This was a wonderful worldcon with many, many highlights (especially, as you know, doing costuming with Spacekatgal - more fotos to come when we get our hands on good ones), and a chance to see a lot of cool people and meet new friends (though, unfortunately, quaryn dk and I never really got a chance to talk - sigh - and there were a bunch of other folks I would have liked to have had more of a chance to talk to - alas, that's the way of the con.)

I got a chance to do this fabulous panel with writer David Brin and artist Teddy Harvia.  Brin and I were earlier on a panel discussion about "Star Wars" and he argued that the main point of "The Empire Strikes Back" is that if you get in trouble your friends will come rescue you.  Being Chinese, I said that the main lesson of ESB was: If you drop out of school, your dad will cut your hand off.

At this panel, David Brin made up a free-form story involving a post-apocalyptic economy based on the buying and selling of pluot jam, and at one point he pulled his pants up while pretending to be old.  I made fun of him thus: "Urrrhhh I'm so old... in my day, we used to have to do our own genetic engineering... they didn't give DNA sequencing equipment away in cereal boxes like they do today... urrr..."

Teddy Harvia was doing multiple cartoons as the story meandered and morphed, and I did one detailed drawing of a dinosaur fighting a laser tank (which was in the story).   (Bob Eggleton was supposed to be on this panel, too, but they scheduled it to overlap with the pre-Hugo award dinner so he bailed.)

Here are some fotos ganked from Mareli Kiwi, who also posted some here and also here.



Also showing Rob Hole, who helped organize this and provide materials, etc.


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David Brin with his pants pulled up.


And one with Teddy, David and I, ganked from arwensouth.