomer and majored in physics at Macalester College, in St. Paul, MN with that in mind. But, faced with the realityof the draft after graduation, he joined the US Air Force as an airman basic in 1969. He gained a reserve commission as a second lieutenant in 1970, and surprised himself by staying for a career.

He spent some time in radar intercept control and battle management, including tours in Alaska and Korea, but worked mainly as an astronautical engineer, managing satellite operations, engineering, and advanced propulsion research. In the latter capacity, he met and became inspired to write by physicist and author Dr. Robert L. Forward. He retired as a major at the end of 1989 and began submitting stories in 1990, using the "G. David" form of his name for fiction (though lately it has migrated to articles as well) and Gerald D. for technical papers, the intent being to separate the work in computer author searches.

As a writer, his main interest is the future of human exploration and settlement of space, and his stories typically focuses on the dramatic aspects of individual lives within the broad sweep of a plausible human future. Trying to keep up with just what is plausible is a challenge, but he recycles his research for occasional nonfiction articles. He continues to write a few pieces of short fiction each year, but is currently concentrating on novels, with three complete books looking for publishers and two more in serious production efforts. The Black Hole Project, a novel in five parts written with C. Sanford Lowe,was published as a series in Analog. in 2006-2007. A collection of linked Mars-related stories was published as an electronic book by ScorpiusDigital in September 2001, with a print version appearing in 2003 (sold out). He is a four-time winner of the AnLab, the Analog reader's award for best story or article of the year, and has also been a Hugo and Nebula award nominee.

Besides writing, he consults in astronautical engineering, dabbles in real estate, sings in the choir of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Livermore and is the treasurer of CONTACT, Cultures of the Imagination, an interdisciplinary educational group concerned with issues related to the development of intelligent life--from raw planets to expansion into space. He is a fellow of the British Interplanetary Society; senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a signatory of the Invitation to ETI, and a life member of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He lives in Sunnyvale CA with his wife, Gayle Wiesner, a retired Apple Computer programmer.

---Andrew Nordley (with assistance from his dad).
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Geo Rule

Geo Rule is a published amateur historian, and with his wife, owner of the leading website on the American Civil War in Missouri, where their specialty is the Confederate secret service in the west. He's been involved in the Heinlein community for many years, and has also written and/or edited a number of major pieces on Heinlein and his works that appear online. Mr. Rule lives with his wife, who is at least as much a Heinleiner as he is, and their four fur-children of the feline persuasion in Ramsey, Minnesota.
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Jim Humble

Jim writes:

"Well, I was born about... let's just say a while ago in Virginia. We moved early in my life to Colorado where I've spent most of my time and currently reside. Some people think I was born with a pencil in one hand and some clay in the other. It's pretty much true. I lucked out since my parents supported my art habit. In fact early on my mother and I baked one of my first clay pieces in the old oven. Of course it was crayola clay and it just melted and stunk up the house! Whoops! Live and learn.

"I've progressed since those days and still strive to improve. My life experiences have shaped my art in particular a 3 year stay in Germany and Europe. There my love of art (in particular the human form, gargoyles, grotesques and mythology) was really intensified. I've been pursuing my vision and passion to create now for more than 20 years. I'm skilled in drawing, painting, sculpture and computer graphics. I'm constantly striving to adapt novel and unexpected techniques with unusual media to produce fine art. I try to keep my work fresh, unexpected and widely divergent."

Visit Jim's website. Enjoy looking around and feel free to let him know what you think.
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K. Schuyler DuPree

Born in Dothan, Alabama, K. Schuyler DuPree lived in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Ohio, and California, before moving to New Orleans at the age of 12. "A great place to grow up, but I would never want to raise my own kids there."

Upon graduating from high school, Schuyler continued his nomadic ways, living in North Carolina, Texas, Chicago, Germany, and the Persian Gulf region (exact location is classified; see below), before finally settling (for now) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he pays the bills by selling legal research products to attorneys. (In other words, he takes money from the lawyers.)

During his wandering years, Schuyler attained a B.A. in philosophy and political science, spent six years in the US Army (see above), and developed his life-long love for science fiction, cons, and gaming, particularly "good" games that can only be found in specialty gaming stores. Having DM'ed his first Dungeons & Dragons game over 25 years ago, Schuyler has been playing, teaching, and running games of all varieties ever since, and has been running gaming tournaments and events at conventions for nearly a decade.

When not playing or running games, in his free time Schuyler enjoys spending time with his son Kurt and his girlfriend Bernadette (a.k.a. Ugly Chaka, Costumer Extraordinaire), as well as high altitude mountain climbing, and studying, teaching, and competing in the martial arts (most recently winning two gold medals at the 2008 AAU Taekwondo National Championship).
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Michael Georges

Michael Georges has been creating professional-quality art for nearly three decades. He has extensive experience in a variety of mediums, including oils, acrylic, pencil, airbrush, charcoal, and even computer graphics. His topics have until recently been equally as diverse, painting the realistic to the fantastical.

Born in Munich Germany, he grew up in Colorado and still lives in Loveland, Colorado with his wife, Christie Golden, an author. He owns and operates Picture This–Custom Framing & Interiors and Fine Portraits in Oil.

After extensive study, and several wonderful mentors, Georges learned how to utilize techniques similar to many of the master painters of old. This rich and striking classical realist approach was the style he'd been searching for in order to best express his creativity.

He now focuses exclusively on creating oil paintings and drawings in charcoal and sanguine.

To date, Georges has reproduced several old master works, painted numerous portraits, and is currently taking commissions for special projects and portraits.

He brings to his work a deep dedication to his craft, a skilled eye and a respect for the subject, whether it be Botticelli's "Venus," a portrait of a client's grandchild, or a smokin' hot elf.

He's currently consumed with drawing and painting from life. In his off hours, he enjoys hiking, watching anime, and playing World of Warcraft.

Visit Georges' website and his blog.
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Pat Cadigan

Described as the Queen of Cyberpunk by The London Guardian, Pat Cadigan has been writing science fiction, fantasy, horror, and various flavours in between for over thirty years.

Cadigan was born in New York, grew up in Massachusetts, and, after spending most of her adult life in the Kansas City area, emigrated to the UK. She lives in gritty, urban North London with her husband, the Original Chris Fowler. Though she's lived in London since 1996, she says, "I still speak with a pronounced Kansas City drawl, especially when I'm tired and/or drunk."

Her first WorldCon was in Kansas City in 1976 as a committee member and special laison to GOH, Robert A. Heinlein. She danced the tango with him on her birthday and they remained close friends until he passed away.

The author of over a dozen books and about a hundred short stories, she has been nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards, and has twice won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best sf novel published in the UK, once for Synners and once for Fools.
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Peter Knapp

As a founding and active member of Lambda Sci-Fi, Peter has been involved in gay fandom for a long time. He co-chaired Gaylaxicon IV in 1992 and chaired Gaylaxicon V in 1994. Since then he has helped run the Gaylactic Network, has hosted gay fandom parties at Worldcons, and has been a program participant at various Wolrdcons, Gaylaxicons, and Balticons, and Gallifrey conventions. He also assists with the Gaylactic Spectrum Awards, run by his husband Rob Gates.

After being drawn into the world of Science Fiction at an early age by the original Star Trek, Peter has always preferred the media side of the genre. He was most pleased when his favorite show, Doctor Who, regenerated four years ago.

Peter lives in Washington D. C.
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